Angela Merkel is essentially the de-facto global head of modern political liberalism. The central tenet, almost religious-based in its importance, is the lunacy within “climate change”. However, as most reasonable people have concluded, the ‘climate discussions’ are more about controlled global economics than any actual concerns about planetary climatology. Bottom line, it’s the economics that really matter beyond all else.
CTH has pointed out for several years that Germany’s Angela Merkel, a beloved leader amid the political left, was never going to put her economy in a position of weakness just to appease the environmental lobby. Chancellor Merkel is a nationalist at heart and within that outlook progressive causes can be advocated but only to the extent that Germany can retain a superior economic condition.
Despite her being heralded by the progressive movement in the U.S, it is all a farce. Angela Merkel is a political case study in what leftists refuse to admit and even more leftists deny; that is the reality behind the hypocrisy. The narrative fraud was evident when President Trump pulled out of the Paris climate treaty and immediately Merkel said Germany would also not comply with the treaty demands. From Merkel’s position Germany must always retain a superior position within the EU, no matter what.
The most recent example of this comes from Merkel rejecting carbon emission reduction requirements from her own government. Merkel knows the environmental wing is full of moonbat policy that runs counter to the economic need of her nation. Despite the ‘greens’ gaining legislative seats, she will not support carbon dictates that are against the interests of manufacturing and multinational corporations in Germany:
(Via Reuters) German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Saturday rejected demands to bring forward an exit date for ending coal generation in Germany, currently set at 2038. {SEE HERE}
“Those affected need some reliability on the path to climate neutrality,” Merkel said. “I don’t want to unravel this again after one year.”
Climate activists say that without an earlier coal phase-out, the more ambitious climate protection targets which Merkel’s government just agreed on cannot be achieved. (LINK)
The policy and advocacy behind the climate change narrative is a globalist control effort, nothing more. Carbon exchanges and carbon taxes are the holy grail objectives for globalists and elite institutions of power and finance. It is all a control effort.
The day after President Trump announced his decision to withdraw from the Paris Climate Treaty, the German auto-sector immediately responded with a statement. We see the immediate admission that ‘climate’ is simply a tool to shape global economics within that reactionary auto industry statement (emphasis mine):
(Via Reuters) […] “The regrettable announcement by the USA makes it inevitable that Europe must facilitate a cost efficient and economically feasible climate policy to remain internationally competitive,” Matthias Wissmann, president of the German auto industry lobby group VDA, said in a statement on Friday.
“The preservation of our competitive position is the precondition for successful climate protection. This correlation is often underestimated,” Wissmann said, adding that the decision by the Unites States was disappointing. (link)
As clearly stated, when push comes to shove German sensibilities are connected more to their economics than to any do-gooder need to save the planet.
Climate change is a globalist tool. Angela Merkel knows this. President Trump also knew that Merkel knows this. That is the essence behind why President Trump consistently said he and Angela Merkel get along great, and the leftists (who could not reconcile Trump’s statements against their own false belief) always had that snarky weird look on their face.
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Where’s Greta when you need her leadership? ?
Not in Germany. She’s a Swede, and not a bright one.
I remember my grandmother telling me a Swede is a Norwegian with his head cut off.
100,000 Swedes running through the weeds…
…chased by one Norwegian.
They are really running from the Mooslims….but you know… the thing.
Their women sure as hell are.
Over here in Scottish never never land, we call a turnip a swede. Alternatively known as a hero.?
As a neep – stupid illiterate spell prompter!
Uh oh… MK-Greta is not pleased…
Greta… ?
I wonder who’s going to be the first gentleman to put a ring on her finger?
David Hogg.
Soul mates.
Wrong team, I suspect. Not that there’s anything wrong with that.
Nope. Me thinks a ring through the nose would be becoming.
Beat me too that comment.
