In 2008, an article touting the benefits of world hunger for creating a cheap, motivated workforce was published on the United Nations’ website. The article resurfaced recently on Twitter and went viral; it was promptly taken down by the U.N. within 24 hours | The crux of the article is that the elite class has a distinct motivation to not end world hunger, because if everyone is well-nourished, there may be no one willing to provide cheap labour and slave away at some of the most physically demanding and unpleasant jobs on the planet. ● While the U.N. claimed the article was satire, its author denied that it was a satirical piece and said it was intended to raise awareness that some people benefit from the existence of hunger in the world.

Elena Panina/Елена Панина | After the sabotage of the Nord Streams, the perpetrators of which Sweden, Denmark and the FRG together cannot be found despite an exhaustive set of data on the movements of US, British and Polish navies in the area, it has been suggested that this is just the beginning of a "communications war". And here's the confirmation. ● On the night of 19 October, fibre optic highways were cut in at least three locations in the Marseilles area. In addition to the disruption on the Marseille-Lyon, Marseille-Milan and Marseille-Barcelona routes, international traffic towards Australia and South-East Asia was affected. The affected provider turned out to be Free 1337. It has published pictures of what has been labelled as "professionally cut cables". ● In April, four fibre optic lines of the same ISP were affected near Paris. In addition to Free and its backbone provider SFR, a dozen other providers were also affected. They are now routing traffic via alternative routes, leading to increased delays. The difference between April and October is that it's not internal French traffic that's now affected, but external traffic. ● On the same day as the damage to cables near Marseille, the Shetland Islands were left without communication. Mobile phone, internet and landlines are working intermittently there and there are problems with cashless payments in shops. ● Last week another cable connecting the Shetland and Faroe Islands was sabotaged. No one has yet been blamed for the sabotage, but according to local authorities "it is unlikely that two such problems occur at the same time". ● You don't have to be a state to stage such a sabotage. It could be rival ISPs and other private entities interested in cutting off or slowing down communications in a particular direction. For example, to deal with exchanges. (Translated with www.DeepL.com)

North Stream 2: Sweden Ordered to Remove All Evidence That Could Point to US and British Involvement

The present vitality disaster in Europe may put the brakes on electrical mobility in Germany and make e-vehicles unattractive to potential prospects, Der Spiegel reported on Friday. | With electrical energy getting ever dearer, charging an e-vehicle is typically pricier than filling up a petroleum or diesel automobile, the newspaper writes. The combustion engine is greater than €30 cheaper per 30 days on common with a mileage of 15,000 kilometers, the publications writes. By the top of subsequent yr, an e-car ought to “clearly be at a drawback,” Der Spiegel quotes Ferdinand Dudenhoeffer from the Middle for Automotive Analysis as saying. ● The state bonuses for purchasing electrical automobiles have been additionally lowered by 25%. With an virtually a year-long anticipate an ordered electrical automotive to reach, the client will get a smaller bonus than they have been anticipating, the outlet writes, including that there’s not any state subsidy for hybrid vehicles.

EU leaders have instructed the European Commission to prepare proposals on ways of using frozen Russian assets to rebuild Ukraine, Russian media reported on Friday. The statement comes as EU leaders wrapped up a two-day summit in Brussels.

💬 “We have to talk about the use of [frozen] assets that we have – Russian [frozen] assets. We have over €300 billion ($292 billion) of [frozen] assets and how we can use them in benefit of Ukraine,” Estonian Prime Minister Kaja Kallas said on Friday, as quoted by CNN.

Legally, the frozen funds still belong to Russia or its citizens. In order to spend those assets, the EU needs to find a way of confiscating them. According to media reports, EU leaders will discuss the possible confiscation of frozen Russian assets at a summit in Brussels in May. European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said the EU was looking to provide Ukraine with about €1.5 billion each month. The bloc’s finance ministers have been tasked with pulling together the money.

