The marines and sailors on both USS Tripoli and USD Abraham Lincoln are eating Rationed Meals………..
 
killerdoll – wow ! Thats sugbificant 

Posted by: Exile | Apr 17 2026 2:17 utc | 203

@ killerdoll and exile…..
Yeah usually before they send you into the shit show you get surf and turf. That’s the big clue you’re going to NOT see home for an extra 3 months.  
If they break out the MREs that’s like way worse, at least for shipboard squids. 

Posted by: Adriatic Hillbilly | Apr 17 2026 2:34 utc | 205

Full Retard to 11! 🤯
https://gcaptain.com/u-s-expands-iran-blockade-with-global-boarding-powers-broad-contraband-crackdown/
Posted by: Nobody | Apr 17 2026 1:34 utc | 196
 
Well does that mean Piracy becomes legal. Americans have not been given the keys to Earth, they have trouble running their own “united” states. 
Just have Tankers armed with trained personnel who know how to use ship to ship missiles then it becomes a zero sum game after the first missiles hit. You will be bullied until you smack the Bully in the head hard. Yes you might lose but the respect you gain from not putting up with Control is epic.

Posted by: Thunderdownunder | Apr 17 2026 2:53 utc | 207

Problems with that thunder is once you arm a ship you are now a combatant… No one will insure you. 

Posted by: Adriatic Hillbilly | Apr 17 2026 2:57 utc | 209

No Konami it doesn’t. Of all the blue water navies only the USN can replenish a combatant ship while steaming at 20 knots. AOE-3…USS SEATTLE. 2005. 
LOOK I am not a war mongering shit bag and the reason I follow this site is that I think the USA has been on the wrong path for decades

Posted by: Adriatic Hillbilly | Apr 17 2026 3:03 utc | 211

Putin offers to mediate in between Iran and angloamericans!
But Putin is expert in turning almost won wars into a messy quagmire, all due to his dithering attitude even in the middle of war.
 
The same day that Iran attacked intruder”Abraham Lincoln carrier” Putin was just talking to British envoy warning them not to attack inner part of Russia that British did a day before. So Putin is always warning but has got no guts to look in eye to eye at English pirates . Putin himself is a big liability now. Instead of helping Iran with advanced missiles to sink British and American vessels , Putin and his British agent foreign minister Lavrov are talking long winded speech about legality and nuclear war. Putin’s cowardice brings nuke attack by west more likely. In fact if Russia had given already paid for s300 in 2008 , then west would have been checked then and there but Putin was out to please west especially the anglo enemies . Result is that coward Russia has let things slide so much that west is openly talking about nuking Iran with impunity! The same importance Putin showed with Venezuela .

Posted by: Sam | Apr 17 2026 3:05 utc | 213

While Iran saved Putin’s ass by giving shared drone to rescue Russia from quagmire, this Putin has been quiet till 2 weeks of Iran war .only when he saw that Iran is winning, he came to vague support of Iran. While Iran hits all those gulf nations who support Americans, Putin has been cowardly quiet to sinking of Russian war ships like Moscow as bad kurks and what not, by the 3rd rate country england who gets emboldened by Putin’s timidity.
 
Compare Iran a non nuclear nation and Russia a paper tiger which Putin has made of her.
 
Russians must kick out Putin now.
 
Iran has single handedly changed the world order while stupid Putin and his traitor foreign minister lavrov could not even dream of that 
 
 

Posted by: Sam | Apr 17 2026 3:06 utc | 215

Posted by: Konami | Apr 17 2026 3:07 utc | 226
 
He’s probably an 8 year old computer games player

Posted by: GeorgeWendell | Apr 17 2026 3:09 utc | 217

If I am correct about these things it may bring China and Russia in and of course India and Turkey, all significant and powerful nations. 
Posted by: Bingo | Apr 17 2026 1:42 utc | 199
=================
 
Col. MacGregor thinks this (or some) big land invasion plus back-to-the-stone-age bombing action is slated to take place/begin this Monday. He thinks it will fail.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7YGEih028NE
 

Posted by: Jane | Apr 17 2026 3:25 utc | 219

The current Australian ms media take on the Geelong refinery fire. It still doesn’t explain why the drone was present in the area and why it came from such a long distance away. 
Posted by: GeorgeWendell | Apr 17 2026 1:04 utc | 184
 
Thank you George. I read that it was an American drone from Darwin, circling the refinery for some time before the explosion. Is there a link to some believable source confirming that? TIA

Posted by: Samu | Apr 17 2026 3:30 utc | 221

check this out
https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP96-00791R000200070001-9.pdf
 
from synopsis:
 
“precognition,which is known to no one until a future time, appears to work quite well”
 
What the CIA has discovered in its studies on parapsychology, so have I.   Both of us discovered it exists, but is not predictable to use or rely on in any way.

