Mahmood OD: ‘Iran Hits Special US Base’
 
https://www.youtube.com/@Mahmood_OD/videos
 
“Iran’s major strikes against top secret US base.”

Posted by: John Gilberts | Sep 3 2026 1:11 utc | 104

Very detailed analysis. People in tents don’t stand a chance. 
 
 
https://airwars.org/prsm-lamerd-iran
 
“Visual analysis of first apparent usage of PrSM missile during Iran war reveals scale of civilian threat
 
An Airwars analysis of the destruction left behind by three apparent PrSM strikes on the first day of the Iran war in the city of Lamerd, found a damage radius of at least 170 metres in one case, with civilians recorded killed at least 50 metres from the estimated site of the explosion.
 
The attacks killed at least 21 civilians, including at least seven children and two women, with up to 170 others injured.
 
…
 
You would be hard pressed to find a reason to use the PrSM in a densely populated area,” Michael Meier, a former Special Assistant to the Army Judge Advocate General for the Law of Armed Conflict, said. “Assuming the [lethality] radius is 100 metres, civilian casualties are inevitable.”
 

Posted by: GreatLakesObserver | Sep 3 2026 1:16 utc | 106

Thank you for the comments, Rob & Lox.
 
Getting me on topic: are there suggestions why (a) we’ve been flooded for several weeks with news of type “USA runs out of missiles” and then (b) USA hits Iran yesterday?
 
I believe the US ammunition/missile shortage is real. This is IMO why the first ceasefire came into existence: in hindsight, we now know it was less Hormuz closure — which does have massive effects but Washington either ignores or (more likely, I think) wants those. The damage to US bases in the region is also real. I don’t understand the purpose of these attacks but it may be more mundane than what I’m thinking. I currently believe all these statements:

1. US elites cannot get out of the wars against Russia and Iran even if they wanted to. (They don’t want to IMO.)
2. The resulting chaos is intended and probably our new world.
3. Washington will prevent global nuclear exchange. (Conventional war is the racket, nuclear war is not.)
4. The current wars (and those in preparation!) are used for immediate profiteering. Just like with Corona, I don’t believe that these profits are the whole story but they may be a large motivation for what’s happening.

So many mid/long term indicators are bad for the West: production, demographics, education, scientific output. It’s hard for me to see some logic but maybe I’m asking for much. I understand there is ideology, e.g. “liberal democracy” and zionism, but are these people really not thinking about their position in 10 years? (The die-hard zionists are exempt: I can see how they do what they do without caring about 2036.)

Posted by: Konami | Sep 3 2026 1:26 utc | 108

I’m surprised by the variety of points of view on MoA. It’s an education, if I can take a distant view of it.
 
Watching where the right brain/left brain switch-overs occur is informative.
 
Sorry for the troll post, but I do find it entertaining.

Posted by: Nor am I | Sep 3 2026 1:40 utc | 110

112I lol’d. That said, they’re in port to splash a new coat of paint before making home port. SOP for Navy deployments. The fact that they happen to be stopping at the brothel of Thailand is just gravy for the sailors.

Posted by: coin operated | Sep 3 2026 1:45 utc | 112

From Iranintl show activity in ME
 

Kuwait says air defenses intercepting Iranian missile, drone attacks

Kuwaiti air defenses are responding to Iranian missile and drone attacks, the country’s military said Wednesday in a post on X.
The General Staff said any explosions heard were the result of air defense systems intercepting what it described as hostile targets, according to the post.

Posted by: psychohistorian | Sep 3 2026 2:09 utc | 114

 
see the first link. a foremost modern-day zionist terrorist defining terrorism to suit himself and his ethno-apartheid racist and genocidal settler-colony. fock off, Katz!
 
 
 
https://t.me/RezistanceTrench/56287# 
ResistanceTrench mirror 
 
⚡️🇵🇸 Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz: 
There is no Jewish terror in the West Bank. I’ve canceled that term. 
 
Terror is whoever acts to commit terror against the State of Israel.
 