Swedish newspaper Expressen released the first underwater images of the ruptured Nord Stream 1 gas pipeline on Tuesday. The Russia-Germany gas line was critically damaged in an act of apparent sabotage last month | The video footage, shot 80 meters below the surface of the Baltic Sea, shows long tears in the seabed leading up to the blown-apart pipe. At least 50 meters of the concrete-reinforced steel pipe are missing, the Swedish newspaper reported. ● The Nord Stream 1 and 2 pipelines – which were built to deliver Russian natural gas directly to Germany – lost pressure abruptly on September 26, following a series of underwater explosions off the Danish island of Bornholm, within the economic zones of Denmark and Sweden. ● Germany, Denmark and Sweden are conducting separate investigations into the blasts, with a preliminary report by Copenhagen Police on Tuesday stating that "powerful explosions" caused the damage. Swedish investigators reached a similar conclusion earlier this month, blaming the blasts on “gross sabotage.”

Nord Stream gas leak investigation (TASS)
North Stream 2: Sweden Ordered to Remove All Evidence That Could Point to US and British Involvement

An economic downturn is near certain within the next 12 months, a model built by economists shows | The US economy is 100% certain to enter a recession in the next 12 months, according to an economic model devised by two Bloomberg economists and run based on 13 unspecified financial indicators on Monday. What’s even worse is that the apparently inevitable downturn might come even sooner than that – the model returned a 73% chance it would hit within 11 months and a 25% chance it would arrive within ten.

US warned of winter blackouts – WSJ (RT.con)

Following Russian Vladimir Putin’s statement that Türkiye is the most reliable route for transporting Russian gas to Europe, Türkiye and Russia are taking steps to start joint work for establishing an energy distribution center in the former’s Thrace region.

💬 “Thrace is seen as the most important place for this kind of a distribution center. We, with Putin, have instructed our respective energy ministries to start a joint work. This work will be done and a distribution center will be established in the most suitable place,” Erdoğan told journalists on his return from Kazakhstan on Oct. 14.

Erdoğan made these comments after his meeting with Putin who suggested that a major energy center can be created in Türkiye as the most reliable route for energy export to the European markets. [...] Ankara and Moscow have in-depth energy cooperation as the latter annually supplies around 65 percent of Türkiye’s hydrocarbon needs. The two countries are linked by two major natural gas pipelines, the Blue Stream and the TurkStream.

On recent statements on food security by Charles Michel, President of the European Council, and Josep Borrell, High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy. Contrary to what EU officials say,

👉 It is the EU, not the world's poorest countries, which is the biggest beneficiary of the Ukrainian grain export deal.
👉 The EU itself provoked the global shortage of fertilisers by its rash energy policy and unilateral sanctions against Russia and Belarus.
👉 EU sanctions do target Russian agricultural industry.
👉 The refusal of foreign companies to cooperate with Russian partners is a result of the purposeful efforts by the European Union.

Russia is hitting back after Sweden declared they would not share the outcome of the Nordstream investigation into who sabotaged the pipelines. Considering they are Russia’s pipelines, it makes sense Moscow wants answers | The pipeline is owned and operated by Nord Stream AG, whose majority shareholder is the Russian state-owned company Gazprom. It doesn’t make sense that the outcome of the investigation would be withheld from the owner of the pipeline, but this could be a simple way to cover it up or push Russia toward a response. ● So far, Russia is demanding to be a part of the investigation or it is not willing to accept the outcome of Sweden’s investigation. Russia’s foreign ministry revealed on Thursday it had summoned the representatives of Germany, Denmark, and Sweden to convey its “bewilderment” over a lack of official reaction to a request for cooperation sent earlier this month by Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin, according to a report by RT.

Sweden explains rejection of joint Nord Stream probe | Stockholm has rejected a plan to set up an official joint investigation team together with Germany and Denmark to look into the explosions that damaged the Nord Stream 1 and 2 gas pipelines in late September, Reuters reported, citing a Swedish investigator. Sweden reportedly argued that its own findings are too sensitive to share even with other EU nations.

Berlin has made a mistake by placing its obligations to NATO above the interests of the German people, according to Russian President Vladimir Putin. Now business people, the country’s economy and its citizens are paying for this choice, he told journalists on Friday.

