Debt Rattle April 13 2026
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Thomas Cole The Course of Empire – The Arcadian or Pastoral State 1834 • US Block Strait of Hormuz Over Iranian Mines as Iran Says ‘No Deal’ (Salgado)
[See the full post at: Debt Rattle April 13 2026]I voted for DJT based on the populist intent called MAGA. I did not vote for MIGA.
MIGA is the inverse of MAGA.
Insider Trading:
The last 6 weeks
Iran, open the Strait or I’ll blow you to bits!
I think a deal with Iran is very close now!
Iran, open the Strait or I’ll blow you to bits!
I think a deal with Iran is very close now!
Iran, open the Strait or I’ll blow you to bits!
I think a deal with Iran is very close now!
Iran, open the Strait or I’ll blow you to bits!
I think a deal with Iran is very close now!
Barbaria strategically surrenders. Civilization wins. For now
Contact us: info@strategic-culture.suThis was always about Civilization.
“A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again.” History will register it with a gaze as pitiless as the Sun. An astonishing barbarian imprimatur, courtesy of the President of the United States, via a social media post.
In a nutshell, this was a trashy “civilization” that gave the world the Big Mac threatening to wipe out an ancient civilization that gave the world algebra; influenced art, science, governance in unparalleled ways; produced stars from Cyrus the Great to Avicenna, from Omar Khayyam to poet supreme Jalaladdin Rumi; developed serial, sublime gardens, carpets, architectural wonders and philosophical and ethical frameworks.
Crucially, there was not a single peep about this Barbaria outburst from the political leadership of the entire “civilized” collective West, not even feigning outrage, once again proving their absolute, irreversible moral and political bankruptcy.
Iranians answered Barbaria in kind. Over 14 million people registered to form human walls around their power stations all across the nation, simultaneously protecting their livelihood and confronting head on the firepower of the Epstein Syndicate.
As a hair-raising cliffhanger approached, the Baboon of Barbaria pivoted into – what else – TACO: the LEGO guys immortalized it.
There’s absolutely no way that Pakistan could have offered “guarantees” to Iran that a ceasefire was the way for the war to eventually end. As confirmed by diplomatic sources, what really happened is that Beijing, at the 11th moment, placed itself as the guarantor, assuring Tehran that the US would accept at least some of Iran’s demands included in its 10-point plan.
That was further confirmed by Iranian ambassador to China, Abdolreza Rhamani Fazili. The negotiations start this Friday in Islamabad.
POTUS, the Drooling Baboon of Barbaria, confronted with the inevitable, dire consequences of his own strategic blunder, used Pakistan for his off-ramp. That was confirmed by another epic blunder by the Pakistani Prime Minister himself: he forgot to remove the header of the tweet/X post drafted by the White House for him to publish.
The current Pakistani regime – de facto led by Field Marshall Asim Munir, who has Trump on speed dial – may have profited, and will continue to geopolitically profit, from a unique status: a Muslim nuclear nation with a significant Shi’ite minority; good relations with the GCC; neighbor of Iran, enjoying good relations; signed a defense pact with Saudi Arabia; a strategic partner of China; no US bases on its soil.
But Islamabad was always a mere go-between, never the architect of any “mediation”. Whatever obfuscation coming from the White House, it was China that had to clinch the lineaments of a possible détente.
The Epstein Syndicate begs for a break
We had arrived to a point where the death cult in West Asia was being crushed simultaneously by Iran and Hezbollah in southern Lebanon; no matter the avalanche of spin, their cries begging for help played a significant part into Trump’s pivoting to a ceasefire.
The Epstein Syndicate as a whole begged for it. Nothing to do with geopolitics, but with operational hell: the Empire of Chaos has run out of military resources.
The ultimate give away was when the USS Tripoli retreated – under fire – to the depths of the southern Indian Ocean, complete with its 2,500 Marines on board. That meant the US Navy out of the war theater – except for subs with Tomahawks, roughly half of which go off-target with staggering (non)precision.
And the problems are far from over. Financial hell looms, whatever is decided in Islamabad and beyond, with $10 trillion in Treasuries to rollover in 2026. And the petrodollar is fast on the way to the dustbin of History.
Enter, once again, the demented death cult.
No one should ever forget. The Epstein Syndicate is non-agreement capable. And the death cult doesn’t do ceasefires: it does at best loopholes that allow it to keep killing everyone in sight.
The writing is already on the wall. If the death cult blows up the ceasefire – which is already the case – Iran and Hezbollah will counterpunch, massively, without attacking American assets.
Still, it’s way too early to affirm that the Baboon of Barbaria lost his war under every possible metric: moral; legal; political; economic; strategic.
After all, the Empire of Chaos will always be, intrinsically, non-agreement capable, especially when the track record tells of two attacks on Iran back to back during diplomatic negotiations, killing everyone from Leader Ayatollah Khamenei to scores of possible negotiators.
The Big Picture song remains the same (sing it!): this is a war till the end against the Top Three proponents of a multipolar world, Iran, China and Russia.
China’s power play, plus a few established facts
Before the ceasefire, China was getting 1.2 million barrels of Iranian oil a day, essentially via 26 ghost fleet tankers with their transponders in the dark, with payment settled in the Strait of Hormuz toll booth in yuan through CIPS. All that was bypassing SWIFT, sanctions, the petrollar, and Western insurance.
Talk about a new, alternative payment settlement system de facto implemented in the most crucial chokepoint on the planet.
This complex shadow energy architecture remains unaffected under the ceasefire – assuming it holds. But the key point is that China gets an extra breather: the ominous threat to finish off with every export of Iranian oil, post the Barbaria-declared Power Plant Day cliffhanger, seems to have disappeared. That explains the rationale behind China’s last minute guarantee to Iran.
Now compare it with the Empire of Chaos’s avowed “goals”: provoke regime change; get the enriched uranium; destroy the missile program; destroy Iran’s ability to project power. They all turned into an epic strategic blunder, culminating with the new status of the Strait of Hormuz.
Iran and Oman will coordinate the toll booth on every ship crossing the Strait during the ceasefire – and certainly beyond, in a detailed juridical framework. American ships crossing the Strait of Hormuz after paying their toll in yuan – there’s hardly anything more poetically intoxicating, in an Irony of History sense.
Still, it’s clear the Empire of Chaos is playing for time – even as Iran retains the initiative. This is the key take away from the Supreme National Security Council in Iran:
“It has been decided at the highest level that Iran will conduct two weeks of negotiations in Islamabad based solely on these principles [the Iranian 10-points]. This does not mean the war is over; Iran will only accept the end of the war once these principles are confirmed in detail.”
Let’s briefly review the 10 points – which, in theory, were “accepted” by Trump:
Commitment to non-aggression;
Preservation of Iran’s control over the Strait of Hormuz;
Agreement on uranium enrichment;
Cancellation of all primary sanctions;
Cancellation of all secondary sanctions;
Termination of all UN Security Council resolutions;
Termination of all IAEA Board of Governors resolutions;
Payment of compensation to Iran;
Withdrawal of American combat forces from the region;
Cessation of war on all fronts, including the war against Hezbollah in Lebanon.
There’s no way Iran will compromise on nearly all of these points. Payment of compensation might be metastasized into income from the Strait of Hormuz toll booth. But sanctions relief is not gonna happen; the US Congress will never allow it. Guarantee by the US they will not attack Iran again does not even qualify as a joke. Moreover, the Empire of Chaos simply cannot guarantee anything for Gaza or Lebanon.Still, that is an extremely risky play for Iran, and a huge test for China as the major guarantor. Iran has suffered horrendous damages – especially in its petrochemical industry. Even with a lot of Chinese investment, it will take years to recover.
The Three Stooges may go to Islamabad this Friday. Curly: Vance. Shifty: Witkoff. Mo: Kushner. But Iran – via FM Araghchi – will only seriously talk to one of them: Curly.
So Civilization survives – for now. A few facts too. Fact One: the US is not a superpower anymore. Fact Two: Iran is back as one of the world’s top powers. Fact Three: Most of the gutless Gulf petro-monarchies will end up kicking out US military bases for good. Fact Four: Qatar and Oman will work out a security arrangement with Iran.
The main imperative remains – and that concerns the whole planet: how to find a cure for that cancer in West Asia.
