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Debt Rattle March 29 2026

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Piet Mondriaan Mill 1905


• US Suffers Heavy Casualties In Iranian Strike On Saudi Base As Houthis Enter War (ZH)
• Medvedev; Iran Will Be Another “Vietnam” (ZH)
• Who Stabbed Whom in the Back — Bibi Netanyahu or JD Vance? (Scott Pinsker)
• Trump Signs Memo Directing DHS To Pay TSA Agents; First Paychecks Monday (ZH)
• Trump Quietly Delivered a Major Victory Over Real Tyrants (Sarah Anderson)
• With Friends Like These, Who Needs ‘Pocahontas’? (Tim O’Brien)
• Maersk Slaps Emergency Fuel Surcharge As War Upends Marine Supply Chains (ZH)
• Finland Convicts Politician for Speaking Out Against Homosexuality (Turley)
• Apple FORCES iPhone Users To Prove Age With ID (MN)
• Battle for Hungary: The Ukraine Connection (RT)
• EU Moves Toward Creating Overseas ‘Return Hubs’ For Migrants (RT)
• Ukraine Government Schemed To Funnel War Aid To Biden Campaign (ZH)

 

 

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Houthis vs Saudis? They’re not friends? Hard to keep track at times.

• US Suffers Heavy Casualties In Iranian Strike On Saudi Base As Houthis Enter War (ZH)

The Houthis have finally entered the war, greatly raising the stakes on what’s becoming a multi-front engagement, given Israel and Hezbollah have already been locked in a ground war in Lebanon. Overnight saw the Houthis send a barrage of missiles on Israel, which is the first such strike since the US began its Operation Epic Fury. Military spokesman for the Houthis, Brigadier-General Yahya Saree, announced the attack on Saturday on the group’s Al Masirah satellite television, Al Jazeera has confirmed. Strikes “will continue until the declared objectives are achieved… and until the aggression against all fronts of the resistance ceases,” Saree said, confirming the Iran-aligned Yemeni group’s entry into the war on Tehran’s side.


The Israeli side confirmed the assault out of Yemen, saying that it intercepted one missile. This spells more bad news for global shipping through the other important regional energy and goods transit waterway, the Bab al-Mandab Strait in the Red Sea. It will also make it even harder for Washington to try and wind down the conflict amid efforts to find an acceptable offramp. Interestingly, the Houthis are justifying their actions not just based on the US-Israel attack on Iran, but on assaults on populations in the broader region. The group said the attack with a barrage of missiles came after continued targeting of infrastructure in Iran, Lebanon, Iraq and the Palestinian territories, adding that their operations would continue until the “aggression” on all fronts ends.

Now Israelis will face aerial threats from Iranians, Hezbollah, Houthis, and Iraqi Shia paramilitaries…

“The injured troops were inside a building on the base that was struck in the attack, the officials said,” the report continues. “The attack also damaged multiple U.S. refueling aircraft. At least one missile struck the base, as well as several unmanned aerial vehicles, according to two of the officials.” This marks the second significant strike on the same base. The aircraft hit was a KC-135 air refueling aircraft, which reportedly caught fire. The mass casualty incident has raised ongoing questions of troop exposure and Pentagon preparedness for Iran’s response:

Iran’s missile war has continued expanding deeper into the Gulf, with the casualty count climbing in Abu Dhabi after an early Saturday strike. The Abu Dhabi Media Office confirms casualties (injuries, but no fatalities reported) have risen to six after a Saturday morning ballistic missile attack. Elsewhere, in Bahrain, home to the United States Fifth Fleet, authorities reported air defenses have engaged almost nonstop over the past 24 hours, responding to 20 missiles and 23 drones. Post raises question over future of Iran’s nuclear program, with one Iranian proclaiming “The war will boost Iranian science and technology.”

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No ground troops.

• Medvedev; Iran Will Be Another “Vietnam” (ZH)

Earlier this week President Putin weighed in on America’s Iran operations, and as we detailed his comments were predictably a bit guarded. He had compared the war and the Hormuz Strait closure – and subsequent impact on global energy – to the massive widescale impact of the Covid-19 pandemic. But fundamentally he highlighted the “unpredictable” nature of the conflict in terms of where it’s headed, as Washington appears to be searching for an offramp on its terms.


On Friday Dmitry Medvedev weighed in, and as expected the former Russian president and current Deputy Chairman of the Security Council was much less guarded in his assessment. He warned at a moment thousands of US Marines and Airborne troop are en route to the Middle East that if the US enters a ground war in Iran it will be another “Vietnam”. American boots on the ground so far from US shores “threatens roughly the same consequences as what happened in Vietnam,” Medvedev said as quotes in NBC and others. “When Washington intervened in a foreign country, located a thousand miles away, and for ten years was unable to find a dignified way out of this conflict,” he told the state-run RIA news agency. He added that a potential ground operation in Iran would have “fatal consequences” for the broader region and for all involved in the war.

Size comparison: Vietnam overlaying Iran


The White House has been insistent that Trump’s Iran “excursion” is not a quagmire. It has especially been Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth who has repeatedly denied that this conflict can be comparable to the start of ‘forever wars’ in Iraq and Afghanistan. But clearly the US doesn’t have good track record when its forces must endure extended asymmetric warfare and insurgency conditions. Yet that’s exactly where things will likely head if the White House introduces ground forces.

Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi has actually seized on this historic theme as well, earlier writing on X: “Americans haven’t forgotten how (in 1967), even as hundreds of U.S. soldiers were dying in Vietnam, and the outcome was already clear, General William Westmoreland was flown home to reassure everyone that the war was going well – that the U.S. was ‘winning’.” “The media haven’t forgotten either; those briefings full of fantasy from the frontlines became infamous as the ‘Five O’Clock Follies’,” he said. The “same script, different stage” is now unfolding, Araghchi insisted, adding: “Hegseth steps up, and the message is still detached from reality.”

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“Why was this leaked? Who benefits? And who had the power to leak it?”

• Who Stabbed Whom in the Back — Bibi Netanyahu or JD Vance? (Scott Pinsker)

The film was about as faithful to the subject matter as its namesake was to Jacqueline, but some of JFK’s scenes were riveting Donald Sutherland (a.k.a. “Mr. X”): “Why was Kennedy killed? Who benefited? Who has the power to cover it up? Who?”Let’s hijack Sutherland’s advice for the latest mystery that has D.C. tongues wagging: Yesterday, someone leaked a private conversation between Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and U.S. Vice President JD Vance.And because America and Israel are allies in a hot, active war, this breach is especially egregious. If America and Israel cannot communicate openly, candidly, and freely, logistical cooperation breaks down. Confusion sets in. The risk of friendly fire grows.


