How much longer do I have? I don't know. None of us do. But we keep tilting at windmills as long as we can in hopes the conscience of the world catches up... soon.
But this is their big push, their Greater Israel, their technocratic pipe dream, their Great Reset. This is their holeshot. This is their last chance. Its all or nothing and its' TrumpyBear making it all possible for them while the so-called opposition party does nothing to get in the way.
Peter Thiel and Alex Karp saw the possibility of a technocracy developing under the auspices of Total Informational Awareness program started by the neocons using 9/11 as cover while Jeffrey Epstein came on board as an investor helping them secure the connections to make it all a reality.
'Larry Ellison, co-founder and CTO of Oracle Corporation, has emerged as a central figure in a new, AI-driven form of technocracy, with his influence bridging the gap between corporate infrastructure, government services, and mass media.'
Welcome to the technocracy. Your compliance is no longer required. You slept thru the revolution so now you must reap what your apathy has sown.
Shah Jr. dictator wannabe (Reza Pahlavi) says he wants America to blow up more of his country and kill more of his fellow Iranians so he can move in and take over as the next brutal dictator like his daddy was way back in the day.
Mark Levin wants us to nix the 1st amendment of the Bill of Rights so they can silence anyone who tells the truth about Israel's land-lust and their Greater Israel plan. Talk about Israel-first.
When people tell you who they are, when they go out of their way to let you know what darkness resides in their hearts, believe em. Take them at their word.
Was the March 1 2026 attack on the command center in Port Shuaiba, Kuwait which killed 6 service members and wounded over 30 more merely a case of really bad preparation or was it a legitimate false flag operation designed to get the American public behind Trump and the Zionists' war of aggression against a sovereign state that had done nothing to us up until that moment?
'Speaking publicly for the first time, members of the targeted unit
offered CBS News a detailed account of the attack and its harrowing
aftermath from the perspective of those on the ground.
The
members CBS News spoke to disputed the description of events from
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, who described the drone as a "squirter" —
in that it squirted through the defenses of a fortified unit inside
Kuwait.
"Painting a picture that 'one squeaked through' is a
falsehood," one of the injured soldiers told CBS News. "I want people to
know the unit … was unprepared to provide any defense for itself. It
was not a fortified position." CBS News
Pete Hegseth was asked about this situation and his responses are very interesting as at one point he started talking about 'the bigger picture' and followed up by saying something along the lines of 'in war soldiers get killed' a very flippant response from the Sec. of Defense, true, but maybe even more damning when you consider if he felt that way would he consider sacrificing a few soldiers to get the public behind a war of choice being waged for some other nation.
It's like they were left out there without adequate defenses to be hit by people who knew the American public would not be behind this war of aggression on behalf of Israel until something bloody happened to American troops.
And what might be worse yet... the Iranians said they didn't do it. It wasn't them. If it wasn't them, who was it?
"Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall"
How does this guy not think this attitude of his isn't making more antisemitism? The epitome of Jewish supremacy and the Greater Israel project. I mean, after all...
This is the problem and these are the people we are supposed to support no matter what they do.
Palantir announced a $300 million deal with the U.S. Department of Agriculture, which will use the software company’s technology to manage farmland as geopolitical risks threaten global supply chains.
The agreement builds on ongoing projects with the USDA and underscores Palantir’s
growing role inside the U.S. government as it goes beyond cornerstone
defense contracts supporting U.S. military modernization.
U.S. farmers are grappling with rising supply costs and are getting squeezed by an ongoing trade war between the U.S. and its major trading partners. That includes China, a key soybean purchaser, which temporarily crippled the market late last year.
In December, President Donald Trump announced a $12 billion bailout aimed at helping farmers swept up in the trade war. But rising gas prices from the war in Iran amplified the pressure, causing fertilizer costs to spike due to shipping disruptions. That’s forced many farmers to rethink what they produce, putting supply chains at risk...
Novichok was sitting on my lap and Beau walked up, she got startled and freaked out and chased him out of the office. I got up, she was next to the door on the inside.
I walked wide around her to see if Beau was alright in the hall and Novichok attacked me biting me above the ankle on my left leg. She bit a chunk out of it, tore it up pretty bad and just happened to hit an artery.
I bled a lot and had to call 911. They took one look and sent me to hospital where I officially became, I think, the first and only cat attack victim on record there.
I am home now and Novichok has been taken by animal control. They are going to keep her for observation for 10 days to make sure no rabbies and give her an evaluation to see if she can be adopted. She was calm and docile when they picked her up.
