Category Archives: Financial crisis

Truckers’ Strike in Brazil?

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In certain respects, the situation in Brazil is similar to what happened in Canada last winter. Like their Canadian counterparts, truckers in Brazil are staging protests against the actions of the federal government (in this case, the recent fraudulent votes used to elect Lula as president). Also like the Canadians, the Brazilian truckers’ access to their bank accounts has been blocked.

The key phrase in the following TV report is “nothing more to lose”. When a government creates through its actions a large cohort of citizens who have nothing else to lose, it puts itself in grave danger. You’d think the Brazilian Powers That Be would have the sense to step back from this particular precipice, but leftist apparatchiks are often quite stupid, so who knows?

Many thanks to José Atento for the translation, and to Vlad Tepes and RAIR Foundation for the subtitling:


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We Wants the Digital Euro, Precious

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Many thanks to Hellequin GB for translating this article from the Austrian weekly Der Wochenblick. The translator’s comments are in square brackets:

You want total control, but hide it…

Economy as a new pretext: Elites once again drum for “Digital Euro”

The ECB plans for the digital Euro are taking on more and more concrete forms. The Brussels grandees are leaving no stone unturned for their henchmen in the governments to cover up the plan for control over the citizens. If in the end it was the alleged fight against money laundering [Lagarde would know about that for sure, since she was/is after all a laundress], now a reconstruction of the devastated economy in Europe is supposed to serve as a pretext for the totalitarian project.

ECB-Lagarde drives digital Euro

ECB boss and WEF foundation board member Christine Lagarde babbles something about wanting to stand up to the advance of foreign corporations in European payment transactions. In the case of card payments, around two thirds of the transactions are booked by service providers who have their company records outside the EU. The image of heteronomy is intentional: because inevitably the image of influence from Russia, China or — which would of course not matter to the EU grandees — the USA, arises in the mind, although financial strongholds such as Switzerland or Great Britain are also not EU members. All this runs under the euphonious but meaningless slogan “Strategic Autonomy”.

The route is as follows: An investigation phase will run until October 2023 before the final decision on the design of the digital central bank currency is to be made. After that, another three years are planned for the complete implementation of the project. In other words, by 2026 at the latest, the digital Euro should be a fixed point in citizens’ payment transactions. They have long feared another step towards the abolition of cash and tighter controls: in public consultations, almost every second response was concerned about the protection of privacy. [Privacy? What privacy? Slaves do not have that privilege. They have lost the right to choose.]

(In the run-up to the WEF summit in May, Lagarde throws sand into the eyes of the citizens.)

Lindner uses economic arguments

Not that compliance with them is really important to EU actors — after all, the EU wants to be able to monitor the chats of innocent Europeans. But somehow you have to get the people on board for your controversial prestige project. And so on Monday Christian Lindner (FDP) — as German finance minister, after all, patron of the largest economy on the continent [cough, cough] — rode out to butter people up with the prospect of the digital Euro as an “economic engine”. He even spoke of “digital cash”…

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Out of Gas

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The cutoff of a large portion of the natural gas flow from Russia to Europe has driven the price through the roof, creating an opportunity for suppliers and speculators to make even more money by holding back supplies of liquefied natural gas (LNG), thus driving the spot price even higher.

The following report from Austria describes the deliberate backup of LNG tankers in European ports. Many thanks to Hellequin GB for translating this article from eXXpress:

What a mess: Already 30 (!) gas tankers are parked off Europe’s coasts

The usury with our energy prices is visible to everyone, right off Europe’s coasts — and nobody is doing anything about it: Already 30 gigantic liquefied natural gas tankers are failing to dock at the unloading terminals, in order not to lower the price for natural gas in the EU nations.

Again and again we Austrians hear the same statements: Vladimir Putin is to blame for the high gas prices (although his energy company Gazprom continues to deliver gas to Austria cheaply and in an environmentally friendly fashion via a pipeline, as always). But now it is becoming increasingly clear who is causing our energy costs to explode: it is speculators who do not allow more supply to come onto the European market — because this additional supply of gas would of course immediately crash the natural gas prices on the energy exchanges.

