Top Gulf Aluminum Producer EGA Halted Output After Iran Strike (Yvonne Yue Li/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-04-01/top-gulf-aluminum-producer-ega-halted-smelter-after-iran-strike
http://www.memeorandum.com/260401/p97#a260401p97
The blue origin explosion used the same amount of c02 as recycling 8.5 million aluminum cans.
The USA uses 100 billion aluminum cans a year. Of which 46 billion are recycled which saved 5,500 blue origin explosions a year.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXVmkurTOgM
UAE and Bahrain's main aluminium producers say plants damaged by Iranian attacks
https://www.thenationalnews.com/business/2026/03/29/uae-and-bahrains-main-aluminium-producers-damaged-by-iranian-attacks/…
US Set to Roll Out Tiered Tariffs on Steel, Aluminum Imports (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-04-01/us-to-set-25-tariff-on-finished-steel-aluminum-products-wsj
http://www.memeorandum.com/260401/p107#a260401p107
Can't help but wonder if politicians in Aotearoa are pondering the wisdom of selling off all our food processing (and timber, dairy, aluminium, etc.) to foreign corporations... Given that they can 'increase shareholder value' by moving production to places where they don't have to care for pollution or workers rights, it means we lose fundamental production capabilities to the detriment of the entire population.
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Viele erleben eine Wesensverwandlung beim Konsum von Drogen oder Alkohol; ich hab das schon bei Kaffee. Jetzt ganz im Ernst.
Bin ich länger auf Entzug und trinke dann wieder ordentlich was, fange ich an, die Alleinunterhalterin zu spielen. Ich bin gesellig, quatsche alle an, erzähle tausend Geschichten.
Das ist ohne Kaffee nicht unbedingt so.
Well, the state of the German railways is poor, so there’s no shortage of schadenfreude from abroad. But at least in Germany there’s a timetable with trains running at least every hour on most routes.
https://www.lemonde.fr/internatio…
La circulation est momentanément arrêtée entre Champ de Mars et Pontoise Pour plus d'informations sur cette perturbation, consultez le fil X du RER C.
Motif : panne d'alimentation électrique
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