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Everyone Is Watching the Return to the Moon. Nobody Is Watching What We're Going Back For.
We never lost the Moon. We stopped paying for it, and what is pulling us back is not what you are being told.
Jerry van der Laan
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Everyone Is Watching Israel, Iran, Russia and Ukraine. Nobody Is Watching the Interceptor They All Run Out Of.
The weapon no longer decides the war. The cost of stopping it does.
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Everyone Is Watching the Price of Oil. Nobody Is Watching Who Is Paying to Keep It Down.
The strait is calm and oil is cheap. The calm is bought, by four buffers quietly running out.
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Everyone Is Watching the Front in Ukraine. Nobody Is Watching the Factories in Europe.
Europe has stopped funding Ukraine's war and started building it, on its own soil. Russia has published the factory addresses and called them targets. Whether that is an act of war is not decided in Brussels.
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Everyone Is Watching Iran Close Hormuz. Nobody Is Watching America Reopen Russia.
The world's entire oil buffer sits behind the Strait of Hormuz. Close the strait and you strand the cure, leaving Russian oil as the only valve. A sanction is a luxury of surplus.
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Everyone Is Watching the Data Centers. Nobody Is Watching the Power That Isn't There.
An AI data center can be built in a year. The firm power to run it takes five to seven, and the one machine that makes it, the gas turbine, is sold out through the decade.
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Everyone Is Watching the Chips. Nobody Is Watching the Packaging.
The fabricated chip is not the bottleneck. The advanced packaging that assembles it and the high-bandwidth memory it needs are, and one of those gates is not even in Taiwan.
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Everyone Is Watching the Models. Nobody Is Watching the Water.
Everyone is watching the models. The determining variable is the water that cools them, drawn from the places that can least spare it.
№ 9
Muhammad Ali: How America Punished Him, Then Made Him a Saint
On the morning of April 28, 1967, in a military induction center in Houston, an officer called out a name. Cassius Marcellus Clay. The most famous athlete on earth, the heavyweight champion
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Everyone Is Watching the Reopened Strait. Nobody Is Asking Who It Reopened For.
The Strait of Hormuz is open again, but access to it increasingly tracks not a ship's flag but the currency it can settle in. For the dollar fleet it may be a Suez moment: the place where a reserve currency quietly began to lose its grip.
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Operation Paperclip: How America Recruited Hitler's Scientists and Erased Their Past
Anne Jacobsen named the program that brought more than 1,600 German scientists to America. The deeper story is what made it possible: not the recruiting, but the rewriting of the record that turned war criminals into citizens.
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Everyone Is Watching the Dictators. Nobody Is Watching the System That Connects Them.
Anne Applebaum named the network of autocrats in Autocracy, Inc. The deeper story is the infrastructure beneath it, much of it built and staffed inside the democracies they are said to threaten.