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@LBJenkins1963
I am an average American Christian, an Heir to Galatians 3:29. I work. I will never go the a Geo Fenced church. I will never turn away from suffering.
JUST IN: 🇨🇦 Canada says it is ready to help ensure safe passage through the Strait of Hormuz.
I smell another lockdown coming.
We need to clear the air about Heather Kaiser-Kent. The smear against her is not justified. 🧵 Did she write for Grayzone? Kind of. Do I like Grayzone? No. Is that indicative of her entire personality? No. Heather's work has been cited in US Congressional testimony in May of 2024 about threats to US Border Security. Heather has also been an advocate for veteran families and served as a mentor at TAPS Good Grief Camp in 2016, and as a military mentor for the U.S. Senate Youth Program that same year. Late last night, I made a post questioning if Heather could have influenced Joe's decision to resign and write his letter. As a man, I know feel the need to correct the record. After deep research, to me, it just does not seem plausible.
Trump: Americans should be thanking me, I thought I'd be making them suffer way worse than they are.
Hey @DougBillings - I appreciate the context about Netanyahu and grant you that the context is important. That said, I’m still not okay with it and I’ll explain. First - you know me and Matt know that during COVID I had the great honor of participating in a Rabbinical Court hearing on the mRNA poisons. This court ruled that the vaccines were not to be used in pregnant women and children. It’s holding had major impact and I received thank you’s all the way from Israel. I was honored to fight for the Jewish people. It’s also worth noting that my mentor was a Nuremberg prosecutor and so when I say I have an issue with Netanyahu it’s not an issue with Israel or the Jewish people. To the contrary, I fought for the Jewish people while this sick monster - Netanyahu - was trying to force the experimental medical procedure on his people without informed consent… seems like I can remember another time in history that was done to the Jewish people. I also see that Netanyahu spent almost $2 billion dollars (much of which was probably from US aid) funding the Hamas terrorists through Qatar. He funded terrorists that were killing his people. Now take this comment and ask yourself, is this really any better in context? The point remains the same - basically that Jesus can’t beat evil and the world is bad so we should be worse to win. I’m literally not okay with any of that. As a Christian I won’t dismiss Jesus or his power so easily. I’m pretty sure that “so unto others” can be extrapolated to mean that being more evil than your foe is not what God wants. Even if I forgive this clown for putting Christ below Ghengis Khan, his moral equivocation suggests he’s not trustworthy (it’s okay to be worse because the world is broken). I hear antisemitism all the time and don’t disagree that it’s an issue but how does insulting and demeaning Christ help? How does “being more evil to win” build credibility to your cause? I support Israel. I support the Jewish people living their lives in peace. I don’t believe Netanyahu sours the same. He’s done too many things that demonstrate that he believes exactly what he said - being more evil is okay because the world is broken so take care of number one… that message is about as anti Christian as you can get, that is what Netanyahu believes as demonstrated by his actions, and that is why I shared this clip. Always appreciate you Doug and the fact that we can talk reasonably… sadly, it’s a rare thing on social media.
Airgas, the largest distributor of pure helium products in the United States (22% of the market share) has announced that it is using the force majeure clause of its contracts and halting supplies to customers due to the destruction of QatarGas's train. Won't be long before we something similar from Air Liquide.
