A Deep Dive into Corruption. MOL oil money comes from Putin, Russia fbs criminals to finance disinformation and propaganda operations in Europe to target freedom and the rule of law. 🚨
What a bastard….article 7 time! Orbáns' Scandalous Propaganda Empire Exposed.
Mathias Corvinus Collegium (MCC), the right-wing aka fascist Hungarian educational institution funded by Viktor Orbán’s rightwing government, has been expanding internationally. It opened a centre in #Brussels, bought a university in #Vienna and has plans for new branches in other western European cities, including London.
Its' views are closely aligned with fascist Orbán, and it funds academics who disseminate Orbán’s positions to extend his influence across Europe and beyond.
MCC has tremendous financial backing, receiving more than £1.3bn in Hungarian state funding in 2020. MCC offers can be hard to turn down. It provides funding, scholarships, housing, invitations to lavish dinners, open-bar parties, trips abroad & more $$
EVs & hybrids are good for #climate. Ford's EV & hybrid sales are up, which is a good sign that many Americans care about mitigating the #climatecrisis.
The point is well-made: BEV dominance cannot happen without a well-funded charging network. But without strong growth, and competition from hybrids, this is not going to happen. As a result, BEVs become trapped as urban commuters, mainly owned by people with home charging.
My own view is that this is inevitable anyways. BEVs should never had been pushed as the only solution.
È vero che le auto elettriche si incendiano facilmente? No. Le auto a benzina e ibride si incendiano molto più spesso [National Safety Transport Board]
I’m glad to see more sane takes on the upside of hybrids, PHEVs and FCEVs over BEVs. Reddit’s car community used to be dominated by nutty BEV fanatics, but now those are mostly pushed out and discredited. People are now realizing that other types of EVs have value. BEVs are not going to take over the world anytime soon.
The cheapest cars to own are all hybrids. No surprise that hybrid sales are surging. It is merely the market following the cost curve. The cheapest idea usually wins, all things being equal. Meanwhile, BEVs are extremely expensive to own. Demand is dropping dramatically, which will become apparently once subsidies and huge discounts go away.
The document for the first time provides official confirmation and codification of what many in the #Moscow elite say has become a #hybrid war against the West.
Solar power realization: I should charge the plug-in car during sunny days. In the past it was programmed to happen overnight, hoping for a lower electricity rate. But, if there's power coming from panels, it’s much better to just have that go straight into the car rather than expect “selling" it to power company and using it later will be cheaper.
After obstructionist Bill Barr completely covered-up the Trump-Russia investigation in a way that let criminal defendant Donald skate, US Intelligence now has told us that Russians are involved in using a variety of technologies, including ultrasound, microwave weapons, pesticides, and toxins on our diplomats and intelligence personnel.
Why exactly is American counterintelligence so dead-set on protecting the Kremlin and those close to it?
New study: "The current level of implementation of transformative agreements is insufficient to bring about a large-scale transition to fully #OpenAccess. A key finding…is that TAs maintain market concentration…The three largest commercial publishers #Elsevier, #SpringerNature & #Wiley dominate, particularly with regard to OA provided through TAs. Together, the 3 publishers accounted for 3/4 of OA articles through TAs." https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.18255
New study: "We found that publishing #OpenAccess in #hybrid journals…confers an avg citation advantage…of 17.8 #citations…After taking [several variables] into account…we still found that OA generated significantly more citations than closed access…We found that cost itself was not predictive of citation rates…For authors with limited budgets, we recommend OA alternatives that do not require paying a fee [#DiamondOA]." https://peerj.com/articles/16824/
Financial websites are increasingly noticing that the BEV push is failing. And that Toyota was right all along with hybrids and other options. This will soon become consensus among everyone. Eventually, everyone will realize that BEVs are a fad and don’t make sense as ground transportation vehicles for most people.
Donald Trump and His Personal Attorney Rudy Giuliani Worked With #Russian Intelligence Agents to Try to #Steal the 2020 U.S. #Presidential#Election.
Ukraine’s Security Service (SBU) charged parliament member Oleksandr Dubinsky with treason, working with Russian FSB/KGB agents of russia, indicting him alongside Andriy Derkach and former prosecutor Kostyantyn Kulyk, who have both fled the country. The three were part of a Kremlin-backed effort to feed Giuliani russian disinformation in an attempt to harm President Joe Biden.
Our democracy is at war against far-right goons who want to establish a white-supremacist, #Christofascist dictatorship in America.
You understand—that an orchestrated plot against higher education is one front in the ongoing insurrection these traitors are waging, and that that insurrection dwarfs everything else in significance.
The #insurrectionists have put themselves permanently outside civil discourse in the United States, as they want nothing but the destruction of this country. They are not waiting to be preached to and converted; they are dangerous cultists who support the terrorism of #January6th#Jan6th.
The men orchestrating this #fascist assault on our values—Mike Flynn, Stone, Patel to Kirk, Rufo to Trump, Posobiec to Jones—aren’t stupid. Many of them have comms capabilities significantly beyond those of 90% of Americans—or intelligence backgrounds. They’re fighting an information war against us in a dastardly way they’ve long planned.