Trump: "They want it to be over immediately and I just looked at a little chart: WWI four years, three months. WWII six years. Korean War three years. Vietnam 19 years. Iraq eight years. I'm five months. Five months. I would have won Vietnam very quickly."
NEW | Record exports of solar, batteries and EVs last month 📈
China’s exports for the ‘new three’ industries reached a record high of $21.9bn in March 2026, up 70% year-on-year, in the wake of the US-Israel war with Iran and changing export rebates for solar and batteries.
This is quite extraordinary- scientists set a kind of trap for AI chat bots by inventing a fake disease. AI told people it was real and… the deliberately bogus preprints started being cited in peer reviewed literature 🫣
🧪 #MedSky
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
An Al Jazeera investigation finds internal security facilities in populated areas have been heavily targeted.
⚡️ NEW from @DropSiteNews : Iran Rejects U.S. Narrative That It Must Adhere to Trump’s ‘Disingenuous’ Negotiation Framework Tehran put forward its own terms to end the war, a senior Iranian official tells Drop Site, despite claims it has not responded to Trump. By @JeremyScahill and @RyanGrim https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/iran-trump-witkoff-ceasefire-negotiation?triedRedirect=true
⚡️ NEW from @dropsitenews.com: Iran Rejects US Narrative That It Must Adhere to Trump’s ‘Disingenuous’ Negotiation Framework
Tehran put forward its own terms to end the war, a senior Iranian official tells Drop Site, despite claims...
By @jeremyscahill.com & @ryangrim.bsky.social
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"Destroying 20 million barrels of petroleum product demand per day is equivalent to peak COVID-driven demand loss from March-April 2020, when roads were deserted and there were barely any planes in the sky. This time, the market will need to curb this magnitude of demand without mandated lockdowns."
big computer is for big money small computer is for small money that's just how it works
I keep seeing this framing like Bremmer's. It is wrong. Instead:
1. Iran was developing an ICBM when Khamenei imposed a 2,000-km range limit.
3. The programs shifted to space launch.
4. Khamenei lifted the restriction in October 2025 after the June attacks.
5. Now he's dead, and here we are.
NEW | The world installed a record 814 GW of solar and wind capacity in 2025 ☀️⚡️
That's over 1,000 TWh of electricity generation per year...
...enough to displace nearly twice Qatar's annual LNG export volume in gas generation 🔥❌
Fossil fuels crisis? Wind and solar deliver.
The only reason Thailand isn't in a deep red on this list is because the government froze prices and is paying out the nose to subsidize. This is gonna be bad.
As the US-Israel war on Iran continues, Tehran has said the Strait of Hormuz is open to all except the US and its allies.
So far, only a small number of ships from certain countries have passed through the strategic waterway.
#Infograph
Today is #LongCovidAwarenessDay
Long Covid changed my life beyond recognition. I got ill. I never recovered. Lost my job. Became housebound. I rely on others to do things for me. I lie on my bed most of the day.
Watch the Guardian's short film about my life with #LongCovid 👇
This is a very strange moment, in how obvious it is that a major crisis is approaching, and how calmly and clearly people are observing it come. www.ft.com/content/3647...
*TRUMP: MORE IMPORTANT TO ME IRAN IS STOPPED THAN HIGH OIL PRICE
*TRUMP: US MAKES A LOT OF MONEY WHEN OIL PRICES GO UP
Iran war causes biggest disruption in oil markets, IEA says @seekingalpha
The volume of international transfers of major arms in 2021–25 was 9.2% higher than in 2016–20. This was the biggest increase in global arms flows since 2011–15.
Read the fact sheet ➡️ doi.org/10.55163/OSM...
#ArmsTransfers #GlobalArmsTrade #ArmsData #SIPRIData #Peace
Germany overtakes China to become the world's forth largest exporter of major arms.
Blowing up an oil facility next to a city of 8 million people is essentially the same as deliberately targeting civilians with chemical weaponry
Airwars, a non-profit group tracking civilian harm in conflict, found that the initial days of the U.S.-Israeli campaign in Iran hit significantly more targets per day than any campaign in recent decades. The targets also map heavily onto the highest populated areas. airwars.org/record-pace-...
Why is the Korean economy SOOOOOO affected?
Because it imports more of its energy than almost any other country...
www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202411/13/...
“.. the politics are a lot better if the Israelis go first and alone and the Iranians retaliate against us, and give us more reason to take action,” said one of the people familiar with discussions.
@politico.com #OOTT
www.politico.com/news/2026/02...
Hyperscaler butterfly effect: memory shortage --> lower smartphone sales in Africa www.idc.com/resource-cen...
Extreme poverty fell sharply worldwide – even excluding China. Line chart of global extreme poverty rate, 1990 to 2025. Extreme poverty is defined as living below the international poverty line of $3 per day; data are adjusted for inflation and differences in living costs between countries. The chart shows global extreme poverty reduced from 43% to 10%, and the series excluding China reduced from 33% to 12%, with the two lines converging by around the mid-2000s and continuing to decline toward 2025. Y axis runs from 0% to 50%; x axis runs from 1990 to 2025. Data source: World Bank Poverty and Inequality Platform (2025); OurWorldInData.org/poverty. License: CC BY.
Was the global decline of extreme poverty only due to China?
The share of the world population living in extreme poverty has never declined as rapidly as in the past three decades.
everything you read about AI is someone's FORECAST. To date, there is no evidence it has raised economy-wide productivity or destroyed jobs (even among graduates). Even the impact of the capex on GDP - which is a real thing - has been wildly overstated for the past 12 months
