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@VParanic Британці лише закликають до такого навчатись : #Echobox=1775283675" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">theguardian.com/food/2026/apr/… « запасайтеся їжею, але будьте готові ділитися нею, щоб підтримувати соціальну солідарність»... і хто зараз "пасе задніх"?

Охоронець, коли віддавав, то сказав: - В такий час ми повинні один одного підтримувати, а не найобувати. Не взяв гроші, які я йому з вдячності запропонував. Здається, ми купили йому солодощів до чаю. Ну, і пішов відразу 1к задонатив на "Повернись Живим".

До речі, згадав ситуацію про Сільпо. Березень, 2022, початок повномасштабної. Ми з дружиною скуплялися в Сільпо в місті Хмільнику. І дружина забула там свій гаманець. Тільки через 3-4 дня помітили. Без особливої надії приїхали в Сільпо і нам повернули гаманець з усіма грошима.

There are two oil prices tonight and they are $40 apart. The one on your screen says $109. The one on the tanker says $140. The screen is a bet. The tanker is a fact. And the gap between them is the space where the true cost of this war hides from the public, from the polls, and from the President who quotes the lower number. Brent futures closed near $109 on April 3. That is the price traded in London by hedge funds, algorithmic systems, and institutional investors speculating on when the war ends. Dubai physical crude, the benchmark for actual barrels loaded onto actual tankers and delivered to actual refineries in Asia, traded between $126 and $140, with spikes to $166. Dubai physical has risen 76 percent since the war began. Brent futures have risen 36 percent. The gap was less than one dollar before February 28. It is now $37 to $40 on an average day and $57 on a bad one. This is the largest sustained paper-physical divergence in the modern history of the oil market. The futures market is pricing a short war. Brent for December 2026 trades at $80. Paper believes the strait reopens and barrels flow. Physical says the strait is closed, diplomacy collapsed on April 3, and barrels are not flowing. Eight million barrels per day were taken offline in March, the largest monthly disruption on record. The IEA released 400 million barrels from strategic reserves, the biggest coordinated draw in history. The US SPR sits at 345 million barrels after 2022 drawdowns never replenished. At current consumption, the reserve covers roughly 18 days. The bypasses were supposed to close the gap. Saudi Arabia’s East-West pipeline is at its full 7 million barrels per day. Terminal constraints cap exports at 5 million. The UAE’s Habshan-Fujairah pipeline is near its 1.8 million limit despite March 28 fires. Combined, bypasses cover 13 to 28 percent of normal Hormuz flows. The remaining 72 to 87 percent is gone. And here is the detail that closes the circle. Habshan, the origin point of the ADCOP bypass pipeline, caught fire twice in fifteen days from the debris of intercepted missiles. The bypass that was built to survive a Hormuz closure starts at a facility that is burning from the wreckage of its own air defences. The pipe works. The source is on fire. The workaround is damaged at the point where the oil enters it. The molecule reaches the bypass and finds the bypass is burning. The screen price is what Trump quotes when he says oil will come down. The physical price is what Asian refiners pay when they bid for the last cargo in the Gulf. The screen is what the Fed watches for rate decisions. The physical is what sets jet fuel, diesel, fertiliser, and everything that moves on a truck. The screen responds to ceasefire tweets. The physical responds to tanker availability. One is a narrative. The other is a molecule. The narrative says $109. The molecule says $140. The gap is the war. And the market that closes tonight for 63 hours has no mechanism to price what happens to either number when the April 6 power-plant deadline expires on Monday evening and the bypasses are maxed, damaged, and burning at the source. open.substack.com/pub/shanakaans…

@patriottakes @Acyn When someone thinks they are biblical Moses:

Trump called God bringing the Hebrews out of slavery in Egypt “an amazing period of time” and compared it to the United States under his presidency.

