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Edward Hopper The Circle Theater, New York 1936


• Trump Blinks Again, Unilaterally Extends Iran Ceasefire (ZH)
• Schrödinger’s Strait (PA)
• Trump Says Iran Can ‘Expect’ Bombs (ZH)
• Iran Promises To ‘Reveal New Cards On The Battlefield’ (RT)
• Iran: US Must Retract ‘Maximalist’ Nuclear Demands for Talks to Proceed (ET)
• Are We Seeing the Makings of an Iranian Civil War? (Eric Florack)
• Perspective on Iran Conflict and Latest Intel Efforts to Disrupt Trump (CTH)
• It Is, After All, the Department of Justice (CTH)
• US Intel Secretly Flagged Major 2020 Election Vulnerabilities (JTN)
• Spygate, Russiagate, IC Impeachment, Jack Smith Targeting and Lawfare (CTH)
• US, Cuban Regime Confirm ‘Secret’ Talks in Havana (Sarah Anderson)
• The Space Launch Industry Is in Big Trouble… Except for You-Know-Who (Green)
• Hungary’s Magyar Warns Netanyahu of Arrest (RT)
• Europe EV Sales Jump 51% As Iran War Sends Gasoline Prices Soaring (Paraskova)

 


 

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No, Trump doesn’t blink. This is scripted.

• Trump Blinks Again, Unilaterally Extends Iran Ceasefire (ZH)

TACO Tuesday… Again: Ceasefire Extended in Trump TS Post. Can’t make this up… Trump unilaterally extends ceasefire, but says US Navy’s blockade of Iran’s ports will stay in place, after Islamabad talks collapse. Trump punts again… enjoy TACO Tuesday… we can say at least the bombing doesn’t look to resume, yet. To give more formality to it – or make it official, the White House also quickly put out Trump’s statement (and in a more presentable font) below. Initial reaction from Tehran:

IRAN NOT OFFICIALLY COMMENTING ON CEASEFIRE EXTENSION
IRAN’S POSITION WILL BE ANNOUNCED SUBSEQUENTLY


2nd Round Talks Collapse, Vance Not Traveling
Late afternoon headlines now confirm what was looking more and more inevitable as the hours passed but with no one side boarding planes to head to Islamabad: the Associated Press is reporting that Vice President Vance has called off the whole trip. This also as Tasnim is reporting Iran’s “final decision” to not be in Pakistan Wednesday – the same day the two-week ceasefire formally comes to a close. Pakistan sources are meanwhile reporting that key negotiating figures are absent on the ground, and officials are said to be urging the sides to join a second-round summit. And per Bloomberg: “Iran, for its part, told the mediators its delegation won’t leave Tehran before the blockade is lifted, according to officials familiar with the matter.”

US Delegation Trip for Talks ‘On Hold’
As VP Vance has been seen at the White House, clearly not en route to Pakistan for Iran talks, a hugely significant headline has sent oil up and stocks dumping more:

VP Vance’s Pakistan trip has been put on hold as Iran’s leadership remained divided over whether to participate in a new round of peace talks, via Axios
VANCE TRIP ON HOLD AS IRAN DIDN’T RESPOND TO US POSITIONS: NYT
VANCE TRIP TO PAKISTAN HAS NOT BEEN CANCLED: NYT
Newsquawk market reaction: Stocks see weakness, while oil and Dollar gain amid NYT reports that VP Vance’s diplomatic trip to Islamabad has been put on hold after Tehran failed to respond to American negotiating positions.

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“.. open and closed at the same time,.”

• Schrödinger’s Strait (PA)

Over the weekend, the Strait of Hormuz became Schrödinger’s Strait: open and closed at the same time, depending on which headline you were reading. On Friday, markets traded as if the Iran war was winding down cleanly. Iran said the Strait was open to commercial shipping during the ceasefire, Trump said he expected a deal with Iran “soon,” oil fell, and stocks rallied. By Sunday evening, Brent was back up sharply and stock futures were lower, after new friction around the U.S. blockade and Iran’s threats to respond. Reuters reported over the weekend that U.S. forces had turned back vessels under the blockade rules, that Iran warned the Gulf and Gulf of Oman would not be secure if its ports were threatened, and that the U.S. enforcement zone extends east into the Gulf of Oman. That sounds like chaos, but there’s a logic to it.


Reflexivity With Warships
What Trump appears to be doing here—whether consciously or not—is something that looks a lot like George Soros’s principle of reflexivity. Soros’s basic idea was that markets don’t just passively reflect reality; they can also change it. Prices move, expectations shift, financing conditions tighten or loosen, and those moves feed back into the real economy and even into political decisions. That’s especially relevant in a war centered on oil flows, shipping lanes, and financial pressure.

Iran’s Lever
Iran’s preferred lever has been obvious for weeks: threaten the Strait of Hormuz, raise oil prices, spook global markets, and put pressure on Washington through the U.S. economy. Higher crude means higher gasoline prices, and higher gasoline prices are one of the fastest ways to create political pain for an American president.

That leverage is real, because oil is globally priced and higher crude still means higher gasoline prices for American consumers. But it is also less direct than it would be for countries more dependent on Gulf barrels. The U.S. imports about 30%-35% of its crude oil demand, but 60%-62% of those imports come from Canada. That doesn’t make Washington immune, but it does mean Tehran’s strongest market weapon is still blunter against the United States than against much of the rest of the world. That is Tehran’s most obvious form of reflexive pressure. It doesn’t need to destroy a U.S. carrier group to hurt Washington. It just needs to make markets believe supply is at risk.

Trump’s Lever
Trump’s pressure campaign has been different. Much more of it has been in the physical world. First, there’s the blockade itself. It’s not a general closure of the Strait. It’s a targeted effort to stop Iranian oil sales, block Iranian maritime commerce, and deny Tehran both export earnings and imports flowing through the Gulf. U.S. enforcement boundaries extend east into the Gulf of Oman, which means Washington can exert pressure without having to crowd all its ships into the narrow and dangerous Strait itself. Second, there’s the pressure that builds as time passes. A blockade doesn’t just reduce cash inflow. It also creates storage problems for a producer.

As Miad Maleki put it in an X post over the weekend, “the oil and gasoline clocks don’t negotiate.”

He wrote that Iran entered the blockade with about 15 million barrels in Kharg storage, roughly 51% full. At a flat production fill rate of 1.9 million barrels per day, that storage would max out in about 8 days. Even with aggressive upstream throttling, he said, the ceiling would still be hit in about 20 days. After that, wells may have to be shut in, risking permanent reservoir damage. nThat’s the point. As time passes, Tehran has to think not just about lost revenue, but about storage, field management, and what happens if production has to be curtailed under pressure.

The Market As Battlefield
And that’s where reflexivity comes in. If Iran can push oil high enough, long enough, it can create pressure on Trump through markets and through consumer prices. But if Trump can keep oil from rising too much—through his own rhetoric, through repeated hints of imminent talks, through confidence that the conflict will end soon—then he can blunt Iran’s pressure on the U.S. economy while continuing to squeeze Iran physically through the blockade.

In other words, the market itself becomes part of the battlefield. If crude stays lower than Tehran wants, Trump buys time. Lower oil prices mean less pressure from American drivers, less political pressure on the White House, and more room to keep the blockade in place. If crude spikes, the reverse happens: Tehran’s leverage rises, not because it has sunk the U.S. Navy, but because it has raised the domestic economic cost of continuing the campaign.

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Iran will delay wherever they can. They’ve done it for 50 years. It’s worked for 50 years. Trump will break that. But it will take some time.

• Trump Says Iran Can ‘Expect’ Bombs (ZH)

President Trump on Tuesday said he expects a strong outcome from negotiations with Iran, telling CNBC that “they will end up with a great deal.” He added that “Iran has no choice, it is regime change no matter what you want to call it,” and emphasized that the US is in “a strong negotiating position.” He said the naval blockade “has been successful” and that US forces are “in control of the Strait.” Trump also stated he does not want to extend the ceasefire, saying “there is not that much time” – but added that “Iran can get itself onto good footing with a deal.”


He also acknowledged that Iran has likely continued to do missile restocking in the ceasefire interim period, and also moving its remaining missile arsenal around. But Trump also claimed the US is “much more powerful than it was a few weeks again” and that CENTCOM used the ceasefire to restock as well. Importantly he also said the US is “ready to go militarily” and that the world should “expect” bombing – in the instance there’s no Pakistan deal reached. And an interesting China reference:

Caught an Iranian ship with gifts from China, thought he had an understanding with China’s Xi, says “that’s alright”. Pakistan Talks: Timeline Still Up in the Air Who will fly to Islamabad first? Al Jazeera comments on the emerging diplomatic standoff before actual diplomacy even gets started, amid the continued tit-for-tat threats of potential escalation on the battlefield: Pakistan is ready to host the talks. They are planning for them to take place on Wednesday at the highest level. But the White House has been very tight-lipped about when JD Vance will be leaving Washington.

What appears to be going on is the US trying to protect itself from embarrassment. If it is to send its team, which ends up sitting here in Islamabad without Iran showing up, that would be a huge embarrassment. As a result, there now appears to be a game between the US and Iran over who is going to get on their plane and fly here first. Per Bloomberg at about 4am US time: “Iran s state-run TV denies unspecified media reports that an Iranian delegation has departed for or arrived in Pakistan for negotiations with the US.” Latest:

Al Jazeera reports: Mediators received confirmation of US VP Vance and Iran’s Ghalifab’s arrival in Islamabad at dawn Wednesday to lead talks.At the same time, per WSJ, Iran has informed regional mediators that it will send a delegation to Islamabad after for days of repeatedly refusing to commit to a new round of negotiations. However, there’s not been official confirmation, only signaling, with Pakistani officials insisting the Iranians will be there. And yet, it was only on Monday that Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesman said that there was no plan for a second round of negotiations.

