Hanover, a city in the northwest of Germany, has become the first major metropolitan area to try and reduce the use of natural gas by removing hot water from public buildings. The move comes as natural gas supplies from Russia are reduced to 20% of capacity. Germany is attempting to fill up storage facilities of natural gas in order to survive the winter.
Germany, together with several European countries, are telling their citizens to expect large increases in their electricity bills as energy costs continue to skyrocket.
Germany does not have any LNG terminals to receive shipments of natural gas into ports, they are dependent on pipelines from Russia. They are urgently trying to reduce the current amount of natural gas being consumed.
(Via Daily Mail) – […] Other desperate gas-saving measures include switching off public fountains and blacking out night-time lights on major buildings such as the town hall and museums. The city’s mayor, Belit Onay, spoke of an ‘imminent gas shortage’ that meant they had to reduce the city’s energy consumption by 15 per cent.
[…] There will also be a ban on portable air conditioners, heaters and radiators among the general populace as the average German begins to pay a price for standing up to the Russian dictator.
[…] Germany, like most of Europe, has been enjoying a hot summer which should soften the blow of the cold showers, but public officials are introducing the measures now in fear of what awaits them when the season turns.
Gazprom, the Russian state energy giant, has been giving European leaders sleepless nights by disrupting the flow of gas via its Nord Stream 1 pipe line.
They cut the flow to 40 per cent in June, citing maintenance issues, and this week they reduced the gas supply through the pipe to just 20 per cent.
These reductions, which EU energy chief Kadri Simson dismissed as ‘politically motivated’, have seen energy bills soar, governments struggle to fill gas storage facilities and energy-intensive heavy industries wondering if they can keep the factories running.
Russia denies that it is deliberately throttling supply to cause pain and instability in Europe, but few doubt that it is a deliberate ploy to punish what it calls ‘unfriendly countries.’
In response, European Union countries agreed to a controversial, bloc-wide 15 per cent reduction in gas usage on Tuesday that is hoped will reduce the pressure on European countries most vulnerable to Russian energy blackmail. (read more)
I feel for the German people as well as people all around the world who are needlessly suffering 100% because of the evil deep state tyranny. This agenda is one giant sin against humanity
No sympathy. The German people brought this on themselves. Schadenfreude, Indeed!
Yep, they allowed themselves to be ruled by fools. Sound familiar?
Sure does.
How many examples like this will it take? Will watching people go cold and hungry in other countries be enough? Or will we just plod along until hunger comes home?
Unless their government has been usurped as ours has. Then they dont “deserve” what’s happening any more than Americans do.
Did they? Or could they be victims of false elections as we have become.
Interesting question …considering Merkel was raised and trained in East Berlin – which was totally controlled by the Soviet Union – this may have been the desired outcome all along.
The death warrants for Europe, Germany and Sweden in particular, were signed long before this suicide attempt of embargoing Russian fuel.
Merkel, childless as so many of these monstrous leaders are, decided to turn on the spigot for the importation of a culture antithetical to the existence of Christianity and centuries of rich European culture. That’s a topic for another day perhaps.
In the meantime, stupidity and hubris of the type exposed by the US war against Russia will simply hurry their demise along.
The war declared against humanity by these “leaders”… people born with pieces missing…will gather pace over the next few months, safe in whatever well stocked bunkers they have arranged for themselves.
Mr and Mrs Ceausescu felt secure as well…until they weren’t.
Nicolae Ceausescu receiving Robert Mugabe Secretary General of the Zimbabwe African National Union (ZANU). (21 December 1976)
Good morning, Colkitto. Birds of a murderous feather do what they do and seek out others of their malignant kind.
How do we know that their election system is legitimate when we clearly know the US is not?
I am sure there are Dominion-type systems worldwide as it was created in Venezuela by Chavez to ensure his continuing power….the CIA has been acting like that in a manual mode since their creation….if they get a result they do not like they overthrow it
Pity those with no sympathy, as the cycle is always in full circle.
The people, maybe, but Trump told their leaders 3 yrs ago they should start getting their LNG from us, or else Russia would have them over a barrel. They decided Russia was more trustworthy than us. They picked the wrong horse.
Definitely the German government that is the problem. Their alignment with the deep state in provoking Putin and defending the corrupt Ukraine has brought this trouble upon their people. And their signing onto the evil 2030 project is only making things worse and worse. All completely avoidable.
Hard to say if it is ‘their alignment with the deep state’ or if was the latent, unresolved, fascist mindset that festered while the nation of Germany was kept artificially divided into East and West and when those two sections reunited did that festering fascist ideology surface to regain momentum via the likes of the creators of the wor ld economic forum smooth talking susceptible-to-that-ideology-politicians elected in the now united Germany.
Different from the deep state in my understanding, as the ‘deep state’ we are dealing with is more the bureaucracy that has gained sentience and is now fighting to retain its control.
I do see those as two different things even if both are sympathetic to each other’s goals.
The people put their leaders in place. Let them suffer their stupidity and arrogance.
As is the case here. Conservatives will find a way to weather this storm. Do not aid those whom you know voted for, or believe in the nonsense of Climate Change and other woketard fantasies. Do your best to see they suffer their folly. If they are cold and hungry, smile and ask them why they think that is their condition and ask “What have you learned, what will you do to prevent this from happening ever again?”
If they get it wrong, kick some dirt in their face and go enjoy a steak, bourbon and a nice dessert.
Climate change is real.
It is just not man made.
