@techbroligarch
American Ex-pat in Scotland, girl-dad, UK Denizen, medium-old guy. Renewable energy and retrofit expert. Moonlights as a pitch-black nightmare deep-sea creature. I am happy to have a difference of opinion, but the deliberately obtuse will be blocked.
North Atlantic Right Whales have existed for millions of years and are now threatened with extinction with only around 380 left
Now Trump is ensuring they go extinct by allowing boats to increase their speed which will eliminate protection for these magnificent creatures
Is it really a war?
Play along with Andrew Heaton's new game show.
An amazing stat:
Iran exported more oil *today* than it did daily before the war.
It's the one country whose tankers are getting through the Strait of Hormuz.
www.wsj.com/world/middle...
Trump did this to avoid accountability for what is in the Epstein files, full stop.
Our response to anything related to the Iran war should be "release the Epstein Files."
I was in a 2 hour briefing today on the Iran War. All the briefings are closed, because Trump can't defend this war in public.
I obviously can't disclose classified info, but you deserve to know how incoherent and incomplete these war plans are.
1/ Here's what I can share:
What's going to be fun is when the various debt bubbles start popping (auto loans, etc.) and this triggers the AI bubble collapse (32-35% of US GDP) and then the party REALLY starts.
It's extremely clear that the US doesn't really have an objective here except to inflict maximum pain, and attacking water supply is going to end catastrophically for the entire region. It's not just a war crime, it's approaching a crime against humanity.
Well fuck. There will be no break in the darkness, will there.
Rep. Thomas Massie says Trump called him on the House floor after he pushed to release the Epstein files.
Trump told him three times: "I'm coming at you like you've never seen in your life."
gets my vote.
"it is hard to see on what moral grounds we claim the right to decide the fate of those overseas about whom we clearly care so little."
www.publicnotice.co/p/iran-eleme...
Apparently, Lindsey Graham's drunken Fox News bullshit isn't working in the more clear-eyed Middle East.
If we could do only one thing to right this ship it has to be ending the culture of elite impunity in this country. Once you get past a certain wealth threshold you not only become invulnerable to criminal liability, but you lose the ability to lose in any way at all
UK has only two days of gas stored, Iran war threatens supplies.
Maximum capacity is 12 days.
Mainland Europe has reserves of several weeks’ worth of gas.
UK storage capacity shrank after privatisation.
The Rough storage facility closed in in 2017. British Gas wanted subsidies.
They just read the 24pt bold typeface and skip the rest.
This is the connection. I wonder how Russia's "ally" Iran feels about this arragememt? With friends like this, who needs enemies?
And yet millions will still read the Telegraph and the Sun and dutifully vote for these fools.
It would have been nice if they had had the foresight to panic 18 months ago and saved us all this shit. It's not like we didn't know.
love how we killed the old, frail anti-nuke ayatollah just to have him replaced with his young, healthy son who wants nukes and who just had his father, mother, wife, and child murdered on the same day by his mortal enemy. surely this will bring peace to the region
The bombing will continue until morale improves.
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I feel like you are being deliberately obtuse here.
I've felt this since the build-up of the Gulf War. Or really since watching Platoon and Full Metal Jacket.
Hmm the National Security Strategy suggested this administration’s imperial objectives were limited to this hemisphere. Turns out no.
Maine - Here is your alternative to Platner.
don’t want a dumb nazi-curious failson to be maine’s next senator? have i got great news for you! andrea needs all the support she can get gathering signatures before the deadline. if you’re in maine (or nearby), now’s your time to be An Hero
Sean Lock on Margaret Thatcher's death and getting a State Funeral "I don't think it matters as long as the bitch is dead, that's the main thing."
The gulf between what people think of Tony Blair commenting on war in the Middle East & what Tony Blair thinks people think of Tony Blair commenting on war in the Middle East is positively Badenochian.
The Daily Mail going to Tony Blair for a take on conflict in the Middle East, is it?
