⚡️In Taiwan, as in Ukraine, the west is flirting with disaster⚡️
🪖The threat of a serious east-west confrontation is looming. It may be that one day a global war, like global heating, delivers the world a catastrophe it may have to confront, says Simon Jenkins, a Guardian columnist, author and BBC broadcaster
🇺🇸“Strategic ambiguity” infuses U.S. policy regarding Sino-Taiwanese tensions, as well as the west’s attitude towards Russia over Ukraine. The US and Britain reiterate that Russia “must fail and be seen to fail”
🇺🇦🇹🇼The fates of Ukraine and Taiwan merit every diplomatic support but they cannot be allowed to lurch downhill towards global war or nuclear catastrophe. This may reduce the effect – always overstated – of nuclear deterrence, and make them vulnerable to blackmail. But it is one thing to declare yourself “rather dead than red”, quite another to inflict that decision on others
💁♂️For the time being liberal democracy surely owes it to humanity to avert rather than provoke that risk. Both sides are now flirting with disaster. Mr. Jenkins concludes that the west should be ready to back off – and not call it defeat
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🪖The threat of a serious east-west confrontation is looming. It may be that one day a global war, like global heating, delivers the world a catastrophe it may have to confront, says Simon Jenkins, a Guardian columnist, author and BBC broadcaster
🇺🇸“Strategic ambiguity” infuses U.S. policy regarding Sino-Taiwanese tensions, as well as the west’s attitude towards Russia over Ukraine. The US and Britain reiterate that Russia “must fail and be seen to fail”
🇺🇦🇹🇼The fates of Ukraine and Taiwan merit every diplomatic support but they cannot be allowed to lurch downhill towards global war or nuclear catastrophe. This may reduce the effect – always overstated – of nuclear deterrence, and make them vulnerable to blackmail. But it is one thing to declare yourself “rather dead than red”, quite another to inflict that decision on others
💁♂️For the time being liberal democracy surely owes it to humanity to avert rather than provoke that risk. Both sides are now flirting with disaster. Mr. Jenkins concludes that the west should be ready to back off – and not call it defeat
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In Taiwan, as in Ukraine, the west is flirting with disaster | Simon Jenkins
It’s one thing to declare yourself ‘rather dead than red’, quite another to inflict that decision on the rest of us, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins
⚡️Clash of the titans for Ukrainian Data⚡️
❗️Despite facing intensifying criticism at home over their influence in the marketplace and public square, the role of Big tech companies in Ukraine shows how they are becoming a key asset in the West’s rivalry with Russia and China
🇺🇦Ukraine awarded Google a peace prize for its help securing Ukrainian computer systems against Russian cyberattacks [oh, those famous Russian hackers] and for cutting some business ties to Russia. It later gave AWS and Microsoft similar awards.
🔥In February, Ukraine passed a law allowing private cloud providers to host government data outside its borders, then struck contracts with Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Corp., Oracle Corp. and Alphabet Inc.’s Google
💁♂️AWS used several suitcase-sized storage devices called “snowballs” to quickly download and back up Ukraine government data from land registries to tax records, transport it to safety and then upload it to the cloud
🤔This caused a nervous reaction among the other major players. Peace awards given to companies scarcely compensate loss of profit. Corruption mechanisms in Ukraine continue to operate in the most favorable way for themselves
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❗️Despite facing intensifying criticism at home over their influence in the marketplace and public square, the role of Big tech companies in Ukraine shows how they are becoming a key asset in the West’s rivalry with Russia and China
🇺🇦Ukraine awarded Google a peace prize for its help securing Ukrainian computer systems against Russian cyberattacks [oh, those famous Russian hackers] and for cutting some business ties to Russia. It later gave AWS and Microsoft similar awards.
🔥In February, Ukraine passed a law allowing private cloud providers to host government data outside its borders, then struck contracts with Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Corp., Oracle Corp. and Alphabet Inc.’s Google
💁♂️AWS used several suitcase-sized storage devices called “snowballs” to quickly download and back up Ukraine government data from land registries to tax records, transport it to safety and then upload it to the cloud
🤔This caused a nervous reaction among the other major players. Peace awards given to companies scarcely compensate loss of profit. Corruption mechanisms in Ukraine continue to operate in the most favorable way for themselves
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WSJ
Big Tech Is the West’s Surprise Weapon in Competition With Russia, China
Amazon Web Services, Microsoft, Google and others face criticism at home over their influence in the marketplace and public square, but their role in Ukraine shows how they are becoming an asset in the West’s rivalry with Russia and China.
