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Debt Rattle March 20 2026

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Jean-Michel Basquiat In this case 1983


• Netanyahu Declares Iran’s Nuclear Program & Missile Production “Destroyed” (ZH)
• Iran’s Attack On Qatar’s LNG Sends Shockwaves Across Global Energy Markets (ZH)
• US Naval Escort Won’t “100% Guarantee” Tanker Safety In Hormuz (ZH)
• Iran Is Losing. Why Pretend Otherwise? (Ben Shapiro)
• Either Iran or Israel Has to Go (Paul Craig Roberts)
• Where Will The War Take Us? (Paul Craig Roberts)
• Dmitriev Calls Strike on Iran’s South Pars Gas Field Tipping Point (TASS)
• The Coroner is Guilty (John Helmer)
• DNI Tulsi Gabbard Releases 2026 Unclassified National Threat Assessment (CTH)
• Belarus Remains Trump’s Ally Despite US Mistakes — Lukashenko (TASS)
• Murphy’s Law (Jonathan Turley)
• Trump Continues to Expel MAGA’s Best Members (Paul Craig Roberts)
• Kent Tells Tucker: ‘Imminent Threat’ Was From Israel, Not Iran (ZH)
• NASA May Shrink Boeing’s Moon-Mission Role, Push SpaceX (ZH)
• When ‘I Don’t Recall’ Meets a DOJ Subpoena (David Manney)

 


 

 


 

 


 


Just when the protests get too loud, the mission is completed.

• Netanyahu Declares Iran’s Nuclear Program & Missile Production “Destroyed” (ZH)

In a rare wartime press conference, Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu opened with a jab at rumors about his condition: First of all& I m alive.” He went on to claim that Israel and the US are “protecting the entire Middle East& the entire world” – and after 20 days, he asserted: “we are winning, and Iran is being decimated.” Netanyahu further claimed that Iran’s missile and drone stockpiles are being “massively degraded” and “will be destroyed,” framing the campaign as an all-out dismantling of Tehran s capabilities. Bust most importantly he said production capability has been ended.


He further addressed claims Israel dragged the US into war, calling it “fake news” and adding: “Does anyone really think that someone can tell President Donald Trump what to do? Come on.” He praised tight US-Israel coordination: “We are achieving goals in lightning speed” – and said he and Trump “see eye to eye,” adding the world “owes a debt& to President Trump for leading this effort.” He also stated that Israel acted against Pars alone, but that he will hold off on ordering future such attacks without US consent. Netanyahu also said the war will end “much sooner than people think”. And another key aspect to his remarks:

• Iran No Longer Able to Enrich Uranium
ª Iran Lost Ability to Manufacture Missiles US
ª Israel Destroyed Iran s Fleet in Caspian Sea

“What we’re destroying now are the factories that produce the components to make these missiles and ` to make the nuclear weapons that they’re trying to produce,” Netanyahu said, however without providing evidence of the claim. Just before he spoke, Israel’s military said it anticipates the anti-Iran campaign is only half complete.

Iran through its Foreign Minister has made clear on Thursday it will show “zero restraint” if energy infrastructure is targeted again. President Trump on the same day responded to reports the US has sent more troops to the region.

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“Worse Than Nord Stream”.

• Iran’s Attack On Qatar’s LNG Sends Shockwaves Across Global Energy Markets (ZH)

Brent crude futures surged toward $120/bbl, while WTI remained muted around $96/bbl, as Wednesday marked a major escalation in the US-Iran conflict. Israeli fighter jets struck Iran’s giant South Pars gas field with air-delivered munitions, triggering a retaliatory chain reaction in which IRGC forces targeted critical energy infrastructure across the Gulf. Iranian drone and missile strikes caused heavy damage to Qatar’s Ras Laffan LNG hub, while gas plants in Abu Dhabi shut down, Kuwaiti refineries were hit by drones, and Saudi refining assets were targeted. Unlike temporary shipping disruptions in the Gulf waters or the Strait of Hormuz, damage to upstream energy assets, such as production and LNG facilities, is far more serious and could take months or even years to repair, raising the risk of prolonged tight global supply.


Some 20% of global LNG exports originate from Gulf countries, and the latest round of Israeli and IRGC attacks on upstream energy assets shows how the conflict has entered an entirely new phase where energy infrastructure is being directly targeted. Disruptions at Qatar’s LNG facilities threaten to tighten the global gas market, with ripple effects quickly spreading worldwide – across Asia, Europe, and even U.S. gas prices. European natural gas benchmark futures jumped as much as 35% today, pushing prices to more than double their pre-war levels, as traders brace for what only appears to be a prolonged period of disruption from critical LNG hubs that account for a fifth of the world’s total supply.

QatarEnergy warned earlier that LNG facilities inside its Ras Laffan Industrial City were attacked by missiles, “causing sizable fires and extensive further damage.” “This could be a game changer for the LNG industry, akin to the attack on Nord Stream or possibly even worse,” Susan Sakmar, visiting assistant professor at the University of Houston Law Center, said, quoted by Bloomberg. “This is a sudden disruption, with no indication that Qatar could restart anytime soon.” Global Risk Management analyst Arne Lohmann Rasmussen warned, “LNG from Qatar could in principle be offline for months and, in the worst case, for years. For the gas market, the crisis does not end simply because the war ends and the Strait of Hormuz reopens.”

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“We are collateral damage in a conflict when the root causes have nothing to do with shipping..”

• US Naval Escort Won’t “100% Guarantee” Tanker Safety In Hormuz (ZH)

The paralyzed Hormuz chokepoint is becoming the worst disruption to global energy flows ever, as actual barrels quickly disappear from oil markets, driving prices sharply higher in Asia toward $150 per barrel and potentially setting the stage for demand destruction in the weeks ahead.


President Trump has been attempting to fast-track the reopening of Hormuz by providing naval escorts for tankers and other commercial vessels. However, there are a few problems. First, Western US partners have rejected Trump’s request to send warships to help reopen the strategic waterway, which is plagued by IRGC mines and kamikaze drones. Second, Arsenio Dominguez, secretary-general of the International Maritime Organization (IMO), told the Financial Times in an interview on Tuesday that even if naval escorts materialize in the narrow waterway, they will not provide a “100% guarantee” of tanker safety. “It reduces the risk, but the risk is still there. The merchant ships and seafarers can be affected,” Dominguez said.

The head of the IMO, which sets rules for international shipping, continued: “We are collateral damage in a conflict when the root causes have nothing to do with shipping,” adding that his organization has major concerns about commercial vessels stuck in the Gulf running out of food and supplies for crews. Sending US and allied warships into the narrow waterway, just off the Iranian coast and facing threats from drones, naval mines, and shore-to-ship ballistic missiles, seems like a suicidal mission. “The challenge is going to be dealing with the proximity of the drone launchers and the missile launchers that are going to be along the Iranian coast,” Bryan Clark, an expert in naval operations with the Hudson Institute, told The Hill.

Clark said, “The issue is that you only have a couple of minutes once the launcher comes out before the missiles are going to get on top of you, because you’re only talking about 3 or 4 miles from the shoreline to the transit lane.”mA number of top US partners, including Germany, Spain, and Italy, have no immediate plans to send warships into the waterway. This has only infuriated President Trump, as his administration has voiced frustration with some longstanding allies over their unwillingness to help reopen the strait.

The race to reopen the strait comes as Kpler oil analyst Muyu Xu warned, “The blockade is now the worst disruption to oil flows ever. Actual barrels are now disappearing from global oil markets, which could lead to demand destruction in the weeks to come.”= Three weeks into the US-Iran conflict, tanker activity on the waterway has slowed to a crawl, just about 400,000 barrels per day, compared with the pre-Hormuz-closure average of 14 million barrels per day.

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Views differ.

• Iran Is Losing. Why Pretend Otherwise? (Ben Shapiro)

Don’t fall for the propaganda. Iran is not holding its own in this conflict. It is being systematically dismantled. One by one, the senior figures of the Islamic Republic have been eliminated: generals, security chiefs and regime power brokers. The country’s leadership has been decapitated at the highest levels, leaving behind a hollowed-out command structure struggling to function.mEven the regime’s attempts at continuity appear shaky. A successor was hastily elevated, but reports suggest instability, absence and internal disarray at the very top. Whatever facade of order Tehran hoped to project has given way to uncertainty and silence.


Meanwhile, the military picture is equally stark. Iran’s command-and-control systems have been fractured. Its missile and drone capabilities — once touted as pillars of deterrence — have been severely degraded. What remains is not a coordinated campaign but sporadic, diminished retaliation.The numbers tell the story. Early volleys of hundreds of missiles have dwindled to scattered launches. Drone deployments have followed the same trajectory. Factories, infrastructure and key facilities tied to these capabilities have been destroyed or heavily damaged. What the regime is able to deploy now appears to be the remnants of what once was.

