EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, a woman of notoriously bureaucratic disposition, has proposed that all member nations to reduce their use of natural gas by 15% in order to subsidize and protect the larger member nations -specifically Germany- who are more dependent on Russian energy.
Spain, Portugal and Greece are balking at the idea of voluntary cuts in order to spread the energy resources to the larger economies.
Things amid the EU could get spicy again, with the league of nations in Brussels taking control of economic wealth distribution.
BRUSSELS, July 20 (Reuters) – The European Union set out emergency plans on Wednesday for countries to cut their gas use by 15% until March, warning them that without deep cuts now they could struggle for fuel during winter if Russia cuts off supply.
Europe is racing to fill its gas storage ahead of winter and build a buffer in case Moscow further restricts supplies in retaliation for European support for Ukraine following Russia’s invasion.
[…] The regulation needs approval from a reinforced majority of EU countries. Country diplomats are set to discuss it on Friday, with the aim of approving it at an emergency meeting of their energy ministers on July 26.
“Russia is blackmailing us. Russia is using energy as a weapon. And therefore, in any event, whether it’s a partial, major cut-off of Russian gas or a total cut-off of Russian gas, Europe needs to be ready,” EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said. (read more)
Obviously not everyone is happy….
BARCELONA, Spain — The European Union’s plan to reduce the bloc’s natural gas use by 15% to prepare for a potential cutoff by Russia this winter received sharp skepticism Thursday from the governments of Spain and Portugal, which are usually big supporters of the bloc.
The governments in Madrid and Lisbon said they would not support the initiative announced by European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen on Wednesday. The proposal would start with voluntary reductions, but the EU’s head office also wants the power to make 15% savings mandatory in the event of an EU-wide energy emergency.
Spain and Portugal said making reductions obligatory was a non-starter. They noted that there are scant energy connections linking them to the rest of Europe and that they use very little Russian gas compared to fellow EU members such as Germany and Italy.
“We will defend European values, but we won’t accept a sacrifice regarding an issue that we have not even been allowed to give our opinion on,” Spanish Ecological Transition Minister Teresa Ribera said. (read more)
Said the man with no abilities but a boat load of needs.
Don’t disappoint the Germans.
The totalitarian State will always degrade into the chaotic State.
And those who accepted the 19th century dogma that god is dead, and man becomes god, will never accept this.
Man controls the climate? Not now, not ever.
Check out the “realclimatescience.com” if you want to see the junk science/fraud exposed.
We are being played for suckers by the global elite.
Then ………… look at Geo-Engineering Watch . org.
Weather Warfare.
Aristocracy has its privileges.
Marcus:
My hobby horse is that feudalism is the ultimate end goal of all this.
A few rich and privileged people ruling the world.
Corporatism is the name for big corporations and big government bureaucracies finding common cause.
Prince Charles (not a smart man) still recognized the urgency of global warming to uphold his place in the world.
When the dopes like Charles or Biden or AOC find common cause, you are looking at neo-feudalism in action.
Dont make Sergey or Pichai or Mark or Jack unhappy….
You put it much better than I could.
Yup Feudalism, the Redux has been working to reconstitute that World/Global Order from the penumbra for several decades now.
GHWB aka POTUS 41 was one of the first of the modern 20th Century Western leaders to speak of the NWO aloud and in public.
You Sanction a country..
Then you complain when there are going to be shortages of what you sanctioned?
This is beyond stupid…
Off the charts stupid.
Good for the countries that are saying- NO.
Our leftists are anarchists.
This is the moment to enforce our own liberal democratic vision of the world. It cannot be total, because only leftists intend a total simplistic vision of the world. We are the adults, they are the children.
The next Jefferson/Madison will find a way to deal with these intellectual children.
I don’t know if you’re being sarcastic. Anarchy is the antithesis of Marxism. And that liberal democratic comment makes no sense to me. However, if it’s sarcasm, and trying not to make sense like our wannabe overlords, I applaud you.
Totalitarians envision a world without dissent. Dissent will be suppressed.
Our children, our eternal children like AOC, find the totalitarian world appealing because it is a world without dissent.
This is why the liberal democratic world is not acceptable to so many young women. The tumult is not where they want exist. Better the false quiescence of the totalitarian State than the uproar of democracy.
Except this is not where human beings exist. Uproar and dissent is the norm. And this is why liberal democracy is the best way forward. OK, Football?
