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German Officials Warn Of Draconian Energy Regulations, “Extremists” Fueling “Mass Protests And Riots”
As queries for “firewood” have exploded on Google in Germany, and Deutsche Bank predicting that “wood will be used for heating purposes where possible,” German officials are now warning of extreme energy rationing measures, along with the potential for “extremists” to fuel national unrest over the deteriorating situation.
For starters, German Economy Minister and Vice Chancellor Robert Habeck – who previously called on residents to cut back on heating, visits to the sauna, and showers – announced on Friday that public buildings across the country won’t be allowed to set heating above 19 degrees Celsius (66.2F) this fall. Exceptions will be made for hospitals and ‘social facilities.’
In an interview with Suddeutsche Zeitung, one of the country’s largest daily newspapers, Habeck said that the new regulations would be part of the Energy Security Act – adding to previously announced bans on heating private pools.
In addition, buildings and monuments will not longer be lit at night, and there will be curbs on illuminated advertising – while “more savings are also needed in the work environment,” he added.
Habeck’s announcement comes just days after the head of Germany’s grid regulator, Klaus Mueller, said that German families would need to cut 20% of their normal energy consumption in order to avoid gas shortages by December.
“If we don’t save a lot and get extra fuel, we will have a problem,” he told Welt am Sonntag in an interview last week.
The situation has been brewing, as the bloc’s reliance on Russian energy comes into conflict with sanctions over Russia’s war in Ukraine – causing prices to skyrocket amid a decrease in Russian natural gas supplies to Europe.
Meanwhile, German officials are preparing for civil unrest.
In an interview with ZDF, Stephan Kramer – who heads the domestic intelligence service in the German state of Thuringia – warned that ‘legitimate’ protests over the energy crisis could be ‘hijacked by extremists’ (and definitely not just enraged average citizens).
Kramer said that officials were bracing for protests over “gas shortages, energy problems, supply difficulties, possible recession, unemployment, but also the growing poverty right up to the middle class,” adding that “extremists” which include “lateral thinkers” who rallied against pandemic lockdowns, and ‘right-wing activists’ who have been stirring the post over social media, could be at the heart of them.
“We’re likely to be confronted with mass protests and riots,” he continued. “We’re dealing with a highly emotionalized, aggressive, future-pessimistic mood in society, whose trust in the state, its institutions and political actors is fraught with massive doubts.”
“This highly emotional and explosive mood could easily escalate,” the security chief continued, adding that the Covid-19 clashes would “probably feel more like a children’s birthday party” by comparison.
Kramer offers a warning to would-be participants: “think carefully about which protests and demonstrations you join, or better stay away from them altogether, so as not to support the enemies of democracy.”
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“…not to support the enemies of democracy.”
– Stephan Kramer
So rich in irony.
Putin be like “bwahahahahaha”.
I think I understand why HSF respects you. It took me a long time. Self made men should always be respected. I hardly ever agree with your philosophy, but so what? Nobody else cares about my opinions either, but you accomplished something.
Thanks.
Electricity prices in Germany have gone up 10-fold.
What would YOU do if that happened here? Could you still pay it?
I’d make my own.
We haven’t paid for electricity in 5 years. Solar panels on roof produce more than we use in 9 months out of the year to make up for 3 months of air conditioning, when we use more. But we keep temp at 80 in the summer and 58 in the winter.
all those goat humpers and Kneegrows are they imported are not going to like 58F in the winter.
Svarga- We have conditioned ourselves to live in 60 degrees in the wintertime, knowing they plan to limit our energy usage. The result is I can’t stand to be in a house with the heat on 70-72 degrees anymore. When you get used to it, it seems normal, so the Germans will adapt and overcome.
When we get the annual usage report for our house, we are in the lowest 5% of usage every time.
How does protesting unnecessarily freezing your ass off have anything to do with “support” for the “enemies of democracy?”
Rhetorical question…
I never thought I’d live to see the shit we’re seeing today, but here we are.
Heck, it’s just getting started. Mad men in charge of dangerous government agencies. A profoundly stupid and dishonest shithead in the White House. All out war starting right across the street from El Paso and San Diego with the possibility of Mexico becoming a failed state like Afghanistan. Europe swirling the shitter while pols like this German fool/kleptocrat thinks Ukraine is somehow a democracy as opposed to it being a Zio-Nazi dictatorship AND wants his people to suffer on its behalf! Yessir, we haven’t seen anything yet.
“…so as not to support the enemies of DEMOCRACY!!!”
You know, democracy, like where a minority of bureaucrats set the rules and the majority get to fall in line, or ELSE!
Martin Armstrong says his Socrates program predicts something big coming next month or so.
Get popcorn and homebrew ready and chamber one in the house gun, we may be in for the “long winter of death” what’s his name mentioned, but it won’t be the fauciflu.
Meanwhile, in Hungary….
Gazprom has increased gas supply to Hungary, says official
Gazprom has ramped up flows to Hungary through the TurkStream pipeline that transports gas via Bulgaria and Serbia, a Hungarian foreign ministry official has said.
