The atomic bomb isn’t the most powerful weapon that the U.S. imperialists have ever used. There’s an even stronger tool that it constantly uses to inflict violence, and that tool is propaganda. It doesn’t merely cause harm to the people it targets, it turns them into monsters. Monsters who are willing to kill their fellow human beings for the benefit of American capital, and believe they’re doing so for a righteous cause.
In Ukraine, the imperialists have done this by indoctrinating their favored ethnic group to hate Russians.
Which is an absurd project on its face, because “Ukrainians” aren’t truly a distinct ethnic group from Russians, and “Ukraine” isn’t truly a separate nation from Russia.
Ukraine is inextricably tied to Russia, with their connection going back centuries. Ukraine is where the concept of Russia began, with the three identities of Ukrainians, Belarusians, and Russians having originated in the Kievan Rus a millennium ago.
Jonathan Mingle is a reformist US journalist who here gives a good resumé of the LNG export industry. However the article fails to mention this is over 90% fracking gas transported by a maze of leaking pipelines from over a million short term unregulated, methane spewing fracking wells, drilled and abandoned by disappearing capitalists, after pumping billions of liters of highly toxic chemicals into the fractured earth and US aquifers.
The Marvel Crane, a liquid natural gas carrier, at the Cameron LNG terminal in Hackberry, Louisiana. U.S. Coast Guard via Flickr
The U.S. plans to boost liquefied natural gas exports to Europe to help the EU reduce its dependence on Russian gas. This could spur an expansion of LNG terminals, which analysts say would lead to long-term increases in gas production and greenhouse gas emissions.
In the span of weeks, Russia’s war on Ukraine has created millions of refugees, transformed the geopolitical landscape, upended global energy markets and food supply chains, and hastened Europe’s efforts to transition away from fossil fuels. The war also threatens to alter the trajectory of energy and climate policy in the United States.
On March 25, a month after Russia launched its invasion, President Biden met with European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen in Brussels and jointly announced a new initiative to help Europe reduce its reliance on Russian fossil fuels. Their plan calls for boosting exports of liquefied natural gas (LNG) from the U.S. to the European Union by 15 billion cubic meters this year and as much as 50 billion cubic meters — a third of what Europe currently buys from Russia — by 2030.
Construction of the Golden Pass LNG export terminal near Port Arthur, Texas in May 2021. Golden Pass LNG
Biden administration officials have characterized the LNG surge as a stopgap measure to help Europe bridge these next few years until it can build more renewable energy and make its buildings and industries more energy efficient.
But energy analysts say the announcement could signal a pivot toward greater support for expanding gas infrastructure, potentially locking in significant new sources of greenhouse gas emissions.
New LNG terminals — whether for export on the U.S. Gulf Coast or for import on Germany’s North Sea coast — would take several years and several billion dollars to build. Analysts say that by the time they are up and running, the geopolitical environment may look different, but climate change will be all the more urgent, and there will be powerful business incentives to keep the terminals operating.
editorial insert: It’s also worth noting that Russia also supplies LNG, over 40 million tons a year to the world market, mainly to China, and has a new export terminal, Artic LNG 2, due to come on stream already this year. So we will have Europe refusing to buy cheaper, nearer and non-fracking Russian LNG which will go instead to Asia..
Even with new infrastructure, the U.S. won’t be able to replace the volume of gas that Europe imports from Russia, says an expert.
“Europe needs more U.S. LNG to get through the next two winters, not incentivization to use gas for the next 20 years,” said Claire Healy, of the energy think tank E3G, in a statement. “It has turned a short-term energy crunch into a long-term crutch for American oil and gas producers.”
Some energy experts caution that expanding LNG infrastructure would be a distraction from more durable solutions to promote energy security in both the U.S. and the EU. Rather than boosting supply by building LNG projects that could become stranded assets, they say, countries should focus on energy efficiency and other ways to reduce demand for gas.
As in 1945 in Berlin, the Nazis have ended up hiding in the basement with their tails between their legs. This time it’s the Soviet-era cellars under Mariupol’s Azovstal steelworks. There are more than a thousand Nazis hiding there, many of them wounded, as well as the civilian population that they use as human shields so that the Russian troops do not enter the place.
screenshots.. see video below
Putin announced the cancellation of plans to ‘storm’ the complex in order to save the hostages and to reduce risks to Russian servicemen, instead opting to besiege it and starve the Zelensky regime militants out.
