In response to Iran’s continued nuclear escalations and failure to cooperate with the IAEA, we’re imposing sanctions on entities involved in Iran’s petroleum and petrochemical trade. We are committed to using all available tools to prevent Iran from developing a nuclear weapon.

— Secretary Antony Blinken (@SecBlinken) June 27, 2024

How do you put more sanctions on Iran?

Iran is already sanctioned almost as much as Russia. Before the Ukraine invasion, they were the most sanctioned country in history.

This is like threatening a homosexual with gay sex. Or, it’s like some less offensive analogy, perhaps. Threatening a fat kid with a cake? Something along those lines.

Like “no, I don’t really want this, I’m not asking for it, but I have so much already, it doesn’t make a difference really.”

The other thing is that it’s demonstrably factual that sanctions have never accomplished any goal, so the whole thing is just performative. But who are they performing for? Either you don’t care at all about this, or you know that sanctions don’t do anything. I don’t think there’s a middle group that is really concerned about Iran nuking Israel that is also unaware that sanctions have never once done anything to stop any single country from doing anything.

So much of what happens these days looks like a public performance for a segment of the population that does not exist.

The Guardian:

The US secretary of state, Antony Blinken, has announced fresh sanctions against Iran’s petroleum sector in response to what he described as an expansion of the country’s nuclear programme which has provoked renewed fears that it is preparing to build an atomic bomb.

The embargoes – on three unnamed entities involved in the transport of Iranian petroleum or petrochemical products – were announced amid a chorus of warnings of a renewed conflict in the Middle East between Israel and Iran’s proxy Hezbollah, the powerful Shia group that dominates Lebanon.

In a statement on Thursday, Blinken said Iran had expanded its uranium enrichment programme in the past month “in ways that have no credible peaceful purpose”.

Under the new sanctions, 11 vessels associated with the three embargoed organisations would be designated as “blocked property”.

“Iran’s actions to increase its enrichment capacity are all the more concerning in light of Iran’s continued failure to cooperate with the IAEA [International Atomic Energy Agency] and statements by Iranian officials suggesting potential changes to Iran’s nuclear doctrine,” Blinken said.

He was referring to recent comments by Kamal Kharazzi, an adviser to Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, that the country could revise its defence doctrine to permit the building of nuclear weapons following a series of military exchanges with Israel in April.

“We have no decision to build a nuclear bomb but should Iran’s existence be threatened, there will be no choice but to change our military doctrine,” Kharrazi said. “In the case of an attack on our nuclear facilities by the Zionist regime, our deterrence will change.”

These people in Iran have been supposed to build nukes for like, 30 years. They apparently haven’t done it yet. There are probably reasons they don’t do it. They have the technology. I think they don’t want the heat.

That said, the Jews are bringing the heat, so maybe it’s so hot, they’re like “okay, whatever, let’s just do the nukes.”

So it’s possible. I don’t know. Who the hell knows. They’re saying now that if the Jews keep bombing them they’re going to build a nuke and nuke Israel. I’m not against that. Actually, I think it’s a great idea.

It’s possible they’re so sick of this ongoing shit with the Jews and the Americans that they’re like “okay, let’s just do this thing.”

But who knows what the Iranians are thinking. I don’t. Antony Blinken doesn’t.

Donald Trump:

We are not looking for regime change in Iran and will definitely come to an agreement with them.

Iran has great economic potential, it just shouldn’t have a nuclear bomb, that’s all. pic.twitter.com/kP6pEfIcqd

— S p r i n t e r F a m i l y (@SprinterFamily) June 26, 2024

The last 3 nuclear power plants in Germany will be closed on Saturday.

Germany, after more than 60 years, completely abandons its own nuclear power industry: the authorities disconnect the last three operating nuclear power plants from the network. pic.twitter.com/gisnFjFBqP

— Spriter (@Spriter99880) April 15, 2023

GERMANY – Will close its remaining nuclear power stations today, so it can virtue seek about how green they are!

