Debt Rattle May 17 2026
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René Magritte The voice of blood 1948 • Tehran Claims US Faces Escalating Economic Fallout From ‘War Of Choice’ (ZH) • Persian Gulf Countries ‘Refused
[See the full post at: Debt Rattle May 17 2026]“Deadlocked At Square Zero: Very First Line Of Iran’s Latest Proposal ‘Unacceptable,’ Trump Says
“I looked at it, and I don’t like the first sentence. I just throw it away.”WTF is this? Ah. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hJWUKLj6H8M
Luongo on the very same thing: Iran NOT interested in Israel, the US, Saudi, no one. ONLY DUBAI.
But what else? Why is it the uranium? Well with Trump, yeah, can’t get a nuke to hit Dubai, Saudi, Malacca, our REAL allies – clearly he doesn’t care if Israel is bombed. Question solved.
No. Why can’t Iran GIVE UP the Uranium? We ALREADY said we’d give them nuclear power, we ALREADY said they could downblend, Russia could have it. Cause: Stubborn, right?
Right?
That’s what I’ve been saying, just do the thing, sign some s–t, get the U.S. off your back, rebuild, bomb the f—k out of the U.S. in 2040. Plenty of time to get back at us. It’s strategic. It’s dumb bordering on suicidal not to, the jerks.
No. There is a REASON. The world is LOGICAL. Trump is logical, Xi is logical, Putin is logical, Starmer is logical, and the IRGC is logical. It’s just that their logic is different from ours.
So Luongo (his reader) proposes: “What if the Uranium Iran holds is VERY SPECIAL uranium?” Huh? What if the Uranium Iran got is actually…Russian? Then when they go boom, the boom looks like what Russia Dun it. Hmmm. What if it’s Uranium could make it look like ISRAEL bombed something? See? No one would believe that, just opening the argument here.
Or: What if ALL the Uranium Iran has is HILLARY CLINTON’S URANIUM, from Uranium One, bolted into the center of a pallet of U.S. $100 bills?
Do you see the problem now?
1) Iran, the IRGC, entire premise is that they are the independent, the rogue, the victim, constantly harassed and oppressed by the U.S.
2) The Uranium would then PROVE the IRGC, the whole Iranian state IS A WESTERN OP. All their weapons, their danger is HANDED to them from MI6, CIA, Mossad, they are just another scam.
3) IRGC and in fact modern Iran collapses. All support evaporates. WHY are Iranian public suffering? What were they fighting for? So they can be puppets of MI6, the CIA, and Clinton?
4) That’s not all. If it is Hillary’s Uranium One, then Iran is not OUR enemy either because WE direct them. Iran is clearly an ally, a puppet show, a scam. Our CIA = Their CIA. All intel agencies are as one, CIA, MI6…and the IRGC. There’s no need for US to bomb THEM either. They were all made up. There’s no war at all.
5) Then this is OBVIOUSLY treason of the highest order, to give Uranium to a sworn enemy, by the megaton, PLUS the money to buy the centrifuges.
6) We have them dead to rights. Doesn’t matter what Hillary SAYS, unlike usual. If it’s THAT Uranium, it’s IMPOSSIBLE for it not to be her fault of handing an atomic bomb to a direct enemy. (Iran says we’re the enemy, I don’t care if we also say that.) Uranium, that fingerprint = Hillary is treason. Simple enough for even the American public to get in one headline.
7) Hillary was never President. She cannot act alone. It is IMPOSSIBLE for it not to be Obama’s direct orders or responsibility, as also HE handed Iran everything. And this was much approved by the Europeans, but ESPECIALLY THE BRITISH. THEY are the ones who most lost their minds when JCPOA was canceled.
8) If Hillary committed treason handing a sworn enemy a nuclear bomb, then Obama did too.
9) As did Clapper, Brennan, the whole CIA. As it will be certain – once the headlines sink into the U.S. Public, which will only take 60 seconds – then when we float emails from Brennan planning and approving it all, and more importantly, everyone will believe it.
10) Can you now see why Brennan has a call to arms for the whole CIA, State, every actor in government, to rise up and attack the President this Sunday? In a big hurry? Can you see why EVERY analyst on Fox News is out there hourly, saying the most ABSURD, easily-disproven nonsense about the US War and Iran as if their lives depend on it? Then keep escalating ever dumber things day after day?
11) If Trump ever gets a hold of a TEASPOON of that Uranium, they’re all SUNK. They’re going to be HUNG IN PUBLIC, and rightfully so.
THAT is why Trump can take the negotiation, look at the top line, it says “No Uranium” and throw it away.
This is his SIGNAL to Iran, to the CIA, right there in public, that we common peasants think is just mouthing off. No. It’s very, very, specific.
“Trump Walked Into China and Killed Kissinger’s Thucydides Trap” Promethean Updates•28K•1h ago
Seems like. Just a matter of being aware and NOT having in NoeCons who want a 100 year war that kills 1B people.
All five points. China says:
1. Open Hormuz to all
2. No tolls
3. No weapons to Iran
4. No nukes ever
5. China is shutting off buying from Iran.Looks like they’re feeling Iran is lost now, all news is pivoting seamlessly back to Ukraine. What Iran? I never heard of any Iran. Also fake and ghey stories:
“In northern Ukraine, it was boy vs. Russian drone. The boy won. A soldier taught a 12-year-old how to disable the fiber-optic drones that Russia has been using to hunt Ukrainian civilians in a campaign the U.N. has labeled a war crime.” — The Washington PostI’m gonna take the under on this one? So apparently Ukraine is lost because all they need to do to stop drones is conscript 12 year old boys, their secret weapon Russian drone operators are helpless before. Yeah, pretty sure the drones blow them up ‘cause that’s what war-drones are for? The meat-humans are not drone-explosive-resistant?
“Young Kyiv couple killed in a fierce Russian airstrike hoped to start a family, mourners say” –The Associated Press
One guy was killed in Ukraine? Oh noes. That’s never happened before. Etc. Dumb, dumb, dumb, feely-feelz articles that stop all thought and logic.
“Ukraine’s Weirdest Front Line — How a mint-green research base, 14 scientists, and a gentoo penguin colony became part of Ukraine’s war strategy.” — POLITICO
Uhhhh…speaks for itself. You can tell how serious “Journalists” and “The West” are about the war with articles like this. Next up, what was the brand of coffee used on the set of “Friends”? 2M people dead, a whole culture wiped out…Laugh Track! LU-CY, you got some ‘splainin’ to do…!
“UK Moves To Ban New North Sea Oil & Gas Licenses Permanently
All Britons must die. They were resisting. The olds were already freezing in their homes last winter. But not fast enough.
“Pentagon ‘Blindsided’ As Hegseth Pulls Plug On 4,000-Troop Deployment To PolandWe are going to war with Russia the way Berletic, Christophoros demand by first removing all our troops and bases within 500 miles.
