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Germany moves closer to rationing gas as Russia cuts supply.


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2022 Jun 23, 10:01am   7,889 views  73 comments

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German economy minister says the step reflected the ‘significant deterioration of the gas supply situation’.

Germany has moved closer to rationing gas as it raised the alert level under an emergency plan after Russia slashed supplies to the country.

“Gas is now a scarce commodity in Germany,” economy minister Robert Habeck told reporters at a press conference on Thursday.

Triggering the second “alarm” level under its action plan brings Germany a step closer to the third and final stage that could see gas rationing in Europe’s top economy.

The development reflected a “significant deterioration of the gas supply situation”, Habeck said.

Germany, like several other European countries, is highly reliant on Russian energy imports to meet its needs.

Russian energy giant Gazprom last week reduced supplies to Germany via the Nord Stream pipeline by 60 percent due to what the company said was a delayed repair. But Germany has brushed aside the technical justification for the move, instead calling it a “political decision”.

Russia was using gas “as a weapon” against Germany in retaliation for the West’s support for Ukraine following Moscow’s invasion, Habeck said, with the aim of “destroying” European unity.

Al Jazeera’s Dominic Kane, reporting from Berlin, said the implications for the government’s decision will vary between household consumers and industry.

“For those residential homeowners, for people living in rented accommodation it does not mean that their gas supply is threatened right now,” Kane said.

“For those consumers in industries it is more serious because the government here is saying ‘We believe that a time is coming where we will have to potentially ration gas supply’ and bear in mind that during summer in Europe, residential gas users are not going to be heating their houses much, but the industrial sector will use and is using a large amount of gas the entire year round,” he added.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/6/23/germany-raises-gas-alert-level-after-russia-cuts-supply

Germany unveils list of military equipment and weapons supplied to Ukraine

After several months of discussions on the military aid brought to Ukraine, Germany finally unveils a list of military equipment and weapons delivered to Ukraine, as well as the combat vehicles that will be delivered to the Ukrainian armed forces in the next few weeks.

In a united response to Russia's war on Ukraine, which started on 24 February 2022, EU (European Union) Member States agreed to supply Ukraine with military equipment, including equipment designed to deliver lethal force.

As of 16 May 2022, European Member States had agreed to make available €1.5 billion through the European Peace Facility (EPF) to fund assistance measures aimed at supporting the capabilities and resilience of the Ukrainian armed forces.

A further €500 million in assistance was proposed on 13 May 2022 and is likely to be adopted very soon, bringing the amount up to €2 billion. Accordingly, the EPF will pay for some of the equipment Member States have provided or will provide to Ukraine. This is a first in the EU's history, which has never jointly financed the provision of weapons to a third country.

Today, Germany is the second country in Europe that has supplied the largest military aid to Ukraine, with a total of 1,342 weapon systems delivered to the Ukrainian armed forces, behind Poland which has provided 1,470 pieces of military equipment

List of military equipment and weapons already delivered to Ukraine:

- 3,000 Panzerfaust 3 anti-tank rockets
- 14,900 anti-tank mines
- 500 STINGER man-portable anti-aircraft missiles
- 2,700 STRELA
- 16 million rounds of handgun ammunition
- 50 bunker fists
- 100 MG 3 machine guns with 500 spare barrels and bolts
- 100,000 hand grenades
- 5,300 explosive charges
- 100,000 meters of detonating cord and 100,000 detonators
- 350,000 detonators
- 23,000 combat helmets
- 15 pallets of clothing
- 178 motor vehicles (trucks , mini buses, SUVs)
- 100 tents
- 12 power generators
- 6 pallets of material for explosive ordnance disposal
- 125 binoculars
- 1,200 hospital beds
- 18 pallets of medical supplies, 60 surgical lights
- Protective clothing, surgical masks
- 10,000 sleeping bags
- 600 shooting glasses
- 1 radio frequency system
- 3,000 field telephones with 5,000 reels of field cord and carrying equipment
- 1 field hospital (joint project with Estonia)
- 353 night vision goggles
- 4 electronic anti-drone devices
- 165 binoculars
- Medical supplies (including rucksacks, first-aid kits)
- 38 laser range finder
- Fuel diesel and petrol (current delivery)
- 10 tons of AdBlue
- 500 pieces of wound dressings to stop bleeding
- 500 pieces of food rations
- Food: 2,025 pallets (68 truckloads) with 360,000 rations one-pack (EPa)
- MiG-29 spare parts
- 30 armored vehicles

List of military equipment and weapons to be delivered to Ukraine in the next few weeks:

