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They reeeally dont want to lose their frozen blood money which is exactly why they should.
European intel agencies say Russian operatives have been targeting Belgian politicians and Euroclear executives with intimidation tactics to block the release of €185bn in frozen Russian assets. The campaign, linked to the GRU, comes as EU leaders debate using those funds to secure a vital loan.
December 18, 2025 at 11:29 AM
They reeeally dont want to lose their frozen blood money which is exactly why they should.
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Yet more birds of prey getting depressed, killing themselves, removing their satellite tags, then disposing of their own corpses. It's hard to believe, but the statistics don't like.
Either that or the shooting industry is involved. But that's a stretch of the imagination too far.
Either that or the shooting industry is involved. But that's a stretch of the imagination too far.
THREE satellite-tagged White-tailed Eagles disappear in suspicious circumstances in England, Wales & Scotland - two tags had been cut off.
Press release from Isle of Wight WTE Project Team & additional commentary from me ⬇️⬇️
#RaptorResearch #WildlifeCrime
raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025/12/17/t...
Press release from Isle of Wight WTE Project Team & additional commentary from me ⬇️⬇️
#RaptorResearch #WildlifeCrime
raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025/12/17/t...
Three satellite-tagged White-tailed Eagles disappear in suspicious circumstances in England, Wales & Scotland – two tags had been cut off
Press release from Forestry England (17 December 2025) THREE WHITE-TAILED EAGLES DISAPPEAR IN SUSPICIOUS CIRCUMSTANCES The public are being asked to help the police investigate the suspicious disap…
raptorpersecutionuk.org
December 17, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Yet more birds of prey getting depressed, killing themselves, removing their satellite tags, then disposing of their own corpses. It's hard to believe, but the statistics don't like.
Either that or the shooting industry is involved. But that's a stretch of the imagination too far.
Either that or the shooting industry is involved. But that's a stretch of the imagination too far.
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Russian border guards crossed the Estonian-Russian border in eastern Estonia on Wednesday morning without permission. They walked along the structure of the Vasknarva breakwater in Ida-Viru County.
Russian border guards crossed into Estonia with unclear motives, minister says
Three Russian border guards crossed the Estonian-Russian border in eastern Estonia on Wednesday morning without permission, the minister of the interior said. The reason is unknown but there is no thr...
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December 18, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Russian border guards crossed the Estonian-Russian border in eastern Estonia on Wednesday morning without permission. They walked along the structure of the Vasknarva breakwater in Ida-Viru County.
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There can be no solid European guarantees as long as the EU has not reformed toward greater federalism. Not anytime soon.. There may be bilateral guarantees with some willing states, but they are fragile due to electoral cycles. There is no good short-term scenario, only the least bad one
December 14, 2025 at 7:07 AM
There can be no solid European guarantees as long as the EU has not reformed toward greater federalism. Not anytime soon.. There may be bilateral guarantees with some willing states, but they are fragile due to electoral cycles. There is no good short-term scenario, only the least bad one
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Apple is doing WILDLY good things. Foundation, Severance, Ted Lasso??? please.
We oughta check out Silo, sounds like
We oughta check out Silo, sounds like
December 10, 2025 at 5:10 AM
Apple is doing WILDLY good things. Foundation, Severance, Ted Lasso??? please.
We oughta check out Silo, sounds like
We oughta check out Silo, sounds like
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Government has now - belatedly -published the impact assessment for the changes to skilled worker and care worker visas announced in May.
Impact is estimated between -£2 billion and £-10 billion (central - £10 billion).
assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/6937e6...
Impact is estimated between -£2 billion and £-10 billion (central - £10 billion).
assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/6937e6...
assets.publishing.service.gov.uk
December 9, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Government has now - belatedly -published the impact assessment for the changes to skilled worker and care worker visas announced in May.
Impact is estimated between -£2 billion and £-10 billion (central - £10 billion).
assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/6937e6...
Impact is estimated between -£2 billion and £-10 billion (central - £10 billion).
assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/6937e6...
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Welcome to Britain, a country so short of dentists that an MP's 87-year-old mum pulled her teeth out with pliers. Also a country with thousands of foreign-qualified dentists who can’t work until they pass an exam so oversubscribed it’s like trying to book Glasto tickets. www.ft.com/content/f4e5...
December 9, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Welcome to Britain, a country so short of dentists that an MP's 87-year-old mum pulled her teeth out with pliers. Also a country with thousands of foreign-qualified dentists who can’t work until they pass an exam so oversubscribed it’s like trying to book Glasto tickets. www.ft.com/content/f4e5...
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extremely funny that Your Party is now making it to the Guardian's consumer rights column
www.theguardian.com/money/2025/d...
www.theguardian.com/money/2025/d...
Your Party let me down with membership chaos
A reader found there seemed no way to cancel a subscription for Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana’s new party
www.theguardian.com
December 8, 2025 at 5:06 PM
extremely funny that Your Party is now making it to the Guardian's consumer rights column
www.theguardian.com/money/2025/d...
www.theguardian.com/money/2025/d...
