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As much as I dislike Obama and his policies and I can see him doing such things.

I don't give much creedance to the internet pundits, who the hell is Joshua Hall and how does he have access to such inside information? Smells like bullsh!t to me.
 
This is a fascinating read... tells EXACTLY what is going on!

"Trump is not dismantling the global financial system. He is reasserting who controls it."

The Machine That Runs the World. And the Countries It Leaves Behind.​

The Machine Series | Introduction
Vivify Mariposa
Apr 12, 2026

People keep asking why the poorest countries on earth sit on the most resources.

That is the wrong question.

The right question is: who decided the resources would stay in the ground while the debt stayed on the books?

Not a government. Not an army. One square mile inside London that has never been elected by a single human being. Its local government gives businesses the dominant vote. It has operated continuously since the 1600s through every war, every revolution, every independence movement, every regime change on earth.

Kings fell. Empires collapsed. The City of London kept its books open.

The machine is a system that separates ownership from geography, pricing from production, and debt from sovereignty. This is the introduction to The Machine Series. Each article that follows documents what the machine does to one part of the world. The mechanism is always the same. Only the country names change.
Most people have never heard of the City of London Corporation. That is by design.

more:

The Machine That Runs the World. And the Countries It Leaves Behind.

The Machine Series | Introduction
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Obama wouldn't pull a Ronnie Reagan would he???
 

The Ceasefire Gave Iran Time, It Gave CENTCOM a Target Deck​

Consider the following problem. You have spent 5 weeks bombing an adversary's military infrastructure with extraordinary intensity, striking more than 13,000 targets. You have sealed underground missile bases by collapsing their tunnel entrances. You have destroyed air defense batteries, weapons factories, and naval vessels. And yet, by the end of those 5 weeks, you know that roughly half of the enemy's missile launchers survived, many of them buried alive under rubble you created. Your target list, once rich with confirmed military assets, has thinned by approximately 90%. The assets you failed to destroy are hidden beneath mountains of concrete and earth, and you cannot strike what you cannot see. What do you do?

You pause.

This is not weakness, and it is not charity. It is one of the oldest maneuvers in the history of air warfare. You stop bombing, let the enemy believe he has breathing room, and then you watch him dig. Every excavator he deploys, every tunnel entrance he clears, every missile launcher he drags back into the sunlight creates a new signature on your satellite imagery. A target that was invisible on April 7 becomes a confirmed, geolocated, strikeable asset by April 12. The ceasefire is not a concession. It is a collection operation.

The evidence that the US military is treating this 2-week pause exactly this way is now overwhelming, drawn from Pentagon briefings, satellite imagery published by CNN, statements from the Mossad director himself, and analyses from institutions ranging from the Council on Foreign Relations to War on the Rocks.

Begin with the surveillance architecture. Navy MQ-4C Triton drones, high-altitude surveillance platforms capable of persistent maritime and overland reconnaissance, have been flying continuous patrols over the Persian Gulf and the Strait of Hormuz throughout the ceasefire. Tracking data published by the Italian military radar monitoring account ItaMilRadar showed a Triton returning to its base at Sigonella, Sicily on April 14 after completing a patrol circuit. Another Triton crashed in the Middle East during the ceasefire period, a loss that underscores how aggressively these platforms are being flown. The EP-3E Aries II, one of the US Navy's premier signals intelligence aircraft, had its final operational deployment extended specifically because of the current conflict. These are not defensive assets. They exist to collect electronic emissions, map communications networks, and build the kind of granular intelligence picture that feeds precision targeting.

Above these aircraft sit the satellites. President Trump said the quiet part aloud in his Truth Social post announcing the ceasefire, declaring that Iran's buried enriched uranium is "under very exacting Satellite Surveillance." Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth confirmed the point at the Pentagon podium: "Right now, it's buried, and we're watching it. We know exactly what they have and they know that." This was not a throwaway line. It was a deliberate signal to Tehran that the overhead constellation, the network of electro-optical, synthetic aperture radar, and signals intelligence satellites that constitutes the backbone of US strategic reconnaissance, has been repositioned and tasked against Iranian recovery operations.