A gentleman…now that’s a good one. I actually feel sorry for her…. and I ain’t a “feeling sorry for ” type of
guy but this poor girl has been put out front and center by her scumbag Mutta and evidently her father as well to promote Global blowbal. Her parents need to visit the same crematorium that Piglosi, Pence, Shumer and every RINO Senator are welcomed to …..as paying customers.
Maybe Hunter Biden ??
How can you tell? She always has that face.
Imagine if her and David Hogg got together?
Yikes!
You beat me to it Mister! LOL
What a scary scowl.
See my post below.
Germany shut down 90% of their nuclear power plants – her hands are tied.
USA didn’t build a nuke-powered generating plant for 30 years after Jane Fonda and Jack Lemmon showed us how risky they were.
Well, “strangely”….Three Mile Island had an incident 12 days after the movie came out…. Just a Coinkydink?
https://www.thebalance.com/three-mile-island-nuclear-accident-facts-impact-today-3306337
But we started building more nuke plants in 2007, according to that article. Odd that we don’t read about it in the MSM….. Coinkydink?
From one China Syndrome to another.
Good one
But during the Obama administration, USA pulled out of the ITER fusion research project ( https://www.iter.org/ ).
What was Ozero’s stated reason for pulling out?
That time of the month?
Unfortunately, we’ve decommissioning nuclear plants over the past 5 years or so. ?
As if someone can just waltz into a nuclear facility w a weapon.
How DARE YOU ??
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… no colorful feathers have I,
And the turnips don’t grow very high…
Inpatient treatment center?
Greta is with her Rothschild handler getting her tirade and hissy fit instructions….
I defer most of my major decisions til I’ve read Teen magazine. Doesn’t everybody?
how dare you!!!
The EU has enslaved its member countries and subjected native Europeans to invasion from the south and east, for the sake of a fraudulent, globalist ideology. Merkel has been one of the principal perpatrators of the fraud.
and by EU you mean Germany
The believing “Global Warmist” is a most odd curiosity, like a throwback to a very primitive dark age void of all reason and even equipped with Inquisitions. He thinks he is the Earth’s savior. He even believes the Earth can’t do without him; has a passion for his guidance; heats and cools in accordance with his laws and ideology and movements and predictions, yes, he thinks he will watch over the Earth and keep the Earth out of trouble.
He scurries about all important like and pontificates and screeches dire warnings and legislates and taxes and thinks the Earth and the Sun care what he thinks or does, or even listen. Isn’t it a quaint idea, like an ant thinking he can steer an elephant. Or like Aesop’s fly on the chariot wheel bragging: “Oh what a dust I raise!” If stupidity were comedy, this would be the entertainment of an eternity.
descriptive and very true.
Haha very good
Are you talking about ‘my’ Pope Francis again?
“green” leftists lack the actual courage of their convictions to implement the draconian measures they demand of … others. It’s OK for those piggish Americans to crater their economy and destroy their standard of living … but we’d never do the same – Herr Angela
Smart move!
Did you all know that a nuclear power plant just went offline forever in the USA w/no apparent plans to replace it? It wil be a banner year for closings.
https://www.ans.org/news/article-2536/eia-nuclear-and-coal-will-account-for-majority-of-us-generating-capacity-retirements-in-2021
Our kooks in California voted to close Diablo Canyon in 2025, which produces 20% of California’s electricity.
On top of that, off peak, low cost electricity from DC is used to pump water to an upper reservoir east of Fresno. When there is peak demand, the water flows downhill on hot summer days to generate needed electricity.
I’ve heard of no concrete plans to replace DC electricity. Californians often pay $400 – 700 per month in the winter for modest power use.
California has the potential to build clean inexpensive energy hydroelectric dams in the Sierras Nevada Mountains enough to light up California. However, Libtard environmentalist politics stops it from being a reality.
The greens … who are superior “moral” beings than you or I … are still trying to tear-down Hetch Hetchy reservoir and dam … so they can restore the canyon valley that John Muir said was more beautiful than Yosemite.
Now … what wouldn’t you give up? Or PAY … to restore another Yosemite!? Give up your power and water? Kill yourself?
