Farah Diba is still alive?
The way time is telescoping right now
Farah Diba is still alive?
The way time is telescoping right now
the old hollow leg before wicket
05.03.2026 02:54 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Here's an obituary. As always with these veterans of the struggle and then government, lives were complicated and there will be many perspectives.
www.businessday.co.za/politics/202...
Always moving when figures from the struggle pass on. Mosiuoa "Terror" Lekota. The nickname came from his prowess as a football striker as a teenager, before his years in prison including with Madiba on Robben Island.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rx5e...
You all are watching Al Jazeera, right?
Detailed report just now from Minelle Fernandez in Galle, Sri Lanka, where the Sri Lanka Navy has brought the dead and the survivors from the Iranian frigate sunk in international waters by a US torpedo.
The best/worst to ever do it
04.03.2026 23:34 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0The American one didn't do much of anything. He had jobs, but he was more into poetry. The Indian one was an engineer and budding industrialist, but he died young of typhoid.
04.03.2026 22:53 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0The grotesque.
04.03.2026 22:45 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
One woman who called the State Department helpline looking for help said they told her to "stop ranting and raving" and hung up on her.
Another woman said they asked her how to spell Oman.
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/04/t...
she's got great taste
04.03.2026 16:58 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Does she have a favorite album
04.03.2026 16:52 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0It's giving General Belgrano
04.03.2026 16:20 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Some clarity.
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...
The grotesque.
04.03.2026 13:51 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0"'With all these titans of the universe coming, it’s like the stamp of approval,' said Nancy Batchelor, a Miami real estate agent with Compass."
04.03.2026 02:39 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Meanwhile
"On Monday, Meta chief executive Mr. Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, paid $170 million for a mansion that is under construction on Indian Creek island"
Also Page, Brin, Bezos, et al
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/03/r...
The grotesque.
04.03.2026 00:04 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0The grotesque.
03.03.2026 17:48 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
"The co‑host of the tournament has murdered the head of state of the third‑ranked team in Group G."
www.theguardian.com/football/202...
The grotesque.
03.03.2026 00:26 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Now Qatar shooting down Iranian jets.
www.thenationalnews.com/news/mena/20...
"lethal" and "kinetic" we expected
"exquisite" and "frosty" are new ones
The grotesque.
02.03.2026 13:31 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Gen. Caine narrating this like he thinks he's Homer
02.03.2026 13:27 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Good luck with that
(opinion piece by S. Kuper)
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/02/o...
GCC analysis with Doha characteristics
(not very different. looks like GCC aligning internally quite fast irrespective of divergent interests on other fronts)
www.aljazeera.com/features/202...
GCC analysis with Abu Dhabi characteristics
www.thenationalnews.com/news/mena/20...
"C'mon Keir, look like you're enjoying this!"
02.03.2026 12:28 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0The biggest risk factors for African countries - a spike in the price of oil. Some of the largest economies on the continent are net importers of oil. South Africa, Ethiopia and Kenya on this list, plus the neighbouring countries that import through them. They are still recovering from COVID
02.03.2026 10:53 — 👍 8 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
There goes the LNG
www.ft.com/content/dac7...