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Aug 27, 2022Liked by NE - Naked Emperor Newsletter
Germany may indeed have been over relying on Russian gas, but Germany did not need to impose sanctions on Russia which would end up crippling German economy. If Germany were an independent state she wouldn’t have, but Germany is an imperial vassal and acts accordingly. That is the true origin of the current German problem.
Exactly! Sanctions by EU were coordinated in the muppet show.
Also: is there a war at all? Can we believe it? Zero pictures or anything coming out in the last months. (at least in the beginning was a few house destroyed here and there) Or all of this muppet show perfectly coordinated?
Aug 27, 2022Liked by NE - Naked Emperor Newsletter
The projected power cost for the average household used for economic/financial comparisons is expected to hit $25 000 or more per month this winter.
Because of wind, solar and shutting down nuclear power.
Meanwhile, the finns are making money hand over fist since they just started up a new nuclear plant, with more to come - well done them, despite electing a WEF-puppet (their nuclear plan dating back before they did that, so who knows what's in store ten years from now?).
And the long term weather forecasts for both North America and Europe prjects several harsh and unusually long winters ahead of us.
Who benefits from Europe committing suicide like this? Could there be a thought behind it? Revenge? Someone wanting to colonise and take over a generation or two in the future? Our own fanatical stupidity?
Rom the beginnings (wherever those may be found) I’ve thought this was all intentional. The best laid plans of mice and men are usually just that. The law of unintended consequences.
Yes, been following China for years. They are good at spending lots of cash to buy allegiance. But slavery is slavery. Different levels of hell. But bought is bought.
Aug 27, 2022Liked by NE - Naked Emperor Newsletter
And of course......they will come begging for Uncle Sucker to save them......from their own stupidity.
I guarantee that we will be sending them some sort of fossil fuels by mid winter if we aren’t doing so already. And the American people will suffer for it.....
There is no LNG terminal capacity available to ship from North America to Europe. Scholtz was just in Montreal meeting with Trudeau to try to get some and was rebuffed. Germany is screwed, especially this winter.
Aug 27, 2022·edited Aug 28, 2022Liked by NE - Naked Emperor Newsletter
The conflict in Ukraine has highlighted two key weaknesses in NATO; both the absolute atrophy of European leadership and a huge lack of military capability.
America has off-shored most if it's industrial strength for Chinese money and the mistaken belief that large scale, industrial scale warfare was a thing of the past. You only need look at the number of artillery shells both sides are firing to see Ukraine will not win this conflict, even after NATO countries have exhausted their inventories. And without the US there is no NATO military. They spent eight years preparing Ukraine for this conflict - not a single country in Europe had anything that compares to the Ukrainian military and Russia is crushing them.
Meanwhile, not one European "leader", except for Orban and Hungary, have put their own citizens first and refused to participate in the latest American ideological adventure. How much better off would the world have been if Europe refused American interventionism, declared the conflict a local problem (as it had been for almost 8 years) and addressed Russia's demands that NATO expansion was causing them an existential crisis of security?
Aug 27, 2022Liked by NE - Naked Emperor Newsletter
In 1999 Germany was 31% clean, zero emissions Nuclear electricity, 170TWh/yr. Now after having spent over $500B on wind and solar since then they are now at 29% wind + solar, 166TWh/yr. Zero achievement after $500B down the sewer. If Germany has spent $200B on Nuclear power they would now be 100% clean Nuclear electricity. 3X the results at 1/3rd the cost. And now most of Germany's wind & solar will have to be replaced over the next decade. And of course they would now be able to laugh at Putin's natural gas pipeline blackmail.
