While the world suffers from the dramatic consequences of unprecedented heat waves, fires and floods from one hemisphere to the other, Total intends to use these billions in ‘superprofits’ to extract more oil and gas.

I’m deeply sickened by yesterday’s announcement: the oil giant Total announced to its shareholders a profit of 5.7 billion dollars in the second quarter. Their triumphant declaration of these profits highlights the moral bankruptcy and the danger that the fossil fuel giants present to all of us.

Total is the worst French multinational in terms of greenhouse gas emissions and is responsible for some of the worst fossil fuel projects on the planet, including the East Africa Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP) and destructive fracking in Patagonia. These profits would not be so outrageously high if Total had not profited from the horrific Russian invasion of Ukraine.

The intensification of climate impacts across the world is no accident, it is largely the manifestation of the limitless greed and power of the fossil fuel industry.

Despite the call of European governments to end the expansion of fossil fuels in the Global South and the International Energy Agency urging for an end to new investments in fossil fuels, Total is leading a gas race in Africa and recently struck billion dollar deals in Algeria and South Africa to extract and burn more of the continent’s fossil fuels

I will quote the words of my colleague Omar Elmawi, coordinator of the #StopEACOP campaign:

“It is appalling that Total Energies continues to reap obscene profits at the expense of people and the planet, even more so in Africa, the continent most vulnerable to climate change. One of the company’s largest projects in Africa, EACOP and associated oilfields, is facing sustained local and global resistance due to the threat it poses to communities and their livelihoods, as well as expected negative impacts on the environment and sensitive ecosystems in Uganda and Tanzania. We can stop EACOP and the wave of destruction it will leave in its wake, if we stop the financial flows to Total. We call on financial institutions not to support Total in this harmful project.”

It’s vital that we continue to disrupt the flow of money to greedy fossil fuel companies like Total from banks and other financial institutions.

While Total is making record profits, many people affected by EACOP in Uganda and Tanzania have still not received the money promised to them .

I was also super shocked to read in the French news, that Total did not pay taxes in France in 2020 and 2021 when public services need this money more than ever!!

Together with the “Never Again” campaign alliance, we’re pushing for public authorities to tax these super profits and diverting the proceeds to support the people who are struggling with high energy costs the most while also accelerating the ecological transition.

So far the government has refused this ‘windfall tax’ on rising energy profits and is allowing the fossil fuel industry to dictate our economic and political agenda for its own benefit. It is absolutely disgraceful and it’s not only happening in France. Experts just exposed that the immense wealth captured by oil states and fossil fuel companies since 1970 amounts to $52 trillion, or $2.8 billion a day globally, providing the power to “buy every politician, every system” and delay action on the climate crisis.

Enough is enough! 

Total knew, Total lied, and Total, like all the other oil giants, must be held accountable and stopped! 

Onwards,

Clémence

from stalkerzone.org August 6, 2022 Telegram via thefreeonline

The Russian regime saw from the start that Covid-19 hysteria could be a great way of controlling their unruly population.

Russia has always been an enthusiastic supporter of Covid vaccines, lockdowns, Covid passports. It even supported the murky WHO edicts and allowed western Covid ‘natural origin’ and safe vaccine ‘narratives’ despite its own vaccines being still banned in the West.

Not any more

An official post says ‘ the COVID-19 pandemic is artificial and the United States may be involved in its occurrence’ –

This is according to an officially published statement made on August 4 by the chief of the Radiation, Chemical and Biological Protection Forces (RCBPF), Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov .

READ MORE: Covid-19 may have originated in US biolab – Lancet chair

The posts shared below are ‘Russian Propaganda’ of course, but more importantly, they open up a veritable ‘Pandora’s Box’ : – indeed there are 100’s of suppressed peer reviewed studies testifying to a deadly Covid-19 and Covid Vaccine conspiracy.

Russian news agencies have a strong influence, where unbanned, in the already Covid-Skeptic developing world, where resistance is fast growing to the bandwagon of the elite controlled ‘Reset’.

US government may be complicit in emergence of Covid – Russia..Russia now suspects that USAID might have been directly responsible.

