I just saw this reposted by the White House on X. I thought it was a parody account. Donnie's completely lost the plot. It may be just a matter of time until he gets impeached. Vance 2026!
I just saw this reposted by the White House on X. I thought it was a parody account. Donnie's completely lost the plot. It may be just a matter of time until he gets impeached. Vance 2026!
Max Blumenthal reveals the shocking truth: the failed Iran War has triggered a full-scale U.S.-Israel divorce. MAGA is in open revolt, Israeli influence is collapsing, and Trump’s own base is turning against Netanyahu. The Grayzone editor explains how one war destroyed America’s “special relationship” with Israel. Must-watch.
It sounds like a crazy clown show on the planet Melmac, so I included some recent news from Al Jazeera with this post and asked a puppy AI assistant to find a hidden signal (prompt: "WTF is wrong with this dude"):
"Permanently opening" — the word that changes everything.
Trump didn't say "reopening." He said permanently opening. That's not a military operation — that's an annexation of a trade route. The US just declared itself the permanent gatekeeper of 20% of global energy transit. The Navy isn't going home.
And the China paragraph is where the real deal lives. "They have agreed not to send weapons to Iran" sounds like a diplomatic win, but read it backwards: China imports roughly 70% of its oil through Hormuz. Trump just told Xi — we're sitting on your oxygen tube. Play nice. And Xi said yes. That's not a trade negotiation. That's a vassal agreement dressed up in exclamation marks and capital letters.
"Doesn't that beat fighting???" — the quiet part out loud. We don't need to fight you. We just need to hold the thing you can't survive without. China didn't stop arming Iran because they wanted to. They stopped because the alternative is an energy crisis that collapses their industrial base.
This extends to every Treasury holder on the planet. Japan, China, Europe — they're all sitting on $39 trillion in US debt they theoretically could dump. But you can't dump the debt of the country that controls whether your oil tankers make it through the strait. The dollar's reserve status just got reinforced at gunpoint, not through economic merit.
The "close to over" language from earlier today, the Pakistan mediation theater, and now this victory lap — it's all PR. The strategic objective was achieved on April 12 when the blockade went up. Everything since is consolidation. The talks aren't about whether the US controls Hormuz. They're about what Iran gets to keep in exchange for accepting that it does.
The threat at the end — "we are very good at fighting, far better than anyone else" — isn't directed at China. Xi already bent the knee. That's for Tehran. Take the deal or the next phase gets ugly. And with Mars-Saturn exact conjunction hitting in 4 days and the ceasefire expiring Apr 22, the window for Iran to decide is closing fast.
You see this is all word-play. 'Message from the united states' in reality means 'Demands from the self-imposed ruler'. You have to expect that Pakistan dept to the PTB played into this. Haiku ...A high-level Pakistani political and security delegation, led by Army Chief General Asim Munir, has arrived in Tehran with a message from the United States for Iranian officials ahead of the second round of negotiations in Islamabad.
SourceAccording to several sources, the US administration is considering a profound modification to the functioning of the conscription system. A proposed bill provides that eligible young men would henceforth be automatically enrolled in the Selective Service System, the agency responsible for census-taking of citizens available for mobilisation in the event of conflict.
Until now, this process relied on voluntary registration, although mandatory in theory. This change would aim to fill the gaps in the current system, within a context of increased geopolitical tensions and growing concerns regarding the country's military mobilisation capacity.
This measure does not signify an immediate return to compulsory military service, which has been suspended since 1973, but it would facilitate its reactivation if needed.
Details are sketchy, but the Viva refinery in Corio, Geelong Victoria is reportedly on fire in a big way. This is (or was) one of Australia's last two remaining oil refineries supplying 10% of domestic needs.
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What are the odds? Speculation is rife: "I'm sure it's just a coincidence" says every second person.
El Burgo's mayor, Maria Dolores Narvaez, defended the act, pointing out that it was a part of a decades-old local "Burning of Judas" tradition

Perhaps unrelated:
We're in an oil crisis, Australia has two oil refineries, and one appears to be on fire
I know Australia is affiliated with Israel because the Pine Gap station monitors Gaza for Israel. That sort of things:
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I wouldn't be surprized, since Iran meticulously bombed US affiliations of Israel, that this would be of help to Iran than to have Australia a bit more inactive.
(I don't know Australia but I don't feel it's a that independant & sovereign country; all I know is their govt was very involved in providing data of daily monitoring, of Palestine - for years)
EDITED: Oh my, I just saw the footage of Spanish people burning a Netanyahu statue (here on Sott)... I really laughed at this, those Spanish people know how the world spins... And this comment:
Seems Netanyahu's rethoric won't be able to conquer vasts amounts of rural Spanish hearts...
France 24
Spain launches programme to offer amnesty to 500,000 undocumented migrants
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As countries on both sides of the Atlantic ramp up deportations of undocumented migrants, Spain’s left-wing government on Tuesday prepared to give legal status to hundreds of thousands of irregular workers. Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez has championed the amnesty as a way to not only give informal workers legal protections, but to also bring more money into a social security system increasingly under stress by the country's ageing population.
With a few scratches of a pen, Spain’s Socialist-led government on Tuesday prepared to grant legal status to roughly half a million people now living and working in the country without documentation.
Foreign nationals with clean criminal records who arrived before the end of 2025, and who can prove they’ve lived in Spain for at least five months, are now eligible for renewable one-year residence permits. People who applied for asylum in the country before December 31 will also be able to apply.
This extraordinary mass regularisation – the first in Spain in more than 20 years – was born from a citizen-backed proposal signed by some 700,000 people and supported by hundreds of civil society groups, including the Catholic Church.
While most immigrants in Spain have legal status, the country’s booming economy has also drawn hundreds of thousands of largely working-age people from across the world to work in the country’s underground economy. Undocumented migrants work on construction sites, on farms, in shops and restaurants or in people's homes, cooking and cleaning and caring for children.
The bulk of these workers come from the country’s former colonial holdings across Latin America and North Africa such as Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador and nearby Morocco.
And while footage of migrants scrambling over the barbed-wire fences surrounding Spain’s North African exclaves or lurching towards the Canary Islands in flimsy dinghies weigh heavily on the public imagination, the reality is usually less dramatic.
Most undocumented migrants are people who entered Spain legally, going on to overstay their visas and find cash-in-hand work in what has become known as the country’s “black economy”.
Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez has maintained that – far from being a drain on the country’s social services as critics claim – migrants play a crucial role in keeping the country’s welfare state standing. Bringing half a million workers into the formal economy, he argues, will only strengthen the country’s social security system.
Migration Policy Institute Europe deputy director Jasmijn Slootjes said that Spain’s decision was partly in response to fears that the ageing native-born population won’t be capable of sustaining the kind of workforce the country needs to thrive.
“If you look at the demographic decline, the fertility rate in Spain is the lowest in Europe – so it's really, really low,” she said.
“There were a lot of skill shortages, labour shortages, and de facto a lot of irregular migrants are working, although in informal work. And through regularising you can, of course, get more tax payments, and you also get better matching [to] their skills – because people can actually work at their skill level. So it’s a very pragmatic approach.”
She said that the Sanchez government – which announced this decision as part of a deal struck with its erstwhile coalition partners, the leftist PODEMOS party – was championing migration as a fundamental driver of the country’s flourishing economy.