But if all goes well, Vice President Vance is expected to depart for Pakistan today, leading the delegation which includes Kushner and Witkoff. As a reminder, on Monday President Trump said “lots of bombs” will be unleased on Iran if there is no deal, and also given the White House doesn’t plan to extend the ceasefire. The key issues of Iran’s nuclear program and the Hormuz Strait loom large. Iranian parliament speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf has at the same time warned: “we do not accept negotiations under the shadow of threats, and over the past two weeks we have prepared to reveal new cards on the battlefield”.

Another Vessel Interdiction by US Navy
US forces boarded a sanctioned tanker without resistance in the Indo-Pacific as part of operations targeting vessels linked to Iran, the Pentagon said on X. Initial statements did not indicate a precise location, and clearly it did not occur in the Hormuz Strait. Washington recently announced it is ready to seize ‘illicit’ Iran-linked vessels anywhere on the high seas. The move follows Sunday’s major boarding of an Iranian-flagged vessel, when a US warship opened fire as it attempted to transit the strait, striking and damaging the engine room.

CENTCOM: Overnight, U.S. forces conducted a right-of-visit, maritime interdiction and boarding of the stateless sanctioned M/T Tifani without incident in the INDOPACOM area of responsibility. https://twitter.com/DeptofWar/status/2046544038812156177

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They have no new cards. But they can say they do.

• Iran Promises To ‘Reveal New Cards On The Battlefield’ (RT)

Iranian officials have struck a defiant tone ahead of a possible new round of talks with Washington, warning that Tehran has prepared to “reveal new cards on the battlefield” while rejecting any negotiations conducted “under the shadow of threats.” Iranian parliament speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf accused US President Donald Trump of trying to turn negotiations into “a table of surrender” and said Iran had spent the past two weeks preparing new military options.


“Trump, by imposing a siege and violating the ceasefire, seeks to turn this negotiating table – in his own imagination – into a table of surrender or to justify renewed warmongering. We do not accept negotiations under the shadow of threats, and in the past two weeks, we have prepared to reveal new cards on the battlefield,” Ghalibaf wrote on X.] Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian, meanwhile, said the “non-constructive and contradictory” conduct of US officials sent the message that Washington was seeking Iran’s surrender, adding that Iranians “will not bow to coercion.”

The temporary ceasefire, brokered by Pakistan, is set to expire on Wednesday, after the first round of talks in Islamabad last weekend failed to produce a breakthrough and Trump imposed a US military blockade of Iranian ports. Trump warned on Sunday that if Iran doesn’t accept Washington’s “fair and reasonable deal,” the US is going to “knock out every single power plant, and every single bridge, in Iran.”

The US president initially announced the second round of talks for Monday, and the White House reportedly spent the day waiting for confirmation that Tehran would send its negotiating team. Axios reported later in the day that US Vice President J.D. Vance, alongside Trump’s envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, was expected to leave for Islamabad by Tuesday morning.

According to Axios, Iranian negotiators had been stalling amid reported pressure from the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps to take a harder line and refuse talks unless the US first ends its blockade. The report claimed that Pakistani, Egyptian, and Turkish mediators had urged Tehran to attend, and that Iran’s team allegedly received a green light from the supreme leader on Monday night.

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‘Maximalist’ demands means: NO nuclear activity. Trump will not give that up.

• Iran: US Must Retract ‘Maximalist’ Nuclear Demands for Talks to Proceed (ET)

Iran is not ready to hold another set of peace talks with U.S. representatives until President Donald Trump backs off from his “maximalist” stance on Iran’s nuclear activity, Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Saeed Khatibzadeh said on April 18. During a visit to Turkey on Saturday, Khatibzadeh told reporters that there needs to be a clear “framework of understanding” for peace talks to proceed. The Iranian official offered the comment with just days left on a two-week ceasefire that began on April 7.


Vice President JD Vance had led a U.S. delegation in a 21-hour round of talks with Iranian representatives on April 11, but the talks ended without a deal. At the time, Vance said the sticking point had been Iran’s refusal to clearly swear off the pursuit of nuclear weapons. Tehran has denied it’s pursuing nuclear weapons, however, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said Iran has about 970 pounds of uranium enriched to 60 percent purity—a short, technical step from weapons-grade levels of 90 percent. As he spoke with reporters on Saturday, Khatibzadeh said Iran would not agree to stricter limits on nuclear activity than those expected of other countries under existing international standards.

“The other side should abandon its maximalist position and should respect international law, within which we can then secure diplomacy,” Khatibzadeh said. “I have to be very crystal clear that Iran would not accept to be an exception from the international law.” Earlier this week, Trump raised the prospect of a second round of weekend peace talks. As he spoke with reporters on Saturday, Khatibzadeh said no date would be set for such talks until there is a baseline agreement between Washington and Tehran. U.S. forces bombed three Iranian nuclear facilities in June 2025. Since then, there has been speculation about whether stockpiles of highly enriched uranium may still be trapped under the rubble at these damaged nuclear facilities.

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Not so far. Too deadly.

• Are We Seeing the Makings of an Iranian Civil War? (Eric Florack)

Much has been made of the on-again, off-again negotiations over the Strait of Hormuz. The claim here in the States from a few under-informed individuals is that Donald Trump was lying to us about the status and that he doesn’t know what he’s doing, yada, yada, you know the drill. Of course, it’s untrue, but I want to take a few minutes this morning to explain why it’s untrue. The Islamic Regime in Iran is engineering its own destruction. The reason amounts to a civil war in Iran. To understand why, you must first understand what the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) actually is — and isn’t. Over the last few weeks, I’ve been studying the IRGC, its makeup, and its original purpose, as well as who controls it in the end.


With that understanding, we can have a better idea of the reason behind the on-again, off-again blockade situation we’ve seen over the last several days.Let’s bust a widely held misunderstanding right out of the gate. The IRGC is not a conventional military. Its founders did not build it to defend Iran’s borders. They built it in 1979 with a specific mandate: protect the Islamic Revolution and the clerical regime’s ideological order, suppress internal dissent, and project what they called “revolutionary power” across the region. The BBC called it a “business empire” back in 2010 — and that description still holds. The IRGC answers to no elected official. It reports directly to the Supreme Leader, bypassing the defense ministry and the civilian government entirely.

The IRGC commands land, naval, and missile forces, plus the Quds Force — the arm that funds, arms, and directs allied militias like Hezbollah and the Houthis. It also controls the Basij, a paramilitary force whose sole purpose is to keep Iran’s civilian population in line. The widespread killing of Iranian civilians over the past month is the Basij at work. As you may have picked up, the entire idea of the IRGC is permanent resistance and interference of the West, which, by the nature of the thing, includes the United States and Israel. That last point is the very reason for its existence. Absent that, the IRGC wouldn’t have any reason to exist at all.

Militarily, the IRGC is built for asymmetric warfare — an idea those of us who lived through Vietnam would recognize immediately. It is not designed for the swift, overwhelming force that conventional militaries such as our own pursue. It is designed to make any conflict long, painful, and costly. Threatening regional stability and choking energy flows isn’t a side effect of IRGC strategy — it is the strategy. The IRGC runs a parallel power structure inside Iran, and it answers to no one but the Supreme Leader. In that position and by design, it controls perhaps 40% of Iran’s economy. Say, construction companies, Telcom nets, and oil, to name a few items. I suppose that in some business sense, the IRGC is comparable to the East India Company.

With all that in mind, let’s turn to a piece in the Jerusalem Post from March 29: “Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian is reportedly clashing with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) chief Ahmad Vahidi over the economic and social impact of the war with the United States and Israel, Iran International reported on Saturday, citing Iranian sources. According to the London-based Iranian opposition outlet, Pezeshkian criticized the IRGC’s approach of increasing tensions in the region and attacking neighbouring countries, warning of the long-term effects that these movements could cause on the Iranian economy.

The report also mentioned that Pezeshkian has been demanding that executive decisions regarding the war be made by the Iranian government rather than the IRGC, a demand Vahidi did not accept. In response, the IRGC criticized Pezeshkian’s inability to implement structural reforms in the Islamic Republic to address several problems within the system before the current war began. The report comes as Iran’s already dying economy keeps being pushed toward full collapse after several weeks of war.

So this tells us many things. Among them, the civilian government is, and has been bucking the IRGC, with somewhat less than complete success. So we see that when Iranian President Pezeshkian, who seems, as a rule, more pragmatic than the IRGC, signaled he’s ready to be reasonable and will negotiate, the IRGC didn’t follow along, but rather launched a war against Iran’s civilian government. It is the IRGC who have been working against every diplomatic channel that Pezeshkian has been trying to open.

He’s not hiding by any means. Within the last 72 hours, Pezeshkian has been seen delivering a speech at Iran’s Ministry of Sports and Youth in Tehran, where he addressed the ongoing conflict with the US and stated that Iran is seeking to end the war “with dignity.” He’s also been in conference with Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, ostensibly to discuss the current war. Both Pezeshkian and Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi have been at the center of reported internal tensions with the IRGC. It is the IRGC that’s been contradicting both Pezeshkian and Araghchi on the negotiations over Hormuz. Now, just because Pezeshkian seems more reasonable than the IRGC in some senses, doesn’t mean he’s not saying publicly things the IRGC wants him to say:

Iran is seeking to end the war with the US and Iran “with dignity,” the country’s President Masoud Pezeshkian said Sunday, arguing that US President Donald Trump has no right to deprive Tehran of its nuclear rights, Anadolu reports. “Trump says Iran should not use its nuclear rights, but does not explain what crime Iran has committed,” Pezeshkian said during a visit to Iran’s Sports and Youth Ministry, the ISNA news agency reported. He also called for the nation to stand “firm against a bloodthirsty and brutal enemy.”Iran must manage the current atmosphere in a way that “does not portray us as war-mongers” as “we are defending ourselves,” he added.

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“Promethean Action Provides..” The elderly ladies are becoming a force.

