Germany's main problem is the required loss of their national sovereignty as a member of the EU. Robert Conquest recognized “the inanities of the European Union… the preposterous notion that a ‘Europeanization’ can be created from above by a mixture of intellectuals and interest groups...”
Christine Anderson would strongly agree with you. As do I. And so goes the ROW as EU/EC is the prototype for the one world government being promoted by the UN and their partners the WEF.
Bottom up is where it's at - localism bubbling up the best and most capable to the top, contrasted to the DEI mindset of who you know and how low you are willing to go to please your superior to gain ascendancy. Any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.
*, Germany has NONE being a VASSAL to America until 2099, and the most important - the heart and soul of Germany has been demolished with the
***holocaust*** accusation for which there is not one single FORENSIC PROOF. Ziklon B was
used for DELOUSING and not for killing people. Auschwitz was a LABOR camp and you don't kill your labor/workers. The *holocaust* HOAX is nothing more than to culpabilize and intimidate primarily the Germans and the world at large. British historian David Irving defines
the vermin as ENEMIES OF TRUTH. And this entity DOMINATES the bullhorn = fake news.
Chinese EV also have a habit of spontaneously catching fire. That will be quite the surprise for European buyers. The Chinese have huge amounts of unsold EV just sitting around unsold, so Europeans could be getting a car that's been sitting in a field for years.
All EVs have that same liability. I have a home on Sanibel Island, FL. Hurricane Ian devastated us there. Two expensive (like $10M) homes on the Gulfside beach which had been flooded (totally underwater) caught fire a day after the hurricane. The multimillion dollar house was totally burned down, taking the adjacent multimillion dollar house along with it to the ground. The cause? A Tesla parked in the garage. Also, on the same day, the nearby golf course, "The Dunes" lost every single golf cart which burned to molten scraps of metal due to EV batteries. We remember the battery fire in Uzbekistan in 2023 which injured or killed 163. Or how about the S. Korea fire in June this year which killed 22? Or the ones in Escondido? Viviez, France? BTW, if you Google these, they show up at the bottom of the page or on page 2 or 3. "Nothing to see here, folks. Move along."
I am a common sense and down-to-earth gentleman of 86, never ever in my dreams and reality would I even have the tiniest thought nor intent to purchase a *fire source and child labor abused* v e h i c l e. It's just one more way to mislead and destroy GOD's. planet.
I am also a common sense down-to earth gentleman of 1946! (Possibly sooner than later, under the earth). But in all seriousness, as also one of God's saved people, I thank you for openng up the big picture (God's) view of this. Not just the short term labor abuse by the manufacture of EVs in China is happening, but also the brutal rare earth retrieval by adolescents in the Congo and elsewhere for the precursor elements. It sounds strange, but, yeah—oil is so very much cleaner and safer; it will burn itself up (oxidize) in the atmosphere anyway if we don't capture it and burn it ourselves! It is percolating by the mega barrel out of the ocean's floor as we speak! A Realpolitik example of "use it or lose it!"
Your Jane Roe capture was excellent. I saw her speak. I was a member of Operation Rescue, and I prayed and sang psalms at 6 rescues in 3 states. In the one at the abortuary on Long Island, we were sent off with an address by Bernard Nathanson, the Roe abortionist. This send-off meeting was at the Wilkerson (Cross and the Switchblade) Church in lower Manhattan. Nathanson had repented and given his life to Christ. This was about 1989 I think. I was convicted of racketeering under RICO, since we were depriving Planned Parenthood of money that day. 120 of us were sentenced, and I served a few days in prison at that time. I tell my three grown girls that I am a "gangster of love". Not funny, really. But they are serious women after all. My oldest just adopted another child 3 months ago. One does what one can. God is in the driver's seat.
It is ABUSE of poor African slave children, of nature and environment to continue on this path
of DESTRUCTION, overall. But the vermin has determined that it's one more way to the DESTRUCTION of humanity = Christianity. THIS ABSOLUTE INSANITY MUST BE STOPPED.