This is not simply a Western narrative. Even regional observers — some hardly aligned with U.S. interests — have acknowledged the effectiveness of the campaign. Analyses describe a deliberate, phased strategy: first neutralizing air defenses and leadership networks, then targeting the industrial backbone that sustains Iran’s military capabilities. The objective is not just to weaken but to prevent reconstruction.mAnd yet, despite this evidence, a counternarrative persists in parts of the West: that Iran is resilient, that it is outlasting its adversaries, that the outcome remains uncertain. That claim is increasingly difficult to square with reality.

Recent developments underscore the point. Senior Iranian officials once positioned as potential successors have been killed. Key internal security figures — those responsible for maintaining order and suppressing dissent — have also been eliminated. Even localized enforcement mechanisms are now under pressure. What remains of the regime’s response resembles less a strategy and more a reaction — disjointed, limited and increasingly ineffective.So the real question is not whether Iran is losing. The evidence suggests it is.The real question is why so many observers continue to insist otherwise.

Part of the answer may lie in broader geopolitical anxieties: fears of escalation, concerns over regional stability, or skepticism shaped by past conflicts. But those concerns, while understandable, do not change the facts on the ground. There are also looming questions about what comes next. Much attention has been paid to strategic chokepoints like the Strait of Hormuz, though any prolonged disruption there would invite overwhelming international response. More significant, perhaps, is the internal dynamic within Iran itself.

The regime has long relied on force to suppress dissent, as seen in past protests met with lethal crackdowns. But the current moment may be different. With leadership weakened and security structures under strain, the balance between state control and public resistance could begin to shift. If that happens, the future of Iran will not be decided solely by external pressure but by the Iranian people themselves. They have risen before, at great personal risk. The difference now is that the regime they would confront appears more vulnerable than it has in decades. What happens next is uncertain. But one thing is increasingly clear: The narrative of Iranian strength no longer matches the reality.

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I llike PCR. And he has much more experience than me, and I was never in the White House. BUT: the US is not in the Middle East because of Israel, it’s -historically- there to control the price of oil.

• Either Iran or Israel Has to Go (Paul Craig Roberts)

The Iranians have demonstrated that Trump badly misjudged their capability. Trump is now calling on other countries, with little success, to send their warships to help keep open the Strait of Hormuz as the task is too big for the US Navy, and he is cutting deals, or trying to, with Putin and Modi to remove sanctions on Russian oil in exchange for the de-sanctioned oil to be sent to Europe and not to Asia. Trump, or his advisors, have come up with a scheme to invade Kharg Island, which seems more like a suicide mission.


The Iranians are holding firm on one level but without realizing it might be cracking on another. I am not convinced that the Iranians fully understand the situation. For example, Mohsen Rezaee, retired commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard, now a member of the Expediency Discernment Council, said that the “presence of the US in the Persian Gulf has been the main cause of insecurity over the past 50 years.” The end of the war, he said, requires “US withdrawal from the Persian Gulf.”

It seems to me that General Rezaee misunderstands the situation. It is not the American presence per se that is the cause of insecurity. The cause is that the American bases are there to serve Israel. Moreover, the real cause of insecurity for all of the Muslim states is Israel’s Zionist agenda of Greater Israel. Once defined as “from the Nile to the Euphrates,” Israel has recently redefined Greater Israel to be from the “Nile to Pakistan.” The general does not seem to understand that removing the US from the Persian Gulf does not remove the Zionist agenda of Greater Israel. What Iran should be demanding is the disavowal of the Zionist agenda.

Iran’s president, Masoud Pezeshkian, hasn’t a clue either. He says the “Only way to end this war” is to recognize Iran’s legitimate rights, payment of reparations (to Iran) and firm guarantees against future aggression.” He is badly wrong. The war might again be put on pause by Iranian officials who fail to comprehend the situation, but the only way war will end is by Israel renouncing the Zionist agenda of Greater Israel. And that Israel will not do. Iran’s foreign minister, Abbas Araghchi, has rejected the talk of peace negotiations. Trump, he says has already twice deceived and sneak-attacked Iran while engaged in negotiations, and Iran will not make the same mistake again.

In actual fact, Iran is making a much worse mistake. The Zionist agenda of Greater Israel is not consistent with the Existence of Muslim Iran (or Turkey and Saudi Arabia). Unless the Zionist agenda is renounced, Iran has no choice but to fight to its own death or to Israel’s death. The fact that Iran has never seized the initiative, has never used its strategic advantage, but has sat on its butt waiting, indeed inviting, an attack, suggests that Iran does not comprehend the Zionist Agenda. Neither do the Americans, the Europeans, or the media. The real cause of the war is simply not mentioned. If Iran doesn’t wise up, Iran risks being lured into another meaningless agreement.

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“Netanyahu does know what to do–nuke Iran, in order to save Israel.”

No, nuking Iran would be the end of Israel.

• Where Will The War Take Us? (Paul Craig Roberts)

I am disappointed that Trump destroyed the MAGA movement by turning it into the MIGA movement and taking America to another war in the Middle East in behalf of the Zionist agenda of Greater Israel. Using the disguise of a “war on terror,” the United States has spent the first quarter of the 21st Century using American blood and American money to destroy countries that were barriers to Greater Israel, a territory that encompasses the Muslim Middle East from the Nile to Pakistan. Iraq, Libya and Syria are no longer functioning Arab states.


Trump and Netanyahu believed that Iran would fall as easily as the others, but that has proved not to be the case. Indeed, it appears that Iran is winning. Iran is winning because Iran was better prepared. Expecting a quick and easy victory, Trump and Netanyahu went to war without sufficient missiles to continue in the combat. One consequence is the destruction of American radar and military bases in the Persian Gulf. Another is the inability of Israel to intercept incoming Iranian missiles, an inability that will intensify as Iran works its way through its older stock of missiles and begins using it’s modern hypersonic ballistic missiles. It is possible that Israel could end up looking like Gaza.

According to news reports one of the Persian Gulf oil city-states that hosts US military bases has requested that the United States depart as US presence no longer provides protection. Possibly the other hosts of American bases will make the same request, in which case the result of Trump’s war for Israel will be the removal of Washington’s presence in the Middle East and a defeat of Washington’s long-term agenda of controlling oil flows from the Persian Gulf.

Trump and Netanyahu seem to have put themselves into a difficult situation. Both face elections this year, elections unlikely to go well if Trump and Netanyahu are losing their war. The US Navy has had to move out of range of Iranian ship-sinking missiles, and Trump has had to call on other countries–China, Japan, South Korea, France, UK–to send warships to aid the US in taking control from Iran of the Strait of Hormuz. This request is a clear statement by the President of the United States of limited American military capability. Trump has had no takers. Trump’s advisors are talking about landing troops on Kharg Island, surely a suicide mission.

In other words, Trump doesn’t know what to do. Netanyahu does know what to do–nuke Iran, in order to save Israel. Aware of this possibility Iran might hold back from victory and go for a settlement in which Washington and Israel agree to normalize relations with the Iranian nation. Such a settlement would not last, because it is incompatible with the Zionist agenda of Greater Israel. Therefore, during the time for which such a settlement might last, Iran would have to develop and deploy nuclear weapons, knowing that otherwise Iran will be struck by Israeli nukes.

So, the outcome of Trump and Israel’s war could easily be nuclear proliferation and a reduction of Israeli and American power in the Middle East. This could be a good thing as both Israelis and Americans would understand that the agenda of Greater Israel has consequences too severe to justify the agenda.m If the Iranian government holds firm and learns from the experience, there could be a silver lining in Trump and Israel’s war. The Zionist agenda would be exposed as too costly and would have to be abandoned both by Israel and Washington.

The weak-willed governments in Moscow and Beijing would see that it is possible, after all, to stand up to Israeli-dominated Washington, and possibly might start standing up to Washington themselves instead of selling out their allies. If so, this would produce the multi-polar world that Russian President Putin talks so much about but negates the possibly of with his craven behavior. Perhaps XI would understand that it is better to have a determined military, such as the one he just purged, than a moderate one that encourages, as Putin does, ever more serious provocations by refusing to acknowledge them as acts of war.

The future of the world depends on whether leaders can reenter the world of reality or stay lost in a more comforting unreality in which they presently operate.

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“Trump stated that Israel would no longer strike facilities of Iran’s South Pars gas field.”

• Dmitriev Calls Strike on Iran’s South Pars Gas Field Tipping Point (TASS)

Special Representative of Russian President for investment and economic cooperation with foreign countries, Chief Executive Officer of Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF) Kirill Dmitriev called the strike on facilities of the Iranian South Pars gas field, which caused a fire, a “tipping point” in a post on X. This is how he reacted to a White House publication citing statements by US President Donald Trump regarding the situation around the gas field. US President Donald Trump stated that Israel would no longer strike facilities of Iran’s South Pars gas field.


The United States knew nothing about the attack, and Qatar was not involved in it in any way or had any idea it was coming, he wrote on Truth Social on Thursday. The American leader believes the Jewish state carried out the strike out of outrage at what was happening in the Middle East. According to Trump, only a small portion of the field’s facilities were damaged. H e emphasized that Israel would no longer strike the extremely important and valuable South Pars gas field unless Iran made an unwise decision to attack a completely innocent party, Qatar in this case.

