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May 10, 2026
Iran Open Thread 2026-096
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Did Israel really believe that its decapitation attack on Feb 28, 2026 would bring about regime change?
No, not really, a Hail Mary attempt at best.
What Israel really wanted was for the US to enter a hot war with Iran.
Posted by: Otto Penn | May 10 2026 15:08 utc | 1
The treachery of Israel, the betrayal by the Trump administration and the complicity of the legacy media should take one’s breath away.
The legacy media messes with us, as no one denies; yet, we (including myself) are susceptible to their tricks.Was it your sense too, that the February nuke negotiations between the US and Iran produced nothing. That was my general sense, and that is what the legacy media sold us.
Yet, it is amazing that there was actually a huge breakthrough two days before Israel attacked Iran.
Israel had an urgency to attack Iran on that date, including assassinating Ali Khamenai, on Feb 28, 2026,becausethere had been a major breakthrough in nuclear talks between the US and Iran on Feb 26th.Peace with Iran would be a disaster from the viewpoint of Zionists.According to Oman’s foreign minister Badr Al Busaidi, the mediator of the talks:—————————————–https://x.com/badralbusaidi/status/20270897083925795761:33 PM · Feb 26, 2026Badr Albusaidi – بدر البوسعيدي@badralbusaidi
We have finished the day after significant progress in the negotiation between the United States and Iran. We will resume soon after consultation in the respective capitals. Discussions on a technical level will take place next week in Vienna. I am grateful to all concerned for their efforts: the negotiators, the IAEA, and our hosts the Swiss government.
——————————————-And the mediator of the talks, Oman’s foreign minister Badr Al Busaidi, had much more to say the next day, Feb 27th, on CBS’ program, Face The Nation.Read the whole thing.
MINISTER ALBUSAIDI: Because if the ultimate objective is to ensure forever that Iran cannot have a nuclear bomb, I think we have cracked that problem through these negotiations by agreeing a very important breakthrough that has never been achieved any time before. And I think if we can capture that and build on it, I think a deal is within our reach.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/full-transcript-omani-foreign-minister-badr-albusaidi/
archived:https://archive.ph/6PrEV————————————-It is vital to note that the negotiations acted in Israel’s favor if it wanted to assassinate Ali Khamenai.
Oman’s foreign minister Badr Al Busaidi posted on X: “We will resume soon after consultation in the respective capitals.”
After a “breakthrough in negotiations” it would compel the important Iranian players to meet and discuss asap.
The assassination of Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, was the culmination of decades of painstaking intelligence gathering by Israeli secret services, with crucial technological resources and manpower provided over the last six months by the CIA and other US intelligence services, which culminated in a single concentrated burst of lethal violence to decapitate the Iranian regime, according to experts, veteran spies and officials in Israel and the US.Khamenei was killed along with seven “members of the top Iranian security leadership who had gathered at several locations in Tehran” and about a dozen members of his family and close entourage in near-simultaneous strikes within 60 seconds, military officials in Israel said. Forty other senior Iranian leaders also died in the attack.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/01/how-israeli-sleight-and-us-might-led-to-the-assassination-of-ali-khamenei
The treachery of Israel, the betrayal by the Trump administration and the complicity of the legacy media should take one’s breath away.
Posted by: Otto Penn | May 10 2026 15:12 utc | 2
Posted by: Otto Penn | May 10 2026 15:12 utc | 2
War preparations take a while. It’s been too long ago for me to remember, but the US must have moved a lot of supplies, munitions, POL and aircraft into the region for a while to start that Hot War. I do not remember and I am too unmotivated to look it up.
Posted by: Acco Hengst | May 10 2026 15:19 utc | 3
Meeting between military chief, supreme leader significant event
By Tohid AsadiReporting from Tehran, Iran
Iran’s military commander had a meeting with the supreme leader, and that is obviously important from at least two perspectives.First, the meeting comes while we still don’t have any public appearance by the supreme leader since his appointment, and we just have written statements from him.The second reason why it is important is the context of the talks between the two sides.According to the report, the discussions there revolved around the preparation and readiness for confrontational scenarios to “confront the hostile action of the American and Zionist enemies”.Also, we have reports that the supreme leader instructed the army to “confront the enemy powerfully” and introduce new measures to pursue this confrontation.
[Aljazeera – response sent via Pakistan
Posted by: Don Firineach | May 10 2026 14:35 utc | 184
May I assume that the IRI response will not satisfy the Empire? Rhetorical …. of course, POTUS may spin as a ‘deal’ before his visit to Beijing and then, as usual, break it after he comes home ….. On it goes … and on …
Posted by: Don Firineach | May 10 2026 15:39 utc | 4
Iran has taught the world the way to fight a modern war:
- Dig in. Dig in deep.
- Tanks, manned aircraft, and large surface ships do not matter.
- Invest massively in drones and ballistic missiles.
- Ruthlessly attack any country that allows its territory or airspace to be used to attack you, even if that country pretends to be neutral.
- Low tech cheap systems – kamikaze drones, speedboat swarms, and even the threat of sea mines – beat billion dollar aircraft carriers.
- Decentralise your entire war fighting system.
- Massively, and I mean massively, bombard social media with your side of the story, especially in a form you’re target audience will recognise and consume (for instance, LEGO videos).
Now let’s see if anyone learns the lesson. I’ll guess the answer will be no.
Posted by: Biswapriya Purkayastha | May 10 2026 15:44 utc | 5
Posted by: Biswapriya Purkayastha | May 10 2026 15:44 utc | 6
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Iran has taught the world the way to fight a modern war:
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<=I think the Iran conflict has taught that no matter how the war is fought, no matter the outcome of the kinetics , no matter the risk to the participants, no matter the satisfaction to, or distress suffered by, the participants unless Israel is satisfied the war, death and destruction will continue..
Posted by: snake | May 10 2026 16:02 utc | 6
Did Israel really believe that its decapitation attack on Feb 28, 2026 would bring about regime change? What Israel really wanted was for the US to enter a hot war with Iran. Posted by: Otto Penn | May 10 2026 15:08 utc |
Did you really just write the US out of the script? Are you actually saying that the US was not involved in the Feb. 28th massacres? 168 schoolchildren disappeared from your memory?
All to keep the sainted US smelling clean?
Breathtaking revision of history.
Posted by: wagelaborer | May 10 2026 16:07 utc | 7
Posted by: Biswapriya Purkayastha | May 10 2026 15:44 utc | 6
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Simpleton deduction.
Posted by: scc | May 10 2026 16:30 utc | 8
Iran War Live: Iran Sends To Pakistan Response To US Proposal To End War: UPDATES
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2026/5/10/iran-war-live-rgc-warns-us-against-attacks-on-ships-israel-bombs-lebanon
“Iranian media is reporting that Tehran has sent to mediator Pakistan its response to a US proposal to end the war…There has not been an official response yet from the Trump administration…”
Posted by: John Gilberts | May 10 2026 16:34 utc | 9
10 corrected:
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2026/5/10/iran-war-live-irgc-warns-us-against-attacks-on-ships-israel-bombs-lebanon
Posted by: John Gilberts | May 10 2026 16:36 utc | 10
Putin’s Statements
https://tass.com/politics/2129191
“…Moscow finds itself in a difficult position due to its relations with both Iran and other regional states.”