But what will 11M MORE illegal aliens drink in CA?
Oh well … the ONLY “morality” is Mother Gaia “morality” … oh! and skin color “morality”
Sheesh.
Gov. Newsom drains trillions of gallons of fresh cold Sierra Mountain water straight into the Pacific Ocean every day and then screams …DROUGHT!
I do … and my thermostat is set to “bone chilling San Francisco fog”
2 Laine- thanks very much for posting and for the link.
Just think- nuclear power got a bad rap because of a movie- remember the China Syndrome?
Ever since then, this amazing clean energy source has been considered dangerous and toxic when it is everything but.
I live in NY near Indian Point. It will be a disaster coming up. The plant supplied 25% of electricity for the libs in Downstate.
I can’t wait till they have rolling blackouts and no AC this summer.
The whole thing was done in secret by Killer Cuomo prior to his killing off over 15,000 seniors via Chi com covid.
Meanwhile, the Feds have decided that they will be increasing funding to nuclear plants- less than a week after IP closed.
Cuomo is a murderer and needs to be hung ASAP! If I lived in NY State and my 89 year old Mom died ( thank GOD she is safe in ? ) I would have put that bastard down for a dirt bath long ago. We all need to send a message to these scumbag vultures of governmental overrule….ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!
Or if you have ever read Richard K. Morgan’s Altered Carbon, “That’s fu*king enough!” Boom!
But but but … Japan’s nuke meltdown!!! If a tsunami can take out a nuke plant … then ANYTHING can take out a nuke plant … and kill your children’s children’s children with birth defects and disease.
Why! The salmon run this year is all contaminated from Fukushima … ohhhhhhhh maaammmmmmaaaaaa …
Sheesh
Knuckleheaded designs and non thinking.
We had to upgrade our facilities to make sure we weren’t put in danger like the knucklehead at Chernobyl who decided to to purposefully do a prohibited task.
Who says its over? (Animal House)
Diablo Canyon could be upgraded; and there is a site there for 2 more reactors!
The electrical lines & security is already there. Too logical.
Meanwhile, the Hair Gel Gov builds a slow train to nowhere.
Hey Seneca I just posted a similar post further up in the comments. That woman who pushed for this is suddenly no where to be found and grandma killer has no plans for replacement. Our power utility up my way was sold to a Canadian company a few years back. Many of us tried to fight it but we lost the court. See to. Lock the sale
Indian Point in the Hudson Valley is scheduled to close. They say they plan to. Hold a wind farm to replace it. Someday. NYC and other southern counties may have rolling brownouts/blackouts because of this. Should be interesting this summer
What would be the effect of this Global Warming fraud and coercion, if successful? To make part of the world fools and part hypocrites; to support roguery and error all over the earth. The Global Warming fraudsters are trying to converted simple changes in the weather into an engine with which to enslave mankind to filch ever more power and ever more wealth to themselves. They, in fact, constitute the real Anti-Scientists.
There seems to be something in people that makes them want to hunt witches. We are the designated witches of this age.
Has anyone ever tried asking a libtard why the last Ice Age ended?
Were the Mesolithic and residual Paleolithic tribes panting too much in their pursuit of equal outcomes for trannies?
Why do ice cores from that period show that CO2 rises as a RESULT of warming? Being Russian research of course obviates its veracity, I guess.
Why did the UN admit that global hysteria is a means to obtaining redistribution of wealth?
Why is data faked and cherry picked if it is so obvious?
Why are the greentards now even denying that the climatic optimum ever happened, contrary to archaeological and historical evidence?
Why did Obama buy a beachside house?
Etc…
Correct. Where I am standing used to be a glacier. I have fossils to prove it.