There are already 30 gigantic LNG tankers floating off Europe’s coasts — these giants have up to 150,000 cubic meters of liquefied natural gas (LNG) on board, and one load could supply 65,000 households for a whole year. We Europeans are currently being deprived of enough natural gas for 1.95 million families. Willfully, simply out of greed.

Waiting for better times

In any case, the LNG market is extremely dynamic. The shipowners choose the market with the best profit. If the prices in Asia are higher than in Europe, for example, the ships simply turn around and are gone. The main suppliers — above all the USA and Qatar — have significantly reduced the speed of transport to Europe due to the falling gas prices and prefer to wait on the open sea for better times. And that despite the enormous sums that such ships devour. Chartering individual LNG tankers at the end of October, for a trip across the Atlantic, costs €400,000 — every day!

Afterword from the translator:

It’s already clear that only the price is being pushed up. However, I would be interested to know how long such a tanker can cool its gas until it is empty? They are supposed to use up to 25% of their load for cooling on the way from the USA to the EU. I mean, waiting like that — they have to be empty at some point, don’t they? If anyone knows how this is supposed to work out, feel free to enlighten me. Thanks.

The Dirty Laundry of the Great Reset

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The following report illustrates the Law of Unintended Consequences as it applies to the sanctions against Russia. Or maybe these consequences aren’t really all that unintended — who knows?

After all the conspiracy theories that have turned into verified facts over the last three years, I’m not ruling anything out.

Many thanks to Hellequin GB for translating this article from the news portal Pleiteticker.de:

Dangerous domino effect: In the case of laundry bankruptcies, hospitals have to close within days

Average cost increases of 166%: This is reported by the German Textile Cleaning Association (DTV). The industry has been hit hard by energy prices — and that’s just the tip of the iceberg. Because when laundries close, many other professions find themselves in a difficult situation. This includes hospitals, whose supply of hygienically washed clothing depends on dry cleaning.

More than a million people: According to their own statements, this is how many professionals from different areas rely on German laundries. Among them are many “systemically relevant” groups, such as the police, the fire brigade or civil protection. But hospitals were also part of it, reports DTV general manager Andreas Schumacher of the WAZ [Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung]. The laundry owner Heidrun Kringe from Bochum tells the newspaper that her business is only worthwhile because of her pension from another job. “If that were not the case, I would have to increase the costs so much that I would no longer have any customers,” reports the 79-year-old.

“We’re talking about hospitals and nursing homes having to close within a few days if the laundries are forced to give up,” said Schumacher. Therefore, the cost increases for the business could be a societally relevant problem. The more of the fewer than 5,000 dry cleaning companies in Germany are in danger, the more risky the situation in the hospitals becomes. According to their own information, laundries and dry cleaners spend 9% to 14% of their turnover on electricity and gas. They accounted for 9% of the energy costs in the trades — number one among the trade sectors. It is to be hoped that the industry can continue to bear the costs, because everyone has to wash their dirty laundry somewhere.

Afterword from the translator:

Welcome to the ship of fools “Utopia Germania” — Scylla and Charybdis are waiting. A utopia that is a possible future — but mostly fictitious — way of life or social order designed by ideological retards, which is not tied to contemporary historical-cultural conditions and is a guarantee of utter failure and misery for those who are not part of the “Elite”. And in the next election, please go back and vote for the Greens and the other old political parties, since they’re doing so well for your wellbeing /irony off.

“He who refuses to learn deserves extinction.” — Hillel, the Elder (over 2,000 years ago)

When the Music Stops

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Earlier this afternoon there was a discussion on Skype about this post at American Partisan quoting Egon von Greyerz concerning the imminent meltdown of the global financial system.