It seems to me the western leaders are unwilling to protect their own. When a person makes decisions to become indebted to credit card companies or a mortgage they know they can’t afford its like making a deal with the devil. Like people governments should always decide to loan not borrow. When you make deals with China or the devil you’re always going to owe in the end. We are in the same boat in our car industry here in America and the choice we make in November will determine if our car industry lives or dies.
$35 trillion in debt with no end in sight. Comrade Kamala = Cloward Kamala, as in an adherent of the Cloward-Piven strategy, we’re well on our way, “Tell the people that they are victims and instill a sense of entitlement for their neighbor’s assets. Remind the people consistently that they are oppressed and only an equal distribution of wealth can save them from the confines of poverty. Cloward and Piven insisted that hard work could not ‘elevate the poor en-mass from poverty.’” https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/world-news/civil-unrest/the-cloward-and-piven-strategy/
This election truly comes down to whether or not we will survive as a free people. The ABC "fact-checkers" didn't do us any favors.
I agree with you 53 Chapter, also we have a nearly 380 billion dollar trade deficit with China and if it’s up to Kamala China will take our entire car industry over. Elections certainly have consequences!!!
As an outsider, I am Swiss, any law/infringement/violation of the Constitution should be sanctioned with expulsion of the respective entity from all official/legal positions.
The CONSTITUTION is sacrosanct, full stop. It's always the vermin that insidiously and silently destroys from within, like THE WORM IN THE APPLE.
Nordstream II being cutoff confuses me. Is that not an act of war? An act of war against a fellow NATO member? For what benefit? Oh, I get it, we are willing to; Viet Nam, Iraq, Afghanistan, after Russia gave up,, to sacrifice our own to show an enemy our resolve? All this stuff is BS. I guess that's why someone with clear headed thinking and an ability to negotiate, Like Donald Trump is despised.
Nordstream has got to be one of the most ill-thought-out 'strategic' decisions ever. However, for the profiteers in the military-industrial complex, who "May" also hold investments in the energy sector - it was brilliant.
George Gammon did a video today where YouTube has taken down a video George posted two years ago. He was in Washington DC and recorded some of Dr. Malone’s comments to the crowds. They specifically told George the misinformation came when Dr. Malone was speaking. They are trying to get Dr. Malone off anywhere they can control. George said what he heard Dr. Malone shared and said seems true information the doctor was sharing
China has it's own issues. It's not the economic juggernaut many might think.
China's economy is suffering from vanity investments dictated by Xi Jin Ping and the CCP, typified by the over-investment in housing and real estate. Lots of high rise residential buildings stand partially complete, or complete but unoccupied. The name "Evergrande" should ring a bell. A city has been built with a replica of the Eifel tower and other buildings modeled after French architecture. They also stand mostly unoccupied. Some recently-built high rise apartment building have been demolished without ever having been occupied. As mentioned elsewhere in these comments, there are acres of electric cars that were manufactured years ago and were never sold and used.
Mal-investment has stressed may Chinese banks. There have been small-scale riots by depositors unable to withdraw their funds. Some of the successful billionaire entrepreneurs have been disappeared when they imprudently mouthed off about government micro-management of the economy.
For years China sustained strong economic growth as it changed and grew from an economy where most people were impoverished. It's now an economic behemoth, but it lacks the self-correcting mechanisms found in a true market economy. Hundreds of millions still live in poverty. Young people have a sense of hopelessness because so many have no prospects for good jobs or mates- the one-child policy led to an huge imbalance between males and females.
I fear the need for distractions will lead China to become more militarily aggressive, and will add to global instability.
The gravity of the long-standing one child policy, that went to two and now three I heard populations numbers were 1.4 b to 550 m in 75 years. So many of the female "one" child births were given up for adoption, read 80,000 from late 1990 to 2023. I worked with a gal who adopted a girl in the late 1990s. There are too few females in China now making it hard on the males that want to marry.