Barbaria strategically surrenders. Civilization wins. For now
Zionazis are being snuffed in Lebanon.
They have no spines, they are war criminals
Now they have no tanks.
Over a hundred Merkava tanks have been destroyed in South Lebanon this past week.
They can’t be replaced.
Here is a sweet video of an FPV (Russian) drone that got to Hezbollah flying into a Merkava
All the drone expertise that Russia has gained in 4 years of war in Ukraine is being applied to ISRealHell by Hezbollah.
Adding today: (Yesterday)
The Straits are both mined and not mined.They mined the Oman side, so therefore invaded a foreign nation and bombed it. Not only that, they “say” (check this) that they have no records, being in a hurry, and mines are also drifting free in places. Iran therefore CANNOT “open” the Straits (they are open) as they do not have the ability to de-mine it even if they wanted.
Sounds clever, yes? Well…THEIR money is made in “THEIR” straits (Oman’s). No transits means no revenue for IRAN. Genius. Nice going dummies.
Okay, well, this is war and I don’t know what better they can do, but that’s the situation.
“’No Deal’: Vance Leaves Islamabad As Iran Talks Stall Over Nukes; US Starts Mine-Clearing Hormuz
No Deal and No Surprise. Most expected thing in world to lie and stall.
“New Iran Leadership More Extreme, Israeli Intelligence Concludes
What do you mean by this? You mean you have someone officially in charge right now? The PREVIOUS guy was an actual, direct, Mossad agent. Soooo??? Discuss? None of these guys are either?
“Swalwell Denies Rape Allegations – Refuses to Drop Out Of Governor’s Race Despite Democrat Exodus
DO NOT BELIEVE ALL WOMEN, apparently…It’s a setup as it’s possible to get a Republican Governor due to their weird rules. WHO set him up? Well, I doubt it didn’t happen “It” being SOMETHING, but I would think the other DNC in the field to herd DNC back to a dismal candidate the people hate. Like Newsom.
Why do I say? Well, the article points out he was married, asked a staffer for a blowjob in a car. And she said yes. That’s “Sexual harassment”, adults asking and saying yes. Ah. However, the OTHER events are not and lean heavily into real cases. Just saying she both was and was not harassed, and did and did not consent. Gee, that sounds confusing, sort of? You want to get blackout drunk AND make out and do sex, but ALSO that’s harassment. And the weirdos and freaks in California clutch their pearls and say “How dare a married man” like Southern Baptists over it. This is the guy YOU wanted. He’s the freak YOU approved of, polyamorous and all that.
So yes, both did and didn’t happen.
“Apr 12 The Empire is Finished. We may have already crossed the point of no return Bob Moriarty rumble
Yes, but apparently Bob loves Empire. Odd. So many people. Did not realize. I am happy if empire ends, I guess I’m the only one now. Years I heard the same thing: “It’s terrible we’re an empire, marching around, starting wars, it’s unAmerican, it should end.” Now when so many are saying Empire is ending, they’re super mad and want it to continue and NOT end. “It” being “The Status Quo”, which they ALSO claimed to be against.
Look people: If nothing changes, it doesn’t change. So IF it changes, it’s going to leave a BIIIIIG mark. It’s going to have to unseat said “Status Quo” and by definition piss off everybody. And giant, mega-structure will be re-written, redirected: Oil and money flows. That’s it. Or “It doesn’t change.”
I guess everyone wants Empire to end, but nothing to break or be inconvenienced, there to be no ‘events’ that cause it? That never happens, grow up. (Bob, who is 83 or something)
He also just said Iran won and will be landing to occupy the U.S. shortly. I mean, we “lost the war” right? So they are going to occupy, set terms, extract all the reparations they see fit, right? That’s what “losing” is, not that you yourself are flattened to powder and have inflicted NO damage on the home state and people. I think if that happened, that would probably be Iran “Losing”. But it remains to be seen. We call Vietnam a “loss” and I agree, although these definitions were true.
“UK Bans Pretend “Stepsister” Porn Months After Actual Muslim Incest Protections
Ruling elites obsess over fictional family fantasies…Already posted this once but it’s the perfect example of madness. SIGNALING, in your mind, is the only reality. Reality itself, of desperate poverty, crime, trash, non-stop rape, that’s all not reality, because “Reality is only whatever I last wanted to be true in my mind.” And then flip-flops from sentence to sentence as we’ve covered non-stop more than 10 years. Very, tediously boring.
This was in Ukraine, famously, we covered for years. Ukraine is still dictating Russia’s terms of surrender to them. SAYING the words of racism is worse than actually creating an entire government and culture that is foundationally racist, like DEI or the Canadian NDP convention. Or England, again, being expressly, violently anti-white, the majority of their people still. (Sorry no %, there is no way to know since they both lie and don’t count)
“There is only one language jihadis understand. And now the whole world can see how absolutely determined the Iranian regime is to have war”
This language is unnecessary and unhelpful until you realize UK is the same. Germany, Poland are the same. France is the same. We’re not singling out Iran because they’re Muslims. THE WEF/DEI are also Woke Jihadis, well-proven now. Murdering everyone they can find.
“It also refused to track down and disable the mines it scattered in the Strait of Hormuz, while simultaneously demanding massive tolls from countries that send ships through the strait. Throughout every step of the process this week, the Iranian regime has been arrogant, demanding, defiant, and irrational.”
Again, exactly like the WEF being irrational, charging Tolls to eg Twitter, WHILE actively killing all their own people and neighbors, and being arrogant as “The Garden People” about it. Saying how much better they are than Mississippi, when they are clearly more racist and more oppressive.
“we need to see an affirmative commitment that they will not seek a nuclear weapon,”
Let’s take Iran’s side on this one: If they had a nuclear weapon, there’s a good chance they wouldn’t have been bombed in an unauthorized surprise attack just now. That’s their math. They’re also ahead in only one simple way: all they have to do is stall and be Yemen forever. That low level is very easy. They are now Somali pirates, harassing all the world’s ships that draw near. Like “The Shores of Tripoli” in our famous song, 1801.
Okay then. I mean, yes, they’re in a war, but what is the combined world planning to do about it? (A: Nothing. Criticize and blame, pretend, and also lie. These are ‘governments’, what would you expect?)
“mine clearing came hours after a United States government vessel was spotted entering the Strait of Hormuz”
So Iran won and owns the Straits, but we can just putter along our ships there, no problem at all? Pick one.
“Their Navy is gone, their Air Force is gone, their Anti Aircraft apparatus is nonexistent, Radar is dead, their Missile and Drone Factories have been largely obliterated along with the Missiles and Drones themselves and, most importantly, their longtime “Leaders” are [dead]”
Relevant Statements of objective fact.
“Having got all that off his chest,”
What is the point of this statement, except acute TDS? We don’t say “Eisenhower sighed, then ‘without evidence’ bloviated belligerently.” Also he was in Korea and killed 500,00 NoKo for no reason at all. This isn’t even Trump’s statements – that’s very often true, but still should be ignored – it’s the AUTHOR’S internal, emotional state. HE is the focus of this article. “What I like is more important than all the people in Iran and WWIII in general”. Ah. Thanks for that, sir. Now I can have suspicions about everything else you wrote, you psycho.
“But he wasn’t done with that. A few minutes later he followed with a shorter pithier version”
So the story here is, “Trump used WORDS. Bad words. Bad.” Hey 500,000 Iranians (or whatever we have no idea) be damned. I could care less about them! Trump used WORDS, that’s the true crisis here, for crazy people.
And you wonder why I checked out. WHO would I even tell this to? I do, and they have no idea what I’m saying, thinking it’s normal themselves. They’re not running the asylum, they are the majority, generally.
“• Trump ‘Preparing’ US Military If Talks Fail (ZH)
Wait: he can’t do this, he already surrendered to all 10 Iranian Points I read from 25 top experts on Fox News. What gives? Davis, Ritter, Sachs, how can that be?
“• For Entertainment Only – The Firehose of Crazy (CTH)
You’re tellin’ me.
“I don’t usually watch any of these podcast groups or their internecine battles du jour. But c’mon, these are not stable people.”
Sadly they are Waaaaaaaaaay more stable and honest than the NYT, Guardian, BBC, CNN, or NBC. You know: the networks riddles with proven Pedos and where the top anchors are found with dead interns under their desk? No one has any questions? They had the whole Prince Andrew thing on tap for 2 years and spiked it?
