Surviving Capitalism (Not) : Germany Pulls Rank on Macron and American Energy Blackmail

We’ve lived so long under the spell of hierarchy—from god-kings to feudal lords to party bosses—that only recently have we awakened to see not only that “regular” citizens have the capacity for self-governance, but that without their engagement our huge global crises cannot be addressed. The changes needed for human society simply to survive, let alone thrive, are so profound that the only way we will move toward them is if we ourselves, regular citizens, feel meaningful ownership of solutions through direct engagement. Our problems are too big, interrelated, and pervasive to yield to directives from on high.
—Frances Moore Lappé, excerpt from Time for Progressives to Grow Up

Wednesday, February 13, 2019

Germany Pulls Rank on Macron and American Energy Blackmail

Click here to access article by Finian Cunningham from Strategic Culture Foundation.

Why France’s Macron, at the last minute, attempted to undermine the project by placing stiffer regulations is a curious question. Those extra regulations if they had been imposed would have potentially made the Russian gas supply more expensive. As it turns out, the project will now go-ahead without onerous restrictions.

I don't think Macron, who is an ex-Rothschild banker and a major figure in the US/Anglo/Zionist Empire, attempt to put Nord Stream 2 pipeline under the control of EU rules instead of the Russia-backed Nord Stream 2 pipeline supported by Berlin is at all "curious". Keeping Germany and Russia apart is a major US strategy (see this, this, and this).