🔹On the Swedish 🇸🇪 marketplace site Blocket, the word "firewood" 🪵 became the most searched term on the site over the past seven days.

🔹Prices for firewood and wood pellets in Germany 🇩🇪 spiraled 85.7% in August compared to the same month last year.

🔹Firewood prices in France 🇫🇷 has risen by an average of 10% since June. There are delivery delays, with customers expected to wait 3-5 months from the date of order.

Previous firewood developments reported on this channel:

💠 Firewood / wood pellet prices & demand drastically increase in Sweden 🇸🇪, Estonia 🇪🇪, Belgium 🇧🇪 & UK 🇬🇧. Polish 🇵🇱 politicians advise stocking firewood. Hungary 🇭🇺places firewood export ban. Germany 🇩🇪 google searches for firewood skyrockets.

💠Centuries old forests 🌳such as in the Gurghiu mountains in Romania,🇷🇴 are being exploited for firewood as demand soars. The Dutch 🇳🇱 National Hotline for Internet Scams is warning consumers about new fake online stores, claiming to sell firewood.

Update on Donbass Republics , Zaporozhye & Kherson Oblasts Referenda to join the Russian Federation 🇷🇺.

Eligible voter turnout after day 3, with 2 more days left to vote.

🔹Lugansk People’s Republic (LPR) - 76% voted.
🔹Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) - 77% voted.
🔹Kherson Oblast - 49% voted.
🔹Zaporozhye Oblast - 51.5% voted.

Video compilation denoscription in order of appearance:

💠 German 🇩🇪 observer gives his assessment of the referendum.

💠 5 international observers from Brazil, 🇧🇷 Netherlands, 🇳🇱 and Egypt 🇪🇬 arrive in the LPR.

💠 Head of Lugansk Republic Central Election Commission reveals Ukrainian 🇺🇦 social media pages are OPENLY calling to BOMB 🧨 polling stations while giving their precise locations.

💠 Elderly man of the LPR, tells Cameroonian 🇨🇲 observer why he supports the current referendum.

💠 German 🇩🇪 election observer Stefan Schaller in the Zaporozhye Oblast, after revealing that Germany asked him to discredit the vote, will be fired in Germany today.

🔹UN's 🇺🇳 FAO found 19 hunger hotspots worldwide, with most countries in Africa, & Middle East. FAO's world food index above levels that triggered 2011's "Arab Spring".

🔹Big-agro firm Corteva exec. says “The global grain 🌾 & oilseeds markets need two consecutive normal crop years to stabilize global supplies". Sadly, 2022 summer drought ☀️ affected grain production in the US/South America/Europe.

Climate change policy destroying the food supply reported on this channel:

💠 Dutch 🇳🇱 farmers protest destructive nitrogen gov't policy. Same 🚜 in Germany, in Spain 🇪🇸 & Italy 🇮🇹.

💠 Fertilizer manufacturing 🏭 shutdown across Europe due to sanctions on Russia.

💠 Russia 🇷🇺 blocked from shipping fertilizers to poor countries for free.

💠 Belarus' 🇧🇾 president warn that sanctions will lead to global food crisis.

💠 India 🇮🇳 bans broken rice exports & imposes duty on rice exports.

💠 Food banks increase in Germany 🇩🇪.

💠 CBDC/Digital ID 💳 tied to climate change agenda.

🔹Hungary's 🇭🇺 PM says sanctions on Russia 🇷🇺 is counter-productive as EU 🇪🇺 plans to punish Hungary by restricting funds.

🔹CEO of Russian 🇷🇺 nuclear corporation Rosatom & gov't officials from Hungary, 🇭🇺 discuss in Vienna, the licenses for the Paks-2 nuclear power plant construction 🏗. The two new power units are designed by Rosatom. The Paks NPP 🏭 (100 kilometers south of Budapest) uses Soviet technologies.

🔹🇦🇹 Austria, 🇭🇺 Hungary, and 🇧🇬 Bulgaria are planning to reach a target of 80% fill level in Underground Gas Storage facilities. Russia's Gazprom continue sending gas through Ukraine to them.