No memes of these guys who I CAN cite page numbers for in the Epstein Files and post AI Memes on. Nope! ACTUALLY being in the files means you get a pass. Day 24 of asking, NOT being in the files means you’re guilty. That’s logic in the “Firehose of Crazy”.
“Since the Iran War Began, Trump’s Popularity With Boomers Has Climbed
Well that’s sad. And says something about Boomers.
“Europe’s weak leaders made Europe weak.
Europe’s leaders are all sex-puppets of actual human beings behind them: look at Macron (famous, and for Roths) and Starmer (childhood pics with Jimmy Saville, passed around as a party favor like Kamala was). So they were not “elected” per se, and are not the “leaders” therefore, per se. If they were, they would arrest and remove them, as AfD, LePen, Italy, Greece, etc. And now Hungary, it seems.
Their ACTUAL leader is Ursula of “De Lyin’”, who was never elected at all, by anybody, but seems to be Dictator for Life. Or Zelensky, who is also no leader of any kind, long since un-elected.
“Mark Carney has spent his time as Canada’s prime minister practically groveling at the feet of China’s Xi Jinping and begging”
If only. He’s dismantling Canada and turning it into a literal fascist Ukraine state at the speed of light. And openly already running 100k man eugenics, with the breathless approval of the Canadian public. That’s more than was lost in AMERICAN wars, much less Canadian wars. In just a year or two. So HARD CORE, LIGHT SPEED, ethnic cleansing, the type of which we only read about in the genocides of (British) Africa and India.
But even they didn’t run decade-long rape camps, then when discovered, keep doing it without pause or shame.
Canada is already LOOKING like India, with trash everywhere, crime rocketing, and trust plummeting as all institutions fail. Personal observation of many actual Canadians. Who then do nothing.
“They expect America to lead NATO into WWIII.” Plan A.
Note, First time in 400 years England is NOT rabidly, radically pro-war. We must be doing something right.
“• “Create a Crisis”: Sponsor an Anti-ICE Campaign (Turley)
This was amazing. So we are not allowed to have police now. Or governments. Ah. Well, this is all from THE MOST RABIDLY PRO-GOVERNMENT PEOPLE ON THE PLANET: worse than normal Socialists, University Socialists. There is NEVER any action, anywhere, of any kind, down to child care, conception, birth, music, speech, health, cooking food, driving cars, right through to death they do NOT want government not only involved in, but entirely controlling! MA this week decided to float a law about how many miles you could drive in your own car without permission. (All leaders have infinite permission.)
But the DEMOCRATS passed immigration law and funded ICE to enforce it, since 1986, then had like 3 different supermajorities to re-set the laws, including Trump 2017 who said he’d sign anything Congress put before him. They refused.
So we do NOT enforce any laws now. That’s why we passed them! So they don’t exist! And we ALSO arrest people for laws that were NOT on the books, too many to name, but J6 is a good example, all drug laws also probably. (They need an amendment, as shown in 1920) That’s why we HIRED Ice, to not enforce the laws we passed. But…sit in the office and watch porn with the SEC? Not sure.
This is the true and expert genius of our Intelligent Class, University Professors. A more dismal and dumber group of nutless sad sacks has never been seen. Laws are passed to not be enforced. Duh. …Says every lawyer and historian ever now.
Look at the process though: It’s just straight communist revolution stuff. ‘Cuz peoples Iz killed in Revolutions n’ stuff and we like that. The only good murder is Mass Murder. It’s all about POWER. I can’t get what I want using normal means, so we just “Make S—t Up” to have the POWER. And when I get THAT power, I will make MORE s—t up, and get MORE power. Because: no principles. Clearly shown in their article, their own words.
“The case offers a rare look into how bureaucrats, journalists, and spies run a regime-change operation in real time.” Or should be edited: “Real time ALL THE TIME”. Never a moment they allow democracy to operate. How? Look at 1980 “Yes Minister”. It’s all right there. And that was public, kiddie-stuff.
Hungary: However, Alex Krainer, who is a neighbor to them, said he couldn’t guess, so it was 50-50. A 70-30 then looks incredibly suspicious, ESPECIALLY as we also had no scandals, no reasons beforehand. Like sure, it’s an election, but not like they didn’t mostly like Orban, they clearly did, and nothing had changed. Doesn’t matter though.
Again with Swalwell: being a literal Chinese assets, sleeping with Chinese agents, no problem! Governor, Congressman all you want, they all do it! However, asking a woman to make out and she says yes? Man, that’s a step too far!!!! No, we cannot tolerate this “History of consensual sex” stuff. (Note: yes, there was seeming bad things too, unproven. So then why add the consensual, and post-facto present it as if it isn’t?)
You’re all garbage people. Not one of you cares about “reality” only “what POWER can I get? To crush YOU, the skulls of my enemies”?
“How will AI and robots change life in 10 years?” It will be hell on earth. More than now.
“Iran can re-mine much, much faster than the Empire of Lies can do a half ass job of clearing them from the Strait of Iran.”
No they can’t so far as we know. There are no remaining boats above water. You can’t just make stuff up. Sure it SOUNDS easy, but they basically fly over everything and do as they please with only occasional resistance of anti-air.
“Missile destroyers weren’t design to ‘clear mines’, not their Gig.”
Yeah, that means that’s not what they’re there for, or they wouldn’t take the risk. “Everyone is stupid but me.” However, there ARE all the mine-people and assets there, because I’ve been following them on the pro-military sites.
“Iran is the second strategic defeat of the west”
What do these words mean? We are untouched. I’m now on $6 Porterhouse and $4 gas, still lower than Biden.
“taking a high risk to pass through this route and enter the Persian Gulf through concealment, deception,”
Oh no! How dare militaries use High Risk and “Deception”?? I say old chum, this is beyond the pale! No military has ever so misbehaved before. “Testing” other militaries? Why I say! No one ever, ever, ever, ever does this when they fly up to the Air borders of Alaska about weekly and are escorted out. Never!
The only “Botching” here is Iran didn’t sink them. So I presume they can’t. Wtf.
Also Iran has never, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever used talks as a cover for any of THEIR bad actions. Why I clutch my pearls, sir.
“1. What does the world gain should The US and Israel prevail?
2. What does the world gain should Iran prevail?
1.- Another century of naked aggression.”Fair enough. Except that if Iran wins it’s the same. It’s like the old saying “In Capitalism, Man oppresses man, but while in Socialism, it’s the opposite.” Iran is demonstrating right now what they would do TO THE WORLD. They want $2m/ ship AS AN OPENING PRICE. They will then use the $2M, as shown, to make long-range nuclear missiles and nuke Vietnam, Malacca, Panama, Denmark, anyone they like. I may not approve of the U.S. actions but I ain’t just gonna trade one moron for another! Nor China either!
“Iran Shocked the U.S. with its strong stance” Hahahahahahaha! No. NOTHING could be more predictable. This is the most predictable thing in the history of predictions. No one is “Shocked”. No one “Panicked.” Etc. You just put words in your head then believe they are real. Neither the US nor Iran was shocked or panicked, I mean, obviously. They are sitting in their offices reading emails and running the matrix-tree.
“If the current war were about curbing radical Islam, why are they importing them all into western nations at breakneck speed, then covering up the resulting cultural mayhem?”
Because there is no “West”. And because of that, EUROPE is doing this, and arranged to “control” the IRGC (proven by dozens of places but Iran Contra going through Mossad, almost from day one is a good example, all IRGC banking in London, billions$$$ with Hamas running drugs in Uruguay, money going through London again is another). So America is very, painfully, CLEARLY doing this against “The West” meaning Europe. Or the previous Globalist Europe-US merger. So then the paradigm you’re thinking this through must be discarded as it’s perfectly plausible we’re against Islam, Chaos, radicals, etc. And that Europe is PRO all these things.
Because there is no “West” and we are on diametrically opposite sides. This has been 10 years now, update the map.
Such Class
Such Finesse
Such Je ne sais quoi!https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HFttD5NaoAAJNFD?format=jpg&name=small
“The Romans called them Druids.”
We essentially know absolutely, positively nothing about them. Nor does anyone else, I’ve looked. Every New Age Golden Dawn person since 1880 and before have looked, scoured, done everything. We know nothing. We merely project our wishes onto blank paper, just as AI does. Sorry. We won’t know until we can invent a Time Window and take trans-dimensional pictures of them.
