
Master_KC
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Master_KC
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I’m an independent thinker who values all views and opinions which can help me to refine my own









Join me in hoping that oil is never discovered in Jamaica. Countries are more likely to become wealthy if they're forced to produce it, like Singapore and South Korea, rather than sucking or digging it out the ground, like Venezuela and Angola.


'Would you like to be warned before they bombed your city?' 'No... Why would I?' Caller Steve butts heads with @ShelaghFogarty over Israel's strikes in Lebanon.



When was the shekel last so strong against the dollar?

Hezbollah dragged Lebanon into the war, but Israel’s right to defend itself does not justify inflicting such massive destruction. Israeli strikes killed hundreds last night, making it hard to argue that such heavy-handed actions fall within self-defence. Israeli actions are putting the U.S.-Iran ceasefire under severe strain. The Iran truce should extend to Lebanon. Hezbollah must disarm. The EU supports Lebanon’s efforts to disarm Hezbollah.


.@SkyYaldaHakim asks, Richard Fontaine, CEO of the Center for a New American Security, if Israeli attacks on Lebanon are an attempt to sabotage the ceasefire with Iran. Watch his response 🔽 🌍 trib.al/zff6Z7W


We don’t need faster trains to London. I deeply believe that. The difference from 2 hours to 1 hour 30 is nominal. What we need is a better experience. There’s a psychological concept called temporal perception. Time feels longer when you’re frustrated and shorter when you’re absorbed. That buffering wheel. The email that won’t send. The Teams call dropping mid-sentence. That’s not a 2 hour journey. That feels like 4. Give every passenger reliable WiFi and a plug socket and the journey shrinks not on the timetable, but in the mind. Now @elonmusk & @Starlink can now do this. So why are we waiting. HS2 cost billions to save 30 minutes. Better WiFi would give that time back every single day.




Rubio admits that the war will end with Iran still in control of Hormuz and that they may decide to charge a toll, something other countries need to deal with: x.com/FurkanGozukara… "When this conflict, when this operation ends, if the Iranians decide 'well now we control the Strait of Hormuz and you can only go through here if you pay us and if we allow you to', not only is it illegal under international law and maritime law, it's unacceptable and that can't be allowed to exist. And so what we said is that the countries most impacted by that should be willing to do something about it, and we'll help them." This would mean, of course, that the war would have reinforced Iran's strategic position which, almost by definition, means the U.S. lost.


The U.S. must immediately make clear to Israel that the ceasefire agreement is not and cannot be functional without a ceasefire in Lebanon. The American people want this war to end and bombing downtown Beirut is not a path to peace.








