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U šoku sam. Cijeli dan pokušavam pojmiti tvoju ostavštinu i naš gubitak. Prije samo nekoliko mjeseci imao sam čast ugostiti te u podcastu 'On Purpose'. Nakon te epizode rekla si mi da je za tebe bila iscjeljujuća. Rekla si da sam ti poput starijeg brata i da sam ti pomogao pronaći hrabrost

**Load Is Not the Enemy. Unstructured Load Is.** Europe does not need to make industry consume less electricity simply for the sake of consuming less. It needs to make electricity demand more intelligent in time. Industrial flexibility means shifting, shaping and coordinating loads around electricity prices, grid conditions and production needs — without compromising the output the customer actually wants. That can mean demand response. It can mean BESS. It can mean thermal storage, EV charging, process scheduling or combining several flexible assets behind the meter. The value does not come from any single technology. It comes from **coordination**. As electricity markets become more dynamic, flexibility turns consumption from a passive cost into an actively managed energy profile. The next efficiency frontier is therefore not only about using fewer kilowatt-hours. It is about deciding **which kilowatt-hours, when, and for what purpose.** #Energy #Flexibility #Electricity

8/17/2026: FORMAL COMPLAINT — VERBAL AGGRESSION & INTIMIDATION IN FINLAND COURT — On behalf of PM Simon Ekpa supporters in Finland Date: 17 August 2026 Location: Itä-Suomen hovioikeus, Istuntosali 2, Finland (Appeal from Lahti Magistrate Court — Päijät-Häme District Court) Purpose of Attendance: A delegation of Biafran supporters, attended court peacefully on 17.08.2026 in solidarity as PM Simon Ekpa's appeal continues. Incident Reported: Two individuals engaged in verbal aggression and intimidation directed at members of the delegation who had come to support PM. The individuals identified by witnesses as: Individual 1: Mary Ike Lasuba aka Adadioranma (France-based) Individual 2: Madam NkyNky @deborahsal82 (Evidences and Exhibits attached) The alleged conduct included insulting , demeaning languages, verbal aggression, crossing boundaries, intimidating remarks toward innocent Biafran supporters inside/near the courthouse area. Impact: The supporters felt harassed, unsafe and discouraged. Such conduct, if confirmed, undermines safety, unity and peaceful advocacy required during an active appeal, especially if confirmed that one of the women involved has verbally attacked our PM Simon Ekpa in the past (exhibits attached). Requested Action by USB Administration for; - Impartial fact-finding — obtain witness statements, camera exhibits from those present in Istuntosali 2 and the court house - Whom these 2 women represents and Caution to them to refrain from aggressive conduct during PMs court process moving forward. Assurance from Finland government of safety and respect for all supporters who travel for court solidarity. Resolution and commitment to non-violence and rule of law. Dr Ngozi Orabueze DPM USB/Head of BRGIE/DEFACTO @alexstubb @yleuutiset @Huuhkajat @MobilePunch @channelstv @SaharaReporters #HumanRights #Justice #PeacefulProtest

Hayden Panettiere apareció en el podcast “On Purpose with Jay Shetty” el pasado mes de mayo, después de casi dos años con una presencia muy limitada en el ojo público, para presentar su libro This Is Me: A Reckoning. Durante la entrevista, habló sobre un hombre mayor y poderoso de Hollywood que intentó sobrepasarse con ella, además de abordar sus problemas de adicción, la depresión posparto que experimentó y la muerte de su hermano. #HaydenPanettiere #Podcast #Autobiografía #SaludMental