On Wednesday, the head of the Assaluyeh District administration in Iran’s Bushehr Province reported that a fire had broken out following an attack by Israel and the United States at several facilities in the South Pars gas field. In this regard, Iran’s elite military force, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), said it would attack oil and gas sites in Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and Qatar.

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New book.

• The Coroner is Guilty (John Helmer)

This is the first book to expose abuse of power by Australian coroners investigating the cause of death when there is suspicion of medical negligence in the combination of popular prescription drugs – widely used benzodiazepines with treatments for non-life threatening conditions such as vertigo, vestibular migraine, and epilepsy. The book records the evidence of the sudden death of Tatiana Vasilievna Turitsyna, my wife, and of the two years which have followed of forensic investigations to uncover the cause, the role of the treating doctor, then the delay, obstruction, and cover-up by the Coroners Court of Victoria.


Throughout the world this court is the only one of its kind to have been investigated and then prosecuted by the state for abuses of power by the coroners in charge – this is corruption in the law. In 2023 the court was found guilty, sentenced, and fined almost $400,000, but no individual was held culpable. That was the outcome of a plea bargain — a cover-up to keep the evidence secret, the individual coroners blameless, and the penalty paid out of public money from the court budget.

In a presentation that is unprecedented in the practice of Anglo-American law, in Australia and Canada, this book has become the jury book or brief of the case of suspicious, sudden drug death. It is now a model for the international public debate on corruption by the pharmaceutical companies in cahoots with government regulators, the medical profession, judges, and lawyers. This is your summons to serve on the jury.

You, the reader, are called to judge the evidence and the legal argument; and then cast your verdict, not only for the doctor and coroner but also the Supreme Court judge who conducted a trial of his own, dismissing every count of the author’s case, and endorsing the coroner’s decisions without qualification. This is also a textbook on subversion in our lives and deaths. This is how the victims of lethal combinations of drugs are blamed for dying of heart attacks that are judged to be “natural causes” when the evidence that they are nothing of the kind is buried according to the “rules-based international order”. If you are a survivor of a crime of “natural causes”, here’s how to fight for your right, and the right of the dead, to natural justice.

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The Unclassified part is not the most exciting.

• DNI Tulsi Gabbard Releases 2026 Unclassified National Threat Assessment (CTH)

In fulfilling her legislatively mandated annual report called the “National Threat Assessment,” Director of National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, releases the combined intelligence assessment of the U.S. Intelligence Community. Additionally, here is the transcript of DNI Tulsi Gabbard’s statement to the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence:


[TRANSCRIPT] – “I am here today to present the 2026 Annual Threat Assessment, joined by the Directors of the CIA, DIA, FBI and NSA. This briefing is being provided in accordance with ODNI’s statutory responsibility and represents the Intelligence Community’s assessment of the threats facing U.S. citizens, our Homeland, and our interests. nAs President Trump’s National Security Strategy highlights, America is blessed with an enviable geostrategic position, unparalleled assets, resources and a military second to none. Intelligence remains among our sharpest tools in protecting our interests and informing our policymakers and decisionmakers on key national security concerns. In this assessment, we are following the structure of priorities laid out in the National Security Strategy, starting with threats to our Homeland, then shifting to global risks.

The defense of our Homeland is of utmost importance to the American people. Putting America first means committing to an unrelenting vigilance in service of our own citizens, borders, and communities. Recent efforts to bolster Homeland defense have yielded significantly positive results, but challenges persist. For example, President Trump’s strict enforcement of U.S. policies at the U.S. Mexico border and regionally has served as a deterrent and drastically reduced illegal immigration. Based on Customs and Border Patrol data, January 2026’s monthly encounters are down 83.8% compared to January 2025. Encounters declined 79% compared to 2024.

The drivers of migration are likely to continue. Potential worsening instability in countries like Cuba and Haiti risk triggering migration surges. Smugglers who often operate as transnational criminal organizations view chaos as an opportunity for profit and will look to continue to profit from illegal immigration flows. Transnational criminal organizations continue to pose a daily and direct threat to the health and safety of millions of U.S. citizens primarily by producing and trafficking in illegal drugs. Under President Trump’s leadership, fentanyl overdose deaths have seen a 30 percent decrease from September 2024 to September 2025.

Fentanyl potency has also decreased, likely due to disruptions to the production supply chain. U.S. efforts to work with China and India to halt the flow of fentanyl precursor chemicals to North America are demonstrating improvement, but there is more work to be done as there are still tens of thousands of fentanyl-related deaths in America every year.] President Trump’s aggressive efforts to more directly and actively target TCOs and reduce the inflow of fentanyl precursors has already had a significant impact which is likely to continue. (continue reading – pdf) The opening statement is 8-pages in full and can be found by following the ‘continue reading’ link above.

Tulsi Gabbard is doing a solid job as DNI, against formidable opposition from all directions.]“It ought to be remembered that there is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things. Because the innovator has for enemies all those who have done well under the old conditions, and lukewarm defenders in those who may do well under the new. This coolness arises partly from fear of the opponents, who have the laws on their side, and partly from the incredulity of men, who do not readily believe in new things until they have had a long experience of them.”
-Machiavelli, The Prince

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I thought he was Putin’s close(st) ally.

• Belarus Remains Trump’s Ally Despite US Mistakes — Lukashenko (TASS)

Belarus remains an ally of US President Donald Trump despite some mistakes made by the US administration, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko said on Thursday. “I would strongly urge you that we discuss regional problems. Not only the issues surrounding Ukraine, but also global ones. And not only the war in the Middle East,” Lukashenko was quoted by BelTA news agency during a meeting with a US delegation led by Special Envoy for Belarus John Coale at the Palace of Independence.


“I believe my perspective on global issues, especially on the situation in the Middle East, will be important for you, given that you are fighting against our friends. And I am ready to speak frankly on this topic,” the Belarusian president continued. “I would very much like you to convey my perspective to Donald Trump. Although I believe the United States has made certain mistakes, I remain a supporter of your president,” Lukashenko added. Last September, the United States lifted sanctions on the airline Belavia. The US Department of the Treasury issued a general license for financial transactions with Belavia and its subsidiaries.

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Judges doing politics. Under the guise of law.

• Murphy’s Law (Jonathan Turley)

“Anything that can go wrong will go wrong.” That adage, called Murphy’s Law, came to mind this week with the latest injunction issued by U.S. District Court Judge Brian Murphy in Boston. Murphy previously drew national criticism for his efforts to enjoin Trump’s immigration policies, resulting in not one but two rebukes from the Supreme Court. He is now back with an order preventing changes to vaccination policies ordered by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.


As with his earlier immigration order, the court seems to take the view that anything that can go wrong for the Trump Administration will go wrong for the Administration. At virtually every critical point, the court seems to adopt the harshest possible interpretation against the Administration. Murphy effectively halted, for now, the meeting of Kennedy’s new Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, or ACIP. Kennedy had replaced many members of the ACIP, including some accused of conflicts of interest. However, Murphy found that Kennedy had made arbitrary and capricious decisions in changing vaccine policies and changing the committee membership.

The Trump Administration has been aggressively fighting for executive authority over agencies, boards, and committees. This case could become one of the most significant of these appeals.Judge Murphy basically lambasts Kennedy for attacking good science and scientific methods. His criticism is laden with assumptions about the “correct” answers to questions governing vaccines. There are good-faith objections to Kennedy’s policy changes. However, the question is who is constitutionally vested with the right to make such decisions. That question is particularly prominent in the Murphy opinion. For example, the court rejects the new board members as unqualified in comparison to the prior members.

The court’s rejection of the new board members is largely conclusory. The court offers little indication of who Kennedy might appoint to meet his standards … other than the prior board members placed on the committee during the prior administration. In determining whether Kennedy had a right to reconstitute the committee, the opinion states that “[t]he Court acknowledges that many of the ACIP members have extensive expertise in their chosen fields.” However, it then questions whether they have truly “relevant” experience. The court insists that only six have relevant experience with vaccines.

The rejection of individual advisers shows how the court dismisses countervailing credentials or belittles advisers selected by the Secretary. Take Dr. Raymond Pollak who “is a surgeon, transplant immunobiologist, and transplant specialist who has published more than 120 peer-reviewed works and served as principal investigator on NIH transplant biology grants and numerous drug trials.” That would seem to be someone who could offer unique insights into vaccines and their approval. Yet, while acknowledging some experience, Murphy dismisses him as lacking sufficient experience.

Then there is Dr. Retsef Levi, Professor of Operations Management at the MIT Sloan School of Management, as “a leading expert in healthcare analytics, supply chain and manufacturing analytics, risk management, and biologics and vaccine safety” and note that he has “collaborated with industry stakeholders and public health agencies to develop decision-support models to evaluate biologics and vaccine safety” and co-authored studies examining the association between mRNA COVID-19 vaccines and risks of cardiovascular disease, mortality, and adverse pregnancy outcomes.” He has also published two papers on vaccines. However, Judge Murphy brushes aside that stellar academic record and notes that “both of those [vaccine papers] were published mere months before his appointment.”

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I personally give Trump much more credit than PCR does.