“Canada deepens Arctic defense ties with Nordics after Trump threats”
Yes, the addition of Sweden will definitely turn the tide of any U.S. invasion. We’ll attack Iran, a highly-militarized hardcore nation of 90M people on a lark, but not Sweden, which is smaller than one U.S. city. Canada!!! You outsmarted us this time!!!
“Establishment Media Outraged By White House Sponsored Christian Prayer Event
Which we did for 220 years in a row until like 30 years ago. That’s how we know it was the Founding Fathers’ intent. It’s State MANDATED religion that is illegal. Like atheism and Scientism and Wokeism. Not that there are 200 Protestant denominations, and a new one splits every day.
This is 5 days after they were breathless in love and veneration for the Pope, if only he would say “Man Bad”; which is 5 days after hating the Pope and all Catholics for abuse and calling them violent troglodytes who should be monitored by the FBI and rounded up, children stripped, and killed. Opposite + Opposite + Opposite + Opposite. Thanks media. I’m sure you’re all good-faith actors and this is just some misunderstanding.
“The WHO Drums Up Fear With Ebola After Hantavirus Scare Fails
Never tired. I mean, they’re going to blow air out their nose-hole anyway, why not economize and lie at the same time? Breathing = Lying. Win-Win.
Today:
“The fundamental moral flaw of the left is empathy for the criminals and not empathy for the victims”
Basically true, and this goes to Socialism, that is, in modern discussions, a politics of POWER. In a sane world, Criminals have rights and Victims have rights too. The question is how to balance their rights in a moral and practical way. We already did that, decades back. The modern sense is, Whoever has more POWER is evil and is wrong. Criminals have less POWER, as an aggregate, than the State, so they are the Victims and must be fought for at all costs, put into the power position, or at least an equal position. State and Criminals are equal. Criminals and Victims are equal. Etc. This is of course madness, because hurting people is not equal to not hurting them. One actually IS the moral and functional superior to the other. That is to say “God Exists.”
Why we have to say this, and at this very late date, having now tested it for 20-40 years I don’t know, yet here we are. This was the premise of the “Dirty Harry” movies, and the DEI hires he had as a partner in S.F. That was 1974? We already knew that was dumb as dirt?
No. Victims are ABOVE Criminals, sorry. But Criminals can be redeemed. It’s just very difficult to do, and difficult to prove safely. I wan them all to prosper but there are practical considerations. Prison is expensive and I don’t want them there, but the Innocent have rights.
“Kevin Warsh says QE is fueling inflation.”
#Oppositeland as usual, too much to think about and track each day. Remember Warsh was supposed to be a cut interest rates, goose Trump’s economy guy? Apparently not so much, he wants to shut the money off. It was reported, therefore it was a lie. QED. Thanks, Media. And also a lot of smart people predicted this wasn’t so simple, like Luongo.
“• Tehran Claims US Faces Escalating Economic Fallout From ‘War Of Choice’ (ZH)
Sure. And that’s a good pitch. But why would anyone care? If there are no midterms now, it will make no difference until 2028, far too late. Fox News, everyone just WANTS the Midterm to matter, so just go on as if it’s still totally in play, a month later. It’s not. I’m not even sure they would have lost on the OLD mapping.
“Araghchi also pointed to growing economic strain inside the United States, saying auto loan delinquencies had already climbed to their highest level in more than 30 years.”
All of this was going on long before Iran, (Since 1999) but again, it’s a good pitch. However, he’s asking the American people to vote for Iran, and elect Mojtaba Khomeini as President. I think that’s ultimately a hard sell.
“”There is no military solution to anything related to Iran”
I actually don’t know what you mean by this, stop speaking in abstractions. If you mean, “Destroying the entire military and Iran as a state won’t stop their viability and control of Hormuz” you’re sadly mistaken. That’s literally what militaries are for. If you’re going to fall back on “Iran wins if they don’t cease to exist” well that’s a desperately low bar to shoot for. We never wanted, intended, or acted to make Persians cease to exist, that’s crazy. Nor would the American people support the murder of all 90M of you. Get a grip, that’s not what’s happening. You’re definitely going to “Win”, if “Win” is “Existing”. You may be existing at an Iron-Age level though. Don’t do that, it’s dumb and unnecessary. You won’t be able to get back at us if you go there.
“• China Confirms Boeing Deal, Will Cut Select Levies & Expand Agri Trade (ZH)
I was focused on the Iran wins, there were a dozen more wins for Trump here. And not Trump, but China, as we both just behave “Normally” and “Trade” so we both get rich and there’s no war. Jeff Sachs is super-sad, I’m sure.
One thing Luongo pointed out, first — Probably Trump paid China to buy those 200 Boeings, he gave concessions to get the headline win, normal negotiation stuff. But 200 Jets is A LOT! We peasants don’t grasp the details, but that’s 200 planes, lasting 20 years, where there CAN ONLY be parts supplies, connection to the U.S. in perpetuity. Xi is BINDING China to the U.S. which is the purpose. That means no war. HEADLINE!!! No war!
Double down on that. Why?
IF China PAYS Boeing to make planes, they make factories, and those factories can make fighter-bombers. That’s not just saying, that’s literally Trump’s public plan: we are helpless, have no industry, and national defense means we need that back. So China is PAYING to build our “weapons factories”. See? That China is WILLING to do so means they have NO WAR, no intent of war, and trust us to have no war, or it would be idiotic to hand us a nickel to industrialize, much less hundreds of billions for 30 years.
NO WAR.
And the food, chips, materials, etc ALSO binds us up in trade as partners, not enemies, and not even rivals. Thucydide’s Trap is dead, as above. It was all Bulls—t P.R. from Europe and NeoCons to MAKE us fight a war we’d lose. Russia, Iran, China, anywhere, they dgaf so long as ppl die, Yanks die, and we lose. As Russia Rev 2.0 you need a WWI to cause the stress to Civil War out the U.S. and break them. We would prefer not to, actually. Rather not lose AND not have a war, thanks.
“• Attractive Young Women Are Now The New Face Of The ‘Far-Right’ (ZH)Being beautiful is Far Right now. Okay, you win, I concede.
““Tina Peters, a 73-year-old woman with cancer, was given a nine year jail sentence in Colorado because she caught the Democrats CHEATING..”
Actually, this was the only way to give her free health care. Otherwise she’d have to be an immigrant. No really this case was AMAZING and APPALLING. One where judges should hang, and we have the emails. Almost no one was following it.
“• A Society Without God Is a Society Without Truth (Josh Hammer)
Interesting, and I say it often. However, an absolute truth leads to Legalism, as they wildly demonstrated later with the Pharisees. And which Jesus put up as the stoned Adultress (This sounds different in modern language). Note what he DIDN’T say though, which is forgotten. Modern 1969-Christianity is “God Is Love” dude, and “Don’t Harsh My Mellow” by being all square and laying down the law. Forgive! And so Jesus let her off, rejecting the law.
