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Mar 11 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
CNN on the Chinese facilitated Iran/Saudi Detente. cnn.com/2023/03/11/mid…
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This @Aljazeera panel is in my opinion the most useful analysis available so far on Youtube of the #SaudiIran #MiddleEastDetente
Reading between the lines I'd say that China is gearing up to deliver a Chinese version of the JCPOA, a negotiated end to the Iranian-US nuclear standoff. This will be welcome in Europe and a potentially a key component of an effort by China to pivot towards Europe.

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I think we need to be honest about what took out SVB and why. The bank was deliberately destroyed by the super wealthy interests of Silicon Valley - it was and is an exercise in so called "creative destruction" for the self interest of capricious and greedy technology investors… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
Saving the bank would be a worthwhile objective, but as a bailout has been ruled out - for good reasons - by Janet Yelland - this appears to be impossible.

Saving the deposits of the victims of this collapse is worthwhile. But discussions about saving the interests of large… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
As for the events that took the bank down - the run on the bank and the role of Peter Thiel in that - an libertarian extremist individual of extreme malevolence - this should be fully investigated by the SEC.

Efforts should IMO focus on whether this was organised/coordinated,… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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Mar 10
This annual farce over the now “obdurate” Egypt’s objection to the filling of the GERD dam when the miraculous annual rains begin is wearing thin.
The indicated early arrival of the big rains (as in 2021) signals it is very unlikely there will be any problems with filling this year, just as there were no problems/harm in 2021 or 2022.

Moreover completion of the filling looks likely to be completed more quickly than… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… Image
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Mar 10
The high intensity ensemble model forecasts for #CycloneFreddy #Freddy have always indicated the possibility of it turning and exiting before landfall.

And now the HRWF cyclone model is indicating this also.
However a very large cyclone sitting off the coast can still produce very large quantities of rain.

But the catastrophic rainfalls indicated yesterday 300-500mms of rain deep inland may not now eventuate.
The storm has experienced startling intensification over the past few hours in line with the model.

View current Diagnostic imagery

NOAA ssd.noaa.gov/PS/TROP/floate…

CMISS tropic.ssec.wisc.edu/real-time/stor…
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Mar 9
Freddy remains a massive storm taking up nearly the entire Mozambique Channel - outer bands are already over the African coast.

The latest forecast predictions contain a range of possibilities & the latest ensemble mean model forecast is very bad in terms of additional flooding… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
The last two days of development. 7-8 March.
And 8-9 March. Freddy is strengthening rapidly on approach to the mainland - and remains embedded within and fueled by an AR coming in from the North East.
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Mar 8
Ok 👌so in my opinion this account of the destruction of the Nord Stream pipeline - which we know took place during a NATO exercise - coming after Seymour Hersch’s expose (the pre-eminent US Intel insiders insider - which seeks to point the blame at Ukraine holds no water.
It’s a very poor fig leaf for a US 🇺🇸 administration who’s credibility around this war is rapidly disintegrating.

Europeans are being taken as fools, expected to believe whatever nonsense the global superpower across the pond throws at the wall.
Politically - even if it were sourced and evidenced (which it isn’t) - it creates more problems than it solves inside Europe in relation to this war, coming as it does before an expected spring offensive in this horrific and futile war. Arguably the dumbest, and most pointless… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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Mar 7
#ExtremeWeather #Mozambique #Madagascar #Update THREAD:

#CycloneFreddy is back on the move.
Here's an earlier vioew from theis morning while the spinning up cyclone - now commencing its second pass across the Mozambique Channel started intensifying rapidly, very quickly developing a clear eye.
Here's a 24h animation over night and into this morning.
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