Top down policy for the near term is short-sighted for the long term.
This is why you became independent of other countries. Self sufficient. Our country is dependent on medications produced in China. What happens if we go to war with China? No medicine. This is what Trump wants to do. Become independent, self sufficient. The oil industry is another problem. We are capable of being self sufficient. We just have to bring industry back home.
Excellent discussion! Having spent 24 years in the belly of the Federal beast, these issues were amongst my reflections. I felt that not only were there many too many of us (federal/government ees), but we were being grossly overpaid.
In that we are sharing articles, let me share a part of one by one of my favorite AT authors
September 9, 2024
To ‘Empower Patients’ – First Dispel Seven Myths
By Deane Waldman, M.D., Vance Ginn, Ph.D
As Vice President Kamala Harris hides her support for Medicare for All, covertly championing her belief that healthcare is a fundamental human right, it becomes increasingly urgent to confront several myths that cloud the healthcare debate.
Cost is not spending
The U.S. spent $4.8 trillion on healthcare in 2023, but about half of that wasn’t on actual care—it was on the bloated bureaucracy that Harris’s plan would likely expand rather than streamline. The resources needed to produce health care services—the true cost—vastly differ from the inflated spending figures driven by administrative bloat. Real reform requires understanding and addressing this difference, not conflating the two.
The whole of the article is a good read.
Surely the insights you have provided, sound warning bells for our US! Milei's initiatives and result's can offer meaningful information on impacts.
The question becomes whether we find all too many taking Harris baits blissfully unaware of the profound crash they would cause.
At the time I wondered what on earth had happened to Merkel. Ahh yes, the WEF.
Lov the cat and its fur treatment. Notable semblance of the courageous leader.
China's Tofu Bridges are Falling Down - One Collapsed This Week... Another Bridge has just collapsed in China, why are so many Chinese bridges falling down??
It’s Murder Season in China...Multiple mass attacks have happened this month in China, Murder Season has kicked off in China...Covered up by the media.
In the early 1990s my husband accepted a position as manager of the US division of a German based manufacturing company. It took several years for Hubs to change the negative perception of the company in the eyes of American clients who had dealt with them before because the Germans (and Europeans in general) do business quite differently from Americans. Over the next 10 years Hubs built the US division into a thriving, well-received corporation that depended on repeat business rather than solicited new business. Then, one day, the CEO noticed that the US division was contributing 25% of the total sales of the corp and decided it was time for all the finances and management needed to shift to headquarters in Belgium. Hubs could see the handwriting on the wall and he quietly made other arrangements. In 2001 he started his own company with an entirely different product and built it up just as he had done for the German company. I am not sure that company exists anymore. I always thought there was a big lesson in there somewhere.
It is clear that energy storage is the future of energy. The safest and most reliable energy source is hydro-power with it's own limitations of availability. The latest, woke, faddish sources like wind and solar are far more intermittent, creating an even greater need to store power. Power storage capability can smooth out the intermittent availability of all power sources. There are more ways to store power than simply make batteries. As example, pumping water uphill to a reservoir with available power can later generate power at a more desirable schedule. Lithium is today's power storage poster child, but ingenuity will change that.
In response to the abysmal continuous decisons to go windmills and electric, catapulting Germany into a depression, the President of Germany, Steinmeier, sticking his head out of a bush (since we have not seen him for a long time), said, "Very interesting".
Olaf Scholtz the Chancellor of Germany said, "I know nussing".
Just imagine the suffering that will follow. As Germany continues its push for “green” and its focus on “equity” rather than merit and efficiency jobs will go away and there will be downward pressure on wages. This at a time when we are not yet finished with inflation. Living standards will suffer a great deal leading to a downward spiral in education and social unrest. Not a bright looking future.
