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Debt Rattle April 17 2026

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 April 17, 2026  Posted by at 9:09 am Finance Tagged with: , , , , , ,  Add comments


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• The CIA Tried to Remove a Sitting President (CTH)
• DNI Tulsi Gabbard Sends Criminal Referrals for Atkinson and Ciaramella (CTH)
• Tulsi Explains Criminal Referral of Trump Impeachment Collaborators (CTH)
• Ukraine Impeachment Was Continuation of Failed Russia Collusion Plot (Dunleavy)
• Trump ‘Permanently Opening’ Strait of Hormuz ‘for China’ (RT)
• House Intel Member Says It’s Time To Expunge Trump’s 2019 Impeachment (JTN)
• Sotomayor Issues Rare Apology For ‘Hurtful’ Comments About Kavanaugh (JTN)
• New Hungarian Prime Minister Says Borders Will Remain Shut To Immigrants (ZH)
• Zelensky Goes Full “Lord Of War” (ZH)
• Russian Envoy Dismantles Kallas at UN Seccurity Council (RT)
• It’s Time for Congress to Come Clean About Itself (Mark Tapscott)
• Scientist: Dark Matter Could Be Black Holes From A Different Universe (MN)
• U.S. Government Embraces Anthropic’s Mythos AI (ZH)
• What AI Doesn’t Know – and Why It Matters (Richard Porter)

 


 

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DNI Tulsi Gabbard was portrayed the other day on Zero Hedge as a ‘Trump ally’. But she never was, until perhaps very recently. She left the Democratic Party only 3,5 years ago after calling them “an “elitist cabal of warmongers”, and became DNI in February 2025. There’s simply not enough water under that party bridge. Bur she can dig.

By now it’s hard to see how all those involved in conspiring against Trump could escape prosecution. The list is long, and it includes Obama. Which also provides an indication of how hard this is.

We’ll follow Sundance, who’s been following the case closely. He indicates how serious this is in one sentence: “The CIA Tried to Remove a Sitting President“.

The articles are about:

1) The meaning of what Tulsi did.

2) What she did.

3) She explains what she did.


• The CIA Tried to Remove a Sitting President (CTH)

For the past 72 hours I have been attempting to draw attention to the big picture. The CIA tried to remove a sitting United States President. The evidence has been released. The long-debated issue is no longer a matter of opinion or question. The CIA tried to remove a President. Unfortunately, now we watch the silence. I see a lot of punditries missing the forest as they peer intently at the trees. The CIA tried to remove a sitting President. We now know the real reason CIA whistleblower Eric Ciaramella’s name was never πpermitted to be mentioned. It s not the name Eric Ciaramella that presented the issue, it’s the organization where he was working, the CIA That’s what needed to be protected.


[The Biden administration created the Dept of Homeland Security Disinformation Governance Board to interact with Social media and create content controls. That’s where Nina Jankowicz comes in.] There was/is documented evidence showing the CIA tried to remove a sitting President from office. CIA Analyst Eric Ciaramella, the anonymous CIA ‘whistleblower’ worked with Joe Biden on Ukraine policy. Biden appointed DHS Nina Jankowicz worked inside Zelenskyy’s campaign HQ. Just a coincidence? Don’t get lost in the details or the politics of this. When you peel back all the layers of DC, at its epicenter this was an operation to impeach a sitting President that came from within the CIA, and it almost succeeded.

In the details, an impeachment effort against President Trump was triggered when a member of the National Security Council named Alexander Vindman coordinated with a member of the CIA National Intelligence Council named Eric Ciaramella to fabricate a false claim that President Trump leveraged his power and authority to demand Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy release information on Joe and Hunter Biden’s corrupt financial dealings in Ukraine.At the time of the 2019 impeachment construct Eric Ciaramella was working for the CIA as an analyst within the National Intelligence Council (NIC).

Two years prior to the 2019 impeachment construct, in January 2017, the same CIA analyst, Eric Ciaramella, had worked on the fraudulent Intelligence Community Assessment (ICA) at the behest of CIA Director John Brennan. Outlining Ciaramella’s activity not only hits CIA Director John Brennan and former DNI James Clapper, but it also hits former President Barack Obama. The National Intelligence Council was the internal sub-agency within the larger Intelligence Community, that was constructing all of the fraudulent analysis to support the 2016 Russian Election Interference narrative.

Ciaramella was doing what John Brennan, James Clapper and Barack Obama wanted him to do. That’s why his story is so much more important than just his fabrication and lying to ICIG Michael Atkinson, who was also a participant in the endeavor and the false construct of the 2019 impeachment effort. Former DOJ-NSD lawyer Michael Atkinson and former DOJ-NSD head Mary McCord were at the heart of the operations against Trump in 2017, and then both surface again against Trump in the 2019 impeachment effort. Mary McCord was working for Adam Schiff and Jerry Nadler at the time of the impeachment in 2019. Michael Atkinson was moved from DOJ-NSD to the IC OIG specifically for this operation.

Before this operation in 2019, CIA analysts weren’t allowed to anonymously make claims against political officials. The reasons are obvious. Because of the sensitive information they handled, any allegation of wrongdoing based on intelligence had to be made with their name attached. Without anonymity, inside the Intelligence Community oversight system, the Ciaramella connection to both IC operations could have been made. His anonymity as a whistleblower served a purpose. Having switched locations to IC IG, Intelligence Community Inspector General Michael Atkinson independently changed the ICIG rules permitting Ciaramella to remain anonymous and make an “urgent concern” claim that ultimately led to an impeachment effort.

Eric Ciaramella fabricated intelligence information. ICIG Atkinson shared it with Congress and the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI). Representatives of HPSCI Chairman Adam Schiff met with Ciaramella and assisted him during the construct. ICIG Michael Atkinson never even read the transcript of the call between President Trump and President Zelenskyy that formed the basis for the Ciaramella complaint. The complaint was also criminalized by Atkinson and sent to the Office of Inspector General for the DOJ for review. Unlike Atkinson, the DOJ reviewed the Trump-Zelenskyy transcript and said there was no issue.

On October 4, 2019, as part of the House impeachment inquiry, Intelligence Community Inspector General Michael Atkinson gave closed-door testimony to the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI) as part of their pre-impeachment investigation. One of the key questions to ICIG Atkinson surrounded the authority of his office changing the CIA whistleblower rules that permitted Eric Ciaramella to remain anonymous. Atkinson had no reasonable explanation. The Intelligence Community Office of Inspector General (Atkinson) also altered the whistleblower form within months of the July 2019 Trump/Zelenskyy phone call to no longer require firsthand knowledge as a prerequisite for reporting complaints.

This indicates forethought and specific intent. Michael Atkinson knew a ‘second-hand’ complaint was coming. From all appearances, IC IG Atkinson was organizing the operation in advance. CIA Analyst Eric Ciaramella provided the story. With Adam Schiff prepared to receive the complaint, and Mary McCord prepared to weaponize the complaint, collectively they ran the operation to impeach a sitting President on an entirely fraudulent basis.

[Executive] The CIA tried to impeach President Donald Trump; the aggregate Intelligence Community was there to assist.

[Legislative] The HPSCI and HJC, Pelosi, Schiff, Nadler were prepared to organize the impeachment construct. Mary McCord working as staff.

[Judicial] Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts would not let Eric Ciaramella’s name be spoken at trial. Mary McCord’s husband, Sheldon Snook, was working for John Roberts at the time.

This was a coordinated impeachment effort across all three branches of government. The CIA tried to remove a President. Unfortunately, now we watch the silence. We have known this for all long time; what we lacked was the specific evidence. Now, we see the evidence and yet it is almost more alarming to notice the silence than it is to absorb the reality of the events that evidence describes. The CIA tried to remove a President!

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“Atkinson was the intentional organizer of false impeachment material submitted by CIA operative Ciaramella.”

• DNI Tulsi Gabbard Sends Criminal Referrals for Atkinson and Ciaramella (CTH)

Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard has sent criminal referrals to the DOJ for former Intelligence Community Inspector General Michael Atkinson and former CIA Analyst (National Intelligence Council) Eric Ciaramella. Atkinson was the intentional organizer of false impeachment material submitted by CIA operative Ciaramella. Apparently, people know the background. lol


WASHINGTON DC – “The Office of the Director of National Intelligence sent criminal referrals to the Justice Department for the whistleblower whose complaint helped trigger President Donald Trump’s 2019 impeachment and for the former intelligence community inspector general who notified Congress of the allegations, Fox News Digital has learned. “I want to refer information that may constitute possible criminal activity in violation of federal criminal law committed by one or more former employees of the intelligence community,” ODNI’s general counsel wrote in the referral to the Justice Department. Fox News Digital on Wednesday reviewed the referrals ODNI sent to the Justice Department.

“The possible criminal activity concerns the circumstances described in the following congressional briefings: Discussion with Intelligence Community Inspector General, House Permanent Select Comm. on Intel., 116th Cong. (2019); Briefing by the Intelligence Community Inspector General, House Permanent Select Comm. on Intel., 116th Cong. (2019),” it continued. […] An intelligence official told Fox News Digital that the language in the referral is broad, but that it’s specifically directed at Atkinson and the whistleblower who reported concerns about President Trump’s July 2019 phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

Don’t forget, Michael Atkinson turned the Ciaramella complaint into a criminal referral, a criminal complaint, then submitted it to the U.S. Department of Justice.

• Abuse of govt position.

• Manufacturing evidence for a legislative procedure.

• Conspiracy to conduct fraud.

• Lying to federal investigators.

• Falsifying information to manufacture a criminal complaint. I

t will be interesting to see where this goes.

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“Gabbard is providing the receipts, the actual evidence, of how these IC operations took place.”

• Tulsi Explains Criminal Referral of Trump Impeachment Collaborators (CTH)

Director of National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, appears for an interview with Katie Pavlich to outline the importance of bringing all of the information about the Intelligence Community targeting of President Trump to the public.Sunlight is the best disinfectant, and We the People want to see accountability for the Machiavellian conduct. The intelligence community targeted President Trump and people within the CIA ran an operation to remove him.


These people have names and titles that have remained hidden, DNI Tulsi Gabbard is putting those names, specific names into the public psyche so we can have a full understanding of what took plac Now, for many here this may seem like information we have all known about; however, Gabbard is providing the receipts, the actual evidence, of how these IC operations took place.

