Damn, that’s disappointing at a quick scan. Will read in properly and fact check later. Thanks.

Got any stats on coal increasing to share ? Last I saw they were decomming significant quantities of coal stations

They have also been installing solar powerplants at a lightning rate. They installed more solar in 2023 than the US has in total according to an article I read a few months ago.

It’s not about saving the planet though, they import the bulk of their fossil fuels, moving to renewables reduces their fuel import dependency

Am lawyer, “beyond reasonable doubt” is for criminal charges. “Balance of probabilities” is for civil cases ie where jail is not a penalty option.

Defamation is civil.

Thank you

What is the difference between type 1 & 2 please ?

Because it’s part of ongoing verbal attacks by Israel at Ireland. This isn’t an isolated incident it’s part of a much wider whole.

And there is also an unknown amount you can subtract from that demand which is the massive electric pumps that pump fuel into those ICE cars and between tanks in the petrol stations and from the depots into tankers that will no longer be needed.

Lol. Yeah that was my reaction to the headline as well. “You did what ?”

Https://1ft.io also seems to work and by the branding seems unrelated to 12ft

Hmm, any connection to the “lucky rabbit’s foot” thing, or is tgat a modern invention ?

Or to take it a step further back, try getting someone without context before the modrrn era to understand how groundbreaking Casablanca is. So many tropes were invented in that movie, but watched without that understanding many would say “what’s the big deal ?”

It’s a good movie even now. But it’s a great movie with context

Like everything Hidalgo does this is performance art pretending to be a solution.

If you read the fine print (not mentioned in this article I’ll go find a French article and edit it in) the problem here is it DOESN’T affect residents, only those from outside Paris.

What does that mean ? The millionaires in the 6th arrondissement can keep their Porsche Cayennes, Lamborghini Urus’ and Bentley Bentaygas free of charge but the electrician or builder coming in from the banlieues and peripherique in his Toyota Hilux will pay an extra tax.

The weight tax also creates challenges for a tradie to swap his ICE VW transporter for an EV equivalent.

All is not as it seems. If she makes it a tax on SUVs in Paris regardless of where you live (like the London ULEV setup) then it may do some good

Edit 1 it is in the guardian article

"The prices will apply to vehicles weighing more than 1.6 tonnes with a combustion engine or hybrid vehicles, and more than 2 tonnes for electric vehicles. The move will not apply to Paris residents’ parking. "

Article 7 suspends their voting rights. Requires unanimity of all other EU members.

It’s the closest EU charter allows to evicting a member state. It effectively suspends the state’s membership.

Quite frankly the should have. Orban is a blatantly corrupt Putin lapdog who has been siphoning EU funds for years into his own pocket and that of his cronies.

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Four arrested in Denmark, Netherlands on suspicion of planning terror attacks By: 3 - 4 minutes

Three people were arrested in coordinated actions across Denmark and one person in the Netherlands on suspicion of plotting to carry out “an act of terror,” Danish police said Thursday.

Issued on: 14/12/2023 - 15:00Modified: 14/12/2023 - 15:03

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Flemming Drejer, operative head of Denmark’s Security and Intelligence Service, known by its acronym PET, said that Denmark was not changing the terror threat level, which has been at “serious,” the second-highest level, since 2010.

He added that the case had “threads abroad” and “was related to criminal gangs,” singling out the banned gang Loyal to Familia.

In January 2020, a Danish court upheld a nationwide police ban on the gang, saying that the LTF should be dissolved as illegal under Denmark’s constitution.

The gang had been behind gang feuds, violence, robberies, extortion and drug sales in the Danish capital and “had used violence and illegal means to achieve its goal," the Copenhagen District Court said then. In September 2018, police in Denmark issued a temporary ban against the LTF and said anyone seen wearing its logo could face prosecution.

”Persons abroad have been charged," he said.

"It is a serious situation,” Drejer told a press conference, adding the arrests were “carried out in close collaboration with our foreign partners,” and said those arrested were part of “a network.”

Drejer added that the suspects would face a custody hearing within 24 hours, likely behind “double closed doors,” meaning that he could not give details about the case, any target or motive.

“This is extremely serious,” Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said at a European Union summit in Brussels. "It shows the situation we are in in Denmark. Unfortunately.”

“It is absolutely true when both (Denmark’s intelligence agencies) say that there is a high risk in Denmark,” Frederiksen said. “It is of course completely unacceptable in relation to Israel and Gaza, that there is someone who takes a conflict somewhere else in the world into Danish society.”

Earlier this month, the European Union’s home affairs commissioner, Ylva Johansson, warned that Europe faces a “huge risk of terrorist attacks” over the Christmas holiday period due to the fallout from the war between Israel and the Palestinian militant group Hamas.

While I love a good hate session against the billionaires as much as the next peon, it’s not the main reason

If we want to pretend/delude ourselves that we’re the good guys we need to operate within the rule of law (even though of course Putler doesn’t care about that).

Freezing assets - easy peasy legally sound plenty of precedent, no blow back on the various western governments who ordered the freezes.

Seizing assets however has lots of rules around it. If the west breaks those rules then they lose the “moral high ground” - the politicians care about that because then their opposition can attack them and they might lose the next election over it.

For the record I think we categorically are the good guys in this instance (Ukraine support), although it has certainly not always been true in the past for other conflicts

It’ll last until Erdogan is up for election

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That’d be Sweden not Norway mate, and your plan is as well thought through as your fact checking. Shareholders have very limited recourse to sue over executive decisions, and withdrawing from a market in these circumstances isn’t one (noting it is an American company and that is under American law).

Damn I want to try that now !