Climate Crisis
AP: Bitcoin-mining power plant raises ire of environmentalists
Bitcoin miners in central New York have reopened a shuttered fossil fuel power plant, drawing backlash from environmentalists. Read here
AP
Climate Crisis
AP: Climate change tops agenda as Iceland heads to elections
Climate change is top of the agenda when voters in Iceland head to the polls for general elections on Saturday, following an exceptionally warm summer and an election campaign defined by a wide-reaching debate on […]
Corruption
AP – Leftist-green candidate elected mayor of Croatia’s capital
We shall see how long a leftist politician with integrity holds out in a corrupt EU nation. Read here
EU politics
AP: Migration lawsuit launched against EU’s border agency
Human rights lawyers said Tuesday that they have launched legal action against the European Union’s border and coast guard agency at the bloc’s top court, accusing Frontex of violating the rights of people trying to […]
EU politics
AP: Greece plans floating border barrier to stop migrants
Towards the end of World War II as it was clear that the Germans had lost the war, Hitler informed his the Germans of “wonder weapons” (Wunderwaffen) that would bring victory. The Germans cheered madly. […]
Corruption
AP: Spain arrests 4, seizes 115 properties in Venezuelan probe
This is the result of the financialisation of homes. Dirty money, be it from developing nations or the rich in the advanced economies is seeking secure havens. And what is more secure than nations, like […]
Corruption
AP: Romanian expats stage huge anti-govt protest in Bucharest
Romania is an EU member state. And yes, these are Social Democrats and Liberals, both considered excessively corrupt, members respectively of the social democratic Party of European Socialists and Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for […]