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Suspects Identified

02 Sunday Oct 2022

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We all knew this, but it’s good to repeat.

The massive pipelines, designed to deliver up to 110 billion cubic meters of natural gas from Russia to Germany across the Baltic Sea every year were sabotaged on Monday. Russian President Vladimir Putin accused the “Anglo-Saxons” of targeting the Russian pipelines to deliberately destroy Europe’s energy infrastructure.

The United States and Britain are the primary suspects in the sabotage attacks against Nord Stream 1 and 2 based on a cost-benefit analysis, former Trump Pentagon advisor Douglas Macgregor believes.

“Let’s use the process of elimination. Would the Russians destroy their own pipeline? 40 percent of Russian gross national product or gross domestic product consists of foreign currency that comes into the country to purchase natural gas, oil, coal and so forth. So the Russians did not do this. The notion that they did I think is absurd,” Macgregor said, speaking to syndicated columnist Judge Napolitano on the Judging Freedom podcast.

Russia now says NS 1 and 2 are salvageable; whether they will bother to repair the damage and invite another attack is another question. It also remains to be seen just how evil and stupid the neocons really are. My guess is very. Don’t play along, Men of the West.

The Piper Demands Rubles

31 Thursday Mar 2022

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He’ll get them too, either grudgingly from the fools in the EU or else, happily, from China and India. Karl Denninger writes about the wider implications of the new financial-monetary order for the free nations and the WereWest.

Medvedev, Russia’s deputy chairman of their Security Council, has specifically pointed out that our inflationary credit policies — in the US and Europe — will no longer be tolerated by either Russia or China.

‘No matter if they want it or not, they’ll have to negotiate a new financial order,’ Medvedev said. ‘And the decisive voice will then be with those countries that have a strong and advanced economy, healthy public finances and a reliable monetary system. And not with those who endlessly inflate their public debt, issuing more and more pieces of paper into circulation which aren’t backed by national wealth.‘

The United States and, to a large degree Europe as well, have run monstrous deficits for the last two decades.  Europe did it to “rescue” the PIIGS, if you recall during the time of the “great financial crisis”, and that “stimulus” has never been withdrawn.  The United States did the same sort of thing during the time of the housing blowup, which followed the tech wreck and again, that was never withdrawn.

Europe, as with the United States, thought they could add to their fiscal insanity without consequence by importing a whole bunch of lower-skilled people who couldn’t pull their own weight at or above median per-capita GDP in the name of “diversity”, never mind the cultural divide brought by such immigration that further exacerbated the fiscal cost of doing so beyond bare economics.

Read the whole thing. Tomorrow, Russia may well and truly start this thing rolling by turning off the gas to Europe. Either way, it’s a new world. And no, the idiots in Mordor will not do what needs to be done. You see, the conventional (wrong) wisdom in Gorgoroth holds that restoring the real dollar and nixing all the fake debts would destroy the economy, so it’s much better to simply destroy the economy. Please do your part by watching TV, jabbing^10, and voting this fall.

Slapping Brussels

08 Friday Oct 2021

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Nationalism continues to rise as Poland’s high court states the natural and the obvious.

In a stinging rebuke to Europe’s unelected bureaucrats, and a major escalation in the rule of law crisis between Warsaw and Brussels, Poland’s constitutional court ruled on Thursday that Polish law can take precedence over EU law amid an ongoing dispute between the European bloc and the eastern European member state. The decision by the Constitutional Tribunal came after Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki requested a review of a decision by the EU’s Court of Justice (ECJ) that gave the bloc’s law primacy. Two out of 14 judges on the panel dissented from the majority opinion.

“The attempt by the European Court of Justice to involve itself with Polish legal mechanisms violates … the rules that give priority to the constitution and rules that respect sovereignty amid the process of European integration,” the ruling said, in an outcome that could have wide-reaching consequences for Europe when the next crisis hits.

PEXIT? POLEXIT?

Imagine if the USSA’s nine brainless, spineless corpses cared about Americans in an even slightly similar fashion. The takeaway here would be that perhaps the time has come (again) for the several sovereign states to begin rejecting Washington’s madness the way Warsaw has successfully bucked the EU. Or not.

Congratulations, Poles. You will keep your nation.

Greatest Debacle Ever!

20 Friday Aug 2021

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In the wake of the imperial US defeat, he would-be Fuhrer frets over Afghanistan, which now must be somewhere near the North Atlantic.

German politician Armin Laschet, the heir-apparent to outgoing German Chancellor Angela Merkel, described the situation even more harshly.

“This is the greatest debacle that NATO has seen since its foundation, and it is an epochal change that we are facing,” he said this week.

Yes, yes this is much worse than the ongoing invasion of Europe by savage primitives! More must be done.

The Taliban, to their great credit, is hurriedly purging Afghanistan of bad apples. They would execute many of them except that the US and the EU idiotically fly them out of harm’s way and into Western nations. Once there, they commence the bad apple acts. A favorite activity is raping and killing White women in places like Germany. If the women aren’t available, then any child suffices. Laschet, the CDU, and anything to the left of the AfD needs to get the priorities straight.

He is correct about the epochal change: the age of USian empire is over. Europe needs to adjust now.

Imagine the “Crisis” When She Wins

23 Friday Apr 2021

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The age of homoglobo in the EU is coming to an end. Polls? Le Pen leads in one and is mere points away in this one.