She is a good cat. She just freaked over Beau. Don't know why she attacked me when I walked by. Still scared I guess but she knew it was me.
Maybe getting even for taking her kittens and 'fixing' her... probably didn't think she was broke.
Anyway... Novi is gone. Momma cat is gone. Kittens are gone. Izzy is gone.
I hope she will be fine. Just no dogs in the new forever home.
I lost a lot of blood but otherwise I'm alright. And she will be to I hope.
TrumpyBear seems to be at war with a version of Christianity just like Wahabists and Salafists are at war with a version of Islam and like Zionists are at war with a version of Judaism. The common thread in all of this is Mammon.
Ken Klippenstein https://substack.com/home/post/p-195570921
my article https://nomadiceveryman.blogspot.com/2026/04/the-obligatory-manifesto-and.html
There was apparently an attempt by someone named Cole Tomas Allen to make his way into the White House Correspondents dinner last night with at least gun.
He was stopped short... well short... not even making it to the right floor of the Washington Hilton where the event was taking place.
No. JFK was a security failure. RFK was a security failure. Reagan was a security failure. Last night was NOT a security failure as the guy didn't even get close.
Here's another security failure for you to chew on... Trump.
But failure is a rather deceptive description of the events I mentioned as they weren't so much a failure as they were designed futility with the purpose of letting what happened take place.
JFK, RFK, Reagan... the Secret Service (S.S.) played a role in the murder or attempted murder of high ranking political figures they were assigned to protect.
In the case of Trump, the S.S. played a part in a WWE-style production to garner TrumpyBear that all important 'street cred' that someone was out to get him. It was staged and the S.S. did their part to help.
We can take some lessons from comparing this event last night to the one at the rally in Pennsylvania.
The nationalist passions that overtook Italy and Germany in
the 20th century, leading to World War II, are often described as “the
triumph of the irrational.” Indeed, studies of the literature produced
by Nazis and Italian fascists, like Ludo Abicht’s The Sword, the Pen, and the Swastika,
reveal emotionally charged collections of symbols with little logical
connection and little purpose but to drive the reader into irrational
frenzy. Like the marches and flags, they channeled the innately human
longing to be part of something larger than oneself into extreme
violence and ultimately, global catastrophe.
In Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism,
the late Dr. Michael Parenti demonstrated that fascism was and is
actually very rational. It very rationally serves the interests of
capital, as it did in both Italy and Germany, where capitalist elites
were struggling to maintain rates of profit and the threat of socialist
or communist revolution was greater than elsewhere in Europe.
Italy’s corporate capitalists needed to push back the gains
achieved by workers movements. They needed state subsidy and tax
exemptions instead. Irrational nationalist fervor and military
mobilization enriched war profiteers, and turned working people away
from organizing in their own real interests. The “triumph of the
irrational,” was just as much the triumph of capitalist propaganda. ..
A coalition of free speech organizations, progressive lawmakers, and antitrust advocates gathered outside the US Institute of Peace in Washington, DC on Thursday to protest
a private dinner hosted inside the building by Paramount Skydance CEO
David Ellison, who is seeking regulatory approval from the Trump administration for a megamerger of his company and Warner Bros. Discovery.
The invite-only dinner was billed as an “intimate gathering in celebration of the First Amendment honoring the Trump White House”—which has waged war on press freedom—“and CBS White House correspondents.” Norm Eisen, co-founder of Democracy
Defenders Action, said during Thursday’s protest that the dinner
“resembles the First Amendment in the same way that a book burning is a
celebration of the written word.” President Donald Trumpattended the dinner, which critics dubbed the “Paramount Corruption Gala.”...
An Israeli attack on a group of civilians in southern Gaza's Khan
Younis Thursday killed one and wounded three, after overnight strikes
killed five more, according to local medical sources.
A source at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis told Turkish Anadolu
Agency (AA) that the body of Yahya Abu Shalhoub and three wounded people
arrived at the hospital after an Israeli drone strike targeted them in
the al-Maslakh area south of the city.
The incident comes amid ongoing Israeli violations of a cease-fire
that took effect on Oct. 10, 2025, following a genocide that killed
more than 72,000 Palestinians and wounded over 172,000, most of them
women and children.
Israeli artillery also shelled areas east of Khan Younis on Thursday,
while Israeli military vehicles opened heavy fire in eastern parts of
the city and in the al-Mawasi area northwest of Rafah, local sources
said.
