Producer’s note: This was recorded on Thursday, April 18, before Israel’s strike on Iran, hence us releasing this earlier than usual. It’s the world news roundup with the ever loyal Danny and Derek. This week: Israel plans a retaliation for Iran’s strike last week, Iran floats the possibility of developing nuclear weapons in response (0:31), and plans for an IDF Rafah operation in Gaza are underway (8:09); the US is still pursuing Saudi normalization with Israel (10:40) and vetoes a Palestinian statehood resolution at the UN (13:38); the US is trying to create an “independent” sanctions monitor for the DPRK/North Korea (15:11); in climate news, Australia’s Great Barrier Reef is suffering the “worst” bleaching event ever (17:19); in Sudan, the fighting expands into North Darfur (19:46); the UN’s Libya envoy quits in frustration (21:18); a whistleblower says that the US is ignoring the order to withdraw from Niger (23:44); the US pushes back over oil refinery attacks in Ukraine (26:41) while the House of Representatives will take up military aid bills (30:01); and the US will reinstate sanctions on Venezuela’s energy sector (32:12).
Anyone see that McDonalds is hiring a manager of diplomatic relations to “join its Federal Government Relations team in Washington, DC. The successful candidate will serve as an ambassador for the McDonald’s Brand with the diplomatic community, relevant U.S. foreign policy government agencies, and third-party stakeholders. “ Ah i love the smell of empire in the morning and it smells like French fries. 🍟
It’s entirely possible Iran could develop working nuclear weapons without ever setting off a full nuke in a test. The science is very well understood - it’s just a matter of designing the shaped conventional explosive for the implosion mechanism and that can be tested with non-fissile U-238. This seems to be more or less the kind of thing they’ve done at Los Alamos since the 90s. Full nuclear tests are as much a form of diplomatic signaling (“check your seismograph to see what we can do now”) as they are of performance tests.
one weird thing with israel is not only hiding their casualties, but also at the same time *only* announcing bedouin casualties. not just with this bedouin girl but many previous times they'll say ah yeah these rockets from gaza somehow only injured bedouins or foreign workers, never any israeli jews
Anyone see that McDonalds is hiring a manager of diplomatic relations to “join its Federal Government Relations team in Washington, DC. The successful candidate will serve as an ambassador for the McDonald’s Brand with the diplomatic community, relevant U.S. foreign policy government agencies, and third-party stakeholders. “ Ah i love the smell of empire in the morning and it smells like French fries. 🍟
It’s entirely possible Iran could develop working nuclear weapons without ever setting off a full nuke in a test. The science is very well understood - it’s just a matter of designing the shaped conventional explosive for the implosion mechanism and that can be tested with non-fissile U-238. This seems to be more or less the kind of thing they’ve done at Los Alamos since the 90s. Full nuclear tests are as much a form of diplomatic signaling (“check your seismograph to see what we can do now”) as they are of performance tests.
Fuckin hell guys. Israel just hit Iran back. 🙄
one weird thing with israel is not only hiding their casualties, but also at the same time *only* announcing bedouin casualties. not just with this bedouin girl but many previous times they'll say ah yeah these rockets from gaza somehow only injured bedouins or foreign workers, never any israeli jews
Time is a fickle goddess