CNN proved the point with published imagery. Satellite photographs reviewed by the network show front-end loaders scooping rubble from blocked tunnel entrances at underground missile bases, with dump trucks lined up to haul the debris away. A satellite image of a missile base south of Tabriz, dated April 10, shows heavy equipment staged at a collapsed tunnel entrance. The implications are straightforward. US intelligence can now see which bases Iran considers most important, which tunnel complexes it is prioritizing for restoration, and which weapons systems it is attempting to recover first. Each of these observations generates a targetable data point that did not exist before the ceasefire began.

Sam Lair, a research associate at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies, told CNN that Iran's behavior is entirely predictable and, in fact, built into its military doctrine. Iran designed its "missile cities," the vast underground complexes housing mobile launchers and ballistic missiles, to absorb a first strike, dig out, and launch again. The concept of operations is cyclical: take the hit, clear the rubble, resume operations. But that cycle only works if the adversary is not watching. And the adversary is watching everything.

The intelligence bonanza extends beyond overhead imagery. Mossad Director David Barnea delivered remarkable public remarks at a Holocaust Remembrance Day ceremony on April 14, revealing that Israeli intelligence operatives had been active "in the heart of Tehran" during the 5-week air campaign and had provided targeting data directly to the Israeli Air Force. More importantly, Barnea made clear that the intelligence mission has not stopped with the ceasefire. "We did not think that our mission would be completed immediately with the fading of the battles," he said, "but rather we planned, and we planned to continue, and this will be manifested even after the time of attacks on Tehran." The Jerusalem Post reported that the Mossad told both Israeli and American officials that regime change would come after the war, not during it, framing the ceasefire explicitly as a preparatory intelligence phase.

CNN separately reported that US intelligence has detected China preparing to ship shoulder-fired anti-aircraft missiles, known as MANPADs, to Iran through third-country intermediaries during the ceasefire. As a result, the Trump administration was able to warn China against the shipment and China agreed to stop arming the Iranians. The fact that the US detected this supply chain in real time demonstrates that signals intelligence and human intelligence networks are fully active throughout the pause.

The analytical community has caught on to the strategic logic. Emzar Gelashvili, a former Georgian parliamentarian and security analyst, published an analysis in RealClearDefense on April 11 titled "Iran Crisis: This Is No Longer a Ceasefire, It's a Strategic Pause." He identified 3 distinct military purposes the pause serves. First, it enables battle damage assessment, the systematic evaluation of what was destroyed, what survived, and what the enemy is doing about it. Second, it demonstrates "managed warfare," signaling to Iran and to global markets that the US can start and stop hostilities at will. Third, it functions as a diplomatic ultimatum mechanism, what Gelashvili calls "Pressure Through Pause," giving Washington time to finalize logistics and coordinate with allies while presenting Iran with a narrowing window for negotiation. The American Spectator published a companion analysis with the same thesis, noting that the enriched uranium is "buried under a mountain we've bombed to smithereens and the site is under constant surveillance."

The Council on Foreign Relations offered the most consequential assessment: Iran is digging out weapons stored at underground sites blocked under rubble, and appears to be receiving Chinese assistance in rebuilding its air defenses. The more time Tehran gets, CFR noted, the more it can do to position itself for a resumption of fighting. This is true, but it misses the reciprocal dynamic. The more Iran reconstitutes, the more visible its surviving capability becomes to US collection platforms. Every launcher that emerges from a tunnel, every air defense radar that comes back online, every supply convoy carrying Chinese components across the border, all of it refreshes a target deck that had grown dangerously stale after 5 weeks of sustained bombardment.

This is not a novel strategy. In the 1991 Gulf War, operational pauses allowed US intelligence to conduct battle damage assessments and retarget dispersed Republican Guard divisions. In Kosovo in 1999, NATO bombing pauses gave ISR platforms the opportunity to track Serbian military assets that had been hiding in forests and tunnel networks. The Israelis have practiced their own version of this cycle for decades in Gaza, degrading militant infrastructure, pausing, watching the rebuild, mapping the new architecture, and striking again with updated intelligence. War on the Rocks noted that the proliferation of near-real-time ISR, spanning commercial satellite imagery, surveillance drones, open-source intelligence, and state-level space capabilities, has fundamentally changed the calculus of operational concealment. Iran cannot reconstitute without being observed.

