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    Priest and scribe Ka-aper ca. 2465-2323 BC • Trump And Iran Sign MOU Deal Ahead Of Schedule (ZH) • Read The 14-Point US-Iran Draft Deal Set For Friday
    [See the full post at: Debt Rattle June 18 2026]

    #242971
    tboc
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    Hammer hiits something again. and again and again

    250 thousand years, give or take 5000, and this is peak homo sapiens sapiens
    Plato would be proud and Demothenes lamp has run out of oil

    as they say in the fundamentalist environment, Love the sinner, hate the sin
    oh and by the way, someone think of something for that 92% and all of those aspiring materialsists
    Secular materialism, the gateway to depravity

    #242972
    John Day
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    @Boogaloo from pre-dawn comments:
    Got it. Philosophical about life and can’t change the thoughts of others…
    Me too.

    #242973
    zerosum
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    Trying to understand/trying to get along

    “.. maqluba (a deal, flipping the rice) or muqlaba (no deal, flipping the peace)..”

    One hand washes the other
    – Peace/War, Love/Hate, Lend/Borrow, Corrupt/Honest, Win/Lose, Incompetence/Competence

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    Nigel Farage’s ‘White Britain’: A long-overdue step in the right direction
    The Reform UK leader’s manifesto outlines the hard reality many conservative thinkers have warned about for decades
    Published 16 Jun, 2026 19:55
    Constantin von Hoffmeister
    By Constantin von Hoffmeister, a political and cultural commentator from Germany, author of the book The Fate of White America and director of Multipolar Press

    https://web.archive.org/web/20260617053844/https://www.rt.com/news/641695-farage-white-brits-right/
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    https://web.archive.org/web/20260616161253/https://www.rt.com/news/641674-nigel-farage-white-brits/
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    JUST WHEN YOU WERE STARTING TO UNDERSTAND – IT CHANGED

    Russia’s New Warning Shot From Space


    Russia’s New Warning Shot From Space
    Posted Jun 15, 2026 by Martin Armstrong

    Every major power understands that controlling information, communications, and navigation systems may prove more decisive than controlling territory itself.
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    #242974
    zerosum
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    US and Iran sign the Memorandum of (Mis)Understanding, but Trump says the quiet part out loud
    Plus news and updates from USrael and Lebanon
    Ismaele
    Jun 17, 2026

    https://geopolitiq.substack.com/p/trump-releases-the-full-text-of-the

    #242975
    those darned kids
    Participant

    philosophical about the thoughts of others and can’t change life…

    #242976
    zerosum
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    Hezbollah’s Greatest Hits

    https://indi.ca/hezbollahs-greatest-hits/

    #242977
    Michael Reid
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    Pepe Escobar: Iranian Victory & Rise of Greater Eurasia

    #242978
    Michael Reid
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    Harrowing Experience in Israeli Torture Dungeon Revealed(w/ Thiago Ávila) | The Chris Hedges Report

    #242979
    Michael Reid
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    Alex Krainer: Trump SCOLDS Netanyahu as Iran Oil Sanctions LIFTED

    #242982
    WES
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    So, the Iran War Hawks, both in Israel and the US Congress, got their war.

    But now they are unhappy that the war has ended and peace has broken out.

    Their unrealistic war aims brought them to today’s reality.

    Trump couldn’t stop the Iran War Hawks, so he let you have your war.

    Be quiet now, you War Hawks fools!

    #242987
    charles
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    looks like

    #242988
    Michael Reid
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    No Survivors┃Russia for the first time Struck an ELITE part of KIEV full of TOP officials of Ukraine

    #242989
    ₿oogaloo
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    Orwell taught us that he who controls the present (and the press) controls the past. The Zionist propaganda has everyone believing that the Muslims were brutal and barbaric when they burst out of the Arabian Peninsula and conquered the Holy Land in the seventh century, butchering the Christians, and that we have had nonstop religious violence in the Holy Land ever since. They try to normalize it to justify their atrocities. Yet is it accurate? Consider this short passage from Sir Steven Runciman’s classic work History of the Crusades, first published in 1951:

    The fifth of the Caliphs, Moawiya the Ommayad, had been governor of Syria; and after his accession in A.D. 660 he established his capital at Damascus. His descendants reigned there for nearly a century. It was a period of prosperity for Syria and Palestine. The Ommayad Caliphs were with few exceptions men of unusual ability and a broad-minded tolerance. The presence of their court in the province ensured its good government and a lively commercial activity; and they encouraged the culture that they found there. This was a Hellenistic-Christian culture, influenced by tastes and ideas that we associate with the name of Byzantium. Greek-speaking Christians were employed in the civil service. For many decades the state accounts were kept in Greek. Christian artists and craftsmen worked for the Caliphs.