There were ice ages and interregnums long before humans were around in sufficient numbers to be noticeable.
Or did we fart our way in and out? That evil stone knapping!
We did NOT put Joe Biden in place. Our votes were stolen by globalist pigs. That problem must be fixed before any other can be addressed.
I get the steal in the swing states. But this country is FILLED with leftist losers and unfortunately, those allegedly on our side who do stupid things. The truly blue states are not having their elections stolen, they actively and overwhelmingly vote for the misery and then export the madness. The education system, even in red states, is FILLED with teh crazy spreading the disease.
Elections couldn’t have been stolen unless we allowed the conditions under which the theft was possible to take root. For decades, every incremental gain by the left was met with indifference and capitulation. St. Reagan’s “Half a Loaf” strategy. Problem was, and is, the bad guys keep coming back for half of our half. The loaf kept getting smaller and we were still supposed to be happy when we were down to the stale heal.
Screaming about the steal ain’t gonna fix it. Doing whatever you can to ensure that those who’ve foisted this misery upon us experience the pain and suffering, just might.
Exactly, when you let your culture be debased, you can’t cry fowl when stolen elections result.
Ninety percent of Americans use public schools, 75% send their kids to indoctrination centers we call colleges, many still encourage military service despite our endless wars for profit and immoral social engineering throughout the service.
How many of us pay for media? Meaning movies, streaming, cable, etc. Or let our children watch American popular culture – it’s all subversive and now often blatantly immoral even PBS kids and Nick Jr. Much of the popular entertainment for adults would have been considered pornographic even 30 years ago like Westworld, Game of Thrones, etc.
How many of us overlooked the corruption in politicians because we had to vote for our team? How many of us go to second or third weddings and see nothing wrong with the divorce rate in this country? How many of us let unmarried college-age or adult family members sleep in the same room with their partners?
Or we keep our heads down and mouth shut at work, school, church, family gatherings when people espouse lies and immorality because we know our opinions aren’t popular or will cause strife? Notice the left forces their opinions on everyone in all circumstances but we’re what polite as they influence our children and effect every aspect of our lives?
Blue states are blue due to Blue Cities
I used to assume that blue states just kept voting in the same horrible people. But I have come to find that is not always so. Washington and California turned red in 2020 and perhaps even 2018. And perhaps some other states that would surprise everyone.
There was certainly cheating. Washington state has all mail in voting. The deep state has been selecting “winners” for many years.
Good thing all our ‘representatives’ are 100% legitimate in the US. s/
No they didn’t pick the “wrong horse”.
it is all done by design…
the misery is coming to a town near YOU, soon…
wise up.
Yup.
The man the Jackass Party, Leftists, globalists and every power-crazed professional victim splinter group is desperate to identify as a terrorist buffoon was, once again, absolutely correct. No wonder they’ll do or say anything to try to destroy him. Fat chance!
I believe President Trump is batting 1,000.
Actually they stayed with wrong horse, the USA. The latter has been the owner of the horse and the EU jockey has stayed on the calamitous course to oblivion.
Misplaced sympathy. They voted these corrupt politicians in, let them wear it.
Coming to a town near you…
wise up.
Where’s Merkel??
Probably in her Chateau next to a stunning lake, with whole compound generators and large propane tanks. Eat the bugs proles.
The younger Germans, under 50 especially, love green progressive liberalism and they are extremely arrogant, across the board. That’s not a generalization. It’s everyone of them I’ve met or worked for. The Germans that I’ve known really believe they are a superior race and culture.
I worked for the former CEO of what is considered the most luxurious hotel chain in the world, trust me you know which one it is, he was German. He once intimated to me that Nazis were not bad, unbelievable.
They hate Americans and AMERICA.
They deserve all they get, IMO!
The younger generation of Germany and all of the west has been fed nothing but nonstop propaganda and communist indoctrination for decades while hard working older generation tried to keep the roof over our heads. As Sundance notes, we were not asleep. No one deserves any of this. The war on the west was so covert that it wasn’t until they stole the last election that it became clear for everyone to see and no amount of media spin and labeling truth tellers as wacko conspiracy theorists can reconceal it.
You’re right, no one deserves this and I apologize. That is not what I should have said. Just because their ignorance led them down this path, all I can say is, “there, but for the Grace of God, go I.”
I am grateful everyday to have a thinking mind and the ability to ponder.
I disagree … none are so blind as those who refuse to see.
As evidenced by the Germans generation after generation … I lived in Germany in the 1960’s as a military-brat … they were already importing muslims – ie Algeria, Turks, Moroccans etc – not called “Muslims”.
The German government housed them in new cinderblock apartments all built in small rural towns.
Then came the slaughter of the Israeli Team in the Olympic village in Munich … followed by terrorist attacks in Italy & France – but not Germany … and not a peep about the Germans bringing the enemy into Europe’s core.
We all know the rest of the story – Muslims raping, robbing, murdering and blowing up citizens & tourists … exploded throughout Europe, Great Britain & now Scandinavia … and all the socialists, educated idiots, like sheep led to slaughter, barely make a sound.
Well, Churchill may have been right about the Germans…’The Hun is either at your throat or at your feet’.
AMK,
How will Germans retain their pureblood and superiority with Muslim intermarriage ?
Merkel’s invitees want to transform and dominate, that’s how they roll. It seems that Germany is on a downhill trajectory.
While certainly, some intermarriage happens, I think for the most part they are running parallel societies, which is very dangerous.