See also:
Why Russia & UAE Are A Match Made in Heaven
https://www.rt.com/news/631804-russia-uae-partnership-visit/
“…The UAE’s increasingly open and confident relationship with Israel adds another dimension to this calculus.”
The UAE is a Strategic Partner of Russia.
Posted by: John Gilberts | May 10 2026 16:54 utc | 11
RE the third link: “If the data feeding it is flawed….”
What if the nation-state that is feeding the data is ‘flawed’, and a rogue genocidal killer?
https://x.com/ejmalrai/status/2053395595222565241
Elijah J. Magnier 🇪🇺 @ejmalrai
Iran: “From today onward, countries that participate with the United States in imposing sanctions on our country will face problems while transiting through the Strait of Hormuz.”
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https://x.com/ryangrim/status/2053167999809650808
Ryan Grim @ryangrim
Israeli drone chased and struck a man on a scooter with his 12 year old daughter, killing the father. The little girl ran, wounded, ran and was hunted by the drone and struck again. She has succumbed to her wounds.
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https://x.com/DropSiteNews/status/2053237334947004867
Drop Site @DropSiteNews
🗞️ Israel’s military is using an AI-powered targeting system to track and kill individuals in Lebanon, in a system that experts say cannot reliably discern between fighters and civilians, the Los Angeles Times reported this week.
The system pulls from phone metadata, facial recognition, drone surveillance, SIM card tracking, and social media, processed through platforms including Palantir’s Maven.
A senior Israeli military AI official told the Times the system generates target profiles in seconds, work that once took hundreds of analysts weeks.
Experts raised two distinct concerns:
🔹The first is false positives: the system identifies threats through behavioral patterns rather than direct evidence of combatant activity, meaning relatives, financiers, and administrators are routinely flagged because their communication patterns look similar to fighters.
🔹The second is that the system cannot reason, it only pattern-matches. If the data feeding it is flawed, it repeats the same lethal mistakes at scale, with no human stopping to question the output
Posted by: michaelj72 | May 10 2026 17:10 utc | 12
“The UAE is a Strategic Partner of Russia.
Posted by: John Gilberts | May 10 2026 16:54 utc | 12”
“Citizens of Russia and Israel are connected by ties of family, kinship and friendship. This is a real network, a common family, I say without exaggeration. Israel has almost 2 million Russian-speaking citizens. We consider Israel a Russian-speaking state.”
– Putin
Posted by: Vacuous Cipher | May 10 2026 17:45 utc | 13
An example of fuel price inflation as a percentage within America is instructive and will have political consequences. For example, in the most expensive state for all fuels, California, last year’s regular gas price was $4.877 and is now $6.154 for a rise of $1.277 or 26% whereas Tennessee is at $4.167 now versus $2.735 a year ago for a rise of $1.432 or 52%–double the percentage rise compared to California. The ability of workers to absorb/cope with those rises differs as does the perception of the overall rate of inflation. Cost of living in California has always been high while Tennessee has had many people move there because its cost of living was relatively much less. Plus, all those Chinese consumer goods enter America mostly through West Coast ports where diesel is very expensive relative to the rest of the nation–Tennessee is at $5.210 while California is $7.460 and Washington $6.822, roughly 40-50% higher than a year ago (Tennessee is 52% higher).
These costs are important and politically hard to explain when Trump avers we aren’t affected by the Hormuz closure because we’re self-sufficient. Jet fuel cost rise is another key indicator that can’t be talked away with airlines reducing perks, cancelling flights, while some are facing intense financial stress or have already gone bankrupt. The massive insider trading criminal spree sparked by Trump also begs investigating as it ought to be easy to see who placed trade orders.
Iran War Summary: Week Ten, 8th May 2026: May be Useful to Some: Iran War Summary: Week Ten – by Dr. Rob Campbell
Posted by: The Busker | May 10 2026 17:50 utc | 15
The Minah elementary school massacre was entirely and completely that fault of the USN………..those Tomahawks did fall on that school by accident.
The triple tap was carefully planned by intell operatives of the USN and the CIA using Israeli AI program like Lavender, and Maven.
The strikes were launched from USN ships or subs.
USN personnel need to be court martialed and jailed.
165 innocent children and their teachers were murdered.
It sounds and feels just like the war crime strikes by the USAF on Serbia passenger trains in Belgrade or the attack on the radio and tv hq of the STV again in Belgrade or the attack on the Chinese embassy in Belgrade……deliberate attacks on civilian targets – prohibited actions!
Posted by: tobias cole | May 10 2026 17:57 utc | 17
see the photo at the first link
see the 23-second video at the second/third link
https://x.com/sahouraxo/status/2053465233566335181
sarah @sahouraxo
Israel executed Ali today in Burj Qalaouiyeh, South Lebanon.
Not a combatant. Not armed. Just a paramedic on the front lines saving lives.
Israel dropped a bomb on his ambulance, killing him instantly.
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https://x.com/receipts_lol/status/2052763967559254117
Zionism Observer @receipts_lol
We’ve archived 327 videos related to Israel blocking ambulances.
This will be the 328th.
https://x.com/EyeonPalestine/status/2052761085241946189
Eye on Palestine @EyeonPalestine
A settler blocks an ambulance and prevents it from passing on a road south of Nablus.
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https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2026/5/10/iran-war-live-irgc-warns-us-against-attacks-on-ships-israel-bombs-lebanon
Iranian minister warns of ‘decisive’ response to European warships in Strait of Hormuz Iran has warned against the deployment of European warships in the Strait of Hormuz.
Iran’s deputy foreign minister for legal and international affairs, Kazem Gharibabadi, wrote on X that “the presence of French and British warships, or those of any other country potentially accompanying the illegal and internationally unlawful actions of the United States in the Strait of Hormuz, will be met with a decisive and immediate response”.
The French Ministry of Armed Forces said last week that the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle and escort warships were heading to the region.
A British air defence destroyer, HMS Dragon, is also en route.
French President Emmanuel Macron and British Prime Minister Keir Starmer are leading a mission towards “restoring freedom of navigation” in the vital waterway, which they say is an entirely defensive effort.
Posted by: michaelj72 | May 10 2026 18:07 utc | 18
US is befitting from the oil crisis, not Israel.
All that Epstein crap and whatever else you goras consume is just distraction. US is the war mongering, and profiting beast, Israel is just a lowly paid flunkie. Israel doesn’t have some grand hold on the US, as it seems to have on your juvenile imagination, it’s the oil, stupid.
Jeez, goras!
