I don't understand how we can face disaster in global energy markets without also facing disaster in other/all markets.

"Since the escalation of the conflict in the Middle East, the EU has spent an additional €24 billion on energy imports due to higher prices – without receiving a single extra molecule of energy."
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EU Ambassadors have just agreed to launch two written procedures to adopt the sanctions package and approve the Ukraine support loan. Kyiv is about to get its €90bn

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To mark this special day, we’re tuning in to Sen, the world’s first continuous 4K video livestream from space.

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Estonian Defense Minister Hanno Pevkur says the U.S. has paused Estonia's ammunition deliveries until the end of the war in Iran, at least. He said the main issues for Estonia are related to HIMARS ammunition and Javelins. news.err.ee/1610001736/u...

PM of Slovakia Robert Fico continues his quest to arrive in Moscow for the May 9 parade.

After the Baltic States denied him passage, he sent a request to Poland to let him fly through the country.

Last year, he flew via Hungary, Romania and Georgia.

Russian drones consist of 90% Chinese components

Hackers gained access to a closed-door meeting of the Russian Ministry of Industry and Trade, where the issue of dependency on China was discussed. It is alleged that over 90% of the key components for Russian drones are supplied from the North Korea

55% of Britons support rejoining the EU

Rejoin EU
Support: 55% (+1 from Jan)
Oppose: 33% (-1)

Closer, but no rejoin/SM/CU
Support: 63% (+1)
Oppose: 20% (+1)

Status quo
Support: 33% (=)
Oppose: 44% (-2)

Looser ties further
Support: 22% (+1)
Oppose: 61% (-3)

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Aerial view of large scale devastation inflicted on the southern Lebanese town of Bint Jbeil, with an Israeli tank parked in the center of the photo.

This is what Israel has done to Bint Jbeil, my hometown in southern Lebanon

Zelenskyy makes a big announcement: “We have already reached 10-year agreements with three key countries: Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and Qatar. We already have requests from 11 countries – the Middle East and the Gulf, plus we’re also gradually turning our attention to the Caucasus.

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Sky Defense A New Way to Save Lives in Ukraine

Since Russia began its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, it has fired wave after wave of missiles, bombs, and drones at Ukrainian civilians—at their homes, businesses, water supply, & energy infrastructure.
Please join me in raising funds for defense equipment
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The United States is destroying itself | Rebecca Solnit The daily news can’t adequately convey the administration’s sabotaging of our government, economy, alliances and environment

“The United States is being murdered, and it’s an inside job. Every department, every branch, every bureau and function of the federal government is being fatally corrupted or altogether dismantled or disabled.”

Die Konditionen / der Kontext sind hier aber ausschlaggebend.

Soweit ich mich erinnere, war hier direkt rooted Device, Zugriff auf das Gerät und mehr notwendig.

Today is Firefighter day in Ukraine.

In the past four years, Ukrainian firefighters had to rise up to so many challenges. They face incredible danger every day, and continue doing their job.

Glory and deepest respect!
Eternal memory to firefighters who gave their lives.

As a European, I hang my head in shame. The US has shown that if you blockade an oil exporter, they fold quickly. Europe can do this to Russia and shut down oil tanker traffic out of the Baltic. But it doesn't. Innocent Ukrainians pay the price every day...
robinjbrooks.substack.com/p/the-baltic...

EU and Japan hold first-ever defence dialogue focusing on supply chains | Euractiv European and Indo-Pacific security were becoming “more and more indivisible”, Japan's Defence Minister said

As part of implementing its Security and Defence Partnerships, the EU and Japan held their first ever defence dialogue. Slowly but surely the EU is expanding upon its defence cooperations:

As it happens, there is a severe crisis hitting Germany's automotive industries. Yet it's less with the front end brands like VW, but rather is hitting the firms down the supply chain with full force as VW ditches old parts partners wedded to ICE for more flexible suppliers that can transition to EV

That assumes that Russia doesn't have spare capacity to cause issues (e.g. in the baltics) before the end of the war and unfortunately, according to experts like @michaelkofman.bsky.social, they do have spare capacity and are reconstituting fast.

Wouldn't that be simply a byproduct of the huge investments that are made by these in an attempt to capture the market?

I would expect that they don't expect to make immediate returns with these.

Accelerate building an independent European social web This week Bluesky went down. This is why our vision for a fully independent European social web matters. You are the first users of Eurosky. You are the community making this vision a reality. We are ...

Yesterday Bluesky went down. @eurosky.social servers worked but we couldn't communicate as we don't have an app.

Our next step is to build everything we need to operate without Bluesky. We're raising €100,000 to build a European app backend supporting 100k+ users.

Let's do this

fund.eurosky.tech

Péter Magyar says the outgoing government of Viktor Orbán is carrying out "large-scale" destruction of documents before vacating office.

"We are receiving increasing reports of large-scale document destruction from various ministries, affiliated institutions, and companies close to Fidesz."

Composite image pairing a screenshot of the Artemis II Comms Transcript web app with a photo from NASA's mission control broadcast. The transcript shows the moment astronaut Reid Wiseman reported four confirmed meteor impact flashes on the lunar surface during the far-side eclipse, while the science team communicator on the ground reacts with visible excitement, mouth open mid-laugh, describing her colleagues at the CERB literally jumping up and down.

icymi, I made a site that archives/transcribes audio from the NASA Artemis II mission feed, was finally able to deploy it publicly last night

here's one of my favorite moments... the crew reporting meteor impact flashes on the moon (and mission control's reaction on stream)

artemis.airplaneian.com

Also, without a time frame you might be answering a different question altogether.

Did it do extensive research online?

This is a category of question where I wouldn't trust the answer without a systematic approach.

US: Do more and buy American!

Also US:

The pattern of Russia-affiliated tankers avoiding hostile south Baltic Swedish waters have strengthened.

No outbound tankers has passed north of Bornholm since Sat and today inbound tankers started showing the same pattern.

This is brand new behavior, at least since Jan 1 2026.

Cyberwar’s New Frontier How AI agents will threaten global security.

The United States urgently needs to shore up its defense against autonomous AI agents, write Brianna Rosen and Jam Kraprayoon. Washington has “years, not decades, before autonomous cyber-capabilities proliferate.”

The US is being very smart about the blockade. It dangles prospects of peace to markets, which caps oil prices. That defangs Iran's main negotiating leverage, which is to cause panic and push oil prices higher. The mullahs are getting pushed into a corner...
robinjbrooks.substack.com/p/how-much-d...

Critical Atlantic current significantly more likely to collapse than thought Scientists say finding is ‘very concerning’ as collapse would be catastrophic for Europe, Africa and the Americas

Critical Atlantic current significantly more likely to collapse than thought

- Scientists say finding is ‘very concerning’ as collapse would be catastrophic for Europe, Africa and the Americas

#AMOC #climatecrisis
Story by me

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

EuGH präzisiert: Sampling geht klar Der legendäre Urheberrechtsfall

Der legendäre Urheberrechtsfall „Metall auf Metall“ geht in die letzte Runde. Der europäische Gerichtshof hat gerade nach weitläufiger Auffassung das Recht auf Remix und Sampling gestärkt. Jetzt muss noch der Bundesgerichtshof final entscheiden. netzpolitik.org/2026/eugh-pr...