Authored by Charles Kennedy via OilPrice.com,
Russian Gazprom has officially halted gas supplies to Europe via the Nord Stream 1 pipeline, cutting off flows completely to Germany for a period of maintenance that began at 01:00 GMT Wednesday and is scheduled to end at 01:00 GMT on Saturday.
Fears are mounting across the European Union that Russia will delay flows beyond September 3rd as the Kremlin continues to use natural gas as a weapon against Western sanctions – an allegation Moscow has repeatedly denied.
Gazprom has said the cutoff would be temporary, as planned, noting that the pipeline would restart after three days “provided that no malfunctions are identified”, as reported by the New York Times.
Once flows are restored in three days, according to Gazprom, it will be 20% of the pipeline’s capacity – the same level of capacity since flows were restored following July’s maintenance.
This is the second time in as many months that Gazprom has halted supplies on the Nord Stream 1 pipeline. In July, flows were halted for maintenance for a period of 10 days, but capacity was limited, with Gazprom claiming paperwork delays for a turbine held up by sanctions in Canada, and Europe claiming Moscow was using this move in a game of leverage.
Europe has been scrambling to fill its gas storage ahead of the winter months and is now on track to achieve its goals two months ahead of schedule.
Inventory data from Gas Infrastructure Europe on Sunday showed that the European Union had filled its winter reserves to 79.94%, while it is targeting 80% by the first of November, according to Business Insider.
The European Union is closer to potentially intervening in the bloc’s electricity market as energy prices soar ahead of what would be a difficult winter for EU consumers and businesses.
Earlier this week, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said the bloc was working out an emergency plan for intervening in energy markets, saying that soaring electricity prices were “exposing, for different reasons, the limitations of our current electricity market design”.
“We need a new market model for electricity that really functions and brings us back into balance,” the EC president said.
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When will the people of Europe rise up against their real enemies, their own leaders.
When they’re freezing and starving in the dark this winter.
By the looks of things before the people of N America stand up against their leaders warring against the Peoples…
After we see how much fun they are having we’ll jump in.
Not sure thats gonna work… our truckers had hot tubs, bouncy castles and BBQ’s and most stood by and didn’t join in…
I heard several simpletons complain that “The truckers are causing shortages because of the convoy”.
We live in a sea of stupid people who would rather accept what the magic box says than think. It is pretty fucking hopeless. I am not only expecting societal collapse, I am eagerly waiting for it. Seeing these roaches die from cholera, dysentery, etc. because the water system is down and they have no clue about the dangers of dirty water is going to be mega-Schadenfreude.
Maybe at the end of all this we will be thanking TPTB for cleaning the gene pool. Not likely, but maybe.
So completely true…
and I can’t stop laughing whenever I see ur non anon name… makes me get all emotional… lol…
That is the problem with democracies. Democracies are mob rule of the people, and the people are retarded…..
“Democracies are mob rule of the people, and the people are retarded…..”
– Jdog
Felicitations, Jdog, on providing a most concise lesson in civics/ political science that would make Fr. Guido Sarducci proud.
Auntie salutes you.
it hurt to upvote you brian but i had to–
If Olaf Scholz said something mildly transphobic he’d be out on his ear.
When AmeriKans stop licking the Jackboots. jmho
Yawn.
The Germans put a noose around their neck when they universally adopted the “green” mantra. Russia is now slowly tightening the noose and the actions of the Germans are daring them to tighten it even more. It is almost amusing how the German government has done everything in their power to let Russia control them and they continue to demonize them. Putin is sitting in his dacha smiling at how easy it is to take Europe to its knees.
Let’s see how they feel after a cold dark winter. Green, maybe not so much. We should probably be paying attention, where next. But hey, the EV business is doing great.
When I heard about this Nordstream One shutdown on NPR yesterday, they said that Germany claimed to be on track to fill its gas storage facilities before winter and that their reliance on Russian “energy” had fallen to about 10% of their total needs. I don’t believe either of those assertions. I think Norway has diverted some of its gas production to Germany, and of course Germany has been re-starting its lignite (dirtiest coal) electricity generation, but overall they’re probably bullshitting. And it was NPR, aka US state-affiliated media.