Those in hiding are trying to go out alone or in small groups of two or three, dressed as civilians and even as women. They often try to go straight through the checkpoints, indicating that they are either under the influence of drugs, or their level of desperation is at its peak. They are willing to do anything, even to fall in the middle of a firefight.
One of the Donetsk People’s Republic militia fighters involved in the Nazi blockade says that, having been seriously injured in the legs, one of the Nazis tried to resist. He did not emit the characteristic moans of a wounded man, which makes us suspect that they take some type of narcotic.
Hostages speak out.. see below.“Today is April 21, 2022, we already asked you a few days ago to take us out. We are at the Azovstal plant, but no one wants to hear us. Please take us away from here. ..”
The longer the siege of the steelworks lasts, the more cases of this type and escape attempts there will be. The Russian army has alerted its troops that many of those who remain encircled want to surrender and that they must allow it.
The steel mill has in its entrails an underground city with many plants and shelters over dozens of kilometers. Those in hiding have not received supplies, water or medicine for many days, so their situation may be desperate.
In the rabbit hole there are many high-level officers that NATO wants to rescue alive, especially the foreign mercenaries who direct the fighting. NATO has wanted to negotiate with Russia a surrender and an evacuation under the supervision of one of the countries that are members of the Alliance.
On Wednesday, Victoria Nuland, Under Secretary of State for US Political Affairs and the person most responsible for the 2014 coup in Kyiv, told CNN that NATO countries could participate in the evacuation of “civilians” trapped in Mariupol.
But Mariupol has already fallen to the Russians and there are no civilians to rescue. She was naturally referring to those who are kidnapped by the Ukrainian Nazis in the underground of the steel mill, and even to the Nazis themselves, which is a very different matter.
The evacuation of civilians has never been of interest to the Ukrainian government because its army uses them as human shields.
The Russian army opened an Evacuation Corridor 10 times already for the steel mill fighters to allow hostages to leave or to lay down their arms.
Kyiv is interested in maintaining the fiction of the resistance, which has caused discomfort among the Nazis themselves, who insult the Zelensky government and their own leaders on social networks for demanding that they continue the fight, while they are unable to supply them with anything.
The fact is that mice do not leave the mousetrap. They were not even willing to let out the many wounded they have, who need medical assistance.
If nobody wants to go out, why do you need an exit corridor? The only explanation is that NATO wants to validate its presence on the ground, something it has so far not formally acknowledged.
In her tricky style, what Nuland means is that she intends to surreptitiously evacuate the Nazis, which is impossible.
If they want to cover up the presence of foreign mercenaries and NATO commanders, they must prevent them from being captured by the Russian army or, at the very least, negotiate a camouflaged exit with them.
“There was some hope that the Russians would allow the safe evacuation of wounded civilians and soldiers from Mariupol,” a State Department chief said on Wednesday, adding that “if it happens, there will be NATO allies involved in it.”
The message from the true leaders of the war is clear: NATO and its allies must intervene in any negotiated solution to the siege of the steel mill.
Corridors secured only by Russia are not acceptable to NATO or the United States.
It is clear that there are people who should not be seen, who should not appear publicly in the photos and should be discreetly removed from the place to maintain the fable that NATO is not involved in the Ukraine War.
If NATO doesn’t participate, why are they insisting on controlling the evacuation of the Nazis trapped in the steel mill?
Azov Regiment Show off and interview Families with Children still imprisoned as Hostages in the Azovstal steelworks bunker
from SouthFront, shared with thanks, video by Azov in Mariupol
WATCH VIDEO HERE…There is a Translated Transcript in English and Español of the VIDEO BELOW
WATCH VIDEO HERE…There is a Translated Transcript of the video below.
The Azov regiment has made a strange and clumsy attempt to secure a “humanitarian corridor” for itself.
While almost the entire world is criticizing China and accusing her of human rights abuses for locking down all of 26 million Shanghai citizens, when only some 26,000 positive-tested “Covid-19” cases were detected. At first sight, that indeed seems abnormal, or even a vast exaggeration. At first sight.
It infected about 8,000 people and caused 774 deaths. By far, most of the cases and of the deaths were found in mainland China and Hongkong, some in Taiwan, and even a few in Japan, the US, and apparently in some more than 20 countries around the globe.
What is remarkable is that all of the “cases” were people with the Chinese genome. In other words, the virus attacked specifically the “Chinese race”, i.e. it was tailor-made to target China and her citizens.
“Coincidentally”, a few years earlier, in 1999 and 2000, the Chinese government detected hundreds of western “scientists”, typically from Harvard and other western reputed learning institutes and laboratories, collecting DNA samples from people in rural China, mostly in the north western provinces of China.
