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cial records? Has anybody looked at them? Have his financial records been thoroughly examined by some police entity in prior cases, you know, prior situations? Or would the Treasury Department have to start from scratch and say, "Ah, nobody's looked into this, but you know, we'll spend a month trying to put it together." Well, maybe we'll find out everything or maybe we won't because allegedly Eps…

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t that's an allegation. And that foreign entities had hacked it. Well, that's bad. That's bad.

Trump is calling for a 50 to 100% tariff on China by NATO countries. So he's not talking about just the US. He's talking about NATO countries. Apparently the NATO countries are still buying a lot of oil. I don't know which ones are buying the most, but so NATO is fighting a war or supporting Ukraine, fighting a war against Russia while funding the war for Russia by buying their oil. Now, I don't know what options they have. Could it be that there's just not physically enough oil that you can get there to replace it or it's way too expensive? But even expensive doesn't seem to be a good enough reason, you know, in a war scenario. Anyway, so Trump says that NATO's commitment to win has been less than 100%. Now, I don't know if he's going to get away with this, but he wants to go major sanctions on Russia and major sanctions on China for buying oil from Russia. Do you think that'll pan out? Do you think first of all he'll get these tariffs that the European Union will do it? And then secondly, do you think it would work? You know, do you think it would make any difference? Because anything short of crashing Russia's economy isn't going to work. And even that is fraught with danger. So but it does look like Trump is serious about taking down the Russian economy.

Mamdani, who is running for mayor and probably will get elected in New York City, he vowed to arrest Netanyahu if he ever got a chance, if he ever came to the city. Now, the reason he would arrest him is that the International Criminal Court, which America is not a party to so we're not bound by it, but it issued an arrest warrant for Netanyahu I think they're alleging him war crimes against humanity in Gaza and Mamdani says he would push to get him arrested. Now it doesn't look like that's within the power of a mayor so I don't know what he would do to get him arrested. Maybe encourage the police to do it. He couldn't order them to do it. He wouldn't have the authority. But he's making that promise.

Now, does that seem like a good idea to you? Well, apparently his pro-Palestinian stance drove 62% of the primary voters to the polls. So Mamdani has a very big anti-Israel support base. But I'll tell you, if you had told me that New York City would be electing a mayor who seems somewhat obviously anti-Israel, I would have said, "No, no, that can't happen." Has anybody told you the size of the Jewish citizens of New York City? I mean, there's so many of them that there's no way you can elect some anti-Semitic guy. Well, I guess I was not aware how many pro-Palestinians there are in New York City because it looks like that's going to happen. Now, I would not have predicted that in a million years. Anyway, but it'll be a good test of Israel's influence. You know how there are many Americans who say Israel really runs the United States when it comes to Israel and Middle East policy. Not everything but when it comes to what we do in the Middle East and wars and stuff like that in the Middle East people say Israel is controlling our government and there's a reasonable argument for that. AIPAC is very successful and blah blah blah. But this will be a good test. If Mamdani can get elected in New York City, you're going to have to wonder just how powerful is the Israeli lobby in the United States because I feel as if Israel would want to try as hard as possible to influence events so that that guy didn't get elected. But what happens if they don't have any impact? Would you be willing to reassess your belief that Israel is controlling the government of the United States? Because there's no way they'd be in favor of that. Mamdani getting elected. And so keep an eye on that. You know, anything could happen.

According to Interesting Engineering, there's a new, or at least I never heard of it, method for storing energy where they freeze air so cold that it turns liquid and it's much smaller. T

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akes up much less room when it becomes liquid and then they store it overnight. So they cool the air when the electricity is plentiful and cheap. And then when they need to release it, they've got some kind of device where when they warm it up a little bit, the super frozen air which had become liquid changes from liquid to air again and then it expands greatly and the expansion drives some turbin…

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