Witnesses told Anadolu that Israeli forces carried out large-scale
demolitions of homes and facilities in areas of their deployment east of
Gaza City early Thursday, alongside artillery fire and gunfire in the
surrounding area...
Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Mojtaba
Khamenei has lauded the profound impact of the Iranian nation’s
extraordinary unity, saying that it has inflicted a significant fracture
on the enemy while urging practical gratitude to forge even stronger
national cohesion.
"Due to the remarkable unity created among compatriots, a fracture
has occurred in the enemy," the Leader stated in a message published on
the X network on Thursday, highlighting how this unprecedented
solidarity has disrupted the calculations of those seeking to undermine
the Islamic Republic.
Ayatollah Khamenei emphasized the need to express gratitude for this
divine blessing through concrete actions, affirming that such efforts
will render national cohesion “greater and more steely,” while leaving
the enemies “more wretched and diminished.”
The Leader also drew attention to the enemy’s ongoing psychological
warfare, warning, “The enemy’s media operations, by targeting the minds
and psyches of the people, intend to undermine national unity and
security; may our negligence not allow this sinister intent to come to
fruition.”...
Say what you will about Tucker Carlson, and I have said it all myself... but this certainly helps and it's damning for the Jewish Supremacists we call Zionists.
Al-Akhbar correspondent Amal
Khalil has been martyred in the town of al-Tayri in the Bint Jbeil
district of South Lebanon, following a deliberate Israeli pursuit that
unfolded over nearly two hours.
The sequence of events on Wednesday afternoon reveals the intentionality of the attack.
At 2:45 pm, an Israeli drone bombed a
civilian vehicle travelling ahead of Khalil and her colleague,
journalist Zeinab Faraj. The two journalists immediately sought shelter
near a tree, while emergency contacts were made with Red Cross teams and
Lebanese army intelligence.
At 2:50 pm, Khalil called colleagues to tell them she was hiding from the bombardment.
Watched Thom Hartmann for about 7 minutes yesterday. He finally figured out the Project 2025 guys and the Trump regime have been demoing the economy on purpose so they can remake the government in their neoliberal/free market image (like we have done to countless nations over the past 70 years or so)
Was going to post his video until he started going off on evil Russia. Said Trump was out of his mind for siding with Russia over glorious Zelensky and the Nazis of Ukraine.
But that doesn't matter. ObamaGod did it so it must be OK.
However... Trump turned off the lights in Cuba so he could send in the Chicago Boys and try to chop up the nation and hand it over to his country club Epstein-class buddies while Russia... well... Russia turned the lights back on.
In the end, Hartmann, like Bernie Sanders, is paid to promote neoliberal regime change operations to the alt-left like the ones in Ukraine and Russia and even by extension, Cuba and Venezuela.
Gaza’s Health Ministry on Tuesday said that Israeli forces killed at least seven Palestinians
and wounded 21 over the previous 24 hours as the IDF continues its
relentless attacks and constant violations of the US-backed ceasefire
deal.
Attacks in Gaza over the past day included an overnight bombing in Khan Younis, southern Gaza, that killed three Palestinians. According to the Palestinian news agency WAFA, one of the victims, a man named Darwish al-Attal, had been married just a few days earlier. Middle East Eyereported that the strike targeted a police checkpoint...
I am very happy to announce I will be chatting with Monica Perez on her YouTube channel at 2pm ET and 11am PT... TODAY! Very shortly...
So please join me &@MonicaPerezShowLIVE Tuesday April 21, 11amPT/2pmET to discuss The Faking of America from 9/11 to the Straits of Hormuz right here...
In 2025, Alex Karp, the CEO of government and military tech contractor Palantir, published The New York Times best-seller, The Technological Republic: Hard Power, Soft Belief, and the Future of the West. The Wall Street Journal praised the book as a cri de coeur, a passionate appeal “that takes aim at the tech industry for abandoning its history of helping America and its allies,” while Wired praised the book as a “readable polemic that skewers Silicon Valley for insufficient patriotism.”
On April 18, 2026, Palantir posted twenty-two points to social media summarizing the book.
In addition to taking Silicon Valley to task for insufficient
patriotism, advocating a role for AI in forever war, and denouncing the
“psychologization of modern politics,” the Palantir post on X declares:
“National service should be a universal duty. We should, as a society,
seriously consider moving away from an all-volunteer force and only
fight the next war if everyone shares in the risk and the cost.”