Seriously, in the midst of the destruction there may be ways to prosper or at least preserve some of the assets (wealth) one has accumulated over a lifetime. I am neither economist or financial advisor but given our world situation people should be giving the idea some thought.
I thought I read at the end of Merkel's term Germany was firing up a few coal plants before winter. These are not stupid people. Perhaps they feel forced to degrade the lives of their countrymen. It was not that long ago that the map of Europe of was covered with the Empire of X country - all run by a monarch, most related to boot.
Germany's main problem is the required loss of their national sovereignty as a member of the EU. Robert Conquest recognized “the inanities of the European Union… the preposterous notion that a ‘Europeanization’ can be created from above by a mixture of intellectuals and interest groups...”
Christine Anderson would strongly agree with you. As do I. And so goes the ROW as EU/EC is the prototype for the one world government being promoted by the UN and their partners the WEF.
Bottom up is where it's at - localism bubbling up the best and most capable to the top, contrasted to the DEI mindset of who you know and how low you are willing to go to please your superior to gain ascendancy. Any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.
Exactly.
*, Germany has NONE being a VASSAL to America until 2099, and the most important - the heart and soul of Germany has been demolished with the
***holocaust*** accusation for which there is not one single FORENSIC PROOF. Ziklon B was
used for DELOUSING and not for killing people. Auschwitz was a LABOR camp and you don't kill your labor/workers. The *holocaust* HOAX is nothing more than to culpabilize and intimidate primarily the Germans and the world at large. British historian David Irving defines
the vermin as ENEMIES OF TRUTH. And this entity DOMINATES the bullhorn = fake news.
Funny, I wonder where my GI father got the pictures his Army cartography unit took of those rotting corpses in those concentration camps after WW2?
Doesn't make sense to me: rotting corpses? I thought Holocaust means they were burned. Yes there were a lot of corpses after the Allied bombings.
The only thing green about green energy are the “greenbacks” that go to its proponents and implementers. 🤮🔋🤑
Too true. A one letter difference between greed and green.
Good one, Liz!
Chinese EV also have a habit of spontaneously catching fire. That will be quite the surprise for European buyers. The Chinese have huge amounts of unsold EV just sitting around unsold, so Europeans could be getting a car that's been sitting in a field for years.
with mice chewing on the wires and hoses, like happened to rental cars in Hawaii during the COVID shut down.
All EVs have that same liability. I have a home on Sanibel Island, FL. Hurricane Ian devastated us there. Two expensive (like $10M) homes on the Gulfside beach which had been flooded (totally underwater) caught fire a day after the hurricane. The multimillion dollar house was totally burned down, taking the adjacent multimillion dollar house along with it to the ground. The cause? A Tesla parked in the garage. Also, on the same day, the nearby golf course, "The Dunes" lost every single golf cart which burned to molten scraps of metal due to EV batteries. We remember the battery fire in Uzbekistan in 2023 which injured or killed 163. Or how about the S. Korea fire in June this year which killed 22? Or the ones in Escondido? Viviez, France? BTW, if you Google these, they show up at the bottom of the page or on page 2 or 3. "Nothing to see here, folks. Move along."
I am a common sense and down-to-earth gentleman of 86, never ever in my dreams and reality would I even have the tiniest thought nor intent to purchase a *fire source and child labor abused* v e h i c l e. It's just one more way to mislead and destroy GOD's. planet.
I am also a common sense down-to earth gentleman of 1946! (Possibly sooner than later, under the earth). But in all seriousness, as also one of God's saved people, I thank you for openng up the big picture (God's) view of this. Not just the short term labor abuse by the manufacture of EVs in China is happening, but also the brutal rare earth retrieval by adolescents in the Congo and elsewhere for the precursor elements. It sounds strange, but, yeah—oil is so very much cleaner and safer; it will burn itself up (oxidize) in the atmosphere anyway if we don't capture it and burn it ourselves! It is percolating by the mega barrel out of the ocean's floor as we speak! A Realpolitik example of "use it or lose it!"