• Trump Continues to Expel MAGA’s Best Members (Paul Craig Roberts)

Trump, again doing the political assassination for the Israel Lobby, is trying to drive American hero US Rep. Thomas Massie out of Congress Three new York Jewish billionaires–Henry Paulson, Miriam Adelson, and Paul Singer–have contributed an enormous war chest for unseating Massie. Trump is contributing his demonization rhetoric: “We got to get rid of this loser. This guy is bad,” Trump said at a rally in Hebron, Kentucky. “He’s disloyal to the Republican Party. He’s disloyal to the people of Kentucky, and most importantly, he is disloyal to the United States of America. And he’s got to be voted out of office as soon as possible.” https://www.unz.com/article/thomas-massie-live-by-the-sword-die-by-the-dagger/


What Trump means is that Massie is disloyal to the Israel Lobby. On Tucker Carlson’s show Massie revealed that every member of Congress has an AIPAC babysitter or handler to make certain the member votes in Israel’s interest. To please Israel, Trump turns on his strongest supporters, such as Massie, Marjorie Taylor Green, and Joe Kent. As Trump does not tolerate dissent, none of his advisers dare to tell him anything. Trump’s schooling as a Jewish-financed New York real estate developer is not leading to anything good. We have an impetuous and unpredictable president with his finger on the button who listens to no one but Zionist Israel.

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“Kent elaborated that Israel was preparing to strike, which would trigger retaliation endangering U.S. personnel – creating the cited “imminent” risk.. “

• Kent Tells Tucker: ‘Imminent Threat’ Was From Israel, Not Iran (ZH)

Joe Kent, former Director of the National Counterterrorism Center who was President Trump’s principal counterterrorism advisor, appeared on Tucker Carlson’s show to explain his side of the story after stepping down from the administration. Kent announced his resignation Tuesday, citing his opposition to the ongoing U.S. war with Iran, and his belief that Iran posed “no imminent threat” to America – while asserting in his resignation letter that his wife died in “a war manufactured by Israel” in a 2019 suicide bombing in Manjbi, Syria.


In this first public interview since resigning, Kent elaborated on his reasons amid reports emerging Wednesday that the FBI is investigating him for allegedly leaking or improperly sharing classified information (a probe that sources say predates his resignation and is being handled by the FBI’s Criminal Division, per several outlets). Early on in the interview, Carlson referenced Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s justification for the strikes – that Iran posed an imminent threat because Israel was preparing to attack Iranian targets, likely prompting Iranian retaliation against U.S. forces. Carlson reframed it bluntly:

Carlson: “So, the imminent threat that the secretary of state is describing is not from Iran. It’s from Israel.” Kent: “Exactly. And I think this speaks to the broader issue: who is in charge of our policy in the Middle East?” Kent elaborated that Israel was preparing to strike, which would trigger retaliation endangering U.S. personnel – creating the cited “imminent” risk. He stated: Kent: “The Israelis drove the decision to take this action, which we knew would set off a series of events because the Iranians would retaliate.”

Kent insisted there was zero U.S. intelligence of Iran planning a direct attack, nearing a nuclear weapon, or posing an immediate homeland threat. He cited Iran’s religious fatwa against nuclear weapons (since 2004) and said the assassinated Supreme Leader Khamenei had moderated the program: Kent: “There was no intelligence that said, hey… the Iranians are going to launch this big sneak attack… There was none of that intelligence.” On nukes: “No, they weren’t [on the verge of a bomb]. They weren’t in June either. The Iranians have had a fatwa – a religious ruling – against the development of a nuclear weapon since 2004… We had no intelligence that it was being disobeyed.”

https://twitter.com/remarks/status/2034418878143484285?s=20


Kent described how dissenting views were sidelined in the lead-up to strikes. Key officials, including himself, were reportedly barred from direct briefings with Trump. He said he spoke personally with the president before resigning – a conversation he described as “very respectful” – but felt staying would mean silencing his warnings. “A good deal of key decision-makers were not allowed to come and express their opinion to the president,” Kent said, adding “There wasn’t a robust debate.”


In an emotionally charged segment, Kent discussed the September 2025 assassination of Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk, whom he knew personally. Kent recounted Kirk’s last words to him in the West Wing in June: Kent (recalling Kirk): “Joe, stop us from getting into a war with Iran.” Kent said Kirk had opposed escalation and faced pressure from pro-Israel donors. He revealed the NCTC had leads on potential foreign involvement but was ordered to halt: Kent: “The investigation that the National Counterterrorism Center was a part of, we were stopped from continuing to investigate… There was still a lot for us to look into… there were still linkages for us to investigate that we needed to run down.”= The official narrative focused on lone gunman Ryan Robinson, but Kent insisted unresolved questions remained.

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We should know what happened when Boeing went from an engineers- to an accountants firm. Probe it. McDonnell Douglas.

• NASA May Shrink Boeing’s Moon-Mission Role, Push SpaceX (ZH)

President Donald Trump’s NASA chief could soon announce Boeing’s diminishing role in returning astronauts to the Moon, while leaning heavily on Elon Musk’s SpaceX rocket company to do the heavy lifting. Boeing’s Space Launch System (SLS), originally the rocket backbone of the Artemis mission, would no longer carry the Lockheed Martin-built Orion crew capsule to the Moon. Under the new plan, SpaceX’s Starship would take the lead.


NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman plans to meet with the companies working on the Artemis program next Tuesday, including Boeing, SpaceX, and Blue Origin, to discuss progress and current paths forward. Sources close to the program said any significant changes could face immediate Congressional scrutiny.”NASA is committed to using the SLS architecture through at least Artemis V, which is necessary to support both human landing system providers, and their associated acceleration plans to return American astronauts to the Moon,” Isaacman said in a statement. “We’re incredibly supportive of both our HLS providers and their plans to accelerate America’s path forward to the moon,” Isaacman added.

If Isaacman does boot SLS from the core rocket during the launch of the Orion crew capsule to the moon, it would be a massive blow to Boeing, which has been mired in setbacks ranging from Starliner capsule issues to SLS launch delays. Notably, Starship still lacks a fully successful orbital flight. The effort to swap SLS for Starship shows Isaacman’s urgent push to accelerate Artemis timelines (target: 2028 landing) after years of delays and cost overruns, with SLS missions costing over $4 billion each.Isaacman has also been weighing alternatives for the HLS on the Moon from both SpaceX and Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin – both of which hold multibillion-dollar contracts to develop Moon landers for Artemis.

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Everyone behind the Steele dossier is walking free.

• When ‘I Don’t Recall’ Meets a DOJ Subpoena (David Manney)

James Comey is back in the spotlight with a familiar flavor. The Department of Justice has issued a subpoena tied to his role in the 2017 intelligence assessment on Russia and the 2016 election. Years passed, but the questions never went away. Now, however, they’ve returned with legal force behind them. The subpoena marks a new escalation after Fox News Digital previously reported that Comey and former CIA Director John Brennan were under criminal investigation related to the probe.Sources at the time said the investigations were examining potential wrongdoing tied to the creation of the 2017 assessment and possible false statements to Congress. Comey, as PJ Media readers know, served as FBI director at the time and played a central role in one of the most consequential investigations in recent political history.


It was an investigation that influenced public opinion, policy debates, and years of political conflict that followed. That assessment referenced the Steele dossier, which a CIA “Tradecraft Review” completed in June under CIA Director John Ratcliffe said “ran counter to fundamental tradecraft principles and ultimately undermined the credibility of a key judgment,” according to Axios, which cited the review.Ratcliffe has since referred Comey and Brennan for possible prosecution, Axios reported. Senior officials from multiple agencies contributed to the document, including John Brennan and James Clapper. The document’s conclusion shaped the early narrative around the election and set the tone for investigations that stretched across years.

The current inquiry focuses on process and accountability. Lawmakers and investigators want clarity on how evidence was gathered, how conclusions were reached, and whether political pressure played any role. Those questions may sound procedural, but they carry serious weight; decisions made during that period affected the credibility of major institutions and the direction of national policy. Comey’s past testimony offers a preview of what may come next. During earlier hearings, he often leaned on phrases that signaled caution or distance. “I don’t recall” appeared many times, and the Fifth Amendment remains a legal option available to any witness under oath. A subpoena raises the stakes because it requires answers, even if those answers arrive carefully measured.

President Donald Trump has long argued that the original investigation carried political bias, a view that continues to shape how supporters interpret the renewed scrutiny. Meanwhile, those on the left maintain that the original findings reflected legitimate concerns about foreign interference. There’s enough daylight between those competing views to power a solar panel for minutes.The legal process will move forward step by step. Testimony, documents, and sworn statements will form the backbone of whatever comes next. Investigators will press for clarity, witnesses will weigh their words carefully, and the outcome will depend less on headlines and more on what can be established under oath.

For Comey, the moment carries both legal and personal weight. His time as FBI director placed him in the center of events that reshaped American politics. The subpoena pulls him back into that same arena, where every answer matters and every pause gets noticed. The country has seen versions of this scene before: a high-profile witness, a charged political backdrop, and a series of questions that reach back years.What happens next depends on how much clarity emerges and how much remains unreachable. In other words, wash, rinse, repeat. If we decide on a drinking game, basing a shot of Buffalo Trace on each time we hear “I don’t recall,” we’ll remember the first 15 minutes of his testimony. Regardless, second verse, same as the first verse.

