Father, ecomodernist and boardgamer. Loves nature. Interested in energy discussions and innovations. Fierce defender of fact-based decision making. EV car owner
@SunArctic1 Alun perinhän Arkea perustettiin Turun kaupungin sisäisten toimintojen yhtiöittämiseksi, ts. koulujen ja terveyskeskusten ruokalat ja siivoukset jne. Yhtään pikkufirmaa ei tässä vaiheessa siihen kaatunut.
Sinä aikana saattoi kaatuakin, kun se toimi "vapailla markkinoilla".
Swedish utility Vattenfall has chosen Rolls Royce SMRs for a 1500 MW nuclear construction project. They chose to build three 500 MW Rolls Royce SMRs, over building five BWRX-300 SMRs. Article link in reply.
Sweden is building nuclear to augment energy security and to meet a pledge to reach net zero by 2045.
In Finland, our draft system is simple: every adult male serves. If you do not show up, the police will bring you in.
In peacetime.
In wartime, it gets harsher.
Nobody asks if you feel like it.
That is the price of living next to russia.
In 1974 Turkey invaded Cyprus and took possession of 37% of the country, gradually displacing 200,000 Greek Cypriots. There has since been an influx of Turkish settlers from the mainland, with as many as 500,000 Turks displacing the natives.
How many times have we heard people talking about illegal Turkish settlers/colonizers? Almost never. Most people don’t even know about it.
The second the mob heard she was Jewish, they tried to rape her to death.
Lara Logan on 60 Minutes describing her brutal mob assault in Tahrir Square, 2011.
She was reporting on the celebrations of Hosni Mubarak’s resignation when the crowd turned on her. They tore her clothes off and sexually assaulted and violently violated her for 20 to 30 minutes with their hands, over and over.
The frenzy exploded the moment someone screamed she was Jewish and Israeli. Then all they wanted was to rape her, beat her, and rip her apart.
This is what that hatred looks like in action. October 7 was not a surprise.
Watch her full account.
This is inversion so callous it's hard to believe.
The Holocaust had a survival rate of about 30%. Millions of people disappeared from European cities and towns over several years. Everybody knew because it was happening all around them.
Gaza has a survival rate, despite the worst and most deadly and horrible periods of the war, of 97%.
All the dead Jews were noncombatants. A large percentage of the dead Gazans were combatants.
And the Jews of Europe, even as their millennia-old civilization was being systematically wiped out, wanted nothing from the societies that surrounded them except to be allowed to live in peace.
Gaza's leadership of religious fanatics, meanwhile, wants every last Israeli dead and gone, is willing to fight to the last Gazan to achieve that aim, has said so publicly and worked for decades to blow up every peace attempt -- and even now believes that Gaza's destruction would be a worthwhile sacrifice to lay on the altar of Israel's destruction, because their god told them so.
So Israelis can reasonably believe, given those features of the Gaza war that aren't true about any genocide ever, and were pretty much the opposite of what was happening in the Holocaust, that Gaza's suffering is a bad and painful war, but not remotely a genocide.
But the point of it all, of course, is not to analyze Gaza, but specifically to lump it together with the Holocaust -- to cast the Jews as the new Nazis.
The only reason this person would dare to make such an insanely ahistorical and immoral parallel is because this is the heart of the bigoted propaganda campaign in which he enthusiastically participates: The point of it all is to make the Jews into the Nazis.
A culture that obsessed about Jews being evil and was then shocked by the Holocaust into obsessing about dead Jews as the apotheosis of righteous victimhood is now obsessively engaged in knocking Jews off that moral pedestal they themselves put them on.
That's why they don't care one whit about Hamas massacres of Gazans, about genocidal wars in Syria or Yemen (even when they've funded and armed the sides), about flotilla activists currently held by the Libyans...literally nothing triggers a response except Jews.
They still, even after all these generations, no matter what else is happening in the world or in their own societies, can't stop thinking about Jews.
And as we Jews learned in the 1940s -- the actual, historical 1940s, not the weird fantasies conjured up by these bigots -- a whole society can be in the grip of a callous, destructive bigotry and still believe it is true and righteous.
Growing numbers of Ukrainian women in areas recaptured from Russian occupation are starting to speak about the sexual violence they experienced at the hands of Russian soldiers.
https://t.co/kIhJoa4Ag9
Finland's spent nuclear fuel repository is expected to get final regulatory approval to start loading. Actual loading is expected to start around the end of this year. They are the first nation to "solve" its nuclear "waste problem". Article link in reply.