However the 2 articles below suggest that Russia’s motives for asserting a US source for Covid-19 are more domestically political, pointing to suspicions of subversive activities of western health companies in Russia, and, like China, accusing the US of biowarfare experiments, in their 46 biolabs in Ukraine and more elsewhere, including possible creation of diabolical ‘Race-Specific’ viruses and other illnesses.

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read the full articles below… the second shorter one, is official from ‘Russia Today‘

The Biological Aspect in NATO’s Proxy War Against Russia Has Been Revealed

4 mins ago NEW – August 6, 2022 Vladimir Vinnikov from stalkerzone.org shared with thanks

The statement made on August 4 by the chief of the Radiation, Chemical and Biological Protection Forces (RCBPF), Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov, that the COVID-19 pandemic is artificial and the United States may be involved in its occurrence, is very significant.

Continue reading “‘The Biological Aspect in NATO’s Proxy War Against Russia Has Been Revealed’ – Kirillov”

Aug, 2022 via thefreeonline

Moscow and Kiev have accused each other of shelling Europe’s largest nuclear power plant

Russia has urged the UN and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to make Ukraine stop the “shelling” of Europe’s largest nuclear power plant.

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Ukrainian officials earlier accused Russia of using the plant as a “shield” for its soldiers.

Moscow accused Ukrainian troops of firing artillery shells at the Zaporozhskaya Nuclear Power Plant in the country’s southern Zaporozhye Region on Friday.

The plant was seized by Russian forces in late February, when Moscow launched its military campaign in the neighboring country. The facility continues to operate with Ukrainian staff under Russian control.

Kyiv controls the northern bank of the Dnipro, opposite the power station, including the region’s main centre of Zaporizhzhia and the smaller city of Nikopol.

Igor Vishnevetsky, a senior non-proliferation and arms control official at the Russian Foreign Ministry, warned that the shelling of the plant risks triggering an event similar to the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster.

Note: Without taking sides in the perilous dispute, we point to the seizure and cooperative protection by Russia of the Chernobyl Nuclear Plants at the start of the war, as well as the long 8-year history of Ukrainian ‘provocations’ and ‘false flag’ operations. Russia is in no way innocent, but their policy is highly unlikely to be bombing their own troops who control the plant and risking a Nuclear disaster, as claimed in the western media.

We would like to appeal to international organizations, especially to the UN and the IAEA, as well as to the countries that have influence on the Kiev regime, so they would take action in order to make the shelling of the nuclear power plant stop immediately.

Continue reading “Ukraine risks repeating Chernobyl disaster, Russia warns, as Kiev claims Russia bombed itself”

5 Aug, 2022 Agency Banned in West + Wikipedia via thefreeonline

Britain most aggressive anti Russian state with highest Aid to Ukraine after the USA with 6,2 Billion Euros

As energy prices in the UK are set to reach record highs, an anonymous group called ‘Don’t Pay UK’ has launched a campaign calling on 1 million Brits to stop paying their energy bills on October 1, when prices are expected to jump once again. 

Campaign members say that at least 75,000 people have so far pledged to cancel their direct debits for gas and electricity in protest of escalating costs. The UK government is now slamming the campaign as “highly irresponsible,” as reported by The Independent on Thursday.

The UK government has slammed the ‘Don’t Pay’ campaign as “highly irresponsible”

“This is highly irresponsible messaging, which ultimately will only push up prices for everyone else and affect personal credit ratings,” a government spokesperson was quoted as saying by the outlet. 

Don’t Pay UK Mass non-payment is not a new idea, it happened in the UK in the late 80s and 90s, when more than 17 million people refused to pay the Poll Tax – helping bring down the government and reversing its harshest measures.

“While no government can control global gas prices, we are providing £37bn of help for households including the £400 discount on energy bills, and £1,200 of direct support for the most vulnerable households to help with the cost of living.”

The government’s energy price cap, which is set by regulator Ofgem, is predicted to rise above £3,000 ($3,618) on October 1, a nearly 65% increase. Energy costs already rose by 54% earlier this year.

Don’t Pay UK estimates that around 6.3 million UK households will be thrown into fuel poverty by winter, with tens of millions of homes experiencing “fuel stress,” meaning they will spend more than 10% of their income on energy bills alone. 

