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The UK is racing towards a winter energy crisis
The UK is racing towards a winter energy crisis Gas prices are spiking and the energy markets are coming under increasing pressure. The combination may lead to a bleak winter GETTY IMAGES / BLOOMBERG Winter is coming – and it looks like it’s going to be a rocky one. The price of natural gas in […]
“Quite Alarming” – UK Energy Crisis Sparks Fresh Chaos For Food Suppliers
“Quite Alarming” – UK Energy Crisis Sparks Fresh Chaos For Food Suppliers Last week Fertilizer producer CF Industries Holdings Inc suspended operations at two UK plants because of soaring natural gas prices. As a result, these fertilizer plants that make carbon dioxide as a byproduct are in sudden shortages and are rippling through the UK food sector, […]
Europe’s Soaring Natural Gas Prices To Persist For “Weeks To Come,” IEA Warns
Europe’s Soaring Natural Gas Prices To Persist For “Weeks To Come,” IEA Warns IEA Executive Director Fatih Birol delivered some unwelcoming news for commercial and residential natural gas buyers during an interview on Bloomberg TV Friday morning. He said European natural gas prices might push higher in the coming weeks as the heating season begins. “We may still […]
UK Supply Chain Crisis
UK Supply Chain Crisis
Fire At UK-France Subsea Power Cable Could Trigger Winter Blackouts
Fire At UK-France Subsea Power Cable Could Trigger Winter Blackouts A fire in a subsea cable has dramatically reduced power imports from France until March, U.K.’s National Grid Plc said, deepening the energy crisis that threatens winter blackouts for millions. The timing couldn’t be worse. Before the fire, the U.K. was already experiencing a five-year […]
Reporters May Face 14 Years In Prison For ‘Embarrassing’ UK Government Officials
Reporters May Face 14 Years In Prison For ‘Embarrassing’ UK Government Officials People who believe President Obama abused his powers by cracking on journalists are about to be even more shocked by new rules being implemented in the UK. According to the Daily Mail, journalists could face prison sentences of up to 14 years for stories that […]
UK Supermarket Boss Says Shortages at Worst Level He Has Seen
A truck driver makes a milk delivery to a supermarket in London on Aug. 3, 2021. (Tolga Akmen / AFP via Getty Images) UK Supermarket Boss Says Shortages at Worst Level He Has Seen A leading supermarket boss has warned that current UK food shortages are at a “worse level” than he has ever seen. The food supply chain has […]
Russia Says US Engineered June’s Black Sea Provocation, “We’ll Sink” Any Threat Next Time
Russia Says US Engineered June’s Black Sea Provocation, “We’ll Sink” Any Threat Next Time In the days after the June 23 incident between the UK Royal Navy’s HMS Defender and a Russian patrol vessel and military aircraft near Crimea which resulted in warning shots fired from the Russian side, Putin asserted that a US reconnaissance plane had […]
Million People Protest in London
2 Million People Protest in London The two days of protests in London have been impressive to show that resistance is not futile with at least 1 million people per day (some estimates were 2 million), the interesting aspect b behind the curtain is that the Boris Johnson government does not “give a shit” according […]
HMS Defender Versus The Russian Military: The Danger of Believing Your Own Propaganda
HMS Defender Versus The Russian Military: The Danger of Believing Your Own Propaganda Less than two weeks after NATO members reaffirmed allegiance to Article 5 – that an attack on one member was an attack on all members – the UK nearly put that pledge to the test. In a shockingly provocative move, the UK’s […]
UK: Food Shortages ‘Inevitable’ – “The real food crisis for food supplies starts now.”
UK: Food Shortages ‘Inevitable’ – “The real food crisis for food supplies starts now.” Industry experts are warning that food shortages are “inevitable” in the UK as crops rot without reaching retail. Imports of beef from the EU are to be cut 85% under Brexit, leaving Brits asking “Where’s the beef?” and seeing absurdly high […]
Exclusive: Secret cables reveal Britain interfered with elections in Chile
Exclusive: Secret cables reveal Britain interfered with elections in Chile Demonstrators march through Santiago de Chile in 2018 to commemorate the 45th anniversary of the coup that overthrew Chile’s left-wing President Salvador Allende. (Photo: EPA / Alberto Valdés) Less Declassified Foreign Office files show that Britain conducted a covert propaganda offensive to stop Chilean leader Salvador […]
Chris Hedges: The Empire is Not Done with Julian Assange
Chris Hedges: The Empire is Not Done with Julian Assange As is clear from the memoir of one of his attorneys, Michael Ratner, the ends have always justified the means for those demanding the WikiLeaks‘ publisher’s global persecution. (Original illustration for ScheerPost by Mr. Fish) Shortly after WikiLeaks released the “Iraq War Logs” in October 2010, which documented numerous […]
The Assange Extradition Ruling Is A Relief, But It Isn’t Justice
The Assange Extradition Ruling Is A Relief, But It Isn’t Justice British Judge Vanessa Baraitser has ruled against US extradition for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, but not for the reasons she should have. Baraitser’s frightening ruling supported virtually every US prosecutorial argument that was made during the extradition trial, no matter how absurd and Orwellian. This includes quoting from a long-discredited CNN report […]
Manchester England Protest
Manchester England Protest
