Margs
@margs7.bsky.social
Austral-Iberian father of 2. Into geo-politics, travelling, cycling, motorbikes and football (Carlton FC, Arsenal, Real Madrid) . ❤️ Pulpo 🐙, Japanese food 🍱 and beer 🍺. Globalisation ❌ controlled immigration ✅ woke 🤢 pluralism ✅
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Today's whiskey trivia:
The world's four best-seeling whiskies all come from...
...India!
Source: buff.ly/NrKVtWX
The world's four best-seeling whiskies all come from...
...India!
Source: buff.ly/NrKVtWX
March 10, 2025 at 6:26 AM
Today's whiskey trivia:
The world's four best-seeling whiskies all come from...
...India!
Source: buff.ly/NrKVtWX
The world's four best-seeling whiskies all come from...
...India!
Source: buff.ly/NrKVtWX
@alexstubb.bsky.social
In a world devoid of leadership you give me hope, keep speaking up and please, lead Europe out of the mire
In a world devoid of leadership you give me hope, keep speaking up and please, lead Europe out of the mire
February 24, 2025 at 3:33 PM
@alexstubb.bsky.social
In a world devoid of leadership you give me hope, keep speaking up and please, lead Europe out of the mire
In a world devoid of leadership you give me hope, keep speaking up and please, lead Europe out of the mire
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How can someone married to Melania be afraid of frostbite?
January 17, 2025 at 5:14 PM
How can someone married to Melania be afraid of frostbite?
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Upping the stakes: Why raising the Central Bank rate doesn’t help Russia’s wartime economy beat inflation
The key rate helps regulate the ratio of investment and consumption in a normal economy — but not in Putin's military dictatorship.
The key rate helps regulate the ratio of investment and consumption in a normal economy — but not in Putin's military dictatorship.
Upping the stakes: Why raising the Central Bank rate doesn’t help Russia’s wartime economy beat inflation
The Bank of Russia has left its key interest rate unchanged, contrary to predictions of further raises. The day prior, Vladimir Putin had asked the Central Bank to make a “balanced” decision. Still, R...
theins.press
December 24, 2024 at 7:00 PM
Upping the stakes: Why raising the Central Bank rate doesn’t help Russia’s wartime economy beat inflation
The key rate helps regulate the ratio of investment and consumption in a normal economy — but not in Putin's military dictatorship.
The key rate helps regulate the ratio of investment and consumption in a normal economy — but not in Putin's military dictatorship.
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visualizing the length of the us/mexico border by placing it across continental europe
December 18, 2024 at 6:43 AM
visualizing the length of the us/mexico border by placing it across continental europe
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Two new books grant us vivid insight into how Viktor Orban pulled off Hungary’s descent into dictatorship.
Hungary’s Descent Into Dictatorship
How Viktor Orban pulled off the unthinkable.
foreignpolicy.com
December 9, 2024 at 12:30 PM
Two new books grant us vivid insight into how Viktor Orban pulled off Hungary’s descent into dictatorship.
Those taking control need to resist the urge to exact revenge and bring peace to these people. Create an environment that will encourage the millions of Syrians that fled to return. Russian, US and Iran influence and bases need to be removed.
www.nytimes.com/live/2024/12...
www.nytimes.com/live/2024/12...
Update from Farnaz Fassihi
www.nytimes.com
December 8, 2024 at 7:21 PM
Those taking control need to resist the urge to exact revenge and bring peace to these people. Create an environment that will encourage the millions of Syrians that fled to return. Russian, US and Iran influence and bases need to be removed.
www.nytimes.com/live/2024/12...
www.nytimes.com/live/2024/12...
Got a bad case of the CBFs…
December 7, 2024 at 9:30 AM
Got a bad case of the CBFs…
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This will (hopefully) never cease to be staggering to everyone else in the world.
December 5, 2024 at 7:24 PM
This will (hopefully) never cease to be staggering to everyone else in the world.
Following the Russian playbook… given European trade ties, Europe needs to stand up
Echo of the Caucasus reports that searches and harsh arrests of opposition leaders have begun in Georgia.
Security forces have detained the leader of the largest opposition party "Coalition for Change," Nika Gvamarija, as well as party member Gela Hasaya.
Security forces have detained the leader of the largest opposition party "Coalition for Change," Nika Gvamarija, as well as party member Gela Hasaya.
December 4, 2024 at 1:55 PM
Following the Russian playbook… given European trade ties, Europe needs to stand up
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This is huge.
The EFJ represents over 295,000 journalists in 44 countries 👇
www.thelondoneconomic.com/news/media/e...
The EFJ represents over 295,000 journalists in 44 countries 👇
www.thelondoneconomic.com/news/media/e...
European Federation of Journalists to stop posting content on X
The EFJ represents over 295,000 journalists in 44 countries.
www.thelondoneconomic.com
December 2, 2024 at 8:34 PM
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Right at the end of this clip: the truth. They can’t accept being a nation state, they must be an empire. Something any naive fool believing they’ll stop at Ukraine must understand… they don’t see these ex-Soviet nations as sovereign countries, they MUST be Russian
Meanwhile in Russia: state TV host Vladimir Solovyov and head of RT Margarita Simonyan gushed about "Oreshnik" and Trump's cabinet picks, predicting the U.S. will eventually back down. Henry Sardaryan explained that all Russians have imperial ambitions.
