Warfare

The Lie We Tell Ourselves About Food—and the Chemical Trick Keeping Billions Alive

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We like to pretend food comes from virtue. Hard work, sunshine, maybe a red barn and a guy in overalls. Reality check: your dinner exists because of industrial chemistry, fossil fuels, and a process that forces atmospheric nitrogen to behave like it’s being interrogated in a back room. At the center of this quiet miracle—and quiet dependency—is the Haber-Bosch process. It doesn’t get headlines. It doesn’t trend. But it’s arguably one of the most important inventions in human history, because it broke the natural limits on how much food we can produce. Without it, the global population wouldn’t look anything like it does today.

CHANGING TIDES?: Trump shakes up the Strait with major move amid Iran missile attacks

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President Donald Trump pauses ‘Project Freedom’ operations amid reported progress toward an Iran agreement, even as the U.S. blockade stays in place and tensions remain high following Iranian missile and drone attacks targeting ships and regional sites.

Mideast War: Hormuz Fighting Raises Prospect of Fresh US Strikes on Iran

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The US and Iran exchanged fire in a flareup of violence on Monday that also drew in the United Arab Emirates, prompting calls for renewed strikes on Iranian targets and casting doubt on the fate of a four-week ceasefire. Bloomberg’s Joumanna Bercetche has the latest.

When Cement Meets Jihad: How Lafarge Turned War Into a Business Model

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From roughly 2012 to 2014, as Syrian Civil War turned northern Syria into a live-fire apocalypse, Lafarge made a calculated decision: stay open, stay profitable, and if that meant paying off armed groups—including ISIS and al-Nusra Front—then so be it. Business is business. Even if your business partners occasionally crucify people for sport. The company didn’t just stumble into this. Courts later described it as an organized system. Money moved. Deals were made. Raw materials, checkpoints, safe passage—all greased with cash. The same way you’d negotiate trucking contracts in Ohio, just with more AK-47s and fewer HR policies.

Blue Wednesday for communists Iran is losing. Comey is losing. And America is having a great week.

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Things are not going as planned for the communists.

Jenni tweeted, “In case anyone isn’t aware, Trump is demanding Zambia to hand over its mineral rights by end of day tomorrow or the U.S. gov’t will cut off the country’s access to the AIDS medications that are literally keeping its citizens alive.’

Islam’s War with the West

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Considering that Islam has been at war with the West for 1,400 years, it is vital that we understand this struggle in these modern times.

Most people would say that Islam is just another religion, perhaps somewhat more zealous than others, but a religion nonetheless. Well, no! Nothing about Islam is that simple.

Islam is a geopolitical movement disguised as a religion.

Is There a New World Order Coming? Perhaps, But It Won’t be Islam! by George Mcclellan

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Do Americans not understand what Donald Trump is doing and has done? The Left certainly doesn’t, but he’s virtually removed Iran, the primary funder of Islamic worldwide terrorism from contention, at the same time diminished the potential for Communist China to continue its aim of achieving world hegemony, and has revealed America’s Western partners (NATO) to be feckless, unworthy allies. Trump has positioned America to become the very center of the world’s energy needs and, in doing so, has destroyed the New World Order’s schemes of doing so. He has realigned trading partnerships by enforcing the Monroe Doctrine, removing both China and Russian influence from our hemisphere. He has redirected the world’s energy needs, and has the Socialist Democrat party frothing at the mouth. Trump did this because nobody else had even thought of trying. This represents a major realignment of the world order.

Velvet Chains, Filtered Reality: Freedom with Guardrails

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Elections still happen. Parties still act like it’s a steel-cage match. But on the fundamentals—the wiring of the economy, the growth of the administrative state, the handshake between government and corporate power—the menu is pre-selected. You’re not choosing dinner; you’re choosing the garnish. The work of Martin Gilens and Benjamin Page (2014) didn’t need conspiracy theories to make the point: policy outcomes tend to track the preferences of economic elites far more than average voters. Translation: your vote counts; your leverage doesn’t.

Iran Reportedly Offers Plan to Open Strait | The China Show 4/27/2022

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“Bloomberg: The China Show” is your definitive source for news and analysis on the world’s second-biggest economy. From politics and policy to tech and trends, David Ingles and Avril Hong give global investors unique insight, delivering in-depth discussions with the newsmakers who matter.