This means that more Americans will die. But the leak appears to be legitimate: The Daily Mail was among the first to break the story, which Axios also confirmed. The Daily Mail: JD Vance in Tense Call With Benjamin Netanyahu as He Rips Israel’s PM for Selling ‘Easy’ Iran War to Trump JD Vance confronted Benjamin Netanyahu in a tense phone call, accusing the Israeli leader of being overly optimistic about the chances of regime change in Iran. The Vice President told the Israeli leader on Monday that many of his predictions about the war which he had sold to Donald Trump had not materialized. Despite the killing of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, hardline factions have tightened their grip on power and the regime remains firmly in control.

Axios added more insight: “Why it matters: Vance has already had multiple calls with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, met Gulf allies about the war and been involved in indirect communications with the Iranians. He’s expected to be the top U.S. negotiator in potential peace talks. Vance was highly skeptical of Israel’s rosy prewar assessment of how the war would unfold, and currently expects the war to continue for another few weeks, according to U.S. and Israeli sources.” […] Behind the scenes: White House officials started suspecting that some in the Israeli government were trying to smear Vance after a difficult phone call on Monday between Netanyahu and Vance.

In the call, Vance mentioned that several of Netanyahu’s predictions about the war had proved far too optimistic, particularly when it came to the prospects of a popular uprising to topple the regime, according to an Israeli source and a U.S. source. “Before the war, Bibi really sold it to the president as being easy, as regime change being a lot likelier than it was. And the VP was clear-eyed about some of those statements,” the U.S. source said. The day after that call, a right-wing Israeli newspaper owned by GOP mega-donor Miriam Adelson reported that Vance had yelled at Netanyahu over the issue of settler violence against Palestinians in the West Bank.

Multiple U.S. and Israeli sources said the story was erroneous, and Vance advisers suspected it was leaked by the Israeli side. An Israeli official denied Netanyahu planted the story, and said his office had actually denied it when approached by reporters at multiple outlets. To paraphrase Sutherland’s three questions: Why was this leaked? Who benefits? And who had the power to leak it? For some Internet sleuths, the trail of leaks seems to point to “someone” within Tucker Carlson’s orbit — with the Daily Mail journalist who helped break the story, Phillip Nieto, the biggest red flag.

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About time.

• Trump Signs Memo Directing DHS To Pay TSA Agents; First Paychecks Monday (ZH)

President Trump wrote in a presidential memorandum on Friday afternoon that the Department of Homeland Security, in coordination with the Director of the Office of Management and Budget, should use “funds that have a reasonable and logical nexus to TSA operations” to pay TSA agents until regular funding is restored.”If Democrats in Congress will not act to honor the service of our TSA officers, who are now performing their critical public safety responsibilities without knowing whether they will be able to buy food for their families or pay their rent, then my Administration will take action,” President Trump wrote in the memo.


“Accordingly, I hereby direct the Secretary of Homeland Security, in coordination with the Director of the Office of Management and Budget, to use funds that have a reasonable and logical nexus to TSA operations to provide TSA employees with the compensation and benefits that would have accrued to them if not for the Democrat-led DHS shutdown, consistent with applicable law, including 31 U.S.C. 1301(a),” he continued. The president noted, “Once regular funding for TSA has been restored, every effort should be made, as authorized by law, to adjust applicable funding accounts within DHS to ensure the continuation of DHS operations and activities consistent with planned expenditures prior to the lapse.”

Reuters is reporting that 50,000 TSA agents could be paid as early as Monday. Fox News’ Bill Melugin reports: BREAKING: President Trump tells colleague @JacquiHeinrich in a call that the Senate bill that passed in the overnight hours to fund all of DHS except CBP & ICE “wasn’t appropriate.” “Well, it wasn’t good. It wasn’t appropriate,” Trump told Jacqui. “Now what they should do is they should terminate the filibuster, Jacqui, and just vote, but you have three or four Republicans in there that are not doing the right thing. You can’t have a bill that’s not going to fund – in my opinion, you can’t have a bill that’s not going to fund ICE. You can’t have a bill that’s not going to fund any form of law enforcement, of which ICE is a big form, and so is Border Patrol.”

Also this.

After meeting with the Freedom Caucus, House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) has agreed to advance a 60-day continuing resolution (CR) to the House Floor, which would fund all of DHS – including ICE and CBP – in lieu of the narrower Senate-passed bill. This decision will extend the partial shutdown of DHS, which has already lasted more than five weeks, and force the Senate to return and vote on the revised House measure.

The shift reflects intense pressure from hardline conservatives who threatened to sink the Senate bill without major changes. The Freedom Caucus is demanding the inclusion of voter ID requirements, additional border patrol funding, and resources for child sex trafficking investigations within ICE. While Freedom Caucus Chairman Andy Harris argued the delay would not affect airport operations and that the Senate could quickly approve the bill next week, Democrats have repeatedly opposed short-term clean extensions – and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer has already declared the 60-day CR “dead on arrival” in the Senate, stating Democrats will not give what he called a “blank check to Trump’s lawless and deadly immigration militia without reforms.”

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María Corina Machado.

• Trump Quietly Delivered a Major Victory Over Real Tyrants (Sarah Anderson)

I thought about getting up early on this Saturday to go check out and take some pictures at my local “No Kings” rally or march or whatever they call it, but I never quite made it. It seemed like there were much better things to do… like stay in bed a little longer because the cold returned overnight here in Georgia, or go outside and check on my garden — my potatoes are sprouting! When I finally got into the car and left the house, I was so distracted by the dogwoods and azaleas blooming in my neighborhood that I almost forgot where I was going, and by the time I got into town, the traffic was so bad that I gave up and just picked up some lunch for my dad and me instead and came back home.


That’s how little I care about a bunch of delusional leftists, who apparently need attention and/or can’t handle the fact that they lost an election. At this point, the best thing to do is probably ignore them anyway, but we all know the MSM will play it up for their propaganda. Meanwhile, thanks to Donald Trump, real tyranny is losing steam in the other parts of the world where it truly exists, including something huge that happened in Venezuela on Saturday that probably won’t even get an MSM mention at all.