The photo I’ve seen 5 times now. so here it is…

• Perspective on Iran Conflict and Latest Intel Efforts to Disrupt Trump (CTH)

Promethean Action – Barbara Boyd previews renewed Iran peace negotiations in Islamabad ahead of a ceasefire deadline, as Iran allegedly challenged a U.S. naval blockade, lost a ship, and again closed the Strait of Hormuz, with Trump warning “No More Mr. Nice guy” if peace fails and arguing Iran is bleeding $500 million a day. She shows a City of London–linked propaganda network is working to prolong the war and damage Trump before the midterms by targeting Vice President JD Vance, citing a Financial Times column by Edward Luce and post–Munich Security Conference smears portraying Vance as pro-Putin.

Boyd outlines three layers of Iran-linked messaging—Press TV in London, NIAC in Washington, and the “Iran Experts Initiative” infiltration of U.S. think tanks—and says justice is coming via prosecutions led by Joseph DiGenova, with Kash Patel promising arrests, while Vance leads talks and a National Fraud Task Force.

PRESIDENT TRUMP – “I’m winning a War, BY A LOT, things are going very well, our Military has been amazing and, if you read the Fake News, like The Failing New York Times, the absolutely horrendous and disgusting Wall Street Journal, or the now almost defunct, fortunately, Washington Post, you would actually think we are losing the War.

The enemy is confused, because they get these same Media “reports,” and yet they realize their Navy has been completely wiped out, their Air Force has gone onto darker runways, they have no Anti Missile or Anti Airplane Equipment, their former leaders are mostly gone (This has been, in addition to everything else, Regime Change!), and perhaps, most important of all, THE BLOCKADE, which we will not take off until there is a “DEAL,” is absolutely destroying Iran. They are losing $500 Million Dollars a day, an unsustainable number, even in the short run. The Anti-America Fake News Media is rooting for Iran to win, but it’s not going to happen, because I’m in charge! Just like these unpatriotic people used every ounce of their limited strength to fight me in the Election, they continue to do so with Iran. The result will be the same — It already is!” ~ President DONALD J. TRUMP.

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“Counsel to the Attorney General, has a nice ring to it.”

• It Is, After All, the Department of Justice (CTH)

Joe diGenova sworn in.


“It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred by the dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions and spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who, at worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly; so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory or defeat.”
~Theodore Roosevelt

Counsel to the Attorney General, has a nice ring to it.

Heavenly Father, strengthen us when we feel weak and weary. Grant us perseverance to face challenges with courage and determination. Help us to trust in Your guidance, remain steadfast in our faith, and overcome every obstacle that comes our way. Fill our heart with confidence and resilience, allowing us to stay focused on our goals. May Your power flow through us so that we may achieve success that honors You and fulfills the purpose You have established for our life and this mission. Lord of righteousness, strengthen our faith so that we do not become discouraged, nor act impulsively. Grant us focus, discipline and energy so that every accomplishment can be a reflection of Your guidance. May every step we take align with Your will, and may patience guide us to sustain success with honor, fidelity and stewardship. Amen

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Memo newly declassified by DNI Gabbard shows concerns about integrity of American voting were far greater than the public was told by previous administrations. Evidence emerged that China had gained access to voter registration data in multiple states and had even sent fake driver’s licenses to the United States in a bid to help Joe Biden win the election, officials said.

• US Intel Secretly Flagged Major 2020 Election Vulnerabilities (JTN)

Months before the 2020 presidential election, U.S. intelligence issued a secret but stark warning that foreign adversaries had the capability to “compromise” America’s voting infrastructure and raised specific concerns about the vulnerability of voter registration databases that later would be penetrated by China and Iran, a newly declassified memo obtained by Just the News shows. The National Intelligence Council’s (NIC) concerns were so extensive that officials personally briefed President Donald Trump at the White House in February 2020, according to photos obtained by Just the News showing top CIA, FBI and Homeland Security officials joining with NIC analysts to inform the president.


But the American public was never fully alerted, even after evidence emerged that China had gained access to voter registration data in multiple states and had even sent fake driver’s licenses to the United States in a bid to help Joe Biden win the election, officials said. “We judge that US adversaries, including, at a minimum, Russia, China, Iran, and North Korea, as well as non-state groups, have the capability to compromise US election infrastructure for the 2020 presidential election,” the NIC wrote in the memo dated Jan. 15, 2020.

“Adversaries gaining access to US election-related systems could disrupt the voting process, steal sensitive data, or undermine confidence in the election results, but we do not know whether any of them have specific plans to manipulate election-related systems,” the memo added. The document was recently declassified by Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, who continues to expose examples of the intelligence community suppressing or misusing intelligence. Though officials say that an ongoing second Trump administration investigation has found no evidence yet that vote-counting machines were directly compromised in the 2020 election, the memo shows how such machines could be vulnerable to intrusions in the future and made clear that the voter registration databases that were breached by China and Iran were easy targets.

American voting system more vulnerable to intrusion than acknowledged
The memo, prepared by then-NationaI Intelligence for Cyber Christopher Porter, has become part of a broader body of evidence showing America’s election systems are more vulnerable to hacks, breaches and manipulations than previously acknowledged.After the 2020 election, many senior Intelligence Community officials insisted on the historical security of the 2020 election and downplayed concerns about such vulnerabilities.

Krebs: “The 2020 election was the most secure in U.S. history.”
For example, the members of the Election Infrastructure Government Coordinating Council Executive Committee released a mid-November 2020 joint statement declaring that “the November 3rd election was the most secure in American history.” One of the officials who sat on that committee, Chris Krebs, the director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, testified to the Senate after the election that he “approved CISA’s publication of a joint statement from the election security community, reflecting that community’s consensus that the 2020 election was the most secure in U.S. history.”

Krebs has been accused by the Trump White House of being “a significant bad-faith actor who weaponized and abused his government authority. Krebs’ misconduct involved the censorship of disfavored speech implicating the 2020 election and COVID-19 pandemic.”

Porter: “It is no secret that China and Iran compromise election equipment for a variety of intelligence purposes”
But Porter told Just the News those assurances did not reflect the government’s assessment of just how vulnerable America’s election infrastructure was. Iran and China did gain access eventually to voter registration data, but those breaches were suppressed until November 2021, when Iranian hackers were indicted, and March 2026 when Just the News obtained the first declassified documents acknowledging Beijing’s penetration of voter registration data.

[..] Intelligence community had disdain for the “vulgarian” Trump
In January 2021, the Intelligence Community analytic ombudsman — tasked with ensuring objectivity in intelligence products — conducted a review of the spy community’s handling of Russian and Chinese meddling efforts during the 2020 election. He concluded that intelligence analysts downplayed China’s actions because they had disdain for the “vulgarian” Trump and did not want to support the policies and priorities of the Trump administration toward China with which they “personally disagree,” Just the News reported last month.

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“..the Obama-Clinton-Kerry Iranian deal likely included a mechanism for return payments to U.S. officials following the release of billions in frozen Iranian asset funds and the loosening of sanctions “

• Spygate, Russiagate, IC Impeachment, Jack Smith Targeting and Lawfare (CTH)

In the next few days, much more about the overall investigative review underway in Florida will likely begin to surface. The review has been led by USAO Jason A. Reding Quiñones, a federal prosecutor for the Southern District of Florida. Quinones is now supported by Counsel to the AG, Joe diGenova. As with all investigations containing multiple players and actors, the first investigative information is extracted from testimony by those furthest away from the principals, yet closest to the granular details of the events being reviewed. The questioning then goes upstream, using information collected to assemble more specific questions as the principal players are approached.


The widest concentric circles are questioned first. Then, using the responses and investigative information from that circle, the questioning and inquiry goes to the next inner circle of participants. The information is assembled, and more pointed questions are then targeted to the next inner circle; the process continues until the core is questioned. Beginning with the end in mind, the biggest challenge is knowing what the correct questions are to ask of those who were closest to the corrupt activity (the outer circle). Background research then becomes critical. From those pointed questions you get answers. Then, next level of more specific questions get focus, and so on, and so on.

On March 20, 2026, James Comey was subpoenaed. Also remember, there are two distinct and different aspects to the overall conspiracy and timeline. nThere was surveillance of the 2016 Republican candidates by contractors working on behalf of the FBI who was institutionally collaborating with the Clinton campaign; that is known as “Spygate.” There was then an FBI operation to target and eliminate the threat represented by the 2016 GOP primary winner, Donald Trump; that is known as “Russiagate.” ‘Spygate’ and ‘Russiagate’ are two distinctly different corrupt pathways that eventually merged due to common interests.

The Mueller investigation, an extension of Crossfire Hurricane (Russiagate) was used by Obama-era politicians and internal government officials as a mechanism to block President Trump from executing a divergent foreign policy. The primary policy of focus was to protect the Obama era operations, including the Iran deal. Based on mounting evidence, a pattern in other international activities and U.S. participants, the Obama-Clinton-Kerry Iranian deal likely included a mechanism for return payments to U.S. officials following the release of billions in frozen Iranian asset funds and the loosening of sanctions – (ie. pallets of cash). Qatar was the mediator/broker.

However, it is speculated, perhaps being evidenced, that return payments to the Obama team contained a timing mechanism, and the quid-pro-quo payments were stopped after President Trump withdrew from the Iran deal and re-instituted sanctions. Thus, a much larger background context exists for why the totality of the U.S. government and Intelligence Community opposed President Donald Trump. Is it all about the money? Time will tell. Current events may not be coincidental.

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Where Marco has free rein.

• US, Cuban Regime Confirm ‘Secret’ Talks in Havana (Sarah Anderson)

On April 10, something happened in Cuba that hasn’t happened in a decade: a U.S. government plane touched down outside of Guantánamo Bay. We have confirmation of this from the Cuban regime via their official Communist Party propaganda newspaper, Granma. Several media outlets, including Fox News, CNN, and the Miami Herald, are also confirming it, based on statements from unnamed senior State Department officials. The State Department delegation — supposedly made up of assistant or deputy-level officials but not Marco Rubio himself — reportedly warned the Cuban regime that it has a very short window in which to make a deal, which supposedly includes releasing political prisoners and making major economic and political reforms.