Meanwhile, in order to plug the energy gap, they will import 43 MILLION tons of coal per year for the foreseeable future 🤡

Its a scam, you know that right? pic.twitter.com/AvhW1GZpfF

— Bernie’s Tweets (@BernieSpofforth) April 15, 2023

So, I thought the whole thing was that the carbon was changing the weather…but… it’s…

You know.

I don’t care.

I just hope all these people die.

The Guardian:

Germany’s three remaining nuclear power stations will shut down on Saturday, 12 years after the Fukushima disaster in Japan accelerated the country’s exit from atomic energy.

The closures mark the conclusion of a stop-start approach to atomic energy and a victory for the country’s vociferous anti-nuclear movement.

The facilities shutting are in Emsland, in the northern state of Lower Saxony, the Isar 2 site in Bavaria, and Neckarwestheim, in Baden-Württemberg in the south-west.

The shutdowns leave a conundrum for energy policymakers attempting to balance growing electricity demand in one of Europe’s industrial superpowers and efforts to decarbonise, against the backdrop of uncertainty caused by the war in Ukraine.

Germany last year delayed the closure of the three sites – which provided about 6.5% of the country’s electricity in 2022 – after Russia reduced European gas supplies, triggering concerns about a shortage of energy over the winter.

…

The final shutdowns have raised questions about security of energy supplies and the outlook for Germany’s carbon emissions. The country plans to close all coal-fired power plants by 2038, with the first round of closures planned in 2030.

However, its parliament approved emergency legislation to reopen mothballed coal-fired power plants to aid electricity generation last year. A push to build more terminals to import liquefied natural gas has also been accelerated since the Ukraine war began.

…

Tom Greatrex, chief executive of the UK’s Nuclear Industry Association, said the phaseout would worsen carbon emissions and “for a country supposedly renowned for its logical and evidence-driven approach is environmentally damaging, economically illiterate and deeply irresponsible”.

He added: “At a time of heightened concern about energy security, Germany will be abandoning assets that can displace 34bn cubic metres of gas a year.”

Too dumb!

Too dumb!

They should die!

End of Nuclear power in Germany this week.

Energy production from 2000 until today.

Germany is in the process of shutting down economically, making their electric grid MORE expensive and less competitive. Companies are more likely to build elsewhere. pic.twitter.com/zDkGDennrK

— Wall Street Silver (@WallStreetSilv) April 14, 2023

So the German Green Party finally got their way, so another 3 nuclear power plants were shutdown.

Germany now relies totally on coal.

This is what powers your electric vehicle….
😂😂😂😂😂 pic.twitter.com/EGx3bsmjAh

— Richard (@ricwe123) April 14, 2023

I seriously don’t even know what I’m supposed to be writing about these ongoing toxic leaks.

No one has any information about why this is happening, we are all just seeing in the news that it is happening all the time for unknown reasons.

The Guardian:

In December, Janica Jammes started a microgreens business in the basement of her home in Big Lake, Minnesota, just across the river from Xcel Energy’s nuclear plant in Monticello.

At least once each day, she uses water from her well to nourish the plant trays. She delivers her product to customers within a 10-mile radius and says the business has been a success.

But now she worries that her water could be contaminated by a leak of about 400,000 gallons of radioactive water that occurred in November at the plant, which is about 40 miles north-west of Minneapolis.

Moreover, Jammes is upset that the company did not alert the public about the leak until March – and then detected a second leak, which the company described as smaller than the first one.

“We don’t know for sure if” side effects from the leaks “will happen or when anything will happen but just the lack of transparency is very concerning”, said Jammes, a 36-year-old mother of four.

While Xcel Energy representatives have said the leaks did not affect local drinking water or pose a safety threat to residents, residents such as Jammes want more answers from the company.

Independent nuclear energy experts agree that the company should have been more transparent, but they say that based on reports from state and federal agencies, they also do not think the leaks pose a health risk to residents or that the incidents will serve as a significant setback to efforts to promote the carbon-free power source in the US.