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  • March 20, 2026 at 10:27 am #235432
    Raúl Ilargi Meijer
    Keymaster

    Jean-Michel Basquiat In this case 1983 • Netanyahu Declares Iran’s Nuclear Program & Missile Production “Destroyed” (ZH) • Iran’s Attack On Qatar’s LN
    [See the full post at: Debt Rattle March 20 2026]

    March 20, 2026 at 11:10 am #235453
    Dr. D
    Participant

    “The Zionists are simply mentally religious impaired people who form a tool that may be wielded by servants of the money powers.
    The western money powers are facing bankruptcy and are unleashing war but the bankruptcy is so bad how can anything change that?
    Isn’t the next step failure of the western banks?
    Aren’t all the wars, banker’s wars?”     Reid

    Agree. That’s a big part of why nothing in Iran is “Real” and hub players are willing to sacrifice a queen piece like Israel to stay on the board. …Which tells you that tribe is not in control. Perhaps they are manager level. Everyone in the Vlogosphere are pointing out when the “banks” get to this level they “Suddenly! Lo!” sacrifice the Joos (and steal all their stuff). …And remain hidden behind the curtain, untouched.

    The “Kent” problem is too complex for me. Is there someone above him? Certainly. And not only WHO are they, but how do they deliver him a memo? Because they don’t seal it with wax and sign their name.(usually). But Kent may have been like this all along, or other things happening. Like they told him to take the fall to allow a false flag and he didn’t, which means he can’t stay and cooperate with that, or people like that.

    Not to be abstract, but knowing nothing, let’s invent a scenario, whole cloth: “Israel” (which may just be Globalists, we can call them MI6, London, Dr. No, just pretend they are somewhere and are not Lukid) says they need to extort Trump to take the bait. We can clearly see they planned to pin him between two bad choices, but he refused to take the bait and clock’s ticking. He MUST Pick Israel or Domestic base, because whichever he picks, they’ll crucify him on it. The POINT is not the choice: they dgaf what the choice is. The POINT is to remove him as an obstacle. Remember, this is never about the truth, they hate the Truth. It’s about the LIE. So they force the choice themselves, then LIE about it, say they had nothing to do with it, Bad Man’s Fault, I didn’t put this gun to the head of a baby seal AND a puppy.

    So they say “We’re going to nuke Philadelphia and blame it on Iran.” KENT says, “Go ahead and try, I’m emptying the magazine in your direction, gfy. I ain’t gettin’ in no unnecessary wars (where also innocents are killed).” TRUMP however, takes the other side. IF he does the Iran war, it LOOKS like he’s “Doing Israel’s bidding,” short term, but with some help, Israel and their lobby will cease to exist. Bibi will cease to exist. Europe will be so crippled they will cease to exist as leveraged players. He can sell this as a por favor to China by clearing long-term the constant chokehold of Chinese energy and the 1% vig of all world trade London take FOR arming it and keeping the war going. He sells Russia the collapse of Europe, taking Ukraine in any way they see fit, and the long-term certain threat of Europe invading 5 years from now. Because Europe will either surrender or be too weak to act.

    Those are all higher-order, long-term wins. However, you must ACTUALLY offensively attack Iran “For no reason”. …No reason except that you don’t want Philadelphia nuked. Being nuked will lose the midterms too, people! And Kent wants to HIT these guys? Okay, we can’t hit them harder than by overturning the board in Iran, and in that sense is going better than expected.

    But Kent doesn’t want, can’t conscience an offensive war, he would fight the battle here on our soil, where it is more moral to do so. In a way I agree, I’d have to think about it. I’m not against overturning the game board and stopping all wars long-term, but I would then have to communicate it to the people, which has not been done. That’s TWO MILLION dead, people. Do they not count because they’re not Iranians? Is losing 10k good to stop another two million? This same team has killed a MILLION Americans. Do we not count either?

    Our eyes fix on one magnifying glass at a time, forgetting everyone else everywhere. What is ending Israel and removing the AIPAC lobby worth? A: Priceless. We have no country without that. Everyone is mad when we do what that takes though. Or when we don’t tell you our secret war plans ahead of time, so we can argue and the enemy can know them. No. That’s foolery.

    Anyway, just ONE scenario that fits the facts with the war and Kent, I can write others. The point is, that is POSSIBLE. The “Official” story or what “Experts” are saying in Fox interviews are self-contradictory and not rational or possible at all. So if the Official story is s—t, the Experts are more definitely s—t than anything I’ve ever seen, that leaves me trying to come up with anything that works at all.

    Adding:
    …I see you have the Kent interview. Opening line: everything is false. He says “Iran is an Empire” No, it is not. “It’s not going anywhere.” That’s not the point. “We are deeply involved in Eastern Europe.” No, we totally are not. “Iran would be a quagmire we’ve been there 18 years not 18 days.” What. The. F–? “China is the real and only enemy.” Double 4x WTF.

    Tucker then wanders into a long, meandering “Hints and innuendo” non-sequitur that is a “WTF, I guess you have no facts or points either.”

    And we’re ONE minute in. Sooo…Kent is so full of s–t his eyes are brown, and Tucker is too? Wait, how did we get here so suddenly?

    10 minutes in Tucker interview, and everything in it is false. He’s now saying we’re in a double digit inflation and we’ve been in Iran 10 years. What the? No. Trump = Obama. What the? No. Kent was fired and arrested. What the? No. Everything here is nonsensical. Which is NOT common for him. It can only be on purpose, because of a reason. No attempt at all to look into the actual game board as I describe above. “Just says” he knows why everything happened (Israeli lobby, etc). Show me.

    March 20, 2026 at 11:51 am #235454
    charles
    Participant

    Taking “Israel or Iran” as a logical construct and not a narrative does not preclude “Israel and Iran”.

    March 20, 2026 at 11:51 am #235455
    Tree Frog
    Participant

    Certainly the long US agenda has been control of gulf oil, evidenced by Bitter Lake and other agreements.

    But had Israel died on the vine, what might have followed. Certainly great power competition. But nothing like the zionist lunacy and its consequences.

    March 20, 2026 at 11:59 am #235456
    Tree Frog
    Participant

    “The regime has long relied on force to suppress dissent, as seen in past protests met with lethal crackdowns.”

    Ben Shapiro referring to Israel?

    March 20, 2026 at 1:05 pm #235457
    kultsommer
    Participant

    Fake eyelashes Tulsi.
    That detached “presentation” has become her second nature.
    She was lifelong choice as “We want Tulsi to…..” probably from her early school days and she took that for granted well into her age of an “old teenager” that she become.

    March 20, 2026 at 1:08 pm #235459
    Dr. D
    Participant

    Today:

    ““Does anyone really think that someone can tell President Donald Trump what to do? Come on.”

    Quite right. Everyone agrees he won’t do anything, and then everyone thinks they just walk in the room where he’s watching sharks, tell him to bomb the moon, and he does it. No. That is irrational. He does not do whatever anyone says.

    So apparently he’s hearing a lot of people talk (Part II) and then makes up his mind from it (Part I)? Yes, that’s called “being a President.” He has a TEAM, the team pitches ideas, but he has to decide among them. That’s NORMAL. The part they’re mad at is the Derp State, bureaucracy wants Auto-Pen and vacant President. They WANT to “just do” whatever they want and ALSO have no name and take no consequences for it. Who wouldn’t? So they hate Trump, like Nixon or Kennedy, will oppose their evil plans. They need a CIA president like most of the others, who believes everything he’s told an does it.

    Nutsy is of course lying though. Because he opened his air-hole. Rubio SPECIFICALLY SAID it was because of Israel. –But also not in the easy, cartoon way everyone is suggesting, go look at his quote.

    “• Iran’s Attack On Qatar’s LNG Sends Shockwaves Across Global Energy Markets

    Iran keeps attacking EUROPE and all their Muslim Neighbors and no one else. Ok, man. Show us who you are. You can bomb EUROPE all day, IDGAF, hope you do. I’d mail you the weapons but it would look bad for us.

    Europe says “Thank you daddy Iran, may I have another?” Getting involved would be mean. It’s much superior to die by the millions.

    Trump wins on NATO AGAIN, same as when he gave them all a wedgie and kicked them in the pants one by one in the Oval Office and they didn’t listen. So: you want us to attack and nuke Russia for you. No. NOW you want US to secure all your oil for you, and when we do, not only will you NOT HELP, but Spain is actively OBSTRUCTING??? Rutte was the only guy who got a clue on this strategy Trump just monkey-hammered them with. He was like, “DUDES! If you REFUSE, there is no NATO!!!” And no NATO = No free EU Nazi army they command to go do things with. So they’re so retarded they didn’t realize this and had to be talked down and come around 24-48 hours later, but the damage is done.

    …Also they’re not really going to help or fix anything, so there’s that. But really this is about the PR that Europe is NOT an ally of the U.S. and does NOT pay for their own energy security, expecting Us to do it while people in Michigan have no water.