The woolly mammoth‘s must’ve been farting quite a lot back in the day
Wind and solar energy are both net energy and net financial negative, they will NEVER generate as much power as it took to manufacture, install, maintain, and recycle them, and they are hideously expensive power sources when compared to existing power. The result of being energy negative is this means there will always be fossil fuels as the base for the grid. The only reason to go down the renewable road is because it will result in guaranteed economic and social anarchy and chaos. This world is overflowing with evil right now
A number of years ago, I drove thru a defunct wind farm along some mountains in WV. Some rusted, no blades, etc. Was curious and looked up life span vs pay off to net 0 energh pay off. Life span was 15 years or so and energy pay off (manufacture, install, etc) was 17 years or so……..
Obviously subsidized heavily. Just legal bribe money pay offs and since WV, probably was senator Byrd.
They last longer now (20+ yrs) and you can use the same foundation and tower to stick a new turbine on. But there still a very inefficient use of land and resources, and they Make an inescapable low frequency sound you can feel at over a half mile away.
I don’t think that we should totally dismiss alternative power sources, if they improve just a few percent a year they will eventually be viable. But they are in no way a substitute for Reliable generation that’s been perfected over 100 years
I don’t think that we should totally dismiss dead birds.
And bats, the essential pollinators for plants/food crops.
When incinerated they can produce 100% sustainable energy. Or composted to methane.
Tell me ONE SINGLE WAY that wind power can “improve”? The current blades aren’t designed and continually tuned to optimize power output according to wind speed? What? Improved grease to help the gears? Puhleeze. There isn’t a fraction of 1% to be had … and the GIANT problem? The wind doesn’t ALWAYS blow … which kinda blows any and all improvements in efficiency.
And have you SEEN these wind FACTORIES (don’t call them farms). They are a horror blight on the environment. Advertisements (like one particular Volvo ad) love to virtue signal by showing ONE … solitary giant wind tower. Looking all “sculptural” and whatnot. But … the REALITY is that wind installations number in the hundreds if not thousands of these fugly contraptions covering the natural environment and scenery. Wind power is an environmental scourge. They should all be scrapped.
The unsightly windmills and solar panels also take up forest and farmland. The windmill blades are not recyclable, and must be cut up and hauled to landfills, where they don’t degenerate.
Vertical blades seem to be more efficient.
Watch this space.
How about thousands of bird deaths, second only to granny’s kittys?
The one the government puts on my friends farm has only moved during hurricane level winds. Otherwise it sits there like an overgrown lawn ornament in the middle of one of his apple orchards. He told them it was a bad spot but the government folks knew better than the farmer
Here in west TX we see lots of trucks hauling blades, others hauling generators, almost none carry new towers. Its all replacement parts. The maintenance on these white elephants is off the scale
Many of the homes in my Southern California neighborhood have solar panels on their roofs at $25,000 each. After about six months the panels are coated with an inch of red powdered desert dust which reduces their efficiency. Now who is going to climb up on a three story roof and wash the solar panels off every few months?
The same kind of ambitious guy that treats moss and mold on PNW roofs.
California Joe: By the time those solar panels are installed, anyone who was going to make money off them has already done so. The homeowner is just stuck with an ugly roof.
Water?? To wash solar??
Guatemalans?
Capacity factor is one major fault.
https://www.eia.gov/electricity/monthly/epm_table_grapher.php?t=epmt_6_07_b
Another is the energy returned on investment (ERoRI).
Wind and solar straight up suck for trying to do anything useful at scale.
Smelting iron/aluminum/ silicon? Forget about it being cost effective without coal or inexpensive electricity.
There are numerous examples where solar and wind power simply cannot do the job.
Ivanpaugh solar farm in the California dessert, I believe the largest in the world?, is a disaster and hasn’t met projections.
Additionally, birds that fly through the sunlight reflected at the with water tower get incinerated!
I agree but disagree. There is a finite amount of fossil fuel on this planet. I think that is a legitimate statement. However, the amount of energy that can be produced by nuclear fusion is more than enough to pretty much supply all the energy for anything and everything. It is available and it can be done but the powers that control this world do not want free energy because that would take away their POWER.
It’s almost as simple as that.
