Debt Rattle August 15 2026
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Giotto Legend of St Francis, Exorcism of the Demons at Arezzo c.1297-1299 • Bessent: US Readies Economic Isolation of Iran “Like Never Seen Before” (Z
[See the full post at: Debt Rattle August 15 2026]“No Illegal Immigrants Released At Southern Border In 15 Months: CBP
There have been 103,028 encounters of illegal immigrants at the southwest land border so far this fiscal year…Compare to Ceutas. Wait, so they can stay in the nation of their birth and nothing bad ever happens? Wow. If only we had tried this before!
“Kennedy Center Votes To Put Trump’s Name On Building, Close For Renovations Sigh… The final decision, however, will be up to US District Judge Christopher R. Cooper.
The official council of the official center aren’t ALLOWED to name themselves. Federal Judges name all objects now.
“RussiaTrump To Intensify Attacks On Sources Of Western Support In Ukraine: LavrovThat’s why Euro-dollar network is cut off, as well as Iran, by 8 different levels. Cartel cash in London/Europe. Plus High gas prices for them! That’ll stop their 2 MILLION man genocide. You’re welcome.
“’I Shot Brian Thompson’: Luigi Mangione Pleads Guilty To Federal ChargesI did not see that coming. His arrest reasons were shaky AF. Okay then, don’t have time to dig.
“Northrop Grumman Unveils Chain Gun To Defend Critical Infrastructure From Drone Swarm Attacks
Every one of those bullets lands somewhere. Discuss? Just .50cal proof your house.
“The Great Decline Of Britain –Ordinary Brits scrub filthy signs while local councils prioritize ideology and vanity projects…”
So the Government does nothing, while the people volunteer to do it anyway. Wait, worse: the Government WASTES all the money, then ARRESTS anyone who touches signs or fixes potholes without permission. …Yet UK and all these jokers remain pro-infinity-government! There’s no cure!The outcome will be, the government is ignored and avoided, no longer a nexus for anything, and the People will take charge using the Peoples’ will, whatever that may be. A pre-Peele police force.
“US based Axon to acquire Israel’s Carbyne to run 911 services in the US.”
Terrible idea. Whatever, we have a passel of them. Is that worse than Ukraine’s company overruling the FBI?
“The Taliban has taken a terrible toll on the education of girls — and boys as well” — NPR
Headlines: after 25 years, NPR notices men exist. Overshadowed, however, by their belief that Joe Biden and America should have stayed in Afghanistan. It’s the moral thing to do, they vow. Whenever wars might end, or Americans might come home, The Batsignal! NPR jumps into action.
“Two things hardened overnight. Iran stopped hinting and published the price list — Hormuz stays shut until Washington ends the war regionally, releases frozen funds and pays up,”
Hahahahaaha! Never, never open it. Here I’ll PAY you NOT to open it. That doesn’t stop us, but it sure stops Iran.
“Iran Closed The Strait of Hormuz – And Nothing Happened” – Ace, CryptoRich. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=AAeFaq4wrMs
Well, that remains to be seen, but…yes. Every day the % risk drops until it’s zero. And during that time the U.S. gets paid. This wanders around but they cover how many ships are transiting. Which seems in dispute, some say 3 and some say hundreds. I think they’re obviously turning off their transponders and one side (Reporters) refuse to report correctly. It’s also not closed by Iran but Lloyds of London, as we say constantly. If you’re Maersk, you can’t really afford to be blacklisted by Lloyd’s while elephants are still fighting. Taking U.S. insurance is taking sides and your ships will be sunk in terrible boating accidents if Russia is any indication. Then the LNG is shut in, as dangerous floating bomb-ships. Yes, and the U.S. took almost 100% of that market. There are solid containers, many of which are let through. So their TL;DR is the strait is closed like 40% of previous. And the world has re-routed like 50% of the needs there, with pipelines being built at a lightning pace. So as of now, ALREADY the strait has no strategic value.
As it’s only now those numbers were reached, it’s only now Trump and Bessant come out in public and relax. Iran COULD still have used the leverage had had last week. Now there is no leverage at all. The Straits can be closed permanently it will mean nothing ever again.