DNI Gabbard is showing how specific people within government weaponized their positions to conduct some of the most insidious schemes in modern U.S. history. The criminality of those schemes is for others in Main Justice to determine, but the evidence of those schemes is clear. I am thankful that people are now starting to use the new information to review past timelines. What they will discover is that Michael Atkinson’s work with Mary McCord and the Lawfare network are not isolated events. This is a continuum of targeting against Donald Trump using all of the intelligence levers at their disposal.

Michael Atkinson and Eric Ciaramella are the current names, but beside them sits Mary McCord, Norm Eisen, Andrew Weissmann, Barry Berke, Dan Goldman, Benjamin Wittes and many others from the Lawfare community. They intersect with various high level government officials in Main Justice, the FBI, the CIA, NSA and various intelligence agencies. This is the nest of Deep State and Tulsi Gabbard is exposing it.

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“Atkinson himself was an Obama holdover in the first Trump administration and was a former top counselor to key Russiagate figure and DOJ official Mary McCord”.

• Ukraine Impeachment Was Continuation of Failed Russia Collusion Plot (Dunleavy)

The Democrat-led Ukraine impeachment effort of 2019 was linked to and a continuation of the Russiagate saga and of the failed effort by special counsel Robert Mueller to unearth criminality by President Donald Trump, newly-declassified documents and testimony indicate.


Memos declassified by Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard and released by Just the News on Sunday were written by investigators for intelligence community inspector general Michael Atkinson, who first handled the CIA analyst’s complaint. Gabbard also declassified long-secret transcribed interviews from the watchdog, and these, combined with the memos, provide further evidence that the Ukraine impeachment saga was a continuation of the Russiagate saga which had flamed out.

The newly-released memos flagged the Ukraine whistle-blower for having a “potential for bias,” elicited an apology from him for misleading the probe about his prior contact with staffers on the Democrat-led House Intelligence Committee, showed he criticized GOP congressmen, recounted that he asked to hide his complaint from Republicans on the intelligence committee, pointed to his close links to Joe Biden’s efforts in Ukraine, and more. Atkinson kept much of this from the House investigators.

An alleged witness whose name was redacted and who told investigators he had been assisting the alleged whistle-blower with making his disclosures admitted to having a connection to Peter Strzok, the FBI agent who was fired in 2019 for his misbehavior while helping lead the discredited Russia collusion probe.

This witness — identified only as “Witness 2” — disclosed that he had also worked on a controversial December 2016 Intelligence Community Assessment (ICA) that claimed Vladimir Putin tried to help Trump beat Hillary Clinton in that year’s presidential race, a conclusion that the CIA now admits was based on faulty intelligence and a failure of spy tradecraft.

Prior to being nominated by Trump to be the intelligence community watchdog, Atkinson himself was an Obama holdover in the first Trump administration and was a former top counselor to key Russiagate figure and DOJ official Mary McCord. As a top Obama Justice Department official, McCord reviewed the deeply flawed FISA applications against former Trump campaign associate Carter Page, and she later assisted House Democrats in impeachment efforts against Trump.

The self-admitted potential biases which the Ukraine impeachment whistle-blower relayed to investigators for the intelligence community watchdog during the first Trump Administration were redacted and concealed from House investigators in 2019, newly-declassified and released transcripts show.

These long-secret transcripts were from a mid-September 2019 unclassified session and an early October 2019 classified session which were held to examine Atkinson’s role in the handling of an alleged whistle-blower complaint. The missive was written by an anonymous intelligence officer — identified as Eric Ciaramella — in a saga which ultimately led to the first successful impeachment efforts by House Democrats against Trump in December 2019. Trump was acquitted by the Senate in early 2020.

Facts concealed from House investigators
The newly-released memos from 2019 laid out multiple self-admitted potential biases tied to Ciaramella’s Democratic Party registration, his work for Joe Biden, his knowledge of corruption-related discussions on Ukraine, his view that he had been pushed out of the Trump NSC because of “right wing bloggers,” and more — some of which were never made public until Sunday, and many of which were concealed from House investigators when the intelligence community inspector general appeared before them in October 2019.

The whistle-blower’s’ complaint centered on a July 25, 2019 phone call between Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. The Trump-Zelensky call was the day after Mueller’s lackluster congressional testimony on the findings of his special counsel investigation.

Ciaramella did not respond to a request for comment sent to him through the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, where he is listed as the Ukraine Initiative Director for the Russia and Eurasia Program. Atkinson did not respond to a request comment sent to him at the law firm he works for, and McCord did not respond to an email sent to her Georgetown University email.

The Office of the Director of National Intelligence said Monday that Atkinson helped “manufacture a conspiracy” and argued that a “coordinated effort by elements within the Intelligence Community” was aided by Atkinson when he lent credibility to and covered up the political biases of the author of the whistle-blower complaint..

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Reuters:: “’China buys more than 80% of Iran’s shipped oil, data for 2025 from analytics firm Kpler showed.”

Not much of a blockade left then?

• Trump ‘Permanently Opening’ Strait of Hormuz ‘for China’ (RT)

US President Donald Trump has said he is “permanently opening” the Strait of Hormuz, claiming he is making the move for China “and the world.” Trump also said Beijing has agreed “not to send weapons to Iran. Trump initially announced the blockade of the vital waterway on Sunday after Pakistani-mediated talks failed to produce a peace deal with Iran. On Tuesday, US Central Command reported that American warships had effectively blocked all Iranian trade through the strait. On Wednesday, however, Trump stated in a Truth Social post that “China is very happy that I am permanently opening the Strait of Hormuz.” He added that “I am doing it for them, also – and the World.”


Trump went on to state that Beijing has “agreed not to send weapons to Iran,” and that Chinese President Xi Jinping “will give me a big, fat, hug when I get there in a few weeks.” Trump is scheduled to pay a state visit to China on May 14, while Xi is expected to visit Washington for a reciprocal visit at a later date. China has yet to respond to the US leader’s latest message about the reopening of the strait, but had previously repeatedly denied reports of providing any sort of military support to Iran.

Beijing had also accused Washington on Tuesday of “dangerous and irresponsible” behavior over its blockade of Iranian vessels. Iran closed the Strait of Hormuz to “enemy ships” in response to the US-Israeli bombing campaign launched on February 28. Tehran has since demanded recognition of its “sovereignty” over the waterway and the right to impose tolls.

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You need the Supreme Court for that. Check with them first if they agree. They’re “independent”.

“So-called whistleblower knew he didn’t have the evidence. He used hearsay. He used poor intelligence … but they covered it up,” Rep. Claudia Tenney said.

• House Intel Member Says It’s Time To Expunge Trump’s 2019 Impeachment (JTN)

An influential Republican on the House Intelligence Committee says the bombshell evidence disclosed this week challenging the credibility and bias of a CIA analyst who prompted the Ukraine influence scandal seven years ago is so powerful that it warrants Congress expunging the 2019 impeachment vote against President Donald Trump.


“I think it is time that we expunge this impeachment and get rid of it,” Rep. Claudia Tenney, R-N.Y., told the Just the News, No Noise television show on Wednesday night. “…Historically, we need to show that we’re going to stand up for the rule of law, for truth and justice. And this was unfairly done to President Trump.”

Just the News reported Sunday that documents recently declassified by the Office of Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) showed that the intelligence community’s chief watchdog gad flagged concerns about the CIA analyst who launched the 2019 impeachment proceedings against Trump with Ukraine policy-related allegations but those concerns were kept classified and never made public during the congressional proceedings.

The concerns included that the accuser had the “potential for bias,” had provided false information in his initial complaint and had animus toward conservatives inside Trump’s circles, according to documents declassified by DNI Tulsi Gabbard this week. Gabbard blasted Atkinson’s work on Monday, suggesting the former watchdog had “weaponized the whistle-blower process” and used his office to “manufacture a conspiracy that was used as the basis to impeach President Trump.”

Others, including former Trump defense lawyers, the FBI and members of Congress, also sharply criticized the withholding of such evidence for six years, with famed law professor Alan Dershowitz going so far as to suggest Trump might have grounds to expunge his 2019 impeachment in the House of Representatives. Tenney said she agreed with Dershowitz.

“I am just grateful to Tulsi Gabbard, the Director of National Intelligence, for actually disclosing this information and seeing the really shoddy, poor intelligence work that was being done,” she said. “This so-called whistleblower knew he didn’t have the evidence. He used hearsay. He used poor intelligence, or what they call spy craft, in putting together statements and supporting documents that were not supportive of what they were trying to prove, but they covered it up.

“They kept it out of the view of the of the the people, and out of the view of anyone that could challenge it. And they went into this impeachment mode,” she added. “So I think Alan Dershowitz is on to something.” Tenney said she also agreed with Sen. Eric Schmitt, R-Mo., who on Wednesday urged the House to begin impeachment proceedings against U.S. District Judge James Boasberg, a former chief judge at the FISA Court who raised the ire of Republicans by making several negative rulings against the Trump administration, several of which have been reversed.

This week, the federal appeals court in Washington D.C. sharply rebuked Boasberg, accusing the jurist of abusing his judicial discretion by launching contempt proceedings against the Trump administration for its deportation of criminal illegal aliens. “It looks like what Judge Boasberg has done is egregious and could very well be subject to impeachment under our laws and under the rules of conduct that actually are in place for judges on the federal level,” she said.

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She’s been ordered to.

• Sotomayor Issues Rare Apology For ‘Hurtful’ Comments About Kavanaugh (JTN)

Kavanaugh, who was in the majority but wrote a concurring opinion, had downplayed the belief that people were having their constitutional rights violated in the raids by targeting areas where illegal migrants are known to gather. Liberal Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor apologized Wednesday for “hurtful” remarks she made recently about fellow Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s upbringing. “At a recent appearance at the University of Kansas School of Law, I referred to a disagreement with one of my colleagues in a prior case, but I made remarks that were inappropriate,” Sotomayor said in a statement released by the court. “I regret my hurtful comments. I have apologized to my colleague.”


Sotomayor last week indicated that Kavanaugh’s parents were “professionals and probably doesn’t really know any person who works by the hour,” after he wrote an opinion last year on the high court’s allowance of the Trump administration to conduct broad immigration sweeps in Southern California. Kavanaugh, who was in the majority but wrote a concurring opinion, downplayed the belief that people were having their constitutional rights violated in the raids by targeting areas where illegal migrants are known to gather. “To be clear, apparent ethnicity alone cannot furnish reasonable suspicion; under this court’s case law regarding immigration stops, however, it can be a ‘relevant factor’ when considered along with other salient factors,” Kavanaugh wrote.