More and more geologists are embracing the theory that oil and gas an actual renewable energy source that have origins in the upper Mantle at or near the Mohorovičić Discontinuity (Moho)
And here a lot of people thought we were just diving around on dead dinosaurs.
Now if this could be proven, imagine what that would do to the price of petroleum knowing that at least some fraction of it was abiotic and not as scarce as originally thought.
We’ve got tons of Natural Gas with large new finds.
Solar is good for peak demand in the summer.
Dr. Bill Wattenberg on KGO radio mentioned a far more economical green solution – paint the rooftops of schools & government buildings white to reflect the heat.
And he particularly liked one of my ideas – have a Federal tax credit to insulate 5 or 10 Million homes a year.
You mean fusion, or fission? AFAIK fusion is still a negative proposition. Fusion is always 20 years away from fruition.
Remember when The New York Times ran an article about six years ago quoting the world’s top climate scientists that the entire East Coast of the United States would be underwater in twelve years and New York would build dikes around Manhattan? Well, apparently Barack Obama and John Kerry didn’t see it because last year they both spent $13 million each for beachfront homes on the Atlantic Ocean on Martha’s Vinyard! If that doesn’t tell you Climate Change is a hoax you’re not paying attention!
Climate Change was the head game that preceded the virus head game. Steeped in statistics and then heavily abused, the dogma is impenetrable by the Left. They simply believe what the end message is despite the “science” being nothing but fudged statistics.
Evergreen and all realists on here. I do wish you would all stop using the greenies terminology.
As we all know the climate always has and always will change – every minute.
Let us stick to the original panic language of Mann Made Global Warming.
It really bugs me when we adopt the newspeak of the marxists.
Property values all along the leftist coastline of CA keep setting record after record after record for the $$$Highest$$$ sales prices in history.
Psssst … and it’s ALL Hollweirdo eco virtue signalers settling on the inundation zone …
They’re laughable LIARS
You have to have some way to recharge your electric cars.
Fastest way to kill our planet is to greatly reduce the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere.
But then the dying organisms would emit further decomposition compounds, dried detritus and wild prairies and forests would burn, emitting stored up carbon deposits.
Libs first need to understand science before they claim to follow it.
And less CO2 means less oxygen production
DEMOCRATS want a Carbon Tax.
The Anti-Science party.
Fastest way to kill the economy.
CO2 = plant food.
The single greatest boon to life on this planet has been the release of CO2 into the atmosphere from fossil fuels. More carbon means more life in the oceans and on land.
12,000 years ago the place where I now live in Nevada was at the bottom of the vast (8500 sq miles) Lake Lahontan.
9000 years ago the lake mostly dried up, leaving desert.
Gosh, if only the people in 7000 BC drove Priuses!
Proving that liberals did not exist at one period in history. Thus, they are a mutation of earlier humans.
Every time I see a picture of President Trump……I just want to cry!?
It is so bittersweet thinking about that time. It is hard to put into words. It was stolen from us.
In essence, they stole TRUMP’s entire 8 year Presidency.
Never thought I could loathe the GOP as much as I came to loathe the Democrats, but here I am.
They robbed him of his 1st 4 yrs imo too. If they had worked for the good of the country instead of spending every breathing moment trying to destroy it and him, imagine what where we would be now.
kf, I agree, but they actually robbed “US” of his first 4 years! I’m still keeping the faith though… 😉
I think WE can fix the Republican party.
The democrat party is beyond repair.
NO one should ever vote DEMOCRAT again.
The GOP Is President Trump’s Party .
Even if no one dies, they will win.
Who counts the votes?
Educate open-minded vitizens!!
Let’s drive 51% belief to 65% belief!!
Germany: 1
Moonbats: 0
Markel’s and nationalist all right. But her loyalty is to East Germany, not Germany.
Stassi Madam
It’s never about ideology, it’s always about power. If ideology advances the cause of power, fine; if not then it is sacrificed. But power comes first. And as we’ve seen in the U.S., with power also comes money … just look at all those rich congress critters.
