The prosperity of the European Union was based on cheap energy from Russia.

Now it is necessary to look for sources of energy within Europe, the economy of the union is waiting for restructuring, said the head of EU diplomacy, Josep Borrell, at a meeting with EU ambassadors.

“Our well-being was based on cheap energy from Russia. Obviously, today we must look for sources,” he said.

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Sweden will not publicly investigate the Nord Stream with Russia: "Prime Minister of Sweden Magdalena Andersson said that this is confidential information."

Swedish Prime Minister :"Sweden will not study explosions on the Nord Stream gas pipelines with Gazprom. In Sweden, preliminary investigative actions have been found, and this, of course, refers to a specific case."

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Crimean bridge. Railway condition.

‼️🏴‍☠️🇺🇦Our readers showed how the Nazis made a crude montage of a red armband on a video from Kupyansk, where the UAF killed people trying to impersonate Russian soldiers

The red ribbon superimposed in the video editor, which is worn by some soldiers of the troops of Russia and the LDNR, when the shooting slows down, clearly floats and remains on the bushes.



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German ZDF show Ukraine map without Donbas

The BASF keystone: as goes the gas, so goes BASF, so goes Germany, so goes Europe . . .

"Everything is connected at the German chemical firm BASF’s Ludwigshafen site, a 10 sq km industrial complex so large that byproducts from making ammonia, for example, are funnelled through a 1,771-mile pipe network to produce fertiliser, disinfectant, diesel exhaust fluid, or CO2 for fizzy drinks.

The plant is a giant integrated process — and it cannot run without a supply of natural gas.

“Once we can receive < 50% of our maximum requirements, we would need to wind down the entire site,” says a spokesperson.

The consequences of a BASF shutdown would be far-reaching, not just in Germany but the entire continent.

BASF-produced chemicals are used to make anything from toothpaste to vitamins, [and animal feed]. It's a top manufacturer of painkillers, and its largest customer industry is the automobile industry [— and AdBlue, which is required to run diesel engines, and keep trucking running ... ].

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PARIS ALERT

LA VIE EN ROUGE


Well, it's my main home. And when I'm away, I do worry. A lot.

From one of my moles:

"It's pandemonium here, only one out of seven gas stations is open, people are abandoning vehicles and trucks along the highways. This is the revenge of the middle class on a neoliberal government who wants to collapse the economy.

"You pretend to be our government, then we will pretend to work."

It's very effective, the government is getting desperate because the whole country is on standstill and the interior minister has 'threatened' the workers and the syndicates (collectives) with all types of fines and police action.

The strikers want higher wages precisely because there is massive inflation caused by government deliberate mismanagement of the economy. This is the law of unintended consequences and Klaus Schwab must be seething in anger. For the French lower middle class has simply started a firewall. You want to burn us down, we will burn down things first. This is how countries end. Lower middle class versus the bourgeoisie and the gentry.

A sixth Republic should be near if the strikes continue and we will be hard pressed to see who is going to replace the oil and gas station workers. So after the Canadian truckers, the farmers in Holland, it is now the French gas station and oil workers. The blueprint of massive non-compliance with government directives works and should be copied everywhere in the world."

Putin at Russian Energy Week:

Russia will NOT sell oil under the risible G7-concocted price cap.

But THIS is way more crucial:

"Part of Nord Stream reportedly remains in working condition, Russia is READY TO START DELIVERIES through it."

And..

"Russia is ready to supply additional gas to Europe in the autumn-winter period."

Don't expect the Euro-oligarchy to grow an instant IQ above - very low - room temperature.

RUSSIA GAINS BACK THE UPPER HAND IN UKRAINE

On October 12, air alert sounded in different regions of #Ukraine for the third day in a row.

The eastern and central regions of the country were mostly affected, including the capital city of #Kiev.

While #Russian forces do not stop damaging the strategic military and energy infrastructure throughout Ukraine, Kiev is assessing the damage.