Below are excerpts from my exchange with one of the translators:

Translator: What can we do when the whole shebang collapses? Governments all over the world are already prohibiting people from buying gold and silver above a certain amount, and then that has to be declared so that they can come afterwards and take it away by force. What will happen to people who own their properties outright? Will these be taken along with those that borrowed from banks? I hope that NOBODY will sell any food to the rich afterwards. Let them eat their money.

Baron: It all depends on who is holding the AK-47s when the time comes. Those will be the ones who “own” whatever they want to claim.

As for selling stuff — what will people use to buy it with? Our assumption is that there will have been a financial collapse, and that the old currencies will be worthless. There will be barter, and there will eventually be a new currency based on something of real value. Probably multiple privately-issued currencies. Those currencies that reliably back up their scrip with gold or silver will become the new dominant media of exchange.

But there will also be a lot of starvation and violence, especially in the big cities.

T: I wonder how much longer we still have?

B: That’s a good question. Lots of people said the end was near back in 2008 and 2009, so we’ve already gotten an additional thirteen years for free.

I no longer make any predictions. The Powers That Be have shown that they can keep the bubble of imaginary money inflated for an indefinite amount of time. It can’t last forever, but I have no idea when the real crash will occur.

T: The South Sea Bubble also burst, despite the British and other European governments trying to keep it going.

B: Yes. This is just the biggest such bubble ever inflated. The first truly global one.

T: Although I’m not so sure how that affected the peasantry at that time, because they could still feed themselves, unlike their modern counterparts who have been made dependent on supermarkets.

As far as I remember, in France the rich exchanged most of the “paper money” for gold and silver before the big crash, and shipped it out of France into Switzerland. Nothing changes, now, does it?

B: People like Soros will know exactly when to cash in their paper gold and take delivery, while the price is still set artificially low. After that the price will skyrocket, and there will be a mad rush to take delivery of physical gold. Then the supplies will be exhausted — after less than 10% of the paper has been exchanged — leaving the rest of the metals-traders holding worthless promises to deliver.

It will be like financial musical chairs: when the music stops, those who are left standing with their paper gold and silver will be ruined, while the ones who sat down early will have their metals.

That will be part of the systemic collapse. The question is: can all that gold help keep Soros and his ilk alive? I mean, they can pay their mercenary guards with their gold, but what’s to prevent the most ruthless and capable of the mercenaries from eliminating the middleman and appropriating all the gold for themselves?

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The Bill Comes Due

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Germany is facing an imminent crisis in its pension system. In this it is hardly alone — throughout the West pension systems are severely underfunded. When unfunded U.S. federal, state, municipal, and corporate pension obligations are added together, the total is catastrophically high. I’ve seen estimates of $14 trillion, and I’m sure the number is continuing to rise.

Many thanks to Hellequin GB for translating this article from Ansage.org:

The Gray Bomb: the Collapse of the Pension System is Imminent

In view of the current large-scale mass abuse of basic security by potentially every legal or illegal “refugee”, the fact that the pension system is the first to implode is perhaps surprising. However, the sheer volume of pension payments make up for it (expenditures in 2021: €341 billion, of which €78 billion must now be borne by tax-financed federal grants!) and the unstoppable mathematical fact of a fatal demographic aging trend make the pension system the ultimate time bomb. And it is very likely that this will detonate before the collapse of social assistance, which will soon be euphemized as “citizen’s allowance”.

The alarming latest statements by the German Employers’ Association president Rainer Dulger, who warns in drastic terms of an “imminent collapse of the pension system”, point in precisely this direction. Dulger also sees the potential for the final division of society in the planned “citizen’s allowance”: It cannot be that some of the people who go to work in the morning have just as much or just a little more money available than someone who doesn’t has to get up and go to work in the morning at all. What is needed is “a major social reform that has the dimensions of economic, monetary and social union after reunification,” Dulger told Bild.

