https://www.europesays.com/2187028/ Oil demand ramps up air miles #CrudeOil #CrudeOilPrice #Europe #hormuz #Iran #Israel #Jet #oil #OilPrice #Petroleum
https://www.europesays.com/2187028/ Oil demand ramps up air miles #CrudeOil #CrudeOilPrice #Europe #hormuz #Iran #Israel #Jet #oil #OilPrice #Petroleum
Ultralight glider ... with a jet engine?!
Homebuilt in Greece.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQio8kpH6zQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ouUnPcKKdp0
https://www.weglide.org/flight/613353
https://www.facebook.com/people/Neutrino-Ultralight-Glider/61555164861463/
Wow. Dder Preis fürs Adhoc-Laden ist ne Ansage von #jet. #elektromobilität #Elektroauto
Breakthrough in simulating how neutron stars collide
Longest self-consistent numerical-relativity simulation to date reveals details of black hole and jet formation and advances multi-messenger astronomy.
https://www.aei.mpg.de/1249127/breakthrough-in-simulating-how-neutron-stars-collide
https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.134.211407
Picture: K. Hayashi / @mpi_grav
Just last week, #Qatar handed over a luxury #jet meant for #Trump’s use not just in his official capacity but also for his [nonexistent]*presidential library* after he leaves office. Experts have valued plane, formally donated to the *Air Force*, at $200M, more than all of the foreign gifts bestowed on all previous American presidents combined.
The U.S. Justice Department says it has reached an agreement with Boeing that allows the plane company to avoid prosecution for its role in two passenger jet crashes that killed a total of 346 people in Indonesia and Ethiopia. Read more from @politico
https://flip.it/9ElSz-
#DOJ #Boeing #Plane #Jet #Indonesia #Ethiopia
There is no law for #trump #immunity via #SCOTUS #supremecourt #emoluments #military #corruption #grift #power #greed U.S. Formally Accepts Luxury #Jet From #Qatar for #Trump #AirForce has been asked to figure out a way to upgrade it so it can be put into use as a new Air Force One for the #president. What about #nationalsecurity #defense #natsec https://archive.is/kfgjT #government #maga #power #democracy #kleptocracy
The U.S. Department of Defense says it has accepted a luxury jet from Qatar for use as the President’s airplane. Read more from @ABCNews@flipboard.com
https://flip.it/iWRnTZ
#US #Trump #Qatar #Defense #Pentagon #Jet #Corruption
"Please please please gimme this big beautiful bribe pleeeeease - I'm gonna hold my breath til you say yes!"
- Man-Toddler slash US President Donald Trump
Sadly this story is not at all a surprise...
www.yahoo.com/news/trump-q... #donaldtrump #qatar #airforceone #jet #trump #uspoli #bribe #potus
Trump’s Qatar Jet Isn’t a Gift...
#Antisemitism absolutely on rise #Trump buddy #Kanye releasing song “Heil #Hitler,” his co-prez openly campaigns 4 #German #NeoFascism party. Trump accepts luxury #jet [threatens ABC 4 reporting] from govt bankrolling #Hamas. All seem to B doing a lot more 2 directly mainstream anti #Jewish sentiment than univ offering #MiddleEastern Studies. #tropes baked in2 campus crackdown efforts. WH thinks #Neonazi rally on campus is just “very fine people on both sides.” https://abovethelaw.com/2025/05/top-law-school-faculty-issue-letter-defending-rule-of-law #ruleoflaw
NEWS OF THE DAY:
F-16 PILOT SAFE AFTER EJECTION: Ukraine's Air Force lost contact with an F-16 fighter #jet during a mission to repel a Russian aerial assault overnight on May 16.
https://www.europesays.com/2079980/ Stonepeak and Energy Equation Partners to Acquire Majority Interest in JET from Phillips 66 #Energy #InvestmentFirm #JavedAhmed #Jet #JETTankstellenDeutschlandGmbH #Phillips66 #RealAssets #Stonepeak
Qatari jet
So I'm not publicly political, but news agencies seem to be agog over the value of said jet... and nobody seems to be talking about the OpSec exposure from taking on this equipment.
