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LIVE: Hamas seeks ceasefire guarantees as Israel intensifies Gaza attacks | Al Jazeera
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- Clashes, bombing in Khan Younis
- Israeli forces kill 18 Palestinians in Gaza since dawn
- Hamas seeks ceasefire guarantees as more are killed in Gaza
- WATCH: Israel strikes Gaza school as more than 300 Palestinians killed in 48 hours
- Israeli forces fire on Palestinians during confrontations with Israeli settlers

#Palestine #Gaza #Israel
@palestine


LIVE: Hamas seeks ceasefire guarantees as Israel intensifies Gaza attacks

US President Donald Trump to host Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu next week to push for ceasefire.
Alastair McCready (Al Jazeera)

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Europe Must Get Off the Sidelines in the Middle East: The EU Needs a More Assertive Plan for the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

The European Union has rarely played more than an auxiliary role in helping resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, in spite of its multifaceted presence in the region.
Josep Borrell Fontelles and Kalypso Nicolaidis (Foreign Affairs Magazine)

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WION ‘Game Plan’: With a Friend Like US and Enemy Like Russia - What Are Kyiv's Options? gilbertdoctorow.substack.com/p…

WION ‘Game Plan’: With a Friend Like US and Enemy Like Russia - What Are Kyiv's Options?

With nearly 10 million subscribers, India’s largest English-language global broadcaster, WION (stands for ‘the World is One’) is an important media force.
Gilbert Doctorow (Armageddon Newsletter)

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I'm impressed by Rambo III for DOS

Rambo III for DOS genuinely surprised me.

I’d previously played the Commodore 64 version—a predictable top-down shooter with decent graphics for the old brown breadbox, but nothing remarkable.

The DOS version, released in 1989, really stands out. It supports VGA graphics and AdLib sound, delivering crisp colors and catchy music that were impressive for the time.

What blew me away, though, was the control options. Not only does it support keyboard and joystick, but you can also move and shoot using the mouse—a rarity for the platform back then. Even better, it actually works pretty well by the standards of the day.

Rambo III came out in many versions: arcade, Master System, Genesis. The computer versions are mostly similar, each carrying quirks unique to their platforms—you could find it on Atari ST, Amiga, MSX, C64, Amstrad CPC, and even ZX Spectrum.

The DOS release covers CGA, EGA, and VGA graphics modes plus a variety of sound options, offering a surprisingly eclectic experience. While critics favored the Genesis version, I think the DOS port holds its own. It’s more than playable and can deliver some solid fun.

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So when I went to Canada a month ago it felt like we were on the brink of WW3 but now I'm back and in Washington DC to do some production stuff for 4th of July and aside from heavily opinionated stickers on lamp posts, everything seems... fine? People are talking about some kind of bill that got a validation stamp. I'm not sure what it's about though. Maybe I should turn on the news.
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Interview: Kshama Sawant on Zohran Mamdani: Winning requires a "fighting strategy", namely, understanding that:

Capitalism is a zero-sum game - You cannot hope to win substantial reforms for working class people by imagining you can sweet talk billionaires into agreement.

In addition, the duopoly, despite their differences, represents billionaires.

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#ZohranMamdani #USPol #EuroPol #Plutocracy .

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Will Zohran Mamdani Empower or Betray the Working Class? (w/ Kshama Sawant) | The Chris Hedges Report

While Zohran Mamdani's victory warrants celebration, groundbreaking socialist campaigns of the past have fallen short on their promises to working people. Will Mamdani's movement suffer the same fate?
Chris Hedges (The Chris Hedges Report)

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DrALJONES

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Mamdani’s alignment with the Democratic Party is a worry.

"Goundbreaking campaigns, like those of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez & Bernie Sanders, have fallen short of delivering promises for working-class people once in office."

“The Democratic Party is a party of capitalism itself. The working class loses out more & more & is subjected to more & more misery with every passing decade."

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#democraticSocialism #Mamdani #USPol #NYCMayoralRace #Racism #Plutocracy .