Posted by: UWDude | Apr 17 2026 3:32 utc | 223

Posted by: Adriatic Hillbilly | Apr 17 2026 2:46 utc | 211
 
Oh boohoohoo, don’t disparage the “young sailors”! They are just following orders! Wait, where have I heard that phrase before?
It’s an all volunteer military. Most of them probably get off on murdering people. By the way, they are out there at sea for a long time, eh? (https://qnews.com.au/on-this-day-is-it-true-what-they-say-about-sailors/)

“To my knowledge, sodomy is a regular thing on ships that go on long cruises. In the warships, I would say that the sailors preferred it.”

Posted by: Stanislav Vladimirovich | Apr 17 2026 3:46 utc | 225

EI: Jon Elmer’s Resistance Report https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XTwK2PKBpGl
Posted by: John Gilberts | Apr 17 2026 3:28 utc | 225
Unfortunately, it seems like Google has censored it.

Posted by: Stanislav Vladimirovich | Apr 17 2026 3:50 utc | 227

Stanislav Vladimirovitch@232:
 
Corrected url @ 227

Posted by: John Gilberts | Apr 17 2026 3:54 utc | 229

“To my knowledge, sodomy is a regular thing on ships that go on long cruises. In the warships, I would say that the sailors preferred it.”
Posted by: Stanislav Vladimirovich | Apr 17 2026 3:46 utc | 230

 
Oh c’mon! Everbody knows that’s a thing with the Brits and their Commonwealth satraps.

Posted by: drinky crow | Apr 17 2026 4:06 utc | 231

Yesterday, for the first time since America’s war against Iran, Wen Tiejun shared his thoughts about the war.
 
A summary + some extra context from me:
The objective result of the war is that America has benefited from the increase in its share in global oil trade, boosting its output and trade volume, thus objectively maintaining the dollar’s share as a trade settlement currency (and the dollar’s status as a reserve currency). This war is not quite a world war just yet. It’s bigger than just a “US-Israel-Iraq War” because many other countries are involved now, so it’s more of a “New Middle East War” (some media call it the Sixth Middle East War).
 
The dollar’s use in trade settlement was declining before due to America’s own actions such as sanctions against Russia, Iran and Venezuela, which encouraged those sanctioned to trade with countries like China to bypass the dollar system through barter trade or using their own currencies.
 
In 2018, the top 3 oil producers were America (16.2%), KSA (13.0%) and Russia (12.1%). This gap has widened in 2024, with the top 3 still being America (22.8%), KSA (10.5%) and Russia (10.5%). America wants to increase its oil production even further, but America mainly produces shale oil and its production costs are high. High oil prices make American shale oil production viable, which in turn allows America to influence the global oil market.
 
Remember, all Americans want to Make America Great Again, and American power was at its peak in WW2. In 1940, America produced 168m tons (62%) of the estimated global total of 270m tons (Francis Pike, Hirohito’s War, The Pacific War 1941 – 1945 [Bloomsbury 2015]). This was overwhelming control over the global oil market that America wielded. “Notably, 70% of the 40 million tons of gasoline consumed by Japan in the first three years of the invasion of China was supplied by the US.” Japan had a crippling dependence on America during WW2 due to oil. By cutting off oil supply to Japan, the Americans were able to induce the Japanese to attack America.
 
Americans want to wield the same power again in the present era.
 
