Will Europe Save Hamas in Gaza? I recently met with a high-ranking European official from a country deeply involved in the Israel and Palestine file to discuss Gaza’s future and immediate options for relieving civilians trapped under Hamas’s grip. I presented a simple proposal: create safe zones across the "Yellow Line" into the Israel‑controlled green zone and support new, organized, secure, Hamas‑free communities where Gazans could finally begin rebuilding their lives. Whether the issue is humane living conditions, deradicalization, education, healthcare, or shielding civilians from both Hamas or Israeli strikes, the green zone is the only place where meaningful action is possible. Instead of engaging, the official launched into a long monologue about their country’s contributions to the Palestinian Authority, UNRWA, and other institutions, all while insisting on their own “humility” as a faraway European nation. Then came the truly alarming part: a casual normalization of Hamas. The official proudly described how easy it had been to work with Hamas before October 7, praising the group for providing “excellent security” and being “easier to work with than others.” What they called pragmatism was, in reality, a twenty‑year pattern of enabling a violent terrorist organization responsible for immense civilian suffering. When I explained that any Hamas‑free zones would require vetting at the Yellow Line to prevent weapons or operatives from entering, the official reacted with shock. “This vetting would violate international law,” they repeated, insisting that their country could not fund projects with any checks on who enters. I noted the absurdity: I had undergone extensive vetting just to enter their country, and even this building, yet they believed Hamas fighters should be able to walk into new civilian safe zones unimpeded. Their only response was vague appeals to “international law,” which, in their interpretation, seems to require allowing terrorists to hide among civilians. The meeting ended on an even more surreal note. When the official asked what would happen to Hamas fighters left in the red zone, I said I didn’t care; they could fight the Israeli military on their own all they wanted once they no longer held two million civilians hostage. The official lamented that “this isn’t the old American West” and expressed concern for what would happen to Hamas without human shields. Disgust doesn’t begin to describe my feelings and reactions. I left convinced of something long suspected: Hamas’s twenty‑year rule was sustained not only by its own brutality but by an ecosystem of NGOs, donor nations, Western European governments, journalists, academics, activists, lawyers, and even self‑styled human‑rights defenders who normalized Hamas, treated it as a legitimate authority, or tolerated its abuses because their hostility toward Israel outweighed their concern for Gazans.

Most don’t yet appreciate the strategic importance of the Titan Project and the valuable Xenotime mineral to U.S. supply chain security — or how Tennessee’s Big Sandy Critical Minerals Province could become the rare earth and critical-minerals equivalent of America’s Permian Basin. The true rare earth supply shortage is heavy rare earths — especially dysprosium, terbium and yttrium. These are the vital elements required for high-temperature permanent magnets, radar, semiconductors, advanced ceramics, hypersonics, aerospace and advanced defense platforms. This is why xenotime matters. Xenotime is the most strategically valuable rare earth minerals because it is highly enriched in yttrium and key heavy rare earths. Light rare earth-dominant mines and projects can produce large volumes of total rare earths, but they do little to solve the real U.S. supply-chain vulnerability: secure supply of the heavy rare earth elements Dy, Tb and Y. That is also China’s hidden strategic weakness. China may dominate rare earth separation, processing and magnet manufacturing, but its domestic heavy rare earth resource base is nearly depleted.  China is now reliant on imported heavy rare earth feedstocks from Myanmar and Southeast Asia. The U.S. response should not be limited to building downstream processing and permanent magnet capacity. Downstream manufacturing is only as secure as the upstream feedstock that supplies it. America urgently needs secure, long-term domestic heavy rare earth mineral feedstocks. That is where Titan and the large-scale Big Sandy Critical Minerals Province become strategically important. Titan’s xenotime-based heavy rare earth concentrate is enriched in dysprosium, terbium and yttrium — the exact elements that light-dominant rare earth mines and projects cannot supply. Titan is just the first high-grade rare earth and critical mineral project in Tennessee, and the bigger story is ‘Big Sandy’. The Permian Basin helped underpin American energy dominance because it was not simply one well — it was a vast, repeatable, infrastructure-rich resource system. The pre-eminent Big Sandy Critical Minerals Province has the potential to underpin the next era of American industrial power. IperionX, Titan and Big Sandy are the cornerstones for long-term American supply security across heavy rare earths, titanium and zircon minerals.  These are the critical feedstocks that can underpin the most important U.S. defense, aerospace, semiconductors, nuclear, robotics and advanced manufacturing technologies.

