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[–] federalreverse@feddit.org 2 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

Maybe they should send a Foia request to the fraudster then..?

[–] federalreverse@feddit.org 0 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

Possibly Republican.

[–] federalreverse@feddit.org 1 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

The whole setting of Chinese machines that need Chinese personnel and contain unknown components sounds reasonable. But even the source, a blog named Cornucopia hazards that it's all unverified.

Cornucopia, auto-translated fron Swedish:

Over to the West and Skelleftea. The company Northvolt is probably beyond all rescue and no capital injections from the West can change this. According to credible and controlled direct information for the blog, you have been blown away by your major Chinese machine supplier Wuxi Lead and the manufacturing machines simply do not work without Chinese benevolence. One can speculate that the bankruptcy estate will be bought by Chinese actors, after which the factory in Skellefteå will quickly start to work.

The information the blog has taken note of is detailed, but to protect sources I will only summarize.

Northvolt has purchased manufacturing machines for lithium-ion batteries from Chinese Wuxi Lead, but the deliveries have had parts of the documentation deleted, other information about the systems has not been disclosed at all, and there have been many other things that have not been correct in the machines, including that there is installed undocumented technology that can be suspected to be used for remote control from China. The machines have simplified only been able to run with Wuxi Leads own Chinese operators on site in Sweden and the transfer of knowledge has been, to say the least, flawed and reluctant. This makes Northvolt’s production in the small pilot plant in Västerås while there have been enormous problems in full-scale Skellefteå.

The bankruptcy is now about whether you will be able to pay out the next round of wages and can be within a month ahead, or even already on September 25. But the clock is the best. It usually take time for large companies to go bankrupt.

It looks like Wuxi Lead has initially sabotaged and opposed operations but got paid billions for its machines. One can suspect that the intention is to lower Northvolt and that Chinese actors then buy up the bankruptcy estate, whereupon the production lines will quickly start to work – possibly with Chinese staff, but within the EU customs walls, paid by Swedish investors and Swedish government support. It does not help with additional billions or state ownership in Northvolt – production will not work as long as the Chinese do not want it. The company Northvolt is blown, deceived and run. However, the factories in Chinese ownership can live on and make it work.

The management in Northvolt has known about the problems with Wuxi Leads equipment but has continued anyway with full-scale delivery without having caused the machines to work before, probably naive Swedish in the belief that it has to do with a benevolent supplier.

It's not just the Dand who can blow the Swede.

It is now up to any journalist to dig further into this. I don't have the whole picture, of course I only share, but the parts I have look like I'm be credible.

[–] federalreverse@feddit.org 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

According to the headline I get, ...

Barcelona and Majorca will switch [...]

Doesn't appear to be affecting the entirety of Spain. (Granted, parts of Spain are already desert and other parts export their water as produce.)

[–] federalreverse@feddit.org 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

To avoid tensions and economic issues, the Ireland/Northern Ireland border doesn't have border controls or import duties. However, that means you have to prevent goods that cannot be imported into EU unrestricted from leaving Northern Ireland somehow (otherwise, people will start businesses that systematically circumvent duties). The solution the UK government has chosen here are "not for EU" labels.

[–] federalreverse@feddit.org 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

70 means he likely has 10 good years (or 2.5 terms) left...

[–] federalreverse@feddit.org 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Thanks a lot! (Weird that a members-only article is under CC.)

[–] federalreverse@feddit.org 1 points 1 day ago (2 children)

This article is paywalled and I don't find an archived version. Do you have a free full-text version of it?

[–] federalreverse@feddit.org 0 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Please don't be mad. And I do appreciate your contributions! :) Trying to find a balance here.

[–] federalreverse@feddit.org 0 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

there's no way that fidesz has 2/3-rds of the total votes, and I haven't yet met any person that met a person that voted for them

This sounds like anecdotal evidence at best. E.g. Human Rights Watch says of the 2022 elections:

International observers characterized the elections as free but raised serious concerns about their fairness. Q

I would seriously caution against making claims of outright election rigging unless there's credible reporting on that.

[–] federalreverse@feddit.org 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

A big difference between Spain and at least Greece, is that in Spain, farmers tend to optimize for yield. This means they are planting and cutting down trees quite often, whereas in Greece old trees are usually left standing for longer.

(Can't really say about Italy though.)

[–] federalreverse@feddit.org -1 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Fwiw, since I got a report on this which I just cleared: For the time being, I will not remove memes/meme images in the comments, unless the comment section is getting repetitive. (However, I am still not huge on image memes in the comments here.)

 
 
 

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cross-posted from: https://feddit.org/post/921896

 

Ursula von der Leyen’s speech on Thursday at European Parliament will be crucial to ensure the majority she needs to be reelected as Commission president, but to convince all pro-EU coalition lawmakers, she will have to address some key EU policy issues.

 
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