By choking out Iranian oil trade, countries that want access to oil will have to get their hands on American dollars so that they can get oil from the top producer, America, and its lackeys like the KSA. Buying oil from the number 2 producer, Russia, requires permission from America, as the case of the Philippines shows (Reuters, April 14). Iran launders its oil trade to bypass American sanctions using ship-to-ship transfer, typically in an area off Malaysia and Singapore. The AFP article (dated April 16) doesn’t mention if this laundering can still continue now that the Americans are blockading Iranian ships from exiting the Strait of Hormuz. Yes, “there’s a lot of Iranian oil still on the water as floating storage,” but once these oil have been transferred, it’s unknown if they’ll be replenished by new Iranian oil.
 
Since Americans are incapable of acknowledging that their own actions have led to the dollar’s decline (these are Wen Tiejun’s own words), the only thing Americans can do to maintain the dollar’s share in trade settlements (crucial to America’s survival in the financial arena) is to start a war that achieved the previously mentioned objective results.
 
Death to America
Marg bar Âmrikâ
Marg bar Âmrikâ
Marg bar Âmrikâ

Posted by: All Under Heaven | Apr 17 2026 4:12 utc | 233

@GeorgeWendell | Apr 17 2026 3:59 utc | 235
 
Re: MQ-4C Triton
 
 A US Navy MQ-4C Triton appeared over Cuba, circling the island several times.
 
The drone, call sign BLKCAT6, took off from Jacksonville Air Force Base, Florida, reached Cuba, and then flew along the island’s entire coast. It then hovered briefly over Santiago de Cuba before heading toward Havana, where it also circled several times.
 
The Americans are believed to be updating their data on the Cuban system. Defense, which could pose a danger in the event of a landing operation. 
 

Posted by: CrazyCanuck | Apr 17 2026 4:19 utc | 235

On yesterday’s Iran thread Karlof1 and several others conducted a discussion about a antisemitism and connections to Zionism. While several useful facts emerged from the discussion, I thought actually little light was shed on a complex history with roots in many countries over hundreds of years.  I didn’t have time yesterday or today to discuss what I know—and I do not claim to be an expert—but let me make a few points.
1. Antisemitism in Europe was different in different parts of Europe and at different times. Different groups of Jews with different cultural practices arrived at different times from different places.  To provide one example of this read about Jews in Hungary who spoke Hungarian, not Yiddish in the early part of this discussion about a pioneering neuroscientist who studied Multiple Sclerosis:
 
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/elizabeth-roboz-einstein-the-determined-genius-behind-a-multiple-sclerosis-breakthrough/?utm_source=Klaviyo&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=TIS_041626&utm_term=made%20a%20breakthrough%20in%20the%20treatment%20of%20multiple%20sclerosis&_kx=tyk2SW9PKst46dUfXDS_DHepKvxS8D0qDt3T0KbFnCs.WEer5A
 
2. The discussion about anti-semitism in Russia was incomplete and partly wrong. For example, virtually all of the worst, most violent progroms of the 19th century [which contributed significantly to the growth of popularity of the Zionist idea] occurred in the Pale of Settlement, i.e, Ukraine and in one case Byelorussia.  As a start, here is a Wikipedia article on Jews in Russia, inadequate though it might be:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Jews_in_Russia
 
3. Also, specifically, Karl, a small correction to the timing of your recollection of the use of emigration from Russia to Israel/Zionism as a way to undermine the Soviet Union. Specifically, those efforts predated Reagan by quite a bit. Follows is my proof by personal anecdote.  In 1977 I went on a two week tour of 4 Soviet republics led by the official Soviet tourist agency, Intourist.  I was working in a factory at the time, and I wanted to see Soviet factories and this was billed as a ‘worker tour’.  However, what they meant was ‘for a worker’s budget,’ so I saw no factories.  There were 40 people in the group, from veterans of the Lincoln Brigade to retired merchant mariners who had run the Murmansk run during WWIi. At least a third of the group were Jewish, but a husband and wife stood out as not interacting much with the group.  On the very first day, in Moscow, this couple chose to wander the city on their own, rather than accompany the group in sightseeing.  Self touring was an option for the whole tour.  The couple never returned.  The Intourist guide explained that the couple had, for every city we were scheduled to visit,a list of Jewish names and addresses as well as literature on how to emigrate to Israel using loopholes in Soviet law and local contacts who could help negotiate these loopholes.  The couple’s lists and literature were confiscated, and they were given the option to return to the group to continue the tour. The couple chose to return to the US.  My understanding is that the Soviet government resisted such organized efforts to get Soviet Jews to emigrate to Israel because Soviet Jews tended to be professionals who had been educated by a Soviet society still trying to restore its economy from WWII.  Therefore, the policy of limiting emigration to Israel was not motivated by antisemitism.  Indeed, the USSR was one of the first to recognize Israel as a state in 1948.  I’m not saying antisemitism did not exist in the USSR, but it was not official policy as the MSM and US Zionist elements made it out to be.
 