Interesting, in 1999 Gerhard Schroeder announces all nuclear will be shutdown in Germany by 2020 "replaced by wind & solar". [if you believe that I have 5 bridges to sell you, cheap]. Then just before Schroeder gets booted out of office he signs a $6B contract to build a NG pipeline from Russia to Germany with Gazprom, the Russia NG utility. Plus a $1.7B loan guaranteed by the German gov't. Then shortly after losing the election Schroeder signs on as a chairman with Gazprom at an undisclosed salary. And in 2003 Schroeder quashed an investigation into a company named SPAG in Frankfurt linked to money laundering in several countries run by St. Petersburg's Tambovskaya mafia group with links to Putin, who was on SPAG's advisory board. Schroeder still sits on Gazprom's executive board.
Aug 27, 2022·edited Aug 27, 2022Liked by NE - Naked Emperor Newsletter
Here's one (of many) thing I don't understand: most Central/Western European economies, their industrial bases and their residents are severely weakened by these extremely high energy prices. So aren't they even MORE vulnerable now to Russian influence, and perhaps even outright invasion?
Don't all of these sanctions actually destroy, rather than enhance, NATO's security goals?
Certainly not! This is all part of the grand plan by the experts which will surely result in some sort of utopia or something. You just don't understand since you're not an expert on stuff.
back in the 90's I was trying to earn my bachelors degree in Stuff at the University of Something, but had to drop out. if I'd finished that degree I'd be able to see the incoming utopia today. I guess I'll just leave stuff to the experts.
This is a very smug, arrogant article. Hundreds of millions of Europeans are about to face a horrendous Winter and you are basically rubbing their noses in it.
Who else is Europe supposed to buy energy from? What is arrogant Uncle Sam doing it about it? Nothing!!! Why? Because Uncle Sam, whether run by Biden or Trump, has no power to make more gas and oil available. Nor can they reduce the price. You only get oil and gas cheap in the US from the Gulf because if you did not get preference AND a cheaper price you would no doubt bomb the Middle East.
The sensible, logical, sane choice for Europe is to buy cheap energy from Russia. The Neo-Cons in the US - and their poodle EU leaders - have destroyed this and, in doing so, have destroyed Europe. Just as they destroyed Libya, Iraq and almost succeeded in Syria.
I will say it again - hundreds of millions of Europeans will go cold and hungry this Winter. A great many will die or will commit suicide. Thanks for rubbing our noses in it.
For some reason you are assuming I am American. I am not rubbing your nose in anything, I am in the same boat as you. I am pointing out that many people foresaw this as the obvious conclusion for years but were ridiculed by the ones who seem surprised it is happening now.
Aug 28, 2022Liked by NE - Naked Emperor Newsletter
Even those who live under Uncle Sugar go cold. I lived in a tent 5 years ago thru winter because we could no longer pay rent. I now live in a trailer that is under heated in winter. WTF. Not all Americans are rich or profit from this shit.
Aug 27, 2022Liked by NE - Naked Emperor Newsletter
“Smug and arrogant” is better used to describe the attitude of the German politicians in the posted video clip. It’s also an apt description of a society that apparently can’t maintain a first world economy or living standards without energy imports from a country it clearly looks down its nose upon.
Aug 27, 2022Liked by NE - Naked Emperor Newsletter
The sensible, logical and sane choice for Europe is to completely abandon wind & solar and start an all out push for Nuclear Energy. Just as France did as a response to the Arab Oil Embargo. Replaced 88% of their domestic electricity supply in 20yrs, include their legacy hydro, they were 100% indigenous clean electricity supply. And replaced half of their primary energy supply. Do that once more and they are 100% indigenous, clean energy. No wonder the Malthusian Club-of-Rome Davos Bankster Parasites despise nuclear power so much while loving the worthless wind & solar. I notice somebody yanked Macron's chain so now he's back to promoting "renewable energy" by which they mean wind & solar.
Wonderful words! How do they stop the people of Europe going cold and hungry this Winter? How does it stop the deaths and the inevitable suicides?
You talk words. Just like China Biden talked words. How his VP talked words. Words full of promises to Europe that they could never deliver. I am sure listening to unaffected, arrogant and egotistcal Americans talk the usual bull will make them feel smug but do absolutely nothing to help stop what is about to befall 600 million people.