- 10,000 rounds of artillery ammunition
- 53,000 rounds of anti-aircraft ammunition
- 5.8 million rounds of handgun ammunition
- 7 Panzerhaubitzen 2000 155mm tracked self-propelled howitzers including adaptation, training and spare parts (joint project with the Netherlands)
- 5,000 combat helmets
- 8 mobile ground radars and thermal imaging devices
- 8 recon drones
- 10 protected vehicles
- 7 jammers
- 8 electronic anti-drone devices
- 4 mobile, remote-controlled and protected demining devices
- 65 refrigerators for medical supplies
- 1 vehicle decontamination point
- 100 auto-injectors
- 14 anti-drone sensors and jammers
- 10 anti-drone cannons
- 32 Recon Drones
- 54 M113 tracked armored personnel carriers with armament (systems from Denmark, conversion financed by Germany)
- 30 GEPARD anti-aircraft self-propelled tracked armored vehicles including around 6,000 rounds of anti-aircraft ammunition
- Air Defense System IRIS-T SLM
- Artillery detection radar COBRA
- 80 Toyota pickup
- 3 MARS M270 MLRS Multiple Launch Rocket Systems with ammunition
- 100,000 first aid kits
- 22 trucks

https://www.armyrecognition.com/defense_news_june_2022_global_security_army_industry/germany_unveils_list_of_military_equipment_and_weapons_supplied_to_ukraine.html

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24   Patrick   2023 Mar 11, 11:56pm  

https://kunstler.com/clusterfuck-nation/everything-all-at-once/


Meanwhile, our Intel Community has discovered that it was… well might have been… Ukraine, after all, who blew up the Nord Stream pipelines — with help from some outside parties (namely, America’s Intel Community).

But waitagoshdarnminnit! How does that get anybody off-the-hook for the costly caper? NATO supposedly backs Ukraine, right? And Germany is the European leader of NATO, right? So you’re telling me Ukraine blew up a systemically-important asset of a leading country that supports Ukraine? Something doesn’t add up in that-there rebus puzzle. I’ll spare you the mental labor. The US Spook Industrial Complex is just laying another trip on you. And the “you” includes poor bamboozled Germany, led by arguably the biggest sap ever elected by a supposedly advanced nation, Olaf Scholz, whose name will evermore ring through history as a synonym for “chump.”

Sooner or later, one or both of the following must happen: the German people will dump this chump and / or his replacement will find a way to bow out of Germany’s commitment to America’s foolish proxy war against Russia, leading post-haste to the disintegration of NATO, and leaving America’s army of vaccine-injured transsexuals to reconquer the Donbas and Crimea, led by Tony Blinken in an off-the-shoulder cocktail dress.
25   AmericanKulak   2023 Mar 11, 11:59pm  

Reality says

Lenin was shipped from Switzerland to Russia

We know who did this, it was the Kaiser's High Command frustrated that the Liberal Interim government wasn't ending the Eastern Front War fast enough. The participants wrote books and bragged about it.
26   richwicks   2023 Mar 12, 12:07am  

RWSGFY says

What for? Pukin stopped supplying natgas to Europe long before the explosions.


No they didn't.

This a complete lie.

If they had done this, what would be the purpose of blowing up the pipeline? You don't even have to do research on this, you don't have to verify the energy exports of Russia to the EU for this, you just have to think.

If there were no exports going to Europe at the time, we wouldn't be getting pictures of bubbles of natural gas in the ocean even.

Don't be dishonest.
27   richwicks   2023 Mar 12, 12:09am  

RWSGFY says

Pukin should've learned from his idol - Joseph Stalin - who said "nobody is irrepleacable".

Turns out nobody really needs CCCP for anything and the whole gamble of "we can do whatever we want because everybody is our energy bitches" had failed miserably.


Look, subsidizing resources using tax money to create an illusion of plenty, is what the USSR did. Now the EU is doing it. It will just create shortages in the long term. Centralized control in economics is always a disaster.
28   richwicks   2023 Mar 12, 12:10am  

Eric Holder says

LOL, I fucking told you so - it's the fucking CCCP who blew up the pipelines. They had the motive ("freeze Europe"), the means (in-pipe "pigs") and absebse of effort to repair was the final piece of the puzzle. And now it's confirmed - they are not going to repair it. Open and shut.


OR, they could have just turned off the tap at the source, and used that as blackmail.