NO. That’s not what happened. Technically, and “technically” in the Law = The Law. He “wrote in the sand” …something. Maybe names of all their mistresses? Their crimes? And then asked who would like to throw the first stone. They declined, and in fact left the building. Then Jesus declared her innocent! NO. He then said, “Hey chickie, the courtroom is empty. No one’s here. So is there any special reason you need to hang around now?” She says no. There is no police, no prosecuting attorney, and no judge present. They all forgot and wandered off. That’s not being innocent. That’s just being LEGAL.
And he says, “Go home then, AND SIN NO MORE.” That is, it IS a sin. It IS illegal. The Law exists.
Mercy…AND Justice, as I often say. So they have Mercy, infinite mercy, for the criminals, as above, but no JUSTICE for the injured. And this is also wrong, as wrong as the opposite. Let’s not do that.
““..enforce the law, arrest people who commit crimes, get the crackheads off the streets, and make sure firefighters are funded”
How do you defeat a Color Revolution, Russian Rev 2,0? Not with more extremism. With being NORMAL. But normal is BORING and infuriating, as we all know and read each day. It’s WORK. Shooting neighbors that annoy you and rounding them up is fun! Yeah, too bad. Sucks to be an adult, don’t do that.
“• Sarmat: The Missile Meant To Make Any Enemy Think Twice (Kornev)
Seriously bad. Hey let’s not go to war.
“RINOs trying without Trump endorsement are having a hard time.”
Heck, we hated RINOs when Trump was still 40.
“• Supreme Court Delivers Devastating Blow to Democrats Gerrymandering
Again, just look at the maps: The “Virginia Lobster” is even MORE of a Gerrymander than the original Cartoon from 1812. It puts the very concept to shame, as is true in like 10 states. But as a ruling, it’s obvious: they JUST SAID that the problem with Federal Elections is, the States get to decide anyway they like, it’s truly a State’s Rights issue. Suddenly VA wants it to be the #Opposite. Yeah, no. And if it were Federal we STILL wouldn’t do it, but no.
Obama, 2018: Yes, that’s the problem. Everyone knows, who’s been arrested? Known for 8 years. And? So who is PROTECTING them as well? Same as who protects dimwits like Graham, Swalwell, Starmer, Ursula? Everyone who ever met them hates their guts, yet they’re in decade after decade. AOC, and … was it Paul? Johnson? Said they have no power. So if the power isn’t in Congress but above that, where is it? ‘Cause sure looks like OBAMA used some power here and had no trouble, rounded up all his opponents. Does it have something to do with Schumer, speaker of the house, who said “The Intel Agencies have 6 ways to Sunday to get you” on National TV? And no one blinked when he said it, we all knew?
Snowden: so long ago now, like Obama, I forgot they got him out of the country, put on tap, to come testify before Congress to end this. It took 10 years longer than expected, as these things do.
The Docktor writing War and Peace. Sorry I’m participating. My bad. I should Black Pill, give up, and sit on the couch like real patriots do. Everything sucks. We can’t win. Just give up. Did I do good now?
someone please tell us how magnificently THE WHITE HATS are doing
is the FED still a private corporation that refuses to be audited?
let us start with Voelker and move to the present, there’s a story of success“The IRGC can bleed people profoundly before they squeal.”
US debt 39.3 trillion this AM, that is some pretty serious squeeze
hey bubba throw a few more grand children into the volcanopot full of cold water, lobster, stove top burner
oh the lofty ideals of Prescott Bush – Wall Street Executive Banker
and the bootlegger Kennedy had no part in an electionno banker, no banker, no banker could I find
When the train pulled out next mornin’, no banker was left behind – Ry Cooderhey cracker, how do you feel about capitalism in the US?
I think we should try it, transparency, discovery and trust can’t all be wrong@DBS
Re: “ People have been fighting over this real estate for AT LEAST 10,000 years, so I’m not very surprised that Netanyahu and the rest of the ZioNazis are fighting over it now.”I think this is Zionist propaganda. It is partially true, but very misleading. For most of the last 2000 years the people living in the Holy Land lived in peace.
If you re-read what I wrote in comment #240780 you will find that your first reading missed the main points of what I actually wrote. 20th Century “Zionists” are late comers to the game, but their older brethren and predecessors (since 9,500 BC, to be exact) have been have been up to their ears in archeologically provenly violent contest for those lands for as far back as we are able to see, and the virtually incessant violent clashes didn’t start anywhere even remotely close to 1948 (or even 1917 when the British Empire put a violent end to the 2000 year long peace that had reigned there for centuries under the Ottoman Turks…. with a few mostly peaceful interludes for the Turks to slaughter a few million Armenians and Kurds who were unfortunately in the wrong place (their HOMES) at the wrong time (when the Ottoman’s wanted the real estate).
In point of fact the only times that there has been prolonged peace , was when somebody’s hegemonic EMPIRE owned it so decisively that no one within 500 miles of Jerusalem had the military power strong enough to evict the current owners.
Just skim the Old Testament. It’s literally full of folks smiting each other over land disputes, conquest and attempted genocide, and it didn’t start or end with them either (Abraham, Noah or David, etc.) Those birds were late comers, predated by a LONG line of would-be landlords going back through Babylon, Assyria, the Hittites, whoever built Gobekli Tepi in the late Stone Age. Natufians, more than likely, or some other nameless equivalent following the last Ice Age (the Younger Dryas period was roughly 14,000 years ago. ). Like I said, More than 10,000 years. 12,500 years, to be as exact as we’re able to reasonably determine with currently state-of-the-art methodology.
In short, the people of the Middle East ain’t NEVER lived in peace for very long, because everybody else wants to own the place. It’s the Middle of the World, so to speak, so in addition to the people who just want to live normal lives there and be left alone to peacefully raise their families keep getting attacked and conquered by greedy bastards who want to control the while world all at once, like I outlined in comment 240780.
Competing For Less Pie https://drjohnsblog.substack.com/p/competing-for-less-pie
Eleni sent this well detailed article about the close and long-lasting family and working relationships binding-together the Financial War Cabinet of the Trump Admin. This is presented as anti-democratic, which it is, but that ship sailed long ago. Jimmy Carter’s study group declared the US to be an established Oligarchy in July 2015. The zionist-coherence, internal trust and proven talent of this group enable the USrael to engage in the monetary and financial operations of World War.
The Family Business – Donald Trump didn’t just pick a Fed chair. He picked his donor’s son-in-law, his hedge fund patron’s protégé, and a man whose fortune depends on the people he’ll now regulate.
What has been built is a closed economic system in which the institutions that set policy, the people who run those institutions, the donors who fund the political party that placed them there, and the family that bridges all of the above hold overlapping financial interests in the same set of foreign and domestic outcomes. The system does not require any of its participants to act corruptly. It requires them only to act in their own clear, documented, mutually reinforcing interests.