⚡️British senior officials on vacation at the time of collapse⚡️
🇬🇧Labour accused the chancellor and the PM of being “missing in action” as the cost of living crisis deepened further – Boris Johnson and Nadhim Zahawi are both on holiday
📊Zahawi insisted he was still working and had spoken to Andrew Bailey, the governor of the Bank of England, after interest rates were raised from 1.25% to 1.75%, the biggest increase for 27 years
💁♂️Layla Moran, the Liberal Democrat foreign affairs spokeswoman, added: “At a time of national crisis, we deserve better than these shirkers. Time and again they have been absent in the country’s time of need. The very least the British people can ask for is a chancellor and prime minister who will explain how they got us into this mess and what the plan is to solve it”
Well, there is nothing to surprise at, is it?🤔
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🇬🇧Labour accused the chancellor and the PM of being “missing in action” as the cost of living crisis deepened further – Boris Johnson and Nadhim Zahawi are both on holiday
📊Zahawi insisted he was still working and had spoken to Andrew Bailey, the governor of the Bank of England, after interest rates were raised from 1.25% to 1.75%, the biggest increase for 27 years
💁♂️Layla Moran, the Liberal Democrat foreign affairs spokeswoman, added: “At a time of national crisis, we deserve better than these shirkers. Time and again they have been absent in the country’s time of need. The very least the British people can ask for is a chancellor and prime minister who will explain how they got us into this mess and what the plan is to solve it”
Well, there is nothing to surprise at, is it?🤔
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- Show Ukraine on the map.
- Here (Australia).
- Okay, if this is Ukraine, where is Russia?
- Here is this island (Solomon Islands).
- So the little country attacked the big one...
- So they will lose!
- Show Ukraine.
- Good question! Well, somewhere around here. But I'm not sure.
- The Russians are here. But Ukraine (Greenland). Probably. Honestly, I don't understand why they attacked it.
- Yeah, there it is (Honduras).
- Are you sure?
- Yeah.
- Where's Russia?
- Here (Canada).
- Show me Ukraine.
- Here (Australia)
- And Russia?
- Here (right).
And so on... And at the very end the dude was talking about how the states could intelligently intervene. To drag across Canada, and then to the Ukraine (Greenland) on oars. Sounds like a plan, dude!
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- Here (Australia).
- Okay, if this is Ukraine, where is Russia?
- Here is this island (Solomon Islands).
- So the little country attacked the big one...
- So they will lose!
- Show Ukraine.
- Good question! Well, somewhere around here. But I'm not sure.
- The Russians are here. But Ukraine (Greenland). Probably. Honestly, I don't understand why they attacked it.
- Yeah, there it is (Honduras).
- Are you sure?
- Yeah.
- Where's Russia?
- Here (Canada).
- Show me Ukraine.
- Here (Australia)
- And Russia?
- Here (right).
And so on... And at the very end the dude was talking about how the states could intelligently intervene. To drag across Canada, and then to the Ukraine (Greenland) on oars. Sounds like a plan, dude!
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🇳🇴Norway's energy crisis will "finish off" Europe, which has been deprived of Russian gas, Financial Times
▪️Norway is facing an energy crisis this year that will "finish off" Germany and Europe, which has lost much of its Russian gas supply, the British Financial Times reports
▪️Norway is a very rich country with deposits of oil and gas. Its numerous rivers and reservoirs allow it to meet up to 90 percent of its own electricity needs, but an unusually dry winter and spring have left reservoirs in the south of the country at record lows. The Norwegian government has decided to limit electricity exports until they are full
▪️ "This could be a problem for countries such as Germany, the Netherlands and Britain, which have been importing significant amounts of electricity from Norway by cable for years," the Financial Times emphasizes. The energy crisis in the Scandinavian country shows how harsh the coming winter can be across Europe
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▪️Norway is facing an energy crisis this year that will "finish off" Germany and Europe, which has lost much of its Russian gas supply, the British Financial Times reports
▪️Norway is a very rich country with deposits of oil and gas. Its numerous rivers and reservoirs allow it to meet up to 90 percent of its own electricity needs, but an unusually dry winter and spring have left reservoirs in the south of the country at record lows. The Norwegian government has decided to limit electricity exports until they are full
▪️ "This could be a problem for countries such as Germany, the Netherlands and Britain, which have been importing significant amounts of electricity from Norway by cable for years," the Financial Times emphasizes. The energy crisis in the Scandinavian country shows how harsh the coming winter can be across Europe
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⚡️Britain slides into crisis⚡️
🤔Perhaps you have been hoping that the age of lies is over. After all, Boris Johnson will soon be swept out of No 10 and whoever replaces him cannot be half as mendacious – can they?
