
Marcos Rebollo
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Marcos Rebollo
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Antes periodista, ahora profesor de sociales. Diseño juegos y otros materiales para el aula: https://t.co/bSFW349SL9 https://t.co/rZurfoWTp1












‘There was permission to kill 300 people as collateral damage.’ Israeli intelligence whistleblowers expose the ‘non-human’ targeting system in Gaza, where strikes are approved in minutes, as more than 70,000 have been killed in Gaza since October 7th.



@PeteHegseth You're talking about one of the world's oldest continuous most cultured civilisations, you Christo-fascist quarter-wit. That you could rise to the position you're in says everything about your 250 year old corporatist cartel of a nation, built on bloodletting, racism & theft.

‘There was permission to kill 300 people as collateral damage.’ Israeli intelligence whistleblowers expose the ‘non-human’ targeting system in Gaza, where strikes are approved in minutes, as more than 70,000 have been killed in Gaza since October 7th.



‘There was permission to kill 300 people as collateral damage.’ Israeli intelligence whistleblowers expose the ‘non-human’ targeting system in Gaza, where strikes are approved in minutes, as more than 70,000 have been killed in Gaza since October 7th.







Beneath the Persian Gulf lies a single geological body called South Pars on the Iranian side and North Dome on the Qatari side. It holds 1,800 trillion cubic feet of natural gas, roughly 19 percent of the world’s recoverable reserves, connected through porous limestone layers that do not recognise the border drawn above them. On March 18, US and Israeli strikes hit the Iranian processing complex at Asaluyeh. On March 19, Iranian retaliation struck the Qatari complex at Ras Laffan. Both sides of the same reservoir were damaged within 24 hours. The war struck the earth once and broke four systems simultaneously. The first system is energy. Seventeen percent of Qatar’s LNG capacity is offline. QatarEnergy’s CEO estimates three to five years for repair. The damage requires replacement of specialised heat exchangers with multi-year fabrication backlogs. This is not a disruption money resolves. It is a disruption metallurgy resolves slowly. The second system is helium. Ras Laffan produces 30 to 33 percent of the world’s helium as a byproduct of natural gas processing. That helium cools the extreme ultraviolet lithography systems at TSMC and Samsung that manufacture every advanced semiconductor on earth. Two hundred cryogenic containers holding 41,000 litres each are currently stranded in the Gulf on a 35-to-48-day boil-off clock. When the liquid helium warms past its cryogenic threshold, it vaporises and cannot be recovered. The containers are not waiting for a ceasefire. They are waiting for thermodynamics. And thermodynamics does not negotiate. The third system is food. QAFCO, Qatar’s fertiliser subsidiary, produced 5.6 million tonnes of urea per year, roughly 14 percent of global seaborne trade. It is offline. Urea prices have surged 35 to 50 percent. The nitrogen that feeds rice in India, wheat in Pakistan, and maize in East Africa transited through the same processing node that produced the helium that cooled the chips that guided the bombs that destroyed the node. The supply chain is a circle. The war broke it at the point where every line converges. The fourth system is monetary. The Hormuz toll regime sorts passage by geopolitical alignment. Malaysia secured toll-free clearance for seven Petronas tankers by condemning the war and nullifying its US trade deal. China and India transit free. Western-flagged vessels pay $2 million in yuan or do not pass. The exemption system is a currency experiment running on the wreckage of a gas field, testing whether the dollar survives contact with a chokepoint that accepts only yuan. And here is the paradox that closes the loop. The Maven AI targeting system that selected the coordinates for the Asaluyeh strike runs on TSMC chips cooled by helium from Ras Laffan. The war destroyed the helium supply for the chips that directed the war. The precision that made the strike possible is now degraded by the success of the strike itself. The conflict is consuming its own cognitive infrastructure. It is eating its own brain. One reservoir. Four systems. Energy, intelligence, food, and money, all processed at the same geological node, all severed by the same 24-hour exchange of fire, all converging on a conference room in Beijing where a Pakistani diplomat is trying to reassemble what two air forces took one day to break. The last molecule standing is the one that has not yet boiled off. When it does, the argument ends. Thermodynamics does not do extensions. Read the full article - open.substack.com/pub/shanakaans…