The Federal Reserve was designed to be the one part of the United States government that no president could pressure, no donor could buy, and no dynasty could inherit. As of today, the president nominated his college friend’s son-in-law. The donor manages a hundred and forty-eight million dollars of the new chair’s personal wealth. And the dynasty, by marriage, now extends through the chairman’s office of the central bank of the United States of America. https://ddgeopolitics.substack.com/p/the-family-business Mary sent this article detailing the fissure within global financial and power-elite factions after the failure of the WEF “great reset” program, catalyzed by COVID mandates, lockdowns and digital-ID requirements.
The Quadpolar World Order at the Beijing Summit
It has become apparent in the wake of the rupture of the rules-based order that another world order has emerged…
..This is not a war between nations. It is a war within capitalism — between four competing visions of what capitalism should look like, who should run it, and on what terms the rest of us should live under it. The architects of this system are transnational in their operations but national in their bases of power. They are born somewhere, headquartered somewhere, and increasingly dependent on the state apparatus of somewhere to enforce their will. Geography and the nation state are still relevant — because when push comes to shove, each faction retreats into its territory: Davos, Washington, Silicon Valley and Beijing…
..This quadpolar world is not defined, however, by traditional geographic borders, but by competing models of political economy (i.e., capitalism), technology control, and state sovereignty). Each pole wields a distinct weapon to enforce its will globally.
..Each faction has the power to block each other. They can veto each other’s projects, sabotage each other’s institutions, sanction each other’s allies, and block each other’s standards. What none of them can do is construct a new global architecture that the others are forced to operate inside. The dollar order worked because the United States could compel the rest of the world to use it...
..Every claim to universality gets met with three competing claims to universality. The result is not a new order. The result is a fragmented infrastructure of half-built systems, none of which can become the standard because the others won’t allow it...
..This new arrangement didn’t exist five years ago. In 2019 the world order was Davos plus three challengers: a transnational capitalist class still nominally united around the Great Reset agenda, with state capitalism, techno-libertarianism, and right-wing populism as dissident movements. The pandemic was supposed to consolidate Davos’s hegemony…
..The Great Reset project failed because populism exploded under the pressure of international health mandates that crushed the working class. Amazon and Walmart stayed open and Mom and Pop had to shut down the restaurant. The largest wealth transfer in modern history drove the working class out into the streets — they threatened a MAGA revolt and then elected Trump as their political savior.
The 2020–2022 period is when the Imperial Nationalists discovered they had their own political base — angry, vocal, and motivated. The Techno-Sovereigns discovered they had their own ideology. The State Capitalists discovered they could survive sanctions. Each faction positioned itself in opposition to Davos’s attempt to consolidate its power base...
..The quadpolar order is the four broken pieces of a Davos project that shattered...
..The Iran war is the event that broke the previous balance of power. Before Iran, the four factions were in a slow drift. After Iran, the alignments hardened: the Davos faction retreated decisively into the middle-powers coalition; the Imperial Nationalists committed to bilateral dealmaking and abandoned what was left of the multilateral pretence; the Techno-Sovereign Silicon Valley discovered their supply chains ran through Hormuz; the State Capitalists discovered they were now indispensable to resolving the crisis their rivals had created...
..The plane that landed in Beijing this week tells the whole story.
Donald Trump arrived as the Imperial Nationalist faction’s front man, the man dismantling the multilateral order in favour of bilateral leverage. Beside him: Larry Fink of BlackRock and Stephen Schwarzman of Blackstone — the two most institutionally embedded figures in transnational finance, as well as David Solomon of Goldman Sachs and Jane Fraser of Citigroup. The CEOs of Mastercard and Visa. Tim Cook, whose Apple empire is manufactured inside the People’s Republic. Kelly Ortberg of Boeing, hoping to close a 500-aircraft order. Elon Musk, whose Shanghai gigafactory is Tesla’s largest plant, and who six months ago was tearing down the federal government on behalf of the Techno-Sovereign faction.
Three of the four factions of the Transnational Capitalist Class, flying together to negotiate with the fourth...
..Fink runs the asset manager whose entire model — passive global allocation, ESG, stakeholder capitalism — the Imperial Nationalists have spent two years attacking. Cook needs the Chinese consumer market the tariff hawks want to decouple from. Musk needs the supply chains the Imperial Nationalists want to sever. Trump needs Xi’s cooperation on Iran, on rare earths, on the Strait of Hormuz — and Xi knows it.
China needs semiconductors to survive.
Jensen Huang of Nvidia was initially absent from the announced list. Then Trump personally called him, overriding staff objections, and Huang boarded Air Force One during the Alaska refuelling stop. Nvidia’s most advanced AI chips (H100 and H200) have been restricted from Chinese buyers…
..The two presidents announced a “Strategic Stability Framework” and a new “Board of Trade.”
Translated: we have agreed to keep talking, and we have built a mechanism to manage our future inability to agree...
..They jointly declared that the Strait of Hormuz “must remain open to ensure global trade flow,” but Iran was not at the summit. Iran has not agreed. What was announced was a sphere-of-influence statement — two superpowers agreeing that a third country’s war should now resolve in a way convenient to both of them.
The State Capitalist faction is being asked to deliver Iran, but Iranian Vice President Mohammad Reza Aref delivered a sharp message directly targeting the summit, declaring “Our right to the Strait of Hormuz is established, and the matter is closed.”…
..Iran’s Revolutionary Guard (IRGC) explicitly exempted Chinese ships from the blockade, allowing the Chinese supertanker Yuan Hua Hu to pass through the strait completely toll-free...
..Washington cleared roughly ten Chinese firms to buy Nvidia’s second-most powerful chip. Not the H200. Not Blackwell B200. Second-tier silicon, carefully calibrated to let China’s AI sector continue functioning at a deliberately throttled level. Nvidia preserves market access...
..Boeing got an aircraft order. But only 200 planes, not 500, causing Boeing stock (BA) to drop roughly 4% to 5%…
..Cargill and the agricultural delegation got nothing. Soybean prices plummeted this morning…
..The Davos financial faction came for market opening — broader access to Chinese capital markets, expanded asset management mandates, processing rights for Visa and Mastercard, the long-stalled liberalization that BlackRock and Blackstone have been pursuing for a decade.
So far, they got nothing.
And then, after a day of warm optics and ceremonial banquets, Xi took Trump into a two-hour meeting and warned him that Taiwan is “the most important issue” and that if it is mishandled, the two superpowers will “have clashes, or even conflicts.”
Everything else this week is theatre...
..What flew into Beijing this week was not a de-risking delegation.
It was the four factions of the new quadpolar world order ironically jammed into the Great Hall of the People.
None of them represents the People...