Anarchy is a weapon of Leftists.
Antifa much?
Good grief.
Not stupid, malicious and carefully structured disorienting strategies by ruthless seditionists.
LNG available in US for transgender transport to EEEWW.
I think the best way of doing good to the poor planners, is not making them easy in their short comings, but leading or driving them out of it. — Paraphrase update of Benjamin Franklin.
Stupid decisions, by children or nations, do not need to be kissed and encouraged. Live with it. Your bed. You made it. Lie in it.
Overlords don’t live with their policies, it’s we the people than carry that burden
And it is we the people that must respond to correct things
A parable with a lesson:
A little bird was flying south for the winter.
It was so cold, the bird froze and fell to the ground in a large field. While it was lying there, a cow came by and dropped some dung on it. As the frozen bird lay there in the pile of cow dung, it began to realize how warm it was. The dung was actually thawing him out!
He lay there all warm and happy, and soon began to sing for joy.
A passing cat heard the bird singing and came to investigate. Following the sound, the cat discovered the bird under the pile of cow dung, and promptly dug him out. Then he ate him!
Life Lessons:
1) Not everyone who drops shit on you is your enemy.
2) Not everyone who gets you out of shit is your friend.
3) And when you’re in deep shit, keep your mouth shut!
Putin is winning more than the east of Ukraine. How about Greece Spain and Portugal tell the US to butt out of Ukraine instead?
Putin is rescuing people from totalitarians.
Putin is in on the plan. He gets exactly what he wants .
…and so will Trump and the American people.
Wow, at least we’ll be able to boast about the exciting times we lived in to our descendants!
Explaining the heads mounted on the wall?
I hope we can boast of hanging tyrants…
What descendants? They are soon going to cull the world’s population.
The unvaccinated will have progeny.
Unless they hook up with the vaxxed?
we have plenty here in the US…..FRACK IT!!!!
Does anything about the current administration suggest it will expand fracking or any other form of natural gas production?
Your direct, simple solution is a correct one. Unfortunately if those in power were interested in solutions of any kind, we would not be staring down catastrophe in the first place.
does anything in my years of posts suggest to you that your explanation is news to me?
In order to alleviate the gas shortage problem they are likely planning on sticking tubes up cows backsides to collect the gas from their flatulence.
In the northeast where they refuse to allow large pipeline infrastructure, there will be pain. PA has loads, they just have few options on transporting it. Because of that and some chemical properties, the value of PA products is far below the national average when it comes out of the ground.
We actually have boatloads without fracking. What we need are more pipelines to deliver it
or permits for above-ground storage and the initial petroleum drilling to get at it….Slo Joe is not going to let those happen…Schwab has emphatically told him Nein’
They will not turn away from their stupidity. Apparently we won’t either.
This is just unreal.
It’s like watching a slo mo train wreck.
🙂 🙂 🙂
Brexit looks better with each passing day.
It would if the permanent state in London weren’t Eurocrats, and the Conservatives weren’t CINO’s.
Maybe you could burn all those useless vials of Vaxx you bought, Fraudlein.
It’s for the greater good…. /sarc
I wonder if these EU idiots have figured out that China has played them all?
Gotten them to destroy their own countries.
You mean those rolling in wealth? Wont happen until China is rolling across the once fruited plains and they begin to install their own government. Or the could just leave them in place as the useful idiots they are.
Remember back when the PIGS were troubled? Greece in bankruptcy. Spain, Italy and Portugal following closely?
Germany was the one telling them to take a hike. Germany wasn’t going to suffer to help them.
Now they have to suffer again. All so that Germany doesn’t have to suffer.
Wasn’t Germany the one loaning Greece money and setting the terms for austerity measures? Now, Germany is on the other end potentially.
Yep.
The Germans had a good argument. They retire at 70, while Greeks can do so at age 50. (IIRC)
More fuel for Polexit, Italexit, and others.
I guess Trump needs to have another little talk with Germany. They didnt listen the first time.
All the Trump haters in the EU are having to reap what they sowed. They were warned.
Shared misery is the backbone of socialism.
Everybody stays warm until you run out of other people’s gas.
they gots paper, they’ll never freeze.
They used to call them the PIGS. Now they want them to help. Good luck with that.
Europeans remember what happens when you piss off the Germans. Nothing good.
Different times, different Germans. They’re completely wussified.
