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Soaring gas prices in Western Europe due to mistaken reliance on wind farms, Russia on track for record exports in 2021 – Putin

RT | October 13, 2021 A surge in the cost of gas which has seen bills shoot up for households and industry is down to a shortfall in electricity generation, and not because Russia is somehow squeezing supplies, President Vladimir Putin has argued. Speaking as part of a keynote address at Russian Energy Week on […]

The Green Agenda or How This Energy Crisis is Different from All Others

 By F. William Engdahl – New Eastern Outlook – 11.10.2021  The price of energy from all sources conventional is exploding globally. Far from accidental, it is a well-orchestrated plan to collapse the industrial world economy that has already been weakened dramatically by almost two years of ridiculous covid quarantine and related measures. What we are […]

FULL OF GAS

By Paul Robinson | IRRUSSIANALITY | October 8, 2021 It’s 20 degrees here in Ottawa. For October, that’s something of a heatwave, and it’s meant to stay this way for a week or so, well into the middle of the month. Beyond that, the weather guys say that we’re in for a generally warm autumn. […]

Hungary’s Orban blames Brussels & its climate change policies for soaring EU gas prices

RT | October 8, 2021 The EU should withdraw its policies aimed at tackling climate change as they’re the reason for the record surge in energy prices on the continent in autumn, Viktor Orban, Hungarian Prime Minister, has said. Energy bills have been spiking for customers across Europe because of bad decisions made by “bureaucrats […]

Fully Vaccinated Countries Had Highest Number of New COVID Cases, Study Shows

By Megan Redshaw | The Defender | October 7, 2021 A study published Sept. 30, in the peer-reviewed European Journal of Epidemiology Vaccines found “no discernible relationship” between the percentage of population fully vaccinated and new COVID cases. In fact, the study found the most fully vaccinated nations had the highest number of new COVID cases, based on the […]

European lawmakers, who salivated over Facebook “whistleblower” hearing, plot censorship

By Didi Rankovic | Reclaim The Net | October 7, 2021 Facebook has not had a shortage of whistleblowers over the past years, but most have been ignored and sometimes vilified by mainstream media and the authorities; however, they now have a “star” one, Frances Haugen, who seems to finally be telling them exactly what they […]

Palestinian factions call for cancellation of Oslo and adoption of national agenda

MEMO | October 7, 2021 Five Palestinian factions called on Wednesday for the cancellation of the Oslo Accords and the adoption of a national agenda agreed upon by their secretaries general in September last year, Sama has reported. According to the news agency, the five factions are the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine, Islamic Jihad […]

By endorsing the IHRA definition of anti-Semitism, Europe stifles academic freedom

By Nasim Ahmed | MEMO | October 6, 2021 The European Commission is set to incorporate the controversial International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) definition of anti-Semitism as part of Europe’s strategy to combat anti-Jewish racism. Details of the Commission’s plan were outlined yesterday in a 26-page programme. The three central goals are to prevent anti-Semitism […]

With much of Europe facing a worsening squeeze on gas supplies, the West is already looking to blame Russia

By Rachel Lloyd | RT | October 6, 2021 With gas prices rising dramatically across much of Western Europe, and a dip in its transit through Belarus and Ukraine to the EU, many commentators have pointed the finger once again at Russia, as the source for all their woes. For some, this is evidence that President […]

There’s a wide range of factors causing massively increased gas prices in Europe, but Russia is not one of them: Kremlin

By Jonny Tickle | RT | October 6, 2021 Russia has nothing to do with the rapidly rising gas prices in Europe, and the country is providing as much as it possibly can to the rest of the continent, the Kremlin said on Wednesday, amid accusations that Moscow is to blame. Speaking to journalists on […]