Yes, we have to keep our fingers on the [shift-command-5] triggers to keep screen grabs in our archives.
Your Jane Roe capture was excellent. I saw her speak. I was a member of Operation Rescue, and I prayed and sang psalms at 6 rescues in 3 states. In the one at the abortuary on Long Island, we were sent off with an address by Bernard Nathanson, the Roe abortionist. This send-off meeting was at the Wilkerson (Cross and the Switchblade) Church in lower Manhattan. Nathanson had repented and given his life to Christ. This was about 1989 I think. I was convicted of racketeering under RICO, since we were depriving Planned Parenthood of money that day. 120 of us were sentenced, and I served a few days in prison at that time. I tell my three grown girls that I am a "gangster of love". Not funny, really. But they are serious women after all. My oldest just adopted another child 3 months ago. One does what one can. God is in the driver's seat.
There is also the high cost when batteries need to be replaced. And... of course, good business for the largest battery producer.
It is ABUSE of poor African slave children, of nature and environment to continue on this path
of DESTRUCTION, overall. But the vermin has determined that it's one more way to the DESTRUCTION of humanity = Christianity. THIS ABSOLUTE INSANITY MUST BE STOPPED.
afuera, must be kind of like:
"You're Fired!"
It seems to me the western leaders are unwilling to protect their own. When a person makes decisions to become indebted to credit card companies or a mortgage they know they can’t afford its like making a deal with the devil. Like people governments should always decide to loan not borrow. When you make deals with China or the devil you’re always going to owe in the end. We are in the same boat in our car industry here in America and the choice we make in November will determine if our car industry lives or dies.
$35 trillion in debt with no end in sight. Comrade Kamala = Cloward Kamala, as in an adherent of the Cloward-Piven strategy, we’re well on our way, “Tell the people that they are victims and instill a sense of entitlement for their neighbor’s assets. Remind the people consistently that they are oppressed and only an equal distribution of wealth can save them from the confines of poverty. Cloward and Piven insisted that hard work could not ‘elevate the poor en-mass from poverty.’” https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/world-news/civil-unrest/the-cloward-and-piven-strategy/
This election truly comes down to whether or not we will survive as a free people. The ABC "fact-checkers" didn't do us any favors.
I agree with you 53 Chapter, also we have a nearly 380 billion dollar trade deficit with China and if it’s up to Kamala China will take our entire car industry over. Elections certainly have consequences!!!
As an outsider, I am Swiss, any law/infringement/violation of the Constitution should be sanctioned with expulsion of the respective entity from all official/legal positions.
The CONSTITUTION is sacrosanct, full stop. It's always the vermin that insidiously and silently destroys from within, like THE WORM IN THE APPLE.
James, we only have MIS-LEADERS = puppets = traitors.
Nordstream II being cutoff confuses me. Is that not an act of war? An act of war against a fellow NATO member? For what benefit? Oh, I get it, we are willing to; Viet Nam, Iraq, Afghanistan, after Russia gave up,, to sacrifice our own to show an enemy our resolve? All this stuff is BS. I guess that's why someone with clear headed thinking and an ability to negotiate, Like Donald Trump is despised.
Nordstream has got to be one of the most ill-thought-out 'strategic' decisions ever. However, for the profiteers in the military-industrial complex, who "May" also hold investments in the energy sector - it was brilliant.
Germany has reimposed border controls on a temporary basis to stem the tide of illegal immigration.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cq5dvzj81g3o
No border countries want the immigrants headed for Germany.
George Gammon did a video today where YouTube has taken down a video George posted two years ago. He was in Washington DC and recorded some of Dr. Malone’s comments to the crowds. They specifically told George the misinformation came when Dr. Malone was speaking. They are trying to get Dr. Malone off anywhere they can control. George said what he heard Dr. Malone shared and said seems true information the doctor was sharing
China has it's own issues. It's not the economic juggernaut many might think.
