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@Tallow_beach @SoundDobad @DeItaone @LongTplexTrader name all of the blockades

@SoundDobad @DeItaone @LongTplexTrader They can't block the strait if it's already blocked!

TRUMP: EFFECTIVE IMMEDIATELY, UNITED STATES NAVY WILL BEGIN PROCESS OF BLOCKADING ANY AND ALL SHIPS TRYING TO ENTER, OR LEAVE, STRAIT OF HORMUZ.

@anasalhajji We probably just witnessed a historical change of the battle space.

سفينتان حربيتان أميركيتان تعبران هرمز .... ثم تعودان إلى بحر العرب... أنا مازلت أحاول أن أفهم... !

Alton Brown Cooks Food | Episode 21: Babish! youtu.be/bR9vQvupLr4?si… via @YouTube

Kipling: With the Hopes that our World is built on they were utterly out of touch, They denied that the Moon was Stilton; they denied she was even Dutch; They denied that Wishes were Horses; they denied that a Pig had Wings; So we worshipped the Gods of the Market Who promised these beautiful things.

Questions: Will the ceasefire continue? Will there be another round of talks? Are these negotiation tactics? And what does this all mean for global energy security and the world economy?

Good morning. It’s day 5 of the “ceasefire”. The US just announced there was no agreement reached with Iran, and the delegation will be traveling back to the US. Hormuz remains under Iran’s control.

@biancoresearch Shorter version: Xi is not going to let us have Iran.

Sounds like the war is back on.

@Tallow_beach I hear you.

@W_Nelson What's crazy is that I was JUST saying to someone that is Dylan is at his absolute best when he is his most passive aggressive. That song sits at the top of that pile. But this is the one I was talking about. F**king brutal youtu.be/5-ZmD3sCFcE?si…

Standing there in the morning mist; A Jack & Coke the end of my wrist; Yes I remember when first we kissed; The wind was nothing at all; Like a wrecking ball.

@deerpointmacro youtu.be/ebNQFJBYoRU?si…

Monitooring the situation.

@SoundDobad Gresham's Law.

sorry but the slop will stop

@AuronMacintyre Need to contextualize this with the fact that America stopped hitting replacement rates over 50 years ago. (1972)

There's a lot going on here and most of it's highly controversial and uncomfortable but without looking at the difficult stuff we can't see the whole board so strap in: America was founded predominantly by Anglo-Protestants, Catholics were here since the begging and they even got Maryland but that didn't go so well and it reverted to protestant control The American ruling class was dominated by high-church Anglos When the first big waves of Irish, German, and Italian immigration arrived they were Catholic, the ethnic and religious tensions began Much like Indian immigrants do today, Catholics took over urban hubs and used machine politics to turn government jobs into ethnic cartels, Catholic neighborhood form, Catholic schools segregate out the new minorities and allow them to retain their culture and faith We also start to see significant Eastern European immigration which is why America has more Jews here than Israel does in their specifically Jewish ethno-state This is how we got the Know Nothings (beware of foreign influence, Catholics will follow their king in Rome) Most people think of the KKK as an organization that tormented black Americans but it was mainly a protestant reaction to Catholic and Jewish immigration Catholic and Jewish diasporas were able to control local urban politics but found it difficult to break into the higher echelon because the ruling class remained White Anglo-Saxon Protestants (WASPs) and they were uninterested in handing power to the new comers This is why you heard so much about Catholics and Jews being excluded from country clubs, where WASPs did the real politics The mainline Protestant denominations held the ruling class but evangelical low-church Protestantism swept through the heartland The ruling class might have been Anglican/Episcopalian but evangelicals had the passion and the numbers Jews were already not huge fans of Catholics for reasons that should be obvious, and Evangelicals adopted this novel form of theology called dispensationalism that featured the Jews prominently as a chosen people to be protected and to whom a homeland was owed if Jesus was to return Evangelicals are also very politically convenient because while they have the numbers and accumulated wealth to be very politically useful, they have no interest in ruling Many Evangelicals even believe that holding power is against their religion and are very amenable to handing power to another ruling class So you start to see an Evangelical-Jewish axis form in American politics to unseat the WASPs and freeze out the Catholics Dispensationalism was key to securing support for the founding of Israel and Jewish allies here are very aware of how important it is to keep Evangelicals the dominate Christians force in America politics But as America continued to experience unprecedented levels of legal and illegal immigration it didn't just shift the ethnic make up, but the religious composition as well When foreigners are Christian (instead of say Muslim or Hindu) they are not Evangelical, they're Catholic or Orthodox (sorry Catholic bros but America isn't getting more Catholic, it's getting more foreign and less American) These immigrants don't have the American addiction to WW2 Holocaust history and their faith is at best neutral to Judaism, if not openly hostile They're not natural allies to Israel and American Jews are very aware of this So what you are watching under the surface of the current debate is an ethno-religious shake up of the American political landscape The remaining WASPs who resent losing power aligning to some extent with Catholics (who were already ascending, notice the Supreme Court and conservative intelligentsia are increasingly more Catholic and less Jewish) while Jewish Americans attempt to hold onto their hard won positions by utilizing their alliance with Evangelicals Paula White vs The Pope, it's just ethno-religious factionalism dressed up in ideology

Just had a couple adult beverages with a disabled vet from our engagement in Somalia. He is disgusted beyond words over Iran.

@alifarhat79 People need to scale the 52-card deck (10^67) to molecular and chemical space (10^60 and 20^250 respectively) when they insist life formed randomly.

@RudyHavenstein If you haven't... youtu.be/wT-DIDGjNU8?si… via @YouTube

@AwakenWithJP @RealAlexJones

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@RudyHavenstein I keep playing this foreign policy TED Talk. youtu.be/QetvK6ldl2s?si… via @YouTube

@zerohedge We need to cut their funding until they can calm themselves.

Netanyahu Says Israel Will Continue To Fight Iran & Proxies, Unlike Appeaser Erdogan zerohedge.com/geopolitical/n…