They also have an unassimilated subclass that will lay waste to the infidels when they are denied heat and fuel.
Yup, spent almost six years in Germany. Was not impressed with the descendants of the once mighty Wermacht, Fredrick the Great, or the mighty Germania speaking tribes that kept Rome at bay.
All of the WEF policies are applying a ton of pressure on sitting leaders there- the EU is unelected, but the leaders can be voted out. Also, with all of the massive loss in GDP in the Euro bloc, I’m wondering how many will consider exiting. Losing the UK was a big deal. It’s really 3 countries propping up the economies of the others- so this is going to only get worse… Italy has started the dominoes falling. Von der Leyen has no official power, she’s a figure head, what will it take for the whole bloc to break apart?
Lack of Energy and food, would be a very good start. Rapid inflation, Covid etal, the pandemic of the hour/day, would be a close second.
Hey EU: Kiss My Gas!
Well, they’re asking nicely, but what happens if one were to refuse to comply?
But I thought the German globalists were convinced, they had Russia right where they wanted it. They laughed and snickered, until reality had them on their knees. So arrogant and sure of themselves, and now just so pitifully inferior. Help them, hell no, let them beg Russia for their much needed energy.
Well was thinking that reality bite them in the posterior. A really big bite, like McGruff🤔🤔😁.
One of the goals for the then putative EU architects was the murder of nationalism.
They nearly succeeded. But they failed to drive a stake through each member country’s cultural and historical hearts. Those hearts may have been on life support for lo these decades, but the life in them did not oblige the grotesque elites.
The EU is a union, such as it is, that when all the documents were signed and sealed, we in this house said it will never last.
It seems the seams are coming apart. And I for one will sincerely cheer the rafters when it eventually collapses. A false forced amalgamation of disparate languages and peoples has no glue to hold it together.
Nationalism is coming out of its coma. The patients aren’t dead, and I pray for the sake of those in their various countries, it is resurrected and thrives.
I sure hope so.
Germany is in no position to dictate to any of them.
Bingo.
I remember during my second overseas station in 2000-2002 that the German nationals we worked with were pissed about the formation of the EU. One complained to the effect that they were now European and not German.
The Germans are staunch nationalists if truth be told. As are other populations in their various countries.
It is a big tell that when each country voted yea or nay to join the EU, first votes on several were nays. Thus the unelected elites forced those countries into do over elections. which votes miraculously turned into yeas.
Ireland was one, and I’m sorry I can’t remember the others.
The thing was while the concept was always promoted as an economic union only, the actual intent was for a political union. So all the citizens were lied to from the very beginning.
And citizens have no say who runs it. Unelected and unaccountable leaders who have, as here, enriched themselves at the expense of those they rule (not govern) over. The policies enacted for the whole of the EU, run really by Germany, benefited the northern members but decimated southern ones, such as Greece and Italy (especially the “immigration” dictates which have all but destroyed the whole of a Christian, civilized Europe). What suited one country economically and monetarily, destroyed others. One size did not fit all, and was never going to.
Think of it as a mini experiment for the evil godless WEF today.
It’s no wonder as the WEF imposes its monstrous plan on people who were lied to once, those populations understand what is taking place, and, please God, fight it for all they are worth.
Another example of free-market capitalism failing, and thus demonstrating the need for an incestuous one-world totalitarian fascist oligarchic death cult cabal of satanic nihilistic pedophilic globohomos to rule them all.
/sarc
Yeah! What you said
Someone needs to build a natural gas chamber and put those idiot politicians inside it.
The quality of life will decline until morale improves.
The EU is a mini-version of Global governance.
In order to establish it, it was sold as a TRADING Bloc, that ostensibly would enable the countries to “band together” in International Trade agreements, primarily to offset the U.S.’s inherent Trade advantage of having a much higher per capita purchasing, which made it the market everyone wanted to sell into.
It was actually an attempt to stamp out Nationalism, and institute Globalism, on a small scale.
Unelected Buerocrats in Brussels dictate to businesses throughout the EU, how large the signs on their buildings can be, and how much cinnamon a baker can put in a cinnamon roll.
Take a good, hard look at the EU, cause thats what Globalism looks like.
And yes, if it COULD be instituted World wide,..
“You will eat bugs and LIKE it”, you will accept uncounted hoardes of immigrants, cause we say so.
You will hunker down and shiver, cause we SAY so.