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TEHRAN OUT OF WATER, CRISIS DEEPENS
Iran’s capital city, Tehran has run out of water but it’s even worse than that. It’s not just that they’ve gotten through 1,000 years of water in 30 years, but that the corruption inside the state has allowed massive over extraction. Now the soil and
Iran’s capital city, Tehran has run out of water but it’s even worse than that. It’s not just that they’ve gotten through 1,000 years of water in 30 years, but that the corruption inside the state has allowed massive over extraction. Now the soil and
December 4, 2025 at 1:22 PM
TEHRAN OUT OF WATER, CRISIS DEEPENS
Iran’s capital city, Tehran has run out of water but it’s even worse than that. It’s not just that they’ve gotten through 1,000 years of water in 30 years, but that the corruption inside the state has allowed massive over extraction. Now the soil and
Iran’s capital city, Tehran has run out of water but it’s even worse than that. It’s not just that they’ve gotten through 1,000 years of water in 30 years, but that the corruption inside the state has allowed massive over extraction. Now the soil and
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"'Low estimate is 60,000 people have been killed there in the last three weeks.’” As many as 150,000 residents of El Fasher remain unaccounted for
Why, might be appropriate for our leaders, intellectuals, and activists who profess to care about our shared humanity to actually do or say something
Why, might be appropriate for our leaders, intellectuals, and activists who profess to care about our shared humanity to actually do or say something
RSF massacres left Sudanese city ‘a slaughterhouse’, satellite images show
Up to 150,000 residents of El Fasher are missing since North Darfur capital fell to paramilitary Rapid Support Forces
www.theguardian.com
December 5, 2025 at 9:33 AM
"'Low estimate is 60,000 people have been killed there in the last three weeks.’” As many as 150,000 residents of El Fasher remain unaccounted for
Why, might be appropriate for our leaders, intellectuals, and activists who profess to care about our shared humanity to actually do or say something
Why, might be appropriate for our leaders, intellectuals, and activists who profess to care about our shared humanity to actually do or say something
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Europeans are waking up this morning to find the new US National Security Strategy (quietly) released. And what it has to say on Europe could not be clearer. On the „stark prospect of civilizations erasure“ for example. 👇
December 5, 2025 at 5:10 AM
Europeans are waking up this morning to find the new US National Security Strategy (quietly) released. And what it has to say on Europe could not be clearer. On the „stark prospect of civilizations erasure“ for example. 👇
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Wait, does he think the fog of war is literally smoke?
December 2, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Wait, does he think the fog of war is literally smoke?
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New essay out today by me and @acjsissons.bsky.social - ‘Getting Britain out of the hole: a plan for the economy’. You can read the whole thing here getting-out-of-the-hole.uk
A chart mega-thread follows 🧵
A chart mega-thread follows 🧵
Getting Britain out of the hole
A plan for the UK economy
getting-out-of-the-hole.uk
November 17, 2025 at 8:00 AM
New essay out today by me and @acjsissons.bsky.social - ‘Getting Britain out of the hole: a plan for the economy’. You can read the whole thing here getting-out-of-the-hole.uk
A chart mega-thread follows 🧵
A chart mega-thread follows 🧵
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One of the most powerful, lucid and actionable blueprints about how to turn the boat around on the UK economy.
Truly excellent - if you want to learn how the UK economy dysfunctions, and how it could work better, read this.
(London should maybe hire John and Andrew as advisors to stoke growth).
Truly excellent - if you want to learn how the UK economy dysfunctions, and how it could work better, read this.
(London should maybe hire John and Andrew as advisors to stoke growth).
New essay out today by me and @acjsissons.bsky.social - ‘Getting Britain out of the hole: a plan for the economy’. You can read the whole thing here getting-out-of-the-hole.uk
A chart mega-thread follows 🧵
A chart mega-thread follows 🧵
Getting Britain out of the hole
A plan for the UK economy
getting-out-of-the-hole.uk
November 17, 2025 at 9:13 AM
One of the most powerful, lucid and actionable blueprints about how to turn the boat around on the UK economy.
Truly excellent - if you want to learn how the UK economy dysfunctions, and how it could work better, read this.
(London should maybe hire John and Andrew as advisors to stoke growth).
Truly excellent - if you want to learn how the UK economy dysfunctions, and how it could work better, read this.
(London should maybe hire John and Andrew as advisors to stoke growth).
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We are in a bizarre moment of diplomatic history. The purported "peace plan" that appeared a few days ago beings in Russian unreality and American weakness. Demanding everything of Ukraine and nothing of Russia, its purpose is imperialism and profiteering.
snyder.substack.com/p/russian-un...
snyder.substack.com/p/russian-un...
Russian Unreality and American Weakness
Notes from a bizarre moment of diplomatic history
snyder.substack.com
November 24, 2025 at 3:13 PM
We are in a bizarre moment of diplomatic history. The purported "peace plan" that appeared a few days ago beings in Russian unreality and American weakness. Demanding everything of Ukraine and nothing of Russia, its purpose is imperialism and profiteering.
snyder.substack.com/p/russian-un...
snyder.substack.com/p/russian-un...