“As President [Donald] Trump has stated, a new dawn for Cuba is coming very soon. The Cuban regime should stop playing games as direct talks are occurring. They have a small window to make a deal,” a State Department official told the Miami Herald. Some outlets are reporting that the talks included compensation for U.S. citizens and companies whose properties were confiscated after the 1959 revolution, allowing Elon Musk’s Starlink into Cuba (it’s currently illegal to use there), and discussion of the threat of foreign military and terrorist groups being allowed to operate freely in the island nation.

Allegedly, a separate meeting was held with Raúl Guillermo Rodríguez Castro, Raúl Castro’s grandson who goes by “Raulito” or “El Cangrejo” (the crab). While Rubio has never confirmed it that I’m aware of, some media outlets report that this is not the first time a team from the State Department has met with the younger Castro. And, of course, the Cuban regime tells a different story. Deputy Director General for U.S. Affairs Alejandro García del Toro told Granma that the meeting was “respectful and professional,” but denies that were any conditions, like political prisoners, or deadlines set by the United States. He also called it a “delicate matter” that is being handled “discreetly.”

“Eliminating the energy blockade against the country was a matter of top priority for our delegation. This act of economic coercion is an unjustified punishment for the entire Cuban population,” he said. The Miami Herald reports that a U.S. Navy MQ-4C Triton surveillance drone was flying near Havana during the meeting, though I’ve noted that happening on other days last week, as well. Basically, the regime is attempting to paint this as normal diplomacy between two countries. But we all know it’s not. Regardless of what was actually discussed, Trump has made it pretty clear that he’s got his eye on making a change in Cuba soon. Assuming all of this is true, I believe he and Rubio are testing them to determine what the next steps are once we’re not so distracted with Iran.

As I reported over the weekend, on Friday, while speaking at a Turning Point USA rally, Trump said, “And very soon, this great strength will also bring about a day 70 years in waiting — it’s called a new dawn in Cuba. We’re going to help them out with Cuba. We have a lot of great Cuban-Americans… that were brutally treated, whose families were killed, and now, watch what happens.” Later, while aboard Air Force One, a reporter asked him about anonymous reports that the Pentagon is ramping up plans for military action against Cuba. “Well, it depends on what your definition of military action is,” the president said, not giving much away.

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“.. a “constellation that every smartphone, every ship, every aircraft and every missile guidance system on Earth depends on. SpaceX might just call it “Tuesday.”

• The Space Launch Industry Is in Big Trouble… Except for You-Know-Who (Green)

“Early this morning, SpaceX launched the final GPS III satellite in our constellation, the most advanced GPS satellites ever built,” Space Force Gen. Chance Saltzman announced on Tuesday. It’s the finishing touch, as Chronos Intelligence explained, in a “constellation that every smartphone, every ship, every aircraft and every missile guidance system on Earth depends on. SpaceX might just call it “Tuesday.” Elon Musk’s launch company is about to raise tens of billions in the biggest-ever IPO on its way to easily top a $1 trillion valuation — and no wonder. This morning’s Space Force mission was its 48th Falcon 9 launch of the year (with a 100% success rate) and on track to roughly match last year’s record-breaking launch cadence.


Meanwhile, the company is making final preparations for the next flight test of the massive Starship rocket that will not only make the Falcon 9 obsolete, but every other rocket in the world. But I’m not here today to praise Musk or SpaceX. I just needed to set the stage to show you how the competition is performing. Or not. Because Blue Origin and United Launch Alliance (ULA) are having a rough time. Blue Origin whiffed a major New Glenn mission on Sunday, putting a $30 million AST SpaceMobile cellular satellite into the wrong orbit. Bluebird 7 is so low that it lacks enough onboard fuel to boost itself to its proper orbit, and will have to be de-orbited as a total loss. AST SpaceMobile shares were down sharply on Monday and have yet to fully recover.

BO touted the launch as a success — they did recover the booster, which is always impressive. And the booster was partially reused, which is even more impressive. But the mission was a failure, and celebrating that is not a good look. New Glenn is “likely grounded for four months” to investigate what went wrong with the upper stage, according to Next Big Future’s Brian Wang. Meanwhile, ULA’s Vulcan workhorse — well, sort of — is grounded following two Northrop Grumman solid rocket booster failures. Folks, space is too big and too important for the United States of America to have just one reliable launch provider. True story.

SpaceX successfully landed an orbital launch vehicle — the now-venerable Falcon 9 — in late 2015. Just 15 months later, in early 2017, the company successfully re-flew a “flight proven” Falcon 9. Here we are, more than nine years later, and Blue Origin is only now becoming the second company anywhere in the world to master reusable rockets. I watched those early SpaceX efforts in total amazement, and not just because one of my closest friends was an actual rocket surgeon at ULA. Ed was very good at his job and had the bonus checks for nailing satellite orbital placement to prove it. So I asked him one time why ULA wasn’t looking into reusability.

“We did look into it, we’re not idiots,” he said. “We’re good engineers. We could do it, but the economics didn’t work out.” Making a rocket reusable comes with tradeoffs, and ULA didn’t see enough demand for lift to make those compromises financially worthwhile. SpaceX created Starlink, which generates the demand and the cash flow to keep the company ahead of the competition. My friend was right that ULA had plenty of engineering talent, but the corporate management lacked imagination.

Because, as the country’s only major launch company for so long, ULA didn’t need imaginative management — they just needed the next NASA or Pentagon launch. And those were basically guaranteed at the slow-but-steady cadence that the company’s disposable Atlas and Delta rockets could deliver. For what it’s worth, not long after that conversation, ULA “voluntold” engineering graybeards like my friend — actually guys as young as their early 50s — to retire. I couldn’t tell you for sure that retiring the most experienced engineering talent is directly responsible for ULA’s current woes, but there’s more than enough room there for conjecture.

ULA’s busiest year was 2016 with a total of 16 launches. After that, the company began transitioning to the troubled Vulcan Centaur rocket, which launched just five times in 2025, and is currently “paused” while Northrop Grumman works out issues with the solid rocket boosters — after a decade of development and transition. SpaceX conducted 165 Falcon 9 launches in 2025 with a 100% success rate.

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“The incoming PM has pledged to stop Budapest’s withdrawal from the ICC, which has an active warrant for the Israeli leader..”

• Hungary’s Magyar Warns Netanyahu of Arrest (RT)

Hungary’s incoming prime minister, Peter Magyar, has said he would order the arrest of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu if he enters the country, marking a sharp reversal of predecessor Viktor Orban’s policy. Speaking at a press conference on Monday, Magyar said he would halt Hungary’s withdrawal from the International Criminal Court (ICC), initiated by Orban, and stressed that as a member state Budapest is legally obliged to enforce its arrest warrants. The ICC issued warrants for Netanyahu and former Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant in 2024 over alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity in Gaza.


Israel claimed earlier this week that Magyar had spoken with Netanyahu and invited him to visit Hungary after his Tisza party’s landslide win on April 12. Asked to clarify, Magyar confirmed the call but downplayed the invitation, saying he had spoken with multiple leaders and broadly invited them to attend an upcoming anniversary of the 1956 popular uprising. He added that Netanyahu was informed Hungary would seek to remain in the ICC – and what that implies.

“I made it clear to the Israeli prime minister that we are not stepping back [from the ICC]. It is the Tisza government’s intention to stop this and for Hungary to remain a member,” Magyar said. “So I think I didn’t mislead anyone. If a country is a member of the ICC and if a person who is wanted enters that country’s territory, they must be taken into custody… I assume that every state and government leader is aware of these regulations.”

Magyar’s position marks a direct break with the stance of the outgoing government, which rejected the ICC’s jurisdiction and guaranteed Netanyahu safe passage. Orban dismissed the warrant as “brazen and cynical.” Last April, Budapest moved to withdraw from the ICC, arguing the court had become politicized. The country’s parliament approved the move in May, though under the Rome Statute withdrawal only takes effect a year after formal UN notification, currently set for June 2.

Magyar campaigned on repairing ties with Brussels and unlocking more than €16 billion ($19 billion) in EU funds for Hungary currently frozen due to rule-of-law and corruption allegations. Since his victory, Magyar has also pledged to reform state media, consider Eurozone membership, and end vetoes on Ukraine aid – though with caveats. He backed Hungary’s opt-out from the EU’s €90 billion loan package to Kiev, citing budget constraints, and said Ukraine’s EU accession within a decade is unrealistic.

At Monday’s press conference, he also urged Kiev to reopen the Russian Druzhba pipeline and said Hungary would not accept “any kind of blackmail” over energy supplies. He previously said Budapest would continue buying Russian energy, prioritize the cheapest oil, and signaled he would “pick up” if Russian President Vladimir Putin called.

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“Europe’s five largest countries — Germany, France, Spain, Italy, and Poland — all recorded BEV growth above 40% year-to-date.”

If the EVs were Peugeots and BMWs, easy peasy. But they’re Chinese and Tesla, I think.

• Europe EV Sales Jump 51% As Iran War Sends Gasoline Prices Soaring (Paraskova)

Registrations of battery electric vehicles (BEVs) in Europe’s key automotive markets surged by 51% in March as the Iran war pushed gasoline prices to multi-year highs, data published by research firm New Automotive and trade association E-Mobility Europe showed on Monday. More than 224,000 new electric passenger cars were registered in March alone across 15 key EU + EFTA markets, the analysis found. These sales accounted for as much as 22% of all new passenger car sales across the key European markets.