In this, the first of 10 posts on age reversal by genomic reprogramming, I begin where the story really needs to begin; namely, the insights of the German naturalist August Weismann. Weismann proposed the term “immortality” to describe the unceasing lineage of cells called the “germ line” that perpetuates the species (that is sperm and egg that make babies that make sperm and egg that make babies, ad infinitum…). Weismann theorized that cells that make up the body (somatic cells) lost that capacity for immortal regeneration, a phenomenon I call “somatic restriction.” He stated “Death takes place because a worn-out tissue cannot forever renew itself, and because a capacity for increase by means of cell division is not everlasting, but finite [in the soma].” If you think about it, this means that the cells that we are made of (trillions of them) have no dead ancestors. Tracing them back in time, the ancestors of the cells that make us “us” have been proliferating since the first dawn of life on Earth, some billions of years ago. They will abruptly die in a few decades in us. The question we began to ask nearly a century after Weismann was, “can we transfer the capacity of immortal renewal characteristic of the germ line cells into our body, into the soma.” In the next post I will describe the first of such steps that led to the modern technology of immortality transfer.

Up, up, and away for the El Niño (ENSO 3.4) region. At record levels for June via @ClimateCentral

Daha önce sizlere ENSO bölgesinde hibrit karakterli olası büyük Süper El Niño senaryosunun nasıl gelişebileceğini bilimsel veri tabanları ve dinamik okyanus-atmosfer etkileşimleri üzerinden anlatmıştım. Bu çalışma yine ARMOR3D alt yüzey sıcaklık anomalileri temel alınarak, güncel BOM ve mevsimsel model çıktılarıyla entegre edilmiştir. Ekvatoral Pasifik'in yüzey altında yer yer 6°C'yi aşan devasa alt yüzey sıcaklık rezervuarı bulunuyor. Aktif MJO fazlarının ürettiği güçlü WWB (Westerly Wind Burst) patlamaları, doğuya ilerleyen downwelling Kelvin dalgaları ile bu enerjiyi yüzeye taşıyarak süreci hızlandırıyor.Şuan resmi ilan olmasa da fiziken el nino devam ediyor ,mevcut dinamikler zayıf kategoriden, orta kuvvet kategorisine ilerleyen El Niño'nun yazın ikinci yarısında Ağustos civarı kuvvetli El Niño'dan hibrit karakterli Süper El Niño eşiğine evrimleşebilecek bir potansiyel taşıdığına işaret ediyor (Güçlü WWB patlamlarıyla). Ancak kritik nokta, ısının Pasifik boyunca homojen değil heterojen dağılmasıdır. Bu nedenle karşımızda klasik tek çekirdekli bir El Niño değil, farklı maksimumlara sahip hibrit bir yapı bulunuyor. Sonbahar projeksiyonlarında Maritime Continent üzerinde belirgin yağış azalması sinyalinin görülmesi de Walker sirkülasyonundaki yeniden yapılanmayı destekliyor. Bunun anlamı; Asya muson sistemi ve Batı Kuzey Pasifik tayfun aktivitesinin doğrudan etkilenmesi, yağış kuşaklarının yeniden organize olması ve tropikal konvektif forcingin güçlenmesidir. Güney Asya'da ise hibrit El Niño nedeniyle musonun düzensizleşmesi ve bölgesel kuraklıkların daha belirgin hale gelmesi olası görünüyor. İşin en ilginç kısmı ise buradan sonra başlıyor. Hibrit yapı, Rossby dalga üretimini, dalga genliğini ve jet akışındaki meridyonel salınımları klasik El Niño olaylarından farklı şekilde modüle edebilir. MJO ve BSISO'nun ağırlıklı aktif olarak Faz 5-6-7, zaman zaman Faz 8 evrelerinde üreteceği tropikal konveksiyon anomalileri; WAF (Wave Activity Flux) propagasyonu ile önce PNA'yı, ardından Atlantik sektöründeki NAO desenini modüle ederek orta enlem troposfer dolaşımını yeniden şekillendirebilir. Asya-Pasifik'te başlayan bu süreç upstream forcing olarak çalışırken, downstream tarafta Atlantik–Avrupa–Akdeniz–Türkiye sektöründe daha dinamik ve yüksek genlikli atmosferik dolaşımı destekleme potansiyeli taşıyor. Sonbahar için aksiyon sinyali (epizodik olarak kuvvetli rüzgarlar, bol yağış ve gök gürültülü fırtınalar) korunuyor ve önceki değerlendirmelerim genel hatlarıyla geçerliliğini sürdürüyor. Şu an en büyük soru işareti gibi görünse de Arap Yarımadası ve Ortadoğu'nun bu telekoneksiyonlara vereceği yanıt farklı olabilir. İlk sinyaller, kuraklık riskinin klasik El Niño beklentilerine göre daha düşük kalabileceğine işaret ediyor. Walker sirkülasyonundaki yeniden yapılanma, Hint Okyanusu konvektif forcingi, subtropikal jet güçlenmesi ve Rossby dalga trenleri; Arabistan–Irak–İran hattında sonbahar döneminde yağış ve gök gürültülü fırtına aktivitesini klimatoloji üzerine taşıyarak pozitif anomali oluşturabilir. Not: Literatüre uygun oluşturduğum sizlerle paylaştığım figürler, El Niño'nun okyanusal evriminden başlayarak Rossby dalgaları, WAF propagasyonu, jet akımı modülasyonu ve telekoneksiyonlar yoluyla Atlantik–Avrupa–Türkiye sektörüne uzanan aynı fiziksel sürecin farklı aşamalarını göstermektedir. Kış döneminde bu etkilerin daha belirgin hale gelmesi mümkündür. Bu çalışma deterministik bir tahmin değil, güncel gözlemler ve literatürde tanımlanan atmosfer–okyanus etkileşimlerine dayalı kavramsal bir değerlendirme çerçevesidir.