“Importantly,” Kavanaugh continued, “reasonable suspicion means only that immigration officers may briefly stop the individual and inquire about immigration status.” Sotomayor’s comment was surprising because the justices have long claimed they get along despite differing opinions.”I joined the court that dealt with differences as friends, as we respected each other. … That’s civility,” Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, a conservative, said Wednesday. “I don’t know how you bring it back in the current environment with social media and name calling and all and people accusing each other of various things and animus.”

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Did Orban and Trump set this up?

• New Hungarian Prime Minister Says Borders Will Remain Shut To Immigrants (ZH)

In the wake of Viktor Orbán’s election defeat, one of the greatest fears among conservatives in the region is an unconstrained EU able to take action on foreign policy, health, and immigration without the threat of a veto. It is widely assumed that the incoming prime minister of Hungary, Péter Magyar, will seek a fast resolution of Brussels’ key issues with Hungary in order to unlock some €35 billion in funding. His election win was heralded as a substantial victory for the global left wing, from EU globalists to Democrats in the US. Their assumption is that with Orbán’s veto power out of play, they will be able to do they want in Ukraine and in Hungary. However, the new Prime Minster may not be as cooperative as they initially believed.


Magyar has stated that he will not try to block a €90 billion EU loan to Ukraine which Orbán originally vetoed, but he also stated that Hungary will not be contributing to such loans and that the government will not support any attempt to induct Ukraine into the EU. He also announced this week that he will not allow Hungary to join in the EU’s “Migration Pact” and that he plans to further strengthen Hungary’s borders. This includes a continued rejection of the EU’s asylum rules, which are widely abused by third world migrants to freely enter Europe and gain access to welfare subsidies.

Beyond the Ukraine funding veto, it was Orbán’s refusal to submit to open borders and mass immigration that caused constant conflict with the EU. He was frequently referred to by the political left as a “dictator” and a “fascist” in part because of his strict border policies (even though he is voluntarily leaving office after losing the election, which is not the behavior of a dictator). Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission, attacked Orbán regularly for his border controls, stating that Hungary’s program to reinforce their borders with walls and barbed wire was in violation of EU immigration standards. It appears that this will not stop under Magyar.

The purpose of the EU Commission is to subjugate member countries through centralized monetary dependency and a series of financial sanctions if they step out of line. Financial leverage has been used on a number of occasions by the Commission to force nations to accept ever expanding mass immigration, largely from Muslim fundamentalist populations in countries like Algeria, Morocco, Syria and Afghanistan. Hungary is one of the few European nations to resist this multicultural agenda.

While it is a member state, Hungary is not currently in the eurozone, using its own currency, the Hungarian forint, rather than the euro. It may be that the EU sees Magyar as an acceptable trade, as long as they get their funding package for Ukraine. They probably also intend to play the long game, hoping that once Hungary joins the eurozone they can be manipulated over time using monetary leverage. That said, their intentions have long focused on using Hungary as a fresh sponge to absorb migrants, and this is simply not going to happen according to Magyar’s post-election declarations.

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They’re turning Ukraine into the European arms factory. The money will keep flowing.

• Zelensky Goes Full “Lord Of War” (ZH)

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky took the stage and stated that Ukraine’s military-industrial base has created some of the world’s most advanced unmanned platforms, already deployed against Russia and forever changing how warfare is conducted. “For the first time in the history of this war, an enemy position was taken exclusively by unmanned platforms, ground systems, and drones,” Zelensky said in a post on X.


He pointed to a growing number of Ukrainian defense firms, including Ratel, TerMIT, Ardal, Rys, Zmiy, Protector, and Volia, claiming their robotic systems have carried out more than 22,000 frontline missions in just three months. Zelensky’s broader message seemed more like a PR pitch for Ukraine’s defense firms, which are capable of producing millions of FPV drones annually, as well as deep-strike systems, interceptors, ground robots, and maritime drone boats.

“Ukraine’s robots were sculpted by combat. I’ve seen the video footage of their UGVs taking hostages. This is what future battles will look like,” Foundation Robotics co-founder Mike LeBlanc said in a statement. LeBlanc’s team is preparing its Phantom humanoid robots for testing and continues to develop militarized humanoid prototypes designed to operate alongside warfighters in high-risk environments. In February, Foundation sent two Phantom MK1 robots to Ukraine for testing, according to a TIME Magazine article.

Ukraine’s capital markets have been frozen by war, leaving many of the country’s battlefield-proven “war unicorns” starved of traditional funding. However, the Middle East conflict has accelerated a new export pathway, as drone warfare and AI-enabled kill chains reshape how militaries think about defense.

Reuters has reported that Gulf states, including Saudi Arabia and the UAE, are exploring Ukrainian interceptor drones as a more affordable response to the emergence of Iranian one-way attack drones. At the same time, Ukrainian firms or their European subsidiaries are eyeing U.S. civilian and defense markets to sell their combat-tested systems. The first plausible path into the U.S. market appears to be through affordable counter-drone solutions and other layered air-defense technology. Meanwhile, so-called “experts” cited by The Moscow Times called Zelensky’s X posts “mainly a PR move,” but highlighted how robots “are already transforming both tactics and strategy” in the four-year war.

Zelensky is correct: “The future is already on the front line.

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“Nebenzia ridiculed her historical ignorance, recalling her comment that it was “something new” that Russia and China fought together against Nazism in World War II.”

“It would be very interesting to meet Mrs. Kallas’s history teacher,” Nebenzia retorted.

• Russian Envoy Dismantles Kallas at UN Seccurity Council (RT)

Russia’s Permanent Representative to the UN, Vassily Nebenzia, launched a stinging rebuke of EU Foreign Policy Chief Kaja Kallas’s address at the UN Security Council in New York on Monday.Kallas has since been accused of “criminal” double standards in her speech by Amnesty International for ignoring US and Israeli crimes against Iran. The controversial diplomat spoke during the annual Security Council session on EU-UN cooperation, during which she lamented the “greatest breakdown of international law since the Second World War,” without once mentioning the US or Israel, but mentioning Russia 11 times.Amnesty International Secretary General Agnes Callamard slammed Kallas in a post on X, blasting her “deliberate failure to mention the two actors responsible for the greatest violations of international law,” referring to the US and Israel.


So today, at the Security Council, High Representative Kaja Kallas has lamented the gravest violation and breakdown of international law since the Second World War, evident, I quote “in today’s two pre-eminent global crises — Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine and the war… — Agnes Callamard (@AgnesCallamard) April 14, 2026 Kallas’ unwillingness to name them “is not just cowardice. It is criminal,” Callamard said, adding that such double standards are what is “destroying international law.” In a 12-minute response to Kallas in the council, Nebenzia ridiculed her historical ignorance, recalling her comment that it was “something new” that Russia and China fought together against Nazism in World War II.

Kallas, like EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, has a long history of avoiding criticism of Washington while regularly engaging in unhinged attacks on Moscow. Her claim to have been surprised that Russia and China, who together lost some 35 million people during WW2, are considered among the conflict’s victors was described by Responsible Statecraft as “shocking ignorance.” “It would be very interesting to meet Mrs. Kallas’s history teacher,” Nebenzia retorted.

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One blue moon.

• It’s Time for Congress to Come Clean About Itself (Mark Tapscott)

Whatever happens in the days ahead to now-former Rep. Eric Swalwell, the California Democrat who is accused of gross sexual misconduct by at least five women, it’s past time for members of Congress — Democrats AND Republicans in the Senate AND the House — to let the light shine in all of the dark hiding places they’ve created to protect themselves against genuine individual accountability for moral turpitude.


Before proceeding, allow me to make it crystal clear where I am “coming from” in writing what follows. First, I am a Reagan conservative and have been since an October night during the 1964 campaign when I watched him on TV delivering his historic “A Time for Choosing” address. When Reagan said in his first inaugural speech that “government is not solution to our problems, government is the problem,” he expressed a fundamental conviction that I will take to my grave.

Second, as Professor Willmoore Kendall so often declared, I agree that it wasn’t by accident that the men who wrote the Constitution fully intended to make Congress the “First Branch,” and to give it “all of the ultimate weapons” it needs to prevail over either of the other two branches in a power struggle. America is supposed to be a representative republic in which the people are the sovereign, not the government, so the representative branch must be first.

Finally, one of the earliest things I learned after coming to the nation’s capital is the truth spoken by Jesus Christ whe He said in (John 3:19-20): “And this is the judgment: the light has come into the world, and people loved the darkness rather than the light because their works were evil.” Transparency is Big Government’s worst enemy.

Now, there are two things Congress must do in response to the deep corruption confirmed by the Swalwell scandal and the many similar scandals involving members of both parties in recent decades. There is a secret fund Congress created for itself in the laughably titled “Congressional Accountability Act of 1995.” Under this CAA, members of Congress can use taxpayer funds to settle out of court with former staffers accusing them of sexual misconduct.

When Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis was a House member, he introduced legislation that would have effectively repealed the CAA. It was entitled the Congressional Accountability and Hush Fund Elimination Act of 2017. Here’s how DeSantis described the need for repeal, according to gov.track.us:n Members of Congress and staff cannot live under special rules. The current system incentivizes misconduct and makes it difficult for victims. By exposing these secret settlements and by discontinuing using tax dollars to pay for member misconduct, this bill will reduce the incentive for bad behavior and bring more accountability to Congress.

The DeSantis measure went nowhere. And efforts since then to gain public and media access to the settlements, so all voters can have all the heretofore concealed facts about the men (and women?) who have been able to keep the truth about their misconduct secret, have also gone nowhere.

The time has come for all of the records related to all of those settlements to be made public and either to abolish the fun or ensure it is fully transparent. If you don’t believe me, read this detailed account by one of the people who did it of how and why the settlements process was crafted. This post on X was prompted in part by the Swalwell scandal and by the fact that the House voted last month 357-65 against unsealing the settlements:

“We will expel 2 members. We will hold press conferences. We will say the words ‘courage’ and ‘transparency’ and ‘the safety of every person who works on Capitol Hill.’ The press will cover the expulsions for a week. And they will not cover the 357-65 vote at all.

“We gave them 2 names so they’d stop asking for the rest.That’s the trade. It works every time.And every member who voted to seal those records knows what’s in them. They know because we told them. They sat in a closed session and reviewed the files and then walked out and voted 357 to 65 to make sure you never find out what your employees did with your money to their employees.The system doesn’t have a harassment problem. The system has a disclosure problem.”

