Free West Media | May 10, 2022 BERLIN – A study by the German Hans Böckler Foundation has now calculated that the gross domestic product (GDP) could collapse by up to twelve percent within the first year if Russian gas supplies were to end immediately. It is the latest doomsday prediction for Germany’s industry. Industrial […]
Samizdat – May 10, 2022 Germany and Qatar have failed to reach an agreement regarding long-term liquefied natural gas (LNG) supply contracts, Reuters reported on Tuesday, citing people close to the talks. According to the outlet, Berlin will not agree to Qatar’s demand to sign deals for a duration of at least 20 years. Despite […]
Samizdat | May 9, 2022 The world is about to face an acute food crisis due to skyrocketing food prices, German Economic Cooperation and Development Minister Svenja Schulze told the Bild newspaper on Saturday, warning about a looming famine not seen since World War II. The minister has named the Covid-19 pandemic and Russia’s ongoing […]
Samizdat – 09.05.2022 Sri Lanka has been rocked by mass protests for weeks, with people outraged over the government’s policies amid the country’s worst economic crisis in decades. Sri Lanka’s Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa has resigned, his spokesman Rohan Weliwita said. The 76-year-old prime minister sent his letter of resignation to his younger brother, President […]
By Francis Menton | Manhattan Contrarian | May 6, 2022 My previous post on Tuesday contained some highlights from the May 3 public hearing of New York’s Climate Action Council. The CAC is the body that is charged with devising a “Scoping Plan” to inform all us New Yorkers how we will achieve “zero carbon” electricity […]
Vanessa Nakate By Vijay Jayaraj | RealClear Energy | April 28, 2022 Climate activists’ ill-founded opposition to fossil fuels threatens to stop a major pipeline project in East Africa and stymie economic growth in Uganda and Tanzania — home to some of the world’s poorest people. Uganda is betting big on its fossil fuel reserves. In […]
By Richard W. Fulmer | Master Resource | May 5, 2022 “World will ‘run out of food’ in 27 years, according to chilling doomsday prediction,” reads the headline in the Daily Star (UK). The article’s subtitle: EXCLUSIVE: Scientists have issued a terrifying warning and have said the world could be left starving without any food in just over two decades, […]
By Tyler Durden | Zero Hedge | MAY 7, 2022 Life expectancy has taken a rare hit in the European Union during the Covid-19 pandemic. As Statista’s Martin Armstrong shows in the infographic below (using Eurostat data), despite a blip in 2015, life expectancy in the EU had been growing every year since at least 2003. In 2020, however, the […]
By Chris Morrison | The Daily Sceptic | May 5, 2022 It was never going to work. Telling African countries to stop developing their economies by banning cheap, reliable fossil fuel is little more than an eco-imperialist dream. Writing in Monday’s Daily Telegraph, Uganda President Yoweri Museveni lauded the discovery of oil in Lake Albert, but noted […]
By Keean Bexte | The Counter Signal | April 29, 2022 Nicole Schwab, the daughter of World Economic Forum founder Klaus Schwab and current WEF Co-Director of the Platform to Accelerate Nature-Based Solutions, wants governments to take advantage of COVID infrastructure and policies to fight climate change. “Clearly, the system… is not sustainable,” began Nicole Schwab, speaking […]