One other tiny little detail most miss … environmentalists are not about saving the environment for people, but from people. So if you want to build a solar plant in the desert, politicians might be for it, but the environmentalists will oppose it because while it may be green power, it’s intruding on nature and nature is sacrosanct; if people have to life a wretched subsistence existence, so be it; nature comes first.
Stripped of all its feel good posturing, environmentalists hate mankind.
Proofread, proofread, proofread … if people have to live a wretched subsistence existence …
There is an important backstory here that Sundance didn’t mention.
I believe it was right after the accident in Fukushima, Japan, that Germany decided to close all of her nuclear power plants. They’ve closed 7 or 8, the last will be closed next year.
How did they replace nuclear power?
1. Burning coal (more pollution & deaths)
2. Importing energy (Russia)
They now have the most expensive electricity in the world!
“My question for people making this argument is, “If renewables are so gosh-darn cheap, why does Germany now have the highest electricity prices in Europe?” In fact, the average cost of electricity is nearly 30 cents per kilowatt hour, almost three times higher in Germany than it is in the United States.”
They really have no choice. Not to mention they’re in the cold north.
One other point.
Germany has the largest economy in Europe, and is already wary of less ambitious, quasi Socialist countries like Spain & Greece.
Abandoning nuclear power was a foolish move, driven by local extremists (Greens). But those folks are ok with ting homes, not marrying or having children, etc. Different world.
In Germany local towns are rebeling against wind generators too. The noise and size of the windmills is horrible. When the ball bearings freeze and the blades fall off they are too large and heavy to even remove.
If they were mounted on the towers these blades can be hauled away.
Merkel is actually a green. However that madness is mildly tempered by a whiff of sanity.
Never forget that she was a communist, SED collaborator. IM Erika.
What is bred in the bone… That is why she furthers the career of Laschet, the wimp, as her replacement, rather than the more able Söder. Söder is a Pos too, though.
The only sane politicians left are in the AfD, the Liberals and the Freie Wähler.
Merkel is much like our American leftist leaders. She talks a big game because she’s always apologizing for Nazi Germany out of one mouth and acting in a different action. Just like the dem left act like they are the champions of civil rights when they were the party that fought abolishing slavery as hard as they could back in the day.
Merkel is acting mostly on the lack of birth rates in Germany. She’s trying to hold off the extreme left agenda that she wants to promote in order to import new workers to keep Germany productive. I guess she’s doing what she thinks is right, but she’s not going to get the outcome she thinks she’s working for.
France is all Nuclear. Wake up ! Germany is still a pathetic ruin left over from the last century. Germans are weak.
not all…France gets 80% of their power needs from nuclear
Cleanest air in Europe.
And they sell… excess electricity to neighboring countries!
There is in reality only one entity that is subject to the green new deal, etc.
America
Earth Day’s legacy of failed apocalyptic predictions
Quite a list of pure BS:
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2021/04/earth_days_legacy_of_failed_apocalyptic_predictions.html
Two World Wars denuded Germany of its Alpha males that allowed self loathing Betas and women to open its borders to massive 3rd world Islam as preferred immigrants.
Merkel is an old East German communist….good luck with the future.
The US Civil War along with those two World Wars, and Viet Nam massively cost America her alpha males. Horrific.
I thought she was leaving? Can’t be soon enough!
At least she has some sense. Without coal, without wood, people will freeze to death. Hydro-electric power comes only to those lucky enough to be living in an area where that is an abundant resource and not affected by deep, long, cold winters. Natural gas is not available in all areas. Propane is subject to “availability” and transportation. Solar and windmills are fully dependent upon the variances of the sun and wind – Mother Nature – and yet Gates wants to “darken” the sun! The whole green new deal can only be about power and control because it makes no practical sense otherwise. The planet goes through weather cycles and we are currently in a colder cycle, which could last for decades. It makes sense for people to explore all their energy options and CHOOSE what makes the most sense depending upon where they live. Under the guise of “saving the planet”, the globalists want to control how much of any given resource you use (water, electricity, gas, food/meat, etc). Starving, cold, people will do what they are told.
