Debt Rattle April 19 2026
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Laura Knight The Green Sea, Lamorna 1918 • Trump Forces Iran To The Table: The New World Order (CTH) • The Strait of Hormuz Is Open (Catherine Salgado
[See the full post at: Debt Rattle April 19 2026]Empire of Piracy blockades Iran and China
Contact us: info@strategic-culture.suAll hail the almighty return of Pirates of the Caribbean, now upgraded to Pirates of the Persian Gulf.
The spectacular collapse of the Islamabad diktats – Barbaria came to dictate, never to negotiate – has been followed by a coercion psy ops on steroids: Jesus! (literally, as he posted it on Truth Social) threatening every single ship now paying the Strait of Hormuz toll booth.
As every grain of sand from the Gobi to the Sahara already knows, this is all about China.
So the question needs to be posed again. CENTCOM has now merged into INDOPACOM, a new pyrate hydra. Will INDOPACOM have the balls to harass a Chinese supertanker which sailed through the Strait of Hormuz after paying the toolbooth in yuan?
In his trademark delusional supremacy mode, US Treasury Secretary Bessent said that China will no longer be able to get oil from Iran.
This Baboon of Barbaria gimmick in fact translates as economic warfare against not only China but an array of mostly Asian nations, disturbing global energy flows, trade, and major shipping transporting all manner of goods from the West down to the East and from East to West. An oil blockade targeting not only China but also a great deal of the multipolar world.
Before the start of the American blockade, ships from only five nations could transit through the Strait of Hormuz: China, Russia, India, Iraq and Pakistan. Once again: will INDOPACOM dare to seize or sink ships from four nuclear powers?
South Korea went a step ahead and sent a special envoy for direct negotiations with Tehran to guarantee safe passage through Hormuz and buy more cheaper oil and gas. As it stands, at least 26 South Korean tankers remain stranded.
Now compare Bessent with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, in Beijing, after talking to Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi and being received in person by President Xi:
“Russia can, without a doubt, compensate for the shortfall in resources that has arisen.”
Roughly 13% of China’s oil imports come from Iran – approximately 1.38 million barrels a day. In parallel, Power of Siberia-1 – operating at full capacity – delivers 38 billion cubic meters of gas a year of gas, and the ESPO oil pipeline is hitting record highs.
Power of Siberia-2 may only become operational next year. Russia already supplies as much as 20% of China’s oil. “Compensate”, in Lavrov’s terms, means pushing spare capacity to the limit. But that’s doable.
Iran for its part can count on an alternative pipeline and the Jask oil terminal, with capacity for 1 million barrels a day, which completely bypasses the Strait of Hormuz.
So far, 8 Chinese tankers transited via Hormuz since the blockade was announced. Moreover, China has as many as 1.3 billion barrels in inventories, enough to cushion some losses from Iran for months. And China will continue – in theory – to receive oil from tankers departing from other non-Iranian Persian Gulf ports (they will still need to pay the toll booth).
The big question is how long Iran – and China, for that matter – will tolerate the shadow fleet being interdicted by INDOPACOM without a ballistic response.
Waiting for the Al Aqsa Triangle Blockade
A blockade of all Iran’s ports – and not of the Strait of Hormuz per se – may soon meet its match: the incoming Al Aqsa Triangle Blockade (Bab-al-Mandeb, Yanbu port in Saudi Arabia, Suez, in connection with Hormuz), as qualified by Yemen’s Ansarallah. The Houthis are just waiting for the uber-strategic moment to join the chat. That will inevitably lead to oil reaching over $200 a barrel – and counting.
Translation: an irretrievable, system-wide supply shock.
The cowardly Baboon of Barbaria administration certainly did not think this through – as it’s obsessed with starving China of oil and US dollars while destroying, in theory, key nodes of the New Silk Roads/BRI.
What everyone else is paying attention to is how the INDOPACOM-enforced blockade will devastate scores of nations outside of China.
Which brings us to a pedestrian but quite feasible calculation – in tune with mutts such as Bessent: let’s starve everyone of oil and US dollars so they will be desperate to sell their US Treasury bonds back to the US way below face value, as long as they can get oil and/or US dollars in return.
This is Grifter Central: the Americans take their debt out of circulation – at a huge discount – and simply erase those humongous interest payments on the debt which they are unable to pay.
There’s no guarantee the Baboon of Barbaria administration will get what it wants. Tehran does not depend on maritime routes. After decades of sanctions, they developed an array of alternative land corridors, barter trade channels, and swapping mechanisms, for instance via Turkmenistan.
China, once again, is not a prisoner anymore of the Malacca Dilemma – between Malaysia and Sumatra in Indonesia – because they have meticulously diversified their sources, starting with the Sino-Russian pipelines.
Moroever, the China-Myanmar pipeline totally bypasses Malacca.
The long China-Central Asia gas pipeline spanning Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, and Kazakhstan – paid by China and bypassing American thalassocracy – has been in effect since the early 2010s.
Then there’s Gwadar deep-sea port in the Arabian Sea, the key node of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) and a stalwart of BRI. Gwadar is only 80 km east of the port of Chabahar in Sistan-Balochistan in Iran: hence far away from the Persian Gulf. That translates into an overland route from the Arabian Sea to Xinjiang.