National
conscription, a form of involuntary servitude, and the wars it
portends, are good for business, especially for corporations within the
orbit of the Pentagon, the CIA, and the national security state.
Palantir fits comfortably within this amalgamation...
In Christopher Durang's Titanic, the Captain shows up onstage with a rubbery dildo strapped to his head.
Why? Who knows. Perhaps something to do with the absurdity of a ship's master wearing such a ridiculous sex toy on his head.
'The 1995 production described in the results featured the character of
the Captain with a strapped dildo on his head, serving as an
"incompetent" leader whose actions lead to the ship's crash'
Sigorney Weaver played his sex-freak daughter in the Broadway premier back in the 70s I think.
Anyway, such is what I think about whenever I see a Jewish person with one of these boxes strapped to their arms or on their head. Well... I think about that and The Gods Must Be Crazy and Life of Brian and this:
No one takes you seriously with a box strapped to your head unless of course they are as ignorant as you are and I don't what stupid magic words are supposed to be in the idiotic thing (probably full of used cat litter)
Gloat now weasel boys. Gloat all you want because you had a freak drug up another freak and now you're blackmailing him into doing your bidding. You might think you are on top of the world now but shit moves in cycles and if the polls are any indication... your gloating and preening about is just making things more difficult for you in the future.
It's Jewish people like this who are driving the rise in antisemitism today.
Well, them and the ones dropping bombs on children so they can steal someone elses' land.
There is that.
This just goes to show you what a ridiculous self image these folks have.
Money isn't everything folks. Character still matters and it will always matter and that is what these guys don't seem to understand.
Maybe loosen the straps on your little poop box there cus it seems it's cutting off the blood to your Mammon Worshiping brain.
Tucker Carlson and all the rest of em are trying like hell to jump off the old Trump Train just as fast as they can. And that's OKAY I guess. Better than riding it till it runs off the rails but it kinda already is.
We are supposed to forget they stayed onboard thru all the horrid shit Trump and Project 2025 did to the people of this country. They stayed onboard while TrumpyBear was posting AI slop videos of the new improved Gaza remade for Glorious Israel and his corrupt offspring and Steve Witkoff.
They stayed onboard WAY longer than they should but now that TrumpyBear is crashing the economy again and profiting from it and looking to reinstate the draft to support a war with Iran on behalf of Glorious Israel.. well... that's a bridge too far.
But he is right when he says, all defensive with his arms crossed, that they all bear some responsibility for what is happening right now.
Of course... what he forgets is... the masters of the universe doped up Biden and forced him out so they could shove Kamala Harris down our throats instead.
Can you say picked to lose?
People like Tucker were used because they let themselves be used. After his first term in office, there was no excuse for analysts to be found riding the Trump train other than for personal financial gain.
In short, fuck Tucker... he knew what he was doing and just didn't give a shit as long as the checks cleared.
The official report was released and it states the bullet that killed Charlie Kirk was a .30 caliber round which some will say proves Tyler Robinson did it with grandpappy's WWI 30-06 but that is BS. Turns out... Varmitking makes a .30 cal varmit round which can be fired by a number of guns including... FoldAR's Remnat folding AR-style rifle which folds to about 12" in length... perfect to be in that backpack that person was seen walking up the stairs carrying. Apologies to Candace Owens. I hope she sees this video. Might help her in her quest.
(This is amazing. Big Business jacked up the prices for the things they sold and made profits off of due to Trump's 'make the economy scream' tariffs. You paid the cost of the tariff taxes... not them. But lo and behold... the One Party State, the Business Party is making it now so TrumpyBear's regime will have to REFUND the tariff taxes they charged to Big Business... to BIG BUSINESS... not YOU... allowing Big Business to profit TWICE (three times if you take into consideration the fact that part of the reason for the tariffs in the first place was to offset the tax breaks Big Business got in the Big Beautiful Fascist Bill. I mean, prices have barely come down a little since the tariff thing started to roll back. Now Big Business will get money paid to them for NOTHING since YOU paid for the tariff taxes and the government will have to print more money from the privately owned central bank system to pay for it... at a FURTHER COST TO THE TAXPAYERS. Wow. Holy shit Batman. Talk about triple dipping.)
A refund system for businesses that paid tariffs which the U.S. Supreme Court ruled President Donald Trump imposed without the constitutional authority to do so is scheduled to launch Monday.
Importers
and their brokers will be able to begin claiming refunds through an
online portal beginning at 8 a.m., according to U.S. Customs and Border
Protection, the agency administering the system.