I believe Bill Gates is pro nuclear. I watched 2 episodes of the Gates series on Netflix, but fell asleep during the third where he advocates for nuclear power?
“Climate change” is just another, albeit much bigger, boondoggle by international politicians/conmen. Like the currently popular “trains to nowhere,” the purpose is to put taxpayers’ money in play where it can be parceled out to cronies and used to make quid pro quo deals that enrich the political criminals and business power brokers. The Biden “infrastructure” plan fits nicely into this category.
I imagine most Amicans are not aware that Britain’s largest coal power plant -Drax in Yorkshire- which sits on top of a vast coal seam, was converted into a wood burner.
The wood for this is cut in the Southern United States, turned into wood pellets, shipped across the Atlantic, offloaded into huge trains, transported across England and burned to generate one quarter of England’s electricity.
This so called green energy generates untold millions in taxpayer subsidy for the generating company.
So thank you United States for ripping up your woodland to provide Boris Johnson with brownie points.
Climate change, another phony invisible threat utilized to usher in socialism. Tell me any climate change model has been even close to correct and I have a bridge in Brooklyn i’d like to sell you….
Climate change is used to keep us in a “STATE OF FEAR”.
A great book and just as true as the day it was written.
Climate change is phony.
“STATE OF FEAR”
my Public Library TODAY…
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I miss the Library and TRUMP ….
State of fear? Sounds exactly like a novel I have heard about.
Wait a minute… come to think of it, I have heard of it.
https://www.michaelcrichton.com/state-of-fear/
Globalists’ dream for American forests…………….We pay through the nose for imported lumber while shipping our own wood to Europe to burn in power plants. Then we import wood construction products from Asia.
Here in central NC, lumber prices are through the roof- 2x-3x over last year. Yet, we have great natural resources in hardwood and softwood forests. Most of the trim wood we use now comes from China, Chile and Indonesia! Big prices increase locally on framing lumber – from Canada!
A relative visiting from Netherlands noticed the massive clear cutting and thought it may be related to Holland’s insane decision to convert power plants to burn wood pellets. He went home and sure enough…..NC is clear cutting hardwood and softwood lumber resources and sending them to Netherlands to burn for electricity.
US environmentalists have been silenced on the clear cutting. Dutch activists have been silenced on the air pollutions. Who knows where the massive “green” subsides to Dutch power companies are coming from to afford very expensive wood imports.
Track & Trace? More like “Trick or Trace” | Dogwood Alliance
Green energy? Netherlands subsidises shipping wood from US for fuel – DutchNews.nl
Merkel is killing her citizens with the importation of islamic refugees. When that population passes 20%, say buh bye Deutchland, and hello to the new caliphate state of Germanistan. The German people need to reject her!
france will be the primer in europe.
Do read the book Caliphate. It has some vivid imagery regarding the Islamic decay in Munich. They took control of the cities, they are huge nogo slums void of any culture. Like Manama, if you have never been there, keep it thus.
Angela’s pool dance. Once you see it….
Is that the same outfit as in Sundance’s photo? I don’t mean the bikini….
Guys: If you want to understand Germany or Merkel, search “Volkswagen emissions scandal.” This is Germany in the nutshell.
As Victor Davis Hanson once wrote:
“…being guilt-ridden does not equate to being humble (never a German strong suit). The same conceit of an ethnically, linguistically and culturally uniform state that drew Germany into conflict with the United States (whose late entry into both WW I and WW II helped ensure German defeats) has never quite disappeared. Quite to the contrary, German condescension merely has been updated.
In international finance, Germany de facto runs the EU on a mercantile system. It manipulates the Euro as a weaker currency to swarm export markets in a way that would have been difficult with the older and higher-valued Deutsche Mark.
