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ALT Article from the Guardian from Feb 2025: " It could take 20 years for GB Energy to meet its pledge to employ 1,000 people, its chair acknowledged on Monday. Jürgen Maier also refused to put a date on when it would bring down energy bills. GB Energy is a vital cog in Keir Starmer’s plans to boost renewable energy and reduce household bills. The agency was set up after Labour’s general election win, with the decision made last year to headquarter it in Aberdeen – the oil and gas capital of Europe – and the ambition of cutting costs for consumers. Maier said the Labour-backed organisation would create 200 to 300 roles in Aberdeen over the next five years."

ALT Article text from CNN: Hillary Clinton and her husband, former President Bill Clinton, combined to earn more than $153 million in paid speeches from 2001 until Hillary Clinton launched her presidential campaign last spring, a CNN analysis shows. In total, the two gave 729 speeches from February 2001 until May, receiving an average payday of $210,795 for each address. The two also reported at least $7.7 million for at least 39 speeches to big banks, including Goldman Sachs and UBS, with Hillary Clinton, the Democratic 2016 front-runner, collecting at least $1.8 million for at least eight speeches to big banks.

ALT Text from the Guardian politics liveblog: Putin 'prevaricating' and 'obfuscating' over peace in Ukraine, David Lammy tells MPs Vladimir Putin is “prevaricating” and “obfuscating” in peace talks with Ukraine, David Lammy has told MPs. Speaking during questions in the Commons, the foreign secretary said: We welcome the desires to get an enduring peace, but there must be a ceasefire in order to engage in those talks it seems to me, and it is Putin that is prevaricating, it is Putin that is obfuscating and we must call that out with our long experience of scrutinising that particular individual.

ALT from Rolling Stone: Musk is apparently amused by the unrest. Aside from his public memeing, when he has privately messaged associates and confidants about reports from federal staffers about how their lives have been wrecked, the Tesla CEO has been known to react with laugh-crying emojis, according to a source with direct knowledge of the matter.
























