2026 Overseas Political Thread
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Predictions:
The middle east gets boring. Another conflict will arise to fill the void.
For better or borscht, Russia / Ukraine will lumber along. Any progress will be distrustful on multiple vectors.
International natiral disasters, cyclones, and psychos will garner headlines.
The middle east gets boring. Another conflict will arise to fill the void.
For better or borscht, Russia / Ukraine will lumber along. Any progress will be distrustful on multiple vectors.
International natiral disasters, cyclones, and psychos will garner headlines.
They hate the US, they hate Israel, they are sanctioned, and the US wants to bomb them out of existence?
At least four major United States air force bases will be built in Greenland in addition to the three already operating there, Danish government sources announced 5-days ago. The new bases will be hundreds of miles closer to Moscow and the western rim of Russia than the existing base at Pituffik (formerly called Thule).
Oil , oil and huge oil potential off the coast of Gaza as well as being portrayed as a huge imminent treat
The Orwellian Twist - Institutions Silence Palestine in the Name of Protecting Expression
Speech is not being suppressed; it is being “managed.” The speaker is not being punished; they are being assessed for “fitness,” “appropriateness,” “safety,” “risk,” “reputation,” and “alignment with values.” Palestinian advocacy is never engaged as legitimate political critique but pathologized as an institutional hazard.
“Freedom of expression” has been quietly redefined as freedom from controversy — a promise to the institution and its stakeholders: freedom from discomfort, freedom from political consequence, freedom from reputational risk.
https://www.globalresearch.ca/adelaide-britain-zionist-institutions-silence-palestine/5912290
The compliancy Christians and Muslims demonstrate in holding the Bible and Qur'an. Universally supporting a God diametrically opposed to their own physical and cultural existence. Atheism as a route to casting off God for a replacement.
Speech is not being suppressed; it is being “managed.” The speaker is not being punished; they are being assessed for “fitness,” “appropriateness,” “safety,” “risk,” “reputation,” and “alignment with values.” Palestinian advocacy is never engaged as legitimate political critique but pathologized as an institutional hazard.
“Freedom of expression” has been quietly redefined as freedom from controversy — a promise to the institution and its stakeholders: freedom from discomfort, freedom from political consequence, freedom from reputational risk.
https://www.globalresearch.ca/adelaide-britain-zionist-institutions-silence-palestine/5912290
The compliancy Christians and Muslims demonstrate in holding the Bible and Qur'an. Universally supporting a God diametrically opposed to their own physical and cultural existence. Atheism as a route to casting off God for a replacement.
Atheism doesn't look for a replacement for God. A replacement God would just make it another religion. Atheist believe there is no God.
Much prefer a totally impersonal god without favourites. Something offered by meditation. An unspoken oneness experienced after a good night's sleep.
There was a time long ago in human history, where there were no countries, governments, democracies, or populace-determining elections. There was uncontrolled brutality and/or tyrrany through much of human existence. Up to a few hundred years ago, people needed rules, structure, a code of good and bad behaviours to live by. Religion filled a void, both for population control and the human desire to seek spiritual meaning.
Then of course organized religions become self-fulfilling corruptions. The need for population control largely no longer exists in developed countries however the desire for spiritual guidance largely remains a human need. Thus separation of church and state in developed countries, and bat-shit crazy oppression in non-developed countries.
When you think about Islam, it is kind of a Johnny (Mohamed) come lately religion. But nothing biggie since. Prophets provide a sense of legitimacy to religions. Recently though, any new prophets are labelled as quacks, heretics, or lunatics, as religions tend to protect their very existence by a strict policy of mutual exclusivity and labelling all other schools of thought as being false gods punishable by death, etc.
So for a self-enlightened person un-interested in the self-serving and outdated modalities of organized religions, they have a few choices:
- remain non-practicing but loosely associated with the the religion they were brought up with (selective choice). Maybe I will go to church on Christmas day, or pray when my my gut suddenly swells up.
- switch to another religion and focus on the good bits of it (they all have good bits and either bad bits or limitations). Is the grass really greener?
- Spiritual doctrines, such as budism, transcendental meditation, etc. that provide spiritual guidance and pathways to enlightenment without demanding
obedience, church attendence, and unquestioning support for an organized religion. Some practitioners may still ask for money for teachings. Hmmmm.
- Undecided. So live “Good Without God”. Don’t need someone else telling me what to do. Insufficient evidence and sufficient contradictions to subscribe to a singular school of thought. Kind of like Einstein’s viewpoint that he is a very spritual person but can’t subscribe to any religion that threatens its congregation with damnation for non-compliance.
- Druidism, Naturalism, elemental spiritualism, just go for a walk in the forrest, commune with nature, discover and feel a sense of awe at natural phenomena, but lose the baggage.
- Atheism, which remains as a viable option for people who simply do not beleive there is a god/creator, or who just can’t align with organized religions.