The Horizon of Reason: Finding Meaning in Atheism. Good day, everyone. When people hear the word "atheism," they often think of what it lacks. They focus on the prefixes and the definitions: a lack of belief in a deity. But to view atheism only as an absence is to miss the entire landscape of what it actually builds. Today, I want to talk about atheism not as a void, but as a vibrant, deeply responsible, and profoundly hopeful way of looking at our universe. At its core, atheism is a commitment to radical honesty. It is the decision to look at the vast, beautiful, and sometimes terrifying cosmos and say, "I do not know all the answers, and I will not invent stories to fill the gaps." Atheism relies on evidence, reason, and the scientific method. It is driven by the same curiosity that makes a child look through a microscope or a scientist peer through a telescope. It embraces uncertainty. In uncertainty, there is room for growth, discovery, and learning. When we accept that we do not have a cosmic blueprint, we become actively responsible for writing our own stories. A common misconception is that without a divine entity, there can be no morality. But atheism flips this dynamic. It suggests that kindness, empathy, and justice do not come from a fear of cosmic punishment or a desire for a heavenly reward. They come from us. We are kind to one another because we are social creatures who share this planet. We care for the sick because we know what pain feels like. We fight for justice because we want to live in a fair world. Our morality is human-centered. It is born from the profound realization that this life is all we have, and therefore, how we treat each other right now matters more than anything else. To an atheist, this life is not a dress rehearsal for an afterlife. It is the main event. This realization does not make life meaningless; it makes life infinitely more precious. Think about a rare gem. It is beautiful precisely because it is scarce. In the same way, a single human life—spanning just a few decades on a tiny blue planet—is a rare, breathtaking miracle of biology and physics. Because we believe this is our only chance, the time we spend with our families, the art we create, and the love we give become urgently important. We cannot afford to waste a single day. Atheism is not about tearing down anyone else's faith. It is about building up human potential. It is the belief that humanity is strong enough, smart enough, and kind enough to navigate the dark corners of the universe together, guided by reason and compassion. We are the authors of our purpose, the journey, life itself. We are the guardians of this planet. And we are the keepers of one another. Thank you.

