Thoughts on the worsening catastrophe of German energy policy, and how things came to be this way.
eugyppius: a plague chronicle — May 12, 2023
The international press has maintained near-total silence on the escalating insanity of what is happening in Germany. Media outlets that routinely celebrate German progress towards energy transition don’t want you to know that Europe’s dominant industrial power has entered a deeply destructive political and administrative spiral from which it may never recover. The fault lies with the self-defeating and unworkable energy policies that have a death grip not merely on the Scholz government, but on the entire administrative state. Since completing the nuclear phase-out in the midst of an ongoing energy crisis and avoiding winter catastrophe thanks only to the accident of mild weather, our rulers are now forcing devastating changes to the so-called Gebäudeenergiegesetz, or the Building Energy Act, which regulates energy consumption in residential and commercial structures.
That sounds bland and boring, but it’s not. This latest turning of the screws aims to phase out traditional gas and oil heating, by mandating that all new heating systems installed after 2024 use no less than 65% renewable energy. In most cases, this can only be achieved by installing electric-powered heat pumps. Particularly in the case of many older buildings, the associated renovation costs will prove catastrophic, and unless they’re drastically revised, the rules will simply upset the housing market and destroy a great deal of personal wealth. Nor does the grid have any hope of powering these new heat sources, now or in the future.
In the midst of growing alarm and the seeming futility of all opposition, even some German establishment media have begun to voice unease. Today, Der Spiegel (of all magazines) published a lengthy piece on the origins, funding and rise to power of the “Eco Network” currently controlling German energy policy, and I want to discuss it in detail, because it is so revealing about so many things. It pulls together many separate threads, to show how policy behemoths originate and are set in motion in modern managerial states, and how they can remain impervious and even contrary to popular opinion even in allegedly democratic systems.
The Spiegel reporting takes a close look at the careers of several key characters behind the energy transition, among them the Green politician Rainer Baake, and Robert Habeck’s scandal-riddled right-hand man Patrick Graichen, who is the policy brains driving most of the current insanity.
The rise of the environmentalists in the Ministry of Economics began a full decade ago. For a long time, the view was that the state should impose as few rules as possible on the corporate sector … According to this logic, environmentalism and economic policy were seen as nearly mutually exclusive. It was not until 2013 that the dominance of free-market civil servants began to crumble.
At this time, Sigmar Gabriel of the SPD became Minister of Economics, and appointed an unusual state-secretary for energy
: Rainer Baake … The move was a surprise, because Baake is not a Social Democrat, but a Green. … As State Secretary in the Ministry of the Environment … Baake helped orchestrate the first legislation on Germany’s nuclear phase-out. …
In 2012, Baake founded Agora Energiewende, probably the most influential think-tank advocating a carbon-neutral society in German politics. Patrick Graichen was at that time already Baake’s protegé. …
As the old-guard industry-friendly civil servants in the German bureaucracy began to retire, Baake filled their posts with Green technocrats wherever possible, such that when control of the Ministry passed to the centre-right CDU in 2018, the damage was done. The institutional momentum had already shifted towards climate change and begun to gather strength under its own power. The catchword for Baake’s political vision was the so-called “All Electric World,” one in which a grid powered entirely by renewables drives cars (electrical vehicles), heats buildings (heat pumps) and even powers industry (though here the solutions are much vaguer).
During his five-year tenure as state secretary, Baake appointed Graichen to head the Agora think-tank, which began churning out policy papers, sponsoring Green scientific research, and gathering an ever-growing crowd of loyal advocates and technocrats. This paid off:
Whenever energy and climate were discussed in Berlin [in the years after Baake’s resignation from the Ministry of Economics in 2018], Graichen’s name came up, often peddling unwieldy terms that only experts understand. The “merit order principle”, for example, or the “locked-in effect”. The red-haired man with the sonorous voice knew his way around this specialist world like no other. …
The ability appears to have come naturally to him. His mother worked in the Ministry of Development, his father for a while in the Ministry of Transport. He himself became involved in environmental issues as a schoolboy, initially in the youth organisation of BUND. In 1993, he began studying at the University of Heidelberg. In 1996, he joined the Green Party. In 2001, he became a consultant for international climate protection … and helped draft the Kyoto Protocol.
Graichen is straight from the German political establishment, and his was the first generation that saw significant Green penetration in the years around the turn of the millennium. We are witnessing the fruition of long-term environmentalist activism, stretching back to the 1970s.