🇬🇧The lights on the dashboard of the British economy are flashing red. Britain is heading for a protracted recession as inflation surges above 13%, causing the worst squeeze on living standards for more than 60 years, the Bank of England warns. This would have been scarcely believable a year ago
📊Its latest projections show that the economy is heading for five consecutive quarters of negative growth from the end of this year, matching the financial crisis of 2008. The economy is set to shrink by 2.1 per cent over that time
💁♂️The outlook will supercharge an already testy Conservative leadership contest by increasing demands to compensate families facing soaring gas, food, and shopping bills. The politicians are perpetrating the same scam as the rate-setters, bluffing they can get the old economic machinery working like before just by pulling this or that lever. Yet whether in Westminster or the City, both sides are flogging false optimism – and they know it
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🤔Perhaps you have been hoping that the age of lies is over. After all, Boris Johnson will soon be swept out of No 10 and whoever replaces him cannot be half as mendacious – can they?
🇬🇧The lights on the dashboard of the British economy are flashing red. Britain is heading for a protracted recession as inflation surges above 13%, causing the worst squeeze on living standards for more than 60 years, the Bank of England warns. This would have been scarcely believable a year ago
📊Its latest projections show that the economy is heading for five consecutive quarters of negative growth from the end of this year, matching the financial crisis of 2008. The economy is set to shrink by 2.1 per cent over that time
💁♂️The outlook will supercharge an already testy Conservative leadership contest by increasing demands to compensate families facing soaring gas, food, and shopping bills. The politicians are perpetrating the same scam as the rate-setters, bluffing they can get the old economic machinery working like before just by pulling this or that lever. Yet whether in Westminster or the City, both sides are flogging false optimism – and they know it
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Sunak, Truss and the Bank of England are lying to you – the UK economy is weak and rigged | Aditya Chakrabortty
Westminster is perpetrating the same scam as the rate-setters – bluffing that they can get the old economic machinery working like before, says Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty
⚡️Nord Stream has no alternatives⚡️
🇪🇺While Canadian, EU and UK sanctions make delivery of a Siemens turbine for the Nord Stream 1 pipeline impossible, gas prices are rising, inflation in the eurozone is continuing to soar to record highs, hitting 8.9% in July
✍️In the circumstances, in testimony to lawmakers in Ottawa, Natural Resources Minister Jonathan Wilkinson said leaving Germany to rely more on an existing pipeline through Ukraine – as a replacement for Nord Stream – was deemed unworkable in part because of capacity constraints
💁♂️The flows through Ukraine would be “significantly less” than what can move through Nord Stream at full capacity, and there would also be risks of relying on a pipeline that runs through a war zone, he added
#Canada #EU #UK #Ukraine #FindTruth
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🇪🇺While Canadian, EU and UK sanctions make delivery of a Siemens turbine for the Nord Stream 1 pipeline impossible, gas prices are rising, inflation in the eurozone is continuing to soar to record highs, hitting 8.9% in July
✍️In the circumstances, in testimony to lawmakers in Ottawa, Natural Resources Minister Jonathan Wilkinson said leaving Germany to rely more on an existing pipeline through Ukraine – as a replacement for Nord Stream – was deemed unworkable in part because of capacity constraints
💁♂️The flows through Ukraine would be “significantly less” than what can move through Nord Stream at full capacity, and there would also be risks of relying on a pipeline that runs through a war zone, he added
#Canada #EU #UK #Ukraine #FindTruth
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Reuters
Russia's Gazprom: sanctions make delivery of Nord Stream turbine impossible
Canadian, EU and UK sanctions make delivery of a Siemens turbine to the Nord Stream 1 pipeline's Portovaya compressor station impossible, Russia's Gazprom said on Wednesday.