The Germans are the originators of White Privilege Guilt. They’ve been in a masochistic downward trajectory since the end of WWII. They gladly cede because, Nazis, or something….
Well, they are about to get a painful education on reality this winter. The question is will this harsh reality be enough to overcome the brainwashing?
Doubtful.
Germany’s Chancellor will issue a proclamation tomorrow according to inside news sources.
Effective immediately all traditional protein will be replaced by bug meat.
All toilets will be moved to the top floors of buildings currently under construction and existing buildings will only be allowed to operate restroom facilities on the top floors. Debate continues now on whether it will be JUST the top floor or the top 2 or 3 floors depending on how many stories a particular building has. Janitor’s unions are weighing in on the matter.
The bug diet will cause a LOT of intestinal problems. German scientist estimate people will be emptying their bowels 3-4 times as often as normal. Massive increases in flushing are expected.
All buildings will have inline hydroelectric generators installed in the basement plumbing prior to waste water existing the structure’s sewer pipes.
The increased frequency of flushing along with the more powerful and effective gravitational force of top-floor black water discharge will power the generators and effectively produce as much hydroelectric energy as FIVE Hoover dams!
Or so the experts say.
C.D.B.M.Go* will save the day!!!! *Crappy-Dam Bug Method of Germany (roughly translated)
I CALL BS!!!!!
Bug Sh**?
We’ve been putting up with this ludicrous “fossil fuel bad” fraud for decades. It has always been illogical and unscientific, under the slightest scrutiny. It’s the world’s most mammoth international boondoggle, making its proponents rich in the same way their serial proxy wars do.
Granted, the corruptocrat cabal is brilliant at gulling the distracted and unwary. All they have to do is feed us a steady diet of electronic bread and circuses, and we are comfortable with being systematically “groomed” to be ashamed of our culture, heritage and way of life, and willing to look the other way as they ravage the Republic with a classic Marxist “march through our institutions.” It’s tiresome endlessly to parse the political fine points of this global war on humanity when the doomsday machine is chewing us up and spitting us out in real time. End of rant –sorry.
And yet the crazy unhinged people (almost always Socialists, Democrats, or Communists) kill and maim Conservatives.
Why can’t they target the evil tyrants who foist this truly dangerous and costly BS on all of us?
Think how much better the world would be, both the environmental condition of the planet and the health, safety, and future happiness of the population, if these lunatic killers were re-deployed.
Unfortunately, the Greenies, Trannies, and Lefties murder school children and the few politicians/judges who advocate for less government intrusion.
Don’t apologize. It was very on point and well written.
Credit where credit’s due.
Somebody hit on the idea of using the climate to attack America and the West.
It’s really an ingenious plan and the enemies of civilization have been using it like a cudgel against us for decades.
It was Obama who said, “We can’t keep our homes at 72 degrees and expect the rest of the world to be Ok with that.”
The climate ideologues are relentless and their efforts are now starting to pay off.
They can smell blood in the water.
Blackouts could turn into longer blackouts , perhaps they will have energy efficient camps to house the citizens, this will not end well.
Plus if this occurs in the cold winter, pipes will freeze, so no water and a big repair bill come spring.
Important safety tip. It’s the ‘unfrozen’ water in the pipe that busts them open as the ice forms, like a hydraulic ram.
If you think your pipes are going to freeze leave a tap slightly open to allow the pressure somewhere to go. Your pipes will still freeze but they won’t burst.
Yes, and the flow of water, the movement, even though slight, keeps warmer supply water flowing through the area of cold, staving off a full freeze of the pipe in many cases.
The Germans laughed at President Trump and mocked him when he warned them not to become dependent on Russian energy. Now they are experiencing the consequences.
Ain’t it cool?!
I guess turning off the credit and financial system access to Russia, which seemed so fun and simple at the time, unfortunately has consequences.
I have to admit I love seeing Putin rub their noses in their own mess.
He may be a bad guy, but I respect how he plays the game.
Me too. Putin knows the rotten bastards who have plundered wealth for centuries. He’s not their piss boy. While I pity the Ukrainian citizens, I wish Putin would march into Kiev and take Schwab’s bitch with him
.down with midget……
He’s not a bad guy. Putin is treating the globalist trash the same way they treated him.
Putin never called me a white supremacist.
Funny how they only didn’t mentioned that in the article.
Just a quick note that Russia had demanded payment in rubles, which makes them meanies.
Putin has proposed that currency be pegged to a market basket of goods (Fredrick Hayak’s theory of sound money), the Russian’s have a balanced budget and a surplus. This spells doom for the US reserve currency – and the end of money printing. What is more likely? Congress will balance the budget (and stop the money printing) or WWIII with Russia to stop sound money?
UniParty votes for WWIII paid for with the blood of our children and grandchildren.
Currency ‘pegs’ never work. Currencies’ only role is to clear a transaction. Any ‘future’ value you assume it retains past that stage is not real. It’s better to store your wealth in real things, especially ones that produce ‘future’ value.
Yep, defensible hard assets. Anything can be taken by force but the idea is to leave as many corpses as possible in the process to deter future incursions and give the enemy second thoughts about seizure.
When they can push a button and freeze or evaporate a bank account or turn cash on hand worthless, that’s indefensible.
Don’t mess with the guy that powers Barter town.