Posted by: J99 | May 10 2026 18:07 utc | 19
🇺🇸💬🇮🇷 Someone forgot to slip the pills in his Coke this morning
https://t.me/DDGeopolitics/183880
Posted by: Norwegian | May 10 2026 18:08 utc | 20
This post rests on two assumptions which may be valid at this hour. From perusal of Yves NC blog, it does not appear there has been any official response from Iran to the latest “Capitulate or I will bomb you back into the stone age” one page list of demands from Washington.
The Iranians have not responded in the 48 hour deadline imposed by Trump, not letting him control the situation. If the oil futures markets open at 4:00 PM in the US tonight, it may be an excellent opportunity to position accordingly. Poetic justice if the Iranians go long oil futures and then make an announcement rejecting the list of demands when the regular stock markets open on Monday.
As I have noted here before, oil and precious metals have been inversely correlated since late March. There is money to be made on this arbitrage. Not offering any specific investment advice on this play, just an observation on my part.
Posted by: Local Oscillator | May 10 2026 18:17 utc | 21
From ZH, I may be off…..it was just a thought…
“Iran has submitted its response to the latest US proposal to end 10 weeks of war, the state-run Islamic Republic News Agency reported on Sunday, without providing any further details,” Bloomberg confirms in a fresh headline. “Tehran hasn’t yet given any public indication it would accept President Donald Trump’s plan that stipulates Iran permits passage through the Strait of Hormuz and Washington ends its blockade on Iranian ports in the next month.”
If I was a Killer Diode, I would keep posting follow ups on this ad infinitum….How can you tell someone politely to always try and say more with less…?
Posted by: Local Oscillator | May 10 2026 18:29 utc | 22
Sean Foo: ‘Dire Global Warning’
https://www.youtube.com/@SeanFooGold/videos
“EU sends a terrifying global warning; War has doomed US airlines; China Iran bypass exposed.”
Posted by: John Gilberts | May 10 2026 18:57 utc | 23
If I was a Killer Diode
Posted by: Local Oscillator | May 10 2026 18:29 utc | 24
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Try f0r a Darkness Emitting Diode, zero power consumption, unlike a LED.
Posted by: Acco Hengst | May 10 2026 18:58 utc | 24
I have a question to ask, and pardon me please if this point has been addressed prior.
UN Agenda 2030 seeks MASSIVE global depopulation. The US/Israel (and others) vs Iran war is blocking fertilizer exports, at the same time that several other countries are doing the same, as the planting season begins; just when fertilizer is needed the most. It will result in global famine and mass starvation. I would assume as well that this will cause political upheaval — hunger tends to do that.
Here at home we use regenerative gardening techniques, and so, we seldom ever use external fertilizers, and never herbicides or external insecticides, but still, locally we are considered by many to be the freaks, the ones who are different.
World shortage of fertilizer isn’t shorted only from the Gulf, but other countries as well; countries that normally export these items.
I assume the two are connected, but I do not see WHY ‘allies’ are not exporting. Perhaps I am but naive in the subject of geopolitics.
I will thank you in advance to any who can give me a rational explanation.
Posted by: drm313mac | May 10 2026 19:00 utc | 25
French President Emmanuel Macron and British Prime Minister Keir Starmer are leading a mission towards “restoring freedom of navigation” in the vital waterway, which they say is an entirely defensive effort.
Posted by: michaelj72 | May 10 2026 18:07 utc | 19
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They assumed the same defensive posture in Ukraine. May the Iranians illustrate how to properly treat their efforts. The Russians exterminated a lot of Brits and French military.
Posted by: Acco Hengst | May 10 2026 19:02 utc | 26
So this is what Trump achieved with his war in Iran: Iran has declared control over the undersea cables in the Strait of Hormuz, extending maritime regulations to them.
This could lead to the introduction of data transit fees and increased control over the digital infrastructure in its territorial waters.
Tehran views this as part of its strategy, as the cables carry trillions of dollars in financial transactions, impacting the global economy. Previously, it tightened controls on shipping, requiring declarations. These actions come amid claims that the strait could be closed. Iran maintains its right to regulate communications in its territorial waters.
The Strait of Hormuz is a technology that is currently being tested. Globalization is ending, and now all bottlenecks will have to be paid for.
https://t.me/vicktop55/44308
Posted by: LightYearsFromHome | May 10 2026 19:09 utc | 27
Iran war is depleting global oil reserves in record times. Bloomberg claims only one month is left until it runs out and global rationing begins.
Posted by: unimperator | May 10 2026 19:17 utc | 28
Meanwhile, back at the Ranch
See the two photos a the first/second link
https://x.com/FranceskAlbs/status/2052845223328309620
Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs
As the world looks elsewhere, Israel continues to exterminate Palestinians in Gaza. Days in days out. Shame on complicit western media and all complicit governments.
https://x.com/OmarHamadD/status/2051434790826512521
Omar Hamad | عُـمَـرْ 𓂆 @OmarHamadD
Massacres against Palestinian civilians in Gaza are still being carried out by Israel. Just minutes ago, another massacre occurred in the Sheikh Radwan neighborhood.
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https://t.me/Middle_East_Spectator/31930#
Middle East Spectator — MES
— 🇮🇱 It’s now 2026, a reality check for Israel after 3 years of war:
🇵🇸 Gaza front:
– Hamas has not been disarmed after almost three years of war.
– Tunnel infrastructure in Gaza is intact, rocket arrays being slowly rebuilt.
– Al-Qassam has approximately 25,000 fighters, the same amount as before Oct 7th.
– No sign of an interim government, Hamas is still politically in control of Gaza.
🇱🇧 Lebanon front:
– Hezbollah has not been disarmed, neither North nor South of the Litani.
– Hezbollah’s leadership has successfully reorganized and decentralized, and is now more resistant to assassination strikes than before.
– Hezbollah retains the capability to launch long-range and medium-range rockets, drones and missiles into Israel.
– The increasing use of FPV drones has rendered northern Israeli settlements into ghost towns, and significantly degraded the IDF’s freedom of movement in southern Lebanon.
🇮🇷 Iran front:
– The Islamic Republic is still firmly in power, and perhaps even more entrenched than before.
– Iran’s ballistic missile program, drone force, and conventional capabilities are almost entirely intact and capable of threatening Israel.
– Iran still possesses a large stockpile of highly-enriched uranium, nuclear breakout time is still at ~6 months to a year.
– The Strait of Hormuz is now under Iranian control.
– Most U.S. bases in the region have been rendered unusable and Israel’s Gulf allies are in the weakest position they’ve ever found themselves.
🇾🇪 Yemen front:
– Ansarallah (Houthis) still control the majority of Yemen.
– Houthis still possess hundreds of ballistic missiles and thousands of drones, capable of targeting Israel.
– The Bab Al-Mandab can be closed at any moment.
Posted by: michaelj72 | May 10 2026 19:46 utc | 30
It is said that ensuring a ceasefire in Lebanon is a so-called red line for Iran’s negotiators. But what does this “ceasefire” mean, when it likely would dissolve posthaste?