For reference (not that it's at all the same), but if I inherited a 14 year old software project, and had less than a year (or hell, even if I had all 4 years) to make certain without a doubt that I caught all the booby traps...
No I don't think I can ethically promise that.
The same would apply if the jet came from the UK. Canada. Mexico. Anywhere else but from a supply chain they control.
I know that some readers think I'm too hard on the American media in the second Trump presidency, or at least that I attribute what might be simply institutional incompetence, as willful collaboration with a fascist regime. In my experience, people who've communicated this idea to me tend to be exposed to a wider variety of media and particular more progressive leaning outlets, and thus have less exposure to what I would call mainstream corporate media in America; a spectrum that would include Fox News, the New York Times, the Washington Post, ABC, NBC, and CNN, the LA Times, most large newspapers attached to a major urban center, and with say Reuters and the AP sitting together just outside that circle. Given the nature of my writing, I *have* had the misfortune of consuming a lot of Trump regime coverage in corporate media and let me tell you, things are not going well in our beloved "free press" establishment.
None of which is to imply that every story is covered poorly, in a way that helps the fascist Trump regime far too often to be accidental, every time. But overall there has been a consistent pattern of minimization, a refusal to call fascist things fascist, and a bizarre desire to "translate Trump" even when he's saying blatantly clear and obvious nazi shit, into something that makes sense within a more traditional American political framework; a great example occurred just today when many US corporate media outlets immediately connected Trump's unhinged white nationalist conspiracy bullshit about white South African "refugees" to sporadic reports of farm violence in that country, even though Der Leader expressly mentioned white "genocide" to promote a nazi conspiracy theory as justifying facts.
Sometimes this minimization and Trump translating is subtle, sometimes it's so blatant it makes you want to put your fist through your monitor; or maybe I have anger management problems, who can really say? For an example of the later kind of story, let's turn to this short blog-style post on The Defector for the most easy to agree with piece of media criticism you will ever read:
NYT Reporter: It’s Not Corruption Unless The Envelope Says “Bribe” On It
"Ah. OK. It's not corruption until one of the parties says to the other, on record, "Hey, how about doing some corruption together, illegally?" and the other one says, "Ah yes, the famous explicit quid pro quo, forbidden by law! Let's do one of those," and the first guy says, "I would like one official act, please, in direct exchange for the money in this burlap sack with a dollar sign on it," and the second guy draws him up an itemized receipt listing the official acts corruptly obtained and their individual prices plus sales tax. Got it."
Forgive me for spoiling the payoff, but the post is so concise you should probably just read it for yourself. In case you refuse however, the author points out that both Trump's memecoin bribery scheme, and his plan to accept the "donation" of a $400M jet from the government of Qatar are clear and obvious examples of corruption. As you can see in the thread above, which is about corruption, I wrote up both scandals so obviously I agree. Furthermore both Albert Burneko and I know *you* agree because Trump is making no effort to hide the obvious corruption.
You know who doesn't agree? New York Times Reporter Eric Lipton, who argues on Bluesky that this is merely "potential corruption" because we have no idea if Trump is going to give memecoin buyers or the Qatari government anything back in exchange for these clear bribes. No, really; this is a guy who has been a professional mainstream media minion for thirty plus fucking years, and he's online chiding people for calling Trump obviously corrupt, while Trump engages in obvious corruption. *This* my friends, is the mainstream media that covers Downmarket Mussolini every single day, and this is a pretty good (albeit hilariously pathetic) example of how much of that coverage goes.
I've been producing mainstream media criticism for a very long time, and I'm sympathetic to the idea that I don't give these folks enough credit when they periodically stop spewing propaganda for wealth and power, and actually engage in sporadic acts of journalism. But this media? In this political moment? Is so full of soulless hack bootlickers, that it almost doesn't seem worth the bother to criticize them for not doing a job they clearly never set out to do; namely journalism.