’Blow up the pipeline’ – Neubauer makes fun of Project Africa
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Louisa Neubauer noted that her formulation is also the title of a book
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The world’s longest crude oil pipeline will be built between Tanzania and Uganda, and climate activists want to prevent that. Louisa Neubauer is angry at her statement that she wants to blow up the pipeline. Another radical climate thinker may have been the role model.
IClimate activist Louisa Neubauer in a video made a joke. „We plan to blow up a pipeline,” Neubauer said in English, laughing. The Instagram video was filmed in Denmark, where the „Copenhagen Democracy Summit” is currently being held. I mentioned „photo” first.
In the video, Neubauer spoke out against the East African crude oil pipeline (EACOP) to be held between Uganda and Tanzania from 2025. According to politicians, it can reduce poverty in both countries and is expected to cost ten billion dollars. With a length of 1,400 km, it will be the longest crude oil pipeline in the world. Commissioned by the French oil company Total Energy.
The 26-year-old Neubauer noted on Twitter that her drafting was also the title of a book. This is „How to Blow Up a Pipeline” by Swedish author and climate researcher Andrew Malm. He is considered a pioneer of the radical climate movement.
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When asked by Bild, Neubauer commented on the pipeline project, but not on her own statement: “The EACOP project alone will produce roughly half a gigatonne of CO2. That’s why we’ve been working for months with activists from the region, like Uganda and Tanzania, as well as with many people from France against the pipeline that France Total wants to build.”
The „climate killer pipeline” should not be built. “Almost all German insurers and banks – with the exception of Deutsche Bank – refused to support the project – because it was too harmful. (…) The construction of the EACOP pipeline should be scrapped.”
Storch files criminal charges against Neubauer
After Neubauer’s joke plans, the AfD’s deputy federal spokeswoman, Beatrix von Storch, also spoke. She filed a criminal complaint against the climate activist, related to the threat of bombing attacks. According to Storch, the climate sect is becoming increasingly radical, as climate extremist Andreas Malm recently demonstrated with his call for violence in Der Spiegel.
“There is a threat from climate terrorism, RAF green. The Attorney General and the BfV office must not look and act: zero tolerance for violence and the threat of violence by young professionals neglected by their fortunes and who are preparing for their entry into environmental terrorism,” Storch explained.
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Britain is set to supply Ukraine with heavy guided bombs to help it fight the Russian invasion led by Vladimir Putin.
KYIV — Ukraine's allies want to know: As the Russian army advances in Donbas, the United States has released $61 billion in arms shipments to Kiev. Great Britain put together a $3.7 billion military package, and tiny Lithuania gave the Ukrainians the last fighter plane to fight back against Vladimir Putin.
Arms shipments to Ukraine: British send Paveway IV bomb to Kiev
For example, the medium-range ATACMS missiles that Washington sent to the Ukrainian military, according to a US media report, before Congress finally voted yes, are much more powerful. The time factor when it finally arrives has a major impact on the course of battles between the Kharkiv, Donetsk and Zaporizhzhia regions in the Ukraine war.
They are also highly accurate – like the ATACMS – Paveway IV guided air-to-surface bombs, which London says it is supplying to the Ukrainian armed forces as part of the latest weapons deliveries. Newsweek It will save. In this case, it is air power, which repeatedly inflicts heavy losses on Russia – especially in the Black Sea peninsula of Crimea.
Military aid to Ukraine: Great Britain is significantly increasing its arms package
At the start of the week, the UK increased its planned 2024 military aid to the Ukrainians, who are in dire straits on the ground, by another £500m to £3.23bn. Such as, among others, the independent electronic portal for Eastern Europe Setback It was reported that these arms shipments include, for example, 160 Husky armored personnel carriers, in addition to 1,600 offensive bombs and anti-aircraft missiles. also telegraph Reports on this topic.
American news magazine Newsweek He speculates that Paveway bombs should be part of this package. The big advantage: After being launched, the bomb can glide greater distances in the air and search for a target independently or be actively guided towards a target. For this purpose, the Paveway IV is equipped with a modern laser array, which, in addition to GPS, includes both an infrared and a laser seeker on the head of the weapon. The bomb can also be directed at moving targets, such as moving tank convoys.