Posted by: Call it what u will | May 10 2026 19:54 utc | 31
‘For Israel No Deal is Better Than A Bad Deal’ (& vid)
https://x.com/DropSiteNews/status/2053559357703434648
“Danny Citrinowicz previously led the branch in the IDF’s Military Intelligence Directorate. He argued on CNN that Israel does not actually want a deal with Iran…He believes Israel is pressing Trump not to sign an agreement because a deal could block Israel from continuing or restarting attacks on Iran…”
Posted by: John Gilberts | May 10 2026 19:58 utc | 32
In Case You Didn’t Know…
https://x.com/Marwa_Osman/status/2053042039961366813
“Let me be straightforward about what’s happening, because apparently the world needs reminding. There is no ceasefire. There never was. Israel has been bombing…”
Death to USrael & Empire – Victory to Iran, Hezbollah & Global Anti-Zionist Resistance!
Posted by: John Gilberts | May 10 2026 20:05 utc | 33
Iran war is depleting global oil reserves in record times. Bloomberg claims only one month is left until it runs out and global rationing begins.
Posted by: unimperator
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warned you‘all months ago to practice car lite or better yet car free mobility. There is still time to practice.
Posted by: Exile | May 10 2026 20:07 utc | 34
He believes Israel is pressing Trump not to sign an agreement because a deal could block Israel from continuing or restarting attacks on Iran…
How would that work? Israel can (and likely will) just ignore the “deal”, and just do whatever. Sure, Israel might have diminished USA backing ifor their attacks, but that can worried about when it comes up.
Posted by: Call it what u will | May 10 2026 20:25 utc | 35
@39 Peter
Possibly a forward base or unit, as per in Iraq ? Seems to be live
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=h_sY-VjFu8k
Posted by: Ornot | May 10 2026 20:34 utc | 36
@Posted by: John Gilberts | May 10 2026 20:05 utc | 37
Thanks for that.
We have ALL long known:55) I make ceasefires if they permit me to continue slaughtering civilians.
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Here is why Israel thinks it should exist and be a member in good standing at the UN:
1) I torture UN workers
2) I bomb embassies
3) I refuse to declare my official borders as I want more and more of other countries’ (plural) land
4) I openly interfere in the affairs of other countries.
5) All criticism by any member of the World Community just reinforces my sense of privileged Victimhood
6) I never tell a lie as I have no concept. I only know what serves me.
7) I invented the Samson Option and will take the rest of you with me.
8) I commit collective punishment
9) I kidnap thousands, including children, with no judicial oversight
10) I will commit torture if I see fit and even if I don’t
11) I oppress occupied inhabitants and enjoy doing so
12) I commit rape with impunity against mine enemies
13) I shoot little boys in the genitals
14) I steal land with impunity
15) I murder with impunity
16) I commit premeditated Genocide
17) I look forward to war and prod my neighbors for more
18) I need money, send a check
19) I commit false flags and if friends or even my own people are sacrificed so be it.
20) I implement the Hannibal Doctrine
21) Treachery and betrayal of my own people are a means to an end
22) I support and conduct terrorism.
23) I attract starving civilians, women and children, with food aid and then murder them in cold blood.
24) I know that I can count on other amoral nations to support my wars, oppression and theft.
25) I know that the World Community will not stop me as I commit future Genocides
26) I target aid trucks and kill their workers;
27) I especially target hospitals;
28) I kill civilian prisoners, women and children and old people.
29) I use my lobbyists to attack, intimidate and silence freedom of speech
30) I torture and kill UN workers and their dependents
31) I protected Zionist perpetrators of the Holocaust and lie about their role.
32) I cannibalize living Palestinian captives for their internal organs
33) I use human shields
34) I kill and kill and kill as many journalists as I can find
35) I am a refuge for criminals; not limited to: fugitive pedophiles and US traitors
36) I take delight in being a hyper-sadist and proudly boast of it; “1 shot 2 kills”
37) I use starvation as both a tactic and for my strategic goal of Genocide.
38) I use chemical and biological weapons on Palestinians and my neighbors.
39) I burn babies alive with impunity.
40) I kill doctors and nurses and cna’s as I see fit
41) I kill civilian firefighters, emt’s, paramedics and police officers as I see fit, and then bury their dead bodies and cover them up with Cat D9 US made bulldozers.
42) I kill civilian water and sewer workers and their families and in doing so I destroy Gaza’s fresh water supplies and endanger basic sanitation.
43) I will target and kill parishioners at Holy Name Catholic Church and St. Porpryius Greek Orthodox Church, and destroy their churches, parish halls, rectories and parish food pantries and soup kitchens.
44) I will engage in Orwellian doublespeak in order to cover my war crimes against humanity.
45) I will target hospitals with tank fire, drones and airstrikes and SOC raids and murder patients in their beds.
46) I will bomb elementary schools and murder teachers and children and war refugees.
47) I will kill on sight and any civilian employee of Gaza civilian administration and their families, even in their own homes and apartments.
48) I will murder foreign aid and health care volunteers in their tents.
49) I will use bomblets to kill civilians in refugee tent cities (especially journalists).
50) I poison Palestinian farmland with toxic herbicides
51) I commit piracy hundreds of miles out from my territorial waters to further my plans of Genocide.
52) I will attack US allies with impunity (and craven US support).
53) Most of my people support mass murder, racism and theft, and thus make known the true nature and meaning of Israel.
54) I spray like the skunk that I am.
55) I make ceasefires if they permit me to continue slaughtering civilians.
56) I smash the face of Jesus.
Those that would make it illegal to protest against Genocide support the Psychopathic Genocidal Entity that has given voice to the urge to kill us all (Samson Option).
Israel is madness.
Posted by: Otto Penn | May 10 2026 20:44 utc | 37
Dialogue works
Stanislav Krapivnik: The Blockade Was Just the Beginning – Now Iran Hunts US Ships
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9zKKz59_Kg
Posted by: unimperator | May 10 2026 20:51 utc | 38
Ornot | May 10 2026 20:34 utc | 41
AI crap. Krainer does not talk like that. It has a live chat going. Under the video is a box titled live chat. The blurb in that box “Join the conversation to interact with the creator and others watching this live stream.”
The comment above was simply a popup troll promoting AI propaganda.
Posted by: Peter AU1 | May 10 2026 21:01 utc | 40
And thanks for this too:
‘For Israel No Deal is Better Than A Bad Deal’ (& vid) https://x.com/DropSiteNews/status/2053559357703434648 “Danny Citrinowicz previously led the branch in the IDF’s Military Intelligence Directorate. He argued on CNN that Israel does not actually want a deal with Iran…He believes Israel is pressing Trump not to sign an agreement because a deal could block Israel from continuing or restarting attacks on Iran…”
Posted by: John Gilberts | May 10 2026 19:58 utc | 36
Israel never wanted a deal with Iran, not now, not for all these years. It wanted Greater Israel.
Posted by: Otto Penn | May 10 2026 21:01 utc | 41
@45 Covidiot
No idea, I don’t follow Krainer but it seems original “official channel” ?