And yet if Europeans, especially Germans had listened to those same words as many, very many, spoke to them circa 1999 when Germany started their wind & solar energy disaster, then they would be laughing right now and could tell Russia where to stick their natural gas. So what are Europeans doing, doubling down on their same failed energy policy, pushing nutty wind & solar scams. Digging a deeper hole for themselves. This is Energy suicide and there are much bigger players behind this outrage than America or Russia.
But you are correct to say over the short term they don't have very good options, if they can't get Russian gas. Burn more coal. Do what China is doing. Methanol for heating, cooking and transportation. You can make Methanol from coal or stranded gas for 11 cents/liter. It burns just fine in gas automobiles, furnaces can be converted to methanol and gas turbines can run happily on methanol. And it is the easiest fuel to transport. And it can be converted to DME which is the cleanest most efficient fuel for Diesel Engines. They can also reopen any nuclear power plants that they stupidly closed. Just tell the idiotic regulator bureaucrats this is going to be done and if you don't like it pack you stuff and get out the door. You're fired.
If Biden didn’t shut down America’s energy production, none of this would be happening. Being stupid has its consequences, and sometimes it’s necessary to point it out so others don’t make same mistake.
Poor European victims. How could anyone expect such children to fend for themselves. It’s not like they had perfectly good coal and nuclear plants that they shut down knowing that would give Russia complete power over them. I mean, it’s not like the world has ever seen countries cut of energy exports as political power plays in the last 50 years…. (What is this Arab oil embargo that you speak of…?)
Germany may indeed have been over relying on Russian gas, but Germany did not need to impose sanctions on Russia which would end up crippling German economy. If Germany were an independent state she wouldn’t have, but Germany is an imperial vassal and acts accordingly. That is the true origin of the current German problem.
Exactly! Sanctions by EU were coordinated in the muppet show.
Also: is there a war at all? Can we believe it? Zero pictures or anything coming out in the last months. (at least in the beginning was a few house destroyed here and there) Or all of this muppet show perfectly coordinated?
Next up from Vx17: pictures of the Ukrainians and Ruskies at war on the NASA moon-set.
Ahahah. Bullseye. Moon landings are another one I can not just accept as reality.
I've thought so from the get-go
The projected power cost for the average household used for economic/financial comparisons is expected to hit $25 000 or more per month this winter.
Because of wind, solar and shutting down nuclear power.
Meanwhile, the finns are making money hand over fist since they just started up a new nuclear plant, with more to come - well done them, despite electing a WEF-puppet (their nuclear plan dating back before they did that, so who knows what's in store ten years from now?).
And the long term weather forecasts for both North America and Europe prjects several harsh and unusually long winters ahead of us.
Who benefits from Europe committing suicide like this? Could there be a thought behind it? Revenge? Someone wanting to colonise and take over a generation or two in the future? Our own fanatical stupidity?
Rom the beginnings (wherever those may be found) I’ve thought this was all intentional. The best laid plans of mice and men are usually just that. The law of unintended consequences.
China benefits. Their belt and road initiative is well under way. with established deals in both Greece and Italy, linking backwards through Asia. They are turning Europe into their colony, Here is a link: https://www.chathamhouse.org/2021/09/what-chinas-belt-and-road-initiative-bri
Yes, been following China for years. They are good at spending lots of cash to buy allegiance. But slavery is slavery. Different levels of hell. But bought is bought.
“I love it when a plan comes together.”
--A-Team leader Colonel John “Hannibal” Smith
And of course......they will come begging for Uncle Sucker to save them......from their own stupidity.
I guarantee that we will be sending them some sort of fossil fuels by mid winter if we aren’t doing so already. And the American people will suffer for it.....
