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...Until it's mandated
Do you want to bet this is where it's heading?
''I'm wearing a mask, why won't you wear one? Are you better than everybody?'' No mask, No entry...Territory!

budaatum:
They are trying to reduce cost. Same as me always turning lights off when I leave a room.

No point wasting one's hard earned money see.

Remember the slogan "wear a mask, save lives"?
Then came the fines, and then, all of a sudden, imprisonment?
Energy and the climate will be the focus of the new virtue signal.
Doing your bit to stick to Putin - Turn off the lights, Pay the high cost for energy

Pubs across UK start lighting candles in response to rising energy costs
You may have heard that energy bills are soaring, which is going to make the months ahead tough for many of us.
And in a bid to keep the lights on, many pubs across the UK are turning the lights off all together.

I would say let the war continue since Russia is badly losing

CoronaVirusRelo:
Hello! I have access to any reputed international news station and it’s not hidden!

Use google is you cannot subscribe to cable TV

The last 3 days has been hell for Russian forces! Ukraine keeps advancing into Putins claimed territories.

Slava Ukraine

The US starts a war with Russia in Ukraine, which causes the EU to sanction itself, resulting in strained relations with Russia, then blows up Nordstrom to gain access to gas supplies for the EU, but don't blame the US
You are aware that US interests are not in your best interests, correct?

At the very least, the EU is aware of it now.

ObamaMessi:
Criticising the US does not matter. Nordstream pipelines has been blown and Germany must buy Natural Gas from US at a higher price to boost US economy. The likes of DerrickzB and seunny4lif would be using tooth pick when Russia finally collapse.

Germany’s economy minister has accused the U.S. and other “friendly” gas supplier states of astronomical prices for their supplies.
He suggested some gas suppliers were profiting from the fallout from the war in Ukraine which has sent global energy prices soaring.

Germany’s economy minister accused the U.S. and other “friendly” gas supplier states of astronomical prices for their supplies, suggesting they were profiting from the fallout from the war in Ukraine.

“Some countries, including friendly ones, sometimes achieve astronomical prices [for their gas]. Of course, that brings with it problems that we have to talk about,” Economy Minister Robert Habeck told regional German paper NOZ in an interview published Wednesday which was translated by NBC News. He called for more solidarity from the U.S. when it comes to assisting its energy-pressed allies in Europe.

“The United States contacted us when oil prices shot up, and the national oil reserves in Europe were tapped as a result. I think such solidarity would also be good for curbing gas prices,” he said.

CNBC contacted the White House for a response to the comments and is awaiting a reply.

Habeck, co-leader of Germany’s Green Party, which is a part of Berlin’s coalition government led by center-left Chancellor Olaf Scholz, said the EU should also do more to address the region’s gas crisis, with countries scrambling for alternative supplies which has pressured prices even more, that was brought about by the war in Ukraine and deteriorating relations with Russia.

The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries agreed on Wednesday to slash output by 2 million barrels of oil a day, delegates said, a move likely to push up already-high global energy prices
Word of a possible U.S. rapprochement with Venezuela is emerging just as OPEC+ countries led by Saudi Arabia and Russia agreed to slash production in response to sagging oil prices, angering the Biden administration.
The Biden admin calls the move a ''hostile act against the US''.
Any shift in U.S. policy that brings back Western oil companies would send a psychological signal to the market that more supply is on the way, the people said.
The Biden administration is preparing to scale down sanctions on Venezuela to allow Chevron Corp. to resume pumping oil there, paving the way for a potential reopening of U.S. and European markets to oil exports from Venezuela
If the deal goes through and Chevron, along with U.S. oil-service companies, are allowed to work in Venezuela again, it would put only a limited amount of new oil on the world market in the short term.

It is noted that the exception is introduced in connection with the need of providing engine fuel for normal operations of government authorities

The caretaker government of Bulgaria lifted sanctions on Russian companies - engine fuel suppliers until the end of 2024 due to the challenging domestic situation with the fuel, the government’s press service said on Wednesday after the Cabinet’s meeting.

"It is authorized to enter into new government contracts and framework agreements with engine fuel suppliers from the Russian Federation after October 10, 2022," the press service said. "The exception is introduced in connection with the need of providing engine fuel for normal operations of government authorities and other agencies for purpose of protecting the public order, life, and health of Bulgarian citizens and national security. It is in effect until December 31, 2024," the press service added.

Lukoil is the main Russian operator of engine fuel in Bulgaria. It owns a refinery and a retail site chain in the country.
Belgium and Italy also received certain exceptions from the planned ban on Russian steel import for a period of up to two years. Malta was granted a longer period to set the Russian oil price cap, sources said.