Ich wollte doch normal auf die anstehende Waffenlieferung aus der Türkei 🇹🇷 an die Ukraine 🇺🇦 eingehen, die aktuell dem US 🇺🇸 Congress vom US State Department zur Genehmigung vorgelegt wurde, weil ich viele Accounts sehe, die noch nicht so ganz verstanden haben, was das eigentlich wirklich bedeutet. Insbesondere auf die: — 70 ATACMS-Taktische ballistische Raketen — 2.524 M26-DPICM Missiles 1. Bei den 70 ATACMS (Army Tactical Ballistic Missile System) handelt es sich um die M39A1 300 km Reichweite Variante. Ist laut @noclador, der dazu alle Artikel auf Wikipedia geschrieben hat, die einzige Variante die die Türkei 🇹🇷 hat. Diese Variante hat hat 300 M74 Submunitionen pro Missile. (Grafik 1 & 2) 2. Die M26 DPICM (Dual-Purpose Improved Conventional Munition Missiles) MLRS haben 644 M77 Bomblets pro Rakete. Jeder M270 Pot hat 6 Missiles. Ein solcher 6er-Volley durchschlägt auf ca. einem Quadrat Kilometer so ziemlich Alles. 2.524 Stück bedeutet ~ 420 Pots. Das ist richtig viel. (Grafik 3 & 4) #Fazit: Diese anstehende Lieferung an die AFU 🇺🇦 ist wahrscheinlich einer der bedeutendsten Waffenlieferung aus US 🇺🇸 Produktion seit Kriegsbeginn 2022 überhaupt. Sowohl in Umfang als auch Wirkung. Oh Boy, das ist das richtig heftige Zeug, dass Biden nie rausrücken wollte, und Europa hat es wahrscheinlich bei Trump niemals angefragt, weil „Mimimi böse Streumunition“, und die USA 🇺🇸 haben diese Munition selbst überhaupt nicht mehr, weil sie auf modernere DPICM umgestellt haben. Die Türkei 🇹🇷 ist hier völlig schmerzlos, weil es einfach die effektivsten Wirkmittel an der Front sind. Damit hagelst Du jeden RU 🇷🇺 Infanterie Ansturm mit 2-3 Salven weg. Komplett! #Hintergrund: Die Türkei 🇹🇷 war meines Wissens nach auch schon vorher das einzige Land, dass Streumunition an die Ukraine 🇺🇦 geliefert hat. Die Balltischen Staaten wollten fast seit Kriegsbeginn DPICM an die Ukraine liefern, aber wer hat wohl wegen der berühmten „Endverbleibsklausel“ sein VETO eingelegt? Richtig: Deutschland 🇩🇪! Wir haben das ganze Zeug zwar in Massen hergestellt, haben unsere eigenen Bestände dann ans Baltikum und andere auf der Welt vertickt, und dann das gemacht was wir am besten können: — Den Moral-Weltmeister gespielt. Es ist allerhöchste Zeit, dass Deutschland 🇩🇪 aus dem Übereinkommen über Streumunition (auch Oslo-Konvention genannt) ein internationaler Vertrag aus dem Jahr 2008, der den Einsatz, die Herstellung, die Lagerung und die Weitergabe von Streubomben verbietet, aussteigt. Russland 🇷🇺 kümmert sich einen Dreck um solche Abkommen, und wenn DE 🇩🇪 „kriegstüchtig“ werden will, können wir unseren eigenen Streitkräfte nicht erzählen: Ne, die effektivsten Wirkmittel dürft ihr leider nicht gegen feindlich Truppen benutzen. Im März 2025 trat Litauen 🇱🇹 als erster Staat offiziell aus dem Abkommen aus, begründet durch die veränderte Sicherheitslage infolge des russischen Angriffskrieges. Der Einsatz DPICM Streu-Munition gegen Zivilisten ist so oder so verboten und stellt ein Kriegsverbrechen dar. Unabhängig von der Oslo Konvention verbietet das allgemeine humanitäre Völkerrecht (Genfer Konventionen) Angriffe mit Streumunition, die Zivilisten gefährden. Auch daran hat sich Russland 🇷🇺 seit Tag 1 des vollumfänglichen Angriffskrieges gegen die Ukraine 🇺🇦 nicht gehalten. #Schlussbemerkung: Ich hänge dem Beitrag noch einen TMZ Artikel von Juli 2023 an: „What DPICM Cluster Munitions Are And Why Ukraine Wants Them So Bad“ Es hat also 3 Jahre gedauert, bis man dieser Anfrage der Ukraine 🇺🇦 jetzt endlich in einem bedeutsamen Umfang nachkommt. Man muss das mal vorstellen, das Zeug liegt seit 3 Jahren auf Lager, bevor man es endlich rausrückt. Wer also glaubt, dass diese permanenten Verzögerungen von Waffenlieferungen an die Ukraine 🇺🇦 der Vergangenheit angehören, sieht an diesem Beispiel, dass das nicht der Fall ist. Zur Vervollständigung: Die Lieferung aus der Türkei beinhaltet auch noch 12 M270 Werfer und 47.000 M509A1 203 mm Cluster Artillerie Granaten. #Ukraine #Waffenlieferung #Türkei

For example, the military bases the US has scattered all over the world are required for the reserve currency. They naturally may also have more sinister purposes, but reserve currency is one of the main reasons behind the now-failing military hegemony. #ReserveCurrency #MilitaryHegemony #USMilitary #US

South Korea’s AI Basic Act took effect in January. The EU’s enforcement powers over general-purpose models did on Sunday — for Alphabet, a maximum penalty would exceed $12 billion. Can it be worse than GDPR? My full analysis for Capital: https://t.co/XRO3NzDGi6 #AI #EULaw #SouthKorea #KR #EU

