Just as the IDF is the most moral army in the world.

The tail is not wagging the dog.

Fiat currency is backed by taxation, which can only be paid in the very same currency that the taxer prints.
📺 Your Taxes Pay for Nothing

Did you see the Magic Seas go down?

China’s “monopoly” is not on the minerals themselves but on the processing. Anyone can “break” the monopoly by building their own processing industry.

No, you’re thinking of the US.

But they told me that these CIA/MI6/Mossad-backed Salafi Jihadists were moderate rebels. At least that terrible, horrible no good, very bad Bashar al-Assad is gone, though!

Capitalists will incorporate & commodify any^[1] trend/movement into their branding. 1971.

Armenia’s PM offers to expose himself in escalating Church row

A bitter standoff between Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and the Armenian Apostolic Church has seen mass arrests, allegations of a coup plot, and an extraordinary offer by Armenia’s leader to reveal his private parts to prove he is a Christian.

Earlier this week, Pashinyan told his 1.1 million followers on Facebook he was prepared to expose himself to the head of the Armenian Church and his spokesman, to prove they were wrong that he had been circumcised.

It helps to check which mods are active, meaning which ones have recently made posts/comments. Otherwise your message may never be read.

I can strongly say that, too, because BRICS is explicitly not trying to create a global reserve currency to replace the USD.

If you don’t understand what BRICS is, then maybe don’t make predictions about it.

nbd

“That thing that’s already over a decade old and already much larger than the G7 in terms of population, landmass, natural resources, and industrial production… Never going to happen.”

I don’t know, but this Wikipedia table has population and GDP-PPP columns, so it’s easy to do the math. Note though, that Vietnam is in the subsequent table, because the page hasn’t been updated it yet.

You made a miner error.

🤷 I have absolutely no doubt that Iran has had mines prepared for blockading the strait for decades, and I don’t think bluffing is Iran’s usual M.O., so I think this is likely regardless of what anonymous US sources say.

The CIA report (PDF): https://web.archive.org/web/20250703012001/https://www.cia.gov/static/Tradecraft-Review-2016-ICA-on-Election-Interference-062625.pdf

The thing is, it’s been known for at least 1½ years that the CIA “Cooked The Intelligence” To Hide That Russia Favored Clinton, Not Trump In 2016.

I enjoyed A Podcast Of Unnecessary Detail. They stopped producing new episodes, though.

Broken link. https://www.reuters.com/world/china/taiwan-simulate-chinese-invasion-major-drill-2025-07-01/

Technology giants Alphabet (GOOGL.O), opens new tab, Amazon (AMZN.O), opens new tab, Microsoft (MSFT.O), opens new tab, and IBM (IBM.N), opens new tab were named as “central to Israel’s surveillance apparatus and the ongoing Gaza destruction.”

First as tragedy, then as… also tragedy. IBM and the Holocaust

IBM and the Holocaust: The Strategic Alliance between Nazi Germany and America’s Most Powerful Corporation is a book by investigative journalist and historian Edwin Black which documents the strategic technology services rendered by US-based multinational corporation International Business Machines (IBM) and its German and other European subsidiaries for the government of Adolf Hitler from the beginning of the Third Reich through to the last day of the regime, at the end of World War II when the US and Germany were at war with each other.

Published in 2001, with numerous subsequent expanded editions, Black outlined the key role of IBM’s technology in the Holocaust genocide committed by the German Nazi regime, by facilitating the regime’s generation and tabulation of punched cards for national census data, military logistics, ghetto statistics, train traffic management, and concentration camp capacity.