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April 13, 2026
Trump And The Devil

President Donald Trump has for some time been in a public dispute with Pope Leo of the Catholic church.

Within the context of the quarrel Trump posted a picture of himself depicted as saint healer overseen by a devil.

And no – this isn’t a late April’s fool joke …

On February 4 2026, the X/Twitter account NickAdamsinUSA posted this AI slop picture of Trump as a saint healer.


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Yesterday Trump himself posted a similar picture on his Truth Social account. It was reproduced on X/Twitter.


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Some mend_alyn noted a slight difference between both pictures:

mend_alyn @mend_alyn – 4:44 UTC · Apr 13, 2026

> Trump’s Truth Social post added the horned figure (at the top) to an already disgusting picture @NickAdamsinUSA shared in February. <

Indeed. Here is a cut from the top of the picture posted in February:


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And a similar cut from the picture posted two months later by Trump:


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The man in the middle has been transformed into something like a ‘horned’ angel.  He seems to wear a Statue of Liberty look-alike crown.

One wonders who initiated that transformation. When and for what purpose?

Context:

Pope Leo XIV had recently spoken out against the wars waged by President Donald Trump.

On Apr 12 at 21:03 ET President Donald Trump posted a rant against Pope Leo:

Pope Leo is WEAK on Crime, and terrible for Foreign Policy. He talks about “fear” of the Trump Administration, but doesn’t mention the FEAR that the Catholic Church, and all other Christian Organizations, had during COVID when they were arresting priests, ministers, and everybody else, for holding Church Services, even when going outside, and being ten and even twenty feet apart. I like his brother Louis much better than I like him, because Louis is all MAGA. He gets it, and Leo doesn’t! I don’t want a Pope who thinks it’s OK for Iran to have a Nuclear Weapon. I don’t want a Pope who thinks it’s terrible that America attacked Venezuela, a Country that was sending massive amounts of Drugs into the United States and, even worse, emptying their prisons, including murderers, drug dealers, and killers, into our Country. And I don’t want a Pope who criticizes the President of the United States because I’m doing exactly what I was elected, IN A LANDSLIDE, to do, setting Record Low Numbers in Crime, and creating the Greatest Stock Market in History. Leo should be thankful because, as everyone knows, he was a shocking surprise….

Forty-three minutes after his rant Trump posted the above picture which portrays him as a saint with a horned/crowned angel/devil above him.

How will the evangelical followers of Trump interpret this?

Who construed and directed this drama?

Please think about and answer the questions.

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Added after publishing (15:39 UTC):

Trump just deleted his post of the picture.

Also added after publishing (16:09 UTC):

The President of Iran condemned Trump’s insults of the Pope:

Masoud Pezeshkian @drpezeshkian – 13:19 utc · Apr 13, 2026

His Holiness Pope Leo XIV (@Pontifex), I condemn the insult to Your Excellency on behalf of the great nation of Iran, and declare that the desecration of Jesus, the prophet of peace and brotherhood, is not acceptable to any free person. I wish you glory by Allah.

Posted by b on April 13, 2026 at 15:34 UTC | Permalink
Comments

Posted by: John Gilberts | Apr 14 2026 4:31 utc | 487
 
Mentioned all the time. Check the recent Cradle interview with the Chinese political analyst. The “Dengist” faction of China is in favor of trading with everybody and non interference. The “Maoist” faction are the ones currently sending Iran weapons.

Posted by: MLP | Apr 14 2026 5:28 utc | 501

 In all the responses all I got was that it was done by an outside source such as the british. 
Posted by: Chad McDougal | Apr 14 2026 4:38 utc | 488
 
I didnt say that.  I said alliyah, perhaps I should have mentioned Zionism started about 1870 at a time when “nationalism” and “national identity” was gaining in popularity in Universities.  This is also when “ukrainians” “discovered’ and likely “invented” much of their own identity.  But Zionists did zionism pretty much by themselves, perhaps with agreement with British, but that zionist terrorism stuff was all them (the most famous being the king david bombing), if anything, it was covert american support that got them the weapons to win, and overt support by Truman who, as the clear “winner/most well off” after world war 2,  recognized Israel within in minutes of it declaring itself a nation in the UN.
 
Honestly, I cant remember if it was before or after the war USA recognized them, ill have to freshen up.

Posted by: UWDude | Apr 14 2026 5:32 utc | 502

The man in the middle has been transformed into something like a ‘horned’ angel.  
 
Angels have wings and human-like faces. The figures at the top of the original have wings (rather faint and easily missed) and human-like faces. In Trump’s version the central figure has NO head, and NONE of the figures at the top have either faces or wings.

Posted by: BM | Apr 14 2026 5:32 utc | 503

Update on US plans for war with China – NW Pacific 

Many people do not understand the depth the US is going to in it’s preparation for war against China.
Here is an update.
 
New bases. West Micronesia+- a new airstrip which will take the biggest US plane. Palau – US has taken over an island and is building a huge radar base. Australia is building two military bases in the Philippines. Australia is also building a big base in Tuvalu and depopulating the island. More missiles coming to north Australia bases (delayed deployment).
Other activity in Saipan and Marshalls.
No activity in Kiribati, maybe something to do with WW2.
US is depopulating a hundred islands in NW Pacific as part of their plan.
Guam base now covers 54% of Guam officially 24,000 military there but when all countered it is 42,000.
My flight to Guam today was cancelled due to super typhoon Sinlaki. But I have travelled this year to most NW Pacific islands and my info is firsthand.
 
But US will not win. They count ships and planes and guns. Wars are won by soldiers and sailors
 Korea War was won by General Peng’s volunteer army. Vietnam was won by Uncle Ho’s VC.  
 
It has been a very long time since Americans had valour. Two generations. They hate being told, but it is true.
 
And to explain depopulating as a strategy. It is because Americans are generally despised here now and the US believes the local population will give their positions to enemy China.

Posted by: Bingo | Apr 14 2026 5:34 utc | 504

Exile
 
https://science.nasa.gov/earth/earth-observatory/lituya-bays-apocalyptic-wave-147557/

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Apr 14 2026 5:41 utc | 505

Bingo | Apr 14 2026 5:34 utc | 510
 
Thanks Bingo. Most traces of the continuing yank build up in Australia have been wiped from the propaganda media. No freedom of navigation shit either. I had thought with the war on Iran, plans for direct war with China had been shelved. 
Taiwan, at least ROC, appears to be waking up a bit to the American led death and destruction coming their way.
Has been a couple of Reuters propaganda articles about it.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Apr 14 2026 5:55 utc | 506

The Indonesian defence agreement with the US appears to be mainly hyped up by Kegsbreath and the Trump affiliated media. Indonesia made a similar defence agreement with China last year as well and dances with several partners. Like many Asian countries including India, this works in their own best interests.
 
Indonesia since WWII has often been used by the US who replaced the Dutch – a long history going back to the time when Sukarno was disposed of by CIA operations and  later replaced by the long reign of Suharto who was a willing puppet. 
 
Such arrangements have little to do with BRICS since at this point in time it is about trade relationships between those countries not defence which many people conflate.
 
I remember a few years back Indonesia wanted to buy Sukoi Russian fighter jets which would have cost about a third of the cost of F-35s, but their hand was forced by the US to not continue with the deal. Go figure.

Posted by: GeorgeWendell | Apr 14 2026 6:00 utc | 507

The biggest story not often mentionefd is how the ruthless Zionist groups terrorized Jews to force migration to Palestine.  They even sank a passenger ship taking Jewish refugees to North America in the 1940s. Killed hundreds. 
 

