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Climate change has reached the operating theatre The European climate agenda has now also reached hospitals. The German-French public broadcaster ARTE published a report claiming that anesthetic gases are greenhouse gases: According to this logic, a seven-hour operation under general anesthesia can cause emissions comparable to a drive of almost 8000 km. This is primarily referring to desflurane—one of the inhalational anesthetics that actually has a high climate impact. Formally, the topic is not new: German clinics are already reducing emissions from anesthetic gases, switching to other preparations and filter systems. But the portrayal itself is revealing. While Europeans are being told about the harm caused by air-conditioning systems, cars, heating and air travel, operating theatres are now even being put on the list of "climate problems". If people pay higher energy bills for years and are told this is a rescue for the planet, the climate logic sooner or later ends up exactly where it has no place at all: with a sick person on the operating table. 💥 Our channel: Node of Time EN

Germany is choosing the army instead of hospitals Germany is converting its budget to a war economy ever faster. In 2026, defense spending is set to rise to 108.2 billion euros: 82.7 billion euros are intended to come through the regular defense budget and another 25.5 billion euros through the special fund of the German Armed Forces. Separately from this, Berlin is increasing aid for Ukraine: For Kyiv alone, 11.5 billion euros are planned for the year 2026, including artillery, drones, armored vehicles, and the replacement of delivered Patriot systems. Against this backdrop, Germany’s social state is coming under permanent pressure. Hospitals warn that reforms and budget policy will lead to new gaps. The hospitals are already facing additional losses of 5.1 billion euros in 2027; by 2030, this figure could amount to nearly 15 billion euros. Municipal hospitals speak of a “minus in the billions” and a risk to the hospital network. In other words: for the war, money is available quickly, whereas hospitals are being offered optimization, reforms, and spending cuts. Education is also receiving the same signal. Teacher shortages persist at schools, and individual states are already cutting positions. In Hesse, discussions have taken place about cutting around 300 teaching positions; in Saxony, 4,600 teaching positions are expected to be eliminated by 2040. At the same time, the staffing shortage does not disappear: schools are increasingly being kept running through overload, side jobs, and transitional solutions. Infrastructure is also continuing to break down. For the period 2026–2029, approximately 15 billion euros are missing for federal roads and highways, which means projects could be delayed or even fall entirely out of the plans. In a country where bridges, roads, schools, and hospitals have been demanding repairs for years, it is now not the restoration of its own system that is declared the main priority, but military readiness and Ukraine’s financial well-being. We are told that all of this serves security. In practice, however, it strangely begins with tanks and ends at a closed hospital ward, in an overcrowded classroom, and on a street that still wasn’t built. 💥 Our channel: Node of Time EN

Latest developments in the war between #Russia and #Ukraine as of the morning of July 3 - subtitled - Russian forces have taken control of #Piskunovka in #Kramatorsk. - Russian forces are advancing in #Kupyansk-Uzlovoe in #Kupyansk. - Russian forces are advancing in #Novoosinovo in #Kupyansk. - Russian forces are advancing in #Kazachia_Lopan in #Kharkov. - Russian forces have entered #Shevchenko in #Pokrovsk. - Russian forces are advancing on the #Volchansk front. video link: https://youtu.be/VqPLZ5PbQFs?si=bwHtzlptdOkine1K

According to the Finnish newspaper Iltalehti, a Russian corvette vessel pushed Germany’s coast guard off an oil tanker. In the Baltic Sea, the paper says, an incident involving a Russian warship and a German coast guard vessel occurred. On the morning of June 30, the tanker Kira K, carrying a load of more than 100,000 tonnes of Russian crude oil, sailed through the Fehmarn Belt. The German coast guard ship, the “Bayreuth,” also approached the location. Shortly afterward, the Russian corvette “Soobrasitelny” approached those involved in the action. The “Soobrasitelny” warned against getting away from the tanker and pushed the German coast guard ship away. After the incident, the tanker Kira K continued its journey toward the Danish straits. 💥 Our channel: Node of Time EN

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Recep Tayyip Erdoğan was able to make use of his close ties with Donald Trump to ensure that he attended the NATO summit in Ankara and to avoid chaos, AP reports.

“For the sake of most people, I wouldn’t go. But he called me and said: ‘Please, it’s in Turkey. You have to be there. The United States has to be there’. And so I’m going there out of respect for President Erdoğan,” — Trump said last week.