Will Zohran Mamdani Empower or Betray the Working Class? (w/ Kshama Sawant) | The Chris Hedges Report

While Zohran Mamdani's victory warrants celebration, groundbreaking socialist campaigns of the past have fallen short on their promises to working people. Will Mamdani's movement suffer the same fate?
Chris Hedges (The Chris Hedges Report)

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DrALJONES

@violetmadder

I take your point. However, sweetheart deals over decades with the billionaire class have clearly made things worse for the working class.

Imo, there's no alternative to fighting this fascist, likely psychopathic class.

And there're only several hundred of them. Their entire operation could be shut down by people power - massive strikes, mass disobedience, massive BDS, etc etc etc.

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DrALJONES

@Miro_Collas @violetmadder

Imo, generalising about "all those billions" isn't useful.

Only by understanding specific dynamics can we design specific solutions.

THE twin main reasons for the maga vote are:

Dem leadership abandoned the working class

Thus abandoned, millions of gullible & desperate people put their only hope into a lying narcissistic psychopath.

The bulk of the blame is on the billionaire-bought Dem leadership, not on ppl just doing what they think will save their families.

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DrALJONES

@Miro_Collas

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Research shows Trump's base is mainly poorer, less educated, white men who're enraged at being abandoned by the "elites".

Arguably, the maga base's gullibility & ignorance is related to Dem leadership's 50 years obeying the ruling-class assault on public education.*

juancole.com/2024/11/retributi…

* Re 1970s plan to destroy public education:

AUR 64, 1, 2022, 65-9 (scroll to p. 65):

issuu.com/nteu/docs/aur_64_01

@violetmadder .


AUR 64 01

Australian Universities' Review, vol. 64, no. 1
Issuu
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I've been encountering a lot of vocally religious people recently and it's catching me off guard because in my brain, any version of "god" is synonymous with "the tooth fairy" so I'm standing there perplexed why an adult is talking to me about how they're basking in the tooth fairy's love and how the tooth fairy is the ultimate power in the universe and how even me not believing in the tooth fairy is all part of the tooth fairy's plan for my character arc. As for me, I can neither confirm nor deny that the tooth fairy exists. I just simply accept that certain things are unknowable and while lore to explain it all is certainly interesting, I will never consider it historical fact.
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It is not useful to understand the content of the Hannya Shingyo,

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#zen #meditation #silence #sutra


Do Not Name

It is not useful to understand the content of the Hannya Shingyo,reciting the sounds of this text is enough to orient the soul/consciousness of the disciple in the direction of the teachings.Zen is…
Notes & Silence

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Une très large partie de ce que l’on nomme ‘religion » relève en réalité de l’univers mental.

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#religion #spiritualité #prière #méditation #silence


Attachement Au Cadre

Une très large partie de ce que l’on nomme ‘religion » relève en réalité de l’univers mental.Une très grande partie de ce que l’on nomme « conversion » relève en réalité de la substitution d’un uni…
Notes & Silence

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Tomorrow is July 4th in America. Should you celebrate? You can celebrate that we once took down a tyrant, and that we should do it again, yes. Meanwhile, here is James Earl Jones reading Frederick Douglass’ speech about the 4th of July. youtube.com/watch?v=O0baE_CtU0…

“What to the Slave is 4th of July?”: James Earl Jones Reads Frederick Douglass’s Historic Speech

In a Fourth of July holiday special, we hear the words of Frederick Douglass. Born into slavery around 1818, Douglass became a key leader of the abolitionist...
YouTube

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How Jews Cheated on the SAT and Infiltrated the Ivy League Schools - Christians for Truth

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How Jews Cheated on the SAT and Infiltrated the Ivy League Schools - Christians for Truth

Historically, very few Jews could get into Ivy League schools — not because of “antisemitism” as many Jews claim — but rather because they just weren’t smart enough, which was reflected in their poor performance on the SAT test.
CFT Team (Christians for Truth)