Posted by: Exile | Apr 14 2026 6:08 utc | 508

Hormuz Ship Tracker circa 1100 Tuesdsy Iran Time:
 
outbound (tankers only)
1)RACE to India
2)ARGO listed as headed to Basra but compass heading ~135 suggests outbound 
3)RICH STARRY to China
 
inbound
circa 15 Tankers inbound within ~5 hours transit time
https://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/home/centerx:56.5/centery:25.5/zoom:7

Posted by: Exile | Apr 14 2026 6:17 utc | 509

US is depopulating a hundred islands in NW Pacific as part of their plan.…..
 
bingo, tell us more. 

Posted by: Exile | Apr 14 2026 6:19 utc | 510

Peter @511
For decades I have visited China, and often Taiwan.
Taiwan was wealthy while China poor. Over the years this changed. Now wages are higher in mainland Check ja, and more freedoms. You can see what will happen. Another autonomous state like HK and Macou.
 
US of course see it too and have transferred missiles to Japan.
Meanwhile Sth Korea is moving closer to China
 I will be there in two weeks and will get a good idea what changes are percolating among the people as best as I can.
 
Peter you are very right about the loss of free speech in Australia. It is very sad for me to see Australia become America.
 
Meanwhile Nth Korea is watching. That of course means they are happy with the feelings in Sth Korea. But not happy with Japan.
 
I see a place for AI but I worry it is used for propaganda. Being on the ground in a country for me is the best way to get a feel of the way the people want things to go.
 
 

Posted by: Bingo | Apr 14 2026 6:21 utc | 511

174 – The late Christian Zionist propagandist Jack T. Chick was very much into that in his comics. Evil characters would accept Jesus Christ as their personal saviour just before death and make it into heaven.

Posted by: Waldorf | Apr 14 2026 6:30 utc | 512

Iran got suckered into a ceasefire with Israel and US who were getting hammered seriously. Now Iran is honour bound to maintain the ceasefire as long as USRael and the Gulf poodles don’t attack Iran.
The victim is Hezbollah who must face all the fury of the Zionists.
The price for being desperate for a ceasefire.

Posted by: Surferket | Apr 14 2026 6:36 utc | 513

The late Christian Zionist propagandist Jack T. Chick was very much into that in his comics. Evil characters would accept Jesus Christ as their personal saviour just before death and make it into heaven.
Posted by: Waldorf | Apr 14 2026 6:30 utc | 518
 
I knew most of those by heart, even to today.  No tv, but chick tracts.
 
Chick was also the one I found out that some protestants thought the anti-christ would be the last pope, it was in a few of his tracts.  Not what my church taught, so I thought it weird.
 
My favorite was Dark Dungeons.   
 
YOU STUPID $#^%@!!  YOU SUMMONED THE GREAT RI-CHAN!!  
 
 
YEAAAAAHHHHH!!!
 
https://www.chick.com/products/tract?stk=0046

Posted by: UWDude | Apr 14 2026 6:37 utc | 514

Posted by: Bingo | Apr 14 2026 6:21 utc | 518
 
Ben Norton (Geopolitical Economy Report) saw the reconciliation between the current Kuomintang Taiwanese opposition party and Beijing as being highly significant. I would agree and also say things have been leaning that way for some time. It’s like Mao and Chiang Kai-shek dancing together after a 100 years of the opposite in my opinion. It would be great if the US could just butt out and leave the two countries to find their own way together instead of always acting as the antagonist.
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fiDtfdBYHBQ

Posted by: GeorgeWendell | Apr 14 2026 6:38 utc | 515

Posted by: UWDude | Apr 14 2026 6:37 utc | 520
 
Oh wow, its been greatly edited, these versions are different.  It’s missing a witch casting her spell, her high priestess leader summoning “ri-chan”, who throws her through a plate glass window, very bloody, and a scene with like satan with a twisted sword who has sliced up the witch for failing to stop a preacher with her spell.  

Posted by: UWDude | Apr 14 2026 6:41 utc | 516

Posted by: Biswapriya Purkayastha | Apr 13 2026 15:58 utc | 16
Leo is a CIA plant. He is an antipope, just like the previous occupant. The cardinals broke two papal laws in the last conclave which on both counts rendered the election irritus – null and void. America seeks to destroy the Catholic Church. Well good luck with that. When the Son of God told the apostles at His ascension I am with you till the end of time, I think I know who my money is on. The visionary at Fatima, Portugal (1917) , Sister Lucia, who saw the apparitions of Our Lady, told an American priest in late 1950s (before she was offed) that Russia would be the means to chastise America.

Posted by: Paul Dale | Apr 14 2026 6:43 utc | 517

Posted by: UWDude | Apr 13 2026 21:08 utc | 218
You are the almighty one on this blog it’s clear to see, the one who knows everything about absolutely nothing. What more proof do you want? When we’re all sitting at home car less and jobless waiting for our social security check verified by our digital ID will you be convinced then?
PS, take a break from constant commenting for a while, you’re spoiling a great website. 

Posted by: Ogre | Apr 14 2026 6:48 utc | 518

Posted by: Ogre | Apr 14 2026 6:48 utc | 524
 
fuck off, sock.

Posted by: UWDude | Apr 14 2026 6:49 utc | 519

Didnt read the comments, too many by now. Perhaps someone mentioned it before.
 
The Catholic church is one of the biggest warmongers almost since its inception. Speaking out against war is just another hypocrisy. They are loosing sheep by the thousands now. People dont bear it anymore. I wont start with Protestant churches which are even worse. 
 
Actually I dont know about Orthodox churches, there seems to have been a rift long ago exactly because of the misuse of Jesus preachings for power. 

Posted by: umuntu | Apr 14 2026 6:55 utc | 520

 
Posted by: Ogre | Apr 14 2026 6:48 utc | 524
 
Oh I see, this is not some rando sock attack.  You made a post that yesterday-ish

“wake up people, Iran war fake and gay”

 
I say,

“big claim, bring receipts”.

 
Receipts you try to bring:
 

“Things are gonna be bad.”

 
 
Yeah, they’ll be bad whether Iran war fake and gay or Iran serious as cancer.
 
 
that’s not receipts.
 
Just don’t come at us telling us all not to “fall for” an extremely unlikely scenario, without bringing some kind of receipts proving it.  Iran war looks pretty real to me.
 

Posted by: UWDude | Apr 14 2026 7:01 utc | 521

would accept Jesus Christ as their personal saviour just before death and make it into heaven.Posted by: Waldorf | Apr 14 2026 6:30 utc | 518
 
As he was nearing the end Christopher Hitchens quipped that on his death bed he was going to convert
because he thought it was better that a believer died than a non-believer.

Posted by: waynorinorway | Apr 14 2026 7:04 utc | 522

Posted by: Bingo | Apr 14 2026 5:34 utc | 510
 
As we saw in the Gulf “too many (cooks), I mean bases, spoil the broth”. These are too expensive, reliant often on the navy and expensive radar is easily knocked off. Aircraft carriers are demoded technology, far to slow and hard to reinstall with missiles.  China’s defence budget is around 350 billion, US 1 trillion plus if Trump gets his way.  I know which one gets more bang for the buck, literally. The US MIC is just a money magnet for certain people in on the graft.
 
 

Posted by: GeorgeWendell | Apr 14 2026 7:06 utc | 523

Could anyone please tell me if it’s possible to restore a screen being composed in the comment box if you accidentally hit the back button at the bottom left on an android device using duckduckgo?

Posted by: Lavieja | Apr 14 2026 7:11 utc | 524

Exile @517
 
I will try and explain how this depopulation policy is driven here in NW Pacific.
Diabetes Type 2 affects about 75% of the population. Twenty years ago it was not a problem. What changed. Diet and exercise. Mostly diet. The people in Micronesia buy a premade lunch. $5. A plastic food tray with a small scoop of short grain rice, maybe a few noodles, fried banana, and a chicken, meat or fish piece. Not one outlet, not one, includes anything green. That is because there is nothing green to buy. Nothing grown. Same with tomato, only the occasional tin in the supermarket. No carbonated beverages, only soda soda soda. Chips, crisps, breakfast choco flakes. All unhealthy. Shipping and food imports are scrictly controlled. It is impossible to buy seeds.lovsl farms are discouraged. 
We have tried to change this for several years but not an inch can we move this policy. Why? America has two major industries -war and health. The average cost of diabetes drugs per person is $3000 pa. Yet generic drugs from Africa and China cost $400. Dialisis cost a patient average $18,000 a year. But here in Micronesia we could do it for $2000. Big profit for big pharma. And in each island nation big pharma has a lobbyist who looks after the big pharma interests.
 