..And the war will not end, because the war is not something the participants want to end. It is the structure they exist inside. They cannot leave it without ceasing to be what they are. https://www.themargins.ca/p/the-quadpolar-world-order-at-the Xi told Trump that missteps on Taiwan would put the US and China at war. Trump said nothing: Trump Talk, Taiwan, & ‘Thucydides Trap’ Threat Triggers Market Mayhem Overnight https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/trump-talk-thucydides-trap-threat-triggers-market-mayhem-overnight
Trump backs ‘status quo’ on Taiwan – US envoy to United Nations – Mike Waltz said Washington maintains its policy of “strategic ambiguity” regarding tensions with China over the island https://www.rt.com/news/640058-trump-taiwan-backs-status-quo/
Trade War, Tech War, Energy War: Xu Qinduo Breaks Down the Trump–Xi Negotiations
The future of global trade, the limits of U.S. containment strategy, and whether Washington and Beijing can escape the Thucydides Trap they now openly acknowledge. In a rare moment of candor, Xi warns Trump that Taiwan remains “the most important issue” and mishandling it could “jeopardize the entire China–U.S. relationship.” https://scheerpost.com/2026/05/14/trade-war-tech-war-energy-war-xu-qinduo-breaks-down-the-trump-xi-negotiations/ It’s being discussed. Trump will export America’s oil and gas somewhere. We’ll get less: The Media Missed the Biggest Story from Trump’s China Summit: Making China Dependent on Texas Oil! https://pjmedia.com/scott-pinsker/2026/05/15/the-media-missed-the-biggest-story-from-trumps-china-summit-making-china-dependent-on-texas-oil-n4952898
John Helmer, WHO BELIEVES THE US EMPIRE IS TOPPLING LIKE THIS?
For Xi the General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party to have proposed the formulation of the Thucydides Trap as the foundation for China and the US to accept peaceful coexistence (aka “constructive peaceful stability”) is exceptional. The last senior Communist Party figure to have proclaimed as much was Mikhail Gorbachev. His overthrow followed in six years — planned, promoted and financed by successive US governments. https://johnhelmer.net/who-believes-the-us-empire-is-toppling-like-this/ Bessent’s “Suffocating” Iranian Regime Strategy Materializes In Kharg Island Satellite Imagery
New geospatial intelligence indicates that Iran’s main crude export terminal has gone quiet, while a separate report suggests seaborne oil exports have effectively been halted for the past month.
The first report comes from Bloomberg, which cited European satellite imagery showing a massive bottleneck developing at Iran’s energy complex: no ocean-going tankers at Kharg Island, the country’s main export terminal, on May 8, 9, and 11. This marks the longest stretch in no crude tanker loadings since the US-Iran conflict began nearly three months ago. https://www.zerohedge.com/energy/bessents-suffocating-iranian-regime-strategy-materializes-kharg-island-satellite-imageryIran Proclaims Safe, Toll-Free Passage For 30 Chinese Tankers Amid Xi-Trump Summit https://www.zerohedge.com/energy/iran-proclaims-safe-toll-free-passage-several-chinese-tankers-amid-xi-trump-summit
“We can’t confirm that because we’ll never look”: CENTCOM chief dismisses reports of civilian casualties in Iran war
His comments came after a New York Times investigation documented damage to dozens of civilian sites, including schools and healthcare facilities, during the conflict.
The report said at least 22 schools and 17 medical facilities were allegedly damaged or destroyed during the war, prompting renewed scrutiny of US targeting practices and civilian harm assessments. https://www.iranintl.com/en/202605141455“We won’t let you rebuild those bases”: No US weapons will transit Strait of Hormuz into regional bases, Iran’s Army warns https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2026/05/13/768543/No-US-weapons-will-transit-Strait-Hormuz-into-regional-bases-Iran-Army
They signed something limited last year: Separate Peace? Saudi Arabia Floats Regional Non-Aggression Pact With Iran https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/separate-peace-track-saudi-arabia-floats-regional-non-aggression-pact-iran
If they ever line-up enough votes to pass it, it won’t be allowed to the floor, right? Senate Votes 49-50 against Iran War Powers Resolution https://www.theamericanconservative.com/senate-votes-49-50-against-iran-war-powers-resolution/
Friday was Nakba Day. Millions of Palestinians mark 78 years since the Nakba
Nakba commemorations serve as remembrance and a call for justice, self-determination and the right to return. https://www.aljazeera.com/gallery/2026/5/15/millions-of-palestinians-mark-78-years-since-the-nakbaI will wait to hear what currency the bilateral trade will use. Fake money, dollars from dumping, for real airplanes and treasuries for soybeans? Tell me about the exchange rate.
China To Abandon BRICS, now that will be a headline.They Killed the Shepherd – Iraqi Man Who Reported Secret Israeli Base Found Dead https://www.palestinechronicle.com/they-killed-the-shepherd-iraqi-man-who-reported-secret-israeli-base-found-dead/
Gold & Geopolitics, Daily digest: 2026-05-16
No faith in fiat-money: Global bond selloff intensifying across all major markets simultaneously. UK 30Y at 5.86% (highest since 1998), US 10Y at 4.59%, Japan 30Y above 4% for first time in history, France 10Y now higher than Portugal/Italy/Greece/Spain. VaR shock territory in UK Gilts...
..Iran diplomacy dead — second US military operation imminent. Trump trashed Iran’s proposal “after reading the first sentence”. Operation Epic Fury declared concluded, next phase targeting Hormuz reopening. Multiple reports of US military buildup with B-2s, F-35s moving into position. Iran says fingers on buttons, Houthis on standby...
..Silver flash-crashed ~15% in two days — from weekly highs near $89 to $75-76. Largest single-day move of the year. OPEX timing. However, Japan physical premium at +36.8% over COMEX and lease rates NOT falling with price — physical market remains tight...