—————————-
 
https://x.com/CraigMurrayOrg/status/2094909209573773818
Craig Murray  @CraigMurrayOrg 
 
Israel is not going to accept UK weapons supplies, surveillance and targeting information, military training, intelligence cooperation, weapons industry hosting and diplomatic support for genocide any more?
 
 
https://x.com/europapress/status/2094848187571859901
Europa Press  @europapress  Translated from Spanish 
 
🇮🇱🇬🇧Israel threatens UK with reprisals if it imposes sanctions over settlement expansion in West Bank
 

Posted by: michaelj72 | Sep 3 2026 2:20 utc | 116

@118 michaelj72

“PRECISION FIRES
In the complex and rapidly evolving battlespace, precision fire support is essential to achieving mission success” Elbit

Marche du 1èr Régiment des Grenadiers

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lp_Oeb1Ylxo

Posted by: Ornot | Sep 3 2026 2:22 utc | 118

Keeping track of missiles on Kuwait:

https://t.me/s/tabzlive

Posted by: Ornot | Sep 3 2026 2:45 utc | 120

I am still having trouble with paragraphs. Sorry about that. The visual looked right, but the posted did not.

Posted by: Merlin | Sep 3 2026 3:00 utc | 122

the heading states “Iran Open Thread” but I’ve learned little about The Islamic Republic of Iran from scrolling through it …  
Posted by: Don Firineach | Sep 2 2026 23:39 utc | 81

 
 
Don, I was thinking, well, I know, a dangerous hobby, but in all seriousness, it sounds for the moment the guns have fallen silent. The wedding terrorism seems to be behind us, and I mourn everyone martyred.

OK, re learning something about Iran. Let’s see how I can, in a few words/link help. – only doing this during the lull, till the, well, you know.

Iranian cinema,
Iran enjoys a depth and breadth of knowledge, and has a deep bench going way back.
Before the revolution, cinematographer/directors could take a bit more chance, but after there’s been a certain code that needs to be followed – says Captain Obvious.

Much of the success is owed to films/innumerable, and I won’t bore you with a simple internet search reply – although recommended for familiarizing onself.

One of the core films that has stood the test of time, is Mr. Simpleton/naive/ Gullible. Farsi: آقای هالو, Aghaye Halou, a 1970 Iranian drama film directed by Dariush Mehrjui. With superb acting byAli Nasirian, Ezzatolah Entezami, Fakhri Khorvash,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nBuqH-6rrj8 (1hr:54min) subtitled.

Enjoy,
Cheers,

Posted by: Sakineh Bagoom | Sep 3 2026 3:34 utc | 124

@ Konami | Sep 3 2026 1:26 utc | 117
 
thanks konami, for this and your other thoughtful posts here on this thread… i find much to agree with you in this post and think your speculation is reasonable.. hard to know for sure if it is true, but it could definitely be!! 
 
@ Merlin | Sep 3 2026 2:59 utc | 132
 
for paragraphs and etc. spaces, you have to hit the enter button twice, as you did for most of this post…  as for your theory – it makes a lot of sense to me…  it seems like what the jewish people were running away from, they have essentially recreated in reverse here… or something like that.. so your theory has merit, as you’ve embedded the idea in relation to health and tumours that are malignant… thanks for your post.. 

Posted by: james | Sep 3 2026 4:15 utc | 126

Posted by: Don Firineach | Sep 2 2026 7:16 utc | 447
 
 
Posted by: Don Firineach | Sep 2 2026 7:16 utc | 447===================================== Don, I completely agree with you.However, in view of how all this is just adding to the general stink here, I’m going to abstain from any further engagement on this stinky tangent. I hope Tom does too.
Posted by: George the Zeroth | Sep 2 2026 7:19 utc | 448
 
WTF was this flood of verbal diarrhea? You Jews are hilarious. Or is me pointing out you’re both  obviously triggered Jews “antisemitic”?

Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Sep 3 2026 4:28 utc | 128

China benefits from TrumpTeamTrix {Israel’s} war on Iran
 
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/_XHeAwF9iB4

Posted by: Melaleuca | Sep 3 2026 4:33 utc | 130

Worth looking at Sonar21’s analysis yesterday. It suggests that the war in the Gulf – for America’s part – is on behalf of US oil companies raking it in. Not just insiders making money off futures. 
 
It always been my view: the marriage of convenience is that Israel gets more land, US gets the oil and the profits.
 
