Debt Rattle April 28 2026
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Johannes Vermeer Girl Reading a Letter at an Open Window 1657-59 • A Feral and Savage Party (James Howard Kunstler) • No Conspiracy Required (Stephen
[See the full post at: Debt Rattle April 28 2026]
Probably true. No warranties. The entire West believes this, this is the natural and inevitable end state. There is nothing here yet alarming them and activating anyone’s sense of moral Right and Wrong.No markets anywhere yet. Dow is high AF, has been for decades, what can you say? US$, no change. Gold and silver building long term patterns. Oil blah, nothing. Probably because none of the markets are real and are disconnected from delivery price.
So if anything exists out there, markets don’t show it yet.
What we KNOW is happening is, the longer Iran is closed, the more money flows are habituated to flow through Texas and NY, (Actually Miami) and stop flowing to London and Zurich long-term. And UAE. These are like…tidal flows, I guess, and can’t be minimized bc that’s all that makes the US$ function either: Habit. So now we are in the HABIT of ignoring Iran long-term.
Rumor has it, they ALREADY cut a deal, in FEBRUARY, just like Maduro did. Okay, we know these things DO happen, but you got a lot of war to explain in that case. So WHO cut the deal? Cuz it looks like whoever would have ordered the U.S. to bomb the s—t out of the IRGC alone (we did) with a quid pro quo they would bomb the S—t out of Israel for us (they did). And that we would leave our bases in the M.E. (looks like) and kill the “radar” that may have been the HAARP stations that have been causing Iranian drought(remains to be seen, if it starts raining, would be a big coincidence).
I got nothin’ on this. No idea, only that it’s certainly possible because the OFFICIAL story that Iran is making us rich out of clever strategy after we leveled them makes NO sense at all. Here’s one though: why NOT, as a condition of peace, allow Iran to charge an official toll as other nations do (Panama)? Idgaf. Who cares? if it’s reasonable. No one. Then Iran gets money directly and Lloyd’s has nothing to insure there. Win-win. This would be a great “Win” for Iran to triumph!!!!!! over Capt Cheeto, when really it means literally nothing. Iran IS a country. They DO need to have revenue. They WILL sell oil, so what’s the dif if they also secure the strait so long as they are trustworthy and don’t use it to attack all their neighbors like they have all this month.
So they’re attacking Turkey and that’s okay? Like we’re attacking Iran, but slipped and dropped a few bombs in Montreal by accident? What would you say to that? A: When Iran does it, it’s fine. When Iran bombs children, they are not real children, because: Internet points.
“Iran War Ignites Global Financial Armageddon UNZ
As a reporter, markets indicate the very exact #Opposite. Being aware of that and not being #DeadWrong is something reporters and experts used to do. In fact, some American stocks are going straight up.
“we need a feral, bloodthirsty, violent Democrat.”
these words were reposted by Bill Kristol, the founder of the Weekly Standard and the current editor-in-chief of The Bulwark. Kristol was a leading conservative figure in the Republican Party. Kristol left the Republican Party and is now a vehemently anti-Trump writer.”Kristol is the poster child for NeoCons. He’s the arch enemy of Trump. This of course, means that Trump is a NeoCOn, and his enthusiastic endorsement for the assassination is because NeoCons and Globalists all go around shooting…themselves. That’s #Winning, you know, when they’re the same team. Kristol is also radically Pro-Israel, iirc, so clearly whatever Trump is doing appears to be the Opposite of that to him. Nutsy used to hang out in Jersey with the Kristols, iirc, plotting exactly what many here say: to have the U.S. be their slave and minion and checkbook.
And they hate Trump with the heat of 1,000 suns.Any gears turning here? And sparks going off?
Trump is their “Club” he’s their waterboy, doing only what they want daily…which is why they try to kill him daily.
…Why do I bother? I’ve now said this every day for 10 years that a thing and it’s Opposite are not the same, and every day, Day 32, makes no difference, has no effect. Reason, Facts, logic, have no hold at all.
Article continues: “James Carville declared, “If the Democrats win the presidency and both houses of Congress, I think on day one, they should expand the Supreme Court to 13. F— it. Eat our dust. Don’t run on it. Don’t talk about it. Just do it.”
They have ALREADY done this, in 20 ways before now. VA just ignored their whole Constitution, in main, and all bylaws, to pack their already astonishingly gerrymandered state (look at any map) to be 10:1 against when it’s 50-50 on the ground. Election law being one, immigration being another. But this is only Democrats, Republicans act the same, right? Well, Thune is getting out of bed to come put the Senate in session for two minutes at 2am in order to keep Trump from having recess appointments, and refusing to seat the 90 prosecutors all American Republicans want there to prosecute crime, Epstein, etc, and upholding election fraud, stopping even mild, normal bills that say “It’s Okay to have an ID”. This goes back to Gingrich. So no, Republicans are NOT running the same tricks. We just call them the SLOW Democrats, the SLOW Communists. Democrats like AOC and Omar go as fast as they can to Stalinism. Republicans exist as the “Fabian Socialists” insuring the pace remains slow enough it doesn’t alarm anyone and American keep ingesting the poison daily and willingly. It has been working wonderfully for 60+ years.
“AI Needs Silver… Silver Isn’t Moving (Yet)
Demand dos not mean price rises. In fact, there can be dead shortages in critical materials and prices never rise. This happens regularly in silver.
“Germany’s Merz Says US ‘Humiliated’ By Iranians & Trump Lacks Strategy, Exit Plan
I don’t understand. Did something happen? We are flying over every inch of their country from coast to coast with impunity and have shut off their ports and revenue without landing a soldier. The shooting war has been over for 20 days, Iran is not hitting anything in eg Israel. They’re out. Strange humiliation to beat a nation of 90M in 20 days, have them by the neck and shake them, and it’s called “Losing”. How?
A: My Feelz Wants It. “We Make S–t Up.”
“Israel Bombs Deep Into Lebanon For First Time Of 3-Week Ceasefire
What “ceasefire” means to Israel. And what American threats mean to Israel as well. As expected. We should annoy Tehran again on the quid pro quo they hit N. Israel.
“They hate President Trump because he will not comply with their ‘Rules-based Order’.”
Notice who is NOT getting assassination attempts: Everyone. Thune, McConnell, Jordan, Roberts, etc.
“Bret Baier: “You have been called a Nazi, a white supremacist, a fascist. Just to name a few.”
Quite a thing to say to an Immigrant and America’s most prominent African-American! Why do they hate Africans and Immigrants so much? The only people they hate more are Hindus, Samoans, Women, and men with immigrant wives.
But: HATE, so the side of the angels, you know.
“Don’t you love the way the news media pretends it can’t figure out the motive of Cole Tomas Allen,”
Hate again. And LOVE of violence. Yes, I was going to remark on that, “Suspected” Assassin, “Unknown motives”, “unknown plan.” No, that’s not the usual language for this, not historically, and certainly not since 2016 when Trump or a Republican eating carrots means he hates carrots and wants them all to die. Anyone within 100 miles of DC on J6 is summarily jailed. (Tarrio was nearly this far away, an FBI informant) They seem to know the motive and plan with no trial at all.
But: Adult Americans spoke; Therefore they were lying. Open mouth: Lie fell out. But when Fox News speaks, CNN, it’s totally different. Despite having lied mostly for 25 years since 2002 – all provable – nothing happened at all, nothing changed, no one apologized, but like the CIA because nothing happened and no one was held accountable, they all tell the truth now starting this Monday, just now.
It’s not THAT they lie that gets me. It’s that after 25 years without a single breath devoid of lying PEOPLE STILL CAN’T CATCH ON. Everybody proven wrong for a lifetime are still experts and quoted with breathless, starry-eyed puppy love. Aw Backstreet Bois, you’re the best! Justin Timberlake 4 Evah! Except for Fox News. Ew.
““I experience rage thinking about everything this administration has done,”
He had the feelz. This went as well as it usually does, and Rage is definitely the side of the angels, as is mass murder. When you have the Feelz, there’s no choice! It’s okay to kill people then!
