How Russia Punched an $11 Billion Hole in the West’s Oil Sanctions
Moscow’s monthly income from oil exports is greater now than before the invasion of Ukraine, highlighting the failure of measures to curb its war chest.
Bloomberg By Alaric Nightingale, Julian Lee, and Alex Longley
Countries have already suffered deep losses as a result of the #fires, #floods, and other disasters intensifying with #ClimateChange. They want the biggest, heaviest-polluting nations to do something about it. And they’ll be making their case at a conference presided over by an oil baron. #ClimateCrisis
Hätte man die „weltgrößte #Klimakonferenz“ mit 70.000 (!!!!!) Teilnehmern per Videokonferenz abgehalten, hätte man damit schon einen wesentlichen Beitrag zum #Klima geleistet. Und am Ende kommt außer Murks und leeren Absichtserklärungen doch nichts dabei heraus.
Londongrad has defected to the capital of Russian oil trading and money laundering, #Dubai.
“Dubai by contrast, they say, has sold twice as many £15 million homes compared to London in the last year. The #UAE city “appeals due to less state scrutiny into finances and sources of wealth,” the report concludes."
Sanctions on #Russia are having no impact outside the west and attempts to halt the flow of business merely redirect it elsewhere, the chair of #Dubai’s main trading hub has said.
Dubai is seen as a beneficiary of #US and European attempts to isolate Russia’s economy, as oil traders relocated from Geneva to the #UAE after #Switzerland joined the sanctions imposed on #Moscow.
Has anyone else noticed that Dubai is advertising on CNN claiming it's tech savvy - and yet consistently suppresses women's rights in their country? Why is CNN so desperate to take advertising from such a flawed client?
Mais si, si, Macron veut parler climat à la Cop28 à Dubaï: "Le président va plaider pour une sortie des énergies fossiles", affirme l'Elysée avec un "calendrier opérationnel"... qui fait la part belle au nucléaire. Fin de la blague!
[D] In den Kommentaren mancher Klimaaktivisten macht sich hässlicher Zynismus angesichts der jüngsten Überschwemmungen in #Dubai breit: "#BigOil hat es verdient." Wie billig!
[E] In the comments of some climate activists, ugly cynicism is spreading in view of the floods in #Dubai: "#BigOil deserves it! How cheap!
There's something deliciously karmic in the massive, unprecedented storm caused by #ClimateChange hitting #Dubai. It covers so many bases I don't even know where to begin enumerate them. But one I just discovered is that the city is hosting in a few days the #WorldBlockchainSummit, the “longest running” #crypto#scam#shilling summit. The only way it could have been even more meaningful would be if the was some #AI bullshit going on too.