🔹Poland 🇵🇱 will strongly oppose EU actions against Hungary. PM Orban and other gov't officials have claimed the EU sanctions are suicidal.

Last reported here:

💠 EU 🇪🇺 declares Hungary is no longer a democracy & suspends billions 💶 in EU funding. Hungary resists visa ban on Russians & buys gas from Russia.

Update on Donbass Republics , Zaporozhye & Kherson Oblasts Referenda to join the Russian Federation 🇷🇺.

Eligible voter turnout after day 4, with 1 more day to cast votes.

🔹Lugansk People’s Republic (LPR) - 83.61% voted.
🔹Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) - 86.89% voted.
🔹Kherson Oblast - 63.58% voted.
🔹Zaporozhye Oblast - 66.43% voted.

Video compilation denoscription in order of appearance:

💠 German 🇩🇪 observer gives his assessment of the referendum.

💠 5 international observers from Brazil, 🇧🇷 Netherlands, 🇳🇱 and Egypt 🇪🇬 arrive in the LPR.

💠 Head of Lugansk Republic Central Election Commission reveals Ukrainian 🇺🇦 social media pages are OPENLY calling to BOMB 🧨 polling stations while giving their precise locations.

💠 Elderly man of the LPR, tells Cameroonian 🇨🇲 observer why he supports the current referendum.

💠 German 🇩🇪 election observer Stefan Schaller in the Zaporozhye Oblast, after revealing that Germany asked him to discredit the vote, was fired in Germany today.

🔹Protests 🔥 hit Tunisia 🇹🇳 due to soaring inflation. Many Tunisians have reported spending hours searching for sugar, milk, butter, cooking oil & rice.

🔹Tunisia 🇹🇳 expects its budget deficit will expand to 9.7% GDP in 2022, is facing it's worst financial crisis & to agree on a new loan with the IMF. (The IMF, dictators & Arab Spring). President Saied suspended parliament in July 2021, sacking the PM & ruling by decree.

🔹This channel warned that gov't lockdowns (destroying the supply chains), 🚢 central bank expansion of currency supply (inflation), 💵 ESG scores & now sanctions on Russia 🇷🇺/Belarus 🇧🇾 will create chaos in poor & emerging market countries. Sri Lanka 🇱🇰 was the 1st. The Arab Spring of 2011 began in Tunisia.

Previous warnings on sanctions:

💠 Fertilizer manufacturing 🏭 shutdown across Europe due to sanctions on Russia.

💠 Russia 🇷🇺 blocked from shipping fertilizers to poor countries for free.

💠 Belarus' 🇧🇾 president warn that sanctions will lead to global food crisis.

🔹Early assessment by German 🇩🇪 gov't investigators suspect sabotage of NordStream (NS) 1 & 2.

🔹Russian 🇷🇺 owned NS pipelines to Germany suffered a drastic loss of pressure. Denmark 🇩🇰 observed a gas leak near the island of Bornholm in the Baltic Sea & closed the immediate area for ⛴ 🛳 traffic.

🔹“A gas leak is observed at position 54° 52.60'N 15° 24.60'E. Warning beacons ⚠️ (photo) activated.

Speculation:

💠 Hypothesis 1 - Seismic activity 🌐. On Mon, 26 Sep 2022 17:03 UTC, a Mag. 2.2 & Depth 0.0km at 55.63°N / 15.8°E (photo) seismic activity was registered.

💠 Hypothesis 2 -Sabotage via explosives 💣🧨. The seismic activity was registered on the seabed. 0.0km.

👉 5 days ago, Russia's 🇷🇺 FSB prevented a terrorist attack by saboteurs recruited by Ukrainian 🇺🇦 Forces, on the gas facility supplying the TurkStream pipeline.

👉 On Feb. 7th 2022, US 🇺🇸 President Biden promised to bring an end to NS2.

👉 On Dec. 7th 2021, US 🇺🇸 officials states their intention to end NS2 permanently.

NordStream 1 & 2 Pipelines Video Update.

Links to references in video:

🔹Sanctions on Russia 🇷🇺 prevent gas turbine maintenance.

🔹Blasts 💢 were explosions -Swedish seismologist.