China will not starve if deprived of Iranian oil. China leads in nearly every single energy and power production sector. They have the industrial capacity – talk about productive capitalism – the raw materials, the supply chains, and enough skilled labor to produce the technology and infrastructure necessary for every relevant energy system: solar panels, turbines, batteries, transmission lines, everything in solar, wind, hydro and next-gen nuclear power. That’s exactly what I saw traveling across Xinjiang back to back last year while shooting a documentary.
Obviously myopic Baboon of Barbaria minions cannot possibly understand how China’s strategy of total domination in EVs, solar batteries and exporting electricity is protecting the Middle Kingdom from artificial oil/gas shocks such as the blockade.
As it stands, The Invincible Armada remains in the outer fringes of the Gulf of Oman, out of range of many – but not all – Iranian missiles and drones, but certainly targeteable by long-range ballistics and hypersonics. The Americans will continue to use their ISR to track ships; then small boats and helicopters will engage in the “interdiction” procedure.
So far, nothing happened. Well, actually a big thing happened: a sanctioned, non-Iranian supertanker capable of carrying 2 million barrels of oil, sailed to Iran via the Strait of Hormuz with the AIS switched on for every tracker to see. INDOPACOM didn’t dare to touch it.
The Iranians, meanwhile, are just waiting. Asymmetrically. But make no mistake: they are itching to fight – in case the ceasefire collapses.
In this case, we’ll be plunged right into the Mother of All Cliffhangers. Iran just needs to sink one American destroyer; and/or “disable” one of those multibillion-dollar sitting ducks with a missile/drone volley, guided by Chinese intel.
The whole planet will then see it for what it is: the definitive, graphic strategic defeat of the Empire of Chaos, Lies, Plunder, Piracy and “If I Don’t Like You I’ll Kill You”.
Bring it on.
The Calm Before The Storm
Dennis SmallApril 18, 2026 . 4:11 PMThe USS Abraham Lincoln is one of the military forces headed toward the Middle East. Credit: Navy
The clock runs out this coming Tuesday, April 21, on the two-week ceasefire in the U.S.-Israel war of aggression against Iran. There is no confirmation at this time that a second round of direct negotiations between the U.S. and Iran will in fact occur on Monday in Islamabad, Pakistan, although some media are reporting it as a possibility. Despite U.S. President Donald Trump’s multiple pronouncements to the contrary, the Strait of Hormuz remains closed, as a response to the U.S. continuing to wage war against Iran in the form of a maritime blockade of all Iranian ports.
https://eir.news/2026/04/news/the-calm-before-the-storm/Which conditions most closely describe the citizens of the US
a: Vegetable Farmers
b. Vegetables
c. Mushroom Growers
d. MushroomsThank you for your attention to this matter.
A source close to the planning revealed the planned White House Ballroom is an attempt to give the White House some of the scale, nobility and grandeur of The Kremlin.
Mr. Cracker are you trying to show contempt for this administration?
Why no your honor, i’m trying to hide it.Briefly outline Mr. Trump’s artistic sensibilities.
The man’s taste is all in his mouth.Secrets … Stories ….Lies …READ TAE …
Iran closes Hormuz BECAUSE the US closes Hormuz?!
Iran’s Khatam al-Anbiya Central Headquarters Spokesperson announced that transit through the Strait of Hormuz has reverted to its previous state of strict military control, citing repeated US violations and piracy under the guise of blockade.
—————The value of the world’s most valuable companies listed above does not equal the US Federal Debt.
Hopefully this information caused a outbreak of ED among the cheerleading squad.Some consider Erotic Asphyxiation a strategy others consider it a paraphilic disorder.
“…..This is not chaos. This is strategy.”
Clinton – War
Bush – War
Obama – War
Trump – War
Biden – War
Trump – WarDecline is US consumer purchasing power
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Trumpwho was MacKinder anyway?
Sykes-Picot?
Balfour?“Set up like a bowling pin
Knocked down, it gets to wearing thin
They just won’t let you be” – HunterHow to Eschew Obfuscation & Write Clearly
How to what the what? Exactly.Write Clear
Photo credit: Declan Jewell (Creative Commons)
Eschew means to avoid. Obfuscation is a funny-looking word that means confusion. The phrase “eschew obfuscation” is an ironic expression that writers and grammar geeks use to explain the need for clear writing.And it’s something some of us don’t do very well.
Time to get simple
Often, we writers complicate things. We learn a new word and try to work it into our writing and everyday conversation. Most of the time, we do this just to look smart. It usually comes off looking contrived (because it is).
But really what we need to do is follow the wise example of Dr. Seuss’s character Horton (from Horton Hears a Who):
“I meant what I said and I said what I meant!”
In other words, let’s stop trying to impress and start writing more clearly. Here are ways you can make your writing more understandable and less obfuscated:
Remove cliches
This is a challenge for me.
Cliches are overused expressions that are more intuitive for some than others. Most of the time, they’re unnecessary and only take up space. They’re fluff. If you can remove the cliches in your piece and still make your point, you should.
One that always gets me is “at the end of the day…” Even in this section, I wanted to use it: “At the end of the day, cliches are unnecessary.” But then I realized that the sentence made just as much sense without it.
