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2026-07-17 00:37:31 CEST

Zelensky's dismissal of Ukraine's defence chief sparks political crisis.
https://www.france24.com/en/zelensky-s-dismissal-of-ukraine-s-defence-chief-sparks-political-crisis

2026-06-27 19:31:32 CEST

Dubbed "Germany's forgotten genocide", and described by historians as the first genocide of the 20th Century, the systematic murder of more than 70,000 Africans is being marked with a national day of remembrance for the first time in Namibia.
Almost 40 years before their use in the Holocaust, concentration camps and pseudoscientific experiments were used by German officials to torture and kill people in what was then called South West Africa.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy0jkynyln2o

2026-06-23 15:50:46 CEST

Europe braces for prolonged heatwave as temperatures approach 40C. I find it interesting how people always assumed that it would be the Global South that would bear the brunt of the climate crisis.
https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/europe-braces-prolonged-heatwave-temperatures-approach-40c-2026-06-21/

2026-05-29 21:26:41 CEST

Canada has entered a technical recession after economic output shrank for a second straight quarter, Statistics Canada reported Friday.
Real GDP fell 0.1 percent on an annualized basis in the first three months of 2026 which is well below the 1.5 percent growth economists had forecast. That follows a revised decline in the final quarter of 2025, meaning three of the last four quarters have now posted negative growth.
https://www.winnipegsun.com/national-news/technical-recession-confirmed-as-canadas-gdp-declines-again/article_8878c6c4-e18e-4228-9f01-170518b880a7.html
#canada #news #cdnpoli

2026-05-27 14:54:17 CEST

Researchers from Sichuan Agricultural University in Southwest China have identified a previously unknown weapon used by rice blast fungus, one of agriculture's most destructive pathogens. This discovery offers a new strategy for broad-spectrum crop disease resistance breeding and environmentally friendly disease management.
https://global.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202605/26/WS6a154553a310d6866eb4ac7b.html
#china #science

2026-05-25 04:37:48 CEST

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@nprofile…hsza exactly, and it looks like Europe is rushing to pass similar laws as well

2026-05-23 16:33:05 CEST

For now, your encrypted messages have a lock on them. Until, possibly, the end of this summer.
Every messaging app in Canada would be required to build a second key.
With Bill C-22, the government would hold the copy. The lock you trust would no longer be a lock only you can open. It would be a lock the locksmith was ordered to duplicate.
https://dontsurveil.me/c22.html
#canada #cdnpoli #privacy #news #c22

2026-05-17 18:47:28 CEST

how is this not The Onion 😆
#usa #china #cope #comedy
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2026-05-12 06:24:13 CEST

A French woman who tested positive for hantavirus after she was evacuated from a cruise ship reported symptoms to doctors onboard but was told it was probably just anxiety, the Spanish health minister has said.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/may/11/french-womandoctors-hantavirus-symptoms-hv-hondius
#news #hantavirus

2026-05-11 17:18:17 CEST

NHS England has granted external staff from companies including Palantir “unlimited access” to identifiable patient data while working on a part of its flagship data platform.
https://www.ft.com/content/8ce1b9be-1d51-466b-90de-54bff1a504ca
#uk #ukpol #palantir

2026-05-09 16:37:20 CEST

The US has suffered its sharpest reputational decline in Malaysia since the onset of the Palestine crisis, according to a new Ipsos survey tracking global attitudes toward the US-Iran conflict.
Only 34% of Malaysians now view the US as having an overall positive influence on world affairs over the next decade.
By contrast, China’s positive influence rating stands at 83% in Malaysia which is the highest of any country surveyed and up 7% from 2025.
https://www.malaymail.com/news/malaysia/2026/05/08/us-reputation-in-malaysia-hits-record-low-as-china-surges-ipsos-survey-finds/219156
#news #geopolitics

2026-05-07 18:09:01 CEST

Carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere just hit a ‘depressing’ record high.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/carbon-dioxide-levels-in-the-atmosphere-just-hit-a-depressing-record-high
#climatecrisis #news

2026-05-03 02:22:24 CEST

70% of Americans say they struggle to pay for food, housing and healthcare.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/videos/70-americans-struggle-pay-food-171319769.html
#usa #news #economy #uspol

