In 2014, NATO secretary-general Anders Fogh Rasmussen drew attention to Russian disinformation campaigns around energy policy in Europe, stating: “It is one of Russia’s sophisticated information and disinformation campaigns to actively support so-called non-governmental organisations – namely environmental protection organisations that oppose fracking gas – to maintain dependence on importing Russian gas.”

Oil and gas production provides Russia with an estimated 40 per cent of its revenue. And, historically, a rise in oil prices has correlated with Russian aggression against its neighbours. The rationale seems to be that high oil prices enable Russia not only to withstand the impact of sanctions, but also to fund its tanks and missiles. In 2020, the Wilfred Martens Centre for European Studies, a centre-right think tank headquartered in Brussels, Belgium, released a report documenting that the Russian government had transferred at least €82 million to various climate protection organisations that were working to block European natural gas production.

On French television, political scientist Dominique Reynie also reported that Russian state-owned gas corporation Gazprom had funded various environmental NGOs that had advocated for the abandonment of nuclear power. Less nuclear power and gas production inside Europe means increased dependency on Russian gas.

https://www.theaustralian.com.au/commentary/putins-kgb-skulduggery-from-terror-t...

Western Green parties, working relentlessly to cripple their own countries' energy independence, work into the hands of Russia, OPEC, Venezuela and China.
They are the myopic yet shrill useful idiots for the various adversaries of the West.

Frank wrote on Apr 22^nd, 2022 at 7:55am:


Admittedly fossil energy exporters like Russia and Oz have much to lose in a transition to a green economy.

But do not fear: the Greens (in Oz) are MMT literate, and will be able to work out how to develop OZ resources  for the nation's benefit in a green economy, despite the loss of fossil exports.

Russia might have a more difficult problem, if it lacks the solar and wind resources comparable to Oz, for example.   

Frank wrote on Sep 9^th, 2022 at 10:07pm:


So you ignored the substantive point re economies in transition:

But do not fear: the Greens (in Oz) are MMT literate, and will be able to work out how to develop OZ resources  for the nation's benefit in a green economy, despite the loss of fossil exports.



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hey..I'm as ozzy as you...and I loathe the homelessness and the entrenched disadvantaged in this country, as do The Greens. 


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Certainly the gap is related to past events and racist attitudes toward blacks.

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Nowhere near as stupid as conservatives who acquiesce in entrenched disadvantage on the basis of obsolete classical economics (and theories of scarcity).

Frank wrote on Sep 10^th, 2022 at 10:46am:


"Condolences to those who knew the Queen"

..very thoughtful, I would say, unlike  conservative monarchy-bootlickers.

Proof the greens are schithouse nasty people who are only interested in stoking societal division.

thegreatdivide wrote on Sep 10^th, 2022 at 9:38pm:




Pathetic monomaniac.  Still - Thank you, Mr Fvkkoffski, cloth-eared, foreign muck of a mind venting its vulgar, stupid mania.


You will never be free of your self-forged straightjacket of bollox. You enjoy it.

Frank wrote on Sep 10^th, 2022 at 10:33pm:


Oh dear...the "sheep needing a shepherd' comment obviously unhinged you.

Yes, fawning radio journalists milking the 'mother of the nation' narrative for all its emotional worth, in interviews with the populace, is indicative of the state of humanity....sheep, in fact.

Just to let you know most countries abandoned their monarchies ages ago; and a young Liz Truss herself said monarchy is absurd (she is not one of the sheep). 

Frank wrote on Sep 20^th, 2022 at 2:15pm:


see what your neoliberal orthodoxy, blaming poverty and disadvantage on its victims - who don't understand WHY poverty exits -  does to peoples' thinking?