“Trump will not leave the presidency with the mullahs in power in Tehran. I can’t see him leave with the IRGC in power either.”
Yes, but WHY? It certainly is the world’s-most-obvious bear trap and doesn’t suit him. And if you say “Because everyone is stupid but me” I’m gonna scream!
That leaves us with, WHO are the players? What is Hamas doing running drugs and guns in 2nd level items, through Venezuelan banking, as a front-edge to British 17-money-laundering nations, all invisible once in that zone? So we shut off ALL UK/Europe’s money laundering one-by-one. Methodically, obviously. Yeah, so sooper-dooper secret! Yes, no money in NATO, Ukraine, Africa, no Venezuela, and now the largest of all, the IRGC. Who we KNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOW is banking multi-hundred Billions$$$$$ In London, with their enthusiastic direction and approval, no sanctions at all. They’ll sanction Kanye, but not gun-running terrorists! Nevah! Who are the arch-enemy of their OTHER gun toting terrorists, in Balfour’s Israel, no conflict at all! Never suspicious, when they do it in the wide open like that!
Like maybe THAT is a theory that makes sense, the only one that any of us can find? So why can he not leave “Iran” (who will be left, and choose their own leaders)? Because it’s the American War of Independence for the Planet. We are fighting two SYSTEMS this time, not two nations. These SYSTEMS are in every nation, and vying for power within every nation. As “The line that lies across every man’s heart.”
He has reduced UK/EU power, but clearly NOT ENOUGH. Like we all though they’d crack under Ukraine. Nope! Well, here we go, kick out more legs from your mafia center then, and keep kicking. This is to the death, and I’m very sad everyone wants to replace the U.S. as world bully with Iran as world bully, as if that would be better. What the hell? Or China as world bully! Do not want!
At the same time they say “This proves the U.S. Empire is ending and can’t be world bully”. Great! You win! We have no world bullies, this is what you said you wanted. But they lose their minds in grief and sorrow at the notion. Yes: No Iran world bully, no U.S. bases as regional world bully, sold. No Israel as regional bully, they’ve been leveled. You win, be glad. But they’re sad! They MUST have empire! But they want Iran to run it now.
““Effective immediately, the United States Navy, the Finest in the World, will begin the process of BLOCKADING any and all Ships trying to enter, or leave, the Strait of Hormuz,”
We’re blockading CHINA. So China can decide what Iran should do. …But that’s okay. We we decide for them it’s bad, but when China does, it’s good.
““.. all of those points don’t matter compared to allowing Nuclear Power to be in the hands of such volatile, difficult, unpredictable people.”
As we all say about the Americans every day. I mean, we nuked Iran only last Tuesday, all experts told me! Past-tense totally certain! …But the reality is we ALREADY have nukes (maybe) and so that’s done deal. We work forward from here. So we have them then the world is better if everyone else does too? Like Somalia? Why not? They have as much legal right. Ukraine too, yes? As many as they want? The Sinaloas?
Okay then, be useful: what do you want from the world? You solve it, smart guy. Stop being a child.
“We can’t ignore the link between online disinformation and offline harm.”
Yes, the more UK constantly issues and legitimizes the most ridiculous falsehoods, the more British people are raped and harmed. Why would you do that, Civil Service? Why is that exactly what everyone said you would always do, since 1948?
“If platforms fail to act, the state must have the tools to make them.”
All speech is authorized speech. That means No speech may be free speech. The End, thank you. This from one of the worst cities in the worst countries in the world. How soon will African cities be ahead of them at this rate? 2-5 years?
““It was built for British children” — Cleese
Again, okay, unpack THEIR view, not mine: theirs. They say you can make a school for blacks or for whites but not both. They are building a system for blacks, clearly. That’s why they’re on TV clutching pearls and explaining. It is therefore WHAT, people? A: That’s right, the system they are building is specifically, intentionally and deliberately AGAINST White people. Now it may or may not be – I believe it is, that’s immaterial – the point is THEY say it is. THEY specifically say they are acting AGAINST White people, at the highest possible level, racially, and are very proud of harming people as a basis of ethnicity and immutable characteristics.
IF there was a way to help “All British Children” they would just say and do that. THEY don’t believe there is, and MUST choose one race or the other, because they are hard-core, stone-cold, raping, murdering racists. And they chose “Not Britain.”
We don’t even do that in Mississippi. (they do, however, in Chicago and Baltimore)
“Multiple women came forward this week to allege sexual assault and other potentially criminal acts by Swalwell.”
It’s impossible Pelosi and the entire DNC didn’t know this all along. They did nothing to even chastise and box him. All women vote for this behavior, ie. in favor of rape. Reliably, every time. I have no explanation yet, but those are the literal stats.
Women hate women more than men could ever dream of. They burn down the nation to PREVENT men from protecting them and stopping these rapes.
“Every Tesla on the road feeds real-world data back to train the AI. Billions of miles. Every edge case. Every near-miss. No human driver can learn that fast” …how to lock the doors and set us on fire after whistleblowing to that reporter.
Everyone must love North Korea! I mean, I’ve never heard them complain!
“Most people have not even realized it yet, but Starlink just quietly became the invisible backbone of Earth”
In that case, we’re screwed. Pray for the Kessler moment.
You did notice that Trump’s net worth is long before Iran but after his lawsuit winnings from the opposition’s fake suits? Yes? So where’s Pelosi’s, Hillary’s net worths? Hillary famously had billions lined up for “Charity” but then all $100B stopped being charitable the minute she didn’t win. Nope: History started April 1 now.
“This was always about Civilization.”
What the literal? We are ALLLLLLLL Civilizations. All. Even the Bushmen. All equal age, in fact! So this is your basic “We the Feudal Lords are the Garden People” and “Better than you” argument. They are also saying – Unbelievebly pin-headedly – that “Iran is a civilizational culture”. And China. What. The. F—???? They THEN say Iran is a Multi-ethnic culture, conglomerate, the largest body of Jews outside of NYC. With Kurds, Zoarasterians, Sufis, etc, all happily there. Sooo…they’re not a “Persian” culture then, are they? Confused. Same with China, but more of it. They are DEFINITELY 5 major groups, and thousands of subs, where the Chi’n famously control everyone else. So again, no cohesive one-unit “Culture”. Maybe this is good! Sure! …But that means they are “Civilizationally” no different than New Jersey, or wherever. Get stuffed.
PICK. ONE. For the love of Jumping Jesus.
Then they point back at ONE statue somebody made 3,000 years ago, haven’t done s—t since, and say WE are useless dopes because we invented the airplane and went to the moon. How dare we? That’s no kind of contribution to humankind at all! Inventing half of everything in the 20th century and most of what’s relevant in the 21st isn’t ‘Civilizational’ sir.
Look: I LIKE Persia and think they, and the Persians, are great. But your argument makes literally no sense except “You’re a poopy-pants” and “I get to decide who the garden people are, and who should be shot en masse like vermin”. (All white people just at the moment, I guess)
Not a lick of coherent sense here.
“But Islamabad was always a mere go-between, never the architect of any “mediation”.
What the literal heck does that mean? It means what SHOULD have happened is Pakistan wrote out the peace deal and MADE both U.S. and Iran sign it with their superior force of arms? What the hell, are you so deranged? Yes, and why? Because HE THINKS EUROPE SHOULD HAVE DONE THAT, and is apoplectic the “Garden People” were locked out like the irrelevant dummies and stooges they are.
Etc, etc, too boring and stupid to go line by line. “You’re a poopy-pants,” “I’m awesome.” yawn. Okay, put your army on the field and show me, dude. Go on.
Iran then “Asks for stuff n’ s—t”, and therefore they won in field of arms. Ah. Did not know “Saying stuff” like “Poopy pants” is winning now, sorry.
“I clicked AI generate; Subject: Trump” again. Wow. Must be all true then, and a genius use of our valuable time.
Here’s one: “If your nation has been leveled, Claim you won anyway” – Iran.
The Empire of Lies MIC Maggots have design the entire Pentagram weapons culture around Wars of Aggression
That’s why The Empire of Lies has such SHITTY defensive weapons systems.