In 2024, future Nobel Peace Prize winner and Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado’s Vente Venezuela party had to shut down its Caracas headquarters. Why? Apparently, Nicolás Maduro and his thugs didn’t get the “no kings” message. To recap, Machado would have likely become Venezuela’s next president in 2024, but Maduro banned her from running. She threw her support behind Edmundo González and managed to convince most of her voters to do the same, but Maduro stole the elections anyway. He received very little of the real vote, or at least, what was counted, and that’s despite the intimidation tactics the regime used against voters. When the fed-up people took to the streets to protest afterward, the regime began threatening, arresting, and torturing them.

That led to opposition leaders fleeing the country, as González did, or going into hiding, as Machado did, and the regime robbed and vandalized their offices, harassed their staff, and made it impossible for them to exist. Vente Venezuela shut its physical doors shortly after, though it continued to exist online, in other countries, and in the hearts and minds of its supporters. But thanks to Donald Trump, that fear of merely existing is gone. On Saturday, a huge crowd gathered as Vente Venezuela opened its office in Caracas for the first time in well over a year and a half.

Machado posted a video online with the caption, “Long live Venezuela! This is how our national headquarters stands, ready to open its doors once again to all Venezuelans.” She also posted this video with the message, “COME BACK HOME!! I’m there, with each one of you. Let’s go for FULL DEMOCRACY AND FULL FREEDOM.” Machado herself has promised that she will return to Venezuela in the weeks to come. Right now, it’s probably still not safe — various influential members of the regime are still looking for ways to persecute and prosecute her.

Despite that, everything I’m reading and hearing from inside the country tells me that Machado’s Vente Venezuela movement is picking up steam, and she’s more popular than she has ever been, which is hard to top. It’s highly likely that in the past, people were afraid to support her because they didn’t want to be punished by Maduro and his thugs. As a matter of fact, polls show that she’s the most popular politician in Venezuela right now — a month or two ago, she was number three behind Trump and Marco Rubio. That’s important because even with the United States holding its hand, the only way a transition away from the regime will truly work long-term in Venezuela is if the people step up and make it happen.

Anyway, this is an extremely momentous and symbolic occasion that couldn’t have happened without Trump’s help. Three months ago, before we captured Maduro, it was unthinkable. Now, our president has done something no one before him would do — opened up a path for the people of Venezuela to have real democracy and freedom, something many of them have never experienced in their lifetimes. I even noted a few people waving U.S. flags at the gathering. The fact that it happened on a day when the spoiled leftists in the United States are out protesting him for being some kind of tyrant is truly peak stupidity. These folks would be better off staying inside and reading a history book.

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The name is hers for life.

• With Friends Like These, Who Needs ‘Pocahontas’? (Tim O’Brien)

One of President Donald Trump’s best nicknames bestowed on one of his biggest critics came when he dubbed Sen. Liz Warren (D-Mass.) “Pocahontas.” That was a reference to the fact that in 1986, she identified as “American Indian” on her application for the Texas state bar. When her cover was blown later, she was unflappable in her tone-deaf attacks on conservatives in general and Trump in particular. It would seem that from the minute she wakes up until she lies down at the end of the day in her lair, she just attacks and tries to sabotage any conservative or conservative idea that crosses her path.


But she has nothing on the willful, do-nothing Republicans in the U.S. Senate. They have waged a procedural war on the Trump administration in order to block the president’s ability to make recess appointments. To achieve this, technically, they don’t go on recess. Here’s how that works. The Senate, which is controlled by Republicans at the moment, is allowed to hold brief sessions every few days. These are called “pro forma” sessions, which technically mean the Senate is not in recess. Every pro forma session counts as Senate being in session. This prevents Trump from making recess appointments.

This has worked against Trump. Republicans have successfully prevented (undermined?) a Republican president who’s just trying to fill certain judicial and other critical positions in government. Republicans have also done the same to Barack Obama. According to the Wilson Center, “When Republicans retook the House in 2011, Speaker John A. Boehner of Ohio, in consultation with Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, turned the tables by forcing the Senate (and, by default, the House) to hold pro forma sessions during two recesses to block President Barack Obama from making any recess appointments.”

If you’re wondering why Republicans would do that to a Republican administration, the answers won’t surprise you. It’s not about finding and appointing the best possible candidates so as to “Make America Great Again.” Rather, it’s about power, control, and something that might make you sick to your stomach. It’s about Republicans in the Senate, not liking conservatism, knowingly and actively working against the Trump administration to assure it achieves nothing or close to nothing in the Senate. The Senate sees Trump’s legal and ethical efforts to bring conservatives into the government as an attempt to undermine its power.

Trump poses a threat to the Senate’s power, and that will not be tolerated. So, this do-nothing gaggle of Republicans In Name Only (RINOs) join with the Democrats to block Trump’s progress on appointments. The vast majority of senators, including most Republicans have hopped planes and skedaddled out of Washington for places unknown for yet another recess. But a few have stayed back to conduct pro forma sessions to keep the lights on in the Senate, which technically is not in recess. Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-La.) acknowledged as much and tried to bring some clarity on what the House is trying to do about all of this, specifically on paying DHS and TSA. Still, this does not address the way Senate Republicans have used pro forma to slow Trump’s other progress.

At the moment, when we talk about the midterm elections, conservatives have focused on the effort to keep majorities in the House and the Senate, but “Senate Republicans” aren’t even hiding the fact that when elected they will undermine the conservative agenda. This is a serious problem, and it needs to be addressed soon. Trump only has a little less than three years left in his term. Things have to happen now, and the biggest obstacles we face are Republican swamp creatures in Washington.

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Not aa little bit.

• Maersk Slaps Emergency Fuel Surcharge As War Upends Marine Supply Chains (ZH)

The war in the Middle East has upended shipping fuel markets with prices of marine fuels skyrocketing and regions running low on supply, pushing some traders to forgo cargo and ship additional fuel volumes to key bunkering ports outside the Middle East. The price of fuel oil has surged this month as the stalled tanker traffic at the Strait of Hormuz is tightening supplies of the fuel in Asia, the key bunkering hub for fuel oil used in ships. The Middle East is a major global supplier of fuel oil, especially of high-sulfur fuel oil (HSFO). But the Iran war has all but halted traffic via the Strait of Hormuz, stranding supplies for Asia and its key bunkering hub of Singapore.


