Christian Knapp

On November 8, a Russian Shahed drone hit the house of Natalia from Dnipro. At the moment of the attack, she was on the balcony and recorded the first minutes after the strike.

"I heard my dog howling. My legs went limp when I heard my daughter screaming, 'Dad, help me!'

✈️ Russia’s #GNSS interference is testing Europe’s defences below the threshold of war. With 40% of Europe's air traffic already affected, Maria Martisiute warns the risk of a major disaster is rising.

Read her 17 proposals for a coordinated defence here:
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The EU has let US tech giants run riot. Diluting our data law will only entrench their power | Johnny Ryan and Georg Riekeles The GDPR is Europe’s defence against digital oligarchy and child harm. Deregulation plans are misguided, say Johnny Ryan and Georg Riekeles

As we write in The Guardian this morning, the Commission’s plan to gut EU digital rules will hurt Europe’s startups and give U.S. tech an unassailable advantage, confirming Europe as a digital vassal.
Piece by George Riekeles and I.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Nexperia row shows how China is weaponising trade – and winning Experts say Brussels must stand up against Beijing using supplies of vital chips and minerals as ‘sword of Damocles’

This is a harrowing read

www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Screenshot of a tweet from Joyce Carol Oates posted on Sunday, November 9th that reads "so curious that such a wealthy man never posts anything that indicates that he enjoys or is even aware of what virtually everyone appreciates--scenes from nature, pet dog or cat, praise for a movie, music, a book (but doubt that he reads); pride in a friend's or relative's accomplishment; condolences for someone who has died; pleasure in sports, acclaim for a favorite team; references to history. in fact he seems totally uneducated, uncultured. the poorest persons on Twitter may have access to more beauty & meaning in life than the "most wealthy person in the world."

Found the tweet that Joyce Carol Oates bodied Elon Musk with and it's so beautiful in its eloquent, simple take down. So much so he's crashing out trying to prove he reads books now. Put this in the Louvre.

Ever since, russia has been taking brutal revenge on Kherson, shelling it non-stop, hunting civilians in safaris, including infants, destroying critical infrastructure.

Kherson doesn't need the world to admire its invincibility.

Kherson needs actions aimed at defeating the aggressor now.

Russia’s disturbing human ‘safaris’ Violating the laws of war, Russians have created a sick game of hunting civilians with FPV drones near the frontline. We take you behind the scenes, to the people most affected.

Good morning readers; Kyiv remains in Ukrainian hands.

In the towns near Ukraine's frontline, Russian FPV drones hunt civilians, a new tactic called a "human safari".

Yana, who lives in Kherson, regularly sees these drones and the damage they cause.

This (not from that piece) is one of those charts where I am completely aware of the data but my mental map of how the global economy works still almost refuses to update to the new reality. Because the pace of change has been so rapid.

The time to confront it was 20 years ago but those of us who argued for it were dismissed or ridiculed.
China was going to be coaxed into the liberal democratic world by trade and the Olympics.
Didn’t happen and was never going to.

Ukraine says Russian missiles targeted its nuclear substations Country accuses Moscow of ‘deliberately endangering nuclear safety in Europe’ after attack overwhelms air defences

A large Russian air attack that overwhelmed Ukrainian air defences overnight targeted substations that power two of Ukraine’s nuclear power plants, according to the country’s foreign minister and a person with knowledge of the barrage.
w/ @fabricedeprez.bsky.social
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people walking the rails tracks (videos of metro stations with no power look horrifying to me to be honest) . There is so much destruction and suffering to report on it’s overwhelming

The man who has caused this will now be a trillionaire. 600.000 deaths, two thirds of them children.

Massive Russian overnight strikes hit Kyiv, Odesa, Dnipro, Kharkiv, Poltava, and Mykolaiv. Power infrastructure was targeted, causing blackouts and fires. A woman was killed and dozens injured. Emergency outages are now in place across several regions.

Nov 2 Russian subsea sabotage/intel vessel YANTAR was allegedly operating just off the Netherland coast, among a good chunk of European critical infrastructure.

The ship is specialized in subsea missions and ran by highly secretive GUGI, Main Directorate of Deep-Sea Research.

Norweger stellen fest, dass China 850 ihrer Elektrobusse fernsteuern und sogar stoppen kann Etwa 850 in Norwegen eingesetzte Elektrobusse können aus China vollständig kontrolliert werden. Das hat ein geheimer Test der öffentlichen Verkehrsbetriebe ergeben.

