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@DecodingFoxNews @michaelpleahy Such a naff flex to call yourself an award-winning journo
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@michaelpleahy As a non-award winning journalist I know that neither of us knows what the Atlantic has in terms of evidence or sources. Defamation cases against the press are notoriously difficult to win. The discovery process should be interesting.
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BREAKING: As an award winning journalist, it is my view that Kash Patel has a very strong defamation case against The Atlantic and Sarah Fitzpatrick. This morning he filed a $250 million defamation case against them. tennesseestar.com/justice/leahy-…
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@grightford While enjoying a lovely, peaceful sauna recently, a gym bunny walks in, clutching her phone, which is a first. Then she starts listening to some atrocious content. So I tell her she's disturbing the peace - she says, 'but I'm using my buds'. She turned it down. Such poor manners
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A woman on my flight was playing videos loudly on her phone while her headphones sat on the seat between us. I asked her if she intended using them & she was quite taken aback. I think she only thought they were there for Netflix not social media videos. Also Becky could be fired
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There should be a law, that you can’t talk on speaker phone in a public place. Massive shout out to “Becky” from Bidvest, for prompting this post, having just had a 20 minute call with her boss, on speaker phone, loudly, next to me in the Slow Lounge. This is the reason aliens fly straight by the earth people!
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@shanaka86 Fox News? When did they become a credible source of information? They could be reporting on unicorns and leprechauns and the sheep would be clapping
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JUST IN: Iran moved its uranium into a mountain. The biggest conventional bomb on Earth cannot reach it.
Fox News reported on 11th March, citing US intelligence, that Iran has relocated its remaining enriched uranium stockpile to the facility known as Pickaxe Mountain, Kūh-e Kolang Gaz Lā, a tunnel complex buried 80 to 100 metres deep in granite bedrock one mile south of Natanz. CSIS satellite imagery from February confirms accelerated construction: multiple tunnel portals, concrete sarcophagus shields over entrances, security walls, heavy machinery, and spoil piles indicating rapid interior expansion since the 2025 strikes destroyed Iran’s above-ground enrichment infrastructure.
The GBU-57 Massive Ordnance Penetrator, the weapon that hit Parchin, weighs 30,000 pounds. It penetrates up to 200 feet of earth or 60 feet of reinforced concrete. Granite is neither earth nor concrete. It is igneous rock with a compressive strength that exceeds both. One hundred metres of granite is 328 feet. The GBU-57’s maximum earth penetration is 200 feet. The uranium sits 128 feet beyond the reach of the most powerful conventional weapon the United States possesses.
Fourteen GBU-57s were dropped on Iranian nuclear sites during Operation Midnight Hammer in 2025. The strikes destroyed centrifuge halls. They did not destroy the programme. They taught Iran where the ceiling was, and Iran built beneath it. Every bomb that hit Fordow and Natanz was a lesson in depth. Pickaxe Mountain is the final exam: a facility designed specifically to survive the weapon designed specifically to destroy it.
The IAEA estimated 440.9 kilograms of 60% enriched uranium before the war. After the strikes, Grossi assessed approximately 200 kilograms may remain. That material, seven to eleven nuclear weapons’ worth at one week’s further enrichment, is now inside a granite mountain that no bomb can penetrate and no inspector can enter because Iran has denied IAEA access to every site struck since 28 February.
The war’s existential minimum was defined by Defence Secretary Hegseth: no nukes. The nuclear infrastructure must be destroyed with or without regime change. The GBU-57 was the instrument. Pickaxe Mountain is the limit. The instrument has met a material it cannot defeat. The existential minimum has hit a ceiling of stone.
What remains is a decision the United States has never made in the nuclear age. The material cannot be destroyed from the air. It can only be reached through the door. Special forces insertion into a tunnel complex defended by IRGC units operating under the Mosaic Doctrine, with sealed orders, inside a country whose 31 autonomous commands have been firing continuously for fourteen days. The Pentagon is weighing this option. Fox’s Jesse Watters reported it as a “near-impenetrable site requiring potential special forces insertion.” The language is careful. The implication is not.
A ground operation to seize enriched uranium from a granite bunker inside hostile territory would be the most consequential special forces mission since Abbottabad. Except Abbottabad was one compound, one target, one night. Pickaxe Mountain is a tunnel system buried under 100 metres of rock, defended by a military that cannot surrender because its commander is a wounded man issuing orders from a hospital bed through a television anchor, and its doctrine was designed to fight without him.
The bomb cannot reach it. The inspectors cannot enter it. The Supreme Leader will not open it. The material inside is seven days from becoming a weapon. And the mountain does not negotiate.
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BREAKING: Iran’s military just named the price of the war. Two hundred dollars per barrel. And they named every tanker that will be hit to get there.
Col. Ali Razmjou, spokesperson for Khatam al-Anbiya, the joint command headquarters that controls all of Iran’s armed forces, issued three declarations today that change the structure of the conflict.
