Debt Rattle April 8 2026
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Emil Nolde Half Moon Over The Sea 1945 • Trump Announces a Ceasefire (Sarah Anderson) • President Trump, Iran Agree To 2-Week Ceasefire (ZH) • Preside
[See the full post at: Debt Rattle April 8 2026]“JD Vance just went hard against the European Union, slamming tyrannical bureaucrats for trying to destroy Hungary because nationalist Viktor Orban leads them”
JD whine, “Foreign election interference!”
Kidnapping the head of a foreign government is OK though.
Assassinating the head of a foreign government and his family members is OK though
Sponsoring the Maiden Coup in Ukraine is OK though
Vance’s Boss….the Emperor of Lies
Strait of Iran
Kinda like the name change for the Gulf of America
For Trumpturd it’s similar to being grabbed by the balls….just sayin’……
Islam is six hundred years younger than Christianity if 610 C.E is taken as the year of the first revelation.
would someone remind us of what chrisitanity has been up to six hundred years ago to the present?
silly me I keep forgettingi have come to the conclusion Dante’s inscription is posted at the exit of the human birth canal.
NOTE: The United States has retreated unceremoniously, and Iran has declared a “historic victory,” stamping its authority as a new global superpower.
Forty days that shook the Empire: How Iran turned the tables on US and prevailed
Wednesday, 08 April 2026 3:58 AM [ Last Update: Wednesday, 08 April 2026 3:58 AM ]By Sarwar Abbas
Forty days into the war imposed illegally on the Islamic Republic of Iran, the unthinkable has happened. The United States has retreated unceremoniously, and Iran has declared a “historic victory,” stamping its authority as a new global superpower.
And the enemy, despite unleashing overwhelming force, has been forced to accept a 10-point Iranian proposal that includes a permanent ceasefire, the removal of all primary and secondary sanctions, and the withdrawal of US combat forces from the region.
The proposal also includes Iran’s complete and firm control over the Strait of Hormuz, a strategic waterway that disrupted the global energy momentum in the past month.
After 40 days of the war that should never have happened in the first place, the aggressors have failed to achieve any of their stated objectives. Trump desperately looked for an off-ramp from the quagmire he helped create, and the world witnessed something unprecedented: the defeat of a superpower at the hands of a nation that refuses to bend.
The war of aggression was launched against Iran on February 28, amid indirect nuclear talks between Tehran and Washington. Its initial aim was audacious: “regime change” in Iran. The first wave of strikes specifically targeted the Leader of the Islamic Revolution, Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei, along with several top-ranking military commanders. The subsequent waves targeted both commanders and top officials.
Washington and Tel Aviv believed this time would be different. Unlike the 12-day war of June last year, which also came in the middle of nuclear talks, this time the proponents of “regime change” felt that the collapse of the Islamic Republic was imminent. They were catastrophically wrong, which they must have realised now.
Immediately after launching what was dubbed “Operation Epic Fury,” Trump exuded confidence that the US aggression would allow the Iranian people to overthrow their own government, hoping to plant someone subservient to Washington.
Perhaps the plan was to do what they did in Venezuela. But Trump and his aides forgot that Iran is not Venezuela. And the Iranian people are not passive bystanders.
Following devastating Iranian retaliatory strikes that obliterated nearly all US military installations across the region, President Trump made a strained declaration two weeks ago. He claimed that “regime change” had already happened in Iran, referring to the election of Ayatollah Seyyed Mojtaba Khamenei as the country’s new Leader.
He was ridiculed for making such an outlandish claim. As one observer quipped, the US-Israeli war machine could not even change Iran’s revolutionary slogans, let alone topple the system that has survived nearly five decades of plots and conspiracies.
When Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei addressed the nation on March 13, he struck a defiant tone – vowing revenge for martyrs, reaffirming resistance against aggression, and emphasizing the strategic value of controlling the Strait of Hormuz.
Far from indicating collapse, his election demonstrated institutional strength, which the products of the Epstein class will never understand. The Islamic Republic rests on constitutional structures that are not tied to one individual. Its strategic doctrine remains unshaken, which has been demonstrated yet again during this war.