Yet, stocks in Singapore have increased this month as shipping owners and operators have refrained from buying the too expensive fuel. These, however, could soon start to deplete, fast, because vessels are becoming desperate to refuel, according to a Financial Times analysis. One trader told the publication that their firm had to forgo cargo in order to deliver additional fuel volumes between major ports, mostly between the United States and Singapore. With the Middle East’s key bunkering port of Fujairah mostly offline by the end of March due to Iranian attacks earlier this month, the marine fuel market is in chaos.Shipping giant Maersk warned in its latest Middle East advisory this week that “To preserve network stability, we have undertaken significant redistribution of fuels to offset shortages in the Middle East, and are securing alternative sources from different locations, suppliers, and at increased premiums.”

Maersk also introduced as of March 25 an Emergency Bunker Surcharge (EBS), “in response to notable fluctuations in fuel supply and the additional costs of distribution.”Maersk’s chief commercial officer Karsten Kildahl said earlier this month that “There is currently sufficient fuel globally, but it is unevenly distributed. As a result, we are making changes to our fuel supply chain and begin moving fuel to ensure our vessels can continue to bunker where needed – and protect the flow of trade.”

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Does freedom mean being openly gay or does it mean beingableto say you don’t like it?p>

• Finland Convicts Politician for Speaking Out Against Homosexuality (Turley)

I previously wrote about Finland’s prosecution of Christian Democrat MP Päivi Räsänen for raising objections to homosexuality. She has now been convicted with a decision this week from the Finnish Supreme Court. Free speech is now in a free fall in Finland. Räsänen is a Christian Democratic member of parliament and former Minister of the Interior. Räsänen is also a member of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland and is married to a pastor. She was critical of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland for its support of the Helsinki LGBT Pride events in June. She spoke out against the involvement while highlighting a quote from Romans 1:24-27 , which reads:


24 Therefore God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another.

25 They exchanged the truth about God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator—who is forever praised. Amen.

26 Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural sexual relations for unnatural ones.

27 In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed shameful acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their error.

In the United States, this would of course be entirely protected as the exercise of religious freedom and free speech. However, the former Interior Minister was accused of “hate speech” against LGBT+ people over a 2004 publication, a 2018 radio appearance, and a 2019 social media post that included a Bible verse. While she was acquitted by the District Court of Helsinki and the Court of Appeal, the case was eventually brought to the Finnish Supreme Court. The Supreme Court has now voted 3-2 to convict her for being “derogatory towards homosexuals on the basis of their sexual orientation.”

In a statement, the Court declared that “Räsänen’s statements were in this way derogatory towards homosexuals as a group on the basis of their sexual orientation. However, certain other passages referred to in the charge were not held to be derogatory.” The Court imposed fines on Räsänen and the manager of Luther Foundation Finland. Notably, the other person named in the filing is bishop Juhana Pohjola, who published the pamphlet. Pohjola reportedly leads the 2,749-member church, as well as being the chairman of the International Lutheran Council. It also ordered both to take down the “unlawful passages” in the publication.

The Court did uphold Räsänen’s acquittal on a charge stemming from a 2019 social media post in which she posted a picture of Romans 1:24–27. Räsänen stated that she may appeal to the European Court of Human Rights, stressing: “Freedom of speech is needed precisely when we disagree on things. I hope that despite this decision, constructive discussions can be held, even on difficult issues, under the protection of freedom of speech and religion.” In Rage and the Republic, I have a chapter on “Why Big Fierce Rights Are Rare” that specifically discusses the collapses of free speech and other rights in Europe. This case is just another example of how our European allies are abandoning core Western principles from free speech to free exercise.

Given the sweeping economic changes unfolding in this century, those rights will be even more important in the years to come. In countries like Finland, the population will enter these uncertain times with even more uncertain rights.

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“Freedom is not preserved by surrendering control to “safety” pretexts. It is defended by rejecting the machinery of permanent oversight before it locks in place for good.”

• Apple FORCES iPhone Users To Prove Age With ID (MN)

UK iPhone and iPad owners updating to the latest iOS 26.4 are now confronted with a stark choice: verify you are an adult by providing a credit card or scanning your ID, or accept automatic web content filters that restrict access. The message users see states clearly: “UK law requires you to confirm you are an adult to change content restrictions.” Those who do not confirm their age – or are found to be underage – have web content filters turned on automatically.

https://twitter.com/BigBrotherWatch/status/2036863773202432300


The government appointed communications watchdog Ofcom welcomed the development, calling it “a real win for children and families” and noting the UK would be “one of the first countries in the world to receive such restrictions on their devices.” Silkie Carlo, director of Big Brother Watch, hit back hard. In the organisation’s statement she said Apple had put a “chokehold on Britons’ freedom to search the internet, access information and use apps unless they provide sensitive ID documents.”

She continued: “This means 35 million Brits who have paid hundreds or even thousands of pounds for Apple tech suddenly now have a child’s device unless they comply with invasive demands for personal information that go far beyond what UK law requires.” “Apple has crossed the Rubicon with this software update which is more like ransomware, holding customers hostage to ID demands that are invasive, exclusionary and unnecessary,” Carlo added. She further urged, “Children’s online safety is vital but requires better parental controls and thoughtful tech responsibility – not sweeping, draconian, shock demands by foreign companies for all of our IDs and credit cards.”

This is digital ID enforcement by the back door. The same government apparatus that has already advanced newborn baby digital IDs, mandatory digital ID schemes and biometric tracking is now outsourcing age verification to tech giants at the device level – creating the perfect infrastructure for ongoing surveillance and control. We have previously outlined that broader Orwellian mandatory digital ID and biometric push by the British government, which has claimed that the mandatory ID, based on the UK One Login system, will help to stop “illegal” immigrants from crossing the channel by denying them access to work.

This also ties into the WHO-Gates blueprint for global digital ID, AI-driven surveillance and lifelong vaccine tracking:

Critics see this as the gradual normalisation of universal age verification. Once demanding ID to use your own phone becomes routine, expanding that system to every platform and service is a small step. Beyond blocking illegal or sexually explicit material, the deeper question remains: why should the State have the authority to decide what our kids can and can’t access? In a free society, that responsibility belongs to parents – not to bureaucrats in Westminster or executives in Cupertino acting as their enforcers. While ministers lecture about protecting children online, the same system is busy shaping young minds through official channels.

The Green Party has pushed to teach children a “moral obligation” to accept mass immigration: Government guidance urges schools to report “anti-Muslim hostility” in an Orwellian snitch culture: Counter-terror police ran adverts warning teenagers that sharing “funny content” could amount to terrorism: A government-funded video game literally labels kids as potential terrorists for questioning mass migration:The pattern is clear. Restrict open access to the internet while pumping state-approved ideology into schools. Challenge the narrative and you risk being flagged. Want unfiltered information for your children? First hand over your documents. Britain is rapidly sliding toward a surveillance society where every search, every post and every opinion can be monitored, filtered and scored.