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The state is attacking our movement because we represent a real challenge – interview with Chris Nineham | Counterfire

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The state is attacking our movement because we represent a real challenge – interview with Chris Nineham 

Chris Nineham is facing trial with PSC Director Ben Jamal on 7 July in relation to the national Palestine protest on 18 January.
Counterfire

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House Passes Trump's 'Big Beautiful Bill' After Conservative 'Goodies' Stripped by Senate

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House Passes Trump's 'Big Beautiful Bill' After Conservative 'Goodies' Stripped by Senate

Republicans went ahead and passed President Trump's 'Big Beautiful Bill' in the House on Thursday despite most of the 'goodies' in the bill for conservatives having been st
InformationLiberation

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‘Grooming gangs’: racist scapegoating to cover state failures | Counterfire

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‘Grooming gangs’: racist scapegoating to cover state failures 

Terina Hine takes apart the racist narrative around ‘grooming gangs’  A girl aged ten dismissed as a prostitute, police calling abused girls ‘slags’ and their abuse a ‘lifestyle choice’, children arrested for being ‘drunk and disorderly’ yet not t…
Counterfire

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#1988
Daylight, spent the night without you
But I've been dreamin' 'bout the lovin' you do
I'm over bein' angry 'bout the hell you put me through
Gary Ryan [Moss], American rock bassist (Joan Jett & The Blackhearts) is 61
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Joan Jett & the Blackhearts - I Hate Myself for Loving You (Official Video)

Official Video for "I Hate Myself For Loving You” by Joan Jett & the BlackheartsListen to Joan Jett & the Blackhearts: https://JJatBH.lnk.to/streamYD Subscri...
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Trump Announces He's Working on Mass Amnesty Plan for Illegal Aliens After Passing 'Big Beautiful Bill'

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Trump Announces He's Working on Mass Amnesty Plan for Illegal Aliens After Passing 'Big Beautiful Bill'

In his first speech after the House passed his 'Big Beautiful Bill,' President Trump on Thursday announced he's working on a mass amnesty for potentially millions of illega
InformationLiberation

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The rise of fascism is a boon for tech oligarchs, who bet their future on forever wars and AI-powered, police-state surveillance. The billionaire nerds are now selling killing people with the same zeal they sold iPads.

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Military leaders aghast as Meta founder Zuckerberg crashes classified Oval Office meeting on fighter jets: report

Facebook mogul’s sudden appearance is increasingly typical of freewheeling West Wing during Donald Trump’s second term, which president has reportedly nicknamed ‘Grand Central Terminal’
Andrew Feinberg (The Independent)

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In “The Red Devil” a play written by Antoine Rault there is a conversation between Colbert (Minister of Finance under Louis XIV) and Mazarin. The contents of this exchange have gone into the annals of history > Colbert: “When trying to find money, there is always a moment when messing about is no longer enough. Please, Lord High Treasurer, tell me how one can manage to spend more when already up to one’s neck in debt…” -Mazarin: “When you are a simple mortal, of course, and swamped in debt, you are sent to prison but the State… well the State is a different kettle of fish. The State cannot be thrown in prison. And so the debt increases! Every State does that.” Colbert: “Oh really? Is that what you think? However, we need money and how can you find any when you’ve already devised every imaginable tax?” -Mazarin: “We create others”. Colbert: “We can’t tax the poor more than we do already.” -Mazarin: “Yes, that’s true.” Colbert: «So, what about the rich?» -Mazarin: «We can’t tax the rich either. They would stop spending. A rich person who spends feeds hundreds of poor people». Colbert: “So, what should we do?” -Mazarin: “Colbert, your reasoning is completely illogical! Lots of people are neither one thing nor the other, neither poor, nor rich… French people work in the hope of becoming rich but dreading being poor! Those are the people we should be taxing, more and more! They are the ones! The more you take from them, the more they work to make up for it… That well never runs dry.”