..Jerome Powell’s final day as Fed Chair. Kevin Warsh takes over — market pricing 60%+ chance next move is a rate HIKE. Rate cuts entirely priced out. “More concerned about stable prices than full employment”…
..Trump-Xi Summit: Optics Over Substance – Trump left Beijing with “no major breakthroughs on trade or tangible help from Beijing to end the Iran war” per WSJ via zerohedge
200 Boeing jets ordered (analysts expected ~500); Boeing shares fell 4% per shanaka86
China declined to buy Nvidia H200 chips despite US approval — prefers domestic development per KobeissiLetter
Tariffs “not brought up”, no commitment on Taiwan, no rare earth solution per KobeissiLetter
US delegation threw away ALL Chinese-provided items before boarding Air Force One, operated on burner phones only per visegrad24
Xi to visit US in September — first state visit in over a decade per Lord Bebo
China recognizes Iran’s “exercise of sovereignty” over Hormuz, contradicting White House readout…
..Strait of Hormuz: Tactical Chess – Chinese supertanker Yuan Hua Hu with 2M barrels sailed through Hormuz — IRGC let it pass, CENTCOM didn’t stop it per shanaka86
UAE doubling bypass pipeline capacity to 3M bpd by 2027 per Lord Bebo
UAE declared Hormuz weaponization “piracy” under UNSC 2817 per shanaka86
India-UAE sign petroleum + defence pacts, $5B investment, SPR expanded to 30M barrels per Lord Bebo
Brent crude up 8% on the week per Lord Bebo
Iran FM: “no trust in Americans”, insists “no military solution” per zerohedge
Oil surplus cushion “dwindling at record pace” — acute shortages within weeks if Hormuz stays shut…
..Energy Supply Emergency – European diesel reserves “in freefall — nothing left in a few weeks” per philippilk
Art Berman: Hormuz loss = 11-12M bpd offline, rate of loss 100x greater than 1979 shock. July will be brutal…
..Equity Market Euphoria Cracking – S&P 500 worst day since March; Nasdaq 100 worst since March 26 per Hedgeye, KobeissiLetter
Hindenburg Omen triggered on BOTH Nasdaq and NYSE simultaneously per Barchart
KOSPI crashed 8.4% intraday after hitting new ATH of 8,000 — wiped $370B in 6 hours https://no1sdailydigest.substack.com/p/daily-digest-2026-05-16 Gold & Geopolitics, Daily digest: 2026-05-15
Japan bond market in full meltdown. 10Y yield hit 2.7% (highest this century), 20Y at 3.605% (highest since 1996), 30Y above 3.9% (first time in history)…
..US Treasury market cracking. 10Y above 4.50% for first time since June 2025. 30Y bonds auctioned above 5% – first since pre-GFC 2007. Rate HIKES now the base case for the Fed’s next move – odds of a cut before July 2027 at just 1%. Kevin Warsh named new Fed Chair...
SPR collapsing at record pace. Strategic Petroleum Reserve dropped -8.6M barrels last week, the largest weekly drawdown on record, 7th consecutive weekly decline. Nearly half the crude released is being exported...
..Iran-Hormuz escalation cluster. Indian-flagged ship sunk in Omani waters. Iranian commandos seized Honduras-flagged vessel off UAE. UAE declared Hormuz weaponization “piracy” under UNSC 2817. Iran allowed 30 ships to pass the Strait – each after paying $2M...
..Russia launches largest aerial attack of the war. 1,500+ drones and 64 missiles over 48 hours, with 1,428 drones in a single day — the highest ever. Interception rate plummeted to under 30% as Western air defense stockpiles are diverted to the Middle East...
..Trump-Xi Beijing Summit: pageantry, no breakthroughs – Trump arrived with the largest CEO delegation ever assembled on a diplomatic mission: Musk, Cook, Huang, Fink, Solomon, Schwarzman, Ortberg, Fraser, and others. All carried burner phones...
..Xi issued the sharpest Taiwan warning in decades: mishandling could lead to “collision or even clashes”, independence and peace are “irreconcilable as fire and water”. Trump was asked five times about Taiwan and said nothing
Trump says Xi offered to help on Iran, pledged no military equipment to Iran, wants Hormuz open. The Chinese readout omitted Iran specifics entirely, mentioning only “Middle East situation”…
..China confirmed it will continue buying Iranian oil. Iran allowed Chinese ships to transit Hormuz specifically, neutralizing US pressure on Beijing…
..Oil supply crisis deepening – Russian Urals oil soared to $94.87/barrel, highest since Oct 2023, up 18% vs April. Russian tax revenues in rubles up 60% YoY
Hormuz transits collapsed from 100+/day to fewer than 15 per Kpler/Lloyd’s
Chinese tankers running the blockade — will the US dare stop them?
Japan secured safe passage for two tankers through direct talks with Iran
UAE accelerating West-East pipeline to double export capacity through Fujairah by 2027…
…Stock market euphoria reaches historic extremes – S&P 500 hit 7,500 for the first time, up +19% since March 30 bottom — +$11 trillion in 7 weeks. Dow above 50,000
Breadth is atrocious: Mag 7 contributed +47.34pts Mon-Wed while remaining 495 stocks subtracted 2pts net (UBS)
Shiller PE within 5% of Dot Com peak. Nasdaq “dirty Sharpe” ratio at highest ever. Semiconductors most overbought since Dot Com. https://no1sdailydigest.substack.com/p/daily-digest-2026-05-15 Israel to sue New York Times over article describing its rape of Palestinians
Earlier, the US paper doubled down on report highlighting testimonies of Palestinians raped in Israeli detention https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-sue-new-york-times-article-describing-its-rape-palestiniansThey test munitions on them. US colleges sold donated bodies for Israeli military training: Report https://www.dailysabah.com/world/americas/us-colleges-sold-donated-bodies-for-israeli-military-training-report
Jerusalem Post, NYT doubles down in support of controversial op-ed claiming abuse of Palestinians in Israel
The New York Times said Nicholas Kristof’s opinion piece was extensively fact-checked and based on corroborated accounts. https://www.jpost.com/international/article-896131 They supplied immediate-targeting data for “Where’s Daddy” program to assassinate men when they got home to their families. Leaked Documents Show Cisco Systems’ Deep Relationship with Israeli Security State
“Never Let a Good Crisis Go To Waste”: Internal documents show Cisco’s growing collaboration with the Israeli military over the course of the genocide in Gaza. https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/cisco-systems-israel-genocide-gazaAgain, read “immediate-targeting data”: Microsoft fires head of Israeli subsidiary and other managers over surveillance of Palestinians https://israelpalestinenews.org/microsoft-fires-head-of-israeli-subsidiary-and-other-managers-over-surveillance-of-palestinians/
Netanyahu’s Government on the Brink as Coalition Moves to Dissolve Israeli Parliament – The proposal could trigger a parliamentary vote as early as next week https://www.latintimes.com/netanyahus-government-brink-coalition-moves-dissolve-israeli-parliament-597364
Sharp rise in solitary confinement of Palestinian child prisoners inside Israeli jails https://english.palinfo.com/news/2026/05/14/363116/
No more pictures of Ben-Gvir in crowds, just pics that could be AI, like Netanyahu: Israeli MP calls for Al-Aqsa’s destruction to build Jewish temple during mass raid
Ministers and lawmakers lead large settler incursions into the Jerusalem site ahead of the provocative Flag March, as Israeli forces restrict Palestinians access https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-closes-al-aqsa-muslims-amid-mass-settler-raids-and-flag-march Israeli ultranationalists chant racist slogans during Jerusalem Day march
Annual Jerusalem Day march fuels tensions with shouted slogans and fears of violence against Palestinian residents. https://www.aljazeera.com/gallery/2026/5/14/israeli-ultranationalists-chant-racist-slogans-during-jerusalem-day-marchThousands of settlers take part in provocative Israeli flag march in Old Jerusalem https://english.palinfo.com/news/2026/05/15/363136/
Israel Executes Palestinian Boy amid Settler Rampage near Ramallah https://www.palestinechronicle.com/israel-executes-palestinian-boy-amid-settler-rampage-near-ramallah/
Israel Attacks Lebanon’s Main Coastal Highway, Killing 12 Including Two Children – Aid group faults repeated ceasefire violations, calls for refugees to be allowed to return home https://news.antiwar.com/2026/05/13/israel-attacks-lebanons-main-coastal-highway-killing-12-including-two-children/
Lebanon’s health ministry said 22 people including eight children were killed on Wednesday as Israel intensified strikes on the country, with several deadly raids hitting south of Beirut.