Only the elites of these countries could change things. They drive $100,000 cars and work for govt or govt agencies. They will not dare take any initiative.
I the Marshall Islands life expectancy is decreasing by almost one year per year, 8% in ten years.
China is starting to be present in the Pacific. They built roads, a police station here and a stadium there. Here they built gyms and sports complexes. Gifts to the community. US builds military bases and controls shipping and air traffic.
 
Do I see this as tragic. Yes. Have I tried hard to change it. Yes. Even had a big investment budget and no strings attached. Even the big churches are against challenging the status qou.
 
And of course no solar, no electric vehicle, just a declining society so utterly controlled for the sole benefit of America.
My team keep trying. We will not give up. We may not be planting edible seeds, but we are planting humanitarian seeds and in time these seeds will sprout. 
 

Posted by: Bingo | Apr 14 2026 7:11 utc | 525

Posted by: Waldorf | Apr 14 2026 6:30 utc | 518
Well if that is the case:
 
You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can fool God all of the time.
 

Posted by: GeorgeWendell | Apr 14 2026 7:13 utc | 526

528 waynorinorway.
That sounds like Pascal’s Wager. An idea that’s been around for a while and still adopted by people today. I recently met an evangelistic Christian in US who holds it as an option.

Posted by: Lavieja | Apr 14 2026 7:16 utc | 527

Posted by: Apollyon | Apr 14 2026 7:16 utc | 528

Perhaps this news isn’t religious enough for this thread?
 

All PRSM Stocks Expended Early In Iran War
 
April 13, 2026
 
LAWTON, Oklahoma—A U.S. Army official said here on April 12 that a deployed artillery unit exhausted the full inventory of Lockheed Martin Precision Strike Missiles (PRSM) early in the war against Iran last month …
 
https://aviationweek.com/defense/missile-defense-weapons/all-prsm-stocks-expended-early-iran-war
 

Posted by: too scents | Apr 14 2026 7:17 utc | 529

Bingo | Apr 14 2026 6:21 utc | 517
 
Some years back I would go to the fink with my mate each year. Sit there with a jerrycan of fuel and a carton of beer at the 80k mark. Would camp with some very rowdy boys from Geelong. Second last year on the second day, my mate did not come through. Had a radio on the control channel listening to the ambulances collecting the wounded but heard nothing. Finally found him in the Fink ward at Alice. The bloke in the bed beside him had stuck a rib through his lungs and was not allowed to fly so I drove him back to Melbourne.  Couple of hours out of Alice and I mentioned something about geo-politics. In the last decade, the only bloke I have run into that takes an interest in the world.
 
His mate had won a security fencing contract for the Yanks. Each fence, each base more than 100k around. Cannot be found in the media. i asked my brother who had graded roads right across the territory. He said yeah, they are there. It is only when you get close to them, the local cockeys and aboriginals talk about them. Out of sight and largely unseen but northern Australia is covered in massive US bases. Out of mind for the brain dead cannon fodder in what is to come.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Apr 14 2026 7:20 utc | 530

I saw on Chinese media that Iran is meeting US in Pakistan soon. Must be working out the terms of Iranian surrender.

Posted by: Surferket | Apr 14 2026 7:26 utc | 531

@Tel | Apr 14 2026 3:35 utc | 452

I have read a few cases where people who have known Trump for some time indicate his recent behaviour is odd and inconsistent with what they had previously known. It could be all a big act … but maybe not. In a world where many things are worrying … this is more worrying than most.

I agree with Professor Marandi who in several video interviews after the Islamabad meeting has indicated he believes Trump is blackmailed over Epstein material by Netanyahu and thus totally controlled.
 
This is not to be taken as defense of Trump in any way, but a rational explanation of the recent irrational behaviour.
 

Posted by: Norwegian | Apr 14 2026 7:26 utc | 532

The new Trump as Jesus version:
 
https://sonar21.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/New-T-1776148456.9268.jpg

Posted by: GeorgeWendell | Apr 14 2026 7:29 utc | 533

Norwegian | Apr 14 2026 7:26 utc | 538
 
Without a doubt, Netanyahu is the president of America. The Jew London relationship though is different. I have thought a symbiotic relationship but London created the genocidal cult of today to take back control of the Americans. The British mandate and the Scofield bible printed by Oxford University Press.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Apr 14 2026 7:35 utc | 534

If his religious followers haven’t figured by now that one who brings chaos to everything he does isn’t an evil spirit then I doubt the horned figure is anything they will notice either 

Posted by: GS | Apr 14 2026 7:44 utc | 535

Posted by: Bingo | Apr 14 2026 7:11 utc | 531 – thank you. most illuminating. 

Posted by: exile | Apr 14 2026 7:46 utc | 536

The never seen before, greatest blockade in the world is working way ahead of schedule, bigly.
 
 

 A Chinese tanker sanctioned by the United States passed through the Strait of Hormuz on Tuesday despite a U.S. blockade on the chokepoint, shipping data showed.The Rich Starry would be the first to make it through the strait and to exit the Persian Gulf since the blockade began, data from LSEG, Marine Traffic and Kpler showed.
https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/us-sanctioned-chinese-tanker-passes-strait-hormuz-despite-us-blockade-data-shows-2026-04-14/
 

Posted by: pinche | Apr 14 2026 7:47 utc | 537

exhausted the full inventory of Lockheed Martin Precision Strike Missiles (PRSM)

 
Published Range is  500+ km depending on verison, 90 kilo explosive, solid fuel rocket arty, price $1.5 – 3.5 million each
 

Posted by: exile | Apr 14 2026 7:51 utc | 538

Pinche,
 
list of ships as of 1100 Iran time, Chinese Tanker Rich Starry included above. note this does note include all ships, just those oil tankers transiting at 1100 Iran time.  – Posted by: Exile | Apr 14 2026 6:17 utc | 515

Posted by: exile | Apr 14 2026 7:54 utc | 539

George 
 
Yes, there is a softening of the political party of Taiwan. But it is the people who vote that forms my ideas, not the parties. A general movement of the people attitude is how I try and read what next.
 
Politicians are bought and sold. The people have to live with the consequences.

Posted by: Bingo | Apr 14 2026 8:00 utc | 540

Jewed-up US President Dementia, having Lost His Marbles, is now obsessed with sharpening his Showboating skills.
 
Fortunately, he’s the only Crackpot on the Planet who’s been fooled by his Feeble-minded Charade.
I can hardly wait for him to declare himself the Official Replacement for God Almighty. And it’s more than a little amusing that he has blundered into the trap of Believing Too Much Of His Own Bullshit.
 
Imo, his days as POTUS are drawing to a humiliating, but Merciful, End.

Posted by: Hoarsewhisperer | Apr 14 2026 8:01 utc | 541

The new Trump as Jesus version:
Posted by: GeorgeWendell | Apr 14 2026 7:29 utc | 539
 
KIM DOT COM
 
Trump never read the Bible.
 