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Some people talk about minimizing social media time and the associated doomscrolling, but every day Mastodon reminds me of how many kind, caring people there are. And how many I'm privileged to know on here. (And how many have adorable cats. Or dogs. Or goats.) People who appreciate the beauty around us; people who want to save the environment; people who want a good life for everyone.

It lifts me up, even when the news is horrific. Thank you all.

#Mastodon #SocialMedia

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Feeling overwhelmed, like the worst of us make the rules for the rest of us? Like empathy feels like a curse right now? It just hurts, and you feel helpless?

You are worth fighting for. Sometimes winning doesn't look glamorous, it just looks like not giving up. Care for yourself, for the ones you love, being strong and feeling strong are not the same thing, just don't quit. I love you all, I'm sorry it's hard, but we need each other, community is essential.

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Deutschland mit seinem fanatischen und für normale Menschen unverständlichen Beharren auf Völkermordkomplizenschaft immer weiter isoliert:

"Austria, Germany and Switzerland were the only countries to publicly support Israel." mastodon.social/@Jinjirrie/114…

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2025-07-04 04:18:44

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Criminal, genocidal Israel on the nose at #Eurovision -

'a vote would likely have gone against #Israel.'

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Israel narrowly avoids Eurovision suspension: 'If war drags on, staying in will be di

At a tense EBU meeting in London no vote was held on Israel’s expulsion from Eurovision, offering a temporary victory—despite mounting pressure from countries like Iceland and Slovenia and warnings about future participation
Ran Boker (ynetnews)

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33 year old political candidate says we should not have billionairres

There are also 33 degrees in Scottish Rite Fremasonry

m.youtube.com/watch?v=zczuvHEM…


Zohran Mamdani says, ’I don’t think that we should have billionaires’: Full interview

New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani talks about his campaign promises, criticisms over his tax plan and charges of antisemitism, during an exclusi...
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Today when about to start one of the shows on my stage at this festival, an intern who looked like she must still be in high school full out dropped and busted one of the cameras another team was supposed to be recording with. She was clearly horrified and on the verge of tears but luckily her supervisor was very chill about it basically saying "ya live and ya learn!" I think that's great because that's exactly what I was thinking but I also know that if I were 17 I'd be thinking my life was over. 😅

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<<Can Europe Build Its Own Atomic Arsenal?>>

Sure it can. But the question is, can it do that powering the enrichment and reprocessing infrastructure with windmills while making sure a sea turtle doesn poke it's eye out with a plastic straw? 🤔

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Can Europe Build Its Own Atomic Arsenal

Following the Russian invasion of Ukraine and the on-and-off Russian nuclear threats, scholars have been analyzing Europe's defense capabilities against Moscow's huge nuclear warhead fleet.
Tsvetana Paraskova (OilPrice.com)
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Nanook

@pat There are enough nukes that would lead to at the very least the entire collapse of civilization. Keep in mind the average H-bomb is between 100kt and 10mt though over 50mt bombs have been exploded. This makes Hiroshima and Nagasaki look like a fire cracker, and the Russians have 5000 or so, not sure what our current count is, and it's hard to say how accurate either is, but suffice it to say it would not be good for humanity. There is the nuclear winter theory, it's hard to know exactly how much dust would be churned into the upper atmosphere for how long, there is just how large of an area would be rendered uninhabitable after the explosion of all arsenals. These are all things that speculating on in detail is somewhat fruitless and there are some scientific experiments that are better left untried.
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Caleb James DeLisle

I'm not convinced. The earth is massive, there are a lot of people living in mountains who will never really be affected by anything. They're going to keep reproducing and keep teaching their kids how to read and write. What's really at risk is long and complex supply chains - especially those which depend on esoteric knowledge, like chip fabs. That said, there's a pretty good chance of those surviving as well, because while it is esoteric, it's also going to be the second thing every remaining country thinks of, after "food, water, shelter"...
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pat