Freedom is not preserved by surrendering control to “safety” pretexts. It is defended by rejecting the machinery of permanent oversight before it locks in place for good.

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The EU uses Ukraine too.

• Battle for Hungary: The Ukraine Connection (RT)

Behind Vladimir Zelensky’s public feud with Viktor Orban, the arrest of two suspected spies in Budapest adds to claims that the Ukrainian leader is waging a shadow campaign to take out the Hungarian prime minister. On July 8, 2025, agents of Hungary’s National Bureau of Investigation (NNI) and National Security Service (NBSZ) raided two properties: a suburban home in a small town near Budapest, and a houseboat, packed with servers, hard drives, phones and covert recording equipment, moored on the city’s Danube waterfront.

The men targeted in the raids – a 19-year-old in the suburbs and a 38-year-old British/Hungarian dual citizen in Budapest – were IT specialists working for opposition leader Peter Magyar’s Tisza party. Between both locations, the raids yielded enough hard drives, USB drives, and computers that backing up all the data took over a month. The operation didn’t make any headlines until this week, when two separate versions of events began to emerge.

Did Orban target his opponents?
According to a report by the pro-opposition outlet Direkt36, the government agents claimed that they were searching for child pornography, but came up empty handed. Instead, they seized files suggesting that both men were in contact with an unidentified handler codenamed ‘Henry’, who was instructing them to steal documents from Tisza’s servers and conduct cyberattacks against the party. In this version of events, the NBSZ and Constitutional Protection Office (AH) steered the NIN’s investigation away from ‘Henry’, holding only in-person briefings on the matter and “persuad[ing] police leadership not to pursue the investigation in this direction.” vTo the reporters at Direkt36, one of whom is currently being investigated for possible espionage, this intervention strongly hinted that the child pornography warrants were a ruse, and ‘Henry’ was a creation of the Hungarian secret services, who were running a “covert operation to bring down the [Tisza] party.” The report does not explain why the secret services would raid their own operatives. Nevertheless, Magyar himself declared that the story “recalls the darkest days of communism and is even more serious than the Watergate scandal.” The supposed plot against Tisza “crosses every line” and “amounts to an attempted coup against Hungary,” he added.

Or was Tisza’s IT team working with Ukraine?
In an intelligence briefing declassified on Tuesday, Hungary’s National Security Committee filled in the details that Direkt36 allegedly left out. The 19-year-old suspect had been under surveillance since 2022, two years before the emergence of Tisza, the briefing states. The suspect, identified as ‘HD’, allegedly made contact with an Estonian citizen in 2022, who sent him to Kiev the following year to train with the IT Army of Ukraine, a cyberwarfare group run by the Ukrainian government. HD is alleged to have carried out “several operations in the interests of Ukraine,” visited the Ukrainian embassy in Budapest on multiple occasions, and in May 2025, two months before the raid, also visited the embassy of an EU member state in to obtain “secret service tools.” The teenager was questioned twice by counterintelligence officers over these activities.

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Merkel did her damage though.

• EU Moves Toward Creating Overseas ‘Return Hubs’ For Migrants (RT)

European lawmakers have endorsed the opening of talks with the EU Council on a controversial legal framework to establish block-wide mechanisms to expel illegal migrants, including the creation of ‘return hubs’ in third countries. The idea to create de facto detention facilities outside of the EU’s borders to hold migrants deemed to have no right to stay has been opposed by rights groups and pro-migration political parties. Under the proposed Return Regulation, which is still in the early stages of the legislative process, people marked for deportation in the EU will be sent to overseas return hubs rather than staying within the bloc as they await expulsion. Critics say the scheme is intended to disappear irregular migrants and failed asylum seekers into a “legal black hole.”


The proposed reform went to a plenary vote on Thursday after three left-wing parties, the S&D, the Greens/EFA, and the Left, each filed requests for it. The groups sought to challenge a decision by the Civil Liberties Committee earlier this month, when it approved the proposed legislation to enter into interinstitutional negotiations.mThe attempt flopped, with 389 MEPs voting in favor of proceeding to the next stage of the legislative process with the proposal, 206 voting against, and 32 abstaining. The outcome of the vote has been strongly condemned by multiple human rights groups that accused right-wing and anti-migration parties of pushing through a purportedly poorly thought-out initiative. Amnesty International’s European Institutions director, Eve Geddie, said the proposed reform has not received “adequate scrutiny or meaningful human rights assessments.”

“This marks a growing trend towards increasingly harmful, exclusionary, and draconian policies on migration, with worrying repercussions for due process and evidence-based policymaking. Far from reducing irregularity, these proposals risk trapping more people in precarious situations,” she said in a statement. The Return Regulation was proposed in March last year, meant to replace the 2008 Return Directive, which prioritized the “voluntary return” of illegal migrants and failed asylum seekers. In December 2025, 19 EU member states urged the European Commission to help fund return hubs outside the bloc, describing them as “innovative solutions” to address the migrant influx, which has plagued the bloc for over a decade.

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“Congress had made available $188 billion in Ukraine-related spending, with $164 billion flowing from just five pieces of legislation.”

• Ukraine Government Schemed To Funnel War Aid To Biden Campaign (ZH)

According to a newly declassified intelligence report, U.S. intelligence agencies intercepted communications from Ukrainian government officials back in 2022 discussing a scheme to siphon off hundreds of millions in American taxpayer dollars. The funds, earmarked for clean energy projects in the war-torn country, were allegedly redirected to the United States to benefit Joe Biden’s 2024 reelection campaign and the Democratic National Committee. The report, obtained by Just the News, summarizes raw intercepts gathered by U.S. spy agencies in late 2022. Officials familiar with the material say the communications are not believed to be tied to Russian disinformation efforts.


The declassified summary is very specific. “The Ukrainian Government and unspecified U.S. Government personnel, through USAID in Kyiv, reportedly developed a plan that would provide hundreds of millions of US taxpayer dollars to fund an infrastructure project for Ukraine that would be used as a cover to send approximately 90% of funds allocated to the DNC to fund Joe Biden’s reelection campaign,” the document states.

The mechanics described are textbook money-laundering architecture. “The plan included details of how subcontractors would be funded through U.S. companies so that how the funds were spent and allocated would be difficult to track,” the report explains. Two American subcontractors were named in the raw intercepts as conduits for funneling money toward Democratic coffers, though their identities remain redacted in the declassified version.