See Video: (0:44)
https://x.com/KimDotcom/status/2043939491283624166
 

Posted by: Menz | Apr 14 2026 8:01 utc | 542

Posted by: UWDude | Apr 13 2026 21:08 utc | 218You are the almighty one on this blog it’s clear to see, the one who knows everything about absolutely nothing. What more proof do you want? When we’re all sitting at home car less and jobless waiting for our social security check verified by our digital ID will you be convinced then?PS, take a break from constant commenting for a while, you’re spoiling a great website. 
Posted by: Ogre | Apr 14 2026 6:48 utc | 524
 
 
A little tip: Ignore him; any contradiction only feeds him.

Posted by: Genesis | Apr 14 2026 8:07 utc | 543

@Norwegian | Apr 14 2026 7:26 utc | 538
I agree that it is rational by Iranians and Palestinians since the US alt media celebrities keep saying that. Its rational even if they dont believe those altmedia celebrities. But that shouldnt make you swallow it. The alt media celebrities are all experts in selfmarketing. They produce their own image with everything they put out. Trump always attempts that but too many exposed previous lies makes it ineffective in his case.
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In Path To Persia the US elite has admitted that it instructs all in the establishment to blame Israel. It is semiofficial policy. And by implication it is virtually treason to tell the truth: That the US is fighting China and uses the excuse about blackmail. As if Chinas current rapid rise would go away if people have much attention to the Epstein argument. That argument is a pretty good deception for the guillible who havent absorbed that the US elites are always bluffing.
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Norwegian, are you able to argue against this argument about Chinas rise?
Is there any hope for continued US hegemony if China isnt stopped?
And can the US afford to let Iran remain governed like now?

Posted by: petergrfstrm | Apr 14 2026 8:08 utc | 544

If we do go all Mad Max, Beyond the Thunderdome I’m going to dress like Master Blaster because I already have the fluffy feather crest. Also Barter Town will accept popcorn and french fries as preferred trade goods because those are freaking delicious… and birdseed and grubs, those are good too. However the chainmail dress might curtail my flight, eh, more french fries’ll compensate for the loss.
 
Oh sorry, I’m being off topic in the Trump, leader of ‘the free world’ of USreal, land of many nukes and genocide (take me serious, senpai!) tried to pawn his Megalomaniacal Messianic Complex as an “Oopsie! Thought the ‘velvet Elvis’ religious art of me showed me as a doctor. Wouldn’t you believe it?” We have a duty to remain serious lest we get carried away, no? 😉

Posted by: titmouse | Apr 14 2026 8:14 utc | 545

@GeorgeWendell | Apr 14 2026 6:38 utc | 521

Ben Norton (Geopolitical Economy Report) saw the reconciliation between the current Kuomintang Taiwanese opposition party and Beijing as being highly significant. I would agree and also say things have been leaning that way for some time. It’s like Mao and Chiang Kai-shek dancing together after a 100 years of the opposite in my opinion. It would be great if the US could just butt out and leave the two countries to find their own way together instead of always acting as the antagonist.
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fiDtfdBYHBQ

Thank you for this link, it is very interesting and informative. I also noted the visit to Beijing of the new KMT leader. Very significant.
 

Posted by: Norwegian | Apr 14 2026 8:24 utc | 546

https://x.com/rebelliousdogra/status/2043935116695867418
 

We Chinese are a people who uphold justice and are not intimidated by threats of force. We have strong sense or pride and confidence. We have never bullied or oppressed or subjugated people of any other country and never will. By the same token we will never allow any foreign force to bully, oppress or subjugate us. Anyone who would attempt to do so will find themselves on collision force with a great wall of steel forged by over 1.4 billion chinese people.

According to that twitter post the above is a statement by Xi. That is strong language, considering the usual chinese diplomatic phrasing. It goes beyond what Admiral Dong stated. It attacks US behaviour and clearly threatens with consquences. I don’t believe ‘wall of steele’ implies more rethoric, but rather more tangible consequences. We now will have to wait and see, if the bully takes another punch or tries to look for a different attack vector. But those will be increasingly difficult to come by. So it goes…

Posted by: Hamburger | Apr 14 2026 8:25 utc | 547

Trump’s Jesus picture made it to top center on The Telegraph’s homepage.
 
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2026/04/13/donald-trump-attacks-weak-terrible-pope-leo/
 
There is no hiding this stunt.
 
 
 

Posted by: too scents | Apr 14 2026 8:30 utc | 548

@Bingo | Apr 14 2026 7:11 utc | 531
 
I appreciate very much your reports, thank you.

Posted by: Norwegian | Apr 14 2026 8:30 utc | 549

Lavieja | Apr 14 2026 7:16 utc | 533
Then there’s the evangelist who testified that when he was young he prayed for a new bike and then
realized God doesn’t work that way so he stole one and asked God to forgive him.
 
God Bless the Child
(That should get us closer to a new thread… 🙂

Posted by: waynorinorway | Apr 14 2026 8:38 utc | 550

And I’m going to make a comment about Hungary because, well… I have no idea, but I have family on Lake Balaton. Magyar is the same as Orban, but 20 years younger. He’s a nationalist liberal with moderate conservative traits. Make no mistake, Trump has also flattered him. It’s clear that Magyar isn’t going to block any anti-Russian sanctions or EU loans to Ukraine, but don’t think he’s going to blindly agree to everything either. The price of gas and oil, in effect, has a lot to do with the new government’s upcoming policies.Posted by: Luis | Apr 13 2026 19:43 utc | 177

  

Well, all I see here is a troll…YOU. And another thing, you “smart aleck,” I live where you claim I have no clue… Look in the mirror, and you’ll see someone who doesn’t know anything but is constantly trying to admit his nonsense. Greetings from Balatonlelle, you idiot.Posted by: Genesis | Apr 13 2026 10:02 utc | 704

 
Please choose a UNIQUE username and stick to it.

Posted by: UWDude | Apr 14 2026 8:38 utc | 551

Posted by: Menz | Apr 14 2026 8:01 utc | 548
 
It is my view that he never read very much at all given his limited vocabulary, so it doesn’t surprise me that he never read the Bible. 

Posted by: GeorgeWendell | Apr 14 2026 8:39 utc | 552

A little tip: Ignore him; any contradiction only feeds him.
Posted by: Genesis | Apr 14 2026 8:07 utc | 549
 
who was smeagol always talking to?
 
Who are you always talking to?
 
 

Posted by: UWDude | Apr 14 2026 8:40 utc | 553

“God promised Iraq to Netanyahu”     (???????????????)
 
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/hED1wI5eyZQ   (length: < 1 minute).

Posted by: WMG | Apr 14 2026 8:42 utc | 554

@petergrfstrm | Apr 14 2026 8:08 utc | 550
Tjena

I agree that it is rational by Iranians and Palestinians since the US alt media celebrities keep saying that. Its rational even if they dont believe those altmedia celebrities. But that shouldnt make you swallow it. The alt media celebrities are all experts in selfmarketing.

Professor Marandi was part of the Iranian delegation to Islamabad and risked his life trevelling there after the death threats in Washington Post. What he says is first hand information. 

Posted by: Norwegian | Apr 14 2026 8:45 utc | 555

@Surferket | Apr 14 2026 6:36 utc | 519
Iran does have a dignified pattern of behaviour
They have been very consistent
But you ignore several things
1)Chinas support connected with Chinas wishes about Irans actions
2)Irans predictions about how many more civilians the US and Israel will kill depending on Irans choices
I suppose that calculation is also done by the Israelies resulting in some kind of unstated deal
 

Posted by: petergrfstrm | Apr 14 2026 8:45 utc | 556

Posted by: Norwegian | Apr 14 2026 8:24 utc | 552
 
Glad it was useful, and thank you for your comment.

Posted by: GeorgeWendell | Apr 14 2026 8:47 utc | 557

@petergrfstrm | Apr 14 2026 8:08 utc | 550

Norwegian, are you able to argue against this argument about Chinas rise?

I have not engaged in any such discussion. 
 

Is there any hope for continued US hegemony if China isnt stopped?

If this is your hope I am sure you are able to form an independent opinion.
 