 

Posted by: mjh | Apr 17 2026 4:36 utc | 237

Article on Chinese media on the fake F15 crash based on Iranian news.

“Figure 1:C-130The fuselage is covered with dense holes, and the edges of the holes appear to be significantly metal torn.
On the ground around the fuselage, a number of small craters (figure 2 below) were scattered in a manner consistent with the explosive characteristics of mortars or similar shells.”

https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/UHOZpL6t8u6aDfGXa0FZWg

Posted by: Surferket | Apr 17 2026 5:24 utc | 239

Iran’s presumptions are being proven correct–the war will continue until it gains its ten points via battle. The Outlaw US Empire isn’t the big problem overall, as Crooke explained to Joe Laurie it’s the Zionists. This was one of the most educational of Crooke’s chats I’ve seen over the years. Shi’i just can’t allow Zionist injustice to continue–a position we all ought to promote.

Posted by: karlof1 | Apr 17 2026 5:29 utc | 241

mjh | Apr 17 2026 4:36 utc | 242—
 
Thanks for your attempt to distill a very complex subject and ongoing issue.

Posted by: karlof1 | Apr 17 2026 5:34 utc | 243

karlof1@246:
 
I thought so too. Good to see it reposted.

Posted by: John Gilberts | Apr 17 2026 5:44 utc | 245

Adriatic Hillybilly.
 
The USN is a spent force. The once mighty navy is now a hollow shell with expensive white elephants where reliable workhorses used to be. 
 
 
The challenges faced by MSC (sealift comd) are significant. 
 
USNS Big Horn suffered “damage” during the fracas with Ansar Allah. Leaving the 5th Fleet without its primary dedicated replenishment vessel.
 
Ships were already under high stress operational schedules with a high influx of unqualified civilian crews.
 
The closest DFSP (fuel support pts) locations are Singapore,  Darwin and Diego Garcia. 
 
Rations, general supply and ammo from NSA Bahrain is…….well, “unhealthy”.
 
So, that photo of the state current rations is a very far cry from the “lobster and steak” dinners being served just before the start of the War of Aggression. 
 

Posted by: Suresh | Apr 17 2026 6:01 utc | 247

253
“Many of the disaffected youth , brought up in dysfunctional families, seek adventure and solace in the still functioning family societies of the brown- skinned world and they regard Europe as a fully dysfunctional social mess.Our politicians have inflated house prices beyond their reach, and deflated job responsibilities to US- style slavery.Europe is barred to Brits without full time employment .Nobody in their Right mind would travel to the US.”
Certainly why my wife and I left the USA.  The Asians mostly honor their contracts and pay you, or pay at least half if they themselves get into financial trouble.  The Americans and British are agreement incapable.  No honor, no integrity.
 

Posted by: ramAustralia | Apr 17 2026 6:19 utc | 249

Suresh at 255: or the iranians saw an opportunity to clear various sites bombed from the debris and recover a few launchers to be made operational again. Their missiles are so deep underground and intact where even the US’ bunker busters can’t harm them! So once the cease fire is over by tuesday iran will have numerous refurbished launchers to put in play against the jews. And the jewish society is vulnerable which iran knows and they also know that the jews won’t stop their warring and therefore know that the jews must go and must go means driven away from palestine!
so expect more of missile attacks on the jews till they run away!

Posted by: Nisses | Apr 17 2026 6:43 utc | 251

see the 2:08 video at the first link
 
 
 
https://x.com/MayadeenEnglish/status/2044945863068336258
Al Mayadeen English  @MayadeenEnglish 
 
In an interview for Al Mayadeen, Professor Mohammad Marandi explained how the US and “Israel” ultimately caved into Iran’s demand for a ceasefire in #Lebanon, after the US was pressured by the “growing crisis for energy, petrochemicals, fertilizers, LNG, gasoline, and refined products,” as well as the closure of the Strait of Hormuz. 
 
