Piotr Schulkes

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However, the people I interviewed were all positive about Oman's institutional groundwork. Many, whether they were based in Oman, Europe, or somewhere else, strongly believed that Oman's very well-positioned to move fast once the market appears

Recently finished an article on Oman's hydrogen sector. In short, things aren't great - there's no market, investors aren't keen, and offtakers are reticent. The hydrogen production goals are no longer realistic in the short and medium term.

@kristianulrichsen.bsky.social is currently experiencing an AI-induced peer reviewing disaster. I'm becoming an AI luddite (Luddaite?) the more i read about it

This Is How You Conduct Genocide by the Regulations The bureaucracy Israel implemented decades ago to control the population of Gaza has been weaponized to regulate and facilitate its destruction

This is by some margin the best (and possibly most depressing) article I've read on Gaza in months @saribashi.bsky.social newlinesmag.com/argument/thi...

A front page for the ages

Great graph, also indicates that Norway might soon have to relabel the "oil fund" to "gas fund"....
Do you happen to have the ADNOC and Aramco, and Sonatrach stats?

archive.ph/BqZaa

Ironically the EVs have made the studded tyre/tyre wear problem worse because they're so heavy, so the tyres wear out fast and (purely anecdotally) here in Norway I do feel I hear more EVs with studded tyres than non-EVs

Somehow in his addled brain he may get the idea to resettle Gazans in NEOM

You have to update your subscription button, it still mentions Biden

Can and should've been higher. Several parties (SV, Venstre) were pushing for more, but they're too small to have a serious say sadly

The Blurb Problem Keeps Getting Worse Publishing has come to depend on fawning endorsements, but not every title can be electrifying, essential, and revelatory.

You may be interested in this Atlantic article from a few years back on that exact problem: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv... At this rate the author's background is more decisive for me than who reviewed it

@eliothiggins.bsky.social you heard of this website? feels like an Arabic-language Bellingcat with fewer resources but broadly similar methodology.

Did CNN Fabricate the Story of "Freeing a Prisoner from a Secret Jail"? On December 12, CNN published a video report on its website, YouTube, and X (formerly Twitter) titled, 'CNN Reporter Documents a Shocking Moment of Finding a Prisoner Held in a Secret Syrian Jail, Una...

An investigation into Clarissa Ward's 'liberation' of a prisoner from a jail in Syria appears to show that the prisoner was an Air Force Intelligence guy with a history of torturing dissidents verify-sy.com/en/details/1.... I gave the website a look and it seems reliable

3. Will the US and Europe proactively remove sanctions to give Syria the best possible chance to succeed, or will they expect Syrians to rebuild and stabilise their country without access to the international financial system? The latter would make an already challenging job even harder.

2. Will Jolani/Al Sharaa give himself an official title? It's not sustainable to have an actor without de jure limitations on his power because he doesn't have a defined government position. Syrians know this, and don't want to replace one autocrat with another. We shd support them however possible

Tangled Tale of the Fugitive Nazi and the Syrian Secret Service Nazi war criminal Alois Brunner lived in hiding in Damascus for decades. Israel failed to kill him twice — when he was finally punished, it was by the very Syrian regime he served for so long

Also this piece from New Lines newlinesmag.com/essays/tangl...

That's correct

Incorrect, this is Adra prison

Reminds me of a European diplomat saying in October last year that Europe threw away two years of outreach to the Global South regarding Ukraine in 48 hours because of their Gaza policy. Wouldn't want to enter the foreign service of a European country at the moment, you'd be laughed out of the room

Also further highlights how politically idiotic the Western coddling of Netanyahu is, nevermind that it's a moral blunder of planetoidal proportions as well

Despite the fact that the ICC warrant itself mentions "the situation in Bangladesh/Myanmar", and Bangladesh IS a party to the Rome Statute (www.icc-cpi.int/news/stateme...). For the avoidance of doubt, both warrants should be enforced, but opportunistic hypocrisy is not solely a Western issue

But then uses a linguistic sleight-of-hand when answering a similar question about the ICC's arrest warrant for the Myanmar leadership, saying the ICC does not have jurisdiction over nationals of non-state parties on the territory of a non-state party

China is also not immune to massive hypocrisy. When Israeli leadership was indicted by the ICC, China says it supports efforts by the international community to defend the authority on international law.... 1/3

something @phillipspobrien.bsky.social predicted waaaay back when Russia invaded Ukraine in '22. In one of his early newsletters or Twitter threads he mentioned the longer the war goes on, the higher the likelihood it metastasizes and goes completely out of control. Grim prediction to be right on

Add this to China's already massive role in the renewables sectors in the Gulf, it's no surprise MbS feels very comfortable diverging from US policy more and more

Takker! Skal kjøpe den for å lese på hytta over nyttår

Står det tilfeldigvis også noe i boka om at Norsk olje&gassindustri er betydelig renere en i Amerika, Russland, og deler av Midtøsten, og derfor minsking av norsk produksjon er negativt (globalt sett) for miljøet?

Surprise of the decade, this