Do you two also post under the handles "rekrunner" and "Armstronglives"?
Does anyone know what names agip, adolt and Flagstaff Willy are posting under these days? I often wonder if Flagstaff is posting as Armstrong and pretending to be Australian.
Big Banks cause worldwide meltdown in 2008-09. They get bailed out, the Banksters get richer, We get screwed, Covid? Same thing. Iran war? Same thing
Stop complaining and embrace capitalism. These are publicly traded companies. You can become a greedy share holder, too.
Definitely embrace capitalism. With oil at $107, I closed out another set of trades today. That's 3 sets in last month, and this one actually took almost 2 weeks to payoff instead of 24 hours.
Next logical step is for Trump to lie again in hopes of driving oil back down. Problem for Trump is the rest of the world is catching on that virtually all communication from White House is now lies. It's becoming obvious to more and more that out Emporer has no clothes.
Instead of making a new set of trades I'm sitting this next move out, and am heading on a 2 week vacation.
700k refugees is not a large number to absorb especially when there are 22 Arab states including many that are very large.
Israel on the other hand accepted hundreds of thousands of Jewish refugees including many from Arab countries.
No one should "accept" refugees just because their neighbor decided they wanted religious purity in their state. That's being complicit in ethnic cleansing. They aren't refugees of a natural disaster.. it was deliberate expulsion. Which the UN recognized and passed a resolution affirming their right to return. By the way, the UN envoy who went to the Palestine in1948 during the first ceasefire was Folke Bernadotte, a hero of the holocaust who negotiated the release of >31,000 people from Nazi concentration camps. He concluded the 1947 partition plan was unjust and unfair to the Palestinians, the Palestinians were being expelled and refugees had a right to return, and the map pf partition needed to be changed to favor the Palestinians. For that, Yitzhak Shamir and the Stern gang assassinated him in Jerusalem.
More importantly... Palestinians and not "just Arabs".
Greece had a major financial crisis in 2010; Germany wouldn't given them loans without austerity. Couldn't Greek workers just "go to Germany" where the economy was better.. since they're both in the EU and they're "all European"?
Of course not... because they're Greek and not German. National identity and ethnicity are not the same thing, national identity and religion are not the same thing. Demanding they become synonymous is what apartheid states do.
Palestinians themselves do that. Refer to article 1 of the Palestinian charter
" Article 1: Palestine is the homeland of the Arab Palestinian people; it is an indivisible part of the Arab homeland, and the Palestinian people are an integral part of the Arab nation.
"
So why couldn't the Arab nation accept only 700k Palestinians? On the other Israel accepted thousands of Jewish refugees from Iraq, Yemen, Syria, Lebanon, and many other Arab and Muslim nations.
Arab states didn't accept Israel and set out to destroy it. It had little to do with expelled Palestinians who are treated like 2nd class citizens in many of those Arab states.
No one should "accept" refugees just because their neighbor decided they wanted religious purity in their state. That's being complicit in ethnic cleansing. They aren't refugees of a natural disaster.. it was deliberate expulsion. Which the UN recognized and passed a resolution affirming their right to return. By the way, the UN envoy who went to the Palestine in1948 during the first ceasefire was Folke Bernadotte, a hero of the holocaust who negotiated the release of >31,000 people from Nazi concentration camps. He concluded the 1947 partition plan was unjust and unfair to the Palestinians, the Palestinians were being expelled and refugees had a right to return, and the map pf partition needed to be changed to favor the Palestinians. For that, Yitzhak Shamir and the Stern gang assassinated him in Jerusalem.
More importantly... Palestinians and not "just Arabs".
Greece had a major financial crisis in 2010; Germany wouldn't given them loans without austerity. Couldn't Greek workers just "go to Germany" where the economy was better.. since they're both in the EU and they're "all European"?
Of course not... because they're Greek and not German. National identity and ethnicity are not the same thing, national identity and religion are not the same thing. Demanding they become synonymous is what apartheid states do.
Palestinians themselves do that. Refer to article 1 of the Palestinian charter
" Article 1: Palestine is the homeland of the Arab Palestinian people; it is an indivisible part of the Arab homeland, and the Palestinian people are an integral part of the Arab nation.
"
So why couldn't the Arab nation accept only 700k Palestinians? On the other Israel accepted thousands of Jewish refugees from Iraq, Yemen, Syria, Lebanon, and many other Arab and Muslim nations.
Arab states didn't accept Israel and set out to destroy it. It had little to do with expelled Palestinians who are treated like 2nd class citizens in many of those Arab states.
So why couldn't the Arab nation accept only 700k Palestinians? Why is Israel allowed to violently expel 700k Palestinians from their land and homes to make way for Jews from elsewhere?
