REPORTER: How confident are you that you can keep the ceasefire in Gaza?

TRUMP: I'm not confident. That's not our war. It's their war ... Gaza is interesting. It's a phenomenal location.

“I’m different, I’m a rebel. I’m an outsider,” I say to the credulous journalist before repeating verbatim the beliefs and worldview of the president of the United States and every person with money and power in the world right now.

My operating theory of the universe is that everything is getting stupider, faster. But things are getting so stupid so fast that we seem to be approaching a stupider, faster singularity

Our right vs left paradigm has changed. It’s now global oligarchy vs all of us.

Norway: who came up with the idea that business needs "business parks"? That is: crushing and flattening the nature and landscape into a desert area free from any sign of life? Here e.g. at Frier Vest there is yet no contract for any new industry.
Before: rare oak forest and redlisted water plants.

Another environmental catastrophe caused by Russians east of Crimea, after one of their decaying oil tankers broke apart on high seas 2 days ago, 35km of pristine coastline has been contaminated in true Russian style.

And these tankers are now all over the world.

What has four stomachs and could change the world?
This week in the International pages of The Economist
we take a look at cows, and how bridging the "dairy divide" could reduce poverty, slow climate change and nourish the development of children's brains.
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“Every single day you wake up and a woman has been killed somewhere,” says Muthoni Maingi, a leading campaigner. 👇

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NEW PAPER: The 2022 fossil fuel price jumps caused an oil and gas profit explosion. We show the US reaped the largest profit increase (USD 275bn) of any country. Big Oil claims this benefits the American people. In fact, 51% went to the richest 1%, only 1% to the bottom 50%. A 🧵