Even if the rest of Europe has been successfully brow-beaten into favoring Germany and its industries, moving energy around doesn’t solve the problem. Witness the Irish coffee shop owner who got an electricity bill of 9,800+ Euros for 73 days’ power.
I’m sure you saw the post where Georges had to travel from Frankenstan to Luxemburg just to get heating oil & coal and the suppliers were running short there, as well. France had a robust nuclear electrical generating system, but decided it best to shut it down because it was not “green” enough.
Euroland, as a whole has shut down their successful energy streams to become dependent on Russia and seem to be surprised that Russia is striking back after being slapped in the face by them.
Will the people ever wake up and realize it is their own governments who are doing this to them, rather than Putin?
Short answer. No.
You are right. This dumb broad still has the Ukie flag in her bio
China has been acting as a middleman to send Russian gas to EU also. Perhaps the reserves are topped off, but they are only for surge demand, the normal supply is what keeps the EU from freezing to death.
Karma, bwahahahahha
It sounds like quite a bit of oil is being transshipped from Russia through India, Saudi Arabia and other countries to get around sanctions. All that does is raise the price for the US consumer and does nothing to hurt Russia.
Foot, meet bullet.
Of course- oil is fungible just like money. The leaders- the real ones- aren’t stupid, just incredibly evil.
Covid wasn’t enough to kill off the middle class and small independent businesses so now $10,000 Euro power bills. That should do the trick. Only businesses controlled by Blackrock, Vanguard and State Street will be allowed.
“they said that Germany claimed to be on track to fill its gas storage facilities before winter and that their reliance on Russian “energy” had fallen to about 10% of their total needs.”
You’re right not to believe any of that. The gas storage is filled when there is reduced gas demand to ensure that storage plus flow is sufficient to get the country through winter. Storage, even if full, won’t do it if the pipelines are operating at today’s reduced capacity. LNG facilities don’t exist to replace Russian gas, oil and coal aren’t like for like substitutes.
I will say it again,nato should have let Russia join em when they asked years back,they met all the criteria and while trust would have taken time for all involved by now the US would be out of nato/Europe strong/great markets across the continent and a final end to the cold war.
We would have had to find a different Official Evil Opponent and China didn’t fit the bill back then.
China made some very wise and long term “investments” in the District of Corruption that are still paying dividends.
tenn,
never forget that the chicoms made investments in little rock,ar & i would not be surprised if they hadn’t also made them in other state capitols–
With their long term strategic thinking, I would be surprised if they did not have friends in every state capitol, large city government and every S&P company.
Their long game takes control of the field while everyone else is running around with buckets of kerosene trying to put out flaming heads. The chinese most certainly do have bought and paid for traitors, in as many countries as they can buy. Unrestricted warfare… and they are setting the field in their favour before anything goes kinetic…
It’s not China that is the biggest threat- it’s the guys with the little hats. China is just their helper.
No, No, No – that’s not the game they are playing at all.
There will be several maintenance problems with Russian pipelines this winter. I predict that those problems will happen when there are serious cold spells.
Earlier post that is probably more relevant here in this article.
I was missing the point until late last year that all this death is in reality monetary policy. The USD $17.66 trillion printed up by Trump and Mnunchin from Sep 2019 through Jun 2020 via REPO would have triggered hyperinflation and total economic collapse of the world so the virus was released to justify the lock downs and crush immediate consumer demand. This way the demand destruction would immediately offset the hyperinflation while that USD $17.66 trillion floated around in the system buying up tech stocks, bitcoin, NFTs (to launder the profits), art, high end real estate etc.
But not all of that free USD $17.66 trillion found its way back to the US Treasury and that was expected so they needed a device to kill off intermediate consumer demand to combat the hyperinflation over the following 3 to 5 years so that is why we got the killer vaxx. And because the western world is where the great majority of consumer demand is the killer vaxx was pushed hard in the western world. China went along as they had no choice because when the host dies (USA) so too does the parasite. Africa has little consumer demand so that is why their vaccination rates are so low – they are economically immaterial to global monetary policy.
