Gerhard Schroeder said that Germany needs Russian energy, and can’t afford to break away from Moscow.

Hounded by the international media and hated in his home city for his close ties to Russia, former German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder insists that Germany needs Russia’s vast energy supplies to maintain its industrial power. [He] remains personally close to Russian President Vladimir Putin, [and] has faced scathing criticism at home for his role in fostering Germany’s dependence on Russian gas (although his successor, Angela Merkel, refused to lessen that reliance).

As Germany’s leaders distance themselves from calls to embargo Russian oil and gas imports, the New York Times published an interview on Saturday with Gerhard Schroeder, the country’s former chancellor who oversaw the construction of the first Russia-Germany Nord Stream pipeline and went on to advise multiple Russian energy companies. Schroeder insists that Russia and Germany need each other:

💬 “They need oil and gas to pay for their budget. And we need oil and gas to heat and to keep the economy going,” he stated. “German industry needs the raw materials that Russia has. It’s not just oil and gas, it’s also rare earths. And these are raw materials that cannot simply be substituted,” Schroeder added.

India focused on stabilising economic ties with Russia following sanctions (Hindustan Times)

On Wednesday, Biden regime Treasury secretary Janet Yellen called for pushing Russia toward greater “economic, financial, and strategic isolation” than what’s already been attempted — in vain.

She said China could face significant economic blowback unless it pressures Russian to end its special military operation in Ukraine, adding:

💬 “The world’s attitude towards China and its willingness to embrace further economic integration may well be affected by (its) reaction to our call for resolute action on Russia.” “Going forward, it will be increasingly difficult to separate economic issues from broader considerations of national interest, including national security.”

In response to her threat, spokesman for China’s US embassy, Liu Pengyu, said the following:

💬 Beijing is “committed to promoting peace talks” while hegemon USA and its NATO vassal states support forever war. They’re “adding fuel to the flame to create new problems while associating the Ukraine crisis with China-Russia relations to shed the responsibility and to exploit the situation for their hidden strategic agenda.”

Response to Yellen’s “blatant threat to China” over Ukraine | Anti-Bellum | Yellen’s remarks are aimed at dragging China into the chaos and smearing China at the same time, to create the impression that China is not a responsible power. However, this is of little substance, said Li Haidong, a professor at the China Foreign Affairs University. “The measures the US can take against China have already been in use for years. Washington had engaged in various sanctions since it launched the trade war with China, which turned out to be ineffective. It is just trying to use the Ukraine crisis to blackmail China more comprehensively,” Li told the Global Times.

The team of Jean-Baptiste Rivoire (Off Investigation) has just put online a documentary on the way in which Emmanuel Macron hid his income from the Rothschild bank, of which he was managing partner from 2010 to 2012.

According to this survey, the managing partners of Rothschild have the privilege of being paid one-fifth in France and four-fifths via trusts domiciled in the Channel Islands. These latter revenues legally escape the French tax authorities. However, when he was elected President of the Republic, Emmanuel Macron had the obligation to declare all of his assets so that any conflicts of interest could be identified. But he did not declare his fortune abroad.

Journalists do not know the amount of this fortune, but it should be considerable because of his role in the acquisition of Pfizer’s baby milk activities by Nestlé. In 2014, after leaving the Élysée where he was Deputy Secretary General of President Hollande, Emmanuel Macron tried to settle in London. He could thus have enjoyed his hidden fortune without having to repatriate it to France. Faced with the inconsistencies in the statements of Emmanuel Macron, the Anticor association had seized the High Authority for the transparency of public life. The latter, having almost no means of investigation, had been able to establish nothing. Anticor then took legal action. But the Public Prosecutor of Paris had considered that there was no need to investigate…since the High Authority had not detected anything abnormal. [Link to video]

Slovakia will pay for Russian natural gas in rubles if that’s what it takes to keep the commodity flowing, Slovak Economy Minister Richard Sulik has said on national television.

💬 “If there is a condition to pay in rubles, then we will pay in rubles,” Sulik said. He stressed that Russian imports account for roughly 85% of all Slovakian gas supplies, so the country’s authorities will remain pragmatic on the issue. “We cannot be cut off from gas,” Sulik emphasized, urging the rest of Europe to jointly seek a solution.