They never figured on any push back
Surprise
Russia has pushed back Big Time, and Won
So is Iran
Pushing back
And Russia and China are going to buy Iran’s oil as a “reserve” for the future, thus allowing Iran to keep going while the Collective West does the death of a thousand cuts from energy price increases that will collapse their economies and usher them into economic DEPRESSION.
Who can go longer?
Iran
That doesn’t look like much a ‘win” for DonTzu
THIS IS WORLD EXTORTION BY THE U.S.A.
PAY UP.Iran will not be allowed to profit off this Illegal Act of EXTORTION.
the whole world economy could tumble into a global recession.
CENTCOM Says Blockade Will Begin Monday Morning at 1000ET
U.S.
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Trump’s 6 Red Lines
Fox News reports that Vice President Vance’s final offer delivered to the Iranian delegation in Islamabad includes the following “red lines.”
1) End all uranium enrichment
2) Dismantle all major nuclear enrichment facilities
3) Retrieve highly enriched uranium
4) Accept a broader peace, security and de-escalation framework that includes regional allies
5) End funding for terrorist proxies Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Houthis
6) Fully open the Strait of Hormuz, charging no tolls for passage
Needless to say, Iran refused to agree.
————The Cheese Has Slid Off the Cracker
Trumpturd is no longer in touch with Reality
Trump posts image of himself as Jesus after attacking Pope Leo
“He is the greatest of all time.”
==“Syria (Aleppo) in the 1950s, when 40% of the population was Christian. Today, it’s less than 1%. This is the case for all the Middle East under Islam. Funny how no one cares about this genocide.”
UH, THE “GREATEST OF ALL TIME” WELCOMED THE HEAD OF AL-QAEDA TO THE WHITE HOUSE.
THE U.S. GOVERNMENT IS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE CHRISTIAN FLIGHT FROM ALEPPO.
HOLY CRAP.
There goes the Catholic vote!
Say Hallelujah!
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Remember ……. Trump cannot run for president again.
( maybe, he is making room for someone! )Canada is already LOOKING like THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, with trash everywhere, crime rocketing, and trust plummeting as all institutions fail.
@Topcat: Israeli armored vehicles lack drone-cages, don’t they?
Bankers Take All https://drjohnsblog.substack.com/p/bankers-take-all
The irrationality of the war between the US and Iran, in its current form, is only partly explained by the exigencies of Israeli political elites, who need expansive war to maintain political cooperation within Israel. They need the US to destroy their rival Iran, and the US needs to control Iranian oil, some of the last of the “easy oil”, to support the “petrodollar”, which is fading fast for lack of trust.
Please consider that this is what the ultimate decline of fossil-fuel powered industrial economy is looking like, as peak industrial economy and peak “crude + condensates” (redefined oil) happened in late 2025, after a previous peak in November 2018.
“Global Warming” has nudged the world in a general direction of alternatives and extenders to fossil fuels. It has formulated those thoughts, but without speaking the unspeakable, that oil is finite, expensive to extract, and getting more expensive to the point that the rest of the economy can’t work at those prices.
COVID lockdowns in 2020 and 2021 provided an economic test-shock, which probably helped improve economic modeling for this big reset, which is now underway. This is no longer intellectual for farmers in Asia and Ireland, as fertilizer and fuel shortages, and high prices, force them to reduce and delay planting food crops. Nature sanctions delays harshly with crop yield reductions. Lack of nitrogen fertilizers could reduce rice, corn and wheat yields by 2/3, causing famines and death.
As humans, we are largely coordinated by our societal narratives, “control narratives”, Plato’s “noble lie”. War, the threat of being killed, of one’s town and family being captured or destroyed, is the strongest narrative for sudden change, but it exhausts people.
Here we go again.Gail Tverberg, at Our Finite World, April 24, 2025 Brace for rapid changes in the economy; the world economy is reaching Limits to Growth
The world economy is at a major turning point, which is why we should brace for rapid changes in the economy. The world is moving from having enough goods and services to go around, to not having enough to go around. The dynamics of the economy are very different with not enough to go around. The hoped-for solution of higher prices doesn’t fix the situation; after a point, adding more buying-power mostly produces inflation. Other solutions are needed. The world economy is reaching what has been called “Limits to Growth.” https://gailtverberg.substack.com/p/brace-for-rapid-changes-in-the-economy-the-world-economy-is-reaching-limits-to-growthLarry Johnson, Trump Refuses Exit Ramp, War with Iran will Continue
The negotiation between the US and Iran failed to reach an agreement. Although JD Vance headed the US team, he was never in control… I have heard from someone who was directly involved with this circus in Islamabad that Israeli agents — Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner — made certain that JD Vance would not follow his instincts and accept the deal that Iran had laid on the table. Israel’s role in sabotaging the US delegation was evident in Vance’s statement announcing the failure of the negotiations, when he falsely accused Iran of refusing to give up its alleged quest for a nuclear weapon. This is just a rehashed piece of Zionist propaganda.
There were three (4) Iranian conditions that the US refused to accept: Iranian control of the Strait of Hormuz, an end to Israel’s attack on Lebanon and Hezbollah, unfreezing of Iran’s assets and retaining sovereignty over its supply of enriched uranium. https://larrycjohnson.substack.com/p/trump-refuses-exit-ramp-war-withNaked Capitalism does not openly discuss the possibility that the US is just being given orders by Israel and has to make up “reasons” on the fly.
Iran War: Negotiations Fail; US Provokes with Destroyer Entry into Strait, Perhaps Pointing to Next Kinetic Moves
The US/Iran talks failed, predictably but perhaps faster than expected. Recall that a pause misleadingly called a ceasefire was set for two week to allow for settlement of disagreements and an end to the conflict. The session ended with JD Vance claiming that the US had made its “final and best offer.” There was no indication from either the US or Iran side that further discussion was in the works.
The two sides had a ginormous chasm between their positions. Iran had not reason to either trust the US or make large concessions. The badly-enbubbled US leadership seems to believe one or both of two things. First, that the US has won and/or is winning, so (in a variant of “the Russians are running out of weapons”) if they can keep pressure on, Iran will soon fall into a heap. Second, that the continuation of the conflict will benefit key interest groups aligned with the Administration, such as fossil fuel players, defense contractors, and Silicon Valley…
..First, the US position is that Iran would not accept its terms, strongly implying that the US did not intend to negotiate. Vance depicts the main sticking points as Iran refusing to commit never to build a nuclear weapon. That is code for no enrichment, even for medical purposes, a position Iran has consistently rejected.
Second, you may have noticed that Vance by implication saying Iran had to negotiate from the US position amounted to a disagreement over process, or what in Vietnam War negotiations was called the shape of the table. Iran had repeatedly maintained that it had preconditions for negotiation, such as the return of all of its frozen assets, an end to hostilities on all Middle East fronts, and acceptance of its sovereign control over the Strait of Hormuz. The Vance framing indicates that the US puts its fingers in its ears and said, “Nyah nyah nyah” to Iran’s procedural requirements. https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2026/04/iran-war-negotiations-fail-us-provokes-with-destroyer-entry-into-strait-perhaps-pointing-to-next-kinetic-moves.html“If you can’t beat ’em, join ’em”…US Navy blockades Iran’s blockade; world cries,”NO!”: Trump Begins Blockade Of Hormuz Strait, Says Iran “Will Not Be Allowed To Profit From Extortion” https://www.zerohedge.com/energy/uae-oil-chief-warns-world-cant-allow-hormuz-closure-2-tankers-u-turn-and-us-emerges-last
Gold & Geopolitics, Daily digest: 2026-04-13
US-Iran Islamabad talks collapse after 21 hours; Trump announces Hormuz naval blockade starting today at 10 AM ET. The highest-level US-Iran direct contact since 1979 ended without agreement. Core impasse: Iran refused to commit to abandoning nuclear weapons capability; US demanded zero enrichment, full dismantlement, Hormuz reopening with no tolls. Trump immediately posted that the US Navy will blockade all ships entering or exiting Iranian ports. CENTCOM confirmed enforcement begins today...
..UK and Australia refuse to join US Hormuz blockade. UK explicitly rejected Trump’s claim it would send warships, says it’s “urgently working with France” on a separate coalition for freedom of navigation. Australia says it’s not considering joining. The US appears isolated in its blockade plan…
..Oil surges as peace collapses. Brent reported up 8%, WTI above $105/barrel at Sunday open per Kobeissi. European gas futures up 17%. S&P futures -1%, Nasdaq -1.3%. Korean 10-year bond futures dropped 72 ticks. Japan 10-year yield hit 2.49%, highest since 1997...
