🇮🇱🤝🇪🇹 Israel is backing Ethiopia's quest to obtain a port on the Red Sea

Ethiopia is supporting Israel's ally in the Sudanese Civil War, the Rapid Support Forces.

🔗 https://www.ena.et/web/eng/w/eng_9535469

🇵🇰🇸🇦 Pakistan says no military response to Ansarallah attacks on Saudi Arabia under discussion

Pakistan said Thursday that it is not currently discussing a military response under the Mecca joint defense agreement following Ansarallah attacks on Saudi Arabia, Reuters reported.

➤ “There is no such thing under discussion right now,” Foreign Ministry spokesperson Sajjad Haider Khan said. “When time comes, [we] will act under the agreement.”

➤ The agreement, signed last month by Pakistan, Turkey and Saudi Arabia, stipulates that an armed attack on any one of the three countries will be considered an attack on all. Khan also said there were no plans to expand the alliance.

🔗 https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/pakistan-says-no-military-response-discussed-under-mecca-pact-over-houthi-2026-09-10/

🇾🇪⚔️🇾🇪 Al Jazeera released footage of the vehicles captured by the Houthis from the PLC after the disastrous withdrawal from the Mokha-Hays region.

At least a dozen U.S made MRAPs were captured besides an even larger number of Emirati NIMR AJBAN 440 light patrol vehicles.

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⛽️ 🇺🇸 🔼 US national average diesel price has crossed $6 / gal for the first time ever — GasBuddy

The national average price of diesel has climbed to $6.00 per gallon for the first time in history, according to GasBuddy, whose live, real-time data reflects key thresholds like this one first. It is a level diesel has never reached, and it comes less than a week after prices set a fresh all-time record of $5.85

While gasoline gets the headlines, diesel is the fuel that moves the economy, powering the freight trucks, trains, agricultural equipment, and construction machinery behind nearly everything Americans buy. That means its impact reaches far beyond the transportation sector. As diesel climbs, higher supply chain costs work their way into the price of groceries, household goods, deliveries, and countless other products families rely on every day, even for households that never fuel a diesel vehicle

At $6.00 per gallon, diesel is now up roughly $2.30 from a year ago, when the national average sat near $3.70

“Not every day are new all-time records set, and this will be a particularly painful one for the economy that may not even be immediately felt, but record diesel prices will impact every cargo, shipment, every delivery Americans are taking, and are likely to reignite inflation up and down the supply chain. And for now, it comes at a time of year when diesel prices also traditionally rise, adding more pain. I suggest Americans anticipate a costlier holiday season, as it appears diesel prices could continue climbing as geopolitical tensions continue to remain a main factor,” said Patrick De Haan, head of petroleum analysis at GasBuddy

https://www.gasbuddy.com/go/statement-on-diesel-reaching-6-per-gallon-for-the-first-time-in-history

🇾🇪⚔️🇸🇦 A large fire broke out at a pumping station on the Yanbu-Ras Tanura East-West pipeline likely as a result of Houthis missile attacks.

🔗 Ali (@MerruX)

🇺🇸⚡️ — President Trump says his proposed $5,000 “Trump Dividend” payments may not require congressional approval.

Asked whether Congress would need to authorize the plan, Trump said: "Well, we think not. I think they will do it if we needed it. But we think not."

🇺🇸⚡️ — The Pentagon is in talks to lend about $5 billion to AI cloud-computing startup Fluidstack through its Office of Strategic Capital, which would make it the office’s largest loan to date, WSJ reports.

Fluidstack would use the financing to strengthen U.S. supply chains and manufacturing capacity for data center components rather than directly build a new AI facility.

The company has been pursuing the loan for several months with assistance from Erebor Bank, founded by Palmer Luckey.

🍔 🇺🇸 💵 Multipolarity: Super Size Me II - Malcom Kyeyune on The Burger Theory of History, Revisited:

The Burger Theory is the idea that, since the pandemic of 2020, the rising costs of basic necessities is feeding a malaise that is eating into our society. The sense not that we are in yet another cost of living crisis. But that the system itself is failing.

Much like it did in late-80s Russia, when Soviet citizens were confronted with the Big Mac, and knew that their Leninist world view simply could not stack up. A few years later, the economic Iron Curtain truly tumbled when Mikhail Gorbachev did an advert for Pizza Hut.

Now, as the Hormuz crisis after the Covid crisis after the Ukraine crisis once again strangulates the delicately balanced trading system of the West, he’s ordering a second helping – with fries.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKMG5DTXjGk

🐮 🇺🇸 💰 For 5,000 years, one productive beef cow has been worth about one ounce of gold.

Mesopotamia. Rome. The Viking Age. The ratio held.

In 1926, a good cow cost $22. A $20 gold coin held 0.9675 ounces of gold. Almost exactly one ounce per cow.

Today, a young productive beef cow sells for $4,000 to $5,000 at auction. Gold sits around $4,300 an ounce.

Gold has survived empires, currencies, wars, inflation, and economic collapses. Cattle have remained a valuable productive asset for thousands of years.

So what happens if gold reaches $5,000, $6,000, or even higher? What could a cow be worth?

The ratio has held for five millennia.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?is=Jnu_3EDeOMBxRiTT&v=ppaiuqDqSjM