Five years until the meltdown

Dulger named the next five years as the window of time when the statutory pension funds would reach their limit, after which the costs would ultimately explode and would no longer be manageable. There is hardly any time left to prevent the “welfare state eating up the future” scenario from becoming a reality. The most urgent thing is an immediate “reorganization of old-age provisions” including a fundamentally new financing model for the pension system.

Although Dulger’s suggestion is not popular, it is the only realistic way: The retirement age must finally be linked to life expectancy. “It must not be that the increasing life expectancy leads to an ever longer retirement,” says the Heidelberg entrepreneur. In order to make the importance of the topic clear, “social policy needs forecasts like climate policy,” Dulger continued: the federal government should report regularly on the future development of social security contributions. “This makes the pressure to act visible to everyone. The reform of the social security systems is similar to the energy transition as a challenge.” As far as the invoked “intergenerational justice” is concerned, it is without a doubt at least as important in the case of old-age provision.

Afterword from the translator:

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Too Many Culture-Enrichers

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Germany’s social welfare bureaucracy is currently overwhelmed due the huge numbers of migrants — from Ukraine and elsewhere — burdening the system. Who could have foreseen that a situation such as this might ever arise?

Many thanks to Hellequin GB for translating this article from Junge Freiheit:

Too many asylum seekers: Social Welfare Office Neukölln is closing

Berlin

The social welfare office in Berlin-Neukölln has closed for two weeks due to being overwhelmed by refugees. “The need is quite great,” confirmed Neukölln city councillor, Falko Liecke (CDU) to RBB. “Due to Ukrainian refugees, we have large mountains of backlogs, unprocessed mail and documents that cannot be processed at the moment because the staff is not there,” Liecke describes the situation.

“We have people here who are in need, who need immediate support and care. Either they need living space or they need money.” It is not only the number of Ukrainians with benefit claims that has risen sharply. More and more people are also applying for asylum from other countries. Added to this is the number of locals who can no longer shoulder their energy costs.

Become a welfare case with the gas rate

“We are now also getting these applications from people who have managed very well with their money so far, but can no longer cope with the new gas rates,” said a group leader from the office. “Well, we’re approached by a completely different clientele.” In order to maintain regular operations, at least forty more positions would be needed.

Neukölln’s social welfare office is one of the largest of its kind in Europe. In addition to this, other offices in the capital are also complaining that they have reached the limits of their resilience. There is currently hardly any capacity left to accommodate and care for Ukrainians and asylum seekers.

Afterword from the translator:

Well, well, well, that sounds like a refusal to work! At least that’s what they most likely write into their ledgers when it is a native German. Let’s face it, the natives are forced to work two or three extra jobs a week to make ends meet short of starvation. But maybe it’s just a lack of tax money with which to support their clientele? Let’s raise taxes, shall we?

There’s this old German proverb that goes something like this: “The pitcher goes to the well until it breaks.” And it will soon shatter into thousands of pieces at the rate it’s being dipped into the well.

The interesting thing is that the pressure in the “Federal Republic of Germoney” agencies is probably increasing the stress level. Could it be that this is due to the Twitter takeover by Elon Musk?

What happens when Trump is unblocked? That should probably trigger an earthquake on the continent of Europe that will be felt all the way over in Asia.

Fade Away and Radiate

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Ever since early 2020 the dominant theme in popular culture has been: Be afraid. Be very afraid.

For the last few months we’ve been inundated with propaganda about nuclear war.

After the Corona craze had run its course, we had a brief interlude of monkeypox hysteria, but that never seemed to develop the momentum necessary for a full-blown panic. So now we’ve moved on to the Ukraine crisis, and the evil Vladimir Putin, as a source of doom-and-gloom media histrionics.

The nuclear war theme emerged fairly soon after Russia invaded Ukraine. There was a big push to paint Mr. Putin as threatening to use nukes, even though he never did any such thing. At the same time we started to see “what to do in the event of a nuclear attack” PSAs in various major American cities. And the mainstream media kept up their fear-mongering with various nuclear-themed reports — retrospectives on the Cuban Missile Crisis and other incidents of nuclear alarms during the Cold War, analyses of what a nuclear blast would do to this or that major city, how to deal with radiation poisoning, etc.

