Well, springtime has arrived in Norway. That’s something.

Posted by: GMR | Mar 6 2026 11:42 utc | 3

Go ahead and create an Iran open thread. Many of us are following both conflicts.

Posted by: PP | Mar 6 2026 11:46 utc | 5

Nearly Easter – time to put the boot in. For krisakes. 
 

raqi Christian Foundation
 
 
@iraqschristians
Mar 2
U.S. Evangelicals are intentionally spreading false information online about Iranian Christians in order to promote more war and bloodshed.
 
There are over 1 million native, Apostolic Christians in Iran (Armenians, Assyrians, Chaldeans), not Evangelicals. U.S. Evangelicals are falsely claiming these native Apostolic Christians, who do not want war, “are converts begging for war.”
 
U.S. Evangelicals pushed for the Iraq War that destroyed 1.5 million native Chaldean and Assyrian Christians in Iraq.
 
U.S. Evangelicals pushed for the Syria War that destroyed 2.5 million native ancient Syrian Christian communities, even siding with and advocating for more funding for the AlQaeda/ISIS terrorists that were literally crucifying Syrian Christians.
 
U.S. Evangelicals do not speak for Middle East Christians. Middle East Christians do not want more war in the region.
Mar 2, 2026 · 8:14 PM UTC

Posted by: DunGroanin | Mar 6 2026 11:48 utc | 7

Killing civilians, targetting children; the American and Israeli way.  On Thursday, the US bombed two boys’ schools in Iran.  I have not seen any media yet that listed the number of dead.
 
Pete Hegseth is wasting his time going after the Congresspeople who sugggested that military troops can refuse to obey an illegal order; there are no troops refusing any orders whatsoever.  Us and Israel = Beelzebub and Lucifer.
 

Missiles fired by US, Israel hit two schools near Tehran: Iranian media
 
The latest attack comes six days after the deadliest single one during the war on Iran, which killed 165 schoolgirls and staff.
 
Missiles fired by the United States and Israel have hit two schools in the town of Parand, southwest of Tehran, Iran’s semiofficial Fars news agency has reported.
 
The agency shared photos of damage and debris in what appeared to be a classroom and said several nearby residential units also sustained damage in the attack on Thursday.
 
The attack came just six days after what Iran has described as a US-Israeli one on a girls’ school in the southern city of Minab, where 165 schoolgirls and staff were killed, the day the US and Israel launched a war on Iran, which has ignited exchanges of fire across the Middle East.
 
Iranian authorities put the final death toll from the Minab attack at 165 people, most of them girls ages seven to 12. At least 95 other people were wounded in the attack.
 
As the images of the carnage spread on social media platforms, Israeli and US authorities sought to distance themselves from the attack, the US stating it was unaware that a school had been hit, and some Israeli sources claiming the site was “part of an Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps base”.
 
However, an analysis by Al Jazeera’s digital investigations unit found that the school had been clearly separate from an adjacent military site for at least 10 years. The investigation also showed that the strike pattern raises fundamental questions about the accuracy of intelligence information on which the bombing was based.
 
“This is how ‘rescue’ promised by Mr Trump looks in reality. From Gaza to Minab, innocents murdered in cold blood,” Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi had said after the attack on Monday.
 
Repeating Gaza tactics in Iran?
 
Amjad Iraqi, a senior analyst at the International Crisis Group, told Al Jazeera’s AJ+ that Israel dismantles entire systems by hitting schools, public infrastructure and state institutions, comparing its attacks to those it carried out in Gaza.
 
“What we are really seeing in Iran is a continuation and extension of what Israel’s been attempting to do in the last two and a half years [in Gaza],” he said.
 
“There are straight lines between what Israel has attempted to do … in Gaza, to completely decimate and collapse the systems that existed there, to what we are seeing in Iran, on a much more massive and dangerous scale, to bring down the Islamic Republic and to cause as much devastation as possible.”
 
More than 3,600 civilian sites have been damaged in attacks attributed to the US and Israel, according to figures released by the Iranian Red Crescent Society, cited by the Iranian government on X.
 
The head of the Iranian Red Crescent reportedly said 3,643 civilian locations had been targeted so far, including 3,090 homes, 528 commercial centres, 13 medical facilities and nine Red Crescent centres.
 