“The Mecca Sunni NATO pact between Saudi Arabia, Turkiye and Pakistan remains a puzzle.” — Pepe
Pepe has no idea what’s going on. Pepe! I believe you! This is very obviously to do with Iran. Cluephone. And then other people are like, “But if Russia attacks Pakistan, means Kuwait will attack Russia?” STOP. These hypotheticals are retarded, you’re worked into a lather of Not Noticing. Pepe’s raw, seething hate means he’s incapable of just seeing the obvious. Which is, it’s not at all what he thinks it is. His whole chessboard is being misread, everywhere.
“Extra layers of spin even promote Iran joining the deal in a later stage,”
It’s not spin, it’s obvious. When Iran is a normal, sovereign country (unlike now), and the region is policing itself. That is, there is no Empire, American or otherwise. Which is our stated policy, and the outlook of “America First” and of Conservatives in general. Literally what the word means.
He then launches into fantasies that Turkey loves and trusts Israel so much they’re going to pin their entire national future on them. Wtf dude. Yes, well it, the fantasy he just made up, allows him to HATE the U.S. and Israel, so it must be true. Then he can HATE Turkey too, the traitors. Who are “Atlanticists” although they’ve been double-crossing every Atlanticist as long as they’ve been a country. Such is the mind of Pepe.
“Meanwhile in Iran, under a revamped – by Leader Mojtaba Khamenei – Supreme National Security Council (SNSC), the solidified consensus is that Tehran will never compromise,” — Pepe
Khamenei is dead, Pepe, and not a Leader even when he was alive. Consensus view, worldwide. No one cares if they compromise or not, it’s completely immaterial now. Go ahead and don’t compromise, bomb all your neighbors and cut yourselves out of all the deals. Shut off your own money; you’re welcome to. That means more for me.
“Iran – the key crossroads of Eurasia – has absolutely everything the US needs. Yet it’s sovereign, independent and intimately aligned with the Russia-China strategic partnership.”
They have absolutely nothing we need, we don’t even need the transit. Nor the fertilizer. YOU do. Also clearly and well-proven Iran is NOT aligned with China and Russia, neither of which lifted a finger to help Iran in this pretty rough time. That’s not a “Partnership”.
The GCC Gulf States are all going to summarily collapse he says. It’s the end times: All Pepe’s heroes suddenly win, all his enemies suddenly lose. Uh-huh. You taking personal bets on that?
“Last November Kazakhstan became the first Central Asian “stan” to join the Abraham Accords, in connection with a massive US-Kazakhstan minerals deal.”
You mean the big win and point here is Kazakhstan joined an alliance that has no meaning among nations who will all collapse? Do you hear yourself? Pick one.
“History Repeating is always quirky: we’re back to the original, late 19th century Russia-Britain Great Game.”
So it’s EUROPE, and Britain? Yes, we’ve been saying that. The U.S. is at this point not under their control and is something else entirely. Yet, he always stuffs the U.S. in as if that is NOT true. His big spread here – I’m not sure he notices this, I don’t think so – is all the moves INTERNAL to Asia. That’s definitive overrun of MacKinder on all fronts. Asia IS developed and connected. And by anything of that theory, Europe and specifically Britain become the pimple on the nose of a far larger, stronger Asia. Permanently. As in 200-400 years. So none of these ‘Iran’ details matter, THAT is the big story.
Also that the U.S. dgaf what happens in Europe or WHAT their problems are. It’s furthest from our minds that you exist, and we have to be roped into paying attention constantly because we just don’t care. Pepe, by broad-brushing misses this galactically-large point. WHY would they U.S. care about Oil, Europe, OR Israel? Or MacKinder? We don’t. He’s making a dozen levels of deadly wrong assumptions and doesn’t realize it. His whole outlook is dead-wrong daily therefore.
“81% of US Catholic Income from Illegal Migration Scams” Yeah, we know. Like 80% of EVERYBODY’S pay comes from USAID and the CIA it seems. As you see in South America, the second no USAID, all the politics on two continents normalize overnight. Without a trillion in CIA help from Larry Johnson, we’re not fighting OURSELVES, the DEA isn’t then fighting taxpayer-funded Pepe Escobar and Taxpayer funded, satellite-leaking CIA help to Venezuelan Drug Cartels. It’s really easy when you’re not fighting…yourself!! When you take a trillion dollar off the other side.