I’ve recently come to the conclusion that a nuclear war is very unlikely, although I expect a “radiation incident” fairly soon, possibly even before the midterm elections.

The reason I say this is that the globalists of the New World Order, as exemplified by the World Economic Forum, are obviously not anticipating any nuclear attacks. They are ramping up their push for digital central bank currencies, social credit scores, 5G technology, the Internet of Things (and Bodies) and other long-term projects that involve intensive electronic infrastructure. That’s how we know they’re not planning for the grid to go down. They must have mapped out a way to keep enough juice flowing to at least keep the cell towers functioning, even during the horrific energy shortages that lie directly ahead.

Since the globalists, the media, and the top levels of the Western political apparatus are all in league with each other, we may assume that the nuclear war scare is in fact a feint.

I have a theory about the reason for it.

First they make sure the populace is terrified of a nuclear attack.

Then a “radiation incident” of some sort is arranged. Probably in Ukraine, via the false-flag use of a tactical nuke, perhaps, or an “accident” at one of the nuclear power plants, most likely the one in Zaporizhzhia.

As a result everybody in the West, especially in Europe, becomes frantic about radiation poisoning.

Then guess what happens?

Surprise! Pfizer and other pharmaceutical giants devise injections that mitigate the effects of radiation disease!

Rolled out at warp speed in just a few weeks. Administered by medical workers fitted out in radiation suits. Everybody is urged to show up at designated injection sites and get their “protective shots”.

They get everybody trembling in fear over the radiation, and then they provide the magical solution: yet more injections.

Compliance with the “booster” regime has fallen off to less than 25% in most countries, so something else is needed. A radiation incident is just the thing.

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The push for more injections has been intense and obvious since late 2020. The big question is: WHY?

The flu shot was never pushed anywhere near as hard as the series of mRNA jabs. I’ve never in my lifetime seen anything like the propaganda blitz that we’ve been subjected to on behalf of the experimental “vaccine”. Somebody really, really wants to see more needles in arms.

The evidence for the harmful effects of the mRNA treatments is now undeniable. They are especially contra-indicated for small children, and now the CDC has just given its imprimatur to a new regime that will, in effect, force parents to have their kids vaxed in order for them to attend public schools.

Somebody wants needles in arms VERY badly.

I think we can rule out the possibility that top-level health authorities are motivated by the medical well-being of their citizens. It’s fairly clear now that they’re pushing these injections despite the fact that they have been proven harmful.

After browsing various paranoid postings in the deplorable alternative media, I see three possible explanations for this demonic campaign:

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The Silent War Against the Germans

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Many thanks to Hellequin GB for translating this article from the news portal Ansage.org:

The Silent War Against the Germans

It happened again: a Somali immigrant randomly stabbed young Germans. This time the victims were young men who were in the wrong place at the wrong time. Again, attempts will be made not to give the victims a face. It is the wrong victims that our Federal President Steinmeier is reluctant to commemorate, because he cannot indulge in his eternal cult of guilt and hold up the mirror to the majority of society that they have failed again. Last year in Würzburg the victims were German women; in Dresden they were homosexuals. The perpetrators were always said to be in an “exceptional psychological situation” and then everything quickly returned to business as usual. It will be the same again in Ludwigshafen.

And how does it continue? The next attack will not be long in coming. NRW [North Rhine-Westphalia] Interior Minister Herbert Reul (CDU) announced in August that in the first half of 2022 alone, no fewer than 7,131 “crimes involving stabbing weapons” were recorded — in this one federal state alone. That corresponds to thirteen attacks per day — not counting a considerable number of unreported cases. This trend will continue to increase with ongoing and currently exploding illegal immigration. It is only the most spectacular cases that make it into the mainstream media for a short time.