Its a 15% reduction by the city with all kinds of measures, like no warm showers in swimming pools. Will come everywhere I guess. Complete mess. And in german its Hannover (double n).
https://www.welt.de/politik/deutschland/article240163973/Hannover-dreht-warmes-Duschwasser-in-Schwimm-und-Freibaedern-ab.html
And on Thursday, Germany confirmed that a planned gas surcharge on customers could be much higher than previously expected, to try to ensure energy companies do not go bankrupt in the coming months. “We can’t say yet how much gas will cost in November, but the bitter news is it’s definitely a few hundred euros per household,” said Economy Minister Robert Habeck.
Some reports said the levy could cost families an extra €500 (£420) a year.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-62335911
And tell me again why the cost is going up? Supply and demand? Greed? Or just to grind it home the elites have to power to do whatever they want.
They made a terrible deal with Russia to supply gas to their citizens, for that alone they should be in the streets. But blowing up the cost to the citizens smacks of let no crisis go to waste.
Putin explained in Teheran recently why the costs go up. Decades of failed policy. See his speech.
Easy-Peasy Solution. Remove sanctions. Ha, dumb azzes would rather freeze first!
They, the ‘peoples leaders’, have no intention of being denied warmth, or any delectable morsel.
People need to wake the f up.
They need to drop the pride and admit their error.
Then, we the people, can fix all of this rather quickly.
It would also help if ‘ conservatives ‘ weren’t cowardly,weak willed women.
Most are busy ‘using their words’, hoping that someone else will use their fists.
Yeah..because ‘polite’ and ‘what will the neighbors say.
Yeah, the whole pussified society brainwashing.
Changing their pronouns to “Freezing” and “Frozen” come December. You can always burn the furniture.
I still remember the first time I saw an LNG ship.
It was impressive, and beautiful. I asked a fellow crew member, who had been in the Coast Guard many years before I came in, “What is that?”. He explained it to me, and how it takes a special facility to handle the LNG. It is one of my most beautiful Coast Guard memories. If Germany does not have any ports that can handle LNG, it is their fault. Stupid.
Major LNG port in Savannah…. also a major terrorist target!!!!
When those ships come through, they raise the river 30-40 feet, I’ve been told! If you’re down there fishing, you have to scoot!
it is a floating BOMB…. which is why LNG facilities are normally put FAR away from populated areas……in one of my root areas we had 3 RAIL cars of propane ignite 30 years ago….it took out a square mile of the residential area…..during WWII in the SF area an ammo handling area had an incident that leveled a good deal of Hayward IIRC at the time when some ammunition went off killing a few hundred workers…..things that go boom are dangerous…..large volumes of them are very dangerous
Kroesus, those who say the Germans should have moved away from cheap Russian natural gas to US supplied LNG have no idea of the problems that would involve. Not enough LNG available, not enough LNG terminals and those we have are mainly on the hurricane prone Gulf coast. Not enough LNG tanker ships and no off load facilities in Europe. It would have been better to have treated the RF fairly and honored their legitimate security concerns. That possibility is now gone.
Making Louisiana swamps perfect for LNG.
And let us not forget, that while we watch other countries suffering the consequences of their actions, our leaders are actively pushing us down this same path.
Exactly.
So perhaps, ‘they’re didn’t bring it upon themselves either.
Maybe some empathy and conviction instead of the self righteousness.
Reminds me of this poster.
The lesson for NATO is not to cross Putin.
SCHADENFREUDE begins….
So cool that it’s THEIR word…
Now Angst replaces Gemütlichkeit in their Lebensraum…
All Your Farm Are Belong to Us
The Turkish-German Minister of Agriculture is warning German farmers not to get uppity like their Dutch colleagues have. In Germany, order must be maintained!
Afterword from the translator:
When you think that before the Plandemic, in Germany alone seven farms closed their production DAILY, because they could no longer create any income for themselves due to ever-increasing EU regulations, which could also turn you overnight into a felon.
An old school friend of mine closed his pig farm (eighth generation) over a year ago because his running costs, through EU regulations, were at that time already €30 more each day than his income from his free-range pigs.
This is part and parcel of the depopulation and enslavement plan by these “Elites” … they need the Romanov treatment.
This is fact! Some Texans who live in towns, on regular sized lots, just got utility bills for the past month – FOR UP TO $2,457 FOR ONE MONTH!
The POWER RECOVERY COSTS are far more than any usage! They are to pay back for the February 2021 week of Freezilla. With interest paid, the word is that it will take a decade of these charges to pay off the debt incurred by some utility companies!
There is no way to know what the power recovery charge will be – or to try to economize – BECAUSE IT IS NOT BASED ON USAGE!
The bills are higher than mortgage payments, and some are talking of moving before they lose their homes. All are saying they will have to choose between utility payments and food for their families!
Not all communities and towns are affected. It depends on how the utility companies handled their end during that time period. Even those customers who HAD NO ELECTRICITY OR WATER FOR DAYS HAVE TO PAY.
whoa !
now THAT’S a Texas-sized problem
I reckon
naw let the big guy send them a few of those billion he sent to Ukraine.
If it is not usage based, time to sell out and move elsewhere before paying for BLM and invader welfare use.
Bankrupting, or forcing them to move is the goal, imo. The Federal or state gov’t could easily bail out the utilities for a fraction of the cost that they bailed out the banksters. You will own nothing and be happy.
At those prices, it may be cheaper just to go off-grid?
As part of their “Energiewende” (Energy Turnaround), the Germans shut down (or are in the process of shutting down) their nuclear and coal fired power plants. The idea was that they would replace these real energy sources with wind and solar. The problem was that these “green” energy sources are fictional, so to replace the German real energy sources, the Germans relied on the real energy sources of their neighboring countries. This of course cost the Germans more and destabilized the regional power grids.