    The Dome of the Rock at Jerusalem, completed for the Caliph Abdul-Malik in 691, is the supreme example of the rotunda-style of building in Byzantine architecture. Its mosaics, and the even lovelier mosaics set up in the courtyard of the Great Mosque of Damascus for his son, Walid I, are amongst the finest products of Byzantine art. How far they were the work of native artisans and how far they were helped by the technicians and material that Walid certainly imported from Byzantium is a matter of dispute. These mosaics carefully respected the Prophet’s ban on the depiction of living creatures. But in their country palaces, discreetly removed from the eyes of disapproving mullahs—for instance, at the hunting-box of Kasr al-Amra, in the steppes beyond the Jordan—the Ommayads freely permitted frescoes depicting the human form, even in the nude. Their rule, indeed, brought no interruption to the development of the Hellenistic culture of the near Orient; which now achieved its finest, but its final, flowering.

    The Christians had therefore no cause to regret the triumph of Islam. Despite an occasional brief bout of persecution and despite a few humiliating regulations, they were better off than they had been under the Christian Emperors. Order was better kept. Trade was good; and the taxes were far lower. Moreover, during the greater part of the eighth century the Christian Emperor was a heretic, an iconoclast, an oppressor of all the Orthodox that paid respect to holy images. Good Christians were happier under infidel rule.

    How many of us learned that in school? Think for a moment: Why was that left out?

    #242990
    Dr. D
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    sin

    With the communist dong. Have to say they are some of the few people to put fear and despair in my heart.

    Everyone ready for $30 Oil? As all oil, every ship leaves the gulf all at once?

    Whyyyyy??? Why God, does Trump want to drive oil to $30? It he just stupid? Does he hate us? Does he even have a plan? I ordered oil to be $150, and now it isn’t. Peace broke out and I’m sad, so, soooo, sad!

    Et Cetera. Does this logic make any more sense in this direction? No. Showing it was dumb to begin with, even in the other direction. Reset your antenna.

    ““COL. Douglas Macgregor : Israel The Real Loser” Judge Napolitano

    Yes, they did. So therefore everyone loves, loves, loves Trump now, right? The Judge loves him, MacGregor loves him? He bombed the s—t out of Israel by proxy, and now Israel loses! Yayyyy!

    …That means Trump is Netinyahu’s puppet, right? The U.S. is in service to Israel and the Jewish lobby as he cusses them out in public daily, Israel loses the war that Trump wouldn’t even let them see the Peace Agreement (So they could scuttle it)? Ah…#Logic!

    Or maybe it was NOT like that all along? And might re-frame past opinions on this more accurately?

    (Spoiler alert: They do not suddenly love Trump. Even as Trump has now done everything they wanted and asked except have a forever war and murderous ground invasion. It’s almost as if losing, war, and mass death was their real goal or they would be happy now.)

    “Deal Doubts Arise As Lebanese, Iranian Officials Say US Must Rein In Israel To Secure Regional Peace

    So this rotates into more Narrative attacks on Israel. Excellent. This has exposed the Israel lobby thing they either ignored or denied for decades. The only way for us to be sovereign is take them, AIPAC out, and also a bunch of other groups, but this one is very public.

    They said this couldn’t be done, the U.S. could never win and be sovereign again, yet like with most things, you make an intent, check the field, make a plan, and push forward. Yards are taken. Repeat.

    “Yet More Churches Torched; Sustained Attack On Christianity Gathers Pace
    Two French heritage sites ravaged as Christian landmarks face relentless targeting and official indifference…”

    But you see they’re burning the RIGHT religious buildings. Woe to them if they burned the wrong ones: Temples and Mosques. You can be seen on camera burning the Notre Dame and others, that’s just okay.

    “Are Banks More Powerful Than Governments?

    No. How many tank divisions do the banks have? Any nation that wanted to confiscate, nationalize or control the banks had no trouble doing it. Many were better off after. But you would need a plan.

    “New Oregon Initiative Would Criminalize Hunting, Fishing And Farming

    I’m sure that won’t cause secession at all since ¾ of the state are ranchers.

    “Majority Of Arrested ICE Protesters At Newark’s Delaney Hall Came From Outside New Jersey

    Since they are all paid professionals and (violent) career revolutionaries, this is all organic and not a color revolution at all. Like other morons they just hate Trump because blue square told them to. He kills children like their hero Obama did. If only he opened a SECOND open-air black slave market maybe they would like him then.

    Happening now:
    “Antifa ATTACKS Court after Conspirators INDICTED in Massive Crackdown!” Robert Gouveia Esq.

    This is really amazing taken as a whole. So literally co-protestors are trying to break into or burn down a Federal courthouse, in order to prove how innocent and peaceful the Antifa Defendents being sentenced are?

    Good job assaulting officers, throwing explosive devices on camera. This makes you are “Right wing”, correct?

