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Frans Timmermans tried to destroy European farming, says Italian agriculture minister – POLITICO

Frans Timmermans tried to destroy European farming, says Italian agriculture minister – POLITICO

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“And maybe they arrive through my ports as they once did and maybe I can rebuild an economic force that I can’t build with my country’s strength alone,” he mused. “I don’t think Timmermans is crazy. I think he coldly calculated in the interest of the Netherlands and not in the interest of Europe.” A spokesperson for Timmermans, who stood down last August to run in national elections, declined to comment on the Italian farm minister’s broadside. Lollobrigida doubled down on his claims in an interview with POLITICO. “If you reduce internal production, Europe’s food would be imported through Rotterdam,” he insisted, shaking his head as he munched Roman cheese. “It’s what happened from the 1600s to the 1750s in Europe, when the Netherlands became an empire with the East India company.” “Some things aren’t coincidences.” The bizarre statement was merely the latest by Lollobrigida, who was in Parma to open the CIBUS food fair, Italy’s largest agricultural show. His opening speech rambled from the birth of Italian food in the first millennium to the culinary devastation …

Furious Tory voters now want to destroy the party that betrayed Britain

Furious Tory voters now want to destroy the party that betrayed Britain

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Make no mistake, British politics is feeling the early tremors of an earthquake – one that could prove even more of a spectacular leveller than the crumbling of the Red Wall. The sentiment driving it is an enigma. It isn’t the “ick factor” – the visceral disgust that seeped into Westminster discourse in the 2010s. It isn’t populist “anger” – the rebellious mixture of ire and optimism that propelled boomer voters to vote for Brexit and crush Corbyn’s Labour. It is the white heat of moral rage: an almost ecclesiastical wrath to mete out justice on a fallen party. Put simply, the Tory heartlands have had enough. A full-blown revolution may just be afoot. It could upend politics for good. True the first rule of British politics is not to read too much into local elections, and the second is to never underestimate the power of voter clientelism. Yet the scale and geographic distribution of Tory losses in local elections suggests that something unprecedented is happening. Labour has taken control of councils in Tory heartlands …

Questions in rocket-hit Sderot over whether IDF can ever destroy Hamas | Israel-Gaza war

Questions in rocket-hit Sderot over whether IDF can ever destroy Hamas | Israel-Gaza war

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The two men, faces blurred and voices disguised, are screened by a dense scrub of fig and trailing vine and thorns in northern Gaza as they film themselves loading a rocket launcher. It is daylight and the fighters, wearing civilian clothes, work quickly and calmly, the sound of fighting audible around them as they prepare the weapon in less than a minute. Metal scrapes on metal as four missiles are slotted into tubes and wires connected to a red timer for launch against the nearby Israeli border city of Sderot and neighbouring communities. Posted on social media by the Al-Quds Brigades of Islamic Jihad in Gaza, the footage appears to show missiles being prepared for an attack last week that damaged a storage shed in a neighbourhood of low villas lining narrow streets. In neighbourhoods of Sderot such as the one hit last week, it is hard to escape the consequences of the strikes. Damage is visible where rockets have struck walls or punched through red-tiled roofs, blue sheeting patching one badly damaged building. Six …

How to destroy a black hole

How to destroy a black hole

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Dead Planets Society is a podcast that takes outlandish ideas about how to tinker with the cosmos – from snapping the moon in half to causing a gravitational wave apocalypse – and subjects them to the laws of physics to see how they fare. Listen on Apple, Spotify or on our podcast page. Dead Planets Society is back for season two, and our intrepid hosts Chelsea Whyte and Leah Crane are going after the toughest adversaries in the universe: black holes. These cosmic behemoths are so big and so sturdy that they can devour pretty much anything that is thrown at them without so much as flinching – so is it even possible to destroy one? Black holes are expected to evaporate on their own thanks to Hawking radiation, a process by which they emit a slow leak of particles, but this would take much longer than the age of the universe to happen naturally. Just waiting isn’t really an option, so our hosts are joined by black hole astronomer Allison Kirkpatrick at the University …

Could South Korea’s 4B movement destroy heterosexual relationships?

Could South Korea’s 4B movement destroy heterosexual relationships?

