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Britain Desperate for Oil
Posted originally on May 21, 2026 by Martin Armstrong |
Britain is now discovering you cannot dismantle your industrial and energy base, wage war on domestic production, impose endless climate regulations, and still expect to maintain a functioning economy. Reality eventually arrives no matter how many politicians attempt to legislate against it.
The UK is quietly loosening oil and gas restrictions because the country is becoming desperate. After years of aggressively pushing Net Zero policies, discouraging North Sea investment, raising windfall taxes on producers, and pretending renewable systems alone could carry an advanced industrial economy, Britain is being forced to confront the simple reality that energy shortages destroy economies from the inside out.
The North Sea once represented one of the great strategic advantages for Britain. During the peak years around the late 1990s and early 2000s, the UK was producing nearly 4.5 million barrels of oil equivalent per day. That production has collapsed by more than 70% over the past two decades. At the same time, Britain became increasingly dependent on imported energy while shutting down domestic capacity.
What politicians never understand is that energy is not just another sector of the economy. Energy is the economy. Every industry depends upon it. Food production depends on it. Transportation depends on it. Manufacturing depends on it. Once energy prices rise high enough, inflation spreads through the entire system because energy sits underneath every layer of economic activity.
Britain now faces exactly the trap I warned Europe was heading toward. Deindustrialization combined with rising debt and declining living standards. Manufacturing weakens, capital flees, energy costs rise, and governments respond with more taxation and regulation which only accelerates the collapse further. This becomes a vicious cycle.
The desperation is now becoming obvious. The UK government is reportedly reconsidering restrictions on North Sea drilling and attempting to stabilize investment conditions because energy firms were already beginning to abandon projects entirely. The punitive tax structure imposed on producers created massive uncertainty while investment dried up. Companies simply stopped committing capital because governments kept changing the rules in the middle of the game.
Europe is in a depressionary phase while capital continues moving toward countries with stronger energy and industrial positions. You cannot build an economy entirely on financial services, bureaucracy, migration, and government spending while destroying the productive base underneath society itself.
Even renewable infrastructure itself depends heavily on fossil fuels and industrial production. Wind turbines require steel, concrete, copper, rare earth minerals, transportation networks, diesel-powered construction equipment, and stable backup generation systems. Politicians sold the public a fantasy that complex industrial systems could be replaced almost overnight without economic consequences.
The broader issue is sovereign debt. Europe’s governments are drowning in debt obligations while simultaneously facing aging populations, rising social costs, migration pressures, and slowing growth. Under those conditions, governments become increasingly desperate for revenue and increasingly hostile toward productive industry because they need someone to tax. Britain’s windfall taxes on energy producers were a classic example of short-term political desperation undermining long-term strategic stability.
What we are witnessing is not simply a policy adjustment. It is the collapse of an entire economic assumption that nations could deindustrialize, outsource production, restrict energy development, accumulate endless debt, and still maintain rising living standards indefinitely.
Merkel Awarded the European Order of Merit
Posted originally on May 21, 2026 by Martin Armstrong |
The European Union openly parades its parasitic intent by honoring the woman who betrayed an entire continent. They just handed Angela Merkel the European Order of Merit, their highest honor, as if she somehow saved Europe instead of helping dismantle it piece by piece. You honestly cannot make this up anymore. Entire economies are collapsing, farmers are revolting, industries are fleeing Germany, energy prices exploded, violent crime surged across major cities, and now the same establishment responsible for much of this disaster is standing there applauding itself like some decaying royal court rewarding failure.
Right-wing MEPs walked out during the ceremony and frankly I am surprised more did not. Why should they sit there and clap for the architect of one of the greatest political catastrophes in modern European history?
Merkel opened the borders in 2015 and triggered a migration crisis that permanently altered Europe. Over one million migrants poured into Germany alone during the peak years. The political establishment called anyone concerned a racist or extremist while entire communities across Europe watched social cohesion collapse in real time. Sweden transformed. Germany transformed and every single EU nation followed. Crime statistics skyrocketed, women are no longer safe, terrorism is abundant. Parallel societies emerged, and in some instances, overpowered the existing social orders. Governments spent billions trying to contain problems they themselves created.
