OTD in 1917 the Red Revolution. An illegal, foreign backed coup aimed at constraining & breaking Russia apart, overthrew the legitimate government in the first "color revolution".

Russia is a terrorist state.

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Burgers and air travel, foundations of US society, in crisis mode.

EU investing €546 billion for high speed rail by 2040 E.g. Lisbon to Warsaw, from 38 hours today to 12 hours Pricing to compete with low cost flights Reduce emissions by 80% Jokes on them, they don't have Brexit sovereignty 🤷‍♂️

For all his huff and puff, Hungary is a small country fully dependent on its European members for every facet of its security. Morons.

“In 2016, the fascinating Brexit voyage started. While the UK was unilaterally self-inflicting this journey to decide to transition from being the largest capital centre of financial markets in Europe to the largest financial centre of the UK, we were building the Euronext strategy to consolidate.”

Two years ago, the world made a bold commitment. To triple renewable energy capacity and double energy efficiency by 2030. We have good news. 95% of new energy capacity worldwide comes from renewables. We are moving ever faster towards these goals ↓ link.europa.eu/h4RVrW

I have to say, this is earlier than I had expected. But if the UK wants to benefit from being inside the SM, it has to contribute. As for wanting to pay half as much as others for Erasmus, where do they get off? The Uk chose Brexit. Stop asking others to pay their way. #ExtrawurstGroßbritannien

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Wales has been “hurt hardest” by Brexit amid a “mess” of trade barriers, cultural blockades, and a “fading” Welsh presence in EU relations, Senedd committees have warned. https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/politics/wales-hurt-hardest-brexit-politician-32826185

Leadership. He wanted to enjoy his retirement, but now is back in the saddle.

Room to reverse the 5p fuel duty Rishi Sunak electoral bribe?

With Labour likely to end up in the 5th (or 6th) place, will they play ball?

Japan was the country most visited by EU officials this year (UK was the 4th), they are picking up new skills. 😜

I stopped buying at Starbucks on 20 January this year.

Economists Assemble

Belém must be the COP that delivers. Delivers on tripling renewables & doubling energy efficiency by 2030. Delivers for the countries vulnerable to climate change. Delivers robust climate finance and carbon pricing. Europe will play its part ↓ link.europa.eu/Wv479K

Good Now do the VIP lane COVID contacts.

The EU makes many mistakes and should show far more flexibility towards North and West African states in trading relations. That is a separate matter from a UK government that talks a Europe-friendly game yet still manages to burn goodwill with partners in the EU over minor sums

Romania’s 5% target for defence will make it the most powerful military in the world. Cc @aphclarkson.bsky.social 😜

The only road the English have built is the M25, and that’s gridlocked 😜

It’s refreshing to see though that even in Elon’s world there is a link between valuation and earnings. This means investors wants their cash back at some point.

This reality beats @coldwarsteve.bsky.social stuff

Okehampton South (West Devon) Council By-Election Result: 🔶 LDM: 57.1% (New) 🌳 CON: 24.4% (-5.9) 🙋 Ind: 18.6% (New) No Ind (-35.6) or GRN (34.2) as previous. Liberal Democrat GAIN from Green. Changes w/ 2023.

RFK Jr's response to someone collapsing nearby him was to haul ass out of the room as quickly as possible

Your cat when you're choking to death in your apartment

So he wants form Denmark not just Greenland but also a stake from the most valuable company in Denmark??

Dear Mia Mottley, the EU stands in solidarity with the Caribbean as it faces the devastating impacts of climate change. Through Global Gateway, we’re strengthening weather forecasting with Copernicus satellites, our eyes in the sky.

This is what is happening. It is cynical. It is strategic. It is organised. It is well funded. And we need to pay attention. The far right - and their cheerleaders, mimics, tribute acts, and handmaidens have identified two presentational frameworks that give them cut-through and traction. 1/7

Elon Musk is deliberately using his platform to poison our politics and divide our country. It's time for the government to wake up to the threat he poses to our democracy.

Vital piece of investigative reporting from Sky. They've uncovered the X algorithm which feeds users extremist right wing material from the moment they join the site. It is a far-right radicalisation engine, by design. news.sky.com/story/the-x-...

I have spent my entire professional life understanding the British point of view on foreign policy. I get certain historic and cultural differences. But the wilder the world gets the more infuriated I become by the dismissive attitude many Brits have towards the EU as a peace project./

UK opts out of flagship fund to protect Amazon and other threatened tropical forests www.theguardian.com/environment/...

The word ‘lead’ when applied to countries has become rather meaningless in political discourse.

Behind The Lines with @snellarthur.bsky.social - the best source of intelligent conversation on foreign policy, and global security - is now our sister podcast! 📣 open.spotify.com/episode/0n82... 🍏 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/b... Give it a proper Quiet Riot welcome by following/subscribing.

A lecture about laws and justice. youtube.com/shorts/-2mpz...

BREAKING: US

And imagine giving it to Obama 😂

First the likes of Farage said we needed to leave the EU. Now they’re coming for the ECHR. Paul Kohler MP: "It feels like Brexit déjà vu with the same hollow promises of taking back control, the same disregard for facts, the same blindness to consequence."

One down, one to go. But likely Hungary will import gas from Romania as Romania (already independent from gas and generally energy point of view) is developing the huge Black Sea Neptune Deep gas field, making it the #1 EU gas producer by far.

Wow Basically Mamdani plans to fund his plans by imposing an additional 2% tax on incomes over $1 million. Well done. Cc Sadiq

It looks like the general population doesn’t have a bad experience with landlords generally.

Cc the EU

Wow

Do it, Europe!

Can someone name a top official driving pro citizen agenda reporting to Sadiq in London? Because I can’t.

Becoming a right wing President who is too ineptly authoritarian even for John Roberts is a truly unprecedented achievement

BBC News bulletins leading on the story of an Algerian man being mistakenly released by the prison service. Funnily enough I don't remember these cases ever leading the bulletins when an average of ten prisoners were mistakenly released a month in the final year of the last Government

BREAKING! Blogger's idea to get EU to legislate against scraping trains to happen! 😂 My 2021 blog post: jonworth.eu/the-eu-shoul... Today "Commission will propose, in 2027, measures to ban anticompetitive scrapping of functioning and safe rolling stock" transport.ec.europa.eu/news-events/...