The official said several major hospitals and other rehabilitation and welfare centres have been damaged.
 
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/3/5/missile-attack-hits-two-schools-in-irans-parand-iranian-media
 

Posted by: teri | Mar 6 2026 12:34 utc | 9

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=YRqkk5FkTcw
 
this youtuber with 9.2M followers had his patreon nuked when he made an expose on Hasidic Jews scamming the welfare system.

Posted by: UWDude | Mar 6 2026 12:37 utc | 11

https://www.theeditors.com/p/new-york-city-may-now-have-more-muslims-than-jews-demography-how-many-jews-in-new-york-how-many-muslims-zohran-mamdani
NYC may be the biggest cultural and political center for Jews in the world, outside of Israel itself. Yet, Muslims there may outnumber them, leading to mamdani’s election.
Things are gonna change. Israel is increasingly an extremist, racist nation and upholding them will get more difficult. Newsom just called them ‘apartheid’.  It’s coming….

Posted by: Eighthman | Mar 6 2026 13:00 utc | 13

Just an Old Rock and Roll guy here, with no qualifications to be any type of analyst.
But, after reading several thousand posts on MOA the last few days, my comment is:
An Iranian defeat serves to put more power and control into the same hands that unleashed covid and the vax upon the world.
Who’s your vax daddy?

Posted by: Whipping Post | Mar 6 2026 13:07 utc | 15

Thank you b.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Mar 6 2026 13:44 utc | 17

Trump rules out Ground Troops into Iran. Dude can’t make up his minds.
 
He wanted to use the elite airborne red beret walking dip bottle Delta Force operators. Now he doesn’t.
 
Maybe someone talked him out of this commitment. I bet are someone graduated in the last 10 years with a new military thoughts from Naval Warfare Institute graduates or someone graduated from War College. They are cautious about long term commitment to warfare because of Sarah Paine influence.

Posted by: KillerDoll | Mar 6 2026 14:00 utc | 19

It may be the case that the west will be able to outdo China by monopolising economic transactions using the so called controlgrid and programmable money under western elite control. If almost all nations with fossile fuel are brought into that control China would have fewer sourses available. And Russia is being sanctioned in the hope that they will succumb. They have after all accepted the central bank that the west has imposed havent they? I am not sure what exactly that means but they have accepted the western rules. If the west was subject to that kind of treatment that China and Russia may expect there would be no lack of war plans. Are China and Russia capable of sorting it out by waiting like they do now? 
The seemingly less advanced weapons in the west, is that real or is the west setting up such an appearance with the intention of losing the Iran war but instead managing to fool the world to adopt the western financial monopoly despite all the critique of that system. I mean since the critique usually has a moral aspect but the controlgrid and digital ID strongly limit both trade and movement. Will the world keep watching the war while the western elites with slight of hand rids us and the BRICS of all freedom.

Posted by: petergrfstrm | Mar 6 2026 14:05 utc | 21

The lack of resources, education, the crushing debts, the mortgaged futures for colonial folly.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Mar 6 2026 14:16 utc | 23

Posted by: Eighthman | Mar 6 2026 13:00 utc | 13
 
Oh, interesting! Thank you for that one…

Posted by: Zet | Mar 6 2026 14:27 utc | 25

Palantir apparently selected the Minab school as a target; will that raise or lower their valuation?

Posted by: Polli | Mar 6 2026 14:29 utc | 27

Posted by: Eighthman | Mar 6 2026 14:28 utc | 27
 
######
 
Trump doesn’t decide when it ends.
 
Once he killed the Ayatollah, he lost all control.
 
This will end when Iran says so, not before.
 
And these days, Iran wants vengeance, with no shortage of means or targets.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Mar 6 2026 14:35 utc | 29

Palantir apparently selected the Minab school as a target; will that raise or lower their valuation?
Posted by: Polli
==================polli wins this thread on the 28th post ! Give it up Barflies, no one will exceed polli  in this weeks thread. 

