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🇪🇺🇺🇸 European consumers pay on average 158% more than American consumers for electric energy and 345% more for natural gas despite being a lot poorer.
For the monthly electricity bill paid in the EU, 20% of the bill's price is inflated by taxes.
An EU-funded German think tank, in a December 2024 analysis, presented the "only" solution available: wait until renewables become cheap something which may or may not happen.
Their graphs show how renewables will change the future electricity bill, which by their own admission, will remain unchanged as whatever surges in electricity generation may appear from renewables will be offset by other taxes imposed by the EU in order to maintain auxiliary infrastructure such as batteries to stock up on surplus energy and replacing older infrastructure.
The think tank admits the future where Europe regains access to cheap energy without resorting to importing natural gas from Russia is "overtly optimistic" because the renewable infrastructure is manufactured almost exclusively by China with which the EU recently ruined its ties with to please the U.S.
Although the think tank found the key flaw in its thinking that renewables will save Europe, the think tank says at the end that paying for more expensive energy is a viable alternative than "volatile imports from global markets" and even said that in the future, the EU may bridge the energy cost gap with the US.
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The World Microbiome Partnership (WMP) is an international forum founded in 2023 with funding from the EU Horizon 2020 to create a governance structure for microbiome manipulation across agriculture, medicine, and climate policy.
The WMP is aligned with the One Health and Planetary Health agendas (the same ones behind both the EAT-Lancet commissions "Planetary Health Diet" and the UN's Food Systems Summit that promises to eliminate animal agriculture).
WMP participants include the WHO, the CDC, NIH, and biotech firms. They promote the idea that microbial communities must be governed like other strategic assets.
The key thing to understand is that the technocrats are reframing the microbiome as critical infrastructure: more like an energy grid or communication network than a sacred, living ecosystem.
As biotech companies deploy platforms to build GMO microbes to do everything from "manufacturing", to biomarkers, to surveillance — the WMP seeks control of these novel systems, ...
A court in Vienna has caused a storm after confirming that a financial ruling based on Islamic law, or Sharia, is legally valid in Austria.
Critics say the judgment opens the door to “parallel justice” and undermines the country’s legal system.
The case began when two Muslim men agreed that any disputes between them would be settled by an Islamic arbitration panel using Sharia rules.
When a disagreement arose, the tribunal ordered one of them to pay €320,000. He refused, arguing that Sharia is open to different interpretations and goes against Austria’s core values.
But the Vienna Regional Court dismissed his appeal. Judges said Austrian law allows people to choose arbitration systems for financial and property disputes, as long as the result does not break Austria’s “fundamental legal values.”
The court added that it was not its role to examine whether Sharia itself was fair, but only whether the outcome contradicted Austrian law.
The ruling has sparked fierce criticism. Manfred ...