😮
Norway finds out that its electric busses - produced by a Chinese firm - can be remotely controlled from China!

The good news of this is that the Norwegians realised this because they did a cybersecurity test. We need to think about, and test, stuff like this more.
www.focus.de/panorama/wel...

Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how

This is really excellent data journalism... Elon Musk has declared war on the British government, it just doesn't realise it.

NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte:

Russia is not alone in its efforts to undermine global rules -it is working with China,North Korea,Iran,others, strengthening defense industrial cooperation to unprecedented levels&preparing for long-term confrontation

We cannot be naive. We must be prepared.

44,000 . This is how many Shahed drones and their variants Russia sent to attack Ukraine this year. And it is 4 times more than previous year, according to CSIS data.

Guess somebody feels enabled.

You can see the outlines of an illiberal international order

A purported ally threatening diplomats and their families with personal consequences if they maintain the positions they’ve been instructed to take is very deeply shocking, extremely hostile, and undermines the norms by which non-violent resolution of international disagreements are possible.

Russia's upgraded Shahed drones now harder to suppress - expert warns Russian Shahed strike drones have become less vulnerable to electronic-warfare measures after another modernization, EW and communications specialist, Center for Radiotechnologies Chief Serhii (“Flash...

Russian Shahed strike drones have become less vulnerable to electronic-warfare measures after another modernization.

China intimidated UK university to ditch human rights research, documents show Sheffield Hallam University apologises to Professor Laura Murphy for restricting her academic freedom.

"The documents she obtained showed the university "had negotiated directly with a foreign intelligence service to trade my academic freedom for access to the Chinese student market," she told the BBC".

www.bbc.com/news/article...

AIS is a kind of digital signal ships send to tell where they are.

So now someone - ie not real ships - is faking the presence of hundreds of ships in the Baltic Sea.

This is really strange.

Russia is now using FPV drones guided via 4G networks, delivered deep into Ukrainian territory by “Molniya” UAVs. The FPV detaches mid-air and connects to Ukraine’s LTE to search for targets. One such combo attacked a civilian minibus in Mykolaivka, Sumy region, 35 km from the border.

US B61 tactical nuclear wapons stored there

Footage reportedly from fighting in Pokrovsk captures intense Russian FPV drone activity and shelling in a brief clip.

Tear Gas, Pepper Balls Among Weapons Deployed Against Illinois Protesters A judge issued a restraining order on crowd-control tactics by federal agents, including those involved in Operation Midway Blitz in the Chicago region.

Children tear-gassed. Teenagers tackled to the ground. Bellingcat analysed footage of clashes between federal officers and civilians after a judge issued a restraining order on crowd-control tactics in Illinois: www.bellingcat.com/news/2025/10...

So if the survival of Europe's industrial base wasn't enough of a motivation not to go for a Chinese EV, not having your car weaponized against you sounds like another solid one.

Two weeks later, Epstein continued to reject the government’s offer and sought a meeting with Acosta, according to the documents in Epstein’s inbox. Villafaña then issued target letters to three of Epstein’s assistants informing them that their boss was now under investigation for money laundering and other financial crimes. She also dispatched agents from the Federal Bureau of Investigation to the homes of two of his secretaries. Finally, on Sept. 24, 2007, one day before Villafaña said she was prepared to indict him, Epstein signed the non-prosecution agreement.

Last month, Acosta told the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform that he didn’t recall any discussion of “potential financial crimes” as part of his office’s Epstein investigation. Yet the emails and documents from Epstein’s Yahoo account show that prosecutors in his office discussed the financial-crimes component of the investigation with Acosta and copied him on correspondence about it. Records obtained as part of the money laundering probe were stored at the US Attorney’s Office in a folder titled, “Money Laundering,” which contains “attorney research and handwritten notes,” according to a partial list of the government’s evidence that was filed in a related court proceeding.

In a huge coincidence, this Acosta fellow—the US Attorney who raced to protect Jeffrey Epstein from his own office investigating Epstein's finances—was later appointed to Trump's Cabinet.

Gosh, what a strange thing for Trump to do. Can't explain it. Hmmm.

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A Russian state "church" "priest" currently posted in Hungary (EU / NATO member state) seems to be very fond of both guns and the agency that is today's Gestapo.