China's economy is suffering from vanity investments dictated by Xi Jin Ping and the CCP, typified by the over-investment in housing and real estate. Lots of high rise residential buildings stand partially complete, or complete but unoccupied. The name "Evergrande" should ring a bell. A city has been built with a replica of the Eifel tower and other buildings modeled after French architecture. They also stand mostly unoccupied. Some recently-built high rise apartment building have been demolished without ever having been occupied. As mentioned elsewhere in these comments, there are acres of electric cars that were manufactured years ago and were never sold and used.
Mal-investment has stressed may Chinese banks. There have been small-scale riots by depositors unable to withdraw their funds. Some of the successful billionaire entrepreneurs have been disappeared when they imprudently mouthed off about government micro-management of the economy.
For years China sustained strong economic growth as it changed and grew from an economy where most people were impoverished. It's now an economic behemoth, but it lacks the self-correcting mechanisms found in a true market economy. Hundreds of millions still live in poverty. Young people have a sense of hopelessness because so many have no prospects for good jobs or mates- the one-child policy led to an huge imbalance between males and females.
I fear the need for distractions will lead China to become more militarily aggressive, and will add to global instability.
The gravity of the long-standing one child policy, that went to two and now three I heard populations numbers were 1.4 b to 550 m in 75 years. So many of the female "one" child births were given up for adoption, read 80,000 from late 1990 to 2023. I worked with a gal who adopted a girl in the late 1990s. There are too few females in China now making it hard on the males that want to marry.
Top down policy for the near term is short-sighted for the long term.
The problem with not looking at long term considerations...there are often worse effects than not, due to emotional thinking versus reality.
That certainly holds true for many personally decisions.
This is why you became independent of other countries. Self sufficient. Our country is dependent on medications produced in China. What happens if we go to war with China? No medicine. This is what Trump wants to do. Become independent, self sufficient. The oil industry is another problem. We are capable of being self sufficient. We just have to bring industry back home.
Excellent discussion! Having spent 24 years in the belly of the Federal beast, these issues were amongst my reflections. I felt that not only were there many too many of us (federal/government ees), but we were being grossly overpaid.
In that we are sharing articles, let me share a part of one by one of my favorite AT authors
September 9, 2024
To ‘Empower Patients’ – First Dispel Seven Myths
By Deane Waldman, M.D., Vance Ginn, Ph.D
As Vice President Kamala Harris hides her support for Medicare for All, covertly championing her belief that healthcare is a fundamental human right, it becomes increasingly urgent to confront several myths that cloud the healthcare debate.
Cost is not spending
The U.S. spent $4.8 trillion on healthcare in 2023, but about half of that wasn’t on actual care—it was on the bloated bureaucracy that Harris’s plan would likely expand rather than streamline. The resources needed to produce health care services—the true cost—vastly differ from the inflated spending figures driven by administrative bloat. Real reform requires understanding and addressing this difference, not conflating the two.
The whole of the article is a good read.
Surely the insights you have provided, sound warning bells for our US! Milei's initiatives and result's can offer meaningful information on impacts.
The question becomes whether we find all too many taking Harris baits blissfully unaware of the profound crash they would cause.
At the time I wondered what on earth had happened to Merkel. Ahh yes, the WEF.
Lov the cat and its fur treatment. Notable semblance of the courageous leader.
On we go to an unknown tomorrow
doing all we can to make it better.
♡♡♡
Avoid batteries and cars from China. No quality control, short cuts always taken. Fake parts are used.
Hidden - China's Flagship EVs are Exploding in Huge Numbers, yes actually exploding into fires.