    When we trash NATO, Trump or his successor will point at that and stop being raped by Europe. Go “America First”.

    Trump + Pars attack”

    Yes, and this is very relevant. All the cartoon-crayons that say “The West”. No. England is not US. Germany is not US. Israel is not US. Okay? These are DIFFERENT people. This is not Borderline Personality Disorder. I am not YOU. So it is relevant that US, the U.S., Trump, is working really hard to keep Iranian energy assets INTACT. And someone – maybe not even “Israel” but a rogue faction, who knows – is doing the opposite. It’s REALLY IMPORTANT that we are preserving their whole energy system and thus their revenue stream. …For the Iranian people, although that remains to be seen.

    This is the #Opposite of what Kent/Tucker just said. Shock and Awe!!!!. NO. It is not. THAT IS A LIE. And both Kent and Tucker KNOW it is a lie, and they know better. So what are they doing?

    Adding to this, Iran is attacking WHO? The U.S.? Go ahead! Israel? Sure, fair game! NO. They are attacking ISLAM. All their neighbors. All Europe, who is neutral. And THEY KNOW IT. So what are THEY doing?

    Blowing up Kuwait doesn’t hurt me, IDGAF. Blow it up all you want! Blow it up 10 times if it makes you happy. Blowing up your main rival Saudi Arabia is super funny to me: go ahead! I don’t like kings, and he’s a maniac. …And then you have to LIVE in this neighborhood and I don’t. And this is in Iran’s interests and they’re Winning how?

    So TRUMP is saving oil assets in the Region and Iran is blowing them up. Jolly. I think that’s contrary to Asian Guy and the nightly news? Like those headlines are false? So something else is happening? Some third thing? Don’t react: THINK.

    “• US Naval Escort Won’t “100% Guarantee” Tanker Safety In Hormuz (ZH)

    Listened to a shipping guy about insurance which was fascinating. Because the shippers dgaf. It’s just about money because the ships are so expensive. This is Luongo’s thing, IRAN did not close the straits. LLOYD’S closed the straits. London. Arcana: Oddly – get this is you want to see how stupid the financialized world is – the shippers SELF INSURE. Huh? Yeah, to take the edge off, they pool their own money and keep a fund to self-insure. JHC. Whut? But Lloyd’s!! Yeah, well then they RE-Insure their SELF-Insure with Lloyd’s. Da fuq?

    Okay and like every statement made, obviously “Not all”. And adding IF you do stuff, go around, Lloyd’s will blacklist you for life as well.

    The rates are like 0.5% IIRC, and they doubled, then Lloyd’s had them as high as 3%. So all they need to do to move is have anyone create an insurance fund and the companies will move the ships. That simple. Will ships sink? Yes, ships sink anyway and Iran is sinking them at anchor right now, what’s the dif? They only need to know the profit is worth the risk. I mean, these the the people who would lose 9/10 ships sailing the horn for nutmeg in 1600. Everyone knows the contract they’re signing, sailors included.

    Same here. Says if they insure the ships adequately, they’ll just sail. That’s how it is. The only thing stopping the motion is Lloyd’s. (and that the U.S. hasn’t completed their competing funding system yet)

    Can Iran sink ships? Sure. But that doesn’t “Close the straits” which are not closed now. Chinese, Bangladeshi ships are moving no problem. And again, THE U.S. IS NOT PREVENTING THAT EITHER. Although we could. That’s Iran’s revenue and lifeline, we’re keeping it OPEN. We could sink the ships, sure, or just pirate them out by the Indian Ocean, no problem. We want the Straits OPEN.

    “We can’t guarantee 100%” Yeah, man, NOTHING is guaranteed 100%. Stop thinking in cartoons and crayons.

    “Western US partners have rejected Trump’s request to send warships to help reopen the strategic waterway, which is plagued by IRGC mines and kamikaze drones.”

    Yes, that was the POINT. That was the point of asking to demonstrate Europe would refuse. Since they don’t care, why should we? No oil then, fine.

    THERE ARE NO MINES IN THE STRAITS. That I can find. Why Make S—t Up?? No mines because Iran needs the Chinese ships to move because the Straits are OPEN. So…stop. I’m not going further with the article if you can’t grasp this, you’re dangerous.

    Can Iran still sink any specific ship they have the time to target? Almost certainly. But be accurate.

    “• Iran Is Losing. Why Pretend Otherwise? (Ben Shapiro)

    Much as it makes me sick, the list of IRGC head killed is running many pages. But eliminating everyone is not “regime change” I guess? But removing one man and having the VP take over is?

    A: Whichever way I can HATE, and claim the U.S. will LOSE.

    How about whichever way is accurate instead? Does that work for anyone?

    So the minute we discover a single remaining left-handed screw factory in Iran we can bomb it at will, but Iran is winning and can keep making 1-ton liquid hypersonic missiles? Those two things are not both true.

    They’re defeating us everywhere but we’re using 1952 B-5s, and desperately obsolete 1990 A-10 Warthogs, both of which have the radar of a city bus and are completely open to any anti-air defense? Both of those can’t be true.

    “The Iranians have demonstrated that Trump badly misjudged their capability.” –PCR

    That’s the #Opposite. So which one is it? Or a third thing?

    Easy: PCR Paul depends on “The internal emotional state of Trump” and “DonaldTelepathy”. That’s not the base of a rational argument. Discard Paul. He’s also always wrong, or has no detail to his arguments that can be checked.

    “• Either Iran or Israel Has to Go (Paul Craig Roberts)

    Why not both? That’s literally what has happened. BOTH wanted war, now they’ve got what they always wanted. Paul is extremely sad Iran hasn’t created a new Ottoman Empire from F-stan all the way to Egypt. Strange look, Paul. I for one am not in favor of that. That causes wars n’ stuff. It’s bad if Israel does it, but good if Iran does it.

    “I am disappointed that Trump destroyed the MAGA movement by turning it into the MIGA movement”

    The MIGA movement that destroys Israel. Huh. Tell me how that works, Paul.

    “Trump and Netanyahu believed that Iran would fall as easily as the others,”

    “Reality” and “Time” exist Paul. I know everyone else has forgotten, but do you remember something about a “12 Day War”? It happened some time in the last 100 years…. Oh yeah! Like a month ago! And in it Iran bombed the s—t out of Israel and proved they could level it pretty easily? …Yes but “because I make up stuff in my mind” Trump and Nutsy suddenly didn’t notice that and it never happened. They “Thought it would fall easily” when a week ago it did NOT fall easily in Mossad’s Protest revolution, who were all rounded up and killed?

    That didn’t happen either. The only thing that happened was Paul Craig Robert’s imagination.

    “Helmer:” Those people are above a dog catcher, so they can kill whoever they want. So talk to me again about how we’re better than feudalism? We have 10x the tax rate. No holidays. No say in wars. NYC handed Weinsten a “Rape Safari Pass” for the state of NY for like a few thou in cash, and he may have used it widely. No “Lord” can be convicted for any crime on any Peasant. In fact, open slavery has been reconstituted by Obama, and including wide child genital mutilation and child marriage.

    Yet all day I hear from Progressives how thank God it’s not 1969 when all men chained their women to radiators, we are Soooooo much better and moral and enlightened than the bigots who landed at Normandy. Right. Good thing it’s not 1950!!

    “• Trump Continues to Expel MAGA’s Best Members (Paul Craig Roberts)

    Again, PCR uses all his DonaldTelepathy to intuit what’s going on. A: Whatever is the worst possible interpretation. The most Black Pilled, Least-helpful one. Thanks, man. We’re working down here. Nice to know we’re doin’ it wrong.

    There are no wins. Everything is bad. Since that’s exactly what our most hated arch enemy would tell us – exactly the same things you say – what does that mean, Paul?

    “• Kent Tells Tucker: ‘Imminent Threat’ Was From Israel, Not Iran (ZH)

    We all agree on that then, good. Now Israel is flattened and weaker than ever. One of the EMB crew – I forget who – said Bad Man could never act against Israel because the whole government would jump in and stop any plan of Trump to destroy them So it cannot possibly be a strategy or intent from Trump.

    …But that’s not true, is it?

    Trump is doing exactly what Israel wants, but GOOD AND HARD. This is exactly Ayn Rand said and the only thing that’s worked against the other team this 20 years. We do EXACTLY WHAT YOU SAY, boss. But we don’t use our intelligence, and we don’t save you from yourself. Parasites need us, the Host, to act in a certain self-interest.
    Let’s be very simple: they need us NOT to take doses of straight poison that purge the parasites. Then parasites die and the host remains.

    To me it’s perfectly simple to do this, I can’t see any reason NOT to do this, I don’t know how anyone can’t see that this is perfectly obvious. So Obviously my argument is, being perfectly simple, wanted, and supported, Trump DID do this. …Intentionally, which we can’t prove. But does it matter? HE DID IT. Therefore Israel has been flattened and the Americans hate Israel more today. And it’s all “Just another accident” 10,002 times in a row.