A similar German hubris was true of recent immigration into Europe. While virtue-signals the world how morally superior Berlin now is, it was searching for ways to import cheap labor. One result is Merkel’s disastrous open-door policy of welcoming in millions of unvetted, poorly educated “refugees” from the war-ravaged Middle East at a time of heightened worries over jihadi terrorism. But Germany did not just flood its own country with impoverished, hard-to-assimilate Muslim newcomers. It also dictated that other European countries do the same — whether they wished to or not.
In matters of international relations and trade, Germany’s sense of superiority often resulted in old-style cheating. To increase imports of Volkswagens into the U.S., the company tried to cheat emission tests and skirt expensive regulations. Germany’s Deutsche Bank was caught money-laundering the profits of the Vladimir Putin’s crony cabal. And reports indicate that to convince soccer’s international governing body, FIFA, to award Germany the 2006 World Cup, German officials resorted to bribery.
Germans brag about their generous social welfare state and often compare it to a supposedly cutthroat capitalist America. But it is quieter about shirking its NATO membership requirements for defense spending to free up cash for its own citizens — and making mega profits from exporting heavily overpriced luxury cars to a “hyper-capitalist” rich Americans.
Yet if German haughtiness works on a dependent Europe, it certainly does not always impress a wary America.
The United States is still far larger, wealthier and more powerful, just as it was in 1918, 1945 and 1989. It does not necessarily listen to German sanctimoniousness on climate change, immigration, trade or the occasional need for the use of force.
Instead, America more or less does what it believes to be in the best interests of itself and its allies.
Germans find such American independence cowboyish and insubordinate — and believe they can teach Americans about the dangers of such misplaced chauvinism. Americans usually ignore these weary sermons. Instead, many of them believe that whenever Germany sticks to worrying only about Germany, the world is a far safer place — both now and in the past.”
Indeed, Germany or France as military threats to anyone today is a joke. Relatively tiny militaries suitable for operations against the 3rd world.
An era well past never to return.
Actually Germany gets paid to borrow money. The communist EU makes it possible.
NAtional SOcialist… spell that in German….
Writes Sundance,
Which is understandable if regrettable.
What is harder to comprehend are governments that endorse self-destructive, ‘green’ policies to eliminate hydrocarbon (and nuclear) energy in favor of subsidizing unreliable, intermittent, inefficient, expensive, ‘renewable’ wind and solar farms that cannot possibly power an industrial country.
These policies fulfill the desires of the Climate Cult dogma, which avows that man-made carbon dioxide is a pollutant that will destroy Mother Earth, a fantasy that has been abundantly falsified by serious climatologists. However, it is one thing to cater to these True Believers, and quite another to destroy the energy infrastructure of your nation. Germany has gone far along those lines, to the point where they are burning lignite and imported wood chips (from America) to replace coal- (and nuclear-) generated electricity.
How can an elite dedicated to Globalist ambitions justify sacrificing their own industrial economy with such ‘green’ folly? You won’t be left with anything to control!
I’d be interested to hear Sundance’s analysis.
Wow. “Germany First!” Imagine a German national leader saying such a thing as that!
One could almost say that climate promises are all lip service, from China to Germany to BP and Shell. Whatever keeps the communists at bay (except here in the US with Obama pulling Mortimer Snerd’s strings).
One thing she’s not is a fool. She saw what happened in Texas last Winter. If she allowed it to happen in the entire country of Germany, it would be her fault. And the last thing she wants is a country full of pissed off Krauts.
Green energy sounds great until you reflect on the demand
Economies cannot be victims of the weather
Barack Obama and John Kerry didn’t see it because last year they both spent $13 million each for beachfront homes on the Atlantic Ocean on Martha’s Vinyard! If that doesn’t tell you Climate Change is a hoax you’re not paying attention!
The greenies want to rid the earth of all carbon. Good luck with growing plants and destroying photosynthesis Just no accounting for ignorance!