Speaking of, at the bottom of this article (on the site) is the legacy of Democrats: a doctor was giving out Covid force-vaccination, “I was an untested medical experiment today”, and although avoiding jail, she owes a $10,000 fine. This is the Freedom and goal they have for all of you. This is the “Democracy” they are protecting and believe in. Every word of Covid (essentially) was a lie, all done by the same people, who we all credit now as being earnest good-faith actors.
“assassin Cole Allen’s manifesto and social media posts is that they’re “generally indistinguishable from most liberal social medial accounts belonging to Democrat voters in America.” Dems, you have a problem.”
That’s not a problem, that’s a plan. The plan is to destroy the United States and everything it stands for, from the face of the earth, forever. (And install techno neofeudalism) They are happy and excited they are finally here, at the “shooting and killing everyone” part. Especially shooting and killing the dirty Proletariat workers widely the scum. Plus the poors. Yuck. 100M dead in the 20th century remember, so they are way behind!
“@RepJeffries called for “Maximum Warfare Everywhere All The Time,”
This is not just talk. This is their dream well-proven by 80 years of non-stop actions. This is the “Eternal Revolution” where new people must be killed daily in the outbreak of brotherly love…against the poors.
“Mrs. Trump, you have a glow like an expectant widow.”
What happens to real journalists, from:
That is, Leftists kill them. The only enemy is Truth.“Donald Trump came out of this weekend a lot bigger than he went in. A lot.
Doesn’t look like any change at all to me. If anything Democrats are excited and motivated by the potential for murder. I’d say not a good look, but they turn to the Democrat next to them, who agrees.
“• Again, Fetterman Breaks Ranks After the Third Attempt on Trump’s Life (Manney)
Imagine: An elected government official who doesn’t think we should just let the public shoot all elected officials! What will Democrats discover next? I don’t mean to pick on only Democrats, obviously, but: LOOK! They are in favor of killing…themselves? WTF.
Yes, because all violence is good violence. …When that is the true goal and religion of your god.
“Jimmy Kimmel was also despicable about the Charlie Kirk assassination.”
Shirley is also regularly threatened to be “Kirked”. Which shows two parts: one the death threat, yes. Second, the people sending it are proud and elated at murder. Of basically anyone. With no process. They are happy, when they speak of it, they have joy and emotional excitement at the mere thought of murder, death, brains blown against the wall, on Kirk’s wife, blood spattering all over her children, delightful! Happy claps! My god rejoices!
“• Charlottesville: The Deceit Underlying the Hoax (Steve Cortes)
“Now, nearly a decade later, the truth is revealed about the deception that lay beneath that grand lie”Nope. No one will believe it or care. I deal with liberals all the time. They will just tune it out as the words are being spoken, and it will never register. I’m sure no one thought back in 2017 it would take this level, this saga, to clear something so obvious a single click could fix, yet here we are. …And still no one will click, “Fine People Hoax”, even as it’s in the ultra far-left, “Snopes” as an actual, total hoax. The level to which reality doesn’t matter, sadly only the evil people really understood. Set a calendar appointment, ask someone about this in a week: it will have never happened.
“The Greek government announced a major crackdown to close down approximately 60 unlicensed or illegal mosques”
Speaking of fascism: so religious people are not allowed to meet anywhere without the government’s express permission? What is the basis of this law? So if me and a friend are in Tim Horton’s and a Bible passage comes up, we’ll be arrested?
Planting: demonstrates if you have infinity money and add infinity time and care, you can grow a potato that costs 5c. All these methods add plastic, get soil from WalMart trucks, and require daily hand-watering from a hose. Also as AI, the real ones would be far less pretty. It will work however, and we may be driven to it if Europe and the solar people have their way.
don’t kill the messenger
Yes, my guard stood hard when abstract threats
Too noble to neglect
Deceived me into thinking
I had something to protect
Good and bad, I define these terms
Quite clear, no doubt, somehow
Ah, but I was so much older then
I’m younger than that nowcongratulations to all of the Boomers who went along to get along
every letter of every word that defines moral failure belongs to us
Every person who buys into the rhetoric expressed in today’s TAE post is making another recurring payment to their plausible deniability fund.
I’m Sure, They Did It !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The mechanistic fallacy — Why the West so often fails at geo-politics
Washington will not be able to think straight about Iran, and will opt for the wrong tactics.Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su
Some fifteen years ago I wrote that western reliance on its lens of secular rationality was no longer adequate as a means to understand the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. It was becoming obvious — even then — that the future of the region would be one of wars increasingly defined by religious symbols: i.e. Al-Aqsa versus the Third Temple.
Since then, things have moved on: In Israel, national elections in November 2022 brought a new leadership committed to founding Israel on the ‘Land of (Greater) Israel’; displacing the non-Jewish population and implementing Halachic law.
The new government’s platform was an expression of an eschatological and messianic purpose with a teleology of pursuing a path toward messianic Redemption. It was not secular, nor couched in Enlightenment tones.
My point then — and still is — that Western secular mechanistic ways of thinking will misunderstand these fundamental shifts. The West insists to apply its westernised conceptual precepts to something — Messianism and the pursuit of Redemption — that lies outside the frame of today’s post-modern western consciousness. We understand well enough power politics, but eschatology largely is a closed-book to most western seculars.
The bottom line is that no purpose is served in trying to convince those absorbed by a messianic vision that their solution consists of a two-state political structure in historic Palestine. The former actually welcome Armageddon and the defeat it would portend for non-Jews.
Nor can this be viewed as a passing phase, or a whim. Messianism has been a prominent, yet fluctuating, impulse in Judaism since Sabbatai Zevi (1660s) and Jacob Franks (18th century). (Some of its thinking filtered into European notions too, during the later Enlightenment period).
Jewish historian and scholar, Gershom Scholem, correctly predicted that religious Zionism — which in recent decades has aligned with Likud and the settler movement — operates as a “militant,” “apocalyptic,” and “radical” messianic movement that tries to “force the end” by demanding that the state engage in, for example, massive territorial control — i.e. they demand territorial conquest for end-of-times reasons.
Perhaps unsurprisingly, western mechanistic rationality however, has proved to be as much at a loss in its grasp of what motivates Iran as it is in understanding today’s Israel. The literal approach simply amputates any awareness of Iran’s deeper resistance and revolutionary anima.
Rather, we choose to project onto Iran our image of the 19th century nation-state – – the concept of a state ruled by top-down, centralised government as the dominant, sometimes autocratic, vehicle of rule over which wider polities once were governed through other principles of legitimacy.
In an interview in 1979 with Richard Falk, Ayatollah Khomeinei said plainly that the Revolution was a civilizational rather than a national triumph. He stressed that he felt that the basic community for all people in the Islamic world was civilizational and religious – – and not national and territorial. Khomeini explained that territorial sovereign states built around national identity did not form a natural community in the Middle East in the way they did in Europe.
His insistent theme was to express the view that a government consistent with Islamic values could not be reliably established on democratic principles without it being subject to unelected religious guidance from top Islamic clerical scholars as the source of highest political authority.
The repression of Islam (forced secularisation) and the destruction of the Caliphate pursued by Mustafa Kamal in the early 1900s had led Seyyed Qutub to preach revolutionary vanguardism until his execution in 1966. Qutb’s writings, but more particularly his Social Justice in Islam — coinciding with mass protests throughout the Muslim world at the partition of Palestine in 1947 — laid the principal groundwork for the revolutionary thinking that would emerge in Iran.
For Iranians, this was a call to a return to an earlier way-of-being, with a storied lineage, reaching far back — one that reflects a more spiritual and inward transformation of the human: A world of hierarchical modes of consciousness and a disposition to fight against oppression, and to care for the dispossessed.
Thus, to view Iran through the nation-state lens is to misread Iran. The limits of mechanistic thinking make it impossible for outsiders to grasp or predict the way ahead for Iran. Today, young Iranians are returning enthusiastically to the ethos encompassed in the 1979 Revolution. There is a new energy apparent in Iran — and it is radical. And its reverberations are spreading well beyond the borders of Iran.
If we in the West want to hear and understand, then it would be wise to first hold up a mirror to ourselves. Are we truly so secular and rationally strategic as we believe?