 
Works both ways, iran is looking for small targets worth hitting...
 

Trump's Blockade Is Breaking Iran... And European Elites Are Angry​

The effectiveness of the blockade is already apparent; the propaganda bots on social media are scrambling to find a narrative to counter it, but they are failing. Why? Because Iran already tried to lock down the strait (which is an international waterway), and any government cheering (or secretly cheering) for Iran’s actions is now unable to make a rational argument against the US doing the same thing to Iran. As I noted in March:
“We constantly hear about international exposure to the Hormuz shutdown, but the media rarely mentions that Iran is the MOST exposed economy of all. For now, Iranian oil ships continue to pass through the strait and these vessels are Iran’s economic lifeline. Strategic estimates suggest that without the steady passage of these oil tankers, the Iranian economy would completely collapse within five weeks…”

Trump's Blockade Is Breaking Iran... And European Elites Are Angry<!-- --> | ZeroHedge

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Lie #1: The US Is Blocking All Ships Traveling Through The Strait
Lie #2: Chinese Vessels Have Broken The Blockade And The US Is Afraid
Lie #3: The Blockade Puts US Naval Ships At Serious Risk
Lie #4: Iran Is Used To Sanctions And Can Hold Out Longer Than The US
Lie #5: Iran Has Alternative Ways To Bypass The Blockade
Lie #6: The Chinese Will Intervene And Force The Strait To Reopen
Lie #7: The US Is Losing All Its Allies Over The Blockade
Wrong. What the blockade (and the war in general) is doing is exposing the countries which were pretending to be our allies when it was convenient. I examined this problem in my last article “The US Separation From Europe And NATO Is Long Overdue”, and this brings me to my final point on the war.

The fact that the European elites are suddenly so concerned with the US blockade, enough to call for a “coalition” to reopen the strait and “circumvent” the US, tells us all we need to know. I continue to believe that the globalists in these nations have been feeding off the US while at the same time organizing a “multicultural alliance” behind the scenes – A socialist new world order to supplant western civilization and leave the US behind as a husk.

Part of this agenda clearly involves a partnership with Islamic fundamentalists as a goon squad to oppress native western populations. This is why the elites have flooded Europe with third world migrants – Ignoring the concerns of citizens and even arresting people who speak out.

This is also why the Pope is so adamant to call for a Muslim/Christian pact (while he blatantly ignores the fact that Europeans have been terrorized by Muslim immigrants for over a decade). Let’s not forget that during the pandemic lockdowns, the Vatican joined with the globalists to form the Council for Inclusive Capitalism (run by Lynn Forester de Rothschild). Modern-era Popes are not friends to conservatives or Christians, but I plan to go into that problem in my next article.

The blockade, I believe, is so effective that it has struck fear in Iran, fear in China, and fear in the liberal order in Europe which was counting on the war to drag on for months or years. Look at how angry they all are that Trump flipped the script on the Hormuz? Why all the emotion and irrational hand wringing after the strait has been opened to MORE ships and oil traffic? Why all the panic when oil prices are falling? It doesn’t make sense unless they WANT the US to fail.

Regardless of how you might feel personally about the Iran war, it is undeniable that the situation has revealed many of our supposed allies as enemies. In reality, they were always enemies. The only thing that has changed is that the truth is finally out in the open.

Views expressed in this article are opinions of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of ZeroHedge.



The "Propaganda bots", I like that is an apt description of all the sh!t postings I see cheering Iran.
Finally if you hate Israel, Jews and the USA this ain't good news.
 
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Of course, if they sank a warship, the American people might get behind Adolf Trump, so small it is.
 
Let's review...