According to the Council on Foreign Relations, Ukraine became by far the top recipient of U.S. foreign aid after Russia’s invasion in February 2022 — the first time a European nation held that distinction since the Marshall Plan. As of December 31, 2025, Congress had made available $188 billion in Ukraine-related spending, with $164 billion flowing from just five pieces of legislation. The last of those bills passed in April 2024 — while Biden was actively campaigning for a second term.

What makes the alleged scheme particularly audacious is the built-in exit strategy. “They were confident the project would be funded initially, even though at some time in the future the project would be disapproved as unnecessary. At this time, the money would already be allocated and impossible to return or use for a different purpose,” the report added. In other words, the design assumed the fraud would eventually be discovered – and didn’t care. By then, the money would be gone and untraceable.

The cover-to-transfer pipeline was engineered for maximum opacity. “Additionally, contracts would be executed that would be difficult to verify. In this manner, most of the U.S. funding would be diverted to Joe Biden’s election campaign without the ability to track where exactly the funds came from,” the report read.Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard recently learned of the intercepts and directed USAID officials to search agency records for evidence that the plot was actually carried out and to evaluate whether a criminal referral to the FBI is warranted. Perhaps the most disturbing find so far is that there is no substantive evidence that anyone during the Biden years made a serious effort to investigate what U.S. intelligence had intercepted.

Officials reviewing the files noted a lack of investigative curiosity about allegations of foreign election interference. Since President Trump took office, no new legislation authorizing additional spending for Ukraine has passed Congress. But now we need to find out how much of the funds for Ukraine were diverted to Biden’s campaign or the DNC, and whether the lack of an investigation reflects willful negligence, deliberate burial, or a conspiracy.

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  • March 29, 2026 at 10:10 am #236566
    Raúl Ilargi Meijer
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    Piet Mondriaan Mill 1905 • US Suffers Heavy Casualties In Iranian Strike On Saudi Base As Houthis Enter War (ZH) • Medvedev; Iran Will Be Another “Vie
    [See the full post at: Debt Rattle March 29 2026]

    March 29, 2026 at 10:31 am #236592
    Topcat
    Participant

    “Truth will prevent AI from going insane”

    ~Elon Musk

    Too late, the Empire of Lies is already insane along with it’s Emperor.

    Stupidity Reigns

    Even common sense vanishes before our eyes….

    March 29, 2026 at 10:41 am #236593
    Topcat
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    The Three are Related

    March 29, 2026 at 10:44 am #236594
    Topcat
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    March 29, 2026 at 10:46 am #236595
    Topcat
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    March 29, 2026 at 10:48 am #236596
    Topcat
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    The Epstein Empire of Lies

    March 29, 2026 at 11:35 am #236597
    Michael Reid
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    Who Really Runs the World? | Simon Dixon

    March 29, 2026 at 11:37 am #236598
    Michael Reid
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    The New World Order Has Already Begun | Peter McCormack interviews Simon Dixon (#2)

    March 29, 2026 at 11:42 am #236599
    Topcat
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    Destroyed Boeing E-3 Sentry (AWACS) at Prince-Sultan AB

    Trumpturd: We’ve Won Bigly!


    It’s OK because the Empire of Lies can just print the money to replace it.

    Current Estimated Value: Modern estimates for a fully upgraded E-3 in 2026 range between $500 million and $700 million.

    Irreplaceability: Production of the E-3 ended in 1992, meaning these aircraft cannot be rebuilt; they can only be maintained or upgraded.

    Operational Rarity: The U.S. Air Force fleet has dwindled to approximately 16 active aircraft, making each individual unit extremely high-value

    March 29, 2026 at 11:48 am #236600
    Topcat
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    Empire of Lies with it’s Media Whores Hide the Truth until Trumpturd spilled the beans.

    USS Ford got hit by Iran which is why the fires on board took 30 hours to put out.

    From yesterday, told you so….

    March 29, 2026 at 12:59 pm #236603
    WES
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    Ford Carrier:

    That is why the US Navy put the ship into dry dock in Crete!
    So as a stationary target (sitting duck), the Iranians could finish her off!
    Then navy could order a new aircraft carrier!

    Same for old E3s and old K mid air refuelers parked on ground on Saudi air fields!

    Old destroyed one = brand new one!

    March 29, 2026 at 1:55 pm #236604
    those darned kids
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    compare and contrast:

    “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”

    with

    https://wanaen.com/missile-strike-hits-minab-during-visit-by-foreign-journalists/

    March 29, 2026 at 2:53 pm #236605
    Michael Reid
    Participant

    Iran Just Destroyed America’s Only Underwater Drone Base — The Persian Gulf Is Now Iranian Water

    March 29, 2026 at 3:16 pm #236609
    zerosum
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    WHY are people choosing a system worst than Christianity?
    Europe now has 50 million Muslims.
    Around 2000, it was under 500k.

    it is estimated that 2,061,395,765 people around the world identify themselves as Muslims, which represents over 25% of the world’s total population of 8,245,583,059.
    ————
    The leader we need is not a single person.
    It is a system built from:
    – competent institutions
    – transparent communication
    – democratic legitimacy
    – long‑term planning
    – AI‑enhanced decision support
    No country has fully built this yet, but some are closer in certain domains:
    ———

    March 29, 2026 at 3:19 pm #236611
    Doc Robinson
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    From Craig Murray today –

    al-Jolani allowed the IDF to pass through Syrian territory to attack Hezbollah from the East around Mount Hermon.
    The Syrian government gave the Israelis logistic support.
    There are no words sufficient.

    “For the first time in centuries” the Israeli authorities stopped the Roman Catholic cardinal from performing mass on Palm Sunday at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre.
    In hundreds of years of Muslim rule this never happened.
    I really want to hear Christian zionists now.

    https://xcancel.com/CraigMurrayOrg

    March 29, 2026 at 3:59 pm #236612
    those darned kids
    Participant

    i bet those israeli police officers were secret iranian agents.

    March 29, 2026 at 5:04 pm #236614
    zerosum
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    There is no such thing as a front line with drone and missile wars

    Massive Strike: Logistics Crushed
    The Battle of Kupiansk Is Coming to an End
    MS For 2026.03.29

    March 29, 2026 at 5:11 pm #236615
    Michael Reid
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    ‘Welcome to HELL” – Iran announced the Capture of U.S. Servicemen in IRAQ and on the KHARG Island

    March 29, 2026 at 5:15 pm #236616
    Dr. D
    Participant

    “The European Union Hates Hungary, Loves Ukraine

    As yesterday: kill all your own people, love all the non-citizens.