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Stay ahead of the trend in fashion and beyond with our free weekly Lifestyle Edit newsletter Stay ahead of the trend in fashion and beyond with our free weekly Lifestyle Edit newsletter It sounds like something out of a Greek drama – more specifically, out of Lysistrata by Aristophanes, when the women band together to end the Peloponnesian war by going on a sex strike. But the 4B movement is both real and happening in the 21st century. And it’s less to do with ending a war, and more to do with ending misogyny. Purportedly starting in South Korea in 2019, the movement is called 4B because it refers to four types of “bi” or “no”: bihon means no heterosexual marriage; bichulsan, no childbirth; biyeonae, no dating; and bisekseu, no heterosexual sexual relationships. Five years on, the premise has garnered viral attention on social media, with countless TikTok videos on the subject attracting millions of views. It might sound extreme, but in light of the fact that the country’s incidence of intimate-partner violence was found to …

Ukraine will destroy Crimea bridge by July, official claims

Ukraine will destroy Crimea bridge by July, official claims

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Russia bombarded Ukraine with over 4,000 strikes in March, including guided air bombs, missiles, and Shahed drones, Volodymyr Zelensky has said as he renewed his call for Western missile defence systems. “Just this March, Russian terrorists have deployed over 400 missiles of various types, over 600 Shahed drones, and over 3,000 guided air bombs against Ukraine,” Mr Zelensky posted on Twitter.  The president noted that the residents of Kharkiv have experienced some of the worst impacts of the strikes. “Our city of over a million people, Kharkiv, has been subjected to missile and drone strikes since the full-scale war began,” he said. “Recently, Russian terrorists also began to use aerial bombs against Kharkiv. The city sees daily humiliation and pain, as well as daily losses,” Kharkiv has experienced frequent energy outages over the past week after a massive series of Russian strikes targeted the city’s energy infrastructure a fortnight ago. Source link

Google will need to destroy incognito browsing data

Google will need to destroy incognito browsing data

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Google has committed to destroying or remediating ‘billions of data records’ collected through incognito browsing sessions as part of a proposed class action settlement filed Monday (April 1). The lawsuit, originally filed in June of 2020, accuses the search giant of violating California privacy laws in collecting Incognito mode data. In the proposed settlement in Brown v. Google, the technology company will have to rewrite the disclosure to inform users that private browsing data is collected from these sessions. Plaintiffs have also demanded and ‘secured accountability and relief for Google’s past conduct.’ On approval of the settlement, the data records must be deleted or remediated. For the next five years, Google must ‘also maintain a change to Incognito mode that enables Incognito users to block third-party cookies by default.’ Third-party cookies are small files that are tracked by websites other than the one you are on, connecting your browsing activity across different websites and allowing advertisers to run targeted ads. The settlement must be approved by a judge and then the above changes will have …

Israel’s attempt to destroy Unrwa is part of its starvation strategy in Gaza | Kenneth Roth

Israel’s attempt to destroy Unrwa is part of its starvation strategy in Gaza | Kenneth Roth

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Israel’s vendetta against the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (Unrwa) illustrates the callousness with which Benjamin Netanyahu’s far-right government has fought the war in Gaza. It also reflects an effort to use Hamas’s 7 October attack as an opportunity for demographic re-engineering. Unrwa established by the UN general assembly in December 1949 to address the 700,000 Palestinian refugees whom Israeli troops had forced from their homes during the war that led to the creation of the state of Israel in May 1948. Palestinians refer to this expulsion as the nakba, or catastrophe. Today, Unrwa provides education, healthcare and social services to the surviving refugees and their descendants. They number nearly 7 million, scattered among Jordan, Lebanon and Syria as well as the occupied West Bank, East Jerusalem and Gaza. In January 2024, the Israeli government alleged that 12 members of Unrwa’s staff had taken part in the 7 October attack. Although Israel has been slow to provide evidence, Unrwa immediately dismissed 10 of the 12 (the other …

when stars destroy and eat their own planets

when stars destroy and eat their own planets

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Our Sun is both our best friend and our worst enemy. On the one hand, we owe our very existence to our star. Earth and the other planets in the Solar System formed out of the same cloud of gas and dust as the Sun. And without its light, there could be no life on this planet. On the other hand, there will come a day when the Sun ends all life on Earth and, eventually, destroys Earth itself. The risks that stars can pose to their planets are highlighted by a new study published in Nature. The authors looked at stars similar to our Sun and found that at least one in 12 stars exhibits traces of metals in its atmosphere. These are thought to be the scars of planets and asteroids that have been ingested by the stars. Planets should never feel too comfortable as they orbit their parent star, as there are at least two ways in which their star can betray their trust and bring about their violent demise. Tidal disruption …