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Europe’s Year of Living Defensively
Ian Waldie/Getty Images Europe’s Year of Living Defensively With the future of the EU-UK relationship shrouded in uncertainty and crises brewing in France, Italy, and elsewhere, 2019 will be another difficult year for Europe. And if populist forces prevail in the European Parliament election in May, it could be an impossible one. BERLIN – From […]
The European Project Comes to an End
The European Project Comes to an End The end of the EU and the Balkans as China’s foothold in Europe Though the end of the European Union is inevitable, the proponents of a further integrated or federal superstate are busy making a last effort to achieve their goal. The opposition against the project is mounting […]
Energy Transition Under Fire As Power Bills Soar
Energy Transition Under Fire As Power Bills Soar For a long period of time, the energy transition was primarily a technical topic concerning the transformation of the energy grid. Technological developments and the decreasing costs of renewables have made it a viable alternative to fossil fuels. The integration, however, of these new systems requires considerable […]
Why Everything That Needs to Be Fixed Remains Permanently Broken
Why Everything That Needs to Be Fixed Remains Permanently Broken Just in case you missed what’s going on in France: the status quo in Europe is doomed. The status quo has a simple fix for every crisis and systemic problem: 1. create currency out of thin air 2. give it to super-wealthy banks, financiers and […]
The Empire’s Sea of Woes
The Empire’s Sea of Woes The noose cinches. Second-rate George H.W. Bush got a first-rate Washington send-off. For one day it interrupted the downtrend in equity markets. It may mark the US apotheosis of inflated grandiosity. Across the Atlantic, Emmanuel Macron, pretentious popinjay of Gallic grandiosity, has gotten a deserved comeuppance. Brexit, Trump’s election, and […]
Leaked Memo Touts UK-Funded Firm’s Ability To Create “Untraceable” News Sites For “Infowar Campaign”
Leaked Memo Touts UK-Funded Firm’s Ability To Create “Untraceable” News Sites For “Infowar Campaign” The hacking collective known as “Anonymous” has published more explosive documents detailing a UK-based psyop to create a “large-scale information secret service” in Europe in order to combat “Russian propaganda” — which has been blamed for everything from Brexit to Trump winning the 2016 US election to […]
The War Against Globalism
The War Against Globalism We are the Little Folk—we! Too little to love or to hate. Leave us alone and you’ll see How we can drag down the State! -A Pict Song, Rudyard Kipling Belgium has joined the list of countries that are rebelling against their elected leadership. Over the weekend the Belgian government fell over Prime […]
US Demands Europe to Join Its War Against Russia
US Demands Europe to Join Its War Against Russia In recent decades, the US Constitution’s clause that requires a congressional declaration of war before invading any country, has been ignored. Furthermore, ever since 2012 and the passage by Congress of the Magnitsky Act sanctions against Russia, economic sanctions by the US Government have been imposed against any […]
The End of France as We Know It?
The End of France as We Know It? When an event grabs headlines like the protests in France have I temper my reactions to it. I didn’t give the Yellow Vest protests much thought at first wanting to see where they would lead. Protests like this and even bigger ones like Catalonian independence are invariably […]
Europe Struggles as the ECB Pretends to Know What It’s Doing
Europe Struggles as the ECB Pretends to Know What It’s Doing The European Central Bank (ECB) is rumored to be planning a halt to its four-year quantitative easing program at the end of this week when it will stop its asset purchases while continuing to keep interest rates at current near-zero levels through 2019. The […]
How To Avoid A New War In Europe
How To Avoid A New War In Europe There is a rather embarrassing negative perspective for maintaining rational military strategic parity between Russia and USA and Russia and NATO as a whole in the coming decades due to future tremendous expenditures of the USA for modernizing strategic and tactical nuclear forces that will require $ […]
Trust Is Failing on Both Sides of the Pond
Trust Is Failing on Both Sides of the Pond I’ve been warning for a while now that we are pushing towards an inflection point in history. With each passing week it feels like events are accelerating as change to the status quo is everywhere. In Europe, the EU leadership and Theresa May are so desperate […]
The Next French Revolution – Is it Beginning?
The Next French Revolution – Is it Beginning? The austerity measures of the EU are having a profound impact in Europe. In Paris of December 1st, 2018 (right on time with our volatility models for December) there was a major civil uprising, the worst France has witnessed in recent decades. Yellow Vests have converged in […]
Explaining France’s Grassroots “Yellow Vest” Movement – And Why It’s Spreading Across Europe
Explaining France’s Grassroots “Yellow Vest” Movement – And Why It’s Spreading Across Europe For three weeks, tens-of-thousands of French protesters have donned yellow vests and marched throughout Paris. While the “yellow vest” movement began on November 17 as a grassroots protest against president Emmanuel Macron’s gas tax – levied in the name of climate change, it has morphed into a […]