2026-05-02 23:47:11 CEST

Twenty-five years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, what does the balance sheet of so-called “transition” countries (even if the term is no longer fully adequate) look like?
Only 1 out of 10 people living in “transition” countries have seen a successful transition to capitalism and more democracy.
https://www.theglobalist.com/for-whom-the-wall-fell-a-balance-sheet-of-the-transition-to-capitalism

2026-05-02 02:48:29 CEST

Palantir workers are finally noticing the skulls on their caps.
https://www.techdirt.com/2026/04/30/palantir-workers-are-finally-noticing-the-skulls-on-their-caps
#palantir #fascism #usa

2026-05-01 18:24:13 CEST

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@nprofile…3eqn yeah qrcode payments are definitely a nice idea

2026-05-01 14:55:29 CEST

China and Indonesia today fully linked their national QR payment networks.
Both central banks call it a deliberate move to bypass the dollar. Transactions settle directly in rupiah and yuan under their local currency settlement framework. No USD in the chain.
A Chinese tourist can now scan an Indonesian QRIS code with Alipay or UnionPay and pay like a local at over 39 million merchants. Indonesians can do the same in China with their 33 local e-wallets.
https://jakartaglobe.id/business/dedollarization-drive-indonesiachina-crossborder-qris-payments-to-launch-next-week
#news #economy

2026-04-29 15:38:28 CEST

A wide range of anonymous X (Twitter) users have reported that their real names are suddenly being Googled in Israel shortly after they began criticizing the country for its actions in Palestine. Some connected the phenomenon to Au10tix, the software X requires users (even anonymous ones) to use in order to verify their real identities.
https://www.mintpressnews.com/x-users-find-their-real-names-are-being-googled-in-israel-after-using-x-verification-software-au10tix/290703
#privacy

2026-04-28 01:52:31 CEST

China develops iron battery 80 times cheaper than lithium that can last 16 years. It provides a budget-friendly, high-endurance answer for the world’s massive energy storage needs.
https://interestingengineering.com/energy/new-all-iron-battery-sustains-6000-cycles
#china #technology #cleanenergy #news

2026-04-26 16:33:04 CEST

Palantir holds £670m in UK government contracts. It has also hired dozens of senior officials from the departments awarding them – raising what transparency experts call an 'acute' corruption risk.
https://www.thenerve.news/p/palantir-revolving-doors-peter-thiel-transparency-corruption-risk
#uk #ukpol #palantir #news

2026-04-23 14:59:15 CEST

Lenin and the Bolsheviks were the first to introduce social benefits, many still enjoy today:
* 8-hour work day
* Annual paid vacation
* Free basic & higher education
* Paid maternity leave
#lenin #socialism #communism
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2026-04-22 18:34:53 CEST

The global aluminium market is experiencing a "black swan" event as disruptions due to the Middle ‌East war trigger a supply shock that will lead to major shortages this year, according to the top metals analyst at commodity trader Mercuria.
The scale of the supply shock we're seeing in the aluminium market is probably the largest single supply shock a base ⁠metals market has suffered in the post-2000 era" 😬
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/aluminium-faces-black-swan-supply-shock-mercuria-says-2026-04-22
#economy #news

2026-04-21 16:18:21 CEST

Israel now occupies more of Lebanon than Russia occupies in Ukraine. Can wait for western countries to start applying the same standards to Israel as they do to Russia.
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/israeli-military-publishes-map-south-lebanon-territory-under-its-control-2026-04-19
#lebanon #news #politics

2026-04-20 20:24:09 CEST

What we once had at the height of the XMPP era of the Internet.
XMPP excelled because it was lightweight (ran easily on modest servers), truly open (anyone could run a server), and federated seamlessly with major networks like Google Talk and Facebook Messenger via bridges.
https://www.kirsle.net/what-we-once-had-at-the-height-of-the-xmpp-era-of-the-internet
#technology #xmpp

2026-04-20 14:25:06 CEST

#usa #uspol #war
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2026-04-19 22:55:23 CEST

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@nprofile…m6l9 whether deployment of electric vehicles happens before or after grid upgrades is irrelevant. Both the grid and vehicles have to transition away from fossil fuels. And these problems can be solved on different timelines.