My Name Is on a File On a case I was never summoned to, and a price I do not pay alone By Adham Hasanin Egyptian journalist and political writer, based in the Netherlands | July 2026 In 2024, I learned that my name had been entered into a case. Case number 1282. Listed as a "defendant." I was never summoned, and no one called to tell me the exact charge. I found out the way anyone in my position finds out — from a colleague, from a quick search of my own name, from another journalist who called to ask: "Did you know your name is on file?" I do not want to overdramatise the story. No cinematic manhunt, no car tailing me down a European street. What happened is simpler and crueller than that: a state thousands of kilometres away opened a file bearing my name, without my knowledge, without any way for me to defend myself within it, without even anyone standing before me to answer. The charge is not based on any act I committed. The charge is that I wrote. An article, an opinion, a tweet — it makes no difference. What matters is that the words were read, and someone decided they were dangerous enough to become a case number. I. How Do You Know You Are Accused? This question seems like a technicality, but it is in fact the heart of the whole matter. I received no official letter. No lawyer knocked on my door carrying documents. No one from an embassy or consulate called to inform me. The knowledge itself arrived by accident — a passing search, or a message from a friend asking: "Where did you see your name?" This small detail reveals something far larger than a mere administrative oversight. When you are not formally notified that you are accused, you do not even have a clear starting point from which to act. You do not know exactly when the file was opened. You do not know who decided to include your name. You do not know whether a hearing was held, a decision was made, or even whether an investigation took place at all. You simply discover, one day, that you have become "accused" within a legal system that never gave you the chance to know its rules. This ambiguity is not a flaw in the procedure; it is the procedure itself. A case opened without a clear announcement, with no trial date set, performs its full function even while suspended indefinitely. It does not need a conviction to frighten; it is enough that it simply exists. II. The Charge That Needs No Crime In conventional legal systems, a case begins with an act: theft, assault, fraud — something material that can be proven or disproven. But my case, like many others, began with a word. I stole nothing. I assaulted no one. I incited no violence, called for no chaos. I wrote an opinion. I analysed a policy. I criticised a decision. That is the entirety of it. And yet this simple act — writing — became the basis for a legal file bearing a number and classified under a security heading. The paradox is that this kind of charge requires no fixed standard. What counts as "dangerous" today may not be tomorrow, and vice versa. There is no published list of forbidden words, no clear criterion distinguishing incitement from opinion. This deliberate ambiguity — or perhaps unintentional, but effective regardless — leaves every writer living in a state of permanent unease: will this sentence be the one that opens a file bearing my name? III. The Real Danger Is Not to Me Many ask me: "Can they reach you in the Netherlands?" The honest answer: no, not directly. I am here, in a country governed by the rule of law, physically protected by Dutch police, and no one can arrest me on the basis of a case in another country absent a valid extradition treaty and supporting facts. This is not my first concern. My real concern is that this case does not target me alone. It targets those around me. My family in Egypt. People walking down the street, opening their front door, with no connection to politics whatsoever — and suddenly someone is asking about them because I wrote a word from here. This is not a threat spoken aloud. No one calls to say: "If you continue, we will do such-and-such." The message arrives without anyone saying it — through the kind of questions asked of my family, through their timing, through the silence that meets me when I try to learn the details. Sometimes it is a "routine" phone call from some office, asking about my place of residence, my activities, or people I am in contact with. None of it is an explicit threat, but the timing alone is enough to deliver the message. This is precisely the mechanism by which this kind of pursuit operates: it does not need to touch me physically to affect me. It is enough to make me know that the people I love are exposed to harm because of what I write. IV. I Am Not an Exception It would be easy for an article like this to turn into a personal complaint, and I am careful that it should not. Case 1282 is not an isolated incident, and if I stay silent about it I become complicit — unintentionally — in concealing a pattern that genuinely exists. There are others like me — far more than me — whose names sit in similar files, some of whom have no platform to speak from as I do. Journalists, activists, even ordinary people who never practised journalism but shared a post or left a comment. Case 1282 is not an exception; it is a method of operation. Someone writes from abroad, someone else decides they are "dangerous," and the matter shifts from opinion to legal file, without a real trial, without even a clear official announcement that a charge exists at all. More dangerously, this pattern is not confined to Egyptians alone, nor to any single country. It is a recurring tactic used by several regimes seeking to pursue voices beyond their borders without bearing the burden of actual proof or a transparent legal process. The open, unannounced file serves the same purpose everywhere: it frightens without convicting, and keeps the writer in a permanent state of tension without ever offering him the chance to defend himself. V. What Has Actually Changed in Me I will not say this made me stronger. The phrase is worn out, usually deployed to prettify a painful experience, and I refuse to do that. What actually happened is simpler and more honest: I began writing more slowly. Not less candidly — I still say what I believe, still criticise what deserves criticism. But I have become more aware that every sentence I write from here may carry a price I am not the only one paying. This awareness slows the writing, not because I am censoring myself out of fear for my own safety, but because I am thinking about who might pay the price on my behalf. And this is precisely the point of such a case, whether intended or a by-product of a broader mechanism. Actual arrest is not required for censorship to function. No summons is required, no trial, not even a clear charge. It is enough to know your name is written on a piece of paper somewhere, to make you think twice before writing the next time. VI. Why I Continue Regardless A reader might ask: if the price is this clear, why keep writing? Would silence not be safer, for you and for your family? The answer is not as heroic as it might sound, but it is honest: because silence does not solve the problem, it postpones and expands it. If I stopped, and others like me stopped, the mechanism that produced Case 1282 would keep operating with no voice to expose it. Files would keep opening, names would keep being entered, families would keep being questioned, with no one outside the circle of direct victims ever knowing this was happening at all. Writing about this experience, for all its risks, is the only way I have to make this pattern visible. When an article like this is published, the file no longer remains a secret between a government body and an isolated writer; it becomes part of a public record that other journalists, human rights organisations, and even international institutions can follow and document. Conclusion: A Price Not Paid Once I am still writing. More slowly than before, but still writing. And Case 1282 remains open, suspended, with no set date for a hearing or a verdict, exactly as it began. This very ambiguity is the message. An authority that opens a file and never closes it, never tries its subject, never even clearly states what the charge is — is not pursuing justice. It is pursuing something else entirely: that everyone who thinks of writing knows the price is possible, even if not certain. And that everyone who has already written carries that price with them wherever they go, however far they travel from the source of the case. This is the true price of a single word: not one arrest at one moment, but a continuous state of uncertainty that lives with you every time you open a blank page to write. Adham Hasanin is an Egyptian journalist and political writer based in the Netherlands.

