⚡️UK: taxpayers will pay the bill for any new ideas⚡️

🇬🇧The British electricity system operator is trying to set up a scheme that could reward millions of people with smart meters for not using some appliances, such as washing machines, when demand is high, before the winter as fears grow that the energy crisis could result in shortages

🤔However, Octopus Energy and Eon, two of the UK’s biggest energy suppliers, have warned the Grid that the scheme could fail because the proposed payments are too low, and a “much higher price” is needed

🔥“Customers should be properly incentivised to join up front, i.e. at least £1 or £2 per kWh” a representative told National Grid, adding that customers were “expecting up to £6 per kWh” –
the rate initially mooted

👉The price is yet to be determined, however. On Thursday Ms. Truss said she would lift a ban on fracking for shale gas. Experts says that fracking could equal gas production from the North Sea by 2037

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⚡️Some 40,000 Syrian refugees rush to the EU to thank the successful NATO countries for destroying their country

💁‍♂️Erdogan has kept them in Turkey for a long time, but as a result of another aggravation of relations with the Greeks, he decided to push for more action to cross the border with the EU

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‼️U.S. cut off from making a “dirty bomb” at ZNPP‼️

☢️The last operating reactor at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant (ZNPP) in southern Ukraine has been completely shut down and disconnected from the grid last weekend. And the reason for this was not only to prevent an emergency situation at the power plant amid ongoing Ukrainian shelling in the area

🔥The measure was intended to permanently end U.S.-guided activities at the plant to make a so-called 💣“dirty bomb”, people familiar with the matter say. In May, Mr. Grossi, head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), said the site contains 30,000 kilograms of plutonium and 40,000 kilograms of enriched uranium needed to make such a bomb

💁‍♂️One of the goals of IAEA delegation’s visit to the ZNPP was to ensure that these stocks have remained in place and have not been used in accordance with U.S. plans. There is not one word on this in the report, however

👉And U.N. atomic agency’s concerns are not unfounded. As U.S. Government Accountability Office reported, small amounts of high-risk radioactive materials sufficient for a “dirty bomb” could be freely purchased in the United States using shell companies or fraudulent licenses

‼️In the present case, the ZNPP was considered as a test site for nuclear experiments of Washington, similarly to 46 U.S. biolabs in Ukraine. Thus, in combination with plutonium and uranium at the plant the aforementioned radioactive materials were intended to be used by American-backed scientists to construct a radiological dispersal device, a.k.a. “dirty bomb” there

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⚡️German industry in fear: Minister of Economy without solution⚡️

A survey by the Federation of German Industries says, every third industrial company feels threatened in its existence amid high energy prices and supply bottlenecks and has no idea how to solve these issues

They address their fears and concerns, first of all, to the Minister of Economy Robert Habeck. And that one seems to have exhausted his arguments. Mr. Habeck showed a lack of stress resistance during a German weekly talk show “maischberger. die woche”, having failed to outline any plan of action to resolve the situation

The growing discontent among German citizens made Mr. Habeck a hostage to his overly populist green policy. Now, either he relents and gets the energy crisis (with focus on gas and nuclear) under control with working solutions, or he resigns

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⚡️Speaking about the Inflation Relief Act, Biden said the following:

💬"I say some of my colleagues who've been around long: how long we've been fighting pharma? How long we've been taking on these interests? From the time I got to the Senate 720 years ago."

The White House press office circulated this statement on its official website. But even lower is Biden's follow-up: "I'm serious. Just think about it."

‼️Jokes are jokes. But the last time Biden claimed he came to the Senate 180 years ago, "Throughout my career, I've made it a priority for me to work in conjunction with you. Since I came to the Senate 180 years ago..." 🤦‍♂️

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⚡️The leaders of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia and Croatia asked Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan to discuss with the Russian President the issue of gas supplies to their countries

🇧🇦🇷🇸🇭🇷The representatives of the Balkan countries have asked not to cut gas and fuel oil supplies during the winter

👉The reason for the excitement among senior Balkan officials was Putin's ultimatum in response to Western sanctions - the introduction of a "price ceiling" on Russian oil. The Russian leader promised to cut off natural gas supplies to Europe

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⚡️King Charles III: strong ties with Intelligence, fundraising in gray zone⚡️