Combined with the above was Iran’s warning that it “would strike the Israeli regime,” which ultimately forced the #US into “pushing harder against the regime, and Netanyahu was forced to accept.” 
@s_m_marandi  #LebanonCeasefire #StraitOfHormuz #EconomicCrisis #Iran
 
—————-
 
https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/marandi-to-al-mayadeen–resistance-and-iran-forced-ceasefire
Marandi to Al Mayadeen: Resistance and Iran forced ceasefire outcome  – By Al Mayadeen English 
 
Professor Mohammad Marandi says the Lebanon ceasefire was shaped by Iranian pressure, escalating economic and energy crises. 
 
Professor Mohammad Marandi affirmed to Al Mayadeen that the ceasefire between “Israel” and Lebanon was ultimately imposed through a combination of Iranian pressure, escalating economic crises, and the steadfastness of the Lebanese resistance and its popular base….. 
 
According to Marandi, Iran issued a direct warning to the United States in recent hours, stating that if a ceasefire was not enforced, it would strike the Israeli regime…… 
 
Beyond geopolitical pressure, Marandi emphasized that Lebanon’s resilience played a central role in shaping the outcome, describing the Lebanese public as “the most important force” behind the resistance, noting that popular support enabled sustained military pressure despite heavy sacrifices…….
 

Posted by: michaelj72 | Apr 17 2026 6:51 utc | 253

Posted by: General Factotum | Apr 17 2026 4:26 utc | 241
Thanks & good on ya. Gotta hold the line on the booga-booga stuff.
Stevie Wonder’s song Superstition comes to mind. 
“When you believe in things that you don’t understand then you suffer”.

Posted by: waynorinorway | Apr 17 2026 7:22 utc | 255

Perhaps one ‘good thing’ to come out of the Iran war is the exposure of the CO2 scam
Even the UK press are reporting on the problems a lack of CO2 will cause and the government restarting production…..  
The government find this leek of information to be ‘unhelpful’ I guess because it risks exposing the scam, but of course that would require people stopping and thinking……
https://www.itv.com/news/tyne-tees/2026-04-16/energy-plant-emerges-as-key-part-of-secret-government-plans-for-uk-food-shortage

Posted by: Thorvid | Apr 17 2026 7:50 utc | 257

Philip Giraldi writes [Source]:
 

“…the Israelis will have US backing to use their “secret” nuclear weapons to strike and destroy Iran if the war is resumed and is going against them, which is quite possible, maybe even likely. They might also have the leverage to get an ignorant and aggressive Trump to use America’s nukes on Iran…”

 
 
As I’ve repeatedly said the idea of the zionazis nuking Iran, with or without American permission, is absurd.
 
“israel” is not going to nuke Iran. It would be a genocide too far: it could not be supported even by shabbos goyim like Putin or Modi. It would mean at least the permanent loss of the de facto Russian support that as much as American weapons enables zionazi genocide in Lebanon, Gaza, and Syria. If America, where the non boomer population is steadily becoming anti-“israel”, dumps the zionazis in future, it would also mean Russia won’t be a new host for the zionazis to parasitise as they now do America.
 
Nor is it necessary. “israel” does not have to nuke Iran.
 
All it has to do is order its completely disposable slave Trump, who’s on his way out anyway, to nuke Iran.

Posted by: Biswapriya Purkayastha | Apr 17 2026 8:03 utc | 259

@karlof1 | Apr 17 2026 5:29 utc | 246
Your link fixed
 
https://conflictsforum.substack.com/p/war-and-deception
 

Posted by: Norwegian | Apr 17 2026 8:13 utc | 261

Thanks to
Posted by: John Gilberts | Apr 17 2026 3:47 utc | 231
Posted by: CrazyCanuck | Apr 17 2026 4:19 utc | 240
 
For links and info. I’m still not sure about its role in this fire, but it continues to be suspicious activity especially after CrazyCanucks comment as well.
 
