Doug Pollitt

@ASBMilitary And this one is from last week. Explains why this is happening better than anything else I've seen or read. youtu.be/Nbj1AR_aAcE

@n4bpw61075 @theepicmap Apart from Tumaco these cities are all up in the cordillera. And not sure if you'd really want to settle in Tumaco. Rough 'hood.

@theepicmap Like all these?

Colombia has a massive Pacific coastline… so why basically no cities here?

@BenSteiner00 Kone also drew two yellow cards for professional fouls. He is looking v good and the only way to stop is by tackling him.

A good day for #CanMNT talents in Europe. - Ismaël Koné netted his sixth goal of the season in Sassuolo’s loss to Genoa. - Tani Oluwaseyi picked up an assist for Villarreal, his fourth La Liga goal contribution in a 2-1 win - Theo Bair went the full 90 minutes for Lausanne.

@RyLiberty @propandco They totally do.

@propandco Yeah they do. Boomers are really dumb

Iran knew Israel would chimp out and sabotage the deal. They knew America would do back flips to excuse them as well. They made a deal they knew would be broken so the whole world could see the aggressor. They forced israel to show its true colors. And they are forcing America to show how subservient it is to israel.

@LuigiMF_89 You mean the same guy who came off the bench on the weekend to serve up the winning goal?

Creo que tendrá que explicar bien Kompany por qué no ha jugado hoy un Lennart Karl que revoluciona los partidos y que los dos cambios del partido sean Alphonso Davies y Musiala cuando llevan meses (o años) lejos de estar en forma.

@CCanmnt86101 If you listen to the commentary it was immediately suggested by (I believe) @kdkilbane77 that the injury may have been related preparation issues, that is, coaching staff issues. An honest mistake, but b/c of this we overlooked the cynicism of the tackle. It was nasty work.

@DouglasPollitt That's what I'm saying. When I saw it originally it looked really bad from Agyemang but no one has really talked about it.

Not trying to be an ass, but isn’t this karma for tearing Alphonso Davies’ ACL? It’s still not talked about enough: Agyemang had no chance of winning the ball, and right as Davies is about to plant, he still kicks his knee into a position that leads to ACL tears.

@Stevecoady416 @keebs82 @ShaziGoalie The stadium upgrades - ~$180mm - including all of the above, plus several new big screens, etc. The scaffolding was only a small part of this sum. The balance of the $380mm is going to op costs, including security, etc. This will be offset by revenues. The OP doesn't know sh-t.

@keebs82 @ShaziGoalie That $$ went to a new field, 4 new screens…locker room upgrades, press box upgrades, new permanent private boxes in the north end AND the temporary seats.

Toronto’s World Cup cost was projected at $30–45M. It’s now $380M for 6 matches. That’s ~$63M per game.

@BenSteiner00 He walked off on his own and then sprumg up like a bob to applaud his team taking the lead 2-1 a few minutes later. I don't think it's serious.

Just as Alphonso Davies made his return… Ismaël Koné leaves his Serie A match with an injury in the 69th minute. Also reports emerging from Scotland that Alistair Johnston suffered a setback as a #CanMNT training player. m.pazzidifanta.com/indisponibili/…

@herculezg BMO Field would not have been mostly filled by Italians. It's nice lore, but not much more.

Canada is a big winner today. Switzerland is favored to win Group B. Not having to face Italy in Toronto is a huge relief. BMO Field would have been mostly Italian fans. #CANMNT 🍁

@ericweinstein Oh, stop. Feynman was a brilliant science communicator:

I can always tell someone who has never read Feynman’s work. They believe he possessed a superpower to make complex issues easy to understand for everyone. The Richard Feynman who could explain the most complex concepts to anyone…never existed. Read his papers. You’ll see.

@SaltasticTakes @TheReclamare Pretty sure they are.

@DouglasPollitt @TheReclamare Those are not Canadian troops

They call it White Privilege 1915 - B" Co., 74th Battalion, Niagara Camp

@DouglasPollitt British?

@rgfray1 Weren't the boxes included in that price? (I'm asking...).

Those additional Bleachers at BMO Field in Toronto cost 157.9 million... #CanMNT

@BatMurdock55 @dlicps Boom. Gotta get Flores and David linking up.

Jesse Marsch Tuesday if he was a madman #CanMNT

@FenceSitter01 @TheAthleticFC ^^^^

@TheAthleticFC "My first dream" It was his father's dream, not his

“My first dream was obviously playing for the Mexican national team. “But now that I’m here with Canada, it’s a dream to play my first game with Canada.” Marcelo Flores is now one of the final pieces in Jesse Marsch’s World Cup roster puzzle, following an extensive courtship that led to his decision to go all-in with Canada. @joshuakloke spoke with the 22-year-old ahead of his debut for #CANMT bit.ly/4bFf0i4

@toddrichman @RabbiMivasair Who's gonna tell him?

@RabbiMivasair Everything seems to be an Israeli false flag for you. Please don’t go after me because you are so hateful to Israel and the Jewish people’s homeland. Yes I am a proud Zionist! You probably also believe that all the women that were raped by Hamas and people beheaded were not true.