💬 “Apparently, some kind of allied obligations have been placed to the forefront” by Germany “within the framework of the North Atlantic Treaty Alliance,” Putin said at a press conference after the Central Asia-Russia summit in Astana, Kazakhstan. “Is it right or wrong? I believe that it’s a mistake, and business, the economy, and the citizens of the Federal Republic [of Germany] are paying for this mistake, because it has negative economic consequences for the eurozone in general and for the Federal Republic in particular,” Putin pointed out.

He was answering a question about Berlin’s role in the Ukraine conflict, where it has been among key backers of Kiev. According to the Russian leader, German authorities “should decide for themselves what is more important: the fulfillment of some allied obligations as they see them, or ensuring the interests of their own people, their national interests.” (VIDEO)

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday offered to ship gas to Europe through an undamaged line in the Nord Stream 2 pipeline, an idea that was quickly rejected by Germany | Putin said that one line of the Nord Stream 2 remained pressurized despite the attacks on both Nord Stream pipelines that occurred last month and caused gas to leak into the Baltic Sea. Both lines of Nord Stream 1 were damaged, while only one Nord Stream 2 line leaked gas after the explosions. ● Putin condemned the Nord Stream attacks as acts of terrorism. “The act of sabotage of the Nord Stream 1 and 2 is an act of international terrorism aimed at undermining energy security of the entire continent by blocking supplies of cheap energy,” he said. ● Putin also said that there are countries that stand to gain from the sabotage, including Poland and the US. The US tried to stop the construction of Nord Stream 2 for years, and President Biden threatened to put an “end” to the pipeline if Russia invaded Ukraine. Secretary of State Antony Blinken has called the incident a “tremendous opportunity” to wean Europe off Russian gas.

The Polish pipeline operator PERN says there is a leak in a section of the Druzhba oil pipeline. The report comes as nations are on alert after gas pipelines in the Baltic Sea suffered suspected sabotage | Polish pipeline operator PERN said on Wednesday that its automated detection systems had found a leak in one line of the Druzhba oil pipeline, which carries oil from Russia to Europe. ● PERN said that it was still unclear what might have caused the leak, which was detected on Tuesday evening. ● However, Poland's top official in charge of energy infrastructure, Mateusz Berger, told Reuters news agency that 💬 "we can talk about accidental damage." ● In a statement on its website, PERN said the leak was located some 70 kilometers (44 miles) from the western city of Plock and was on the main route transporting crude oil to Germany. 💬 "The cause of the incident is not known for the moment. Pumping in the affected line was immediately stopped. Line 2 of the pipeline is functioning normally," PERN said. ● A spokeswoman for the Czech pipeline operator MERO said no change in flows to the Czech Republic had been detected.

In light of Saudi Arabia's decision to support OPEC+ oil production cuts, US Democratic Senators Richard Blumenthal and Democratic Representative Ro Khanna proposed a legislation to stop Washington from providing weapons to Riyadh, arguing that what the US regards as the kingdom's support for Russia deserves a "far-reaching review of the US-Saudi relationship." ● In an op-ed for Politico on Sunday, the reps urged Congress to halt arms sales until it withdraws its “embrace” of Russian President Vladimir Putin, adding: "The Saudi decision was a pointed blow to the US, but the US also has a way to respond: It can promptly pause the massive transfer of American warfare technology into the eager hands of the Saudi". ● The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC)'s member states voted on October 5 to cut their production of oil and agreed to reduce their oil production by 2 million barrels a day in light of the world's surging energy crisis, a delegation source told Russian news agency Sputnik - which the US regarded as a hostile act.

Sanctioning Russia is no longer enough for the US, which has now switched to sabotage, the president claimed | The US orchestrated the blasts on the Nord Stream 1 and 2 gas pipelines in the Baltic Sea, which delivered Russian natural gas to Germany, because they “obviously” benefit from it, President Vladimir Putin said on Friday. ● Putin accused Washington of trying to pressure the EU into banning Russian supplies to “completely get their hands on the European market.”

