Month: July 2021

A letter to the EU Commission signed by 170 international scientists, engineers and motor experts breaks through the apparent consensus in Germany on the “green transition” scheme pushed by EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, at least concerning a key aspect of it: electro-mobility. For these experts, who belong to the newly founded IASTEC association (https://iastec.org/), the Commission’s estimation […]

It’s been quite a nosedive: just two months ago, Green Party candidate Annalena Baerbock was still hailed as the next German Chancellor. Now, most mainstream media report that her prospects for the election in late September are seriously jeopardized by the various plagiarism affairs which they prominently present. Although in most cases, the plagiarism charges involve copy-and-paste operations from the […]

After the recent suspension of the Swiss-EU association talks, followed by several spectacular defeats for the Green agenda in referendum (cf. SAS 22/21, 24/21), there are hints that the EU bureaucracy may “punish” Switzerland by non-preferential treatments on the energy front. That would mainly involve shutting Switzerland out of EU programs of cross-border grid security like TERRE, MARI or PICASSO, […]

Sigurdur Ingi Thordarson, an Icelandic citizen and former WikiLeaks volunteer, has admitted to the Icelandic newspaper Stundin that he fabricated important parts of what became the main charges against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange – after becoming an FBI informant! In its English language coverage, Stundin details several parts of Thordarson’s testimony that he now denies, admitting most notably that Assange […]

After the Stundin story broke, NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden tweeted on June 27: this is the “end of the case against Assange”. Investigative journalist Glenn Greenwald posted Snowden’s tweet, adding that “It should be” (the end of the case). At the beginning of June, UN Special Rapporteur on Torture Nils Melzer once again called on the U.K. government to release […]

After eight months of war in the federal state of Tigray, Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed announced a unilateral ceasefire, following a routing of government forces from the Tigray capital of Mekelle. While Abiy claimed this was not a defeat, he admitted that his government could not win given the popular support for Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) and the […]

The numerous celebrations for the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Chinese Communist Party have highlighted, and understandably so, the tremendous progress China has achieved over the decades in multiple areas. President Xi Jinping has personally stressed that the Chinese people will never again allow “outside forces” to oppress them, or stop their development. Certainly, one of the country’s […]

In a military provocation which former British Ambassador Craig Murray described as “evidence of lunacy,” the HMS Defender, a British navy destroyer, entered Russian territorial waters in the Black Sea, near Cape Fiolent, at 11:52 AM on June 23. The Russian Black Sea fleet immediately radioed a warning. After waiting approximately 15 minutes for a response, and receiving none, a […]

In the early morning hours of June 25, the Franco-German proposal for an EU summit with Russian President Putin was shot down, mainly by Poland and the Baltic countries. The proposal had just been made public on June 23, apparently to the surprise of most of the other EU member states. Angela Merkel explained the next day, in a speech […]

The EU leaders’ statement is all the more regrettable as it came only three days after the German weekly Die Zeit published an article by President Putin on the 80th anniversary of the Nazi German attack against the Soviet Union on June 22, 1941. In the article, the Russian President stressed that Russia is “open, despite the past”, for economic, […]