hi my friend

[schnurmacher @talkradiotommy]

Someone might show this to @Pontifex and hopefully he will immediately express his concern. We will wait.

[NOELREPORTS 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 @NOELreports]

Ukraine's Air Force continues striking Russian positions at the Krasnolymanska mine, targeting Rubicon Center for Advanced Unmanned Technologies units present in these buildings. #Ukraine

[Shanaka Anslem Perera ⚡ @shanaka86]

JUST IN: The CEO of one of the world’s largest logistics companies told Swiss broadcaster SRF on March 5 that Dubai has approximately ten days of fresh food left. That sentence has not appeared on a single major English-language front page. It should be the headline.

Stefan Paul, CEO of Kuehne and Nagel, was not speaking hyperbolically. He was reading his company’s supply chain data. Dubai and the broader Gulf import between 80 and 90 percent of their food. Approximately 70 percent of GCC foodstuffs transit the Strait of Hormuz. The strait has been closed to commercial traffic since February 28. Global air cargo capacity serving the Middle East fell 22 percent between February 28 and March 3, according to Aevean data published through Reuters. Jebel Ali, the port that serves 50 million people across the Gulf and serves as the regional hub through which the vast majority of Dubai’s perishable imports flow, was struck and suspended operations, with partial resumption beginning March 5.

Ten days of fresh produce is what you have when the ship lanes close, the air routes collapse, and the port is hit simultaneously.

Fresh produce is not canned goods. It is not strategic reserves. It is the strawberries, the tomatoes, the lettuce, the mangoes, the herbs, and the dairy that make a modern city function as a modern city. These products have days of shelf life, not weeks or months. They cannot be rerouted around the Cape of Good Hope because the Cape of Good Hope adds four to six weeks to a transit and a strawberry does not survive four to six weeks in a container. When the routes close, the perishable category depletes in real time with no backstop.

Dubai is one of the wealthiest cities on earth. It has the fiscal capacity, the sovereign wealth, and the logistical relationships to acquire food from anywhere. The problem is not money. The problem is physics. You cannot teleport produce from Spain or Kenya or India onto Dubai supermarket shelves when the air cargo lanes are 22 percent contracted and the port is still recovering from Iranian strikes. The money is willing. The infrastructure is not available.

The ten-day figure is a fresh produce specific estimate, not a total food supply figure. Dubai has substantial dry goods, frozen stocks, and strategic grain reserves maintained by the UAE government. The population is not facing famine. What it is facing is the moment when the visible symbol of a globalized, prosperous, interconnected city, a fully stocked supermarket, begins to thin. That thinning is a political event as much as a logistical one. The UAE government has absorbed 1,072 Iranian drones, suspended 70 percent of regional flights, watched its data centers targeted, and seen its Fujairah bypass route threatened. Empty produce aisles in Dubai Spinneys is the point where the population that has so far watched the war with alarm rather than hunger begins to feel it directly.

The war’s civilian transmission mechanism has arrived. Not through inflation statistics that take months to compile. Through the absence of tomatoes.

Iran has now demonstrated it can reach the molecular composition of the food supply of its adversaries’ allied cities within ten days of opening hostilities. That is an entirely new category of coercive leverage. It does not require a weapon capable of hitting a supermarket. It only requires the ability to close the routes that the supermarket depends on.

The bypass route for oil was Fujairah. The bypass route for food was air cargo. Both are now compromised. There is no third route.

https://t.co/ULBgEzZ3A8

[Eric Topol @EricTopol]

I don't know @joeschwarcz @mcgillu but very much appreciate his piece @mtlgazette today https://t.co/U0Ad90UopK
(Super Agers: it's all about extending healthspan, not longevity)

[Girl patriot 🙏 🇺🇸 🦅 @Girlpatriot1974]

He served his country and his loyal dog waited for him.

God bless our troops.
🇺🇸🦅🥰🐾

[Restoring Your Faith in Humanity @HumanityChad]

Let’s make her famous, she deserves that 🥹❤️

[Stephen Uzzell @StephenUzzell2]

4-year-old Istvan Reiner smiles for a portrait shortly before being murdered in the Auschwitz concentration camp.

[Sana Ebrahimi Ledene @SanaELedene]

People in Sudan are being tortured, raped, and slaughtered right now.
If you see this and stay silent, you are choosing indifference over human life.
Say something. Post on your social media. Write “All Eyes on Sudan.”

[Censored Humans @CensoredHumans]

If you are human, speak up. Sudan is facing genocide.”

[Reuven Goldstein @curatorWH]

Alan Reed, born Herbert Theodore Bergman to Jewish immigrant parents, was the original voice of Fred Flintstone. He created the famous “Yabba-Dabba-Doo!” catchphrase, making his voice one of the most iconic in television history.

[CTV News @CTVNews]

Texas man reunited with his lost college ring 56 years after it slipped into the Long Island Sound https://t.co/cHysieqe2R

[Hadi Hassin @hassinhadi]

Au palais de justice, Sergio Yanes Preciado, 23 ans, a été formellement accusé de voies de fait mardi. Sans antécédents judiciaires, il a violemment agressé un père issu de la communauté juive sous les yeux de ses enfants, provoquant un vif émoi.

[hi my friend @merryway8]

@GugsM Wishing your grandmother the very best :)

[Giorgia Meloni @GiorgiaMeloni]

Oggi, a Palazzo Chigi, ho ricevuto il Vicepresidente degli Stati Uniti d’America J.D. Vance. Italia e Stati Uniti continuano a rafforzare la loro cooperazione su tutti i principali dossier internazionali. Un’amicizia solida, una partnership strategica.

[Benny Johnson @bennyjohnson]

🚨AG Pam Bondi reacts to news of Kash Patel’s confirmation moments after Senate vote:

“I can’t wait to start working with him tomorrow. It’s going to be fun and hopefully we’re going to change the world.”

[Montreal Gazette @mtlgazette]

New swimsuit collections just in time for spring break getaways https://t.co/wjOsJjCDD4

[Justin Trudeau @JustinTrudeau]

Playing for keeps. 🇨🇦 #4Nations

[Justin Trudeau @JustinTrudeau]

What she said.