Ukrainian sponsored [US Congress funded] ''kill list'' website Mirotvorets or ''Peacekeeper'' have just added Ugandan President on their website.


https://myrotvorets.center/

Well, I think they don't think. They are told what to think, then they repeat what they were told

owobokiri:
They think it's a childs play..

Further European Union sanctions led to the premature revocation of the export license from South Stream Transport BV The firm operates as the operator of the Turkish Stream gas pipeline.

According to representatives of the organization, throughout 2022, Western countries regularly expanded the list of restrictions. This was done to limit the supply of materials and services that could benefit Moscow.

“As a result of the imposition of new sanctions, on September 18, 2022, the export license of South Stream Transport BV, the operator of the Turkish Stream offshore gas pipeline, through which Russian gas is transported through the Black Sea to consumers in Turkey and European countries, was prematurely revoked,” the statement said. .

However, this should not affect gas transportation in general. The company explained that sanctions did not affect this process. At the moment, you can not be afraid of the termination of the supply of blue fuel to Turkish and European households with enterprises.

People are quiet because they believe in "Black and White," with no gray areas, Good and Evil, Saints, and Demons. They believe they are on the good team, fighting against all the evil in the world. People are branded and placed in baskets.
Adults recognize that the world is more complex than that. You can force a good person to do bad things, and Russia was forced to go to war with Ukraine.

While sabotage is a part of the war, no one bombs their own source of income.

owobokiri:
Folks are now quiet and no one is complaining anymore.
What happened here is pure economic terrorism. The economic structure of a country was INTENTIONALLY attacked without any provocation. The US attacked this pipeline in other to wean Europe of Russian oil and force Europe to buy from The US. The first to attack is The US. They're attacking a nuclear powered nation going through a sizeable economic difficulty as a result of a war instigated by the same US!

It's important to understand that this attack has already forced The Russians to take certain chilling actions, one of which was the immediate deployment of their nuclear attack submarines! According to a report today, NATO us reporting that it has lost track of most of the 6 nuclear capable submarines deployed in the last 24 hours by Russia! These are very very dangerous times but most people don't seem to understand that Americas ego wars are about to unravel humanity in Russia.

Sabotage of Nordstream 1&2 a ''tremendous opportunity'' to wean the EU off Russian energy

The US is now the leading supplier of LNG to Europe- Blinken

Yes, it all started while Obama was in the office with Biden as his vice- president.
Biden was in charge of Ukraine. The war died down when Trump became president because he didn't fund it
NATO has been training and arming Ukrainians against the just liberated regions.
It was a way to get Russia to react.

phorget:
War ranging from 2017? So who and who are fighting the war?

Hear! Hear!

DOTian:
Everything the West owns today comes from wars, genocide, ethnic cleansing and looting. From Australia to the Americas, the west has depopulated humanity in the most heinous ways possible, just to take over and pontificate. No one remembers the real owners of Australia, the aboriginals, they have been almost wiped out by the same people who will be preaching to us today about civility and law and order. The same with the red indians of America. A whole continent of Africa has been turned into a slave camp because somehow, some western leaders have managed to define the development of the continent as a direct threat to their prosperity.

Fact is that war mongering and bloodletting have become so lucrative for the west that they have basically developed a serious economy around massacres. International issues that could be so easily solved through diplomatic means are intentionally made to look unsolvable in order to allow enough reasons to bomb and main. It has become so attractive to Western leaders that I'm starting to think that these are a different specie of humans. Millions of children starved to death in Iraq, Biafra, Libya, Syria, Iran, North Korea and now Ukraine as the west tries desperately and ruthlessly to achieve their hedonistic goals by gulping blood. It has to stop.. They won't stop unless they are stopped!

And it won't stop until the West suffers a resounding defeat. I hope that happens in Russia.

Your comment screams ''I'm ignorant'' But are you that ignorant?
The war in Ukraine has been raging since 2017, Russia went into Ukraine in 2022
Look, I know people were living their lives, aloof from global world affairs until 2020, but at least get yourself well informed before wading into deep waters
NATO came to Africa like a hawk and killed Ghadafi but to you, the West is innocent
Intelligent people in China understand that the same knife that was used to slaughter a cow will be used in dissecting the ignorant fowl.
They refused to join forces with the West.
Africans are still ignorant of the fate that awaits them

phorget:
But NATO did not start the war nah, Russia started a war and now you are here blaming the innocent west...

As is customary, dimwits and halfwits will never debate the topic of the post.

SocialJustice:
Do you have light? Have you eaten?

Hopium and Copium

Toktee:
Fighting entire west?
And do you know how many countries helping Russia?

Putin's embarrassment will sound like bomb blast.