Ukraine War: Vladimir Putin attacks cities with huge bombs
The so-called Aurora Integrated Detonator from the French arms company Thales allows a rapidly approaching bomb to detonate in the air above the target, on impact or after penetrating the target – depending on previous programming. This means that Paveway could also be used against command and communications centers in bunkers – in theory. Because: The warhead weighs 226.8 kilograms, which is equivalent to 500 pounds. This is a lot and would certainly be enough to establish shelters in the ruins of destroyed homes, such as the ones the Russians continue to erect. But also for caches?
For comparison: Moscow is dropping FAB-1500 bombs on the front-line town of Chasiv Yar in Donbas, which, according to videos and photos on X (formerly Twitter), is currently being destroyed by Putin's brutal Kremlin regime. Like Bachmut before. Or like Avdiivka in the meantime. high Süddeutscher Zeitung (SZ) The Russian Armed Forces have been using FAB-1500 aircraft with a gross weight of 1.5 tons since January 2024 in the Ukraine war to an unprecedented extent. “One of the biggest problems is their increasing use: 80 of them a day in one place, and that has a huge impact,” military expert Michael Kaufman explained in a podcast called “War on the Rocks.” It is said to be dropped intermittently, and the warhead alone weighs 1,400 kilograms.
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The Paveway's advantage over Russian FAB bombs, which date back to the Soviet era, is not least its tremendous accuracy. The Ukrainians have so far demonstrated that they are capable of mounting Western missile systems in practice using pylons on the wings and fuselages of their MiG-29 fighter jets and Su-24M front-line bombers. This is now also expected for Paveway IV guided bombs equipped with the appropriate devices. (evening)
The massive volcano in the Phlegrean Fields continues to shudder – and localities are training for emergencies. A new documentary shows what a medium-sized eruption can do.
Pozzuoli/Naples – The giant volcano in the Phlegraine fields in southern Italy no longer stops shaking. As of Monday morning, more than 30 tremors had been measured within 24 hours. Both tremors had a magnitude of 1.6, but dozens of people were also reported to have felt weaker quakes.
Disaster Prevention Exercise at Supervolcano – Hundreds of students were brought outdoors
On Monday, four schools with several hundred students in Pozzuoli and the Bagnoli district of Naples were temporarily evacuated as part of a civil protection exercise. It's loud ansa.it about thatTo test the leadership levels in municipal and regional structures that will be called upon if the situation worsens.
Recently, a documentary broadcast on Swiss television shocked the whole of Italy. The documentary simulated how the maximum eruption of the Phlegrean Fields volcano would destroy Naples. The film was based on the largest supervolcanic eruption to date, nearly 40,000 years ago. In this case, the small coastal town of Pozzuoli, located directly in the caldera of the massive volcano, and its neighboring towns would literally explode.
But the National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology (INGV) explained that there are no signs of a huge eruption like the one that last occurred 15,000 years ago. INGV currently fears earthquakes that will be stronger than those that have occurred recently.
A new video shows: Even a moderate-sized volcanic eruption would incinerate the entire area in a cloud of embers
Science Channel Geopop.it It has now also published a documentary about the supervolcano, in which a volcanic eruption in the phlegrain fields was simulated, albeit smaller. The channel's team, led by geologist Andrea Moccia, created a 3D computer simulation of the largest eruption at the giant volcano, which occurred after the last major eruption about 15,000 years ago. After this big explosion, there were about 70 smaller explosions. The largest of these smaller eruptions was the Monte Spina eruption about 4,550 years ago Geopop taken as a model.
But it was also difficult, as you can see in the video. It is run by Moccia together with the head of the Naples News Channel department fanpage.it, Ciro Pellegrino. You can see how the ground in the famous Solvatra crater near Pozzuoli shakes and steams intensely. Lightning then strikes the crater, followed by a violent explosion and the crater spews a huge black cloud. This volcanic cloud has something special: it consists of toxic gases, smaller lava particles and ash, and its temperature is about 500 degrees.
Maradona Stadium will burn with ash reaching 500 degrees
The embers cloud rises 20 to 30 kilometers into the atmosphere and accelerates along the Earth in all directions at a speed of several hundred kilometers per hour. It would immediately burn Pozzuoli and the surrounding towns, but would also push towards the west of Naples. Among other things, the Diego Armando Maradona Stadium is located here Azzurri From SSC Naples. The documentary explains that this 55,000-seat stadium will also swallow this cloud.