Too bad the leaders of Russia are so fucking stupid, and didn't realize they could do that, rather than make it impossible for them to use leverage.
29   richwicks   2023 Mar 12, 12:13am  

Patrick says


https://kunstler.com/clusterfuck-nation/everything-all-at-once/


Meanwhile, our Intel Community has discovered that it was… well might have been… Ukraine, after all, who blew up the Nord Stream pipelines — with help from some outside parties (namely, America’s Intel Community).

But waitagoshdarnminnit! How does that get anybody off-the-hook for the costly caper? NATO supposedly backs Ukraine, right? And Germany is the European leader of NATO, right? So you’re telling me Ukraine blew up a systemically-important asset of a leading country that supports Ukraine? Something doesn’t add up in that-there rebus puzzle. I’ll spare you the mental labor. The US Spook Industrial Complex is just laying another trip on you. And the “you” includes poor bamboozled Germany, led by arguably the biggest sap ever elected by a supposedly advanced nati...




NOOOOOooo.

The US did it, or the British did it with US compliance, it doesn't matter.

They are just coming up with a better story, because their first story was so fucking stupid and nobody with even the most basic common sense believes it.

They should have ALWAYS said it was Ukraine, after all, they are in a war, and they want to starve Russia of monetary resources (although they are already under sanctions anyhow, and they can't technically buy anything from Europe anyhow) - however it would have been more believable, and justifiable than the US engaging in terrorism against both Russia and the EU.
30   AD   2023 Mar 12, 12:17am  

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does not seem like there is a crisis as far as LNG export price ... and now that spring is near, there is not as much concern about eastern and northern Europeans not having electricity or freezing due to natural gas scarcity

also look at Ycharts for price of propane and natural gas...seems like there is more glut than shortages



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31   Eric Holder   2023 Mar 29, 12:49pm  

HAS THE BODYCOUNT BEEN RELEASED YET? ARE THEY TRYING TO HIDE THE TRUTH? OF COURSE THEY ARE, MOTHERFUCKING MOTHERFUCKERS THEY!!!
32   Eric Holder   2023 May 17, 4:01pm  

Gas prices in Europe is 1/10th of its peak when Pukin banned Soviet gas exports:



The cretin truly knows nothing, not even his idol's famous saying: "nobody is irreplaceable".
33   mell   2023 May 17, 4:14pm  

Energy prices in many European countries are still through the roof, but that's mostly due to their "green" politics. Obviously gas prices come down in the summer, it's hot now in most of Europe. Also many have restarted old nuclear reactors or built and started new ones (such as Finland) to not rely on natural gas. This graph is similar seasonally each year, but many couldn't afford it when it spiked unusually high in the fall/winter. Body count was always exaggerated, but many harmed their health by using firewood and burning other shit.
34   EBGuy   2023 May 17, 4:42pm  

Wonder how much the Chinese are paying these days? Europe moving closer (though still double) historic range...


35   Eric Holder   2023 May 17, 5:14pm  

mell says

This graph is similar seasonally each year


EBGuy has posted much wider version of that graph and it's not similar at all. The "war criminal cretin spike" is clear but now it's gone.
36   mell   2023 May 17, 5:35pm  

Eric Holder says

mell says


This graph is similar seasonally each year


EBGuy has posted much wider version of that graph and it's not similar at all. The "war criminal cretin spike" is clear but now it's gone.

The seasonal adjustments are similar. You expected it to stay high even after demand fades in the summer?
39   HeadSet   2023 Sep 24, 2:39pm  

I wonder if Germany would be criticized if they repaired the Nordstream pipe.
40   richwicks   2023 Sep 24, 6:38pm  

HeadSet says

I wonder if Germany would be criticized if they repaired the Nordstream pipe.


The United States would just blow it up again.

Germany ought to bomb Washington DC and Langley Virginia. They'd be criticized, of course, but they have every right to do it. Bombing the Nordstream was an act of war by the United States, and it was done by our intelligence agencies.
41   AD   2023 Sep 24, 10:48pm  

richwicks says

The United States would just blow it up again.


I loved thinking about those smug German officials who smirked at Trump when he was stating how dependent they are on Russian natural gas and how the are not spending their fair share of NATO military costs.

And I wish I could see the same German officials when Anthony Blinken wryly stated the Nordstream pipeline accident created a great opportunity for America to sell LNG to Germany.
42   richwicks   2023 Sep 25, 8:11pm  

ad says

I loved thinking about those smug German officials who smirked at Trump when he was stating how dependent they are on Russian natural gas and how the are not spending their fair share of NATO military costs.