The state-run National News Agency (NNA) said Israeli airstrikes had pounded around 40 locations in Lebanon’s south and east.
The fresh raids came on the eve of a new round of direct negotiations between Lebanon and Israel in Washington brokered by the United States, as Iran-backed militant group Hezbollah remains strongly opposed to the move. https://www.spacewar.com/afp/260513213003.tunsln8c.htmlLebanon says over 10,000 homes destroyed or damaged since Israel truce https://www.arabnews.com/node/2643470/middle-east
‘Heavy Losses’: Hezbollah Drone Swarms Overwhelm Israeli Military Positions https://www.palestinechronicle.com/heavy-losses-hezbollah-drone-swarms-overwhelm-israeli-military-positions/
Simplicius, Russia Rocks Ukraine With Unprecedented 1,500+ Drones in One of Largest Aerial Attacks Ever https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/russia-rocks-ukraine-with-unprecedented
Ukrainian STING Drone Crews Destroy Over 300 Russian Aerial Targets During Record 36-Hour Assault https://www.thedefensenews.com/news-details/Ukrainian-STING-Drone-Crews-Destroy-Over-300-Russian-Aerial-Targets-During-Record-36-Hour-Assault/
Russian Geran missiles are becoming too difficult targets for Ukrainian air defense systems. https://en.topwar.ru/282727-rossijskie-gerani-stanovjatsja-slishkom-slozhnymi-celjami-dlja-ukrainskoj-pvo.html
Russia tracks these high-value targets: Zelensky Claims Leaked Russian Intel Docs Show Russia Preparing to Take Out “Decision-Making Centers” of Ukraine https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/zelensky-claims-leaked-russian-intel
NATO chief wants to triple money flows to corruption-plagued Ukraine – Mark Rutte has reportedly asked allies to devote 0.25% of their GDP to supporting Kiev https://web.archive.org/web/20260514040020/https://www.rt.com/news/639968-nato-more-cash-for-ukraine/
Ukrainian drone attack leaves two Zaporozhye NPP employees injured – Multiple attacks by Ukraine hindered the evacuation of the two employees https://tass.com/politics/2131017\
TESTING: It doesn’t want to take this link:
It’s not a “loan”, is it? IMF plans to provide Kiev with approximately $3.8 billion in 2026- The 4-year $8.1 billion program was approved in February https://tass.com/world/2131043
The filter-functions upon my posting in comments appear to be in flux.
TESTING:Von der Leyen’s power grab angers EU officials – The European Commission chief is “obsessed” with proving she’s in charge, diplomats and officials have complained https://www.rt.com/news/639901-von-der-leyen-power/
Another “free money” idea: US Wants To Restore Nord Stream & Purchase From Europeans At Steep Discount: Lavrov https://www.zerohedge.com/energy/us-wants-restore-nord-stream-pipeline-purchase-europeans-steep-discount-lavrov
Different from removing 5000 troops from Germany: Pentagon ‘Blindsided’ As Hegseth Pulls Plug On 4,000-Troop Deployment To Poland https://www.zerohedge.com/military/pentagon-blindsided-hegseth-pulls-plug-4000-troop-deployment-poland
Nobody remembers the Spanish Civil War now, I guess: Spain wants an EU army: What would it mean?
Madrid has joined a chorus in Europe calling for a standalone force amid the growing rift with the US https://web.archive.org/web/20260514104026/https://www.rt.com/news/639939-spain-wants-eu-army-explainer/Cuba is without power as the US blocks oil tankers heading to the island. https://en.topwar.ru/282718-kuba-ostalas-bez-sveta-ssha-blokirujut-iduschie-na-ostrov-tankery-s-neftju.html
CIA Director John Ratcliffe Travels to Cuba Amid Hemispheric Security Push
In a remarkable development, CIA Director John Ratcliffe travelled to Cuba on Thursday to meet with Raúl Guillermo Rodríguez Castro the grandson of former Cuban President Raúl Castro. Also present at the meeting was Cuban Interior Minister Lazaro Alvarez Casas and the head of Cuba’s intelligence services.
In late April of this year, a few State Department officials visited Havana and held talks with Raúl Guillermo Rodríguez Castro about a potential diplomatic deal...
..“CIA Director John Ratcliffe traveled to Havana, Cuba, on Thursday for a rare meeting with senior Cuban officials, an agency official told CBS News, using the visit to deliver a message that the U.S. was prepared to expand economic and security engagement with Cuba if Havana “makes fundamental changes.”
The meeting came as Cuba is contending with a massive power failure to its national energy grid amid U.S. sanctions that have caused an oil and gas shortage crisis to the island nation.
Ratcliffe told Cuban leaders the administration was offering “a genuine opportunity for collaboration” and a chance to stabilize Cuba’s struggling economy, while cautioning that the opportunity would not remain open indefinitely and the administration would enforce “red lines” if necessary, the official said. https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2026/05/14/cia-director-john-ratcliffe-travels-to-cuba-amid-hemispheric-security-push/#more-283418Or… CIA Head Ratcliffe Spotted In Cuba As Trump Refocuses Crosshairs On Havana Communists https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/cia-head-ratcliffe-spotted-cuba-trump-refocuses-crosshairs-havana-communists
US Military Surveillance Flights Surging Off Cuba – The Pentagon has reportedly been ramping up its planning for an attack on the island nation https://news.antiwar.com/2026/05/13/us-military-surveillance-flights-surging-off-cuba/
CIA Whistleblower: Covid Origin Covered-up by Senior CIA and DNI Managers and Dr. Fauci
James Erdmann III testifies before the Senate that senior CIA and DNI managers concealed lab origin of SARS-CoV-2 under the direction of Anthony Fauci. Ralph Baric resigns
CIA veteran James Erdmann III testified under oath before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee in a hearing titled “Whistleblower Testimony on the COVID Coverup.”
Summoned as a whistleblower, Erdmann detailed what he described as systemic suppression of evidence pointing to a laboratory origin of SARS-CoV-2. He explained to the committee—chaired by Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY)—that CIA scientific analysts had, as early as 2020, strongly favored a lab-incident scenario in Wuhan (one account cited an internal 5-to-1 vote). And yet, senior CIA and DNI managers repeatedly softened, rewrote, or sidelined those assessments, ultimately issuing a “non-call” or inconclusive judgment. Most notably, he claimed that Dr. Anthony Fauci played an “intentional” role in influencing the intelligence community’s analysis…
..Erdmann was previously known for contesting federal COVID-19 vaccine mandates and for co-founding the advocacy group Feds For Freedom to support federal employees and service members seeking religious exemptions. Until today, his position at the CIA since 2013 was not known to the public.