Here are some other commonly-used cliches:
“as easy as pie”
“no place like home”
“quick as a lick”
“fly in the face of”
(For fun, play with this random cliche generator to see what else you find.) Remove as many of these as possible. They’re not as clear as you assume. Moreover, they’re not fun to read.Eradicate redundancies
This is something I am also guilty of. I like being emphatic. Typically, I’lll write a 900-word blog post, realize that I said the same thing more than once, and cut it down to fewer than 700. I’m doing that with this post right now.
A redundancy is an unnecessary repetition. It’s saying the same thing more than once. Saying the same thing more than once is redundant. It’s redundant.
See what I did there? 😉
Only repeat yourself when you really need to make a point. Otherwise, your message loses its effect.
Write to your audience
When you willingly use a word that doesn’t fit your audience (because you like or for whatever reason), you’re failing as a communicator.
The point of cool words like “eschew” is to use them when no other is appropriate. Don’t use your vocabulary to impress or intimidate; use it only to communicate.
In order to do that, you need to understand your audience. You need to know how they talk, what they like to read, and what words they’re used to. And you need to serve them.
Don’t write over their heads; that’s pointless.
Practice brevity
Pull a Hemingway and embrace the value of terseness. If you can say it in fewer words, do it.
For some communicators (like me), this is a discipline. In many ways, it’s what you’re going for with all of the aforementioned. As a final editing checkpoint, make sure you reread your work, editing out stuff that just doesn’t need to be there.
More often than not, you can say more with less. Try it.
Further reading: How to Write Clear Sentences
What tips for writing more clearly do you have?
*Photo credit: Declan Jewell (Creative Commons)
one should never curse when angered, they should wait until they calm down and do a proper job.
Gonna go on a walk with Buddy and calm down.
Hopefully someone will write how wonderful the situation is while i am gone.Laura Knight The Green Sea, Lamorna 1918
Never seen this/her. Very nice.
“Iran has reasserted control over the Strait of Hormuz due to the United States’ so-called naval blockade”
Least surprising thing ever so long as a single IRGC member lives, and outside the power of the civilian government.* We can not yet prove this means Iran is merely a terrorist, Somali state, but that seems likely in the future.
*This itself is in contention, neither do we know if Civilian and IRGC are in communication, nor if the Parliament is in some kind of legal contradiction with itself.
“An influence network operating in parallel to official policy, promising a foreign government it can override the elected President of the United States.”
Yes, they can SAY things. Can they DO them? And a U.S. citizen telling eg, France, to tell Herbert Hoover to pound sand is not exactly illegal, nor smoking gun material. Do I think they try to do this? Of course. But IT’S LEGAL, they are not Americans. Even if they were Americans IT’S LEGAL to advocate for policy you want. Why am I having to say this???
You can consider this a strength or a weakness in our system, depending.
“Exactly what Tucker has been warning about for weeks.” What, that F’ing lobbyists exist and everyone hates them? No s—t. I guess the infuriating part is it’s written as if it’s something. First: it’s nothing. Second: it’s an extremely, very, extraordinarily well-known nothing.
You want it fixed? Tell me how! By not allowing people to have opinions? Refusing to allow citizens to talk to their representatives? Bribery is already illegal.
“Instead of hurting Iran”
Having no revenue doesn’t hurt Iran. Tell me more and we’ll enact that here! I had no idea having no revenue was the path to power and success!
It was extremely annoying today, Iran waved the 2nd ship through, then just fired on it anyway. You can hear a clip of the captain if you want. Tells me no one is in charge over there.
“a conflict which is slowly evolving to be the first stage of World War III. Not because nukes will fly left and right, but because all major powers have vital interests”
I was about to jump but something reasonable for a change. Yes, IF these tensions go on a long time, everyone will get really annoyed and want to “Do something” they wouldn’t ordinarily do. But not this minute, or in the foreseeable future. This goes with Neil McCoy, who I’m generally chilly to, pointing out that they’re trying for a world war, as they have puffed Myanmar, Africa, dozens of tiny ones we can’t hear about right now. So history could write, I dunno, 120 countries were involved in “War” at the point the wars all joined into one. Look out.
“Merz wants Ukrainian men in Germany sent to the front [to die]”
As in the Napoleonic Wars, the General has withdrawn whole armies to the rear to wait in reserve to being thrown into the front. So Germany has not YET activated them, but are planning to. And by forcing Russia to “attack” NATO members in the Baltics. Yeah, we know. The amazing part is we can all see it coming from 2022 and everyone is surprised.
Or put it this way: they wrangle this way and that, like Trump in the 12 Day war, trying to take a position that settles it and walks away, but somehow, someone…just lights it back up on tracks and makes it happen again. Very similar to how everyone hates NeoCons and Ursula and they just get installed at the top anyway, to fail, fail, embarrass again. WHO is doing that and how?
“Netanyahu Left ‘Personally Stunned’ By Trump Rhetoric Prohibiting Lebanon StrikesBut Trump always does whatever he is told by children like Kushner, by channels like “Shark Week” and by tiny tiny countries like Israel. He loves being pushed around and taking orders like that. Well-known.
“Spanberger Signs Unconstitutional Bill To Strip Confederacy-Linked Groups Of Tax Exempt Status
Key words: “Linked”. Linked means “I read about the Confederacy in my 4th grade textbook.” Or “I interviewed a guy who tried to apply, but we didn’t accept him.” That is, legally it means “Anybody I feel like from hour to hour.”