Victory for Ms Le Pen would be a big blow for Brussels, as Ms Le Pen is fiercely eurosceptic and is vowing to strengthen France’s borders.

The Jean-Jaures Foundation, a French centre-left think tank, warned conservative voters who rejected Ms Le Pen in 2017 may vote for her this time.

FREXIT, 2025/6? At any rate, NOW would be a great time for the various foreign invaders to start booking the return trips.

Yankee, Stay Home

27 Saturday Jun 2020

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If you’ve been reading my series on the eastern Euro option for young Americans, you may have noted my suggestion of urgency. As of next Wednesday, it will be too late – for now.

The European Union will bar most travelers from the United States, Russia and dozens of other countries considered too risky because they have not controlled the coronavirus outbreak, EU officials said Friday.

By contrast, travelers from more than a dozen countries that are not overwhelmed by the coronavirus will be welcomed when the bloc reopens after months of lockdown Wednesday. The acceptable countries also include China — but only if China allows EU travelers to visit as well, the officials said.

This is perfectly understandable. I wouldn’t want sickly third-worlders in my coherent nation – if I had one. Kids, spend the waiting time planning and preparing. I’ll be back soon with more ideas.

The Hoax Strikes Back?

23 Tuesday Jun 2020

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Uh-oh. If you’ve been following my tour of central and eastern Europe, and you’d like to escape before they start hunting you for sport, then I’d recommend doing so immediately. Otherwise, you may have to wait.

European Union countries rushing to revive their economies and reopen their borders after months of coronavirus restrictions are prepared to block Americans from entering because the United States has failed to control the scourge, according to draft lists of acceptable travelers seen by The New York Times.

The most dangerous (and inconvenient) chest cold in history. I assume this only applies to Americans and that “women and children” “refugees” “fleeing war and oppression” and “coming to strengthen the EU” will still be welcome in France, Germany, England, and Sweden with open checkbooks and bared throats.

PS: The great tour will continue, travel ban or no, right here, maybe as soon as later this week. Next stop: Hungary!

Brussels Not Buying It

17 Monday Feb 2020

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Hard to take the EU’s side in anything, but that’s the power or influence of Farcebook.

Despite Zuckerberg’s whirlwind schedule — which was treated more like a state visit by a national leader than a series of meetings with a corporate executive — Commission officials remain overtly skeptical of Facebook’s intentions.

Talking to reporters Monday, Breton dismissed Zuckerberg’s suggestions on potential ways to regulate online content, saying they were “too low in terms of responsibility and regulation [and] there is nothing on market power,” in reference to Facebook’s dominance over much of social media

Breton also dismissed Zuckerberg’s proposal for a third status for Facebook that would fall between telecom provider and publisher while expressing skepticism at the idea of one single EU regulator. Taking the stage alongside the Facebook chief executive, the French official cut off the tech boss from speaking, something that Zuckerberg is not accustomed to.

Want cake. Eat too. Good for Brussels (egads!).

Now, if only a certain Kangaroo Kongress would come around.

BREXIT!

31 Friday Jan 2020

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1/31, 11 PM and done!

So long, farewell, auf wiedersehen, adieu.

With little fanfare, Britain left the European Union on Friday after 47 years of membership, taking a leap into the unknown in a historic blow to the bloc.

The U.K.’s departure became official at 11 p.m. (2300GMT), midnight in Brussels, where the EU is headquartered. Thousands of enthusiastic Brexit supporters gathered outside Britain’s Parliament to welcome the moment they’d longed for since Britain’s 52%-48% vote in June 2016 to walk away from the club it had joined in 1973. The flag-waving crowd erupted in cheers as Big Ben bonged 11 times — on a recording. Parliament’s real bell has been silenced for repairs.

In a message from nearby 10 Downing St., Prime Minister Boris Johnson called Britain’s departure “a moment of real national renewal and change.”

Level it up!

Nigel went out with a bang!

God bless England.

*Blog Note: This is a wrap for January 2020. Thanks for making this the best, highest-trafficked month in a year and a half and the best January in three years. See you in February!

What Goes Around, Euro Style

15 Monday Jul 2019

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Galileo is down, God help the EU. The spy “navigation” system is offline, has been, and questions abound. A cyber attack?

Galileo, the EU’s global navigation satellite system, has been down for four days, since July 11, following a mysterious outage. All Galileo satellites are still non-operational, at the time of writing.

According to a service status page, 24 of the 26 Galileo satellites are listed as “not usable,” while the other two are listing a status of “testing,” which also means they’re not ready for real-world usage.

The European GNSS Agency (GSA), the organization in charge of Galileo, has not published any information in regards to the root of the outage, which began four days ago, on Thursday, July 11.

On that day, the GSA published an advisory on its website alerting companies and government agencies employing the Galileo system that satellite signals have degraded and they “may not be available nor meet the minimum performance levels.”

The agency warned that the Galileo system “should be employed at users’ own risk.”

That admonishment sounds par for the standard operating course. Most haven’t heard of this system before, nor do they care now. I first learned of it nearly 20 years ago, at a Federalist Society luncheon in DC. A friend from Germany, a then-JD candidate already possessed of a Ph.D. is computer science something, wouldn’t stop talking about it. We all have our issues. He warned me bluntly that the EU was setting up something far beyond GPS and that they were intent on maintaining secrecy. He said, and I believed him, that his attempts to access information about the then-fledgling project, resulted in his computer being “zapped” repeatedly. They did it to him. Someone has done it to them. And, the world turns…