-Whack-A-Doodle’s: let’s all drink koolaid and jump on the next comet that flies by.
Personally, I would like to see a ressurgence of Philoshophers, vibrant debate, and ongoing exploration of our human existence.
-Punt.
Then of course organized religions become self-fulfilling corruptions. The need for population control largely no longer exists in developed countries however the desire for spiritual guidance largely remains a human need. Thus separation of church and state in developed countries, and bat-shit crazy oppression in non-developed countries.
When you think about Islam, it is kind of a Johnny (Mohamed) come lately religion. But nothing biggie since. Prophets provide a sense of legitimacy to religions. Recently though, any new prophets are labelled as quacks, heretics, or lunatics, as religions tend to protect their very existence by a strict policy of mutual exclusivity and labelling all other schools of thought as being false gods punishable by death, etc.
So for a self-enlightened person un-interested in the self-serving and outdated modalities of organized religions, they have a few choices:
- remain non-practicing but loosely associated with the the religion they were brought up with (selective choice). Maybe I will go to church on Christmas day, or pray when my my gut suddenly swells up.
- switch to another religion and focus on the good bits of it (they all have good bits and either bad bits or limitations). Is the grass really greener?
- Spiritual doctrines, such as budism, transcendental meditation, etc. that provide spiritual guidance and pathways to enlightenment without demanding
obedience, church attendence, and unquestioning support for an organized religion. Some practitioners may still ask for money for teachings. Hmmmm.
- Undecided. So live “Good Without God”. Don’t need someone else telling me what to do. Insufficient evidence and sufficient contradictions to subscribe to a singular school of thought. Kind of like Einstein’s viewpoint that he is a very spritual person but can’t subscribe to any religion that threatens its congregation with damnation for non-compliance.
- Druidism, Naturalism, elemental spiritualism, just go for a walk in the forrest, commune with nature, discover and feel a sense of awe at natural phenomena, but lose the baggage.
- Atheism, which remains as a viable option for people who simply do not beleive there is a god/creator, or who just can’t align with organized religions.
-Whack-A-Doodle’s: let’s all drink koolaid and jump on the next comet that flies by.
Personally, I would like to see a ressurgence of Philoshophers, vibrant debate, and ongoing exploration of our human existence.
-Punt.
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Religious divides are an inherent roadblock to overseas stability and world peace.
Internal regime dissolution is probably more constructive than externally forced regime change. Sometimes a nudge seems needed though when oppressive regimes cling to power through authoritarian control and brutality. Is Hamas reluctantly on the rickety path now? Do Venezuelan people have a chance now (not religious doctrine controlled but still oppression). Is Iran next for political evolution?
Internal regime dissolution is probably more constructive than externally forced regime change. Sometimes a nudge seems needed though when oppressive regimes cling to power through authoritarian control and brutality. Is Hamas reluctantly on the rickety path now? Do Venezuelan people have a chance now (not religious doctrine controlled but still oppression). Is Iran next for political evolution?
About a book review:
The Monstrosity of Our Century is not comfortable. It does not offer solutions, slogans, or diplomatic exits. It offers something far more dangerous: clarity. This is not a book about Palestine alone. It is about what we have become by witnessing Gaza.
Historical rupture—the point at which the contemporary international system ceased to reconcile power with principle, law with alliance, and narrative with reality.
Gaza, in Nour’s analysis, is not the breakdown of the so-called “rules-based order;” it is the place where those rules finally stop pretending to be universal.
Hypocrisy not as a lapse but as a governing logic and behavior. International law has not disappeared; it has become selective. And selectivity, Nour shows, is no longer a flaw—it is the design.
A world capable of witnessing mass destruction in real time while simultaneously organizing its justification.
This is not rhetoric. It is a description of procedural reality. When international justice approaches protected actors, it ceases to be celebrated as law and begins to be treated as a threat.
The mechanism is subtle: universities discipline, mainstream media reframe, and institutions warn. Empathy itself becomes suspicious.
https://www.globalresearch.ca/war-palestine-lost-moral-gravity/5913095
On articulating reality without resorting to rhetoric.
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AI Overview
Sodium-ion (Na-ion) batteries use abundant, cheap sodium, making them cost-effective for large-scale energy storage and safer due to less thermal runaway risk, but they have lower energy density (less power per weight/size) than Lithium-ion (Li-ion). Li-ion batteries excel in high energy density for EVs and portable electronics but are pricier, use scarcer materials, and pose greater fire risks, though both technologies are rapidly improving, with Na-ion's advantages in cost, temperature, and safety making them ideal for stationary storage, while Li-ion still dominates lightweight applications.
Sodium cheaper and doesn't require rare cobalt. Better cold weather performance although voltage drops in high current drain situations due to higher internal resistance. Lower power density may require twice the physical size in a Chinese EV.