Then came the energy disaster. Merkel pushed Germany deeper into dependence on Russian energy through Nord Stream 2 while simultaneously shutting down nuclear power plants under the climate religion that has now become the state ideology of Europe. They dismantled reliable domestic energy infrastructure while handing strategic leverage to Russia, all while pretending they were building some enlightened green future. It was economic suicide disguised as morality.
Now the same people who lectured the world about democracy and “European values” are arresting citizens over speech, monitoring political opposition, censoring online discussion, and branding anyone who questions mass migration or energy policy as a threat to democracy itself. Europe has become so detached from reality that they now reward the people responsible for destroying its competitiveness.
Germany was once the industrial engine of Europe. Look at it now. Manufacturing contracts. Factories relocate. BASF moves operations abroad. Small businesses collapse under energy prices and regulations. Farmers dump manure in the streets in protest. Young people cannot afford housing. Violent incidents that once shocked the nation are now treated as routine background noise.
And what does Brussels do? They give Merkel a medal. That tells you everything you need to know about the European Union. The establishment protects its own no matter how catastrophic the results. Failure is rewarded because admitting failure would expose the entire system itself.
The computer has repeatedly warned that Europe was entering a period of political fragmentation and economic decline by 2028. Capital is fleeing. Industry is fleeing. Confidence is collapsing. The people running Europe still behave as though public outrage is merely some inconvenience to be managed through censorship and propaganda. They still cannot comprehend why nationalist movements continue rising across the continent.
Merkel will go down in history as one of the pivotal figures in Europe’s decline. Not because she intended to destroy Europe, but because she represented the arrogant technocratic mindset that believed governments could reshape culture, demographics, energy systems, and economies without consequences. That delusion is now collapsing all around them.
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More Evidence Skilled Labor Is Rising in Value
Posted originally on May 21, 2026 by Martin Armstrong |
For years, they told an entire generation that the future belonged to people sitting behind computer screens, pushing paper around in climate-controlled offices, while anyone working with their hands was somehow a failure. Schools pushed college degrees endlessly while trade schools were neglected and industrial jobs were treated as relics of the past. Parents were convinced their kids needed massive student debt just to survive while corporations shipped factories overseas and politicians cheered the destruction of domestic industry as “progress.” Now reality is crashing directly into that fantasy.
The irony is unbelievable. The very AI revolution that many thought would eliminate blue-collar labor is actually creating one of the biggest labor shortages in modern history. Artificial intelligence requires physical infrastructure everywhere. These systems do not magically float in the clouds. They need giant data centers, electrical grids, transformers, cooling systems, steel, copper, pipelines, construction crews, semiconductor plants, and endless maintenance. Somebody actually has to build all of it.
CNBC finally admitted this week what many people are beginning to see with their own eyes. White-collar hiring is slowing while skilled trade hiring is exploding. The office jobs everyone chased for decades are suddenly becoming unstable while electricians, welders, HVAC technicians, elevator mechanics, and industrial workers cannot be hired fast enough.
Utilities are expected to spend roughly $1.1 trillion modernizing America’s electrical grid over the next several years because AI systems are consuming extraordinary amounts of power. Reuters reported the United States may need more than half a million additional workers tied directly to energy infrastructure and transmission projects by 2030. At the same time, nearly half the current skilled labor force is approaching retirement age.
Blackstone President Jon Gray admitted recently that blue-collar workers may become some of the biggest winners of the AI boom because data centers alone are creating enormous construction demand. One Blackstone-backed company reportedly expects the number of workers on its job sites to explode from around 10,000 to roughly 40,000 within a single year.
Even NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang came right out and said electricians, plumbers, technicians, and construction workers may dominate the next labor cycle because AI itself depends entirely on real-world infrastructure. He called this the beginning of a new industrial revolution. He is correct.
Meanwhile, the white-collar world is beginning to panic quietly. Major banks including JPMorgan, Citi, Goldman Sachs, and Bank of America are openly discussing AI replacing administrative and entry-level office roles. Young college graduates are already discovering the market for corporate office jobs is nowhere near as stable as they were promised.
But AI cannot climb utility poles in the middle of a storm. It cannot wire a semiconductor plant. It cannot repair industrial cooling systems. It cannot install transformers or build transmission lines. Civilization still runs on physical systems and somebody has to maintain them.