It can’t be a coincidence. This is happening everywhere, constantly, so it cannot be a coincidence.

What then is this?

This Minnesota nuclear power plant is leaking radioactive water. Should you be worried? pic.twitter.com/IpE00UOURz

— CNET (@CNET) April 6, 2023

Zelensky is a machine of logic and reasoning, similar to that fat nigger scientist from the Discovery Channel.

You just get knocked off your feet by how much sense this guy makes.

RT:

Ukraine’s National Security and Defense Council has introduced sanctions on the Russian nuclear industry, President Vladimir Zelensky said in a statement on Sunday. The list of entities subject to the restrictions includes the Rosatom nuclear agency, as well as the company operating the Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP) – Europe’s biggest nuclear power station.

Zelensky accused Russian troops of shelling nuclear power stations in Ukraine and using them as “cover” for strikes.

“These are sufficient reasons for the Russian nuclear industry to be subjected to global sanctions,” he said. The president issued a decree on Sunday, which blacklisted a total of 200 entities for a period of 50 years.

The ZNPP once belonged to Ukraine but fell under Russian control in the spring of 2022. It is located in Zaporozhye Region, which formally joined Russia in autumn 2022 following a referendum, along with three other former Ukrainian territories, including the Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics, and Kherson Region.

Zelensky was obviously the one shelling the power plant, as we’ve covered here extensively. The UN went and investigated and their report was blocked from being released. They didn’t do that to protect Russia!

But basically, in order to support this war, you have to be such a bottom level retard that you will believe literally anything, including that Russia is shelling their own nuclear plant, which is quite possibly the dumbest claim ever made by anyone ever in history.

Part of how he gets away with all of this is that he’s just so darn handsome.

They’re still winning, by the way.

They’ve been on a year long march to total victory, and the winning just keeps getting more and more winny.

“We are winning” looks#Bakhmut https://t.co/PQIgDbQ1Gt pic.twitter.com/g8CvcJYTUM

— the Lemniscat (@theLemniscat) February 5, 2023

#Iran’s nuclear chief says the country’s uranium enrichment capacity has reached more than twice the capacity it has had in its whole history of the #nuclear industry. pic.twitter.com/omUdO0UyA6

— Abas Aslani (@AbasAslani) December 17, 2022

It’s just for nuclear energy, guys.

They’re not planning on building missiles and pointing them at Tel Aviv.

Paranoid ass Jews, always thinking people are out to get them just because they stole the land and killed everyone.

RT:

Tehran has more than doubled its capacity to enrich uranium, the head of the Iranian Atomic Energy Organization (AEOI), Mohammad Eslami, announced on Saturday.

It has now reached the highest level in the history of the Islamic Republic’s nuclear industry, exceeding the previous rates by “more than twice,” Eslami told lawmakers in Tehran, as cited by Tasnim news agency.

He added that the generation of power by the nuclear plants “has provided considerable economic benefits for Iran, reduced the consumption of fossil fuels, and prevented environmental damages.”

The announcement comes ahead of a visit by experts from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to the republic.

“At the invitation of Iran, an IAEA technical team will be in Tehran on Sunday,” the nuclear watchdog’s spokeswoman said earlier this week. The goal of the visit is to address “the outstanding safeguards issues previously reported,” she added. The agency’s chief, Rafael Grossi, is not expected to be part of the team this time.

The trip will focus on “multiple uranium particles of anthropogenic origin” reported at three locations in 2019, alleged to be former nuclear sites previously undeclared to the IAEA.

Eslami expressed hope on Wednesday that the visit “can help resolve issues with the agency.”

Russia welcomes the upcoming consultations, but says it’s unlikely any breakthrough can be reached, according to Mikhail Ulyanov, Moscow’s permanent representative to international organizations in Vienna.