Concealed Facts

On the other hand, one can read every day everywhere in Germany, at least in the local media, about rape, serious physical injury and murder of those who “have been living here for a long time” by men who came to Germany supposedly “seeking protection” — these almost always belong to the Islamic culture. This is a fact that is either hushed up or put into perspective — and anyone who dares to state it openly is denounced as “Islamophobic” (the Islamists’ combat term), “right-wing” and “Nazi”, or more appropriately, accused as “servant” of certain “narratives”. No other people in the world deny crimes against their own citizens in a way comparable to the Germans.

Since Maria from Freiburg, Mia from Kandel and Susanne from Wiesbaden, hundreds if not thousands of victims have been added who rarely make it into the national press as so-called “individual cases”. They are women, homosexuals and also men: people who became accidental victims because so-called “refuge seekers”, who were able to get into Germany unchecked and unhindered, had destroyed their lives and those of their families. Merkel’s legacy is only just beginning to take effect.

Deafening silence

And those in politics? The silence is deafening. On the contrary, with the basic income one creates the next incentive to immigrate to the German social system. People are taken indiscriminately from Afghanistan, and countries like Greece and Italy also want to relieve the burden of “refugees” — as if the majority of them wouldn’t end up in Germany within a short time anyway. Those in government at the federal, state and local level believe that currying favor with Islamic values would soften the immigrants. In doing so, they criminally fail to recognize that many of them have not the slightest interest in the values that made our society the successful, peaceful and free country that Germany became after 1949 and that have distinguished us for decades.

On the contrary; they often reject them deeply, and every step back we take is understood not as a gesture of friendship but of weakness. Like the unlawful approval of the muezzin call, which is now calling out to everyone in the cathedral city of Cologne that there is “no god but Allah”. Ultimately, this is an order to all Muslims to spread their own faith among the so-called unbelievers — in extreme cases, in accordance with the Quran, even through violence.

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Let Them Wear Sweaters

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Wolfgang Schäuble is member of the Bundestag for the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), and a former President of the Bundestag. In the following interview Dr. Schäuble addresses questions about the coming period of icy darkness in Germany brought on by electricity blackouts and a gas shortage.

When Vlad and I were discussing this video, we speculated about who and what might provide the best fuel for burning this winter in Europe. We agreed that corpulent politicians might supply the most efficient source of heat and light for Build Back Better.

Many thanks to MissPiggy for the translation, and to Vlad Tepes and RAIR Foundation for the subtitling:


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“They Are a Criminal Government That Has Betrayed Their Own People”

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Santiago Abascal is a leader of the Spanish anti-immigration party Vox. Last Sunday Mr. Abascal addressed a rally in Madrid, which also featured an in-person speech by Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki, and video addresses by Donald Trump, Giorgia Meloni, and Viktor Orbán.

For a really biased left-wing report on the rally in Madrid, see this article from ABC News.

Below are excerpts from Mr. Abascal’s remarks. Many thanks to HeHa for the translation, and to Vlad Tepes and RAIR Foundation for the subtitling:


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Run Me Out in the Cold Rain and Snow

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A severe winter social crisis is just around the corner in Germany. When it arrives, German political leaders can’t say they were never warned. The following article reports on the alarm being sounded by German social welfare organizations.

Many thanks to Hellequin GB for translating this article from Junge Freiheit:

Because of energy costs

Associations warn: Social institutions are on the verge of collapse

Berlin

The president of the Diakonie*, Ulrich Lilie, has warned of drastic upheavals in the social sector. Numerous aid and care facilities are on the brink of collapse due to increased energy costs, he told the RND. “The social infrastructure is threatened with collapse.”

For legal reasons, non-profit institutions are hardly allowed to build up reserves, Lilie explained. The increased electricity and gas prices are therefore unaffordable for many. “They have their backs to the wall and cannot wait months for an energy price cap.”