@nutrition_facts And what will it do? More than half of those with "normal" LDL levels in their blood have heart attacks. Medicine only says it understands why this happens, but it only sells statins. And the problem only gets worse. Especially since with LMHR cholesterol seems to be irrelevant.

Just four brazil nuts a month may improve LDL cholesterol for up to 30 days. Not four brazil nuts once a day, but four brazil nuts once a month. Eating four every day may risk selenium toxicity. see.nf/portfolio

@TruuP8triot @MotowarriorX @Ricardo7Correia @ramzpaul Who are you trying to explain something to? It's a moron. With such "patriots" there is no need for enemies.

@MotowarriorX @Ricardo7Correia @ramzpaul Dude, I respect your service and patriotism but your loyalties are misplaced. After trump claimed victory Iran blew up over $1B of our equipment and killed 6 of our service members. That’s not even counting last year’s obliterated claim. trump earned this mocking.

To understand Trump's greatness - the number of times America has defeated a country. Germany - 2 times (1918, 1945) Japan - 1 time (1945) Iran - 18 times (2025-2026)

@shanaka86 Trump is right this time: Zelensky is “the greatest salesman on Earth”: not only exporting their knowledge to keep his country running, but also making friends and promoting a strengthened image of his country. That's the true ART of DEAL!

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JUST IN: Iran gave Russia its Shahed drones. Russia improved them in Ukraine. Now Western intelligence says Russia is shipping the upgraded versions back to Iran. And the country that learned how to kill those drones on the battlefield just sent 228 experts to the Gulf to teach five countries how to do the same thing. The full circle is extraordinary. Iran supplied thousands of Shahed-136 kamikaze drones to Russia starting in 2022 for use against Ukraine. Russia rebranded them Geran-2 and, over three years of combat, upgraded the navigation systems, added anti-jamming capabilities, improved the engines, and refined the payload delivery. The Financial Times and AP reported on March 26 citing Western intelligence that Russia is now in the final stages of shipping those upgraded Geran-2 drones back to Iran’s IRGC, along with medicine and food supplies. Kremlin spokesman Peskov called the reports “lies” and “fake news dumps.” Meanwhile, Zelensky arrived in Saudi Arabia on March 26 for an unannounced visit, met Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, signed a defense cooperation deal focused on air defense and drone expertise, and departed Jeddah on March 28. Ukraine has deployed 201 to 228 military drone specialists to five Gulf and Middle Eastern countries: the UAE, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and Jordan. Another 34 are ready per Zelensky’s statement on March 17. These specialists are not there as a symbolic gesture. They bring the single most effective counter to Shahed drones that exists anywhere on earth. Ukraine developed FPV interceptor drones that account for roughly 70 percent of all Shahed and Geran-2 shootdowns in Ukraine per Forces News and Atlantic Council reporting. The method: radar and acoustic sensors detect the incoming drone at 20 to 50 kilometres. A cheap, fast quadcopter or fixed-wing interceptor launches from a mobile platform. An operator pilots it at high speed toward the target. It destroys the Shahed through kamikaze collision or a small explosive payload on impact. Cost per intercept: a fraction of what a surface-to-air missile costs. Militarnyi reported on March 22 that Ukrainian teams have already confirmed multiple Shahed shootdowns in the Middle East. The arms race running through this war is now a closed loop. Iran builds the drone. Russia tests it, improves it, and allegedly sends the improved version back. Ukraine learns to kill it through three years of battlefield iteration. Ukraine exports that knowledge to the Gulf states Iran is attacking. The Gulf states pay Ukraine in money, technology, and diplomatic support. Russia denies everything while the drones fly in both directions. This is not a bilateral conflict. It is a global drone ecosystem where every improvement by one side is studied, countered, and re-exported by the other. The Shahed that hits a refinery in Bahrain tonight may carry Russian-upgraded navigation. The interceptor that destroys it may be piloted by a Ukrainian operator trained in Zaporizhzhia. The defense deal that funded the deployment was signed in Jeddah while the war it was designed to address raged 1,500 kilometres to the northeast. SpaceX’s Starlink provides the communications backbone for these teams in contested environments where terrestrial networks are degraded by the same war. The same helium shortage threatening semiconductor fabs and quantum computers is threatening the rocket launches that put Starlink satellites in orbit. The same strait carrying the oil carries the data cables that the drones are trying to protect. Every domain connects through the same 39 kilometres of water. Full analysis - open.substack.com/pub/shanakaans…