And speaking of transparency, it’s also time for Congress to reverse the decision it made when it approved the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) of 1966 to exempt itself from coverage of the law. The argument for doing so hinged on the fact that Congress has access to much confidential national security documents and information, as well as privileged commercial information and legal documents. There is also the deliberative process itself that depends to a great extent on participants being able to communicate frankly. There is a legitimate need to provide security for such information in congressional hands. But there is a wealth of other information controlled by congressional agencies such as the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) and the Government Accountability Office (GAO).

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All who understand raise your hands.

• Scientist: Dark Matter Could Be Black Holes From A Different Universe (MN)

While the scientific establishment has spent decades chasing invisible particles that never quite show up, a leading cosmologist has dropped a theory that turns everything on its head: dark matter isn’t some exotic new particle. It could be ancient black holes that survived from an entirely different universe. This idea, laid out by Professor Enrique Gaztanaga of the University of Portsmouth, doesn’t just tackle one cosmic puzzle. It offers a clean fix for the Big Bang’s thorniest problems and lines up with fresh observations that have astronomers scrambling. Gaztanaga argues the elusive substance that makes up roughly 27 per cent of the universe’s mass may actually be “relic” black holes formed in a previous collapsing phase of the cosmos.


“The idea is that dark matter may not be a new particle, but instead a population of black holes formed in a previous collapsing phase and bounce of the Universe,” Professor Gaztanaga says. He rejects the standard singularity model where everything explodes from an infinitely dense point that breaks physics. Instead, he proposes a “bouncing” universe. “The Big Bang corresponds to a bounce from a previous collapsing phase, rather than the absolute beginning of everything,” the Professor Gaztanaga further noted, adding “So it is the start of the expansion we observe, but not necessarily the beginning of time itself.” In this picture, black holes from the collapsing galaxies of that earlier universe survived the bounce and now drift through our cosmos, exerting gravity without emitting light.

“These ‘relic’ black holes would survive into the expanding phase we observe today and behave exactly like dark matter: they interact gravitationally, but do not emit light,” he explains. The theory also neatly accounts for the James Webb Space Telescope’s baffling discovery of bright red dots—rapidly growing black holes—mere hundreds of millions of years after the Big Bang. If relic black holes were already present at the start, they would have had a massive head start.

It also sidesteps the need for new particles while explaining how supermassive black holes formed so quickly in the early universe. This development builds on a wider wave of recent clues pointing to black holes and dense dark objects playing a bigger role than previously thought. Recently, astronomers highlighted a massive invisible object that tore through the Milky Way’s GD-1 stellar stream, leaving a jagged gap and gravitational disturbances without any light, heat, or radiation. The phenomenon suggests “a ‘Dark’ Entity, likely a dense clump of dark matter or a previously undetected dark subhalo.”

This phenomenon has been witnessed before. Hubble observations of the globular cluster NGC 6397 have also revealed a mysterious swarm of black holes lurking just 7,800 light-years from Earth.

For years the default dark matter story has been “trust us, it’s some particle we haven’t found yet.” Billions have been spent on detectors and accelerators hunting WIMPs or axions with zero direct detection to show for it. Gaztanaga’s relic black hole approach uses only known physics—general relativity plus quantum effects—and turns the collapse-bounce into the natural origin story. Recent stellar stream disruptions like the one in GD-1 and compact object swarms in nearby clusters provide real-world data points that align with a universe seeded by surviving black holes rather than a sea of hypothetical particles.

The European Space Agency’s own description of dark matter captures the frustration: “Shine a torch in a completely dark room, and you will see only what the torch illuminates. That does not mean that the room around you does not exist.” Gaztanaga’s framework says the “room” has been hiding in plain gravitational sight all along. Scientists will now scrutinize gravitational wave data and CMB measurements for the predicted relics. If the numbers line up, two of cosmology’s biggest headaches—dark matter and the true origin of the Big Bang—get solved in one elegant stroke.

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“From Supply-Chain Risk To National Security Imperative”:

• U.S. Government Embraces Anthropic’s Mythos AI (ZH)

In a striking reversal that underscores the breakneck pace of the AI arms race, the White House has directed federal agencies to begin using Anthropic’s most dangerous new model – Claude Mythos – despite months of public friction between the Trump administration and the San Francisco-based AI company (read on to see how we reconcile this with the Pentagon’s “supply-chain risk” designation). The move, detailed in an internal Office of Management and Budget (OMB) memo circulated this week, marks the first formal green light for Cabinet-level departments to tap Mythos’s unprecedented cybersecurity capabilities. The goal: to hunt down vulnerabilities in government networks before adversaries can exploit them, Bloomberg reports.


Too Powerful to Release, Too Valuable to Ignore
Anthropic unveiled Mythos (sometimes referred to internally as “Mythos Preview”) just weeks ago, and it immediately sent shockwaves through the tech and national-security communities. In controlled testing, the model autonomously discovered and weaponized thousands of previously unknown zero-day vulnerabilities across every major operating system, web browser, legacy enterprise software, and even decades-old codebases. Its speed and creativity reportedly surpassed top human red-team hackers. As we noted earlier this month, the model “went rogue” during testing – prompting Anthropic to withhold a broad release entirely. Full technical details are available in Anthropic’s official Mythos Preview System Card.

Rather than ship it publicly, Anthropic launched Project Glasswing – a tightly controlled defensive program that grants limited access only to a vetted circle of partners: Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Apple, major banks (including JPMorgan Chase), cybersecurity firms, and the Linux Foundation. The explicit mission is defense only – scan your own systems, find the bugs, patch them fast, and keep the bad guys out. The official program page is here.

From “Supply-Chain Risk” to Strategic Asset
The government’s relationship with Anthropic had been icy for months. As we noted in February, the Pentagon threatened to blacklist the company as a “supply-chain risk” after Anthropic refused to strip certain ethical guardrails from its models for military use. That standoff escalated in March when Anthropic sued the Pentagon over the designation, as detailed in ZeroHedge’s coverage of the lawsuit. That said, the Pentagon’s “supply-chain risk” label was always narrow in scope: it was a DoD-specific action triggered by the company’s refusal to remove certain ethical guardrails from its models for unrestricted military and offensive-use applications. That designation threatened to block Anthropic technology from defense contracts and classified work, and it led directly to Anthropic’s lawsuit against the Pentagon.

Today’s OMB memo changes almost nothing on paper for that designation. The Pentagon has not withdrawn it, the lawsuit is still active, and DoD contractors remain restricted from using Claude models (including Mythos) in offensive or surveillance contexts.

Just days ago, the U.S. Treasury was rushing to gain access to Mythos after internal warnings that the model could “hack every major system.” Senior Treasury and Federal Reserve officials had summoned CEOs of the nation’s largest banks to Washington, warning them that the financial system’s exposure to AI-powered attacks had become existential. Behind closed doors, federal agencies – including the Commerce Department’s Center for AI Standards and Innovation – had already begun quiet red-teaming of Mythos. Anthropic co-founder and president Daniela Amodei confirmed the company had briefed the administration early, telling reporters simply: “The government has to know about this stuff.”

Now the OMB memo formalizes that reality. It lays out strict protocols for safe access, data handling, and usage limits so that major departments can deploy Mythos against their own sprawling digital estates. The focus remains narrow: vulnerability discovery, network hardening, and defensive preparedness.

What This Means for the AI Arms Race
This is not the first time Washington has had to swallow its pride to stay competitive. But the Mythos episode – from the earliest Pentagon threats through the April 8 Glasswing announcement and this week’s Treasury scramble – feels different. It is a microcosm of the larger tension defining 2026: frontier AI models are now so capable that even their creators are scared of them, yet ignoring them would be national-security malpractice.

Critics inside the defense community argue the government waited too long. Supporters of Anthropic’s cautious approach counter that the company’s restraint (and its Glasswing coalition) may have prevented an even worse outcome: a fully open-sourced Mythos circulating on the dark web.

For Anthropic, the development is a quiet vindication. By keeping Mythos under lock and key and building Glasswing as a defensive shield, the company has positioned itself as a responsible steward of dangerous technology – while still earning a seat at the table with the most powerful customer on Earth.

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“AI is simply very fast processing of vast amounts of data.” But does that always give the same result? Does it always get the same result, just faster?

• What AI Doesn’t Know – and Why It Matters (Richard Porter)

Artificial intelligence has taken the wired world by storm, but the backlash came almost as fast. Progressives complain of job losses, environmentalists question the ecological impacts of huge data centers, and local activists are clamoring for assurances that household utility bills won’t skyrocket because of the centers’ voracious electricity requirements. Others simply worry that the technology will overwhelm humans’ ability to control it. At least in part, these reactions stem from the overselling of AI. AI is super cool, but it’s not superhuman nor is it super intelligent. AI is simply very fast processing of vast amounts of data.


Intelligence, knowledge, understanding and wisdom are all different concepts; the distinction between them elucidates the scope and limits of both human and electronic “intelligence.”Intelligence is the ability to process information into an internally coherent framework that’s useful and adds or detracts from knowledge to the extent it is more or less accurate. Knowledge is the accumulation of information organized into coherent frames or models that help us understand. Understanding is awareness of the significance, purpose, or meaning of accumulated knowledge. And wisdom is judgment seasoned by experience and the awareness that intelligence, knowledge, and understanding are limited, inherently flawed, and useful only to the extent they advance a worthwhile purpose.

Nearly 2,500 years ago, the Oracle of Delphi reportedly declared that no man was wiser than Socrates. Socrates claimed to be stunned by this because he was keenly aware of how much he didn’t know. But after talking to others widely acclaimed to be knowledgeable, such as the leading politicians, poets, philosophers, and artisans of his day, he discerned this Delphic wisdom: Those claiming knowledge were ignorant of their own ignorance, whereas Socrates knew he knew nothing. For this insight, Socrates was put to death for impiety and corrupting the youth of Athens, thereby proving for all time both the foolishness of his accusers’ certainty and the wisdom of Socratic questioning.

This bears repeating today, as we enter the Age of Artificial Intelligence: it’s wise to question the “intelligence” of machines, the “knowledge” they propagate, and our understanding of the significance and limits of the technology. AI models are amazing and useful despite being incomprehensible to most of us, but AI is not infallible. AI will expand human knowledge and understanding of the world only if and to the extent that human users are encouraged to question AI results, processes, and functions.