In another sign that expensive gasoline is pushing drivers to EVs, European Union member states registered more than 500,000 new electric cars in the first quarter of 2026, a surge of 33.5% compared to the same period last year, the data showed. New BEV registrations accelerated across every major EU market in the first quarter of 2026. Europe’s five largest countries — Germany, France, Spain, Italy, and Poland — all recorded BEV growth above 40% year-to-date. Europe’s biggest car market, Germany, saw a rebound in EV sales after the introduction of new incentives, with around one in four cars registered in March fully electric – a 42% year-to-date jump, according to the data. Italy’s BEV registrations soared by 65% year-to-date, boosting the EV market share to 8.6% in March from about 5% as of the end of 2025.

France continued to lead among large markets with a 28% BEV share in March, underpinned by its social leasing scheme, and nearly 50% year-to-date growth. Energy security was the catalyst for change in driver choice in recent weeks, analysts at New Automotive and E-Mobility Europe say. “At a time when energy security has moved to the top of the political agenda, the EV transition is delivering real and measurable resilience,” commented Ben Nelmes, CEO of New Automotive. “The pace of change we’re now seeing across major European markets — including countries like Italy and Poland that were slower to start — suggests the transition has entered a new phase.”

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  • April 22, 2026 at 7:26 am #239022
    Raúl Ilargi Meijer
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    Edward Hopper The Circle Theater, New York 1936 • Trump Blinks Again, Unilaterally Extends Iran Ceasefire (ZH) • Schrödinger’s Strait (PA) • Trump Say
    [See the full post at: Debt Rattle April 22 2026]

    April 22, 2026 at 9:19 am #239046
    those darned kids
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    Trump will break that. But it will take some time slaughtered children.

    +!×@÷#=$/%^_;&*£(¥)₩

    Get those grubby, tiny hands off God’s beautiful earth. Such a blasphemous grip on our only home is more than nauseating.

    I do not want to live on a golf course fertilized with the flesh, hopes and aspirations of an empire’s victims.

    No quantity of money could ever allow me to promote such filth.

    Sleep with dogs, awaken with fleas.

    Sleep with Satan, well….

    April 22, 2026 at 11:33 am #239052
    Dr. D
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    Am I covered now? Can I speak openly about what strategically is going on?

    Krainer said this for years in Europe: none of his analysts – Traders! — were allowed to comment on tea! Barley! Nesting dolls! In Russia without first writing two single-spaced paragraphs declaring their eternal and completely fact-free malice for Putin, his mother, and every building he ever stepped in. Only THEN, could they comment that “The price of oil is $65 today.” Yeah, uh, pretty tedious. As an American I’m going to go ahead and tell you to f—k right off with that s—t. I’ve got work to do, so I’ll just say it and save time.

    “There is not even a pretense of a Trump Board of Peace reconstruction program. Throughout the Gulf states, “

    This from Yesterday is categorically false, and it was the same LaRouche (Promethean) that told me so. Trump’s fast track, SINCE creating the Abraham accord that seemed to have residual effect on Gulf Cooperation, the have a Gulf Council now that is non-stop “what do with Iran” and “What are our goals afterwards” etc.

    “to promote “food security and support market stability,” but do nothing to stop the warfare.”

    You mean like unconditionally surrender to Iran. That’s what everybody’s saying. So we bombed them into the Stone age, took almost no damage, and WE are supposed to surrender? What war are you guys fighting? Has that ever happened in world history? We sunk your Navy so please come occupy us, a couple people here are complaining.

    “These reports are just the here-and-now updates on a fast-devolving process that, unless stopped, will mean chaos, with needless destruction.”

    There is no “Chaos”. Everyone is exactly aware of what’s going on. These are all scare words. Could it be bad? Absolutely, but there’s no sign of it in that sentence except, “I’m in an illogical frenzy to make you irrationally emotional, sucker.” (Picking your pockets shortly) He did provide the facts surrounding this paragraph, and thanks for that, pleasant change, So this ¶ ¶ ¶ Is OpEd and required to be removed.

    There is no “Chaos”. No one was Panicking. The Walls are not closing in. Dummies are sending emails like usual and clicking trades online.

    He continues: “thanks the Pope for his work promoting peace around the world, and urges him to, “continue to be the voice of the voiceless children.” like all the hundred-thousand children the Church has been trafficking using the open Immigration here. Awwwwww. Right. And we know these guys ADORE and venerate the Pope and Christians!

    That was this week DumDum v DumDum match. They are puffing up that Cheeto is attacking the Pope. ….By saying words! …But not vice versa, no. This is a dance with only one partner, a coin with one side. Every pearl in the nation was clutched by every Leftist who will defend the Catholic faith to the death! ...One year after having the FBI monitor, track them all down, and arrest all Catholics for even ATTENDING service. Ah. Right. Totes legit, their Deeeeeep concern for Christians, right.

    Nothing at all to do with “Pope is a pedophile who directs millions in federal money to NGOs who promote human trafficking and the Democratic party“…Which we’ve already proven, no!

    In any case, having “The Pope” read letters about “Little Girls” after 20 non-stop years of this s—t is pretty tone deaf. The only one more tone-deaf would be the UN discussing peace.

    “It’s the Biggest U.S. Failure since the Vietnam War: IRAN wiped out 48 U.S.A.F. aircraft in 40 days”

    Why, we still have 250 A-10s on a tarmac. Did we run out?

    By the way: I mean, excellent work on Iran’s part, I approve, but what were their losses in the same window? Now have ZERO planes. ZERO ships. ZERO tanks. They have taxis and bicycles now. See how that matters a little? They’ve done bombing raids on the rail lines to our missile factories in Oklahoma, right?

    I think we should definitely surrender.

    WHYYYY do you make me be this offensive??? Can we just concede some very, very ordinary, expected, well-confirmed facts?

    “Trump Blinks Again, Unilaterally Extends Iran Ceasefire After Pakistan Talks Fail To Launch

    There is not a person alive who doesn’t demand Trump bomb everyone.

    Everyone: Ha ha! You blinked! You’re scared to bomb people and always surrender.”

    Trump: Okay I’ll bomb everyone then.”

    Everyone: Aiiiiiiiiiiii!!! What are you doing you maniac? Don’t bomb people!!

    Trump: Okay I won’t.

    Everyone: Ha ha! You blinked! You’re scared to bomb people and always surrender.”

    Goto Line 10. It’s your ID 10 T error.

    “Israeli Soldiers In Lebanon Who Sledgehammered Statue Of Jesus Arrested As Bibi Does Damage Control

    Way more worried about “Signals” than actual Palestinians, Lebanese…or Live Christians especially. Always.

    “Trump Cryptically References US Intercepted Chinese ‘Gift’ To Iran

    What did I say yesterday about stopping ships going INTO Iran? Container, not oil ships? Yeah, Chinese weapons.

    “Spain’s Services Crumble; Military-Aged Male Migrants Overwhelm Registry Offices
    …after socialist mass amnesty for 500,000 illegals.”

    So Spain built another Madrid for their residency, right? Another Saville? Four more Toledos, Combarro, and Santillana del Mar? I mean, I wouldn’t want half a million military invaders to be put out and uncomfortable or anything. And of course all the food and gas they need as Ursula says Europe is going to have to food ration naturally.

    It’s only common sense.

    “Ukraine Billionaire Spends $554 Million For World’s Most Expensive Apartment In Monte Carlo

    Speaking of, glad my money was so well spent. It’s a guarantee he’s buying this with at least some of my tax dollars…and the lives of a few ten thousand of his countrymen.

    “Democratic Rep. Cherfilus-McCormick Resigns Ahead of Ethics Committee Sanctions Hearing

    And at home. Congress is 1/3 convicted felons (usually from being lawyers). How bad do you have to be to be drummed out of THAT club? Or maybe the problem is she didn’t kill ENOUGH babies.

    “Durov: ‘It’s for the childrens!!!’”

    Meanwhile, for the children: UK, non-stop rape gangs, uninvestigated and increasing. In the US the FBI doesn’t even bother to keep track, Biden loses 200k kids, no one cares. In every country, tax law severely punishes parents for having children, in able to afford any foreign child who’s doing tourism in your country.

    Tulsi: Because these are legal cases, the problem was all of this has to be accurate in time, date and specifics. Not loosy-goosey like us out here, so thanks. However, she has a white shock in her hair, so everything she says isn’t legal or real anymore. Who was used to say that daily? It was his version of “Orange”.

    Speaking of, same thing “Arctic Frost”, that is the J6 conspiracy to jail all Republicans to run a seditious overthrow of democracy and end the United States forever. The details are out, they were “Just make s—t up” about Boebert. Just said she was going around all day opening doors for people….which is odd because Pelosi’s Capital Police ACTUALLY WERE. Here’s the detail of the day: “Arctic Frost” is a variety of “Orange”. That is, THEY THEMSELVES named the FBI conspiracy to jail the opposition party the “Orange Man Bad” Project. No joke. This of course is a completely innocent coincidence and they didn’t actually MEAN to jail and overthrow the other party, although all available evidence demonstrates they did. All a joke, ha ha, and “Overthrow” means “Not Overthrow” as to Socialists all things are their #Opposites and words have no meanings, so we’ll see how that goes in court for them. They were doing the treasonous coup IRONICALLY.

    “WAS OBAMA CAUGHT STEALING A DEAD MAN’S SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBER?”

    Yes, already knew that. No one cares. Birth certificate had the Photoshop editing layers still embedded in it, Obama lawyers said it’s not a fake because like trying to pass a monopoly $20 at McDonald’s, it’s too obvious to be passed off on someone as real. Iirc.

    Here’s today’s REAL problem: looking in the voting records, many states give out photo ID licenses (presumably with no road tests) to anyone who asked. Officially, China, Russia, Iran, and N. Korea all got hold of the entire voter lists. Then we had thousands (millions?) of fake State Licenses found in a truck, and today’s add, that many of the SSN’s are all LEGIT, they work in the State Systems. Well, yeah, man! If Iran gets the voter rolls and China creates 2 million PHYSICAL NYS driver’s Licenses then YES you can rig an election! And thanks to State officials, they make sure the bar codes work (they did) and the SSN#s are real (many were).

