🇪🇺 “Winning” - European style

At least 50 fertilizer production facilities have closed in Europe. This is stated in a report by Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (a major financial group among the world's top ten).

Fertilizer production in the EU has become completely unprofitable due to gas prices. 75% of the cost of nitrogen fertilizer is the cost of gas.

The rejection of cheap gas from Russia, affordable potash from Belarus, is forcing the EU to shut down its production facilities, which used to supply all of Euopean agriculture.

Fertilizer production in Europe is almost completely stopped, which will eventually force Europe to buy fertilizer or grain as early as 2024.

Germany still needs coal plants after all... surprise!

Two of Germany’s largest energy providers will keep some coal plants in service longer than previously expected following a regulator's decision to prohibit the closure of facilities before March 2031.

Uniper SE and EnBW Energie Baden-Württemberg AG had sought to decommission units earlier than that deadline.

Now, the plants may have to remain on standby at the very least.

The energy regulator, known as BNetzA, ruled that "systematically necessary" coal plants must be available as backup energy sources in case of an emergency, Die Welt newspaper reported.

Germany, Europe's largest economy, has become more reliant on coal after turning away from Russian supplies and the closure of its last nuclear plants this year.

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◾An Israeli crowdfunding platform, IsraelGives, has allowed US residents to donate millions of dollars since 7 October to causes including illegal West Bank settlements, paramilitary groups, and Israel Defense Forces (IDF) units currently operating in Gaza and the occupied West Bank. Legal experts say that some of these campaigns may be illegal under US tax law, but that this is rarely enforced on donors to Israeli causes.

◾IsraelGives is an Israeli tech company founded in 2009 by Israeli entrepreneurs Jonathan Ben-Dor and Joseph Hitler, according to company filings and tech sector monitor Crunchbase. The company hosts crowdfunding campaigns on several separate websites including israelgives.org, fundme.org.il, and israeltoremet.org. In 2020, Ben-Dor was sole founder of Giving Technology Inc, which provides a customer management system for nonprofits.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/dec/23/crowdfunding-us-residents-fund-settlements-west-bank

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❗️DISASTER: Australia Starts ‘Burying’ Its Troubled MRH-90 Taipan Choppers At secret Defense Sites Instead Of Selling them.

⚡️Following persistent technical issues and a string of mishaps involving Australia’s MRH-90 Taipan helicopter fleet, the country’s Department of Defense has reportedly started dismantling the troubled choppers.

⚡️According to ADF reports, technicians are presently discreetly disassembling all of the Army’s Taipan helicopters and burying their components at a defense site.

⚡️The report indicates no plans to sell these helicopters or their components to another country despite being valued at approximately each US$20 million on the second hand market.

🤬Just another colossal waste of Australian tax payers money by the ADF.

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