However the killer vaxx didn’t work on humans as quickly as it did on ferrets so TPTB are in a quandary – the window of blame has closed and all these deaths can’t be explained by SARS-CoV-2 infections. And with all these extra people still alive some other intermediate demand destroying mechanism is required so we now have the war in Ukraine and purposely idiotic government policy to drive up energy prices to the point not one factory outside of China (powered by coal of course) still makes anything. That is the whole facade behind the so called Green New Deal – it is in reality a tool of monetary policy masquerading as ethics to quash consumer demand and reduce the hyperinflation. So the demand destruction will come about by both vaxx deaths and high energy costs. And remember, high energy costs are regularly used as a monetary policy tool as I’m sure most of you remember the high energy costs orchestrated in the 1974 Arab-Israeli war to drive up oil prices and increase the demand for the new fiat US Dollars where the increased demand for fiat kept the new totally fake currency from collapsing. Thus with energy shut off to northern Europe in winter the coming wave of vaxx deaths can now be blamed on Russia as well as everything else.
When one contemplates the situation through their filters of ethics and empathy, the true situation will remain clouded. Sometimes it really s about controlling the world.
Hold tight – it’s gonna be a bumpy ride.
Very interesting and plausible theory, Ice. I’ve read similar theories before regarding the Sept 2019 REPO angle and they make a lot of sense.
The sequence and condensed timing of events is what has me convinced that the Sep 2019 liquidity freeze was the singularity event. To summarize –
1) Sep 17th 2019 short-term credit freezes up in REPO market.
2) Sep 19th 2019 Trump signs EO 13887 Modernizing Influenza Vaccines in the United States To Promote National Security and Public Health.
3) Sep 2019 Trump / Mnunchin begin injecting USD $17.66 trillion into REPO market. Liquidity injections run from Sep 2019 through Jun 2020.
4) October 18th 2019 World Military Games open in Wuhan China where there is a BSL 4 (cover) and US team stays in hotel 1 block from wet market epicenter.
5) On same day Oct 18th 2019 that World Military Games begin, Event 201 is held to simulates an outbreak of a novel zoonotic coronavirus transmitted from bats to pigs to people that eventually becomes efficiently transmissible from person to person, leading to a severe pandemic (taken directly from this event’s website).
6) Dec 31st, 2019 WHO declares SARS-CoV-2 emergency without being in possession of an isolated virus.
7) May 15th 2020 Operation Warp Speed declared as per EO 13887 guidelines and lands on mRNA solution despite 15 years of plentiful animal research showing mRNA injections kill the recipients.
There is also no coincidence in the Gregorian math:
1353 – Black Death ended
2019 – SARS-CoV-2 declared as “begun”
2019 – 1353 = 666
It has Lucifer’s blessing in the numbers. The pandemic isn’t the coronavirus, it’s the US Dollar fiat currency that demanded the vaccines to kill off consumer demand.
Trump isn’t that smart. Also there are multiple samples of blood from 2018 mostly in Asia and West Africa that contain antibodies to the 2019-2020 strains of Covid.
The Ethical Skeptic has a pretty thorough (and evolving) theory of a proto-Covid (perhaps a proto-omicron) that swept through (perhaps was released in) Asia making for a bad 2018 “flu” season and conferring a high degree of immunity to the 2020 variants. Even if you believe that China was super good at lockdowns (they are strangely attached to lockdowns even now), other countries in Asia were largely unaffected by Covid in 2020.
It’s not about Trump being smart or not that smart, it’s about Trump being told what to do and say by the owners of the UNITED STATES of AMERICA corporation.
Had heard about this SE Asian immunity wave – could have been prerun like how 25% of Ukrainian PoWs are turning up positive for exposure to West Nile virus. TPTB have big plans though for the likes of Indonesia (will become the new China in 20 years) and thus they needed the warm bodies to fill the coming factories.