„It is not racist to desire to stop a horde of foreign men literally storming your beaches. In fact, preventing hordes of foreign men from storming one’s beaches or borders is the primary historical purpose of states.“ @john_mcguirk for #Statement on #Ceuta and the consequences. #BorderSecurity #Immigration #Ceuta #ES #MA

Trump’s tariff attacks purpose—to demonstrate who is dominant and who must submit. The laughably flimsy, constantly changing justifications for US tariffs show that true power is to do whatever you like for whatever reason you like, or for no reason at all https://t.co/1guCqXK479 #Tariffs #Trump #EconomicPower #US

To those who battle to stop trade with colonies but not Israel as a whole: A government whose main (often only) purpose is to grab land, kill arrest & torture its residents, and build colonies - makes the whole State responsible for int'l crimes. Cut trade with Israel now. #BoycottIsrael #FreePalestine #EndOccupation #IL

🌏❗️China has for years been using military pressure on Taiwan as an element of negotiating tactics and as a means of exerting pressure on the international stage. The current Chinese military exercises serve these purposes, but they are also an element of provocation and of https://t.co/7Jzr1AI7E5 #Taiwan #China #MilitaryExercises #CN #TW

Une équipe de youtubeurs américains, connue sous le nom d'Adventures With Purpose, a retrouvé deux véhicules immergés dans le fleuve de l'Adour, permettant ainsi à deux familles françaises de découvrir le sort de leurs proches disparus depuis plusieurs années. #YouTube #Disparitions #Recherche