The news is good but the public communications presented in the article is problematic. The talk about containing the spent fuel for 100,000 (or even a million) years, and extreme measures to ensure containment, suggests to the public that nuclear waste poses uniquely large and lasting hazards. The truth is the opposite.
Other energy sources and industries regularly dispose of wastes that remain toxic forever (i.e., infinity years). Toxic elements like lead, arsenic, mercury, cadmium, etc.. Radioactive wastes, OTOH, are unique in that they decay away exponentially. That is, they disappear over time. Most of the hazard disappears after a few hundred years.
Spent nuclear fuel's phyiscal and chemical form (i.e., ceramic pellets inside multiple layers of ultra-corrosion-resistant metals) is also much less prone to leakage and dispersal than other industrial toxic waste streams. The volume of spent fuel (and other nuclear wastes) is also extremely tiny.
Given its small volume, its physical/chemical form, decaying away, and the impeccible disposal requires, nuclear waste's risks/hazards are SMALLER than those of other, non-nuclear waste steams.
And yet, the public does not fear, or even think about, toxic wastes that last for infinity years, while they're scared of wastes that decay away and will be contained for at least 100,000 years. The main reason for this is that the media never talks about everlasting, non-nuclear wastes, while it talks about nuclear waste a whole lot! The public's perceived risk is based on how often they hear about it in the news (as opposed to scientific analysis).
Frankly speaking, neutrality is a morally bankrupt concept.
Having studied sanctions evasion and wartime supply chains, I’ve found some facts particularly striking: neutral Switzerland is the leading European supplier of microelectronics that end up in Russian weapons, while another neutral European country, Ireland, is the leading supplier of aluminum for Russia’s war machine.
So that’s what “neutrality” often means in practice.
Korkein hallinto-oikeus on 1. kesäkuuta 2026 antanut välipäätöksen OL3:n yli 1300 megawatin tuotantotehon mahdollistavaa kantaverkon suojausjärjestelmää koskevassa vastuu- ja maksukiistassa.
KHO päätti keskeyttää markkinaoikeuden syksyllä 2025 antamien päätösten täytäntöönpanon sekä vastuu- että maksuasiassa. Päätöksen mukaan Energiaviraston aiempia ratkaisuja on noudatettava muutoksenhaun käsittelyn ajan, kunnes korkein hallinto-oikeus antaa asiassa lopullisen ratkaisunsa tai määrää toisin.
Lue lisää: https://t.co/pxoT3DXPJy
🇷🇺 Россияне?! Вы десятилетиями тащили войну, смерть и разрушения в чужие дома — в Грузию, Украину, Ичкерию, Дагестан, Сирию, Ливию, Мали. Вы годами спокойно смотрели, как ваши ракеты убивают людей, как ваши солдаты превращают города в руины, а пропагандисты смеются над чужим горем.
Так почему теперь вы воете и строите из себя жертв, когда война впервые постучала в ваши двери? Это не «ужасная несправедливость» — это бумеранг. Это последствия того, что вы сделали с другими народами.
И знаете что? Отвечу вашими же любимыми словами: это всё фейк. Никаких обстрелов не было. Вам просто показалось.
P.S. можете писать, что хотите в коментариях… правда видна всем!
I have no problem with Islam. I’m just against beheading, stoning, marrying little girls, sexual slavery, taqiyya, slave trading, rape, forced conversions, jihad, burqa, attacking other religions, child abuse, women abuse, animal abuse, multiple wives, murder, Sharia, terrorism, brainwashing, intolerance, greed, anti-science, torture, illiteracy, gluttony, genital mutilation, inbreeding. Does that make me Islamophobic?
“What kind of a depraved monster slices off a woman’s breast while she is being gang raped, and throws it into the dust to be used as a plaything? What kind of a twisted pervert turns rape into necrophilia by shooting a woman in the head while he is still defiling her?
What kind of ‘freedom fighters’ go into battle with a set of handy Arabic-to-Hebrew phrases, including ‘take off your pants’, ‘lie down’, and ‘spread your legs’?
What self-respecting human being presses nails, scalpels, a hammer, an axe, screwdrivers and other household tools into a woman’s genitals?
How hard do you have to rape someone, and with what, to shatter their pelvis? Who shoots a young girl in the face and then films her mutilated corpse on her brother’s mobile phone?
The answer is: Hamas terrorists. This is the stark reality of what they did to men, women and children on October 7, 2023. And the world must never forget.”
