⚡️ Russia summons UK, French ambassadors after Storm Shadow strike on military-linked plant.
Moscow demands a response and "unequivocal" condemnation of the attack.
Here we go again
Matt Vickers MP made a Conservative party video about the removal of Churchill from the fiver... and Vickers says:
"As Churchill himself once said 'a nation that forgets its past has no future.'
It's a FAKE QUOTE Churchill never said that.
Vickers is a shadow minister
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How the Palestine Action proscription case...
...and the botched prosecution of Liam Óg Ó hAnnaidh...
...show how the Home Office, the police, and the prosecutors, are not taking terrorism law seriously.
By me at The Empty City blog
Substack: emptycity.substack.com/p/how-the-pa...
ICYMI: CISA warns max-severity n8n bug is being exploited in the wild
graph showing huge increase in LNG exports while Biden was president.
Why is the public so confused on energy issues? Propaganda from the financial press. From today's WSJ editorial section.
"The biggest threat to this plan was always the Biden administration, which halted liquefied natural-gas exports..."
This is a not true. See graph below.
The US says it will loosen sanctions on other countries buying Russian oil and petroleum loaded on vessels at sea, in a bid to curb price rises
The cost of oil rose to more than $100 a barrel yesterday
Russia continues to pound Ukrainian cities with drones on a daily/nightly basis
A thread -- which world leaders are calling for a shift to clean energy as a security investment in light of Iran War?
First up, French President Macron: "...everything we do to more toward the transition is also about reducing our dependence.." (1/x)
#cleanenergyisnationalsecurity
this means it is not open for transit
The “decarbonization will not save us” conclusion is based on a false counterfactual. We simply have not tried to wean from fossil fuels as hard as we should. And it shows.
I think I've probably used a bank note once in the past month and maybe a coin at some point too to get a supermarket trolley.
Amazing how much energy is being spent this week by the right of British politics on something that is rapidly becoming an irrelevance
AI-generated image of weeping people looking at their mobile phones in front of St Basil's Cathedral, Moscow
1/ In recent weeks, an entire genre has sprung up on Telegram of Russian bloggers suddenly realising that they live in a repressive dictatorship. They complain bitterly that they were "fools", they are being "enslaved", and forced to endure a "cultural counter-revolution". ⬇️
1/ Russia simply isn't capable of doing in Ukraine what the US and Israeli air forces are doing in Iran, a prominent Russian warblogger admits. He blames the Russian air force's "organisational backwardness, underdeveloped intelligence, and lack of specialised aviation." ⬇️
1/ The shutdown of Starlink is reported to be causing a sharp rise in casualties among Russian signalmen and linemen, who are being systematically targeted by Ukrainian drones as they attempt to install alternative communications systems. ⬇️
bsky.app/profile/spec...
1/ Ukrainian drone attacks deep in the Russian rear have prompted alarm among Russian warbloggers. They warn that the 'kill zone' behind the front line has expanded far into the rear of the Russian-occupied Donbas region. ⬇️
bsky.app/profile/mili...
Shame can be a destructive emotion, but this is what a culture without shame looks like.
And it's consistently rewarded and indulged.
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Russia unveils a new missile.
Ukraine strikes the factory that makes its brain.
A Storm Shadow strike reportedly destroyed a key Russian microchip plant tied to the Izdeliye-30 missile program.
Modern war runs on silicon.
Cut the chips, slow the missiles.
united24media.com/war-in-ukrai...
A procurement crisis absolutely everyone saw coming but which the Department of Health and MoD will now have to tackle, with zero good outcomes – as they've both now signed contracts and have technical reliance on Palantir.
The comments by Palantir's CEO - who is a board member of Palantir Technologies UK Ltd - are incompatible with UK values.
Wholesale electricity was nearly free overnight because of wind power. Why isn't that headline news on #r4today?
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Russian fuel infrastructure burning again.🎯
After a Ukrainian drone strike, two tanks at the Tikhoretsk oil transshipment base in Krasnodar Krai are still on fire.👊
The blaze has been burning for more than a day.
Fuel logistics are a critical part of Russia’s war effort.👇
There are other reasons for the UK government not to award or continue Palantir contracts but this statement of intent by its CEO must surely be decisive?
The big difference is that solar+battery is fit and forget. Once it's installed, whether from China or anywhere else, it's yours and you are independent. No more payments to anyone.
With fossil fuels you're an addict, dependent on your dealer who can make you dance to their tune.
If it's sometimes hard to tell the difference between fossil-fuel lobbyists and the billionaire press, that's because there isn’t one.
My column on the politicians, journalists and junktanks using the Iran crisis as an excuse to extract our remaining gas and oil.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
We have awarded these people contracts in the Ministry of Defence. What the fuck are we doing.
Helium’s Hidden Risk: Dummies Guide To The Next Tech Bottleneck.
Global Chipmakers Face Disruption as War and Blockades Cut Critical Gas Supply
A free explainer thread from Beefy. Please share and support his work today!
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How on earth did Musk pass the 'fit and proper' test to provide UK energy infrastructure?
Trump officials privately pessimistic there's a strategy to end war, but they fear telling this to Trump, NYT reports. On the pod, @profsaunders.bsky.social brilliantly explains how this shows perils of "personalist" rule and the total absence of constraints on him:
newrepublic.com/article/2076...
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Of course, both Badenoch and Farage *want* Britain to be more reliant on gas imports. Both have taken money from fossil fuel lobby groups, and both represent the interests of the oil and gas industry.
