Sunday, 4 September 2022 — Internationalist 360° 70,000 Czechs take to the streets against government, EU and NATO Massive protest against NATO, the EU and soaring energy prices in Prague, Czech Republic today. pic.twitter.com/X0m336c2td — Sarah Abdallah (@sahouraxo) September 3, 2022 “An estimated 70,000 people protested in Prague against the Czech government on Saturday, calling on the ruling coalition to do more to control soaring […]
As the initiator of the Ukraine crisis, the US has been its biggest winner, standing on the sidelines while reaping the benefits. This deserves consideration and vigilance from the world, a spokesperson of China’s Foreign Ministry said on Friday.
The remarks came in response to comments by some in the European media who have said that the US is masquerading as a savior while banking huge profits by selling gas to European countries, with the latter facing energy shortages due to sanctions targeting Russia that forced them to buy US natural gas at high prices.
The comments are very reasonable, Zhao Lijian, spokesperson from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, said on Friday during a regular press briefing.
Ukrainian servicemen unload a Boeing 747-412 plane with the FGM-148 Javelin, anti-tank missiles provided by US to Ukraine as part of a military support, at Kiev’s airport Boryspil on February 11, 2022. Photo: AFP
“The comprehensive escalation of the Ukraine crisis has continued for more than half a year. Facts have once again proved that unilateral sanctions by the US and the West cannot solve the problem. On the contrary, their spillover effects continue to snowball,” said Zhao
“As the initiator of the Ukraine crisis, the US has now become the biggest winner, reaping the benefits. This is worthy of consideration and vigilance by the whole world,” Zhao warned.
Zhao said that he is aware of reports that the gap between gas prices in the European and US markets is now as much as 10 times, a record high.
Zhao cited George Galloway, former British parliamentarian, who said that the US “is ready to fight to the last drop of Ukrainian blood, in the end, it’s prepared to fight to the last drop of European blood.”
Galloway also said that the working classes of Europe and North America will pay the price of the NATO-crazed suicide-mission against Russia.
According to data published by Business Insider, an American financial and business news website, US companies are making more than $100 million per container ship of liquefied natural gas bound for Europe.
European suckers blinded by Racism – fall head first for Great US Scam. Sanctions! Lets cut off Russian oil and gas! (**But the US is a gas EXPORTER)… Arms bombs missiles ..Gift Ukraine everything! (**But US gifts are often LOANS, with infinite credit and $Trillion war budget). …Oh no! Europe is bankrupt! Help us USA ( ** Just join the breadlines..)
“Obviously, while US arms dealers and grain merchants have been cashing in on the Ukraine crisis, US energy companies have not been left behind. As a result, the public across Europe faces soaring electricity prices, lower heating temperatures and even prescheduled blackouts,” said Zhao.
According to industry statistics, the current import price of natural gas in Europe has increased by over 200 percent from a year earlier.
One of the examples is the Rose and Crown, an award-winning British pub, which on Sunday posted an energy bill on its Twitter account, showing that its annual electricity bill is 61,667.94 pounds ($71,243), or 97.05 pounds per kilowatt-hour. The price in May was 15 pounds per kilowatt-hour, which means an increase of 547 percent.
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US ‘throws under the bus’ the citizens’ welfare and the economies of European countries
Washington has harmed the bloc to serve its own interests, a top Putin ally has warned
“Gas in the US costs $333 per 1,000 cubic meters.. Washington sells it to Europe for a price which is 7.3 [times] higher”. (jumping today Aug 19 by another 7% to above $2,600)
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The United States has doomed the EU to hunger, cold and isolation by pressuring the bloc to cut its ties with Moscow, Russian State Duma Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin said on Friday.
The Ankara government continues to bomb the Kurdish regions of Syria and Iraq. Impunity is Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s main ally in committing mass murders of civilians.
The figure released last week by the NGO Save the Children was erased by the daily news maelstrom and, also, because very few people are interested in knowing it. According to the international institution, in August alone, 40 boys and girls were killed or injured in Rojava (Syrian Kurdistan) as a result of the permanent bombardments launched by the Turkish state in that autonomous region.