War is a financial investment.
If there is any indication that the billions drained from the Western economy will not bear fruit, the taps will quickly run dry.
The West and NATO are hedging their bet that they will defeat Russia and share the spoils of victory.
The vast natural resources of Russia are the envy of warmongering bureaucrats.
On their chessboard, the well-being of Ukrainians or Libyans is unimportant.
They are merely pawns in a game designed to emotionally manipulate the rest of the world into supporting a plan to steal natural resources from any country under the guise of caring for our humanity.
People talk about LNG, but why should they buy it from you when they can destroy the country and get the natural resources for free?
Knowing that my country could be next makes me feel sorry for ordinary Ukrainians.
May the West/NATO suffer losses wherever they invest in a war.

According to the EU’s top diplomat, this decision by the Russian government makes it "practically impossible for the war to end."

The fact that the Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics and the Zaporozhye and Kherson Regions joined Russia makes ending the conflict in Ukraine practically impossible, EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Josep Borrell told Spain’s 24 Horas TV channel on Saturday.

You made a lot of sense but I'm starting to think that NATO wants war with Russia.
They want to lie to the whole world in supporting the war, that's why they have been engaged in a war of propaganda, which will eventually lead to a hot war. They've not been doing great in the propaganda war, especially in the Middle East and Africa. Asia to some extent.
Ukraine agreed to conditions proposed by Erdogan back in March but Boris Johnson had to travel to Kyiv to get Zelensky to renegade the deal.

Michaeltreasure:
Although, Russia isn't a saint, I personally believe NATO is deliberately aggravating this war channeling weapons to Ukraine and using the media to clamour support from their populace.
If truly they care for Ukraine, they could have ran after dialogue or come to Ukraine's defense directly by sending boots on the ground. Presently, Russia is under complete Western sanctions. Thus, they have virtually nothing to lose per say. Even if Putin decides to invade Georgia or Finland today, there's practically nothing NATO can do besides condemnation and sending of billions of dollars of weapons to the victim nation, just like in the case of Ukraine. Putin knows this. Russia with the sanctions is presently invincible. They can do and undo. The only option left on the table is outright war, and we all know what that means: MAD!
If the West truly care for the Ukrainians as they claim, in this situation the best is dialogue and if possible concession of the Eastern Donbass republics to Russia.
Remember the war isn't fought on Russian soil, neither are Russian infrastructure being smoothered daily! The genuine losers is Ukraine!

Stoltenberg insisted that NATO would continue to arm Ukraine “in their efforts to liberate” the Moscow-held regions as Kyiv vows to press an offensive.
“We are vigilant, we are sharing information, and we have conveyed very clearly to Russia that there will be severe consequences if they use nuclear forces against Ukraine,” Stoltenberg said.[The US has bioweapons labs strewn across Ukraine, but Russia will be blamed if a chemical weapon is used, just as it was blamed for sabotaging the Nordstrom pipelines]
“This land grab is illegal and illegitimate. NATO allies do not and will not recognize any of this territory as part of Russia,” NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg said.
NATO has refused to intervene militarily in the war in Ukraine for fear of unleashing a confrontation with Moscow that could spiral into nuclear war.

NATO allies have instead sent billions of dollars worth of arms to Ukraine to help it defend itself against Moscow’s attack.
In response to Putin’s declaration, Ukraine announced that it was formally applying to join NATO.

Stoltenberg remained non-committal on the bid, recalling that a decision on membership required “consensus” of all 30 allies.

“Our focus now is on providing immediate arm support to Ukraine to help Ukraine defend itself against the Russian brutal invasion,” he said.
Despite the application from Kyiv, there appear few prospects of Ukraine joining NATO in the foreseeable future.
Stoltenberg also addressed leaks in the Nord Stream pipelines running from Russia to Europe, calling them “attacks” and backing a probe to find those responsible.

He said that NATO naval and air forces in the region showed the alliance’s “readiness to protect” its critical infrastructure.

You are right

topcatking:
He's not wrong.

The Russian president also spoke about the West's "insane" recognition of LGBTQ

"Do we really want, here, in our country, in Russia, instead of 'mum' and 'dad,' to have 'parent No. 1,' 'parent No. 2,' 'No. 3'?" Putin said.

“The repression of freedom is taking on the outlines of a ‘reverse religion,’ of real Satanism,” he said, adding that the open attitudes toward gender identity are a “denial of man.” In a question posed to “all citizens of Russia,” he asked,
‘Do we really want to see perversions that lead to degradation and extinction imposed on children in our schools from the earliest years, for it to be drilled into them that there are supposedly some genders besides women and men and offered the chance to undergo sex change operations?’ he asked. ‘This is a complete denial of humanity, the overthrow of faith and traditional values,’ he added.

and he warned Russians to save their “future generations” from the West: “We have to protect them from enslavement and experiments that can cripple their bodies and souls.”