⚡️COVID-19 hard impact⚡️
The ripple effects of the Covid-19 pandemic influenced nearly every aspect of health in America. The virus has killed more than one million people in the U.S., a toll mounting by some 350 people a day
Overall deaths and the death rates from heart disease and stroke rose sharply. Drug-overdose deaths, rising before the pandemic, jumped to a record of more than 107,000 in 2021. The U.S. gun-homicide rate increased nearly 35% from 2019 to 2020 to the highest level since 1994. After dropping early in the pandemic, reported U.S. cases of gonorrhea and syphilis increased by the end of 2020 and were greater than 2019 levels
A range of other chronic diseases and acute threats to health also worsened during the pandemic, data show, as people missed screenings, abandoned routines and experienced loss and isolation. Some setbacks could be reversed relatively quickly, health experts said, while it might take years to recognize the full effects of others
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The ripple effects of the Covid-19 pandemic influenced nearly every aspect of health in America. The virus has killed more than one million people in the U.S., a toll mounting by some 350 people a day
Overall deaths and the death rates from heart disease and stroke rose sharply. Drug-overdose deaths, rising before the pandemic, jumped to a record of more than 107,000 in 2021. The U.S. gun-homicide rate increased nearly 35% from 2019 to 2020 to the highest level since 1994. After dropping early in the pandemic, reported U.S. cases of gonorrhea and syphilis increased by the end of 2020 and were greater than 2019 levels
A range of other chronic diseases and acute threats to health also worsened during the pandemic, data show, as people missed screenings, abandoned routines and experienced loss and isolation. Some setbacks could be reversed relatively quickly, health experts said, while it might take years to recognize the full effects of others
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⚡️Migration crisis increases human and arms trafficking at EU borders⚡️
😱The number of migrants crossing the Channel in small boats is on course to be almost double last year’s record, despite repeated government pledges to curtail the arrivals. Hundreds more arrived over the past week, aided by the Border Force cutters that ministers insist are deployed to stop the crossings.
🇬🇧British National Crime Agency still fails to identify the organizers so they can be prosecuted for human trafficking. The passengers of the migrant boats are considered the victims of the trafficking gangs. Ministry of Defense figures show that 3,683 migrants made the crossing on 90 boats last month, the highest monthly total this year
🇪🇺EU’s border agency warns of neighboring countries attempting “migration blackmail” by using “refugee flows for political purposes”, and that “terrorist groups might use migration flows to cross into Europe and recruit new members from among international migrants”
🇺🇦The war in Ukraine means that pistols, assault weapons and rocket launchers are increasingly available on the EU’s borders. As a result the majority of smuggling gangs are “heavily armed and pose a grave security threat to border patrols,” the agency predicts
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😱The number of migrants crossing the Channel in small boats is on course to be almost double last year’s record, despite repeated government pledges to curtail the arrivals. Hundreds more arrived over the past week, aided by the Border Force cutters that ministers insist are deployed to stop the crossings.