According to the Ukrainian Minister of #Energy, the two days of #missile strikes resulted in damage to about 30% of the country’s energy infrastructure.

Among the targets hit by Russian missiles, there are also strategically important military facilities.

For example, the #railway junctions were damaged in #Pavlograd, which is the main line of supplies for the Ukrainian grouping in the #Donbass.

Amid the ongoing missile and #UAV attacks, the Russian military gained the upper hand on some front lines.

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WHO PROFITS FROM PIPELINE TERROR?

Secret Talks Between #Russia And #Germany To Resolve Their #NordStream 1 And 2 Issues Had To Be Averted At Any Cost
By Pepe Escobar
September 29 2022

Every crime implies motive.

The Russian government wanted – at least up to the sabotage – to sell #oil and natural #gas to the #EU.

The notion that Russian intel would destroy #Gazprom #pipelines is beyond ludicrous.

All they had to do was to turn off the valves.

NS2 was not even operational, based on a political decision from #Berlin. The gas flow in NS was hampered by western #sanctions.

Moreover, such an act would imply #Moscow losing key strategic leverage over the EU.

Diplomatic sources confirm that #Berlin and #Moscow were involved in a secret #negotiation to solve both the NS and NS2 issues.

So they had to be stopped – no holds barred.

Geopolitically, the entity that had the motive to halt a deal holds anathema a possible alliance in the horizon between Germany, Russia, and China.

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THERE IS NO SINGLE WAR IN UKRAINE AND NATO IS IN TROUBLE

Not to beat a dead horse, but most of the world has a delusional image in their head of the war in Ukraine.

As I have written previously, much of the fault lies with Hollywood, which through a plethora of movies has conditioned the masses to think of war as the conquest of critical territory. But that is a misleading image when it comes to Ukraine.

Yes, there are strategically important pieces of territory that must be captured or defended, but there also are vast swaths of plains (we call them prairies here in the United States) that are tactically difficult to control and, if you succeed in capturing an area of land, you create a problem of how to defend it.

Please take a look at the video above, with this in mind.

Although the video shows how Russia’s #Wagner Group is building defensive lines, please focus on the general #landscape rather than the work of the engineers..... MORE

EUROPE’S DESCENT INTO TOTALITARIANISM
By John Laughland

On 7 October 2022, late in the evening, at around 11.30 pm, I was detained at #Gatwick Airport in #London by anti-#terrorism police.

I was not released until shortly before 1 am and my computer was taken from me.

It has not yet been returned.

My passport and all my personal belongings – my wallet, my phone, my keys, everything – were removed.

I was taken to a room where I was questioned for an hour by two anti-terrorism police officers, acting under powers given to the police (as I learned for the first time) by Schedule 3 of the 2019 Counter-terrorism and Border Security Act.

The Act is supposedly designed to allow the police to detain ‘hostile actors’ who are travelling to the country to ‘plan, prepare or carry out their hostile acts’ (according to the leaflet the officers gave me).

But the Act itself says:

"An examining officer may exercise the powers under this paragraph whether or not there are grounds for suspecting that a person is or has been engaged in hostile activity"

So an Act ostensibly designed to allow hostile actors to be stopped in fact applies indiscriminately to everyone, according to its own explicit terms ...... MORE


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◾We will wage a war against Donbass”

◾In October 2019 Zelensky openly declared: “We will march against Donbass. Our army is ready. We are ready for direct combat operations. We will regain our territories.”

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US ARMY SET TO BUY COMPUTERIZED RIFLE SIGHTS FOR SHOOTING DOWN DRONES
October 7th, 2022

The #US #Army has purchased #SMASH2000L computerized optical sight systems manufactured by the #Israeli defense firm #SmartShooter.

The company is highlighting the system’s anti-#drone role, and both the Army and the U.S. Marine Corps have already acquired a limited number of older SMASH 2000 variants for this very purpose.

SMASH 2000L sights, with the ‘L’ standing for ‘light’, are designed for use on a variety of small arms to facilitate more accurate target engagement — basically shooting things with computer-aided precision