Pentagon agency bans Holocaust Remembrance Day.
https://www.msnbc.com/top-stories/latest/defense-agency-bans-dei-black-history-month-rcna190211
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People posting that far-right politicians are stupid because they take measures that create damage and chaos may not be very smart themselves.
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Trump to impose tariffs on imports from Canada, Mexico and China, starting...
tomorrow. Oligarchs like creating chaos because then they can grab things.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/31/trump-tariffs-canada-mexico-china?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
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The U.S. Department of Agriculture has directed agency officials to review and remove content related to climate change from its public websites
https://abcnews.go.com/US/usda-orders-removal-climate-change-mentions-public-websites/story?id=118312216
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Musk aides lock government workers out of computer systems at US government human resources agency, sources say.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/musk-aides-lock-government-workers-out-computer-systems-us-agency-sources-say-2025-01-31/
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Good morning!
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Dutch news site @nu.nl calls Trump's totally unfounded suggestions about diversity (i.e. minorities) as the cause of the plane crash in Washington DC a 'remarkable speech on diversity policies'.
https://www.nu.nl/buitenland/6344189/trump-geeft-opmerkelijke-speech-over-diversiteitsbeleid-na-vliegtuigcrash.html
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Ukraine reducing Russian oil exports. Ust-Luga is also the port from which the anchor-dragging shadow fleet tankers departed.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-01-30/oil-flow-through-russia-s-ust-luga-appears-to-pause-after-drones
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Hungary's Orbán already sees Germany joining his side now CDU/CSU teamed up with far-right AfD on anti-immigration measures.
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UK court rules that permits issued for new offshore oil resp. gas fields Rosebank and Jackdaw were unlawful, as they had not taken into account the carbon emissions created by burning any oil and gas produced.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jan/30/rosebank-oilfield-jackdaw-decision-unlawful-edinburgh-court?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
[#]fossilfuels #emissions #co2 #ClimateChange
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There's of course no way that US civil servants can keep up with Trump's wild stream of ill-considered executive orders.
But oligarchs like making threats and creating chaos because then they can grab things.
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My opinion article on why we should take a European (rather than national) approach to energy storage on energiepodium.nl.
I look at it from 4 angles: dispatchable power generation, biomethane, hydrogen, and strategic gas storage. In Dutch, for now ;)
https://www.energiepodium.nl/artikel/het-nut-van-europees-geregelde-energieopslag
[#]energystorage #energytransition #electricity #gas #biomethane #hydrogen
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The trigger for this question to ChatGPT actually was DeepSeek's (lack of a) response to questions about Tiananmen Square.
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ChatGPT 4o answer to my question on January 6, today.
Let's periodically check on the answer now OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is getting close with Trump.
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Yesterday it was Brittany, France.
[#]ClimatechangeisWaterchange
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-01-28/storm-herminia-triggers-floods-in-france-alpine-avalanche-risks
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Slovakia's populist leader Fico centred his premiership on Slovakia importing cheap Russian gas and having friendly relations with the Kremlin. That gamble has now started to backfire.
https://www.ft.com/content/b5d6b735-a289-43f1-abf5-6fc8bf646cc4
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NATO's Article 5 (an attack on one member is an attack on all) was not designed for a case in which the largest member itself threatens a smaller one. Trump's pressure will test the (not just military) solidarity of Canada and Europe with Denmark.
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Trump could of course try to hit China and its AI companies via tariffs or export bans (DeepSeek reportedly uses Nvidia chips too), but in general he prefers too bully the weak.
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Nvidia is now still valued at 90 times its operating income ($33 billion last year), so there's room for more corrections.
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Denmark to invest €2 billion in defending Greenland after Trump's threats.
"At the moment, Greenland - four times the size of France - is guarded by 4 aging patrol boats, one airplane, and 12 patrol teams with dog sleds."
The US has a military base there.
https://nos.nl/l/2553536
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