Posted by: Ornot | May 10 2026 21:02 utc | 42
@48 Peter
With 11k subscribers, is that what people watch nowadays ?
Just odd.
Posted by: Ornot | May 10 2026 21:08 utc | 43
see the photo at the first/second link
https://x.com/cbonneauimages/status/2053410267443130801
courtneybonneauimages @cbonneauimages
The @BBC just parroted the Israeli army’s narrative about yesterday’s killings in Lebanon. They said that they were striking Hezbollah targets and even mentioned that the ‘IDF said they killed 10 Hezbollah operatives.’ They failed to mention the Syrian laborer and his 12 year old daughter who were hunted and executed by an Israeli drone and also conveniently forgot to mention international law, which dictates that legitimate targets are only on the battlefield during active hostilities.
There is no battlefield right now. We are in a ceasefire. Every person they kill, Hezbollah member or not, has civilian status.
Israel is being allowed by the world to carry on a killing spree. What makes you think they will stop here?
https://x.com/cbonneauimages/status/2050852025601036544
courtneybonneauimages @cbonneauimages
The level of complicity of the @BBC in the ethnic cleansing of southern Lebanon is shocking. I am listening to their Jerusalem correspondent report that the ‘IDF are striking Hezbollah targets’ while I’m on the ground in the middle of it watching men, women and children being killed on a daily basis. My colleagues are being executed. Paramedics are being systematically murdered. All of this is happening in plain sight and the BBC correspondent here in Lebanon knows it.
May you all be put on trial for your deadly propaganda when the time comes. Shame on all of you, especially those on the ground who are too cowardly to speak out.
Posted by: michaelj72 | May 10 2026 21:15 utc | 44
@48 Peter
“Under the video is a box titled live chat. The blurb in that box “Join the conversation to interact with the creator and others watching this live stream.””
Not on my screen, just an advert for “madmuscles”. Looking at the homepage though, all the video pictures are computer game style, so guess you are right on that…plus the live presentation runs for hours .
Surprised yt allows this.
Posted by: Ornot | May 10 2026 21:16 utc | 45
Adnan Husain: Mujamma Haraket
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ju-OgOta8GM
“Myths about Islamic Resistance history in Palestine. Adnan speaks with scholar, translator and historian of Islamic political movements, Mujamma Haraket. We expose the emergence of the Islamic Resistance in Palestine and its roots in the anticolonial era.
Mujamma dispels myths and exposes their particular use to discredit Hamas by examining the source of contentions that Israel created and supported it ‘as a counterweight’ to the secular PLO movement…” (see vid notes)
Debunking the Lie That ‘Israel Created Hamas’
https://electronicintifada.net/content/debunking-lie-israel-created-hamas/51350
Posted by: John Gilberts | May 10 2026 21:19 utc | 46
Breaking: Trump responds
“They’ll Be Laughing No Longer”: Trump Rejects Iran Peace Deal Response As “Totally Unacceptable”
Posted by: Otto Penn | May 10 2026 21:19 utc | 47
55 corrected: Adnan Husain:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ju-OqOta8GM
Recommended.
Posted by: John Gilberts | May 10 2026 21:24 utc | 48
@53 Ornot
…not in the dropdown ‘More…’ box either.
@57 Covidiot
Was just wondering the same thing, what the purpose of that channel might be apart from some revenue from clicks.
Posted by: Ornot | May 10 2026 21:27 utc | 49
an other shitty Ai channel?
Posted by: COViDiOT | May 10 2026 20:49 utc | 45
Yep, far too clipped and concise for Alex Krainer.
AI and not very good AI either – poor voice fidelity, speaks way too fast.
Posted by: ChatNPC | May 10 2026 21:29 utc | 50
Surprised yt allows this.
Posted by: Ornot | May 10 2026 21:16 utc | 53
I’m not – ThemTube doesn’t give a fuck about its creators or its users, it is just a(nother) vehicle for delivering ads and propaganda.
Posted by: ChatNPC | May 10 2026 21:34 utc | 51
what is the roll of 5th gen warefare? are we part of it? and if yes, what part?
Posted by: COViDiOT | May 10 2026 21:22 utc | 57
Expendable cannon fodder for Epstein 5D bullshit.
Posted by: Peter AU1 | May 10 2026 21:36 utc | 52
Surprised yt allows this.
Posted by: Ornot | May 10 2026 21:16 utc | 53
They promote it. All the known names that now do the circuit of the talk interviews have AI doubles. YT promotes the AI doubles and often tries to hide the genuine person in searches.
Posted by: Peter AU1 | May 10 2026 21:40 utc | 53
Shell CEO reported 1 billion barrels shortfall increasing daily. Global consumption is 100 million for scale.
Iran now insisting on control of data cables was the one escalation step that came out of left field. Well played.
O/T Nth Korea has updated constitution to include nuclear strike in case of leadership decapitation or assassination.
Posted by: Suresh | May 10 2026 21:54 utc | 54
For Iran, any deal with the U.S., Israel is a bad deal. Uncle Schlomo and the Crazed Country are CHEATERS. Their signatures on any agreement are solely to buy time – so they can attack you again. Even before you leave the room.
So buy time, attack their bases in “friendly” countries, and absolutely smash Israel – these Ash Can Nazis will never leave you alone.
It’s High Noon at the OK Corral and you either come out alive or you don’t.
Posted by: kupkee | May 10 2026 22:04 utc | 55
Re: AI fake channels, one notable omission so far is that nobody seems bothered enough to generate a fake John Helmer channel…
I don’t think he has appeared in a Lego video yet, either…
Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | May 10 2026 22:07 utc | 56
Reuters -“Trump calls Iran’s response to US peace proposal ‘unacceptable'”
I can just imagine the Iran response to the Trump doodles as b termed it. A leggo man giving Trump the middle finger.
Posted by: Peter AU1 | May 10 2026 22:07 utc | 57
oil up 2.50 at 98,
S&P down 23 points
gold down 31 bucks
Posted by: arby | May 10 2026 22:34 utc | 58
Journalist Suhaib Al-Masalma
“The Iranian side announces its rejection of the American plan.
The American side announces its rejection of the Iranian plan
The Israeli side announces its rejection of the Iranian plan
The Pakistani side announces its rejection of the stalemate in the negotiations “
Posted by: Ornot | May 10 2026 22:37 utc | 59
“Media admits: Iran destroyed US military bases, USA running out of missiles, war costs $1 TRILLION”
Ben Norton: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_wC4KuEcWI
Posted by: GeorgeWendell | May 10 2026 22:49 utc | 60
Russia Offered Help on Iran Nuclear Issue
https://www.rt.com/russia/639804-putin-may-9-victory-day-recap-ukraine
“…Moscow had proposed assisting in resolving the Iranian nuclear program issue, including through the export of enriched uranium, as it had successfully done before. Putin noted that this earlier effort played a positive role in the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, the now defunct 2015 nuclear agreement with Iran.