💬 “But the sanctions are no longer enough for the Anglo-Saxons,” he said, using Russian shorthand for the US-UK transatlantic alliance. “They have turned to sabotage – it’s unbelievable, but it’s a fact – by organizing the explosions on the Nord Stream international gas pipelines,” the president stated.  ● “They de facto began the destruction of the common European energy infrastructure. It’s obvious to everyone who benefits from it. Those who benefit are the ones who have done it.”

Maria Zakharova also stressed that the region was crammed with NATO infrastructure | NATO member countries conducted drills in July using deep-sea equipment near the Nord Streams leaks site, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said at a briefing on Thursday. "In July, there were NATO drills with the use of deep-sea equipment in the area of the island of Bornholm," she said. Zakharova also stressed that the region was crammed with NATO infrastructure.

On Tuesday, the Nord Stream AG company reported that three threads of the Nord Stream 1 and 2 offshore gas pipelines had suffered unprecedented damage on Monday. Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov stated that Moscow was "deeply concerned about the news" and did not rule out that the pipelines’ operation could have been disrupted by an act of sabotage. Swedish seismologists later reported that two explosions had been recorded along the Nord Stream pipelines on Monday.

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen slammed the incidents as sabotage, pointing out that any deliberate disruption of the European energy infrastructure is unacceptable and will lead to the strongest possible response". On Thursday, the Swedish Coast Guard discovered another gas leak from the Nord Stream and Nord Stream 2 pipelines.

NATO tested underwater ‘equipment’ close to Nord Stream – Mosco (RT.com): In June, the military alliance experimented with unmanned subs near the island of Bornholm.

Should Europeans ‘Thank’ the Americans for Destroying Nord Stream? (Robert Bridge)

A fourth leak has been found on the Nord Stream gas pipelines in the Baltic Sea, according to the newspaper Svenska Dagbladet.

The leak in question is located on Nord Stream 2 in the vicinity of those known before. "Two of these four leaks are located in the Swedish economic zone. There has been a larger gas release of approximately 900 meters in diameter and a smaller one of approximately 200 meters in diameter," Jenny Larsson of the Coast Guard's command center told the newspaper. Admittedly, the Coast Guard has been aware of the four leaks since Tuesday and cannot say why the information didn't get out until now. Most recently on Wednesday evening, Swedish Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson spoke about "three gas leaks" on Nord Stream 1 and 2.

Harry Vox | Less than 24 hours after Nord Stream 2 abruptly went down, Nord Stream 1 has been sabotaged as well. | These are clear and obvious acts of war, not only against Russia, but against Western Europe [also]. And not only is the Unidentified State Actor the primary suspect, with the means and the motivation to destroy the pipelines, but the Commander-in-Chief of the US military publicly threatened to do what has apparently been done. ● Gonzalo Lira is absolutely right. This is the modern equivalent of Cortez burning his ships upon arrival in the New World. Occam’s Razor strongly suggests that the global imperialists headquartered in the USA are attempting to prevent the Europeans from surrendering to Russia and thereby freeing themselves from the satanic New World Order. ● “Now I realize that the Americans will stop at nothing to destroy all of their allies. Because what’s really happening is that the global American empire is collapsing and they are lashing out in all directions.” ● At this point, every nation on Earth would have to be crazy to cooperate with the US government in any way, much less comply with its demands. This destruction of Europe’s energy lifelines underlines the truth of Henry Kissinger’s famous aphorism: “To be an enemy of the US is dangerous, but to be a friend is fatal.”

Blasts detected near Nord Stream pipelines amid leak – Swedish seismologists (RT.com)

Germany seized the local unit of Russian oil major Rosneft PJSC as Berlin moves to take sweeping control of its energy industry, secure supplies and sever decades of deep dependence on Moscow for fuel. ● Alongside its THEFT of the Rosneft unit, Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s administration is in advanced talks to take over Uniper SE and two other major gas importers, Bloomberg reported on Thursday. Germany is pressing ahead with an historic overhaul of its economy just two and half years after the Covid-19 pandemic, outright stealing a huge chunk of its industrial base to prevent shortages and blackouts this winter. ● A decision on the next moves could come within days.

The Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit has been taking place on 15 and 16 September in Uzbekistan's city of Samarkand. The event has been attended by leaders of SCO member states, observer states and other invited guests.