It’s the first
step in a complicated process that also might eventually lead to refunds
for consumers who were billed for some or all of the tariffs on products shipped to them from outside the United States.
Companies
must submit declarations listing the goods on which they collectively
put billions of dollars toward the import taxes the court subsequently
struck down. If CBP approves a claim, it will take 60-90 days for a
refund to be issued, the agency said...
Their belief is that the Torah was written entirely by Moses under direct direction from the invisible sky man 15 centuries before Christ was born.
Of course, science rears it's ugly head as it usually does and it seems that is just some bullshit of course and it was cobbled together from a number of sources about 1000 years later as the foundation of yet another religion scam.
Modern Scholarly View (Documentary Hypothesis):
Most scholars believe the Torah is a composite text produced by
multiple authors/editors (often identified as J, E, P, and D sources)
over several centuries
.
Composition Process:
Sources were likely written between the 9th and 7th centuries BCE
(Yahwist, Elohist, Deuteronomist) and combined during or after the
Babylonian Exile (6th–5th century BCE).
Final Redaction: The final, cohesive form of the Torah is generally placed around the 5th century BCE.
But you have to have a stupid box strapped to your head and be constantly rocking back and forth like a mental patient for it's followers to take you seriously.
What does that tell you?
Chuck Schumer in this video claims the reason there is no peace in the Middle East between Glorious Israel and pretty much everyone else is because the savages don't follow the Torah and believe it's every word. This gets an applause from the AIPAC crowd and grows Chucky's bank account by a couple hundred thousand bucks.
His position is clear. It's not the fault of the Israelis for always violating cease fire deals or peace deals because they don't peace, they want to steal someone else's land. It's not that. It's because no one else believes their little piece of paper written by grifters and charlatans all those years ago.
US President Donald Trump escalated
threats against Iran on Sunday, accusing Tehran of violating a ceasefire
agreement while denying that Washington’s continued naval blockade and
interference with shipping had violated the truce first.
In a statement published on Truth Social,
Trump claimed that Iran had opened fire in the Strait of Hormuz,
calling it “a total violation” of the ceasefire, and said the incident
targeted a French vessel and a UK-linked freighter, though no independent confirmation has emerged.
Trump also said US representatives would
travel to Islamabad, Pakistan, for negotiations, even as Washington
continues to exert military and economic pressure, casting doubt on the
seriousness of its diplomatic track.
The US president further claimed that
Iran was harming its own economy by disrupting traffic through the
Strait of Hormuz, a claim that overlooks Washington’s own role in destabilizing the waterway
through its naval blockade and ongoing interference with maritime
traffic. The strategic passage, a lifeline for global energy flows, has
become increasingly volatile amid continued US escalation...
(Make America a Slaver Colony Again. The rapaciousness of the Trump regime has emboldened the Brownshirt fascists in local and state government to fly their Nazi flags proudly. They will round up homeless people like the apes chasing down the feral humans in Planet of the Apes and then ship em off to some camp someplace where Big Boss Man will rent em out to local businesses as slaves. You might think I am reaching with this evaluation of the story... and maybe I am... for now. Today. But you wait. In 3 to 4 years that is exactly what will be happening. Big Business will be paying the state for the use of slave labor as the wardens pocket kickbacks.)
The Louisiana House of Representatives voted this week to pass what the National Homelessness Law Center says is “one of the cruelest anti-homeless bills in the country.”
Like many other anti-homeless bills being advanced around the country following a 2024 Supreme Courtdecision
allowing states and cities to criminalize homelessness, House Bill 211,
which passed by a vote of 70-28, makes unauthorized sleeping in public
spaces a crime.
It is punishable by a fine of up to $500, imprisonment for up to six
months, or both. Repeat offenders could face one to two years in prison
with hard labor and a $1,000 fine.
The bill, which will now advance to the GOP-controlled state Senate, has been nicknamed the “Streets to Success Act” because, according to
its sponsor, state Rep. Debbie Villio (R-79), the goal is not to jail
homeless people but to “connect them to service providers.”
Those who are convicted of sleeping outdoors could be given the option
to avoid jail time by instead entering into a mandatory treatment
program for at least 12 months. The bill authorizes local governments to
set up semi-permanent camps in remote areas, where defendants would be
required to stay and receive treatment.