Now to make matters worse the globalist Ruling Class has decided to sanction Russia. To be clear, the natural gas problem which Germany is suffering is not Russia’s fault. Russia did not sanction itself. The West, including Germany, imposed sanctions on Russia. By this point, Russia has decided that the Europeans are bad customers and are finding new good customers in the Global South and East. Anybody who has been in business has had bad customers, ones that are more trouble than they are worth, and had to “fire” them. That is what Russia is doing to Germany — firing a bad customer.
Hopefully the German people will learn two lessons critical to their survival as a relatively rich country. 1) Their Green Party should be avoided like the plague. 2) Having Germany be a NATO puppet is a bad idea.
time for a rethink about coal and nuclear for this year.
stringing up the “freezists” after a brief trial might be a good start.
Hanover, Germany will soon be followed by San Francisco, Los Angeles, Seattle, Portland and the entire state of New Jersey.
Buckle up folks, it’s going to be a rough ride.
Not if the voters have anything to say about it. s/
The Coming Bleak Midwinter in Germany
Pointman wrote an eloquent essay about his volunteer efforts tending to elderly who are freezing to death in their own homes because they can’t afford their inflated heating bills / energy costs that result from Britain / Europe putting all their eggs in the “renewables” basket.
So they leave their heat off or way down or get cut off for non-payment
https://thepointman.wordpress.com/2017/07/21/solaris-two/
A couple excerpts:
“I got the ones nobody else could get near, but eventually weaseled inside their defenses to get them out of bed, change the linen and introduce them to disposable diapers. Get some liquids down them, a regular infusion of some soup I’d bring along …
“Putting a straw in a Styrofoam cup of soup and clasping your hands around theirs because they’ve got some shakes …
“I learnt to spot the proud ones who’d never leave their house for some f#cking animal shelter pretending to be a care home …
“I – like them – saw who the real enemy was. They knew what they were doing in choosing their own place of death in their home …
Has Greta glared and stomped her foot yet?
not at me, but I keep a low profile
Thank You for that Re-Post of Pointman’s , Nim .
His First-Hand Account is Stunning and Terrifying .
It needs to be read by Everyone .
Happy Weekend , Nim 💐
Thx, Ryder, yes – I consider his account to be one of the best hits-home essays on the whole windmills and solar panels folly
Countries who adopt it can’t keep the lights on or deliver heating at affordable cost, such that seniors and others who can’t afford it die
I just do not know what they are worried about, we have global warming to take the pressure off. Maybe that little girl the climate freaks all adore could go give them a rousing speech in December, a lot of hot air.
What do you want to bet this winter in Germany is going to be especially cold indeed?
this winter in Germany is going to be especially cold
yeah – from global warming, right?
They Know the Pitchforks and Torches are Coming
[and they’re ready to blame “right-wing extremists”]
I reported last Friday on concerns raised by German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock about the possibility of civil unrest if there are fuel shortages in the coming winter.
Ms. Baerbock is not the only member of the German government who is worried about such eventualities. According to the report below, Interior Minister Nancy Faeser is warning potential insurrectionists that the security forces are prepared for them. And Stephan Kramer, the president of the Thuringian Office for the Protection of the Constitution, said “it will be exciting” when the emergency arrives.
Faeser: Don’t let right-wing extremists abuse it [she’s so ideologically retarded, can’t even read the numbers from the survey]
Faeser urgently warned against taking part in possible upcoming protests. In doing so, she established a connection between right-wing extremists and Corona critics.
She told the Handelsblatt: “Of course there is a risk that those who roared out their contempt for democracy during the Corona period and were often traveling alongside right-wing extremists will try to misuse the sharply rising prices as a new mobilization topic.” Faeser announced: “We are also prepared for possible new protests.”
It may be said that “circles that earlier shaped the Corona protests are looking for new topics with protest potential,” a ministry spokesman later claimed when asked by the TAZ [ a leftist daily propaganda rag that reminds me of the Völkischer Beobachter]. “Depending on the development of the energy supply situation and the social consequences of the cost increases, a development on a scale comparable to the Corona protests is possible,” said the Ministry of the Interior.
Nancy Faeser warns against protests
Popular uprisings? “We are prepared,” says the Interior Minister
In the event that there should be protests because of power failures and cold apartments, Federal Minister of the Interior Nancy Faeser (SPD) has now announced: “We are prepared.” The head of the Foreign Office, Annalena Baerbock (Greens), had spoken of the threat of “popular uprisings”. Faeser warns against taking part in such demonstrations.
The protest potential is particularly high among voters of the AfD (72 percent), Die Linke (60 percent) and the FDP (50 percent).
Afterword from the translator:
These governments are all the same; they’re the ones who wreck peoples’ lives and then use all the might of the state to suppress them.
They drive the car off the road into a wall, and then blame the owner of the wall for the crash.
I seriously hope that the whole evil bunch will get their Ceausescu moment in history.
secutrity forces are ready for them.
I would wonder if many families remember where grandpa hid the MG42
So imagine you are a mercenary protecting these warm and feed ‘representatives’ put in place via voter fraud by these mass murdering Davos types.
Meanwhile, your family is back at home freezing and starving to death; just like all the protestors in front of you.
At some point, these mercenaries have got to step back and let the righteous anger of the population fall upon these illegitimate stooges of Davos.
Maybe the SriLanka treatment.
