US Embassy in Russia tells Americans to leave the country
US Embassy in Russia tells Americans to leave the country The U.S. Embassy in Russia is urging Americans in the country to leave and warning U.S. citizens to not travel to Russia after Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered a call-up of 300,000 reservists to aid depleted forces in Ukraine. The embassy said in a security alert on […]
Peak Oil Has Finally Arrived. No, Really
Peak Oil Has Finally Arrived. No, Really Those who have called a top in oil may finally be proven right as sharp global rate hikes hurt consumption. Is the sun setting on oil? Photographer: Jason Alden/Bloomberg I’ve rarely felt more trepidation about writing a column than this one. But here goes: After more than a century […]
Nord Stream Attack Updates
Nord Stream Attack Updates United States complicity seems increasingly to be an open secret. Radosław Sikorski, MEP, former Polish defence minister and husband of well-connected neoconservative intellectual Anne Appelbaum, has publicly thanked the United States for attacking the Nord Stream pipelines. Jim Geraghty, senior political correspondent for the American political journal National Review, has also praised the attacks […]
Lights out, ovens off: Europe preps for winter energy crisis
Lights out, ovens off: Europe preps for winter energy crisis An employee pushes bread rolls into one of the gas heated ovens in the producing facility in Cafe Ernst in Neu Isenburg, Germany, Monday, Sept. 19, 2022. Andreas Schmitt, head of the local bakers’ guild, said some small bakeries are contemplating giving up due to […]
Hurricane Ian Strengthens To Powerful Category 4 As Florida Landfall Imminent
Hurricane Ian Strengthens To Powerful Category 4 As Florida Landfall Imminent Hurricane Ian strengthened into a powerful Category 4 storm expected to make landfall on Florida’s southwest coast today and then traverse central Florida and emerge in the Atlantic by Thursday. At 0500 ET, the National Hurricane Center said Ian sustained maximum winds of 140 […]
An Oil Supply Shock May Be Imminent
An Oil Supply Shock May Be Imminent Oil demand has remained resilient in the face of a multitude of challenges. OPEC+ has fallen behind more than 3.5 million bpd on its output goals. The DoE has no immediate plans to start refilling the SPR. The risk of a supply shock grows as China’s economy re-opens […]
Apparent Sabotage Disables Nord Stream 1 and 2, Cutting Off All Direct Gas Supply to Germany from Russia
Apparent Sabotage Disables Nord Stream 1 and 2, Cutting Off All Direct Gas Supply to Germany from Russia Anonymous German officials appear to acknowledge the strong possibility of American or NATO involvement Yesterday evening, pressure in the undersea Nord Stream 2 pipeline suddenly collapsed, and gas could be seen bubbling to the surface of the Baltic […]
In Dramatic Escalation, European Nat Gas Prices Soar After Gazprom Warns Ukraine Flows At Risk
In Dramatic Escalation, European Nat Gas Prices Soar After Gazprom Warns Ukraine Flows At Risk In a day of constant news surrounding European gas flows, including the potential sabotage of the Nord Stream pipeline, moments ago, Russia state-owned gas giant Gazprom PJSC warned that another major source of gas flows to Europe was at risk, […]
The Washington Post Dabbles in Orwell
The Washington Post Dabbles in Orwell In scrubbed piece about Edward Snowden, the Bezos Post offers a preview of how history will be re-written A Monday story in the Washington Post entitled “Putin grants citizenship to Edward Snowden, who exposed U.S. surveillance’” began: Russian President Vladimir Putin granted citizenship on Monday to Edward Snowden, a former security consultant […]
Blasts Detected Near Nord Stream As Images Reveal “Huge Leak”
Blasts Detected Near Nord Stream As Images Reveal “Huge Leak” Update (1025ET): AFP News reported the US is ‘ready to provide support’ to Europe after the Nord Stream pipeline system leaks. There was no further information on what type of support, but one can only imagine it would involve increased LNG cargo shipments to the EU. […]
All Will Be Fine!
All Will Be Fine! Economic collapse simply cannot happen to Europe You all know this feeling running under the title ‘this cannot happen to me’. During normal times it does have a certain usefulness to it, protecting one from falling into panic and overreacting all sorts of possible problems. It also makes life look smooth […]
Damage To Nord Stream Pipelines “Unprecedented;” May Have Been ‘Sabotaged’
Damage To Nord Stream Pipelines “Unprecedented;” May Have Been ‘Sabotaged’ Update (0842ET): Sweden’s government held a crisis management meeting with other public authorities over the damage to the Nord Stream pipeline system, Swedish daily newspaper Aftonbaldet said, citing comments from Foreign Minister Ann Linde. Linde said Sweden may discuss the pipeline damage with Denmark later […]
New Zealand Prime Minister Calls for a Global Censorship System
New Zealand Prime Minister Calls for a Global Censorship System C-Span screengrab New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern is the latest liberal leader to call for an international alliance to censor speech. Unsatisfied with the unprecedented corporate censorship of social media companies, leaders like Hillary Clinton have turned from private censorship to good old-fashioned state censorship. Speech […]
Apparent Sabotage Disables Nord Stream 1 and 2, Cutting Off All Direct Gas Supply to Germany from Russia
Apparent Sabotage Disables Nord Stream 1 and 2, Cutting Off All Direct Gas Supply to Germany from Russia Anonymous German officials appear to acknowledge the strong possibility of American or NATO involvement Yesterday evening, pressure in the undersea Nord Stream 2 pipeline suddenly collapsed, and gas could be seen bubbling to the surface of the Baltic […]