U.S. military historian Michael Vlahos, in a long essay — America is a Religion — points out that the U.S. itself is far from unaffected by the currents of messianic idealism, millenarianism and Manichaeism – – “This is an enduring theme whose deep current flows into Christianity”:
“Since its founding, the United States has pursued, with burning religious fervour, a higher calling to redeem humanity, punish the wicked, and christen a golden millennium on earth. America has steadfastly hewed to its unique vision of divine mission as “God’s New Israel”.
Of course, American ‘Civil Religion’ is inextricably linked with the Reformation, Calvinist Christianity, and Protestantism. “Although its scriptural reading became secular in the Progressive era, the American religion still remained tethered to its formative roots”, Vlahos argues.
“Hence, America is not only “messianic” in character — as in, “possessed by passion and zeal” — but manifests an implicitly biblical vision proclaiming its faith in the predestined nature of its passage. A “chosen nation” divinely elected to act in the name of Providence as the world’s Redeemer”.
However, as Vlahos tells it — like with the Zionists in Israel, in the last election — the U.S. had its moment of metamorphosis: It was triggered by 60 years (1963-2023) of repeated and unrequited battlefield débâcles:
“Each episode [that was] waged to fulfil the prophecy of a global democratic millennium—and with each time, that dream slipped away”.
Consequently, writes Vlahos, American messianism slid into “a Manichaean caricature of itself – in which American “good news” has been replaced by the ever-present spectre of Evil and the threat of force. The holy words, Freedom and Democracy, whilst still chanted, have become a hollow mantra”.
“The American “gospel” no longer preaches about bringing redemption and expiation: it is now concerned with enforcement and punishment.
“The volte-face came in an instant, on 9/11 — and with Guantanamo.
“Almost overnight, America ditched “international rules” and “civilized norms”—and instead built out an archipelago of torture and arbitrary incarceration, without oversight or appeal”.
Today, the U.S. is experiencing deep polarisation at home, whilst still pursuing conflicts overseas whose aims U.S. leaders try to connect to the redemptive narratives coined for service in the domestic struggle (i.e. validating the ‘Peace through Strength‘ meme) via the war on Iran. The U.S. establishment thus links ‘victory’ in a foreign war as the means to restore its political standing domestically and internationally. Michael Vlahos calls this duality “a mutually destructive dynamic”.
It virtually assures that Washington will not be able to think straight about Iran, and will opt for the wrong tactics.
“Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. The third time it’s enemy action.” —Ian Fleming
And, after about the millionth time I think you have to call it culture.
‘She is in a state of total shock’ – 12-year-old French girl collapses after judge releases 2 men arrested for gang raping her in an Airbnb
“They can, if they wish, contact and visit the young girl whenever they want,” the girls lawyer warned. “Therefore, there is total incomprehension, not to mention anger, on the part of the family.” https://rmx.news/article/she-is-in-a-state-of-total-shock-12-year-old-french-girl-collapses-after-judge-releases-2-men-arrested-for-gang-raping-her-in-an-airbnb/Iran should open a “Futures Market” in which they sell guarantees for delivery of bulk oil at whatever the prevailing price of oil is at time of delivery, BUT to be delivered ONLY AFTER all of Iran’s Security Demands are met.
In other words, they tell the world that it can have all the oil it needs and wants, at fair value, just as soon as the United States and Israel remove their armed bandits out of Iran’s front yard.
I think that the cognitive and emotional problem that ordinary Americans have the most difficulty wrapping their hearts and minds around (and which makes them look so stupid to the rest of the world) is the fact that the governments (at all levels, really, but mostly Federal) which they think they have elected to represent their interests see them as nothing but tokens or chips in a giant casino game where governments, corporations and other giant institutions gamble to see which player can acquire the most chips, and the perks that go with being big winners.
To a fundamentally decent person, such deeply profound betrayal is simply not possible, and so they do not include it in their thinking.
Recovery from such a state of oblivious ignorance is a long, slow and painful process… but it can be done.
We’re in the process of doing that now…. and it hurts like Hell.
“I understand life.” – Trump
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I don’t see many people standing up generally in any Western country, and if you understand history they rarely do to affect change until they are hungry and impoverished.
Posted by: GeorgeWendell(Does ” standing up ” mean/include – Hate, revenge, anger, killing, rage, chaos, survival, stealing, secrets, conspiracy, power, control, army, assassinations, )
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History keeps repeating itself…
The pattern is undeniable.
———–“Reject the idea that violence has any place in OUR democracy” – Obama
(Who is included and excluded in “OUR”)
————–Jimmy Kimmel delivered a fake White House Correspondents Dinner speech, saying “Mrs. Trump, you have a glow like an expectant widow.”
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Allen’s manifesto made it clear he has fallen for the lies of the Democrats, radicalized by their rhetoric — including Barack Obama’s.https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2026/04/27/i-cant-believe-obama-said-this-about-the-latest-trump-assassination-attempt-n4952235
by Matt MargolisThere’s just one huge problem with Obama’s statement. We already knew the shooter’s motive at this point. Obama posted his statement at 5:15 p.m. EDT on Sunday, and the shooter’s manifesto and its contents were first published late Sunday morning.
So by the time Obama decided to weigh in, the manifesto had been in the public domain for several hours, and his anti-Trump motives were already widely reported.
Here’s what Cole Allen’s manifesto said:
https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2026/04/26/the-whca-dinner-shooter-had-an-anti-trump-manifesto-heres-what-it-says-n4952217
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Where is the money coming from ?
Lower the selling price. Increase the investments.
https://justthenews.com/government/white-house/trumps-pharma-policies-are-making-small-town-pharmacies-great-again
———-1. here is an exercise in following the corruption in the US. Follow the mainstreet economy and real wages ffrom Kemp/Roth to TARP/AARA. Remember the words spoken with utter disdain – “Should’ve Planned Better”?
Did you weather the housing cycles from Commonweath in 1972, through 1983 to 2007? Did you think you were so clever surfing the inflation wave? Did you buy into the “Greed is Good” immoralilty? Did you cast aspersions onto the rising tide of poverty in the US? Were you one of the moralists who conjured up the notion that lack of success was proof of moral failing?
Did you accept the nightly news was true? Did you ever listen to talk radio and agree with the ignorant ravings of reactionary propagandists?
“I don’t want to abolish government. I simply want to reduce it to the size where I can drag it into the bathroom and drown it in the bathtub.” Norquist. Remember G.W. Bush reshaped the US security state. Downsizing of the highest order. Might i be so bold as to surmise the age of digital ID was born at that time?
Did you ever respond to the lowest common denominator disparaging any segment of society? Do you have that mindset today?What has left you with impression you are not engaged in the same behavior now? Do you really believe the Youtube content creators have any more access to the tip of the information pyramid than you?
2. Dr. John do you believe that MK Ultra ended? Do you think that MK Ultra was just rebranded and compartmentalized into another hidden agenda? Do you believe MK Ultra even existed?
When, and if, we learn about Cole’s childhood, his parents and his schooling and extra curricular activities then we can have some idea where his actions originated. MK Ultra has touched your life whether you know it or not.“Another lesson about a naive fool who came to Babylon, and found out that the pie don’t taste so sweet.” ~ Dwight Yoakam – Guitars, Cadillacs and Hillbilly Music
There must be self-governing individuals for a self-govening nation to exist. Look around.
Obama & EU:
Nice to see that Obama’s “Our Democracy” is exactly the same as Europe’s “Democracy Shield”.
Democracy = Slavery!
Indicted:
The Indicted are the ones who will not be convicted of any crime, because they are being prosecuted in Washington, D C!
When has a criminal ever been convicted of any crime, by their Washington DC criminal peers?
Mark Twain couldn’t remember anyone being convicted, either!
An honest man being run out of town on the rails?
Yes.Queried TBOC:
“Dr. John do you believe that MK Ultra ended? Do you think that MK Ultra was just rebranded and compartmentalized into another hidden agenda? Do you believe MK Ultra even existed?