The bill requires homeless defendants to pay “all or part of the cost
of the treatment program to which he is assigned,” a steep cost for
many, as the average cost
for residential drug and alcohol rehab treatment in Louisiana is more
than $4,400 per week, according to the addiction referral service
directory Addicted.org.
According to the bill, those who cannot
afford this steep cost would be required to perform unpaid labor for the
state or a local community center in lieu of payment.
Bill Quigley, director of the Gillis Long Poverty Law Center at Loyola University New Orleans, called the bill’s entire premise “a farce.”
“If
people had the resources to pay for housing and physical and/or mental
health services, they would not be on the street,” he told Common
Dreams...
President Trump has threatened to “blow up” the “whole country” of
Iran if Tehran doesn’t agree to a deal that he is demanding it sign, as
the very fragile ceasefire appears to be on the verge of collapsing.
Trump made the comments in an interview with Fox News reporter Trey Yingst.
“I just spoke with President Trump for about 20 minutes, and he told
me: ‘If Iran does not sign this deal, the whole country is getting blown
up.’ He went on to say that bridges and power plants will be targeted
if Iran does not sign this agreement,” Yingst said.
The threat from Trump came after Iran said it re-closed the Strait of
Hormuz after briefly declaring it was open to all commercial vessels.
The Iranian government said that the waterway was again closed due to
the fact that the US was maintaining its blockade on Iranian ports, a
violation of the ceasefire agreement...
(The US congress just approved the sale of $300 million worth of bulldozers to Israel to help them literally wipe Palestine off the map. We gave them bombs to decimate the land and now we are giving them the means by which to wipe it clean and make ready for their concentration camps, free trade zones and resort hotels. And hardly anyone noticed.)
This is what the U.S. and Israel made in Gaza...
These heavy machines will scoop up rubble and bodies alike and throw it all away covering up the true scale of their genocide in Gaza.
Two of Vermont independent Senator Bernie Sanders'
disapproval resolutions on Israel received unprecedented support from
Democrats on Wednesday, as only seven voted against blocking arms sales
to Israel.
Both measures
failed without Republican support but drew backing from a majority of
Democrats, reflecting ongoing divisions within the party over its stance
on Israel ahead of the midterm elections.
The Senate voted on two of
Sanders' joint resolutions of disapproval (JRD) on Wednesday to block
more than about a half-billion in U.S. arms sales to Israel amid
the war with Iran and its ongoing bombardments of Lebanon. Sanders, a
longtime critic of U.S. military intervention, has repeatedly introduced
resolutions to block U.S. arms sales to Israel during the war in Gaza.
One
of the measures, S.J. Res.32, was to block about $295 million worth of
sales of Caterpillar bulldozers to Israel. The U.S., Israel's top
diplomatic and financial ally, provides more than $3.8 billion in annual
military aid. William D. Hartung, senior research fellow at the Quincy
Institute, estimates that the U.S. spent an additional $21.7 billion
since Hamas' October 7, 2023, attack on Israel, and Israel’s subsequent
years-long military actions...
(these dems in the Senate jumped sides and voted with Republicans to send 300 million dollars worth of bulldozers to Israel to help them WIPE PALESTINE OFF THE FUCKING MAP)
(This is what I have been talking about. People misunderstand Epstein. He was a fixer. He worked in all sorts of venues. Had his hands is lots of pies (no pun intended) and as bad as the sex stuff was his other connections are just as troubling especially considering the fact that... he's still alive.)
A little update into what has been going on the last two days. Got the car looked after and that's not great but a kitten rescue place came by checked out the kittens, were very happy, made plans to pick em up on Monday to get them (and IZZY!) ready for adoption. I'm gonna bleed less, yes, but I am going to miss em. They are like family already but they will find good loving homes and I am happy for that. I got sick at the car place, there for 4 1/2 hours yesterday just to get the bad news. Anyway, I am very happy with the kittens. They did great. Very healthy, no fleas, she could handle them with no problems. They are Grade A kittenstock, healthy friendly and ready to start their new exciting lives. So I got one weekend to grift with em before saying goodbye. Please send Bandaids.
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...
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...
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.
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...
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...
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?
(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?)
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.
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...
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?!?
A United Nations agency said late Thursday that Israel’s massive bombardment of Lebanon earlier this week killed or wounded more than 180 children,
a statement issued as the Israeli military vowed to continue assailing
the war-ravaged country—potentially derailing ceasefire efforts in Iran
and across the region.
The UN Children’s Fund, widely known as UNICEF, said
the toll from Israel’s assault on Wednesday brought the total number of
children killed or wounded in Lebanon since March 2 to at least 600.