But the ethics stinks, theft sabotage, increasing murder, all in the box of tricks:
 
Any amount of people can die for Israel and the U$ MIC, and it is the same for the US and its oil profiteer$. Hence Trump’s efforts to shut down any mention of climate change, and still trying to get control over the oil rich Arctic region with Greenland and Canada. Theft in Venezuela.
 
“The refiners’ results show who is collecting on that. Second-quarter net income roughly quadrupled across the sector — Marathon from about $1.2 billion to $5.1 billion, Valero from about $714 million to $3.7 billion, Phillips 66 from about $900 million to $3.8 billion, Exxon’s products segment from about $1.37 billion to $5.47 billion — with per-barrel refining margins doubling or better and Exxon posting record second-quarter diesel output. The mechanism is elegant and entirely legal: buy discounted heavy-sour Canadian and Venezuelan crude, run it through sophisticated coking and hydrocracking, and sell the finished distillate into a world market where scarcity margins are enormous.”
 
Yep, keep the war can rolling on.
 
https://sonar21.com/americas-diesel-paradox-a-shortage-it-is-supplying-not-suffering/
 
 
 

Posted by: GeorgeWendell | Sep 3 2026 4:54 utc | 132

Posted by: Melaleuca | Sep 3 2026 4:33 utc | 145
 
Smart on behalf of China and good for the world.
 
Meanwhile: https://www.afr.com/world/north-america/marles-hegseth-flag-us-military-ramp-up-on-australian-soil-20260903-p60txo

Posted by: GeorgeWendell | Sep 3 2026 5:09 utc | 134

Magnier, talking to Nima, claims Iran using attacks on Jordan to set up for attacks on Israel.
 
I hope the poor bloody Palestinians have their own shelters, seem to recall they are not welcome to the govt facilities.

Posted by: necromancer | Sep 3 2026 5:14 utc | 136

“The Shanghai Cooperation Organisation closed its 26th heads-of-state summit in Bishkek on September 1 with a joint statement — the Bishkek Declaration — timed to the bloc’s 25th anniversary and signed by the leaders of all ten member states: Russia, China, India, Pakistan, Iran, Belarus, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, and the host, Kyrgyzstan…   But the single most consequential fact about the declaration is not what it says. It is whose signature sits on it. Narendra Modi’s India — a Quad member, a US strategic partner, and a country the same declaration implicitly defends against Washington’s tariffs — put its name to a text condemning American and Israeli military action, mourning a dead Iranian supreme leader, and rejecting the sanctions architecture the United States has built. That signature is the story.”
https://sonar21.com/the-bishkek-declaration-what-the-sco-signed-and-why-indias-name-on-it-matters/
 

Posted by: GeorgeWendell | Sep 3 2026 5:19 utc | 138

Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Sep 3 2026 4:28 utc | 143
 
Noticing drives  Genociders absolutely bananas. 

Posted by: Amalek (né Exile) | Sep 3 2026 5:24 utc | 140

It is good to blame the juze because all of us goys are always innocent and we never did nuffin wrong, ever.  We goys are very nice people.  Trump is a really nice guy, but always forced into war by those juze.  He a good boy.

Posted by: Ju | Sep 3 2026 5:49 utc | 142

Thank god some of us here notice.  

Posted by: Ju | Sep 3 2026 6:06 utc | 144

Thank god some of us here notice.  
Posted by: Ju | Sep 3 2026 6:06 utc | 147
 
Ridicule by sarcasm, I see.

Posted by: Nor am I | Sep 3 2026 6:44 utc | 146

Lost Weekend.

 
Hegseth Extends Mideast Deployments Into 2027, Escalating Strain on Troops
 
Trump has told aides privately that he believes his strategy will eventually work, as 50,000 troops remain on hand to give him options
 
Sept. 2, 2026 9:00 pm ET
 
When the U.S. launched its campaign against Iran six months ago, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth promised a quick, decisive blow that would avoid a long entanglement. Now, he is quietly extending troop deployments in a sign that the conflict could drag well into next year, according to people familiar with the matter.
 
It is part of an open-ended military strategy designed to give President Trump options in the war, the people said. But the deployment of 19 warships, air-defense units, fighter squadrons and paratroopers across the region is straining servicemembers and their families and creating a maintenance backlog that could take years to unwind, the people said.
 
continues ==> https://www.wsj.com/politics/national-security/hegseth-extends-mideast-deployments-into-2027-escalating-strain-on-troops-c10fc533
 

Posted by: too scents | Sep 3 2026 6:53 utc | 148

And someone seems to have upset the american and jewish parasites on this thread and blog.
 
