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Arnar Sigurdsson

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Shanaka Anslem Perera ⚡
Shanaka Anslem Perera ⚡@shanaka86·
BREAKING: Zelensky just landed in the UAE and signed a defence cooperation agreement with President MBZ. The deal on the table changes everything about this war. Ukraine is offering Gulf states 1,000 drone interceptors per day. Each Sting interceptor costs $2,100. Each Patriot missile it replaces costs $3.9 million. In exchange, Ukraine wants the Patriot missiles the Gulf states are burning through, because Kyiv cannot get enough of them to stop Russian missiles. Read that again. The country America refused to arm fast enough is now arming America’s allies with a weapon that costs 1,857 times less than the one America cannot produce fast enough. The National reported on March 27 that Zelensky told reporters: “We’d like to quietly receive the Patriot missiles we have a deficit of, and give them a corresponding number of interceptors.” AFP confirmed the UAE agreement on March 28. Eleven countries have formally requested Ukraine’s drone defence expertise per Zelensky’s own count. Over 200 Ukrainian military specialists are already deployed across the UAE, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and Jordan. Here is the arithmetic that should terrify every Pentagon procurement officer on earth. The United States fired 943 Patriot interceptors in the first four days of the Iran war per a US Congressional study cited by the Jerusalem Post. That is eighteen months of Lockheed Martin’s annual production consumed in 96 hours. Each of those 943 shots cost $3.9 million. Total expenditure: $3.68 billion in four days on defensive interceptions alone. Iran produces 10,000 Shahed drones per month per Reuters. Each drone costs $20,000 to $50,000. The cost exchange ratio is 114 to 1 in Iran’s favour per Military Times. Ukraine’s Sting interceptor inverts this arithmetic entirely. At $2,100, the cost ratio flips from 114-to-1 against America to roughly 10-to-1 against Iran. Ukraine can supply 1,000 per day. That is 30,000 per month against Iran’s 10,000 Shaheds per month. For the first time in this war, the defender’s production rate exceeds the attacker’s production rate at a fraction of the cost. And the country that built this weapon is the same country that Trump publicly rejected. “No, they are not helping. We do not need their help. We know more about drones than anyone else” per Fox News. He doubled down: “The last person we need help from is Zelensky.” Meanwhile the Pentagon notified Congress of plans to redirect $750 million in Ukraine-bound Patriot missiles to Gulf states per House of Saud reporting. America is simultaneously refusing Ukraine’s cheap solution and cannibalising Ukraine’s expensive one. Zelensky framed this explicitly. He told The National: “No matter how many Patriots, THAADs, or other air-defence systems are in the Middle East, that alone is not enough for fully effective air defence.” He told the UK Parliament: “When it comes to shooting down massive Shahed attacks, only Ukrainian experience can really help with this today.” The Pentagon is spending $3.9 million per interception, raiding Swiss fighter jet accounts to cover shortfalls, and diverting Ukraine’s own Patriot supply to the Gulf. Zelensky is offering the same result for $2,100 and producing 1,000 units per day. The market has a word for this kind of disruption. The $2,100 drone is the most important weapon in this war. And the country that built it is the one America said it did not need. Full analysis - open.substack.com/pub/shanakaans…
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Glúmur Björnsson
Glúmur Björnsson@GlumurBjornsson·
Skelflilegur vitnisburður um stjórn efnahagsmála á síðustu 7 árum. Stóran þátt í skuldafeninu eiga hinar gagnslausu aðgerðir í nafni sóttvarna um tveggja ára skeið; frelsissviptingar, skerðing á atvinnufrelsi og lokun landsins. mbl.is/frettir/innlen…
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Björn Jón Bragason
Björn Jón Bragason@BjBragason·
Þetta sjálfshól eldist bara svona líka vel
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Arnar Sigurdsson@arnar2·
@h_arnason Það er í raun ekkert markaðsverð á gasi, ræðst bara af því hvar þú getur nýtt það. Á flestum borpöllum er því brennt og verðið þar því 0. Þess vegna er allur áburður framleiddur þar sem gas er því sem næst eða alveg ókeypis.
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Hafsteinn Árnason
Hafsteinn Árnason@h_arnason·
@arnar2 Veistu hvar skurðpunkturinn er? Hvað má gasið fara hátt í verði til þess að að verði sjálfbært? Við erum mögulega að fara sjá fram á hamfarir í Persaflóanum með tilheyrandi ósköpum í efnahagslegu tilliti.
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Hafsteinn Árnason
Hafsteinn Árnason@h_arnason·
Verðhækkanir á gasi frá árinu 2022 leiddi að miklu leyti til verðbólgunnar sem við höfum verið að fást við á undanförnum árum. Við erum á bjargbrún þess sem var þá. Þetta olli gríðarlegum hækkunum á vörum í bygginga- og matvælaiðnaði. Ísland ætti íhuga að dusta rykið af hugmyndum um sements- og áburðarframleiðslu. Eitthvað sem þótti hallærislegt Framsóknarplan er kaldur veruleiki í dag. Háskóla og nýsköpunarsamfélagið ætti að sjá einhver tækifæri í þessu. Við eigum nóg af orku.
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Steve Hanke@steve_hanke