For far too many years Germany was ambitious, expansionist and aggressive, and millions died. After 1945 Germany had to reinvent itself, and it worked out quite well.
Germany’s main political goal changed from “how can we win the next war” to “how can we keep peace” – especially in relation to The Soviet Union.
The Soviet Union crumbled peacefully, Germany was reunited, Eastern Europe liberated without a shot being fired.
You Americans seem to think, that Germany should have thought more about how to win the next war, and not so much about peace. As a cautious neigbour to Germany, I don’t agree. Germany took some bad decisions energy wise, but to buy cheap gas from Russia is not one of them. For Germany to build good relations and interdependence with Russia has been beneficial to Europe. Unfortunately over time EU and NATO has taken on a more and more ambitious, expansionist and aggressive stance as illustrated by todays shrill posturing by European leaders.
They say that Russia uses the gas to put political pressure on Europe. Maybe, but what do the Russians want to achieve? They want to keep Europe out of war, and they want to reestablish normal relations. That’s what every European should work for.
PS: If the Germans want more gas, they can just turn on the other pipeline Nordstream 2, Russia built it to be used.
I feel no pity for Germany. They have bought into the green nonsense since at least the 70s. Also, Germany cynically used NATO to lower their military expenditures, relying on the good old USA to foot the bill.
Trump called them out on their delinquency status. Even then, Germany didn’t want to give up those US bases and troops.
Now Germany is paying the price of allowing NATO to be so belligerent and expansionist.
You have to ask… why tf does the US have so many troops in Germany, and why was the DS so panicked when Trump wanted to halve that number? Because Germany doesn’t want to pay.
38k Troops in France, 38K troops in Germany, are you saying you really don’t know why?
After the last centuries performance, who on this planet trusts a unified Germany?
Exactly … we defeated the Nazis & Imperialists in 5 years & 2 Continents; occupied them; rebuilt them per American standards; and turned them into SUPER POWERS … with our tax dollars, our military bases and our military … now the Germans are doing their best to destroy themselves once again.
Great comment!
Economic interdependence is the best way to keep the peace. The worst way is competition for the same resources.
President Trump understood this well and used economics in his foreign policy.
Agree, but I don’t think this unnecessary conflict with Russia has anything to do with Ukraine.
That is the cover story, just like ‘climate’ change.
The real motive is to reduce energy consumption and the population of the planet.
“Unfortunately over time EU and NATO has taken on a more and more ambitious, expansionist and aggressive stance …”
You write as if Germany and NATO were two different things
Perhaps they all should have been listening to President Trump reciting the poem about the snake more carefully.
the snake is Biden and his puppet masters.
Yes, as a matter of security Germany needed the old coal and nukes longer, maybe an LNG terminal but Putin is not the fundamental problem other than RF’s existence.
All government policies sound good until it’s found they harm their citizenry.
Relying on Russia for LNG, a policy promoted by its then leaders and literally mocked publicly by POTUS Trump, was stupid.
Sooo stupid it makes you wonder what was in it for German leaders and their families?
There is more there, there.
Russia ships gas via pipeline to Germany, not LNG to Germany.
pipelines are an economical transportation vehicle….LNG is NOT…….it is a way to minimize the VOLUME needed to be transported by changing state from gaseous to liquid but it comes at increased costs of the liquefaction and transportation
It’s also a very dangerous way to do it as well. Hopefully, we never find out how dangerous.
For 20 years, Germany has voted for more and more pain.
Yet they will still vote for the status quo
As I scan today’s American polls, the Dems are improving their odds some – we have to be the stupidest nation on earth , watching the globalists Trail Blazers in Europe and saying “yeah, let’s vote for more of that”
Jesse Kelly is right – there just is no way to maintain a free society with women voting.
🙄 that’s just pathetic.
“There is no way to maintain a free society with ignorant voters”…there fixed it for ya!
That is a Biblical position I agree with too Bigly.
Again, the US election system and others are likely highly compromised. Hopefully, a Red wave can overcome the amount of fraud they are planning on come Nov 2022?
My concern about these ‘cover’ stories is that they could be preparing us for another stolen election in 2022.
Karma is often a wonderful thing to behold.
Doddering Joe will sell them the entire U.S. output of wood pellets at a discount so their german citizens can claim the subsidies given.
as europe mocks vlad he grins knowing full well they SCREWED THEMSELVES getting in bed with the tree huggers
Back in the 80 when I was staff at Langley – we had stereotypes – for most parts of the world. Oh, believe me, not politically correct at all – more like the John Bolton way of seeing in the world. Anyways, one comes to mind – the German’s would sell their own mothers into bondage for a buck. You had Hermet Kohl (is that right? the one time Chancellor) representing the Russian oil and gas industry for the last 20 years. He and Merkel sold their countrymen down the river for a buck. You think these Green movements don’t get special interest money? The only difference from the cold war ‘peace’ movement is they now get funding from self interested capitalists not the Soviets. What a pathetic situation the German’s are in -Trump told them the obvious – and they laughed in his face. No LNG terminals? No one is that stupid – that was somebody’s plan.
Helmet Kohl
“You think these Green movements don’t get special interest money? ”
Indeed. That’s ALL it is about. A looting operation
This is the end of the Gemütlichkeit.
At the behest of Shower King Joe Biden, the Germans have turned off their hot water. Der NippleFuhrer is pleased with your compliance, Reich citizens!
What is it about Germans and their showers?
“Der NippleFuhrer”
HAH!! Thanks for the first laugh of my day!