The Shanghai Cooperation Organization has entered its second and final day. SCO leaders will take part in a group photograph on Friday, and then hold a meeting at which not all members will be present. There will be a meeting for all members later and they will also sign the Samarkand Declaration, which confirms the positions of the participating countries on the most important regional and global issues. ● The SCO, which was founded in 2001, is a successor of the Shanghai Five group - founded in 1996 - and now has nine members: India, Kazakhstan, China, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Iran, Tajikistan, Pakistan and Uzbekistan. ● Afghanistan, Belarus, and Mongolia are observer states; Azerbaijan, Armenia, Cambodia, Egypt Nepal, Qatar, Turkey and Sri Lanka are dialogue partners. Iran applied to be a full member at the SCO summit in Dushanbe in September 2021, and the bid by Saudi Arabia - launched at the same summit - is still pending. This year, Belarus officially applied to join the SCO as a full member.

Leaders of SCO member states sign Samarkand Declaration (China.org.cn)
September 15 – 16 Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) Summit (Stephen Lendman)

The latest shipment was sent to Iraq in batches through the illegal al-Mahmoudiyeh crossing connecting Hasakah with northern Iraq, said the report. Last week, according to SANA, more than 300 oil tankers were sent from the U.S.-controlled Syrian oil fields in Hasakah to U.S. bases in Iraq. | In Syria, people have struggled to secure gas for cooking and fuel for their cars and businesses. The scarcity of fuel also causes long daily power cuts. ● On Aug. 8, the Syrian oil ministry said in a statement that U.S. forces were stealing 80 percent of Syria’s oil production. ● U.S. forces and their mercenaries are stealing an average of 66,000 barrels of oil daily in Syria. It added that the country’s average daily oil production is estimated to have reached 80,000 barrels in the first half of 2022. ● On Aug. 29, the Syrian oil ministry said in a statement that the U.S. practices in Syria, including its unlawful trafficking of Syrian oil, have so far caused direct and indirect losses of about 107.1 billion U.S. dollars to Syria’s oil and gas sectors.

President Putin has arrived for the Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit. On the meeting agenda:

✔️ President of Kyrgyzstan
✔️ President of Turmenistan
✔️ President of Uzbekistan
✔️ President of Iran
✔️ Prime Minister of Pakistan Shahbaz
✔️ Chinese President, for the
the trilateral summit Russia-Mongolia-China.

On Friday, Putin will hold bilateral meetings with the President of Turkey, India's Prime Minister, and the President of Azerbaijan.

Work on 'Strategic' Russia-Iran Cooperation Agreement at 'Final Stage': Putin (09/15/22)

Iran signed a memorandum of commitment to the Shanghai Cooperation Organization on Thursday as the SCO summit kicked off in Uzbekistan. The Islamic Republic is expected to be officially accepted as a member of the Eurasian political, economic and security bloc before the summit is through.

💬 "Work on a new, major agreement between Russia and Iran is in its final stage. [This treaty] will mark the transition of relations between our countries to a strategic level," Putin said, speaking alongside his Iranian counterpart President Ebrahim Raisi on the sidelines of the SCO Summit.

💬 "Interregional ties are developing. We are actively cooperating in the international arena, and on many [points] our positions are close, or as diplomats would put it, they coincide," Putin said.

💬 "We are serious about the development of bilateral relations. Our relations are not ordinary, they are of a strategic nature. Cooperation can continue to develop in the political, trade and economic, as well as the space and aerospace sectors," Raisi said.

The Iranian president expressed gratitude to his Russian counterpart for supporting the Islamic Republic's bid for membership in the SCO, and emphasized that not only Tehran but the entire organization would benefit from Iran's full membership in the bloc.

■ Putin and Xi Talk Taiwan, Trade, Ukraine, New World Order at SCO Summit (Sputnik News)
■ Iran says they don’t recognize any western sanctions against Russia and are strengthening cooperation with Moscow (Short Telegram Video)

The EU is being prodded into selling itself into slavery on behalf of Ukraine, the Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman says | The Russian diplomat believes that the proposed international agreement which Kiev released on Tuesday is an economic trap for EU nations set by the US with Ukraine’s assistance. [...] Washington’s EU allies are expected to pledge to keep the Ukraine aid money flowing for the foreseeable future, Zakharova said in an interview on Wednesday. If signed, the ‘Kiev Security Compact’ would mean “harsh slavery” for the bloc which it would not recover from anytime soon, she claimed.