🇬🇧British National Crime Agency still fails to identify the organizers so they can be prosecuted for human trafficking. The passengers of the migrant boats are considered the victims of the trafficking gangs. Ministry of Defense figures show that 3,683 migrants made the crossing on 90 boats last month, the highest monthly total this year
🇪🇺EU’s border agency warns of neighboring countries attempting “migration blackmail” by using “refugee flows for political purposes”, and that “terrorist groups might use migration flows to cross into Europe and recruit new members from among international migrants”
🇺🇦The war in Ukraine means that pistols, assault weapons and rocket launchers are increasingly available on the EU’s borders. As a result the majority of smuggling gangs are “heavily armed and pose a grave security threat to border patrols,” the agency predicts
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‘Which way to Britain?’ shout migrants from sinking dinghy
A dangerously overloaded dinghy emerged from the fog over the Channel yesterday morning, apparently stranded in the middle of a French-controlled shipping lane
🇪🇺🇩🇪European electricity prices rose to record levels
▪️European electricity futures for next year set new records Aug. 11, Bloomberg reports
▪️The value of Germany's power supply contract rose 6.6% to €455 per MWh after trading on the exchange. A similar futures contract in France rose by 7.8% during the day - up to €622 per 1 MWh
▪️The rise in electricity prices in the EU is due to supply disruptions from Russia, falling output from nuclear power plants, low volumes of energy from wind turbines and solar panels, and the heat wave that triggered the drought and fires in Europe
▪️ "If Russia shuts off gas, there may not be enough gas to meet all needs, and then austerity measures will be introduced," Annegret Grebel, president of the Council of European Energy Regulators, told Bloomberg
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▪️European electricity futures for next year set new records Aug. 11, Bloomberg reports
▪️The value of Germany's power supply contract rose 6.6% to €455 per MWh after trading on the exchange. A similar futures contract in France rose by 7.8% during the day - up to €622 per 1 MWh
▪️The rise in electricity prices in the EU is due to supply disruptions from Russia, falling output from nuclear power plants, low volumes of energy from wind turbines and solar panels, and the heat wave that triggered the drought and fires in Europe
▪️ "If Russia shuts off gas, there may not be enough gas to meet all needs, and then austerity measures will be introduced," Annegret Grebel, president of the Council of European Energy Regulators, told Bloomberg
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Bloomberg.com
European Energy Crisis Deepens as Power Prices Reach Records
European power prices rose to fresh records on Thursday as a heatwave limits energy supplies and wildfires rage across France.
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⚡️CBS News has released a film about whether weapons supplied to Ukraine by the West are getting into the right hands⚡️
🇺🇸One of the film's characters, former U.S. Marine Special Forces commander Colonel Andrew Milburn, states that after crossing the border, the U.S. loses control over military supplies and needs to create a system of oversight over them
💁♂️The film also quotes Lithuanian volunteer Jonas Ohman as saying that only 30-40 percent of supplies from the West reach the frontline.
Amnesty International's Donatella Rovera, who fears that Ukraine will repeat the path of Iraq and Afghanistan, also features in the film: "We saw how many weapons arrived in 2003 during the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq and then came in 2014, when ISIS seized most of the country and large stocks of weapons intended for the Iraqi forces...
🤷♂️No one knows what will happen to the weapons that are still walking around in Ukraine
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🇺🇸One of the film's characters, former U.S. Marine Special Forces commander Colonel Andrew Milburn, states that after crossing the border, the U.S. loses control over military supplies and needs to create a system of oversight over them
💁♂️The film also quotes Lithuanian volunteer Jonas Ohman as saying that only 30-40 percent of supplies from the West reach the frontline.
Amnesty International's Donatella Rovera, who fears that Ukraine will repeat the path of Iraq and Afghanistan, also features in the film: "We saw how many weapons arrived in 2003 during the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq and then came in 2014, when ISIS seized most of the country and large stocks of weapons intended for the Iraqi forces...
🤷♂️No one knows what will happen to the weapons that are still walking around in Ukraine
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⚡️The Pentagon has disguised the participation of the US military in the conflict in Ukraine by using new tactics of hiring contract "assistants"⚡️
🇫🇷This information was published by Causeur magazine, citing a French military source
🇺🇸Thus, the US formally avoided direct participation of its military in combat actions against Russia. However, in fact, the U.S. army "was next to the AFU" from the very beginning of the war