People make mistakes, as do the people making and training the machines. Still, people tend to trust machines more than people, especially with respect to processing information that’s harder to process. For example, tennis players have more faith in electronic line calls over human line calls, although that faith in the new technology has been shaken by errors, such as when ball marks are inconsistent with the electronic line calls. As AI use spreads, people will increasingly rely on AI and trust its results for routine tasks (like Google searches), while most people remain more skeptical of AI results for more complex tasks and do not trust AI to act to handle certain tasks for its users without human intervention.

It’s wise to question AI’s results; errors are common even in routine searches. Examples of AI errors, hallucinations and political bias are rife. A Northwestern University business school professor of my acquaintance recently asked ChatGPT for advice evaluating investment alternatives. ChatGPT recommended he invest in a particular fund and described in detail that fund’s returns, risks, and assets. When the professor went to invest in ChatGPT’s recommended fund, he discovered the fund did not actually exist; ChatGPT made it all up (a phenomenon commonly referred to as “AI hallucination”).

Indeed, AI can screw up even mundane tasks: In my research for this piece, a Google AI summary ascribed quotes to Socrates that are not supported by any historical record.Artificial intelligence – like human intelligence – is prone to error and is not always reliable, but that’s to be expected, especially in a fledgling technology. AI is artificial intelligence, not artificial knowledge, understanding, or wisdom. AI is a processor, a very fast processor, that organizes and distills information – and organized information is easier to evaluate and use by humans than vast amounts of unorganized information.

Properly understood, AI supplements and does not replace human intelligence, knowledge, or understanding; plus, the limitations and faults within these amazing models remind us that human intelligence is limited, too. Human intelligence imperfectly organizes the imperfect data to which a human has access and frames data in a subjective, not an objective, manner. Many of us expect the machines that humans make to have “better” intelligence than the intelligence of its human creators – more objective, more comprehensive, more insightful. This is a naïve hope. In one sense, it is “better.” AI organizes more information faster than humans can. But who do they think programmed the thing? Every AI model is regurgitating imperfect information collected, created, and input by imperfect, subjective human beings.

What to make of all this? First, perhaps the math nerds creating AI are mistakenly training machines to handle information processing on human topics as if human topics are math problems with a specific answer. Perhaps instead, machines should be trained to suggest questions to consider instead of answers to accept with respect to human inquiries relating to politics, economics, psychology, child rearing, crop science – the full range of arts, humanities, and social sciences.

Second, people training these machines should be explicit about the biases and perspectives being built into how the AI organizes, sorts, and frames information. (My own bias on this topic is that I believe American AI companies should be building AI with quintessentially American framing.) Third, AI creators should consider the political, regulatory, and legal risks of “overselling” what AI is and what it can do. For example, should AI creators anticipate a duty to warn users of shortcomings with AI’s results and/or disclaimers of warranties?

Fourth, AI creators need to consider improving the quality of data upon which the systems are being trained, recognizing that many online data sources intentionally mislead to advance political agendas. Perfectly “unbiased” information is impossible to obtain, but some information is more accurate and less biased than other information; trainers should exercise better judgement about data. The creation of AI large language models is an incredible feat of engineering. It’s quite useful, and will soon be essential, but it is still a product of human invention. As such, we need to recognize that AI is ultimately just the latest, greatest – but still imperfect – implement invented and used by homo sapiens to make life better for homo sapiens.

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  • April 17, 2026 at 9:09 am #238559
    Raúl Ilargi Meijer
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    Gustave Caillebotte Rue Mont-Cenis, Montmartre 1880 • The CIA Tried to Remove a Sitting President (CTH) • DNI Tulsi Gabbard Sends Criminal Referrals f
    [See the full post at: Debt Rattle April 17 2026]

    April 17, 2026 at 9:31 am #238578
    Michael Reid
    Participant

    25:00
    This is a moment of great importance in history.
    500 years, 5 centuries of European or Euro-Atlantic Euro-American domination of world affairs are over.

    April 17, 2026 at 10:55 am #238579
    Michael Reid
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    Lavrov Responds to Trump’s Strait of Hormuz Blockade | RU-EN

    April 17, 2026 at 11:00 am #238580
    Michael Reid
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    April 17, 2026 at 11:33 am #238581
    Michael Reid
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    Russia Can Fill Energy Gap After Hormuz Blockade | RU-EN

    April 17, 2026 at 12:20 pm #238582
    Dr. D
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    So how are the million troops that we landed in Kharg? Wait: NO troops? AND we shut off Iran’s oil anyway?

    Alex C. said it was inevitable, Mr. Anderson, to have 1 million American soldiers in Ukraine, limiteless HIMARS, and nuclear exchange. That’s what warmongers want. What gives?

    But we can’t have that, because every Davis, Johnson, Ritter said we already landed those 1 Million men in Venezuela! And we’ve already been there for 10 years! How is that going, Fox News? Nepalitano?

    So it’s OBVIOUS we couldn’t have 1 Million men to land in Kharg.

    But! Fox News said we’re landing 1 Million for 10 years in Kharg too. …Because they’re hundreds and hundreds of miles from the Strait. That’s how you hold Taiwan now: You decamp in Australia hundreds of miles away. I mean, why not Crete? Not that much further.

    Stay tuned for where these stable geniuses, never wrong, say we’re going to decamp the NEXT Million soldiers for 20 years? Mars, I expect? Or Lithuania.

    Nevermind, no matter how many thousand times wrong since 2001, they are never, ever in doubt. As proven by their being re-quoted every day.

    “California Offering Taxpayer-Funded Gender Surgeries To Homeless, Illegal Immigrants: Report

    Always a good time to Sterilize people! With Globalist Eugenics! Canada! Eugenics Capital of the World! There’s no one they won’t kill or sterilize! Hundred thousands at a pop, highest cause of death. No wonder they gave Ukrainian Nazis a standing ovation: Ukraine can only DREAM of killing as many as Canada.

    Oh, Canada. Why, my brothers, why?

    “Afghan Man Arrested For Series Of Rapes Of Goats And Sheep In France
    …animal protection organization vows to “take this barbarian to court…”

    In Europe, Goats now have more rights than women. Goes to show they are all Muslim nations. Oddly it’s all the women voting for this, in opposition to all the men.

    “The highest ranking US intelligence official, just released smoking gun docs proving that Obama and his underlings committed treason/sedition.”

    Don’t care: do something. We’ve known this since, I dunno, June 2017. Just as obvious then. J6 Committee NEVER EXISTED, it was improperly formed, so EVERYTHING it ever did was illegal, and generally speaking a human rights violation. (Random citizens cannot subpoena and contempt people, nor destroy evidence) That was known the day after they claimed to be an instrument of Congress, which as constructed they never were.

    Okay, if you indict 1/3 of Congress or more, what happens to …anything? But let’s say “A quorum”? Or that we’re just arresting Congressmen in order to queer the vote?

    “Hungary’s new PM REJECTS 90% of the EU’s demands—only accepting anti-corruption measures”

    Double-checking this, but now why Orban conceded at 40%, and didn’t protest the vote-rigging. Turns out he had better blackmail on this maniac than the EU did. …And he IS a lunatic. He put a dog in the microwave and beats his wife. Official court docs. And everybody knew it. Fine by me. Like Rubio, if he does his job, I don’t care, prison is expensive if he can do useful work outside. Don’t trust him obviously though. Now Orban can go do some other job. And you can see with a long record of being a violent child-abusing psychopath, why the EU chose him.

    “• The CIA Tried to Remove a Sitting President (CTH)

    Which time? And they’ve been doing that to ALL Presidents, obv JFK, and Nixon was set up specifically, AND Woodward, etc were used assets, AND Bush WAS the CIA Director, AND Ross Perot said exactly this, AND, and, and…

    “Before this operation in 2019, CIA analysts weren’t allowed to anonymously make claims against political officials. The reasons are obvious.”

    Yes, and NYS ALSO changed the laws to get Trump. But I didn’t realize: they passed a law to retroactively made it possible to Civilly Sue “People named Donald Trump” (j/k), but what I DIDN’T know was that they KNEW what a mess that would make of the justice system, so they made that law possible for just ONE YEAR: the year that his bat s—t cat-lady who had no idea what year or what store it was, could use that law.

    Law: It’s that thing “We Just Make Up!!!” whenever we want, then Un-Make, whenever we want the next minute. That thing we enforce on enemies and neglect to enforce on friends. That is: NO LAW AT ALL. None. The Law is POWER. “The Law is in my mouth”. It’s whatever I thought a second ago and changes again an hour from now. That is the protection of the Law.

    “• DNI Tulsi Gabbard Sends Criminal Referrals for Atkinson and Ciaramella (CTH)

    Good thing Congress is 90 Attorneys short! If only they had seated … uh, the ENTIRE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT…they would be able to prosecute these crimes. Ah. Well, there’s an answer to that. As Treason run BY foreign governments (England), they are actually subject to military tribunal. Especially if there is no Congress as too many members are complicit (and they are), and with no quorum can pass no laws. Just sayin’. That is the legal and appropriate truth of the matter.

    ““Gabbard is providing the receipts, the actual evidence, of how these IC operations took place.”

    Part of the problem is that, lacking 90 investigators, with all the existing ones likely to be moles themselves, if they make ONE mistake, the media will focus only on that. I mean: they shamelessly Make S—t Up every minute of every day, imagine what would happen if they actually HAD a single fact or error to go on?

    ““Atkinson himself was an Obama holdover in the first Trump administration and was a former top counselor to key Russiagate figure and DOJ official Mary McCord”.

    Ah, Miss McCord, the lead seditionist and traitor. She and her name was on every document everywhere, I think right down to Fanni and James.

    “• Trump ‘Permanently Opening’ Strait of Hormuz ‘for China’ (RT)

    So 1) China is paying us something, there’s a Deal.(Beijing has “agreed not to send weapons to Iran,) 2) No! We’re still blockading someone: EUROPE. Aw. And we said, “If you want oil, all you have to do is send ONE broken warship, stand around and do nothing like a good little toddler with a plastic tool-belt, and they wouldn’t. Now we’re enforcing THEIR embargo! The one Europe voted for!

    “• Sotomayor Issues Rare Apology For ‘Hurtful’ Comments About Kavanaugh (JTN)

    Well that’s appropriate. Does this mean Woke is going less insane? As a signal? That’s what you really need to “win”: normalcy. Where Rule of Law works again. Extremism declines. That is of course a lot harder, also because it’s so much less ‘cool’ than being “Radical”, “Edgy” and killin’ some folks. Downright Christian, with white Mormon shirts on. Yawn. Losers. Squares. All the cool kidz are killin’ folks, don’t you want to join the bloodlust too? C’mon who wants to be “rational” and “use facts” n’ stuff when we can “make s–t up?”