@WestminsterWAG
A while ago, I watched the infamous 47-minute video documenting the atrocities of October 7th — the one not made publicly available, to protect the privacy of the victims.
The worst part of this video is not what it displays, but who is displaying it: the perpetrators themselves. Gleefully. Sadistically. Unabashedly. Most of the footage was filmed by Hamas terrorists on their GoPro bodycams, some also by ordinary Gazan civilians on their cellphones.
Even the Nazis tried to cover up their atrocities, but Hamas brags about theirs for the entire world to see. The killers are euphoric throughout the massacre, and their relentless, ecstatic cries of "Allahu Akbar" (punctuated by the occasional "Kill the Jew!") are simply nauseating.
Some images are seared into my memory forever. I will never forget the two boys in their underwear — one with his eye socket hanging out of his face — asking his brother whether he thinks they're going to die, while the Hamas monster who had just thrown a grenade in their saferoom helps himself to a drink from their fridge, taking a casual break from the slaughter.
Neither will I ever forget the terrorists playing football with a severed head. Or the Thai migrant worker whose head is viciously hacked off with a garden hoe — another "Zionist colonizer" getting what he deserved, right?https://t.co/JvfJEtk8LA
Or the throngs of Gazans crowding around pickup trucks loaded with the mutilated corpses of Jewish women, filming and spitting on the bodies. Or the woman in Kibbutz Mefalsim, crouching and begging in vain for mercy.
There is some evidence of sexual violence in the video — the charred corpse of a young woman with her legs splayed and her genitals exposed — but not much. Apparently even Hamas draws a line somewhere: they are not as proud of raping Jewish women as they are of murdering them. Or, more likely, they simply didn't want to embarrass the delicate sensibilities of their legions of useful idiots in the West.
But yes — there was rape. Not "rape" in scare quotes, as the apologists would have it, but sadistic, murderous sexual violence, documented in a new damning new report by The Civil Commission, an independent Israeli women's rights NGO. (video summary here: https://t.co/LTTjiO1s7E)
Across its 180 pages, the report describes "a recurring pattern of rape and gang rape; sexual torture; mutilation; targeted shooting to the face, head and genital area; forced nudity; binding and restraint; genital burning; objects inserted into intimate areas; post-mortem sexual humiliation; and execution during or after sexual assault."
And it was premeditated and organized. The terrorists crossing into Israel carried printed Arabic-to-Hebrew phrasebooks with handy expressions like "take off your pants," "lie down," "spread your legs," and "don't make trouble." I wonder why they expected to need those particular phrases?
I know one thing: no civilized country on earth would tolerate the existence of an organization like Hamas on its border after October 7th. Not one. This includes every self-righteous Westerner currently lecturing Israel from thousands of kilometres away, without an inch of skin in the game.
https://t.co/PoKUfIHeXV
BREAKING: A new report compiled by over 430 witnesses, survivors, experts and medical staff of October 7th reveal new never before told horrors.
Women were stripped, bound, stabbed, shot, and burned. They were executed both during and after rape.
Heads were decapitated. Pelvic bones shattered. Even after death, sexual assault continued.
At Kibbutz Be'eri, nails, sharp objects, and pieces of metal and plastic were similarly embedded in a woman whose body was discovered naked and bound.
On another victim, grenades were used.
Men were also sexually assaulted, with at least one case of gang rape occurring.
The horrors are truly barbaric.
Remember Asia Bibi, a Pakistani Christian woman who spent 8 years on death row after being accused of “blasphemy” for drinking water from a Muslim’s cup.
Asia was working in the fields with her Muslim coworkers. She got thirsty and went to fetch water from the well, where she took a drink with an old metal cup she had found. That’s all it took.
Christians are considered dirty and impure in Islam, and she was accused of attempting to contaminate the Muslims’ water just by drinking from their cup. She was sentenced to death by hanging.
The governor of her province voiced opposition to the verdict and was assassinated by his own bodyguard.
When she was finally acquitted in 2018 due to international pressure, tens of thousands of Muslims rioted, demanding her immediate execution.
A local poll found that 10 MILLION Pakistanis would personally kill her if given the chance. Just for drinking water from a Muslim’s cup.
Her lawyer had to flee the country. And after months in hiding, she was finally able to escape Pakistan and received asylum in Canada.
This is Pakistan, where non-Muslims live under the constant threat of death. The more I learn about this country, the more it just feels like ISIS with a formal government.