Bert

Een feit is iets wat waar is of wat niet waar is. Of het feit waar of onwaar is, kun je controleren. Een mening is wat iemand vindt van iets.

[Simon Maechling @simonmaechling]

At dinner last night a man explained that the local rice was drowned in glyphosate.

He spent 20 minutes warning me about chemicals in food.

Then he stepped outside and smoked a cigarette.

I’ve never seen a better demonstration that people don’t fear risk.

They fear stories.

[Bert @BertSmit65]

@martikarel @NuinZeeland @JA21_NH Laat nu net die dunkelflaute niet het probleem zijn.

[Branislav Slantchev @slantchev]

Scandal brewing in “neutral” Ireland after revelations that one Russian-affiliated plant there has been supplying over 83% Irish exports of alumina to Russia where it’s smelted into aluminum, a critical component for war production.

Aughinish Alumina in County Limerick, Europe’s largest alumina refinery, owned by United Company Rusal (Russia’s largest aluminium producer), whose parent EN+ Group was founded by sanctioned oligarch Oleg Deripaska. An investigation by the Irish Times, OCCRP and other outlets, drawing on confidential documents, customs data and satellite imagery, established the supply chain.

The Irish government tried to deflect but when a reporter filmed the plant with signs in Russian, they could no longer deny it. Now internal documents were leaked showing that the company is threatening the Irish government with loss of jobs and all sorts of things if it tried to curb its exports to Russia.

The newest defense is that alumina isn’t under EU sanctions so technically no rules were broken. Except Ireland had no problem defying the EU and forging ahead with its own restrictions on imports from Israel with its Occupied Territories Bill. Because… reasons (or maybe Russian occupation of Ukraine is OK while Israeli occupation of Palestinian lands is not).

Australia stopped its alumina exports to Russia because the material is so necessary for the war (its main exporter was also 20%-owned by Deripaska). The neutral Irish government is operating under different standards, where morality is spelled in Russian.

I wonder what the Irish people, who overwhelmingly support Ukraine (in fact, they are among the strongest supporters in Europe when it comes to economic and financial aid), think about all of this.

[Bert @BertSmit65]

@johan_emmens Zou je denken als je er geen verstand van hebt. Roep je vaker maar wat?

[Bert @BertSmit65]

@spbverhagen @NuinZeeland Ik geloof dat er 4 in de planning staan.

[Bert @BertSmit65]

@HansRuitenbeek @0Robg2 @2eKamertweets @lidewij_devos Binnenkort, vandaag nog!

[Bert @BertSmit65]

@adegraat @AndreasKinnegi1 Om een van de beste natuurlijke experimenten in de geschiedenis om het effect van economische systemen te testen als onzin is wel erg kort door de bocht @adegraat

[@BrennpunktUA 🇩🇪🇺🇦 @BrennpunktUA]

Heute vor 7 Jahren….
Während sich der eine in dieser Zeit vom Staatsmann zu einem lächerlichen Clown entwickelt hat, entwickelte er sich von einem erfolgreichen Clown zum größten Staatsmann Europas.

Herzlichen Glückwunsch zum Jubiläum, Präsident @ZelenskyyUa

Slava Ukraïni 🇺🇦

[Bert @BertSmit65]

@WimBruggin84978 @NuinZeeland @CorVerkade Feiten het blijft moelijk.

[Bert @BertSmit65]

@WimBruggin84978 @NuinZeeland @CorVerkade Ik denk dat het verstandiger is om zoveel als mogelijk energie onafhankelijk te zijn, of zullen ze het China helemaal verkeerd doen?

[Bert @BertSmit65]

@WimBruggin84978 @NuinZeeland @CorVerkade Dat is opwek of invoedingscongestie ik heb het over afname congestie.

[Bert @BertSmit65]

@WimBruggin84978 @NuinZeeland @CorVerkade En het probleem afhankelijkheid van het buitenland en co2 uitstoot?

[Bert @BertSmit65]

@WimBruggin84978 @NuinZeeland @CorVerkade Hoe ga je de pieken opvangen met kernenergie?

[Bert @BertSmit65]

@WimBruggin84978 @NuinZeeland @CorVerkade Het probleem blijft dat er op piekmoment veel stroom wordt gevraagd, kernenergie is daar ook geen oplossing voor.

[Peter Dynes @PGDynes]

Europe is swinging from Arctic frosts to near-35°C heat within days. Some parts will warm by ~15°C in a week. Agriculture does not thrive under violent thermal instability. Ecosystems depend on stability, not a whiplash. This is what climate instability looks like in practice.

[Devana 🇺🇦 @DevanaUkraine]

🌑 "Russians are worse than the Nazis": The Testimony of an Elder

"Russians are worse than the Germans. There was never such a horror before. The Germans didn't touch us like this. But now, they kill the young, the old, everyone. They do whatever they want. How is this possible? Are Russians even human? Why burn the homes of peaceful civilians? Why are they doing this? They cannot defeat the Ukrainian military, so they destroy everything here."

[D.Radka, #NAFO 🇨🇿🤝🇺🇦 @DakdaR22]

“Putin fears a democratic Ukraine more than NATO tanks, because a free and successful Ukraine destroys the ideological foundation of his regime.”

- Garry Kasparov

[Bert @BertSmit65]

@IteBoome @ministerLVVN En de landbouwvrijstelling niet te vergeten.

[Bert @BertSmit65]

@IteBoome @ministerLVVN Lagere energiebelasting, 9% BTW en GLB subsidies bijvoorbeeld.