Nearly all of the countries of the European Union, of which Slovakia is a member, slapped Russia with economic sanctions over the past month, jeopardizing Russia’s ability to receive payments from trade partners in the European currency. In response, Russian President Vladimir Putin last week signed a decree introducing a new ruble gas payment mechanism.

Union (EU) and others, be made in Russia's currency, the Ruble, as opposed to the EURO or the U.S. Dollar. Germany has said their contract provides for payment in EUROS or DOLLARS, and as such, they will not pay in Rubles. But Germany's contract for gas is with GAZPROM GERMANIA in Berlin, and NOT with GAZPROM in Russia!

The contract(s) that Germany has to buy natural gas, are between Germany and GAZPROM Germania, GmbH, a **separate** corporation and conglomerate headquartered in Berlin. That separate Conglomerate was a 100% subsidiary of GAZPROM in Russia, but it operated as its own company. On Friday, GAZPROM in Russia, terminated its relations with GAZPROM Germania, GmbH.

Now, follow this: There are allegedly NO CONTRACTS between GAZPROM (in Russia) and GAZPROM Germania, GmbH because the latter was a 100% subsidiary of GAZPROM and all business dealings were voluntary. Now that GAZPROM in Russia has ended all relations with GAZPROM Germania, GmbH, the latter will not have any gas to sell to its contract customers!

The Bank of Russia has resumed gold purchases this week, but more importantly, the regulator is doing so at a fixed price of 5,000 rubles ($59) per 1 gram between March 28 and June 30, raising the possibility of Russia returning to the gold standard for the first time in over a century. If the country takes the next step, as has been proposed this week, to sell its commodities priced in rubles, these combined moves could have huge implications for the ruble, the US dollar, and the global economy.

By offering to buy gold from Russian banks at a fixed price of 5,000 rubles per gram, the Bank of Russia has both linked the ruble to gold and, since gold trades in US dollars, set a floor price for the ruble in terms of the US dollar. [...] Additionally, with the new gold to ruble linkage, if the ruble continues to strengthen (for example due to demand created by obligatory energy payments in rubles), this will also be reflected in a stronger gold price.

In France, consultancy firms have been paid billions of euros to advise governments on policies from the coronavirus vaccine, to the climate change, and roll-out to digital transformation, according to a new report released by the French Senate.

The revelations contained in this report are extraordinary, and expose the inner workings of the highest echelons of the French state, and what can only be described as the near-complete corporate capture of the bureaucracy. The findings of the report have since been adopted unanimously by committee members on March 16, and will be translated into a legislative proposal, and a trans-partisan bill has already been announced. What has been revealed is breathtaking, and opens the door to what could be one of the most consequential scandals in modern European politics. This article will not only examine the corporate takeover of whole government departments, but also look at the risk-benefit analysis of government over the use of consultancy services and outline the danger which lies with such Public Private Partnerships. It will also provide concrete evidence of consultancy firms’ deep and problematic ties with the Executive Branch of the French Government. It is important to examine the powerful consultancy firms which underpin a much larger transnational network. This raises a number of important questions.

Moscow and New Delhi are discussing rupee-ruble payments

The Indian government is reportedly considering Moscow’s proposal to turn to the Russian payment system, which allows direct rupee-ruble transfers in bilateral trade. The mechanism developed by the Russian central bank is expected to boost commerce between the two countries by avoiding dollar-denominated trade, and allow the world’s third biggest oil consumer to continue purchases from Russia, bypassing Western sanctions. The scheme involves rupee-ruble-denominated payments via Russia’s messaging system, SPFS. The final decision is expected to come after a two-day visit of Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov to India, according to unnamed people with knowledge of the matter, as quoted by Bloomberg. Lavrov’s visit to India is scheduled for Thursday, and Russian central bank officials will reportedly visit the country next week to discuss the details.

The Central Bank of Russia has officially announced that, as of March 28, 2022, the Russian Ruble currency is BOUND to Gold. The rate is 5,000 Rubles per gram of gold bullion.

If Rubles are bound to Gold at 5000 Rubles per gram, and there are 28 grams per ounce, meaning one ounce of gold would cost 140,000 Rubles, then converting that to US Dollars means Gold is $1400 per ounce when using Rubles, instead of $1,928 per ounce using Dollars. Russia just wiped out about thirty percent (30%) of the value of the US Dollar, worldwide, when it comes to Gold Bullion. People around the world will be literally THROWING their money at the Ruble and DUMPING Dollars and EUROS to do it. What Russia just did is the financial equivalent of detonating a nuclear bomb. [...] The last guy on this planet who tried to back a currency with Gold, was Muammar Quadaffi of Libya.