Posted by: Exile | Mar 6 2026 14:45 utc | 31

Two news bits:
 
Russia fixed broken launchpad:
 

Russia’s space agency, Roscosmos, announced Tuesday that the launch pad has been repaired. More than 150 employees from the agency’s Center for Operation of Space Ground-Based Infrastructure and representatives from four contractors have wrapped up work at the damaged launch pad. Roscosmos said 2,350 square meters of structures were prepared and painted, and more than 250 linear meters of welds were completed during the repair. Meanwhile, the head of the Roscosmos ground infrastructure division told a Russian TV channel in January that “multiple members” of the launch pad team were under criminal investigation after leaving the service structure unsecured during the November launch, according to Russian space reporter Anatoly Zak. The first launch from the restored pad is scheduled for March 22, when a Soyuz rocket will boost a Progress supply ship to the ISS. A Soyuz crew launch will follow this summer.

 
Iran intentionally targeting US data centers in West Asia:

 
🔹 The Amazon data center in Bahrain, known as the largest US data center in the region, was targeted by drone attacks from the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.
 
🔹 This action was taken to identify the role of these centers in supporting the enemy’s military and intelligence activities.
 
🔹 Amazon’s regional office in Bahrain, launched in 2019, is considered the gateway for Amazon’s advanced cloud services to the Gulf countries and the Middle East. This center is especially known for providing AWS ground station services globally.
 
🔹 According to Amazon’s official report, extensive damage was inflicted on this center. Two centers in the UAE were directly hit, and one center in Bahrain also suffered serious physical damage.
 
🔹 These attacks caused power outages, fires, and structural damage.
 
🔹 Amazon has announced that the restoration process will be time-consuming due to the physical nature of the damages and has asked its customers to back up their data.
 
🔹 The possibility of transferring processing loads to alternative centers in other parts of the world has also been raised.
 
🔹 These attacks are part of recent operations by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps against Amazon data centers in Dubai and other strategic centers in the region.
 
🔹 Targeting Amazon and Microsoft in these operations has dealt a serious blow to the enemy’s technological and informational infrastructures.

Posted by: Zet | Mar 6 2026 14:57 utc | 33

The West will not catch-up in our lifetimes. They can’t. The lack of resources m education, the crushing debts, the mortgaged futures for colonial folly.
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Mar 6 2026 14:15 utc | 23
Pretty agree.
Especially after neoliberal politics arose. I believe every US puppet regime suffer that public education degrading. anything belong “public” got attacked those era.
I am watching for decades my country wrecking, and now Bunch of Morons handle my country.
Foolish masses with neoliberal ideology persistently attacked public goods, branding it “bad socialism”.
The human quality of civil servants has incredibly low now, compared past.
 
What we have now? there is merely a kind of envy towards rising powers like China and Russia, without any real capability to match it.

Posted by: Nokaz | Mar 6 2026 14:58 utc | 35

An Iranian defeat serves to put more power and control into the same hands that unleashed covid and the vax upon the world…
 
Posted by: Whipping Post | Mar 6 2026 13:07 utc | 15
 
—-
 
Regardless of the outcome, this war has the potential to extend and solidifiy the tentacles of technofascism.
 
That could explain the Epstein Class gamble sadistically lighting afire the fuse of carnage and chaos in West Asia. 
What will fill the vacuum created in the vassal oil-wells-with-flags countries undergoing chemotherapy?
 
The monster is seeking a new form, the old husk dying.
 
It will kill whatever is necessary — the host, the entity, the vassals.
 
New found energy, openness and cohesion amongst the people of the empire need arise to put a wooden stake in the heart of the vampire empire.
 
Push pull it down.
 

Posted by: suzan | Mar 6 2026 15:08 utc | 37

Posted by: Patroklos | Mar 6 2026 11:29 utc | 1
 
What an unusually lousy thread opener. If you don’t have anything to say then don’t do it. I know that your “nothing ever happens” is trying to wax philosophical but this is certainly the wrong time and place for that.
 
To offer some content: I’ve noted that German mainstream media is very cautiously stepping aside. For example, there have been reports about the Minab school massacre, including details. There are skeptical reports about what the USA may be able to achieve and so on. All this is in line with “German government distances itself from USA course of action” (current Spiegel headline). Make no mistake, German establishment is solidly transatlantically oriented — these people couldn’t think differently if they wanted to. But it seems some crumbs for the population are required.