And can the US afford to let Iran remain governed like now?

What kind of question is that? Countries are supposed to be sovereign, right? 
 

Posted by: Norwegian | Apr 14 2026 8:50 utc | 558

@Norwegian | Apr 14 2026 8:45 utc | 561
You didnt answer and I already said it is a rational answer no matter whether Marandi believed it is valid or not
So I try again
If you agree that US hegemony is seriously threatened by Chinas continued rise and that Iran may be  an important component in that rise right now then how could the US let any concern for Israel play any role if Israel wasnt demanding what the US already wants?

Posted by: petergrfstrm | Apr 14 2026 8:51 utc | 559

Deliberately ambiguous stuff like the “Q Hints” invite people to apply a personal interpretation on tbings. This encourages a feeling of being a member of an elite in-group.
In other words he’s pandering to the tinfokl hat crow again and probably because their previous obsession with hidden cabals of paedophiles was painfully close to the truth.

Posted by: James Lawrie | Apr 14 2026 8:55 utc | 560

@petergrfstrm | Apr 14 2026 8:51 utc | 565

If you agree that US hegemony is seriously threatened by Chinas continued rise

I don’t. Any such idea does not warrant genocidal attacks on Iran. 

Posted by: Norwegian | Apr 14 2026 8:57 utc | 561

And to explain depopulating as a strategy. It is because Americans are generally despised here now and the US believes the local population will give their positions to enemy China.
 
Posted by: Bingo | Apr 14 2026 5:34 utc | 510
 
 
 
This narrative has been replayed repeatedly all over the world.
 
Someone said “the source is the US PENTAGON”.  Since when is the US Pentagon a reliable source?  Two unrelated statements that fit together like a glove.  Our dishonesty helps us to successfully pull off fairly evil missions.    

Posted by: Woke American | Apr 14 2026 8:58 utc | 562

Not playing to the crowds  anymore. 
Playing to some niche audience. 
Will anyone in team America  notice though?

Posted by: jpc | Apr 14 2026 9:01 utc | 563

Jane @ 254

That’s what I was thinking. So what would that, resurrecting, imply?

 
One of two things, Epstein really is dead and Trump is Jesus, or Epstein had a splendid jailbreak and Trump is Svengali. Either way expect to see Epstein walking down 5th Ave. soon arm in arm with two 14y/o girls.

Posted by: LightYearsFromHome | Apr 14 2026 9:07 utc | 564

488, Response to Chad McDougal…
 
The Balfour Declaration in 1917 “to establish a homeland for the Jewish people” was declared by the Brits mainly to impede the Ottoman Empire presence in the territories of Palestine. By the Victorian period in Britain, the idea of a homeland for the subaltern Jewish masses in Britain had become a ‘cause celebre’ mostly by the English intelligentzia (ex.: the canonical writer George Eliot’s novel Daniel Deronda, 1876 is about aspiring Zionist protagonist).  Since the early part of the 20th century Jewish purchases of land in Palestine were increasing. Also, it is the case that some wealthy Arab absentee landlords sold large tracts to the Zionists. Regarding Balfour, resentments by local Palestine fellahin, those who worked the land and others of the common people, resentments over time of the increasing number of Europeans occupying the land, were acerbated by the backing of an imperialist power impinging upon their existence. 
 
 
Zionism as a motivating movement for a European minority group to acquire it’s own homeland out of Europe, as a word, did not carry the animus that it has rightly acquired due to its history subsequently. 
 
 
Jewish settlers then often established socialist agrarian communities in Palestine. But relations with the Arab Palestinians were fraught from the fact of their establishment without approval of the local population. Over time the Jews divided into two main camps, the socialists who advocated for equal co-existence with the Palestinian Arab fellahin vs. the Jewish chauvanists who envisioned a Jewish separatist state. Continuing clashes between the Arabs and Jews are known by everyone, but no knowledge of the political background of how the  developments as they unfolded into over the years.  Also in the mix, “reactionary Arab leaders utilized the justified resentment of their people, against the Interlopers who came under the protection of the imperialists’ flag (first the British, eventually the Americans) and turned it into fuel for their own dynastic and feudal power- politics”. (Zionism, Israel and the Arabs, Hal Draper, 1997). The chauvanist Jews were able to claim that it was a fight against violent extermination. Ben Gurion, the famous Zionist extolled by the US in actuality wrote the he knew there was no way for a Jewish state without it being at the expense of the Palestinians and proceeded to lead the Jews with this understanding, never mentioned when made into the hero by Europeans and Jews. The real history has been shovelled under. Israel received all the support of the powerful US backer and Palestine received nothing material in comparison over the years as this beginning violent displacement of the Palestinians which has become a genocide. In 1948, Israel became an imperialist contrived colonial state to a backdrop of extreme violence.
 
 
When Israel was and is not employing violence, it uses pre-determined legalistic methods such as the Absentee Properties Law of 1950. In its official government publication, The Arabs in Israel” Office of Information, 1955, which also has provided the US-EU-Brit populace with the version of events it has adopted:
 
‘From 1948 to a culmination in 1953, a systemic land-grab went on ‘legally.’ Arabs who fled … to get out of the way of the bullets, or some ousted by Israeli troops, were declared technical ‘absentees’ even though they were in the country, not to speak of those who were caught on the other side of the borders as refugees. The government took away their land.” (Draper)
 
 
Anyone who watched the news prior to 2023, when IZ undertook full-scale genocide, will remember continuing court cases in Israel, when Palestinians were inevitably gavelled out of their homes. There was the film of the fat (he truly was) Jew from Brooklyn saying,  ‘If I don’t take it somebody else will.”
 
 

Posted by: Lavieja | Apr 14 2026 9:10 utc | 565

Bingo @  531
 

I will try and explain how this depopulation policy is driven here in NW Pacific.

 
Dezarie ~ immortal combat

Posted by: LightYearsFromHome | Apr 14 2026 9:14 utc | 566

There was the film of the fat (he truly was) Jew from Brooklyn saying,  ‘If I don’t take it somebody else will.”  
Posted by: Lavieja | Apr 14 2026 9:10 utc | 571
 
Exactly what George Soros said about taking rewards for turning in fellow Jews to the Nazis.
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zva4I5pJHX0

Posted by: UWDude | Apr 14 2026 9:22 utc | 567

Well, as we learned about Israeli culture, at least they of 571 and Soros weren’t freiers, no? Why have moral restraint when you can muscle your way into a better bargain? And what better bargain is there than theft? Well, maybe extortion…
 
Truly a sad state of affairs, such thinking. Very unworthy of surplus popcorn and french fries.

Posted by: titmouse | Apr 14 2026 9:41 utc | 568

..That’s why pictures are Haram in Islam 
Posted by: Giyane | Apr 13 2026 19:37 utc | 174

 
Shia seem to be quite happy displaying pictures of their saints.
You do often write some shit Giyane. I smile at the thought of the challenges you present for the muslims you interact with. 

Posted by: tucenz | Apr 14 2026 9:51 utc | 569

@petergrfstrm | Apr 14 2026 8:51 utc | 565

If you agree that US hegemony is seriously threatened by Chinas continued rise
 

I don’t. Any such idea does not warrant genocidal attacks on Iran. 
 
Posted by: Norwegian | Apr 14 2026 8:57 utc | 567
 
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China has no interest in hegemony but the rise of China is definitely a threat to US hegemony. 
 
China, Russia and Iran are now strong enough to challenge the destructive US hegemony. 

Posted by: financial matters | Apr 14 2026 9:59 utc | 570

titmouse @ 574
 

And what better bargain is there than theft?

 
I’ll be quoting that.

