One would think Netanyahu could supply the sulfur and Trump endless amounts of helium.

Blocking the Strait of Hormuz has triggered a sharp rise in the price of sulfur – a narrowly specialized byproduct of oil and gas refining that is crucial for the production of fertilizers, chemicals, the semiconductor industry, and metals processing.

According to global trade assessments, disruptions in sulfur supply have affected more than 44,000 companies; the biggest impacts were recorded in China and India. The price jump underscores the vulnerability of supply chains tied to the Persian Gulf region, which accounts for roughly 45% of the world’s sulfur exports. The fertilizer industry is the largest consumer of sulfur – about 60% of global demand.

Indonesia, the largest nickel producer, is heavily dependent on sulfur imported from the Middle East. Chris Lawson of CRU noted that a sulfur shortage will initially hit the fertilizer industry, but sooner or later it will also affect copper and other metallurgical sectors. Mining billionaire Robert Friedland stated that disruptions in sulfur supply will affect copper production in Africa, which is a major importer of sulfur.

The largest chipmakers – TSMC, Samsung and SK Hynix – rely on a range of chemicals that are transported through the Strait of Hormuz. They use sulfuric acid to clean wafers and helium to cool during production. Roughly one-third of helium reserves come from Qatar.
https://mezha.net/eng/bukvy/hormuz_blockade_triggers/

https://mezha.net/eng/bukvy/hormuz_blockade_triggers/

Correction: Politico24 is a fake website, impersonating Politico. This report is false. I'll leave it up as a reminder to beware of fake news in the future.

Refugees used for dual purposes: This will enable Israel to exterminate Gaza ("displacement pressures"). Europe will be destabilized and weakened even further with the addition of millions of angry Palestinians.

At an emergency closed-door cabinet meeting, Chancellor Friedrich Merz instructed relevant ministries to draft plans for large-scale reception and integration capacities, the source said.

The initiative includes provisions for the German state to finance the evacuation and transportation of Palestinian refugees to Germany.

Under the proposed framework, arriving refugees would receive standard social benefits available to those granted subsidiary protection or refugee status, including Bürgergeld (citizens’ allowance) at the current rate – roughly €563 per month

According to the source, preliminary internal assessments envisage distributing the potential 400,000 arrivals among the eastern Länder.

https://politico-24.com/article/germany-prepares-to-accommodate-up-to-400000-palestinian-refugees-senior-official-says/

Have You Seen JEFFREY'S WAR?

Israel & Hezbollah

(Not checked for AI 🙂)

Attacks on Russian oil shipments are still ongoing. The Ukrainians couldn't have done this without guidance and approval from their "Western partners". This means the US offer to allow others to buy Russian oil is insincere.

https://www.rt.com/news/634983-greek-flagged-oil-tanker-attacked-black-sea-russian-coast/

I traced $2 billion in nonprofit grants and 45 states of lobbying records to figure out who's behind the age verification bills. The answer involves a company that profits from your data writing laws that collect more of it.

What started as curiosity about who was pushing these bills turned into documenting a coordinated influence operation that, from a privacy standpoint, is building surveillance infrastructure at the operating system level while the company behind it [Meta/Facebook] faces zero new requirements for its own platforms.

Every app on your device gets to query a system-level API that returns your age bracket in real time. This isn't age verification at the point of accessing restricted content. This is a persistent age-broadcasting service baked into the operating system itself, queryable by every installed application.

This is where it gets interesting. Rep. Kim Carver (R-Bossier City), the sponsor of Louisiana's HB-570, publicly confirmed that a Meta lobbyist brought the legislative language directly to her.

By registering every PAC at the state level rather than federally, Meta scatters filings across dozens of state ethics commission databases with different formats, different disclosure timelines, and no centralized search. Each filing is technically public. Aggregating them into a coherent picture requires manually querying each state. This is structural opacity by fragmentation.

The original version of this investigation was posted to r/linux, where it was mass reported and pulled down pending moderator review (150 upvotes, roughly 15k views before being pulled down some 40 minutes after being posted)

Lots more interesting details in the full article:
https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/1rshc1f/i_traced_2_billion_in_nonprofit_grants_and_45/

We told you the next move would be using the war as a reason to "decrease dependency on fossil fuels" - well here it is.

And of course we are asked to believe mean old Fiona Bruce and the mean old BBC don't want people talking about that - even though the BBC has been pushing the climate scam and "renewables" for years like the obedient little shill it is

Question -

1 - are people really stupid enough to fall for this crass idiot propaganda?

2 - are they stupid enough to believe their cozy little lives won't be reamed out once the "no reliance on fossil fuels" agenda really gets going?