Germany’s industrial backbone is cracking. Since the U.S.–Israel attack on Iran, European natural gas prices have surged more than 50%. High energy costs are crushing Europe’s factories.

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David Vance
David Vance@DVATW·
This is what economic suicide looks like;
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Arnar Sigurdsson@arnar2·
@h_arnason Þorsteinn hefur greind á við borðlampa. Þó að þú fáir rafmagn frítt til að rafgreina vetni sem og ókeypis búnað ertu samt í mínus samanborið við þá sem hafa aðgang að gasi til framleiðslu á áburði! Allur landbúnaður er ósjálfbær á Íslandi.
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Hafsteinn Árnason
Hafsteinn Árnason@h_arnason·
Tilvísunin er í tillögu Þorsteins Sæmundssonar sem var þá þingmaður Framsóknar sem mætti miklu háði á þeim tíma. Gas er notað til framleiðslu á áburði og einn hlekkur í aðfangakeðjunni. Matvælaverð hefur hækkað allstaðar á undanförnum árum. Nautgripaframleiðsla á Íslandi var ósjálfbær á tímabili. visir.is/g/201414022872…
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Arnar Sigurdsson
Arnar Sigurdsson@arnar2·
Þeir stjórnmálamenn sem nú berjast fyrir inngöngu hafa aldrei séð neitt athugavert við ESB sem er þó öllum ljóst núna. Sömu aðilar gera lítið í að létta byrðum og hreinlega afnema rugl og bull eins og með því að framlengja búvörusamning óbreyttan sem er sá vitlausasti af öllum.
conspiracybot@conspiracyb0t

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz just called the EU a "complete failure" in front of global elites by stating, "Germany & Europe have wasted incredible potential. We have become the world champion of over-regulation & zero growth."

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Arnar Sigurdsson
Arnar Sigurdsson@arnar2·
@einasig @eythorarnalds Rétta leiðin væri að setja 1500 bændur á borgaralaun, fella niður alla tolla og gjöld, nefndir og ráð. Má líka borga bændum fyrirfram fyrir að bregða búi.Það verður aldrei flutt inn fersk mjólk til Íslands en verðbólga færi hressilega niður og VNV með.
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Einar Sigurdsson
Einar Sigurdsson@einasig·
Ég hef ekki tekið ákvörðun um með eða á móti ESB aðild, en það ömurlegasta við að búa á Íslandi er hátt verðlag og lélegt vöruúrval. Aðild að ESB myndi tryggja lægra verðlag og meira vöruúrval. Það eitt og sér er freistandi fyrir hinn almenna neytanda.
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TryggviG
TryggviG@GuTryggvi·
Samhenta verkstjórnin
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Arnar Sigurdsson@arnar2·
Ætlar engin að koma með lagafrumvarp sem heimilar sjálfkeyrslu og útrýmir borgarlínunni’
Dustin@r0ck3t23