Instead of hiding behind "you have really lost it" and "shameful" like a pathetic schoolboy in a playground squabble, Mr. DMFI*, how about offering some facts or evidence or anything other than the rather obvious conclusion that the ambulance arson was a poorly designed transparent false flag operation? * = Democrats Manipulated for Israel

@donaldgorbachev Gold is a rainy day asset and now it's raining. The metal will be used accordingly. It will have served its purpose. No argument there. But the Straight will one day open again and when it does, things will be different. Quite different. Trade it as you will.

@donaldgorbachev As a means of transaction your points are well taken. As a store of value, not so sure. The "risk free" status of USD / UST complex, once hallowed, will erode. Maybe not all at once, but just as surely. And something will take its place.

The five-second epistemology of the petroyuan. The apocalypse is going to be very boring. The dollar doesn’t crater. The dollar degrades. The people waiting for the dramatic collapse — the purchasing power craters, the yuan replaces the dollar, gold-backed everything — are the same people who bought bunkers in 2020 and N95 masks from Zero Hedge and then six months later said COVID was a hoax because the apocalypse didn’t look like Fallout 3. The apocalypse never looks like Fallout 3. The apocalypse looks like diesel up 83 cents in a week and nobody can explain why the grocery bill is higher and the war you forgot about is still going. The petroyuan isn’t coming. Not because the dollar is strong but because the Chinese don’t want it. This is the part the gold bugs and the collapse guys can’t process. Reserve currency status isn’t a blessing. It’s a curse. You need the violence to maintain it. You need the aircraft carriers and the military bases and the forward operating positions and the wars that never end. You need the evangelical Disney World. You need the Strait of Hormuz. You need the whole architecture of global force projection just to keep people pricing oil in your currency. The Chinese read Marx. The Chinese studied imperialism. The Chinese watched the American empire hollow itself out maintaining reserve currency status and said no thank you. They don’t want the curse. They want to trade. What replaces the petrodollar isn’t the petroyuan. What replaces the petrodollar is nothing. A messy, bilateral, fragmented system where oil gets priced in whatever the buyer and seller agree on. Yuan for Chinese purchases. Rupees for Indian purchases. Gold sometimes. Barter sometimes. The clean replacement that the collapse guys are waiting for — dollar dies, yuan rises, new world order — isn’t coming because the new world order learned from the old world order that reserve currency status is the thing that destroys you. The wealth in London and the US isn’t imaginary. It’s just not what people think it is. It’s not dollars in a vault. It’s the inertia of a system that everyone uses because everyone else uses it. That inertia degrades slowly. Boring slowly. Grocery bill slowly. Diesel price slowly. The Strait of Hormuz closing and the price adjusting and the system creaking and nobody getting to use the bunker because the collapse doesn’t look like a collapse. It looks like Tuesday but more expensive.

@DanielLDavis1 Trump's in a bunker. The only info he gets is highly curated. It's not looking good.....

Stunning piece in Axios tonight, claiming that Trump's team has begun internal "game planning" on the outlines of a negotiated deal they plan to offer to Iran to end the war. Its is as detached from reality as imaginable. There are six major points so far, according to Axios, which claims any "deal to end the war would need to include the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz, address Iran's stockpile of highly enriched uranium, and also establish a long-term agreement on Iran's nuclear program, ballistic missiles and support for proxies in the region." My first reaction was that we already had a majority of those terms, in hand, on 26 February after the third round of talks bt Witkoff and Aragchi, mediated by the Omani foreign minister. War could have been avoided all together, and Trump would have had a genuinely laudable diplomatic deal. Instead, he trashed the deal and launched a war of choice anyway. I couldn't understand why Iran would again return to contemplate similar terms three weeks into a war, when I read the crucial part of the Axios report: "Egypt and Qatar have informed the U.S. and Israel that Iran is interested in negotiating, but with very tough terms. The *Iranian demands* include a ceasefire, guarantees that the war will not resume in the future, *and compensation*." Why does the Witkoff team in the White House think Iran will agree to submit to the same terms they offered, without war, three weeks ago, after having their former leader assassinated, scores of other leaders killed, massive damage to its air and naval forces, and thousands of its people killed? As the article illustrates, Iran isn't interested in that. To the contrary, they are issuing major demands of their own, at this point, and are no longer offering to end enrichment or curtailment of its missile forces. Instead, they're demanding reparations *from* the U.S. Right now, Iran has huge leverage over the U.S. bc of the effective control of the Strait of Hormuz. Iran likely has more capacity to suffer loss and privation than Trump has to suffer high oil prices for an extended period of time. This is now a test of wills, Trump's and Iranian leadership's. The White House is acting like its in the driver's seat. Evidence suggests Tehran is in the dominant negotiating position. Time will tell how this test of wills plays out, bc to be sure, Iran is suffering significant material and personnel damage. But they've suffered for decades, from 8 years of war with US-backed Iraq, and the last couple decades of sanctions and other attacks from US and Israel. Chances are high they can suffer longer than the U.S. We'll see soon enough. My guess is these six points will go nowhere, and Iran won't be willing to budge on their demands, at least not in the near term. We'll all find out soon enough, however, how this plays out.