Debt Rattle March 25 2026
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https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-accurate-is-the-science-in-project-hail-mary/
How accurate is the science in Project Hail Mary?
By Emma Gometz edited by Lee BillingsImagine Astrophage as able to absorb neutrinos, so-called ghost particles that don’t tend to interact with other matter.
This science-fiction movie plays with quantum physics, space travel, astrobiology and mass-to-energy conversion
————-I think that “America” (and it’s anybody’s wild assed guess what that actually means, identity and management wise), and Israel (same goes with them in terms of, “Who the Hell are those guys anyway?” ) and Iran (and we all know who they are ……. PERSIANS!) have made it crystal clear that the only way they are going to end this war is through total victory or total defeat. All the marbles. Existential.
So, there it is, the much-demanded Peace Plan that all of them are ready to sign right damned now.
What to say?
Not true?
World is turning insane.I think we both know in our hearts (and our minds, too, for that matter) that the report is true, and far beyond horrible. The government which that soldier tortures and kills for does far worse than merely protect him from being punished for his heinous crime. They order him to do it and pay him when he does. And both soldier and government are just fine with that. Enthusiastic even.
In fact they are both fast approaching the state of being as insane as it is possible to get. But is it going to that state, or is it already there, in that state?
As for the world going insane I think that it is more the case of it going the other way… and brother is that painful. What I’ve been observing is that the general populations of the world are starting to become more sane, and as part & parcel of that sanitizing process are now seeing more of what was already there all along but could not bring ourselves to look at and recognize, and put an end to.
HOW STUPID ARE LIBERAL WOMEN?
Childless Cat Ladies of the World Unite!
Demonrats holding up the SAVE Act show they really think Women are Stupid
“For shits and giggles, I decided to see just how hard it would be to replace my birth certificate, Social Security card, AND my marriage license, since Democrats think women are too stupid to figure it out.
Here’s how it went:1. Birth certificate: Contacted the health department of the county where I was born. They OVERNIGHTED a certified copy to me the next day – total cost, $14.
2. SS Card: Contacted Social Security on their site. They asked if I was sure I needed the card, since I ‘won’t likely be asked for it.’ I went ahead and got it – took five business days to arrive – total cost, $0.
3. Marriage License: Went to the ‘vital docs’ site of the county where we were hitched. Filled everything out online, arrived in three days – total cost, $5.
It cost less than $20 to obtain all three certified/legal documents, and it took less than five business days to receive them.
Note: if I had lived where I was born or married, it would have been a day. Tops.
Anyone telling you this is too hard or unfair is lying and hiding the real reason they want to stop Voter ID.
If what you really want is to have a good life then you better stick pretty closely to only doing good deeds, because if don’t stick pretty close to only doing good then you will not be able to have a good life. If there’s too much bad in a person’s life then that life just ain’t a very good life.
The reason that Trump was chosen to be chief “negotiator” for the murderously rapacious Western Empire is that he is a murderously rapacious negotiator. Trump “negotiates” by stealing at gunpoint and then cutting a “deal” to stop stealing or maybe even (he you grovel just right to feed his treasury and egomania) give an itsy bitsy little morsel of it back, for a fee.
He doesn’t own the shark tank, but he’s definitely one of the meanest sharks in it, so the tank owners bought him and put him to work.
I think everybody here understands how the silver and gold markets work, and has all been about buying and selling paper contracts about the metals and not the metals themselves. And most people understand pretty well that manipulation of the prices is what makes that world go round.
The same game exists for every other valuable real thing. There is the valuable item itself (like oil, or wheat or water service) and there is the near-chaotic swirl of the markets that buy and sell “ownership” of those things using contracts to keep all of the accounting straight. MANIPULATING the availability and values of those things changes the values of the contracts is as you might well imagine, and absolutely ginormous share of all the money movement that there is. Movement, ownership and control of those every-changing “prices & values” is thus the subject of much rapt attention by everyone interested in having money, power, and control of practically everything else.