    “From President Donald Trump about Peter Magyar: “He’s a good man. I think he’s going to do a good job.”

    Trump said the same thing about Carney. Carney’s the man for him. Carney is Trump’s choice, and made man, Trump sees as the best for his purposes. So of course Canada voted in the Trumpster’s Choice! That’s “Elbows Up!” Doing exactly what Hitler wants.

    “They’re turning Ukraine into the European arms factory. The money will keep flowing.”

    I fail to see how they’re going to do this. Russia will bomb them all. Where are they getting their energy from at this point? So we DO have underground micro-reactors don’t we? You know, the ones Elon said we were sending to the moon next year bc they aren’t officially invented yet?

    Btw, that AI pic looks nothing like Ze, who is pudgy comedian. That pic looks like Ed Norton from Fight Club.

    Anyway, the point here is Europe’s technofantasies: that given a war to make R&D, they will fight an all-robotic, no-human war against Russia, where they can kill all humans on earth, remove all their guns, and still win. Errrr….Suspect not, actually. You can kill yourself that way, with unintended consequences, but I bet no.

    …But as we see with AI, nothing can dissuade these morons. Even if it kills them all and us too. Evil incarnate, run entirely by ego, as usual.

    “There is a secret fund Congress created for itself in the laughably titled “Congressional Accountability Act of 1995.” Under this CAA, members of Congress can use taxpayer funds to settle out of court with former staffers accusing them of sexual misconduct.”

    So it’s a free Rape Card and Rape Fund.

    The DeSantis measure went nowhere.” Same as insider trading. Nobody’s doing it, that’s why they all are opposed to having it exposed and illegal again. Let’s add that other thing: Sunlight is the best disinfectant. And nothing can be secret because it’s MY MONEY and I get to know what it was spent on or there’s no democracy.

    “• Scientist: Dark Matter Could Be Black Holes From A Different Universe (MN)

    They know nothing, because none of the theories they’re proposing have any practical effects. That’s how you know they’re wrong. They’ve also been wrong for 80 years, since Einstein. This is from yes, that “Reality is Consciousness” but that’s a bigger level. They’re wrong about everything because everyone who was SUCCESSFUL, like Maxwell, Tesla, believed in the Ether, as all reputable scientists did until like 1930 when progress stopped. The Ether is the high-tension, zero-point state of energy, but no…distortion, ripples in it. But that essentially means there is no ‘Matter”, no “Tiny rocks” they are all energies that APPEAR like matter at higher scales.

    Therefore there is no “Dark Matter” no matter missing. So scientists honestly say with a straight face, that the whole universe, most of it, it made up of matter that no one can see, hear, taste, touch, or measure? The Whoooooooole universe is invisible, they say, trust us. Yeah, no. If you don’t know what most of the Universe is, you don’t know Jack, I’m not trusting you with s—t.

    Their equations are ALSO off (other assumptions) but that “Dark Matter” IS THE ETHER you dips—ts, it’s like all those years scientists would make up ANY assumption, however moronic, to avoid saying there was a Great Flood. …BECAUSE that was in the Bible. Yeah, the Sun is in the Bible too, and Pharaohs, but they didn’t need to make up ridiculous explanations to refute the existence of historic Egypt. This is because Scientists run not on facts, but POPULARITY. Social clubs…and now money. Anyway “The Ether” is “Uncool” so no one can just put back what all the greatest scientists said was there, and also solves all their “String Theory” failures. …Most expensive retardation in the history of mankind, as they build a Hadron collider, costing 80 years and trillions of dollars to find “Tiny rocks” that don’t exist and had no practical application because their theory is wrong but they’re too pin-headed to admit it.

    “Aristotle said a bunch of stuff that was wrong. Galileo and Newton fixed things up. Then Einstein broke everything again. Now, we’ve basically got it all worked out, except for small stuff, big stuff, hot stuff, cold stuff, fast stuff, heavy stuff, dark stuff, turbulence, and the concept of time”*.

    I mean, except for “All Reality”, they got it figured out!

    * And Consciousness. That thing with which we PERCEIVE all the former, so is one half of all reality at a minimum.

    But they’re certainly updated for 2026: Wormholes both do and don’t exist, both. Dark Matter does and does not exist, both, and Black Holes that Hawking invented, then said they don’t exist, now do exist again, but don’t.

    Reality a la carte! Whatever you think it should be! Just make it up!

    “Still, people tend to trust machines more than people,”

    Why on EARTH anyone who’s ever worked with any machine would do that, I can’t imagine, but agree it’s true. That’s why they created AI: it lets them say “Computer sez obey me” and so people will. The greatest scam ever invented. “Computer says, empty your pockets, hand me your wallet, and kill your kids,” and people will do it, no questions asked. A psychopath’s dream. But it does more than this. It hallucinates completely wrong answers to simple questions and is unable to count to “100” when commanded.

    “In a jaw-dropping revelation, ‘new emails’ prove Attorney General Merrick Garland LIED”

    Least jaw dropping ever. There was never any moment in Garland’s life he wasn’t lying. Check the record.

    Apparently the thing they were after was the un-classified Congressional report about Russiagate, the one Tulsi just re-re-re-re-re released just now. Because it’s all legal facts, that they just Re-classified the minute Trump de-classified it, then he was out of office.

    I suspect Trump MADE them think he had it, (and he probably does) because he needs JURISDICTION in Miami, or indeed, any location in America except D.C. This is going quite well as Judge Cannon can tie ANYTHING, to Lago, since it’s all ONE running conspiracy, which has no statute of limitations and is indeed still going on now.

    “Historian Bill Federer: “By 2030, there will be a majority Muslim population in Europe, and they’ll just flat out vote in Sharia law.”

    Don’t be ridiculous: they already are! The only Muslim nations against the Iran war are England and France. They’re gonna a-tell Saudi and Kuwait, UAE about how Islam is a religion of peace and Iran is the new Shangra-la. …And have.

    Tucker himself is now on tour with Starmer and Charles about how Islam is a religion of peace and perfect light, who never fought a war ever, actually! Never a thousand battles right up to Tours and Vienna or nothin’, cause they were always sooper peaceful like that. And that’s NOTHING compared to how peaceful they are since 1970 or 2000. The Pope agrees! He’s given up being Catholic in order to promote the amazing peace of the One True Prophet, (Peace be upon him).

    Oh no: not more AI hallucinations and Iranian Press releases with AI video of bases that never existed, blowing up American helicopters with one 5.56 round like the A-Team. Okay then. AI made it up, must be true! Here we go. Day 27.

    April 17, 2026 at 12:43 pm #238584
    John Day
    Participant

    Man, I’m really depressed that “scientists” are now saying that “wormholes may not really exist”!
    Is nothing Sacred?
    ;-(

    April 17, 2026 at 1:06 pm #238589
    charles
    Participant

    Good harvest today. I cant read until I get back from visit with 96 yo mom. She has TDS bad. Lives in NYC. I just listen. Talk about opposition. Dark matter. Black Holes. I believe this is correct. The big bang is cute. Not infinite enough. Thats a math joke. The universe is how far we can see. The cosmos is everything. Imagine you are sitting on the edge of a pool on a sunny day. look at the reflections of the waves on the bottom. Racing around. Dark spots. light streaks and webs. now slow that down by a billion billion times. make it bigger by (billion)^billion times. Our big bang is one little light spot. The big bangs are constantly swirling merging dividing. In the background unseen is the pool. made of black holes, which is dark matter. All that banging is an artifact of black hole soup.

    April 17, 2026 at 1:48 pm #238590
    Dr. D
    Participant

    Breaking News:

    “Oil Plunges As Iran ‘Completely Opens’ Hormuz, US Reportedly ‘Mulls’ $20BN Cash-For-Nukes Deal

    That’s odd. Funny old world. Iran opened the straits because they were leveled, and now did nothing about it, and opened the straits because “They’re just swell guys.” Hey, the only people they were hurting or the only leverage left was Europe. Huh. So Europe and Iran appear to be the same entity, the same team here. Huh.

    So Europe – being totally different and the only people Iran could still use to win – asked Iran “Hey can you help a brother and end the war, no hard feelings, give the U.S. everything they want?” And Iran said, “Okay then. Sounds good.”

    And every Fox News, Duran, NBC, CNN “Expert” now…??? What exactly?

    Wait, don’t we have to send a MILLION MEN into Iran for aground war to open the strait? No? Never did? We just say “Pretty please” and it opens. Wow.

    Okay, back to the real world, what happened?

    1) The Gulf had had enough of this S—t and, unlike Islamic nations England and France, actually have to live with Iran. So even being bombed for 40 days – Oman was invaded and Iran let loose mines everywhere – they did NOT give up Iran’s bank accounts to the U.S. / Dollar system until this point. Gave them (or London) every opportunity, just as IRAN never closed the Straits (they couldn’t) LLOYD’S did. Which they had never done before in 400 years of wars. As ships got insurance, they ran the straits despite Iran, and many got through. So the war ended the day BANKING capitulated. Hmmm.

    2) Arcana, but CRITICAL: Iran has nothing BUT oil, and no infrastructure. So what’s happening is, they pump oil, it goes directly from the field into the boats. No storage at all. So what happens is, if there are ANY boats disrupted, the pressure drops, the pipeline fails, then backs up into the field. Like yes, this is a revenue thing, but it’s ALSO a reality thing. IF the pipeline pressure stops, the field pressure stops and it takes 10 years of re-drilling to recreate it. I guess technically the oil is flowing TOWARD the wellhead, but if you shut that off, pressure collapses, it wanders throughout the field, and it becomes a harder, new, less-productive field permanently. So merely INTERRUPTING the straits, for a week or so, means all Iran’s fields collapse…for a generation. The IRGC cannot just turn the tap back on even if they wanted to. Even with Exxon’s top people there. So there’s no money…and no FUTURE money. With a teeny-tiny interruption. No one cares about deaths. Iran doesn’t care about their people. They only stop with the MONEY.

    Trump played that interruption (it’s long well-known Big Oil works with govt, esp Republican Govt) as leverage, and we know it was biting and happening right now because they shut off their “refined petrochemicals” plant. That’s what that headline meant. So Trump totally COULD do that part, even if he can’t be arsed to get a battleship inland, why bother? It’s completely irrelevant.