In 2020, Baake … founded the Climate Neutrality Foundation (Stiftung Klimaneutralität) and began producing studies on the energy transition. In their papers, Baake and Graichen touch on almost every climate issue. They talk about the restructuring of industry, the expansion of wind power, and the heating transition.
Their work was financed in the background by two men: Bernhard Lorentz, who as head of the Mercator Foundation helped to bring the Agora think-tank to life. And Hal Harvey, an American lobbyist who has funded environmentalist and climate organisations around the world for almost three decades, helped among other things by the philanthropic billions of families like the Hewletts.
This is not the first time we’ve found unlikely American activists and philanthropists behind European – and specifically German – climate activism. Spiegel explains, ominously, that “Harvey sees Europe as the key to preparing a climate-neutral future” and that this reason “he directs millions … to support the likes of Baake and Graichen.” This man, who hardly appears in Anglophone media and doesn’t even have an English-language Wikipedia page, has been christened by Die Zeit as “the most powerful Green politician in the world.”
Harvey relies particularly upon think tanks to develop policy and warehouse political candidates when they’re out of power, and his immensely well-funded lobbying efforts can easily overwhelm the political discourse in smaller countries, which is probably one reason he’s so interested in Europe.
German think tanks such as Agora … or the Climate Neutrality Foundation … recruit researchers with the millions donated by their sponsors and steadily build expert influence. They shape the way politics and society think about environmental and climate protection – and fill their studies with legal proposals which include their favoured solutions. …
The influence of the Green support organisations is undisputed. They have given the party a great knowledge advantage in matters of climate protection. And with this knowledge, the party’s attractiveness as a problem-solver for one of the greatest crises of our time grew. … Other parties have neglected this area for a long time.
“Knowledge” is of course the wrong term to use here. “Policy prescriptions” is much better, and if Der Spiegel weren’t so addled by their own ideological preconceptions, they could write about this more clearly. It’s a three-step process. 1) Activists and regime-approved scientists identify and make noise about looming problems, and then 2) think tanks write pages and pages of legislative and regulatory solutions for them. All of this happens largely out of sight, until 3) politicians respond to the demand stirred up the activist arm, and having no real expertise or understanding of anything themselves, they have no choice but to enact the proposals that people like Graichen feed them.
Here, then, is the explanation for Robert Habeck’s stubborn idiocy since last Fall. As soon as the Greens entered government, he made Graichen his state secretary for energy, and it is Graichen and the army of technocrats he commands who have been behind every political disaster since. The farcical response to the energy crisis, where these people were actually forced to work contrary to their principles and buy enormous quantities of coal (from Russia no less); the botched but nevertheless completed nuclear phase-out; and, finally, the catastrophic changes to the Building Energy Act, which will immiserate millions of Germans and do absolutely nothing to change the temperature of Earth.
Graichen’s failures have made him many enemies, which is one reason he’s currently mired in a nepotism scandal. Yet all the negative headlines are powerless to change any of the insanity that is coming for us, for the simple reason that there are no other policies to implement and no other scientific or technocratic solution to turn to. Graichen and his wealthy backers have spent ten years filling all the political and intellectual pipelines with their preferred problems and their preferred solutions.
This is how you realise an agenda from the top down, and it is a key point on which Corona can be differentiated from the climate change farce. Over many years, the climate brigade have worked to fill academia and the bureaucracy with their ideas and their supporters. They took advantage of generational change and retirements to position their people, and they waited for an election to bring the right politicians to power and complete the circuit. The pandemicists of course followed the same path, but their mild mostly self-serving solutions were abandoned at the last moment in favour of much harsher, vastly more dangerous mass containment measures. The zeal for the novel response originated not with philanthropic lunatics and think-tanks over decades, but from within the bureaucracy itself. This lent the Corona coup much more power in the moment, but without any broader institutional or ideological support, the worst aspects of the virus suppression regime crumbled just as quickly and are now quietly repudiated everywhere.
The Green fanatics never had that level of insane messianic enthusiasm, but for the same reason, they’re going to prove much, much harder to drive out.