You will get into the cattle car, and ‘showers’,…Cause we SAY so. And you vill LIKE it!
Its for the greater good…..
Pull the other one!!!
(The Pythonesque will get it) 😉
We must all jump off the cliff together, even if doing so does no good for others. We just all need to suffer at the same time.
Germany is in trouble. I wouldn’t be surprised if they fell. Poor military, immigration degradation, it’s citizens are not procreating, and they are suicidially dependent on Russia for energy.
They can learn to speak Russian
Many from East Germany were taught Russian. However, it been almost two generations ago.
Ursala – Von Derfull- LYING……..
Is this a Bond villian ?
Bring back Pussy Galore !
For the greater good, you know….
They’re all in it together.
Bet those in Britain are glad they are no longer part of the EU.
Hopefully whoever is running the UK has figured out they need to prep their nation with enough heating and cooking fuel, and food until those EU nations come to their senses.
Liz Truss is a Remainer. If she wins, she will try to get them further under the EU umbrella. Rishi and Liz both love the WEF, so either way, the UK is in trouble.
Liz Truss may also, somehow, be a bigger Russia Hawk than Johnson.
That’s what the job requires.
Meanwhile, in the US:
Can you imagine the nerve of Russia for not selling fossil fuels to NATO members arming Ukies and refusing to pay them in a currency they can use? Unbelievable!
Worse still, they shut down a pipeline merely because Canada won’t release Russia’s equipment needed to operate the pipeline. How nervy of the Russians.
Further, it is perfectly reasonable to ask the poorest members of the EU to sacrifice their comfort, security, and economies to support the wealthiest member of the EU.
Can we please help the Germans? Probably goes down well in poorer countries like Bulgaria or Greece!
Western Europe – the continent of Eloi and Muslims. One will eat the other.
Place your bets.
These EU people are complete crackpots – the arrogance is over the top. Germany needs to fix it’s own energy problem which it created.
In 18 months we (the United States) have gone from energy independence, being a net exporter of total energy, to this.
FJB and f*ck the democrats!
Why do I always hear President TRUMP in my head when discussing Germany’s energy dependency issues? Or windmill energy issues? Or any of this energy nonsense?
We will pick and choose the winners of the energy usage. Where’s your digital passport and wallet?
wow. EU Commission so blatantly stating that Germany is at the top of the heap, for all to see.
I mean, it’s been happening for decades but freezing, etc. has a way of making people sit up and take notice.
You’d think Germany, after yammering about Green Energy for 4 decades now, would be sitting pretty as far as Energy goes, no matter *what* Russia decided to do.
Clowns.
Well it’s NOT the German populace. It is that small subset of Eco friendly NUTS (GREENS) in every country. Making Fake Events Appearing Real (FEAR). Appearing to be a greater group than they actually are.
The other is watermelons, Green on the Outside, Red in the inside. Hard to tell which is true. With all the divisions happening, worldwide, determining who is really pulling the mariotte strings.
We see the front people, just not the puppeteers.
My comment was directed at the “Leaders”.
THEY are the ones who have been yammering about Green Energy, and yet >>>> Have NEVER accomplished that “goal”.
The US is the same, BTW. Been talking about it since the 80’s.
IOW, if the “Leaders” who spew this stuff were serious, it would have been accomplished by now.
FOUR decades. And not a thing to show for it.
sunnydaze, Thank you for your clarification about “leaders”.
We (me) all are getting wound up tight. However it is the front marionette that we notice NOT the puppeteers. 🤔🤔😲
When are we going to rise up against global tyranny?
It has been going on ever since Trump came down the escalator.
Isn’t it amazing how those who fawn over obama and receive his blessing end up in the same sinking boat as those who maliciously attack President Trump?
Maybe she should set an example and show some leadership by moving into a mud hut with no running water or hvac, and traveling only by foot or bicycle.
Greta could join her.
No “wine & cheese” happy hours.
Only bugs, live. 24×7.
Why should countries who plan and are proficient in making decisions/policy to protect their energy needs suffer the poor decisions made by certain other countries who were not?
Because it has nothing to do with fairness. It has everything to do with power and control. The people had to hear, see and feel what is in Washington DC …. a Totalitarian government.
It is a world wide phenomenon. With Globalists or wannabes of various caliber doing their Masters bidding. Attempting to climb the Globalists ladder.