Speaking to the TASS news agency, he noted that initially the consultations had been planned for late November. However, they were postponed because of an “untimely and counterproductive” resolution submitted by the US, Great Britain, Germany and France at the session of the IAEA Board of Governors in an attempt to put pressure on Iran.

Why do all of these totally unrelated countries want to hurt the Iranians?

Is it because they are controlled by the Jews?

Serious question.

It’s absolutely nuts that we are conducting joint aerial exercises w/Israel simulating an attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities. The last thing we or Arab Gulf nations need is another war. Didn’t we learn a damn thing from Iraq? No one will win, it will devastate regional economies

— James J. Zogby (@jjz1600) December 18, 2022

Scott Bennett says Western propaganda is trying to use Iran’s nuclear program as a trigger to inspire fear among the people. pic.twitter.com/OcoDPqjYKU

— Highlights (@highlightsnews1) December 18, 2022

It seems China is a much more reasonable country, in fact.

Is it because they’re not controlled by the Jews?

We welcome the EU’s reiteration of its commitment to restoring the JCPOA and call for separating the Iranian nuclear issue from other issues related to Iran. pic.twitter.com/DKkfZmFGc6

— Spokesperson发言人办公室 (@MFA_China) December 14, 2022

NEW – Wind turbine struck by lighting in Cromwell, Texas.pic.twitter.com/RsIutfY7XW

— Disclose.tv (@disclosetv) July 22, 2022

I keep telling you people: God hates windmills.

Fox News:

A Texas wind turbine caught on fire after reportedly being struck by lightning, according to a man who began recorded video of th incident.

Brent Havins told Fox News Digital that he was working at a cell tower in the area when he saw a lightning bolt hit the wind turbine in Crowell, Texas, and pulled out his cell phone to begin recording.

The wind turbine then caught on fire while it was spinning, creating circles of smoke in the air.

As more of the wind turbine’s blades were engulfed in flames, they began to fall off the massive electricity producer, which eventually stopped spinning.

Everyone already knew that God hates fags.

I don’t know why they wouldn’t realize he hates something so faggy as windmills.

This windmill thing, man…

Well, what do you say? Are windmills worse than child trannies? No, not in a literal or practical sense.

But trannies are some kind of metaphysical thing. The claim that some type of evil ethereal force is trapping souls in the wrong bodies can’t actually be disproved. It’s a super-bizarre claim, but you can’t disprove it.

You can however disprove the claim that “fossil fuels” are going to be replaced with windmills.

So, in some ways, windmills are worse than trannies, yes.

These people are now saying that they’re going to power tanks and jet planes with windmills and use them to fight World War III against Russians and Chinese using normal machinery. There are a lot of problems with the idea of a “green world world,” I think, but the most obvious problem is that you would lose. Then China and Russia would rule the world, and change the weather with carbon dioxide.

God: “How much clearer do I need to be?”

— mat (@mathelm) July 22, 2022

The green new deal 😅😅

— Ema Rosa (@EmaRosa98) July 22, 2022

Can we get a Native American to decipher the message?

— GigaChin (@giga_chin) July 22, 2022

That doesn’t look like clean renewable energy to me.

— (@DumbQuestioner) July 22, 2022

“Carbon free” 😂

— MiningSC (@MiningSC) July 22, 2022

Green energy at its finest

— Jonathan (@jonathan_ducote) July 22, 2022

Previously: Record-High Gas Prices Every Day: Sticking It to Putin

We’re running out of electricity because of Russia.

The solution is… more windmills.

If you’re living in a rural area, you’d better get used to the site of being surrounded by windmills… and you’d better cancel your birdwatching… forever.

RT:

President Joe Biden has blamed Russia for another crisis, saying the US might not be able to generate enough electricity to meet consumer demand partly because of Moscow’s military offensive against Ukraine.