2026-04-19 15:49:49 CEST

World’s largest, China’s first 10,000-ton all-electric smart container vessel delivered.
https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202604/1359035.shtml
#china #technology #cleanenergy

2026-04-19 01:48:11 CEST

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@nprofile…fts6 not really sure actually

2026-04-18 23:06:26 CEST

Fuel protests in Ireland continue as pumps run dry, prices rise amid unprovoked invasion of Iran by the Burger Reich.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/ireland-fuel-protests-9.7160759
#news #iranwar #europe

2026-04-18 15:45:43 CEST

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@nprofile…8ssu @nprofile…duaj literally grew up in USSR, and watched it fall thanks to the poison from the west

2026-04-18 04:46:23 CEST

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@nprofile…20jl oh for sure, China always tried to have a productive and mutually beneficial relationship with the US. The problem has always been that the US is unable to treat other nations as equals.
And now we're seeing how the US is basically a country equivalent of a house cat that thinks it owns the place, but doesn't know where its food comes from.

2026-04-18 03:24:45 CEST

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@nprofile…8ssu @nprofile…duaj imagine being so shallow as to rely on wikipedia 😆
pretty much all of new energy production in China comes from either nuclear or renewables
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08-13/china-turns-into-electrostate-after-staggering-renewable-growth/105555850
https://ember-energy.org/latest-insights/global-electricity-review-2025/major-countries-and-regions/
in fact China's emissions are actually falling despite rapid increase in energy production
https://www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-clean-energy-just-put-chinas-co2-emissions-into-reverse-for-first-time/
Go do your trolling somewhere else kiddo

2026-04-18 03:22:07 CEST

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@nprofile…20jl but also China doesn't owe the US anything at all. Americans keep acting like they're entitled to exports from China.

2026-04-17 22:45:49 CEST

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@nprofile…8ssu @nprofile…duaj helps to actually have a minimal understanding regarding the topics you're braying about https://oilprice.com/Energy/Coal/Chinas-Renewable-Boom-Masks-a-Quiet-Coal-to-Liquids-Expansion.html

2026-04-17 18:52:03 CEST

A decade of renewable build-out and electrification have materially reduced China’s exposure to energy shocks, with oil and gas now playing only a minor role in power mix.
The oil shock will also force a reset in Asia, the biggest importer of Middle Eastern oil. Japan, Korea and India are now all likely to look for ways to diversify their energy mix, and the equipment needed to achieve that diversification will inevitably come from China.
https://fortune.com/2026/04/09/deutsche-bank-says-china-is-energy-winner-in-age-of-war
#china #cleanenergy #news

2026-04-17 18:14:37 CEST

According to WaPo it's China's fault that American oligarchs outsourced all the industry. 🤡
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2026/04/12/iran-war-global-economy
#usa #capitalism #economy #geopolitics

2026-04-16 02:06:18 CEST

China’s Dishan Technology nears 2nm AI chip breakthrough, reports say. The Shanghai-based start-up says its chip design is likely to improve energy efficiency by 40 per cent compared with its predecessor.
https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-trends/article/3350050/chinas-dishan-technology-nears-2nm-ai-chip-breakthrough-reports-say
#china #technology #news

2026-04-08 05:10:10 CEST

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@nprofile…f26m I think people just use LLMs like a hammer, they have use cases, but for anything that involves math or formal logic, we have far better tools available

2026-04-08 04:03:34 CEST

Scam Altman says it’ll take another year before ChatGPT can start a timer. An $852 billion company, ladies and gentlemen.
https://gizmodo.com/sam-altman-says-itll-take-another-year-before-chatgpt-can-start-a-timer-2000743487
#technology #openai

2026-04-07 18:26:03 CEST

A reminder that if the US is a democracy then Americans are responsible for the actions of their leaders. You can't claim that Trump doesn't represent you when you just sit there and allow the atrocities to continue.
#iranwar #usa #iran #uspol
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2026-04-07 15:06:27 CEST

The decades-old petrodollar cycle, where Gulf states priced oil in dollars and reinvested revenues into US Treasuries in exchange for American security, is now broken. Oil-importing nations are selling Treasuries to defend their currencies, while Gulf exporters, facing lower revenues are reassessing US investments. This accelerates a structural shift away from dollar assets, challenging the Treasury's status as an unquestioned safe haven.
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2026-04-06/the-petrodollar-loop-supporting-the-treasury-market-is-broken
#news #economics #usa #iranwar

