AFP: UN special rapporteur says the world has entered a "new dark age of abuses in the name of countering terrorism", with the United States "raining death" on Iran and Venezuela.
Turning the world over to madmen. That is what is happening. Madmen.
Ben Rhodes: The reorientation of the Gulf away from a reckless and dishonest US is going to be a lasting consequence of this war.
Reflecting on current political life, what a stupid time to be alive
Every time I think the US has hit maximum insanely stupid, they somehow surprise me again😵💫 #Cdnpoli #FBI #Alphamale
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Just stumbling around trying to figure out how the world works.
🚨The US was the only country to vote AGAINST a women’s rights document adopted at the UN Commission on the Status of Women.
The text focuses on justice for survivors of gender-based violence & strengthening gender-responsive legal systems.
✍️ @kerrycullinan.bsky.social
@unwomen.bsky.social
📖⬇️ & 🔁
President Macron making the case for renewables in light of the US-Israeli attack on Iran,
"Everything we do to move towards transition is also about reducing our dependence and therefore our exposure to geopolitical risks"
“.. The US and Israel ‘must consider the possibility that they will be engaged in a long-term war of attrition that will destroy the entire American economy and the world economy.’”
- Ali Fadavi, advisor to the Revolutionary Guards' commander-in-chief
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You can have the best armed forces in the history of the world, but if you are an incompetent criminal without a plan, you can still lose a war, and rather quickly.
#EconSky
The International Energy Agency will approve the release of 400m barrels of oil to offset the supply lost through the "effective closure" of the Strait of Hormuz
He says IEA countries voted "unanimously" to launch the "largest ever release of emergency oil stocks in our agency's history"
This is hilarious.
Also, completely enraging.
Minister of National Defence David McGuinty speaks during an announcement at the National Research Council Flight Research Lab in Ottawa on Monday, March 9, 2026. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Justin Tang
Let's do this #Ottawa - at least for this summer, reduce your car-dependency
G7 to discuss release of emergency oil reserves as price tops $100
Additionally, the US is now allowing India to buy Russian oil, bonus oil prices are high too.
Just announced: Iceland has urgently moved up its referendum to join the European Union - to 29 August.
A reminder: 🇮🇸 is in many ways already a non-voting 🇪🇺 member because of the EEA. This would give them voting power to shape the laws they have to follow.
Hard to have a functioning society with this core belief, which explains why citizens don't look out for each other (taxes, healthcare, safety nets)
Time series plot depicting predicted Nino 3.4 region ocean temperature anomalies from the latest (Mar 2026) ECMWF ensemble. It depicts an extremely rapid rise in such temperatures, from modest negative anomalies to strong positive anomalies, by mid-summer 2026--indicative of a transition from weak-moderate La Nina conditions to moderate-strong El Nino conditions over just a few months.
Whew.
All signs are increasingly pointing to a significant, if not strong to very strong, El Niño event. I'll have more to say in coming weeks & months, but for now I'll just say that this is increasingly likely to become a major regional-to-global climate driver in 2026-2027.
🎯 Exactly
Americans are insane 😵💫
@maxfawcett.bsky.social timeline if everything goes to plan,contrustrution begins within 2 years, finished major milestones in 5 to 10 years?
Alberta Separatist tells Albertans to trust me with your money, CPP to APP 🙄 #Cdnpoli
If this isn’t one of the biggest stories of the day, then it should be.
Americans are stranded in the Middle East because of Donald Trump’s war in Iran, but they’re flying out MAGA “influencers” on private jets?
⚡️ NATO intercepts Iranian missile heading toward Turkey in first such incident.
"We reserve the right to respond to any hostile attitude towards our country," Turkey's Defense Ministry said.
so Iran has apparently knocked out and destroyed / disabled to some extent two U.S. THAAD batteries
This is a massive deal. Aside from the expense, this is not a weapon system we just have a ton of lying around. You don't replace these easily.
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Rubio says we have to go to war with Iran because it's run by religious fanatics... and that's why Hegseth is busy telling the troops that we're going to war because Jesus says we need to in order to bring about the End Times and Armageddon. It all makes perfect sense now.
Ottawa has asked Oman to use its airspace to evacuate Canadians
#cdnpoli
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