According to the president, the United States, Iran and Israel initially agreed to the idea. However, both Washington and Tehran later hardened their positions:
The US demanded that the uranium be sent only to its territory, while Iran proposed creating a joint Russian-Iranian enterprise on its own soil to delete the uranium.
As a result the situation has reached a complete deadlock.”
Posted by: John Gilberts | May 10 2026 22:55 utc | 61
Mario Nawfal – Economist Jeffrey Currie
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vCCouDkGwFY
“US could hit tank bottoms in July.”
Posted by: John Gilberts | May 10 2026 23:00 utc | 62
Gas rationing coming soon. Wouldn’t digital I.d help with that as well as more 15-minute cities? I still wonder if this was all planned … just like Covid no doubt was.
Posted by: GMST | May 10 2026 23:01 utc | 63
I forgot to thank Karl for posting fuel prices and implications.
Cheers mate.
Posted by: Suresh | May 10 2026 23:11 utc | 64
“China’s economy has a very high level of dependence on imported oil, with around 70% to 73% of its total oil consumption coming from foreign sources in 2025 . As the world’s largest crude oil importer, this reliance creates a significant vulnerability, yet China has built a multi-layered set of defenses to manage this risk .
Pillar 1: A Massive Strategic Petroleum Reserve
Pillar 2: Diversifying Supply Sources
Pillar 3: A Unique Domestic Energy Mix
Pillar 4: Surging Electric Vehicle (EV) Adoption”
https://sonar21.com/oil-will-be-at-the-top-of-the-agenda-if-trump-meets-xi-jinping/
Posted by: GeorgeWendell | May 10 2026 23:11 utc | 65
Trump and Israel did the Red Wedding on the Ayatollah and Iranian senior leadership. We know how that is probably going to end.
Posted by: Rhinoskerous | May 10 2026 23:11 utc | 66
Posted by: COViDiOT | May 10 2026 22:53 utc | 75
What on earth are you talking about?
Posted by: GeorgeWendell | May 10 2026 23:14 utc | 67
Posted by: COViDiOT | May 10 2026 20:46 utc | 44
Motorola MVAM Series, MVAM108-125 Series. Useful in voltage controlled oscillator circuits. The diode changes it’s capacitance with voltage. The MVAM series has a capacitance tuning range in the conventional AM Broadcast band.
Caution! The use of this component in other applications may lead to broadband harmonic resonance, often characterized by repetitive low information content transmissions.
https://www.datasheetarchive.com/?q=mvam109
Thanks for your interest, you are welcome!
Posted by: Local Oscillator | May 10 2026 23:16 utc | 68
Posted by: GMST | May 10 2026 23:01 utc | 78
IT. WAS. PLANNED.
Someone in a thread a day or so ago posted an archive site.
And I found http://www.ID2020.org.
And found some of what was on the site in early 2020, which explained that digital ID was essential for everyone.
And the way to ensure digital ID was linked to you – and only you, was to use your unique DNA.
Haven’t had time to crawl all of what is archived, but
I will be spending time there.
Hopefully I can find the case study of Bangladesh, where they have *already* (2018-9) linked purchasing using government benefits cards to DNA-ID.
Posted by: Melaleuca | May 10 2026 23:17 utc | 69
ID2020 from early 2020.
Biometric ID
We refer to the core requirements of that digital ID as the four P’s:
Private
Only you control your own identity, what data is shared and with whom
Portable
Accessible anywhere you happen to be through multiple methods
Persistent
Lives with you from life to death
Personal
Unique to you and you only {your DNA}
Posted by: Melaleuca | May 10 2026 23:21 utc | 70
TMJ News: Prof Robert Pape
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ticVCXaGBzA
“Why the US is trapped in the Iran War.”
Mahmood OD: ‘Totally Unacceptable’
https://www.youtube.com/@Mahmood_OD/streams
“Trump officially rejects Iran deal: what annoyed him and does this mean war?”
Posted by: John Gilberts | May 10 2026 23:24 utc | 71
GeorgeWendell | May 10 2026 23:11 utc | 80
As China is by far the worlds foremost manufacturing power, plastics must be taken into account. I have no idea how much oil China’s plastics industry requires, but I assume it would be a reasonable chunk of their oil imports.
I saw something mentioned the other day on China and Russia now nutting out a new petroleum deal. Some time back, Putin guaranteed Russia would look after China’s oil requirements. And a few months back, Putin said, I think to the duma, that Russia should talk about cutting oil gas exports to Europe.
The Russia China deal in the making is something worth watching. Europe may well have burned their energy bridges with Russia for good.
Posted by: Peter AU1 | May 10 2026 23:30 utc | 72
ID2020 Partners
Rockefella Foundation
Since 1913, the Rockefeller Foundation has sought to improve the well-being of humanity around the world. The Rockefeller Foundation provided ID2020 with seed funding in in 2017 and has been an ongoing supporter of ID2020’s work.
Simprints [slogan: ever person counts]
A nonprofit startup from the University of Cambridge, Simprints builds biometric fingerprint technology to broaden and streamline access to services. Simprints joined the Alliance in 2018 and is represented on our Ethics and Risks Advisory Committee.
iRespond
An international non-profit organization dedicated to using biometrics to improve lives through digital identity, iRespond is a partner in our ongoing pilot project in the Mae La Camp. {Thailand, or maybe Myanmar} {{they have projects in both}}
——
there’s other partners, but these 3 intrigued me
____they are introducing digital biometric ID in the poorest countries first. By the time they hit countries with populations that **may* resist, it’s already introduced to billions.
* I know some in my wide acquaintance that would think biometric ID a wonderful convenience.
Posted by: Melaleuca | May 10 2026 23:32 utc | 73
The effort to paint Putin as some sort of Russian Zionist never ceases.
Posted by: karlof1 | May 10 2026 17:52 utc | 17
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Putin seems to be making it pretty easy . . .
Bar flies and others have been wondering for many months—years—where Putin stands regarding the relative value of Palestinian vs. Israeli-Russian lives. Putin seems to consider Russian speakers as on a par with or effectively as Russian citizens by definition. Which they are not. They are opportunitists who were able to flee the Soviet Union for Israel (and many moved on immediately to the USA) mainly because the USA paid for this stunt. These people are creeps, just like the US dual citizens.
This whole picture suggests to me an AIPAC -type problem in Russia, and my Moscow contact does not disagree with me.
Posted by: Jane | May 10 2026 23:32 utc | 74
The effort to paint Putin as some sort of Russian Zionist never ceases.
Posted by: karlof1 | May 10 2026 17:52 utc | 17
NoooOOOOOoooo! PoOtIn iS a JoOoOOooo!!!1!!
Posted by: malenkov | May 10 2026 23:34 utc | 75
COViDiOT | May 10 2026 22:19 utc | 69
Yeah. I have assumed it is an Epstein state actor behind them. Likely some alphabet agency as in CIA.