Well, they were too stupid to realize that the United States is their enemy. They were too dumb to realize that the US is run by a mafia.
43   AD   2023 Sep 25, 9:39pm  

richwicks says

Well, they were too stupid to realize that the United States is their enemy. They were too dumb to realize that the US is run by a mafia.


Well they can't say anything now because there is a Democrat in the White House. They cannot complain nor try to work around the Russian sanctions.

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44   AmericanKulak   2023 Sep 26, 1:00am  

richwicks says


Well, they were too stupid to realize that the United States is their enemy. They were too dumb to realize that the US is run by a mafia.

Oh, they know pretty good how to run the EU Regs to keep out US Imports. The FRG did so starting in the 50s, long before we were irradiating food. They have a new excuse everytime a rare decision goes our way.

They're really great and letting the US pay for it's defense while their handful of soldiers, a shadow of just the FRG side of the Cold War military, train with cardboard cutouts. Pocketing the difference to make themselves more competitive. And backseat driving US policy and playing the "We're more reasonable game"

Demanding for two decades that Poland and Hungary shut down coal plants and coal mines while importing Russian gas with the fig leaf of handouts for rich landowners with useless wind leases. Grossly blasting through EU budgetary caps during the 90s reunification, but demanding it be strictly held during the Financial Crisis by other Euro states.

Strangling Greece for the 2nd time in a century.

The CDU is the top NWO party of Germany. Love how Merkel went from being a major executive in Communist organs one day, and two weeks after the Berlin Wall fell remade herself as center-right. Though her pastor father was a Hard Left Mainline.

We need a better relationship with Russia and an Anglo Alliance, and fence in China and Europe.
46   richwicks   2023 Oct 21, 11:00pm  

AmericanKulak says

We need a better relationship with Russia and an Anglo Alliance, and fence in China and Europe.


IF the US finally got some people that were working on behalf of this nation, they would forge a good relationship with Russia and Germany, and start working with the old Eastern Bloc nations to be developed and getting rid of the corruption there. The US would do the same in the US. Europe we can ignore, we should work to develop South America as well.

We could be a tremendous nation and society, but we have psychopaths in charge.
47   AD   2023 Nov 19, 3:03pm  

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According to this article, Portugal generated electricity with only solar, wind and hydropower for one week in late October:

https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/clean-energy/portugal-just-ran-on-100-renewables-for-six-days-in-a-row

This works great when you don't have to run air conditioners or need a natural gas furnace to provide the BTU's to keep your home warm such as in northern Germany.

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48   DOGEWontAmountToShit   2023 Nov 19, 3:55pm  

ad says

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According to this article, Portugal generated electricity with only solar, wind and hydropower for one week in late October:

https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/clean-energy/portugal-just-ran-on-100-renewables-for-six-days-in-a-row

This works great when you don't have to run air conditioners or need a natural gas furnace to provide the BTU's to keep your home warm such as in northern Germany.

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Europeans (California too) engage in all kinds of accounting chicanery when it comes to these types of numbers, fyi.
49   The_Deplorable   2023 Nov 19, 5:33pm  

ad says
"According to this article, Portugal generated electricity with only solar, wind and hydropower for one week in late October:
https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/clean-energy/portugal-just-ran-on-100-renewables-for-six-days-in-a-row "

This is not true - this is a lie because you cannot run the electrical grid on solar and wind - the grid needs a very steady voltage - something the solar and wind cannot provide.

Therefore solar and wind need to have backup turbines equal in power to the installed wattage of these so-called renewables.

Question: Who provides these backup gas turbines that make wind and solar viable?
Answer: The taxpayers and consumers.

That is why solar and wind is the most expensive electricity on the planet.
50   HeadSet   2023 Nov 19, 7:24pm  

The_Deplorable says

This is not true - this is a lie because you cannot run the electrical grid on solar and wind - the grid needs a very steady voltage - something the solar and wind cannot provide.

But the hydro can. I suspect it was really hydro carrying the main load with some inputs from wind and solar.
51   The_Deplorable   2023 Nov 19, 8:39pm  

HeadSet says
"...I suspect it was really hydro carrying the main load with some inputs from wind and solar."

According to the link... "The gas plants were there, waiting to dispatch energy, should it be needed. It was not, because the wind was blowing... And we were producing with a positive impact to the consumers because the prices have dropped dramatically, almost to zero." [1]

Again, this is a lie because the grid needs a very steady voltage - something the solar plants and wind plants cannot provide.

Note that the consumers pay for the installation cost of the backup gas turbines - $1 million per mw - they pay for the operation and maintenance of these backup turbines and they pay subsidies to the frauds who installed the wind and solar plants. And to add insult to injury, we are told by the frauds that the most expensive electricity on the planet is free.

