Khalil Helou

[Khalil Helou @KhalilHelou]

@AdAyA61 @RealAirPower1 Isn’t the material of the shell of the F35 what makes it so stealthy?

[*Walter Bloomberg @DeItaone]

TRUMP DEFENDS ICE AND TRAFFIC STOPS

Trump praised ICE, claiming crime is falling and arguing that strict immigration enforcement remains necessary.

He defended traffic stops as a key crime-fighting tool and urged ICE officers to act “judiciously, fairly and smartly.”

Trump blamed Biden’s border policies for allowing millions of unchecked migrants into the US and vowed not to weaken ICE enforcement.

[Khalil Helou @KhalilHelou]

@masss11 @marwanmatni معقول الصين تعطي سلاح الو قيمة يساعد ايران؟

[Khalil Helou @KhalilHelou]

@XHabib 👍

[Khalil Helou @KhalilHelou]

@nntaleb I am reading Neronulus as Neuronulus

[Ray Dalio @RayDalio]

At the moment, a huge amount of attention is rightly being paid to the newly announced tariffs and their significant impacts on markets and economies. But very little attention is being paid to the circumstances that caused them—and to the even bigger disruptions likely still ahead. Don’t get me wrong: these tariff announcements are important developments. But most people are overlooking the much larger forces that are driving just about everything, including the tariffs.

In my latest article, I discuss what I believe is far more important to keep in mind: we’re witnessing a classic breakdown of the major monetary, political, and geopolitical orders. This kind of breakdown happens only once in a lifetime—but it has happened many times in history, when similarly unsustainable conditions were in place.

#principles #politics #economics

[Khalil Helou @KhalilHelou]

@HAHazony @threadreaderapp unroll

[Khalil Helou @KhalilHelou]

@ektrit How can they afford to operate for a loss for years? At what expense? Wreck their economy, lower standards of life...?

[Taj Ali @Taj_Ali1]

'Aren't Arabs terrified? Don't Arab women weep when their children are bombed?'

Tony Benn's presence is so sorely missed.

[Khalil Helou @KhalilHelou]

@ektrit Shouldn’t China be able to support them on the supply part?

[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

Truly extraordinarily powerful interview of Dominique de Villepin, former Prime Minister of France, on Gaza.

I can't stress enough how rare it is to hear a former French PM speak like this.

He says France "no longer has a voice on the international scene", because (among other things) of its "double-standards" and lack of action with regards to Gaza.

He calls France's internal silencing of what's happening in Gaza a "real scandal in terms of democracy", making France live in "absurdity" and resulting in it "fading away". He says that we (France and the West in general) would have many levers to stop the war - in terms of armament or economic sanctions - "but we refuse to use these levers with arguments which are absolutely unreal culturally or intellectually speaking. Saying 'we need to let Israel fight its war to the end': but what end? What is the end?".

As a consequence he says that France and the West will "foot the bill" for what's happening in terms of loss of credibility and legitimacy.

On Gaza specifically he calls it "undoubtedly the biggest historical scandal since... I don't even dare to find a reference", calling it a war "not like the others since it is civilian populations that die". He also rebukes the journalist for using the usual term "according to the Hamas-run Ministry of Health" with regards to the number of death: "There's not only the Ministry of Health from Hamas which says that there are 40,000 dead. And there are probably many more, MANY more! So from this basis let's not give the feeling that it would be a number like that, unreliable. No!"

Probably the most powerful quote of the interview, literally gave me shivers: "In Gaza bodies are torn into pieces, Hearts are in pieces! Souls are in pieces! Heads are in pieces!" ("À Gaza les corps sont en morceaux! Les coeurs sont en morceaux! Les âmes sont en morceaux! Les têtes sont en morceaux!")

He says that ""Israel has no political objective and when you have no political objective the only thing you can do is war... There is a security objective, there is an identity objective, there is a messianic madness and that explains the catastrophe that we're witnessing."

[Khalil Helou @KhalilHelou]

@TheImanAziz What about the electrostatic properties of dust on the moon?

[TasteAtlas @TasteAtlas]

Toum
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💯 #1 best dip in the world

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Toum is an authentic Lebanese garlic paste. It is made with whole garlic cloves, which are slowly crushed using a mortar and pestle, or nowadays simply ground in a food processor. During this process, oil (preferably neutral oil such as canola, or the flavorful olive oil) is gently added to create a homogeneous garlic paste with an unusual, fluffy texture. This delightful, pungent garlic spread and its adaptations can also be found in eastern Mediterranean countries, Egypt, and Iraq.

Photo: Not Quite Nigella

[Tom Holland @holland_tom]

I neglected to mention in this clip that Putin also launched a chemical attack on my home city, which is another reason I don’t like him much…

[WAR ECONOMY by KRIS 📿 @ektrit]

HOW INFLATION OCCURS - FLOWCHART

from #krisonomics

[John Ʌ Konrad V @johnkonrad]

Let’s talk about oil.

There is one global price for oil because of safe efficient ocean transportation.

The thousands of oil tankers in the world sail because of arbitrage opportunities.

If you impede the movement of tankers then regional price differences increase and arbitrage opportunities increase.

Without tankers oil would be $1 per barrel in the Persian Gulf and $200 per barrel in China.

In fact it would be lower than $1 for oil export countries as we witnessed during the pandemic when prices went negative.

Disturbances like the current problems in the Suez and Panama canal fracture global pricing.

And once prices differ considerably between regions then alternate non-monetary exchanges become more common.

[Khalil Helou @KhalilHelou]

@ektrit Yoyo behavior

[Ranae Dietzel @RanaeDietzel]

Looks like a physical test, but has biological implications. Root and microbial exudates create strong aggregation and tiny channels for water infiltration, allowing the soil on the right to stay together and not burst under pressure. Ideal chemical environment helped biology.

[Khalil Helou @KhalilHelou]

@ektrit If shadow banking start dropping their inventories and crushing oil prices, does the rise in interest rate still is necessary?

[WAR ECONOMY by KRIS 📿 @ektrit]

US DEBT

Again, let me explain US debt again, or any government debt in the local currency.

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