Posted by: Konami | Mar 6 2026 15:08 utc | 39

Posted by: Random Lurker | Mar 6 2026 6:41 utc | 805 Someone has been scrapping and re-utilising names from past posts. I have used “RandomLurker” 5 times in the last couple of years. This google search ( “randomlurker” site:moonofalabama.org ) will brings these up. The chance of someone randomly picking “Random Lurker” as a monicer, is practically zero. “Random Lurker” appeared once in the text of the following reply: Thank you Random Lurker for that insightful question.Posted by: Tom Pfotzer | Oct 3 2025 20:09 utc | 95

Posted by: RandomLurker | Mar 6 2026 15:19 utc | 41

Croatian president exposes Israeli war crimes.
 
Zoran Milanović calls Gaza actions the worst war crimes ever, bans all Croatian military ties with Israel, withdraws soldiers from Iraq & Lebanon.

 
43-second video . 
https://x.com/xIsraelExposedx/status/2029653056330096896

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Mar 6 2026 15:32 utc | 43

Posted by: petergrfstrm | Mar 6 2026 14:46 utc | 33

The hilarious part is elites even thinking this is possible. Even if you corral all the living beings in the West under this scheme for a moment in time, what makes these idjits think they could maintain it? What it results in is the utter annihilation of the elites and their progeny, if not immediately, rather when the worm turns.
 
Its stuoid thinking by stupid megalomaniacal people.

Posted by: Doctor Eleven | Mar 6 2026 15:42 utc | 45

@ English Outsider | Mar 6 2026 14:58 utc | 35
 
thanks for weighing in on this topic… have you read carroll quigleys book ‘the anglo american empire’? that would have been written in the 70’s i think…
 
i don’t think it is so much britian or the uk, as it is the financial elite as represented by the BOE that are at the root of the question here.. city of london  is a critical part of it obviously.. on a number of threads i have been positing that those involved in the epstein saga – what i refer to as the epstein class – although essentially transnational, have a controlling grip on most western gov’t’s… the ones they don’t – iran and etc. etc. – are the one’s they go to war with to change that, so they too are under the same grip..
 
one thing i know for sure is that democracies are not happening as advertized..  we have a plutocracy instead and have had for a very long time.. if people choose to think differently based on what the media tells them, there ain’t much i can do about that… 

Posted by: james | Mar 6 2026 15:45 utc | 47

this is a video by a guy that was mentioned in a previous thread who i found quite relevant and recommend… you have to switch the cc – subtitles into english, or whatever language you read… 
 
Dr. Daniele Ganser: Israel und die USA zerschlagen das Völkerrecht

Posted by: james | Mar 6 2026 16:07 utc | 49

An Iranian defeat serves to put more power and control into the same hands that unleashed covid and the vax upon the world… Posted by: Whipping Post | Mar 6 2026 13:07 utc | 15 —- Regardless of the outcome, this war has the potential to extend and solidifiy the tentacles of technofascism. That could explain the Epstein Class gamble sadistically lighting afire the fuse of carnage and chaos in West Asia. What will fill the vacuum created in the vassal oil-wells-with-flags countries undergoing chemotherapy? The monster is seeking a new form, the old husk dying. It will kill whatever is necessary — the host, the entity, the vassals. New found energy, openness and cohesion amongst the people of the empire need arise to put a wooden stake in the heart of the vampire empire. Push pull it down. 
Posted by: suzan | Mar 6 2026 15:08 utc | 38
Several years ago, I founded the Anti-Society Society, which then kinda morphed into my attempts to join with others to build a self sufficient community here in Costa Rica. I have plenty of land in a semi-remote area, but accomodations would need to be constructed.
Tis only I, a lone wolflet, but it is a beautiful area, plenty of rainfall and would not be to difficult to live without electricity.
Probably more for someone that would choose to just “Drop out”.
Sould not be difficult to find by doing a search for:
“Brett’s Ark in Costa Rica”.