When, and if, we learn about Cole’s childhood, his parents and his schooling and extra curricular activities then we can have some idea where his actions originated. MK Ultra has touched your life whether you know it or not.”A: MK-Ultra was subsumed, morphed and rebranded. I do not discount it at all. I believe Sirhan Sirhan was an output of that project, for instance, as RFK Jr also appears to.
It does not clarify what happened with Cole Allen. It is not excluded, nor included.
He seems to have been high functioning and idealistic, not writing “Kill Kennedy” mantras in notebooks, as Sirhan did.
I await further news.
(It looks like he fired one shotgun shell while running and fell down from it.)Unbearable Tension https://drjohnsblog.substack.com/p/unbearable-tension
What will be the next move in the Strait of Hormuz” The tension is stressing every player except Russia.
Iran needs revenue, and the clock is ticking on storage capacity before wells have to be shut down, which will permanently impair their productive capacity upon re-start. The Iranian people live in austerity, and have just been asked to further conserve electricity.
Israel needs to be winning upon some war front to sustain internal political coherence and resolve. Lebanon is not looking like that front, as fiber-optic drone attacks from hezbollah are taking a heavy toll on Israeli armor and infantry, as they did in Ukraine a year ago. The defense is drone-nets covering transport routes, but that scarcely works for the Israeli operation to demolish south Lebanon by making every town and farm unliveable. Israel is expanding outposts in Syria, the least defended border right now. Perhaps Syria will never get fiber-optic FPV drones? Turkey is the rising regional rival to Israel, and makes advanced drones of several sorts. Turkey is thought to manage the current Syrian government as a strategic asset. Turkey might not mind bleeding Israel in a Syrian proxy war.
It is widely reported that Israel has been warned-off using nuclear weapons against Iran, but the reports say the US prevented it by bombing Iran, and that Russia and Pakistan have warned Israel, so it is not clear what threats Israel actually does face if it chooses to nuke Iran.
Israel would much prefer that the US further attack Iran for them. Can Israel set up a convincing false flag attack to kill American troops and induce an American invasion of Iran? American ships keep playing with the 300 km distance mark from Iran’s coast, just outside missile range.
Can Israel attack an American ship, like the Iwo Jima, full of Marines, with a submarine launched missile, as they purportely tried to pull off near Cyprus? Would this be tolerated by the US this time?
The Trump Admin. really needs 6 months to buff the domestic economy before October midterm elections, so some resolution really needs to be put in place before June. Good news for stocks and oil prices every Friday may be played-out already. WTI is over $100/bbl already.
Trump needs to declare victory and get out. That’s what commanders of Naval and Air Forces arereportedly telling him. “Don’t grab the tar-baby”. the best way out is to not go in again. Trump is postoring and feinting with forces along Iran’s coast, but Iran does not want to give any justification for an overwhelming US response.
Iran has up to mid May before all oil storage is filled, and they have to shut down wells. That really makes mid May a final breaking point for both Iran and the Trump admin.
Israel needs some form of military progress or a US commitment to attack Iran harder than ever before mid May. Do they want to turn Syria into another war of attrittion like Lebanon? Is there anything more they can do to Gaza and the West Bank? Can they convince the US to act on an Israeli false-flag attack as a justification for getting into a forever-war in Iran? (Will Israel have to admit that Netanyahu is dead? No, never that! What would happen if Israelis started demanding that he appear in court?)
Europe, Asia and Oceana are starving for oil, natural gas, fertilizers, sulfur and helium, and the worst is about to hit, so the crisis is already building, and it is already breaking down the UAE financially.
Iran’s Foreign Minister Araghchi visited Oman, which holds the other side of the Strait of Hormuz and agreed to joint-custody and tto split transit-tolls. Marco Rubio said that’s “not acceptible, because it is like Iran having a nuclear weapon”. He then retrenched and said that a real nuclear weapon capability was the real decision-point. Iran could not have nuclear-weapon capability. The enriched-uranium has to be removed. This appears to leave an opening, intended or not, for Iran to park the highly enriched Uranium in Russia right away, removing that consideration from a deal to open the Strait, collect tolls, and let the “Spice Flow” again.
A deal with Iran would pull the rug out from under Israel. What is the real strength of the Israeli control over the US government? What would break first?Michael Hudson, Postponing the World’s Financial Winter – For How Long? Iran’s MAD Standoff with the Rest of the World
We are seeing the economic version of what the 1960s called Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD).1 The term referred to the military standoff that avoided the global Nuclear Winter that would have occurred if the world’s leading powers had used atomic weapons against each other…
..In the 1960s it was understood that an atomic attack by either of the major powers would not be survivable by them in meaningful terms. But today’s economic version of MAD has no such restraint on America’s floundering attempts to reverse the loss of its economic power that has left it with few major levers to exert control over other countries. Its main leverage is its ability to threaten countries with economic and financial chaos, by closing off the U.S. market to their exports and by blocking their access to oil and gas from Russia, Iran and (until just recently) Venezuela in its drive to force reliance on its own energy supplies and Arab OPEC oil under its control.
This threat of trade disruption has worked best against America’s closest allies…
..Trump has stated that opening the Strait of Hormuz to restore OPEC exports is not America’s job or even in its interest, as it is not a major customer for this oil and gas. He has criticized Europeans who are most in need of oil for not mounting their own suicidal attack on securing islands in the Strait, knowing full well from his military advisors that such soldiers would be sitting ducks for the Iranian defenses in place. Evidently his Plan B is to let the Strait remain closed, assuming that the U.S. economy will be less seriously affected than those of other countries.
Arab oil-exporting countries as well as Western governments have complained to Iran that it is unfair to make them suffer, inasmuch as the U.S. and Israeli attacks are not their war. Western Europe was not consulted, and Spain and Italy have refused to permit U.S. use of their air bases to mount attacks on Iran. Japan recently has made the same claim to be an innocent bystander.
But these countries all are part of the U.S. drive to control the entire world’s diplomacy by weaponizing (with the backing of military force) the dollar-based financial system, the oil trade and foreign access to U.S. markets and America’s control of the United Nations, IMF, World Bank and other international institutions to prevent resistance to the U.S.-centered extractive economic system. And this economic and political diplomacy is driving the world toward World War III…
..By acting as a major catalyst for reshaping the international order, Iran has made itself a world power – not a major military power, or even an economic power as an investor nation or market, but a moral and political power pushing the world to create an alternative international order…
..To the United States, the threat is that foreign sovereignty and economic self-sufficiency may reduce its ability to force other countries to pay it financial tribute and subordinate themselves politically. https://www.democracycollaborative.org/whatwethink/iran-mad-standoffThe Honest Sorcerer notes that America supplying Europe will drain America: The Myth of American Energy Independence – Make America Drained Again
The United States has been a net energy exporter since 2019, meaning that it has been selling more energy abroad (in terms of Btu) than it imported for more than six years now. However, that doesn’t mean that the US has become import independent—quite to the contrary. In 2024, for example, America produced 13.2 million barrels of oil a day1 on average and imported an additional 6.6 million barrels on top. At the same time only 4.1 million barrels a day were exported. In strict barrel to barrel terms the US was a net importer of crude oil in 2024, and still is to this very day. However, with the arrival of an armada of tankers to US shores in April-May, this is about to change… Say goodbye to moderate price increases (compared to the rest of the world) and also to US strategic petroleum reserves. America is about to be sold out. https://thehonestsorcerer.substack.com/p/the-myth-of-american-energy-independenceLarry Johnson drops a BOMBSHELL The Air Force and Navy commanders under CENTCOM have both told leadership that we should not restart this thing. Our best option is to get out and get out now.
This has gone up to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs. Larry: “If that holds up, we’re essentially looking at the end of the war. They’ll figure out a political exit.