I guess I’m mainly interested to see if there is any change in tact with the Australian government. Cui bono if it was sabotage? And it appears to be an Australian military drone but of US make. 
 

Posted by: GeorgeWendell | Apr 17 2026 8:21 utc | 263

Re: Crude oil types by golddigger @ 243
…such a great read, thanx a lot.
…the entire thread is gloomy today, except for few hopes. Your link is a rare find, got me out of here fast.

Posted by: AlexVadim | Apr 17 2026 8:23 utc | 265

@karlof1 | Apr 17 2026 5:29 utc | 246
Preventing Chinas rise is the real reason and following US policy documents that truth must be hidden. The proxy (willingly!) provides the excuse.
 
Zionism was a British creation and they invaded the US with it.
 
I claim the reason they did that, while unstated  was to get a handle on the bankers so they wouldnt invest much in Germany, Russia and so forth but in the main Britain was to remain the main beneficiary. You wont hear the court historian give you even a vague hint about that. And you can only dream of Crooke guiding you to go there.
 
It is one of Britains dirty secrets. Another such dirty secret is that they were also behind communism but equally successfully managed to blame the Jews for that too. Britain since the 16th century began to absorb the Venetian Oligarchy’s type of power savviness. People like Larouche and his associates have informed us about that but Crooke and many like him can believe Zionism isnt a British-made cult but instead old jewish thinking that the poor British unwillingly were forced to support. Carroll Quigley did expose the full spectrum dominance of all opinionmaking that those British elites achieved. But few have absorbed the insights.

Posted by: petergrfstrm | Apr 17 2026 8:38 utc | 267

petergrfstrm | Apr 17 2026 8:38 utc | 272
 
“People like Larouche and his associates have informed us about that but Crooke and many like him can believe Zionism isnt a British-made cult but instead old jewish thinking that the poor British unwillingly were forced to support.”
 
Wherever Christian Zionism came from, Britain or directly from the Jews, it certainly isn’t old thinking. It has practically no antecedents prior to the 1800s when it first arose in Britain. 

Posted by: Flying Dutchman | Apr 17 2026 8:53 utc | 269

Posted by: petergrfstrm | Apr 17 2026 8:38 utc
 
Nice post. The timeline from the 16thC is accurate imo. Have you considered that the English aristocracy may have been subverted/subsumed by Jewish immigrants/influence from that time forward? Certainly there is a coherent argument to be made that the Venetian influence/Black Nobility (whatever you want to denote it by) became embedded around that time, perhaps through Walsingham’s European network. There are even hypotheses that this influence was introduced via the Norman invasion.
 
There is no doubt in my mind that the English aristocracy was infiltrated, via marriage primarily, but also through financial support for the realm over several hundred years. Bear in mind, the emancipation of the UK citizenry is a very recent event, just over 100 years really since the common man got the vote. 
And of course the history of the development of Empire is well understood here. I guess the point I am marking is that there is no Clear water between the two elements you identify in your post. Thanks.

Posted by: Phalanges | Apr 17 2026 9:05 utc | 271

the only real difference is 70-80 years time
the moral and ethical differences are next to nil
 
 
 
https://x.com/ejmalrai/status/2045028873331503234
Elijah J. Magnier 🇪🇺  @ejmalrai 
 
Spot the difference: 
 
It is documented that Nazis murdered children in front of family members, including by beating, shooting, and other forms of extreme violence. 
 
In Lebanon, on several documented occasions, Israeli officers have called young Lebanese men and asked whether they wanted to die alone or with their families. The men then left their families, only to be killed shortly afterwards by Israeli drones in front of their wives and children, and in some cases their parents.
 

Posted by: michaelj72 | Apr 17 2026 9:23 utc | 273

Don’t mess with the Jesus:
 
https://x.com/i/status/2044138040650805495
 
https://x.com/i/status/2044637396403151209
 
 

Posted by: GeorgeWendell | Apr 17 2026 10:26 utc | 275

to Asian Frog @ 277
…yeah, you might be right on finale. Uimperator posted earlier on this thread about Israel is no longer trusts its partner. I’ve found a movie scene on Y/T that fits the script perfectly….
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0YzsWVUO-_o

Posted by: AlexVadim | Apr 17 2026 10:47 utc | 277

New LEGO video:

• LEGO What Shall We Do with the Drunken Hegseth? 🍺 🤮

Posted by: Petri Krohn | Apr 17 2026 10:55 utc | 279

HALA JABAR
 
So this is the “deal.”
 