Palestinians themselves do that. Refer to article 1 of the Palestinian charter
" Article 1: Palestine is the homeland of the Arab Palestinian people; it is an indivisible part of the Arab homeland, and the Palestinian people are an integral part of the Arab nation.
"
So why couldn't the Arab nation accept only 700k Palestinians? On the other Israel accepted thousands of Jewish refugees from Iraq, Yemen, Syria, Lebanon, and many other Arab and Muslim nations.
Arab states didn't accept Israel and set out to destroy it. It had little to do with expelled Palestinians who are treated like 2nd class citizens in many of those Arab states.
So why couldn't the Arab nation accept only 700k Palestinians? Why is Israel allowed to violently expel 700k Palestinians from their land and homes to make way for Jews from elsewhere?
Over 2 million Israeli citizens are Palestinians. Why weren't they expelled? Compare that to Arab countries that have exactly 0 Jews citizens today despite Jews having lived in Arab countries for centuries.
So why couldn't the Arab nation accept only 700k Palestinians? Why is Israel allowed to violently expel 700k Palestinians from their land and homes to make way for Jews from elsewhere?
Over 2 million Israeli citizens are Palestinians. Why weren't they expelled? Compare that to Arab countries that have exactly 0 Jews citizens today despite Jews having lived in Arab countries for centuries.
Do you know that a number of the arab countries had laws that said Jews couldn't leave? The Israelis went around conducting operations to convince them to leave because they wanted immigration. See the Baghdad bombings for example. Even so, there are still Jewish communities in a number of countries like Tunisia where they fled to when they were expelled from Spain.
Yes, there around 2 million arab israelis. This should be proof enough that arabs are not somehow genetically defective and just want Israel and Jews gone. This problem could be solved if Israel treated all of the arabs in the occupied territories the same way. i.e. A single non-apartheid state where all recognize that people fundamentally just want to live in peace and provide a better life for their children is the best solution.
So why couldn't the Arab nation accept only 700k Palestinians? Why is Israel allowed to violently expel 700k Palestinians from their land and homes to make way for Jews from elsewhere?
Over 2 million Israeli citizens are Palestinians. Why weren't they expelled? Compare that to Arab countries that have exactly 0 Jews citizens today despite Jews having lived in Arab countries for centuries.
That's the excuse? Jews from Europe came into Palestine and violently expelled the 750k pf the Palestians but allowed 150k to stay. It's all good.
Weird how Arab Jews lived in Arab nations for millenia -- until Israel got foisted on the region
Except those numbers are wrong. Iran loses close to half a billion each day the strait is closed (and risks longer term damage). When the strait does reopen, there will be a supply glut, which will cause prices to plunge. The closure actually benefits US oil companies more than anyone else. The US produces far more oil than Iran and any other country. We are selling our oil now at inflated prices. Iran won’t be able to sell theirs until after the strait is open, at which point, the price will be much lower, as there will be loads of tankers all hitting the market at the same time.
Over 2 million Israeli citizens are Palestinians. Why weren't they expelled? Compare that to Arab countries that have exactly 0 Jews citizens today despite Jews having lived in Arab countries for centuries.
Yep. Palestinians living in Israel have seats in the Knesset. They make up about 20% of the population and they enjoy a standard of living better than Egyptians, Jordanians, Lebanese, Syrians, etc. Peace is profitable. The solution to this conflict is for Iran to stop using proxies to attack Jews and allow for peace to take root.
Over 2 million Israeli citizens are Palestinians. Why weren't they expelled? Compare that to Arab countries that have exactly 0 Jews citizens today despite Jews having lived in Arab countries for centuries.
Yep. Palestinians living in Israel have seats in the Knesset. They make up about 20% of the population and they enjoy a standard of living better than Egyptians, Jordanians, Lebanese, Syrians, etc. Peace is profitable. The solution to this conflict is for Iran to stop using proxies to attack Jews and allow for peace to take root.
A frequently cited a 2025 poll reported:
Around mid-50% of Israeli Jews support expulsion of Arab citizens of Israel. That's more than half/
Yeah. Things are just dandy for the native Palestinians.
Oil prices hit a ceiling of $110 WTI and $125 Brent and have fallen back to $105/$115 from the peak yesterday. US inflation came in hot at 3.5% for March.
Trump is getting briefed today on military options from CENTCOM commanders. Israel's defense minister said that Israel may be close to resuming attacks on Iran.