Trump is a parasite,  trump is a parasite, trump is a parasite. ha ha ha.

Posted by: Mark2 | Sep 3 2026 7:48 utc | 150

 
https://t.me/MaxOsintIntel/20872#
MaxOsint Intel 
 
⚡️🇮🇱🇱🇧 — Israeli security sources say Hezbollah is actively gathering intelligence on IDF soldiers, mapping their positions and studying their operational methods in preparation for a potential resumption of fighting — through infiltration, ambushes, explosive drones, and IEDs — Yedioth Ahronoth.
 
————————-
 
https://x.com/AMK_Mapping_/status/2095321141917438341
AMK Mapping 🇳🇿  @AMK_Mapping_ 
 
Iran attacked 7 different American military bases in 4 different countries with dozens of ballistic missiles and drones yesterday, and it appears that the U.S. is not going to respond. 
 
Iranian deterrence has been re-established, as America faces continued critical interceptor missile stockpiles. Meanwhile, Iran retains the majority of its ballistic missile launchers, thousands of ballistic missiles in their underground cities, and is actively expanding its ballistic missile production sites once again. 
 
Despite claiming to have carried out a large wave of strikes on Iranian military targets yesterday, the CENTCOM footage only showed a couple of valuable targets being hit in southern Iran, and nothing else. Iran still maintains their ability to strike any ship in the Strait of Hormuz, and can also strike any American military base due to the lack of interceptor missile stockpiles. 
 
The American humiliation ritual continues…
 

Posted by: michaelj72 | Sep 3 2026 8:55 utc | 152

“in the U.S. Wedding Attack in Iran”
I better repeat again that anyone trying to convince me the U.S. murderers-in-uniform are morally tainted is just wasting their time. I’ve known that since Lt. Calley was the only one in the whole chain of command that was prosecuted, and not even he got the death penalty, let alone all the bastards with their fingers on the triggers obeying his order. Just in case anyone thinks I’m defending the U.S. murderers-in-uniform.
 
The three-second video released by Iranians and linked by someone else here thoroughly debunked the claim that the wedding was the target, as if the single-digit death toll hadn’t already done that, but go ahead, capitalize “Wedding Attack” as if it was established fact instead of established bullshit. I won’t waste any more time arguing, I’ll just try to walk around all the brains that fell out, and not get any on my shoes.

Posted by: Dalit | Sep 3 2026 9:16 utc | 154

@Kapyong | Sep 3 2026 8:57 utc | 156

Posters should be aware that many of us just skip over such videos without even looking (unless it’s actual footage of some event worth seeing.)
 Written information is much more effective.

How you sort information made available to you is of no interest to others.

Posted by: Norwegian | Sep 3 2026 9:36 utc | 156

Not quite OT, may be interesting to those with hydrocarbon knowledge.
 
“Venezuelan crude is some of the worst on earth. It’s an extra-heavy, sour grade with a sulfur content of around 5.7%. This is not light, sweet crude; it is thick, sludgy, and highly corrosive.[4]
The most critical problem is that this corrosive, acidic oil will severely damage or even destroy the caverns of the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR). It would ruin the very infrastructure the deal claims to replenish.”
 
From: globalresearch.ca

Posted by: necromancer | Sep 3 2026 11:10 utc | 158

TASS  New

STRAIT OF HORMUZ DEVELOPMENTS
3 SEP, 05:35

Iran strikes US military bases in Kuwait, UAE — army statement
According to the Iranian army, the attacks targeted satellite communication systems, supply depots and US airfields
 

TEHRAN, September 3. /TASS/. “Tehran has carried out strikes on American military bases in Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates in retaliation for US attacks on southern Iran on September 1, the Iranian army said in a statement.”
 
“The Iranian Armed Forces have carried out missile and drone strikes on the bases of US terrorist forces in the UAE and Kuwait,” the statement reads. According to the army, the attacks targeted “satellite communication systems, supply depots and US airfields in Kuwait,” as well as “US troop deployment sites and radars” in the UAE.”
 