Posted by: Whipping Post | Mar 6 2026 16:23 utc | 51

We love you Palestine! Forever in our hearts. Steadfastness. This too shall pass.
🙂

Posted by: titmouse | Mar 6 2026 16:52 utc | 53

Posted by: Zet | Mar 6 2026 14:57 utc | 34
https://health.aws.amazon.com/health/statusClick Service History, locales “Middle East” to see more detail. Large data compute and storage(S3) seems to be the most affected.
Amazon AWS service seems to be recovering. Data centers have backup power and are large, but where are the generators going to get fuel? Interestingly, AWS Bedrock the product for AI services are stated as being online.

Posted by: misplaced citizen | Mar 6 2026 17:06 utc | 55

Posted by: james | Mar 6 2026 16:28 utc | 53
 
Yes, james.  Thank you for saying that.   I have been reading Antoine de Saint Exupery’s  narrative Wind, Sand, and Stars.    (His final work was  The Little Prince.)   We ought not excuse France from its colonial aspirations contributing eventually to war.  Camus’s Sysiphus was coming to mind as I read, as well as a movie I remember that had a scene in it of a homeless persons camp in which the highlight of the day was to bring a chair out into a field to be entertained by that evening’s sunset.  (Someone will know the name of that movie.) 
 
I am happy for Croatia:  the highlight of a World Cup was the presentation of that prize to Croatia’s team  by Putin in an open stadium being deluged by a downpour of rain, the ceremony joyously continuing nonetheless.  Also, in contrast, Alex Krainer with Nima continually losing his cool trying to understand (and failing) what could be behind Trump’s own madness currently ongoing.
 
This has been a terrible week for us all.

Posted by: juliania | Mar 6 2026 17:13 utc | 57

The ever more anti-democratic UK is now going to join in with bombing Iran, and promises to defend the despot of Bahrein.
 
Presumably the UK’s rotten Establishment wants there to be even more child-sacrifices to appease the insatiable deity of the Zionists.

Posted by: Cynic | Mar 6 2026 17:36 utc | 59

b, I don’t know if you have seen stuff about Hungary. It may be worthy of your analysis.
 
For everyone else, Hungary and Ukraine are very close to conflict.
 

🚨BREAKING:
 
🇭🇺 This is HUGE! Hungarian Special Forces ARREST Seven Ukraine Citizens in Budapest.
 
Travelling in two armoured vehicles they carried $40 million in cash and 9 kg of gold.

 
31-second video . 
https://x.com/HungaryBased/status/2029942581266669862
 
—–
 

🚨BREAKING
 
The Hungarian Foreign Minister himself led a large protest against Zelensky outside the Ukrainian Embassy in Budapest, Hungary.
 
Good job Hungarians. Lots of cheap Russian oil for you in the future once Zelensky is defeated!

 
13-second video . 
https://x.com/aleksbrz11/status/2030001894735610112

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Mar 6 2026 19:33 utc | 61

Posted by: psychohistorian | Mar 6 2026 17:00 utc | 55  Who are those three people? I promise not to take Larry Johnson’s word as gospel. 

Posted by: steven t johnson | Mar 6 2026 20:00 utc | 63

comments from barflies appreciated
 
https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/ninetonoon/audio/2019025789/communism-s-improbable-rise-in-china
 
Communism’s improbable rise in China

From a dusty boardroom with 13 delegates in 1921, the Chinese Communist Party’s rise to rule over the country by 1949 was highly improbable. 
But, as Stanford University historian and author Frank Dikötter explains the party benefited from wars, invasions and outside help to claim power. 
And it was unapologetic in its use of violence and repression on its path there, Frank says. 
The author has trawled through thousands of files from the archives of the Party to tell this story, following his earlier The People’s Trilogy, using the same archives to document the lives of ordinary people living under Mao. 
Frank is senior fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. 

Posted by: tucenz | Mar 6 2026 21:06 utc | 65

@Cynic #60An economic impact on UK citizens that I hadn’t considered until stumbling on this piece from MSM publication i Newspaper..
 