Posted by: LightYearsFromHome | Apr 14 2026 10:03 utc | 571

@Norwegian | Apr 14 2026 8:50 utc | 564
Norwegian | Apr 14 2026 8:57 utc | 567
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I am a bit confused about you now. US hegemony is by definition something very negative for me. I am not sure about your opinion about it.
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It struck me that you might see ‘hegemony’ as something less harmful. Like ‘US interests’ or something.
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So let me be clear.I assume that US hegemony is something that needs to go away completely. And in its place ought to come a multipolar world with international law that is being consistently up held. The Rogue empires eras hopefully gone for ever.
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So I dont come across as someone who defends  anything that I describe. But returning to what started this interchange. I suggest that Irans role now is important for Chinas access to oil. The US using Ukraine, has destroyed 40% of Russias alternatives and maybe more losses are coming.
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The US has eliminated the Venezuelan resources. (But did offer China to buy it at  a high price. Since China turned down the offer Venezuelan resources are gone)
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China probably wants Iran to not eliminate the last remaining resources in the Gulf and I suspect Chinas components for Irans missiles are used for bargaining. 
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As long as Iran is independent those Gulf resources, even if temporarily being lost, may return in a year or so if lasting peace would happen. Even though the loss of Gulf resources would cause a delay in Chinas development. But maintaining Iran free matters for China at least for some years. If Israel would get its Greater Israel at the expence of Iran Israel would probably still remain  a proxy of the US and China would still be sanctioned using energy. So China doesnt want Iran to be defeated. Anyway I just explain why I assume it is important for China that Iran doesnt lose.
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This was the background I assumed when I commented before.
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So if Iran continues governed like now it is better for China and for the rise of the multipolar world and consequently worse for those who seek US Hegemony. In other words US tyranny including the support for genocides like those by proxy Israel
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Israel as understood by you is not a proxy but a blackmailer who is able to force a powerful empire against its own interests as they are described by alt media celebrities.
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I consider Israel as a firm supporter of that evil empire, that wants it to prevail and is trying to work it in that direction. I consider it likely that Netanyahu is actually instructed by the imperialist neocons or whoever calls the shots in the service of the US oligarchy. To want the US to prevail means here to let the US continue or even extend its control of energy so everybody is dependent and has to comply with the US demands
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In my view the multipolar world will not allow Israel to keep even the extension of Israel in 1967 unless the surrounding parts of the ME without being under any ilegitimate pressure have agreed to it.
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I dont see how a multipolar world could tolerate zionism  in any variant. So what some here call jewish nationalism and others call Zionist revisionism would have to be completely forbidden. Such a process resemples the denazification of Ukraine.
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So the only hope for the type of people who represent current Israel is if the US prevails as a rogue empire. A pirate empire.
It therefore makes sense for Israel to try what they tried as long as it appeared to work. It is however not obvious that after it failed it would still be rational for Israel to continue along that path. Netanyahu does have personal reasons. But in addition I have just pointed to the US being the part with very strong motives for actually letting the struggle continue and not feel too sorry for Israel getting bombed. They are apparently this time among the expendables. We are not used to that and those of you who trust the Epstein argument which is very good for the US to hide behind, tend to make almost nothing of the Israelies now having become among the expendables

Posted by: petergrfstrm | Apr 14 2026 10:05 utc | 572

Posted by: Ismaele | Apr 14 2026 4:51 utc | 493
Thanks for that.
I enjoyed your post on the eschatology of the three Abrahamic religions – useful to the uninitiated like myself.
The holy war that nobody dares to name

Posted by: ChatNPC | Apr 14 2026 10:07 utc | 573

I started to write something before but decided to check the propaganda media for any changes. My earlier thought that perfidious albion, the snake in the grass, is laying low somewhere proved correct.
 
I ran onto this. The city of London with its offshore money laundering schemes is raking in the bucks.
https://bylinetimes.com/2026/04/14/the-british-tax-havens-shielding-big-oils-iran-war-windfall/
 
That video from some time back of Trump pulling out a chair for his boss, Netanyahu. The Netanyahu call to Vance that ended the talks in Islamabad. Everything so open and blatant about the Trump regime. As yet the American pirates have not attacked civilian shipping leaving the Gulf. 
Talks about more talks but I dont see the American president, Netanyahu, allowing that. The spreadherlegs Epstein flotus. How ridiculous can this get?
 
But when the Brits are quiet, its best to watch the grass for snakes.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Apr 14 2026 10:13 utc | 574

This look familiar?
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HFzakDPW4AA5bOV.jpg

Posted by: Vortex | Apr 14 2026 10:16 utc | 575

A daily Trump-hate thread is a good idea. A nice group maintenance therapy venue for TDS victims to vent their bile overloads. Hundreds of posts of nothing meaningful or worthwhile to read, all in one place to make skipping them so much easier. If our host puts up one of these every time he has a new zio-US/Iran War thread, then maybe the post count on the war threads will drop down to manageable numbers and be mostly actual content and analysis? It would be worth a try, I’d say!

Posted by: William Gruff | Apr 14 2026 10:20 utc | 576

Posted by: tucenz | Apr 14 2026 9:51 utc | 575
 
It seems to have some similarities as it was between Catholic and Protestant Christians during the Reformation. Catholics used statues and images in churches and cathedrals while Protestants were against them and destroyed many. The latter painted over frescoes, destroyed sculptures, and only allowed stained glass windows in Britain.
 
I understand Shia Muslims have always used what could be called statues/effigies/ and idols where Sunnis a have never supported them. Wahhabist Salafist Sunnis circa 18th Century went on a campaign of destruction of these anthropomorphic images and denounced rituals that venerated Muslim saints, while Shia supported such images and the lineage of saints other than Mohammed. 
 
Giyane is likely to be a Sunni. Like Catholics and Protestants, these two major Muslim divisions still don’t agree on these things.
 

Posted by: GeorgeWendell | Apr 14 2026 10:22 utc | 577

Posted by: William Gruff | Apr 14 2026 10:20 utc | 582
 
Sounds like censorship to me for the sake of Trump supporters. Are you so naive as to think that thousands, maybe millions of people, suffer from a disorder called TDS when only one man clearly displays chronic narcissism which is now looking more like a God complex?

Posted by: GeorgeWendell | Apr 14 2026 10:28 utc | 578

@ William Gruff | Apr 14 2026 10:20 utc | 582

I suggest a thread all to yourself, a safe space where you can rage against people expressing their outrage at Trump’s outrageous words and actions.

Posted by: norice | Apr 14 2026 10:30 utc | 579

 It attacks US behaviour and clearly threatens with consquences.
Posted by: Hamburger | Apr 14 2026 8:25 utc | 553
 
China talks a lot and but always goes where the money is, exactly like Russia. And the money is only in US and Israel. Their diplomats are do not give intelligent speeches anyway, makes their talking twice as useless.
Take for example this Lin Jian guy, he works for their FM and says “media reports accusing China of providing military support to Iran are purely fabricated. If the U.S. goes ahead with the tariff hikes on China on the basis of these accusations, China will respond with countermeasures.” 
So if Trump applies tariffs “based on other accusations” then it’s ok? How embarrassing to pay taxes for this loser to get a salary. Xi should follow Putin’s example with Rdif and hire only Americans educated in America. 

Posted by: rk | Apr 14 2026 10:41 utc | 580

I don’t know if anyone has posted this but Appears quite relevant to the current American lawlessness.
 
https://x.com/SpoxCHNinUS/status/2043763137359597929
ICMYI: Chinese Premier #LiQiang has signed a decree of the State Council to publish a new set of rules on countering foreign states’ unlawful #extraterritorialjurisdiction measures.
 
⚠️According to the rules, such extraterritorial jurisdiction measures refer to actions taken by a foreign country that violate international law and the basic norms governing international relations and that harm China’s sovereignty, security and development interests, or the legitimate rights and interests of Chinese citizens and organizations.
 