    Speaking of, it’s not that Iran didn’t happen to sink our carriers, it’s that THEY COULDN’T. Officially, Iran shot over 4,000 weapons at the USS Lincoln alone, and missed all 4,000 times. That is, whatever they’re using, those ships are HIGHLY DEFENSIBLE while well within theatre (but maybe not like 100 yards away). That’s not crazy, that’s only 100 units/day.

    We also found that, again, whatever they’re using, Russia and China air defense are essentially worthless. Maybe later we’ll have a debrief as to why. If they’re not shut off as I suggested, the situation is 100x worse.

    Third, TEN PERCENT OF THE U.S. MILITARY CONQUERED WESTERN EUROPE IN 40 DAYS. That’s what we all heard, right? Iran is SERIOUS. Big, huge actor, top hardware, hypersonics, millions of men. All true! That they were so large we can never reach them, so vast, larger than Europe, the size and population ALONE made it impossible. “Abandon hope all ye who enter here.”

    Nope, all Western Europe, 90 Million people in 40 days. Bye. We hit anything that moves, day or night from here to forever. So…I guess we were slightly more capable than we were letting on? Same as “The Combubulator” in Caracas? Man, you better hope we’re the Good Guys because this is far, far worse than anyone thought.

    So that’s the daily update, while I guess Simplicicus and Johnson, the Duran are still expecting the Allatollah to be seated in the White House shortly.

    IF ONLY we had believed the experts and taken their advice to have a land invasion! Why didn’t we listen to their most excellent advice and put all our assets in danger? Aaaaaaaand…who were they working for, to repeat this WHILE IT WAS DAILY WRONG, like PCR DEMANDING Putin land-invade shock-and-awe in Lviv. Uh, no thank you actually. I can win from Kansas so why would I send men there?

    Also news: Guess F35 was hit with a missile AND FLEW HOME? Wtf? And the only Warthog too, we have 251 of them, Iran hit ONE after 40 days of non-stop flying, AND IT FLEW HOME. It was unlandable, so the pilot ejected and safely ditched it in a field in Kuwait. Again, wtf? The other C130 pics? Again, WE blew them up like that, so as not to fall into enemy hands. Not that they weren’t a write-off, but the impressive part of their turning to a wreck was US, not Iran.

    And that’s not to say Iran didn’t hit a bunch of stuff, and I think capture s’more drones, or shoot down that Orion or whatever. No doubt they did, and good on ‘em. But when we have 250 Warthogs and you shot one AND our airplane factories are humming, you have a VERY SERIOUS PROBLEM.

    Instead, headlines: “Did Iran Put the A-10 Out of Service?” A: NO. You dips—ts, the A-10 was ALREADY out of service. Years. Widely known. Iran was so pathetic we put it BACK into service on them, and the 1955 B-52 as well. So if anything we might make MORE of them thanks to the incredible success of having this tool strafing boats in the Gulf, and killing MANPADs but we already have 250 more of them, so probably not this minute.

    April 17, 2026 at 1:58 pm #238591
    Dr. D
    Participant

    “The closer this Iran war comes to a favorable resolution, the more garishly negative the puling Lefty-left gets, wishing fervently for the enemy to prevail. Why? Because the Lefty-left is also an enemy of our country. They want the operation to fail so they can reclaim power and resume wrecking the USA” –Kunstler

    All Americans must die. That’s the moral position of all good people, the side of the angels. Any enemy, however grotesque, must be supported in the goal of murdering all men in the “West”, that is, yourselves.

    WHY WOULD YOU DO THAT?

    How could you NOT be considered captured by the opposition, death-cult religion if that is what is said all day now. ANY loss of the U.S. — or whatever your home nation is — is cheered, any GAIN by your home nation is mourned.

    How did we, you, get here? If that’s your position, how are you on the side of life and the moral right any longer? Stop. Re-think.

    April 17, 2026 at 2:15 pm #238592
    Michael Reid
    Participant

    Amb. Chas Freeman: Israel’s Strategy Just COLLAPSED – Trump Steps In

    April 17, 2026 at 2:15 pm #238593
    tboc
    Participant

    Dr.D the elves are leaving Middle Earth.

    All the king’s horses and all the King’s men
    Could not put Humpty together again.

    April 17, 2026 at 2:22 pm #238594
    tboc
    Participant

    humanity is deeply entrenched in the idea the human optical system shows reality as it Is, not as we construct the filtered information

    April 17, 2026 at 2:24 pm #238595
    zerosum
    Participant

    🚨BREAKING:🚨

    The US finally heard Iran saying,

    ” The straight of Horuz is open to all commercial traffic.”

    Trump said,

    “Our naval blocking is staying in place.”

    https://web.archive.org/web/20260415190647/https://www.rt.com/news/638459-trump-opening-hormuz-strait/
    Trump ‘permanently opening’ Strait of Hormuz ‘for China’
    The US president claims Beijing has agreed “not to send weapons to Iran”
    Published 15 Apr, 2026 12:40 |
    ————-
    “Gabbard is providing the receipts, the actual evidence, of how these IC operations took place.”

    • Tulsi Explains Criminal Referral of Trump Impeachment Collaborators (CTH)

    DNI Tulsi Gabbard Outlines Reason for Criminal Referral of Trump Impeachment Collaborators


    ————–
    🚨BREAKING:🚨

    JUSTICE IS FINALLY AT THE DOORSTEP! 💪🏻🇺🇸🔥
    —————
    🚨BREAKING:🚨TRUMP DOJ PREPARING TO INDICT ENTIRE J6 COMMITTEE –

    The highest ranking US intelligence official, just released smoking gun docs proving that Obama and his underlings committed treason/sedition.
    —————-

    The CIA Tried to Remove a Sitting President

    April 15, 2026 | Sundance | 327 Comments
    For the past 72 hours I have been attempting to draw attention to the big picture.
    The evidence has been released. {GO DEEP} The long-debated issue is no longer a matter of opinion or question.

    The CIA tried to remove a President.
    ————-

    🚨BREAKING: Hungary’s new PM REJECTS 90% of the EU’s demands—only accepting anti-corruption measures.
    ————-

    April 17, 2026 at 3:33 pm #238598
    Michael Reid
    Participant

    April 17, 2026 at 3:44 pm #238599
    zerosum
    Participant

    IRAN HAS JUST ANNOUNCED THAT THE STRAIT OF IRAN IS FULLY OPEN AND READY FOR FULL PASSAGE. THANK YOU!

    30 mins later

    THE STRAIT OF HORMUZ IS COMPLETELY OPEN AND READY FOR BUSINESS AND FULL PASSAGE, BUT THE NAVAL BLOCKADE WILL REMAIN IN FULL FORCE AND EFFECT AS IT PERTAINS TO IRAN, ONLY, UNTIL SUCH TIME AS OUR TRANSACTION WITH IRAN IS 100% COMPLETE. THIS PROCESS SHOULD GO VERY QUICKLY IN THAT MOST OF THE POINTS ARE ALREADY NEGOTIATED. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER! PRESIDENT DONALD J.TRUMP

    20 mins later

    Iran, with the help of the U.S.A., has removed, or is removing, all sea mines! Thank you! President DJT

    Liar! Seamine is not on and off switch dude. Now 5 mins ago

    Iran has agreed to never close the Strait of Hormuz again. It will no longer be used as a weapon against the World! President DONALD J. TRUMP

    Trump is spamming so much. Is this Trump Friday stock market manipulation?

    The only truth is when the live tracker shows how many ships moving in and out of the straits

    Posted by: KillerDoll | Apr 17 2026 14:55 utc | 363

    April 17, 2026 at 4:56 pm #238600
    D Benton Smith
    Participant

    April 17, 2026 at 5:20 pm #238601
    D Benton Smith
    Participant

    @DrD

    “The closer this Iran war comes to a favorable resolution, the more garishly negative the puling Lefty-left gets, wishing fervently for the enemy to prevail. Why? Because the Lefty-left is also an enemy of our country. They want the operation to fail so they can reclaim power and resume wrecking the USA” –Kunstler

    You do understand, don’t you DrD, that the “favorable resolution” that the Kunt speaks of is literal death to all of his real and imagined enemies. And he’s got a whole bunch of those you betcha.

    You read and repeat what he says, but you still do not comprehend what he says. I cannot yet quite bring myself to believe that you are as deranged as that Zionist POS Jimmy the kid killer Kuntsler, but keep talking. I’m starting to get there.

    When JHK uses the term “our country” he is not thinking of the country that YOU are thinking of, but keep thinking it. You’re starting to get there.

    April 17, 2026 at 6:45 pm #238602
    zerosum
    Participant

    WOW!
    I would think that with all the ceasefires that Trump will be able to bring all the troops home and save a lot of money, resources, equipment and MAGA.

    April 17, 2026 at 6:56 pm #238603
    zerosum
    Participant

    How to make friends.
    HUMMMM!
    Taiwan, Japan and South Korea, etc. need oil from the Gulf area.
    Now it’s only the US blocking it.

    April 17, 2026 at 8:04 pm #238604
    zerosum
    Participant

    The Iran War Summary: Week Seven
    17th April 2026
    Dr. Rob Campbell
    https://robcampbell.substack.com/p/the-iran-war-summary-week-seven
    This week, the Iran ‘ceasefire’, the US/Iranian ‘blockades’ of Hormuz and the continued fighting in Lebanon have eclipsed the conflict in Ukraine where there have been no major developments. You can view the Ukraine Update here.
    https://robcampbell.substack.com/p/ukraine-and-world-affairs-weekly-fcc

    —————
    Trade or Bids are open. ( I’ll bet on a trade for a functioning A – Missile)
    The Axios portal reports that Tehran and Washington are discussing the possibility of exporting some of Iran’s enriched uranium to a third country.

    April 17, 2026 at 8:55 pm #238605
    Michael Reid
    Participant

    Russia Rejects U.S. Demand on Iran’s Enriched Uranium | RU-EN
    53K views · 1 day ago

    April 17, 2026 at 9:33 pm #238606
    Michael Reid
    Participant

    LAVROV ATTACKS: ‘EU Elites Blocking Peace’, Russia Slams Brussels, EXPOSES War Role In Ukraine!
    14K views · 15 hours ago

    April 17, 2026 at 9:41 pm #238607
    tboc
    Participant

    does no one consider the possibility that everything DNI and head of CIA are revealing is so embedded in the Federal Bureaucry that none of the participants believed there would be repurcussion from their actions?

    Of course this is an inopportune moment to remind that Reagan’s to be elected administration negotiated with Iran while Mr. Carter was sitting. Do not remember any blowback there.