The agency said it is “receiving reports of children being pulled from
under the rubble, while others remain missing and separated from their
families.”...
U.S. inflation surged in March as the energy shock stemming from the war in Iran rippled across the economy.
The
Consumer Price Index report showed that inflation jumped to 3.3 percent
compared to the same time last year, almost a full percentage point
increase from February’s annual pace. Overall prices rose -0.9 percent
over the course of March.
“Core”
inflation, which strips out volatile food and energy prices, increased
modestly. This measure of underlying inflation rose to 2.6 percent on a
year-over-year basis following a 0.2 percent increase in March.
The
data released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics on Friday captured the
period of rapidly rising commodity prices that preceded this week’s
temporary cease-fire. The truce has provided some reprieve, but prices
remain far higher than before the war began given its tenuous nature...
(Guess what MAGA... TrumpyBear is going to draft you and send you to war to fight and die for glorious Israel... you know... the people who routinely spit on Christian tourists in Tel Aviv.)
Eligible men will be automatically registered into the U.S. military draft pool
by December in an effort to streamline the existing self-registration
process, according to the agency that oversees the system.
On March 30, the Selective Service System – the federal agency which oversees the database of men eligible for service in the event of a military draft – submitted a proposed rule for automatic registration to the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, according to its website.
According to SSS website,
the agency will implement the switch to automatic registration by
December, creating a "streamlined registration process and corresponding
workforce realignment."
Here's what to know about the new military draft registration process...
Went to cardiologist today to receive results of all those tests I have been taking. Bad news. Doc says I will be around for a while to come. I'm doing better. Somehow. But a few issues now in arteries which is being cause by smoking. So, gotta stop.
Thanks to you guys I was able to go to the pet store and get GOOD formula and can kitten food along with GOOD kitten dry food.
That made me very very happy. Thank you.
About 6 weeks I will be looking to have them ready for their new families and that gives me another 2 weeks with em. I really enjoy doing this. I hope you enjoy watching.
They play with me like one of them now. They are all seemingly very healthy and happy and MommaCat is overjoyed when I feed em so they don't gnaw on her nipples.
Have a great night guys and enjoy this little moment of kitten zen and remember the better parts of us aren't going to perish just yet, not to the likes of TrumpyBear and his gaggle of greedy aristocrats.
The beauty of this world, of our species will continue. And that's not a pipe dream or hopium. It's just a fact of nature... it's in our DNA and it's gonna take a lot more than the Orange BedWetter to crush it.
As old coach Stanberry used to tell me... keep your head up, dick. Keep your head up.
(This is 1400 pages of slop from the paper of record which is seemingly trying to blame ONLY Trump and Bibi for the war on Iran. I mean... just look at the title. And it comes from 'secret sources' once again. I think it's bullshit designed to throw those two under the bus so the Zionists and neocons can try to cleanse themselves and their projects of the stench of this unpopular undertaking.)
I post all of this so those who don't have subscription to the Times can read it for themselves
The black S.U.V. carrying Prime Minister
Benjamin Netanyahu arrived at the White House just before 11 a.m. on
Feb. 11. The Israeli leader, who had been pressing for months for the
United States to agree to a major assault on Iran, was whisked inside
with little ceremony, out of view of reporters, primed for one of the
most high-stakes moments in his long career.
U.S.
and Israeli officials gathered first in the Cabinet Room, adjacent to
the Oval Office. Then Mr. Netanyahu headed downstairs for the main
event: a highly classified presentation on Iran for President Trump and
his team in the White House Situation Room, which was rarely used for
in-person meetings with foreign leaders.
Mr.
Trump sat down, but not in his usual position at the head of the room’s
mahogany conference table. Instead, the president took a seat on one
side, facing the large screens mounted along the wall. Mr. Netanyahu sat
on the other side, directly opposite the president.
Appearing
on the screen behind the prime minister was David Barnea, the director
of Mossad, Israel’s foreign intelligence agency, as well as Israeli
military officials. Arrayed visually behind Mr. Netanyahu, they created
the image of a wartime leader surrounded by his team.
Congress can brandish the power of the purse to
end President Donald Trump’s unconstitutional attack on Iran, a criminal
war of aggression as defined by the postwar Nuremberg Tribunal.
Congress ended the Vietnam War through the power of the purse. All
Congress needs today is a fraction of the courage displayed by the 56
signatories to the American Declaration of Independence who signed their
death warrants in defense of unalienable rights to life, liberty, and
the pursuit of happiness 250 years ago.