..JustDario warns this is the worst oil supply shock in history, yet futures haven’t even approached the 2008 ATH
Oil analyst Rory Johnston calls the widely-circulated “offset” numbers entirely bunk: reality is ~13 MMbpd of Gulf production offline with no sustainable offset; Trump’s blockade would raise that above 15 MMbpd…
..Bab el-Mandeb closure risk rising: Glenn Diesen argues Yemen will likely close it if the US blocks Hormuz…
..Erdogan threatens to “enter” Israel. Turkish president said “Just as we entered Karabakh, just as we entered Libya, we will do exactly the same to them”, the most explicit military threat by a NATO member against a US-aligned partner since Turkey’s 1974 Cyprus operation. Netanyahu responded by calling Erdogan the “Hitler of our time”…
..Israeli army chief ordered forces to prepare for possible resumption of war on Iran per Al Jazeera…
..Five escalations in 12 hours on April 12: talks collapsed, Trump blockaded, Erdogan threatened Israel, Iran’s embassies mocked Vance, Araghchi announced a European diplomatic pivot to Berlin/Paris/London bypassing the US
Spain’s PM Sanchez landed in Beijing for his 4th China visit the same weekend peace talks failed — while Trump threatens to cut all trade with Spain
Abu Dhabi Crown Prince arrived in Beijing for an official visit to deepen UAE-China ties…
..Iran’s Bitcoin toll system — the enforcement gap
Iran’s IRGC collects tolls at ~$1/barrel in Bitcoin per vessel — ~$2M per fully loaded VLCC per shanaka86, citing Financial Times quotes from Iran’s oil export union spokesperson…
The GENIUS Act covers USDT/USDC but not Bitcoin. Naval blockade covers the strait but not a wallet address. The IRGC operates in the gap between both enforcement architectures
Chainalysis confirmed IRGC wallet activity exceeded $3B in 2025, ~50% of Iran’s total crypto ecosystem
Conversion chain: Bitcoin → USDT via OTC brokers in Dubai/Istanbul/Hong Kong → Kunlun Bank via CIPS → yuan → goods from Chinese suppliers. Seven jurisdictions, three blockchains, two fiat currencies, zero points where the US financial system can intervene…
..Orban concedes historic defeat in Hungary. Peter Magyar’s Tisza party won with a two-thirds supermajority (~69%, 138 seats), ending Orban’s 16-year rule. Magyar pledges to restore full EU/NATO participation. Von der Leyen: “Hungary has chosen Europe”. India’s Modi, Germany’s Merz, Poland’s Tusk all congratulated Magyar. Record voter turnout exceeded all post-communist elections. https://no1sdailydigest.substack.com/p/daily-digest-2026-04-13Gold & Geopolitics, Daily digest: 2026-04-12
US-Iran talks collapse after 21-hour marathon in Islamabad. Vance left with a “final and best offer” that Iran shows no sign of accepting. Iran refused to commit to zero enrichment; US refused to budge on Hormuz control, nuclear disarmament, or a Lebanon ceasefire…
..Iran still controls Strait of Hormuz; US mine-clearing is more PR than progress. Iran cannot locate all the mines it deployed per NYT/Kobeissi. US sent two destroyers (DDG-121, DDG-112) into the strait, but Iran denies they crossed and claims they turned back after a 15-minute warning…
..China preparing MANPADs delivery to Iran per CNN citing three US intelligence sources… likely FN-6 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FN-6 …
..Pakistan deploys 13,000 troops and fighter jets to Saudi Arabia under a joint strategic defence agreement, with plans to scale to 50,000 per South Asia Index and First Squawk. Pakistan simultaneously repaying $3.5B to UAE…
..Ireland fuel crisis escalating. ~500 of 1,200 fuel stations running dry per UNN. Army deployed to tow tractors, riot police in Galway, pepper spray used at oil refinery per Lord Bebo. Protests now in 5th day with farmers, truckers, and bikers united. France reportedly joining blockades…
..Central bank gold holdings surpassed valuation-adjusted USD reserves for the first time — gold at $3.87T vs USD at $3.73T per Kobeissi
USD now ~46% of global FX and gold reserves, lowest in 26 years, down 15 points since 2017…
..Gary Savage: 13-year base breakout, parabolic angle of ascent, $10,000 gold target…
..US consumer/economy: the vibes are terrible
U of Michigan Consumer Sentiment hit all-time low — worse than 1980 when inflation was 14.4%
43.5% of consumers expect unemployment to rise within a year, 2nd highest since pandemic
US debt: 18 cents of every dollar of revenue goes to interest, CBO projects 25 cents by 2035
Healthcare carrying US job growth — sector up 84% since 1996, manufacturing down 27% https://no1sdailydigest.substack.com/p/daily-digest-2026-04-12Ellen Brown, All Wars Are Bankers’ Wars: Iran and the Bankers’ Endgame
In February 2026, the United States and Israel launched surprise airstrikes on Iran. The officially proffered reasons — preventing Iran’s acquisition of a nuclear weapon and forestalling its aggression — have not held up under scrutiny…
..The thesis that “All Wars Are Bankers’ Wars” was popularized by Michael Rivero in a 2013 documentary by that name… Rivero then traces how private banking interests have financed and profited from conflicts on both sides for centuries — from the founding of the Bank of England in 1694 to fund William III’s wars to modern regime-change wars…
..Gen. Wesley Clark revealed that weeks after 9/11, he had been shown a classified Pentagon memo outlining plans to “take out seven countries in five years”: Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, and finishing off with Iran. The first six have since been destabilized or regime-changed. Iran, considered the ultimate prize for Middle East dominance and oil control, remains the last one standing.
Why those seven, and why was Iran the ultimate prize? Greg Palast’s 2013 article titled “Larry Summers and the Secret ‘End-Game’ Memo” supplied the missing financial logic. In 1999, the world was opened to unregulated derivatives trading, so that sovereign bonds, oil flows, shipping routes, and war-risk policies could all be collateralized, rehypothecated (pledged multiple times over), and gambled upon. The lynchpin was the 1997 WTO Financial Services Agreement (the Fifth Protocol to GATS), which became operational in 1999.
None of the seven targeted countries joined the WTO, and they were also not members of the Bank for International Settlements (BIS). That left them outside the long regulatory arm of the central bankers’ central bank in Switzerland. Other countries that were later identified as “rogue states” were also not members of the BIS, including North Korea, Cuba, and Afghanistan.
As for Iran, it is not only the largest and strongest of the Islamic countries but operates the world’s only fully interest-free (riba-free) banking regime. This stands in direct contrast to the conventional Western model, which relies on interest as its primary revenue mechanism. “Money making money out of itself” underpins the global derivatives complex, which is built on rehypothecated, collateralized debt-at-interest.
The last piece in the financial control grid was detailed in David Rogers Webb’s 2024 book The Great Taking. The Everything Bubble, including what some commentators estimate to be more than a quadrillion dollars in derivative bets, is just waiting for a pin. When it bursts, it will trigger large institutional bankruptcies; and under the legal machinery Webb documents, the derivative players will take all…
..Financial analyst Stephanie Pomboy warns that the $1.5-3 trillion private credit market is in lockdown, forcing fire sales of liquid assets; and the much larger $5 trillion BBB-rated corporate bond market is teetering. Downgrades will force mass selling, and pensions face a $4 trillion shortfall.
The Hormuz crisis supplies the perfect accelerant to this collateral crisis: higher oil prices create inflation, which raises bond yields (interest), collapsing the value of collateral and triggering margin calls across the derivatives game board. Margin calls then force private credit funds into fire sales.
This is one reason some commentators point to the City of London as the real architect of the Middle East chaos. The old war-insurance machine and the new derivatives machine operate together. One creates the chaos premium; the other harvests it through rehypothecation and legal seizure…
..The WTO Financial Services Agreement became the battering ram for opening global markets to this derivative play. Every member nation was forced to open its banking system or face sanctions. In 1999, the portion of Glass-Steagall separating investment banking from depository banking in the U.S. was repealed, leaving depositors’ money vulnerable to speculative risk. Derivatives then exploded. Sovereign bonds, oil contracts, shipping insurance policies, and war-risk premiums were all sliced into credit-default swaps, hedges, and other derivative products.
