US woos gas-rich Algeria as West scrambles for non-Russian energy

By artappraiser on Sat, 04/09/2022 - 11:47am |

One west European turn after Suez was to Russian energy. A French move was to have oil-rich Algeria then still a French colony in the EEC. Now Europe wants to turn away from Russian gas, the Algeria option - already crucial for Spain + Italy - is back: https://t.co/JQRdCaXSWr
— Helen Thompson POLIS (@HelenHet20) April 7, 2022

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https://www.thenationalnews.com/world/us-news/2022/03/29/us-woos-gas-rich-algeria-as-west-scrambles-for-non-russian-energy/

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Italy lines up gas deal with Algeria in effort to cut dependence on Russia https://t.co/84VKJSCw0R
— Financial Times (@FinancialTimes) April 9, 2022

Italy plans to strengthen its energy ties with Algeria in a new pact to be unveiled next week during Prime Minister Mario Draghi’s trip to the north African country https://t.co/dCplSw4tla
— Bloomberg (@business) April 8, 2022

by artappraiser on Sat, 04/09/2022 - 11:50am

This is going to backfire hard on Russia. Sanctions may actually cause the Russian Federation to fracture/collapse, and the European Union will absorb multiple Eastern European states in to its orbit, while also creating new relationships with states with Russian sympathies and ties.

But here is a clincher and I do not mean this to sound conspiratorial - the treasury got looted hard when the Soviet Union collapsed and Putin is up there in years, having been president for 23 years. There might actually be an incentive somewhere around there to bring the whole thing down.

by Orion on Sat, 04/09/2022 - 11:58am

It's just a worldquake as happens from time to time:

Food riots in locked-down China whose vaccine was shit.

Russian war machine running for its life where it's not in flames stuck in Ukrainian mud.

All these 'multipolarity' stans seemed to have just STFU, haven't they?

GET ON THE PLANE ALREADY MOTHERFUCKERS https://t.co/BBEcMNXfCr
— Antonio García Martínez (agm.eth) (@antoniogm) April 9, 2022

A reminder that the more passionate "Greens" would say that it's just rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic.

by artappraiser on Sat, 04/09/2022 - 4:13pm

More on Shanghai -

What the?? This video taken yesterday in Shanghai, China, by the father of a close friend of mine. She verified its authenticity: People screaming out of their windows after a week of total lockdown, no leaving your apartment for any reason. pic.twitter.com/iHGOO8D8Cz
— Patrick Madrid (@patrickmadrid) April 9, 2022

The translation she gave me: “It’s Shanghai, everyone is screaming, started with a couple now everyone is screaming, after a week of lockdown, something is going to happen, no one knows when this is going to end.”

He says they can’t even step outside their apartments.
— Patrick Madrid (@patrickmadrid) April 9, 2022

My son and his partner have been stuck in their apartment for 10 days in Shanghai. Can't even leave to walk their dogs. Food and water ran out today. Trying to order provisions, to no avail.Familys with children are desperate
— Lorna Anne Mackie (@Lorna0663) April 9, 2022

More, from a different source:

(Thanks, @Karin_MN) https://t.co/H3k4jYH5fv
— Patrick Madrid (@patrickmadrid) April 9, 2022

I live in this compound (中远两湾城 in 普陀 district）The video is real
— Mariokart64 (@Mariokart642) April 9, 2022

by artappraiser on Sat, 04/09/2022 - 7:56pm

It's like an unexpected outtake from Bladerunner

by PeraclesPlease on Sun, 04/10/2022 - 4:32am

New barrier to zero-carbon energy deployment just dropped. https://t.co/cIrA7GEoBk
— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) April 11, 2022

by artappraiser on Sun, 04/10/2022 - 10:01pm

U.S. Senator Joe Manchin visiting Alberta to discuss energy security#123INFO https://t.co/mT2WhSnPPV
— 123 INFO CANADA (@123_INFO_CA) April 11, 2022

He's a grownup non-ideological Senator who does his homework about policy and cares about his state and the country. We need more like him and fewer like the ideologues and egotists and extremists who bash him and blame him incorrectly for stuff they don't understand.

edit to add what he has on his Twitter home page, my underlining: U.S. Senator for #WV. Chairman of @EnergyDems. Please do not hesitate to contact me to share your commonsense ideas, concerns or if you need assistance.

by artappraiser on Tue, 04/12/2022 - 2:01am

way interesting that this 2017 news thread started by Peracles has turned up on "Hits of the Day" menu (possibly because someone has cited it somewhere else on the internet? I've always suspected that is how that menu works) Note the other stories, links, and discussion on the thread...

SALMAN RUN: SAUDI SHUFFLE AS TRUMP TWEETS TRIP

Arrests come days after women allowed in spirts events first time.

Chief Saudi investor prince seems to spurn Jared, US stock exchange - is this result, or is Salman setting country on better path, rooting out crooked deals? Or more complicated?

While Saudis & Russians extend oil bromance, MoscoMoscow Times notes new partnership with Iran too

https://themoscowtimes.com/articles/iran-russia-display-strategic-unity-...

URL:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/nov/05/saudi-king-sacks-top-minis...

by artappraiser on Tue, 04/12/2022 - 2:50pm

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