✍️"True, formally it was not Americans, but contract "assistants" performing their role. For the first time the Pentagon used such tactics exactly in Ukraine: it hires military specialists for money, ready to participate in combat operations in this country," the source said
💁♂️The weekly notes that such mercenaries are now "operating on all battlefields" in Ukraine. However, it admits that even such direct US involvement does not bring military victories to the Kiev regime
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🇫🇷This information was published by Causeur magazine, citing a French military source
🇺🇸Thus, the US formally avoided direct participation of its military in combat actions against Russia. However, in fact, the U.S. army "was next to the AFU" from the very beginning of the war
✍️"True, formally it was not Americans, but contract "assistants" performing their role. For the first time the Pentagon used such tactics exactly in Ukraine: it hires military specialists for money, ready to participate in combat operations in this country," the source said
💁♂️The weekly notes that such mercenaries are now "operating on all battlefields" in Ukraine. However, it admits that even such direct US involvement does not bring military victories to the Kiev regime
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You can make snowmen right at home: Britons look for a positive aspect of the upcoming "hellish energy price hike
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⚡️War in Ukraine has thrust Germans into poverty⚡️
🇩🇪Almost one in six people in Germany is at risk of poverty, which is nearly 17%
📊13 million people had a particular risk of falling into poverty last year – about 15.8% of the population. In 2020, there were still 13.2 million, or 16.1%. Three groups are particularly affected: women, single parents and the unemployed
💁♂️As a rule, the unemployed in Germany face a much bigger risk of falling into poverty than in any other European Union country. The seasonally adjusted unemployment rate in the country increased to a nine-month high of 5.4% in July of 2022, a second consecutive rise, and once again prompted by Ukrainian refugees registering with the labor office in search of work
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🇩🇪Almost one in six people in Germany is at risk of poverty, which is nearly 17%
📊13 million people had a particular risk of falling into poverty last year – about 15.8% of the population. In 2020, there were still 13.2 million, or 16.1%. Three groups are particularly affected: women, single parents and the unemployed
💁♂️As a rule, the unemployed in Germany face a much bigger risk of falling into poverty than in any other European Union country. The seasonally adjusted unemployment rate in the country increased to a nine-month high of 5.4% in July of 2022, a second consecutive rise, and once again prompted by Ukrainian refugees registering with the labor office in search of work
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⚡️SpaceX Starlink satellites, which are known to be actively used by the Ukrainian military to gain access to the Internet, face Russia space debris “squalls” in orbit⚡️
🚀SpaceX satellites in the Starlink constellation came close to debris generated by a Russian anti-satellite test in November, Dan Oltrogge, chief scientist at COMSPOC, said at a Secure World Foundation event during the Small Satellite Conference Monday (Aug. 8)
🛰The company, which tracks space objects and generates reports for clients, said pieces of the now-destroyed Cosmos 1408 satellite are lining up with satellites launched in a sun-synchronous orbit, meaning an orbit that keeps the sun at a constant altitude relative to Earth
📊Oltrogge, calling the close encounter Starlink event a “conjunction squall,” said his company spotted more than 6,000 close approaches affecting 841 satellites, representing about 30% of the constellation
💁♂️SpaceX has emphasized its Starlinks can maneuver, but did not comment on the story or whether any Starlinks were affected
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🚀SpaceX satellites in the Starlink constellation came close to debris generated by a Russian anti-satellite test in November, Dan Oltrogge, chief scientist at COMSPOC, said at a Secure World Foundation event during the Small Satellite Conference Monday (Aug. 8)
🛰The company, which tracks space objects and generates reports for clients, said pieces of the now-destroyed Cosmos 1408 satellite are lining up with satellites launched in a sun-synchronous orbit, meaning an orbit that keeps the sun at a constant altitude relative to Earth
📊Oltrogge, calling the close encounter Starlink event a “conjunction squall,” said his company spotted more than 6,000 close approaches affecting 841 satellites, representing about 30% of the constellation
💁♂️SpaceX has emphasized its Starlinks can maneuver, but did not comment on the story or whether any Starlinks were affected
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SpaceNews
Starlink satellites encounter Russian ASAT debris squalls
Debris from a Russian ASAT test that caused “squalls” of close approaches to satellites earlier this year is now affecting Starlink satellites.