“Graduates could end up facing interest rates of 7.1 per cent on their loans as conflict in the Gulf region pushes up oil and gas prices 

Graduates are set to see the interest rates on their student loans rise later this year as the conflict in the Middle East is expected to drive up inflation.
Experts say some graduates face paying thousands more, with years added on to the length of time they must repay their loans, making it even harder to pay down their debts.
This is because the escalating conflict with Iran is likely to push up oil and food prices if it continues, which will filter through to inflation rates, potentially driving up the Retail Prices Index (RPI) measure.
These rates are used to set the interest on some student loans. Graduates with Plan 2 student loans – who went to university between 2012 and 2022 – face interest rates on a sliding scale from RPI to RPI plus an additional 3 per cent depending on earnings.”iNews.co.uk – Student loans set to grow even more as Middle East crisis stokes inflation(Paywalled, can be read using smry.ai unblocker) 

Posted by: Rattus | Mar 6 2026 21:30 utc | 67

Alastair Crooke:
 
Trump is bought and paid for by the Pro Israel lobby. In the 1990s Trump’s real estate (e.g. casinos in Atlantic City) was in deep trouble. Trump’s real estate empire was rescued/bailed out by a group of Pro Israel people like Sheldon Adelson and Bill Ackman, Paul Singer (???), ………… . These people want the US to be strong so it can help Israel (unconditionally). These people want to IMPROVE the relationship with China because they think that winning over China will help to isolate Russia. These people also fear the Artificial Intelligence bubble will pop and take them (financially) down.
The US paid in total some $ 22 billion to Al Nusra / Al Jolani in Syria / Northern Iraq. But former general Micheal Flynn warned that this group also wanted to establish a Caliphate in northern Iraq which would not be in US’ interests.
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YnKsPMFTKkI   (length: 31 minutes)

Posted by: WMG | Mar 6 2026 23:34 utc | 69

Something thing I find very interesting when you compare Ukraine to Iran is how the people reacted to the whole thing. In ukraine despite zelensky being unpopular as expected people didn’t like getting bombed so they rallied behind him and his popularity surged. Whilst in iran the, unpopular regime, stayed unpopular, and Iranians seem to celebrating the invasion. No one in Ukraine was celebrating it in 2022 why do you think there is this huge difference?

Posted by: 7161 | Mar 7 2026 2:32 utc | 71

“According to Chinese export data compiled by Ember, in the 12 months to April 2025 Cuba’s imports of Chinese solar panels grew by a factor of 34, faster than anywhere else…
 
Cuba may experience the fastest energy transition in the world as a result”
 

screenshot of article . 
https://x.com/21stcentury_ML/status/2029727334140629395

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Mar 7 2026 3:26 utc | 73

phew, I was about to comment about senator Brian Mcginnis and realized he’s not a senator at the last moment. speen avoided😎
 
anyway CSIS analysis on the initial cost of this war
 
https://www.csis.org/analysis/37-billion-estimated-cost-epic-furys-first-100-hours
 

-The first 100 hours (H+100) of the operation are estimated to cost $3.7 billion, or $891.4 million each day
 
-The United States has expended over 2,000 munitions of various types in the first 100 hours of the campaign.
 
-Equipment Losses and Infrastructure Damage have been limited to approximately $359 million so far
 
-Costs per day are expected to go down as US and Israel switch to cheaper ammunitions

Posted by: Protoss Carrier | Mar 7 2026 3:29 utc | 75

Zelensky claims the Middle East used more Patriots in three days than UA has in the entire war. Incredible, UA air defense must be some kind of wizard-level skill. Their S-300s and Patriots, with barely any missiles, somehow shoot down state-of-the-art RU tech, better, faster, and in way higher quantities than anything the Middle East, Israel, or the U.S. can manage.
 
Meanwhile, the world’s elite setups, Aegis, Patriots, THAAD, Iron Dome, David’s Sling, hundreds of planes, top-tier intel can’t even deal with the first-generation Shahed drones Iran sends. Who knew a few UA systems could outperform decades of tech, billions in budgets, and multiple armies?
 
Honestly, if I were them, I’d trade 50 F-35s for a single UA F-16 pilot. USA clearly needs UA and should maybe look to trade a few patriots against UA anti- drone training.

Posted by: Best username | Mar 7 2026 3:50 utc | 77

Ivanka.
https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%2011/EFTA02536742.pdf

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Mar 7 2026 4:19 utc | 79

Posted by: 7161 | Mar 7 2026 2:32 utc | 72
 
#####
 
A few interesting premises there.
 
Russia never bombed civilians in Ukraine; they have made a point of only bombing the military.
 