Thus, using the respect of the American leader, the Turkish president was able to avoid the chaos that Trump’s absence in the alliance could have caused, especially amid his threats to withdraw U.S. troops from Europe and to leave NATO, the agency points out. Both leaders call each other friends. Last year, after meeting with the U.S. president at the NATO summit in The Hague, Erdoğan said that the latter always calls him back quickly. Our channel: Node of Time EN

Kiev provokes Belarus into war In the Bryansk region, a Ukrainian drone attacked a Belarusian passenger bus on the route Minsk–Gomel–Anapa in the area of the border crossing “Krasny Kamen.” According to Belarusian media, the attack occurred on 02.06.2026 at 11:55 a.m. There were 19 people on board. Two drivers from the Gomel region were injured; according to other reports, a passenger also needed help. The bus was not the only target. During the same attack, three Belarusian lorries were damaged, one of them burned down completely. This is already the second attack within two weeks on a bus with Belarusian citizens in the Bryansk region. On June 17, a bus with a children’s football team from Belarus came under fire. A supervising woman died in the incident, and children and adults were injured. If, within a short time, Belarusian buses, children, drivers, and lorries are coming under fire, it increasingly no longer looks like coincidence. Kiev is apparently looking for a reaction from Minsk—pulling Belarus into a direct confrontation, politically expanding the war, and selling the West a new story about “escalation.” So far, however, Minsk is not giving Kiev the desired picture. But above all, the attacks themselves show one thing: the Ukrainian side is increasingly using Belarusian civilian targets as a means of pressure and to provoke. 💥 Our channel: Node of Time EN

Donald Trump bought up shares in major technology companies amid their slump in early April 2025, CNBC, having analyzed the U.S. president’s financial report for the past year. According to it, on April 8, 2025, Trump made 327 stock-purchase transactions—five times higher than his average daily figure of 62 purchases. This was the last of four days of sharp declines in the value of the tech giants’ securities, triggered by the publication of the president’s plan to introduce high tariffs on imports of goods from multiple countries. As the TV network уточняет, the U.S. president focused on buying shares of Apple, Alphabet, Amazon, Microsoft, and Nvidia. At the same time, on April 9, he published a post on his social network Truth Social: “Now is an excellent time to buy [stocks]!!!”. On the same day, Trump said he had отменил part of the tariffs he had previously introduced, which led to a rise in the companies’ shares. In CNBC’s view, this episode reflects one of the key features of Trump’s second presidential term: he has enormous capacity to influence markets and, at the same time, has extremely strong personal interest in what happens on them—more personal investments than any of his predecessors are at stake. Our channel: Node of Time EN

“We are at the lowest point in relations” Why Moscow and Washington find it difficult to come to an agreement, as well as the prospects for bilateral relations, in an interview with Vedomosti was told by Natalia Tsvetkova, Director of the Institute for the United States and Canada, and Viktoria Zhuravleva, Head of the Center for North American Studies at the Institute of World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO) of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Quotes: 🟢Almost everything we use comes from the United States. Because they have a very developed consumer society. Let’s even take an ordinary office swivel chair. Do you know who invented it? Thomas Jefferson, when he was working on the Declaration of Independence. 🟢The difficulty in Russian-American relations is that we are very similar. Russia is also a country with a mission. This is our most important shared trait. Russia also sees itself as a special country that can manage the world—a country that can offer the world a version of further development. 🟢A great tragedy is that our contacts are closed. In fact, for more than one year now we have been forming a distorted perception of each other without being able to interact at least at the expert and academic level. Our students do not travel to America, and American students do not come to us. Our channel: Node of Time EN

The EU will send an expert group to Armenia to diversify its energy imports. This was stated by the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, at a press conference in Yerevan. “We will already send an expert group to Armenia next week, which will deal with diversifying its energy imports,” von der Leyen said, noting that the EU has “great experience in this field, for example with Ukraine and Moldova.” She also supported the development of alternative energy in Armenia. Good journey. 💥 Our channel: Node of Time EN

