Hier zie je duidelijk dat de industrie van een klif is gevallen. Dit is een neerwaardse spiraal. Het pensioenfonds is ook bijna leeg, dus er is geen ruimte meer voor nieuwe investeringen

Maar het kan nog intenser. Een echte mobilisatie vereist infrastructuur, logistiek en natuurlijk uitrusting. Het zou me verbazen als Rusland daar nog in staat toe is. Het account Prune heeft de ton vervoerd per spoor getracked als proxy indicator voor industriële productie.

Mogelijks niet zo extreem als mobilisatie maar eerder een “rekrutering” uit stedelijke gebieden waar er meer risico is op protest. Ik betwijfel als Rusland nog genoeg cash heeft voor een grootschalige mobilisatie

This could have been Europe if there was a clear industrial policy behind the decarbonisation goals…

This is a remarkable and important step.

Ukraine, a country under full scale invasion for 4+ years, is signing deals to co-develop/produce weapons with other countries.

Saudi, UAE and Qatar are not only confident of but also banking on Ukraine being a functional nation state over the next decade.

Do you want to see the "big picture" on climate change?

Here it is.

Emissions are on the left, and include CO2, CH4, N2O, and f-gases. Natural CO2 sinks (from healthy forests & oceans) are on the right. And carbon removal, what little there is, is on the right, too. All expressed as GWP100.

No Cards, huh?

An ancient artifact on display in a museum: a clear glass vessel in the shape of a dove, mostly full of a clear liquid, with a small heap of pinkish substance in the bottom, and dark substances in the head and tail.

Roman blown-glass unguentarium or balsamarium in the shape of a dove, found at Rovasenda near Vercelli in N Italy, sealed since its manufacture about 1900 years ago, containing the remains of a cosmetic and the liquid in which it was once suspended. One would have snapped off the tail to open.
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Verduidelijkingen Defensie na Pano reportage

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He did claim himself to have wiped out the Eburone tribe living in today’s Belgium and the Netherlands. Which (if true) would be genocide.

My photo shows a set of Late Iron Age glass gaming pieces displayed on a sandy surface in a display case at the British Museum. The set is made up of 24 coloured glass domes; six each of white, yellow, blue, and translucent green glass. One of the yellow pieces is out of shot in my photo. Each game piece is decorated with five inset spiral motifs in a contrasting colour. Nearly all pieces are uniform in shape; domed with a slightly pointed apex and a flattened base. Dimensions approximately 2.57 cm diameter and 2.2 cm height. The gaming pieces were recovered from a richly-furnished Late Iron Age cremation burial in Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire, when it was disturbed during the construction of two gas-pipe trenches during the building of the Panshangar Estate in 1965.

Gorgeous glass gaming pieces from Iron Age Britain! 🤩

This unique set of 24 coloured glass domes with flattened base and spiral decoration may have been used for a game similar to ludo some 2,000 years ago.

British Museum 📷 by me

#Archaeology

One to keep an eye on. "first improved variant of French/Italian SAMP/T ... is expected to be delivered to Kyiv in 2026, with up to seven [more] over two years. If Aster...production keeps up... could alleviate Kyiv’s reliance on US for long-range [AD]" www.iiss.org/online-analy...

Aangezien Magyar Orban olie raffinaderij niet aanraakt zou ik de sjampagne nog even in de koelkast laten. Verandering zien is geloven

People miss a bit the China element as well. If you look at the Iran campaign trough the lens of a China U.S. conflict by 2030 it makes sense. No long range ballistic missiles, no navy. The big one he still needs is no enrichment. (Not a Trump fan, not sane washing, but a different lens )

200g proteïne?😯

I'll give Trump this much. He's remarkably consistent about starting international fights with theological Heads of State

Hungary… WOW 🤩🇭🇺

The Dream Team failed. Total shock. We sent two of our most mediocre real estate developers and a fraud. Who could’ve guessed this outcome?

Bound and tortured Palestinian hostages

Israel's National Security Minister Ben Gvir:

“Do you see them? This is how they are now, but one thing remains to be done and that is to execute them”

This is what the US, UK and Europe support.

Ik ben wel benieuwd als el pais het interview gaat publiceren net nu er diplomatieke hoogspanning is tussen de VS en Spanje…

EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas says Europe cannot expand its role in the Strait of Hormuz while dealing with Russia’s war against Ukraine. She notes Gulf states have not supported efforts against Moscow and stresses cooperation cannot be a one-way street. #EU

Data zegt dat individuele productiviteit in het algemeen hoger ligt bij thuiswerk en team productiviteit lager (afhankelijk van de jobcontent). Klinkt ook allemaal logisch natuurlijk

Fascinating, Zelensky coming out publicly more and more and saying that Trump is working with/for Putin. The Ukrainians seem to have determined that telling the truth is preferable to lying to please Trump.

Ik vrees dat veel werkgevers gaan volgen, toch bij bedienden in de industrie. Bedrijven zijn wereldwijd aan het afslanken en hebben dus efficiënte winsten nodig. Reorganisaties, AI implementatie en kantoorwerk gaan onderdeel hiervan zijn. Dat is gewoon een observatie, niet mijn mening

I think there were more options the war vs inaction. What about giving people and opposition access to free internet via starlink? Recognising houtis, hezbollah and hamas as governing parties in exchange for disarming (akin to the IRA). Forcing China to stop the Iranese nuclear program etc

i wonder if JD Vance would be surprised to know many husbands don't have to make their wives promise not to jump out of airplanes

Which bracelet do you recommend with a speedmaster? I do like it with a mesh bracelet, giving the watch a touch more dresswatch look

De vraag is ondertussen natuurlijk als Poetin nog de cash heeft voor een aanval (en de naschokken) te betalen

The Pakistani Prime Minister who was the intermediary for the ceasefire tweeted yesterday that it included Lebanon