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B'kdel Test
1) At least two named Klingons, 2) who talk to each other, 3) about something other than honor.
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*BRENT OIL RISES 3.3% TO $116.25/BBL AT OPEN AS HOUTHIS JOIN WAR
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It’s amazing that you can pull any page from the Wretched of The Earth and find a perfect depiction of the current problems.
“Let us admit it, the settler knows perfectly well that no phraseology can be a substitute for reality.”
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That's Ramat Hovav, Israel's only plant for treating radioactive and toxic waste
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Be'er Sheva, Israel right now after an Iranian missile attack.
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No sign of any slackening of the Iranian strike tempo. If @pati_marins64 reports on Iranian missile stockpiling are accurate and the five experts interviewed by the FT are off, they could do this until we get a full-blown Great Depression.
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Translation $7 a gallon on the East Coast and $9 a gallon on the West Coast if this nightmare scenario came to fruition
Polymarket@Polymarket
BREAKING: U.S. officials & Wall Street analysts are now reportedly preparing for the possibility of $200 oil.
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RIGHT 👉 “For Tehran, the goals are simple. The Islamic Republic must survive this moment and ensure it is not attacked by the United States and Israel again. To achieve this, Iran believes it must impose a cost — to the United States and Israel, to the Gulf states’ image of stability and to the global economy. …
The Strait of Hormuz is a major vulnerability to the global economy. Tehran will remember the value of being able to close it.”
WRONG 👉 “[This] will anchor the United States more firmly in the Middle East, despite years of talk about pivoting away from the region.”
There are only two broad outcomes here. Either the US accepts de facto Iranian hegemony in the region, or it gets sucked into a unwinnable ground war that will destroy the world economy and lead to an even bigger disaster.
Accepting de facto Iranian hegemony — by which I mean living under the sword of Hormuz — means that the US will be less, not more, involved in the gulf. The raison d'être of US deep engagement in the gulf was to contain Iran. With this project abandoned, the organizing principle of US commitments in the gulf vanishes.
The problem, ofc, is that this is not acceptable to the Western mind. That is why the central scenario is a ground war and a great depression. We will lose the ground war too, just at a stupendous higher costs.
Ziad Daoud@ZiadMDaoud
Iran didn't want this war, but now has reasons to prolong it That's a problem for Trump, the global economy & the Gulf states It’ll also haunt future US presidents: Hormuz has been closed once; it can be closed again @DEsfandiary & I argue in @nytimes nytimes.com/2026/03/28/opi…
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There seems to be a clear division of labour: US marines prepare to storm the cliffs of the northern Gulf, Israeli soldiers kill journalists and children in Lebanon and Gaza.
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@HovdaHakon65098 @CaseStudyQB @billmaher No because the population will always resist & see the footnotes here for the legal definition of occupation
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@RealDBell @CaseStudyQB @billmaher If they "lost" Gaza and Sinai, they certainly can not keep effective control over it...
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HBO (3/27/2026): Bill Maher "Every war Israel has fought is a war of defense, every war, they were attacked first"
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In the first month, we have seen the soft version of the war. From next week onward and for almost another 4 weeks, we are expected to see the medium version.
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@HovdaHakon65098 @CaseStudyQB @billmaher Lost, kept effective control (legal standard for occupation definition), promoted resistance groups to thwart statehood
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@RealDBell @CaseStudyQB @billmaher But territory? Why then did they give up the Sinai peninsula? Gave up Gaza? Have offered 97-98 % of territories of Judea and Samaria to the Palestinians? Withdraw from Lebanon twice or three times?
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@RealDBell @CaseStudyQB @billmaher And why is that a bad thing? Also Turk and Iran wants this. Every nation of a certain size or/and influence will seek to be in control of whats going on around them. The question is, who would be the best option?
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@RealDBell @CaseStudyQB @billmaher You think Israel started wars against Hamas, Hisbollah and Iran? If so, why?