“These Are The US Cities Where No One Can Afford A Large Home
If I’m not mistaken, ALL of them. Which is unsolvable, as this has been all set up to cause kids to become communist and kill anyone a dollar richer than them, to take their house. That’s “fairness”. Actually, they do have an answer and it’s super-simple: Fannie gets out of receivership – which they should like 6 years ago, and are being stalled with truly ludicrous exit requirements to prevent them, and US Housing’s recovery. Now that alone doesn’t help bc prices are driven too high in the EXPRESS desire to 1) Kill America 2) Cause kids to suffer endlessly and riot 3) Also get rich! Don’t forget this one! And as often said, can’t “just drop prices” because they are “Collateral”. It causes an instant ‘08 collapse. Ha ha! Checkmate! There is no hope ever, for anyone, the end.
Uh…no. There are ALWAYS answers, because nothing is actually wrong. Like 1929, we have power, water, houses, jobs, and work. No tidal wave wiped anything out, it’s all just a bunch of rules, and newsflash, now more than ever, WE JUST MAKE UP THE RULES, and change them, minute by minute, on no legal basis at all. So we can UN-Make them for no reason at all, and fix it, if we feel like.
So what would they do? Loophole: one person can “just take over” the payments of another. So the frozen Boomer houses can just be taken over – with some side contract – by their kids. All it takes is for Fannie to stamp “yes”. This is very slow, but that’s good, and lets off the pressure. This is why they cannot let Fannie function ever again, as it was a very quiet, and highly useful win of the “American System” and American Economy. Both stabilizing and freeing capital to modest, productive ends.
“Ilhan Omar: Hey, Um, As It Turns Out, I’m Not Actually A Multimillionaire After All
Speaking of “Making up numbers” Omar says actually she does NOT run a $30M winery as a Muslim that never sold a bottle of wine. Ackshully, she made about $18k, so a 200x accounting error. Ohhhhh! In that case….!
We Make S—t Up. Then we Un-Make S—t Up. Then we pretend it’s all totally real and everybody isn’t making up “Invisible everything-proof force fields” every minute or so in “Calvinball.” What’s today? How many companies suddenly think they deserve a Socialist Government bailout, for Freeeeeee? (Spirit Airlines. But the multi-trillion AI bubble last week. Citizens get little. TAXPAYING citizens get literally nothing.)
“full return to the U.S. dollar for a huge energy, oil, gas, and minerals deal with Trump. BRICS de-dollarization fantasy collapsing.”
Yes, but the fantasy wasn’t theirs: it was all the “Experts” on Fox News like Davis, Johnson, Sachs, Ritter. It appeared – extremely clear – that BRIICS realized they neither COULD, no WANTED to do this, other than to just have a safety valve built just in case. And that’s already done, and yeah, they’re doing some good work in gold, Yuan, trade reconciliation, etc. Cool. But no US$ replacement. And yes, as this guy, China WAS the foremost in changing currencies, and that’s fine, they should.
This goes on to how “It’s impossible, Mr. Anderson” to float US Treasuries. Which is what Europe, etc were counting on. Europe MUST have the U.S. collapse or they’re screwed. This is their 100 year or at least 50 year plan, Plan A, and why they’ve been keeping a fake race war hot while all the people are intermarried and interrace. Only wealthy white chicks actually believe that tripe, and recent polls from UK for example, that white girls think racism is dramatically worse and “Color” people think it’s dramatically better. So they pulled the pin on this grenade for us like 40 times, and it refuses to go off. Rednecks refuse to shoot people. Heck, except for lunatics going out fully armed kicking ICE agents in Minnesota even the LEFT people refuse to shoot. That leaves only pedos and trannies and there aren’t that many of them. But they’ve been 90% lately.
They SAY the U.S. is unusually violent. Maybe, but in a weird way not in the stats. BLUE CITIES are incredibly and ethnically violent. The rest is background noise, although far worse than the past, or rather trade bar fights for worse forms of violence. Also the past was not actually as quiet as presented, as “Leave it to Beaver” they cite, not citing “Concrete Jungle” and the non-stop anti-heroin films, filled with call-girls in the 50s at the same time. In other words “They make s—t up”. What do I WANT you to think today? I just MAKE UP whatever past I think will make you do that, believe that, and act how I want. Not the slightest concern if it was true. 1940, 1950 was ROUGH. I’m quite sure 1910 was rougher. So right now a LOT of people are without the slightest care except being online too much and don’t realize how lucky they are. Sure, many aren’t and that’s very bad, but compare your daily work now with Billings, MT in 1925.
Anyway, IF we are “just fine, all voluntary” no Civil War, USDX being used widely, perhaps continuing extremely slow decay into Gold and BTC. And because of this, and the Dow, we CAN sell Treasuries right now. These are real stresses. But not dead yet. We see every DNC, every CNN, every Fox News going bananas trying to get a coup, a war, a riot – anything that gets people Americans killed. Yeah, pass. No death, ackshully, whaddya think of that?
“Victor Davis Hanson Perfectly Explains Why the Right Shouldn’t Sabotage Trump Over Iran”
I wouldn’t go crazy here. There’s MOST of things we want done not getting there. But that’s mostly because we have no Congress, no Prosecutors, and no Judges. Remember Trump did nothing but seat judges for 4 years, sacrificing everything else? Jesus, how bad was it BEFORE?
“HILLARY, PIZZAGATE IS REAL.
