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10/04/2026

Just another stock market ponzi scheme.
Death and the destruction at the whim of a mad psychopath pe*****le

Trump said he went to war to end Iran’s nuclear ambitions—but Tehran showed that it has a non-nuclear way to deter future attacks, Nancy A. Youssef reports: control of the Strait of Hormuz. https://theatln.tc/T2nf7y73

Over the past five weeks, more than 12,000 U.S. missiles, bombs, and drones hit Iranian targets; several Iranian leaders and some 1,500 of its citizens were killed. But last night, the U.S agreed to a two-week cease-fire while settlement talks play out. None of the president’s initial war goals have been met. Instead, Iran agreed to reopen the strait only on terms that could yield the regime substantial financial rewards.

“Depending on the outcome of the negotiations over the next two weeks, the regime could actually be in a stronger strategic position than it was before the war,” Youssef writes. What the U.S. lacked—and Iran held on to consistently—were clear aims,” she continues. “Iran’s control of the strait, which carries about one-fifth of the world’s oil, ultimately became the most contentious issue.”

“The cease-fire, in theory, removes some of the economic leverage that helped Iran benefit from the strait’s closure: If there is no threat of strikes, shipping companies may not be willing to pay for transit, particularly as oil prices fall … Still, Iran clearly intends to keep control. Under the cease-fire terms the regime put forward, safe transit must be negotiated with the Iranian army. If Iran maintains the existing fee, the regime could collect up to $90 billion a year, equivalent to roughly one-fifth of its GDP—revenue that didn’t exist before the conflict.”

“From Iran’s perspective, it is both strategically dangerous and a bad idea to let the strait open without some kind of accommodation for economic relief,” Richard Nephew, an expert on nuclear weapons and sanctions, told Youssef. Trump said that he will work closely with Iran and begin discussions on sanctions relief. “He also said he would impose a 50 percent tariff on exports to the United States from any country that supplied Iran with weapons. Compared with the threat of civilizational erasure, this seemed like a threat Iran could live with,” Youssef continues at the link.

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15/12/2025

While raising her children in the 1850s, a woman discovered what would save—or doom—our planet, but the world refused to listen.
In her home laboratory, surrounded by glass cylinders and thermometers, Eunice Foote made an observation that would define the next two centuries: she proved that "carbonic acid gas"—what we now call carbon dioxide—trapped heat in the atmosphere. She heated cylinders filled with different gases under the sun, carefully recording temperatures, and watched as CO2 absorbed far more heat than ordinary air. In her published paper, she wrote with remarkable foresight: "An atmosphere of that gas would give to our earth a high temperature."
She had discovered the greenhouse effect.
But when the American Association for the Advancement of Science met in 1856, Eunice wasn't allowed to speak. Women were forbidden. A male professor read her paper aloud to the room of men, and though it was published in a scientific journal, it vanished into silence. Three years later, British scientist John Tyndall conducted similar experiments—and his name became legendary. Textbooks credit him as the father of climate science, while Eunice's name disappeared for over 150 years.
What makes her story even more extraordinary? Eight years before her climate discovery, Eunice Foote stood in Seneca Falls, New York, and signed the Declaration of Sentiments alongside other women demanding equality, voting rights, and the freedom to participate fully in public life. She fought for women's voices to be heard in society—even as her own scientific voice was being erased.
She didn't just predict the science of climate change. She lived the reality of being silenced, ignored, and written out of history simply for being a woman.
Today, as we face the climate crisis she warned us about 170 years ago, we're finally learning her name. Eunice Foote didn't just discover how carbon dioxide warms our planet—she showed us what happens when we refuse to listen to brilliant minds simply because of who they are.
How many other voices have we lost? How many solutions have we ignored? How much further ahead would we be if we had listened to everyone who had something important to say?

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Hailed by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador as a beacon of prosperity, the environmental cost of the railway has bitterly divided communities along its route

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Dr. Simi, the lab-coated cartoon mascot of Mexico's largest pharmacy chain, speaks to the failures of the nation's public health system.

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Una doberman llamada fue encontrado bajo ruinas en Turquía después de 28 días que permaneció bajo los escombros, mientras daba a luz a tres cachorros, a los que protegió y mantuvo vivos. Su alimento fue una bolsa de comida de perro dejada en la zona donde estaba atrapada.

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Life is always amazing!!