On Friday, August 26, Save the Children reported that at least two children were injured that day in an attack in Tal Rifat, northern Syria, the latest victims of an upsurge in violence that has killed at least 13 children. and girls, and injured 27 others in August.
The head of the NGO’s Interim Response, Beat Rohr, stated that they are dismayed “by this latest escalation of violence, which clearly shows that children in Syria are still not safe. Children should never have to worry about being attacked, whether at home, in a market or when out to play. And yet, that is precisely what children across northern Syria are facing, almost 12 years after the start of the conflict.”
The ongoing massacre that has been committed for months in Rojava is hardly publicized.
The Turkish president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, announced months ago an open military invasion against that area, but his Russian, American and Iranian “partners” – all three with a presence in Syrian territory – denied the possibility. What they did enable was greater impunity for Erdogan to order drone strikes over Rojava.
For weeks, the attacks have been almost daily and mainly target the residents of cities such as Manbij, Kobane and Ayn Issa.
The objective of the Turkish president is multiple. On the one hand, his administration has already demonstrated his congenital hatred towards the Kurdish people, whom he seeks to exterminate as quickly as possible.
In turn, he intends to extend Turkish territorial power in Syria, in line with his neo-Ottoman aspirations: Ankara illegally occupies the Kurdish canton of Afrin and the cities of Al Bab, Serêkaniyê, Azaz and Girê Spî. On the other hand, Erdogan is desperately trying to inflate nationalist sentiments in his country, with an eye on the 2023 presidential elections, in which his continuity is at risk.
Finally, Erdogan and the so-called “Turkish deep state” unceremoniously reject the project of democracy, autonomy and liberation in Rojava, which has been in place since 2012, when the Kurdish, Armenian, Arab and Assyrian peoples, among others, broke the chains that tied them to the Syrian regime led by Bashar Al Assad.
Imagen: Ain Issa bajo bombardeos turcos / ANF
Although the United Nations (UN) warned on several occasions that genocide could be committed in Rojava due to Turkish attacks, these warnings were also “erased” from the international agendas that are so concerned about the war in Ukraine. It is not new or surprising.
Another Saudi Arabian woman has been sentenced to decades in prison by the kingdom’s terrorism court for using social media to “violate the public order”, according to court documents seen by a human rights group.
Best mates–The West is still delighted to sell arms, buy oil and endorse the fascist/religious/misogynist/genocidal Saudi Regime – while punishing Russia for defending ethnic Russians in Donbass
Nourah bint Saeed al-Qahtani was sentenced to 45 years in prison after a specialised criminal court convicted her of “using the internet to tear [Saudi Arabia’s] social fabric”, according to documents that were obtained and reviewed by Democracy for the Arab World Now (Dawn), an organisation founded by Jamal Khashoggi.
The news of her decades-long sentence comes weeks after Salma al-Shehab, a 34-year-old PhD student at Leeds University and mother of two children, was convicted and sentenced to 34 years in prison after she returned home to Saudi for a holiday break.
Salma al-Shehab (right) was sentenced to 34 years in prison earlier this month. File photo: Saudi state television via AP
Dawn shared its findings, which it said were verified by Saudi sources, with the Guardian.
Few details are known about Qahtani, including her age or the circumstances around her arrest and conviction.
Court documents in Shehab case revealed she had been convicted for the alleged crime of following the Twitter accounts of individuals who “cause public unrest and destabilise civil and national security”. In some cases, she retweeted tweets posted by dissidents in exile.
Shehab told a Saudi court she had faced abuse and harassment during her detention, including being subjected to interrogations after being given medications that exhausted her.
In Qahtani’s case, Saudi authorities appear to have imprisoned her for “simply tweeting her opinions”, said Abdullah Alaoudh, the director for the Gulf region at Dawn.
“It is impossible not to connect the dots between Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s meeting with President Biden last month in Jeddah and the uptick in the repressive attacks against anyone who dares criticise the crown prince or the Saudi government for well-documented abuses,” Alaoudh said.
Dawn was coming forward with the news, he said, in the hopes that people who know Qahtani might shed light on her case.