Trump has long framed Iran’s nuclear program as an existential danger. Before the Ramadan war, he threatened military action to dismantle it, even though, as many social media users pointed out, he had, after the 12-day war, claimed the program was already “obliterated.”
Eventually, after 40 days of war and mindless rhetoric, the “regime change” fantasy also evaporated. His attempt to attack nuclear facilities in Isfahan failed spectacularly, as Americans lost a vast fleet of aircraft in the process, without achieving anything.
Trump was also fixated on the Strait of Hormuz, vowing to open it. Iran’s navy had effectively closed the waterway to American and allied vessels following the launch of the unprovoked war. Any attempt to cross the Strait without Iran’s consent was a recipe for disaster.
Trump issued several warnings: reopen the strait or face strikes on Iranian power plants. Deadlines changed from 48 hours to five days to ten days and then again 48 hours before he eventually gave up and accepted Iran’s 10-point proposal.
The shifting goals of America’s futile military campaign, from day one to day forty, revealed a stunning absence of strategy or clarity. Even US politicians and pundits condemned the war as unnecessary and unprovoked, with many of them even suggesting the 25th Amendment to have the megalomaniac president removed from office.
Beyond strategic failure, the United States suffered crippling military and economic damage from Iran’s Operation True Promise 4 retaliatory strikes – 99 of them in 40 days.
During the first week alone, Iranian retaliatory strikes cost American taxpayers over $1 billion, as per reports. Carrier and warplane deployment accounted for $630 million, while lost F-15E jets in Kuwait added nearly $300 million, as per Press TV analysis.
The war had become a costly trap for the Trump administration, widely seen as a strategic miscalculation with no gains and only losses. That’s precisely why the role of Netanyahu was the key. He couldn’t do it on his own, so he dragged Trump into the unnecessary war.
A total of 99 waves of Iranian missile and drone strikes leveled US bases across the region, as American forces were compelled to abandon fortified positions for hotels and office spaces. Americans have downplayed the casualty toll, particularly the death toll, but independent estimates have put the deaths into hundreds, if not thousands.
The Fifth Fleet in Bahrain, the bastion of US military presence in the region, particularly suffered the heaviest damage. Iranian strikes repeatedly targeted its headquarters in Manama, demonstrating a new model of asymmetric warfare, inflicting irreparable damage on infrastructure, ammunition depots, and command buildings there.
American air power was completely decimated in the region. On March 27, the IRGC destroyed a $700 million E-3 Sentry AWACS at Prince Sultan Air Base in Saudi Arabia, along with multiple electronic warfare planes and refueling aircraft. Days earlier, Iran and Iraqi resistance forces downed six KC-135 Stratotankers, the important air-refueling backbone.
Days later, Iran successfully hit an F-35 Lightning II stealth fighter for the first time ever. The multi-trillion-dollar asset of the American military was targeted in central Iran.
A number of F-15s, F-16s, F-18s, over a dozen MQ-9 Reaper drones and over 170 drones were also downed or damaged. Four AN/TPY-2 THAAD radars and a billion-dollar Qatar early-warning installation were also hit.
On April 3, dubbed the “darkest day” for the US Air Force, F-15E Strike Eagle, an A-10 Thunderbolt II, multiple MQ-9 Reaper drones, and Hermes reconnaissance platforms were also downed by the Iranian air defenses, which have vastly improved since the 12-day war.
On the other hand, due to the closure of the Strait of Hormuz for American and allied vessels, oil prices hit three-year highs, which had ripple effects across the globe.
Gasoline prices in the US climbed above $4 per gallon, and diesel also hit $6 in many states. Supply disruptions spread to LNG, fertilizer, and other commodities as well.
To make it worse, Trump’s approval rating nosedived to 36 percent, his lowest since returning to office, with 59 percent disapproval, the highest of his political career.
Now the Republicans are concerned about the midterm elections.
Now, 40 days after launching its war of aggression, the US has been forced to accept Tehran’s 10-point proposal: a permanent ceasefire, Iranian control over the Strait of Hormuz, acceptance of enrichment, full sanctions removal, termination of all UN resolutions, war compensation, US combat withdrawal from the region, and an end to fighting on all fronts, including against Lebanon’s Islamic Resistance.