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EPSTEIN & ROTHSCHILD
Crooked financier Jeffrey Epstein died August 2019 in the Metropolitan Correctional Center in Manhattan as he awaited trial for criminal charges relating to his decades-long sex trafficking of underage girls. While officially declared a suicide, his death was more likely murder, a contract killing to silence the specialist in deal-making and tax evasion sex trafficker and black mailer—before a trial could produce evidence that would implicate many others in the US ruling elite. Some claim this murder was ordered by Gislane Maxwell for Mossad . Why was the media so dismissive of questions about Epstein’s death as “conspiracy theories”? The Epstein’s case was significant not because of the financier’s particular depravity but rather because his operation and death expressed something true about society as a whole. Almost four years after Epstein’s death, a series of articles last week now due to ongoing lawsuits filed by the attorney general of the Virgin Islands, and by an unnamed victim of Epstein’s abuse, case watchers have been able to access thousands of pages of emails and schedules of Epstein, dating from 2013 to 2017. The lawsuits are against JP Morgan Chase and allege the bank knowingly facilitated the financial transactions that Epstein used to fund his abuse of young children one being just age 12. The material gleaned is limited to dates from a calendar diary of Epstein’s meetings and various notes and emails over the four-year period. It provides just a small window into Epstein’s operations over 30 years, and his wide circle of contacts. However, it is enough to get a glimpse—or perhaps a smell—of this world of powerful corporate, financial and state actors, and their incessant intermingling. Epstein was regularly meeting with the most powerful figures in the global economy, as well as their key political agents—from Kathryn Ruemmler, general counsel in the Obama White House and later at Goldman Sachs, to Leon Black, the billionaire owner of Apollo Global Management, one of the largest asset managers in the world and an underling of Rothschild It is no secret that a few thousand people, and the institutions they control, have effective ownership over every major company and bank in the world. The development of financial control into a highly stratified world dominated, not by competition, but by the decisions of a handful of giant monopolies, was a central prediction of Karl Marx’s economic work. It turns our pressure was put on the British Royals through the blackmail of Prince Andrew to do several things such as giving a knighthood to the Mossad operative and psychopath Tony Blair. Today, this process of monopolization and globalization often using blackmail has produced a remarkably narrow financial oligarchy dominated from top to bottom by Rothschild
First….identify crypto jews within the Green Party of Germany.Like the Greens in NZ and Australia,the majority will be crypto jews (and the token minorities of course)
Dont publicise anything otherwise the German Secret Police will come a calling and the media will get to work.
Stay clear of anything remotely resembling Nazi stuff because the public has already been conditioned to act irrationally on the subject..
So the jews were able to equip the Israeli navy with free equipment at no charge except to German taxpayers……anyone objecting had “Nazi leanings”.
message from maria a single mum age 34
My son who is age 9 got his second hormone injection yesterday
all went smoothly until the doctor came in to do the procedure
my son freaked out with the sting of the numbing cream
then the real pain killing medicine was put in by needle
he got so scared he wanted to back out of the procedure
luckily the childrens hospital have a counselor to stay with us the whole time
he did well keeping my son calm and distracting him, but it took over an hour
of negotiation before he let the doctor continue, i literally had to bribe him with doubling his pocket money, it was the most stressful hour i ever had, the medicine costs $43,000
and i was so scared he would back out and the medicine only lasts a few days
and the insurance people would not pay again if he did back out,
these children are on hormone medication for life and i worry about the debilitataing side effects
I was so proud of him that he went through with it, he was crying all the way home
he kept saying its not fair he has to go through all this, and hes right its not
i keep explaining to freinds about just how stressful it is having a trans child
being the parent of a normal child is very different to parenting a trans child
but his teachers have explained to me this is the right thing to do for him
This has nowt to do with this article.
This website is dead, or dying. Most of the stories are a day or two old, and have done the YouTube/social media circuit. Those that come from creator/writer direct, are of questionable worth, if not utter bullshit.
I’m not the only one who has made these points. Such as lousy comment updates?
Maybe the editor should write something about this. Why has this site declined so much? Why does the editor think that comments are a minor aspect of this site? I say this, praising some comments, ones I don’t particularly agree with, but are many times better than the published article.
Why has content become so narrow?
Me, I’m still hanging in there, but I often wonder why I bother. Maybe Rixon feels the comments are either racist, or barmy? & Saying that, I know Rixon doesn’t like me, but I’m not here to be liked.
People like Tesla and Schauberger were able to show us how to generate electricity intelligently by now, or by the 1940s, but people like Soros and Netenyahu want us all dead, and the compromise is the awkward world we have actually got
This is the true meaning of “The long march through the institutions” and it looks like it’s bringing it’s fruits in DE just like the Cultural Marxism is in US. Of course before you start “marching” you need to be sufficiently brainwashed by the education system. That’s why they’re pushing this BS into schools so intensively. Patrick Graichen of course belongs to the WEF https://www.weforum.org/people/patrick-graichen
all this Klaus Schwabs WEF ecological fascist
green Young Global “Leaders” shoult be shot
any day or nighttime !
ecological fascist king charles III too + the whole
westminster bagage .