⚡️Blast in the Crimea⚡️
✈️At least eight Russian warplanes were destroyed after explosions rocked Crimea on Tuesday, new satellite images show. It could be Moscow's biggest loss of military aircraft in a single day since World War II
🇷🇺The cause of the explosions is still uncertain, but the most likely scenario is that of the first successful attack by the Ukrainian army, perhaps thanks to long-range missiles delivered by a Western ally – which for Russian President Vladimir Putin would be crossing a red line, namely the use of Western weapons against what Russia considers to be part of its national territory
❗️Russia denied any aircraft were damaged in Tuesday’s blasts — or that any attack took place. But satellite photos clearly showed at least seven fighter planes at the base had been blown up and others probably damaged
🇺🇦Ukrainian officials stopped short of publicly claiming responsibility for the explosions
💁♂️If Ukrainian forces were, in fact, responsible for the blasts, it would be the first known major attack on a Russian military site on the Crimean Peninsula
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✈️At least eight Russian warplanes were destroyed after explosions rocked Crimea on Tuesday, new satellite images show. It could be Moscow's biggest loss of military aircraft in a single day since World War II
🇷🇺The cause of the explosions is still uncertain, but the most likely scenario is that of the first successful attack by the Ukrainian army, perhaps thanks to long-range missiles delivered by a Western ally – which for Russian President Vladimir Putin would be crossing a red line, namely the use of Western weapons against what Russia considers to be part of its national territory
❗️Russia denied any aircraft were damaged in Tuesday’s blasts — or that any attack took place. But satellite photos clearly showed at least seven fighter planes at the base had been blown up and others probably damaged
🇺🇦Ukrainian officials stopped short of publicly claiming responsibility for the explosions
💁♂️If Ukrainian forces were, in fact, responsible for the blasts, it would be the first known major attack on a Russian military site on the Crimean Peninsula
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the Guardian
Russian warplanes destroyed in Crimea airbase attack, satellite images show
Multiple aircraft at Saky base in Crimea blown up, with the new evidence suggesting possibility of targeted attack
- As of June-July, how many people are paying much attention to the war in Ukraine?
- Who do people think is currently winning, and who do they expect to win?
- What countries do people trust to make the right decisions when it comes to the war in Ukraine?
You will find answers to these and other questions in a new study by YouGov, conducted in late June and early July, highlights results from the six most populous European countries – as well as the USA in some cases – but with a particular focus on the opinion from Poland
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- Who do people think is currently winning, and who do they expect to win?
- What countries do people trust to make the right decisions when it comes to the war in Ukraine?
You will find answers to these and other questions in a new study by YouGov, conducted in late June and early July, highlights results from the six most populous European countries – as well as the USA in some cases – but with a particular focus on the opinion from Poland
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yougov.co.uk
The war in Ukraine: the view from Poland | YouGov
Poles feel strongly that France and Germany have not been pulling their weight
⚡️The price of gas in Europe has increased by more than seven percent⚡️
📊The global energy crisis may intensify due to Norway. There is now a severe drought In the largest supplier of electricity to the EU countries. The sultry summer has led to a shortage of water, a necessary resource for electricity generation. The authorities have already announced that they are reducing transportation to the UK, the Netherlands and Germany. For these countries this could mean a real catastrophe
📈The latest data indicate a rise in gas price by seven percent, which is over two thousand two hundred dollars per cubic meter
💁♂️An unexpected energy crisis has reached Norway. The country is experiencing severe problems with electricity generation, which may affect the energy crisis in Europe as a whole. The drought has led to the fact that many reservoirs in the south of Norway have become empty. This forced the Oslo government to restrict electricity exports
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📊The global energy crisis may intensify due to Norway. There is now a severe drought In the largest supplier of electricity to the EU countries. The sultry summer has led to a shortage of water, a necessary resource for electricity generation. The authorities have already announced that they are reducing transportation to the UK, the Netherlands and Germany. For these countries this could mean a real catastrophe
📈The latest data indicate a rise in gas price by seven percent, which is over two thousand two hundred dollars per cubic meter
💁♂️An unexpected energy crisis has reached Norway. The country is experiencing severe problems with electricity generation, which may affect the energy crisis in Europe as a whole. The drought has led to the fact that many reservoirs in the south of Norway have become empty. This forced the Oslo government to restrict electricity exports
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The New York Ledger
Norway’s unexpected energy crisis
Norway is in many ways a lucky country. Its abundant oil and gas resources are much in demand since Russia’s
⚡️United States: first positive signal on inflation⚡️
📈Consumer prices remained stable in July over one month, but remained up sharply over one year, at +8.5%. The bill to “reduce inflation” currently being considered in Congress will not be likely to lower the temperature quickly
📊The July pause is linked to the drop in tensions over fuels. Oil prices have fallen in recent weeks, allowing a decline in the price of a gallon of gasoline: -7.7% compared to June. However, it was offset by an opposite movement on other products, notably food (+1.1% over one month). Over one year, the rise in food prices (+10.9%) has never been so strong since... 1979. Inflation thus remains largely diffused in the economy, with rents or health costs which have taken over this summer from air tickets. Excluding energy and food, the rise in prices still reached 5.9% over one year
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📈Consumer prices remained stable in July over one month, but remained up sharply over one year, at +8.5%. The bill to “reduce inflation” currently being considered in Congress will not be likely to lower the temperature quickly
📊The July pause is linked to the drop in tensions over fuels. Oil prices have fallen in recent weeks, allowing a decline in the price of a gallon of gasoline: -7.7% compared to June. However, it was offset by an opposite movement on other products, notably food (+1.1% over one month). Over one year, the rise in food prices (+10.9%) has never been so strong since... 1979. Inflation thus remains largely diffused in the economy, with rents or health costs which have taken over this summer from air tickets. Excluding energy and food, the rise in prices still reached 5.9% over one year
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Bloomberg.com
US Inflation Runs Cooler Than Forecast, Easing Pressure on Fed
US inflation decelerated in July by more than expected, reflecting lower energy prices, which may take some pressure off the Federal Reserve to continue aggressively hiking interest rates.
