Pressure is piling on Olaf Scholz as manufacturing industry pays the price for energy shortages
Few of the 34,000 inhabitants in Saarlouis can remember what it was like before the Ford plant opened on the outskirts of town.
The carmaker has been one of the largest employers in Saarland – a tiny German region on the border with France – for 50 years. Its presence has been a source of well-paid jobs and local pride.
“I convinced my whole family to buy our cars. My cousin bought a Ford, my brother bought a Ford, my father bought a Ford. I even talked my wife who was then my girlfriend into buying a Ford,” says 31-year-old Michael Bartuew.
Russia has launched a “new massive strike” targeting Ukraine’s energy grid, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has said.
He said the attacks were on a “very wide” scale, hitting Ukraine’s regions in the west, centre, south and east.
Nearly 1.5 million households were without electricity, Kyiv said.
But Mr Zelensky said most of the Russian missiles and drones were being shot down, and such strikes would not stop a Ukrainian military advance.
Freeland and Junior need to be told in no uncertain terms that support for Ukraine is contingent on dropping their economy destroying green-scam measures. The rising costs of fuel, heat and food will quickly erase whatever goodwill the public holds for Ukraine.
No one is buying the lie Freeland has been peddling that the Ukraine crisis has created an inexorable demand to abandon relatively cheap and plentiful fossil fuels for unsustainable faux-green solutions.
No one will long tolerate the needless suffering caused them by the Liberal Government’s childish environmental policy a scam now cynically imposed in the name of assisting Ukraine.
Freeland’s act of tearfully draping herself in the Ukraine flag is wearing thin.
I bet Freeland & Junior are wondering if they can convince the public to eat unrecyclable solar panels.
LONDON (AP) — In Romania, protesters blew horns and banged drums to voice their dismay over the rising cost of living. People across France took to the streets to demand pay increases that keep pace with inflation. Czech demonstrators rallied against government handling of the energy crisis. British railway staff and German pilots held strikes to push for better pay as prices rise.
Across Europe, soaring inflation is behind a wave of protests and strikes that underscores growing discontent with the spiraling cost of living and threatens to unleash political turmoil. With British Prime Minister Liz Truss forced to resign less than two months into the job after her economic plans sparked chaos in financial markets and further bruised an ailing economy, the risk to political leaders became clearer as people demand action.
Israeli defense minister Benny Gantz announced this week that Israel would maintain its policy of not supplying weapons to Ukraine. This drew criticism, including charges that Israel has a moral obligation to help Ukraine and is instead foolishly prizing its relations with Russia. Critics also note that Israel’s archenemy Iran is providing weapons and advisors to Russia. They further point out that Israel’s Ukraine arms embargo puts it out of step with Israel’s most important partners in the West, especially the United States.
The Biden administration appears to be willing to turn a blind eye to crimes committed by the Iranian regime and its staunch ally, Russia, presumably not to jeopardize the revival of former President Barack Obama’s disastrous 2015 nuclear deal with Iran, known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA). The deal would enable the ruling regime of Iran – against whom their own people are heroically rebelling – to soon have an unlimited nuclear weapons capability, unlimited missiles with which to deliver the weapons and empower the regime and its terrorist militia, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), with a trillion dollars to wreak more mayhem in the Middle East
Russian-installed authorities ordered all residents of the southern Ukrainian city of Kherson to leave “immediately” ahead of an expected advance by Ukrainian troops waging a counteroffensive to recapture one of the first urban areas Russia took after invading the country.
In a post on the Telegram messaging service, the regional pro-Kremlin administration called on civilians to use boat crossings over a major river to move deeper into Russian-held territory, citing a tense situation on the front and the threat of shelling and alleged “terror attacks” by Kyiv.
France is another country. They do things differently there.
A “tale of two crises” has unfolded in the last few days on the southern and northern shores of the English Channel. Both crises flow, in part, from the high rates of inflation caused by the Ukraine war and the retreat of the Covid pandemic.
It’s a distinct possibility, though there are too many variables to predict it, that if the Republicans take the House there will be some sort of conclusion to the war in Ukraine.
This column has called for just that. Not in a shameful betrayal of the freedom-loving people who’ve fought by our side, like, for example, what the Democrats did to the South Vietnamese after an honorable peace was reached in Paris, but rather in a way that preserves our interests and keeps Joe Biden’s much-ballyhooed nuclear Armageddon away.
“Europeans are absolutely committed to speeding up the green transition,” said Freeland.
“I think we can all understand why the rest of the world is looking at Europe and is saying, ‘let’s move as fast as we can to end our dependence on the petro tyrants.’”
Yea she was so scared she revealed the real agenda.
There are riots in the streets of France over the cost of fuel and heating, same as in Germany and those Dutch farmers aren’t protesting for more lunatic environmental restrictions.
Both sides have their tyrants and for us it’s Freeland and her ilk who abuse the goodwill of their fellow citizens towards Ukraine to advance a freedom robbing economically ruinous green-scam agenda.
Is it me or is it getting just a little too “Weimar” in here?
Supermarkets are being left with empty shelves throughout Germany, as spiralling inflation renders the sale of a wide variety of products unprofitable.
Products ranging from Kellogg’s cornflakes to Coca Cola have disappeared from supermarkets throughout Germany, with many shops being left with empty shelves as products become simply unprofitable to sell due to differentials in inflation.
Even as “kamikaze” drones rain down on Kyiv, the mood over Ukraine is shifting in the US. Between May and September, the share of Americans who are extremely or very concerned about a Ukrainian defeat fell from 55% to 38%. Among Republicans and Republican-leaning independents, 32% say the US is providing too much support for the war — up from 9% in March.
But rifts are emerging within the American establishment as well. The list of high-profile media and policy figures who are starting to question the wisdom of the US strategy in the conflict grows longer every day.
Trudeau says Russian invasion of Ukraine ‘accelerated’ Canada’s move away from oil and gas
With the Ukraine war having helped to drive Canadian fuel prices to historic highs, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Tuesday that the conflict was helping to “accelerate” this country’s shift to renewable energy.
While Trudeau acknowledged that the Russian invasion had caused global demand to surge for Canadian sources of liquefied natural gas (LNG) and crude oil, he predicted that the net effect would be a faster phase-out of the Canadian oil and gas sector.
Hey Junior do you want to end support for Ukraine?
The cost to Ukraine of downing the “kamikaze” drones being fired at its cities vastly exceeds the sums paid by Russia in sourcing and launching the cheap Iranian-made technology, analysis suggests.
A total of 161 Shahed-136 drones, one larger Shahed-129 and four even larger unmanned attack vehicles known as Mohajer-6s have been shot down by Ukrainian air defences in the last month.
With the price of the Iranian-made Shahed-136s standing at €20,000 to €50,000 for each vehicle, the total cost to Russia of the failed drone attacks unleashed on Ukraine in recent weeks is estimated by military analysts at the NGO Molfar to be between $11.66m (£10.36m) and $17.9m (£15.9m).
Russian missiles have destroyed a third of Ukraine’s power stations, President Zelensky said today as citizens were warned to brace for hardship this winter.
Zelensky said the damage had been done in only eight days and had led to “massive blackouts across the country”. On October 10, Russia launched its biggest salvo of missile attacks on Ukraine since the start of the war.
#Ukraine: A powerful Ukrainian 2S7 Pion 203mm self-propelled howitzer seen firing a rare 3O14 cluster projectile, each of which dispenses 24 1.3kg HE FRAG submunitions.
There is a ~90 meter kill radius for uncovered standing targets, at ranges of up to 30km. pic.twitter.com/fJepbGZ4rL