But then that which does not kill us can only make us stronger. Too bad it can’t make us smarter.
We’ve been building it, COVID19 since 2015. WTF did nobody read the damn article?
https://www.the-scientist.com/news-opinion/lab-made-coronavirus-triggers-debate-34502
Paywalled.
Still going with this, loser? You’re making a complete fool of yourself.
Your glowing.
Mine?
A little confused by your use of “your”.
Keep telling yourself that.
Have you not grasped that you brought this on yourself yet?
Get a life, loser.
You’re glowing brighter.
Your impotent rage is amusing. How annoying it must be for you that all you can do is display your anger in four or five word outbursts that vary only by a word or two. Probably worse that they kind of suck as insults, having no depth, finesse or impact.
Does it at least make you feel better?
KJ – “Fuck you loser” (to save you the trouble)
Just curious, is this a college assignment of yours? Go on to a right-wing website and stir it up with the yokels? Prove how racist the trailer trash is?
Either way, you’re welcome to participate and provide insight. There’s no need for name calling here.
Iska Waran wrote:
“…Trump isn’t that smart…”
Watch video of him speaking in the mid to late 80s.
Yes. He is. This ham-handed teleprompter reading goofy manner of speaking he uses today, is a meticulously crafted affect.
Everything about the guy is unique. There’s never been anyone quite like him. He’s made himself easy to dismiss, but look where that’s gotten his enemies.
He’s made himself into a caricature, of himself. And that’s no accident.
Never underestimate the fella.
He’s actually a very big deal.
i went online & read the article that iska posted above–it is LONG but it makes a pretty good case that the chicoms allowed the virus to escape the lab years b4 it was known about by the west & was definitely covered up by the chicoms–
maybe some of you scientifical types can tear into it–
Virus was cover for administering the mRNA poison. The vaxx is the real killer.
The chimera really isn’t that dangerous, just very infectious. If they really wanted to kill people with a virus they would have invented an HIV/Hendra chimera or some new form of rabies (but that rabies chimera would be just too I Am Legend).
I agree Ice – these asswipes aren’t stupid. Unless there was a 100% vaccine that they had, and obviously held to themselves, then they are in no way going to develope a virus or any biological weapon thats deadly to humans… period.
There’d be no way to control it or its mutations. Those buying it would be just as much in danger of catching and dying of the bioweapon as anybody else would be. The safest way is exactly what they have done, make it more infectious, crank up the propaganda and fear to 20 and introduce the real weapon labeled for your health and safety… for your ‘safety’, where have we heard that before….
Exactly…
You have an interesting angle, I will think about it
There are no infectious viruses. All fake. If you don’t wake up to that hoax they will torment you with variants until the end of time.
ICE – Back in ’74, I thought it was quite coincidental that we ran into a worldwide oil shortage just as the war in Vietnam came to a close. We had to have been burning a whole lot of fuel keeping Vietnam “safe for democracy” and if that fuel hit the market, it would have depressed prices on the worldwide market.
One of my old friends told me about talking to a trucker who was loading fuel in LA and dumping it in the desert. It was the same as now, a man-made fuel shortage.
That sounds like loading contaminated fuel and dumping it in the desert. They used to dump a lot of nasty stuff out in the Antelope Valley and Mojave Deserts back in the 1970s.
That would have made some difference but the big problem for the Fed was they switched to pure fiat back in Aug ’71 without a big foreign demand increase for US dollars. Closing the gold window didn’t stimulate the demand for US Treasuries they thought would follow so they cut a deal with Aramco to only sell oil in US fiat in exchange for the foreign equity and engineered the scripted 1973 Arab-Israeli War. That drove up the price of oil and sent demand for the US fiat exploding and kept the fiat from collapsing.
I addressed this in The Evolution of Fiat Money, Endless War, and the End of Citizenship some time back.
Covid-19 is just the next two orders of magnitude monetary policy.
Ice,
I’ll put this up here as well as after your comment on ‘It Will Happen Suddenly’.