🔹CIA warns German 🇩🇪 gov't against attack.

🔹Minor earthquake 🌐 magnitude 2.2.

🔹Seismograph spiked twice ‼️on day of Baltic pipeline leaks.

🔹'Experimental explosion' 🧨 registering magnitude 3.9.

🔹Baltic Pipe can be put into full operation 🤔 one month ahead of planned.

🔹Poland 🇵🇱, Denmark 🇩🇰 inaugurate Baltic Pipe gas pipeline.

🔹High natural gas prices have incentivized shale drillers in the US 🇺🇸 to change from oil to gas drilling. Europe's 🇪🇺 gas is about $90 per mmBTU, energy/price equivalent to $550 per barrel of oil.🛢

🔹Gas production in the U.S. has risen to an all-time high 📈 this year, - average daily 2.89 trillion cu ft. Exports of LNG is booming to Europe since sanctions on Russia. US gas stocks are below seasonal average.

🔹Exxon Mobil issued a temporary "stand-down" across its U.S. 🇺🇸 shale operations following back-to-back worker injuries, including one fatality. Job cuts two years ago related to the COVID-19 🦠 pandemic have led to a shortage of experienced oilfield employees.

🔹Shale executives have dramatically dialed back their oil-price expectations over the past three months as recession risks weigh on the market.

Last reported here:

💠U.S. 🇺🇸 shale gas producers are struggling to keep up with demand. U.S. generators 💡are burning record volumes of gas.

🔹Protests continued in the Czech Republic 🇨🇿 today. The movement which managed to rally 70,000 people in Prague recently, called on its supporters to demonstrate at Wenceslas Square today. The protest calls for the exit of the Czech Republic from the EU 🇪🇺 and NATO, & an end to hostility towards Russia 🇷🇺.

🔹The demonstration was organized by a group called The Czech Republic in the First Place, which has called for the resignation of the government over its alleged failure to manage the ongoing energy crisis ⛽️💡.

Video compilation sourced from social media.

Last reported on Sept 4th:

💠 Over 70,000 Czech 🇨🇿 protestors went to the streets in the country's capital, Prague, demanding the government take a neutral stand on the ongoing Russia-Ukraine crisis. Western media 📺 report that the protesters are far-right and fringe political groups.

Part 2 to a previous post covering the attack on the Russian Orthodox Church 🙏.

🔹Ukrainian 🇺🇦 terrorists are constantly shelling St. Nicholas Monastery.

🔹Ukrainian militants shot three monks in the Svyatogorsk ⛪️ Monastery, where they were holding 700 civilians and 800 monks hostage.

🔹Ukrainian troops turned the church ⛪️ in Izyum into a dirty barracks, the holy altar was desecrated.

🔹In Kherson, the Russian 🇷🇺 Guards recovered 130 icons from a Ukrainian nationalist, which he stole from the Russian Orthodox Church.

🔹Ukrainian militants seized an Orthodox church in the village of Popelnya, Zhytomyr region. The militants attacked the priest and threw a smoke bomb 💣 into the building before breaking down the doors.

🔹Servicemen of the DPR evacuated civilians from shelling by Ukrainian Nazis in Nikolsky Monastery.

🔹Ukraine's armed forces fired at the Dormition Church of Saint Nicholas & the Vasilievsky Monastery in the village of Nikolskoye, right during the service.

💠Link to 👉 Part 1 of the West’s silence about attacks against Russian Orthodox Churches around the world and especially in Ukraine

🔹The European Commission 🇪🇺 proposes an 8th package of sanctions against Russia🇷🇺. This includes a cap on Russian oil 🚢 exports. The G7 has already agreed to impose such a cap but EU member states have been divided over it.

Will it be implemented? Will OPEC+ allow customers to dictate oil prices to the suppliers?

🔹The US 🇺🇸is planning to announce new sanctions on Iran’s 🇮🇷 oil sales focusing on entities facilitating the oil trade.

🔹Several major producers of the OPEC+ have started talks about a potential oil 🛢production cut ahead of the regular monthly meeting on October 5.

🔹Diesel ⛽️ supply in Europe is set to tighten in the coming weeks amid higher than normal refinery maintenance & unplanned outages at refineries 🏭.