[1] https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/clean-energy/portugal-just-ran-on-100-renewables-for-six-days-in-a-row
52   RWSGFY   2024 Jan 10, 10:09am  

Residents in the Moscow region have expressed their outrage after the heating in their homes stopped working amid sub-zero temperatures as their top official reportedly took more than a week to speak publicly about the incident.

At least 21,000 residents of around 180 high-rise buildings in the city of Podolsk, around 30 miles south of central Moscow, were left freezing after the power was knocked out in their homes when a heating main burst at the Klimovsk Specialized Ammunition Plant on Thursday January 4, Russian media reported.
53   RWSGFY   2024 Jan 10, 10:11am  





There's an increasing number of shocking images from towns around Moscow appearing on social media due to this crisis. Freezing water in stairwells, cracked radiators, and iced-over walls and windowsills inside apartments serve as visual proof of the combined effects of a heating network failure and severe frost.


https://twitter.com/igorsushko/status/1743923867025097127

Moscow is freezing: Most in the suburb of Klimovsk (population ~60,000) still have no heat because the only boiler house failed. This is happening all over the Moscow suburbs.


"""While Putin spends billions of rubles on missiles to attack Ukraine, people freeze in their own homes in regions of Russia that are supposedly 'rising from its knees'"

USSR is now directing ~40% of government spendinng on their "little victorious war".
54   WookieMan   2024 Jan 10, 10:29am  

RWSGFY says

"""While Putin spends billions of rubles on missiles to attack Ukraine, people freeze in their own homes in regions of Russia that are supposedly 'rising from its knees'"

USSR is now directing ~40% of government spendinng on their "little victorious war".

This was obvious as can be. With sanctions, Russia cannot get help. They don't know how to run their own infrastructure without Western help. This isn't even debatable. Russia is toast. And this will affect Europe. If we can ship Nat Gas Europe might be fine. This winter might suck though. My SIL is in Germany now. It's not bad now. We'll see in February and March.

This was a proxy war and Russia has lost already. They could theoretically toss a nuke, but they'd be fucked. Russia made a massive mistake with this invasion. There was no point. They had their warm water port. Most their Nacy is toast in the Black Sea. They're killing more Ukrainians if we're doing a body count, but Russia is losing a shit ton of productive men. It's over. Russia is done and I'm not sure what it looks like on the back end.
55   Bd6r   2024 Jan 10, 10:38am  

RWSGFY says



Residents in the Moscow region have expressed their outrage after the heating in their homes stopped working amid sub-zero temperatures as their top official reportedly took more than a week to speak publicly about the incident.

At least 21,000 residents of around 180 high-rise buildings in the city of Podolsk, around 30 miles south of central Moscow, were left freezing after the power was knocked out in their homes when a heating main burst at the Klimovsk Specialized Ammunition Plant on Thursday January 4, Russian media reported.



BUT I READ ON PATNET THAT EUROPE WILL FREEZE IN 2022, THEN 2023!!!

These PATNET Russia specialist predictions have eerily similar success rates to Branch covidian prediction successes about vaccinations.
57   WookieMan   2024 Jan 11, 11:27pm  

The_Deplorable says




https://twitter.com/TuckerCarlson/status/1745219839889654264

My SIL is in Germany now and has been for the last month. This is a big nothing burger. AG is out of season in Germany and farmers have free time to bitch. Probably warranted, but this will influence absolutely nothing. Disappointed to see Tucker click baiting. Come up with better content.
58   The_Deplorable   2024 Jan 12, 4:04pm  

WookieMan says
"This is a big nothing burger. AG is out of season in Germany and farmers have free time to bitch. Probably warranted, but this will influence absolutely nothing"

No.

The German people, just like We The People in the USA are becoming aware that they are governed by Globalist Nazis who don't care about Germany, who don't care about Europe or the USA... That is why the AfD (Alternative for Germany) party in Germany is now the dominant party in Germany.
59   AmericanKulak   2024 Jan 12, 4:53pm  

Bd6r says


These PATNET Russia specialist predictions have eerily similar success rates to Branch covidian prediction successes about vaccinations.

"I heard it from Pedro Pepe Escobar!!!"

Boy, funny how all the people who write for Asia Times, RT, PressTV, and Sputnik also work for Veterans Today, MintPressNews. They totally aren't pushing a line like the neoliberal women who work for CNN, Vox, etc.

South Africa will break the dollar!
62   RWSGFY   2024 Jan 19, 10:37am  

More power rationing in Germany:


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