2026-04-04 23:31:44 CEST

Trump's tariffs aimed to cut the US trade deficit and bring manufacturing home. Instead, they accelerated a pre-existing shift with Chinese electronics giants like Foxconn and BYD moving final, low-value assembly to Vietnam to avoid levies. While Vietnam surpassed China as the top US source for laptops and consoles in 2025, over 90% of the value often comes from Chinese components. The core production and supply chains remain in China.
https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2026-vietnam-trump-tariffs-supply-chain
#economy #usa #china #vietnam

2026-04-04 06:27:31 CEST

With attacks on the two biggest aluminium smelters in the Middle East over the weekend, Iran struck at major suppliers of a ‌strategic metal the US does not produce nearly enough of domestically.
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/iran-blows-hole-us-aluminium-supply-chain-with-smelter-strikes-2026-03-30
#usa #iran #iranwar #economy #news

2026-04-03 05:29:50 CEST

Army's top uniformed officer being removed is a clear sign that the war is going well.
https://apnews.com/article/pentagon-hegseth-army-chief-iran-war-c6707d1d3a95ea5f679e0f9a5c5012e7
#usa #news #iranwar

2026-04-03 02:18:11 CEST

December cultural alienation survey shows that more than one-in-four Canadians (27%) belong to the alienated, Populist Left.
https://innovativeresearch.ca/there-is-an-audience-for-avi-lewis-populist-left-appeal
#canada #cdnpoli #news

2026-04-03 01:56:58 CEST

The federal government should consider a one-to-two-point increase in the GST and slower growth in non-defence spending to finance a massive jump Canada’s military budget. 🤡
https://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/article/canada-must-increase-taxes-cut-spending-to-hit-5-nato-target-report
#canada #cdnpoli #news

2026-04-03 00:45:23 CEST

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@nprofile…zpa3 You are applying capitalist mechanics to a socialist system. In market driven economies nominal debt and falling prices cause a death spiral because private investment collapses.
China owns the banks and dictates capital allocation. They do not rely on private sentiment for investment. The government simply absorbs bad debts and mandates credit flow. A balance sheet recession cannot happen when the state acts as both the ultimate creditor and debtor.

2026-04-02 18:42:13 CEST

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@nprofile…zpa3 it's more important, but not in the way most people think. Deflation leads to lower prices for consumers, which is a net positive for people in China.

2026-04-02 18:35:37 CEST

The war on Iran has pushed up borrowing costs for major countries except China with Chinese government bonds emerging as lone war haven.
https://www.ft.com/content/72215587-4b6c-454c-85ff-6956132705d9
#economy #news #china #iranwar
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2026-04-01 19:33:37 CEST

that's one hell of a cover 😆
https://www.economist.com/leaders/2026/04/01/how-china-hopes-to-win-from-the-war
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2026-03-31 20:40:59 CEST

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@nprofile…ztju so Hitler bunker with AI then? 😆

2026-03-31 20:15:40 CEST

White House ballroom project to include ‘massive’ military complex a.k.a. a Hitler bunker.
https://www.ctvnews.ca/world/article/white-house-ballroom-project-to-include-massive-military-complex
#usa #news #usnews

2026-03-31 05:42:05 CEST

Trump tells aides he is willing to end Iran war without reopening Hormuz, WSJ reports. 😆
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-tells-aides-he-is-willing-end-iran-war-without-reopening-hormuz-wsj-2026-03-31
#worldnews #news #iranwar

2026-03-29 20:31:46 CEST

true story
#cats #humor #funny
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2026-03-26 01:56:40 CET

NYT comes up with an absolute banger of a headline that's worthy of The Onion to say that the US is now abandoning their bases across the region. 😆
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/25/us/politics/iran-us-bases.html
#usa #propaganda #nyt #news #theonion #iranwar
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2026-03-25 17:59:06 CET

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@nprofile…74z3 Jensen Huang is a snake oil salesman who is currently selling shovels in a gold rush. I don't see why anybody would take what he says seriously.
I also don't understand how existing models become less useful. If the model solves a problem today, it will continue to do so tomorrow when a better model is available.

2026-03-25 17:53:31 CET

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@nprofile…w9rm I can't really see this working out in practice, if anything we'll likely just end up in a similar situation to solar and EVs where China steps up. Of course, we already see Chinese tech increasingly banned in the west. It is possible that the west just becomes a hermit kingdom while the rest of the world moves on.