No, this isn’t new. We’ve been saying this since Papa Bush in 1992, and became consensus reality by 2005, 20 years ago. WE ALL KNOW the CIA is the drug cartels. Worldwide. That’s the Team Larry Johnson and Alistair are on. If not, show me ‘cause everyone else knows, down to the rat meth head in Knoxville. But Alistair and Alex2 dunno nuffin’ ‘bout no CIA/MI6 drug running.
Aside from the whole Democrat Party, You know what else vanished the day after USAID? Gangster Rap. Elevating crime, drugs, violence, and rape among the black cities, dividing the people and destroying human lives. This was somewhat unexpected by everyone. Like a little, sure, we know it’s not organic, but ALL?? Yes, all, apparently.
“Trump’s DOJ Will Reportedly Support End Of National Firearms Act After 92 Years”As dictators do. Arm up the people and give them free speech, because he likes to trample them that way. Hitler famously armed all the Gypsies and Communists who wanted one.
“ICE Roundup Of Haitian Migrants Begins In Ohio
The Haitian workers are literally black slaves off ships. Democrats are defending it. This is to aid the profits of Capitalist Oligarchs. Democrats and the DSA are defending it with their lives and sacred honor. Discuss.
“Democratic Party Committee Advances Resolution Demanding ICE Be Abolished”
Do I exaggerate? This is after years of Bernie and many saying immigrants are a right-wing Koch Brothers conspiracy to cut wages. Yes! I agree. Let’s join hands and end this scourge. Let’s hit Tyson and the Koch brothers where it hurts. Lower home prices for the young, increase medical care by 20%. Win-win.
BTW, Abolishing ICE = Erasing all National borders. A platform of the Communist Party. One International Brotherhood of Man. But they ain’t Socialists, that’s cray-cray. They only SAY they are, then act that way.
“Flock Blinks: Surveillance Giant Slashes Data Retention After 50 Jurisdictions Walk, Cams Destroyed
Not even Bari Weiss’ damage control helped…”Bari Weiss, defending Billionaires wherever they are found. And the Police State. Anti-Constitutional, Anti-Human rights. She is the Media, after all. I always trust CBS, CNN, and Fox News whenever they speak.
“Former Cambridge Professor Jason Arday Found Dead at 41
I’m sorry to hear that, but, like, Whut? Did he fake his death now too? Police have no details and no suspicions. No suspicions? For a man only 41? Yeah he ran 600 miles a week for years, then ate a jelly bean and died.
What the Three RIC Musketeers are really up to
Pepe Escobar
August 14, 2026
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Hop on a new adventure: let’s look at RIC (Russia-Iran-China), the new Primakov triangle, as I have defined them, in a more playful way.
These three civilization-states that are coordinating the new phase of Eurasia integration, and also established as full BRICS and SCO members, as in fact The Three Musketeers.
As highlighted by delightfully insightful West Asia analyst AHHfrican, the Three RIC Musketeers are already applying in full force timely shortcuts towards a new international order via three velvet-wrapped titanium nutcrackers.
The titanium nutcrackers are being applied respectively by Iran, Russia and China on the Strait of Hormuz, SWIFT and the U.S. Treasury.
The IRGC Navy/PGSA enforceable new rules over navigation in the Strait of Hormuz – coupled with the selected blockade (only against the House of Saud) in the Red Sea by Ansarallah – sooner rather than later will bury the GCC petrosheikh gang: the immediate translation is the end of U.S. recycling, debt servicing and petrodollar-based free lunch/financialized turbo-capitalism.
Russia for its part has deployed the A7 system – which is becoming a winner across a great deal of the Global South.
Pyotr Fradkov, the CEO of Promsvyazbank and general director of the Russian Export Center, hit the nail on the head on the A7 international payment system – duly sanctioned by U.S., UK and EU – now becoming wildly popular across Africa and also Asia. Official A7 offices have already been opened in Nigeria and Zimbabwe.