    This is all on the record as real.

    I guess if you make a million fake passports with paid agents adding you into the back-end state databases, the world really IS your oyster, isn’t it. Think we might be mad at Iran for this?

    “• Schrödinger’s Strait (PA)

    London’s algos are stealing their billion$$$$$ Vig by creating headlines markets move on. We are doing the OPPOSITE by making counter headlines. That’s why all Fox News has their hair on fire about “Chaos”. It’s because we’re screwing their insider trading daily, and they’re mad. It’s probably also why no one cares about “Trump’s insider trading” which may or may not be real, idgaf. It’s a huge counter FU to London and Globalists’ insider trading which is 100x the size. He WANTS it in the headlines showing “I’m STEALING YOUR MONEY, you F–ks”.

    “• Iran: US Must Retract ‘Maximalist’ Nuclear Demands for Talks to Proceed (ET)

    Already essentially mapped: we are giving Iran everything but weapons, but through Russian control of power and medical use.

    “• Are We Seeing the Makings of an Iranian Civil War? (Eric Florack)

    Yes, this is very odd, isn’t it? I mean maybe. But NO internal wranglings we can see? None?

    “Where Marco has free rein.
    • US, Cuban Regime Confirm ‘Secret’ Talks in Havana (Sarah Anderson)

    Probably. But if we don’t know what’s going on in Iran, we REALLY don’t know what’s going on in Cuba, and how can that be? 50 years not a peep, no sense, no reason at all, ever, not once I can remember. WHY do they exist? That’s more suspicious than anything I can think of, the Dog that Never Barked. I think EMB said IF you want to control US oil (as we see today) you need to control the Gulf of America. So you Scylla and Charibes with Cuba and Venezuela and lock us in like Gibraltar. This also needs the medium-missles they had all slated for Caracas, plus plausible deniability that “It’s the cartels” or some s—t. Also why CUBANS were running Caracas, being all their body guards and everyone will die if they try to expel them and take the country back from Cuba. …Also why we blew up THE CUBANS, the body guards, the Praetorian Guard threat when we landed there. Only them, apparently. Maduro landed in NY and gave the thumbs up.

    “Space Force mission was its 48th Falcon 9 launch of the year (with a 100% success rate)”

    We were making fun of them blowing up every other one, so I have to stop and concede here. I recognize their quality and ability. Even the expediency of blowing up in real time as a faster evolution.

    “• Europe EV Sales Jump 51% As Iran War Sends Gasoline Prices Soaring (Paraskova)

    Cool! Great idea! One problem: They don’t have a grid. They don’t have a GRID, they don’t have the PLUGS, and they don’t have the POWER PLANTS. So step one is a success at least.

    …All their electric power came from Russia. Or Zap.

    April 22, 2026 at 11:34 am #239053
    Dr. D
    Participant

    ““• Trump Blinks Again, Unilaterally Extends Iran Ceasefire (ZH)

    Topcat DEMANDS Trump bomb EVERY Iranian, EVERY Tuesday, until EVERY Iranian worldwide is dead. Only then is he not a coward. Only then will Topcat be happy and Orange Man will be Good.

    Okay, here’s your flip for today, two very credible people, Joaquin Flores, very real reporter, and another, (new) who have been following the Iran thing for 6 weeks and going:

    “Where are the bodies?”

    Huh? Yes, they ask, their sources, everything, WHERE is …anything? We hear Pentagon releases “We hit this!” We hear Iran “How dare you bomb us during a war!” …Nothing on the ground. No one. Like Israel is locked up tighter than North Korea, cell footage still gets out, satellite maps, etc. Someone blogging, someone calls their brother in L.A. …Reporters are very sensitive to this, as that’s “Real statements” on “The Phone.” They say it doesn’t exist. Huh?

    So at this point, 30 days, they and others are asking the impossible: “Um…does the WAR exist?” “Is ANYTHING being bombed AT ALL over there?” Or is this another extended case of Trump dropping a hand grenade on the door of their nuclear bunker and claiming he blew it up (as we knew happened) and Iran warning they were leveling an unused US Army base so we can evacuate it (which happened). But like “Bigger, Bolder, Uncut” Wag the Dog?

    That. Is bananas. …But I can see how easily it can be true. And IF true…Boys…we’re all arguing about NOTHING. Because NOTHING is happening over there. At all. They are doing Van Ripper’s War Games, but only for TV cameras this time, and “no reporters on the ground, either side.” All our bad blood, between each other. …Is then fake, ghey, and irrelevant.

    Now WHYYYY, would they do that? Well, one, they ran the test in the 12 Day of Fake-on-Fake action. We KNOW they did. So why would we NOT have a larger version, once trust is created? So we proved it’s neither impossible nor crazy.

    Two, EUROPE is eating it up! They ACTUALLY BELIEVE all the crap they say, same as how they’re about to attack and beat Russia…daily. So they – and Fox News who gets their orders from them – believe every carrier is sunk and every US jet is crashed, Iran has won. …So I hear daily.

    This part gets complex, but now you have a fake show, you have a captive, willing WWF audience. Maybe Israel is the other audience, like last time, why all the Mossad agents in Tehran had to get flushed out and removed first. So what’s the upshot if true? Trump: bombed Israel. Iran is mostly unharmed. Huh? Yup, if this is mostly Kayfabe. He’s bombing Tel Aviv just like you all wanted, and not Tehran.

    What, what, fill in here. What is the JPCOA agreement with Obama? That’s tops and comes up all the time. Well Iran is sanctioned, obv the Blob, Banking, wants to eat them, last nation without a captured central bank. They GAVE them pallets of cash (to use on today’s weapons to kill Gulf civilians) BUT! Being no fools, they had to give Iran a Trojan Horse. To EXIST in the structure of Obama (who is a MI6, Globalist, take your pick, with Bush’s whole cabinet and 5 more wars) Iran would have to start banking in EUROS. That’s why some people on OUR side (Wall St, Republicans) are irrational about the agreement, but when you ask specifics suddenly they don’t have any since it’s all hidden traps.

    Iran PROBABLY knew this, but what can they do? So the concept was Europe to dump Russia (they were going to war with) and tie up IRAN to Europe, own Iran as a European “partner”. …And yes, as we see in their London banking. So Europe was NOT stupid, they are Evil. They DID have a plan, and the plan, of course, required transit to Syria too. Got it.

    So UN-doing the JPCOA with Trump was a frontal attack on all Europe and all Globalists, took them 25 years to get that Trojan horse in there, all gone.

    Okay, did that change the chessboard a little? Iran obv does not WANT to be a pawn of Europe, any more than the United States. …But of course the United States is uniquely evil, so when Europe does it, it’s fine. When we to NOT invade, or take over, not fine. Ah. This is like Venezuela and everyone was way madder that there was no war, no invasion, no takeover, no death, no troops, and that the Chavez government is totally, completely intact there, while they’re planning on pumping more oil and making more money than ever. How dare you sir! You maniac! NOT overthrowing regimes! This is against everything we stand for!

    Okay, ALSO for today: Iran is charging tolls…apparently on waters they don’t own, in Oman, nevermind right now. This is “Normal” for eg, Panama, whatever, work it out. Here’s the key: They are taking payment in BITCOIN. Ha ha Petrodollar! Yuan! Ha ha, Idgaf.

    …And Tether. Whut? Tether is well-known to be US Treasury operation, RUN by the US Treasury, and BACKED by US Treasury bonds. That is, in all but name IRAN IS CHARGING TO PASS THE STRAITS IN US DOLLARS.

    Huh? Yeah, that’s what put Flores and them on this. What. The actual. If THAT is true, what’s going on? Do you see how this whole Iran thing could be all staged, in a sense, pre-planned? And Russia and China not participating, makes more sense now? We are all allies, running an Op – ON YOU – to change the chessboard.

    Look at it this way. Like Removing Russia sanctions (he just did, they’re making billions) and NOT going to war with China (nevermind), HOW would you lift Iran sanctions? It’s those sanctions that set the requirement to 1) China gets oil wholesale price, as do a few others 2) EUROPE controls the spigot of everyone 3) All the Banking, money flows, levitate Europe and particularly London’s Black-Banking ops in Cayman, etc. 4) and THIS money is what has kept Europe from collapsing, and therefore KEEP bombing the s—t out of Russia year after year.

    Go the other way: IF Trump owns the straits, WE control the spigot. — Or we and Iran, I don’t care. The money to Europe is cut off, even temporarily. We only need to shove them over the event horizon. Europe JUST did a Hail Mary this week and somehow scraped another $90B to keep Ukraine going…their 100 year wanted World War III. Okay well that’s all gone in an instant because aside from infinity Ukr corruption, all that money is gone in increased oil prices. …IN EUROPE ONLY.

    Again, over and over and over, Trump HELPS Russia, ENDS the Ukraine war.

    If that doesn’t happen – or China can’t act even if they wanted, as the have only one carrier and Globalists are running a Civil War on Xi back home – then China is safe. They have to take Russia first. Russia safe = China safe. Russia is safe if the war stops, or Russia keeps waxing (with huge sales, high prices, and no sanctions) and Europe keeps shrinking (no energy, high prices, no money flows). Iran can HELP that happen.

    And IS, right now. But ONLY if the straits are CLOSED, not open. So BOTH us AND Iran are closing them. Day after day.

    So at the end of this staged Kayfabe, once Europe cracks, then Iran “Suddenly” sees the light, gets a government not run by IRGC in London, nor lashed up to Europe’s interests. We “Suddenly” see TACO, an “off ramp” where we can leave and hand it over to the Gulf Cooperative. China gets secure oil flow not controlled by London, but has to pay retail, a fair trade. The U.S. can go home. Iran as a “Normal, unsanctioned” government, then is the West end of the Silk Road, securely, and simple partner with Russia in the Caspian, not a compromised partner half-working with London. Europe has to retreat to Europe and stop killing everyone worldwide.