As it turns out, he is a decorated senior CIA operations officer with over a decade of service in the agency and decades of national-security experience. A military veteran who served as a non-commissioned officer in the U.S. Army’s 2nd Battalion, 75th Ranger Regiment and later in the National Guard, he also worked in the private sector as a senior bioinformatics and biometrics consultant before joining the CIA in 2013. https://www.thefocalpoints.com/p/cia-whistleblower-covid-origin-coveredStudy Finds that Mites can be Vectors for Hantavirus and can also Serve as Long Term Viral Reservoirs https://www.thailandmedical.news/news/study-finds-that-mites-can-be-vectors-for-hantaviruses-from-rodents-and-can-also-serve-as-long-term-viral-reservoirs
Peter McCullough MD explains that current tests alone are not reliable for Hantavirus. The Illusion of Precision: Molecular Diagnostics for Hantavirus
An examination of unstandardized testing, contamination risks, and the fragility of clinical reliance on blood PCR assays for “test positive” reporting https://www.thefocalpoints.com/p/the-illusion-of-precision-molecularTimes of Israel, Israeli tech company aiming to cool the Earth with masses of tiny particles
Stardust Solutions wants to combat global warming by releasing millions of tons of particles to reflect small amounts of sunlight, NYT reports, but critics warn of dangers in playing with weather
An Israeli tech company has revealed the content of tiny particles it hopes will one day be used to combat global warming by scattering millions of tons of them into the atmosphere to reflect away sunlight... As it turns out, they are made from amorphous silica, which is a food additive, and calcium carbonate, which is in eggshells and limestone. https://www.timesofisrael.com/israeli-tech-company-aiming-to-cool-the-earth-with-masses-of-tiny-particles-report/“The Docktor writing War and Peace. Sorry I’m participating. My bad. I should Black Pill, give up, and sit on the couch like real patriots do. Everything sucks. We can’t win. Just give up. Did I do good now?”
Symptoms – Disease, well after all, you are the doctor.
take the War and Peace quip as a compliment, long winded, tedious and verbose does not make one Tolstoy1. and as gesture of equity, yes i am up to mischief
2. i am being nice
although Voltaire did not say it, i will defend your right to speak. After catching my breath i will then attack the inanity of your utterance.en guarde
@JohnDay
The system does not require any of its participants to act corruptly. It requires them only to act in their own clear, documented, mutually reinforcing interests.
But of course to “act in their own clear, documented, mutually reinforcing interests” when they have been hired, paid, granted authority and have promised to act in the interests of the civilian population who granted them that power (and cash payment) based on that contract to serve the best interests of that civilian population, then that IS corruption, de facto.
sleep with the devil, and you’ll awaken to this:
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/attack-drone-hits-near-uae-nuclear-power-plant
Dr John reference Jerusalem Post – NYT dust up
“There are lies, damned lies and statistics” – Mark Twain
just not in vogue not to mention without fashion to speak of The Nakba or open air prison. Why doesn’t someone ask the Jerusalem Post why there are more Palestinians in Jordan that Palestine? How about some statistics from the 1948 Palestinian war in Mandatory Palestine, or is that another figment of the anti-semtic imagination?
“Where is the man who will do the right thing, no matter what the cost?” – Marshall, Shattering the Glass Slippertilting at windmills is better than not tilting at all
mounted upon the trusty steed Endurance the jester is off, tilting againTHE SYSTEM
War is death and destruction
Peace is surrendering War
Trade is Peace
It is the structure they exist inside
Everything else is theatre ...The two presidents announced a “Strategic Stability Framework” and a new “Board of Trade.”
Translated: we have agreed to keep talking, and we have built a mechanism to manage our future inability to agree...———–
What is not being discussed.China is trading paper for assets. (OIl, soya beans, mfg of planes.
Trump will export America’s oil and gas to China.
We’ll get less:
————Mohammad Akraminia said on Wednesday.
“Any country wishing to transit the waterway must do so under the supervision of Iran’s armed forces, ensuring a “passage without harm,” he said during a ceremony marking the 40th day after the burial of former Chief of Staff of the Iranian Armed Forces Major General Abdolrahim Mousavi.
Iran will no longer allow US weaponry to transit the Strait of Hormuz into regional bases, says the Iranian Army, declaring that the strategic waterway is now under the coordinated strategic control of the Iranian Armed Forces.
He noted that 70 percent of US military bases in the region, including Arifjan, Al Udeid, Sheikh Isa, and Ali Al Salem, have been leveled to the ground.
According to Akraminia, the western part of the strait is under the command of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Navy, while its eastern section is controlled by the Islamic Republic of Iran Army’s Navy.
“This coordinated and synergistic control, while enhancing Iran’s monitoring and sovereignty over the region, will generate revenues for the country up to twice the oil income,” he stated.
Iranian officials have repeatedly warned that the United States has maintained an illegal naval blockade of Iranian ports and that Tehran is ready for a long-term war if the April 8 ceasefire collapses.
If one reserves for oneself the final and decisive say and decision about what the other guy’s rights are, then one does not actually believe in the other guy having any rights at all, except perhaps the “might makes right” law of the jungle …. and not even that, actually, if one secretly reserves for themself the decision of whether the jungle itself has the right to exist if it pleases us to decide otherwise and just OWN whatever we choose.
That stance is a sort of free will on steroids, kind of like the one that got Satan into so much trouble.
Iran (or a consortium of dependable partners operating within the guardrails of a REAL treaty) SHALL control the Strait of Hormuz for the very good reason that they are the only ones materially capable of the task. Every time somebody else decides to control the Strait they blow up and blockade other people’s ships, and if NO ONE keeps the peace then free-lance pirates will rampage up and down both sides of the entire waterway.
Mister Meijer is the messenger, thank you kind sir.
i come here to learn what the man on the street thinks and feels. I have an internet connection.
Orwell was not writing fiction he was writing in metaphor.
No matter when Ecclesiastes was written:
“What has been, it is what will be, And what has been done, it is what will be done. So there is nothing new under the sun.” 1:9let us read what YOU think, what you hope for, that for which you would spend your life. For me those who are cashing in on looking through the glass darkly are of no interest. Their informed sources are not more informed than you.
My nineteen month old grand child is learning to jump. The joy expressed in his laughter holds a value greater than any king’s ransom. What do you hold dear?Kamala Harris (D) is out on the trail
Who wants to try again replace Trump to run the gov.
Is everyone sure that the (D) will make everything better for the people.genocide
I’m not a history buff.
Have any genocides been stopped and the perpetrators brough to justice?OPPPS! copilot said:
Stopping a genocide in real time is extremely rare. Rwanda is the closest example where:
the genocide ended through military defeat of the perpetrators,
and a massive, sustained justice process followed.
Most genocides end because:
the perpetrating regime collapses,
outside forces intervene, or
the targeted population is largely destroyed.
But Rwanda stands out as the case where both cessation and accountability were pursued at scale.
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