youtu.be/WJLgwdGMdJg
youtu.be/WJLgwdGMdJg
Vladimir Solovyov and Margarita Simonyan are thrilled about Oreshnik
YouTube video by Russian Media Monitor
youtu.be
November 29, 2024 at 12:02 PM
Right at the end of this clip: the truth. They can’t accept being a nation state, they must be an empire. Something any naive fool believing they’ll stop at Ukraine must understand… they don’t see these ex-Soviet nations as sovereign countries, they MUST be Russian
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Meanwhile in Russia: state TV host Vladimir Solovyov and head of RT Margarita Simonyan gushed about "Oreshnik" and Trump's cabinet picks, predicting the U.S. will eventually back down. Henry Sardaryan explained that all Russians have imperial ambitions.
youtu.be/WJLgwdGMdJg
youtu.be/WJLgwdGMdJg
Vladimir Solovyov and Margarita Simonyan are thrilled about Oreshnik
YouTube video by Russian Media Monitor
youtu.be
November 26, 2024 at 4:18 AM
Meanwhile in Russia: state TV host Vladimir Solovyov and head of RT Margarita Simonyan gushed about "Oreshnik" and Trump's cabinet picks, predicting the U.S. will eventually back down. Henry Sardaryan explained that all Russians have imperial ambitions.
youtu.be/WJLgwdGMdJg
youtu.be/WJLgwdGMdJg
November 29, 2024 at 11:27 AM
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November 28, 2024 at 2:20 PM
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When the Russian government paper features headlines like “Panic attack for Russia’s currency market” you know there’s a problem. Today’s Russian papers focus on the falling rouble. One paper notes that “news from the currency markets resembled reports from a war zone.” #ReadingRussia
Steve's Reading Russia - Russian Press Review (28 November 2024)
YouTube video by Steve Rosenberg
youtu.be
November 28, 2024 at 6:23 AM
When the Russian government paper features headlines like “Panic attack for Russia’s currency market” you know there’s a problem. Today’s Russian papers focus on the falling rouble. One paper notes that “news from the currency markets resembled reports from a war zone.” #ReadingRussia
I would have said Italy but I remember now being disappointed at how many Italian brands manufacture in China… go Portugal!! 🚴
Which EU member builds the most bicycles? If you guessed Germany or the Netherlands as I have you'd be wrong. It's Portugal! Source:
EU production of bicycles down to 9.7 million in 2023
Cycling is an eco-friendly and health-conscious mode of transportation with many fans. In 2023, 9.7 million bicycles were produced in the EU, a 24% decrease in bicycle production compared with 2022…
buff.ly
November 27, 2024 at 12:08 PM
I would have said Italy but I remember now being disappointed at how many Italian brands manufacture in China… go Portugal!! 🚴
Was devastating at the time, still rips a lot of people up 🙁 what a talent
November 23, 2024 at 7:38 PM
Was devastating at the time, still rips a lot of people up 🙁 what a talent
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Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán will invite Benjamin Netanyahu to Hungary as a middle finger to the International Criminal Court over its arrest warrant for the Israeli leader.
Orbán will invite Netanyahu for visit to scorn the ICC’s arrest warrant
Hungarian leader calls the Hague-based court’s decision a “defamation” of international law.
www.politico.eu
November 22, 2024 at 10:52 AM
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán will invite Benjamin Netanyahu to Hungary as a middle finger to the International Criminal Court over its arrest warrant for the Israeli leader.
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OSINT investigators have zeroed in on a Chinese ship as potentially responsible for cutting two undersea cables in the Baltic Sea last weekend.
@elisabethbraw.bsky.social explains why we should expect more such incidents:
@elisabethbraw.bsky.social explains why we should expect more such incidents:
Suspected sabotage by a Chinese vessel in the Baltic Sea speaks to a wider threat
Undersea cables and pipelines are acutely vulnerable to geopolitically motivated harm, as events of the last week have demonstrated.
www.atlanticcouncil.org
November 21, 2024 at 10:15 PM
OSINT investigators have zeroed in on a Chinese ship as potentially responsible for cutting two undersea cables in the Baltic Sea last weekend.
@elisabethbraw.bsky.social explains why we should expect more such incidents:
@elisabethbraw.bsky.social explains why we should expect more such incidents:
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What is Bluesky when it’s not the underdog?
What is Bluesky when it’s not the underdog?
Bluesky is having a moment — a moment that’s already stretched on for nearly three months. Over the summer, the social media app saw a wave of new signups in Brazil after X (formerly Twitter) was temporarily banned there. And in the United States,…
tcrn.ch
November 17, 2024 at 7:59 PM
What is Bluesky when it’s not the underdog?
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The kitten, which was found in Russia's northeastern Sakha Republic, still had fur and whiskers when it was discovered.
Scientists find a 35,000-year-old saber-toothed kitten in the Siberian permafrost
The kitten, which was found in Russia's northeastern Sakha Republic, still had fur and whiskers when it was discovered.
www.npr.org
November 17, 2024 at 8:09 PM
The kitten, which was found in Russia's northeastern Sakha Republic, still had fur and whiskers when it was discovered.
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Itaru Sekiguchi first heard the Great Organ at Paris' Notre Dame cathedral when he was 10. Now he's helping to restore it ahead of the cathedral's reopening.
Japanese organ builder 'honored' to restore voice of Notre Dame
Itaru Sekiguchi had dreamed of having a chance to work on the 'voice' of the masterpiece of Gothic architecture.
buff.ly
November 17, 2024 at 9:06 AM
Itaru Sekiguchi first heard the Great Organ at Paris' Notre Dame cathedral when he was 10. Now he's helping to restore it ahead of the cathedral's reopening.