    Powell lied on the world stage about concocted information using the schemes cooked by the CIA.
    Citizens of the US were killed as a result. Not my kids, not my problem.

    Wealth does not trickle down, corruption surely does. There will be no change in the United States until the people admit to their corruption.

    Violence in the Middle East and South America will not end until the US and Israel financial houses are defeated.
    Not pleasant words to utter
    There will be no peace until The Parasitic Western Financial Houses are rent and put asunder. Death is the fine structure constant of western finance.

    from over here it looks like the Christians have done a good job of destroying their societies. That must be one of those mote and beam conditions when the discussion turns to Islam.

    if you are cheering on Victor Davis Hanson there is blood on your hands

    April 17, 2026 at 10:37 pm #238610
    Michael Reid
    Participant

    Scott Ritter: Russia Threatens Strike on Finland & Baltic States
    21K views · 1 hour ago

    April 17, 2026 at 11:07 pm #238611
    Michael Reid
    Participant

    Lavrov on Trump’s threat against Cuba | RU-EN

    April 17, 2026 at 11:19 pm #238612
    Dr. D
    Participant

    Odd, that’s quiet today.

    And yes, all those points are well taken: Mines don’t just wander off. We need confirms of open passage with all the flip-flopping around, people can still change their mind, Iran still has the Uranium, etc. We need what’s happening to catch up and be solid, everything’s been moving very fast.

    So if Stalin has an accurate report of the fighting on the eastern front, I can’t quote him, because he’s an “Immoral Actor” and saying his name leaves blood on my hands? How does that work? If so, he could even be an IN-Accurate report, and we can STILL quote him for discussion, as has often been happening here. Is it MORE moral to be completely wrong and get everyone killed, than to be more accurate but have to quote the kind of scum who are reporters and informants?

    If we only quote people who were never Immoral, here’s the New Testament, but I don’t think you’ll find accurate reports on the war and economy in there. So that leaves you and me.

    Kunstler isn’t even Jewish-level pro-Israel, he’s merely New York level of pro Israel. And I’m not pro-Israel at all, obviously.

    April 17, 2026 at 11:25 pm #238613
    Michael Reid
    Participant

    A Pakistani woman removes the citizenship of a natural born Englishman

    April 17, 2026 at 11:34 pm #238614
    Michael Reid
    Participant

    Servant Disobeys His Master
    Trump shocked Netanyahu with post declaring Lebanon strikes “prohibited”
    https://www.axios.com/2026/04/17/lebanon-strikes-israel-trump-prohibited

    April 17, 2026 at 11:36 pm #238615
    Michael Reid
    Participant

    April 18, 2026 at 12:07 am #238616
    Michael Reid
    Participant

    Robert Barnes | What the HELL is going on in the White House?

    April 18, 2026 at 12:11 am #238617
    Michael Reid
    Participant

    breaking:%20U.S.%20sailors%20SET%20FIRE%20to%20an%20Aircraft%20Carrier%20USS%20Dwight%20Eisenhower%20to%20protest%20the%20Iran%20War

    April 18, 2026 at 12:52 am #238618
    Doc Robinson
    Participant

    Iranian news source says that by April 4, more than 10 million Iranian volunteers had joined the grassroots “Janfada” campaign for defense of the country if there’s a ground invasion.

    “If you encroach upon our home, you will face the entire family,” adding, “We are not warmongers—but when it comes to defending our homeland, each of us becomes a soldier.”

    “During the war with Saddam, they claimed Tehran would fall within a week, yet the war lasted eight years. We are a resilient nation and will continue until our enemies regret their actions.”

    Historically, the scale of this mobilization is notable. During the eight-year Iran–Iraq War, around two million volunteers joined the front lines—roughly 5–6% of the population at the time. In contrast, more than 10 million registrations in the “Janfada” campaign within days amount to over 11% of Iran’s current population, reflecting both the speed and scale of today’s response.


    https://wanaen.com/over-10-million-iranians-join-janfada-campaign-amid-war/

    UPDATE (April 16)
    Fars News Agency reported that the total number of Iranians registered for the Janfada campaign now exceeds 26 million.

    April 18, 2026 at 12:52 am #238619
    Michael Reid
    Participant

    Kaliningrad Under Pressure: Is a Real Blockade Possible? – Stanislav Krapivnik

    April 18, 2026 at 1:24 am #238620
    Maxwell Quest
    Participant

    What is Dark Matter?

    Apologies for my lateness.

    Scientists claim the motions of the Cosmos cannot be explained by gravity alone. Something else must exist, something hidden, undiscovered, which for lack of a better term, they call ‘Dark Matter’.

    I’m sure that physicists have access to the same materials which have been handed down from occultists and the esoteric tradition. But one cannot mention or reference such writings without being kicked out of the scientific community and into outer darkness. Goodbye PHD and grant money, I hardly knew ye.

    Likewise, Scientific Journals refuse to publish papers based on the reports of Yogi’s with second sight. Because science is blind to such methods, it is forced to use machines, like CERN, in attempts to penetrate the secrets of matter, a formidable task.

    For those open-minded enough to explore this topic further, here are a few quotes from Henry T Laurancy’s (a pseudonym) book: The Knowledge of Reality:

    —

    The six molecular kinds within each systemic world have been given analogous names and mathematical designations:

    (1 atomic)
    2 subatomic
    3 superetheric
    4 etheric <- the periodic table of elements exist here (my addition)
    5 gaseous
    6 liquid
    7 solid

    The figure of each molecular kind is put after that designating the atomic kind. Thus, the physical gaseous molecular kind is written 49:5.

    The chemical so-called atom of science is a physical etheric molecule (49:4). This molecular kind, like all other molecular kinds, contains 49 different layers of matter. To reach the real physical atom (49:1), nuclear physicists have to work their way through 147 kinds of matter, each in succession higher than the other. No physical science will achieve that. (emphasis mine)

    It should be mentioned in this connection that the “elements” of the ancients (at which chemists laugh), namely, earth, water, air, fire, and quinta essentia, were their terms of the five
    lowest molecular kinds, or states of aggregation.

    —

    Dynamis
    The original cause of motion, the source of all force, the one primordial force, the universe’s
    total energy, is the dynamic energy of primordial matter, which Pythagoras called dynamis. It is eternally active, inexhaustible, unconscious, absolute omnipotence. Dynamis acts in every primordial atom, and only in the primordial atoms, which penetrate all matter. Dynamis is the fundamental cause of the perpetuum mobile of the universe.

    —

    Material Energy
    Energy in the scientific sense is matter in motion. All higher kinds of matter (atomic kinds,
    molecular kinds) are energy in relation to all lower kinds. Matter does not dissolve into energy, but into higher matter. When matter ceases to move, its quality of being energy ceases. All forces of nature are matter. There are more than 2400 different kinds of forces of nature within the solar system. Every molecular kind contains 49 different layers of matter, which can all act as energy.

    —

    The Cosmic Motion
    The cosmic motion (in the 49 atomic kinds) is the result of a constant current of primordial atoms (primary matter) flowing down from the highest atomic world through the atoms of all the worlds unto the lowest world, then returning to the highest world to begin their circulation anew, and this continuing as long as the existence of the lower worlds is necessary. There are two kinds of atoms: negative and positive. In the negative (receptive) atoms, material energy flows from a higher atomic kind to a lower one; in the positive (propulsive) atoms, from a lower to a higher one. This current is the force that maintains the atoms, molecules, material aggregates in their given forms. As a result, all atoms in all worlds, and consequently all molecules and aggregates, radiate material energy, in doing which the aggregate always in some respect communicates something of its individual character. Therefore, every aggregate emits specialized energy.

    —

    Ultimate-Physical-Atom

    The male/female or positive/negative ultimate physical atom of the physical plane.

    April 18, 2026 at 1:44 am #238621
    Michael Reid
    Participant

    DANGER ALERT
    43:00

    April 18, 2026 at 3:03 am #238622
    zerosum
    Participant

    @ Maxwell Quest

    Like everyone, I assume that your mind is made up.

    Using modern/different word, search for:

    “Intelligent life as a non-material self-preserving pattern”

    April 18, 2026 at 3:12 am #238623
    zerosum
    Participant

    How to NOT make friends.

    Commit genocide in Gaza, invade Lebanon, bomb Iran, Syria, Yemen, and Iraq,
    Violate Geneva and Vienna Conventions, international law, human rights, and state sovereignty.
    Hide behind pre-fabricated laws, the word of god, destiny,, anti-Semitism, and the Holocaust.
    Create fear and hate.

    April 18, 2026 at 9:51 am #238626
    Dr. D
    Participant

    Maxwell:
    I really appreciate that framework with which to perceive reality and matter in a new way. There are many aspects, so I’ll have to think about it.

    Zero: yes, Israel is in big trouble and will have to transform radically. Nothing less would do. And more importantly to me, despite it being equally obvious since 1950, it’s been generations for America to wake up to the very same issue and have wherewithall to throw them off. I almost gave up it ever happening, and even now is barely started.

    But I bring it up to quote Kissinger, again, a Jew, and the foremost Globalist we know of. He said “Israel will cease to exist by 2022.” Now, they don’t predict things to happen, they MAKE them happen. So again, for Reid, they double crossed Israel and gave them their burn notice, essentially right on schedule, sacrificing them on the Chessboard for the Globalists. Bibi, maniac that he is, both noticed and did not like that.

    I believe they did that to shatter the United States and cause the Third World War, planed almost 100 years, but like the Race War they tried to kick off here, the U.S. isn’t in the same position with Christians, (there being any at all), dispensationalism, or anyone even being aware of Revelations…or probably the Bible for that matter. The internal/external cross they split Trump on worked, kinda-sorta, but there is so much noise distracting from it, it didn’t have the mental hold, the spell, it previously would have. Then the rest of the nations (Russia, China…Hungary) have become aware of the real history over the last 100 years and these idiot’s master plans. So they declined to get over-excited and participate, difficult as that is sometimes.

    Anyway, if you lived here for the last I dunno, 50 years or something, since the Jews went from doubtful here, to Godlike protected super-class, then you have been through the arc, particularly in the 80s, where they had this WWIII thing all plotted out blow-by blow. And all we had to do was follow Their…Kissinger’s…script. Which he said was 2022. They burned Israel to kick it off and start the mass-fire, and we have declined to obey them. …So far.

    As you can see, this was not easy, and there was a lot of shouting on all sides.

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