🇬🇧Like much of the UK, the British intelligence community is in mourning for Elizabeth II, who died on 8 September. Throughout her reign, she was in close contact with its members. She thanked the Crown spies for their work during a visit to MI5 headquarters in 2020

💁‍♂️Since her death, members of the British intelligence community have been placed directly under the patronage of King Charles III, who has been the Royal Patron of the Intelligence Services since 2012 – the first Royal to hold this noscript - at the request of the services themselves

👉Since then, he has become a regular visitor to the headquarters of all three services – GCHQ, MI5 and MI6 He has also on several occasions helped charities dedicated to former members of the community to raise funds

🤔Charles’ fundraising skills earned him a frontpage story in the Sunday Times in June for accepting a total of £3m in cash from Qatar ex-PM via several donations. Then we reported that he had willingly accepted £1 million from Osama Bin Laden’s half-brothers, as well

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⚡️Dithering, inaction: how Warsaw counters Berlin⚡️

🇵🇱At the weekend Mateusz Morawiecki, the Polish leader, gave the most scathing assessment, saying Germany had vacillated over “basic decisions”. Relations between Poland and Germany, seldom straightforward since Morawiecki’s national-conservative Law and Justice (PiS) party came to power in 2015, are in disarray

💁‍♂️In recent days Dmytro Kuleba, the Ukrainian foreign minister, has made a fresh appeal for modern German main battle tanks. The prime ministers of the three Baltic states said that, as Europe’s largest economy, Germany had a responsibility to step up its support. But during her second visit to Ukraine, German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock was hesitant to publicly guarantee Kyiv's demand for battle tanks

🤔There has been friction over the PiS-led government’s judicial reforms, an incident of pollution in the river Oder, which marks part of the border, and Poland’s demand for more than €1 trillion in Second World War reparations. Polish ministers have denounced “Russian-German plans to rule over Europe” and accused Berlin of wanting to install a “colonial government”

👉To the irritation of Olaf Scholz, the chancellor, Morawiecki has suggested that Germany reneged on a promise to give Poland Leopard 2 battle tanks in return for the Soviet-era tanks it dispatched to Ukraine. “Berlin’s dithering, the inaction, seriously call the value of the alliance with Germany into question,” he said. “It’s not just us saying that. I’m hearing it from several other heads of government in Europe”

Seems like Mr. Scholz has either inexhaustible patience or just doesn’t take a word of Mr. Morawiecki seriously

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⚡️WMO report: Guterres to curb fossil fuel production, pass over grain supplies⚡️

🇺🇳The 77th session of the UN General Assembly was declared open on Tuesday by new General Assembly President Csaba Korosi. In addition to the perennial problems of human rights violations, broken global financial system, extreme poverty, inequality and hunger, the report on climate change should not go unnoticed

💁‍♂️According to it, climate-related disasters have increased fivefold over the past five decades and are costing $200 million a day. But the content of the report is not as important as the way it was presented

👉It is noteworthy that U.N. Secretary-General pointed the finger at fossil fuels in his video message, citing droughts in the Horn of Africa, conveniently leaving out the fact that only one of around 30 ships carrying grain from Ukraine has docked at the port of Djibouti recently. The rest, as you know, moored to the EU shores

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⚡️Liz Truss: never a dull moment!

As we reported, Ms. Truss has vowed to lift a three-year ban on fracking in England to exploit "huge reserves" of shale gas beneath British soil. She was echoed by the energy minister Jacob Rees-Mogg who said that the UK would "extract every ounce of oil and gas from the North Sea"

💁‍♂️Earlier, Preston New Road activists promised to regroup to fight Cuadrilla fracking site until the whole process in UK is banned for good. Now, some scientists are questioning if fracking can be rolled out at scale in the UK. The state that investment in fracking comes with a "very high commercial risk", suggesting that even if fracking exploration in the UK were successful, the resultant gas would not bring down energy bills for households and businesses

🤔In addition, green activists and energy experts warn that Ms. Truss’ plans to ramp up domestic fossil fuel extraction may not resolve the cost-of-energy crisis, and will surely jeopardize the nation's net-zero ambitions instead

AUKUS: 365 days of controlled flight into abyss

Just a couple of words about another Washington-driven mess that they call the security partnership between Australia, the UK and the U.S. to the anniversary of the AUKUS