Bizarre, given 11 time zones of resources and the history of Slavic barbarism; oh, well. Germans are bright about some things and not so much about others.
As the cartoon shows European economies have been living off of Russia’s natural resources. President Putin recently said “We are no longer going to give it (energy) for free. Western corporations have abandoned all sorts of businesses in Russia. What they have left behind is a cadre of modern management and labor. Now the Russians will have the opportunity to parlay their resource revenues into ownership and development of these industries.
If people didn’t have social media to vent their frustration, perhaps we would already turn out en masse by the millions with pitchforks in hand…
We are a notable people for talking and doing less.
Perhaps you just explained the 60’s violence and assassination period I lived through. Indeed. There weren’t other outlets. Remember when D.C. burned after MLK was hit? Johnson calling the military to Detroit?
All we had was radio, three TV channels and the local rag. I threw it so I read it. Didn’t understand the nuances much though.
Last summer, mid to late July 2021, we added an air fryer/bake oven/rotisserie to our kitchen appliances. I often have something cooking in the air fryer and something heating up in the microwave. Example, meat in the air fryer, and whole potatoes and half ears of frozen corn in the micro at the same time.
This summer, all of a sudden, this same time dual use arrangement starts blowing the fuse. I never had one single problem last year, or all fall, spring or winter, but come summer and it’s a problem.
I don’t know if our electric company is throttling something or what is going on. I cleaned the heck out of the air fryer thinking that it might be overheating with residue food oil trapped inside and that does nothing to change the situation.
Any ideas?
Up the amperage rating of the breaker it’s on. Funny though, our air fryer and micro did the same thing because they’re on the same breaker. I took out the 15amp and replaced it with a 20amp. Hasn’t happened since.
Hope this helps TwoLaine
I sure hope you have the corresponding large conductors to support that larger power draw. If not, expect a fire.
One caution – if uprating the breaker, verify the wiring run/gauge to be within spec for the new amperage.
Otherwise, one runs the risk of over-amping the wire, causing a failure or wire fire.
My first solution, if narrowing the diagnostic to the breaker, would be replacing it with a new or new old stock of same amperage and observe the results. In the panel, it’s easy to see/gauge the wire sizes, then estimate the run, then consult the NEC (code).
Typically, in residential use, 15 amp 120 volt circuits will use 14 gauge wire and 20 amp 120 volt circuits will use 12 gauge wire. However, I have worked on homes, and lived in one, that the whole home was wired with 12 gauge for the 120 volt service but breakers varied between 15 and 20 depending on circuit.
Lastly, receptacles. 20 amp rated receptacles are different from those rated for 15 amps. All stuff to consider. Overall though, electrical stuff is pretty safe. One has to go pretty wrong to burn something up with it.
If in doubt, electricians are a worthwhile investment. Not cheap but they’ll do it right.
I have a similar microwave/fryer arrangement and split the load between two circuits in the kitchen. Not everyone has that option.
If it worked before and nothing has changed with the appliances, two items can help diagnose.
If you have an electricians volt ohm meter, that can check voltage. It’s possible the utility service has degraded. I had that happen when an old transformer lost its spec, even though the 12Kv was correct. The utility replaced the transformer and all was good.
You could be exceeding the circuit breaker capacity with the combined load. Easy to check. There’s a device called a kilawatt meter that is inexpensive and quite handy to have around the house. Plug it in, then plug the appliance into it and read the wattage.
Circuit breakers aren’t perfect. They get old and, often, the more they trip due to overloads, the more likely they are to degrade over time.
Also, if the panel is old, some panels have issues with breaker attachment to the supply, oxidation/corrosion of the bus bars, causing electrical resistance, heat and ultimately breaker trips or even fires. Zinsco was one brand that was known for such issues.
That’s a quick rundown from the village blacksmith who’s been doing industrial electrical stuff for a bit over 4 decades.
The more the breaker trips the weaker it gets. Replace the breaker.
good luck
Go Vlad !
Spielen Sie dumme Spiele, gewinnen Sie dumme Preise.
Can you imagine the catastrophe if Russia actually did shut off the gas?
The Europeans – and quite frankly the American people and their fraudulent government – deserve a good bi$ch slapping over their insane policy of starting a war over Ukraine.
if you havent seen this summary,they will get what you you say they have coming https://thesaker.is/europe-hypnotized-into-war-economy/
But, but, but the Russians are doomed! The AP says so!
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/why-hasn-t-russian-economy-090000719.html
I’ve been laughing at these Wizards of Smart for 20+ years now as they’ve lost 3 wars and put the US economy on the brink of total collapse FOUR TIMES in 22 years.
Never has a group of people been so ridiculously wrong on every level and yet here they are, still in charge instead of swinging from trees.
Ideological stupidity exploited by corrupt politicians and media = PAIN. I hope it hurts… BAD.
The USA using the cover of NATO started this war and is using the best proxy army it ever had,the Ukrainian military,trained to NATO standards since 2014.It is also running the show and doing the intelligence and the targeting and it is losing.The neo-cons were hoping to demolish the Russian Federation and bring back the good old days of Yeltsin .It would have been glorious to loot the place and extend the hegemon for a while longer.May all of the globalist/green crazies be tossed from power.And lets not let them go quietly into their sunset. There needs to be a reckoning.
I have a colleague in Baden-Baden, who I speak with regularly, he and his family have not taken the jab and sees things very much like we do on CTH. What we see is the state enemy MSM, many of the German citizens are not signed up for the apocalypse.