The sooner the global population realize that there there never will be a constant climate on Planet Earth and that mother Earth is in constant flux.
There are no consistancies in the evolutionarh processes of anything.
Everything in life is temporary and that includes our climate. What needs to be feared is the climate manipulation caused by governments who high energy transmitters (HHARP) ehich beams radiation into the ionosphere inorder to create atmospheric variations.
Welcome to techno-Communism. Since the elimination of Nazi Germany, the white race lost the only nation governed by white gentiles representing Aryan interests/welfare. After the fall of the Third Reich, the Jews-Christians-Communists regained power & conceived the fraudulent threat of ‘climate change’ to institute techno-Communism– while concomitantly implementing ‘Whiteocide’ upon Germany & the West via nonwhite immigration & miscegenation.. Its simply all about replacing whites with A.I & nonwhites on some ‘Elysium’ (2013) type A.I./nonwhite dominated Earth. Now you know.
This “Frederick the Great Reset” won’t happen, but the German Peoples will suffer again.
Correct, climate change is not about climate or CO2 – it is about destroying your nation.
CO2 doesn’t warm the planet. CO2 is a trace gas, and in previous ice ages CO2 was 10x higher during ice ages.
All glaciations start with high CO2 and end with low CO2.
Greta Thunderborg is a teenage idiot.
Al Gore never took a single collegiate science course.
DiCaprio is an actor who never finished high school.
We are still in the ice age, at a tail end of an interglacial.
If they were really serious about doing the right thing for the planet they wouldn’t be drumming up a big war securing for every living thing ecological devastation.
They want to protect the planet and they want to foment war and go to war.
The folks who are ‘Green’ and want to wage war are mentally ill.
If you read to the end of this article you can’t help get the sense that there are diverse movements such as environmentalists of some conventional-power suppression regime and pandemicists of a “virus suppression regime” which have separate human sources. Yet, from everything presented on this site since the beginning of Covid one cannot help but conclude that they are both fake and/or exaggerated perils ushering us into the same centralized, totalitarian control grids by the same power moguls behind the UN, the UN Agendas, the WHO, the WEF. Certainly these movements on the world stage have adherents who believe in every aspect of their particular peril, and for the author of this article he seems to think that the pandemicists have been beaten back, and now the focus, at least in Germany, must be against the environmentalists and their destructive nonsense. Yet, no doubt to the central control-freaks the plandemics have just begun. Perhaps, instead of spending our energies fighting hoards of deluded people, we should keep focusing on the delusion and peril manufacturers.
For instance, you have Bill Gates who seems to be the chief leg man of some centralized group advocating the perils of climate change, the engineering of plandemics and culling the population of the world. That should tell us something, which is that the establishments of all of our nations are working with him doing their best to orchestrate all of the perils simply to assert more totalitarian controls over us.
Otherwise, perhaps the author should tell us what is really thought to be harmful with nuclear power, and is that a separate and legit concern really distinct from all of the fake CO2 peril nonsense which the vary same establishments have been brainwashing the public with????
As Russia de-industrialises Ukraine a British-supplied Storm Shadow missile strikes an important Russian supply base 80 miles behind the front in Luhansk. While Britain supplied them I bet America demanded it.
https://uk.news.yahoo.com/storm-shadow-missiles-devastating-strikes-140412898.html
Mark Twain said, “History does not repeat itself, but it often rhymes.”
I was reminded of the post war “ Morgenthau Plan” which sought to take Germany back to the preindustrial era. Wikipedia laughably lists Morgenthau as “German American”. Regulars here as a starter for ten will know his antecedents.
Interestingly the plan didn’t gain traction. The desire to make money by reindustrialising Germany proved more decisive than the sadistic hobby of punishing them.
And I have begun to wonder in recent times to what extent the misnamed “elites”, TPTB, and so on, have a monolithic plan. We may judge world personalities and events and not really know what horse trading has gone on behind the scenes. We see the results of actions and decisions while assuming they may be the fruits of some frictionless execution…
I have wondered — and from time to time expressed it with no feedback — to what extent the Rothschild and Rockefeller dynasties have feuded. I think of the House of York and Lancaster fighting each other while both still massacring we “peasants”. Rockefeller and Rothschild have “gone to war” on oil and banking. I understand the Glass-Steagall Act resulted from one such banking feud while a peace conference on world oil also had to be conducted too to delineate territories – just like mob bosses do.