Well, it seems that President Trump and ALL OF HIS CLOSEST FRIENDS have been starting wars and stuff as way to affect those prices, and since the club of friends knows what it’s going to do WAY in advance of everybody else, they have been playing the entire game as a way to just cheat everyone else out of their sovereignty and possessions.
That’s not very nice, but it sure as hell is documentably provable, which has just exploded as the all-new alarming crisis of the day.
At the end of the day those paper markets aren’t worth the paper they’re printed on (electronically speaking) if someone else actually holds the real goods and has the gunpower to keep them.
Evidently the NY police aren’t there for the general public’s protection.
The NYPD is not required to protect New Yorkers, city lawyers argue in court filing
The NYPD is not constitutionally required to help a person being attacked by an angry mob, lawyers for the city argued in a recent court filing.
The argument came in response to a claim filed by Amanda Luci, who alleged NYPD officers failed to protect her from a mob of young men and boys who she said attacked her in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, in 2025.
In her lawsuit, Luci said she was surrounded, kicked and threatened by the large group of people, most of whom were wearing traditional Orthodox Jewish garb, after they mistook her for a pro-Palestinian protester in front of a historic synagogue. Her lawsuit claims the NYPD officers who responded to the scene emboldened the mob by doing nothing to quell the situation, in part because they also believed Luci was expressing pro-Palestinian views.
Attorneys for the city wrote last week that they will ask a judge to dismiss the lawsuit for a number of legal reasons. Among their arguments is one that the NYPD has no constitutional requirement to protect someone from being attacked. It’s an argument that may surprise most people.
I was just listening to Simon Dixon (first I’ve heard of him) with Dave Collum on “BTC Sessions”. His topics are the financial industrial complex and bitcoin (though not so much in this talk). He was interesting enough that Collum kept his mouth shut.
Just over 2 hours. History and finance and war.Iran’s Mission to UN:
Non-hostile vessels, including those belonging to or associated with other States, may—provided that they neither participate in nor support acts of aggression against Iran and fully comply with the declared safety and security regulations— benefit from safe passage through the Strait of Hormuz in coordination with the competent Iranian authorities.
https://x.com/SuppressedNws1/status/2036691600206643312
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Mar 25 2026 6:31 utc | 640
————🇹🇭🇮🇷⚡– Thai oil tanker safely crosses Strait of Hormuz after Iran coordination.
A Thai oil tanker has safely navigated the Strait of Hormuz after diplomatic coordination between Thailand and Iran, and was not required to pay to bypass the blockade, a Thai official and the vessel’s owning oil company announced today.
The tanker, owned by Bangchak Corporation, crossed the key waterway on Monday following successful discussions between Thai Foreign Minister Sihasak Phuangketkeow and Iran’s ambassador to Thailand.
“I requested that if Thai ships need to pass through the strait, could they assist in ensuring safe passage?” Sihasak told reporters late on Tuesday.
“They responded that they would take care of it and asked us to provide the names of the vessels that would be transiting.”
https://x.com/ALERTX360/status/2036810676149080462
———-March 25, 2026
War On Iran: – U.S.-Iranian Non-Talks – The Battle Continues – Bad U.S. Options – Proxy War Escalation
When President trump TACOed out from his threat to bomb Iran’s infrastructure he asserted that there had been “good and productive conversations” with Iran. I suspected that there had been no talks at all with Iran.This turned out to be correct. There had only been a third party which had delivered a U.S. request for talks:
🇮🇱⚡️🇮🇱 Kiryat Shmona mayor lashes out at Israeli government as city empties under nonstop rocket fire:
– “You have failed. The city is gone. Israel is fighting me, not Hezbollah.”
– “For the first time, a city in Israel is being emptied — 10,000 residents are not returning.”
-Warned that if the situation continues, “not even ten people will remain.”
– Said 4,700 apartments lack proper protection amid ongoing attacks.
– “What kind of victory is that?”
https://t.me/RezistanceTrench1/45615
Posted by: Norwegian | Mar 25 2026 18:12 utc | 41
Tomorrow is now.
The war in the Middle East could cause the “worst industrial crisis in living memory”, the head of the International Chamber of Commerce warned Wednesday.