Ruble flexes muscle as Russia trailblazes new economic path (RT.com)
India about to switch to domestic currencies in trade with Russia (RT.com)

MOSCOW, March 25. /TASS/. A total war has been declared against Russia. The West is not concealing that the goals of its policy are aimed at suffocating and devastating the Russian economy, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on Friday.

💬 "Today, a genuine hybrid war, a ‘total war' has been declared against us. This term, which was exploited by Hitler’s Germany, is now pronounced by many European politicians when talking about what they want to do with Russia. The goals are not concealed, they are publicly announced, that is to destroy, devastate, ruin, and suffocate the Russian economy and Russia as a whole," Lavrov stressed.

The foreign minister lashed out at this "sanctions spree", pointing out that it is becoming clear that all values that those in the West have been preaching to Russia, like freedom of expression, a market economy, the sanctity of private property and the presumption of innocence, are not worth a red cent.

Johann Lerner: World War II: Europe responsible for killing 27 million Russians

Moscow, SANA- Deputy Head of Russian Security Council, Dmitry Medvedev, has downplayed the impact of Western sanctions on Russia, warning at the same time that economic sanctions, without bases, launched by the Western countries, will destroy the entire global economic structure.

💬 ‘In the west, they freeze assets of the financial institutions, even the central bank, and they also talk about seizing these assets or nationalizing them,’ Medvedev said in an interview with Sputnik and RT News Agencies published on Saturday.

He added that this is, of course, a war without any bases and it will end up with the destruction of the whole structure of global economy. Medvedev underlined his country’s determination to defend its independence and sovereignty, stressing that it is undoubtedly ready to respond appropriately to any aggression on its independence and approach.

Town Halls all over the UK are flying the Ukraine flag, as mainstream journalists encourage everyone to think about the war in Ukraine. Looking at the news you’d think that Ukraine was the only trouble spot in the world. But you’d be wrong. Here are some facts that no other journalist in the UK appears to know.

Fact 1: According to the United Nations, the number of civilian deaths in Ukraine is 760. According to the Ukraine President, the number of soldiers who have died in Ukraine is 1,300.

Fact 2: According to the United Nations, the seven-year-old war in Yemen had killed an estimated 377,000 people by the end of 2021 – and is now killing more people than the fighting in Ukraine. The Yemen war has been described as the largest humanitarian crisis in the world. The Saudis have interfered in what was basically a civil war.

Fact 3: The war in Syria has now been going on for ten years and the number of people killed is believed to be 610,000.

Why isn’t your town hall flying flags in support of the people of Yemen and Syria? The answer, of course, is that the invasion of Ukraine was organised and manipulated by the conspirators in the West to help push the energy and food shortages required for the Great Reset and the New World Order that they have planned for us.

Ruble Surges After Putin Ditches Dollars and Euros for Russian Oil and Gas: Today, the Russian President Vladimir Putin may have just pulled one of the most adroit strategic moves in living memory – one which has the potential rock the US dollar’s long-held privileged position as an unassailable world reserve currency. Putin announced that from now on, Russia will only accept payments in their own currency, rubles, for any future oil and gas deliveries to “unfriendly countries.” Presumably, this would include all EU members, the US, and anyone else who is dutifully going along with Washington’s orders on sanctioning Russia.

Ruble rockets on gas currency switch
The dollar fell to 95 rubles on the news about the sale of Russian gas for rubles
Russia Retaliates on Sanctions; "Unfriendly Countries" Can Only Buy Gas with Rubles

Jurata Kata - Les pénuries alimentaires pourraient devenir critiques dans de nombreux pays du monde, les gens protestant désespérément contre la hausse des prix du carburant et des denrées alimentaires, exacerbée par la guerre russo-ukrainienne. Les agences d'aide mettent en garde contre une crise humanitaire, et les voix qui tiennent les États-Unis responsables de la situation se multiplient.

In a rare moment of lucidity, Joe Biden admitted that a ‘New World Order’ aimed at drastically reshaping humanity is imminent thanks to the carefully orchestrated war unfolding in Ukraine.