Nursing homes cannot turn down the heating

The federal government is currently discussing a “gas price brake”. The consequences of the current energy crisis are to be mitigated with up to €200 billion. The president of Caritas, Eva Maria Welskop-Deffaa, who is a member of the committee responsible for designing the gas price brake, wants to give priority to social institutions.

“In the end, no one should be left out in the rain,” Welskop-Deffaa told the Die Tageszeitung. “Especially not the people who live in facilities for the care of the elderly, integration assistance or child and youth welfare.” A retirement home, for example, cannot simply turn down the heating. “Not for older people who get cold faster anyway.”

“Should social institutions have to close, the weakest in Society will suffer, and they need all the support right now,” emphasized Lilie. Instead, Welskop-Deffaa wants to save elsewhere in the event of a crisis. “Then it might make more sense to specifically take a few manufacturing companies off the grid for the winter.”

Afterword from the translator:

Why not make those “migrants” pay, instead of mollycoddling them with free this, free that, free everything? But I guess that something like that would stop the invasion-stream flowing, and we can’t have that, now, can we? imagine what these care facilities for the elderly, who worked and paid taxes, could do with roughly € 20+ Billion a year that goes to these invaders? It’s a thought, isn’t it?

While elderly citizens are shivering and coughing in their grim accommodations, EU apparatchiks will be warm and snug in their well-feathered nests. The report below details the obscene raises scheduled this year for civil servants, MEPs, and political leaders, including members of the European Commission. The increases are tied to the official rate of inflation, which is what makes them so generous.

There have been multiple warnings about blackouts in Europe during the coming winter. Do members of the nomenklatura have ways to avoid interruptions in their electricity supply? Are their upscale neighborhoods supplied by a special subset of the grid that is exempt from cutoffs? Or will they light candles and shiver in their darkened houses like everyone else?

From Bild, also translated by Hellequin GB:

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The Hard Land of the Winter

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The energy crisis in Poland and Germany has reached the point that citizens are basically grabbing anything that’s combustible they can get their hands on, and burning it to heat their houses.

It makes me wonder how readily Extinction Rebellion activists burn…

Many thanks to Hellequin GB for translating this article from Report24:

Already everyday life in Poland: When will the Germans start burning garbage for heating?

In Poland, more and more people are starting to burn garbage to heat their homes because of the energy crisis. It is reported from Warsaw that the smell of burning garbage hangs over the city every day. How long will it be before the Germans put everything they can find in the oven that can be burned?

Winter hasn’t even started yet and there are already first reports that people in Poland are increasingly beginning to heat their homes with combustible waste. Not only in the rural areas, but also in the cities, many houses still have stoves that can be fueled with wood or coal. But if this becomes too expensive, combustible waste such as packaging, cardboard and paper is also burned.

As Bloomberg quotes a resident of the Polish capital Warsaw, this now seems to be becoming a sad part of everyday life. “It’s so bad at this time of year that you can smell burned garbage every day, which is completely new. You rarely smell normal fuel. It’s scary when you think about what will happen when it gets really cold,” Paulina Mroczkowska told the US media portal. A mayor told Polish media that garbage collectors actually collect significantly less waste. Combustible materials are apparently outright hoarded by the citizens.

People in Poland Are Burning Trash to Stay Warm This Winter

In Poland, some households are hoarding garbage to replace their coal.

This development has raised the question of how long it will be before people scour the forests and perhaps even the landfills to find enough fuel before a thick blanket of snow blankets the country. And one can ask oneself even more whether such a development will soon have to be expected in Germany, Austria and other European countries, because people simply can no longer afford the high prices for gas, coal, pellets or regular firewood.

According to the report, the authorities in Poland have already significantly relaxed environmental regulations. It can be assumed that other countries will follow this example and thus enable people to save at least some money and not have to constantly freeze. Is “burning garbage to thwart Putin” the new winter motto? What do Greta’s disciples say about that?

Afterword from the translator:

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The Big Chill

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Unless German political leaders do an abrupt about-face and start to act in their country’s best interests, Germany is in for a dark, cold winter.

