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Super startup Northvolt, the West's last hope for "Showing the Chinese How to Make Batteries", succumbed to bankruptcy.

The documents say that as of Thursday morning, the company has $ 30 million in accounts and in cash, which, literally, "will not be enough for operational activities for the next week." And yes, they invested 15 billion dollars there. Among investors: Volkswagen, Goldman Sachs and BlackRock, plus government subsidies from Germany and Canada.

They screwed up everything - overestimated their abilities and potential, believed the unrealistic promises "we are about to develop technologies and tear everyone up" (see "fake it until you make it" ), the management was slow and rigid, and the graft, apparently was off the charts.

They had so many hopes. "Yes, the Swedes! Let them crush the Chinese! Yes, Swedes are the real technological giant! Yes, investments! Yes, Scandinavian quality! Yes, the Chinese are doomed!"
Yeah, that's right...

The question "What happened to the Elon Musk's fairy-tale factory, which was positioned to produce 40% of the world's batteries?" has not been asked for a while. Now the time has come to say good-bye to the 'Nordic volt" as well.

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Zarael@Zarael
August 18, 2026
The South German / Swiss Duran Meeting - Save The Date

My Fellow Duranians.

You chose the date and I´ll try and find the place:

Saturday, September 12, 2026 at 14:00 CET - that´s 2 pm Zurich time.

I´m looking at the location Konzil Konstanz which is very close to the main train station as well as directly on the shoreline of Lake Constance on the Swiss German border city of Constance.
Reservations must be made so I am asking those of you who know they will attend to please acknowledge your intention of coming either in the comment section or in the poll which I will be putting up for a week, as I understand that many are still on holidays and might not see this until the return.
Looking forward to meeting some of you there and here is a link to where you can already glimpse at the location.

https://www.konzil-konstanz.de/

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MsTexasG@MsTexasG
6 hours ago

I admit no in-depth knowledge of Ukraine or its history. What I know of it I have learned over the past decade. Mostly because of our (US) meddling in their affairs.

I said after Boris Johnson relayed the message from MI6/CIA to Zelenskyy to fight on and don’t negotiate, it was obvious to a lot of people that the only way this issue is solved is to take all of Ukraine.

MI6/CIA are desperate to break up Russia. Taking all of Ukraine is was and ever shall be the only way Russia survives.

Some People said…the Ukrainians in the west will fight against the Russians. The Europeans counted on it. So they kept pushing until multiple millions of the Ukraine sons were slaughtered after which they realized they just wanted peace which I also said would happen.

Not because I know so much about Ukrainians but rather because I know human nature. Speaking a different language doesn’t make you love your family or your people any less.

I knew at some point this show of defiance would happen. Will ...

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Zarael@Zarael
June 17, 2024
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A quick commentary on the "Piss Summit"
I might not be able to upload much more or do lives for a while

My Fellow Duranianss.

Yes, it's happened again. I have been assaulted by a vicious Malware Bot Virus or whatever 911 Socks is and this thing is bad ! 

However I wanted to give you a "peace" of my mind concerning the "Piece" or piss, as Elensky calls it, as this thing fell to pieces before it even happened.

Coincidentally on the very SAME DAY  this crap happened Saudi Arabia DROPPED the US Petrodollar as a buying currency and NO ONE absolutely NO ONE is talking about this fact anywhere !!!

 

Hope to see you all asap.

 

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The Duran@theduran
September 29, 2023
Locals Community Private Telegram Messaging

Locals will be sunsetting the private messaging feature throughout the Locals website. In order to keep our private messaging active we have created a private Telegram messaging group called 'The Duran Locals.'

This is a private channel open only to our Locals subscriber community. In the private Telegram group you can send a message to the group or a private message to Alex or Alexander via a direct Telegram message. 

You can access Telegram for web, desktop or mobile here: https://telegram.org/

The link for this Telegram group is below (can be viewed by community subscribers).

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