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Steghorn21's avatar

If things get as bad as predicted here in Europe, I'm going to replace the poster on my bedroom wall of Kim Kardashian with one of those Hak pickle jars. "No doubt the European public, and nowhere more than in Germany, is paying attention to this." Sorry, but I think most Euros still think Nordstream is a Swedish porn channel.

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Frances Leader's avatar

I have a plausible theory about who blew the Russian pipelines and why..... it may surprise you.

https://francesleader.substack.com/p/who-blew-nord-stream

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Sarcastic Cynical Texan's avatar

Tom Luongo, he's a jolly good fellow

Prof. Sachs, caused pearl clutching attacks

The Federal Reserve has powers it doesn't deserve

2 percent inflation target, in deeds or only in words

The United Nations is a great farce, as is NATO

Ukraine makes me insane.

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SMH's avatar

Sounds to me like the fat lady is warming up off stage.

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Joseph Kaplan's avatar

Why did the stock market go up today? Was the pipeline really blown up? Why should we believe anything?

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MikeinFL's avatar

If they can fix the pipeline(s), they should announce that fixing NS2 is much easier and quicker which will explode more neocon heads. Also, announce you are sending the bill to Brandon...

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Steghorn21's avatar

They should fix and announce that everyone in Europe signing on gets a free week's supply of gas and some shopping vouchers.

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Sarcastic Cynical Texan's avatar

One of the NS2 lines wasn't hit, so it could be put into service, BUT > TPTB would be miffed !!!

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MikeinFL's avatar

Here you go:

"Russia is able to supply gas to Europe through a string of the Nord Stream 2 pipeline that that was not damaged by the recent explosions, according to Deputy Prime Minister Aleksander Novak."

https://www.rt.com/business/564148-novak-nord-stream-supplies-europe/

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Brad Crawford's avatar

Maybe by "fixing" damaged sections they mean "replacing" damaged sections. They built them once - surely they can build them again.

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Mark Wauck's avatar

Substack search is useless. When I need to search older posts--i.e., meaninginhistory pre Substack--I go to the old blog, where the Blogger search function (Google) works excellently. To me, the lack of even so-so search is a huge minus in Substack. Archives are inaccessible for practical purposes.

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ML's avatar

Mark, O/T, but I haven’t been receiving your articles via email for at least 4 days…wonder if everything is functioning ok - tx for checking - the street lights going out here is bad enough!

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Mark Wauck's avatar

I have to assume that that's some sort of Substack problem. I'll see if I can check that out.

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Mark Wauck's avatar

Try sending me an email.

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Bugs's avatar

I also needed the caption to "get it" this morning.

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Mark Wauck's avatar

Sorry! I thought the caption came through with the rest! It was late and I guess I didn't check.

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ML's avatar

Painful realization

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