There is now a lot of debate about how long Iran can go without having to shut in production. And this is just an oil field engineering analysis and not an economic analysis. The back of the napkin calculation has been based on Iran's daily oil output and Iran's known storage capacity, which is mostly on Kharg Island. It is also based on the assumption that the US blockade is 100% effective. That analysis gets to the conclusion that Iran will have to start shutting in production very soon. This is countered by the claim that Iran can convert a good bit of oil for domestic consumption, Iran has more storage available in tankers in the Gulf, Iran has been able to evade the blockade with shadow fleet vessels that sail under fake flags of origin and use spoofing to evade detection and that Iran is currently doing a well managed and gradual process of shutting in production that will allow it to hold out for as much as two months.
All of that could be moot if the US targets Iran's oil infrastructure. If Iran has to quickly shut in production due to the US blowing up Kharg Island pipelines and pumps, that could cause permanent damage to the oilfields. And Iran will bomb GCC oil infrastructure and have the Houthis block the Red Sea shipping lanes. That is a $200 a barrel doomsday scenario that would take years to get oil prices back to under $100. But Iran's economy would be decimated and the country would probably end up looking like Libya or worse.
Yep. Palestinians living in Israel have seats in the Knesset. They make up about 20% of the population and they enjoy a standard of living better than Egyptians, Jordanians, Lebanese, Syrians, etc. Peace is profitable. The solution to this conflict is for Iran to stop using proxies to attack Jews and allow for peace to take root.
A frequently cited a 2025 poll reported:
Around mid-50% of Israeli Jews support expulsion of Arab citizens of Israel. That's more than half/
Yeah. Things are just dandy for the native Palestinians.
how many Republicans would support expulsion of all Democrats? Or expulsion of all naturalized citizens? Or all birthright citizens? or of all naturalized citizens who commit crimes?
I'd guess tens of millions of American Republicans would support expulsion of these actual US citizens.
People have strong opinions. Doesn't mean too much.
Oil prices hit a ceiling of $110 WTI and $125 Brent and have fallen back to $105/$115 from the peak yesterday. US inflation came in hot at 3.5% for March.
Trump is getting briefed today on military options from CENTCOM commanders. Israel's defense minister said that Israel may be close to resuming attacks on Iran.
There is now a lot of debate about how long Iran can go without having to shut in production. And this is just an oil field engineering analysis and not an economic analysis. The back of the napkin calculation has been based on Iran's daily oil output and Iran's known storage capacity, which is mostly on Kharg Island. It is also based on the assumption that the US blockade is 100% effective. That analysis gets to the conclusion that Iran will have to start shutting in production very soon. This is countered by the claim that Iran can convert a good bit of oil for domestic consumption, Iran has more storage available in tankers in the Gulf, Iran has been able to evade the blockade with shadow fleet vessels that sail under fake flags of origin and use spoofing to evade detection and that Iran is currently doing a well managed and gradual process of shutting in production that will allow it to hold out for as much as two months.
All of that could be moot if the US targets Iran's oil infrastructure. If Iran has to quickly shut in production due to the US blowing up Kharg Island pipelines and pumps, that could cause permanent damage to the oilfields. And Iran will bomb GCC oil infrastructure and have the Houthis block the Red Sea shipping lanes. That is a $200 a barrel doomsday scenario that would take years to get oil prices back to under $100. But Iran's economy would be decimated and the country would probably end up looking like Libya or worse.
Why do you call the $110 and $125 a ceiling? US/Israel is run by fanatics, ideologues. They are going to do some damaging stuff and I suspect prices will soar far higher. $200 -- could be
Do you have more specific data? Like how many Indigenous Jews vs foreign European Jews are a more important distinction. Also Zio Naxi terrorists Jews vs religious Jews is important.
Do you have more specific data? Like how many Indigenous Jews vs foreign European Jews are a more important distinction. Also Zio Naxi terrorists Jews vs religious Jews is important.
That's just one poll of Israeli Jews (not further id'ed). More than 1/2 would like to expel the non Jewish Palestinians from Israel proper. Says much
What if white Americans were polled on if they would like all non whites expelled from US? I am sure it would get some support but dear God I hope nowhere near 50%+. It might on Letsrun
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Another fake rally in the market with oil prices hiding behind the fact that Trump bets Hormuz crisis will break Iran before triggering a crisis. So many lies. There already is a crisis. Iran is nowhere near breaking. Trump maybe dumb enuff to believe it but I suspect this is a lie fed to him from his "handlers". And, the market ain't dumb and knows all this but is being manipulated by the big insiders who use Trump's claim to hide behind
can the rest of the world ask for his impeachment?
In the meme game, Trump is still f'in with those Duplo blocks while Iran is building Lego masterpieces.
Mirror mirror on the wall… who’s the greatest of them all? AI Jesus pics, face on the passport, bone spurs so he didn’t have to serve, kings don’t wear diapers but this one still does… and he still wants everyone to bow down. How do you spell narcissist? T-R-U-M-P! pic.twitter.com/5IDx4pVeMY
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