Study finds almost 50% of consumers in Spain may be paying too much for their electricity https://www.byteseu.com/895187/ #almost #bills #electricity #finds #half #may #more #paying #Spain #spaniards #Study #that #their

What price has the EU set for an essential survival kit that can sustain a person for three days? https://www.byteseu.com/894306/ #'does #200 #almost #cost #days #Europe #for #how #kit #much #Survival #the #three

[13:52] Ex-Limerick hurler gets €944k after workplace accident

Former Limerick senior hurler Mark Keane has been awarded almost €950,000 in damages for the severe injuries he suffered while coming to the rescue of a co-worker at a Johnson & Johnson plant during a workplace accident seven years ago.

https://www.rte.ie/news/2025/0401/1505228-mark-keane-damages/

#Limerick #MarkKeane #almost€950,000 #Johnson&Johnson #sevenyearsago

Careful out there, New York. Until it rains, you might want to limit outdoor acitivity if you have any sensitivities to pollution: we're at 87, yellow, pushing our way to orange which is warning-level for those groups.
#NYC #air #quality #index #moderate #almost #unhealthy #level #pollution #today https://www.airnow.gov/?city=New%20York&state=NY&country=USA

[15:45] Man who used DHL job to move drugs jailed for five years

A man with no previous criminal records has been jailed for five years for using his job with DHL to hold and transport almost €1.4 million worth of drugs.

https://www.rte.ie/news/courts/2025/0331/1505047-drugs-sentence/

#fiveyears #DHL #almost€1.4million

[13:43] Receiver appointed to collect fines from Burke's salary

The High Court has appointed a receiver to collect unpaid fines from the salary of Enoch Burke which amount to almost €80,000.

https://www.rte.ie/news/courts/2025/0318/1502691-enoch-burke-court/

#TheHighCourt #EnochBurke #almost€80,000

[16:43] Man caught transporting cannabis at Dublin Airport thought he was carrying gold or watches

A British man found with almost €600,000 of cannabis at Dublin Airport told gardai he thought he was carrying gold or watches.

https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/courts/man-caught-transporting-cannabis-at-dublin-airport-thought-he-was-carrying-gold-or-watches/a1536555224.html

#British #almost€600,000 #DublinAirport

[15:47] The 2 Johnnies share directors' pay of almost €500,000

Podcast hosts and former 2FM presenters The 2 Johnnies shared directors' pay of almost €500,000 at their firm last year.

https://www.rte.ie/news/business/2025/0202/1494348-2-johnnies/

#2FM #2 #almost€500,000 #lastyear

When a top Republican says Russian propaganda has infected the GOP

The GOP chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee
— Rep. Michael McCaul (R-Tex.)
— said that #Russian #propaganda had “infected a good chunk of my party’s base.”

McCaul suggested conservative media was to blame.
“There are some more nighttime entertainment shows that seem to spin, like, I see the Russian propaganda in some of it
— and it’s almost identical [to what they’re saying on Russian state television]
— on our airwaves,” McCaul said.

He also cited “these people that read various conspiracy-theory outlets that are just not accurate,
and they actually model Russian propaganda.”


Asked which Republicans specifically he was talking about, McCaul said it was “obvious,” before staff intervened and asked that the conversation go off the record.


These comments are the most significant to date, but they’re not the only ones.


A GOP impasse over additional funding for #Ukraine’s defense against Russia
— combined recently with Tucker Carlson’s deeply weird promotion of Russia and Trump’s comments about not defending NATO allies from Moscow
— has apparently occasioned some self-reflection among Republicans about their colleagues and allies:

• Former vice president Mike Pence, Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) and a top aide to Sen. Todd Young (R-Ill.) have warned their party against serving as #apologists for Russian President Vladimir Putin.

• Recent presidential candidate Nikki Haley said Trump’s comments about not defending NATO allies, among others, “#empower #Putin.”

• And Sen. John Cornyn (R-Tex.) shot back at criticism from Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) about Cornyn’s support for Ukraine, urging Paxton to “spend less time pushing Russian propaganda.”

Around the same time, former congresswoman Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) said there is now “a #Putin #wing of the Republican Party.”
In 2022, Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) called the pro-Putin sentiments in some corners of his party “#almost #treasonous,” while allowing that perhaps his fellow Republicans were just #attention-#seekers.

“It’s unthinkable to me, it’s almost treasonous and it just makes me ill to see some of these people do that,” Romney said.

“But, of course, they do it because if they get shock value and it’s good to get more eyeballs and maybe make a little more money for them or their network. It’s disgusting.”

And then there is what may be the most famous example: when House GOP leaders in 2016 privately joked about Trump being #compromised by Russia, as later reported by The Washington Post
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/04/06/when-top-republican-says-russian-propaganda-has-infected-gop/

Biden intel chief: ‘Almost a certainty’ China, Russia would exploit a US debt default

#China and #Russia would likely #exploit the “opportunity” a U.S. government #debt #default would present, Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines warned Thursday.

“It would be #almost a #certainty” that both countries would “look to take advantage of the opportunity,” Haines told Senate Armed Services Committee members.

https://thehill.com/policy/defense/3988293-biden-intel-chief-almost-a-certainty-china-russia-would-exploit-a-us-debt-default/