“The head of the International Energy Agency has warned that the world is facing an energy crisis more severe than the oil shocks of the 1970s,” said John Denton.
“From a business perspective, we believe this could yet become the worst industrial crisis in living memory — not only because of surging energy prices, but because industrial production itself is being disrupted and dislocated by shortages of gas and other essential inputs”.Full story here:
https://www.vanguardngr.com/2026/03/icc-warns-of-worst-industrial-crisis-in-living-memory/
Posted by: Allen | Mar 25 2026 18:36 utc | 65
“The head of the International Energy Agency has warned that the world is facing an energy crisis more severe than the oil shocks of the 1970s,” said John Denton.
“From a business perspective, we believe this could yet become the worst industrial crisis in living memory — not only because of surging energy prices, but because industrial production itself is being disrupted and dislocated by shortages of gas and other essential inputs”.
Ukraine, with drones from west, is attacking Russian energy supplies, that would be used in Europe.
Dhuuuu.
Is that an example of shooting yourself in the head?Epstein Empire rains munitions from the sky “over there” and injects you with poisons here. The jews declared war on the world using USA as a crowbar to open up the gates of hell. It was so obvious and evident the jews blew those towers on 911. 25 years later, the same dismal shit, same perpetrators. People watch their TV and swallow the shite The ignorance is large, disgraceful and pathetic. God help us all.
As the wheels come off the Iran conflict, it compels the decision: ‘Where do we stand?’
Contact us: info@strategic-culture.suWestern propaganda machinery – the West’s most powerful strategic weapon – has repeatedly asserted that U.S. forces have been winning a swift and sweeping victory over Iran. In tandem, Israeli intelligence officials are briefing western media saying they see increasing signs of disarray and “chaos” within the regime in Tehran, adding that the Iranian chain-of-command has become marred by serious breakdowns.
And why not make such claims of sweeping victory? Trump presumably went into the war sublimely confident in America’s military prowess to obliterate the Iranian state structure, its command network and its military capacity. His generals seemingly endorsed the general proposition of destructive potential – adding however, several ‘buts’ that likely did not penetrate the Trumpian mental workings.
And that’s what Trump duly did – sweeping ‘obliteration’; continuous waves of stand-off bombing. To doubters of his success in collapsing Iran’s state structure, he retorts simply that we’ll obliterate all the more. ‘We’ll kill more of their leaders’.
Western (including Israeli) media, in wake of the 28 February strikes, in companion reports hailed too the devastating nature of the blow struck against Iran’s political and military leadership.
No attempt was made to critically think through the effect on a State that had been preparing an asymmetric response to this coming war for 20-40 years. No effort was made to think through the real impact of bombing a State that has taken all its military infrastructure (including its ‘air force’) off its land-surface, only to bury it in deep underground ‘cities’.
No effort was made to judge the impact of assassinations of Iran’s political and military leaders on the public mood. No understanding was made of how the Iranian de-centralised leadership ‘mosaic’ might provide a fast-reaction, pre-planned response to leadership decapitation. Nor was it considered that such a diffused leadership structure would allow Iran to pursue a long war of attrition against the U.S. and Israel – in contrast to the U.S.-Israeli insistence on short wars that do not strain popular resilience.
All mainstream reporting, by contrast, was focused on the scale of damage inflicted on Tehran and its people – carrying the implicit presumption that the civic demolition and high civilian deaths would, in itself, create the opposition that would ‘rise up’ and ‘seize’ the reins of national leadership.
That so little of this conflict was properly considered reflects the fact that the U.S. increasingly has modelled its war-fighting way-of-thinking on those long employed by Israel – with far-reaching consequences for the West’s future, perhaps.
Of course, there are professional U.S. military officers who repeatedly have warned of the short-comings of mass bombardment as a stand-alone strategic tool, arguing that it has never brought the expected results; but their cautionary messages have had little impact against the prevailing ‘obliteration’ zeitgeist.
The very language used by Trump and his team to describe Iranians as ‘evil’ and ‘murderous baby-killing’ sub-humans plainly is designed to polarise the clash to the point of excluding military strategies other than yet further ‘obliteration’.