This is not a stalemate. This is a defeat – historic, undeniable, and crushing.
The era of unchecked American power in West Asia has ended. Iran has emerged as a regional superpower and the world must come to terms with this undeniable fact.
Sarwar Abbas is a Pakistan-based writer and commentator.
(The views expressed in this article do not necessarily reflect those of Press TV.)
https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2026/04/08/766475/forty-days-shook-empire-how-iran-turned-tables-us-prevailedMarc Andreessen
“we’re going to have AI and robots precisely when we actually need them [with populations shrinking] to keep the economy from actually shrinking.”
You mean after Andreessen backed the Californacate Woke Psy-op Agenda of Trans-queer-feminazi-unlimited-abortionondemand-anti family formation-homes to expensive to afford-highest homelessness rate in the nation…. good old Marc sees AI as Jesus Christ come to save the Plebs
Andreessen drips with hypocritical California Dreamin’ condescension.
Don’t have babies ladies, have robots waiting on your every whim.
Or as Musk says, “Just cut them all welfare checks or something just to keep the peace.”
Sell the Ah’mericans Sea Monkeys!
HEADLINE:
A Conditional Ceasefire Where the Conditions Were Written by Iran
The Iranians maintain control of the Strait and the shipping passing through still have to pay a toll
Coming or Going
And future discussions will be based of Iranians ten point proposal
Sounds like a Big Win for Iran
And a Big “L” for Trumpturd, desperate to get out of the Clusterfuck of his own doing.
John Rat Cliff
War Criminal CIA Mafiocracy Boss
I didn’t tell Trumpturd that Iran was a Gargantuan Clusterfuck because I’m a Coward & Traitor
The most tragic irony about people like Trump is that they feel worse and worse every ensuing day of their lives until eventually they die of it.
Eventually they feel so bad that there isn’t any other person in the whole world that they like well enough that they would not just as soon that the other person was dead, especially if there was some benefit to themselves from killing them. Talk about selfish!
And how well off is that person who is so important and valuable that it was necessary to kill everyone else so that that wonderful self could live?
I just described them. How wonderfully valuable does that person seem to you?
Trump. Netanyahu, Musk, (and so on for a few thousands or millions of like people).
They don’t feel better and better. They feel worse and worse. Until it kills them (or someone else does them the favor.)
“i have come to the conclusion Dante’s inscription is posted at the exit of the human birth canal.”
ah, but what is posted at the entrance?
That photograph of John Ratcliff belongs in the Psychiatric textbooks under the title “smug serial killer”. There’s a chance him and Ted Bundy are blood related.
(The VIEWSCLAIMS expressed in this BLOG/COMmENTS do not necessarily reflect the VIEWS/CLAIMS of EVERYONE.)WE WON!
WE HAVE A CEASEFIRE!
WE HAVE PEACE!
THE KILLING HAS STOPPED!This is a defeat! – historic, undeniable, and crushing.
———-So Who Really Won In The Middle East❓
Russia And Ukraine Have Exchanged New Strikes💥
MS 2026.04.08
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April 8, 2026
War On Iran: – April Ceasefire – A Tick Tock Of Statements And Comments
Trump has chickened out from his threat of committing a genocide in Iran by agreeing to a ceasefire based on Iran’s 10 point declaration.The war isn’t over.
Israel will do its best to sabotage the ceasefire by all means.
https://www.moonofalabama.org/
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AI is a weapon. Use it like one! It sure has been used as a weapon against you for long enough! (and very effectively, too, I should add). So, like it or not the weapon exists , That genie is out of the bottleand that genie ain’t going back into no bottle, neither.
In addition to be a very effective weapon (of self defense!) it is also one amazingly fast text book, designing table and testing board.
Like EVERY other tool and weapon in the whole wide universe if you use it correctly you’ll get faster better results, and if you use it poorly or for wrong purposes then you will almost certainly get seriously injured or killed. Be advised!
This applies to intelligence of ALL kinds, not just the so-called “artificial” kind.