⚡️“Politico”: Consider Amnesty’s message, don’t shoot the messenger. It’s wrong to fault the human rights group for criticizing Ukraine⚡️
✍️Amnesty’s report may be politically inconvenient for the Ukrainian government and its allies in the West, but that doesn’t make it wrong or inaccurate. No country, even when under brutal assault from a bullying neighbor, is above reproach
❗️The organization says its researchers documented multiple cases of Ukrainian forces basing themselves in schools and hospitals and launching attacks from populated neighborhoods, drawing Russian fire that endangered civilian lives
💁♂️A mature response to such criticism would be to take the findings seriously and work to improve army practices and the protection of civilians — not shoot the messenger
🇺🇦President Volodymyr Zelenskyy would have done better to acknowledge that even his heroic defenders are capable of error and take the report to heart, instead of accusing Amnesty of giving “amnesty to the terrorist state and shifting responsibility from the aggressor to the victim”
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✍️Amnesty’s report may be politically inconvenient for the Ukrainian government and its allies in the West, but that doesn’t make it wrong or inaccurate. No country, even when under brutal assault from a bullying neighbor, is above reproach
❗️The organization says its researchers documented multiple cases of Ukrainian forces basing themselves in schools and hospitals and launching attacks from populated neighborhoods, drawing Russian fire that endangered civilian lives
💁♂️A mature response to such criticism would be to take the findings seriously and work to improve army practices and the protection of civilians — not shoot the messenger
🇺🇦President Volodymyr Zelenskyy would have done better to acknowledge that even his heroic defenders are capable of error and take the report to heart, instead of accusing Amnesty of giving “amnesty to the terrorist state and shifting responsibility from the aggressor to the victim”
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POLITICO
Consider Amnesty’s message, don’t shoot the messenger
It’s wrong to fault the human rights group for criticizing Ukraine.
⚡️Climate risks dwarf Europe's energy crisis⚡️
✍️“Reuters”:The head of the European Space Agency (ESA) has warned economic damage from heatwaves and drought could dwarf Europe's energy crisis as he called for urgent action to tackle climate change.
💁♂️Director General Josef Aschbacher told Reuters successive heatwaves along with wildfires, shrinking rivers and rising land temperatures as measured from space left no doubt about the toll on agriculture and other industries from climate change
❗️"Today, we are very concerned about the energy crisis, and rightly so. But this crisis is very small compared to the impact of climate change, which is of a much bigger magnitude and really has to be tackled extremely fast," he said
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✍️“Reuters”:The head of the European Space Agency (ESA) has warned economic damage from heatwaves and drought could dwarf Europe's energy crisis as he called for urgent action to tackle climate change.
💁♂️Director General Josef Aschbacher told Reuters successive heatwaves along with wildfires, shrinking rivers and rising land temperatures as measured from space left no doubt about the toll on agriculture and other industries from climate change
❗️"Today, we are very concerned about the energy crisis, and rightly so. But this crisis is very small compared to the impact of climate change, which is of a much bigger magnitude and really has to be tackled extremely fast," he said
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Reuters
Climate risks dwarf Europe's energy crisis, space chief warns
The head of the European Space Agency (ESA) has warned economic damage from heatwaves and drought could dwarf Europe's energy crisis as he called for urgent action to tackle climate change.