The Russian state-owned company started delivering more gas than it was contractually obliged to on Friday, Tamás Menczer, an official in Hungary’s ministry of foreign affairs and trade, wrote in a Facebook post on Saturday…
Hungary, which is about 85% dependent on Russian gas, has consistently opposed the idea of any EU sanctions on Russian gas imports, and Orbán, the prime minister, has also lobbied hard to secure an exemption from EU sanctions on Russian crude oil imports.
It is the only EU member state to have categorically ruled out acting on a plan to cut gas consumption by 15% from August this year until March 2023.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/aug/14/gazprom-increase-gas-supply-hungary-turkstream-pipeline
“exemption from EU sanctions”. What. The. Fuck. I mean what is the EU going to do, really? Take their birthday away?
Gimme a break.
This is all so transparently planned to wipe out 50-75% of Europe.
Planned to spark unrest, uprising, rebellion, & revolution to justify totalitarian crackdown you mean.
Just like nearly every other action taken by all western governments for the last two and a half years.
“We’re dealing with a highly emotionalized, aggressive, future-pessimistic mood in society, whose trust in the state, its institutions and political actors is fraught with massive doubts.”
One might ask why people have lost trust in the state, its institutions and politicians?
IMO, it is a well founded distrust.
And it’s part of the cycle.
It’s part of a plan.
Of course it is a well founded distrust. But I know that you know that.
One might ask, but then you have to face the reality that our pols have made deals with the devil and we keep funding the grift… The whole uniparty idea is contrary to the facade that has been built for the last xx years and most won’t acknowledge that we are the fools until it is too late. Glad to be your neighbor, Brother!
I’m in W TN, you?
I get visions of every dystopian movie when I see the future. Dark, dreary and dirty city streets..masses of homeless, no streetlights, rampant cutthroats and tent cities
.. people huddled around trashcan fires for warmth, closer every day.
And fully orchestrated by those in their ivory towers eating exotic foods, ultra-modern appliances, warmth to spare, hand massaged beef while the dirt people dig in dumpsters and eat rat-kabobs or bugs.
San Francisco?
I saw that movie, it’s Soylent Green.
Will halbeck, kramer and their kind be partaking in the new, diminished life style? SERIOUSLY doubt it.
The “people” have to take what they have. “They” don’t get to live well while others suffer as a result of their actions and policies.
Redefine the phrase “living well” and your problem is solved. All it takes is courage. Well…that and actual skills.
“lateral thinkers”
Oh shoot, how did they find me?
I didn’t know what that meant before someone congratulated me for it. I find it hard to think about.
I thought they were describing being left handed and right brained.
lateral thinking?
It’s just new age jargon for being left handed and right brained.
It’s sad to see a once strong and proud nation become beggars. It seems they are reliving the 1920’s again complete with sodomites and socialists. It is almost certain the the EU was created to be the noose that hung Germany.
fUSA isn’t far behind now that they’ve barred coal production on federal land. The number I saw was 50% reduction in the fuel for 30% of US electricity. Add in the new tax coming on Nat Gas for Climate Change and we’ll be there next year. fUSA wasn’t even participating and was the only country to meet Paris Protocol requirements because of Nat Gas.
Is this the same Kramer who was on Seinfeld?
That explains it.
Oh, the beatings need to get started in earnest.
Even if an unpopular view around here, my opinion is:
Peaceful protests in Germany will turn the tide to remove the current government, initiate criminal prosecution and throw sand into the workings of the new world order. It may not stay peaceful to the end, but it will be the beginning of the end.
You guys do not understand the impact and the magnitude of the protests in 2021 there. Critical mass has been reached.
Mark my words.
Like in Canada?
It’s not over. Not anywhere.
Well, you got that part right.
I agree completely that it is not over. The Germans will find their balls again.
Canadians just need to start burning the place down and massive work stoppage.
Actually, this is probably the plan. I’m German, the insanity is off the charts. They fuel the rage. Not in the article, the new additional public broadcasting scandal. So the same people who tell us to freeze for peace, are presented as stuffing their own pockets, because the privileges are not enough. For years, old institutions have been dismantled. Politics, media, the rona spoiled medicine. A moment in history like ’89 is created, worldwide. People will fall for it. Will think they stopped the evil NWO, and get the real NWO.
Freeze for peace 2022.
Freeze for war 1944.
The operative word seems to be freeze.
Germany…and the world…are in need of new leadership.
“In addition, buildings and monuments will not longer be lit at night, and there will be curbs on illuminated advertising ”
Gosh!
i CERTAINLY hope that won’t limit the incessant multimedia bleating promoting bitcoin and its ilk.
Is much electricity used in mining the get rich quick…Sorry!…Investment.? In china.
Actually, Auntie has a cunning plan to help the morale and situation of the great German people; play the right music!
France also has plenty of forest fires everywhere.
https://inews.co.uk/news/world/france-fires-map-where-wildfires-south-french-riviera-st-tropez-today-latest-1154882
Using fire as a weapon is nothing new. It is one of the ways the Romans broke down the walls of Jerusalem.
Do stupid things, suffer the consequences.
Sure enjoy my wood heat in the winter. House is usually in the upper 70’s thanks to Osage Orange. Grows fast and abundantly in the midwest.
That will be great until everyone else needs wood. Hedge gets cut out faster than it gets planted.
(((They))) have the same hatred for the Russians … and, well, just about everyone else …