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His tape wasn't lost, they asked him to reshoot some of it because of a bright light (maybe a shiny rock... ;) ) that spoiled some of his footage. [see #7] Honestly, I'm surprised they didn't do some extra mental gymnastics and run with the...

Yes, it's bunk. Well, propaganda. Israel is relatively affluent with a largely tech-savvy population. There is no internet or cellphone blackout. It's also small- about 9% bigger than New Jersey, with an additional (roughly) half a million...

The thing about pipelines is like Internet vs. sneakernet. The Internet feels really fast and direct and it definitely has advantages of flexibility and response time, but a box of hard drives is still vastly faster at moving a lot of data. The...

Yes, it's bunk.

Many reasons. Lack of provenance. Who took it? Nobody claiming credit, so not likely an Israeli government video, and if it was they would not have put it our for public view (bad publicity). Video taken over Israel? If it's not an Israeli...

One very pro-"UFOs are alien spacecraft" and perhaps not totally reliable (;)) website claims Tim Leach's videotape was lost; After filming a report and sending the tape to London to be aired on the BBC, the tape went missing. That meant Leach...

Many reasons. Lack of provenance. Who took it? Nobody claiming credit, so not likely an Israeli government video, and if it was they would not have put it our for public view (bad publicity). Video taken over Israel? If it's not an Israeli...

A more reasonable soluction would be multiple pipelines from The Persian Gulf to the Red Sea, entirely within Saudi Arabia. Being a fixed structure it would be vulnerable to attack, but being entirely on Saudi territory it would be much easier to...

Many reasons. Lack of provenance. Who took it? Nobody claiming credit, so not likely an Israeli government video, and if it was they would not have put it our for public view (bad publicity). Video taken over Israel? If it's not an Israeli...

Hmmm... I concede all of your points, while noting that Panama is also mountainous (and digging a canal there was a monumental undertaking, which, being much more useful, was undertaken anyway.) The utility being limited, the effort is not worth...

This might be the first time in history that starting a war & conquering a country didn't turn out to be as quick & easy as a politician said it would be.

This may be an important factor for not vetoing the resolution: https://edition.cnn.com/2026/03/13/energy/us-russia-sanctions-relief-oil-hnk-intl?Date=20260313&Profile=CNN&utm_content=1773379672&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky US...

Speaking of China ... Ships identify themselves as Chinese around Strait of Hormuz during Iran war to avoid attacks HONG KONG (AP) — Some commercial ships near or in the Strait of Hormuz and Persian Gulf have declared themselves as...

It might be significant (particularly re. Russia) because allowing the resolution to go through shows the governments of Russia, China feel it is more important not to antagonise the nations Iran is targeting than it is to show support for Iran...

Once Iran escalated to blocking Hormuz they started stepping on a lot more toes. As for the abstain rather than voting either way, my guess is the wording of the resolution goes too far but a veto supports something they won't support. Neither...