Marshall Smith
@marshpsmith
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Peering into pools 👁️ Searching for the middle path 🧭 Hearkening back to last time ⌛️
British Columbia, Canada
Joined November 2021
Make your choice, adventurous Stranger, Strike the bell and bide the danger, Or wonder, till it drives you mad, What would have followed if you had. - C.S. Lewis
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New: The absence of any detected PLA aircraft operating near Taiwan’s Air Defense Identification Zone (ADIZ) has entered its 7th day. This period represents the longest pause in PLA aerial activity around Taiwan in several years, per MND data.
7 PLAN vessels and 2 official ships operating around #Taiwan were detected as of 6 a.m. (UTC+8) today. We have monitored the situation and responded. Illustration of flight path is not provided due to no PLA aircraft operating around Taiwan were detected during this timeframe.
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Metaphor
A dead trout can swim against the current without moving a muscle, using the water's eddies to advance passively. This finding won the 2024 Ig Nobel Prize in Physics. Live trout use the same trick and reduce their muscular effort by nearly 50%.
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Gold is being offered at a steep discount in Dubai
bloomberg.com
Gold is being offered at a steep discount in Dubai, as the war in the Middle East grounds flights and hampers suppliers’ ability to move bullion out of the key trading hub.
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Rethink education.
The best approach I ever found for dealing with behavioral issues was at a Montessori school that had a garden out back. Certain boys would get wound up and out of hand. Instead of detention or discipline, I would say: go dig a hole in the garden. Just go dig for a while. After
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"Evil cannot create anything new, it can only corrupt and ruin what good forces have invented or made" —J.R.R. Tolkien
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Concerning 🚜
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B.C. firms race to stake claim in quantum computing’s next frontier
biv.com
Several B.C. companies are investing in this next-generation technology with more capacity than traditional computers
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Quite the panel 👀
I’m pleased to be visiting India this week to participate in the Raisina Dialogue Conference. It's always a pleasure to see India's Foreign Minister @DrSJaishankar and great to be joined by fellow Canadians @PremierScottMoe, @CanadaIndiaBiz President Victor Thomas, and
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Chemistry matters.
Everyone talks about Iranian oil in barrels. Nobody talks about what is inside them. That difference is why Western refineries have been running shadow networks through Dubai for twenty years to get it despite the sanctions. Crude oil is not a uniform commodity. It is a spectrum
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NEW: China holds stakes in dozens of ports around Europe, ranging from minority investments to full ownership. See our interactive graphic. https://t.co/jDvqEVF5hT
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Japanese Prime Minister Takaichi met with Palantir President Peter Thiel in Tokyo today. This TV news report states that he is called "America’s Shadow President." Details of their meeting were not released to the public. https://t.co/SZyDqys4P7
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NASA's Mars to Table Deep Space Food Challenge is calling on innovators, chefs, students, and engineers to help design complete, Earth‑independent food systems for future crews living on the Moon and Mars. Registration is open through July 31, 2026. https://t.co/WTQSrZifh4
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JUST IN: LNG shipping rates surge from $40,000 to $300,000 per day as US-Israeli war with Iran disrupts global energy markets.
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Azerbaijan, together with Armenia and Georgia, forms a critical East–West air corridor connecting Europe and Asia without passing through Russian or Iranian airspace. 3/9
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When the Ice Age ended, the waters of the Indian Ocean burst through the Strait of Hormuz and poured in, swallowing that massive valley where people had thrived around freshwater rivers for tens of thousands of years. The valley's ancient inhabitants were forced to flee north -
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Here is a starter on Turkey
zinebriboua.com
How Operation Epic Fury Reshapes Turkey's Multi-Vector Grand Strategy
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Iran is unknown primordial source of European civilization. The Greeks took the most important concepts of their philosophy from Persia. The linear time, the final King-Savior, the Resurrection of dead, the Regeneratio Mundi, moral fight, the Devil himself are Iranian concepts.
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All hands on deck.
Trump, Iran and the New World Order Join us tonight for our conversation with Canada’s Opposition Leader, @PierrePoilievre. Watch the full episode tonight, Wednesday, March 4th, at 7PM UK | 2PM ET on YouTube, Facebook and X.
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DEEPLY important.
It’s no secret that China knows how important our joint base on Diego Garcia is. That’s why I’m pushing for the U.S. to pull out all the stops to keep the Chagos Islands in American and British hands. https://t.co/thMsypJ1Xh
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