The president declared an energy emergency on Monday, saying national security and quality of life are jeopardized by potential shortfalls in power supplies. He invoked the Defense Production Act – originally part of an industrial mobilization effort in response to the Korean War – to spur domestic production of solar panels and other forms of “clean” energy to boost power supplies.

“Multiple factors are threatening the ability of the United States to provide sufficient electricity generation to serve expected customer demand,” Biden said in his emergency declaration. “These factors include disruptions of energy markets caused by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and extreme weather events exacerbated by climate change.”

The weather is changing, Putin started a war for no reason – how convenient that these two very real problems are dovetailing into the solution that these people were already demanding.

Get ready to bask in the beauty.

The sanctions that all of these people everywhere are calling for would make it so Germany can’t even function at all.

Everyone basically agrees on this.

You’ll pay $9 for a gallon of gas, but the Germans will just be sitting around in the dark.

The Guardian:

The Ukraine crisis has plunged Germany into an intense debate about how it will heat its homes and power its industry in future, summed up in the short question: can Europe’s largest economy function without Vladimir Putin’s gas?

The Green federal economics minister, Robert Habeck, answered with a decisive “yes it can”, a day after the chancellor, Olaf Scholz, announced the suspension of the Nord Stream 2 pipeline, which was meant to deliver from Russia as much as 70% of Germany’s gas requirements. There are considerable doubts as to whether the $11bn project will ever now go ahead.

But even before Russian troops invaded Ukraine on Thursday morning, NS2 was just a small part of the wider discussion some say Germany has been far too slow to have. At stake is nothing less than the future of German – and by extension European – energy security.

Germany announced its withdrawal from nuclear power after the 2011 Fukushima disaster, and in 2019 said it would pull the plug on coal-fired plants, leaving observers wondering how the country was planning to make its energy policy workable and future-proof. Sceptics have questioned how it made sense for Germany to make itself so dependent on Russian gas when it should be distancing itself from Putin’s autocratic machinery. Until recently, the answer from the top of government was that this was an economic project, not a political one. The robotically repeated mantra now sounds at the best naive, and at the worst, given the current turn of events, a self-defeating decision which has helped fund Putin’s war.

Habeck admitted “we face turbulent days ahead”, as he promised on Wednesday that the government would provide relief where necessary to compensate for the expected rise in gas prices. One of the government’s main predicaments is whether it can deliver on its promise to make a switch to renewable energy sources in order to reach its climate goal to become carbon neutral by 2045. Gas is seen as the vital bridge in that endeavour, which, while seen as ambitious by international standards, is viewed by many climate experts as barely adequate.

Importing liquified natural gas (LNG) has been viewed as one option as part of a diversification strategy. However, this has been beset by numerous problems – not least the lack of a terminal in Germany necessary to handle LNG imports. Neither would available LNG supplies be able to fully replace Russian gas and it is also an expensive alternative. Gas already comes from Norway, but those supplies cannot be increased as it is already producing to capacity.

Leonhard Birnbaum, the CEO of Germany’s biggest gas and electricity provider E.ON, said that while energy supplies for this winter were secure, next year could be more of a challenge. “If Russian gas imports were to break down completely, the immediate effect wouldn’t be so dramatic as we’re almost at the end of the heating season. But next winter it could be the case that we’re not able to meet the supply demands of all the industrial customers. Some of them may have to turn off the power. It is utopian to believe that Russian gas can be completely replaced from one day to the next by other sources,” he told Die Zeit.

Other critics have said Germany only has itself to blame, having dillydallied on its much vaunted plans to switch from fossil fuels to renewables. A positive headline to emerge from the recent heavy storms which hit much of northern Europe, was the record amount of energy fed into the grid by its wind turbines on Sunday. But it also served to underline how slow the development of renewables has been.

Beyond Germany’s borders the short-term answer is thought to be simple: why not reverse the decisions, or at least prolong the use of coal-fired power plants and temporarily restart the nuclear reactors?