🔹The past few weeks of oil sell-off 📉 is overdone & neglects one basic truth about the oil market. It is under-supplied. Only the US's SPR releases that have been masking that fact.

🔹The U.S. sanctioned firms in China, 🇨🇳 India, 🇮🇳 Hong Kong 🇭🇰 & the UAE 🇦🇪 over allegations that they have aided Iran to facilitate Iranian petroleum trade.

🔹U.S. 🇺🇸 officials said Zhonggu Storage and Transportation Co. Ltd. operates a commercial crude oil storage facility for Iranian oil while WS Shipping Co. Ltd. has managed a ship 🚢 that transported Iranian oil.

🔹Iran’s 🇮🇷 Oil Minister says the country will welcome investment by Japanese 🇯🇵 companies in its petroleum sector.

🔹“The US's SPR drawdown was probably the single most important factor in lowering crude oil prices. The reserve still has roughly 420 million barrels 🛢 in its underground caverns which is a 40-year low.

🔹Iran’s 🇮🇷oil output had risen by 17.4% in 2021 compared with 2020.

🔹Two Iranian tankers 🚢 have arrived in Venezuela 🇻🇪 with about 1.22 million barrels of Iranian crude and 2 million barrels of condensate.

🔹France 🇫🇷 - The biggest of around 200 protests 🔥 nationwide drew up to 40,000 people in Paris. The strike today by trade union groups has seen 10,000 protestors in the western region of Brittany. One in three railway 🚂 workers also stopped work.

🔹Several unions, including the country's biggest, did not take part. 11% of teachers were in the strike. A strike by workers at France’s oil refineries 🏭 is disrupting fuel supplies.

🔹Workers have gone on strike at oil refineries that handle more than half the country’s fuel making. Two have fully halted while a third is moving toward running at technical minimum levels. Together they account for more than half of France’s capacity to make diesel, ⛽️ gasoline and other fuels.

🔹President Macron has threatened to "instantly" dissolve parliament if French MPs block his pension reforms. The president has argued that getting French people to work longer is crucial to redressing the country’s debt-ridden 📈 public finances.

🔹President Vladimir Putin has signed the treaties on the inclusion of the two Donbass republics, as well as Kherson & Zaporozhye Regions, which declared independence from Ukraine, into the Russian Federation.

🔹The heads of the Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics, as well as the leaders of Kherson and Zaporozhye Regions, signed the accession treaties together with President Putin.

🔹The results from these regions in their recently held referendum to join the Russian Federation were:

🇷🇺DPR - 99.23% voted yes, with a 97.5% turnout

🇷🇺LPR - 98.42 voted yes, with a 92.6% turnout

🇷🇺Zaporozhye Region - 93.11% voted yes, with a 85.4% turnout

🇷🇺Kherson Region - 87.05% voted yes, with a 76.9% turnout

🔹The treaties will now be submitted to Russia’s Constitutional Court 🏛, which will assess them to ensure they do not violate Russian law. Once they are cleared, the agreements will have to be ratified first by the State Duma & then by the Federal Council.

🔹A very interesting paragraph from 🇷🇺 President Putin's speech today. His speech exposed the unipolar international "rules based" order for the neocolonial slavery system that it is.

🔹Kremlin officially released English Trannoscript-

"...Let me repeat that the dictatorship of the Western elites targets all societies, including the citizens of Western countries themselves. This is a challenge to all.

This complete renunciation of what it means to be human, the overthrow of faith and traditional values, and the suppression of freedom are coming to resemble a “religion in reverse” – pure Satanism. Exposing false messiahs, Jesus Christ said in the Sermon on the Mount: “By their fruits ye shall know them.”

🔹Russia’s 🇷🇺 Gazprom has informed Italian 🇮🇹 energy company Eni that it will not be able to supply gas to the country, due to the “impossibility of transporting it” through 🇦🇹 Austria, (TAG Pipeline Network) which leaves Gazprom unable to confirm the volumes of gas requested to date.