2026-03-25 16:35:22 CET

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@nprofile…4wy0 the whole AGI thing is basically marketing for gullible investors in my opinion

2026-03-25 16:33:58 CET

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@nprofile…74z3 I mean large open models already exist thanks to Chinese companies releasing them, and we're past the point where shoving more data into models actually improves anything. The future is going to be in architectural improvements.

2026-03-25 13:24:22 CET

The whole LLM as a service business model has a fundamental flaw to it. The cost of operating the data centres is an order of magnitude higher than the profit.
But if models get efficient enough to bring the costs down, then they become efficient enough to run locally. So, either it’s too expensive to operate, or nobody will want to use it as a service because running your own gives you privacy and flexibility.
The fact that investors don't get this is frankly incredible.
#llm #economy

2026-03-23 04:01:22 CET

Dominic Li, one of the Chinese representatives on the UN Human Rights Council, caused a stir.
#un #humanrights #worldnews #news #geopolitics #hongkong
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2026-03-21 18:55:36 CET

The US is demanding trillions in "war ransom" from its Persian Gulf Arab allies. Trump demands the GCC cough up $5 trillion for him to continue the war on Iran, and $2.5 trillion if they want him to stop.
https://thecradle.co/articles-id/36652
#usa #iranwar #news

2026-03-20 16:02:10 CET

At least 16 US military aircraft have been lost since the start of the war on Iran. 🔥
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-03-19/us-aircraft-losses-mount-amid-high-tempo-airstrike-campaign
#usa #iran #iranwar #news

2026-03-19 23:38:10 CET

China, unlike other countries, managed to control rising costs for building nuclear plants by using state driven industry to build a domestic supply chain and skilled workforce.
https://rooseveltinstitute.org/blog/can-china-break-nuclear-powers-cost-curse/
#technology #china #nuclear

2026-03-19 17:01:18 CET

A US F-35 fighter jet made an emergency landing at US air base in the Middle East after it was struck by what is believed to be Iranian fire, according to two sources familiar with the matter.
Iran is showing that these flying Cybertrucks don't actually work against modern air defense.
https://www.cnn.com/2026/03/19/politics/f-35-damage-iran-war
#news #iranwar #technology

2026-03-16 15:30:22 CET

Europe's leaders are unpopular, but Germany's Merz is losing support fastest.
https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2026/03/11/europes-leaders-are-unpopular-but-germanys-merz-is-losing-support-fastest
#europe #germany #politics #news

2026-03-15 22:42:33 CET

European allies broadly support building closer ties to China, and believe America's role as a global superpower is fading. 🎉
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/03/15/trump-china-europe-closer-ties-00823457
#usa #europe #geopolitics #news

2026-03-11 21:24:08 CET

Fungal electronics is a family of living electronic devices made of mycelium bound composites or pure mycelium. Fungal electronic devices are capable of changing their impedance and generating spikes of electrical potential in response to external control parameters. Fungal electronics can be embedded into fungal materials and wearables or used as stand alone sensing and computing devices.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.11231
#technology

2026-03-11 18:25:50 CET

Sheinbaum once again exposes liberals as frauds and shows what could be possible with strong leadership.
https://www.newsweek.com/mexico-affordable-housing-zero-interest-mortgages-1983855

2026-03-11 18:13:57 CET

Iran is exporting more oil through the Strait of Hormuz than before the war, showing it is in control of a strategic waterway that it has closed off to the rest of the region’s oil producers. 😆
https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/irans-control-of-hormuz-means-its-exporting-more-oil-today-than-before-the-war-ede3cd91
#iran #iranwar #hormuz #news

2026-03-10 16:12:49 CET

Brown University’s Costs of War project estimates the U.S. blew $3.4T countering the "China threat" since 2012, and we still don't know why Americans don't have free healthcare.
https://costsofwar.watson.brown.edu/paper/MilitarizedRivalry
#usa #uspol #news #china

2026-03-10 14:41:25 CET

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@nprofile…fts6 kind of weird how this lesson just keeps having to be relearned over and over