    “North Sea Oil Fight Escalates As Starmer Cites Legal Limits

    Starmer can’t turn on the oil til at least half of Britons starve. The White half, he hopes. They will though.

    Same here. No Kings Rally did rather well here. So they’re activated. Problem is, like Starmer, they’re activated for self-loathing and self-destruction. They don’t realize it because it was introduced professionally and carefully. Just take a single look, one iteration further on in activists and Woke and you see it already. Murder is the very next word on their lips. But concerning elections, they’re active, it’s going great, GOP was reduced by the war (and arrests, etc) maybe as much as predicted. But I’m sure everyone has plans.

    “Watch: Trump Arms Control Official Refuses To Confirm Israel Has Nukes

    So Iran hit the Nuclear site at Dimona, but we need not worry, since there’s nothing nuclear there. Got it! Okay, Iran is innocent then, right?

    “Trump Ready To Take US Arms For Ukraine & Divert Them To Middle East

    What arms for Ukraine? Wtf? “He added Washington is no longer directly supplying the Ukrainian government and armed forces, but is instead “selling” weapons to NATO states that then pass them along.” Oh, so NOT arms to Ukraine. We’re disarming EUROPE.

    “Expose it all, Tulsi! THIS IS CORRUPTION”

    Knowing is not the problem. It’s the arresting and convicting. …Which Congress has prevented, both. No prosecutors to take cases, no Judges removed who oppose the Supreme Court and anoint themselves President to boot.

    I blame Trump. He tells every human on earth what to do and they all just obey him.

    “Zelensky is paying corruption money to EU leaders from the loan sent to Ukraine!”

    Of course he is but I’m glad they’re saying it.

    AI Rome:

    Yes, the problem is it’s NOT Rome. And AI begin sloppy, gives us a generally false impression of everything. The people don’t look like that, the vendors, the roads. Almost! But not quite. Just enough to be off, to mislead forever. I was thinking about this as eg, AI begins to digitally translate texts. It starts okay, but there’s a lot of controversy, and only very few expert humans in the matter. So in 10 years, less than a generation, AI’s opinion will be the fact, the far more advanced, detailed human knowledge on it will be conspiracy theory. Like eg Sioux culture. We have some idea, and some Sioux people and speakers even! But the reality is simply completely overrun by the larger (modern) culture. The reality is lost and not recoverable.

    That’s what it’s doing by showing non-bombs, non-hitting, non-cities, with non-people non-dying, like that new Russian guy who posts dead UK soldiers floating every day or whatever. None of that is happening. Their uniforms, the streets don’t look like that. No one is actually “Angry” or “raging” or “Panicked.” like the Thumbnail shows. They’re in boring offices, reading emails. That’s the evil – or the non-evil – if you will.

    We know this definitely happens, as movies SAY outright, it’s not ACTUALLY historical, there are no vampires in Lincoln’s time, no Lesbian Viking Queens ruling men. Like the very most obvious non-accurate things for 50 years. Doesn’t matter. People still believe it, having not the accurate history in their minds. So the entirely fake is the only image they’ve got, and that becomes history, reality. Well-known.

    Elon: let these things be true: Beauty is truth, Truth beauty, that’s all you need to know. John Keats’s, Ode on a Grecian Urn (1819)

    I’d say no, that’s still the most terrible idea, and I’ll be right, but they’re going to do it anyway, so at least anchor to the deeper fundamentals.

    “• US Suffers Heavy Casualties In Iranian Strike On Saudi Base As Houthis Enter War (ZH)
    The Houthis have finally entered the war, greatly raising the stakes

    Absolutely true. I wonder what held them or why now. I’m sure MI6 and the MoD have gamed this out, and give them the best Intel on the planet about it.

    Big picture: okay they maneuvered Bad Man into having to choose domestic vs foreign as a lose-lose. Now all the collapses, like oil and food, that they caused by halting all pipelines, paving all fields, killing all cows, importing 20-50M people from food-rich African states, all blame on one action from Orange Man. It’s not that we shut off NordStream and sank ships with fertilizer last year at all!! It’s not blowing up the refineries in California! Nope. All Orange Man.

    …And that will work pretty well, actually, although I don’t know what he could have done about it. Not like you can have a war and not get dropped on by any battles. The evil side knows their business. The public wish to remain fools, but also think they can stay rich while dumb and lazy. Lazy AF even now. THey’re buying no food or oil, hoping to blame and complain louder later on.

    If he hadn’t, they would have set off a bomb and the same thing would have happened anyway, but he’d be at fault then too. Either in the Gulf, or Israel, or Savannah, who knows? Didn’t Lindsay say Savannah, like 2017? He should know!

    “No ground troops.’

    Looks like he wants to do that. That’s an election loser, even if successful. And the clock is already down. Also the enemy only needs to stall and that’s easy. He needs to force a win and that’s hard. It seems undo-able but as they say, we’ve actually gotten far further than expected. True. However, that’s militarily, which isn’t necessarily relevant. Iraq and Afghanistan demonstrate how hollow “Militarily” can be. I think they’re up to something, but it’s nowhere near certain, maybe 3:1 against, but good reasons to try? I would not have done it, obviously…but then the world would never change. Do you want it the same?

    Everyone wants Empire to go on forever and ever, not change a thing (so we can complain)

    “Who Stabbed Whom in the Back — Bibi Netanyahu or JD Vance? (Scott Pinsker)

    My snap-take is that JD needs to be “Antiwar” and “Against Israel” for the election or election insurance. Same with Kent. This is Plan B. So Vance arranged for it to be caught and released. Snap-takes are practically worthless in this environment though. There are more moving parts than can be named, much less picked correctly.

    That’s how wars are. Too much coming at you too fast.

    “Vance mentioned that several of Netanyahu’s predictions about the war had proved far too optimistic,”

    They already knew that, I’m quite sure no one believed a word. I mean, they ALREADY tried? More than once? Pulled out all the stops only 6 weeks before? Thousands killed? No one would buy that, it’s nonsense. He’s just using this OBVIOUS lie to dress Nutsy down…then release it.

    “• Trump Signs Memo Directing DHS To Pay TSA Agents; First Paychecks Monday

    You know, for a Party that wants unlimited government and loves government more than God, they sure treat them all like s—t. And their base too. And Minorities. And Catholics. And Jews. And Conservatives. And dogs, cats, cows, ducks, deer…I detect a trend.