🙏🏼⛪🙏🏼✝️👇PREGHIAMO MESSAGGIO DEL VESCOVO NASSIF, VESCOVO SIRIACO CATTOLICO DEL SUD DEL LIBANO: Buonasera, permettetemi di condividere il mio dolore con voi. L'esercito israeliano ha appena ordinato l'evacuazione dei villaggi libanesi in una vasta regione di confine. I sacerdoti dei principali villaggi cristiani della zona, come Qlaia, Marjeayoun, Rmeich, Debel, Kawkaba, Alma el-Charb e Ain Ebel, si sono rifiutati di andarsene, così come molti altri cristiani. Hanno suonato le campane delle loro chiese per manifestare il loro rifiuto. Ieri, il fratello di un mio amico, padre Maroun Ghafari, parroco di Alma el-Charb, un pastore che lavorava nel campo, è stato attaccato: è morto sul posto. Mezz'ora fa, il parroco di Qlaia, il mio caro collega, padre Pierre al-Rai, è stato attaccato ed è stato appena ucciso. È diventato un martire della Chiesa e del Libano. In questi villaggi, nulla può minacciare la sicurezza di Israele. Siamo stati cristiani in questa terra per 2000 anni. È una terra benedetta, calpestata da Cristo e dalla sua Santissima Madre. Non abbandoneremo la nostra terra libanese nel sud del Libano. Vi chiedo umilmente le vostre preghiere per i miei fratelli sacerdoti in questi villaggi cristiani del sud del Libano. Che San Charbel sia con la sua Chiesa. Che la Vergine Maria ci protegga con i suoi angeli. Mi sento onorato della coraggiosità di questi cristiani e del loro clero. Saluti cordiali, Vescovo Nassif
Seven clocks are running. None of them negotiable. All of them counting down to the same weeks. The planting clock. Mid-April is the biological deadline for corn and soybean planting across the US Midwest. Every day that passes without nitrogen becoming affordable and available narrows the window for corn. USDA projects corn falling to 94 million acres from 98.8 million. Soybeans rising to 85 million from 81.2 million. The seeds that go into the ground in the next three weeks determine America’s grain harvest in October. The decision is irreversible. The USDA clock. March 31. Prospective Plantings. The report that converts farmer intentions into official data. Every acreage number, every corn-soy ratio, every nitrogen-dependent calculation becomes a published fact that traders, governments, and food agencies will use to model global supply for the next twelve months. The number arrives in twelve days. The FAO clock. April 3. The Food Price Index. The first global reading that captures post-Hormuz commodity prices across cereals, vegetable oils, dairy, meat, and sugar. The 2022 peak was 159.7 in March 2022 after Ukraine. This reading will incorporate oil above $100, urea at $610, LNG halted, packaging repriced, and freight surcharges of $500 to $1,500 per container. The number that determines whether the UN declares a food emergency arrives in fifteen days. The pharmaceutical clock. India’s API inventory buffers are two to three months, measured from the war’s onset on February 28. Late May is the depletion window. Methanol at 87.7 percent Hormuz exposure feeds the solvent chain for paracetamol, ibuprofen, metformin, and antibiotics. Once buffers deplete, the shortage becomes a patient access crisis for the 47 percent of US generics that originate in India. The China crude clock. FGE NexantECA confirmed China is drawing commercial reserves at up to one million barrels per day. The draw sustains refinery operations for four to six weeks from March 19. Mid-April to late April is the exhaustion window. After that, China faces three options: accelerate Russian pipeline imports, reroute at massive premium, or crack open the strategic petroleum reserve. The third option reprices every commodity on the planet. The helium clock. SK Hynix and Samsung hold two to three months of helium inventory. Late May to early June is the depletion window. South Korea imports 64.7 percent of its helium from Qatar. Ras Laffan is offline. If helium buffers deplete before alternative supply arrives, semiconductor fabrication faces rationing. The AI hardware supply chain hits a physical wall measured in months, not quarters. The insurance clock. Solvency II requires 30 to 60 days of zero incidents before P&I clubs can reinstate war risk coverage. Even after a ceasefire, the insurance normalisation takes six to sixteen months based on the Red Sea precedent of 26 months and counting. The logistics system lags the financial relief rally by the longest duration of any clock in this crisis. Seven clocks. The shortest expires in twelve days. The longest runs for over a year. The planting window, the USDA report, the FAO index, the drug buffers, the Chinese crude draw, the helium inventory, and the insurance cycle are all counting down simultaneously. None of them pause for diplomacy. None of them respond to presidential directives. None of them read sealed packets. The calendar is the only actor in this war that has never lost a negotiation. open.substack.com/pub/shanakaans…