Fradkov went straight to the heart of the matter: “Many African countries still don’t have a central bank. There are only about ten.”
So what better solution than an alternative cross-border settlement system – a stablecoin – bypassing the U.S. dollar? And all that to be used by anyone, independent from trading with Russia. No wonder Reuters sounded the alarm bells.
So, in practical terms, A7 goes way beyond endless BRICS dithering – to be continued at the annual meeting next month in India – about the finer points of a new financial architecture connected to gold and commodities.
Papa’s got a brand new bag. And the name of the bag is A7.
Finally, we have China dumping en masse their toilet paper greenbacks while epically defanging OFAC sanctions.
China’s Anti-Foreign Sanctions Law is strict: damn OFAC. If you help enforce “discriminatory restrictions” against a Chinese company, there will be hell to pay. In a nutshell: if anyone complies with U.S. sanctions in a Chinese jurisdiction, you’re gonna get sued to death. Talk about Sun Tzu blowback.
When strategic ambiguity is the policy
Now let’s go back once again to that dodgy Sunni NATO (perhaps Salafi NATO?) Mecca deal, featuring the Sunni – or Salafi – Triple Entente of Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan.
All scenarios will continue to apply because the full Mecca text has not been released – apart from predictable spin about “deterrence”.
The least one can say about the response by the Empire of Chaos, Lies, Plunder and Piracy is that they seem discombobulated. Assuming they did not order MbS to pull the Mecca stunt.
The pact may also be interpreted as pre-emptive – against the death cult, which, predictably, is enraged by the stunt. The death cult does not have much of a room to maneuver against it. So all that nonsense about Turkey being “next” after Iran has vanished.
So is this a MbS ploy against Ansarallah/the Yemeni Armed Forces? Hardly: neither the neo-Ottoman Sultan nor the Pakistanis – as much as they have a military pact with Riyadh – will be dragged into a war against Yemen fabricated by the Saudis, who broke their own MoU with Sana’a, continue to enforce an illegal blockade, and already received some serious shellacking.
Saudis and/or proxies/mercenaries inside Yemen are already being duly incinerated by Yemeni ISR, drones and missiles. If Saudis + NATO (no Turkey) go on a bombing spree, Saudi oil refineries and pipelines will be blown to dust – as Sana’a promised under the new rules of engagement.
And obviously no one, anywhere with an IQ over 10 will risk a ground war against the Yemenis.
All that is happening while the Saudi stash is inexorably drying up day after day, deprived of oil sales and with the entire loot stashed in London and New York, which will gleefully “freeze” it or steal it outright because this is the Last Chance Looting Saloon.
Then what about “diplomacy”?
Everybody should ask The Man. As in Mohsen Rezaee, the new secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) and also personal representative of Leader Mojtaba Khamenei.
As many of us have been extensively debating it, Tehran will not abandon the – currently smashed – negotiating table. The difference is that now Tehran’s positioning is designed to preserve maximum leverage.
Iran’s position on the Strait of Hormuz is completely solidified – and already expressed via the MoU. Pakistan and Qatar remain the central diplomatic channels. Oman has an important technical role around all maritime arrangements in and around the Strait of Hormuz.
Let’s assume that the framework for an endgame already exists – even though implementation depends on only one thing: neo-Crassus on the War-a-Lago/Washington axis having a Road to Damascus moment.
Tehran will not move on the Strait of Hormuz. It’s Washington that should begin implementing sanctions or asset-release measures – all inbuilt in the MoU – side by side with flexible Iran/Oman maritime arrangements. That’s the only way the probability of an agreed settlement would rise.
The new complicating factor once again is the Mecca stunt. It’s so heartening to frame it as a conjunction between Saudi capital and energy, Turkey’s industrial and conventional military (NATO) power, and Pakistan’s military depth and (nuclear) strategic deterrence.
But all that does not necessarily translate into the foundation for an independent security pole. Because none of these three actors are truly independent – and sovereign – like the Three RIC Musketeers.
What Mecca accomplishes in theory in this first stage is no immediate expulsion of the U.S. from West Asia; no Turkey exit from NATO; and no need for Pakistan to publicly announce a new security umbrella for West Asia.