ALERT! End Game is Here as Fed Tests Bank Reboot Strategy…Reverse the Reverse Repos!! (Bix Weir)
384 views Aug 31, 2022 The Fed just announced they will test the Repo Operations today…WHAT? WHY?! Didn’t they just add $2.2 Trillion in Reverse Repos in the last 18 months (taking cash out of the banks)! Something BIG is coming and they are preparing for Closing the massive Reverse Repo window thus flooding the banks with $22T in cash (10X due to factionalization) AND THEN, because that won’t be enough, opening the Repo window to inject MORE CASH into the banks to plug holes and buy real assets on the CHEAP!!
HOW MANY SHELL GAMES WILL THEY PLAY BEFORE IT’S ALL OVER?!
Some of what is in this interview tie in as well:
Could this be why the Pope ordered all Vatican funds transferred into the Vatican bank? October suprise on the horizon?
Shoot, Shot, Shit buddy the current Pope/Serpent hisses when he talks. That is more than possible…and maybe even probable.
There is no way they are going to let this election go forward without a massive FF(s).
I took out my last major cash stash from my recently merged even bigger Bank (BBT now Truist). Been slipping it out for years, converting it to prep, hard assets, and leaving some cash in our hands.
Batting down the hatches in many ways.
I’m warning/begging some family members to have some cash at home if a Liquidity Crisis – AKA a Credit Freeze hits…at least a home cash stash will work for a while.
Ole self-made billionaire Bill Bonner is back on You Tube Ads hawking his anti-CREDIT FREEZE tactics for the low, low, price of just $49!
The Controlled Demolition is coming…it’s only the when that is in doubt:
No shit sherlock!
But the plan pre-dates Sept. 2019. All major countries have been working together for many years.
Case in point is the fake space programs they hall proport to have. Fake as all get out. Only people mesmerized by their TV’s could believe that shit. Wake the F up!
“Europe has been scrambling to fill its gas storage ahead of the winter months and is now on track to achieve its goals two months ahead of schedule.”
Sounds like the disaster has been averted, no?
There have been some previous disputes of the gas storage actuals and targets, at least for Germany. Maybe typical accounting sleight of hand masking very dire situation… Maybe truth… Who knows. Check discussion from mid Aug, below.
https://theduran.locals.com/post/2638533/germany-85-gas-shortfall-five-more-turbines-stuck-in-canada-sanna-being-pm-is-hard-update-1
Reading the brilliant statements of what passes for leadership in Euroland, my guess is they are pretty much screwed. Buy those electric cars. We will issue permits as to when and whether you will be allowed to charge them.
I saw an estimate that at the projected electricity rates for this winter in Europe, it will cost $100 to charge a car. The stupid, it burns and burns!
“We need a new market model for electricity that really functions and brings us back into balance,” the EC president said.
Problem, reaction, solution, and the solution they offer is never good.
You vill live in ze pod. You vill eat ze bugs.
the wind in europe is blowing from the east. this winter, western europeans will learn whether Russian gas, or American words, will keep them warm.
It won’t affect Americans though….wrong! Dementia and his handlers will come to the rescue and save Europe, all at our expense. I expect energy prices to continue to skyrocket. Supposed to be in the 40s overnight at the end of the week. I may start a small fire to “get the chill out”, probably cost an arm and a leg for the average NG customer, but our wood is FREEEE.
Blackouts threaten Germany as the proliferation of heat pumps and e-vehicles drives power demand to new heights
Here’s a disturbing report out of Starnberg, a wealthy suburban town south of Munich, where years of sustainability woo coupled with recently rising gas costs have induced an unfathomable demand for heat pumps. As the energy crisis looms and people fight to avoid high heating bills, these are subject to almost year-long back-orders.
There’s only one problem:
We’re looking at nothing less than the total failure of green energy policies.
https://www.eugyppius.com/p/blackouts-threaten-germany-as-the?triedSigningIn=true
Why don’t they just call it what it is ” The New Blue Deal”? That’s what color they will be come spring.