Trump: “When I didn't get the Nobel Peace Prize. You gotta understand, I don't care. Norway has lost so credible. I stopped 8 wars… I do it the best. I stopped wars that nobody thought—President Putin called me, he said, 'I can't believe you stopped this one and this one.’”

@VictorKvert2008 Вообще-то зоопарк имеет иное название :

В зоопарке “XII Луны” в Демидове, под Киевом у пары дальневосточных леопардов родилась черная самка Гера. Это чрезвычайная редкость: в дикой природе таких леопардов осталось всего ~100, а черных особей в неволе последний раз фиксировали в США в 2019 году

BREAKING: A Russian drone struck a historic building in central Lviv this morning. Structural damage. No confirmed fatalities. Ukrainian air defences intercepted most of the incoming wave but one penetrated to the city centre of a UNESCO World Heritage site 70 kilometres from the Polish border. Trace the money that built the drone. Russia’s daily oil export revenue has surged from $800 million to $1.2 to $1.5 billion since the Strait of Hormuz closed on February 28. The price spike was caused by a war between Iran and Israel that Russia had no operational role in launching. That additional $400 to $700 million per day funds munitions, mobilisation, and the Shahed-type drones that Iran sells to Russia under their Comprehensive Strategic Partnership Treaty signed January 2025. The drone that struck Lviv was likely manufactured in an Iranian facility using Chinese components, purchased with Russian oil revenue inflated by a Gulf war, and launched from occupied territory in a conflict that has lasted four years. Three countries contributed to the weapon. A fourth country’s war paid for it. This is the dual-war matrix. The Hormuz closure spikes global oil to $101 per barrel. Russia reroutes crude to Asia through shadow fleets, bypassing the $60 G7 price cap that was designed for a different price environment. The revenue surplus funds continued operations in Ukraine while the world’s attention is consumed by the Iran theatre. Russia fights one war and profits from another. The drone over Lviv and the toll booth in Hormuz are connected by the same barrel of oil sold at the same inflated price to the same Asian refineries through the same shadow fleet. Ukraine is striking back at the source. Drones hit the Primorsk Baltic terminal, Russia’s largest oil export hub. The Afipsky refinery halted processing. Gazprom compressor stations on TurkStream and Blue Stream came under attack. Early March oil exports dropped 14 percent. Ukraine understands the circuit: degrade the infrastructure that generates the revenue that funds the war against it. But the degradation arrives inside a price environment where Russia exports 14 percent fewer barrels at a price 50 percent higher. The arithmetic still favours Moscow. Ukraine damages the pipes. The strait inflates the price. The net revenue rises. Lviv is not a military target. It is a 13th-century city with cobblestone streets and baroque churches whose population queues for coffee in cafes that survived the Habsburgs and the Soviets. The drone that struck its centre this morning carried a message about what happens when two wars run simultaneously and one funds the other through a commodity price mechanism no sanctions regime was designed to address. Eight countries are rationing fuel because of the Hormuz closure. The UK is convening COBRA. The Philippines declared a one-year emergency. South Korea is banning government vehicles. Japan’s bond market is cracking. The Fed cannot cut. The ECB is hiking. Qatar just declared force majeure for five years. And in Lviv, a drone built in Iran, sold to Russia, paid for by Gulf oil rents, struck a building that has stood since before any of the nations involved in this war existed. The war in the Gulf funds the war in Europe. The war in Europe degrades the infrastructure that funds the war in Europe. And the molecules that could resolve both, the oil that sets the price, the gas that powers the grid, the fertiliser that feeds the planet, remain trapped behind a strait, a toll booth, and a set of sealed packets that do not require permission from anyone to continue operating. open.substack.com/pub/shanakaans…

@Daractenus @secretsqrl123

"We're in a position we haven't seen. We're respected. You know, our country now is respected all over the world. A year and half ago we were a laughingstock." This man is completely insane.