I conceptualise Rothschild as Frankenstein and Rockefeller as his monster. The extent to which they may have not seen eye to eye on aspects of WWII is a good question. But more broadly and currently, I do wonder what consensus there is among TPTB that will include other family dynasties. I find it hard to believe that it is only we here on the TTS pages that are not in full agreement with each other 🙂
“In most cases, this can only be achieved by installing electric-powered heat pumps”
Oh what a surprise, it’s all about money. More accurately, forcing you to replace existing unnecessary things with new unnecessary things that only they can provide you with and that they pass laws to force you to buy.
None of this is about saving the planet. It’s about money. I actually do care about the planet (shock horror) and I would do nothing that they are doing and they are doing nothing that I would do. The only way to save this planet is to reduce the number of humans, and no one is doing anything to do that (I don’t count the endless BS baiting of “excess deaths” or any of the rest because it is all utter crap). Only the rich living in the country think this planet is “healthy” under the infection of human parasites.
It seems ((their)) wish comes true, that finally the “Morgenthau Plan” is being implemented.
Our climate is affected by the sun and nothing else. C02 has nothing to do with climate change. I spent too much time at university only to realise that most lecturers and professors are often the most stupid, narrow minded people you could ever meet.
‘They want to protect the planet and they want to foment war and go to war.
The folks who are ‘Green’ and want to wage war are mentally ill.’
This is true, Goybuoy!!
Climate change(global warming) is a propoganda lie to further the war against humanity’s growth by the very industrialists that have made their lot on the growth of human beings backs over the last 200yrs. The Greens(((their tools))) by disease of mind think themselves bigger than the planet itself. That human beings can govern the laws of nature that exist and always have on this planet and the surrounding universe under God. Growth is the very essence of what it is to be a human being. It is as natural as the Sun which is a reality unto itself. The Greens and their handlers that are now impeding on humanity’s growth are simply antihuman and antihumanity. They go against the very grain of existence which is consciousness. Silly beings that are alien to nature, human beings and humanity. They eventually will drown themselves led by the pied Pipers of the fourth industrial revolution. How sick of mind does one have to be to fall for blatant lies propaganda and self serving interests which encompass total control. Anyone who impedes on growth also impedes on any future humanity might have while also going against the laws of nature,the planet and the universe under God. Silly and hateful yet have full bellies I suspect.
Very good and important article!
You are doing a good work Rixon!
@ BORIS BEQUER
we have this strong war inciting jewess Strack Zimmerman
in parliament with her connection to this jewish Borell of EU.
there must be a lot of jews + kryptojews in US jewlobby steered
german parliament . greens + liberals (socialists SPD) and
conservatives (CDU/CSU(FDP) are all warsuporters . conservatives
come mostly from US thinktanks (CFR,Bilderberg,Trilaterales,
Atlantic bridge) greens + (few liberals) are mostly Klaus Schwabs
Young Global Leaders, sucked Rothschilds mothermilk.
but most jews are in institutions (health, education,
universities, social + historic + medias (with zionist
goyim as frontman) + law + justice .
the gratis delivered Dolphin class submarines can
deliver nukes on german cities ANYTIME as they
already have predicted . we are their hostages but
the whole world is theirs ! they knew it already
years before we knew it .
@ MARIA CLARK
you must be stupid to believe he is a trans .
HAS NEVER HAPPENED BEFORE !
he is just normal child but you + your brainpissing
leftist jew guides invented a trap for you idiots !
your child will curse you in case he reaches adult age .
@ PETER
the greens + leftist 68er generation reached their goal
of long march through the institutions already before
30 years ago . best example Fischers UNO rising and
Serbian war supporting . since then the 68er are in all
state institutions, justice +medias and all zionists .
they prepare the coming liberation of criminals (only
foreigners) like the democrates already do with black
criminals in USA . like all blessings from USA come
to germany later so the european/german race war
also will come later when german medias fulfill CIA/
Mossads orders + manipulations .
@ SMON SMITH
THEY are all united against us !
Simon Smith–I heard a girl claiming to be a Rothschild who said Casbolt was their leader and that the family had completely merged with Rockefeller, but Benjamin Fulford claimed to be working for Roths.. against Rock.., and in my own mind, it was never possible for Roths.. to fully tolerate the other one