by WorldTribune Staff, October 30, 2022 As it scrambles to find alternatives to natural gas ahead of winter, Germany has torn down a wind farm in order to expand operations at a nearby coal mine. Eight of the turbines at the wind farm near the Tagebau Garzweiler lignite mine in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia […]
by WorldTribune Staff, September 29, 2022 German security officials believe “highly effective explosive devices” were used to in sabotage attacks on Russia’s Nord Stream 1 and Nord Stream 2 pipelines. Der Spiegel reported on Thursday that the intelligence officials calculated that explosive devices with an effect comparable to that of 500 kilograms (about 1,100 pounds) […]
by WorldTribune Staff, August 25, 2022 Aug. 22 headline in Business Insider: “Inflation in Germany could hit a 70-year high of 10% amid Russia’s natural-gas squeeze, German central bank chief says”. Former President Donald Trump: “I told you so!” In a Sept. 26, 2018 address to the UN General Assembly, the German delegation was laughing […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler PARIS — It’s been a strange and uncertain summer, bookmarked by high temperatures, torrid inflation, and a very hot war on Europe’s eastern doorstep. France is still in vacation mode for a few more hectic weeks, but as the once glorious long days now shorten and the inevitable […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler This was a crisis waiting to happen. Europe’s unfolding energy emergency was long in coming but at the same time widely encouraged by Western European states all too eager to embrace Russia’s cheap and available natural gas delivered to the European Union’s doorstep by a spiderweb of pipelines […]
by WorldTribune Staff, July 8, 2022 Information released by the governments of Germany, Hungary, and Taiwan show unprecedented decreases in birth rates since rollout of the Covid-19 vaccines. The state of North Dakota, the United Kingdom, and Switzerland saw similar declines. Germany saw a 13% drop in the first quarter of 2022 compared with Q1 […]
by WorldTribune Staff, April 15, 2022 During the previous U.S. administration, Western European countries resisted President Donald Trump’s appeals to increase their defense budgets. Following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Germany, France, Italy, Belgium, Romania, Poland, Norway, Sweden and Finland have all announced they would indeed increase their defense spending, David Isaac noted in an April […]
by WorldTribune Staff, March 24, 2022 The Covid overlords and corporate media continue to insist that side effects from the Covid vaccines are “rare.” Real-world data from Israel and Germany tell a different story. The Israeli Ministry of Health found that side-effects which appeared within 21-30 days from vaccination with the third Pfizer shot (booster) […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler We knew it was coming. We planned for it. But then we calmly dozed off again. The rude jolt of the alarm followed the news of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Our second thought followed; What about our energy supplies? Western Europe, including our NATO allies, have become dangerously […]
by WorldTribune Staff, March 11, 2022 During a September 2018 address before the United Nations General Assembly, President Donald Trump warned European Union nations they needed to reduce their dependency on Russian oil and natural gas. Trump (full speech below) called out Germany specifically: “Germany will become totally dependent on Russian energy if it does […]