    ““blank check to Trump’s lawless and deadly immigration militia without reforms.”

    “Lawless” meaning, “Enforces the law” Got it. The law Congress passed and can un-pass. Got it. Trump’s crime is doing what Congress orders him to do. Perfectly logical.

    “• Trump Quietly Delivered a Major Victory Over Real Tyrants (Sarah Anderson)

    “No Kings” meaning “All the kings.” Like in Canada, UK, S.A… Denmark…

    You win! Orange Man is not a king, you got us! Welp, only thing to do now is go home and enforce all those laws CONGRESS passed, because we have no kings. Yup

    “• With Friends Like These, Who Needs ‘Pocahontas’? (Tim O’Brien)

    Oh yeah, hate cats, dogs, cows…and Native Americans especially. She stole a seat an actual indian could have taken, isn’t sorry, with the full continuing support of the party.

    “Only POTUS in history that has had recess appointments blocked by his own party.”

    I blame Trump. He should be a King, arrest them all, do the interim replacement and everyone would be happy, right? A: Bad if he acts, but bad if he doesn’t act – all things are bad. There are no winning moves. Resistance if Futile. Surrender and eat bugs.

    ““Senate Republicans” aren’t even hiding the fact that when elected they will undermine the conservative agenda”

    Yup. Since forever. “Speaker Gingrich, exactly what level of majority do we need before we start to do what the People sent us for?” A: There is no such number. They will NEVER do what the people want, ever. …Only problem is the Democrats are worse, who will never help the people but openly and actively attack them, as shown in every Blue city.

    “Does freedom mean being openly gay or does it mean being able to say you don’t like it?

    It means whichever I thought of 5 seconds ago in my mind. You’re free to agree with me BEFORE I’ve decided which is which. If you choose wrong: still punished. You have perfect freedom to obey my every whim at every moment. Also to not know when I’ve changed my mind, so I can punish you again, it’s funny that way.

    “• Apple FORCES iPhone Users To Prove Age With ID (MN)

    I don’t know what Apple’s going to do. Withdraw from the whole market as point of principle, helps how?

    P.S. No kid will break through, just as no kids drink beer, do drugs, and there are no guns in Chicago.

    Muslims: You can quote the same thing from Christians, etc, although it has proven to be true for them for decades.

    March 29, 2026 at 5:31 pm #236617
    Michael Reid
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    Iran Strikes US Base Destroys US AWACS; Defiant Over US Ground Op; Russian Intel Helps Iran Prepare

    March 29, 2026 at 6:05 pm #236618
    Michael Reid
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    America Racing to Strategic Defeat in Iran /Lt Col Daniel Davis

    March 29, 2026 at 6:09 pm #236619
    Michael Reid
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    War Escalates FAST: Iran’s Massive Response Catches US-Israel Off Guard | Nima R. Alkhorshid

    March 29, 2026 at 6:13 pm #236620
    Michael Reid
    Participant

    Iran’s Retaliation SURGES, Yemen’s Missiles POUND Israel as US GROUND WAR Begins

    March 29, 2026 at 6:21 pm #236621
    kultsommer
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    Piet.
    Before he proved to be a master of crisp paint edges he had to show mastery in ambiguous ones.
    Great earler work.

    March 29, 2026 at 9:54 pm #236634
    Celticbiker
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    Psychotic deathblow 1, the right cross, was covid, using injections to weaken, sicken and kill off Western populations, wipe out small buisness, stress and bankrupt people. Psychotic death blow 2, a left uppercut, is this jew fiasco, a clusterfuck of epic proportions, to destroy the West, the sons and daughters of Rome and usher in their technocratic dystopia.

    March 29, 2026 at 11:54 pm #236635
    those darned kids
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    SPY BALLOON!!!

    https://www.zerohedge.com/political/sophisticated-drone-swarms-disrupt-operations-barksdale-air-force-base

    March 30, 2026 at 12:05 am #236636
    kultsommer
    Participant

    Lazy Sunday afternoon.

    March 30, 2026 at 2:32 am #236638
    ₿oogaloo
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    I see that there have been more anti-Islam messages lately. I feel like this new wave is another Zionist psyop. Any meaningful discussion requires a lot of historical context and nuance. But to say that is like pissing into the wind and will never be enough to combat propaganda.

    First things first: We hear over and over again that Iran is the world’s largest state-sponsored supporter of terrorism. Is it true? How many Shia attacks have there been in the US since 1979? Say what you will, but by and large, the Shia do not hijack airplanes, attack civilian targets, use cars to mow down pedestrians, dice up journalists and melt their bodies in acid, or cut off heads. It is the Sunni extremists who do things like that. Our allies. Like the newly installed President of Syria. Like the King of Saudi Arabia. The Persians, in contrast, read philosophy, write poetry, study physics, and can hold a nuanced conversation about politics or history. For centuries the largest population of the Jewish diaspora lived in Iran.

    I recently read The Travels of Marco Polo. What I found striking was that there are reports of Muslims everywhere in the Far East in the Thirteenth Century. And yet no accounts that I can recall of Muslim violence. That may be because the Mongols kicked everyone’s asses and kept everyone in check. But still. No Muslim violence.

    We hear about the Muslim expansion from the 7th century to the Ottomans. And yes it is true. But what about the Roman expansion? The Persian expansion? The Mongol hordes? Empires expand and conquer irrespective of religion.

    Were the Crusades fought over religion? Or was that more a case of displaced aristocrats seeking fame, fortune and territory overseas under the pretext of religion? The religious element only picked up when the authorities blocked pilgrim traffic and access to the holy sites.

    Between 10-15% of the Russian population is Muslim — spread out over a vast territory. Doesn’t seem to have caused much of a problem for them.

    Yes, it is true that mass migration into the US and Europe has been too fast and too destabilizing. But consider the other factors: Many are displaced because of war (and are still angry about that), and they find themselves in an environment that has embraced US secular hegemony (either in residence in the home of the hegemon or its vassal states), and whose political elite always support the Zionist cause. That is a recipe for disaster.

    Yes, it is also true that Islam theologically believes that it has the right to rule over others. Of course all non-Muslims reject that. But historically speaking, it’s a non-issue where Muslims remain a minority. It becomes an issue when they become a sizable part of the population. But that’s on the Western countries that have encouraged this mass migration — either because they are ignorant of history, or because they are intentionally trying to destabilize and destroy the West.

    March 30, 2026 at 4:11 am #236639
    those darned kids
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    make a big soup where nobody knows each other.

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