The Continuing Appropriations Resolution for FY1974 (H.J. Res. 636,
P.L. 93-52), signed by President Richard Nixon on July 1, 1973,
prohibited expenditures to conduct combat operations “in or over or from
off the shores of North Vietnam, South Vietnam, Laos or Cambodia” after
August 15, 1973. That funding termination put the nail in the coffin to
the gratuitous, trillion-dollar war precipitated by the Gulf of Tonkin
Resolution, which was itself predicated on a lie about a second North
Vietnamese torpedo attack on twin United States destroyers.
Ending the Vietnam War proved a congressional stroke of genius.
Vietnam has since evolved from an enemy to an ally or semi-ally of
America in containing Chinese hegemony in Asia. Among other things,
Vietnam enjoys permanent normal trade relations with the United States...
Israeli airstrikes killed at least 10 Palestinians and wounded
several others near a school sheltering the displaced in the Gaza Strip
on Monday, the latest Israeli violation of the U.S.-brokered cease-fire.
Before the strikes, some Palestinians had clashed with members of
an Israeli-backed militia, who they said attacked the school in an
attempt to abduct some people, medics and residents said.
In the midst of the clashes, east of the Maghazi refugee camp in the
central Gaza Strip, Israeli drones fired two missiles into the area,
killing at least 10 people and wounding several others, they added.
It was not immediately clear how many civilians had been killed in
the strikes, which hit in a closely packed neighborhood of mostly
displaced Palestinians.
Ahmed al-Maghazi, an eyewitness, said their area was attacked by
members of the Israeli-backed militia who operate in the territory
adjacent to where the Israeli forces are in control, before the militia
opened fire.
"The residents tried to defend their homes, but the occupation forces targeted them directly," he told Reuters.
Later on Monday, a leader of one of the Israeli-backed militias said
in a video, which Reuters couldn't immediately authenticate, that they
killed some five Hamas members...
(TrumpyBear was looking for a way out and Iran gave him one. Who knows what they really agreed to. This is their spin. Trump has his I guess. Important thing to note here is... Glorious Israel can't have peace this close to Greater Israel so as soon as they replenish stockpile of interceptor missiles, they will violate cease fire agreement by attacking Iran again and then we will be expected to blame Iran. This is their MO. This is who they are. If I know it, the Iranians know it. This ain't done yet. Not by a long-shot.)
Iran has declared a "historic and crushing defeat" of the
United States and the Israeli regime after 40 days of war, announcing
that Washington has been forced to accept a 10-point Iranian proposal
that includes a permanent ceasefire, the lifting of all sanctions, and
the withdrawal of US combat forces from the region.
In a statement addressed to the "noble, great, and heroic nation of
Iran," the Supreme National Security Council said the enemy had suffered
an undeniable defeat and now saw "no way forward but to submit to the
will of the great nation of Iran and the honorable Axis of Resistance."
The announcement comes on Day 40 of the US-Israeli war of aggression
on Iran, which began with the assassination of Leader of the Islamic
Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei and top-ranking commanders on
February 28.
According to the statement, the United States has agreed to a 10-point proposal that fundamentally commits Washington to:
No new aggression against Iran
Continued Iranian control over the Strait of Hormuz
Acceptance of enrichment
Removal of all primary sanctions
Removal of all secondary sanctions
Termination of all UN Security Council resolutions
Termination of all Board of Governors resolutions
Payment of compensation to Iran
Withdrawal of US combat forces from the region
Cessation of war on all fronts, including against the heroic Islamic Resistance of Lebanon
"Iran has achieved a great victory and has forced criminal America to accept its own 10-point proposal," the statement read...
Democratic members of Congress and other US politicians have
sharply condemned the inflammatory threats by US President Donald Trump
against Iran and its civil infrastructure.
“A whole
civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again. I don’t
want that to happen, but it probably will,” Trump said on Truth Social
platform on Tuesday morning.
American politicians described
Trump’s comments as reckless, illegal, and a dangerous escalation
against a proud ancient civilization that will send the region into
catastrophe.
“This is an extremely sick person. Each Republican
who refuses to join us in voting against this wanton war of choice owns
every consequence of whatever the hell this is,” Democratic Senate
leader Chuck Schumer said.
Democratic House leader Hakeem Jeffries
demanded an immediate halt to the war of aggression against Iran, which
could turn into World War III...