But these options are seen as politically suicidal in Berlin – in particular the reactivation of nuclear plants (as well as being highly impractical and disastrous from a legal point of view). Opposition to nuclear was the founding principal of the Green party – two of whose former leaders, Habeck and the foreign minister, Annalena Baerbock, are now in government. Both have always opposed the pipeline.

There is no evidence of ordinary Germans panicking, although heating installation companies say there has been a considerable increase in inquiries about heat pumps from people keen to find an alternative to the gas central heating.

“In the short term it won’t be easy to move away from natural gas,” Hans-Martin Henning, the head of the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems, told Tagesspiegel. “But in the medium term this must be part of the concept of speeding up the energy source switch in the heat sector and wherever possible electrical heat pumps should be used as a way of becoming more independent from natural gas.”

Closing down the nuclear plants was something Germany did under pressure from the United States. It’s not even clear what the explanation was. They don’t emit carbon, and thus do not contribute to the imaginary weather thing.

Basically, there is a WEF plan to de-industralize the West, which I guess didn’t include a war in the Ukraine.

Here’s an interesting fact that many missed when it happened: at the end of November, just as the Yellow Vests were really starting to get things heated up on the streets of France, the “Weather Crusader” Emmanuel Macron ordered a bunch of French nuclear power plants shut down.

The Independent:

French President Emmanuel Macron has said the country will move more slowly than promised to cap the amount of energy it derives from nuclear energy.

Amid daily protests about high energy prices, Mr Macron said France will shut down 14 nuclear reactors by 2035 out of 58 now in order.

He said France would cap the amount of electricity it derives from nuclear plants at 50 per cent by 2035, which is a delay compared with the goal of 2025 set by his predecessor Francois Hollande.

France depends more on nuclear energy than any other country, getting about three-quarters of its electricity from its 19 nuclear plants.

The French leader promised to develop renewable energy instead, saying his priority is weaning France’s economy from fuel that contributes to global warming.

This is fascinating, because as you may not know, nuclear energy is a “green” energy in that it does not produce CO2.

That isn’t smoke that comes out of those giant chimneys – it’s just steam.

In actual fact, you could have a virtually CO2-free society if you used nuclear power in conjunction with electric cars. The only remaining major CO2 producer would be jet engines, and if you really wanted to go full-futurism, you could replace the overwhelming majority of air-travel with high speed trains.

China is actually talking about connecting the US and China via train.

Nuclear power and a global rail system would be a real and attainable goal, which one would presumably be working towards if they really thought that seas were about to rise and bury us all under water.

Nuclear energy is largely safe, especially if you don’t live on a fault line like the Japanese. France has been using nuclear power as their primary energy source for decades and has never had any problem. But even if it weren’t safe, you’d certainly imagine it is preferable to being buried underwater in the global apocalypse scenario that global warming activists are predicting.

Shutting down working nuclear power plants in the middle of a gigantic push to cut “fossil fuel” energy sources makes it look like there is just a general push to shut down energy production itself.

It also makes the claims of impending doom seem extremely disingeneous and outright absurd.

The French Should be Talking About This

I don’t know how much the French are talking about this, because the French don’t speak English and I don’t speak French so there is something of a barrier between what is going on there and what is going on on the normal internet.

But if I was French, I would be making Macron’s move to shut down nuclear power a primary talking point. Because it proves, absolutely, that the gasoline tax is meant to do violence against the French people, with the “global warming” pseudoscience merely being used as an excuse for this act.

Furthermore, by doing this violence to the French people, Macron is attempting to set a standard of violence to be done to the rest of the world through these vicious new taxes and other austerity measures and general social-engineering programs.

Macron is making an argument to the internationalists that he is worthy of a global leadership position, he is abusing the French people in order to impress this international clique of rootless cosmopolitans.

Announcing a shutdown of nuclear power in the middle of an uprising against gasoline taxes is the epitome of audacious disdain for the people, and it was clearly intended to send a signal to his globalist masters that he has no problem pissing in the faces of the people and telling them it is raining.