Saudi laws are designed to give authorities maximum discretion, including the power to detain individuals for vaguely defined anti-terrorism laws such as “disturbing public order” and “endangering national unity”.
True value of UK arms trade to Saudi Arabia worth over £20 billion …The UK has sold over £20 billion worth of military equipment and services to Saudi Arabia since 2015, according to a new report by Campaign Against Arms Trade (CAAT). This is almost three times higher than the £6.7 billion worth of arms sales published by the Department of International Trade in the same time period.
Twitter has not commented publicly on Shehab’s case.
The US State Department on Monday said it has raised “significant concerns” with Saudi authorities about Shehab’s case.
“We have made the point to them that freedom of expression is a universal human right to which all people are entitled and exercising those universal rights should never be criminalised,” said a spokesperson, Ned Price.
Pressed by reporters on the matter, Price said the State Department was following the case “very closely” and that the US had had “a number” of conversations with Saudi counterparts in recent days.
The Saudi government was not immediately available for comment.
Now after years when thousands have suffered and died, years after the first studies showed that this commonly used drug was safe and effective, over a year after Big Pharma hit the jackpot on the ineffective vaccines while tried to hide their dangers, they quietly append this drug onto the list. As if … “well you know, we always knew it was an antiviral”.
This has been incompetence and negligence on an astounding scale and perhaps malevolence on a stupendous scale. This cannot just sneak its way onto a webpage. There have to be inquiries into the actions of Pfizer, Moderna, NIH, CDC and the FDA and all of the other captured health ministries that went along with this malfeasance. There have to be consequences, consequences with an impact that stops these tyrants from planning these deceptions ever again.
I and others knew this years ago, but stating it here on Twitter would get you banned, suspended or ridiculed by the brainwashed. I bought it in March of 2020 and used it when I got covid. I fully recovered in less than 48 hours.
Ivermectin reduces COVID death risk by 92%, peer-reviewed study finds https://t.co/SDCYZbiui6
We live on a bit that fell off the sun. Just 20kms down the rocks are at 500 C. With ‘deep-geo’ we could drill down, pump in water and use superheated steam for free electricity lasting millions of years.
New info is Paul Woskov’s plan to maybe convert Tonawanda’s abandoned coal fired Huntley power station in upstate New York into the first functional Deep Geo energy plant.
Paul is now a consultant with Quaise energy, the leading and best financed Deep Geo developer.
Quaise is producing a mobile gyratron system compatible with standard oil and gas drilling equipment to hook into existing expertise as fossil fuel drilling is hopefully wound down.
The first few kms will be drilled with normal equipment, then the gyratron takes over with its deep wave millimeter beam. All the physics is now well known, you can buy a gyratron ‘off the shelf’. What remains is engineering , how to line the boreholes, extract vapourised rock, control extraction of superheated water, etc..
Testing is due to begin, starting with shallow depths and working down. The timeline is ‘5 to 6 years’ for the first operating power station, but when the technology is proven uptake could be rapid, as the wells are fast to produce, can be drilled right beside existing coal and gas Energy Plants and provide unlimited superheated CO2-free steam to power the generators.
Deep Geo energy could replace much of the Climate destroying and methane spewing US Fracking Industry now exported worldwide as LNG. Endless energy could be produced cheaply without fossil fuels. Deep Geo cannot contaminate groundwater which does not exist at such depths and temperatures.
MIT Spinout Tapping Into the multi-Million-Year Energy Source Below Our Feet
What if we could retrofit virtually every coal and gas power plant in the world to use a carbon-free energy source deep below our feet — geothermal energy.
Quaise Energy, an MIT spinout, is working to create geothermal wells made from the deepest holes in the world.
There’s an abandoned coal power plant in upstate New York that most people consider a worthless relic. MIT’s Paul Woskov, on the other hand, has a different perspective.
Woskov, a research engineer in MIT’s Plasma Science and Fusion Center, points out that the plant’s power turbine is still intact and the transmission lines still run to the grid. Using an approach he’s been developing for the last 14 years, he’s hoping it will be back online within the decade, completely carbon-free.