Below are four articles about the current German crisis, with a special focus on the natural gas shortage. All were translated by Hellequin GB, and the translator’s comments are in square brackets:

First, from Junge Freiheit:

Federal Network Agency urgently warns: Gas consumption is currently increasing too much

Bonn

The Federal Network Agency has urgently appealed to the population to reduce their gas consumption. According to the dpa news agency, the president of the authority belonging to the Ministry of Economic Affairs, Klaus Müller, warned that it is currently rising too much. The situation could become very serious.

According to the Federal Network Agency, the gas consumption by private households and smaller commercial customers from the end of September to the beginning of October was 618 gigawatt hours, almost ten percent higher than in the years 2018 to 2021. The consumption of industrial customers last week was almost two percent below the level of 1,370 gigawatt hours level of previous years.

Federal Network Agency: Germany is threatened with a gas emergency

If private households, trade and industry do not manage to save at least 20%, Germany will hardly be able to avoid a gas emergency. Private households and smaller commercial customers account for around 40% of consumption in this country. Large industrial customers are responsible for the remaining 60%. [ I wonder which “private households” are doing this? Those of the native stock that have actually work hard to pay for it, or the new stock that don’t need to work and don’t pay for it?]

Network agency boss Müller had already complained last week about excessive gas consumption and threatened the Germans with consequences if they did not reduce it. “I don’t see that with the consumption figures that we last saw. That’s why we will have to make adjustments in the private sector,” he said. From his point of view, this also includes pricing. In plain language: the head of the network agency wants to further increase gas prices for private households. He had appealed to Federal Minister of Economics Robert Habeck (Greens) not to introduce a Gas price cap.

Afterword from the translator:

Of course there is a plan behind it: the destruction of the energy industry, agriculture and the middle class. This is part of the Great Reset and an essential prerequisite for enforcing it. This results in insecurity and fear among the people, which is also intended. Those who live in a constant state of fear and stress can no longer think clearly and will submit in the hope that everything will get better.

When do people wake up? You just read the book by this misanthrope Klaus Schwab, in which he explains in detail how and what is planned — and already implemented — to see what is in the pipeline for you, and it’s not cheap gas.

The second article is from eXXpress:

Qatar’s Energy Minister scoffs at the clueless EU and German Minister Habeck

Saad Al-Kaabi, Qatar’s energy minister, said what many Europeans fear at the moment: when it comes to Energy policy, the EU and Robert Habeck, German Green Minister for Economic Affairs and Climate Protection, are clueless. [That is a prerequisite for the post.]

In the opinion of Qatar Energy Minister Saad Al-Kaabi, the energy policy of the EU, and above all that of the German Minister for Economic Affairs and Climate Protection (Greens) is taking place in the realm of illusion. According to Al-Kaabi, those responsible have no idea about the energy markets, and their unrealistic behavior makes the high gas prices their own fault.

The reason for the ridicule: Habeck does not identify an electricity problem, but a gas problem

Habeck and other responsible persons in the EU must expand the supply of energy by any means, says the Energy Minister. Instead, they are following an illusion and actually believe that Germany’s industry will no longer emit CO2 by 2045, Saad Al-Kaabi scoffs. But that would require a lot of electricity. A problem that the German minister does not see, because he recently said that there was no electricity problem, just a gas problem. Reason enough for the Energy Minister of the organizers of the soccer World Cup to make fun of such naïveté.

Afterword from the translator:

If it weren’t such a bitter certainty that German political clowns and those in the EU don’t have a clue, you could laugh about it, but in reality it brings tears to your eyes and sweat of dread to your forehead to contemplate those nincompoops that sit in the drivers’ seats of our respective countries today.

Also, with this opinion the Energy Minister of Qatar is not alone… anyone in their right mind cannot come to a different conclusion, one that has been recognized in non-European countries and in the Third World. But only there it seems.

From Report24:

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