Spotify gjort sitt val

Joe Rogan Experience 
Google trend history since the spotify deal. 

Rocklegenderna Neil Young  och Joni Mitchell lämnar Spotify i protest mot desinformation om coronavaccin.

Jag lyfter upp min hatt för Niilo och Joni.

Hur som helst, jag har spelat Youngs låtar i 50 år.

"Jag låter Spotify veta omedelbart i dag att jag vill att all min musik tas bort från deras plattform", 

skrev Young enligt Wall Street Journal.Young krävde i ett öppet brev tidigare i veckan att Spotify avlägsnar Joe Rogans podcast.

Joni Mitchell följer efter Neil Young: 

"Tar bort sin musik från Spotify 2I stand with Neil Young”, 

skriver Mitchell på sin hemsida.

Mitchell säger sig ha bestämt sig för att också ta bort all sin musik från Spotify, efter kontroverserna kring Joe Rogans podcast där han bjudit in vaccinmoståndare.

"Oansvariga människor sprider lögner som kostar människoliv", 

skriver Mitchell bland annat.

Neil Young drar bort all sin musik från musiktjänsten Spotify. Åtgärden är en snapt protest mot att Spotify inte tagit bort den vaccinkritiska podcastvärden Joe Rogans program från sin tjänst.

Young hade 2,4 miljoner följare och 6 miljoner lyssnare i månaden på plattformen.

Spotify bekräftar att Youngs musik kommer att tas bort från deras tjänst.

Vi beklagar Neils beslut att avlägsna sin musik från Spotify, men hoppas välkomna honom tillbaka snart, uppger bolaget.

Han är känd för låtarna The Needle and the Damage Done,  Heart of Gold och Rocking In the Free World,

About Crimean peninsula

According to British government their have information that indicates the Russian Government is looking to install a pro-Russian leader (a puppet government) in Kyiv as it considers whether to invade and occupy Ukraine. The former Ukrainian MP Yevhen Murayev is being considered as a potential candidate.

"We have information that the Russian intelligence services maintain links with numerous former Ukrainian politicians ..".

Some of These have contact with Russian intelligence officers currently involved in the planning for an attack on Ukraine.

The information being released today shines a light on the extent of Russian activity designed to subvert Ukraine, and is an insight into Kremlin thinking, said Foreign Secretary Liz Truss.

"Russia must de-escalate, end its campaigns of aggression and disinformation, and pursue a path of diplomacy. "

Any Russian military incursion into Ukraine would be a massive strategic mistake with severe costs.

But.

What does Russia want? It wants Crimea - for itself. Then it stops threatening and will leave.

They are extreme wealth - but is the money really theirs? (no)

The big picture revealed by the Pandora papers is stark enough. 

Putin did not tame the oligarchs. Instead, according to Guardian, this leak indicates the existence of a new feudal system, where Putin's friends and KGB associates have been the principal beneficiaries. 

Some acquired huge paper fortunes of their own. The suspicion is this wealth is ultimately not theirs.

The prime task of Western intelligence should be to find, verify, specify & publicize Putin's personal wealth held in the West in the order $100 bn. Putin will become a political corps in Russia & internationally. Next, go for Xi Jingping! Are only journalists able to do so?

— Anders Åslund (@anders_aslund) January 15, 2022  

Are only journalists able to do so?

Basically, yes, they should increase the pressure on the Kreml.

The cool bike

The M2B33 engine in the R32 had a displacement of about 500 cc and had a cast-iron sidevalve cylinder/head unit. 

This bike was with authentic named Helios.

After the merger, General Director of BMW (Bayerische Motoren Werke)  Franz Josef Popp asked Design Director Max Friz to assess the Helios motorcycle. Upon completing his assessment, Friz suggested to Popp that the best thing that could be done with the Helios would be to dump it in the nearest lake! 

More specifically, Friz condemned the Douglas-style transverse-crankshaft layout, which heavily restricted the cooling of the rear cylinder.

R32 engine and transmission unit

There were near-term solution of redesigning the Helios to make it more saleable and a long-term solution of an all new motorcycle design. This new design was designated the BMW R32 and began production in 1923, becoming the first motorcycle to be badged as a BMW.

The engine produced 8.5 hp 0 6.3 kW, which propelled the R32 to a top speed of 95 km/h (59 mph). The engine and gear box formed a single unit. The new engine featured a recirculating wet sump oiling system at a time when most motorcycle manufacturers used a total-loss oiling system.

BMW used this type modern of recirculating oiling system until 1969.

Guys, tie me to the mainmast

Ulysses and the Sirens
is a 1909 oil painting by Herbert James Draper.