First: “Not a single liter of oil will pass through the Strait of Hormuz if it benefits the US, Israel, or their allies.”
Second: any tanker bound for those nations is now a “legitimate target.”
Third: “Prepare for $200 per barrel.”
In the same statement, Khatam al-Anbiya announced that Tehran’s policy of “reciprocal hits,” the tit-for-tat cycle where Iran responded proportionally to each American or Israeli strike, has ended. The replacement doctrine: continuous strikes. Unprovoked. Unlinked to specific triggers. Permanent until the war ends on Iranian terms.
Three ships were hit in the Strait today. The Mayuree Naree, a Thai bulk carrier, was struck by a projectile 11 nautical miles off Oman. Three sailors are missing. A container ship was hit off Ras al Khaimah. Two drones were intercepted near Dubai International Airport. The doctrine was not announced as future intent. It was announced alongside its execution.
Read the targeting declaration again. Not all oil. Oil that benefits the US, Israel, or allies. This is selective enforcement stated as official military policy. Iran is declaring the Strait closed to the Western alliance and open to everyone else. Eleven point seven million barrels of Iranian crude have transited to China since 28 February via shadow fleet under IRGC protection. China buys 80 to 90% of Iran’s exports. That oil moves. Western-allied oil does not. The Strait is not closed. It is partitioned.
The shift from reciprocal to continuous transforms the actuarial mathematics that govern everything. Under reciprocal doctrine, insurers could model risk as episodic: strike, counterstrike, gap, repeat. Between cycles, risk decreased. Premiums could theoretically price the pauses. Under continuous doctrine, there are no pauses. The incident density becomes constant. A permanent ambient threat where any vessel bound for an allied nation can be struck at any time by any of the 31 autonomous IRGC commands that need no authorisation from a Supreme Leader made of cardboard. The actuarial model that prices episodic risk collapses. The replacement prices permanent risk. And permanent risk at this intensity is uninsurable.
The Tanker War ran from 1984 to 1988. Four years. 546 ships attacked. Oil doubled. That war had a functioning Supreme Leader who accepted a UN ceasefire. The 2026 war has 31 commands operating on sealed orders from a dead man. The off switch that ended the Tanker War does not exist. The Houthi Red Sea campaign ran over a year with a fraction of the IRGC’s capability and reduced traffic by 70%.
Oil at $87 is priced for a war that follows rules. The rules just ended. The colonel who ended them named the replacement price: $200. He named the targets: every tanker serving the Western alliance. He named the doctrine: continuous. And the 31 commands that will execute it need nothing from the cardboard photograph in Tehran except the authority he already delegated before he died.
The $200 prediction is not a forecast. It is a stated military objective issued by the command structure that controls the weapons to achieve it.
Full analysis.
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@AguelaAdvisory @brettherron @Our_DA The GHC once generated over R500k/month from the film industry. Before converting to a film studio in 2015, it was losing millions each year. The rebate backlog - thanks to the dti - is causing local production companies to go bust. Disposal is the obvious choice
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@brettherron @Our_DA @CityofCT Ok, shouty Brett. Tell us how the "people" of CTN have benefitted from the GHC since it was shuttered in 2010? And how did we benefit from the R300mill plus spent on maintaining it during the past 16 years? Public "assets" are not assets unless they actually benefit the public.
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The @Our_DA run @CityofCT just sold the iconic Good Hope Centre for R135 million. Part of the 53 properties they auctioned off today as the DA raids the family silver - except the silver doesn’t belong to them.
It’s an absolute disgrace. These public assets belong to the people.
@geordinhl must decide if he’s a public servant or a property trader. If he’s a property trader he should trade with his own properties and not the peoples’!
Bargain basement price!

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@mamboitaliano__ You mean the Maga-lover who called Bad Bunny a fake American, when he himself lives in Puerto Rico to dodge tax? A real icon of Valentine's, Jake Paul
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I’m genuinely shaken to my core by how the Trump administration is ABSOLUTELY FINE with the fact that, right in the middle of yet another round of “peace talks,” literally while delegations are sitting across from each other discussing “compromise,” Russia is launching devastating missile strikes on heating and electricity in Ukrainian cities, leaving millions of people in a humanitarian catastrophe in the middle of a freezing winter.
And there isn’t the slightest objection, condemnation, or demand to stop. Nothing. Nobody appears bothered by these mass war crimes unfolding live.
Nothing, except regular Trump outbreaks in claiming that “Zelensky doesn’t want peace.”
And it’s easy to see why: they think that every Ukrainian apartment block demolished by a Russian missile in the middle of the night, along with the people inside it, helps them “pressure Zelensky into a deal.”
It’s astonishing. Down to the darkest depths of moral collapse. I genuinely can't wrap my head around how things could end up this way in this regard.
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"I'm going to start a conflict because you wouldn't give me a peace prize" - signed, A Moron
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President Trump letter to Norway Prime Minister links Nobel Prize to Greenland, reiterates threats; shared with European ambassadors in Washington. - PBS' Nick Schifrin
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