@cjd @nanook yeah, I mean it sure wouldn't be easy and average lifespan would go down to like 20, maybe 30 years, but we'll definitely recover eventually. And considering that practicality every human society in recorded history developed some form of written language within like 1000 years sinc domestication of plants and animals became a thing, I'm not very concerned there with.
We are way more resilient bunch than most of us realize.
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pat

@cjd @nanook oh absolutely. The high-trust city folk will be wiped out, that's fosho. After all, when you hit the big red button you target the population centers. Seems kinda obvious.
I'll prolly be relatively good, at least for a while. Have a chunk of strategically insignificant land in the shithole of the Philippines. Even made friends with the local tribesmen and their shaman. We can start repopulating right there lol
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Nanook

@pat @Caleb James DeLisle In another half billion years our Sun will have expanded to the point where it boils all the oceans off and fries any remaining life. So my take is we had better develop interplanetary and even intersolar ability soon or assuming somehow we don't kill ourselves off sooner surely we and all other life here will disappear then. It's a bit depressing to me that we haven't discovered intelligent life elsewhere because I'm not sure it exists here.
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Nanook

@pat Based upon present day genetic variety, and I know visually it appears there is a lot but really it's very little for a species of our complexity, it is estimated that between 900,000 to 800,000 years ago there were fewer than 1000 individuals world-wide and that condition persisted for 100,000 years, so yea we "survived" but by a hair, and now are genetic diversity is reduced to the point where our ability survive something of similar severity would be doubtful.

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Business is really booming for me right now. 👀 I keep half joking about needing to find a real job at some point but it has kind of hit me that somehow all these not real jobs have become a vocation of sorts because people will ask me an obvious question about... whatever it is... and I'll think "how could they not know this?" then I realize "oh I'm only thinking this because I've been doing this for ten years and this is their first time."
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Debt Bomb Passes: Trump’s ‘Beautiful Bill’ Edges House Despite GOP Rebels - On July 3, the U.S. House of Representatives narrowly passed President Donald Trum... - news.bitcoin.com/debt-bomb-pas… #donaldtrump #economics #congress

Debt Bomb Passes: Trump's 'Beautiful Bill' Edges House Despite GOP Rebels – Economics Bitcoin News

Republican opposition to the bill centered around the proposed deep Medicaid cuts and fears that it could increase the national debt.
Terence Zimwara (Bitcoin News)

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Israel strikes Gaza school as over 300 Palestinians killed in 48 hours
https://www.aljazeera.com/video/newsfeed/2025/7/3/israel-strikes-gaza-school-as-over-300-palestinians-killed-in-48-hours?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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Israel strikes Gaza school as over 300 Palestinians killed in 48 hours

Books and clothes were scattered amongst the rubble after Israel’s deadly attack on a school sheltering Palestinian fami
Al Jazeera

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Dieter Hallervorden - Frieden ist ein Meisterstück der Vernunft


Dieter #Hallervorden bei der Friedensprozession am 18. April 2025 in Dresden
Die Schauspiel- und Kabarett-Legende Dieter 'Didi' #Hallervorden liess sich per Video zur #Friedensdemo in #Dresden zuschalten. Darin spricht er sich klar gegen die #Kriegstreiberei der Regierung und den von #Israel verübten Genozid in #Gaza aus.

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Lily Allen ‘can’t remember’ how many abortions she’s had after getting pregnant ‘all the time’.
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Lily Allen ‘can’t remember’ how many abortions she’s had after getting pregnant ‘all the time’

‘I remember once getting pregnant and the man paying for my abortion, and me thinking it was so romantic,’ Allen recalled on Tuesday’s episode of her podcast
Brittany Miller (The Independent)

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And those can be delivered now and probably operational within a few months unlike any nuclear “solution”. #nonukes #auspol

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'Watershed moment': Big battery storage prices hit record low in huge China auction

The price for big battery storage modules have hit a record low in the latest giant auction in China, where more than 70 bidders competed for 25 gigawatt hours of capacity in what is being described as a “watershed moment” for the industry.
johnmenadue.com
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