💬 “A total commitment to supporting the Kiev regime would simply mean immolation [for the EU]. And this proposal is addressed to nations that are debating how they can live through the winter,” Zakharova said, in reference to the energy shortages that EU member states are struggling to confront. ● The situation is ironic, she believes, as the EU began as a group of nations that banded together for mutual economic benefit through the deregulation of trade. Now “they are being corralled together” so their lives will become “colder, poorer, and harder,” she said.

Ukraine’s security proposal makes Russian op ‘more urgent’ – Kremlin (RT.com)
Kiev Security Compact meant to enslave EU, Russian diplomat says (TASS)
Medvedev: Kiev's Security Guarantees Project is 'Prelude to World War Three' (09/13/22)

Relations between Taipei and Beijing have been deteriorating since US Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi spoke with Taiwanese officials in August | The United States is considering a sanctions package to discourage China from invading Taiwan, and both Taipei and Washington are pressuring the European Union to follow suit, according to a report published by Reuters on Tuesday. ● Deliberations between Washington and the EU, along with separate lobbying of the EU by Taipei, are said to be in the early stages. [...] The US and much of the West already restricts trade of certain computer components and telecom equipment from China over corporate espionage fears. The Biden administration also recently restricted sales of artificial intelligence chips to Chinese companies, unless those companies receive Commerce Department licenses first. ● The new sanctions package would be in addition to those sanctions. Reuter’s source did not provide them with any additional details.

Ukraine’s Western-backed leader Volodymyr Zelensky opened the New York Stock Exchange telling Wall Street his country is “open” for foreign corporations to exploit it with $400 billion in state selloffs. | Ukraine’s Western-backed leader Volodymyr Zelensky opened the New York Stock Exchange telling Wall Street his country is “open” for foreign corporations to exploit it with $400 billion in state selloffs. ● In a speech launching the neoliberal selloff program Advantage Ukraine, Zelensky offered Wall Street “a chance for you to invest now in projects worth of hundreds of billions of dollars.” ● The financial news service Business Wire published a press release from the Ukrainian government in which Zelensky boasted:

💬 "The $400+ [billion] in investment options featured on AdvantageUkraine.com span public private partnerships, privatization and private ventures. A USAID-supported project team of investment bankers and researchers appointed by Ukraine’s Ministry of Economy will work with businesses interested in investing."

The press release cited executives of US corporate giants Google, Alphabet, and Microsoft, who salivated over the economic possibilities offered by Ukraine.(Source 1)(Source 2)

Left-wing politician Sahra Wagenknecht slammed her government for causing a ‘fatal’ economic war with Russia | Germany’s government is the “stupidest” in Europe for managing to embroil itself in a full-blown “economic war” with its top energy supplier, Russia, left-wing politician Sahra Wagenknecht said on Thursday. ● Speaking in the Bundestag, the former co-chair of the party Die Linke (The Left) urged an end to anti-Russian sanctions and the resignation of the country’s vice chancellor and economy minister, Robert Habeck. ● While describing the ongoing conflict in Ukraine as a “crime,” Wagenknecht said the anti-Russian sanctions are “fatal” for Germany itself. With energy prices out of control, the country’s economy will soon “just be a reminder of the good old days,” the MP warned, as she urged canceling the restrictions and engaging in talks with Russia.

💬 “We really have the stupidest government in Europe,” she told the parliament, calling for Habeck to resign. “The idea that we are punishing Putin by impoverishing millions of families in Germany and destroying our industry while Gazprom is making record profits – how stupid is that?” Wagenknecht wondered.