These “scientists” hired Chinese citizens to help them collect blood samples in isolated regions for pay. The westerners were, of course expulsed, once detected. However – too late. They had already smuggled out of China thousands of DNA samples taken from native Chinese. See this.
These samples would later serve to design a special corona The resulting 2002-2004 SARS outbreak in China was a trial – for worse to come.
Remember also Event 201 that took place in NYC on October 18, 2019? sponsored by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the World Economic Forum (WEF) and the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security which also hosted the event.
During this event, all the important world actors, such as the World Bank, IMF, the UN and many of the UN specialized agencies, including UNICEF – and of course WHO – as well as key banking and financial institutions – major US health institutes, like CDC, FDA, and even China’s CDC – and many more – participated in this desk-top simulation – which was to produce worldwide more than 60 million deaths in the span of about two to three years. See this.
As the Chinese authorities were well aware of the genetically targeted virus, they were alert when SARS-Cov-2 hit Wuhan in early 2020. Their reaction was logical, immediate and severe.
They locked down not only Wuhan (pop. 11 million) at once, but a large portion – some 50 million people – of Hubei Province, of which Wuhan is the capital. Subsequently more areas within China, where SARS-Cov-2 was detected, were locked down.
It meant the beginning of zero-tolerance for what later was conveniently renamed by WHO as Covid-19. Also remember, Covid-19, alias SARS-Cov-2, was never isolated or identified as a new virus.
Knowing the background of genetic- or race-designed viruses, China’s reaction to protect her citizens was logical and immediate. In fact, with this policy China mastered the disease largely within about six to eight months.
During those harsh lockdowns, some 80% of the Chinese industrial complex was paralyzed. But by the end of 2020 most of the Chinese production apparatus, factories, shipping lines, agricultural production were humming again – and back on stream.
This is among the main reasons why the Chinese economic growth hardly suffered during this new covid outbreak. In fact, against IMF projection of 1.2% growth in 2021, and the Chinese own projection of 3.5% economic expansion in 2021 – actual Chinese growth in 2021 was registered as 5.5%. This growth and resulting export potential has helped many countries, especially on the Asian Continent, to reduce their covid-induced losses and to move their economies forward.
Ever since Chairman Mao Zedong’s communist revolution in 1949, China was a persistent thorn in western capitalist eyes. As China has gradually grown into a super-power, economically as well as strategically speaking, attacks and western sanctions on China have also grown.
People disinfect a residential area under lockdown in Shanghai, China, on 15 April
No matter how illegal, against international law and against human rights – led by the US, the west is relentlessly imposing economic sanctions on China – and of course also on China’s closest ally, Russia.
Despite these sanctions, China will soon – within the next 3 to 4 years, if not before – surpass the US economy. In fact, when measured according to the only real economic indicators, namely the PPP-factor (Purchasing Power Parity – meaning the value of goods a currency may purchase), China has surpassed the United States already several years ago.
admit it, we’ve all eaten at McDonald’s. Yes, their fries are delicious. You know what’s not delicious? The world’s biggest companies scamming the rest of us out of our hard-earned money by exploiting tax havens and obscene loopholes. In this week’s episode, we’ll take a look at the most recent scheme – McDonald’s’ $3.4 billion IOU to itself.
While almost the entire world is criticizing China and accusing her of human rights abuses for locking down all of 26 million Shanghai citizens, when only some 26,000 positive-tested “Covid-19” cases were detected. At first sight, that indeed seems abnormal, or even a vast exaggeration. At first sight.
It infected about 8,000 people and caused 774 deaths. By far, most of the cases and of the deaths were found in mainland China and Hongkong, some in Taiwan, and even a few in Japan, the US, and apparently in some more than 20 countries around the globe.
What is remarkable is that all of the “cases” were people with the Chinese genome. In other words, the virus attacked specifically the “Chinese race”, i.e. it was tailor-made to target China and her citizens.
“Coincidentally”, a few years earlier, in 1999 and 2000, the Chinese government detected hundreds of western “scientists”, typically from Harvard and other western reputed learning institutes and laboratories, collecting DNA samples from people in rural China, mostly in the north western provinces of China.
These “scientists” hired Chinese citizens to help them collect blood samples in isolated regions for pay. The westerners were, of course expulsed, once detected. However – too late. They had already smuggled out of China thousands of DNA samples taken from native Chinese. See this.
These samples would later serve to design a special corona The resulting 2002-2004 SARS outbreak in China was a trial – for worse to come.
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