There is no LNG terminal capacity available to ship from North America to Europe. Scholtz was just in Montreal meeting with Trudeau to try to get some and was rebuffed. Germany is screwed, especially this winter.
Modern Germany has the very special gift of outright stupidity.
Time to "make nuclear power great again!"
The win streak for the ‘conspiracy theorists/misinformation brigade,’ is endless and spectacular.
The conflict in Ukraine has highlighted two key weaknesses in NATO; both the absolute atrophy of European leadership and a huge lack of military capability.
America has off-shored most if it's industrial strength for Chinese money and the mistaken belief that large scale, industrial scale warfare was a thing of the past. You only need look at the number of artillery shells both sides are firing to see Ukraine will not win this conflict, even after NATO countries have exhausted their inventories. And without the US there is no NATO military. They spent eight years preparing Ukraine for this conflict - not a single country in Europe had anything that compares to the Ukrainian military and Russia is crushing them.
Meanwhile, not one European "leader", except for Orban and Hungary, have put their own citizens first and refused to participate in the latest American ideological adventure. How much better off would the world have been if Europe refused American interventionism, declared the conflict a local problem (as it had been for almost 8 years) and addressed Russia's demands that NATO expansion was causing them an existential crisis of security?
In 1999 Germany was 31% clean, zero emissions Nuclear electricity, 170TWh/yr. Now after having spent over $500B on wind and solar since then they are now at 29% wind + solar, 166TWh/yr. Zero achievement after $500B down the sewer. If Germany has spent $200B on Nuclear power they would now be 100% clean Nuclear electricity. 3X the results at 1/3rd the cost. And now most of Germany's wind & solar will have to be replaced over the next decade. And of course they would now be able to laugh at Putin's natural gas pipeline blackmail.
Interesting, in 1999 Gerhard Schroeder announces all nuclear will be shutdown in Germany by 2020 "replaced by wind & solar". [if you believe that I have 5 bridges to sell you, cheap]. Then just before Schroeder gets booted out of office he signs a $6B contract to build a NG pipeline from Russia to Germany with Gazprom, the Russia NG utility. Plus a $1.7B loan guaranteed by the German gov't. Then shortly after losing the election Schroeder signs on as a chairman with Gazprom at an undisclosed salary. And in 2003 Schroeder quashed an investigation into a company named SPAG in Frankfurt linked to money laundering in several countries run by St. Petersburg's Tambovskaya mafia group with links to Putin, who was on SPAG's advisory board. Schroeder still sits on Gazprom's executive board.
Here's one (of many) thing I don't understand: most Central/Western European economies, their industrial bases and their residents are severely weakened by these extremely high energy prices. So aren't they even MORE vulnerable now to Russian influence, and perhaps even outright invasion?
Don't all of these sanctions actually destroy, rather than enhance, NATO's security goals?
Certainly not! This is all part of the grand plan by the experts which will surely result in some sort of utopia or something. You just don't understand since you're not an expert on stuff.
you make a good point.
back in the 90's I was trying to earn my bachelors degree in Stuff at the University of Something, but had to drop out. if I'd finished that degree I'd be able to see the incoming utopia today. I guess I'll just leave stuff to the experts.
This is a very smug, arrogant article. Hundreds of millions of Europeans are about to face a horrendous Winter and you are basically rubbing their noses in it.
Who else is Europe supposed to buy energy from? What is arrogant Uncle Sam doing it about it? Nothing!!! Why? Because Uncle Sam, whether run by Biden or Trump, has no power to make more gas and oil available. Nor can they reduce the price. You only get oil and gas cheap in the US from the Gulf because if you did not get preference AND a cheaper price you would no doubt bomb the Middle East.
The sensible, logical, sane choice for Europe is to buy cheap energy from Russia. The Neo-Cons in the US - and their poodle EU leaders - have destroyed this and, in doing so, have destroyed Europe. Just as they destroyed Libya, Iraq and almost succeeded in Syria.
