Tons of stuff going on this morning. Will have another video for you guys this evening.
Candace https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsqUIkszZd0&t=2437s
impeachment https://www.axios.com/2026/04/15/iran-war-pete-hegseth-congress-impeachment-articles-democrats-reflecting-search-interest-order?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us
Owen https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9q5OwIiSFI
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from AntiWar
Saudi Arabia is pressing the Trump administration to end its blockade of the Strait of Hormuz and return to negotiations with Iran over fears that the US move could lead to the closure of the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, according to a report from The Wall Street Journal.
The Bab el-Mandeb Strait is another vital waterway in the region, as it connects the Gulf of Aden and the Red Sea, and it could be closed by Yemen’s Houthis, officially known as Ansar Allah, who are allied with Iran and have previously demonstrated their ability to impose a blockade on the waterway.
In response to Israel’s genocidal campaign in Gaza, the Houthis effectively shut the strait to Israeli-linked shipping by attacking and boarding several commercial ships. Both President Biden and President Trump attempted to end the blockade by bombing Yemen, but both campaigns failed...
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from PressTV
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has warned against the Israeli regime’s attempts to sabotage a fragile ceasefire between the US and Iran, saying that Ankara will push for an extension of the truce and ensure peace talks continue in Pakistan.
Addressing a parliament session on Wednesday, Erdogan said that the Israeli prime minister’s cabinet, “which is known to be unhappy with the ceasefire process, must not be allowed to sabotage it.”
The Turkish leader said that his government is making the “necessary appeals and initiatives” to ease tensions and extend the ceasefire, which is set to expire on April 20.
The two-week ceasefire, announced last week, 40 days after the US and the Israeli regime launched their war of aggression against Iran, provided a fragile window for diplomacy. It will expire on April 22...
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by Scott Creighton
I was occupied yesterday. Some bad news for a friend. Someone very close to her shuffled off this mortal coil in an unexpected way.
My deepest and sincerest condolences to you.
Just a reminder folks, though it's a cliche at moments like this but... it's only a ride folks. It goes up and down and fast and slow and sometimes seems completely out of control while other times it's hardly moving.
Yes it's a ride and by the nature of a ride, its finite and we don't get to control when it starts... or when it ends.
Some of us ride alone. Some ride in packs, scared of the ride. Some ride with partners to share the joy with them and those are the lucky ones... until they find themselves riding alone.
The older I get the more I find myself believing what my mother Janet believed... that we are all part of something infinite, something vast, older than time. Something from which we are born so that we may return.
Yes ashes return to the dust... the dust that fell from the stars. Yes ashes to ashes, dust to dust... but energy, I believe, our energy, our souls, returns as well to something as of yet unknown to us.
Energy to energy.
It is the law of conservation. Nothing is wasted in this spinning blue-green thing we call home so why should our experiences, our growth, our discoveries, our loves, our losses, our triumphs, our failures, our joys and sorrows simply ebb away into the nothingness as if they never were?
Energy to energy.
I look at the miracle of the human body, how perfect an engine it is, a vehicle for us to us to gather and collect all of the experiences of life, good and bad, and I can't help but think there is so much more than I could ever hope to understand.
But that is my opinion, nothing more.
Yes it's a ride. Bill was right about that.
But like any other ride, you can get back in line.
You can and you will meet again all those you love and hold most dear on that ride once again.
My friend, I wish you solace during this painful time.
And for him... what else could I play but a little exit stage left music for him to enjoy while he's waiting in line for you.
salamun alaykum
(ps... definitely not Yellowman)
from al Mayadeen English
A growing number of oil tankers are rerouting away from the strategic Strait of Hormuz ahead of a planned US naval blockade set to begin Monday, Reuters reported, citing shipping data and official statements.
Trump issued threats against vessels that continue making transit payments to Iranian authorities, while also announcing that the US Navy would commence mine clearance operations in the Strait. The US president alleged, without providing evidence, that Iran had placed mines in the waterway.
The Strait serves as a critical passage for nearly one-fifth of the world's daily oil supplies. Any disruption there carries significant risks for global energy markets.
US Central Command announced on social media platform X that American naval forces would begin blocking all maritime traffic entering and leaving Iranian ports at 1400 GMT on Monday...
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from PressTV
The US military’s attempt to sail two destroyers through the Strait of Hormuz on Saturday ended as a failed propaganda stunt timed to coincide with talks in Islamabad, a Press TV investigation has found.