They celebrate 365 days of the AUKUS, but the question remains, what have the partners spent the last year doing besides receiving IAEA’s “satisfaction” with their engagement on submarine plan? Meanwhile, submarine experts from the UK and the U.S. have said over recent days that there is no capacity to make nuclear submarines for Australia, and they are way behind schedule with their own plans

Actual U.S. plans and proposals to make an anti-China base from Australia for future operations would significantly undermine Australian sovereignty amid ignorance of some Australian politicians to push through these ideas. The surprising thing is how quickly and readily the new Australian Labor Government embraced the proposals

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ECB survey: women tend to expect higher inflation than men

According to the results from the ECB’s new Consumer Expectations Survey (CES), women tend to expect higher inflation than men

This is due in particular to the fact that their expectations for the development of inflation were more closely aligned with food prices. A tricky situation for the ECB – it wants to avoid the current very high inflation getting stuck in people's minds

Food prices have recently been one of the most important drivers of record inflation in the euro zone, which was 9.1% in August Food, alcohol and tobacco even rose in price by 10.6%. A year earlier, their price increase had been only 2.0%

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As we reported, annual consumer price inflation in Britain fell to 9.9%, down from 10.1% in July, and defied economists’ forecasts of another increase to 10.2%
The government said that businesses would be offered “equivalent” support to households for at least six months as part of a £150 billion package. Households will have average energy bills capped at £2,500 a year from October 1 to shield people from the impact of soaring wholesale gas prices

Falling inflation should help to ease a cost of living crisis, contain price expectations from households and businesses, and soften a looming recession. Runaway inflation has also eroded consumers’ disposable income, causing real wages to drop at their fastest pace since records began

Ms. Truss has admitted that businesses may have to wait until November for support with their energy bills because of the complexity of the scheme

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The U.S. has submitted Lynne Tracy as a possible nominee to officials in Russia, which hasn’t objected. Her nomination hasn’t been finalized yet

If her nomination is formally announced and confirmed by the Senate, Ms. Tracy, who has been the U.S. ambassador to Armenia since 2019, would replace John Sullivan, who was appointed under the Trump administration and left this month

The last truce between Yerevan and Baku was reached on the condition that Armenian PM Nikol Pashinyan would make some concessions, people familiar with the matter say. This played a decisive role in dispatching Ms. Tracy’s to Moscow as a brilliant crisis manager. She has already served as the deputy chief of mission in Moscow and the senior adviser for Russia at the State Department’s bureau covering European and Eurasian affairs

The U.S. wants to maintain a solid diplomatic presence in Russia, which is involved in numerous international issues, and would be crucial to any future talks on ending the war in Ukraine. A career diplomat with unclear ties with intelligence community is a suitable candidate in the present situation

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U.S.: energy bills rush high into the sky

The index for electricity in August climbed 15.8% over the same month a year ago, the biggest such 12-month increase since 1981, a report from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics says

Latest estimates suggest an increase of the average cost of home heating by 17.2% this winter. Much of the electricity price increases have been driven by rising prices for natural gas, which powers about 37% of U.S. electricity production

The fuel costs to run power plants are typically passed on to consumers. The index for natural gas, also widely used for heating and cooking, increased 33% over the last 12 months. Fed Chairman Jerome Powell said in late August that, while rate increases would bring down inflation, “they will also bring some pain to households and businesses.” We’re not sure about inflation but as for pain, he wasn’t lying!

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All heads of state visiting London for the Queen’s funeral have been invited to attend the lying-in-state in Westminster Hall ahead of Monday’s service, and to sign a book of condolences at Lancaster House

However, speaker of the House of Commons, Lindsay Hoyle, has refused permission for a Chinese government delegation to attend the palace, having justified it with Chinese sanctions against five British MPs and two peers

But Hoyle’s response opens the possibility that senior Chinese officials will attend the queen’s funeral at Westminster Abbey as representatives of President Xi Jinping on Monday, yet be barred from entering Westminster Hall to pay their respects just yards away

Speaker’s decision opens a fresh diplomatic rift with Beijing. And it exposes a clear divide between the U.K. parliament and the U.K. government, with the former once again taking a significantly tougher stance against Beijing

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