Posted by: Peter AU1 | May 10 2026 23:37 utc | 76
“Trump officially rejects Iran deal: what annoyed him …?
Posted by: John Gilberts | May 10 2026 23:24 utc | 86
Grift. He and his weren’t cut in on the Hormuz tariff.
Imagine getting 1-2-5% of the every-ship-pays-to-play transit of Hormuz in perpetuity.
Imagine sending Jared and Witkoff to deal, and they can’t get you a % of one of the biggest bigly deals this decade.
Posted by: Melaleuca | May 10 2026 23:39 utc | 77
“Trump calls Iran’s response to US peace proposal ‘unacceptable'”
Trump decides stopping the genocide in Gaza and ending killing civilians in Lebanon is “unacceptable
Posted by: paddy | May 10 2026 23:48 utc | 78
Trump’s “unhappy”. Unacceptable he said.
Is it Tuesday yet?
I’ve gone off tacos…….
Posted by: Suresh | May 10 2026 23:50 utc | 79
Jane | May 10 2026 23:32 utc | 89
Duel citizens. Putin has always been a stickler for legalities. As President of the Russian federation, he sticks strictly to the Russian constitution and domestic laws along with international law.
Somebody holds a Russian passport, they are not simply a Russian speaker, they are a Russian citizen.
But this term ‘Russian speaker’ was created for the average democracy of the west as part of the attack on Ukraine/Russia. The dumbocracy of the west though, they just soak up that sort of stuff like a plant absorbing bull manure.
The ethnic Russians of Ukraine, unless they held a Russian passport as well, were citizens of Ukraine, not citizens of Russia.
Posted by: Peter AU1 | May 10 2026 23:51 utc | 80
Posted by: Peter AU1 | May 10 2026 23:30 utc | 87
Naphtha or petroleum ether is the primary feedstock for polyethylene and polypropylene. Polypropylene can also be made by cracking propane. Alberta was working on the construction of such a plant, to provide value added products for the province. I do not know what became of it…
Posted by: Local Oscillator | May 10 2026 23:53 utc | 81
“The Russia China deal in the making is something worth watching. Europe may well have burned their energy bridges with Russia for good.”
Posted by: Peter AU1 | May 10 2026 23:30 utc | 87
Absolutely. Russia seems to have huge oil deposits in a form that is more like a jelly or resinous in nature. Backing both countries into corner has just brought them far closer together as you would already have worked out. There’s also a good transport route over the top of Russia from China that will probably facilitate more sea lane transport, potentially for oil too.
While people complain about Chinese governance (but rarely understand it) one thing the CPC can do is plan well in advance and get on with achieving its goals.
Posted by: GeorgeWendell | May 10 2026 23:54 utc | 82
Grift. He and his weren’t cut in on the Hormuz tariff.
Posted by: Melaleuca | May 10 2026 23:39 utc | 92
Exactly. He thought the Hormuz tariff a good idea – if the proceeds were split between him and Iran.He said so himself.Iran didn’t offer him a share of the profits. I wonder why. Not.
Posted by: Martina | May 10 2026 23:55 utc | 83
Try f0r a Darkness Emitting Diode, zero power consumption, unlike a LED.
Posted by: Acco Hengst | May 10 2026 18:58 utc | 26
*****************
The Darkness Emitting LASER Diode is even more powerful. It is truly Satanic; the symbolic reference-point of those chosen few who have ‘seen the dark’. It actually generates more power than it consumes. Some have suggested that it operates from new physics principles involving quantum entanglement entangled with tangled Zero-Point Energy nano-quanta, the entire unit operating, incommunicado, within a protective plasma sheath.
I leave it to the experts to fill in the gaps. This is just a preliminary overview, you realise?
Posted by: General Factotum | May 11 2026 0:05 utc | 84
Rhino 80 – Red Wedding it was, by the crazy Israeli fascist war cabinet of Bibi, Gvir, Smotrich and Katz. A class one war crime too. Is the IRC paying attention?
These folks are all committed to Greater Israel for the Chosen People (note here that they have not been the Chosen people since the Resurrection), from the Euphrates to the Nile.
Massacring sub humans (to them) to absolutely OK…………Christians or Muslims…….they don’t care.
Their motto…….kill them all, men, women and children !
Posted by: tobias cole | May 11 2026 0:11 utc | 85
GeorgeWendell | May 10 2026 23:54 utc | 97
The Northern sea route. Most public stuff on it is to provided a shorter alternative from Asia to Europe, but everytime I look at it on a map, I primarily see it as facilitating trade between Russia an the Asia pacific.
I see global trade as matching resource rich nations with nations of high population densities. Why the hell we are still allied with the Nato crowd is beyond me. Like Russia, we are a resource rich nation of low population density and our future is with the region to our north.
Posted by: Peter AU1 | May 11 2026 0:14 utc | 86
@27 drm313mac
“locally we are considered by many to be the freaks, the ones who are different”
That’s freaky.
On fertilisers the following gives some idea
https://www.politico.eu/article/europe-farmer-fertilizer-prices-iran-war-inflation/
but hardly addresses the more import dependent countries. As for US which according to (outdated slightly but relevant still)…
https://farmdocdaily.illinois.edu/2022/04/potential-disruptions-in-nitrogen-fertilizer-trade.html
is net exporter :
“American farmers, who buy fertilizer closer to planting and have less time to stockpile, are already feeling the pain Europe expects next year. Roughly 70 percent say they cannot afford all the fertilizer they need this year, according to the American Farm Bureau Federation. The U.S. Department of Agriculture is forecasting the smallest wheat crop since 1919.”
So how is it now for import dependent countries ?
As far as depopulation agenda, it surely exists or is an aim for some. It is not new but goes back to the first displacements of others for territory or resources, the global formulation based on ideology or loyalty of whatever kind is just slightly more all encompassing.
The restrictions in supply can be for various reasons beyond lack of primary material:
– The balance of maintaining own stock might involve sale at times of surplus and import when in need, but as imports are less guaranteed or might be more expensive, restriction and hoarding might be more secure, or less expensive.
– Equally corruption, high level agreements to trade to a favoured country.
– It is possible production is hoarded until prices increase, or for use as leverage.
– It is possibly a form of economic warfare, say Russia being at odds with EU.
– It is also possible that the costs or ability to produce have shifted around so much now, that current figures are outdated, and so restrictions are placed out of caution.
So it is not obvious, and depopulation of whatever kind usually has some kind of front or manipulation involved so as to make it less obvious as ambition. Sometimes it is self fulfilling, because those in authority get it so wrong they search for increasingly severe solutions to protect themselves from those who have been hurt. It is also possible depopulation agenda is sometimes used as psyop.
So I don’t have a clear answer to provide, just some ideas.
On oil , here are some other views:
Journalist Suhaib Al-Masalma
“The Iran war is depleting global oil reserves at an unprecedented rate…
Global financial services and investment company Morgan Stanley estimates that global oil inventories fell by about 4.8 million barrels per day between March 1 and April 25.