💬 “You know, we are at an inflection point, I believe, in the world economy – not just the world economy, the world – occurs every three or four generations,” Biden declared Monday during a Business Roundtable event. “And now’s the time when things are shifting. There’s gonna be a New World Order out there. And we’ve gotta lead it. And we’ve gotta unite the rest of the free world in doing it,” he admitted.

The real person who was the benefactor to, and the boss of, Vice President Joe Biden’s son, Hunter Biden, at the Ukrainian gas company Burisma Holdings, was not the CEO of Burisma Holdings, Mykola Zlochevsky, but it was instead Ihor Kolomoysky, who was part of the newly installed Ukrainian Government, which the Obama Administration itself had actually just installed in Ukraine, in what the head of the “private CIA” firm Stratfor correctly called “the most blatant coup in history.”

Shortly after the Obama Administration’s Ukrainian coup, on March 2, 2014, Kolomoysky, who supported Yanukovych’s overthrow, was appointed the governor of Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine. Hunter Biden, with no experience in the industry or region, would join Kolomoysky’s Burisma Holdings two months later on May 12, 2014.

[...] Hunter Biden’s boss and benefactor at Burisma Holdings is the same Ukrainian billionaire-oligarch who also claimed the position of boss and benefactor over Volodymyr Zelensky before he became Ukraine’s president.

Igor Kolomoysky has been a top funder of the Azov Battalion since it was formed in 2014. He has also bankrolled private militias like the Dnipro and Aidar Battalions and has personally deployed them to protect his financial interests. Kolomoysky’s Battalions Shell Civilians In Donbas: Human Rights Watch reported on July 24, 2014, that Ukrainian government forces and pro-government militias had indiscriminately used unguided Grad rockets in populated areas, which violated international humanitarian law, the laws of war, and constituted war crimes.

RCEP covers nearly a third of the global population and economy | Malaysia’s Ministry of International Trade and Industry announced on Friday that the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) has come into force in the country. The free-trade agreement encompasses an estimated 30% of both the world’s population and of its global GDP. According to the ministry, Malaysia is expected to be the largest beneficiary of the China-backed free-trade deal among Southeast Asian countries in terms of export gains, with a projected $200-million increase. [...] The 15-country trade agreement was inked in November 2020 after almost eight arduous years of negotiations. It is the world’s largest free-trade agreement and incorporates the 10 members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), plus China, Japan, South Korea, Australia, and New Zealand. First proposed in 2011, RCEP will, within 20 years, eliminate as much as 90% of the tariffs on imports between its signatories. It will also establish common rules for e-commerce, trade, and intellectual property.

Joining me today is Catherine Austin Fitts, here to discuss the illusion of COVID restriction rollbacks, the convoluted topic of what is actual in this injection, as well as the financial enslavement that it is all leading toward.

The World Economic Forum wasn’t simply the brainchild of Klaus Schwab, but was actually born out of a CIA-funded Harvard program headed by Henry Kissinger and pushed to fruition by John Kenneth Galbraith and the “real” Dr. Strangelove, Herman Kahn. This is the amazing story behind the real men who recruited Klaus Schwab, who helped him create the World Economic Forum, and who taught him to stop worrying and love the bomb.

Pål Steigan ■ World oil giants ready to plunder Ukraine oil and shale gas reserves. || Ukraine has reserves estimated at 1,200 billion cubic meters of gas, the third largest in Europe. American Chevron and European Shell have contracts to exploit these light tight oil and shale deposits. In other European countries there have been public protests against shale gas extraction because of the great environmental damage it causes - such as earthquakes and pollution of drinking water. The Kiev junta is not taking such petty concerns into consideration. But the problem for both the junta and the oil giants is that the largest deposits are located in the Russian-speaking eastern Ukraine. So there is an obvious connection here between western lust for Ukraine's oil & gas reserves and Kiev's ruthless warfare, not only against armed separatists, but also against the civilian population. Over half a million people have fled the fighting, and it would seem that this partly is the purpose behind Porosjenko's warfare against his own people. The eastern areas now are being prepared for extraction of oil and gas. And to be on the safe side, Hunter Biden, the son of America's Vice President, has been handed a top job in Burisma Holdings, a company that is poised to develop the gas fields of Ukraine. Biden now sits on the same board of directors as Poland's former president Aleksander Kwasniewski, who also often was a guest at the Maidan Square. (Also see: Naked Goals of Ukrainian Genocide)(Original by Pål Steigan here.)