Well it certainly is very peculiar coded language. I’m very interested in hearing what those codes mean and refer to. This isn’t new and isn’t rocket science. I think there’s a 40s movie where they first refer to assassination being “A hit” and “Smack” “Lady” or whatever else is street-code is 100 years old. In London it’s 400 years, as Cockney, Irish, etc are all of their own language and Albanians are today. You can’t just say, “it was pizzas tho’” Great! Then you won’t mind showing me the credit card statement on your purchase and why they cost $10,000 apiece. (real case, Obama’s “Hot Dogs”)
“President Trump unleashed a brutal attack on Ukraine and NATO,”
Perhaps in these times you might want to say “Trump said words”. That’s it, that’s all that happened. No one was attacked, nothing was bombed. Nobody panicked. Walls were never closing in.
“US House is moving forward EXPUNGING President Trump’s 2019 impeachment,”
No one will care, not even me. But you can arrest some people because if it was expunged, there is therefore definitely a root felony causing it. If you are NOT arresting, YOU are the root felony, refusing to prosecute a known crime.
“meeting on Saturday morning to discuss the renewed crisis around the Strait of Hormuz”
Most expected ever. And is anyone even IN CHARGE of Iran? At all? Who?
“This is not chaos. This is strategy.” This is AI talking, so I ignore it until proven otherwise. And Promethean, much as I like their content, seems to be nothing but “Input: AI” and it makes me suspicious. Yes you’re busy, but this is your job. They do appear to know the material in live interviews, but.
“BLOCKADE WILL REMAIN IN FULL FORCE AND EFFECT AS IT PERTAINS TO IRAN, ONLY, UNTIL SUCH TIME AS OUR TRANSACTION WITH IRAN IS 100% COMPLETE,”
I THINK this was always the case, but hard to tell with Capt Flip-Flopper tweeting very vague words all the time. That was my impression though. And yes, he’s letting everyone through. Like Iran>China is still okay (last I heard). So Iraq, Kuwait, ok, ONLY Iran>Europe. That’s it. So Europe is embargoing themselves, which I believe is legal, they voted for it. This is while Europe is ALSO buying ever-increasing RUSSIAN oil while embargoing it. SMH WTF. And by the rules of war, this is legal (yes I know OTHER issue of “no declared war AND making up the number of days”) because you can blockade another nation you’re at war with or conquered. That’s normal, obviously. And goes to the rail bridges to China too, of course.
Since words all mean a thing, but ALSO mean the opposite thing, THEN everyone lies about BOTH things, it’s difficult to keep track and communicate this.
“The Strait of Hormuz Is Open (Catherine Salgado)
In like fashion the article is peppered with issues, unforced errors, Israel “Is not near” Iran, Israel is also DEFINITELY “not just bombing Hezbollah.” Etc. But words don’t have meanings to reporters. It’s not like that’s their work and trade or anything. Because no one can think straight if I say “Israel is a maniac killing as many doctors and civilians as possible,” I’m attacked, but if I say “Iran took some damage” I’m attacked just as hard. Because we just sacrifice the Truth for our Feelz whenever given a chance. Truth = God, Truth = Logos. Don’t sacrifice and reject God all the time, people, with every other sentence. God Exists, God’s REALITY exists, and to know him is the same as knowing Truth, Reality, Facts, Logos. You’re not on the side of the Angels denying Truth and God. (P.S. Israel is a maniac)
“The hard truth is that the Iran War needs to be fought to completion. If that takes another week, another month, or another year, it needs to be done.”
I mean maybe. WHY does it need to be done at all? No one’s tried to explain that to me yet, which is YOUR JOB. It’s not my job to try to figure out in a blizzard of lies as I’ve been doing. And maybe if you start you have to finish, but that ain’t gonna make me love you or any midterm. Pipe up, pipsqueak, tell me why you dun it.
Again, it’s REALLY easy to keep this going forever, and they will. Iran can be Somali and Yemen more or less forever. Britain and France will make sure they’re armed and paid, killing randomly for decades but at the LEAST to piss off Trump and screw the midterm. This was always the problem, NOT that we couldn’t harm Iran – which turned out to be way, way easier than expected. It’s that: okay, what’s the end plan?
And not like he can TELL us the ultimate war-plan logic tree as MI6 will use it on us, but you have to say/do SOMETHING. I don’t trust any “Plans”.
“• Iran Says Reasserted Control Over Strait of Hormuz (PressTV)
No, as I said, if you have “Control” you can close it but also power to open it. They do not have the power to Open it. Apparently their wells are all going to be ruined as usual the Derp State burns any asset to ashes they are expelled from, and especially all the people.
“Iran’s Khatam al-Anbiya Central Headquarters Spokesperson announced that transit through the Strait of Hormuz has reverted to its previous state of strict military control, citing repeated US violations and piracy under the guise of blockade.” Is he a real person and is this a real video? Is he at all in charge in any way? How would we know?
Remember, the same Civilian Leader said they are not attacking neighbors so FIVE MINUTES LATER the IRGC bombed that neighbor. Same here. They said “Ok, ceasefire for the moment” and FIVE MINUTES LATER no passages. That tells me no one is in charge at all, which stands to reason.