The largest American multinational bank, JP Morgan, expects inventories to reach operational stress levels early next month if the Strait of Hormuz is not opened, and the minimum levels necessary for continued operation are likely to be reached by September.
The bank explains that the operational minimum is reached long before stocks actually reach zero, which is the point that represents the lowest level of oil quantities needed to operate pipelines, storage tanks and export terminals.
However, US global investment bank Goldman Sachs notes that there are some signs of a slowdown in the pace of withdrawals in recent days”
Posted by: Ornot | May 11 2026 0:18 utc | 87
The American proposal contains nothing the Iranian wants or desires. If the WH is serious it must include the following:
– Prohibition on assassinations of Iranian officials by the US and Israeli and Nato countries
– Immediate lifting of all economic sanctions
– Compensation for illegal damages inflicted on civilian infrastructure in Iran
– Compensation for the families of the children and staff murdered in the Minah massacre
– Allowance of peaceful purposes for nuclear fuels – power plants
– Complete IDF withdrawal from Gaza and Lebanon and the West Bank
– Demolition of all ‘settler’ colonies
– Removal of the Likud Block from Power
– Permanent ban on all IDF airstrikes in Iran
– Indictment of Bibi, Smotrich, Katz and Gvir for war crimes
– Return of all Palestinian territories seized in 1948,1953, 1967, 1973 and 2008
– Opening of the Port of Gaza to commercial traffic
– Opening the Gaza International Airport
– Full opening of all Gaza border crossings with a guarantee of 1,500 trucks per day allowed.
– All medical and humanitarian supplies allowed into Gaza without restrictions
– Only Egyptian and Turk troops allowed to police Gaza
– Gaza civil police and firefighters allowed to serve unmolested by IDF snipers
Take that Kushner!
Posted by: tobias cole | May 11 2026 0:30 utc | 88
POTUS is p1ssed! IRI has stolen his family’s Sunday night bung on the markets.
On to Beijing.
# posted an hour ago – “The West tried to kill you before …” Krapivnik to Marandi – 50 mins
guest Professor Seyed Marandi. The Hormuz Gambit. War is ripe and Iran has many new toys.
Posted by: Don Firineach | May 11 2026 0:38 utc | 89
Ornot | May 11 2026 0:18 utc | 102
Sometime back, during the period of Abbot Morrison government here, China stopped buying a lot of Australian goods, Coal and iron amongst them. Iron was in short supply in China at that time as they sourced imports from elsewhere. Chinese speculators then steeped in try to buy up all the iron reaching China and stockpiling it to drive domestic prices higher.
With that, the Chinese government stepped in and the speculators lost big time.
Same thing will be happening here in the west with oil and fertilizer. But there will be no governments in the west that will step in and bust the speculators.
Posted by: Peter AU1 | May 11 2026 0:41 utc | 90
108 years ago, we went in to Iran because they were on our oil, and when we left a few years later, more than a quarter of all Iranians were wiped out (dead). We didn’t just steal their oil, we stole the very food they needed to sustain themselves and fed our Armies with it
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persian_famine_of_1917%E2%80%931919
Posted by: Hot Carl | May 11 2026 0:43 utc | 91
“I see global trade as matching resource rich nations with nations of high population densities. Why the hell we are still allied with the Nato crowd is beyond me. Like Russia, we are a resource rich nation of low population density and our future is with the region to our north.”
Posted by: Peter AU1 | May 11 2026 0:14 utc | 101
I totally agree. Much of it is cultural and a language problem, especially with China. We tend to mix with English speaking countries in Australia, which will be our demise if we don’t finally figure out our geographical location. It’s like UK is on one side of Australia and US the other. I’d be promoting language studies in all most of the regional languages, particularly Mandarin if I was involved in government.
People also talk a lot about the straights of Malacca but the northern route for Russia and China (Arctic Sea) is a significant alternative to many northern destinations, especially for oil and gas between the two countries. Russia has been doing a lot of strategic (and otherwise) preparing up north for this very purpose. Who knows how much gas is up there as well? Probably masses. Plastics can be made from gas as well as you would know. Better off using it rather than letting it escape into the atmosphere as the polar ice melts away further. Farewell to Ice ( Peter Wadhams) was a pretty enlightening book I read that explained what is happening up there.
https://russiaoilpowermap.com/
Posted by: GeorgeWendell | May 11 2026 0:45 utc | 92
COViDiOT | May 10 2026 22:53 utc | 75
*** fake news: there arent 1 TRILLION people to depopulate… ***
How pedantic!
Derivatives, (now unlimited) gearing-ratio re “humans” etc.
it all adds up, thus lots and lots more profit …..
@103
IDF enter Non Proliferation Treaty, full IAEA on site inspections and monitoring, dismantle all IDF nuclear weapons use the same storage sites in Russia built for disarming the Soviet Republics! Russians probably stored the special containers! Someone has the drawings.
Posted by: paddy | May 11 2026 1:06 utc | 94
@105 Peter
Often it seems like the governments are the speculators.
Posted by: Ornot | May 11 2026 1:24 utc | 95
“In an interview aired on Sunday, journalist Sharyl Attkisson asked Trump what stage the war with the Islamic Republic had reached, considering that the US has yet to secure Iran’s fissile material.
“Well, we’ll get that at some point, whatever we want,” he said. “We have it surveilled, you know, I did a thing called Space Force… If anybody got near the place, we will know about it. And we’ll blow them up.”
Does this at all sound like a sane man that actually is aware of what he is talking about?
https://www.rt.com/news/639844-trump-vows-iran-enriched-uranium/
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=trump++air+dancer&iar=videos&t=braveed&iai=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DCUrXbR_GpTg
Posted by: GeorgeWendell | May 11 2026 1:30 utc | 96
This whole picture suggests to me an AIPAC -type problem in Russia, and my Moscow contact does not disagree with me.
Posted by: Jane | May 10 2026 23:32 utc | 89
Bingo!
Putin, Trump, and Netanyahu are ALL Chabadniks.
Jesus gave us only one way out of this evil, wicked, matrix world:
https://narrowwaytruth.com/
Posted by: FollowsTheWay | May 11 2026 1:40 utc | 97
Jesus gave us only one way out of this evil, wicked, matrix world
Posted by: FollowsTheWay | May 11 2026 1:40 utc | 113
Off to the next world for you my friend 🙂
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MByYTizuxbw
Posted by: Peter AU1 | May 11 2026 1:44 utc | 98
Seems to me that behind the fog of war, the greater Israeli project of murdering their neighbours and destroying their habitats is carrying on unabated no matter what cease fires are in place.
Until that changes, nothing changes.
Posted by: simon crow | May 11 2026 2:09 utc | 99
Even Robert Kagan, neocon extraordinaire, admits the reality:
https://www.theatlantic.com/international/2026/05/iran-war-trump-losing/687094/
(Paywalled but enough is visible so you get the idea)
Posted by: Biswapriya Purkayastha | May 11 2026 2:18 utc | 100