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To: UMCRevMom@aol.com

“ German economists are realising that without Russian gas the German economy is uncompetitive

Negotiations on restoring Nord Stream are underway despite the Ukrainian conflict.

“Options are now being studied on how the pipeline can be drained and protected,” the Rheinische Post newspaper quoted E.ON financial director Spieker as saying.

Another factor in returning to Russian fuel supplies turned out to be the prospect of curbing price rises. It will not be possible to return them to their pre-pandemic and pre-SMO levels, but it is gas that will help contain them.

Stefan Wolf, the head of the German Union of Employers of the Metallurgical and Electrotechnical Industry Gesamtmetall, said bluntly that the absence of Nord Stream has led to an outflow of investment and business from the EU:

“Germany is no longer competitive, mainly due to poor general conditions. No other country has higher energy prices,” Wolf said”

Node of Time EN (https://t.me/node_of_time_en)

https://www.youtube.com/post/UgkxvQXIiWjpJCCW7SXJSxiIG1M-dOmXO7cG


7 posted on 08/14/2023 6:05:26 PM PDT by House Atreides (I’m now ULTRA-MAGA. -PRO-MAX’of )
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To: House Atreides

German energy prices were silly for decades.
Now someone cares? After closing all the nuke plants?

No.


12 posted on 08/14/2023 6:14:35 PM PDT by buwaya (Strategic imperatives )
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To: House Atreides; buwaya

ARTICLE: Russia Underground Saboteurs??

Explosion rings out at oil field in Russia, there are casualties
Ukainska Pravda
Tetiana Lozovenko
Monday, 14 August 2023, 21:46
https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2023/08/14/7415571/

Explosions have rang out at an oil field in Tyumen Oblast of Russia, mass media report there are dead and injured.

SOURCE:
TASS, Baza Telegram channel

Details: The location of the explosion is the Talin oil field near the town of Nyagan. The Baza Telegram channel reports two explosions. According to preliminary data, at least two people died, and five were injured.

TASS reports that four victims are in serious condition.


22 posted on 08/14/2023 6:37:16 PM PDT by UMCRevMom@aol.com (Pray for God's intervention to stop Putin's invasion of Ukraine )
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To: House Atreides; Worldtraveler once upon a time
“ German economists are realising that without Russian gas the German economy is uncompetitive

LOL!

Those whacky German economists! How did they ever figure out that natural gas for 8 times the price was gonna screw them?  

31 posted on 08/14/2023 7:18:57 PM PDT by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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To: House Atreides
Why is natural gas at the same price it was in 2021 a problem for Germany?

Chart of Natural Gas Price in Germany

32 posted on 08/14/2023 7:58:34 PM PDT by freeandfreezing
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To: House Atreides; UMCRevMom@aol.com; All
Now lets take a look at that link in #7 and go through the game of "internet whispers".

Itapirkanmaa2 is a pro-Russian channel that is providing a screenshot, not a link to a story that is a few hours old. This YouTube communitypost is based on this facebook post, from the node_of_time_en Telegram channel which can't be accessed without Telegram. Which means more looking things up.

The next link in the chain is a story from ctnews.ru, В Германии заговорили о реанимации "Северного потока" , which is using this story from Pravda.ru, В Германии созрели для "осушения и защиты" "Северного потока", citing without linking (naturally) to those German newspapers.

So no one gets lost, this is going from YouTube, to Facebook, to ctnews.ru, to pravda.ru, to two German newspapers. Those newspapers are RP online, Eon schreibt Nord Stream komplett ab und stellt sinkende Gaspreise in Aussicht article of March 15, 2023, and deutschlandfunk.de, Gesamtmetall-Präsident Wolf: „Deutschland ist nicht mehr wettbewerbsfähig“, August 9, 2023.

Backtracking through the game of "internet whispers", shows the Russian propaganda tricks. Take a mix of articles from non-english sources, selectively rewrite them into the present in English, misspell a few words and provide no links to make finding the parent sources harder. Sources, which do not have have the gloomy outlook implied, since they state the problems and their solutions. Guess what Russian Pravda leaves off. As for what Pravda.ru claimed, and others repeat without question, when Marc (not Mark) Speiker said:

"We see no point in leaving the Nord Stream stake to Gazprom," said Eon CFO Marc Spieker. At Nord Stream, it is now a question of draining and sealing the destroyed pipelines to prevent corrosion.
Is not the "negotiations" Pravda implied. Because the German shareholders in the Nord Stream pipelines are not negotiating with Russia over anything anymore.

As everyone should know by now, no matter how bad the US press is, Russian State owned news is always worse.

40 posted on 08/14/2023 10:15:07 PM PDT by Widget Jr (🇺🇦 Слава Україні! 🇺🇦 Sláva Ukrayíni! 🇺🇦 ☭ No CCCP 2.0 ☭)
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To: House Atreides

I can’t find any of those quotes or their sources.


46 posted on 08/15/2023 5:16:59 AM PDT by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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