“Iran closes Hormuz BECAUSE the US closes Hormuz?! “
Excellent point. What’s Waaaaaaaaaaay funnier was Europe: Queer Stalin, Tiny Napoleon, and some guy no one can remember all got before the cameras saying “We are starting talks to open Hormuz”. People! IT’S ALREADY OPEN! WTF were you going to do there? So they can’t get a Presser together before reality changes, Europe is so slow and out of touch. Ah! But that’s not all! NOW the Straits are closed again! They CAN go do this amazing diplomacy of which they speak. —Crickets– Huh? Yes, nowhere to be found now that it’s closed again. Maybe next week when the Speed of European committee Politburo meetings catches up again.
“• Iran Bats Down ‘Baseless’ Trump Claim On Handing Over Enriched Uranium (ZH)
Speaking of, so are those 40 Delta Force members hostages of Iran right now, and if so why not in the news? Clearly the news is not favorable to Trump and they would nuke every living thing in America to give him a sad. Europe too. So it seems unfathomable that such a thing could happen and not be headlined, even from some jackass, rogue anti-Trump journo. (viz, all of them)
“• Iran says its enriched uranium is “as sacred to us as the soil of Iran and will not be transferred anywhere under any circumstances,” adding that 60% enriched uranium will not leave the country “in any way,” per Iran’s Foreign Ministry via Tasnim.”
Is the Foreign Ministry at all in power, even a little? And are they in communication with anyone at all?
By the way, I don’t think anyone cares if you do or not. To NOT give that uranium over you need to have “Power” and I don’t think you have it. Or put it this way: “How many days until we can tell the location and drop 50k guys there to take it while Iran can barely muster men to shoot at us?” I’m not kidding. Their situation is grave. Their leader may be “in the grave”.
SAYING something and doing it are very different. Every Fox News Expert said every thing, and were completely wrong.
“More Big Trump Words on Alleged Iran Deal in Works”
Fair enough: Iran will lie, stall, delay and double-cross if they can, on general principles. This won’t help tho. Apparently Americans think you should kill Iranians if it pisses Donald Trump off, because their hatred and derangement is so bad. I for one would NOT kill Iranians at all. But “not killing” is TACO, so sadly, according to people who hate Trump we love the Iranian heroes but MUST kill all the Iranians because … that makes Trump sad? I’m losing the plot here.
Look, if it doesn’t change the end state – and that seems unlikely – STOP KILLING. So 500 IRGC guys are going to kill every Iranian sap in the nation. …Same as here actually: 535 in D.C. are happy to kill every U.S. Citizen if they can, and have indeed tried within 6 years from now.
““There were almost 3 million people who were registered for Medicaid in two states,”
We know which states. What this means is citizens of all foreign nations get free health care. American citizens, particularly working ones, do not. So clearly we HAVE tonnes of healthcare to give and go around: it’s only Americans are denied it.
“• Abolishing Veto Power To Spell Beginning Of End For EU — Slovak PM Fico (TASS)
Not that it wasn’t obvious, but finally obvious. They lost every vote they ever tried to authorize the EU – Germany never even had one. The people are against the EU for 25 years. Again in Brexit, again with it being a Treaty, which is likewise illegal (I would argue).
However, the Hungarian flip may be both: he MAY be allowing NGOs to seed widely and take back power. Note: there IS no EU government: the “EU” just HANDS all power to write rules to “NGOs”, then stamps them. The system defies Kafkaesque, there is not even a “Soviet Office” to stand in line and be turned away from, it’s no one at all, and everyone, at the same time. NGOs pop up and vanish like antimatter in the ether. So he might be trading appearance of stopping today’s immigrants to allow NGOs to burrow in permanently, and refuse to FARA them. However, the EU’s position is not in dispute at all: they had 6 levels of attacks if Orban won. Orban lost, so they attacked on all 6 fronts at once anyway, double-crossing every thing they’ve promised since 1999. IN A BLOODLUST for Russia, a sure lose. Okay man. We know where you live though. All those castles are stocked with food and gold, so if you’re hungry, you can’t miss them.
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Thousands of immigrants, trampling the road like cattle throughout Europe, and yes, getting free food, housing, jobs, healthcare. Instead of helping their OWN nations, like Sierra Leone. So what is the EU doing, and DO have resources for while they’re savagely cutting EU (German) pensions to $1000/mo IN EU COST OF LIVING? (You’d die on $1k in the lowest cost county in America). That’s right, France has inventing multi-million dollar AI drones to autonomously track down and vaccinate all unvaccinated cattle. …Not that they need that money for anything else, or that it’s a proto-test about to be used on humans, ‘natch. No!!! Totally a honest, loving priority.
They HAVE money, Trillions of it. It’s what they CHOOSE to spend it on (Ukraine corruption paying themselves).
“If the justices rule that drawing districts based on race violates the Constitution, Republicans could pick up as many as 19 new seats across the South. ”
They are definitively doing this, this was the DNC lawyer’s own argument. Note again, this is what DEI is: they can’t just SAY “We’re firing every Republican and hiring every unqualified Democrat” but we CAN give a Shibboleth test that does the same thing, statistically. Besides, if you’re blacker than the Ace of Spades, straight from Jamaica, so both Black AND an immigrant, AND a woman, they dgaf and fire you in ten seconds if you’re against Trans and DEI anti-merit hiring. Your race won’t help you, they’ll fire you FASTER for it.