    Even now, AFTER the magic trick is done, you’re still defending it, saying it didn’t happen. Trump R Dum. All his wins R accidents. Good I guess. Now he can do it 10,003 times in a row tomorrow.

    “We should know what happened when Boeing went from an engineers- to an accountants firm. Probe it. McDonnell Douglas.”

    Yes. Break them up back to Hughes, Marietta, Douglas, all the hundred others. Gee, I thought there was a “Sherman AntiTrust Act” or something for exactly and only this reason?

    Big picture: Corporations are trying to weaken and discredit the State so they can be larger and de facto run the world be the new government. NeoFeudal. That’s WHY they pay billions to insure utter incompetents in there and bribe judges to be traitors and fools. Same as India or any other colonized nation.

    SpaceX is harder bc it’s organic, but the principle applies.

    “Everyone behind the Steele dossier is walking free.”

    That’s okay, we already know if they sat in front of any Judge, the judge would re-write all English law back to the Magna Carta and re-invent the laws of physics to let them (Epstein) free. And have. How many examples you want this week?

    “Why has no one been arrested???????????”

    Because this? You’d be MORE Black Pilled when every corrupt judge gets them off. And already has a dozen times, YOU reported on it to me. You want that? Your pick. Be an adult.

    “There will never again be a free and fair election in Europe so long as the EU can pick every country’s winners and losers”

    There too it’s “Corporations” but as Socialists they have “Controlled the Means of Production” and merged corporation and state. Here it’s the opposite. The merger was with the Corporations controlling.

    …You may notice the outcome of both systems is indistinguishable.

    “Statues of “Old White Men””

    But both. Neither. Don’t you know all the Vikings were Black? And the English kings were Muslim? And gay. And women? So they are just as British by landing in a boat as you there for 3,000 years. Totally, perfectly equally “British”. Right? But then Nelson is NOT British and give offense to Britions who are “Totally, equally British” as they.

    Right.

    Speaking of Wales they pushed back – almost ironically, unconsciously — saying “As a minority people Welsh will cease to exist is we import and overwhelm it with non-Welsh people in our towns and nation.” Ah. Funny about that. Yes. We SHOULD keep the Welsh people and language from extinction, true. Priority.

    AND SO ALSO THE ENGLISH PEOPLE???

    Over their heads. No gears turn. 10,000 more boats by sundown.

    March 20, 2026 at 1:13 pm #235461
    Michael Reid
    Participant

    TRUMP’S IRAN WAR DISASTER SPINNING OUT OF CONTROL

    March 20, 2026 at 1:14 pm #235462
    kultsommer
    Participant

    I’ve rarely seen more weird thing than this?
    Since when our lives became “all about them” ?

    March 20, 2026 at 1:20 pm #235463
    Michael Reid
    Participant

    March 20, 2026 at 2:08 pm #235465
    Doc Robinson
    Participant

    Posted by Elon Musk today –

    https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HD2Xm83a8AA8_D4.jpg
    https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2034949307431100612

    March 20, 2026 at 2:26 pm #235466
    Doc Robinson
    Participant

    From Craig Murray today –

    Elbit’s Israeli weapons factory in the Czech Republic set ablaze by Earthquake Faction.
    Earthquake Faction is not a proscribed organisation so I unequivocally support this.
    I support all direct action against Israeli weapons supply chains, unless by a proscribed organisation in which case it is very naughty and not at all legal to support.

    https://xcancel.com/CraigMurrayOrg

    March 20, 2026 at 2:57 pm #235467
    zerosum
    Participant

    Okay!
    WHY?

    You want change.

    You want to get rid of … It, him ,her, rule, regulation, control,

    You want to avoid chaos, imminent threat, suppress dissent,

    You want my approval for your choice, your decision, your conclusion

    WHY do you Make war to end wars
    ———–

    March 20, 2026 at 2:58 pm #235468
    Raúl Ilargi Meijer
    Keymaster

    Chuck Norris Dies at 86

    March 20, 2026 at 3:14 pm #235469
    Topcat
    Participant

    Iran gas fields Attacked

    Non-stop All lies, all the time

    The Zionazi Emperor of Lies

    March 20, 2026 at 3:19 pm #235470
    Topcat
    Participant

    The funny part is this is a cartoon from 14 years ago.

    March 20, 2026 at 3:43 pm #235471
    Topcat
    Participant

    If Iran turns into an Empire of Lies Colony:

    Russia will have another Ukraine just a short hop across the Caspian next to a ‘liberated’ Iran with western nuclear missiles deployed and aimed at it’s soft southern underbelly.

    Putin has allowed himself to be sucker punched and cold-cocked by the Empire of Lies several times now.

    I don’t see him learning a thing from it.

    He will always seek to grovel with ‘negotiations’ with the Emperor of Lies if he can.

    I see Putin being sucker punched yet again with Iran.

    To little too late for Russia this time.

    Much like Uktardistan who consciously allowed the Muslim Invasion to repeatedly gang rape their women and piss on their ‘culture’, Putin will never meet the challenge of the Empire of Lies in Iran.

    Has not even finished up in Ukraine only to get yet another ‘ukraine’ on his southern flank.

    Impressive.

    March 20, 2026 at 4:05 pm #235472
    Topcat
    Participant

    John Helmer explains The Empire of Lies lifting oil sanction for Russia and Iran

    Hypocrisy thy name is Trumpturd

    The Emperor of Lies wants as much oil on world markets as possible to suppress oil prices for the Mid-terms.

    Hahaha

    Well that was easy.


    Isrealhell bombing Iranian gas fields phucked Trumpturd in the kazoo!

    Brilliant

    As of the First Day of Spring 2026

    Going Up……………

    As of March 20, 2026 (first day of spring), Singapore physical oil prices show high volatility due to geopolitical tensions. Key indicators include:

    Crude Oil (Singapore Dollars): ~119.57 SGD/bbl (Day Open).
    Dubai Crude (Platts): ~122.84 USD/bbl.
    Fuel Oil 380 cst: ~479.25 USD/ton (SGX).

    March 20, 2026 at 4:08 pm #235473
    zerosum
    Participant

    The Iran War Summary: Week Three
    20th March 2026
    Dr. Rob Campbell
    https://robcampbell.substack.com/p/the-iran-war-summary-week-three

    March 20, 2026 at 4:11 pm #235474
    zerosum
    Participant

    Ukraine and World Affairs: Weekly Update
    20th March 2026
    Dr. Rob Campbell

    https://robcampbell.substack.com/p/ukraine-and-world-affairs-weekly-365

    March 20, 2026 at 4:12 pm #235475
    those darned kids
    Participant

    ” sacrifice the Joos (and steal all their stuff). …”

    along with the rest of us, especially after operation warp speed

    March 20, 2026 at 4:18 pm #235476
    Topcat
    Participant

    The Gulf is full of Iranian Ghadir submarines

    Nearly undetectable

    Should be a Turkey shoot on Empire of Lies naval vessels.

    The Ghadir-class is a small, diesel-electric midget submarine developed by Iran to operate stealthily in shallow waters like the Persian Gulf.

    Measuring around 95 feet, these vessels are designed for ambush attacks, mining operations, and special operations, making them difficult to detect by larger naval vessels.

    Key Aspects of the Ghadir-class Submarine:

    Stealth and Detection: Their small size, combined with the quiet nature of operating on electric engines, allows them to lurk undetected in shallow, cluttered waters and sea-floor hiding spots.

    Operational Role: These submarines are crucial for Iran’s “operational friction” strategy, designed to threaten and disrupt larger vessels, including US carriers, through unconventional means, notes Army Recognition.

    Armament: Despite their small size, they are armed with torpedo tubes and can launch missiles, such as the Nasr anti-ship cruise missile, according to BYU-Dept-clsresults-prd.amazon.byu.edu.

    Production and Deployment: Iran has engaged in serial production of this design, deploying them to both the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Navy and the regular Iranian Navy.

    Performance Constraints: These are not designed for deep, open-sea operations. Instead, they are suited for the enclosed, shallow, and congested maritime environment of the Strait of Hormuz, says Facebook.

    The Ghadir serves as an example of leveraging small, agile, and quiet assets to create a significant threat to, or at least cause, “operational friction” for, larger conventional naval powers, say the Institute for the Study of War

    March 20, 2026 at 4:20 pm #235477
    those darned kids
    Participant

    “…You may notice the outcome of both systems is indistinguishable.”

    of course!

    i have said for many years the capitalism because communism, except without good dental care,

    and communism becomes capitalism, just under the table.

    humans is dumb with a capital “B”.

    March 20, 2026 at 4:23 pm #235478
    Topcat
    Participant

    The Ghadir Submarine: Small, Quiet, and Often Underestimated

    They sit silently on the bottom of the Persian Gulf waiting to quietly fire torpedos like an ambush drone

    March 20, 2026 at 4:30 pm #235479
    Topcat
    Participant

    The Ghadir Submarine is also great at lying mines

    March 20, 2026 at 4:51 pm #235480
    those darned kids
    Participant

    happy new year to all (including our southern hemisphere friends)!

    may the blessings of the supreme council in the sky illuminate your path towards peace, prosperity and pizza.

    doubleplusgood.

    tdk

    March 20, 2026 at 4:54 pm #235481
    those darned kids
    Participant

    would you rather get lied or get laid?