    So the new arrests for setting up a target too tempting to give up (the UFC White House) and arrest who? A 19 year old that looks 30. Huh? Who are Left/Right oriented. (Officially Left) Huh? And his name is Proper. So we have Goode, Pretti, and Proper. I forget the fourth one, same thing, about 3 weeks ago. “Mr. Best”??

    “California Has Gay-Certification Program To Tap Into $633 Million For “LGBT” Businesses

    You can only prove this by sleeping with their authorized agent.

    “”The Kevin Warsh Era Has Arrived With A Bang”: Wall Street Reacts To Warsh’s First FOMC
    “a higher-for-longer real rate environment

    You just told me Warsh exists for Trump to LOWER rates. Make up your mind. Are they capable of publishing ANYTHING that isn’t the #Opposite? Then not noticing and putting on Surprised Face? “No we didn’t! We never said that only 3 weeks ago! ” Sigh.

    All over the news: After decades of not caring about Washington completely collapsing into decay, nothing working including the reflecting pool, now that it’s fixed quickly, every story is about how the reflecting pool is a failure. How? Well, some new and entirely unrelated way each day! This morning it has algae, because I can bet a shallow, freshwater pool never has that trouble before!

    Personally I think it’s dumb, I wouldn’t choose blue, but don’t care about the pool or other local city works at all. Why would the rest of us? A: Hate. All in the service of endless hate.

    What’s the point here? If anyone does work, they hate it. Criticize it. They are the Resentfuls.

    The Duran on the Iranian Peace, MoU:

    Alex looked super sad and deflated about peace and cheap oil, neocons say the agreement is bad and Alex always believe Israel and neocons.
    STOP stop! Please no oil and fertilizer through the Strait that’s awful!
    Opening the strait means you’re losing when last week meant you were winning.
    There is no agreement bc it is a MoA, ha ha; but also IS an real agreement and it’s bad.
    Opening the strait and ending the war, sinking their Navy, destroying their Air Force, getting the missiles, ending nukes, killing everyone in the IRGC and lowering oil prices is a clever ploy to divert attention from the U.S. losing and running away having failed to achieve any of their objectives such as ending war getting missiles, opening the strait reducing the price of oil, and killing the IRGC. #Logic! This is how we know Iran won, because they got nothing, and the U.S. lost, because they got everything.

    Trump only signed the treaty where he gets everything bc he ran out of oil, weapons, and time, so thank God we lost so we can win so hard like that!

    …I swear I am not making this up. This is really the state of the Alexes and Duran right now.

    What can I say? And as above, this is the state of ALLLL the Youtube, Fox, CBS commentariat now. Peace means you lost. Getting everything you asked for and what you fought the war for means you lost. Losing your army, Navy, and Air Force, $500B, 20 years of military preparations, and your nukes means you won.

    This is the state of World Logic right now. I won’t say American logic, although our Euro-classes of Harvard, CNN agree with it. Normal Americans are practical and still have the brains of a woodchuck on these matters, and that makes them way, way smarter than the Smart Set, the Brain Trusts in DC and Davos.

    Sorry for being all over the place but it’s boring and I don’t know how many times I can say the same thing.

    #242991
    Dr. D
    Participant

    I learned and School that the Eastern Empire went on 1,000 more years and sort of just rotated into the Ottoman, a similar system, up until WWI. They were constantly internicine, but it was no big deal over time.

    I also learned the Crusades were essentially super-dumb, all of them, and no teacher nor professor had any explanation for them, nor any curiosity to go find one.

    So no, both it taught there was peace, or they taught nothing at all, but certainly never that Islam was war. Or in that area.

    However, I will take issue with the premise, just as Raul has posted maps here. The wars of Islam INTO Europe are literally endless. The borders are clear, fighting at Vienna, for example, and into France. That’s a long, long invasion from home. It’s like 2,000:1 ratio of Islam vs Crusades. Or indeed any attacks into Islamic lands up until like I dunno, 1880 or something.

    We have bent vision because this is the era we recently lived through, but even if you asked in 1999, they would have said not much different. Islam lives “over there” neither peaceful nor warlike, exactly as Christianity — another supposed religion of peace — is the very same. We pick on them both for that, and fair’s fair.

    It’s only since 912 that any of this changed, but remember immediately after they were like “We’re having a crusade” but also Islam is peaceful, don’t be rayciss. Huh? What the “W”? I knew “W” was dumb, but that makes no sense at all! Now do you want us to smash those people or not?

    Oh my sweet summer child, we all hadn’t seen anything yet. That looked like the pinnacle of wisdom and sense compared to the PR bending that came after and is still at an apex today.

    Islam bombs, attacks, and wars the f–k out of everyone, and invades and takes anything it can. Always has.

    …Just like all other humans. They are not special snowflakes, uniquely moral actors.

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