Also that’s why Hillary HAD to run this at the time, and didn’t care what long-term problems adding Woke lunatics and Communists made for the Party. Because there WAS no long term. They either got power then, or lost “Russian Rev 2.0” altogether. THEY SAID SO AT THE TIME. Here we are.
And that’s WITH the wild over the top election-rigging and counting every foreign tourist – all 20 Million of them – as Citizen census. And they ARE voting – there is a new lawsuit of destroying voting evidence in GA and AZ and MN daily – but they don’t HAVE to vote: it decides how many Electoral votes NY has.
“Twice, in fact. The whole arc of Hillary’s political career — the Senate seat in New York, the 2008 primary run, the secretary of State role, the 2016 presidential campaign — was all courtesy of a politically convenient marriage”
More, she’s a nobody. She was not a resident of NY, she was placed there. So she was arguably not a NY Senator. She didn’t “Win” Sec of State, Obama GAVE it to her. She has no credentials at all. So no surprise the people rejected her BEYOND her awful personality. Never won a thing in her sorry life, lost HillaryCare in 1992, just married some guy.
“• Fetterman Torches His Party Over Its Surging Antisemitism Problem (Margolis)
It’s a good question if there’s any antisemitism or not. Compared to what, for instance? Most people are against Israel but not very clear thinkers about it. That’s it. If Jews moved in next door they wouldn’t care or act, so it would seem it can’t fit the category of any normal racism. And that MIGHT have been true as recently as 1960, which was not considered an antisemitic time, and far from dangerous, prosperous for them, possibly a Jewish high point in America.
““The guy that’s going to win the primary in Maine has a Nazi tattoo on his chest, and that’s no problem for a lot of voters,” Fetterman said”
People have all kinds of satanic witchcraft tattoos, say they’ll kill all men and babies, declare they’ll start WWIII on inauguration day like Hillary did, so the bar is pretty low. It’s just WHO you don’t like. Killing all men is a requirement to join the DNC it would seem, but naturally supporting every war is. Biden did BOTH Ukraine AND Gaza, they love him.
“• Cuba Sends ‘Secret Letter’ To Trump – WSJ (RT)
Opposite of “Secret” thanks.
“• Building of Trump’s White House Ballroom Can Resume In Full: Appeals Court (BBC)
Judges are NOT construction and security engineers. Nothing happened to the Judge: therefore he will do it twice as hard tomorrow.
“enable quadriplegics to walk again and use their hands”
All Evil can be turned to good. It’s possible, but I don’t prefer it. Elon has said he intends to use all human electric power, consume all fresh water, expressly in order to make an unfathomable alien monster we neither understand nor control. …I’m guessing that’s not good? If Dr. Doom said that the Avengers would blow him up on sight? Yes?
Next passage: that is the cruel, inhuman dystopia of “Issac Asimov” and “Robot Series”. Robots are everywhere and do everything. This helps the human not a bit, being worse off than before. ESPECIALLY on earth. A hellscape of 8B people. Read it, it’s astonishing. The Caves of Steel 1954
These robots are actually IDEALIZED as they cannot harm humans nor be made to do so. Any conceivable real robot cannot be programmed with ANY sense of this, as AI encourages people to kill themselves hourly, while generally giving them false answers that kill accidentally.
“that mechanical computer was made in Greece millennia ago.. and no one knows how!”
ClickSpring on YouTube demonstrates how it was done, daily. It’s just really hard and takes a lot of time, like any clock. Here’s the other part: if ONE exists, it’s not the only one. There would have to be thousands, at a minimum to get good enough at it. And other, similar machines. But we knew ancient Greece had steam powered automaton robots in the windows, icons of Athena and such. Other devices like Greek Fire or essentially laser-mirrors of Deadelous, etc.
Again, a THOUSAND years later, “Rome” built a single watermill in France that fed some 30,000 people. This is after the other 7 Wonders of the World, etc. Maybe we should re-think what history and the ancient world looked like? Under JONAH the 800BC, they were running ships like city busses around the sea, for cheap. 800 AD same thing, 1800, under Jean Val-Jean, same thing. Same ships, same sails, same oars. This is why Joseph of Arimathea took a city bus to his furthestmost holdings in the now-utterly insane Empire (Of Nero and Caligula) to found Glastonbury Abbey. …Or so it is said. So what was really happening in Saxony, Egypt, India, or heck, the Toltecs and Olmec with 1,000 60-ton statues at the time?
Start adding this back in – and that people of that time reliably said they were the Bronze Age AFTER the previous higher, Golden Age and things start to look different. What’s going on here?
“We Make S—t Up.” We just lie. If we WANT the past to be better, we just make it up and lie, like Europe did about the amazing (Biblical) Pharaohs. Then later WE want to be better, in the “Religion of Progress” so “We Make S—t Up” and just lie that everyone BEFORE us was an ignorant cave man. You can see this with Feminism today. Despite that woman’s happiness has gone straight down every year recorded, “They Just Lie” and say every woman cube farming alone going home to her cats is happy, and every woman who ever lived before 1971 was a miserable slave who was never allowed to speak. Have any of you ever MET a woman? What are the odds you can keep them from speaking? No.
Again: we decide, “How can I get someone to give me money today?” then work backward to “What do I need to lie about the past to make that money happen?” That’s prettymuch all history in a nutshell. You’re welcome.