Everything is oh so ambiguous. Perhaps the only serious question to be asked is this: “What does a potential enemy now have to assume could happen in case Saudi Arabia or Turkey faces an existential attack?”
So the ambiguity is the policy. Even if this new architecture “potentially” – and that’s the operative term – creates a new indigenous, strategic deterrence structure not entirely dependent upon Washington.
Pay attention, once again, to “not entirely”.
So relish the ambiguity. And the deliberate opaqueness. As for The Three Musketeers, they are already several moves ahead.
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“Like someone’s trying to destroy England”. Okay, WHY? They are just as feverishly shutting off any and all food they can find, and all energy. I’m not a genius, but I suspect if you’re in England when this happens, it’s going to be inevitable mass-murder where the locals chuck the new arrivals out. In a messy and extremely violent way. That “crime” is being necessitated by these Insiders right now, with full and open pre-meditation.The “Criminals” later will be victims of BoJo, Starmer, and this-guy-so-irrelevant-can’t-remember-his-name.
Then they’ll run a guilt operation on THOSE GUYS’ CHILDREN. Dad, why did you kill to preserve England and to survive long enough I was born??? Waaaaaah….!!! It’s way more moral to do nothing and die, you fiend!
The Truth that this was all planned and pre-meditated by criminals with names and addresses can fix both problems.
...That is who Bessant is attacking in “Iran Sanctions”. Not Iran.
“These methods are not secondary to the ideologies’ goals of acquiring total power. Instead, they are the practical means”
The Ends Justify the Means. The means is “Always lying”. If you lie constantly and instinctively, you’re the side of the angels.
“• ‘Woke 2.0’ Will Be More Radical, More Antisemitic, Less Tolerant (Rick Moran)
We’ll see. But if they firebomb the election, then riot after, we’ll have solid proof. Since they’re 1:1 the same people, how is 2.0 any different from 1.0? How would that even be possible?
P.S. Podium “Fight Oligarchy”, from a woman placed into power by hidden backers ,whose first act was to support billionaire insider-trader Nancy Pelosi, then to fight for the power of Zucker to censor, and the profits of Tyson with immigration, finishing up with fighting to the death for Pfizer and a State-Corporate merger. This runs straight through to today. She’s the ultimate in defending Oligarchy. She does it for the money, becoming a millionaire, while Trump lost $4B.
“The pattern is unmistakable: a country in visible decline, where the basics are abandoned while public money flows to ideologically driven schemes.”
Yes, it’s called “Fraud and corruption” and it’s bad everywhere it’s found. There’s plenty of “money” because money is just “Work”.
Nice the guy is washing roadsigns, but remember that 100 x 30 meter illegal tipping into the river? Yes, without police, none of this will matter. And the police have plenty of “Money”, they are just arresting housewives chatting online and people praying in their own houses.“The West’s silence”
Ah, so they’re NOT silent. Next sentence is Vance read them the riot act to stop. Huh. Pretty funny for a “West” who is also attacking them. It’s almost as if the United States isn’t the “West” and is actively against Europe.
“What the [Fauci] diaries reveal”
That he loved miscarriages, and dead babies. He actively killed tens of thousands at stages, which if born (let’s say month 8) would make him the greatest murderer in world history, outdoing Mengele by a factor of ten. He then killed all the mothers, where they are infertile. Missed the name here but like Billionaire’s wife then had Seven miscarriages. Seven. Fauci did that. To hundreds of thousands of women (and their men). Then laughed. 200,000 women, 5-7 miscarriages = 1 Million.
Yup. But ain’t nobody mad. Not mad enough to arrest him in a court of law where he can explain.
By the way, Everybody knew. We shouted from the rooftops, telling them.
GigaFactory: Another irreplaceable forest being permanently paved over. Why not use central Detroit or Akron? They’re already blighted wastelands and not virgin territory. Can’t help themselves, I guess. So long as there is an ounce of topsoil remaining on earth, they must pave it. Being #AntiLife to the Core.
To make the ugliest products, in the ugliest factory I’ve ever seen. It might make sense if we even needed anything they make. Unlike say, car tires, we don’t. It’s a dead loss.
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