If Trump overrules them and orders them to attack – it’s gonna be devastating for the US and for Israel.” The military is telling the president to stop. https://x.com/i/status/2048534645231521839BREAKING: Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi arrived in Saint Petersburg early Monday morning to meet Vladimir Putin and Sergey Lavrov. The visit closed a forty-eight hour shuttle through Islamabad twice, Muscat once, and Riyadh and Doha by phone. CNN reported, citing Iran’s ambassador to Moscow, that Russia has offered to take custody of Iran’s enriched uranium, proposing to store or reprocess it on Russian soil. That is the structural reveal Pakistan delivered to Washington yesterday. Iran’s offer through Pakistani mediators per Axios was to reopen Hormuz and end the war while postponing nuclear talks to a later stage. The headlines are reading sequencing. The Saint Petersburg meeting is reading custody…
..Araghchi did not fly to Saint Petersburg to consolidate an alliance. He flew to confirm the custody, the air defense, and the drone production lines that turn the Pakistani-mediated proposal into a deliverable agreement. Putin holds three pieces of leverage Trump’s blockade cannot replicate. The only depository for Iranian uranium that Tehran will accept. The only post-war air defense rebuild contract already signed. The drone production architecture without which Iran has no kinetic option remaining if the talks collapse.
The 2025 Comprehensive Strategic Partnership signed January 17 deliberately omitted a mutual defense clause precisely so Russia could play this role: broker rather than belligerent, custodian rather than combatant. https://x.com/i/status/2048622470580855145Gold & Geopolitics, Daily digest: 2026-04-28
Iran-US stalemate escalates toward potential military resumption. Trump holds Situation Room meeting with top national security team. Iran’s “new proposal” via Pakistani mediators focuses on ending the war and reopening the Strait, but postpones nuclear talks – the exact issue Trump insists on. Multiple sources confirm Trump is “dissatisfied”…
..Iran has 12-22 days of oil storage left per Kpler. Crude exports collapsed ~70% from 1.85M bpd to ~567K bpd since blockade. Goldman estimates 2.5M bpd already curtailed…
..S&P 500 closes at all-time high, up +13.6% from March 30 bottom. This while economic confidence index is below April 2020 pandemic levels and 60% of Americans worry about affording groceries…
..Iran FM Araghchi flew to Moscow on a plane named after the 168 Minab schoolgirls killed by the US. Met Putin, who praised Iran’s “courageous and heroic” defence. Araghchi also met Russian Defence Minister Belousov. Iran-Russia-Pakistan military officials held separate talks in Kyrgyzstan
Iran told mediators it won’t back down from Hormuz control…
..Chinese crude inven..tories fell by less than 1M barrels since war began, still at ~1.8B barrels. Iranian crude purchases rising to record ~1.9M bpd this month. China’s SPR barely impacted – Russia being the obvious reason…
..OpenAI unravelling – CFO Sarah Friar privately warned OpenAI may not be able to pay future computing contracts. Has been excluded from infrastructure meetings by Altman
Missed target of 1B weekly active users. ChatGPT web traffic share collapsed from 86.7% to 64.5% as Gemini surged to 21.5%
OpenAI deleted its AGI clause the morning of the Musk trial – the one provision preventing it from becoming a regular corporation…
..Hezbollah tactical evolution in southern Lebanon – Fiber-optic FPV drones with RPG warheads targeting Merkava tanks, IDF evacuation forces, and medevac helicopters. Seven soldiers killed/wounded in single Taybah operation
Hezbollah activated martyrdom squads for hand-to-hand combat, deploying 1980s-style tactics across occupied southern Lebanon per DD Geopolitics
Hezbollah message to Israel: no security zone will protect them once they decide to deploy these weapons
Israel bombing five towns in southern Lebanon, destroying villages, targeting solar panels in Christian villages. Casualty toll: 2,491 killed, 7,719 wounded since March 2…
..UAE demanded $3.5B loan repayment from Pakistan over Iran mediation role, threatening a fifth of central bank reserves. Saudi stepped in with $3B. The Saudi-UAE rift widens. https://no1sdailydigest.substack.com/p/daily-digest-2026-04-28Gold & Geopolitics, Daily digest: 2026-04-27
WHCD assassination attempt on Trump — Cole Thomas Allen, 31, California teacher, breached security at Washington Hilton with shotgun, handgun, and knives… Suspect in custody, charged with two felonies. Published manifesto calling Trump “pedophile, rapist, and traitor”. Security was near-zero — no bag checks, no magnetometers. Multiple sources confirm he assembled weapons in his hotel room the night before.
VP Vance evacuated before Trump, raising questions…
..WHCD security failures and political fallout – Daily Beast editor in adjacent hotel room: “Nobody even looked at my luggage” — no magnetometers, no hand checks, no ID checks
Allen’s manifesto: detailed target prioritization (admin officials highest, Secret Service only if necessary), described “sense of arrogance” in security, assembled weapons in hotel room night before
Shooter was CalTech graduate, mechanical engineer, teacher of the month, funded Ukrainian military on Bluesky, posted 1000+ anti-Trump messages…
..Mali under coordinated jihadist assault — al-Qaeda-linked JNIM and Tuareg FLA launched simultaneous attacks across multiple cities. Defense Minister Sadio Camara killed by car bomb. National Intelligence Chief also assassinated.
Russia’s Africa Corps conducted airstrikes and ground operations in response but reportedly withdrawing from northern Mali after reaching agreement with FLA/JNIM…
..Fire at RAF Fairford — Major fire at UK base hosting US Air Force B-52 and B-1 bombers used in Iran operations. Cause not yet announced. Commissary building reportedly gutted…
..Pakistan’s blockade arbitrage – Pakistan issued Transit Order SRO 691(I)/2026 authorizing third-country goods to flow overland to Iran through six designated routes — punching a legal hole in the US naval blockade while simultaneously mediating the ceasefire
3,000 Iran-bound containers stuck at Karachi behind the blockade. The Transit Order moves them
Pakistan accepted $8B in Saudi support on April 17, signed Strategic Mutual Defense Agreement with Riyadh in September 2025, owes deep CPEC debt to China, faces $18B arbitration penalty on stalled Iran-Pakistan gas pipeline — threading all constraints through one legal instrument
No State Department, Treasury, or GCC response yet. “The silence is the signal”…
..US budget airlines pitching $2.5B relief plan to Trump admin — hedging broke down because futures are “so manipulated and disconnected from crude oil prices in the real world” per JustDario
Iraq to spend $1.5B this year on crude export pipeline — all Gulf states activating Hormuz bypass plans
Goldman: oil shock may cost 10,000 US jobs/month for the rest of the year
Morgan Downey warns: 41 days until ex-US SPRs run dry on June 13…
..Lebanon: Hezbollah’s FPV drone war evolving fast
Multiple Hezbollah FPV attacks on IDF: Merkava tanks, Humvees, medevac helicopters, excavators — all documented with footage
IDF soldier Eitan Fox killed in southern Lebanon; FPV drone then targeted the medevac rescuing casualties from the first strike
Fibre-optic guidance neutralizes Israeli EW advantages — jamming is irrelevant with a physical tether per Hamzé Attar
IDF Hermes 450 shot down by Hezbollah MANPADS — sixth IDF drone downed since early March
Hezbollah warned Israelis: “no security zone, whatever depth, will protect you once we decide to deploy these weapons”…
..Bennett-Lapid merge into “Together” coalition — Aiming to replace Netanyahu ahead of October elections. 50%+ of Jewish Israelis were unhappy or neutral about the US-Iran ceasefire. 80% support prolonging war against Hezbollah. https://no1sdailydigest.substack.com/p/daily-digest-2026-04-27Shanaka: For five years, Iran built an alternative financial architecture on the explicit theory that cryptocurrency would be sanctions-resistant.
Bitcoin mining was legalized in 2019. Subsidized power was redirected to industrial farms. Mined coins were sold to the Central Bank of Iran for hard currency. The IRGC moved over three billion dollars through digital assets in 2025 alone.
By year end the Iranian crypto ecosystem had reached seven point eight billion dollars per Chainalysis, with the central bank holding at least five hundred seven million in USDT reserves per Elliptic.
The architecture was the bet. The bet was that the dollar could not follow Iran onto the chain. On April 23, 2026, the United States Treasury froze three hundred forty-four million dollars of that architecture with one smart-contract call. Tether executed the freeze on receipt of intelligence from US law enforcement. https://x.com/i/status/2048306325445329304Iran To Send Revised Proposal To US In ‘Days’ As ‘Tank Tops’ Loom, Trump Claims Iran “Informed Us They Are In State Of Collapse”
Iranian analyst describes that Tehran believes it can outlast Trump & the standoff with US in Hormuz, citing “munitions, markets, and the midterms.”