So AntiKytherean clocks and watches? Thousands and thousands, for sure. And many more the like. ‘Tis the Season for “Ben Hur”, (past it actually), look at the Roman estates and games there. They weren’t supported on desert sand and guys scraping two rocks and a hip-bone like our movies suggest. That was a modern technological society. The economics of bushels of wheat + transport require it as absolute objective proof. Just use your head, get out a pencil, and ask.
There is no need for long essays.
You already have the essay locked in your head.
A few words will light the path to what you already know.The U.S.’s Greatest Loss in the IRAN War: RUSSIA raised a Downed U.S. F-35 from the Floor of the SEA
You are not the fog maker.
You have your head above the fog
You can see.
Remember, most people will never be above the fog.
Don’t be mean, It will not make a difference.Donald Trump has said the US Navy have seized an Iranian cargo ship after ‘blowing a hole in their engine room’ on the Strait of Hormuz.
The US President claimed his forces are now searching the Touska cargo ship after it was ‘stopped in its tracks’ on Sunday evening.
‘Today, an Iranian-flagged cargo ship named TOUSKA, nearly 900 feet long and weighing almost as much as an aircraft carrier, tried to get past our Naval Blockade, and it did not go well for them.
‘The US Navy Guided Missile Destroyer USS SPRUANCE intercepted the TOUSKA in the Gulf of Oman, and gave them fair warning to stop.
‘The Iranian crew refused to listen, so our Navy ship stopped them right in their tracks by blowing a hole in the engine room. Right now, U.S. Marines have custody of the vessel.
‘The TOUSKA is under U.S. Treasury Sanctions because of their prior history of illegal activity. We have full custody of the ship, and are seeing what’s on board!’
Earlier the US President said Iran had committed a ‘total violation of our ceasefire agreement’ in the Strait of Hormuz and threatened to ‘knock out every single Power Plant’ and bridge if a deal isn’t made between the warring countries.
Trump said there would be ‘NO MORE MR. NICE GUY’ with Iran and called for ‘the Iran killing machine to end’.
In the Truth Social post this afternoon, he also said that Iran fired bullets at a French ship and a UK freighter in the Strait of Hormuz.
————EU Returns 56K Ukrainians to Their Homeland (Fighters for or against the gov.)
China, Oil Prices, and Aircraft Carriers
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————US commits maritime piracy, attacks Iranian commercial ship in violation of ceasefire
Sunday, 19 April 2026 10:33 PM [ Last Update: Sunday, 19 April 2026 10:49 PM ]The United States has carried out a flagrant act of aggression on an Iranian merchant vessel in the waters of the Sea of Oman, deploying its terrorist marines onto the ship’s deck and disabling its navigation systems.
The spokesperson for the Khatam al-Anbiya Central Headquarters on Sunday night condemned the criminal operation by the US Navy.
“The aggressor United States violated the ceasefire and committed maritime piracy by firing at an Iranian merchant ship in the waters of the Sea of Oman and landing a number of its terrorist marines on the deck of the vessel, disabling its navigation system,” Lieutenant-Colonel Ebrahim Zolfaghari said.
“We warn that the armed forces of the Islamic Republic of Iran will soon respond to this armed piracy and retaliation by the US army,” he added.
US troops launched the unprovoked attack on the Iranian container ship Toska, which was peacefully sailing from China to Iran through the Gulf of Oman.
In immediate response, Iranian forces struck back, targeting several American military vessels in the area with drone attacks.
US President Donald Trump boasted that American forces had seized the Iranian ship, calling the US military the “largest military force in the world,” which has now been exposed once again as the chief pirate in international waters.
Iran had already stated that it would retaliate decisively against any hostile action by the United States.
At the same time as Washington announced its illegal naval blockade against Iran, the Islamic Republic has fully closed the Strait of Hormuz. Any ship or tanker attempting to pass through the strategic waterway without Iranian permission will be dealt with firmly by Iranian forces.
The latest criminal act by the US regime once again proves that Washington remains the primary source of terrorism and instability across West Asia.
Iran is fully prepared to defend its sovereignty and national interests and said it will not hesitate to deliver a crushing response to any act of aggression or maritime piracy.
Iranian armed forces turn back two oil tankers in Strait of Hormuz: Report
Iranian armed forces turn back two oil tankers in Strait of Hormuz: Report
Iranian armed forces have intercepted two oil tankers attempting to navigate through the Strait of Hormuz, forcing them to alter their routes and retreat from the region
On Friday, Iran had declared the Strait was open to commercial shipping, weeks after it was shut down to vessels associated with the US and its allies following the launch of an unprovoked war of aggression against the Islamic Republic on February 28.On April 7 and following 40 days of intense fighting that engulfed the entire region, Trump announced a two-week ceasefire after accepting Iran’s ten-point proposal as a basis for negotiations to permanently end the war.
He nonetheless authorized the continuation of a naval blockade he had ordered against the Islamic Republic, in addition to making numerous controversial statements regarding the waterway—all of which have been categorically refuted by Iranian authorities.
During the marathon talks in Islamabad earlier this month, the issue of the closure of the Strait of Hormuz dominated discussions, according to sources, with Iran making it emphatically clear that the waterway will be opened fully once all its conditions to end the war are accepted.
https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2026/04/19/767193/US-commits-maritime-piracy,-attacks-Iranian-merchant-ship
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