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In a first-of-its-kind trial in Ukraine, Russian soldier Dmitri Kurashov was convicted by a court of executing Ukrainian soldier Vitalii Hodniuk as he surrendered on the battlefield and sentenced to life imprisonment.
We mentioned the case in our FT investigative doc film below.
We mentioned the case in our FT investigative doc film below.
🚨NEW @financialtimes.com investigation reveals evidence that Russian executions of Ukrainian POWs are likely part of a systematic policy. And we uncover the identity of a Russian soldier likely involved in filming and carrying out the mass execution of 6 POWs.
📽️WATCH: www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Muw...
📽️WATCH: www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Muw...
'Film me!’: Russia's executions of Ukrainian POWs points to a policy | FT Film
YouTube video by Financial Times
www.youtube.com
November 7, 2025 at 12:54 PM
In a first-of-its-kind trial in Ukraine, Russian soldier Dmitri Kurashov was convicted by a court of executing Ukrainian soldier Vitalii Hodniuk as he surrendered on the battlefield and sentenced to life imprisonment.
We mentioned the case in our FT investigative doc film below.
We mentioned the case in our FT investigative doc film below.
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Air defence missile shoots down a Russian Shahed moments before it would have hit a residential multi-storey building.
November 6, 2025 at 11:36 AM
Air defence missile shoots down a Russian Shahed moments before it would have hit a residential multi-storey building.
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Vydareny socialny experiment.
October 31, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Vydareny socialny experiment.
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Countries where walking too fast will soon be illegal
October 30, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Countries where walking too fast will soon be illegal
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Pavol Hardos sa pyta ‘konzervativnych’™️ politikov, preco sa nehanbia ucastnit na podujati s krajne pravicovou uderkou, za ktoru by sa nehanbili ani Minovia 🤌
Ja sa spytam inak: ludia, preco toto volite?
Ja sa spytam inak: ludia, preco toto volite?
October 27, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Pavol Hardos sa pyta ‘konzervativnych’™️ politikov, preco sa nehanbia ucastnit na podujati s krajne pravicovou uderkou, za ktoru by sa nehanbili ani Minovia 🤌
Ja sa spytam inak: ludia, preco toto volite?
Ja sa spytam inak: ludia, preco toto volite?
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'The UK electricity price is the most expensive in the world, due to prices being set 99% of the time by the marginal cost of the most expensive electricity other than nuclear, which is fossil gas electricity.'
Donnachadh McCarthy, via @bylinetimes.bsky.social
Donnachadh McCarthy, via @bylinetimes.bsky.social
The Real Energy Scandal The Media Won't Tell You About
Fossil fuel interests are colluding with billionaire-owned media companies to block the UK's transition towards a cheaper and greener future, argues Donnachadh McCarthy
bylinetimes.com
October 26, 2025 at 11:00 AM
'The UK electricity price is the most expensive in the world, due to prices being set 99% of the time by the marginal cost of the most expensive electricity other than nuclear, which is fossil gas electricity.'
Donnachadh McCarthy, via @bylinetimes.bsky.social
Donnachadh McCarthy, via @bylinetimes.bsky.social
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Learned that an anonymous outside expert on submersibles did an interview with the OceanGate Titan investigation, and they released a transcript, with all the names redacted. The first line of his first answer? "I'm sure you're familiar with my film Titanic."
October 16, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Learned that an anonymous outside expert on submersibles did an interview with the OceanGate Titan investigation, and they released a transcript, with all the names redacted. The first line of his first answer? "I'm sure you're familiar with my film Titanic."
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Čo myslíte?
Vedia o tom hokejisti hrajúci v KHL, či funkcionári, ktorí tvrdia, že politika sa hokeja netýka?
ct24.ceskatelevize.cz/clanek/domac...
Vedia o tom hokejisti hrajúci v KHL, či funkcionári, ktorí tvrdia, že politika sa hokeja netýka?
ct24.ceskatelevize.cz/clanek/domac...
Před 75 lety komunisté odsoudili hokejové mistry. Týrali je hladem a mučili
Z hrdinů národa třídní nepřátelé – takový osud potkal 11 československých hokejistů, kteří v roce 1949 přivezli zlaté medaile z mistrovství světa. Národ je miloval, prezident Gottwald a další komunist...
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October 6, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Čo myslíte?
Vedia o tom hokejisti hrajúci v KHL, či funkcionári, ktorí tvrdia, že politika sa hokeja netýka?
ct24.ceskatelevize.cz/clanek/domac...
Vedia o tom hokejisti hrajúci v KHL, či funkcionári, ktorí tvrdia, že politika sa hokeja netýka?
ct24.ceskatelevize.cz/clanek/domac...
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R.I.P. Dana Drábová
www.novinky.cz/clanek/domac...
www.novinky.cz/clanek/domac...
Zemřela Dana Drábová - Novinky
Ve věku 64 let zemřela šéfka Úřadu pro jadernou bezpečnost Dana Drábová.
www.novinky.cz
October 6, 2025 at 4:15 PM
R.I.P. Dana Drábová
www.novinky.cz/clanek/domac...
www.novinky.cz/clanek/domac...