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Long article - certainly worth a read if you are considering an investment there:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/interactive/2025/greenland-minerals-mining-trump-difficulties/

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https://archive.ph/VmPpz

“If you want to build a mine in Greenland, you have to build everything yourself,” said Bent Olsvig Jensen, a managing director at Lumina Sustainable Materials, the only mine now operating in Greenland, which employs fewer than 50 people to extract anorthosite, a silicate mineral — also found on the moon — used for making fiberglass and paints.

“In Greenland, only 1 in a 100 will succeed and they never talk about the 99,” Jensen said. “No modern mine in Greenland has ever reached profitability.”

His goal? “To break even next year.”

COIN? 'The coming crypto crisis'

https://www.ft.com/content/efc848c0-0990-4623-98ed-1176e97f04cb

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https://archive.ph/2X748

'Genius Act proponents say it will support the dollar and the Treasury market. But one could easily imagine a flight to safety into which crypto companies like, say, Tether (which has more US Treasury holdings than Germany) must sell T-bills into a down market to cover redemptions. Then you’ve got a fire sale, higher borrowing costs, and yet another disastrous situation in which Main Street is under pressure to bail out speculators.'

WTF? Tether has more Treasuries than Germany! What could go wrong?

French defence firm Naval Group investigates cyber leak

https://www.ft.com/content/ccbafbbf-6693-476d-8949-6dbf68b37ddb

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https://archive.ph/Rs5up

'The ship and submarine maker said on Saturday evening that it had been the target of a “reputational attack” by hackers in a “context marked by international, business and informational tensions”. No ransom demand has been made.

The hackers have published 30 gigabytes of information in an online forum that they claim relates to the combat management system of Naval’s submarines and frigates, and said they have 1 terabyte of data.'

With a hop, skip and a jump

'EU and America agree trade deal with EU paying 15% tariffs '

The US importers pay the tariff... it is just another domestic tax which will impact the poorest the most. So much for Trump looking after the downtrodden who get to pay more taxes and loose their healthcare.

FT: Use of VPNs surges in UK as new online safety rules kick in

https://www.ft.com/content/356674b0-9f1d-4f95-b1d5-f27570379a9b

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https://archive.ph/3PNfK

"Apps offering virtual private networks — which route a smartphone or PC’s internet traffic to another country, bypassing local network providers — made up half of the top 10 most popular free apps on the UK’s App Store for iOS this weekend, according to Apple’s rankings.

Proton VPN leapfrogged ChatGPT to become the top free app in the UK, according to Apple’s daily App Store charts, with similar services from developers Super Unlimited and Nord Security also rising over the weekend.

Proton, the Swiss-based company behind the top VPN app, reported a more than 1,400 per cent increase in sign-ups from UK-based users after new age verification rules took effect on Friday.

“We would normally associate these large spikes in sign-ups with major civil unrest,” Proton said in a social media post. VPNs are routinely used by individuals in China, Turkey and Iran to bypass government content firewalls."

The natural diamond industry is getting rocked. You can thank the lab-grown variety for that

https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/lab-grown-diamonds-1.7592336

This stood out: Oymakas says natural diamonds made up 100 per cent of his business until 2018 when lab-grown diamonds came on the market in a big way. Now, natural diamonds account for only three to four per cent of his business... Just last week, Burgundy Diamond Mines announced it would be laying off hundreds of employees and temporarily suspending operations at one of its open-pit mining sites, Point Lake, in the Northwest Territories.

A communications manager for the company, Ariella Calin, said the open-pit mine was "proving to be sub-economic," given the recent drop in the value of diamonds. According to data from Tenoris, which tracks diamond retail prices, natural diamonds in stores now cost 26 per cent less than they did just two years ago.

Not a mining industry to be part of...

Germany’s spending gamble | FT Film

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9k4D8cQEcU

And you can just use a VPN set to another country to circumvent the rules:

https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/free-vpn-for-chrome-vpn-p/majdfhpaihoncoakbjgbdhglocklcgno?hl=en

So - how do we save the children from the evils of the interweb?

The UK Online Safety Bill: A Massive Threat to Online Privacy, Security, and Speech

https://www.eff.org/pages/uk-online-safety-bill-massive-threat-online-privacy-security-and-speech

And now it has come into effect

Https://www.foreignaffairs.com/world/coming-pax-geriatrica

Wrong link... is age catching up with me?

The Coming Pax Geriatrica - Aging Societies and Depopulation Will Lead to Fewer Wars

https://thediplomat.com/

First time I have read the phrase 'Pax Geriatrica'; I doubt it will be the last. It sums up why Putin is waging his war now; in a few more, demographic change will have robbed him of the manpower to fuel meat-grinder tactics. The upside is that he is exhausting the manpower faster than demographic change was going to.

Yet another reason to end the 2 child tax cap and start making pensioners pay more tax, otherwise there will be nobody to pay the tax to support those pensioners...

My take on Crypto is that it is Crapto... Nonetheless, this from The Diplomat will interest those keener than me on Crypto / Stablecoins: 'Who Will Rule Crypto? The China-US Battle for Global Financial Leadership. The digital currency race between the U.S. and China is more than a technological arms race. It represents the reordering of global monetary governance.'

https://thediplomat.com/2025/07/who-will-rule-crypto-the-china-us-battle-for-global-financial-leadership/

He seems to be getting closer to blowing up his economy... the Ruzzian banking sector if xxxxed.

Ryan McBeth - Iran's Bots Went Dark...And That Gave Them Away

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rz8whKktkQg

Good video but an ad from 01:37 to 03:09 which is taking the proverbial on a 10-minute video; all hail the SponsorBlock Chrome extension which is highly recommended:

https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/sponsorblock-for-youtube/mnjggcdmjocbbbhaepdhchncahnbgone?hl=en

Hitting Sochi... And Putin's palace is just outside Sochi. He must know he is no longer safe anywhere - maybe he should hasten his plans to flee to Venezuela?

Good video... some of Nigel's fanboys are going to need to open their wallets and tithe to their Dear Leader, as true-blue Tories are still donating to the no-hope Tories to keep Farage away from power.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qt_muQKMFhc

Https://www.londonstockexchange.com/news-article/GSK/blenrep-approved-in-the-eu-for-multiple-myeloma/17151271

More Blenrep news

‘South Park’ Skewers Trump and His ‘Teeny Tiny’ Manhood

https://www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv-movie-news/south-park-trump-season-27-premiere-1235392972/

Worth a watch... especially around 9 minutes in. Plenty copies on X

https://x.com/search?q=south%20park%20series%2027%20episode%201&src=typed_query

I asked Gemini: 'do some research on sigmaroc plc [london ticker SRC]; what are managements plans for the future; what are the 3 and 5 years plans. as part of your research look at the last few annual reports and any analysis from financial analysts you can reach.'

The results are worth having a look at; And, as Gemini [Google's deep AI model] does not show the links in shared content, it can be worth running the same query as you can then access the underlying sources.

https://g.co/gemini/share/9a35d092aa43