    Yes, this is complicated. But what they’re saying makes no sense, what eg China and Russia are DOING makes no sense, and every Fox News pundit starts every interview with “I haven’t the faintest Idea” so believe them. That means the answer is NOT what we’re hearing.

    So that is: the longer we and Iran keep dicking around in the straits, with perfect deniability, the better it is for everyone.

    April 22, 2026 at 1:20 pm #239054
    tboc
    Participant

    Are you really sure you want the Zionist eschatology to come to fruition?

    Sowing the seeds of your own destruction?

    April 22, 2026 at 1:21 pm #239055
    those darned kids
    Participant

    Less, please.

    You’re giving me a bad case of scroller’s knuckle.

    Thanks!

    April 22, 2026 at 1:29 pm #239056
    zerosum
    Participant

    What appears to be going on is …

    Not in your control …

    Messaging …

    Illusion …

    Secrets and lies …

    Dire threat …
    ———-

    April 22, 2026 at 1:32 pm #239057
    Michael Reid
    Participant

    Gilbert Doctorow : The Kremlin Prepares for War With Europe

    April 22, 2026 at 1:55 pm #239058
    zerosum
    Participant

    Above my pay grade.

    https://x.com/DropSiteNews/status/2046876577112191246

    Gulf States Forced to Shut In 9.1 Million Barrels Per Day in April as Hormuz Stays Blocked

    🔹The U.S. Energy Information Administration estimates that Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, UAE, Qatar, and Bahrain collectively shut in 9.1 million barrels per day of crude oil production in April — up from 7.5 million barrels per day in March. The figure represents around 30% of their combined prewar production being forcibly idled.

    🔹“Shut in” means producers being forced to physically stop pumping oil at the wellhead because storage tanks become full and exports cannot move.

    🔹The implications are severe: shutting in mature oil wells, particularly in the Gulf where many fields are already in decline, risks permanent reservoir damage. Water can intrude into oil-bearing rock formations, trapping hydrocarbons that can never be recovered.

    🔹The EIA protection assumed the closure does not continue past April, forecasting shut-ins will fall to 6.7 million barrels per day in May and return near pre-conflict levels by late 2026. 

    🔹If that assumption proves wrong and the blockade of the Strait of Hormuz continues, the damage to Gulf production capacity could take years to reverse.

    ◽️The IEA estimates around half of Gulf oil fields retain enough reservoir pressure to return to pre-war output within two weeks of reopening.

    ◽️Another 30% could take up to six weeks.

    ◽️But the remaining 20% — roughly 2.5 to 3 million barrels per day — face low reservoir pressure, damaged equipment, and power constraints that could mean months to recover.

    ◽️Some ageing wells in Iraq and Kuwait may never return to previous output levels.

    “Once you shut down, your entire trunk line is depressurized,” said Rystad Energy’s Aditya Saraswat. “The longer the shut-in, the longer the restart.”

    April 22, 2026 at 3:12 pm #239059
    Michael Reid
    Participant

    Iran-U.S.: The strategic limbo breakdown
    The blockade is going global. Next stop is the Strait of Malacca. 
    Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su
    No serious analysis can possibly take into consideration the Epstein Syndicate’s mentally retarded blah blah blah about what goes on in the corridors of power in Tehran.
    As if they had any informed clue.
    Nothing is “fractured” (apart from Baboon of Barbaria’s psyche). There are of course different conceptual approaches, and a lively national public debate. But on a high decision level the whole system is strongly unified.
    To start with, this is a whole new system, in full transition. At the decision core we have an emerging security-centered Quartet: IRGC chief Ahmad Vahidi; Parliament speaker Ghalibaf; secretary of the Supreme National Security Council, Mohammad Zolghadr; and secretary of the Expediency Council, Mohsen Rezaee.
    This security-centered imperative coexists with the previous hybrid arrangement, exemplified by the “reformists”, which include President Pezeshkian and Foreign Minister Araghchi.
    Of the 13 members of the Supreme National Security Council, only 2 are “reformists”.
    And above all is the deciding authority of Leader Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei – traditionally very close to the IRGC.
    All that is incomprehensible for Epstein Syndicate propagandists, or for some two-bit Saudi “expert” spinning the fantasy of a “revolutionary coup” used by the IRGC to place Ghalibaf, Pezeshkian, and Araghchi under house arrest.
    As much along the diplomatic vector as well as the military vector, Tehran was very clear, over and over again. No negotiating with the Empire of Piracy under a naval blockade – which is, in fact, an act of war. No negotiating while their vessels are being attacked – which is a de facto violation of the ceasefire.
    Foreign Minister Araghchi has been straight to the point. So once again: no lifting of the naval blockade, no negotiating.
    Iran will not (italics mine) blink. Whatever it takes. The responsibility of destroying the global economy relies entirely on Barbaria.
    An illegal blockade and the concept of “innocent passage”
    The Baboon of Barbaria’s negotiation “strategy” – raddled with dementia and hate – is based on three crude principles: maximum pressure; endless deadlines; and endless vociferating threats to destroy Iran’s infrastructure.
    So in the lead up towards a possible Islamabad-2, Tehran chose to go for strategic silence. Tehran ghosted Baboon of Barbaria all the way. Discombobulated, he obviously had to blink – big time. Now he’s not setting additional deadlines. He’s not threatening to destroy civilian infrastructure. The Big Question is what happens to the naval blockade.
    Article 3(c) of UN General Assembly Resolution 3314 (the Definition of Aggression) goes straight to the point: “The blockade of the ports or coasts of a State by the armed forces of another State” qualifies as an act of aggression.
    Hence, it is a straightforward violation of the ceasefire.
    What Tehran is doing when it comes to transit through the Strait of Hormuz is a completely different story.
    Iran has not blockaded any foreign ports, or declared a blanket blockade. It has imposed a tollbooth on hostile vessels transiting a Strait that runs through its own territorial waters.
    That is absolutely lawful in terms of right to self-defense – responding to a unilateral, illegal armed blitzkrieg by the imperial superpower.
    Moreover, following the 1958 Geneva Convention on the Territorial Sea and the Contiguous Zone and its own domestic legislation (the 1993 Act on the Maritime Areas of the Islamic Republic of Iran), Iran has always stressed that the right of “innocent passage” does not apply to vessels that threaten its security.
    Hormuz is the defnition of a strategic chokepoint. It goes through Iranian territorial waters. So obviously Tehran has the sovereign right to regulate the passage to non-innocent ships.
    Of course The Empire of Chaos, Lies, Plunder and Piracy is oblivious to anything lawful. Especially because what’s already in play is a de facto global maritime blockade – imposed on Iran, Russia, of course China, and sooner rather than later any other nation across the Global South.
    An American blockade destroying the global economy
    The war on Iran and now the naval blockade is a no-holds-barred attack on the global economy. Global energy supply is already down to an astounding 60% – only in less than 2 months. The horrors ahead span everything from lockdowns and countless grounded flights because of no jet fuel to food shortages coming next summer because of Fertilizer Hell; possible food riots; and even the possible introduction of a CBDC for food rationing.
    The Rocky Horror Show gets louder minute after minute. Tankers have literally stopped crossing the Strait of Hormuz; add to it the Empire of Piracy firing 5-inch naval gun rounds into assorted Iranian ships. Commercial insurance for Gulf tankers is up a whopping 400% in only a week.
    As it stands, it’s clear Tehran will never accept a permanent naval blockade. So there will be retaliation. Whatever happens next, Brent crude is bound to go past $120 a barrel. Jet fuel supply will tighten big time by the end of next week. Diesel and gasoline prices will follow within two weeks.
    We are watching, in real time, the global energy market screeching to a halt. Just as Iran was relaxing the Strait of Hormuz toolbooth, as part of the ceasefire, Barbaria came up with its naval blockade.
    So it’s Barbaria which is actually on the way to destroy the global economy, as AI demand, jet fuel, diesel, shipping, everything is seriously compromised by an immobilized tsunami of oil.
    The solution – for now – is rerouting through the Bab al-Mandeb, responsible for 12% of all global trade and 10% of globally traded oil: the only connection between Asia, Africa and Europe via the Suez canal.
    If Ansarrallah in Yemen shuts down the Bab al-Mandeb, the only option left is via the Cape of Good Hope: as much as two extra weeks in the sea, compounded with skyrocketing shipping costs.
    Every key maritime route is stretched to capaciby. Barbaria’s naval blockade is already accessing INDOPACOM. And even this Hollywood production won’t be enough to cut off Iranian exports. Barbaria would have to go after every single shadow fleet tanker, including those leaving from Iraq, as well as impose extra hardcore sanctions on Malaysia and China.
    Beijing is mum, as it stands. No official positioning, apart from bland calls to open the Strait of Hormuz. Yet sooner rather than later the Dragon may have to jump out of the fence – and into the fray. As in sending a task force to West Asia.
    Venezuela. Iran. The blockade going global. Next stop is the Strait of Malacca.
    This strategic limbo cannot possibly last. Barbaria’s play comes down to reverting to the pre-war status quo: Iran under a maximum pressure economic siege, plus the perpetual threat of a return to war.
    Once again: even as it was inflicting a devastating strategic defeat on Washington, against all odds, Tehran was consistently demanding a total end to the war. And not this frozen set up in limbo.
    The whole planet has watched, in real time, how Sovereign Resistance, after 47 years of devastating sanctions, and paying a terrible price, is able to stare down the Empire.
    The oh so fragile ceasefire won’t hold. A move to break Barbaria’s blockade is all but inevitable – as in one seizing of an Iranian ship too many. The list of targets has already been announced: the Yanbu pipeline in Saudi Arabia, which bypasses Hormuz; same with the Fujairah terminal in the UAE; shutting down the Bab al-Mandeb. That’s over 32% of global oil supply, instantly gone.
    And it’s the Empire of Piracy which will be responsible for it.