Elon Musk just announced the exact moment Tesla’s autonomous AI breaks into Europe. March 20th. Netherlands. The regulatory wall is coming down. Musk: “We’re told by the authorities that March 20th it’ll be approved in the Netherlands.” But the bigger announcement wasn’t the date. It was the capability coming with it. Musk: “I think this year really it will be the case that you, from a technical standpoint, you’ll be able to fall asleep in the Tesla and wake up at your destination.” Not a controlled test track. Not a closed environment. The open road. While you sleep. Musk: “Tesla has the most advanced real world AI.” The rest of the tech industry has been fighting over language models. Tesla has been building an intelligence that navigates the chaos of the physical world. Rain. Construction zones. Unpredictable humans. Edge cases that no dataset fully anticipated. That’s the harder problem. And Musk is saying it’s solved. The implications go beyond convenience. When a car can move you across a continent while you sleep, travel stops being a cost of human time. It becomes a background process. The hours spent behind the wheel every year collapse into productive time, rest time, or nothing at all. Multiply that across a continent of drivers and the economic shift is staggering. Musk: “I think people in Europe are going to be pretty blown away by how good the Tesla car AI is in being able to drive.” Europe spent years erecting regulatory barriers while the technology scaled past them. March 20th is the moment the barrier meets the reality on the other side of it. The legacy automotive industry spent a century building cars humans had to drive. Tesla spent a decade building a car that doesn’t need one.

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Arnar Sigurdsson@arnar2·
Endalok í uppsiglingu á: ,,sjálfstæðis, trúfrelsis, pólitískra réttinda jafnt karla og kvenna og framsækni” Hvað segir Hjálmtýr Heiðdal og Ari Trausti núna?
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Arnar Sigurdsson@arnar2·
@doddeh Hvernig stendur á því að fjölmiðlanefnd skráði ekki eigin hlaðvarp hjá sjálfri sér? Hver hefur eftirlit með eftirlitinu?
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þórður gunnarsson
þórður gunnarsson@doddeh·
hvernig stendur á því að fjölmiðlanefnd getur djöflast í stjórnendum hlaðvarpa sem birta sitt efni eingöngu á erlendum veitum ? hefur íslensk ríkisstofnun einhverja lögsögu yfir því sem varpað er af spotify eða youtube?
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Arnar Sigurdsson@arnar2·
@arnarar Geggjað framtak! Sante hefur ítrekað bent Innkaupastofnun Ríkisins á að bjóða út áfengiskaup ríkisins en ríkið verslar nánast eingöngu við ríkið án útboðs.
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Arnar Arinbjarnarson
Arnar Arinbjarnarson@arnarar·
Á næstu dögum fer þetta í loftið, Opnir reikningar ríkisins þar sem er hægt að leita eftir allskonar. Auðvitað byrjar maður að athuga hvaða stofnun verslar mest við Jommuna.
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Peter Schiff
Peter Schiff@PeterSchiff·
PepsiCo spent $2.8 million last year lobbying to keep junk food eligible for food stamps. Then RFK got 18 states to ban SNAP purchases of soda, candy, and processed snacks. Within a week, PepsiCo cut Doritos, Lay's, and Tostitos prices by up to 15%. The CEO blamed "affordability." But the timing tells the real story. SNAP is a $100 billion-a-year program. According to the USDA, 20 cents of every SNAP dollar goes to junk food. Frito-Lay products appeared in 7.2% of all SNAP shopping trips. The moment the government stopped subsidizing demand, PepsiCo had to compete on price. No regulation. No price caps. No antitrust probe. The subsidy disappeared, and the market corrected overnight. Now consider that this same pattern — government money in, prices up — plays out in college tuition, healthcare, defense, and every other industry with a guaranteed government buyer. Federal spending is nearly a quarter of the entire economy. All of it inflating prices. All of it eroding your purchasing power. Central banks see the same math. That's why they're dumping dollars and buying gold. The gold companies we cover in our investment research newsletter Strategic Assets are earning record profits at these prices — some trading at just 3-4x earnings. secure.schiffsovereign.com/go/?r=strategi…
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