Trump told New York Times journalists “that he did not feel constrained by any international laws, norms, checks or balances”, and the “only limits on his ability to use American military might” were “my [his] own morality. My own mind. It’s the only thing that can stop me”.
He reportedly expressed surprise that America’s sneak attack on the Iranian leadership had produced an immediate riposte of counter-strikes on American bases in the Gulf: ‘We hadn’t expected that’, Trump said; nor did he anticipate the subsequent selective closure of the Strait of Hormuz, although the Iranians explicitly warned that they would do exactly that. He knew the risk, yet still went ahead, saying he ‘did not think’ that the Iranians would assume control over the Hormuz choke point.
SOURCE: lloydslist.com
The terms by which the world trades in oil and gas
The consequence of Iranian control of the approximate 20% of global oil and a similar volume of gas that transits Hormuz gives Iran unique leverage over the whole dollar-based economic sphere. Yet it poses a special threat to Gulf States – for Hormuz also serves as the corridor for fertiliser, food supplies and much else too.
Hormuz’s selective closure therefore carries second and third-order global economic consequences for the world. As Lloyd’s Intelligence noted yesterday:
“Several governments — including India, Pakistan, Iraq, Malaysia and China — are in direct talks with Tehran, coordinating vessel transits via an emerging IRGC-run registration and vetting system … Lloyds … understands [that] the IRGC is expected to establish a more formalised vessel approval process in the coming days”.
So, why did Israel escalate so strategically in attacking Iran’s terminals receiving gas from the South Pars gas field that it shares with Qatar? Israel insists that Trump gave them a green light for the attack. Trump replied that “Israel attacked Iran’s South Pars gas field earlier today without informing the United States or Qatar”.
The attack on Iran’s energy infrastructure predictably enough triggered a reciprocal escalation with Iranian missile strikes on Gulf energy infrastructure – thus elevating the conflict to that of serious economic war.
Essentially what now is at issue are the terms on which the world will be able to buy oil and gas. Will purchasers be able to buy energy purchased in currencies other than the dollar? It seems so – Pakistan has been able to negotiate the passage of its cargo through Hormuz in just such a fashion – by proving that the cargo was purchased in Yuan.
At issue therefore is not just the U.S. military presence in the region – which Iran insists must be expelled – but rather, Iranian calls for the ending altogether of the Region’s dollar trading.
This – if Iran gets its way – could comprise the awkward gateway to continued economic survival for Gulf States.
Gulf States may soon have to decide where they stand on this war. On the one hand, they have embedded themselves wholeheartedly in the American mercantilist way of life. But Iran threatens to overturn that paradigm. On the other hand, future Gulf prospects – which they will need to ponder – may hang on Iranian acquiescence to allow them to traverse Hormuz.
If Iran’s ‘foot on the throat’ of the global economic system is pursued selectively – according to their specific criteria — it is possible that other states (including the Europeans) may be forced to the ‘negotiating table’ with Tehran to ensure their future economic well-being.
The U.S.’ unseen power structures
It is not however just the Gulf that will need to consider where they – the Gulf monarchs – stand in the wake of this ill-considered and potentially very damaging economic war. There are those in the U.S. insisting that Americans too need to discuss where they should stand as well.
U.S. commentator Bret Weinstein recently struck a chord with many Americans who, like him, had actively supported Trump, but were now confused and unsettled by Trump’s espousal of a war on Iran – especially as his Presidency hangs in the balance in consequence:
“Why would a man, [like] Trump, who understands politics make such an obvious mistake?”
In discussion with Tucker Carlson, Weinstein suggested that one answer is that Trump is not in fact in control:
“We Americans need to have a conversation with ourselves – not only about how broken the system is and what it results in us doing, but how does it actually work. [Who] is it that is driving us to do what we do”.
The question is deeper than the issue of Trump breaking his campaign promises of ‘no new foreign wars’. (Reuters today reports that “the Trump administration is considering deploying thousands of additional U.S. troops to the Middle East – as Trump weighs next steps regarding Iran which could include an attempt to secure the Strait”).