Lie #3: The Blockade Puts US Naval Ships At Serious Risk

No, it does the opposite. US ships have no need to traverse the narrow Hormuz to blockade it. All they have to do is wait outside of it and turn back Iranian tankers that approach. No mines, no missiles, no drones, no tiny attack boats, nothing Iran has the ability to deploy has much of a chance of harming the US Navy. In fact, reports indicate ships like the USS Abraham Lincoln (an aircraft carrier) have already been targeted hundreds of times by Iran with no damage taken.

There is nothing Iran can do about a comprehensive blockade.
 
During a 2024–2025 deployment, the USS Harry S. Truman lost three F/A-18 Super Hornets in the Red Sea due to accidents and handling errors. Incidents included a fighter falling overboard while being towed, another plunging off the deck during a landing attempt, and a third downed by friendly fire.
Basically , dropping planes while avoiding missiles still counts...https://taskandpurpose.com/news/navy-truman-planes-lost/ and making s shoot down our own.
 
foolsgold said:
There is nothing Iran can do about a comprehensive blockade.
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Which is why they're seeing the error of their terrorist ways... of course it's The City of London that's really pulling the strings... at least that's what I've come to understand.

It only makes sense. Why would Iran want to be a terrorist organization? How did Obama become POTUS? Why did he give Iran all that dough? Why does the world have to live in constant fear of war. Why did Ron Paul say "All wars are banker's wars."?

The Federal Reserve was modeled after the Bank of London. Once you lear to follow the money you lear history like never before.

Follow the money! Follow the yellow brick road.
 
Of course they can, but they would be better off destroying israel...once israel is gone, no reason for us to be there...
 
No statement, just some food for thought. Take it fwiw and dyodd. Nothing to see, can listen in one tab, play around the forum in a different tab.

Prof. John Mearsheimer : Netanyahu Tricked Trump Into War

Apr 14, 2026

28:13
 
searcher said:
No statement, just some food for thought. Take it fwiw and dyodd. Nothing to see, can listen in one tab, play around the forum in a different tab.

Prof. John Mearsheimer : Netanyahu Tricked Trump Into War

Apr 14, 2026

28:13
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Blackmailed....Epstein is laughing from his beach house in Israel...
 
Can not speak as to the veracity of this.

Scoop: US considers $20 billion cash-for-uranium deal with Iran​

The U.S. and Iran are negotiating over a three-page plan to end the war, with one element under discussion being that the U.S. would release $20 billion in frozen Iranian funds in return for Iran giving up its stockpile of enriched uranium, according to two U.S. officials and two additional sources briefed on the talks.

Why it matters: There has been steady progress in the talks this week, though significant gaps remain. A deal on these terms would bring the war to a close, while potentially generating backlash from Iran hawks.

  • President Trump said Thursday that U.S. and Iranian negotiators would likely meet this weekend for a second round of talks to try to seal the deal.
  • The talks are expected to take place in Islamabad, likely on Sunday, according to a source familiar with the mediation efforts.
  • Pakistan is mediating the negotiations, with behind-the-scenes support from Egypt and Turkey.
Breaking it down: A top priority for the Trump administration is ensuring Iran can't access the stockpile of nearly 2,000kg of enriched uranium buried in its underground nuclear facilities, in particular the 450kg enriched to 60% purity.

More:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/worl...m-deal-with-iran/ar-AA217xjd?ocid=socialshare
 

Iran declares Strait of Hormuz completely open to commercial traffic during Israel-Lebanon ceasefire​

Iran on Friday declared the Strait of Hormuz completely open to commercial traffic during the ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon.

“In line with the ceasefire in Lebanon, the passage for all commercial vessels through Strait of Hormuz is declared completely open for the remaining period of ceasefire,” Foreign Minister Seyed Abbas Araghchi said in a social media post. However, vessels must transit through a “coordinated route” announced by Iran’s maritime authorities, Araghchi said.

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Iran declares Strait of Hormuz open to shipping but Trump says U.S. blockade still active

The Strait of Hormuz has remained almost completely closed as the U.S. and Iran have disputed the terms of their ceasefire agreement.
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Excellent move, now America is still stuck there guarding the Strait while the Iranians can go to the beach...
 
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