Most people are trying to “boost metabolism.” While bathing their system in endotoxin. LPS: > Impairs mitochondria > Raises insulin resistance > Promotes fibrosis > Accelerates aging You cannot be metabolically healthy with chronic endotoxemia.

@shanaka86 Everything looks great on paper. The only reasonable question is: why do you need an island where only oil is transshipped if you say you will not go on land? Without control over production, control of the island is useless.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told Fox Business on March 19th that the administration is preparing to unsanction approximately 140 million barrels of Iranian crude oil currently sitting on tankers at sea. The plan is to release these barrels into global markets within days, adding supply to lower prices that the war itself has elevated. Consider what this means. The United States is simultaneously bombing the island from which those tankers loaded, considering a blockade of that same island, striking the military infrastructure that protects the loading terminal, and planning to release the product that was loaded there before the bombs fell. The same government is destroying Iran’s capacity to produce oil and releasing Iran’s already-produced oil. The kinetic campaign targets the future. The financial campaign monetises the past. The 140 million barrels are stranded. They sit on tankers that were loaded at Kharg Island under the pre-war sanctions regime, crewed by operators who navigated the shadow fleet network, insured by entities that no longer exist in any recognised P&I club register. The oil is Iranian. The tankers are flagged to countries of convenience. The cargoes were destined for China, India, and other buyers who participated in the sanctions-evasion corridor that moved $72 to $93 billion in Iranian hydrocarbons through the A7A5 stablecoin and associated crypto rails. Bessent’s logic is supply management. Brent crude hit $119 intraday on March 19 before falling to $105 after Netanyahu pledged to stop striking energy fields. Dubai crude touched $166. Oman crude hit $167. The domestic political calculus is brutal: every dollar increase in crude translates to approximately 2.5 cents per gallon at American pumps. The war is popular in the abstract and expensive at the register. Releasing Iranian oil is the cheapest intervention available because the oil already exists, already floats, and requires only a policy change rather than a production change. But the paradox is structural, not merely optical. The administration’s three-track strategy against Iran requires simultaneous execution of contradictory objectives. Track one: destroy Iranian military and energy infrastructure through kinetic strikes. Track two: cut Iranian revenue through sanctions, toll-system countering, and financial warfare including the bank account freezes Bessent described on the same broadcast. Track three: stabilise global energy prices by releasing supply, including supply that was produced by the very infrastructure being destroyed on Track one. The first track reduces future Iranian oil supply. The third track increases current Iranian oil supply. Both are designed to weaken Iran, but through opposite mechanisms. The first starves the regime of future revenue. The third uses the regime’s past revenue against it by flooding the market with barrels that Iran can no longer replace. The contradiction is intentional. It is temporal arbitrage applied to commodity warfare. Bessent also confirmed that Treasury has located and is freezing Iranian leadership bank accounts across multiple jurisdictions, that defections are occurring throughout the regime, and that Kharg Island’s oil infrastructure could eventually become a US asset. The financial war is not ancillary to the kinetic war. It is the kinetic war’s economic complement, operating on the same target from a different direction. One hundred and forty million barrels. Iranian crude. Unsanctioned by the government destroying the terminal that loaded them. The war pays for itself with the enemy’s inventory. open.substack.com/pub/shanakaans…

And here they are. Two of the least impressive men ever to be given actual power over actual people. One defunded his universities, jailed his judges, and called it freedom. The other read a book about it and thought: yes, more of this please.