Pepe Escobar | Germany’s Energy Suicide: An Autopsy: When Green fanatic Robert Habeck, posing as Germany’s Economy Minister, said earlier this week “we should expect the worst” in terms of energy security, he conveniently forgot to spell out how the whole farce is a Made in Germany cum Made in Brussels crisis. ● Flickers of intelligence at least still glow in rare Western latitudes, as indispensable strategic analyst William Engdahl, author of A Century of Oil, released a sharp, concise summary revealing the skeletons in the glamour closet. ● Everyone with a brain following the ghastly Eurocrat machinations in Brussels was aware of the main plot – yet hardly anyone among average EU citizens. Habeck, Chancellor “Liver Sausage” Scholz, the European Commission (EC) Green Energy VP Timmermans, EC dominatrix Ursula von der Leyen, they are all involved. ● In a nutshell: as Engdahl describes it, this is about “the EU plan to de-industrialize one of the most energy-efficient industrial concentrations on the planet.”

If it is confirmed that the head of European diplomacy really called Russia a “fascist state”, Moscow will raise the question of any further business with the EU. 💬 "Mr. Borrell's office denied the reports, saying that Borrell spoke Spanish and there was an inaccuracy in the English translation. We asked for a transcript of the speech in Spanish. We will seek full clarity, and if we do not receive this transcript today, we will make the appropriate call."

PS. 27 million Soviet citizens died in the fight against fascism. Borrell could single-handedly cause a very cold winter.

Russia requested transcript of Borrell’s ‘fascist Russia’ remark, no result yet — Lavrov (TASS)
Borrell’s ‘fascist regime’ remark on Russia nullifies him as diplomat — Kremlin spokesman (TASS)
Lavrov: Moscow requested the text of Borrell’s speech de-fascistizing Russia (Hungary Posts English)

The world is about to experience major turbulence as a result of illogical moves by Western nations, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has said.

💬 “Most likely, a huge global storm is starting,” Peskov warned in an interview with Tass on Monday. “In many ways, there are objective reasons for that, but there are also subjective reasons for this beginning storm, which are linked to absolutely illogical and often absurd decisions and actions of the authorities in the US, Europe, the EU and individual European countries,” he said.

The sanctions imposed by the US, the EU and some other nations on Russia over its military operation in Ukraine have backfired causing a spike in energy prices and record inflation across the West. ● In this situation, Russia...

💬 “...still manages to maintain macroeconomic stability. Very intense, thoughtful and consistent work is being carried out in order to achieve that,” Peskov noted. ● “As restrictions are being artificially introduced in the West, [Russia’s] trade and economic relations are understandably starting to focus more on the East,” he added.

Russia Switches Off Europe's Primary Gasoline Line Till Sanctions Are Lifted
+ Main gas pipeline to EU will be closed until sanctions lifted – Kremlin

No Time | As I keep saying, Europeans, you have no time to fix this. Lots and lots or people are going to die, economies will be permanently ruined, and everybody other than the political classes, other Schwab minions, and, of course, the billionaires, will suffer grievously. This is permanent life-changing suffering! You have already squandered precious months twiddling your thumbs waiting for sanity that is never coming from these people. Direct action now, in every fucking way possible. ● Likely? Jesus Christ! How much do Europeans hate themselves? "Anti-NATO protests in Europe likely to increase" (Leiroz). ● One trick to watch for, which is already happening. They are trying to confuse things by creating parallel anti-vaxx protests, so they can dismiss all dissent as the work of nut cases. Don't let them get away with it!

Tesla’s massive Shanghai ‘Giga-factory’ pushes its workers to the limit to meet production targets amid an ongoing pandemic lockdown | How do you become the richest man in the world? In Elon Musk’s case, part of it involves making workers in China put in hours that would be unacceptable according to labor norms elsewhere. ● On Tuesday, the Tesla boss praised Chinese factory workers for pulling extreme hours while taking a shot at American workers. “There is just a lot of super talented hardworking people in China who strongly believe in manufacturing,” the billionaire said. “They won’t just be burning the midnight oil, they will be burning the 3am oil, they won’t even leave the factory type of thing, whereas in America people are trying to avoid going to work at all.”Musk’s comment comes as Tesla’s massive Shanghai “Giga-factory” pushes its workers to the limit to meet production targets amid an ongoing pandemic lockdown.