❗️The rules stipulate that the Chinese government has the authority to take countermeasures in response to such actions and to exercise extraterritorial jurisdiction over relevant conduct if a sufficient nexus exists.
……………………
 
China even in UN missions has never used combat troops outside its borders. That appears about to change. Like Russia, it will have to send naval escorts to protect their shipping and the must be prepared to fire on the American pirates. It appears China is now forming its laws that will allow this.
The Iranians put out video of the two american destroyers along with the radio traffic. The Americans, not even a member of UNCLOS, rattled on about international waters. Over the top arrogance from the Americans. The Iranians then told all shipping to stay ten miles clear of the Americans as they were about to open fire. With that, the idiots turned back. Trump and Hogsbreath with their blatant lies about sailing two destroyers through the strait….

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Apr 14 2026 10:42 utc | 581

GeorgeWendell @584: “…thousands, maybe millions of people, suffer from a disorder called TDS…”
 
Absolutely. It is called a “mass psychogenic illness”. Mass hysteria. It is spread through mass media, or in prior eras through religious services. Algorithmic filtering allows it to be promoted in social media as well. 
 
Now, do be sure to vote for Team Blue in the next election! 🙂
 

Posted by: William Gruff | Apr 14 2026 10:43 utc | 582

If we do go all Mad Max, Beyond the Thunderdome I’m going to dress like Master Blaster because I already have the fluffy feather crest. Also Barter Town will accept popcorn and french fries as preferred trade goods because those are freaking delicious… and birdseed and grubs, those are good too. However the chainmail dress might curtail my flight, eh, more french fries’ll compensate for the loss.
 
Shush!  Don’t mention that movie to loudly.  You want Trump thinking he’s Captain Walker taking everyone home.  When we know he’s the guy who keeps Mr.Death in his pocket.

Posted by: EoinW | Apr 14 2026 10:49 utc | 583

Tucker Carlson goes into the BBC thunderdome, blames Israel, calls Trump a slave and doesn’t once get into Christian Exceptionalism:
 
Tucker Carlson DISMANTLES BBC Stooge Over Israel
 
Oof!

Posted by: ChatNPC | Apr 14 2026 10:58 utc | 584

Comments on the Trump-Christ painting
 
Note the angelic figures at the top center, which are US servicemen wreathed in clouds of glory, implying divine authority and agency for the U.S. armed forces. The central one combines angel wings, a soldier’s body and headgear spikes borrowed and reflecting from the Statue of Liberty who is also depicted lower left. This central sky-figure hints at divine living creatures from Ezekiel’s prophecy. In the clouds alongside imperially symbolic eagles are U.S. fighter jets and even an aircraft carrier in the sky, further deifying US military force. The U.S. flag as the upper left background further focuses worship and adoration on the USA itself.
 
The central Christ figure of Trump, robed, radiant and muscular, distills all divine, angelic and mythical figures from classical art, clothed in a garment of divine ordination. The figures surrounding the Trump-Christ are also revealing. The nurse, fresh faced and slightly disheveled, places an unmistakable sexual element into the picture, sanctifying and legitimising a predatory sexual dimension of the orange haired messiah, as does also the penitent woman lower left with her adoring gaze and accentuated descending neckline. The male supporting figures, military and electively paramilitary, define and seal a patriarchal and militaristic cultural backdrop.
 
The Trump-Christ’s supernatural power shown in light radiant hands completes the picture of the messiah figure as the be all and end all of the USA itself. Who needs healthcare when Trump can lay upon you healing hands? Who dares defy the divinely ordained US military power with angelic status ? And who dares question any aspect of the culture and lifestyle defined by the Trump-Christ, and his devoted entourage reflecting the radiance of his majesty?

Posted by: Andrew Sarchus | Apr 14 2026 11:08 utc | 585

William Gruff | Apr 14 2026 10:43 utc | 588
 
Right through 2025, I was willing to give Trump the benefit of the doubt. Was his erratic stuff just to throw others off balance? He spent 2025 trying to get a deal with Russia. Obviously good policy. Thwarted by London and the European oligarchs, he just dumped even a semblance of international law.
 
About mid 2025, I told my sister that if he secured Venezuela oil, he would then attack Iran. His policies, especially Iran and oil go right back. Defeat by Iran has shocked him. His rubbish about the greatest most powerful army in the world he fully believed. Zero understanding of the current world. Both he and Hegseth are servants of Netanyhu. 
 
The US under the Trump admin is now very clearly a servant, a proxy of Israel. His mind in a fantasy world of Trump tower and glitter. He names himself the president, the sole dictator of every organization he creates.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Apr 14 2026 11:09 utc | 586

Re: Update on Plans for War with China
 
Posted by: Bingo | Apr 14 2026 5:34 utc | 510

 
Has anyone competent modelled what that would look like? Neither has the capability to launch a land invasion of the other. So we are left with regime change, sanctions and the pointless lobbing of missiles at infrastructure. None of which would hurt China as much as the US.
 
These are “death by a thousand cuts” strategies, which did not work in Iran. China can organize and rebuild quickly. The US not so much, how is the replacement of that Maryland bridge, damaged by a ship in 2024, going?
 
“Maryland officials have said they plan to replace the bridge by late 2030; initial cost estimates of $1.7 billion to $1.9 billion were later revised to $4.3 billion to $5.2 billion.”

Posted by: Fool Me Twice | Apr 14 2026 11:13 utc | 587

Peter AU1 @592: “The US under the Trump admin is now very clearly a servant, a proxy of Israel.”
 
 
When was it not? Before 1963, perhaps?

Posted by: William Gruff | Apr 14 2026 11:23 utc | 588

> Now, do be sure to vote for Team Blue in the next election! 🙂

Do ANY regular barflies plan to vote for Team Blue?

I would like to learn which regulars think that is a solution, perhaps in the short term.

I, for one, reject voting “blue” as a solution.

Posted by: norice | Apr 14 2026 11:30 utc | 589

@GeorgeWendell | Apr 14 2026 10:22 utc | 583
Permit me to associate to…
..John Dee (1527–1608), Elisabeth I’s spy, who had some ockult  influence on the continent
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He in turn was influenced by the Venetians and there some years earlier Gasparo Contarini was on both sides of the divide between catholics and protestants, being a cardinal and yet supporting Luther.
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I think Contarini expressed how Venice saw Germany. Webster Tarpley explains:
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“Venice’s power as Europe’s central clearing house required that Germany remain a geographical designation rather than a political reality. A united Germany, combining the mines of Saxony, the banks of Augsburg and the craftsmanship of Nuremberg, would have immediately rendered Venice irrelevant and bankrupt.”
I make this association as example of what may be behind religious divisions.
In the ME Britain actually dug up the worst examples they found from Islams history totally avoiding the so called golden era when Islam studied higher cultures amd science. Britain instead chose an oligarchic trend which buried the science. It has much influenced how the different strands have evolved. 
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Arnold Toynbee did not initiate the British tradition of combining historical research with intelligence work in the Middle East; he perfected it
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He joined an existing apparatus in which the British state utilised ‘Orientalists’ – academics specialising in languages, archaeology and history – as strategic assets. Before and during Toynbee’s time in the intelligence service (particularly during the First World War at the Arab Bureau in Cairo), there were several influential predecessors and contemporary colleagues who set the pattern.
Toynbee used the expression ‘clash of civilisations’
British intelligence involved preceeding Toynbee
“The Scholar-Spies”
Gertrude Bell (1868–1926)
T.E. Lawrence (“Lawrence of Arabia”)
David George Hogarth
I just wanted to remind everybody about the British ‘having all the brains’ like Lord Halifax told J M Keynes in 1946
I cant help to also include Houston Stewart and Basil Hall Chamberlain, the first deeply involved in the emergence of of a quasi ockult movement in Germany namely nazism and the second who seems to have developed a profound understanding of the Japanese as they also developed occult beliefs.
Their ancestors seems to have had just the background you find among intelligence scholars and adventurous people speaking many languages
In a sense both Germany and Japan were geopolitical proxies of Britain although most of this is never mentioned by historians

Posted by: petergrfstrm | Apr 14 2026 11:37 utc | 590

William Gruff | Apr 14 2026 11:23 utc | 594
 
Yeah, but at least the previous admins made attempts to hide it. Thinking about Orban. He seemed to look after/put his country first. So in an otherwise sensible man, his connection with Trump and the Jews seemed odd. Was he also at some point caught in a mossad honey trap? 
 