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This is also a pertinent reminder that the United States has a special law that ONLY applies to Israel, which restricts the resolution of imagery that can be offered by American companies.
The Kyl–Bingaman Amendment (KBA) of the 1997 NDAA prohibits high-resolution imagery, specifically of Israel. This law stipulates that American companies have to reduce their resolution to deliberately censor their imagery to be in line with the lowest-common-denominator resolution scale.
Of note, this restriction does NOT apply to the homeland United States...companies like Maxar, Planet, and Vantor can offer extremely high resolution satellite imagery of very sensitive sites within the American homeland...Israel is the only place on earth that is censored, by law, by the US government.
The only reason we have any imagery of Israel at all, is due to European companies (like Airbus), which are not bound by the American laws protecting a foreign nation. So for anyone who is curious as to why it is always a challenge to find out what locations have been struck in Israel, this is a contributing factor for the reason why. When Airbus gets sharper imagery, American companies can follow suit, but not before.
Soar@SoarAtlas
Many people have asked why satellite imagery showing damage in Israel isn’t available on our platform. This is primarily due to limitations in the available satellite data, along with current restrictions in place during this conflict. Large-scale damage in Iran is often visible in freely available satellite imagery due to its scale, for example, impacts on airbases, industrial facilities, or extensive smoke plumes. In contrast, impacts in Israel have been reported to be typically smaller and more localized, often affecting individual buildings or streets, which usually fall below the resolution of free satellites which we use such as Sentinel and Landsat. Open source satellite imagery collected by the likes of the European Space Agency and NASA have a coarser resolution compared to commercial imagery providers including Airbus, Planet, and Vantor. This means much of the damage can be difficult to detect unless it occurs at a larger scale, for example, smoke from airstrikes can be clearly visible from space over long distances, whereas smaller incidents may not appear in freely available imagery. Detecting this level of detail requires high-resolution commercial imagery, which is currently restricted or delayed by major providers in this area during the conflict, something that is unfortunately beyond our control. In saying this, we highly encourage anyone to explore and investigate areas of interest using the free tools available on Soar Atlas. We’re also always open to community suggestions. Our community has done some incredible investigations and we hope our tools help make those findings easier to share. We do not take sides. Soar Atlas exists to make satellite imagery and mapping a more transparent, accountable, and a trusted source of information for everyone. We continue to hope for peace for all 🕊
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BREAKING: The Iranian government said more than 93,233 civilian facilities and 600 schools have been damaged since the war on the country began.
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@HovdaHakon65098 @CaseStudyQB @billmaher What’s actually insane is the punishment of criticism of a supposed allied country starting wars across multiple fronts, soon to be fully adjudicated genocide, taking over state dept functions, and attempting to revise the borders and governments of other countries.
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@RealDBell @CaseStudyQB @billmaher We are a world obsessed with Israel. No other country is subject to this kind and level of scrutiny. Then the world apply a moral bar no one else is capable or expected of living up to. It's insanity.
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BREAKING: Israeli police blocked the Patriarch of Jerusalem, Cardinal Pizzaballa, from entering the Church of the Holy Sepulchre to celebrate Palm Sunday Mass.
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@glcarlstrom @aa51_ansari This is how all of you professional sinecured clown journalists failed and maybe your posting this is closer to the proximate reason The Economist’s coverage of the Middle East is garbage
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@glcarlstrom @aa51_ansari Opposite, much to the detriment of the public’s understanding of what’s happening, enabling elite impunity (starting before Gaza), while making a bubble so we don’t have to face reality
Sun Tzu’s dictum is to know both yourself and your opponent, this has left us with neither
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A good point from @aa51_ansari:
"Because information coming out of Iran is controlled, the Islamic Republic enjoys an asymmetric advantage in the narrative war. It can suppress information about damages it sustains, while the damage it inflicts is in the open for all to see." newstatesman.com/comment/2026/0…
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