A huge wave of explosions are causing China's best cars to burn to the ground.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yOA7qKMcjcE
BYD's Blade Battery is Catching Fire all over China! BYD's Blade Battery equipped HAN EVs are catching fire.. But that's only the beginning...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qKa8mVOe5so
Why China Can’t Censor and is Panicking about this EV Disaster
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8HpkDUWAKFM
China's Tofu Bridges are Falling Down - One Collapsed This Week... Another Bridge has just collapsed in China, why are so many Chinese bridges falling down??
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2ockFOVGp4
China is Throwing Away Fields of Electric Cars - Letting them Rot! Hundreds of Thousands of EVs just being left to rot in fields....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1SEfwoqKRU8
Hi John Guy;
I like your style!
It’s Murder Season in China...Multiple mass attacks have happened this month in China, Murder Season has kicked off in China...Covered up by the media.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJDmhLlvQNU
Chinese E-Bikes are Exploding like Crazy - Self Destructing Spectacularly - you better run.
Why have Chinese e-bikes suddenly started exploding and catching on fire?...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZpNCii-OTqw
Thank you for the new wrinkle in my cerebral cortex.
So are Teslas which are made in China.
Yes, but they are under Tesla's control. Tesla makes a good car.
China's EVs Fail in Europe; Poor Quality, No Sales! 80% of Firms Back Tariffs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6tu67Rwl-o
21,000 Fires a Year! China’s Often Self-Igniting EVs & EBs Become Ubiquitous ‘Moving Bombs’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YMKpCiDomgM
China’s Too Hot, No Power! 750,000 EV Owners Suffer, Queuing 10 Hours, Can’t Charge - Tesla car owners have to deal with this....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HRx6Q9f-2Is
In the early 1990s my husband accepted a position as manager of the US division of a German based manufacturing company. It took several years for Hubs to change the negative perception of the company in the eyes of American clients who had dealt with them before because the Germans (and Europeans in general) do business quite differently from Americans. Over the next 10 years Hubs built the US division into a thriving, well-received corporation that depended on repeat business rather than solicited new business. Then, one day, the CEO noticed that the US division was contributing 25% of the total sales of the corp and decided it was time for all the finances and management needed to shift to headquarters in Belgium. Hubs could see the handwriting on the wall and he quietly made other arrangements. In 2001 he started his own company with an entirely different product and built it up just as he had done for the German company. I am not sure that company exists anymore. I always thought there was a big lesson in there somewhere.
It is clear that energy storage is the future of energy. The safest and most reliable energy source is hydro-power with it's own limitations of availability. The latest, woke, faddish sources like wind and solar are far more intermittent, creating an even greater need to store power. Power storage capability can smooth out the intermittent availability of all power sources. There are more ways to store power than simply make batteries. As example, pumping water uphill to a reservoir with available power can later generate power at a more desirable schedule. Lithium is today's power storage poster child, but ingenuity will change that.
In response to the abysmal continuous decisons to go windmills and electric, catapulting Germany into a depression, the President of Germany, Steinmeier, sticking his head out of a bush (since we have not seen him for a long time), said, "Very interesting".
Olaf Scholtz the Chancellor of Germany said, "I know nussing".
Just imagine the suffering that will follow. As Germany continues its push for “green” and its focus on “equity” rather than merit and efficiency jobs will go away and there will be downward pressure on wages. This at a time when we are not yet finished with inflation. Living standards will suffer a great deal leading to a downward spiral in education and social unrest. Not a bright looking future.
On the positive side, older Porsche cars will continue to increase in value as the firm converts to EV
and yes, I have a conflict of interest...
Seriously, in the midst of the destruction there may be ways to prosper or at least preserve some of the assets (wealth) one has accumulated over a lifetime. I am neither economist or financial advisor but given our world situation people should be giving the idea some thought.
I thought I read at the end of Merkel's term Germany was firing up a few coal plants before winter. These are not stupid people. Perhaps they feel forced to degrade the lives of their countrymen. It was not that long ago that the map of Europe of was covered with the Empire of X country - all run by a monarch, most related to boot.