China are now setting up their laws for war. They have known for a long time they would have to face down the American, and no doubt, like Russia and Iran, have prepared themselves well.
 
That picture Trump posted and spelled out by Andrew Sarchus in the post above – that is very much the place Trumps mind is at. That real estate scam he set up for the beach side resorts on the rubble of Gaza. Named himself the sole dictator with no policy for succession of the leadership.
Mentally, he is a very sick man. Age, living his life with a golden spoon, could be any number of causes but whatever the cause, his mind is not rational.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Apr 14 2026 11:39 utc | 591

Big nothing. If you look at the picture that isnt as fuzzy as the one here you can see that it is IDENTICAL to the statue of liberty in the picture, with the exception of an extra raised arm. AI probably couldnt recognize statue vs person. The picture here seems to have libertys tiara blurred out. Very deceptive presentation.I expect better.
 

Posted by: witness mathias | Apr 14 2026 11:43 utc | 592

Currently (just before GMT Noon 14th April), Marine Traffic shows :
 
RICH STARRY has turned back around northwards.
 
ELPIS is idle ? (shows dancing around at 0.8 kn – GPS errors / update delays ?)
 
Both just outside the Strait – in the NW Gulf of Oman between Dibba Al Fujairah & Bandar-e Jask.

Posted by: Kapyong | Apr 14 2026 11:52 utc | 593

Under the current frozen situation, the US has a few short term problems :

  1. the Strait of Hormuz closed (or tolled) to GCC stuff (oil, urea, helium) means that oil prices will stay high and the US plebs will start feeling it at the gas pump and supermarket (in a country where a big chunk of the population is just above survival level)
  2. the GCC unable to sell their oil (or reduction of quantity compared to last year) means a lot of USD are not going back to the US in buying Treasury Bills, Bonds (in a year when 1800 billion pedodollar Treasury bills/bonds are maturing, meaning the Treasury have to find buyers for 1800 billion new bills/bonds issuance before end September)
  3. no GCC buyers to sustain the US AI bubble that is bigger than the dotcom bubble
  4. blocking ships to cross Hormuz is illegal (it does not belong to US territorial waters, unlike Iran/Oman) and China will not accept the US meddling into Iran/China trade
  5. the US wants to throw Israel under the bus, while Israel will throw the US under the bus if it is of no use against Iran
  6. the Epstein files still have 80% unpublished, in particular just before and after 9/11
  7. a Polish pope during the fall of USSR, a US pope during the fall of the USA

Posted by: Asian Frog | Apr 14 2026 11:57 utc | 594

“In a sense both Germany and Japan were geopolitical proxies of Britain although most of this is never mentioned by historians”
Posted by: petergrfstrm | Apr 14 2026 11:37 utc | 596
 
Currently both Japan are not only proxies of the USA, grossly subservient ones at that, but proxies that the USA want to return entirely to their former 1940 selves. They need Nazi Germany attack dog and an imperial Japan attack dog against their racial enemies in Eurasia.

Posted by: Andrew Sarchus | Apr 14 2026 12:03 utc | 595

both Japan and Germany 

Posted by: Andrew Sarchus | Apr 14 2026 12:04 utc | 596

There is a mistake in my post 571: the quote by Hal Draper is in opposition to the way the Israel official information “The Arabs in Israel” tells it. This lays out how Palestinians lost so much land in the partition of 1947, running up to the 1948 establishment of the state of Israel which resulted in the Nakba:
 
 
Following Draper, “When the fighting broke out in 1948.. there began a great flight and displacement of the Palestinian Arab population, a veritable Exodus from their homes and farms. Out of 700,000 Arabs, there were only about 170–180,000 left within the enlarged borders of Israel when it was over. The official Zionist version is that this flight took place in cooperation with the invading armies of the foreign Arab states. The official Israel govt pamphlet The Arabs in Israel asserts:”
 
 
‘It began on the express orders of the Arab commanders and political leaders, who assured the (Palestinian Arab) people that their evacuation to the neighboring Arab countries would only be of short duration and that they would soon return in the wake of the Victorious Arab armies and receive a handsome share of the bounty…..In addition (the official Israeli position continues), the Palestinian Arabs had thought it would be a walkaway, but when the Arab armies were defeated the Palestinian Arabs panicked and stampeded across the frontiers…Knowing what they had intended to do to their neighbors, (write the Jewish revisionists) they now expected the victorious Jews to mete out similar treatment to them. The Jews on the other hand (still according to the official Jewish govt version, The Arabs in Israel)  vainly tried to convince these Arabs to stay and keep the peace.”
 
 
Typical Zionist distortion of the facts is written into the official govt version of this tragic loss for the Palestinians.
 
 
Closing with a brief look at the economic benefits for the Israelis in seizing illegally these farms and homes seen as legal seizure by the Iz state that is built on these Palestinian lands:
 
 
“Of the 370 new Jewish settlements established between 1948 and 1953, 350 were on absentee property. In 1954 more than one-third of Israel’s Jewish population lived on absentee property and nearly a third of the new immigrants (250,000 people) settled in urban areas abandoned by Arabs.”
 
 
The Palestinians on the other hand who had functioned satisfactorily for themselves, organized according to the traditional musha’a system of communal land tenur, where land was owned jointly by villagers—often organized by a clan or hamula—rather than held as private property. Under this system, agricultural plots were redistributed periodically among cultivators, a structure that allowed for shared community labor. These people were no match for the formalities, mystifications and trickery of Israeli law. They could not keep legal hold of their land and were not in a position to do otherwise than to give up their holdings, If the Palestinians did not concur, or if they did, they were run off their land.
Lund University Publications
 

Posted by: Lavieja | Apr 14 2026 12:07 utc | 597

  • Salaam-,well we’ll what goes around comes around eh! The deceit and hypocrisy and cowardice of west is on full display.The Catholics are upset with Trump as Christ.Well where is Charlie Hebdo now – jus sui Charlie? .Are all at war now,those of the garden join the jungle? What an enlightenment of reformation.

Posted by: 4q8 | Apr 14 2026 12:09 utc | 598

Asian Frog | Apr 14 2026 11:57 utc | 600
 
The new Chinese policy to protect their interests came into effect some hours ago.
 
Quite likely a bucket of cold water on the Trump admin. I would assume Chinese naval ships to protect civilian shipping from the Americans began heading to Iran the moment that law came into effect.
 
So now we have talk of more talks. The Russians have had warships deployed for some time now to protect their international shipping From the anglo pirates. I don’t know what Russia has in the Region – the Chinese might go it alone as its an American attack on them though perhaps a joint force.
 
But know that new policy and law has com, into effect, I suspect we will see a different side of China.
I have just been skimming through the full text. Yandex browser now does a good Chinese to English translation.
https://www.gov.cn/zhengce/content/202604/content_7065398.htm

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Apr 14 2026 12:10 utc | 599

Iran has formally lodged a compensation claim with the United Nations against Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, and Jordan, directly accusing the five regional countries of participating in and facilitating the ongoing US‑Israeli war on Iranian territory, Tehran’s permanent mission to the UN announced.
 
https://www.telesurenglish.net/iran-files-un-compensation-claim-against-five-middle-east-nations-for-role-in-us%e2%80%91israeli-war/

Posted by: arby | Apr 14 2026 12:12 utc | 600

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