RT.com: US, EU now allowed to buy Ukraine’s gas pipelines
Itar-Tass: Ukrainian army helps installing shale gas production equipment near Slavyansk

Grand-Jury.net:OVERVIEW: Grand Jury Proceedings + Transcriptions (.PDF)
Grand-Jury.net: Grand Jury Proceeding by the Peoples´ Court of Public Opinion

RE: The "Grand Jury" – This jury is not a court of law in any sense. It may however be useful in arming people with proper understanding of the issues at hand. It will not save us from tyranny. Even real courts of law are not enough. We still need intense activism, now more than ever. The "Grand Jury" may certainly be helpful in educating activists, but that is about all this "Grand Jury" can do for us. The rest is up to ourselves. It will be a very long and difficult process. Essentially it is a permanent war for everything that is good and holy against the evil forces of this world. Everyone must do their part!

The Grand Jury of the World Criminal Court begins Investigation into Crimes Against Humanity - DAY 1. This video shows attorney Reiner Fuellmich telling the world what this Plandemic is all about. Anyone who has taken the jab will only have to watch this portion to have their eyes opened to what they have done to themselves.

Dutch doctor praises ‘brilliant speech’ by Reiner Füllmich - A Dutch doctor has lauded the recent speech by Reiner Füllmich against The Great Reset: "Never before have I seen a better-constructed and more knowledgeable plan of attack." On Saturday, the German lawyer and initiator delivered his opening blow.

Every individual of good heart needs to be prepared with knowledge to properly assess our current situation and decide to defend themselves, their family, their area and sovereignty, and reclaim our lives, liberty, and land. This is the brass tacks of the reality we find ourselves in. No speculation. Facts. MONOPOLY reveals in a brilliant way how a small group of super-rich people own everything in our world. They use their power and wealth to control governments, health organizations, the news media, and basically manipulate the entire world according to their plans. MONOPOLY shows what their agenda is, and what we can do to protect our lives, and build a better world.

With just three weeks until the Greek snap elections on January 25 in which Tsipras' Syriza is virtually assured of victory (unless somehow G-Pap's "new and improved" political party manages to steal enough votes to prevent this, although one wonders what his political campaign will be: "vote for us because this time we know how to avoid a sovereign bankruptcy"), Germany takes yet another opportunity to remind the Greeks that it won't be blackmailed (spoiler: it will) into another year of funding the insolvent Greek state which in turn will pretend to engage in another year of "reforms" (spoiler: it won't).

Even if you're not guilty, you can still be sent to jail if you're too poor to pay "court costs" ● Cities across the country are increasingly turning to what are known as private probation companies to collect unpaid fines. But are indigent people ending up in jail because they can't afford to pay? Since NewsHour Weekend's first story on this issue aired last spring, the Childersburg Municipal Court issued a “standing order” stating that “In no case shall an indigent defendant be incarcerated … based solely on his or her inability to pay fines.” But the practice continues elsewhere in the country. Special correspondent John Carlos Frey takes an in-depth look at what some are calling the return of the debtors' prison.

Robert Stevens ■ General elections are to be held in Greece on January 25 after the parliament on Monday failed to elect Stavros Dimas, the candidate of the New Democracy (ND)-PASOK governing coalition, as president. The collapse of the coalition government testifies to a profound crisis of rule in Greece and heightens social and political instability throughout Europe. [...] Six years of brutal austerity cuts imposed by successive ND and PASOK governments working with the European Union (EU), the European Central Bank (ECB) and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) “troika” have devastated the Greek working class. ND and PASOK, the Greek bourgeoisie’s traditional parties of rule, are now widely hated.

Christoph Dreier ■ As Greek government collapses, Berlin demands more austerity || The collapse of the Greek government is an expression of the deep social tensions across the continent. Prime Minister Antonis Samaras was no longer able to impose the European Union’s austerity dictates in the face of popular opposition. At the same time, the political crisis in Athens has sharpened divisions within the EU. High-ranking representatives of German politics and big business responded aggressively to the failure of the Greek presidential election. They made clear that they will not give an inch on austerity policies that have produced a social catastrophe in Greece and across Europe.