Israel just leaked what it calls a “declaration” reached with Lebanon.
 
In reality, it is a surrender document. Lebanon is ordered to disarm Hezbollah, eliminate all non-state armed groups, & ensure only the Lebanese army can bear arms.
 
In exchange? A 10-day “goodwill pause” that Israel can cancel at any moment.
 
No Israeli withdrawal from southern Lebanon.
No end to buffer zones.
No commitment to stop the destruction.
 
This is not a ceasefire.
This is Israel demanding that Lebanon do what the IDF failed to achieve on the battlefield, ‘crush’ Hezbollah’s military power, while Israel keeps the right to strike whenever it chooses.
 
The Lebanese government has still not issued a single word confirming or denying this text.
 
Silence here is dangerous.
 
This is not peace talks.
This is asking Lebanon to tear itself apart so Israel can get what it wants through ‘diplomacy.’
 
Beyond shameful.
 
https://x.com/HalaJaber/status/2044875379572142343
 

Posted by: Menz | Apr 17 2026 11:06 utc | 281

Medi hassan drops a masterclass reality check on an IDF spokesman:
 
T. BERNADETTI
 
Long before Hamas, Israel carried out bombings/assassinations/ village massacres & attacks on British & Arab civilians in Mandatory Palestine during the 1920s-1940s. Their goal? To terrorise & displace the indigenous population to establish a Jewish state through force.
 
Video: (1:50)
https://x.com/MrsRoyKeaneo/status/2044799866925175118
 

Posted by: Menz | Apr 17 2026 11:18 utc | 283

@Phalanges | Apr 17 2026 9:05 utc | 276
 
I agree about intermarriages with heiresses. That is wellknown. But less wellknown is that when the British first began planning an empire, Venetian Bankers Like Horatio Palavicino had married into the Cromwells and the Cromwells married into his side. He orginally collected taxes for the Catholic Church but defected and kept the money. What other mixings happened when that one is given less attention than the later wellknown cases of wealthy jewesses married into British Nobility?
 
The Venetian agents had significant intellectual influence including about the Cabbala and Talmud presented to the Monarchy.
 
Talmud is like a handbook for how you treat business partners versus how you treat Rivals. That England might have received that well is not too farfetched no matter what they would be open about. For isnt that how western capitalists act with respect to partners and rivals?
 
Venice alread practised the doubleplay Britain has continued with: Namely pretending to share peoples indignation about the money lenders while behind the scenes collaborating with  them and gaining the profits. According to Christopher Marlowe in 1592 the Maltese Order was a higher power above the moneylenders.
 
And in Marlowe’s play The Jew of Malta the Maltese Knight was a hypocrite in like manner. But Marlowe explained that more clearly directly to his audience and that may have been the reason why Marlowe fell from grace one year later. Officially he was killed in a bar brawl but it is believed he continued making plays in 1604 with the penname William Shakespeare.
 
The Maltese Knights were funded by Venice in 1588.
 
According to Larouche the Maltese Knights did play a role in the 1980s of somehow controlling the bankers

Posted by: petergrfstrm | Apr 17 2026 11:22 utc | 285

GeorgeWendell @235: “It was an American made drone (Northrop Grumman MQ-4C Triton), one of three owned by the Australian military I now understand. I still don’t know much about why it was there.”
 
 
The MQ-4C is a surveillance drone, and an eye-wateringly expensive one at that (quarter $billion USD). Why use such an extreme high-end intelligence asset to monitor the site of a major incident before that incident even occurs? I know intelligence agencies like to record their operations, but in this case that would mean whoever in the Australian state controls the Tritons knew the refinery was going to burn ahead of time. Now why would that be….