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/iran-believes-it-can-outlast-us-based-munitions-markets-midterms-while-trump-not-openBessent: IRGC Leaders ‘Trapped’ Like ‘Drowning Rats’ By US Blockade, Will Soon Face Uprising Over Coming ‘Gasoline Shortages Next’ https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/iran-offers-new-proposal-reopen-strait-trump-open-sealing-deal-phone
State Department Says US Is in Conflict With Iran ‘At the Request’ of Israel
The statement was issued by the State Department’s legal adviser, Reed D. Rubinstein, who attempted to provide a legal justification for the war.
“As the United States has explained in multiple letters to the UN Security Council, including most recently on March 10, the United States is engaged in this conflict at the request of and in the collective self-defense of its Israeli ally, as well as in the exercise of the United States’ own inherent right of self-defense,” Rubinstein said. https://news.antiwar.com/2026/04/26/state-department-says-us-is-in-conflict-with-iran-at-the-request-of-israel/ Today it’s just about nuclear-breakout potential: Marco Rubio Appears To Reject Iranian Proposal To Reopen Strait Of Hormuz Without Nuclear Deal
Speaking with Fox News, Rubio said that the “nuclear question is the reason why we’re in this in the first place.” [It wasn’t initially.]
He went on to say that any agreement would need to be one that “definitively prevents them from sprinting toward a nuclear weapon at any point.”
https://www.ibtimes.com/marco-rubio-appears-reject-iranian-proposal-reopen-strait-hormuz-without-nuclear-deal-38020581970s Iranian fighter planes broke through to drop Soviet dumb-bombs: Iranian Strikes’ Damage to U.S. Bases Exceeds Pentagon Admissions https://militarywatchmagazine.com/article/iranian-strikes-damage-us-bases
Simplicius, US Carrier Groups in Position for Next Round as Trump “Dissatisfied” With Iranian Demands
We happen to have gotten
new satellite geolocations. First, of the USS Gerald R Ford, which had been taken out of action due to a “laundry fire”, but has now returned to the Red Sea. It was reportedly seen pulling a hard and fast u-turn at geolocation 25.275, 35.964 [Back towards Suez, away from Yemen]…
..Why is that ~300km range key? Because, those who read my breakdown of Iran’s anti-ship capabilities here will recall that Iran’s anti-ship ballistic missiles pretty much cap out at 300km range, which marks this as the exact distance that US carriers dare venture to near Iranian shores in order to stay just a hair’s length outside the envelop while still pretending to act ‘tough’ and show some kind of phony “resolve”. You’ll note the exact measurement is actually 331km, which means they’re cautiously keeping just outside Iranian range—and in fact, it’s more than that, given that Iranian launchers would be dozens of miles inland…
..CENTCOM brags that this is the largest convergence of US naval power in the Mideast “in decades”…
..But something quite interesting was revealed over the past few days, when news broke that Iranian attacks during the war had done far greater damage to US bases than previously admitted to…
..Most notably, the big revelation that touchstoned this release was the shocking admission that an Iranian F-5 jet had breached US air defenses and directly bombed the US Camp Buehring base in Kuwait…
..Recall a few reports ago we had shared the image of a Russian Fab-500 bomb in the wreckage of US’s other Kuwaiti base, Camp Arifjan. This is a direct drop bomb, which means Iranian craft had to get pretty much directly over the defenseless US bases to attack them.
Further, recall the Kuwaiti fighter jet that shot down three American F-15s. The most important nugget during that event was that US forces had been fending off attacks “from Iranian aircraft”… Iranian aircraft appeared to have breached US defenses, directly gravity-bombed US bases, all while causing flustered defenders to engage in friendly fire. That means Iran was able to do to the US what even Ukraine has not been able to do to Russia…
..Now the latest ‘negotiations’ tango has again commenced, with claims that Iran has made some new three-point offer. The offer reportedly allows for an initial stage of agreement on key points—presumably surrounding US’s blockade and sanctions—before Iran would entertain the issue of nuclear enrichment as part of a second stage of talks. If true, it’s essentially an ultimatum to the US: show us respect and a compromise first, and only then will we even broach the nuclear subject.
Multiple reports have subsequently claimed that Trump did not take kindly to this, as both sides believe themselves to hold all the ‘cards’…
..On the more speculative and unverified side of the spectrum, we have claims that resumption of the war is imminent… Lending credence to the above is obviously the fact that the US carrier groups are now finally in position and have reportedly been replenished and reloaded for the next round, with USS Bush particularly meant to be joining the USS Lincoln in the Centcom AoR any day now, if it hasn’t already.
Sensing the coming attack, Iran has threatened the largest response in history. https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/us-carrier-groups-in-position-forJust in time for summer: Crude oil tops $107, stocks dip as lingering Iran-US standoff deepens market anxiety https://www.geo.tv/latest/661760-brent-tops-107-stocks-dip-as-iran-standoff-deepens-market-anxiety
At least 3 bad months after straits reopen and years of slow readjustment: Chevron CEO says Hormuz closure impacts will last ‘for some time’ https://www.iranintl.com/en/202604265090
Staycation-summer ahead: Europe Emerges As Key Buyer Of U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve Oil
IEA-led SPR release is underway, with the U.S. already distributing ~80 million barrels—much of it going to major traders and European buyers amid tight supply.
European refiners are benefiting from discounted U.S. crude, as SPR barrels (often sour grades) are offered below local prices and shipped to hubs like Rotterdam. Impact is limited and temporary, as the release only offsets supply losses briefly. https://oilprice.com/Energy/Crude-Oil/Europe-Emerges-As-Key-Buyer-Of-US-Strategic-Petroleum-Reserve-Oil.html Groceries on credit-cards: U.S. Consumer Sentiment Hits Record Low.
Consumer sentiment in the U.S. has plummeted to its lowest level since 1978, driven by economic uncertainties stemming from the Iran war. https://thenationalpulse.com/2026/04/24/u-s-consumer-sentiment-hits-record-low/ Lipstick not working: Vance and Trump allies invoke ‘just war theory’ to legitimize Iran action. Experts say it ‘fails every single criteria’
‘Trump’s threat to end civilization is one of the most blatant violations of proportionality in the history of modern warfare.’ https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-iran-vance-republicans-just-war-theory-catholics-b2965369.html Caitlin Johnstone: Australia’s “Antisemitism Envoy” Makes It Clear That Israel’s Critics Are The Real Target
The handbook, set to be formally launched later this week under the title “Understanding Antisemitism in Australia,” explicitly conflates antisemitism and antizionism with statements like “Antisemitism and antizionism are both expressions of hatred towards Jews” and asserting that it is antisemitic to accuse Israel of “apartheid, oppression, racism and genocide.”
It is therefore unambiguously the official position of the Australian government’s appointed authority on antisemitism that it is hateful and abusive toward Jews and their religion to oppose the racist political ideology underpinning the modern state of Israel.
