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It is not the genes, it is nurture. And then more nurture. And then more nurture again

If Jesus had focused more on kitchen table issues and less on unpopular outcasts like lepers and prostitutes, he might have won more support from white working-class Judeans.

Ακόμα δεν του εξήγησαν ότι το να παράγεις Σιίτες μάρτυρες ειναι σαν σβήνεις φωτιά με βενζίνη

Προς αποφυγή παρανοήσεων. Είτε αρθεί η βουλευτική ασυλία του ώστε να δικαστεί για όσα του καταλογίζει η Ευρωπαϊκή Εισαγγελία σχετικά με τον ΟΠΕΚΕΠΕ, είτε πάψει ακόμη και να κατέχει τη βουλευτική ιδιότητα, ο Κωστας Αχ. Καραμανλης δεν πρόκειται να δικαστεί για την εμπλοκή του στην υπόθεση των Τεμπών. Το ενδεχόμενο αυτό ενταφιάστηκε οριστικά τη στιγμή που η κυβερνώσα πλειοψηφία αρνήθηκε τη σύσταση Προανακριτικής Επιτροπής ναρκοθετώντας τη δυνατότητα διερεύνησης ποινικών αδικημάτων για τη διάπραξη των οποίων ήταν ύποπτος. Ο έλεγχος του Κωστα Αχ. Καραμανλη για την περίοδο που ως υπουργός είχε την ευθύνη των σιδηροδρομικών υποδομών και μεταφορών θα εξακολουθήσει να αποτελεί αρμοδιότητα αποκλειστικά της Βουλής ακόμη κι αν στο μέλλον εντοπιστούν ενδείξεις τέλεσης από πλευράς του νέων σχετικών με τα Τεμπη παράνομων πράξεων και ανεξάρτητα από το αν θα κατέχει ή όχι βουλευτικό αξίωμα.

This is Khatem Azzam, Deputy Commissioner of the Israel Concentration Camp Service. He is the man in charge of building the new Israeli state-sanctioned murder facility. Azzam is a Druze living in the northern town of Maghar.

Όταν ήμουν εγώ φαντάρος το 1989 έλεγαν οι καραβανάδες ότι ο μόνος τρόπος για να αποστρατευτούν νωρίτερα και χωρίς να πληρώσουν ρήτρα στο στρατό, ήταν να γιορτάσουν επίσημα την 21η Απριλίου. Σήμερα αν το κάνει αυτό ένας καραβανάς υπολοχαγός πάει κατευθείαν για αντιστράτηγος.

Ἐμμανουὴλ Ροΐδης ἀστεΐζεται.

Israel needs to get sanctioned by the international community should they further push the world economy into the abyss Every cent, dollar, euro, or pound we pay extra at the pump and on food inflation, we pay for Israel’s desperate attempt to turn a losing war around

There's a lot of confusion out there, including with Trump, that the US has lots of oil to sell to the world. We do not. We're a net importer of crude (~+3 Mb/d). The EIA reports that fact in great detail every week. The confusion stems from using the term "petroleum exports" which includes the bodacious amounts of natural gas liquids (NGL) that come from our wet gas plays. That stuff isn't "oil" and it is exported because it's wildly overproduced compared to our needs. Yes, the US is a net exporter of "petroleum," but it's also a net IMPORTER of crude oil. In other words, the US has none to sell. There's more complexity to why we export 3M b/d of crude (it's the wrong kind for our refineries) and also import 6.4 M b/d of crude (which is the right kind).