Posted by: William Gruff | Apr 17 2026 11:26 utc | 287

@Menz | Apr 17 2026 11:18 utc | 288
British agent Orde Wingate according to Larouche et al organised both Jews against Arabs and vice versa in both cases encouraging cruelties.  The Pioneer generation of Israel were much influenced by him. 
Wingate  took an Arabic course at the School of Oriental Studies in London from October 1926 to March 1927, scoring 85/100, on the advice of his cousin, Sir Reginald Wingate.
He learned to speak Arabic, and lived like an Arab while serving with the Sudan Defence Force (1928–1933).
His Arabic was considered fluent, and he was known to have studied and
understood the Koran during his time in Sudan.
Later, during his time in Mandatory Palestine (1936–1939), he used his language skills and knowledge of Arab culture to “counter Arab militancy”
[But that according to Larouche et al was untrue. Instead he encouraged it]
Wingate was known as a brilliant, if eccentric, officer who also taught himself Hebrew

Posted by: petergrfstrm | Apr 17 2026 11:41 utc | 289

Parapsychology. 
That’s another religion-busting  fantasy of the Macronites.  The Lebanese government announces a deal with the US government.
 
One dung fly flies from the French owned  Cowpatil of Lebanon  to the Israel owned  Cowpatil of the US.
 
They suck juices from the US Cowpatil’s rich  brown Urea, seeking the dung fly equivalent of  life long- companionship , otherwise known as a flying fuck, then fly back.
 
Glad to hear that Iran sorted out Israel attacking Lebanon by ramping up the stakes of the conflict . Yet another Trump defeat.

Posted by: Giyane | Apr 17 2026 11:44 utc | 291

What is wrong with this World, I spent 3.6 years in Iran in the late 70’s. The untainted by chemical food, the history and the most beautiful people I had ever encountered. I had a HP 64 they had slide rules. They won the near enough and embarrassed me as an engineer.  Lets not talk about the Women, I swear I have seen eyes that would launch a Thousand ships. It is the cradle of civilisation to this day. Some of their buildings, through stained Glass, at sunset, will make you cry at the shifting Beauty of sunset. I was accepted as a White Christian Man and soon learnt a little Fasi only to be admonished for my hygiene (Yes we Suck). I have seen an 80+ woman with a Martini rifle near Tabriz  shoot a long horned goat 400 m away across the valley, Grab a Knife walk down and Up , gutted it and over 5 trips brought back Meat … for me, as a welcome guest.  Stuffed capsicum, rice with real saffron, Kofteh Tabrizi  and other slow cooked meats with spices I still cannot find, dessert of Sholeh Zard, a rice dish like creamed rice and a Tea so strong you will be parting for a full 18 hours…. And the music from minimal instruments sends you into a different World from the Tar and Sitar, the Oud and the stringed Qanun and the hand held goat skinned Daf (Tamborine, no metal bells). I doubt Americans have ever had a party without Alcohol. It, the Iranian way is next level fun (damned tea is intoxicating enough) the Women … those eyes, those dancing hips and gentle breast bounces with her brothers watching and frowning at your, Yes, Unashamed drooling and want.  
They are peaceful people, proud people and strongly tied to the National history which stretches back millennia. Trump kicked more than a Hornets nest, He sowed the wind and will reap the Whirlwind of the garden of Eden.
Never Kick a Hornets nest they will all attack and kill you
 
    

Posted by: Thunderdownunder | Apr 17 2026 11:49 utc | 293

Posted by: Thunderdownunder | Apr 17 2026 11:49 utc | 298
 
STOP!
 
You make an old man yearn to be young again..

Posted by: Menz | Apr 17 2026 11:52 utc | 295

Looks like Trump’s blockade is starting to bite.  Stock markets are up big time (with the Dow approaching the 50k mark before the war started).  Iran will fold.  Sad as that is to say.  It wasn’t their fault, they had no chance vs the US AND Israel.  No help, just words from it’s allies.

Posted by: bored | Apr 17 2026 12:08 utc | 297

Menz @299: “Interesting, literally where there’s smoke there’s fire”
 
There is another possibility which is that nobody in the Australian state controls the MQ-4C reconnaissance drones, and that the four of them (one still on order) were purchased as a complete system that includes American operators and analysts. My assumption would be that Australia doesn’t control the drones at all and only gets the processed and filtered data that the drone system provides. That would be something for Australians to determine though since I am on the wrong side of the planet to do the gumshoe work.

Posted by: William Gruff | Apr 17 2026 12:20 utc | 299