    Iran-U.S.: The strategic limbo breakdown

    April 22, 2026 at 3:31 pm #239060
    Michael Reid
    Participant

    D takes the position that if Trump regime is doing an action it is good,deserving and godly and not evil globalist actions.

    D you are simply wrong.

    There are a lot of evil actions in this world and at the top is U.S. government and Israel government are doing the majority of the evil actions. The rest of the top evil emanates from the rest of the west.

    April 22, 2026 at 3:37 pm #239061
    Michael Reid
    Participant

    U.S. military has no right to create war.

    April 22, 2026 at 3:50 pm #239062
    Michael Reid
    Participant

    The Kremlin Prepares for War With:

    The U.S. would be the best choice.

    April 22, 2026 at 4:17 pm #239063
    those darned kids
    Participant

    https://oilprice.com/Latest-Energy-News/World-News/Traders-Placed-430M-Bets-Minutes-Before-Trump-Extended-Iran-Ceasefire.html

    Take that! City of London!!!

    Againly great, america is

    April 22, 2026 at 5:28 pm #239064
    my parents said know
    Participant

    Anthropic’s Mythos: on the loose!
    It looks as if they’ve cooked our goose.
    It can run wild in any system!
    Horses, barn doors- guess it missed ‘em.

    April 22, 2026 at 5:30 pm #239065
    my parents said know
    Participant

    Who needs aliens?

    Covid. Lockstep. Prying eyes.
    Globalists say someone dies.
    Mandates. Death that’s maid to order
    Screw your country- no more border.
    Conflict to keep banksters wealthy
    Many billions too unhealthy
    All for fatter bottom lines,
    Total lock on people’s minds.

    April 22, 2026 at 5:34 pm #239066
    zerosum
    Participant

    Look what I found!
    Truth or lie

    https://t.me/RezistanceTrench1/64190#

    ResistanceTrench
    Forwarded from
    DD Geopolitics
    🇮🇷 At least 34 Iran-linked tankers and gas carriers have broken through the US naval blockade of Iranian ports, according to Bloomberg, citing data from analytics firm Vortexa.

    19 vessels exited the Persian Gulf past the blockade line, 15 entered — crossing a cordon stretching from Oman’s Ras al-Hadd coast northeast to the Iran-Pakistan border.

    The US Navy simply doesn’t have enough ships on station to intercept and detain every vessel moving in and out of Iranian ports.

    April 22, 2026 at 5:44 pm #239067
    zerosum
    Participant

    I couldn’t watch all the following report.
    It’s too real.

    https://www.aljazeera.com/video/inside-story/2026/4/21/whats-the-bill-to-rebuild-gaza-and-who-will-pay

    April 22, 2026 at 5:45 pm #239068
    Michael Reid
    Participant

    LIVE FROM TEHRAN: Prof. Mohammad Marandi : Why Iran Won’t Meet With Netanyahu’s Puppets

    April 22, 2026 at 6:00 pm #239069
    Michael Reid
    Participant

    JOE KENT – Fmr. Dir. National Counterterrorism Center : Why Iran Is No Threat to the US!

    April 22, 2026 at 6:03 pm #239070
    Michael Reid
    Participant

    Pepe Escobar : What to Expect From China

    April 22, 2026 at 6:07 pm #239071
    zerosum
    Participant

    war crimes.

    hypocrisy: the practice of claiming to have higher standards or more noble beliefs than is the case:

    War is a war crime.
    ————

    April 22, 2026 at 6:36 pm #239072
    zerosum
    Participant

    If you don’t call it WAR then you cannot be doing a war crime.
    ( See reports from combatants.)

    April 22, 2026 at 6:39 pm #239073
    Michael Reid
    Participant

    Prof. Glenn Diesen : How the Hungarian Election Will Effect Europe

    April 22, 2026 at 6:58 pm #239074
    Michael Reid
    Participant

    April 22, 2026 at 7:11 pm #239076
    Michael Reid
    Participant

    Chuck Baldwin states:

    U.S. military killed 900
    U.S. military wounded 5000

    In Trump’s war for Israel against Iran

    April 22, 2026 at 8:14 pm #239078
    Doc Robinson
    Participant

    The US Navy’s next two new Ford-class aircraft carriers that are planned (but not yet contracted) are to be named after Slick Willie and Dubya.

    Following the naming of the next two Gerald R Ford-class nuclear-powered aircraft carriers by the US Navy as the future USS William J Clinton (CVN 82) and USS George W Bush (CVN 83), a path has opened for the eighth vessel in class (CVN 85) to be named after the incoming President-elect, Donald J Trump.

    https://www.naval-technology.com/news/could-cvn-85-be-named-uss-donald-j-trump/

    From AP News –

    The Navy has three other Ford-class carriers under construction: the USS John F. Kennedy, the USS Enterprise and the USS Dorie Millier.

    April 22, 2026 at 8:59 pm #239079
    Michael Reid
    Participant

    Dr. Chuck Baldwin is the Founder-Pastor of Liberty Fellowship in Kalispell, Montana. A Non-501c3 Fellowship of Patriot Believers.

    https://libertyfellowshipmt.com/

    April 22, 2026 at 9:02 pm #239080
    Michael Reid
    Participant

    Americans Don’t Want To Fight A Proxy War For Israel

    https://libertyfellowshipmt.com/News/tabid/56/ID/5020/Americans-Dont-Want-To-Fight-A-Proxy-War-For-Israel.aspx

    April 22, 2026 at 9:48 pm #239081
    tboc
    Participant

    every penny wasted in Ukraine and Iran could have been invested in The United States.

    D don’t even try to bullshit your way out of the Ukraine fiasco you bloviating firster. The grand pomposity was sitting at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.NW when civilians were being murder in Donbas and Luhansk. His majesty, the royal ignoramus, was in the Oval Office when Europe’s largest army was being created and armed.

    The golden disingenousness started the inhumane extravaganza under way in the Middle East today.
    Vizier Tilted Head instigated a war that will have debilitating effects on “your tired, your poor,
    Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free”,

    Donald J. Trump is a traitor to his nation and humanity.
    a bully and a coward can only lead to destruction

    April 22, 2026 at 10:01 pm #239082
    tboc
    Participant

    To make sure I am not misunderstood.
    After 78 years two points.
    1. The Holocaust Industry (Finkelstein) is a fraud.
    2. The modern state of Israel, due to the terror and horror it has wrought, Has No Right To Exist

    April 22, 2026 at 10:02 pm #239083
    tboc
    Participant

    Free Palestine

    April 22, 2026 at 10:17 pm #239084
    tboc
    Participant

    if you believe I Am That I Am needs your help in ordering and executing the Cosmos, go be intimate with yourself.

    i have no word to describe the heartbreak the path my nation trods elicits.

    April 22, 2026 at 10:21 pm #239085
    Michael Reid
    Participant

    The Pastor Who Birthed America

    This message was preached by Pastor Chuck Baldwin on Sunday, April 19, 2026, during the service at Liberty Fellowship

    I listened to this and it helped place things in perspective.

    America fought for its freedom from England.

    Today Iran is fighting for its freedom from United States and Israel.

    God is on the side of those fighting for their freedom.

    D, as a Christian American you should know the truth of the situation.

    Trump is evil doing the work of the devil and Israel.

    Today’s Redcoats are the U.S. military.

    The Pastor Who Birthed America

    This message was preached by Pastor Chuck Baldwin on Sunday, April 19, 2026, during the service at Liberty Fellowship

    April 22, 2026 at 11:36 pm #239086
    Michael Reid
    Participant

    tboc writes:

    “
    every penny wasted in Ukraine and Iran could have been invested in The United States.

    D don’t even try to bullshit your way out of the Ukraine fiasco you bloviating firster. The grand pomposity was sitting at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.NW when civilians were being murder in Donbas and Luhansk. His majesty, the royal ignoramus, was in the Oval Office when Europe’s largest army was being created and armed.

    The golden disingenousness started the inhumane extravaganza under way in the Middle East today.
    Vizier Tilted Head instigated a war that will have debilitating effects on “your tired, your poor,
    Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free”,

    Donald J. Trump is a traitor to his nation and humanity.
    a bully and a coward can only lead to destruction

    To make sure I am not misunderstood.
    After 78 years two points.
    1. The Holocaust Industry (Finkelstein) is a fraud.
    2. The modern state of Israel, due to the terror and horror it has wrought, Has No Right To Exist

    Free Palestine

    if you believe I Am That I Am needs your help in ordering and executing the Cosmos, go be intimate with yourself.

    i have no word to describe the heartbreak the path my nation trods elicits.
    “

    I agree.

    And I write:
    “
    America fought for its freedom from England.

    Today Iran is fighting for its freedom from United States and Israel.

    God is on the side of those fighting for their freedom.

    D, as a Christian American you should know the truth of the situation.

    Trump is evil doing the work of the devil and Israel.

    Today’s Redcoats are the U.S. military.
    “

    What say you all?

    Freedom is the answer.

    April 22, 2026 at 11:44 pm #239087
    Michael Reid
    Participant

    John Mearsheimer: U.S. Expands Iran War & Divorces Europe

    April 22, 2026 at 11:47 pm #239088
    Michael Reid
    Participant

    Things are getting Worse: IRAN rejected Trump’s Truce and Brutally Killed two Israeli Mossad Agents

    April 23, 2026 at 12:06 am #239089
    Michael Reid
    Participant

    TRUMP FLIPS – SAYS OPEN ENDED CEASEFIRE IS NOW 3-5 DAYS AND THE WAR STARTS BACK UP

    April 23, 2026 at 12:09 am #239090
    Michael Reid
    Participant

    WE THE PEOPLE” – NEW POLITICAL MOVEMENT SEEKS TO UNSEAT THE RED/BLUE DUOPOLY

    April 23, 2026 at 12:12 am #239091
    Michael Reid
    Participant

    Pepe Escobar: “Total Failure”: Trump’s Blockade Just Backfired Disastrously

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