Let's spend coffee time playing a little wargame in which the US decides to take on Iran and commit to a full war against it Look at this map. Where could the US stage an invasion of Iran? To Iran's east, you'll find Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Turkmenistan. A big triple no. To Iran's south: the Persian Gulf which it completely dominates. No good. To Iran's west: Iraq and Turkiye. The first a definite no, the second, a no so probable it must be considered a certain. Turkiye will not go to war with Iran for the US and Israel - a war not only sure to decimate it, but a war Turkich people will be fanatically against. To Iran's north is the Caspian Sea. No use. Azerbaijan and Armenia present an opening, but how will hundreds of thousands of NATO soldiers get there (let alone undetected)? If they go by sea, they will need to traverse the Mediterranean and the Black Sea and virtually physically go through Istanbul. Not only politically complicated, but a long long journey that gives Iran tons of time to prepare. Remember the months and months the US took to amass forces for the Iraq invasion? It took 6 months or so - with no interruptions. The problem is, with Iran, there's no way they're going to simply build up forces near the designated target's borders. Iran has an arsenal of hundreds of thousands of guided and precise ballistic missiles, satellites in space and eyes almost everywhere. If a war is declared or started, every American asset within 0-3000 kilometers of Iran's borders will be bombarded so viciously no missile defense system will be able to stop it. And all those dozens and dozens of American bases scattered throughout the vast area surrounding Iran? How will the US defend them under an attack on a scale of 1000 October 7th's combined? Additionally, Iran has the most sophisticated anti-ship missiles in the world (Russia's Yakhont), of which it probably has thousands by now. This means no surface ship is going to be able to come close enough to Iran to make it an effective striking weapon (is this going to be the first time we get to see an aircraft carrier drowning? I believe potentially yes). The US will have to rely on air superiority, but this is going to prove a very difficult, almost impossible task. US planes will have to fly a long way to get to Iran (and back), and it has invested massively in air defense systems, including some of the most sophisticated in Russia's arsenal. The US will lose many planes which will take years to replenish, and Iran will be able to target with ballistic missiles and drones all the bases from which they take off in Europe or the Middle East. Another tool the US will use is cruise missiles fired from submarines: but this, too, does not win wars, and can be costly against a rival that prepared for this. A full-scale invasion of Iran will require potentially millions of soldiers and will take years. The West is simply incapable of an effort of this kind: where will they find millions of young men willing to die at sea in order to occupy a country thousands of miles away? Today? Give me a break. All this time the Iranians will be defending their home and their independence. The West will be trying to colonize and destroy them. They will have Gaza on their minds. - I didn't mention Israel because it is virtually irrelevant in this war. Hizbullah alone is enough to paralyze it and keep its military busy for months. - Bonus point: think about what happens to energy prices in an actual war with Iran. 500$ for an oil barrel? 1000$? 2000$? All is possible. Guess what country will remain the biggest international producer and exporter of oil and gas, and rip all those extra many, many trillions. You guessed tight. Russia. If the Persian Gulf is up in flames, Russia will become a global economic superpower (at a time when the US is dwindled militarily and economically and cannot even fake a military threat against it). - Another bonus point: you think Iran cannot, or will not attack on American soil? Think again. From cyber attacks to large-scale, professional, military-level sabotage and guerrilla warfare, in a war with Iran life in the US will definitely not be business as usual, and not only because inflation will be something 200%, and thousands of dead soldiers will return home in coffins every month for a long time. - The US cannot win a war against Iran. And I believe all parties involved know it. The only thing that remains unknown is how insane and self-destructive the US has become under Netanyahu's and AIPAC's, how shall we call it, influence

The winners and losers of the Iran war are not who you might expect. Chartbook Top Links of the day just dropped!

Will water be decisive in the Gulf war? The arid Arab countries of the Gulf increasingly rely on desalination, which provides 90% or more of the drinking-water supply for Bahrain, Kuwait and Qatar, and almost as much for Oman. For Saudi Arabia it is 70%, and roughly 40% in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). More in today's Chartbook Top Links:

Trump is seeking to pay for his new $1.5 trillion military budget by cutting the following: $510 million - Grants for farmers and agricultural research $82 million - Loans for rural small businesses (Fully eliminated) $61 million - Support for farmers and food markets (Fully eliminated) $240 million - School meals and food education for children abroad (Fully eliminated) $659 million - Community building grants $47 million - Support for minority-owned businesses (Fully eliminated) $449 million - Economic development grants for communities $1.6 billion - Weather forecasting, fisheries, and coastal protection (NOAA) $993 million - Scientific research and technology standards $150 million - Support for American exports and trade $2.2 billion - Broadband and internet access programs $8.5 billion - Funding for public schools $1.5 billion - Vocational training and adult education (Fully eliminated) $2.7 billion - College access and higher education support $15.2 billion - Roads, bridges, and infrastructure projects $1.1 billion - Home energy efficiency and clean energy programs (Fully eliminated) $1.1 billion - Scientific research funding $386 million - Environmental cleanup programs $150 million - Cutting-edge clean energy research $4 billion - Help paying home heating and cooling bills for low-income families (Fully eliminated) $768 million - Refugee resettlement assistance $819 million - Care and shelter for migrant children $775 million - Local anti-poverty programs (Fully eliminated) $5 billion - Public health programs, mental health services, and disease prevention $5 billion - Medical research (NIH) $129 million - Healthcare quality and safety research $356 million - Emergency preparedness and disaster response $1.3 billion - FEMA community disaster preparedness grants $707 million - Cybersecurity protection for critical infrastructure $52 million - Airport and transportation security $40 million - Protection against chemical and biological weapons threats $53 million - Funding for homeland security operations $3.3 billion - Community development block grants for local neighborhoods (Fully eliminated) $1.3 billion - Affordable housing construction grants (Fully eliminated) $393 million - Programs to reduce homelessness $529 million - Housing assistance for people living with HIV/AIDS (Fully eliminated) $489 million - Housing and services for Native American communities $50 million - Grants to help communities build more housing (Fully eliminated) $60 million - Enforcement of fair housing and anti-discrimination laws $58 million - Homebuyer and renter counseling services (Fully eliminated) $45 million - Renewable energy development programs (Fully eliminated) $1.7 billion - Grants for local law enforcement and public safety $20 million - Civil rights mediation and legal access programs (Fully eliminated) $1.6 billion - Job training for at-risk youth (Fully eliminated) $395 million - Jobs program for low-income seniors (Fully eliminated) $234 million - Worker safety and labor protection programs $101 million - Enforcement of equal pay and workplace anti-discrimination laws $46 million - Programs to combat child labor and forced labor abroad $2 billion - International humanitarian aid $1.2 billion - Food aid for hungry families abroad (Fully eliminated) $4.3 billion - Global health and disease prevention programs $2.7 billion - Funding for the United Nations and international partnerships $642 million - International economic and treasury programs $315 million - Democracy and anti-corruption programs abroad $486 million - Grants for public transit projects $4.2 billion - Electric vehicle charging infrastructure $372 million - Airline service for rural and small communities $145 million - Grants for sustainable and equitable infrastructure $204 million - Loans and investment for underserved communities $1.4 billion - IRS taxpayer services and enforcement $100 million - Air pollution monitoring and reduction programs (Fully eliminated) $1 billion - EPA grants to states for environmental protection $2.5 billion - Clean drinking water and wastewater infrastructure funds $90 million - Grants to reduce diesel pollution (Fully eliminated) $3.4 billion - NASA space and earth science research $297 million - NASA technology innovation programs $1.1 billion - International Space Station operations $143 million - STEM education programs $309 million - Small business development and entrepreneurship programs $170 million - Small Business Administration operations $158 million - Loans for small businesses

Mark my words. Pete Hegseth will be fired in disgrace and go down as the worst Department of Defense (Department of War) hire in United States history. Trump will blame everything on him and he will be brought up on charges for international war crimes in both Iran and Venezuela.

Νεο σόου ο πορτοκαλί καραγκιόζης. Θα πεθάνει και θα αναστηθεί μεγάλη εβδομάδα.

“ATHEISM IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU READ THE BIBLE. CHRISTIANITY IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN SOMEONE ELSE READS IT FOR YOU.” - Bertrand Russell

"Why aren't we using a neutron bomb (in Iran)? It's a type of atomic bomb that doesn't damage buildings, it kills all the people in a limited way everywhere" March 29: Channel 14's Shimon Riklin, during a panel that includes Minister Itamar Ben Gvir, discusses dropping a neutron bomb on Iran. Another CH14 correspondent, Dror Balazada, hints that unconventional weapons may already have been used. The entire vibe is very cheerful yet also really awkward. Translation: @bernstein_ariel

“There is no superior race. There is no ‘chosen people of God’. It is neither the United States nor Israel. The ‘chosen people of God’ is all of humanity.” — President of Colombia, Gustavo Petro