That being said many of the German people are lemmings headed off the cliff just like in the USA, how many, we’re going to find out soon.
You can bet your bottom dollar they are a captive of the Western Central Bank, the cheat system is in place.
a 12 minute video that explains ,has subtitles so its clear https://thesaker.is/we-havent-started-anything-serious-yet-europe-is-begging-for-natural-gas/
The green-tards that are running the E.U. into the ground deserve all the pain that Russia can cause them. Maybe then the people will wake up and run these fools out of office.
I read an article last week that I can’t find now about a company that is working on Thorium reactors. These reactors cause no pollution and cannot go China syndrome. Thorium reactors are basically molten salt. They can be used to generate heat which can be used to generate electricity, they also can use the spent nuclear fuel that nuclear reactors create solving the issue of what to do with nuclear waste. I don’t understand why the green aren’t pursuing this technology, not really, I know why.
Here is a short article on the pros and cons: https://vittana.org/16-big-thorium-reactor-pros-and-cons
Putin needs to just get it over with and completely shut all of Europe off
Just because you are a true believer of the WEF or Globalist elite, does not mean you will not starve or freeze or die of some horrible disease, which you have prescribed for “others”.
In fact, I suspect you will rightly never enjoy a peaceful moment once the peoples figure out who you are, where you are and what you have done. ?We are reaching that point already.
Who’s laughing now Fritz? By the way can I interest you in some cricket flour bread???
https://thesaker.is/europe-hypnotized-into-war-economy/ The supply lines that up to 2022 successfully linked Europe and Russia took decades of very hard work to develop. This now means that almost all of such over-abundant contracts necessarily have no effective substitute -Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has warned… “the approach has clearly failed — sanctions have backfired — and our car now has 4 four flat tires” …
The Russian Dictator.
Open borders, hyper-inflation, subsidizing solar and windmills built in China, Department of (In)justice targeting opposing views, FBI entirely a criminal organization.
Yet Putin is the Dictator.
Germany could open Nord Stream 2 with a single German signature.
Instead, “We are going to hold our collective breath, until you give in.”
That….is what starts Nuclear Wars.
President Trump was right. He was right just about everything. Russia owns Germany. But they at the time laughed at him, well Klaus who’s laughing now??? Russia & China, at our pathetic Leaders…
That turns out not to be true. Our enemies are ourselves and, oddly, Europe and GB. They want their colonies back. Always have. Russia and China, on the other hand, have seen the writing on the wall long enough to prepare for independence from the west. They’re done trying to work with us and are content to let us, the west, sink or swim.
Remember when the German delegation LAUGHED at Trump for telling them not to be reliant on natural gas from Russia? Let them freeze.
Before mocking them, consider that we’re next. Windmills and solar panels will never constitute a robust power grid.
Well, we could if you increased the currently deployed capacity by about 50x, added enough energy storage to alter the spin of the Earth, and tripled the size of the electrical grid using copper and other rare materials that don’t even exist in the quantities needed.
Oh, and I forgot one more little detail, used massive amounts of fossil energy to build all the above.
Will their lifetime “guests” from the Middle East and Africa be rioting over this, or will the German government be giving them free gas and electric to keep them quiet?
What will the real Germans be doing to stop this? Nothing?
Germany should just ABORT itself for all the damage they have done to the world over the past 200 years. Their prophet, KARL MARX, has destroyed Europe and Asia with communism. How STUPID can you be?
Germany also gave us Martin Luther, Albert Einstein, Werner von Braun, Johann Sebastian Bach, Ludwig van Beethoven, Johannes Brahms, Rudolf Diesel etc so Germany has done some good!
Germany Mennonites were persecuted by Luther. They moved to Ukraine and ended up in the Americas and brought red winter wheat.
You left out Hans Zimmer.
delve deeper and you will see Marx was also JEWISH…..the Jews beyond bringing us our Savior and providing some of the most intellectual, inventive people in history have also been the most divisive and destructive the world has seen….the American Jew is generally a Leftist FIRST….many are not even orthodox in their belief but carry more of a mantle of socialism than any other around with them
What does being Jewish have to with anything?
Exactly! Carl Marx was a racist and an anti-Semite!
I beg to differ…The ‘jews’ had nothing to do with bringing us Our Savior
King of the Jews. Root and offspring of David. Lion of the tribe of “JUDAH”
Brought to us by our Creator due to His covenant promises to:
Adam / Eve
Abraham
Noah
Moses and the Assembly at the foot of Mt. Sinai
David…..
Well, you most certainly differ. Just educate yourself.
All true, except that Marx was christened and a viral antiSemite!! Just read his texts! He denounced Jews as early as being in his teens!!!
They should abort itself if for nothing else their support of Angela Merkel.
Yes!
Trump is always right on these things
Reminds me of the saying; Life is hard, but it’s really hard when you’re stupid.
Actually, when you’re stupid, people give you a pass.
Right on the money!!
They must destroy to “build back better.”
Depopulation to prevent climate change has been openly discussed for decades.
They are “building back better” and giving us “the green new deal.”
Both involve depopulation, and they see this as the moral choice for the planet.
That’s how they think.
Truth…
Re: depopulation…..
I honestly wish these “Thought Leaders” would realize that THEY need to personally demonstrate their commitment to the salvation of the planet. We need THEM to show by example that self-removal will save the planet.
After they self-remove, WE will wait the alloted time to see if the planet is saved……..
Just a thought…
“just a thought”…. …and a very good one too!!!!