Derivatives trading has since become one of the most concentrated and profitable businesses on the planet, and it is almost entirely controlled by a handful of megabanks. According to data from the Bank for International Settlements and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, the top five U.S. banks alone hold roughly 90% of all U.S. bank derivatives, with JPMorgan, Citigroup, Goldman Sachs, Bank of America, and Morgan Stanley dominating the global over-the-counter market…
..In The Great Taking, David Rogers Webb lays bare the final piece in this financial control grid: virtually every security today is dematerialized (digitized) and pooled in central depositories. Quiet changes to the Uniform Commercial Code and equivalent E.U. rules have turned ordinary investors into mere “entitlement holders” holding only a legal claim against their brokerages.
As for bank depositors, they have for centuries been categorized as mere “creditors” of their banks. Once the money is deposited, legal title passes to the bank…
..In any insolvency, stocks, bonds, and deposits are legally collateral for the derivatives complex — collateral that has been rehypothecated multiple times over. And when the derivative collateral fails, the rehypothecated house of cards that has been built on it collapses. Margin calls cascade, super-priority is triggered, and the Great Taking begins…
..Iran’s system was designed to eliminate usury and align finance with real economic activity and risk-sharing rather than speculative debt. It has long been viewed as structurally incompatible with the interest-based, collateral-heavy architecture of City of London and Wall Street finance — an architecture that requires perpetual debt servicing and easily rehypothecated assets to feed the derivatives machine.
By rejecting interest at the national level, Iran has thus insulated itself and its financial partners from the control grid that has made the global “Great Taking” possible…
..President Trump’s $20 billion reinsurance facility announced on March 6 is now operational and has been doubled to $40 billion. Additional major U.S. insurers have joined, while Lloyd’s of London has engaged in related discussions. The facility remains centered on American carriers with U.S. government backing. But analysts doubt it will restart widespread commercial traffic without broader liability protection and safer conditions.
In short, the “insurance chaos” trigger has eased but has not vanished. Premiums remain elevated, uncertainty lingers, and the collateral and derivatives pressures Webb described are still in play…
..The 2007-08 Global Financial Crisis (GFC) is now widely regarded as having been triggered by the unchecked explosion of unregulated derivatives — especially credit default swaps and collateralized debt obligations — which turned subprime mortgages into a systemic time bomb. The damage was not confined to the United States: developing countries suffered heavily as well.
Today the risk of a crash is even greater than during the GFC. The global OTC derivatives market has officially ballooned to a notional value of $846 trillion, more than seven times the size of the entire world economy…
..The immediate need in the current context is to settle the conflict with Iran, and settle it fast, before another black-swan shock ignites the derivatives daisy chain and activates the final Great Taking on a global scale. https://scheerpost.com/2026/04/10/all-wars-are-bankers-wars-iran-and-the-bankers-endgame/Alex Krainer’s view on the same relationship: Iran: war to the death
The war is not about democracy, nuclear programs or women’s rights. It’s the final clash between Empire and the rest of humanity in which neither side can yield: it will be fought to one side’s death
Targeting China’s Belt and Road infrastructure
Col. Wilkerson, who previously served as the Chief of Staff to the U.S. State Secretary Colin Powell, agreed and stated the following about one of the priority targets of the U.S. – Israeli bombing campaign (abridged):
[16-min. mark] “We’re bombing the hell out of that railroad that China had finished, all the way to the Persian Gulf, and was going to come up to the belly of the Caucasus… They’re bombing it. They’re bombing the bejeezus out of it. Every day they’re bombing that railroad. … That’s because they know where that railroad is going.
And that railroad … will take 60% of the commerce that China now generates, which is probably about 40% of the world’s commerce, off the seas, where America has domain, if you will – or thinks it still does – and put it on land. We don’t want that. We don’t want that at all…”
The railroad Wilkerson was referring to is the China-Iran Railway, also known as the China-Iran rail corridor or the Xi’an–Tehran rail link, part of China’s Belt and Road Initiative). The railroad was built by China as the key overland freight corridor (roughly 10,400 km / 6,500 miles total from Xi’an in China to the Aprin dry port near Tehran) funded and heavily supported by China… The rail line opened in June 2025 and was designed to transport Iranian oil, goods, and freight to China and beyond much faster than sea routes, cutting some 15 to 20 days off shipping times, while bypassing chokepoints like the Strait of Hormuz and Malacca Strait. Earlier this month [April 2026], the U.S. and Israel conducted airstrikes on multiple segments and bridges along this railroad as part of a wider campaign, hitting 8 to 10 railway bridges and lines…
..To understand the importance of why the empire should be so anxious about the China-Iran railway, we have to examine Western empire’s long-term geopolitical imperatives. The war against Iran is only the last episode in more than two decades of permanent imperial wars in the region… The real strategic objective of the empire’s war against Iran are the same as the war against Russia in Ukraine, the looming conflict over Taiwan and multiple other conflicts smouldering across Asia and Africa: it is the imperative of preserving the empire’s hegemony over the Eurasian continent. This geopolitical strategy was the brainchild of the British Empire, which has been adopted by its American reincarnation…
..In 1904, following an extensive study of world history and geography, British scholar and statesman Sir Halford Mackinder published a seminal paper titled, “The Geographical Pivot of History,” in which he argued that the British Empire’s exclusive focus on sea power was misguided and that the destiny of the world would be shaped by a land power… Optimum conditions were only to be found in the inner regions of Eurasia which he named the Pivot Area: a large expanse roughly encompassing Russia, the Caucasus region, Kazakhstan, Iran, and Afghanistan…
..What made the Pivot Area strategic was that it could emerge as an independently viable economic power, capable of spawning a rival empire, especially with improvements in its internal communications and transport that were then being introduced with the Trans-Siberian railway. The nation that was seen as best positioned to emerge as that pivot land power was Russia…
..”The oversetting of the balance of power in favor of the pivot state, resulting in its expansion over the marginal lands of Euro-Asia, would permit of the use of vast continental resources for fleet-building, and the empire of the world would then be in sight. This might happen if Germany were to ally herself with Russia.”…
..Mackinder suggested surrounding the Pivot Area with a crescent of crisis flashpoints and inducing nations like Italy, Egypt, India and Korea to bait the pivot power into an unending series of exhausting, crippling quagmires. Over the ensuing decades, the geography of the designated flashpoints evolved with changing geopolitical opportunities (with creation of new nations like Israel, Syria, Jordan, Ukraine, Pakistan, Bangladesh…) and Mackinder’s language evolved accordingly… He renamed the Pivot Area as “the Heartland,” and spelled out its significance in more blunt and less oracular terms: “Who rules East Europe commands the Heartland; who rules the Heartland commands the World-island; who rules the World-island controls the world.“ By World-island, Mackinder was referring to the Eurasian landmass. Dominating this landmass remained the Empire’s undying obsession…
..By the end of World War I, when the empire had exhausted its British host, the parasitic cabal moved to infiltrate a new host: the United States. As they did so, they brought their designs for world domination along and made their own policy objectives America’s objectives.
One of Mackinder’s disciples was Henry Kissinger. Together with his protégé Zbigniew Brzezinski, Kissinger founded the Trilateral Commission…
..Kissinger and Brzezinski were instrumental in grafting British geopolitics onto the American foreign policy. In his 1997 book, “The Grand Chessboard” Brzezinski wrote that, “For America, the chief geopolitical prize is Eurasia…” In the same text, he demystifies the reasons behind the empire’s Eurasian obsession:
“Eurasia is the globe’s largest continent and is geopolitically axial. A power that dominates Eurasia would control two of the world’s three most advanced and economically productive regions. … About 75% of the world’s people live in Eurasia and most of the world’s physical wealth is there as well.” …
..The ultimate incentive behind imperial wars is, and always has been, the quest for collateral (resource wealth and slave labor)…
..The cold reality of the whole Zionist project is far more sinister: the creation of Israel in 1948 has been little more than British Empire’s geopolitical gambit. Long before the holocaust took place in Nazi Germany, Sir Arthur Balfour issued his famous memo to Lord Walter Rothschild, which is for some reason accepted as a valid legal basis for the creation of a whole new country.
