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One week long of extreme cold, and Germany would run out of natural gas reserves. According to a study carried out for the Economic Ministry back in 2015 by the Becker Büttner Held consultancy, gas storage facilities must be at least 40% full by Feb. 1 of each year in order to suffice for seven days of very cold winter […]

A new study by researchers at the Dutch Wageningen University & Research confirms that the European Union’s “farm to fork” and biodiversity strategy, a key component of its “Green Deal”, will lead to a severe drop in production, a doubling of food imports and skyrocketing prices. That is hardly surprising given the main goals of the farm to fork (“F2F”) […]

A government report released late last year warned that the lights could go out in Switzerland by 2025, as the amount of electricity produced by renewables, solar, wind and even hydro-power will not make up for the loss of shutting down all nuclear power stations by 2035. Prospects also look dim on further imports from the European Union, due to […]

The Geneva-based Transmutex company is working on a new generation of nuclear power plant that burns thorium rather than uranium. As the company’s website explains, it is a “breakthrough energy process” based on using particle accelerators and thorium, which occurs abundantly in rocks. It is inherently safe, burns existing long-lived waste, is cost competitive and produces no carbon emissions. A […]

All four party leaders of the non socialist opposition in Sweden, including the Christian Deomocrats, Moderates and Liberals, which make up nearly half of the Swedish parliament, co-signed an op ed in Svenska Dagbladet (Feb.7), calling for the development of nuclear power. In light of skyrocketing electricity prices, and the expected doubling of consumption by 2045, they propose to redefine […]

In a move that is without doubt causing panic among trans-Atlantic financial and geopolitical elites, on Feb. 6 Argentine President Alberto Fernández met with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing to sign a joint statement announcing Argentina’s joining China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI)—the 20th nation of the Ibero-American/Caribbean region to do so. This came three days after Fernández’s very […]

For the past two months, mainstream Western media have reported day in, day out, that Russia has amassed 100,000 troops on the border with Ukraine, who are prepared to invade at any moment. But over the past week, those reports have been vigorously denied by the leaders of Ukraine themselves, including the President, the Defense Minister and the Foreign Minister, […]

No one could possibly have missed the mantra, faithfully recited by Western politicians and media alike, that the the 100,000 Russian troops at Ukraine’s border are about to invade the country. What does the Ukrainian Defense Minister have to say about it? “The situation on the ukranien-Russia border at this time is no different from what it was in the […]

Officials of the Biden Administration and of the British government have made crystal clear over the past week that their ultimate aim is to stop the industrialization of Russia and thus irreparably weaken the state. From the geopolitical standpoint, Ukraine is but a useful pawn in the game, to be dropped if and when need be. Seen from Washington: Two […]

On Jan. 20, Jeremy Grantham, founder of the asset management firm GMO, warned that a “superbubble”, comprised of stocks, housing and commodities, will soon pop, wiping out $35 trillion in assets. This would be the fourth superbubble collapse in the last one hundred years, he wrote, after the stock bubbles which imploded in 1929 and 2000, and the housing bubble […]