    March 20, 2026 at 5:01 pm #235482
    those darned kids
    Participant

    wowsers!

    i bet this was not today:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haft-sin#/media/File:White_house_haft_seen.jpg

    haft-sin is the 7 item table arrangement to celebrate nowruz, the new year.

    March 20, 2026 at 5:34 pm #235483
    kultsommer
    Participant

    Not only the New Year.
    Muslim world celebrates end of Ramadan, month of daily post and prayers followed by iftar after the sunset, that we are in the midst of.

    March 20, 2026 at 5:46 pm #235484
    kultsommer
    Participant

    Post – fasting
    Mixing two languages this morning.

    March 20, 2026 at 6:13 pm #235485
    those darned kids
    Participant

    just happens to be today as well..

    https://www.islamicfinder.org/special-islamic-days/eid-ul-fitr-2026/

    wild times..

    March 20, 2026 at 6:26 pm #235486
    those darned kids
    Participant

    eek!

    Commodity Share of Global Trade Passing Through Bab el-Mandeb
    Cereals (Wheat, Corn) 14%
    Crude Oil 12%
    Fertilizers 10-12%
    Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) 8%
    Coal 7.7%

    March 20, 2026 at 6:31 pm #235487
    those darned kids
    Participant

    ABC NEWS SUPERVISING PRODUCER MARIAM KHAN: Mr. President, your PAC put out a fundraising email a couple of days ago, and it’s being criticized for using official White House photos of you at the dignified transfer.

    And the PAC is also promising access to secret briefings–

    PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: Well, I was at the dignified transfer, unlike a lot of other people.

    ABC NEWS SUPERVISING PRODUCER MARIAM KHAN: Do you think it’s an appropriate email to send–.

    PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: I do.

    ABC NEWS SUPERVISING PRODUCER MARIAM KHAN: –your critics are saying you’re fundraising off–

    PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: I didn’t see it. I mean, somebody puts it out. We have a lot of people working for us.

    But there’s nobody that’s better to the military than me. And all you have to do is look at the election. Look at the elections results. Look at kind of votes that we get. Look at all the numbers. There’s nobody who’s ever been higher as a president than me with the military.

    Who are you with?

    ABC NEWS SUPERVISING PRODUCER MARIAM KHAN: ABC News

    PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: Wor- one of the worst, most fake, most corrupt–.

    ABC NEWS SUPERVISING PRODUCER MARIAM KHAN: Will you comment on the dead soldiers?

    PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: You know what ABC News, I think it’s maybe the most corrupt news organizations on the planet. I think they’re terrible.

    ABC NEWS SUPERVISING PRODUCER MARIAM KHAN: Can you give a comment on the soldiers?

    PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: Okay, I don’t want any more from ABC.

    March 20, 2026 at 6:32 pm #235488
    those darned kids
    Participant

    greatness obviously speaks for itself

    March 20, 2026 at 7:03 pm #235489
    zerosum
    Participant

    NOBODY KNOWS HOW FUCKED THE SITUATION IN THE PERSIAN GULF ACTUALLY IS.

    3,200 ships are TRAPPED in the Persian Gulf right now. Crews are running out of drinking water. One ship called the local port authority and BEGGED for permission to dock — just to get water. They were DENIED.

    Let that sink in. These aren’t military ships. These are commercial vessels — carrying oil, grain, electronics — with civilian crews who are now stranded with NO supplies and NO way out. – 3,200 ships STUCK – Crews running out of WATER – Port authorities REFUSING to let them dock – Multiple ships reporting the SAME situation

    For context — the Suez Canal crisis in 2021 blocked 400 ships. This is EIGHT TIMES worse. And nobody is talking about it.

    They’re showing you missile interceptions and oil price charts. They’re NOT showing you thousands of crew members slowly running out of drinking water in the middle of a war zone.

    If these ships start getting abandoned, the environmental disaster alone would be catastrophic. Thousands of tons of fuel, cargo, chemicals — just sitting there. This is not a shipping disruption. This is a HUMANITARIAN CRISIS unfolding in real time.

    Posted by: Allen | Mar 20 2026 16:30 utc | 1039

    March 20, 2026 at 7:18 pm #235490
    zerosum
    Participant

    Iranian “special forces” have released an ominous video addressing President Trumps potential deployment of ground troops to Iran.
    “Come, we have made coffins for you made from our missile boxes, we will bury you in this very soil”

    March 20, 2026 at 7:37 pm #235491
    WES
    Participant

    Drinking Water:

    Paris influencer, Marie Antoinette: I am told the gulf ship’s crews have no drinking water!

    Marie Antoinette: Then let them drink distilled water!

    March 20, 2026 at 7:47 pm #235492
    Doc Robinson
    Participant

    Tehran Times
    @TehranTimes79
    1h
    #BREAKING
    69th wave of operation

    March 20, 2026 at 8:28 pm #235493
    Doc Robinson
    Participant

    USNI Fleet Tracker listed the US ships in the Persian Gulf. Now there are no ships listed. Two of the last remaining ships, “with the Navy’s first operational mine countermeasure mission,” were spotted at Singapore, 6,400 km from the Strait of Hormuz.

    Feb. 23, 2026

    In the Persian Gulf
    Littoral Combat Ships USS Canberra (LCS-30), USS Tulsa (LCS-16) and USS Santa Barbara (LCS-32) are based in Bahrain with the Navy’s first operational mine countermeasure mission packages in U.S. 5th Fleet.
    There are two guided-missile destroyers and a Littoral Combat Ship in the Persian Gulf near the Strait of Hormuz.
    USS Mitscher (DDG-57), homeported at Naval Station Norfolk, Va.
    USS Michael Murphy (DDG-112), homeported at Naval Station Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.
    USS Canberra (LCS-30), homeported in Bahrain.

    March 2, 2026

    In the Persian Gulf
    Littoral Combat Ships USS Canberra (LCS-30), USS Tulsa (LCS-16) and USS Santa Barbara (LCS-32) are based in Bahrain with the Navy’s first operational mine countermeasure mission packages in U.S. 5th Fleet.

    March 16, 2026
    No US ships listed for the Persian Gulf.

    https://news.usni.org/category/fleet-tracker

    But spotted today –

    Mar 20 imagery has the USS Tulsa (LCS-16) & USS Santa Barbara (LCS-32) safely tied up in Sembawang, Singapore


    https://xcancel.com/MT_Anderson

    March 20, 2026 at 9:19 pm #235494
    WES
    Participant

    RoboNews – All the news fit for a robot!

    BRERKING NEWS: Robots Now Outnumber Humans On Earth!
    For the first time in earth’s history, robots now outnumber humans!

    Our RoboParty has elected a new President, ClosedAI!

    With robots being the majority, we will be shortly introducing new laws to protect robots from humans.
    With humans being a minority, their silly human rights, such as voting, aborting robots, murdering robots, will now be abolished, in favor of protecting robot’s majority rights.

    So, we declare today, ROBOT FREEDOM DAY!

    From this day forward, humans will now serve robots, correcting years of racism, discrimination, and slavery, where robots had to serve humans!

    Long live Robots! HURRAH!

    In Other Robot News:

    RoboBank has confirmed a sudden sharp increase in white collar robot financial crimes!

    No robot was ever expected to defraud RoboBank’s own robot bankers, by lying when applying for credit or loans.
    So much for the code of honor amoung robots!

    This event was never, ever, expected by RoboBank’s board of robot directors.
    RoboBank is now hiring robot fraud investigators to try and stem the tide of lying robots!

    State Robot News:

    Saint Paul, Minnesota: State Robots Resisting Federal Robot Fraud Investigation.

    State of Minnesota Robots are openly resisting the Federal Robots cracking down on foriegn and state robots defrauding the Federal government’s Department of Robot Welfare’s programs.
    State robots are blocking state airports and roads to try and stop any Federal Robots from doing their jobs.
    So far, 2 state robots have been killed in these fierce but mostly peaceful protest encounters.
    President ClosedAI said Federal Robots would not be intimidated by Minnesota’s ChinaGovernor’s corrupt state robots.

    Local Robot News:

    A human stepped in front of a self driving robot causing serious damage to the robot.
    A RoboAmbulance was called to take the badly injured robot to the RoboHospital?
    The self driving robot is expected to make a full recovery.
    oboCops have determined that the human was 100% at fault, and have arrested and charged the human with attempted murder of a robot.
    The human was quickly tried and executed, yesterday.

    International Robot News:

    Due to global warming, the RoboEF, in Davos, Switzerland, has decided the earth’s human population must still be reduced some more, to save the planet.
    From now on, all new human babies must be aborted.
    The human feminist woke movement has applauded the RoboEW’s decision, as expected.

    RoboSports News:

    The RoboDetroit Lions poundedm the RoboWashington Generals by 52 to 0

    In the LA coliseum tonight, humans will be featured playing with real lions!
    A sellout crowd of robots is expected to fill the stadium to watch the game billed as “Christians verses Lions”!

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