Snowy Hydro has conceded it may miss its 2028 deadline for finishing the Snowy 2.0 project and revealed its “disappointing” Italian contractor Webuild could suffer losses depending on the size of a major budget blowout. “The end of 2028 is not feeling comfortable,” Mr Barnes told The Australian on Thursday. “That’s probably that.” However, Mr Barnes disagreed with Webuild handing itself a high rating. “They’ve been a bit disappointing,” the Snowy chief executive said. “There’s been lots of things that they’ve had to deal with. They are pretty engaged with us. But it’s been challenging for them and it’s been challenging for us. Could they have done a better job? Probably.” Asked to elaborate, Mr Barnes said: “I think that’s probably best left to when we announce the new cost.” It's time to end the $40 billion Snowy 2.0 and Net Zero Scam.

The Saudi Arabian Energy Minister on why he remains silent during what he calls the world's largest energy security crisis: Abdullah bin Salman: 🟥 "For me, silence is an acknowledgment, a humble acknowledgment of the fact that I don't know what will happen. Not tomorrow, and not even in half an hour. So if you don't know what will happen, you should be humble enough to say: I don't know that. If you don't know that - be silent. Silence is a form of speech."

Multidecadal Atlantic “Warming Hole” Heat Content Variations Are Caused by Ocean Heat Transport, Not by Surface Fluxes agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.… drive.google.com/file/d/1rQC… Trend of ocean heat content in W/m² in the full‐depth water column for 1955–2024, the interval over which these data are considered sufficiently reliable (Cheng et al., 2024). Non‐significant trends (90% level) are indicated by stippling. Note that even no trend in the “cold blob” region would be highly relevant when almost the whole globe is warming. Credit: Rahmstorf et al. (2026)

I see your profile picture. That’s Johnny Cash. My hero too. Arrested seven times. Smuggled 668 amphetamines across the Mexican border in 1965. Took every drug there was and drank like I did. Cheated on his first wife. Slept with more woman than I ever did. Hit bottom in a cave in Tennessee in 1968 trying to crawl off and die. And then he got up. He got clean. He spent the rest of his life singing for prisoners and addicts and the people the country threw away because he knew he was one of them. That was the whole point of the Man in Black. He wore it for the poor and the beaten down. He wore it for the prisoner who has long paid for his crime. He wore it for the ones who never heard a word of Jesus. He wore it for the addicted and the dying. He wore it as a standing witness that no one is past saving. You picked his picture. You did not pick his message. Try listening to the words.

"In a British Army exercise which gamed out a war in Estonia last month, commanders assumed they would run out of drones in less than a week". Latvian military chief Gen. Pudāns warns Russia may see a window to move against NATO’s Baltic flank by end-2028. The driver is speed: Russia is scaling drones, adapting in battle and expanding its war economy faster than Europe is rebuilding air defence, ammo, logistics and industry. Others signal the same danger window. Switzerland warns that after 2028 Europe may still lack full defence capacity, rely less on US support, while Russia keeps militarising. Estonia points to 2027 for restored Russian combat readiness. Poland, Lithuania, NATO and the EU warn of Russian testing through drones, sabotage, cyberattacks and infrastructure threats. Same conclusion everywhere: 2027-2029 is the gap Europe must close now.

BREAKING: Iran announces it is ending all negotiations with the US and vows to "completely" block the Strait of Hormuz, per CNBC. Iran says it is ending negotiations due to repeated ceasefire violations including Israeli strikes in Lebanon. Iran also threatens to block the Bab el-Mandeb Strait.

I will soon be introducing a bill to give the public a 50% ownership stake in the largest AI companies in America. This would guarantee that the trillions created by AI are used to improve the lives of all of us — and block oligarch decisions that harm the American people.