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Khamenei explains what that is intended to mean: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/irans-ayatollah-ali-khame...

Yes, he is: https://www.irishtimes.com/business/economy/2026/01/30/how-a... https://businessplus.ie/news/howard-lutnick-donald-trumps-tr... https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/howard-lut…

Howard Lutnick was an architect and promoter of Trump's tariff strategy. He was involved in setting it up. 'Set up' being the operative verbiage. https://www.firstpost.com/explaine…

Correct - common sense policies != common policies

Chomksy to Marr: "...I'm sure you believe everything you're saying, but ... if you believed something different, you wouldn't be sitting where you're sitting." https://youtu.be/GjE…

https://themindi.blogspot.com/2007/02/chapter-19-non-serviam...

Could be wrong, but think it was Gauss, not Goethe.

Citizens United....

Topic-related yt channel, cannot recommend this enough: https://www.youtube.com/@NotJustBikes

I think I recall Chomsky saying something along the lines that the financial press is the most reliable because it isn't in their economic interest to mislead their audience.

Backscratcher - I never knew I couldn't go without one until I had one. I now have several dotted about the house.

Anyone point to sources describing how people come up with these large meta-structures in the first place?

May be wrong, but I think it correct to say glass is a 'fluid' (it flows - very slowly), gases and liquids are generally fluids. But glass is not a liquid.