Soon after gunpowder was invented those who wanted to be overlords turned it into firearms and used it to overlord folks. Soon after that the overlorded folks got their hands on firearms and used those guns to shoot the damn overlords. It got very energetic there for a while but was starting to settle down just a bit until digital computers and “artificial thinking” came along.
And it has been going the same way with computers and AI robotics as things went with gunpowder.
The peasants are now armed, and there’s simply no way to disarm them.
@ D Benton Smith
A.I. will continue to make money for the advertisers and the promotors to the basic uncontrolled desires/emotions of humanity that use modern technology.
I’m one of those formerly unarmed peasants.
Allow me to speak clearly to any overlords who may (hopefully!) be eavesdropping at the moment. I’m armed now, and I’m dangerous</strong, and so are my many many friends.
A.I. will continue to make money for the advertisers
Only for so long as the advertisers and their minions know how AI actually works, and their victims do not know.
Once the former victims learn how AI actually works (and it’s easily knowable once the knowledge is shown to you) then the advertisers and their minions have no control over it any more. In fact, they LOSE the control that they previously had.
They are being blown up with their own gunpowder.
How about Covid 19 and the deadly vaxxines?
So-called “artificial intelligence” is doing what it does.
The truth is coming out and the genie is never going back into that bottle again.
Intelligence is the technical (step by step) means by which isolated aware beings find and share discovered facts with each other using symbols, procedures and patterns transmitted to others through material systems.
Our language is the perfect example of what such an “intelligence” machine looks like.
Once the process is known it becomes instantly obvious that one does not need material machines with which to do it, although such devices can be wonderfully useful at times like this.
Material minded selfish Blobulists are unable to see this because they can only “see” the material part, and are more or less blind to the rest. That is a tragically ironic pity, once again.
Not only is the side of truth, love and spirituality going to win, but that’s the only thing that CAN happen.
That’s how intelligence works.
You don’t have to kill or maim a bully to make their bullying stop. You just have to beat up on them enough, every time they try to bully, that they learn that they can’t get away with bullying any more.
Most bullies are slow learners. Maybe that basic stupidity is the reason they think they can only get what they want by bullying others.
“US, Iran, Israel Agree To 2-Week Ceasefire, Iran Will Allow Safe Passage Via Hormuz For Two Weeks
Peace is “Chickening out”. So who wants a victory dance that Trump did NOT bomb Iran? That’s all I’ve heard these two weeks: NOT BOMBING is the real cowardice and crime. Well, here’s your chance.
“Ukrainian sources confirm: 4,000 Ukrainian coup specialists have already been transferred to Hungary. They plan to seize buildings in Budapest, organize riots, and refuse to recognize PM Viktor Orbán’s victory.”
Holy S—t! We thought we’d seen stuff before, but they didn’t even get serious yet. Again, read build-up to WWII. Or Gladio, whatever.
It’s easy to break things, hard to create. If you pay people to make a mess, it’s hard to stop.
“The one thing they can do is just issue people money.”
Clearly do not want to, because any payouts would favor Trump. Better every human in America is killed first. So yes and no.
This “printing money” (for inflation) is the same right now: the forces are so large, it will go straight up (like gold), the straight down (like gold). Stocks straight up, straight down. Etc.
Why? Have a crash, everyone sells gold, like ‘08. But then after the front edge, goes back up because people begin to understand it and want it. But the same is true of things as large as US$ and UST, which are THE PLANET.
And it sort of has to, right? Everything is mispriced. Everything is hooked together. Half the things collapsed (like Europe) haven’t been priced, but when they are, it will take out a banking system. As that deflation strikes, they print, but the crash takes a month and the printing takes two months to kick in.
TL;DR: Prices will go Up AND Down. Both. Which is which and when? I bet even best traders will get wiped out, catching one and not the other. Or winning but the casino closes before they leave.
AfD: Remigration or death.”
No. Remigration AND death. Any very serious attempt at this will be resisted far stronger than in Minnesota. And by the migrants, if not also the public. And a lot of it was trip-wired, set up on purpose. So the Migrants will feel under attack and not want to be deported to a Kuwait that has no water. So they will shoot everyone in France to resist and being “Oppressed”.