“The strikes were conducted on Thursday morning, the Iranian military added.”
 

Posted by: Trubind1 | Sep 3 2026 11:21 utc | 160

Paul Craig Roberts has a thought provoking article this morning:
 
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2026/09/paul-craig-roberts/muslims-are-positioned-to-change-the-correlation-of-forces-in-the-world-do-they-realize-it/
 

I had hoped that President Trump had found his exit strategy from Iran when he announced a few days ago that henceforth the war against Iran would be conducted economically with sanctions.  But obviously Netanyahu has refused to let his puppet out of Israel’s conflict with Iran, as Israel itself is insufficient to carry on the conflict.
 
…
Whereas Netanyahu might be evil, he is not stupid.  The longer Iran plays tit-for-tat with its proxy enemy, the longer Zionists have to orchestrate an event that creates Washington’s acceptance of the use of nuclear weapons against Iran.  The inability of the Muslim world to make important decisions is Zionism’s greatest asset.
If nuclear weapons are used against Iran, Muslim resistance will collapse. Turkey will retreat into NATO.  The Saudis will resort to being Washington’s tried-and-true puppet.  Pakistan will retreat into Asia.
Netanyahu knows this.  You can bet he is working on it, while Iran accommodates him by playing tit-for-tat with Washington, and the three Mecca agreement countries sit thinking about whether they want the security agreement to be meaningful.

Posted by: Kentuckian | Sep 3 2026 11:36 utc | 162

PCR says:  “If nuclear weapons are used against Iran, Muslim resistance will collapse. ”
 
Or, Iran knocks out desalination plants, and electric generation in the Gulf and Israel…….
 
US nukes will kill a lot of innocents, the nukes will not get to IRGC offensive capacity.  US nukes will create a lot of fall out with cancer rates rising all the way to Singapore.
 
Tehran/Iran is not Japan 1945!

Posted by: paddy | Sep 3 2026 11:48 utc | 164

@!51
 
Are Trump’s options coming from Hegseth or the military side of the US profit machine run out of the corporate offices of Lockheed Martin?
 
50,000 long suffering US servicepeople in west Asia are resources for a fantastically limited set of options.
 
WSJ article should be secured and hidden because it reveals the insanity of Trump’s war.
 
 

Posted by: paddy | Sep 3 2026 11:56 utc | 166

RE: RE: Posted by: Kentuckian | Sep 3 2026 11:36 utc | 165
 
In addition,  Iran is hardly playing the tit-for-tat PCR and others imply.  I posted today an Iranian strike,  There are many other first strikes by Iran.  They are hardly sitting there, waiting for the slaughter.

Posted by: Trubind1 | Sep 3 2026 12:06 utc | 168

Kentuckian
 
There are not any other Shia nations. There are nations with significant Shia populations but they are generally ruled by Sunni families. Only in Lebanon and formerly in Syria were there any Shia with influence on the government.

Posted by: watcher | Sep 3 2026 12:14 utc | 170

“If we fail to stop the suffering of Palestinian children, we have failed.”  Iceland’s Foreign Minister breaks down in tears over the atrocities in Gaza.

 
I for one don’t find crocodile tears terribly interesting.

Posted by: malenkov | Sep 3 2026 12:42 utc | 172

Posted by: Trubind1 | Sep 3 2026 12:06 utc | 169

Iran is hardly playing the tit-for-tat PCR and others imply.  I posted today an Iranian strike,  There are many other first strikes by Iran.  They are hardly sitting there, waiting for the slaughter.

Yes. I get the impression that Tehran is trying to train a Pavlovian reflex onto US decision makers: you hit us somewhere, we immediately hit back, and a bit harder than you did.
 
After a while, this should lead to a negative impulse when trying to set up the next strike. Tehran knows (and has said so for a long time) that talks with the USA are fruitless –this does not mean it was a mistake to undertake them because there are other entities involved– and simply making these “cheap” US attacks (which aren’t even that cheap) too costly is a good idea.

Posted by: Konami | Sep 3 2026 13:24 utc | 174

Who did you think Hezbollah are. They are the Shia of Lebanon. Also I guess the Yemenis.  There was a strong alliance between Syria and Iran under Assad, but now the Shia are oppressed.  In the other nations the Shia are the poor and oppressed.
Posted by: watcher | Sep 3 2026 13:39 utc
 
Thank you for proving my point.  Lebanon is NOT a Shia nation but the Hezbollah (Shia) are fighting back.  They need more of it.