2026-03-10 13:36:39 CET

Kurdish residents of northeast Syria warned Iran's Kurds ⁠against ⁠aligning with the U.S. to fight the Iranian ⁠government, citing their own experience in Syria in recent months as evidence their Iranian counterparts would be "abandoned."
https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2026-03-08/syrias-kurds-caution-irans-kurds-against-aligning-with-us-against-tehran
#news #iran #iranwar

2026-03-09 21:46:47 CET

Professor John Mearsheimer: From 1971 to 2021, the US murdered 38 million people.
#usa #uspol #geopolitics
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2026-03-09 17:29:07 CET

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@nprofile…wufy every single socialist country is worthy of praise, and only an utter ignoramus would think otherwise.
Go read a book for once in your life instead of making a clown of yourself in public. https://redletterspp.com/products/chinas-great-road

2026-03-09 16:32:00 CET

1 in 4 humans live under US sanctions. Resulting in about 560,000 unnecessary deaths per year. Every US president is a mass murderer.
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/langlo/article/PIIS2214-109X(25)00189-5/fulltext
#usa #uspol #geopolitics

2026-03-09 15:39:56 CET

China’s EV market runs on cheap electricity, and that single fact explains most of what’s happening in the global auto industry right now. China generates 40% more electricity than the United States and European Union combined, paying around 8 cents per kWh to do it. The US pays over twice that. The UK pays roughly five times more. With China electricity costs this low, the EV price war was never going to be a fair fight.
https://blocknow.com/china-generates-40-more-power-than-us-eu-ditching-oil
#china #cleanenergy #technology

2026-03-09 15:37:43 CET

China's ambitious island-linking mega project. Building bridges here is like assembling a giant puzzle on a shaking table. Typhoons, powerful currents and shifting seabeds challenge every step of construction. With 109-meter steel piles and cutting-edge engineering, how did engineers make this massive project stand firm at sea?
https://news.cgtn.com/news/2026-03-08/China-s-ambitious-island-linking-mega-project-1LlJngnows8/p.html
#china #technology

2026-03-09 15:31:33 CET

China does not just dominate rare earths – it has quietly become indispensable in copper refining too.
https://www.vwc.org.au/china-does-not-just-dominate-rare-earths-it-has-quietly-become-indispensable-in-copper-refining-too
#china #technology #economy

2026-03-09 02:51:52 CET

During this week’s edition of Fox News’ “Sunday Morning Futures,” host Maria Bartiromo asked the South Carolina senator to justify the staggering cost of the conflict, which the Pentagon is planning to ask for billions more to fund and has sent oil prices soaring.
“Best money ever spent,” he said. “What’s it worth to America to take down a religious Nazi regime who’s trying to build a nuclear weapon to deliver to America? That’s a really good investment.”
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/lindsey-graham-iran-war-best-money-ever-spent_n_69ad8d35e4b0258d5b092db4
#usa #news

2026-03-09 01:26:37 CET

Jim Paulsen, a markets strategist with more than 40 years of experience on Wall Street, argued that most of the economy is already in a recession. Tech spending has an outsized influence on economic growth, bolstering the data while the "old" economy struggles.
"Technology may be the tail wagging the dog, but the rest is a recession by any other name," Paulsen wrote.
https://www.businessinsider.com/recession-economy-us-tech-wall-street-strategist-investing-stocks-market-2026-3
#usa #economy #news

2026-03-09 01:13:04 CET

Political scientist and Middle East scholar Norman Finkelstein discusses the ongoing US-Israeli attack on Iran and explains why the current crisis is fundamentally different from the 2003 Iraq War.
https://youtu.be/-jNggeDPv0o
#usa #iran #iranwar #news

2026-03-09 00:35:26 CET

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@nprofile…wyws right, can't see how this ends well

2026-03-09 00:01:41 CET

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@nprofile…wyws I definitely think this was will be a catalyst for a huge geopolitical realignment

2026-03-08 23:44:43 CET

Iran war drives oil price above $100 a barrel for first time since 2022.
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/mar/09/iran-war-drives-oil-price-above-100-a-barrel-for-first-time-since-2022
#usa #iran #news #iranwar
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2026-03-08 23:37:03 CET

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@nprofile…wyws yup, there's no reason why Iran would block traffic for their allies. I really don't know why so many people assumed that closure would be a binary thing where either no ships are let through or all ships are.