Iran’s “regime” (government) is wildly popular, with millions of people in the streets all over the country every day since Trump killed the leader of a major religion.
 
Iranians are the people of Husayn ibn Ali, and they remember Karbala.
 
This all happened long before regular handwashing became a thing in Western Europe, and women were still chattel as wives before the Married Women’s Property Act of 1870. Persian women has property rights over 1,000 years before that.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Mar 7 2026 4:29 utc | 81

Zelensky just realized that whenever a country is treated like a used condom and gets weapons and equipment carefully pumped into it while the main equipment supplier is off-limits, you don’t need that much air defense when you can just soak up the missiles and drones with your own land.
 
It’s a different story when the actual supplier itself is targeted. Suddenly, every air defense interceptor needs to be carefully rationed and air defense systems start popping like balloons left and right. It’s as I’ve been saying for some time; Ukraine and NATO’s greatest strength is the fact that NATO is not directly a part of this war, and thus gets to keep its land treated as off-limits by Russia.

Posted by: Iskander 9K720 | Mar 7 2026 4:45 utc | 83

psychohistorian | Mar 7 2026 3:47 utc | 76
 
I’ll find you something. It may take a bit. I just got blown away trying to bid on the small bright opal. That sort of online auto bidding, I put in my absolute maximum price near the end. For those that go up five dollars at a time, it blows them away every time they put in a bid it is too low. I thought I had it at a good price then anther bloke came in and did the same to me. Like the American neo-cons would say though, I made him pay a price. I upped it and upped it until I got a bit worried I would win at that. price.
Another parcel coming up this evening I will bid on. A bit ordinary in colour in what can be seen but will give me a few days in grinding and polishing if I get them.  More stones and parcels over the next few days I have put low bids on just to put my name in the basket. The other day I was asleep when one came up to ending time. I had put in a low bid just to get it in my list. I checked what price it had sold for and thought bloody hell, I should have stayed awake.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Mar 7 2026 5:44 utc | 85

US issues a license that authorizes sales of Venezuelan gold

Posted by: UWDude | Mar 7 2026 5:51 utc | 87

Pray for Bibi
 
https://x.com/realstewpeters/status/1769749250378736098
 
https://x.com/ireallyhateyou/status/2029802147848544290
 
 

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Mar 7 2026 5:51 utc | 89

No wonder why Huawei got banned

 
56-second video . 
https://x.com/ShishirShelke1/status/2029967807014916354

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Mar 7 2026 6:44 utc | 91

trick I’ve done a few times:
 
If you ever need to post something serious or read something serious online, and miss flags and visits, go to a University computer lab and wait for a student to forget to log out.
 
Don’t to forget to wear your mask because of Covid.

Posted by: UWDude | Mar 7 2026 7:07 utc | 93

psychohistorian | Mar 7 2026 5:49 utc | 86
 
I’ m still getting to understand the workings of the site. Once an auction has concluded, the video and page disappears. It is only saved in messages that say I have been out bid. I should be able to go there, download the vid though I haven’t sent video in emails before. Getting a bit bleary eyed and under the weather at the moment, but have to wait up for the next auction. Perhaps tomorrow I will see if I can download the video of the small bright opal parcel and then try and figure out how to send it.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Mar 7 2026 7:36 utc | 95

On the Iran stuff, little news is leaking out from either side. I checked on the Iran thread and my eyes quickly blurred and crossed. Couldn’t be the grog. Just a matter of waiting. Iran may well be the make or break for the anglo American empire. After Russia, the brick that broke the camels back. 
Schryver a year or two or three back wrote an article on substack. I cannot remember what he called it now but exceptionally relevant. It needs digging up and linking on one of these threads.
You may remember it james.
 
Anyway, to fill in time while awaiting the doings of a collapsing empire, I will be concentrating on opal. I want to cut and polish some good party stones.  Lighting ridge crystal for ear rings, Coober Pedy crystal for pendants. That seems the go. Gotta make the women sparkle.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Mar 7 2026 9:18 utc | 97

Cuba has been without electricity for more than 60 hours causing spontaneous protests in the capital Havana.

Posted by: UWDude | Mar 7 2026 10:19 utc | 99