This is our aquifer. The Halawa Shaft, up until Dec. 2021, provided 20% of Honolulu’s water. The Board of Water Supply announced that due to the Navy contaminating our water with fuel from their leaking Red Hill tanks, we may never be able to draw from this shaft again. Ever.

Zelensky’s position has not changed; freezing the front lines has been his long-standing demand. However, Putin’s requirement is that Ukraine must cede the entire Donbas, so the core of the confrontation between the two sides remains the same. In addition, Trump’s inclination to pressure Ukraine into making concessions remains unchanged, while Europe’s firm support for Ukraine also continues. The situation in Ukraine is still maintaining the previous balance. Winter is approaching soon, battlefield activity will decline, and the situation is likely to remain as it is until next spring.

An Iranian senior security official in Tehran told Fars that Iran has instructed its various operational units that, should another round of large-scale war occur, including a wave of assassinations targeting officials and the killing of civilians, Iran will consider political targets associated with the US and other participants in the war, as well as their infrastructure, legitimate targets.

I recently travelled to Japan and spoke at the Kyoto Symposium organised by @PLottaz . Be sure to check out my speech on the decline of the global capitalist order, the emerging multipolarity, and the necessity of Marxism: piped.video/w2cS1wn7dUQ?si=SFVm…

RT @kylietcheung: I'm so excited to talk about my book later today with @leximcmenamin and @AnnaKrauthamer, please join us if you can! http…

I’m sick of hearing Mamdani can’t arrest Netanyahu or the man who killed Hind Rajab. The Adams administration hunted me down and arrested me for words. Just words. So spare me the “he can’t” bullshit. Power finds a way when it wants to.

2019

Crazy thing to announce

It would be a huge miscalculation to assume that Iran will just stand idle and watch the United States and Israel target its infrastructure and attempt to topple its political establishment. Both Washington and Tel Aviv are driven by electoral and political motives, not genuine strategic calculation: Israelis vote in six days, Americans in thirteen. Iran will deploy all its means to make any attack prohibitively costly. A third wave of war would not stay contained. Power grids, desalination plants, refineries and ports across the region would burn. Tens of millions would be left without water or electricity, and a massive wave of refugees would move from Arab countries towards Europe. Hormuz would close completely, oil would spike, and the global economy would tip into recession. Israel's economy, already bled by mobilisation and missile fire, would not survive a prolonged war of attrition. And Trump would be trapped in a crisis that consumes the rest of his presidency and leaves a wreck for his successors. A state facing an existential threat knows no boundaries. Even the ICJ's 1996 Nuclear Weapons Advisory Opinion affirmed "the fundamental right of every State to survival." The Court also could not declare even the most extreme means unlawful where "the very survival of a State would be at stake."

In Minab, when children want to hang out with their friends, they go to the cemetery.

Actually, drones mixed with fireworks look even more stunning. This show is called “Tree of Life,” performed in China’s Liuyang, the world’s fireworks capital.

Gaza is on the brink of collapse. The World Food Programme announces the suspension, aid is being cut off. All of this is happening when the most difficult winter months approach. We are heading towards complete disaster.

"Speculative data center debt is being repackaged and sold to pension and retirement funds, university endowments, and other institutional investors in a manner eerily reminiscent of the subprime bubble." ourfinancialsecurity.org/res…

I’m honestly impressed by Sarah’s knowledge on Gaza. This piece of information is a rare gem which veteran MENA correspondents don’t actually know. Hamas immediately crushed ISIS once it started to emerge in Gaza.

The billionaire class is about to loot your paycheck, bank account & everything/anything you own because you dared to better yourself by receiving a higher education. Trump & Linda McMahon will lead the charge. Their media will tell you to blame immigrants.

When we organized our own podcast at the GSC, we wanted to build an archival tool, a library of sorts. You can easily highlight parts of the transcript and make audio clips like this to share, do in-depth searches, and more. A thread 🧵 podcasts.goodshepherdcollect…

BREAKING: America’s $1.7 trillion auto loan market is headed for a crash, per Reuters. Auto loans are now one of the biggest sources of household debt, bigger than credit cards. And the strain is showing: 1 in 5 Americans is behind on at least one loan, the highest since 2010, and the average car on the road is now nearly 13 years old, a record.

🔴 CAMPAÑA DE FLÁVIO BOLSONARO ESTÁ UTILIZANDO INTELIGENCIA ARTIFICIAL PARA CAMBIAR LA APARIENCIA DE SUS SEGUIDORES Manipulación digital de sus actos, donde adherentes habrían sido transformados en mujeres. Sería una alteración deliberada de la imagen pública de sus seguidores. Los monarcas de las redes sociales y de la IA están atentando contra la democracia.

RT @aldnmarki: We've been saying this since Ansar rolled into Sana'a 12 years ago. They *are* the state. And as long as Saudi Arabia wages…

BREAKING: Hegseth secretly met Netanyahu at Ovda Air Base in Israel today to discuss resuming major combat operations against Iran, 8 days before Israel's election, per two sources to Axios. The IDF has ordered a military-wide leave freeze starting Thursday and instituted the absolute highest state of alertness, with command center staffing brought to wartime strength. It comes as the US struck Iran's Konarak Naval Base.

There is a leaky dam plugged by duct tape and graft that is temporarily forestalling a global economic flood of biblical proportions and if Iran is forced to do this, that dam will absolutely burst