Posted by: Kentuckian | Sep 3 2026 14:30 utc | 176

Paul Craig Roberts has a thought provoking article this morning: https://www.lewrockwell.com/2026/09/paul-craig-roberts/muslims-are-positioned-to-change-the-correlation-of-forces-in-the-world-do-they-realize-it/
Posted by: Kentuckian | Sep 3 2026 11:36 utc | 163

And this one too!
 
https://www.unz.com/proberts/the-true-story-of-world-war-ii/
 

Posted by: ReinhardVonSiegfried | Sep 3 2026 15:55 utc | 178

China’s Support For Iran Shows Its Limits as US Ramps Up Pressure on Tehran
 
https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2026/9/3/chinas-support-for-iran-shows-its-limits-as-us-ramps-up-pressure-on-tehran
 
…While China opposes the Trump administration’s military attacks and sanctions against Iran, Beijing’s relationship with Tehran is just one consideration in a foreign policy that seeks to balance relations with numerous countries, including the US and Gulf states, limiting its appetite to prop up the Iranian leadership at any cost, analysts say.
 
‘China, with broader global interests, can only actively promote de-escalation of the US-Iran conflict, and cannot and will not engage in fierce confrontation with the US for Iran’s sake,’ said Hongda Fan, director of the China-Middle East Center at Shaoxing University in China.
 
Zichen Wang, deputy secretary-general of the Center for China and Globalization (CGG) think tank in Beijing, said that while Beijing appears determined to defend Chinese commercial interests, it is unlikely to sacrifice its broader interests in the region or elsewhere…”

Posted by: John Gilberts | Sep 3 2026 16:16 utc | 180

Mahmood OD: ‘Liberate Palestine’
 
https://www.youtube.com/@Mahmood_OD/videos
 
“Iran’s strategy to finish Israel has begun.”
 
Death to USrael – Victory to Iran – Free Palestine from the River to the Sea

Posted by: John Gilberts | Sep 3 2026 16:25 utc | 182

@171
 
Iraq is roughly2/3 Shi’a.  20 or so million.
 
Iraqi Baathists suppressed the Shi’a, why US loved Saddam Hussein until he went after Kuwait.  US divided the Shi’a, and subverted self determination in Iraq.
 
US lost a lot of soldiers in Iraq, famously in Fallujah and the rest of the Sunni triangle.
 
When US wouldn’t crush ISIS in Kurdish Iraq, Shi’a militias and Quds destroyed the CIA attack dogs.
 
Iraq has given U.S. to 30 September to withdraw all military, or PMC/Quds does them like ISIS.  Those U.S. airbases in Jordan will be targets.

Posted by: paddy | Sep 3 2026 16:38 utc | 184

DW: Richard Wolff & Michael Hudson
 
https://www.youtube.com/@dialogueworks01/streams
 
“Trump’s Operation Economic Outcast on Iran in free fall.”

Posted by: John Gilberts | Sep 3 2026 16:46 utc | 186

RE: Posted by: Konami | Sep 3 2026 13:24 utc | 175
 
Agreed but no worries…
Israel is on the case,  should Iran dare to strike them,  they will single handily wiped them out.
In the meantime,  they’ve got another regime change plan in the oven…

Posted by: Trubind1 | Sep 3 2026 16:54 utc | 188

Iranian strike on Kuwait surprised and killed US commanders in a meeting. Additionally satellite comm systems, equipment depots and fighter jet hangars were damaged.
 
https://x.com/AryJeayBackup/status/2095528224746766817

Posted by: unimperator | Sep 3 2026 17:01 utc | 190

“nature abhors a vaccume…” [sic]
 
Posted by: Harmonic Resonance | Sep 3 2026 17:14 utc | 192
==========================================
 
Heh; they say nature abhors a vacuum, but she’ll tolerate a Dust Buster.
(ba-da-BOOMP)
 
Speaking of the behavior of salt caverns used as storage sites, back in the 19-ought-80s I wrote a paper in college about the nuclear-waste storage problem in the U.S. One of the things I covered was the Waste Isolation Pilot Project (WIPP), a scheme to store high-level nuke waste in salt caverns in southeast New Mexico. The project, which was supposed to determine if this scheme was viable, was a total failure. One reason is given in this footnote:

5 One of the properties of salt that makes it attractive as a repository medium is its ability to “heal” itself; if fractured, salt tends to “creep” toward openings and seal them. The rate of creep at WIPP has surprised geologists, who had predicted that salt would move about a foot in 10 years. Instead, the creep has been found to be much higher, about 3 to 4 inches a year. At that rate, they predict the complete closure of some underground rooms within 20 years, and closure around waste containers that could crush them or make their retrieval—one of the requirements of a permanent repository—difficult or impossible (Utah, 1986c).

Posted by: George the Zeroth | Sep 3 2026 17:24 utc | 192

@ MarcusAurelius | Sep 3 2026 16:34 utc | 184
 
Inshallah!

Posted by: malenkov | Sep 3 2026 17:30 utc | 194

 It is? What is? The 6 million holocaust figure as false or that the figure is actually true? 
Who’s offering the figures and what do they have to gain or lose from them? That’s one question that Sherlock Holmes might ask, yes? 
 
Posted by: Strange Bedfellow | Sep 2 2026 22:59 utc | 72
 
 
It comes down to:  Who is a Jew?  
According to Jewish religious sources who kept records there were fewer than six million Jews in Europe pre WWII.  But by their definition a Jew was someone born of a Jewish mother.  Generally those disputing the holocaust refer to these numbers.
 
On the other hand, by Hitler’s definition a Jew was anyone with one Jewish grandparent.  Generally those promoting the holocaust are using Hitler’s numbers, or those reached by that definition.

Posted by: Snowleopard | Sep 3 2026 17:48 utc | 196

Posted by: George the Zeroth | Sep 3 2026 17:24 utc | 193
 
I live in southeast New Mexico, and you are quite correct about the reasons for abandoning the WIPP.  It became a political football and Bill Richardson, our former governor was also involved with it.  A friend of mine worked for the NM state regulatory agency involved with environmental problems with O&G production often talked about sinkholes developing due to excessive brine pumping.
 
By the same token, large underground salt mines are present in northern Ohio, along the Lake Erie shore.  One is underneath Cleveland, the other off Painesville.  Both are classic room and pillar type construction.  Both mines extend way out underneath Lake Erie.  Collapse of the pillars does not seem to be an issue, and mined out areas are used for safe document storage by banks and other businesses.  I am originally from northern Ohio, and tried to get a mine tour through someone I knew at Diamond Shamrock….back in the day.  The US Gypsum Mine under Port Clinton, Ohio was not so lucky, they broke through under Sandusky Bay, and the whole underground complex flooded in 1968.
 
Always preferred the British spelling of “vaccume” …. 

Posted by: Harmonic Resonance | Sep 3 2026 18:00 utc | 198

see the maps at the first/second link.  Iran is on the offensive, and so are the Houthis in Yemen> Looks like the Houthis are wanting to consolidate their hold on the entire Red Sea coast/Mocha port, and kick the Saudi-backed militias out of that entire Taiz area
 
 
 
 
https://x.com/MenchOsint/status/2095573524496715795
MenchOsint   @MenchOsint 
 
Reports widely circulated indicate Yemen’s Ansarallah is advancing towards areas held by Saudi-backed Yemeni government forces in the direction of Al-Mokha.
Confrontations are ongoing on multiple fronts.
 
 
https://x.com/MenchOsint/status/2095427949021233572
MenchOsint  @MenchOsint 
 
Following Ballistic Missiles & Kamikaze Drones launches this morning, Yemen’s Ansarallah forces are engaged in confrontation with Saudi-backed forces in the Taiz axis.
 
 
https://x.com/FCB6O/status/2095425596259975517
BodyBèn  @FCB6O  Translated from Arabic 
 
Violent clashes since dawn today following fierce attacks launched by the Houthis on government forces’ positions in the fronts of Maqbanah, Al-Tawair, and Al-Kadha west of Taiz city; where the Houthis are seeking to sever the road linking Taiz and Al-Makha, thereby enabling them to isolate Al-Makha from two directions and then attempt to advance toward the strategic port overlooking Bab al-Mandab.
 

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