I will say it again - hundreds of millions of Europeans will go cold and hungry this Winter. A great many will die or will commit suicide. Thanks for rubbing our noses in it.
For some reason you are assuming I am American. I am not rubbing your nose in anything, I am in the same boat as you. I am pointing out that many people foresaw this as the obvious conclusion for years but were ridiculed by the ones who seem surprised it is happening now.
Even those who live under Uncle Sugar go cold. I lived in a tent 5 years ago thru winter because we could no longer pay rent. I now live in a trailer that is under heated in winter. WTF. Not all Americans are rich or profit from this shit.
I know. It's going to be a dark winter for all of the western world.
“Smug and arrogant” is better used to describe the attitude of the German politicians in the posted video clip. It’s also an apt description of a society that apparently can’t maintain a first world economy or living standards without energy imports from a country it clearly looks down its nose upon.
“Smug and arrogant” is better used to describe the attitude.."
Not original to me but "smugnorant" is a current favorite. *smirk*
Be sure to save some of your rage for those who actually caused this as you rage at those pointing out their folly and hubris.
The sensible, logical and sane choice for Europe is to completely abandon wind & solar and start an all out push for Nuclear Energy. Just as France did as a response to the Arab Oil Embargo. Replaced 88% of their domestic electricity supply in 20yrs, include their legacy hydro, they were 100% indigenous clean electricity supply. And replaced half of their primary energy supply. Do that once more and they are 100% indigenous, clean energy. No wonder the Malthusian Club-of-Rome Davos Bankster Parasites despise nuclear power so much while loving the worthless wind & solar. I notice somebody yanked Macron's chain so now he's back to promoting "renewable energy" by which they mean wind & solar.
Wonderful words! How do they stop the people of Europe going cold and hungry this Winter? How does it stop the deaths and the inevitable suicides?
You talk words. Just like China Biden talked words. How his VP talked words. Words full of promises to Europe that they could never deliver. I am sure listening to unaffected, arrogant and egotistcal Americans talk the usual bull will make them feel smug but do absolutely nothing to help stop what is about to befall 600 million people.
And yet if Europeans, especially Germans had listened to those same words as many, very many, spoke to them circa 1999 when Germany started their wind & solar energy disaster, then they would be laughing right now and could tell Russia where to stick their natural gas. So what are Europeans doing, doubling down on their same failed energy policy, pushing nutty wind & solar scams. Digging a deeper hole for themselves. This is Energy suicide and there are much bigger players behind this outrage than America or Russia.
But you are correct to say over the short term they don't have very good options, if they can't get Russian gas. Burn more coal. Do what China is doing. Methanol for heating, cooking and transportation. You can make Methanol from coal or stranded gas for 11 cents/liter. It burns just fine in gas automobiles, furnaces can be converted to methanol and gas turbines can run happily on methanol. And it is the easiest fuel to transport. And it can be converted to DME which is the cleanest most efficient fuel for Diesel Engines. They can also reopen any nuclear power plants that they stupidly closed. Just tell the idiotic regulator bureaucrats this is going to be done and if you don't like it pack you stuff and get out the door. You're fired.
The only negative environmental impact environmentalists allow are the impacts that they decide are acceptable.
If Biden didn’t shut down America’s energy production, none of this would be happening. Being stupid has its consequences, and sometimes it’s necessary to point it out so others don’t make same mistake.
Poor European victims. How could anyone expect such children to fend for themselves. It’s not like they had perfectly good coal and nuclear plants that they shut down knowing that would give Russia complete power over them. I mean, it’s not like the world has ever seen countries cut of energy exports as political power plays in the last 50 years…. (What is this Arab oil embargo that you speak of…?)
It ain't the "neo-cons" doing this.
" Wait, I've seen this one. It's a classic ! "
Necessary medicine for German obstinance/ignorance.
Every western nation needs to get fossil-fuel-energy independent.
This is so obvious to any thinking people.