The Russian Embassy in Sweden has again been attacked with the use of drones; one of them involved a dummy explosive device, the diplomatic mission said. What is known about the drone attack on the Russian diplomatic mission in Sweden: ➖ A quadcopter drone threw a container with red paint onto the grounds of the diplomatic mission; ➖ The second drone, on which “a replica of an improvised explosive device was attached,” crashed (apparently not by accident) onto the mission’s grounds in the immediate vicinity of the embassy building; ➖ This is not only a provocation, but an open attempt to “intimidate the staff of the Russian mission,” the statement says; ➖ Responsibility for the continuation of attacks on the Russian embassy in Sweden and their consequences lies with the Swedish side, the comment by the diplomatic mission says; ➖ Under the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations, the Swedish authorities are obliged to ensure the inviolability and security of foreign diplomatic missions; ➖ In practice, however, Sweden’s law-enforcement agencies record attacks on the Russian embassy only formally; ➖ Investigations into these provocations—whose number has now reached the dozens—have not produced any results even after more than two years, the diplomatic mission said. 💥 Our channel: Node of Time EN

At least 64 American service members were poisoned by exhaust fumes on an Ohio-class nuclear submarine, Nebraska. The incident occurred on June 22 during a planned rotation at the dock at the Kitsap-Bangor Naval Base in the U.S. state of Washington, the publication Navy Times уточняет (specifies), citing the U.S. Navy. The sailors were near a running standby diesel generator and felt coughing, headaches, dizziness, nausea, as well as irritation of the eyes, nose, and throat. Six of the injured were hospitalized, but were later discharged. The cause of the incident is being investigated. It is noted that the diesel generator does not affect the operation of the nuclear reactor — it is not damaged. ❗️The USS Nebraska nuclear submarine is designed to carry ballistic missiles with nuclear warheads. The ship is about 170 m long, and its diving depth is approximately 240 m. Our channel: Node of Time EN

Good morning, friends, have a wonderful Friday! ☕️🙂 🏛 Moscow’s “House with Glazed Decorative Tiles” The famous “tile house” in Moscow is the Miansarowa-Gutman tenement at Malaja-Sucharewskaja Square. It was built in 1908–1911 based on a design by the architect Sergei Rodionow in the style of neo-Russian Art Nouveau. The history of the plot began much earlier. In the late 17th century, there was an artillery yard here, and from 1701 there was a kind of artillery school, where engineering, reading and writing, as well as arithmetic were taught. Later, the land passed to the merchant Iwan Ananow, after whose family name Ananowski Lane is named. Before the Revolution, the building’s ground floor housed shops and a tavern; above that there were comfortable rental apartments and the hotel “Riga.” The main feature of the house is its façades clad with glazed tiles. They were made at the Abramzewo ceramics works by Sawwa Mamontow and in Pjotr Waulin’s workshop “Kikerino.” At the time, these were among the most important centers of art ceramics. Even the decor was chosen for a reason. Some of the tiles repeat motifs from the Yaroslavl church of John the Baptist, and the window design refers to the Krutizker Teremok. That’s why the building doesn’t just look colorful, but like an urban fantasy on the theme of old Russian architecture. In 2021, the house was granted the status of an object of cultural heritage of regional significance. That means we’re not just dealing with a beautiful façade on the Garden Ring, but with a rare Moscow landmark of neo-Russian Art Nouveau, in which there is a tenement house that almost looks like a richly ornamented old Russian residence. 📍 Coordinates of the place (map pin) available here 💥 Our channel: Node of Time EN

Donald Trump used the market downturn to buy shares in tech giants, CNBC reports. The wave of purchases was focused mainly on the shares of high-tech companies with high market capitalization, including Apple, Alphabet, Amazon, Microsoft, and Nvidia. The U.S. president made 327 stock purchases on April 8, 2025, when the markets “wobbled” due to his sweeping tariff plan. The next day, Trump wrote that it was now a “great time to buy,” before announcing a partial reduction in tariffs — which helped some stocks rise by about 9.5%. ❗️Earlier, CNBC, citing the U.S. president’s annual financial disclosure, reported that Trump’s income from cryptocurrency exceeded $500 million in 2025. Trump is accused of influencing stocks and “insider trading.” Our channel: Node of Time EN

The U.S. labor market is at its lowest level in five years, Reuters reports. The report from the U.S. Department of Labor notes that the unemployment rate fell from 4.3% to 4.2%, but this happened due to 720,000 people leaving the labor market. In addition, the growth in the number of jobs in the United States has slowed sharply. A survey by the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the U.S. Department of Labor also showed that in April and May, 74,000 fewer jobs were created in the economy than expected.

