Will #Israel start acting against North Korea? Or are the Asian countries, who fear Nort Korea, trying to get Israel involved? Israel has the most successes in preventing radical regimes from obtaining nuclear weapons. You can like Israel or hate her, but you can't argue with the facts. Maybe these headlines are intentional. Maybe they are trying to get Israel to focus on the next target. #NorthKorea #DPRK

I have a feeling that today oil prices are going to 🚀 (Iran targeting #Saudia oil and Ukraine targeting Russian oil) P.S. This is a bad thing for Trump. The last thing he needs is gas prices rising in the US. I don't know how much support Trump has for this war. I am sure any support will vanish if has prices rise. View quoted note →

My prediction: as an unintended consequence of the #war on #Iran, many small middle eastern countries will start building a strong military and defense capabilities. This might have some interesting side affects. 1. Stronger alliance between #Israel, a big exporter of military capabilities, and countries like UAE. 2. Regime changes. Military coups are common in the Muslim world. Having a strong military increases this possibility. 3. More conflicts between ME countries. We are seeing a race between UAE and Saudia. If the UAE start to arm themselves, this might turn into a war. One thing for sure, even if Iran falls, the ME will remain interesting and devided. Maybe even more devided then in the past, as the unifying enemy is no more.

It seems like the first #CBDC will be implemented in #Gaza Have no doubt in your mind, this is not about helping the "poor" Gazans or to insure they have liquidity. This is to help #Israel to track where the money is going and how it is used.

Hamas debunks the Gaza genocide naritive! "The list has enough information to cite 68,800 deaths. Hamas has lost 25,000 fighters, which leaves 44,000 war deaths to account for. Included in that 44,000 are about 10,000 natural deaths. The remaining 34,000 would include civilians killed by Israel and those killed by Hamas and associated militant groups—either by execution, rocket misfires, turf wars, and the like. The result is that even when using Hamas’s numbers, Israel’s civilian-to-combatant death rate is close to 1:1, an unheard-of accomplishment in an urban war setting, let alone one in which much of the territory has been turned into Hamas human shields."

Commentary Magazine

Hamas Debunks the ‘Genocide’ Narrative

Hamas has wrapped up its latest revision of casualty data in the Gaza war, and it makes clear why Israel’s critics have been flailing since the ...

#israel #gaza #debunk

#russia is going to restrict access to #Telegram. Now it's time to your Russian friends about @White Noise https://kyivindependent.com/russia-reportedly-restricts-telegram/

So Trump won? Trump tried for a long time to get Europe to take their defense seriously and not blindly rely on the US. It seems as if the old parent trick of threatening a child that he will leave, worked. Europe is finally taking it's defense seriously. As an added bonus they might also take a cold hard look at their economies.

Reason.com

Alienated by Trump, Europeans finally take responsibility for defense

Spurred by a hostile U.S. president, Europe struggles against stagnant economies to rearm.

#us #eu

Yes! This is a big win for we the people! Abolish! Abolish! Abolish!

Reason.com

Lawmakers in Florida and Ohio Consider Abolishing Property Taxes

People don't like property taxes—but they are also not eager to cut the government services they fund.

One time a mayor of a city took Milton Friedman to a construction site. Friedman noticed that the workers wer using shovels to dig holes. "Why are the workers not using heavy machinery like tractors to dig the holes" Friedman asked. "This way we can create more jobs" answered the mayor with a beaming smile. "Oh! I get it! You want to create jobs! In that case why don't you tell the workers to use tea spoons?" Friedman replied. I guess the UK don't understand US sarcasm and took it literally... View quoted note →

Isn't it amazing that requiring an ID to vote is racist, but requiring an ID to speak is totally fine?