So when Australians hear Jillian Segal and government officials talking about how there’s been an increase in “antisemitism” in our country and saying extreme measures must be taken to stop it, it’s important to be clear that this is the “antisemitism” they are talking about. They are talking about criticism of Israel. https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/australias-antisemitism-envoy-makes Closure of UK unit tracking Israeli violations means loss of database with 26,000 verified incidents
The closure of the unit has raised concerns among human rights lawyers and activists, who say the material was key in holding Israel accountable https://www.newarab.com/news/uk-foreign-office-closes-unit-tracking-israeli-violationsIranian Group Submits Evidence of US-Israeli War Crimes to International Criminal Court https://scheerpost.com/2026/04/26/iranian-group-submits-evidence-of-us-israeli-war-crimes-to-international-criminal-court/
Israeli Attacks in Gaza Kill 19 Palestinians in Three Days as IDF Continues Constant Ceasefire Violations
Among the victims was Islam Karsou, a woman pregnant with twins who was killed alongside her two young children https://news.antiwar.com/2026/04/26/israeli-attacks-in-gaza-kill-19-palestinians-in-three-days-as-idf-continues-constant-ceasefire-violations/ ‘Silent suffering’: Why children in Gaza are losing their ability to speak
An estimated 1.1 million children in Gaza now need mental health and psychosocial support, as a growing number lose their ability to speak due to trauma and injuries from Israeli attacks. https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2026/4/24/silent-suffering-why-children-in-gaza-are-losing-their-ability-to-speakIn Gaza, 17,000 infections linked to rodents and external parasites https://israelpalestinenews.org/in-gaza-17000-infections-linked-to-rodents-and-external-parasites-daily-update/
Shooting up rowboats at this point: Growing Israeli attacks on Gaza fishermen deepen fishing sector losses https://english.palinfo.com/news/2026/04/26/361981/
Jewish settlers destroy hundreds of olive trees in W. Bank https://english.palinfo.com/news/2026/04/26/361948/
Israeli Bulldozers Smash Solar Panels, Olive Trees in Southern Lebanon ‘Infrastructure’ Demolition
IDF promises investigation after footage emerges of destruction in Christian village https://news.antiwar.com/2026/04/26/israeli-bulldozers-smash-solar-panels-olive-trees-in-southern-lebanon-infrastructure-demolition/ Israeli strikes kill 14 in deadliest day in Lebanon since truce
Lebanon’s health ministry said those killed on Sunday included two women and two children, adding that 37 other people were wounded. https://www.newarab.com/news/israeli-strikes-kill-14-deadliest-day-lebanon-truce New Evacuations Orders in Southern Lebanon as Israel Escalates ‘Ceasefire’ Strikes – Seven new towns ordered emptied north of the Yellow Line https://news.antiwar.com/2026/04/26/new-evacuations-orders-in-southern-lebanon-as-israel-escalates-ceasefire-strikes/
Israeli escalation in southern Lebanon raises death toll to 2,509 https://english.palinfo.com/news/2026/04/26/361983/
Hezbollah says attacks on Israel are legitimate response to ceasefire violations https://www.iranintl.com/en/202604263107
Weaker than a spider’s web: Hezbollah’s fiber thread traps the Merkava
A weapon measured in microns has cut through decades of Israeli military doctrine. What unfolded in southern Lebanon was not a surprise attack, but the exposure of a system built to fight the last war. https://thecradle.co/articles/weaker-than-a-spiders-web-hezbollahs-fiber-thread-traps-the-merkavaCelia Farber on “Netanyahu” prostate-cancer-2-years announcement, “Netanyahu” Moved Off Stage Left–Reported To Have A Cancer Diagnosis https://celiafarber.substack.com/p/netanyahu-moved-off-stage-left-reported
Meryl Nass MD, As Dr John Day and I suspected, the ‘new’ news about Netanyahu’s prostate cancer diagnosis is fishy. Oh, he also has a pacemaker. Even the NYT finds the story has holes.
And the photo accompanying the story is from January. Is he alive? BTW over the last year he had obviously lost considerable weight. https://merylnass.substack.com/p/as-dr-john-day-and-i-suspected-the Bye-Bye Bibi? Israeli Opposition Leaders Join Forces In ‘Together’ Alliance To Topple Netanyahu
Former Israeli prime ministers Naftali Bennett and Yair Lapid unveiled Monday that they are merging their parties into a joint ticket dubbed “Together – Led by Bennett” – as a major challenge to current leader Benjamin Netanyahu in the upcoming elections.
During a press conference Bennett said the alliance with Lapid is the “most Zionist and patriotic act we have ever done, for the sake of our country” – adding that the “era of division is over.” https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/israeli-opposition-leaders-join-forces-together-alliance-topple-netanyahu AI-Netanyahu is not included, as not verifiable yet: Three Recent Examples Of AI Being Used For Empire Propaganda
In the last few days I’ve seen three separate instances of generative AI being used to promote propaganda for US-Israeli war agendas which are worth paying attention to.
Firstly, an Israel-based company called Generative AI for Good has been creating deepfakes of supposedly real women who say they were sexually assaulted by government forces in Iran...
..The Canary notes that Generative AI for Good is staffed with Israelis who have very conspicuous agendas, including a creative director who pushes the discredited narrative about mass rapes on October 7, a marketing manager who served in the IDF’s “Psychotechnical Headquarter”, and a founder who said in early 2024 that “Artificial intelligence is a secret weapon of ours”…
..Secondly, users of the graphic design platform Canva have been complaining that the company’s AI service has been translating the word “Palestine” to “Ukraine” without prompting or permission. Complaints went viral, compelling Canva to address the issue…
..Thirdly, a Spanish-language tweet about Israel from user @maps_black was auto-translated into English by Elon Musk’s AI Grok in a way that added entirely new sentences to the social media post to frame the Zionist state in a sympathetic light. https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/three-recent-examples-of-ai-being Apple CEO Tim Cook funded the SPLC for nearly a decade. The SPLC used the money to fund KKK & Neo-Nazi leaders. The DOJ announced indictments. Cook resigned the day before. https://x.com/amuse/status/2047692780072316937
White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner Shooter Charged With Attempted Assassination Of Trump
Federal prosecutors charged Cole Tomas Allen, 31, the accused gunman in the White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner shooting, with three criminal counts, including attempting to assassinate the president.
Fox News reports that Magistrate Judge Matthew Sharbaugh unsealed the case against Allen on Monday. Allen appeared in federal court wearing a prison jumpsuit and answered the judge respectfully. He did not enter a plea and was only informed of the charges.
The three counts include attempted assassination of the president, transporting a firearm across state lines, and discharging a firearm during a crime of violence. https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/whca-shooter-charged-attempted-assassination-trump Allen fired his shotgun with buckshot once, fell down and was tackled. There was one bullet in the Secret Service agent’s vest, not buckshot:
Questions raised over who fired shot that hit Secret Service member at WHCA Dinner
Cole Allen’s arraignment on Monday took just minutes, but he was hit with three federal charges. Afterward, the Department of Justice held a news conference, saying five shots were fired by one Secret Service agent, and that agents were able to tackle Allen and detain him. But what officials could not confirm is who exactly fired the shot that hit a Secret Service agent. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-LMmm-NNdZAHe apoligizes to everybody who knows him, knew him, ever sat next to him or would be negatively affected, for the first 1/3, then finishes with saying how terrible this feels and does not recommend it, just before he goes to sprint past the checkpoint with his shotgun. Read White House Correspondents’ Dinner Gunman Cole Allen’s Full Anti-Trump Manifesto http://globalresearch.ca/read-white-house-correspondent-dinner-gunman-cole-allen-full-anti-trump-manifesto/5924018
Air Force Whistleblower Died in ‘Accidental’ Drug Overdose After Agreeing to Testify About Secret UFO Crash Retrievals
Perfectly normal. Nothing to see here. https://www.vigilantfox.com/p/air-force-vet-died-in-accidental The U.S. Department of Justice has secured a new federal indictment against former FBI Director James Comey, marking the second criminal case brought against him by the Trump administration in under a year. The charges center on a controversial May 2025 Instagram post in which Comey shared a photograph of seashells arranged on a beach to form the numbers “86 47.” https://www.zerohedge.com/political/comey-indicted-trump-doj-takes-second-bite-apple
Trump fired his friend the Navy Secretary when he heard about this and other supply SNAFUs: U.S. Navy Considers Abandoning Indigenous Destroyers to Buy South Korean and Japanese Ships https://militarywatchmagazine.com/article/us-navy-abandoning-destroyers-skorean-japanese
Russia, North Korea agree ‘long-term’ military cooperation
Russia and North Korea have agreed to “long-term” military cooperation, Russia’s defence ministry said Sunday, as Moscow’s military chief visited officials in Pyongyang.
Pyongyang has sent thousands of troops — as well as missiles and munitions — to support Russia’s war in Ukraine.