Indeed, Quaise Energy, the company commercializing Woskov’s research, believes if it can retrofit one power plant, the same process will work on nearly every coal and gas power plant in the world.
Tapping into the energy source deep below our feet is how Quaise is hoping to accomplish those lofty goals. The company ambitious plans call for vaporizing enough rock to create the world’s deepest holes and harvesting geothermal energy at a scale that could satisfy human energy consumption for millions of years. Although they haven’t yet solved all the related engineering challenges, Quaise’s founders have set an aggresive timeline to begin harvesting energy from a pilot well by 2026.
If the plan were based on new and unproven technology, it would be easier to dismiss as unrealistic. However, Quaise’s drilling systems center around a microwave-emitting device called a gyrotron that has been used in research and manufacturing for decades.
Quaise Energy wants to repurpose coal and gas plants into deep geothermal wells by using X-rays to melt rock. Credit: Collage by MIT News with images courtesy of Quaise Energy
“This will happen quickly once we solve the immediate engineering problems of transmitting a clean beam and having it operate at a high energy density without breakdown,” explains Woskov, who is not formally affiliated with Quaise but serves as an advisor. “It’ll go fast because the underlying technology, gyrotrons, are commercially available. You could place an order with a company and have a system delivered right now — granted, these beam sources have never been used 24/7, but they are engineered to be operational for long time periods. In five or six years, I think we’ll have a plant running if we solve these engineering problems. I’m very optimistic.”
In an Atlanta forest slated for development, an activist movement has built a community — and they’re vowing to defend it by any means necessary
Whatever the excavator driver had in mind for his morning, it’s pretty clear it wasn’t this. It’s not yet 8 a.m. on a Saturday in late July, and he’s dodging rocks and full cans of rosemary-grapefruit seltzer being flung from 20 yards away, and screaming at the impassive DeKalb County cop next to him to intervene.
“Pull your gun out!” he yells in desperation. “Pull your gun out!”
The driver is here in Atlanta’s South River Forest on behalf of Ryan Millsap, a real-estate tycoon who’s been granted permission to bulldoze a huge swath of trees and put up a soundstage for the city’s booming film industry — “Hollywood Dystopia,” as the band of masked protesters hurling projectiles have taken to calling it.
Millsap’s plans cover 40 acres of parkland on the eastern bank of Intrenchment Creek, which roughly divides a 300-acre pocket of this forest that has become a battleground. On the western side of the creek, the nonprofit Atlanta Police Foundation has laid claim to 85 acres of woods, which the Atlanta City Council voted last September to flatten in order to build a $90 million police- and fire-training complex that’s come to be known as “Cop City.”
What the city didn’t expect was that the land would become home to a band of environmentalists and anarchists, loosely united under the banner Defend the Atlanta Forest, who are combating those plans at every turn.
The “decentralized autonomous movement,” as they call themselves, consists of hundreds of local and out-of-state activists, several dozen of whom live full time in these woods, in a ramshackle network of tents and treehouses erected dozens of feet off the forest floor.
A barricade erected by Defend the Atlanta Forest to complicate law enforcement entry onto the grounds. Jack Crosbie
By day, the group hosts meals procured through donated food and prepared via collective action, as well as teach-ins on resistance tactics and philosophies, skill shares, guided hikes, and other community events.
By night, on the weekends, the scene often shifts to musical performances featuring local bands and DJs — a distinctly Atlanta mix of trap, hardcore, and electronica — plus a bar and substances of every sort, a chance to mosh for freedom and dance in defiance.
Months after the deals with Millsap and the APF were signed, the only thing being built in the South River Forest, it seems, is the next stage of a nationwide direct-action movement, people tired of losing in the traditional halls of power — be it Atlanta’s City Hall or America’s Supreme Court — who are ready to fight for something different.
“It’s not just a local struggle, it’s about two competing ways of life,” says a DAF protester who goes by the name Cicada. “The people who are destroying the forest live all over the country. People should feel empowered to hold them accountable, to feel like they’re capable of stopping this depravity.”
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