Русня: - "Вертолёт не сбили. Сбили, но свои. Сбили хохлы, но пилоты живы". Після відео про те, як наші дрони добили пілотів-окупантів. - "Хохлы добили наших мальчиков, а ведь они были практически безоружны и почти не убегали". Це прекрасно!

У Кличка буквально розвалюються мости через Дніпро, міст Патона в аварійному стані. З дорожнім покриттям на основних дорогах теж все, м'яко кажучи, погано. Інклюзивна інфраструктура розвивається на рівні забитого села – хаотично і без якоїсь стратегії. В багатьох мікрорайонах люди досі не мають нормальних укриттів, їх підміняють старими підвалами з тепломережами над головою. Комунальна лікарня швидкої допомоги буквально схожа на якийсь морг з фільму про Чорнобиль… Я вже мовчу про потребу пересувних котелень та генераторів, що мало б бути пріоритетом для міської влади. І коли у мера виникла можливість у європейських партнерів попросити фінансової підтримки, як думаєте що Кличко попросив?) Ну звісно черговий місток в парку на Оболоні. Не котельні ж і генератори просити, а черговий місток-глисток. Ну просто ж якийсь еталонний судак… Влада Вільнюса, яка буде фінансувати будівництво пішохідного мосту на вулиці Прирічній в столичному Оболонському районі, надала важливе розʼяснення щодо цього проєкту. За їхніми словами, це повністю ідея пана Кличка, який до них звернувся по допомогу саме по цьому проєкту будівництва з огляду на «пріоритети». Ну тобто, байка Кличка про те, що «вони самі звернулися з таким проєктом», ну не спрацює. Не знав бідолашний, що попросити. Не шукайте тут логіки, її немає. Просто Віталя Кличко вже дуже добре разом зі своїми замами Славою Непопом та Валіком Мондриївським навчилися красти на Оболонській набережній, тут вже як то кажуть рука набита, тому не втримався він від такого «пріоритетного проєкту» для міста… Ціна питання: 30,5 млн грн тільки від Вільнюса на місток. І ще 35 млн грн вже виділили з коштів міського бюджету Києва, ну тобто платників податків, вже на облаштування паркової зони навколо, і нещодавно провели ще один тендер, вже на 65 млн грн, тут прописано про місток, тож можна рахувати, що сюди закинуть литовські кошти: 35 млн грн + 65 млн грн = 100 млн грн кошторису (це поки два тендери, може бути ще більше, або «корегування») - 30,5 млн грн від Вільнюса = 69,5 млн грн, які заплатять кияни, що понад вдвічі більше ніж кошти меценатів. Мммм, яка ж «крута» благодійна ініціатива… Потреби в цьому містку – нуль. Я вже мовчу про те, що у 2024 поруч побудували міст-глист «Хвилю» з облаштуванням штучного острівка за 200 млн грн міського бюджету. Ще в сусідній парк «Наталка» зарили понад 330 млн грн з купою кримінальних справ щодо розкрадання. І кінця краю там немає, кожного року на ньому провертають десятки бюджетних мільйонів. Кому потрібен цей місток? Незрозуміло, він знову скаже, що для «відпочинку ветеранів». Мені потрібне енергетичне захищене місто, з укриттями та інклюзивною інфраструктурою, щоб всі люди з домівок могли вийти, а не ось цей довбаний міст…

@ProudSabraMan @RpsAgainstTrump So you're saying that Iran was producing and storing nuclear weapons in a gas field? I've met morons, but you've outdone them all. When you win, you don't engage in "carpet bombing." That's Bibi hysteria.

@RpsAgainstTrump Giving a regime that chants "Death to America" a nuclear weapon? is global suicide.

A U.S. defense official confirmed to Axios that the strike on the gas facility in Iran was coordinated with the Trump administration.

@RpsAgainstTrump If there is a desire to break everything around, trust these idiots: x.com/i/status/20342…