Elevator mechanics are now earning extraordinary salaries because companies cannot find enough qualified workers. Otis CEO Judy Marks openly admitted they “cannot hire them fast enough.” Electricians working on major AI infrastructure projects are increasingly earning six figures once overtime is included. Welders, linemen, industrial mechanics, and specialized construction crews are suddenly becoming some of the most valuable workers in the economy.
The semiconductor industry faces the same problem. The United States spent decades outsourcing industrial production and now companies are scrambling to rebuild domestic manufacturing capacity without enough skilled workers available to do the job. Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company reportedly struggled to find enough experienced labor even for projects in Arizona.
This activity always happens during major economic turning points. During periods of speculation and financial bubbles, productive labor loses prestige. But once societies are forced back toward rebuilding infrastructure, energy systems, and industrial capacity, the people who can physically build things suddenly become indispensable again.
Young people are beginning to realize that practical skills tied to energy, manufacturing, transportation, construction, and infrastructure may offer far greater security than unstable corporate office jobs increasingly threatened by automation. Many of the highest-paying opportunities no longer require sitting behind a desk pretending to answer emails all day.
The labor force built on debt, speculation, and endless financial manipulation has had enough.
AAG Todd Blanche Expected to Make Major Announcement About Fraud Accountability from Minneapolis Tomorrow
Posted originally on CTH on May 21, 2026 | Sundance
Local media out of Minneapolis, Minnesota, are reporting that Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche and federal officials including HHS Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr, will be making an announcement about federal indictments for fraud as an outcome of ongoing investigations throughout the state.
Minnesota – Several top U.S. officials, including HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Acting U.S. Attorney General Todd Blanche, will be in Minneapolis on Thursday for an announcement about “major law enforcement action involving fraud” in the state.
The announcement coincides with the sentencing of Aimee Bock, the ringleader in the $250 million Feeding Our Future fraud scheme. Also in attendance on Thursday morning will be officials from the National Fraud Enforcement Division, the FBI, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, and other law enforcement agencies. (source)
DOJ Indicts U.S Attorney Who Supported Jack Smith Case Against President Trump – Stealing Classified Documents Related to Mar-a-Lago Case
Posted originally on CTH on May 20, 2026 | Sundance |
Last weekend former FBI Director James Comey said there were multiple officials remaining within the DOJ and FBI who were actively working to continue the weaponization of the agencies against President Donald Trump. When asked about it earlier today, President Trump said Acting AG Todd Blanche and FBI Director Kash Patel would root them out and deal with the issue.
Hours later the Dept of Justice released and indictment {SEE HERE} against Managing Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Fort Pierce Branch, Carmen M. Lineberger. Asst USAO Lineberger was caught downloading classified files from the Jack Smith case to her personal email and labeling them as recipes so she could leak them to Lawfare resistance members.
According to FBI Director Kash Patel, “This afternoon, a former managing assistant U.S. Attorney who supported Jack Smith’s politicized investigation of President Trump has been charged with stealing the confidential investigation documents. Carmen Lineberger allegedly emailed the confidential material to her own personal email, disguising them as dessert recipes to conceal them from record searches. Lineberger is charged with four felony counts in the indictment. This FBI will not hesitate to bring to account those who violated the trust of the American public in an investigation that should’ve never been brought to begin with.” {link}
The files Ms. Lineberger is accused of stealing, relate to the Jack Smith case files from the Mar-a-Lago investigation that Judge Aileen Cannon previously sealed. [Link Below] It appears attorney Carmen Lineberger was in the process of covering her tracks when she was discovered downloading the material and transmitting it outside the U.S. Attorney offices. {INDICTMENT HERE}
After Special Counsel Jack Smith was dispatched by Judge Aileen Cannon, his team continued to organize materials to frame the hit against an incoming Trump administration. Judge Cannon calls out this wrongdoing as part of her ruling to keep all the records sealed. [Ruling pdf Here]
“While it is true that former special counsels have released final reports at the conclusion of their work,” Cannon wrote, “it appears they have done so either after electing not to bring charges at all or after adjudications of guilt by plea or trial. The Court strains to find a situation in which a former special counsel has released a report after initiating criminal charges that did not result in a finding of guilt.”
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