I could tell you that 10 years ago, and did, but no one ELSE takes it seriously until they’re into it. Ultimately, it will become a +100,000 person bloodbath. Maybe it still needs to happen, and maybe we’re perfectly fair: we set the rules and you’re resisting arrest with deadly force. But are you serious in your determination?
And that’s true in America too, just a lot less so.
“• Trump Announces a Ceasefire (Sarah Anderson)
It’s the Janitor and the Volleyball team on the other side of the ceasefire. Look: we don’t know. Again, everyone will be sad and say Bad Man Bad because he’s not bombing.
This is also Iran not talking in good faith, as ever (and yes, why should they, but we’re talking about now, today) they need to drag it out. Because Trump only wins if we leave.
Which you all will call a “Loss” and a “Defeat” insuring he can’t do that and has to keep bombing, congratulations, you’re on the side of war.
“Treasury yields and the dollar are tumbling. …well it wouldn’t be Tuesday without TACOs.”
ZeroHedge helping, being radically blood gore guts, veins in their teeth Pro-War. No, Trump, you lose when you DON’T bomb!! Bombing is winning now. ZeroHedge is now George W. Bush.
“We also urge all warring parties to observe a ceasefire everywhere for two weeks to allow diplomacy to achieve conclusive termination of war, in the interest of long-term peace and stability in the region.” Will Trump latch on to this plea and last minute effort of good will?”
Again, if he “Latches on” it’s a surrender. The only non-losing move is to keep bombing. Everyone just constructs all their words, their thoughts this way. I Don’t! WTF are you thinking? Not Bombing is always the win, actually!
Here’s an idea: Let’s not bomb things! And if we are now, we stop!
“Iran will not hesitate to impose heavy costs on America and its partners.”
As no one is serious at all, Iran has imposed NO COSTS on the U.S., at home, but DOES impose heavy costs on Europe, who is opposed to the war, and essentially Iran’s ally. …In #Oppositeland, where Iran lives. Iran’s answer: BOMB the peace people, let go the war people.
“He doesn’t know that if he carries out his threat, he will have to wait for the oil price of $200 in the coming days.”
Great! Also as no one is serious and in #Oppositeland, WE SELL OIL, you retards! You’re making US rich! And “If the Straits are closed” by definition YOU are NOT selling oil, taking money, and getting rich. So great planning! Jesus, I thought Iranians were smart, who are these retards speaking for the Iranian people?
“Iran came back to the bargaining table in spite of Trump’s threats, not because of them, even when the exact opposite is true.”
Probably, but we can never know. And we wouldn’t be in this mess if it hadn’t started, but that just goes back one iteration: they wouldn’t negotiate legitimately before without the same strongarming. And THAT goes back ANOTHER iteration to years and decades, etc. But we can’t Un-Do the egg. We’re here, so how do we work from here.
“Iran came back to the bargaining table in spite of Trump’s threats, not because of them, even when the exact opposite is true.”
Correct me if I’m wrong but that’s not The 25th. That’s for when you’ve been shot and are a vegetable. Sooo….??? YOUR legal path (which no one in government ever chooses willingly) is to Just Impeach. That’s it. That’s your main duty. No other, just that one. And you can cut off funding, but the results would be unclear. So? Do your job, legally and correctly. They Can’t. They Won’t. Because that would be non-insane behavior from insane people.
Okay, WHY then? A: Because they’re calling on the CABINET to remove Trump, on the GENERALS. That way they don’t have to, can sit and drink tea and collect money for nothing. They don’t think they can impeach right now, but want it, so they just tell OTHER people to do the work for them. I want a Pony.
And again, he invokes “The Law”. Hahahahaha! There is no Law! “The Law” requires good faith, actual, honest non-insane belief in it and adherence to it. As the article points out, Joe Biden was NOT “The 25th”. Why? ‘Coz I don’t want it to be. It’s true but then I don’t win and kill you all, drink from the skulls of my enemies.
Yes, in any case like that, there is no Law, only Power. And the reason for Power is More Power. It doesn’t end. It becomes madness of “Whatever I feel like this minute,” obviously, because even that statement, above, shows it. Yes, that’s the definition of Insanity. No, I can’t be ruled by insane people, because we’ll all be killed.