Weinstein pointed out in his conversation with Tucker Carlson that for some time (since 1961 or 1963), the U.S. system has seemed to be badly broken: It no longer had American interests at heart. In fact, American governance, he argued, visibly had become antithetical to Americans’ real interests – across many spheres, from finance to health. And the state had transformed into an “anti-Constitutional” structure since the events of November 1963 – the exact opposite to what the U.S. was intended to be.
Weinstein attributed this situation to ‘a something’ that is undeclared; something that cannot visibly be observed. It suggested a ‘hidden power structure’ whose control and interests are opaque: “What drives it? Who exactly holds the power in this system. We do not know”, he argued. What were the unseen interests that drove the U.S. to this succession of foreign wars in the Middle East?
This was why the Epstein episode was so crucial, Weinstein emphasised: The few details published have painted a power-structure involving intelligence services, money and corruption that spoke to an unspoken Constitutional and acute Security crisis within the U.S.
As the wheels come off the Iran conflict, it compels the decision: ‘Where do we stand?’
Americans urgently needed to be informed what this power structure is – and what its interests are. And to then discuss where Americans stand, and how to recover the elements that could lead to a recovery of a state governed by Americans’ own interest
.Vietnam:
I was finishing high school and entering college when the Vietnam War ended. There was an American draft dodger in my class, but otherwise he was just another classmate.
With hindsight we know the Vietnam War was pointless and achieved nothing.
However, it took Amermicans maybe a decade to f,inally extract the US from the Vietnam quagmire that the TPTB desperately wanted to continue.
Today, it is the Iran war, which the majority of Americans don’t want to be involved in, at all.
If the Gerald Ford’s laundry fire and plugged toilet issues, are any indications, resistance is far ahead of Vietnam.
Americans have seen this movie too many times since Vietnam.Sure, Israel and US are militarily beating the shit out of Iran, like 15,000 hits so far, but what I am not so sure of is how long it will be before Americans politically revolt against this senseless Israeli war.
Trump needs to end the war soon, or the ghost of Vietnam may suddenly return, ensuring Iran wins like Vietnam did, in the US, because Americans lost the desire to keep fighting a senseless war.
P.S. For Sale. One slightly used TACO off- ramp.
Oil Prices:
Oil prices have basically stayed around $100 or so because the market sees that raw oil is still flowing out of the Middle East and may gradually increase.
Refined oil products/fertilizers will take longer to improve.
But demand destruction and higher prices has already accounted for this.
Farmers will simply use less fertilizer.So,those saying the world is coming to an end, are merely running their own book.
Just like we were running out of plentiful silver, not too long ago!Is this fiction?
🔴 Hezbollah lured an entire Israeli armored company into a textbook ambush last night on the Taybeh–Qantara axisTuesday, Israel’s 7th Brigade sent a remote-controlled bulldozer to probe Hezbollah’s defensive lines between Muhaysibat and Qantara.
The fighters spotted it and let it pass. They wanted the real prize.
Wednesday at 6:50 PM, it came. A full armored column of Merkava tanks and D9 bulldozers, rolling single-file toward Qantara.
Hezbollah waited. Every vehicle entered the kill zone. Then the order came, and with the battle cry “Ya Rasul Allah,” the fighters launched.
Guided missiles slammed into the middle of the column. Four Merkavas and a D9, all destroyed. The column was now cut in half.
The rear platoon popped smoke to hide. It didn’t matter. Missiles found them too. All four tanks burned.
The lead platoon tried to push through into Qantara anyway. More missiles. Another D9 and two more Merkavas gone.
The surviving soldiers abandoned their vehicles and tried to evacuate their casualties, fleeing on foot back toward Muhaysibat while Hezbollah artillery pounded their command posts and reinforcements.
Final toll: ten tanks, two bulldozers. An entire company’s worth of armor wiped out in a single engagement.
And this was the second time in three days. Two days earlier, Hezbollah destroyed eight Merkavas in a similar ambush on the Taybeh to Deir Siryan road.
https://x.com/upholdreality/status/2036952072134730011
For Arch, in particular.
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Mar 26 2026 1:22 utc | 355
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