Yep. Lot of hoops to jump through. Because the gas needs to be purified, temp reduced to scary low numbers to liquify. Special ships to transport because it must hold the liquid gas but also keep it liquid at those minus unbelievable temps all while in transit. Then the whole thing in reverse when it gets to europe. There is whole process for reversing back to gas. You need pipelines coming into the port to process on this side and then when it is converted back into gas in europe you need pipelines leading out. So a lot of what gets called "port storage facilities" is much, much more than that because that is where the processing is done too. It's not just like building more docks type of thing. With all the pipelines involved bringing too and fro the processing there are an unlimited number of environmental issues and lawsuits. One kind of president can make some things happen by declaring certain economic hardship and emergencies. Another type could be beholden to the green deal types. I will keep my comments generic but viewers can wonder along with me as to what we have now.
(Daily Upside) INTERNATIONAL FINANCE Russia’s Stock Market is Open Again, Larry Fink Says the World Will Never Be the Same After a month of suspended trading, the Moscow Stock Exchange reopened Thursday, albeit with restrictions so severe the White House called it a “charade.” While shares rose, foreign investors’ holdings remain frozen and short selling is banned. Meanwhile, Larry Fink, the head of the world’s largest asset manager BlackRock, said investors should get used to the political fragmentation creeping into markets, calling it the end of globalization as we know it. “A Potemkin Market Reopening” After the 9/11 attack, the New York Stock Exchange closed for just four days. In other words, Moscow’s market closure — the longest in the country’s modern history — was extraordinary. Even with 24 days of closure to prepare, the Moscow Exchange was still only able to stage a partial reopening Thursday: • Of the 50 stocks on the Russian benchmark MOEX Index, 33 resumed trading during a condensed four-hour session. The index rallied 4.4%, with oil producers Gazprom and Rosneft and financial firms Sberbank and VTB Bank back on the market, but it’s still down 30% this year and is being propped up by a promised $10 billion in support from Russia’s sovereign wealth fund. • Foreign investors remain banned from selling shares until April 1 — hopefully, that's not a prank — and all money involved in trading has to stay in Russia, even if investors cash out. Foreign investors hold $86 billion in Russian equities, according to Moscow Exchange data. “What we’re seeing is a charade, a Potemkin market reopening," said Daleep Singh, the White House's deputy national security adviser. The New Normal: BlackRock chairman Larry Fink argued Thursday in his annual shareholders' letter that the fragmentation in global markets is here to stay. “The Russian invasion of Ukraine has put an end to the globalization we have experienced over the last three decades,” he wrote, adding “companies and governments will also be looking more broadly at their dependencies on other nations.” What could that ultimately mean? Fink said beware of more inflation as a result of “large-scale reorientation of supply chains” and watch digital currencies, which may emerge as a stable way of handling international transactions.
Moscow suffers IT 'brain drain' putting it at risk of cyber attacks TENS of thousands of IT experts have fled Russia, leaving the regime open toWestern cyber assaults, analysts say. https://www.express.co.uk/news/worl...ine-war-cyber-attacks-brain-drain-news-latest While much has been made of Moscow's ability to conduct cyber warfare, a brain drain means its own defences may be weak. But experts warn Vladimir Putin may try to infiltrate government operatives among those leaving to "create havoc in theWest". At least 70,000 tech experts, mostly programmers, have left since the invasion of Ukraine began a month ago. This figure may rise to 100,000 by next month, according to the Russia Association for Electronic Communications, as sanctions cause a shortage of critical software with no Russian-made alternatives yet on the horizon. While most may head for former Soviet republics such as Georgia and Armenia, others are expected to venture further west where job prospects and pay are better. The exodus has pushed forward plans by 'Kremlin is desperate to stem the exodus' Putin to "insulate" Russia from the worldwide web in order to protect it from Western cyber activities by as much as 10 years, according to some experts. So desperate is he to stem the tide that he has even offered to give IT experts exemption from conscripted military service to persuade them to stay. But Russia's offensive cyber capabilities remain unchanged. In a warning last week, the Foreign Office revealed Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) was behind a "historic global campaign" targeting critical infrastructure. According to the National Cyber security Centre it is now almost certain the FSB's Centre 16 has been using hacker group names such as Energetic Bear, Berserk Bear and Crouching Yeti to target critical IT systems and national infrastructure in Europe, the Americas and Asia. Targets include the energy and aviation sectors. Worryingly, experts last night warned that Putin could now insert state agents and operatives into the exodus' of programmers to "cause havoc" in theWest". "Insulati" Russia from the worldwide web has already required a lot of manpower, time and money, and it is going to be much more problematic now for Putin," said Hans Horan, cyber expert with intelligence consultancy Sibylline "What we're seeing is an actual brain drain and it will have serious consequences for Russian plans to protect itself. "IT specialists are the last line of defence. If you don't have enough it makes it much easier to hack into Russian companies which may or may not have links with the government . "Groups like Anonymous aren't the most technically skilled but if you have a soft underbelly in terms of IT, this may be the break they need for more disruptive attacks. It gives the opportunity to be bolder in terms of targeting." Mr Horan added: "We also need to ask ourselves at what point does Putin try to exploit this exodus? It cannot be unthinkable 'He could exploit this with sleeper agents' that he tries to slip in government trained and sponsored IT specialists to gain a foothold in the West and cause havoc."
FCC adds Kaspersky to its list of national security threats https://www.theverge.com/2022/3/26/22997532/fcc-kaspersky-list-national-security-threats-huawei-zte
Lets see, most of the malware attacking the world is Russian in origin and the best security against it is… Russian. It kind makes sense to make your own market.
Even if it were the absolute best antivirus- debatable- and even if it were totally safe and not being abused by Russian bad actors- debatable- nevertheless it should be shunned simply because we don't want any Russian shiite. No other reason is necessary.