The government has explained the rising energy costs as being caused by increased global demand, the after-effects of the Covid-19 pandemic, and the ongoing military conflict in Ukraine. 

However, record profits posted by energy companies like British Gas owner Centrica have sparked public uproar and accusations that providers are cashing in on the crisis.

Continue reading “#DontPayUK – 75,000 Brits refuse to pay Energy Bills from Oct 1st + UK’s mega War Gifts to Ukraine regime.”

Comment, Aug 4th

Below, Freedom reproduces an open letter to XR from Earth First!. Originally published on EF! website.

The next Earth First! Gathering, an event involving five days of workshops, skill shares, plotting and planning, solidarity and socialising in a beautiful campout, will take place between 31st August and 5th September in South West England. More info here.

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In recent years there has been an explosion of activity in the climate movement in the UK. It’s inspiring to see so many determined to take action on climate change and commit themselves to fiercely defending nature. Extinction Rebellion (XR), in particular, has brought in thousands of new people, shifted public opinion, and reignited a movement. There has also been an exciting movement within XR, increasingly targeting those in the corporate media and fossil industries causing the problem rather than just creating public disruption.

But it seems that some important lessons from the past have been forgotten. We know some of you are thinking and talking about these things already and we hope what we’ve written is received as it is intended, as some considered reflections from critical friends:

We are not pawns for a personality cult

Climate Change is urgent, and we need to take action now, but we also need to be in it for the long haul. Treating people as disposable – getting arrested for the sake of getting arrested – and ignoring the threats of burnout means people will drop out and feel discarded. This is already happening. We want to build an inclusive, diverse, caring movement that treats everyone as valuable, not forgotten once they have served their purpose in a strategy they have little say in. Non-hierarchical organising means meaningful participation for all, not unaccountable leaders and unaddressed invisible hierarchies.   

FTP!

Cops are not your friends. The police defend the individuals and institutions that are destroying the planet’s life support systems. Prisons and police are part of the problem, not the solution. They enforce a system that is ecocidal and violent in nature; they defend the right to degrade, pollute, control, and exploit humans and nature. They are inherently racist and sexist. They need to be abolished. These aren’t impossible dreams. Black feminists have long led the fight for abolition, and when the Black Lives Matter movement erupted around the world, suddenly people were openly discussing police and prison abolition in the mainstream media.

It’s ALL about politics

Politics isn’t about politicians and parliament, it’s about people trying to create the society they believe in. Climate change is not ‘beyond politics’; taking action on climate change is fundamentally political. Issues such as race and class aren’t annoying obstacles to a bigger movement, they are essential to building effective, enduring change. The domination of humans and the domination of nature are intrinsically linked, and we can’t end one while the other continues. De-politicising climate change not only ignores capitalism and other root causes, it also means XR will continue to be dominated by white middle-class‘ environmentalists’.

Diversity of tactics

Civil disobedience is just one of many tactics, and not the only way to take action. You don’t have to put yourselves in the hands of the state. Ecological direct action is about doing it yourself, attacking those destroying nature and inspiring others to follow suit, not lobbying the government to act on your behalf. Political violence should never be resorted to lightly, but dogmatic pacificism protects the state, the rich and the powerful. Historical struggles against slavery, feudalism, colonialism, patriarchy and fascism all involved violence. Riots, revolts and rebellion against oppression have their place and should be celebrated, not reviled. Preaching non-violence also ignores how the very idea of ‘violence’ is used to repress and pacify resistance, and leads to self-policing and authoritarianism within our movements. A diversity of tactics means different approaches to working together and reinforcing each other. In this way, we can build towards revolutionary change.

Love and rage

Self-reflection and critical discussion isn’t infighting and factionalism, it’s how to build strong, powerful movements that can bring about the unprecedented changes climate change requires. We’re not writing these words to show ourselves as ‘more radical than thou’ and we know that everyone goes through their own political journey in life. But if any of what we’ve written speaks to you, come and talk to us, and let’s work out where we go next.

We’re ready. Instead of grieving for a dying planet, it’s time to step up and fight, for people and nature, with love and rage.

Your friends from the EarthFirst! gathering collective

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