In return, analysts say North Korea is receiving financial aid, military technology, food and energy from Russia, helping Pyongyang circumvent heavy international sanctions over its banned nuclear programmes. https://www.spacewar.com/afp/260426134141.kqkze2uj.htmlChina Surpasses US in Research Spending – The Consequences Extend Far Beyond Scientific Ranking and Clout https://scheerpost.com/2026/04/26/china-surpasses-us-in-research-spending-the-consequences-extend-far-beyond-scientific-ranking-and-clout/
‘Quality Learing Center’ And 20 Other Somali-Linked Businesses Raided By FBI, Homeland Security In Minnesota https://www.zerohedge.com/political/quality-learing-center-and-20-other-somali-linked-businesses-raided-fbi-homeland-security
Improper US Government Payments Rose To $186 Billion In 2025: Watchdog – About $153 billion—roughly 82 percent—of this total arose from overpayments. https://www.zerohedge.com/political/improper-us-government-payments-rose-186-billion-2025-watchdog
Artificial General Intelligence is for-profit, not public good now: Do you understand what just happened to OpenAI’s soul..
They deleted the ONE clause that legally prevented them from becoming a regular corporation – on the MORNING of their trial with Elon Musk.
The AGI clause was nuclear: → if OpenAI built AGI, Microsoft lost ALL rights to it → the board could pull the plug on any commercial deal → humanity was the legal beneficiary, not investors
Gone.. Today.. While jury selection was happening in the courtroom. Musk’s lawyers didn’t need to prove anything. OpenAI proved it themselves. https://x.com/i/status/2048868588434420146America Trembles as Transportation Secretary Announces Plans for Air Traffic Controllers to Lean on AI Tools https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-air-traffic-duffy
Reliable Robotics Raises $160M Ahead Of Autonomous Cargo Flights
New Funding Will Accelerate Development Of Uncrewed Large Aircraft
Reliable Robotics has announced $160 million in new funding to accelerate deployment and scale production of the Reliable Autonomy System (RAS) – the first Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) certifiable system enabling fully automated operation of an aircraft. https://www.aero-news.net/index.cfm?do=main.textpost&id=AA65CBB8-5C29-457E-A89B-C77EE685AFA3 Senator Ron Johnson just revealed that Secretary Kennedy provided him with 11 MILLION pages of HHS documents on the COVID vaccine.
What the documents exposed about the FDA is truly disturbing.
JOHNSON: “We have now uncovered the fact that FDA officials knew in March of 2021 that their analytical system for the VAERS system, was completely inadequate, that it would MASK significant safety signals.”
“They had a different system that would, you know, produce this information unmasked.” “They presented that to top FDA officials, and they covered up.”
“They were 49 cases of extreme masking, resulting in 25 safety signals, including sudden cardiac death, Bell’s palsy, pulmonary infarction, very serious side effects.”
“And again, I said, I don’t I didn’t need a sophisticated system.” “I saw deaths per year go from a couple hundred to over 20,000 the year the vaccine came out in 2021.” https://x.com/overton_news/status/2047370947150192792 Meryl Nass MD remains vigilant on glyphosate legal liability: Those who work inside the Beltway have 2 chances this week to get pesticides a liability shield–Farm Bill vote in House next week and the Supreme Court hears oral arguments Monday: Monsanto v Durnell
And the crooks in Congress are STILL lying about the liability shield: now calling it “regulatory certainty in the interstate marketplace.” Give your Congress critter a piece of your mind. https://merylnass.substack.com/p/those-who-work-inside-the-beltway What is the most recent, independent evidence that glyphosate and the mixtures in which it is found, cause cancer?
The Ramazzini Institute study. And the director of its Cancer research unit got fired after publication.
Bayer/Monsanto appears to be up to its old tricks, even today. https://merylnass.substack.com/p/what-is-the-most-recent-independentJohn Klar, Yes, Glyphosate Is Harmful to Humans – The real science is damning. https://www.themahareport.com/p/yes-glyphosate-is-harmful-to-humans
Environmental Working Group Sues EPA Over Glyphosate in Oats, Citing Risk to Children’s Health
The EPA is violating federal law by failing to respond to a petition about how current glyphosate levels in oats are putting children’s and babies’ health at risk, according to a lawsuit filed Tuesday. In 2018, two rounds of EWG-commissioned lab testing found widespread glyphosate contamination of foods containing oats, including popular children’s cereals. https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/environmental-working-group-sues-epa-glyphosate-oats-risk-childrens-health/ Monday rally in DC against RoundUp liability shield: At Vibrant ‘The People vs. Poison’ Rally, Resistance Galvanizes Against Bayer-Monsanto, Makers of Roundup https://www.themahareport.com/p/at-vibrant-the-people-vs-poison-rally
Sleep with one eye open: Grassroots Opposition Sinks Bill to Limit Local Control Over Cell Towers — for Now
After facing opposition from local governments and health freedom advocates, and failing to garner enough support from Republican representatives, the House Committee on Rules postponed today’s scheduled vote on a bill intended to strip local governments of the authority to reject the installation of unwanted cell towers near homes, schools and parks in their communities. https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/cell-towers-bill-limit-local-control-grassroots-opposition/ BREAKING: Top Fauci Advisor Indicted in First Criminal Prosecution Against a Senior COVID Official
David Morens criminally charged with hiding emails, destroying records, and evading transparency laws to shape the COVID “natural origins” narrative https://www.thefocalpoints.com/p/breaking-top-fauci-advisor-indictedPaul Marik MD points out that as well as genetic and carcinogenic contributions:Oncologists, It’s Time to Wake Up: Cancer Is a Metabolic Disease https://substack.com/home/post/p-195413350
Dr. Marik details anti-cancer effects of green tea, curry powder & more at the molecular level: Targeting Glycolytic Enzymes in Cancer Cells (Warburg Effect) https://substack.com/home/post/p-189651870
COVID Vaccine Injury Program Paid for One Death in March, But Denials Still Top 98%
Overall, as of April 1, the Health Resources and Services Administration has compensated just 51 of 6,944 claims decided with the federal government’s Countermeasures Injury Compensation Program. The death benefit paid in March was only the second death benefit CICP has paid out since the start of the pandemic. The program has denied 6,847 claims. https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/covid-vaccine-injury-program-paid-one-death-march-denials-still-top-98/ “Climate-Change-Ready”: Gates Bets $5M on AI Crops for Poor Farmers — Critics Say It’s All About Profit and Control
An artificial intelligence (AI) startup founded by Google and funded by the Gates Foundation has set its sights on developing “climate-resilient crops” — but some agricultural experts warn the technology is really designed to make small farms dependent on patented, privately owned technology. https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/bill-gates-5-million-investment-ai-crops-poor-farmers-profit-control/ Biotic Pump model co-originator, Climate Physicist Anastassia Makarieva explains how models pre-determine predictions, China at an Ecohydrological Crossroads, Part II: Common Assumptions
When vegetation is assumed to affect water use but not air circulation, re-greening is predicted to reduce water yield by construction, regardless of what happens in the real world https://bioticregulation.substack.com/p/china-at-an-ecohydrological-crossroads-06d Jessica Rose has a Spiritual Perspective: Beyond the Epstein Files: Designer Babies, Soul Transfer, and Why These Experiments Are Doomed to Fail
Healing guilt, honoring unbreakable souls, and exposing the deeper spiritual stakes behind the Epstein files https://jessicar.substack.com/p/beyond-the-epstein-files-designerJessica Rose’s philosophical perspective on the nature of reality: Quantum superposition and free will – The ability to choose creates the known reality https://jessicar.substack.com/p/quantum-superposition-and-free-will
Elon Musk’s answer to why he’s still working, despite being worth over $800 Billion A short video outtake of Elon Musk explaining his own struggles as a teen and young man, regarding “the meaning of life”, “German philosophers not helping teenage depression”, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, “42”, and building a bigger universal consciousness of our species to find the bigger question, that our planetary consciousness may not be big enough to answer. I’m not at all confident that his bigger-is-better seeding of the universe with human minds is the “best” approach. https://x.com/Thedrivenman/status/2047710910261645348
@Michael Reid: Thanks for excerpting the treatise on the fervor of politica; religious groups professing messianic Abrahamic religions and desiring to bring on “Armageddon”.
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