“That military planners are pulling out existing lists of potential targets to provide the president options if he decides to attack energy infrastructure (according to WSJ sources), this should not be new news for traders (but the market is so sensitive)”
Or not sensitive. It doesn’t seem like, but the market has priced nothing more happening. Gold: no move; US$, no move; Dow, no move; Oil, high but no move. BTC, no move. It’s saying it will be no worse and taper off.
Again, market isn’t perfect. Also market is rigged. But for front-running reasons, this remains roughly functional.
“Defiance Without Leverage: Tehran’s Fatal Miscalculation (David Manney)
Good way to put it. Again: CAN Iran “defy” (stupid term) “us” (stupid term) and keep bombing? Sure. And they’ll be Yemen. Which London will like, but the world will go around them. What is best for the success of the Iranian people? A: Not to be run by a death cult, that’s for sure! And the same here. You complain about Epstein, Death Cults, warmongers, terrorism here in the U.S. we too are trying to unseat government to root out. But it’s okay in Iran? They SHOULD be run by their ‘CIA’, their MICMAC Complex? No.
The IRGC – which is the entire military, it’s like they would PRETEND the rest of the nation exists – does NOT care about the Iranian people. They want to WIN. To make a point. And if every Iranian dies, so be it. That’s not actually, rational, boys. That’s Dr. Strangelove stuff, same as we make fun and root it out here.
“Mojtaba Khamenei was selected by Iran’s Assembly of Experts on March 8 and is the “current” supreme leader of Iran,”
Was he really? Is he really? And he’s not “Ayatollah” because he’s not religious, how does that work? That’s a three-fer, a Hat Trick.
“• Here’s How Bad the Midterms Situation for the Democrats Really Is (Margolis)
It’s impossible to tell as everything is a lie, but my bet is if Trump removes only 5% of election fraud, Democrats will lose. He’s not pushing for more, because it makes a big mess. He’s nudging it to a win, and we can plausibly deny we haven’t had real elections in years, certainly since Gore 2001.
Why? Because what if we print world headlines, “The U.S. is entirely fake, has no democracy, no rule of law because every law and regulation passed last 26 years is illegitimate”? SellSellSell. They WANT us to do that. While China and Europe are worse. While if we say “Well, SOME election fraud was found…but we cleaned that up…”
“Free trade depends on Greece”
Depends on the “flag” but Good on ya.
The resounding defeat of the ZioAmerican Empire in it’s failed attempt to conquer and occupy Iran is the best news I’ve heard all morning.
Anyone who feels bad about it is obviously a little morally cockeyed, leading to consequent cognitive disorders as well.
Now if we can just manage to minimize the oncoming famine being generated (as we speak) by the disruption of anergy production and distribution and the damage it is doing to our ability to grow and distribute enough food in the nick of time.
Last night WES mused:
“A few days ago, Trump said he had a better plan, than bombing Iran back into the stone ages, but couldn’t tell anyone.
Rember that, or did you miss it?Well, seizing Iran’s uranium, while rescuing the F15 airmen, was to be Trump’s new off ramp to end the war.
So, what went wrong?
Simple, Israel leaked the plan to Iran, to prevent Trump from ending the war.If, you were Trump, would you be upset?
Slightly?
Or, really pissed off?Today, Trump suddenly agreed to a 2 week ceasefire!
My guess, was he was really, really, pissed off!Now, Israel is really pissed off, that the war might suddenly end!”
The war is worth watching in this light, innit?
As long as one remains open to the truth one never has to worry about being wrong. Being open to the truth one simply accepts the truth, and voila, right again!
Israel continued striking Lebanon immediately after the ceasefire
Multiple outlets confirm that Israel did not pause operations in Lebanon, because the U.S.–Iran ceasefire does not include Lebanon.The ceasefire you’re referring to does not apply to Gaza or the West Bank.
As a result:
– West Bank: Raids, arrests, and settler violence have continued.
– Gaza: Airstrikes, shelling, and ground operations have continued.
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