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"We must, indeed, all hang together or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately." - Benjamin Franklin Header description with alt-text: https://bsky.app/profile/cathyby.bsky.social/post/3mg644p47f22t #SpรฉirGorm ๐ฎ๐ช ๐ช๐บ
Volkswagen announce 50,000 job cuts as pre tax profits fall 54%.
But over in France, Renault is moving forward faster with EV transition announced it will end fuel only cars in 2030.
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
The idea of digital sovereignty has finally taken centre stage in Europe, after years of the region conducting its business and administration on infrastructure made elsewhere.
Chart showing Brent oil crude prices, fluctuating around 70 from 10 Feb to 26 Feb, then rising to a peak around 95 on 6 March, dropping down to about 90 today.
After Trump's announcement, Brussels says granting sanctions relief to Russia would be "self-defeating".
I look deeper into the latest EU-US clash.
Some examples of how the energy crisis is affecting South Asia.
1. Pakistan will close schools for the next two weeks, get government employees to work from home and universities will shift to online learning.
www.reuters.com/world/asia-p...
๐ต It was 11 years ago today,
Ireland legalised ecstasy,
All the lads and ladies went for broke,
Gobbling down the bags of yokes,
So may I introduce to you,
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#speirgorm
In the chaos in Iran, you might have missed the news that Russia's operational momentum has slowed, even reversed, on the frontlines in Ukraine.
Rand Paul: "I think we've gotten overextended. This is our second war in a month, and these wars are very very expensive not only in the lives that are lost, but also in treasure. I'm very very concerned about the debt. Half a trillion dollars for the military budget is fiscally irresponsible."
The University of Zurich and ETH Domain will host the ceremony, which gives prizes to achievements "that first make people laugh, then make them think".
The centre could hold, if it really wanted to.
Things fall apart, the centre cannot hold. Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world.
#SpรฉirGorm
Happy anniversary of accidentally legalised drugs in Ireland day to all who celebrate.
While the world is distracted ...
"Russia continues to add new military units near NATOโs eastern flank, according to a new threat assessment that warns against easing Western sanctions on the Kremlin."
www.stripes.com/theaters/eur...
Ticket sales going well?
Every move Tehran make to ensure trade and production around the Gulf is impossible also makes trade and production in Iran impossible. After a certain juncture in a society whose economy and infra is weakest in the region these effects will become irreparable whether the regime survives or not
"In the past 24 hours at least 7 Palestinians have been killed.. a journalist has been killed, three children were also killed, this makes the death toll since the beginning of the ceasefire 648..."
Hind Khoudary reporting from Gaza a few minutes ago
AUTHERS: โ.. all the last week has done is bring the rest of the world to heel somewhat. Asia and Europe have still outperformed the US since the election of Trump in November 2024.โ
@johnauthers.bsky.social
Again and again Trump is betraying his allies to please Putin. Why?
#kompromat
Saw this sentence with both the Irish English "give out" and a standardized-English "give out":
"The banks often give outยน that the rules are too tight and they canโt give outยฒ the money people need."
ยน complain
ยฒ issue, distribute
Source and commentary: stancarey.wordpress.com/2013/09/07/g...
Remember when Edwin Poots just openly admitted on Twitter that the Tory government offered the DUP MPs bribes for votes in the form of of peerages and basically nobody actually reacted to it at all despite it being an open confirmation of corruption in Westminster from a high profile elected rep
Retreating to ethnonationalism marks, predominantly, the capitulation of the economic case of the political right. Thatโs not because e.g. free markets have been discredited but because the manner in which they governed concentrated power/wealth, protected incumbent moats and eroded state capacity.
A reminder that when Christian Zionists and Christian Nationalists in the West talk about Christians, they are not talking about the Christians of the same holy land that Jesus himself came from. They don't give a shit about us.
Besides anything else, how wonderfully paranoid to posit that every non-British person, from Afghans to Irish to Zimbabweans are all working together to take over UK.
In unrelated news, I have been waiting 6 months for one of our major energy providers to get back to me with a quote for solar panel installation.
Last week I wrote that #Russia would make the best of the #Iran war.
And here it goes: #Putin is threatening that oil exports to the #EU may end before the EU stops them itself โ unless, of course,
www.kommersant.ru/doc/8497260?...
Israel says its war aim is to overthrow Iran's system of clerical rule.
Iran's Revolutionary Guards said they would not let any oil be shipped from the Middle East if US and Israeli attacks continue.
Trump hasn't put the genie back in the bottle.
www.rte.ie/news/middle-...
Maximum restraint:
"EU calls on all parties to exercise maximum restraint & return to the negotiating table, stands with the long-suffering people of Iran. We support their right to live in peace & determine their own future, human rights and freedoms must be fully respected.
European Council President Antonio Costa now speaking to the same EU ambassadors addressed by VDL yesterday.
Starkly different message to VDL:
"We must defend the rules-based international order. We must uphold the principles enshrined in the UN Charter"
