The Daily Beagle Roundup #8
Energy crisis, air superiority, truce and more
Note: Even more fluff removed! More articles, less words!
Advertisers Plan New Surveillance Model
Spoken about in The Daily Beagle’s analysis of this silently emerging trend.
Also, Facebook faces their third largest fine in the EU for violating privacy, again.
Ukrainian War Updates
Amnesty International apologises to Ukraine, but declare they stand by their findings of Ukrainian war crimes
Zaporozhye region is due to hold a referendum as to whether or not to join Russia
Turkish company (Baykar) who manufacture drones for Ukraine have already purchased land in Ukraine
Russian military base will appear in Europe, in Serbia
Polish-Lithuania Commonwealth continues to emerge, as now Poland is buying out Ukrainian sectors, this follows on with adoption of the Polish currency, Zloty, in the west, as noted in our article “The Polish-Lithuania Commonwealth Returns”
Energy Crisis Crunch
Oil insiders accuse the Biden administration of manipulating demand data in order to try to lower oil prices.
Russian oil refinery struck by drone returns to service.
Russian ministry in contact with Cuba over oil refinery fire
UK energy bills set to rise to £4000 per year.
Norway considers limiting energy exports to avoid a domestic energy crunch (one of the importers of Norway’s fuel is the UK).
Norway’s limits follow after EU countries had switched to importing Norwegian gas, along with Algerian and Azerbaijani, the latter in a regional dispute (see World War Roundup #4)
ScottishPower to build a “green” £150 million hydrogen plant in Felixstowe.
Electricity theft in the UK rises as the cost of energy goes up
Don’t Pay UK, 75,000 Britons refuse to pay rising energy bills
19 Republicans criticise BlackRock for restraining US energy production
Moldova Bomb Threats
Moldova says the bomb threats they receive daily look like a prelude to war.
Israeli War Over?
Israel and Gaza agree to ceasefire, which Russia backs. Apparently there are additional demands.
UK Policing
Courts rule against parents of Archie Battersbee, life support withdrawn
Police must ask victims how they feel about the police releasing violent offenders onto the street on bail.
UK to stop housing “transgenders” with women, this comes after a male pretending to be a woman impregnated women in a female prison in the US in New Jersey
Police apparently like strip searching children with no guardians around too
Quoting on their strip search antics:
The commissioner uncovered many more, finding that in 23 per cent, or about 150, of the strip searches an appropriate adult was not present, in defiance of statutory guidance. In almost half of the strip searches the Met took no further action, suggesting the practice was not necessary in all cases.
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