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. If this new leap, let's see it's according to Mark Maynard in the Pasadena Star News, the new breakthrough just uses a new kind of material and it uses 10 times less anode material which is a big deal and might cut the cost someday of the battery by a huge amount. Did you know that the cost of the battery in an electric car could be up to 40% of the cost of the car? And that this battery that wo…

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they're operating from or who's in charge. So in those cases a decapitation strike's no good. The one time it's good is if you happen to have massive digital footprints everywhere so you can find stuff and the entity has not created a structure that can go on easily without the leaders. In other words the leaders are kind of key to keeping it together. And that's not the case in America. We change out our leaders all the time. So there's this one little area of history where we can find them easily because we've got satellites, we've got cell phones, we've got AI so we can find them. And we have missiles and drones that can hit anything from anywhere. So I would say the Houthis are in a lot of trouble because it seems to be Israel's ability to take out the leaders of any group that's against them is now 100% operational and all the Houthi leaders are going to just start disappearing. And I think it works because they're leader-driven organizations. So good luck. Good hunting, Israel.

I saw an article by Barak Ravid on X. He says that the people in Israel and the US even who are negotiating for the release of the hostages that it's unlikely that they're going to get that done before Trump takes office. I would go further and say that's not going to happen. Why would Hamas suddenl

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y become rational because Trump's going into office? They're clearly not. They're not afraid of dying and the captives give them a little bit of leverage. So why would they? I can't see any reason that they would do it now. I think that they'll keep the hostages and then when Trump comes in he's going to say all right you had a chance but I'll give you one more chance now that I'm actually in offi…

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