Dusty Chalk Posted February 28 Report Posted February 28 6 hours ago, blessingx said: Does this clinch next year's Nobel Peace Prize? No, not yet. I bet the Nobel Peace Prize will go to whoever stops Trump. 1
Grahame Posted February 28 Report Posted February 28 7 hours ago, blessingx said: Does this clinch next year's Nobel Peace Prize? Are FIFA asking for a refund?
skullguise Posted March 1 Report Posted March 1 ^^ This is the similar feeling to a woman I know and with whom I used to work. She would always say she is from Persia, not Iran. And that's because the government there defined what Iran is today...and she's not a part of that. I reached out to her today, she is happy and relieved that the leader is gone. Like many, she hopes it's a beginning of more freedoms for the people (and she has family there still). But like above, she still worries about the future depending on how things progress, and what "fills the void." I hope that things will progress for a better future for the people. But with people like Trump and Netanyahu influencing things, not so sure.... 2
blessingx Posted March 1 Report Posted March 1 “Iranian state TV has just confirmed Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is dead.”
blessingx Posted March 4 Report Posted March 4 The US and Israeli attacks on Iran, Trump indicated, had killed many of the alternative leaders he had hoped to see in power. “Most of the people we had in mind are dead,” Trump said. “We had some in mind from that group that is dead. And now, we have another group. They may be dead also, based on reports.” He added that his options for replacing Khamenei were running low. “Pretty soon, we’re not going to know anybody.” https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/3/3/worst-case-scenario-trump-weighs-replacing-khamenei-as-leader-of-iran 4
aerius Posted March 4 Report Posted March 4 On 2/28/2026 at 9:39 PM, blessingx said: “Iranian state TV has just confirmed Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is dead.” Congratulations, the US martyred a moderate Ayatollah and he was instantly replaced by religious fundamentalist zealots who've declared a Jihad. The stupid. It hurts.
aerius Posted March 8 Report Posted March 8 Fill your gas tanks, shit just got real. Oil infrastructure in the Middle East is starting to go up in flames. North America will probably be OK, but Europe & Asia are likely to have fuel shortages soon. 1
Craig Sawyers Posted March 8 Report Posted March 8 (edited) In the UK we get hardly any fossil fuels from Iraq, <1%. The the thing that hits global oil prices, and hence fuel prices - is the cost per barrel of Brent Crude. So it hits everyone globally - including the US. Most energy supply companies hedge by buying ahead, usually at least 6 months and up to a year. So there is a lot of intertia in the price of fuel and gas. The fuel taps don't just turn off overnight. Edited March 8 by Craig Sawyers 4
aerius Posted March 8 Report Posted March 8 (edited) The Strait of Hormuz is closed for the foreseeable future and Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain, Iran, and possibly several others have already had their oil infrastructure hit and set on fire. We just had ~20 million barrels of oil per day get taken off the world market, and if the blockade continues long enough they'll have to start shutting down all the oil fields when storage starts running low. Once the oil fields are shut down they'll take weeks to months to restart production. Oil will not be available at any price. What we have here is what Iain M. Banks refers to as an Outside Context Problem in his Culture series novels. Edited March 8 by aerius
Torpedo Posted March 8 Report Posted March 8 IMHO that’s the master plan to sell Venezuelan oil at a much higher price than its value, and making fracking profitable again. The wheel will keep spinning, some countries will face a much tougher time than others. Nothing new under the sun.
Grahame Posted March 9 Report Posted March 9 https://www.reddit.com/r/AskSocialists/s/xq7xBxW7JH Also https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ckg8wvz427vo 1 1
Dusty Chalk Posted March 10 Report Posted March 10 Egad, that's chilling. He is so full of himself, he actually believes he's righteous, he actually believes he can decide the fate of the lives of millions, if not billions. "...we might as well get it over with..." == "...final solution..." of Nazi Germany.
Knuckledragger Posted 1 hour ago Author Report Posted 1 hour ago There's a persistent internet rumor that Benjamin Netanyahu died on March 9th (Biggie Smalls is not happy to share the date.) The theory is that Bibi was killed or injured in an Iranian air strike. Supposedly he's missed some key cabinet meetings. Also, there's a (in my jaded opinion, extremely flimsy) theory that one of Bibi's kids was observing Shiva ...by not posting on social media for seven days. The Israeli government has released three videos of Bibi since then, and all have been "debunked" on the internet as AI generated, enhanced, manipulated, etc. In the first video, Bibi appears to have six fingers on one hand for a moment. In the second, he's in a coffee shop. In that one he actually counts to five in Hebrew on each of his hands and takes a sip of some mocha latte whatever. There are a lot of theories about the coffee video: The cafe in question is not currently open because of the attacks on Tel Aviv. The original footage was shot in 2024 (some say 2020) for a different propaganda effort. The third video is him and the huckster himself Ambassador Mike Huckabee. It's clearly a scripted bit, where ol' Huck meets Bibi in a hallway, they have a stilted and awkward conversation about Israel's assassination list, shake hands and talk about the number of fingers they have. There are a number of weird digital artifacts in the video, but it all seems pretty real to me. An AI generated video wouldn't seem stiff and forced in the same way (it'd be unreal in a completely different one.) I did go on a bit of a deep drive, which even lead me to Xitter for a bit. Wading through the legion of Nazi posts, I found some pretty funny remixes. (There may not embed correctly.) https://fxtwitter.com/abdulhyefahad/status/2034006657722982435 https://fxtwitter.com/drvijaysrinivas/status/2033988906576974124 https://fxtwitter.com/JaiNDoC_RL/status/2034032032813040007
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