🔹Gazprom's statement: Export through Austria 🇦🇹 has been suspended due to the refusal of the Austrian operator to confirm the transport nominations. The reason is related to the regulatory changes that took place in Austria at the end of Sept.

🔹The TAG Pipeline System consists of three lines, five compressor stations. The Pipeline leads from the Slovakian 🇸🇰 - 🇦🇹 Austrian border near Baumgarten an der March to the Austrian - Italian border near Arnoldstein.

🔹Most of Russian gas delivered to Italy 🇮🇹 passes via Ukraine 🇺🇦 to the Trans Austria Gas Pipeline, to Tarvisio in northern Italy on the border with Austria. However, Austria continued to receive gas at the delivery point on its border with Slovakia.

Keep your eyes on the US Treasury / bond and forex markets.

🔹The BOJ & the Japanese 🇯🇵 gov't intervened for the first time in 24 years to buy the yen 💴 & sell the 🇺🇸 dollar.

🔹China's 🇨🇳 central bank has asked major state-owned banks to be prepared to sell 💸dollars for the local unit in offshore markets. The Chinese currency, which has lost more than 11% to the dollar so far this year.

🔹The trading volumes of offshore 🇨🇳 yuan account for about 70% of all yuan FX trades globally, dwarfing the volumes traded on the mainland. The simultaneous dumping of the 🇺🇸 US dollar & purchasing of the yuan are expected to avoid further drops in the Chinese currency.

🔹India's 🇮🇳 central bank is encouraging state-run refiners to reduce 💵 dollar buying in the spot market to contain a sharp fall in the rupee. The Reserve Bank of India has ensured $9 billion has been made available as a special credit line instead.

🔹UK 🇬🇧 - A march for Welsh independence 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 attended by thousands of people has taken place in Cardiff. More than ten thousand people are thought to have taken part in the march yesterday.

🔹Harriet Protheroe-Soltani from AUOB Cymru (demonstration organiser) said: “Given the UK government’s recent tax cuts for the rich and continual erosion of workers’ rights, it’s important, now more than ever, that people come along and demonstrate that we do not trust Westminster to look after the interests of Wales.” 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

🔹YesCymru (another demonstration organisation) CEO said the the marches are done so "we can raise our voice, so we can get attention for the independence debate 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 so that we can have interviews like this, so that we can get other people in Wales talking about independence.

🔹Burkina Faso's 🇧🇫 new junta leadership called for an end to the unrest today, after yesterday's angry protesters attacked 🔥 the French Embassy & other buildings following Burkina Faso's 🇧🇫 2nd coup this year.

🔹Anti-French 🇫🇷 sentiment rose sharply after an earlier junta announcement alleged that ousted interim president Lt. Col. Paul Henri Sandaogo Damiba was sheltering at a French military base.

🔹Damiba himself led a coup 🔥 earlier this year against a civilian gov't that had lost support over rising violence by Islamist extremists.

🔹The country 🇧🇫 faces an Islamic insurgency, a crisis that has forced 2 million people from their homes in recent years.

🔹Damiba was seen as too cozy with former colonizer France 🇫🇷, which maintains a military presence in Africa’s Sahel region.

Video compilation- Capt. Sorgho statements (beginning & end of clip) & protests. Sourced via social media. Pro-Russia sympathizers can be seen in some of these protests.

🔹China's 🇨🇳 net gold imports (68.227 tonnes) via Hong Kong 🇭🇰 jumped nearly 40% to an over 4-year high in August.

🔹London 🇬🇧 gold dealer runs out of gold bullion. BullionVault, a UK-based brokerage, sees new accounts opened to buy bullion at more than double the usual rate.

🔹India 🇮🇳 slashes base import price of gold to $533 from $549 per 10 grams. (for import tax calculations)

🔹Together with the Russian 🇷🇺 Central Bank’s reserves, Russia’s state fund and its National Wealth Fund are believed to hold about 12,000 tonnes of gold. Steps have been taken to “mobilise” the non-reserve gold.

🔹Moscow's 🇷🇺 new gold standard and plans for a new trade settlement currency to replace the dollar 💵 require enhanced gold reserves so as to provide support a new gold standard for cross-border trade.

Video courtesy Sean Foo