Libya declares force majeure on oil exports after weeks of protests and port blockades.

This is major news on its own, but also needs to be considered from Europe's perspective:

- 6% of EU oil & gas imports are from Libya and were just taken off the table.
- 34% of EU oil and 55% of gas comes from Russia, which is being throttled
- Freeport terminal in TX was blown up and cannot send LNG
- UK just announced they'd stop gas exports to EU if there were shortages
- EU and UK are both frantically burning gas just to generate electricity now, instead of storing for the winter ahead!

- Greenhouses, food plants and facilities are ALREADY SHUT DOWN due to the cost of energy — and somehow things keep blowing up! This is an absolute CONTROLLED DEMOLITION.

Europe is being strangled !!

If you aren't already growing food, join @iaf_garden and the other Ice Age Farmer groups!

#eu #EnergyCrisis #FoodShortage

Europe burning all their gas NOW instead of stocking it away for winter ahead…

#EnergyCrisis #eu

Europe is in free fall. In the last 12 hours:

- Russia hints NordStream 2 is NOT coming back online.
- German banks adjust models to say "We might survive if houses heat using firewood and we STOP all industry and economic activity (really strong plan guys!)
- Hungary announces ban on export of firewood:
https://musicnewsfirst.com/hungary-bans-the-export-of-energy-and-firewood-from-the-country/

#Eu #EnergyCrisis

Finland: grocery stores may close to conserve power

Grocery stores in Finland could have to take turns closing for hours at a time to reduce their energy usage this winter, the country’s grid operator told news outlet YLE on Sunday. With fuel shortages expected, Finnish households will also be told to lower their consumption.

According to the grid operator, Finland’s roughly 2,800 food stores will need to come to arrangements with each other over who will close and who will stay open if power is rationed in a particular area. This kind of agreement is especially important in rural areas to ensure that all the outlets in one town or village don’t end up shutting at the same time, YLE noted.

#finland #eu #EnergyCrisis

https://www.rt.com/news/559952-finland-close-stores-power/

Among the industrial production shutting down across Europe: everything needed to grow food.

See this map for a sense of how widespread - and drastic - the shutdowns of fertilizer production.

What has been put in motion cannot now he stopped - Famine ahead. Prepare.

#eu #fertilizer

🏰 With rapidly rising costs of living and the prospect of a winter without heat, anger against national governments is rapidly reaching breaking point.

European unity was always a questionable concept between a collection of diverse countries who have historically distrusted and disliked each other.

The strength of that always questionable unity is now being tested as the EU is facing its greatest challenge 🤞

The initial enthusiasm among EU leaders for the conflict with Russia has waned considerably in recent months as the reality of its ludicrous and self-destructive war on Russia continues to backfire spectacularly on them.

💬 Eamon McKinney writes

#Energy #EU #Germany #Globalism

@strategic_culture

French refinery strikes takes half of the nation’s refining capacity offline - forcing France’s largest sugar maker, Tereos, to curtail production

Diesel and petrol stations in France are running out of fuel, according to an industry union, as a refining strike takes its toll. The strike, which among others, took Total’s 240,000 bpd Gonfreville refinery offline as well as a couple of Exxon’s, was expected to conclude on Thursday…but Friday, reports came in that strikes were disrupting Total’s oil products refining and delivery for a fourth day — 60% of the nation’s total refining capacity.

“There is no need to rush to the station (for gas),” TotalEnergies said on Friday. Despite those affirmations, France’s largest sugar maker, Tereos, said it had to curtail production somewhat at some of its factories after Total advised it that it would not be able to supply it with any more diesel until the end of the week.

France was already battling a shortage of refined products, with Russia’s exports to Europe “falling” in recent months.

[ see previous post on biogas . . . ]

source: oilprice.com

#EnergyCrisis #France #EU

🚨 The rulers of the United States and Europe want to start a war with Russia before their own people start a war at home.

The European Union’s summit of foreign ministers this week formally committed the bloc to training Ukrainian military forces on EU territory to fight against Russia.

That inescapably makes the 27-nation EU a party to war in Ukraine ⚠️

Nearly two months ago, in a previous Strategic Culture Foundation weekly editorial published on August 19, we postulated that the conflict in Ukraine had already metastasized into a Third World War. That warning has been corroborated by the dramatic escalation of military involvement by the United States-led NATO alliance and the European Union in Ukraine.

This week, the European Union’s Council on Foreign Affairs announced a Military Assistance Mission (EUMAM) to Ukraine which would involve training of up to 15,000 Ukrainian troops over the next two years.

💬 Read more in this week’s Editorial

#EU #Ukraine #war

@strategic_culture

⚡️ Since the beginning of the special military operation, #Ukraine has received $233 billion of #Western support – Visual Capitalist infographic.

👉 The #EU and the #US are the main sponsors of the war, having provided almost 70% of this amount.

https://x.com/EmbassyofRussia/status/1726590353099395428?s=20

Remembering the illegal US & NATO bombing of Serbia (Yugoslavia), March 1999, based from a C_A & KLA, Albanian Terrorist Organization, from a mass grave false flag staged to justify US & NATO's "Humanitarian" air strikes.

• 3/24/1999 - NATO/US bombing of Serbia, a sovereign country.
• 78 days of continuous bombing campaigns.
• US/NATO bombed on Orthodox Christian Easter.
• US & NATO used illegal Cluster Bombs on civilians.

#NATO #Serbia #Clintons #EU #UN