“Ukraine is ready for dialogue with Russia, but with a different Russian president,” Mr Zelensky said.[Coup wink, wink]

Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky has said his nation is submitting an “accelerated” application to join the NATO military alliance.
“We are de facto allies. This has already been achieved. De facto, we have already completed our path to NATO. De facto, we have already proven interoperability with the Alliance’s standards, they are real for Ukraine – real on the battlefield and in all aspects of our interaction.

“We trust each other, we help each other and we protect each other. This is what the Alliance is. De facto.

“Today, Ukraine is applying to make it de jure. Under a procedure consistent with our significance for the protection of our entire community. Under an accelerated procedure.”

Mr Zelensky was seen signing document flanked by his prime minister and the speaker of parliament in a video posted to Telegram on Friday afternoon.
He finished his speech saying: “We are completing the dismantling of Russian influence on Ukraine, Europe and the world. Glory to Ukraine!”

The Biden administration on Wednesday dismissed as “Russian disinformation” suggestions that the United States was behind the apparent sabotage of two major Russia-to-Europe natural gas pipelines under the Baltic Sea.

“The idea that the United States was in any way involved in the apparent sabotage of these pipelines is preposterous,” State Department spokesman Ned Price said during a briefing. “It is nothing more than a function of Russian disinformation and should be treated as such.”

Pentagon Says “No Evidence” US Involved In Nord Stream Pipeline Attack

Despite accusations flying that the United States could have been involved in the blasts that reportedly could scupper the pipelines permanently, and without any investigation having taken place, Journalists like Jennifer Griffin have solved the case.

“There is no evidence or indication the US was involved in any way with the Nordstream 2 pipeline explosions,” Griffin tweeted.
“Earlier this year, Griffin put out a story that Russia bombed the Babi Yair holocaust memorial in Ukraine.”

The reporting was later debunked after an Israeli journalist visited the site and found it to be completely unscathed.
“When news came out about US Biolabs in Ukraine, Griffin also simply repeated Pentagon talking points to dismiss the story as a nothingburger,” writes Menahan.

According to the Russian embassy in Denmark: "The unsubstantiated accusations and assumptions that are now being made everywhere are intended to create information noise and prevent an objective and impartial investigation.”

Knowing your problem is one step toward resolving it.
It is one thing to motivate people to strive for greatness regardless of the cards they are dealt.
Your take is that the "fool" should never acknowledge or point to the source of his misery. That's ''anti-American"'

joyandfaith:
It is only a fool that keeps blaming others for his misery.

Putin is following the footsteps of the US ie Kosovo etc

Allison012:
Dictator putin

Russia has recognized the independence of the Zaporozhye and Kherson regions, according to Russian President Vladimir Putin’s decrees published by the official database of legislative information on Friday.

One document recognizes "state sovereignty and independence of the Zaporozhye Region," the other - of the Kherson region. Both decrees come into force on the day they were signed.

According to the documents, the Russian president’s decision is based on universal principles and norms of the international law, acknowledging and confirming the principle of equality and self-determination of peoples enshrined by the UN Charter, and with regard to the will of the people expressed in a referendum.

According to Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov, a ceremony to sign accession treaties with four new territories - the people’s republics of Donetsk and Lugansk (DPR and LPR), as well as the Zaporozhye and Kherson regions - will be held in the Kremlin at 15:00 Moscow time.

Russia recognized the independence of the DPR and the LPR in February.

I know that you're happy that the US has taken over the oil/gas supply to the EU
US interests are not in your interest but no one told you. It's in the US interest to keep Africa poor, so it can be controlled but no one told you, so when the US goes after infrastructure in your country, you automatically think it's because they care about you.
China builds railways, ports ETC in countries they are trying to wield their influence, name an infrastructure in your country built by the US.
I'll wait

seunowa:
I know that u are pained to realized the fact that Russia domination of gas sector is coming to an end

That statement is what the Russians call "mirroring"'
Accuse the other, of what you're doing or plan to do
The US on the other hand uses whatever leverage it has for influence and they will wield over the EU

HenryTimes:
During the opening ceremony for the Baltic Pipe on Tuesday, Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said: “The era of Russian domination in the field of gas is coming to an end, the era that was marked by blackmail, threats and extortion.”

This is the answer to your question. It is not about price but about Putin blackmailing, threatening and getting away with what ever rubbish he does because of their so called CHEAP GAS to Western Europe.

Oh, Black man! US interest is not in your very interest.

ZUBY77:
Is it your money?
So they must depend on Russia forever because of cheap Gas?
I also read that the pipeline is from Norway which is a short distance.

At what price? Its never going to be cheap when you factor ''shipping'' from the US
Don't let anyone fool you, the whole idea is for the US to get in on the trade

ZUBY77:
good news