The investigation, based on information provided by highly placed military-security sources, reveals that the US Navy destroyers came within minutes of complete destruction after attempting a high-risk passage through the Strait of Hormuz in a failed propaganda operation aimed at influencing Iran-US talks in the Pakistani capital.
The USS Michael Murphy (DDG 112) and USS Frank E. Peterson (DDG 121), both Arleigh Burke-class destroyers, attempted to transit the strategic waterway but were intercepted and forced to retreat by Iranian naval forces.
According to the investigation, the American destroyers and their accompanying frigates did not succeed in passing through the strategic waterway that remains closed for US vessels.
Press TV's investigation found the American attempt to be an extremely high-risk move that could have easily turned into a disaster for the United States and its military.
The destroyers were only a few minutes away from complete destruction after Iranian cruise missiles locked onto the vessel and attack drones were deployed.
When the two destroyers and the accompanying fleet reached the mouth of the Persian Gulf, Iran's cruise missiles locked onto them, and the destroyers were given only 30-minutes to turn back. The vessels immediately retreated...
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The Zionists wanted Trump to bomb Iran back to the stone ages but he backed off on Tuesday. Ever since then they have been pressuring him to get with the program culminating with JD Vance going to Pakistan to scuttle the peace deal and now Trump threatens to shut down the Strait even though it's open for pretty much everyone else right now. To do that Trump needs to send some mine sweepers into the Strait to look for mines Iran didn't deploy. Trump needed a major crisis to justify bombing electrical plants and fuel depots in Iran. Americans were appalled at his threats. But how will that change if Iran is said to have sunk a US ship?
NBC https://www.nbcnews.com/world/iran/live-blog/live-updates-trump-iran-hormuz-israel-lebanon-ceasefire-talks-pakistan-rcna285140
Truth social https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/116392449978703637
USA Today https://nomadiceveryman.blogspot.com/2026/04/iran-war-updates-trump-says-navy-to.html
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(So let me get this straight.. Hormuz had been opened up a bit and they are letting traffic thru to help ease burdon on the world... so TrumpyBear declared WE will shut it down for good now... after JD Vance deliberately tanked the peace talks? Is that about the size of it?)
from USA Today
A day after failed peace negotiations between the United States and Iran in Islamabad, President Donald Trump said the U.S. Navy will start blockading the Strait of Hormuz.
In back-to-back posts made to social media early Sunday, April 12, Trump said the United States will also interdict every vessel in international waters that had paid a toll to Iran to pass through the critical shipping route.
"No one who pays an illegal toll will have safe passage on the high seas," Trump wrote on Truth Social. "We will also begin destroying the mines the Iranians laid in the Straits. Any Iranian who fires at us, or at peaceful vessels, will be BLOWN TO HELL!"
A blockade, which Trump described as "effective immediately," would be a significant escalation in the Persian Gulf, coming mere hours after U.S-.Iran peace talks ended without a deal. The U.S. and Iran have been in a tenuous, two-week ceasefire that began April 7.
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from al Mayadeen English
Former United States State Department advisor and veteran West Asia negotiator Aaron David Miller sharply criticized Washington’s assumptions about the pace and substance of talks with Iran, arguing that the US misjudged Iran’s position.
“If Administration believed after only 21 hours of negotiations, Iran would give up enrichment which is what Vance implied, they totally misread the moment and the Iranian dominated IRGC,” Miller posted on X.
Gerard Araud, a high-ranking retired French diplomat who served as the Ambassador to the United States and the Permanent Representative to the United Nations, also pointed to the prowess of Iranian negotiators.
“The agreement we reached with Iran in 2015 was the result of hundreds of hours of negotiations with the support of experts of nuclear energy,” Araud explained.
“Negotiating with the Iranians is the equivalent of a diplomatic trenches war. Line by line, word by word.” he posted on X...
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Look at the timing. Trump decided to back off bombing Iran back into the stone ages, something Bibi Netanyahu has been dreaming of for 30+ years and all of a sudden everyone turns on him and his wife is suddenly attacked as well... while JD Vance, neocon Zionist, is put in charge of the negotiations which he seems to be torpedoing. All based on a secret source article from the NYT, same publication that produced the Judith Miller fraud trying to get us to go to war with Iraq (on behalf of Israel)
Isn't it odd this is the timing. What if TrumpyBear is the only reason we didn't launch that genocidal attack on Iran... and they got us to attack him FOR NOT DOING WHAT NETANYAHU WANTED?!?