2026-03-08 23:36:04 CET

Britain has just two days of gas as Middle East flow runs dry. Shrinking reserves could spark potential crisis with UK now paying highest wholesale price in Europe.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2026/03/08/britain-two-days-gas-middle-east-flow-runs-dry
#uk #europe #news #iran #iranwar

2026-03-08 21:47:47 CET

The closure of the Strait of Hormuz is a severance of the G7’s industrial sinews. While the West faces a sulfur trap that halts everything from EV batteries to agriculture, China’s land-based energy and massive reserves provide a strategic firewall. As TSMC stutters under energy rationing, China’s SMIC and Huawei are positioned to seize global chip dominance. It is a material realignment where geography and chemistry outmatch financial fiat.
https://dialecticaldispatches.substack.com/p/material-determinism-in-the-persian
#news #hormuz #iran #iranwar

2026-03-07 22:50:18 CET

Pressure on the Gulf states’ budgets could lead them to reassess their overseas investments and future commitments as they consider options to alleviate the financial strain caused by the US-Israeli war against Iran.
https://www.dawn.com/news/1979302/gulf-countries-reviewing-us-investments-amid-iran-war
#news #worldnews #iran #iranwar #usa

2026-03-06 22:53:17 CET

Radar bases housing key US missile interceptor hit in Jordan, Saudi Arabia, and UAE, satellite images show. 🎉
https://edition.cnn.com/2026/03/05/middleeast/radar-bases-us-missile-defense-iran-war-intl-invs
#usa #iran #iranwar #news

2026-03-06 19:28:50 CET

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2026-03-05 16:12:25 CET

U.S. Central Command is asking the Pentagon to send more military intelligence officers to its headquarters in Tampa, Florida, to support operations against Iran for at least 100 days.
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/03/04/evacuation-middle-east-iran-war-00812898
#usa #iran #iranwar #news

2026-03-05 06:13:08 CET

Canada PM Carney says unable to rule out military role in Iran war. Apparently, verbally supporting a criminal war of aggression is not enough for this sack of shit. He wants Canada to be a direct participant.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/3/5/canada-pm-carney-says-unable-to-rule-out-military-role-in-iran-war
#carney #canada #cdnpoli #iran #iranwar

2026-03-05 05:46:31 CET

China’s government has told the country’s largest oil refiners to suspend exports of diesel and gasoline as an escalating conflict in the Persian Gulf disrupts the arrival of crude from one of the world’s largest producing regions.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-03-05/china-tells-top-refiners-to-suspend-diesel-and-gasoline-exports
#worldnews #news #iranwar #iran #china

2026-03-04 22:20:39 CET

Elizabeth Warren warns 'so much worse than you thought' after classified Iran war briefing.
"You are right to be worried, the Trump administration has no plan in Iran," Warren said.
On the other hand, I bet Iran did have a plan, and they're now executing it.
https://www.irishstar.com/news/us-news/elizabeth-warren-warns-so-much-36812361
#iran #usa #iranWar #news

2026-03-04 20:36:11 CET

The official journal of the Canadian Paediatric Society has just acknowledged that more than 100 of its case reports are fabricated.
https://retractionwatch.com/2026/03/03/canadian-pediatric-society-journal-correction-case-reports-fictional-paediatrics-child-health
#canada #news #science

2026-03-04 19:18:20 CET

By their shameful, spineless stance on the U.S. and Israeli war against Iran, European leaders have doomed whatever remained of their global influence and their pretensions to promote a “rules-based international order.”
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/europe-trump-iran-war
#europe #iran #geopolitics #news #iranwar

2026-03-04 15:13:52 CET

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@nprofile…fts6 that's right, consistency in policy

2026-03-04 14:32:46 CET

Americans are trapped in a cost-of-living crisis where basic survival has replaced aspiration. Half struggle to pay bills, and nearly 40% have been displaced by rising costs. Two-thirds of young Americans no longer believe they can afford a stable home.
This is a permanent recalibration with record credit card debt of over $1.2 trillion needed to fuel spending. The economy demands more and more while offering less and less.
https://thehill.com/opinion/finance/5759860-cost-of-living-crisis-deepens
#usa #news #economy #uspol

2026-03-04 13:36:00 CET

Merz: Iran should not be protected by international law. 🤡
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/merz-iran-not-protected-international-175532183.html
#germany #iran #iranwar #fascism