The real agenda was spelled out by Mackinder:
“If the world-island be inevitably the principal seat of humanity on this globe, and if Arabia, as the passage-land from Europe to the Indies and from the northern to the southern heartland, be central to the world-island, then the hill-citadel of Jerusalem has a strategical position with reference to world realities not different … from its ideal position in the perspective of the middle ages, or its strategical position between ancient Babylon and Egypt.”
These musings were corroborated by the alumni of Alfred Milner’s Round Table in a November 1915 article published by the Manchester Guardian. They explained that “the whole future of the British Empire as a Sea Empire” depended upon Palestine becoming a buffer state inhabited “by an intensely patriotic race.” Note, this was before World War II and even before the very important Balfour memo.
With regards to that piece of paper, Mackinder stated the following:
“The Jewish national seat in Palestine will be one of the most important outcomes of the war. That is a subject on which we can now afford to speak the truth [note, it is exceedingly rare that British imperial cabal ever felt they could afford to speak the truth]…A national home at the physical and historical center of the world, should make the Jew ‘range’ himself…” … Sadly, very few among Israel’s “intensely patriotic race,” appreciate the depraved cynicism with which they have been lured into that role. I believe this reality is well understood today, imposing a stark choice on all independent-minded nations: either they’ll unite in their resistance, or they’ll be picked off one by one by the imperial forces and their proxies. Iran therefore can’t afford to yield, and neither can Russia or China. For the empire, access to new collateral is existential and it will never cease to pursue it at any cost. Until, that is, its own complete destruction. https://alexkrainer.substack.com/p/iran-war-to-the-deathFrances Leader, WHO OWNS THE CENTRAL BANKS? And what are their principle objectives? https://francesleader.substack.com/p/who-owns-the-central-banks
Gaza civil defence says Israeli strikes kill seven
Gaza’s civil defence agency reported on Saturday that Israeli airstrikes in the Palestinian territory had killed seven people overnight, with the military saying it had struck an “armed terrorist cell”. https://www.spacewar.com/afp/260411095322.727v9vgp.htmlI think the danger is revealing the end of Bibi’s life lastmonth:Shin Bet chief reportedly tells court PM can’t testify at trial over danger to life
Zini said to claim Iranian agents may take advantage of Netanyahu’s testimony to harm him; watchdog notes previous Shin Bet head refused PM’s request to make such a submission https://www.timesofisrael.com/shin-bet-chief-reportedly-tells-court-pm-cant-testify-at-trial-over-danger-to-life/Report: Sexual violence in Israel’s prisons is an “organized state policy” https://english.palinfo.com/news/2026/04/11/361128/
Health ministry: Over 21,000 Gaza patients await treatment abroad as Israel blocks travel https://english.palinfo.com/news/2026/04/11/361112/
Israeli colonists attack farmers in al-Mughayyir, northeast of Ramallah https://english.wafa.ps/Pages/Details/169249?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=wapp
Child and young man injured in attack by colonists in Masafer Yatta, south of Hebron https://english-wafa-ps.translate.goog/Pages/Details/169293?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=wapp
Settlers set fire to home, IOF kidnaps Palestinians in W. Bank https://english.palinfo.com/news/2026/04/11/361089/
EU: Israeli decision to establish over 30 settlements in West Bank illegal, undermines peace prospects https://english.wafa.ps/Pages/Details/169267?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=wapp
New Israeli strike on south Lebanon kills infant girl during father’s funeral https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2026/04/12/766714/New-Israeli-strike-on-south-Lebanon-kills-infant-girl-during-father-s-funeral
Russia & Ukraine Exchange 350 POWs As Orthodox Easter Truce Holds https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/russia-ukraine-exchange-350-pows-orthodox-easter-truce-holds
Orban will lead parliamentary opposition. Trump/Vance endorsements failed: Orbán Concedes: 16-Year Fidesz Rule Collapses In Historic Hungarian Landslide https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/orban-concedes-16-year-fidesz-rule-collapses-historic-hungarian-landslide
Is this about the government shielding of Pakistani rape gangs? London Mayor Sadiq Khan Calls For A Government Social Media ‘Disinformation’ Unit https://www.zerohedge.com/political/london-mayor-sadiq-khan-calls-government-social-media-disinformation-unit
Gen Z Americans Grow More Skeptical And Angry About AI, Survey Finds https://www.zerohedge.com/ai/gen-z-americans-grow-more-skeptical-and-angry-about-ai-survey-finds
Present company excluded, of course ;-} Sycophantic AI decreases prosocial intentions and promotes dependence
The sycophantic (flattering, people-pleasing, affirming) behavior of artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots, which has been designed to increase user engagement, poses risks as people increasingly seek advice about interpersonal dilemmas… Cheng et al. measured the prevalence of social sycophancy across 11 leading large language models (see the Perspective by Perry). The model’s responses were nearly 50% more sycophantic than humans’, even when users engaged in unethical, illegal, or harmful behaviors. Users preferred and trusted sycophantic AI responses, incentivizing AI developers to preserve sycophancy despite the risks. https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aec8352“Muthaf***in’ Robot Dog In The Muthaf***in’ Hood” – Atlanta residents react to the new robot dogs patrolling their apartment parking lot
They speak to the dog and there seems to be a live operator talking back. The person speaking very clearly is likely in India based on the accent https://www.zerohedge.com/technology/muthafin-robot-dog-muthafin-hood Jessica Rose Ph.D. is locked out of X. Substack throws subscribers off my list for the past 2 years: I am locked out of my X account – I am sure it’s simply “a coincidence” https://jessicar.substack.com/p/i-am-locked-out-of-my-x-account
Not hurting me… Even Big Food Can’t Ignore the Science: Ultraprocessed Foods Are Killing Us
A growing body of research shows that people who eat more ultraprocessed foods face higher risks of illness and early death. With findings now consistent across large studies, Big Food faces increasing pressure to respond. https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/big-food-cant-ignore-science-ultraprocessed-foods-killing-us/Paul Marik MD on complimentary treatment approach to inexpensively targeting cancer cells without harming healthy tissues: The Metabolic Trap https://substack.com/home/post/p-190877248
‘It Was Not Fine’: CHD’s Brian Hooker Describes What Happened to His Son After a Nurse Said It Was ‘Fine’ to Give the Toddler Multiple Vaccines
Brian Hooker, Ph.D., chief scientific officer at Children’s Health Defense, said he was “happy and proud” to follow the childhood vaccine schedule. When his son, now an adult, was 15 months old, he followed the pediatrician’s advice to administer multiple vaccines during a well-baby visit, even though the toddler had an ear infection. That advice led to a severe reaction, regression and finally, an autism diagnosis.
https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/brian-hooker-son-autism-diagnosis-multiple-vaccines-experience-miracles-podcast/More Parents Seek Out ‘Vaccine-Friendly’ Pediatricians Who Will ‘Simply Answer Their Questions’
Dr. Osvaldo Villarreal, a Texas primary care doctor who has been treating children for over 14 years, said his practice grew after the COVID-19 pandemic. “It woke up a lot of parents, and they will not just simply comply.” Villarreal warned that pediatricians who refuse to treat children whose parents won’t vaccinate are “going to make themselves extinct.” https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/more-parents-seek-vaccine-friendly-pediatricians-simply-answer-questions/Watch: Censorship Delayed Publication of Peer-Reviewed Study Linking COVID Vaccines to Blood Cancer, Authors Allege
The authors of a peer-reviewed study mapping possible links between mRNA COVID-19 vaccines and blood-related cancers said they faced an uphill battle to publish their findings. John Campbell, Ph.D., said the struggle to publish the research reveals the “great difficulty in getting things published if they don’t fit the mainstream narrative.” https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/covid-vaccines-blood-cancer-peer-reviewed-study-censorship-delayed-publication/‘Textbook Conflict of Interest’: Did Blackstone Pressure FDA to Reverse Course on Moderna mRNA Flu Vaccine?
In 2024, Blackstone, the world’s largest alternative assets manager, launched a $750 million investment in Moderna to support the development of its mRNA flu vaccine. In February, the FDA rejected a review of the vaccine’s Phase 3 clinical trial. By early March, the head of the agency’s vaccine division was gone from the FDA, and the review was back on. https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/blackstone-pressure-fda-reverse-course-moderna-mrna-flu-vaccine/
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