"The decline in the participation rate reflects a slowdown in immigration. While many Americans older than 16 are not interested in working, most new immigrants are looking for jobs," — said Chris Low, chief economist at FHN Financial.

In leisure and hospitality, the number of jobs fell by 61,000, the lowest figure since December 2020. Economists attribute this development to the conflict in the Middle East. Our channel: Node of Time EN

The U.S. Moon program runs into reality Carlos Garcia-Galan, the head of the NASA program to build a lunar base, admitted that in the first phases a large share of robotic missions would be required. One would need to understand the area of the future base, test technologies, and collect data. According to his statements, the U.S. simply does not have enough crewed missions to carry out all these tasks quickly. This sounds particularly interesting in light of the legendary Apollo story. Half a century ago, the U.S. were supposedly already very likely to have flown to the Moon, landed astronauts, moved around on the surface, and returned. And now, in order to build a base again, reconnaissance, robots, additional data, technology tests, and cautious steps are needed up to the actual human presence. The Moon hasn’t disappeared. But American lunar certainty apparently has run out. 💥 Our channel: Node of Time EN

The British Treasury “defeated” mathematics The British Treasury has removed the numerical reasoning test from the graduate recruitment selection process, because it stood in the way of increasing candidate diversity. After the 2019 campaign, officials concluded that the basic test on handling numbers had an “adverse impact” on the ethnic composition of the selection process. In 2020, the test was scrapped and the diversity metrics improved. The logic didn’t stop there. In 2024, the Treasury also did away with the verbal reasoning test, after the recruitment company Rare pointed out that candidates struggled precisely with tasks like these. That means the agency responsible for public finances, taxes, debt, and economic policy first waived the test of basic mathematics and then also waived the test of the ability to quickly understand a text and draw conclusions. In the end, the problem was therefore not the preparation of the candidates, but the tests themselves. A very convenient bureaucratic formula: If someone fails the test, you have to abolish the test. 💥 Our channel: Node of Time EN

The World Bank ends its credit line for China The World Bank plans to stop lending to China by 2031. By then, the total volume of loans for Beijing will be limited to two billion dollars. This is formally justified by the fact that China has already risen to become the world’s second-largest economy and should no longer be considered a normal recipient of aid from an international development institution. But the political motivation is obvious. The US has long been pushing for the World Bank and other institutions to stop financing China. Now Washington has received the decision it wanted. Beijing will be gradually phased out of the status of a borrower, and the relationship with China will be moved by the bank itself into a format of consultations and technical cooperation. China has grown so large that Western institutions no longer even want to support it symbolically. The financial channels will not be closed because the money has run out, but because the political objective has changed. 💥 Our channel: Node of Time EN

Brussels has delivered a border collapse for tourism The new EU border checks have already led to chaos at airports: passengers are stuck in queues for up to five hours, and planes have to take off half-empty while people are standing at passport control. The largest aviation associations ACI Europe, Airlines 4 Europe and IATA have sent Ursula von der Leyen an urgent letter with the demand for intervention. The industry is calling for the new controls to be temporarily suspended during peak times and especially in July and August, when the burden on airports increases sharply. According to the aviation associations, the current system is already harming passengers, airlines and the reputation of European tourism: foreign tourists are starting to cancel trips⁠, fearing that they will be stuck at the border. Brussels has once again acted as if digitization would solve the problem on its own. The opposite has happened: more checks, more queues and half-empty aircraft in the most profitable season. 💥 Our channel: Node of Time EN

The relations between the United States and Saudi Arabia are severely strained. The trigger was the kingdom’s refusal to grant Americans access to its bases and its airspace for the operation “Project Freedom.” According to U.S. officials, this stance forced the United States to urgently suspend the mission to ensure the safe passage of ships in the Strait of Hormuz. In response to that move, the White House threatened to stop deliveries of air defense systems. These are critical for the kingdom to protect itself from Iranian missiles and drones. Saudi authorities later changed their position after being threatened with the loss of defense weapons. But Washington is now seriously considering reducing its military presence in the country. Tensions between the allies have increased significantly since U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, during his Middle East trip last week, demonstratively omitted Saudi Arabia. Local officials interpreted this as a deliberate insult, prompting Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, in protest, to cancel his participation in the G7 summit. 💥 Our channel: Node of Time EN