However, the seats are empty. The video makers assume there will be time to evacuate the red zone area before such a large eruption occurs. Since the last eruption of Vliegrain in 1538, we know that there are enough warning signs to prevent a major catastrophe until then. In 1538, the ground rose 19 meters as Monte Nuovo erupted, Moccia explains. For comparison, he says: At the current stage, the land in the Bay of Pozzuoli has risen by 80 cm since 2016. Since the 1950s, it has risen by four metres.
No one knows where the giant volcano in southern Italy will erupt next
In addition, there were once much more violent earthquakes than today – up to magnitude 8. The largest earthquake last fall had a magnitude of 4.2. The thermal springs were also more active then than they are now. The eruption of Monte Nuovo was very small compared to the eruption simulated by Geopop – much smaller than the eruption of Monte Spina, the model Geopop simulated. Before the eruption phase, Pozzuoli Bay had risen by 60 metres.
Moccia and Pellegrino show that only three to four out of 70 eruptions in phyllgrain fields over the past 15,000 years had dimensions like the ones they simulated. The state-run INGV institute believes the next eruption will be similar to the small eruption at Monte Nuovo. But the problem is: No one knows where the next volcano in the phyllgrain fields will erupt.
It is densely populated everywhere. Even in distant Naples, the ash cloud will leave a 30-centimetre layer on roofs, which could cause many buildings to collapse. Static investigations of existing buildings are currently underway in Pozzuoli. One problem, according to Pellegrino, is that about 20 percent of the homes are black buildings that are often structurally questionable but where people live. No one can check the coils to see if they can withstand a volcanic eruption.
Recently, a new study caused a stir by identifying a new source of danger in the supervolcano. Other scientists warn that a volcanic eruption at sea could cause a huge tsunami. Scientists also marvel at the Mount Erebus volcano in Antarctica. The Earth's southernmost active volcano emits gold dust into the atmosphere every day.
Arrest of the elite in Russia. Deputy Defense Minister Timur Ivanov is in detention – is there more to this than just accepting bribes?
Moscow – Earthquake in Russia. While Vladimir Putin's forces were in blood Ukraine war Apparently Progress on the front lines The Moscow authority apparatus is taking strict measures. A court there has now imposed pretrial detention on Deputy Defense Minister Timur Ivanov. Officially it is about corruption. However, there is another doubt brewing in the background – and fueling speculation.
Ivanov is said to be accused of accepting bribes on a particularly large scale. Its main field of activity was in fact construction projects, for example in the Russian-occupied city of Mariupol in eastern Ukraine.
Arrest of Putin's elite: arrest of Deputy Defense Minister Ivanov – threat of long imprisonment
Ivanov has not been immune from criticism when it comes to the complex within Russia for a long time. According to a report by the team led by the late Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny, he was already in the line of fire. According to research, Ivanov is said to have used real estate to line his own pockets. He is also said to have renovated a villa at state expense.
The amount of bribes is now supposed to be “particularly high,” the court declared. Imprisonment of up to 15 years is possible. But regardless, the situation is likely to continue to simmer. The Ivanov case is not only one of the biggest bribery scandals in Russia in years. Independent Russian media website iStories reported that the bribery allegations were directed at “the public” only. There is much more to it than that.
'The scandal is huge': Is there more than bribery behind the arrest in Russia?
As the report says, two sources close to the FSB are said to have revealed to the media that Ivanov's case was also more about „state treason.” A source was quoted as saying: “The scandal is huge.” The information cannot be independently verified. Likewise, no details are known about the betrayal. Ivanov's lawyer said only that it was not a case of treason.
However, if the accusation of treason is true, the case will become more explosive. Because Ivanov is considered close to Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov. And also as a confidant of Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu. In the iStories report, one source said that Shoigu personally complained by phone to a high-ranking official of the Federal Security Service (FSB) that someone close to him was under surveillance.
„Treason” in Putin's Russia? The arrest also puts Defense Minister Shoigu in the crosshairs
The speculation goes further. There are even suspicions that Ivanov's arrest may signal the beginning of a kind of purge among the elite – and the beginning of a tougher anti-corruption campaign among senior figures in the post-Soviet Kremlin. Vladimir Putin himself recently called on the Federal Security Service to take stronger action against such cases. Through Ivanov, Shoigu also finds himself indirectly in the line of fire.
He quotes: „It is difficult to find anyone who did more for Shoigu than Ivanov.” The Guardian Anonymous defense official. The anonymous source goes further: “This is an attack on Shoigu’s status,” the person claims. However, Russia's longest-serving minister has survived very different attacks. However, the source told The Guardian that the case was far from over: “The real question is why he was arrested now.”