Odysseus spent that part of the journey tied to the main mast, enabling him to hear the beautiful song by mermaids  for himself. 

When he heard their song, he begged his men to release him, but they bound him tighter until they had sailed past their island.

Every man has.

Кремлёвский мамковед

Нарративы о конфигурациях российской политики и бизнеса.
По всем вопросам: kremlin_mamkoved@protonmail.com

Finlandisering levar fortfarande

Tidigare chef för säkerhetspolisen
 (1978-1990) Seppo Tiitinen.

Enligt Svenska Yle Seppo Tiitinen förnekade att Kalevi Sorsa är på listan, men han finns på listan.

På listan finns namn på 18 finländare som misstänks ha haft kontakter till den östtyska underrättelsetjänsten Stasi.

Finland hade mycket omfattande kontakter med både Sovjetunionen och DDR från början av 1960-talet. Kontakterna gällde både stater, partier och organisationer.

Tiitisen lista reder ut vilka i Finland som hjälpte och aktivt stödde Sovjetunionen och dess allierade, Östtyskland. 

Finland intresserade Östtyskland till den grad att det öppnades en underrättelsebyrå för Stasi i den östtyska beskickningen i Helsingfors i slutet av 1950-talet. Då muren föll utvidgades byrån till att omfatta nästan hela beskickningen.

Den östtyska hemliga säkerhetstjänsten, Stasi ville framförallt få uppgifter om Nato och USA. Stasi bedrev i Finland ett intimt samarbete med den sovjetiska underrättelsetjänsten KGB.

Omedveten kontakt

Stasi var intresserad av såväl politiker och militärer som också tjänstemän, fackaktiva, redaktörer, studerande och industrianställda. Vissa av Stasis kontakter verkade för Stasi utan att de själva visste om det men vissa andra var till och med avlönade av Stasi.

Dom säger att ett problem i relationerna mellan Finland och Sovjetunionen var att Sovjetunionen ville bestämma om vilka som förmådde bedriva en politik som var i enlighet med Paasikivi-Kekkonen linjen. Bara en liten inre krets fick vetskap om detta och de stöddes politiskt och moraliskt av KGB.

Workers' house in Kuopio

 

They built the Labor's House in Kuopio in the 1950s.

Now it is threatened with destruction.

Our business

The Finnish sky.

Finland and Sweden joining Nato 

“could make entire northern Europe much more stable and safer,”

 said some of Estonia’s parliamentary foreign affairs committee.

Is not so.

But.

According to Financial Times Russia’s sabre-rattling in Ukraine has reignited the debate in Finland as to whether the Nordic country should join Nato, defying demands from Moscow that seek to limit expansion of the military alliance in Europe.

Both president Sauli Niinisto and prime minister Sanna Marin used their new year addresses to underscore that Finland retained the option of seeking Nato membership at any time.

“Let it be stated once again: Finland’s room to manoeuvre and freedom of choice also include the possibility of military alignment and of applying for Nato membership, should we ourselves so decide,” Niinisto said.

Marin added in her separate speech that every country had the right to decide its own security policy, stressing: 

“We have shown that we have learnt from the past. We will not let go of our room for manoeuvre.”

As Russia amasses about 100,000 troops on Ukraine’s eastern frontier, Washington, Moscow and Nato member states are set to meet for talks in early January. US president Joe Biden is also due to speak to Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky on Sunday. Vladimir Putin, the Russian president, has previously refused to rule out military action and has warned he has “all kinds” of options if his demands for “security guarantees” to limit Nato expansion are unmet.

Finland and neighbouring Sweden are both militarily non-aligned but have a growing co-operation with Nato as well as strong bilateral relationships with members of the alliance such as the US, Norway and UK.

There is no sense of Finland imminently about to apply for Nato membership, but Russia’s activity on the borders of Ukraine and its list of demands just before Christmas has fired up the internal debate in Helsinki to a level last seen after the Russian annexation of Crimea.

Niinisto also warned the west that it risked empowering Russia if it removed the threat of possible military action. Citing former US secretary of state Henry Kissinger on appeasing Nazi-Germany, the Finnish president said: 

“Whenever avoidance of war has been the primary objective of a group of powers, the international system has been at the mercy of its most ruthless member.”

Atte Harjanne, an active reservist and head of the parliamentary group of the Green party, a member of the ruling five-party government coalition, said the arguments for Finland joining had been strengthened and that the country should join immediately.

In Finland, the matter is decided by the people of Finland, in practice the president, who is absolutely hugely popular.

Niinistö can with his own opinion to direct the people - no one else can do that.

J
ag fattar icke just så snart,
men det är så underbart,
hur efteråt blir allting mej så klart.