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Friday, April 3, 2026
Bill Bonner, "Ring the Bell"
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"Ring the Bell"
by Bill Bonner
“To say no to President Trump would be saying no to God.”
- Donald Trump’s ‘spiritual advisor’
Baltimore, Maryland in the year of our Lord 2026 - "It is Good Friday. It is the day Christians remember the crucifixion. Let us ring the bell, bow our heads and have a moment of silence. Religion is in the news. The Irish Star: "Pastor slams White House Trump Jesus comparison. A pastor denounces White House’s likening of Trump to Jesus during an Easter lunch, sparking controversy and accusations of blasphemy."
But religion is running amok on both sides of the Iran war. Marco Rubio: In an interview with Fox News, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio claimed that Iran is led by “radical Shia clerics” who, he said, believe they have a “calling” to “usher in the end of the world.” Iran is famously a ‘theocracy’ wherein religious and political power are in the same hands. Their leaders have been murdered. Their cities have been blown to pieces. Their defenses have been destroyed and their people killed. But Iranians still believe God is on their side.
That’s not what John Hagee thinks: “God Almighty is brought onto the battlefield and the enemies of Zion and the enemies of the United States can be destroyed before our eyes...Let God arise and let his enemies be scattered.” Whatever else can be said about the Iran-US/Israeli war, it is surely giving God a bad name. He’s allegedly advocating war crimes almost everywhere.
Pete Hegseth seems to have begun reading the Bible at Genesis and when he got to Saul’s massacre of the Amalekites, that was all he needed to know. How his callow heart must have raced with excitement as he read about the massacres of Gideon’s seventy sons, or the slaughter of the Ephraimites, or the gang rape of the Levite’s concubine by the Benjamites and the subsequent massacre of all of the women and children of Jabesh-Gilead. Shame he never made it to Jesus. Last week, he threatened an attack “as vicious as possible from day one.”
And then at a ‘Christian Prayer’ service at the Pentagon, America’s top gun prayed to Almighty God to “pour out your wrath.” And asked him to “break the teeth of the ungodly.” He quoted the Old Testament...in which God tells the ancient Israelites...to be ‘as bold as a lion’ and to visit ‘overwhelming violence’ on their enemies.
These are not ‘Christian prayers.’ They are pre-Christian incitations to violence, attributed to Isaiah seven hundred years before Christ was born. They show the world we come from, not the world as Christ meant it to be. Pope Leo explained: ‘This is our God: Jesus, king of peace, who rejects war, whom no one can use to justify war...He does not listen to the prayers of those who wage war, but rejects them.’ Quoting a Bible passage, Leo added: ‘Even though you make many prayers, I will not listen: your hands are full of blood.’
But if God ignores the prayers of those with blood on their hands, the Jews are out of luck too. Hannah Arendt, reporting on the Nuremberg Trials, wrote that the accused were not especially evil. They were just ‘ordinary men’ who had fallen under an extraordinarily malign influence. The evil influence she was looking at was Adolf Hitler and his henchmen. They murdered some six million Jews. Then, after the war, Jews enjoyed the sympathy of most of the world.
But now, as they carry out the policies of the Netanyahu government… Gallup: ‘Forty-one percent of Americans now say they sympathize more with the Palestinians in the Middle East situation, while 36% sympathize more with the Israelis...it contrasts with a clear lead for the Israelis only a year ago (46% vs. 33%) and larger leads over the prior 24 years.’
Netanyahu, like Hegseth, leans on the Old Testament mass murder stories. He says his people “are committed to completely eliminating this evil from the world… You must remember what Amalek has done to you, says our Holy Bible. And we do remember.”
He refers to the Book of Samuel where the prophet tells Saul: "I will punish the Amalekites for what they did to Israel when they waylaid them as they came up from Egypt. Now go, attack the Amalekites and totally destroy all that belongs to them. Do not spare them; put to death men and women, children and infants, cattle and sheep, camels and donkeys."
Historians say the Jews never went to Egypt, so the original charge was probably false. And you’d think that whatever happened 3,000 years ago might be best forgotten now, anyway. And who is Amalek today, almost one hundred generations later? The staggering conceit of Netanyahu, Hegseth et al is to claim to know. But as always, the gods will decide for themselves.
Adventures With Danno, "Stock Up Now At Aldi"
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Adventures With Danno, 4/3/26
"Stock Up Now At Aldi"
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Thursday, April 2, 2026
Musical Interlude: Leonard Cohen, "Hallelujah"
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Leonard Cohen, "Hallelujah"
"I did my best, it wasn't much,
I couldn't feel, so I tried to touch.
I've told the truth, I didn't come to fool you.
And even though it all went wrong
I'll stand before the Lord of song
With nothing on my tongue but Hallelujah..."
"Alert: WTF?! US Military Takeover! Ground Invasion Imminent, WW3 Prep"
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Canadian Prepper, 4/2/26
"Alert: WTF?! US Military Takeover!
Ground Invasion Imminent, WW3 Prep"
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Gerald Celente, "Good Friday, No! Get Ready For Bad Friday And Total Iran War Escalation"
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Gerald Celente, 4/2/26
"Good Friday, No! Get Ready For Bad Friday
And Total Iran War Escalation"
"The Trends Journal is a weekly magazine analyzing global current events forming future trends. Our mission is to present Facts and Truth over fear and propaganda to help subscribers prepare for What's Next in these increasingly turbulent times."
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Musical Interlude: 2002, "Beyond The Veil"
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2002, "Beyond The Veil"
"The veil represents the mysterious
division between this world and the next."
"A Look to the Heavens"
“Like delicate cosmic petals, these clouds of interstellar dust and gas have blossomed 1,300 light-years away in the fertile star fields of the constellation Cepheus. Sometimes called the Iris Nebula and dutifully cataloged as NGC 7023 this is not the only nebula in the sky to evoke the imagery of flowers. Still, this remarkable image shows off the Iris Nebula's range of colors and symmetries in impressive detail. Within the Iris, dusty nebular material surrounds a hot, young star.
The dominant color of the brighter reflection nebula is blue, characteristic of dust grains reflecting starlight. Central filaments of the dusty clouds glow with a faint reddish photoluminesence as some dust grains effectively convert the star's invisible ultraviolet radiation to visible red light. Infrared observations indicate that this nebula may contain complex carbon molecules known as PAHs. The bright blue portion of the Iris Nebula is about six light-years across.”
- http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap120929.html
"Never Fair..."
"Life is never fair,
and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not."
- Oscar Wilde
"The Economic Shock Nobody Sees Coming (It Already Started)"
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Epic Economist, 4/2/26
"The Economic Shock Nobody Sees Coming
(It Already Started)"
"Something is building in the American economy right now, and most people won't see it coming until it's already hitting them. The warning signs are everywhere. In the stock market, at the gas pump, at the grocery store, but the deeper story connecting all of it rarely gets told in one place. That's what this video is about.
We start with the bigger picture. The markets are flashing red. The Dow, the S&P, the Nasdaq - all of them have been taking hits while oil prices move in the opposite direction. And the reason why matters more than most people realize. When key maritime chokepoints like the Strait of Hormuz get disrupted, it affects everything that moves, everything that gets built, and everything that gets grown. The ripple goes further and faster than anyone expects.
From there, we look at what rising fuel costs are already doing to everyday Americans. People in cities like Los Angeles are staring down gas prices close to seven dollars a gallon. Workers are doing the math and questioning whether the commute is even worth it anymore. And when people stop driving, they stop spending, businesses feel it, and the whole cycle starts tightening. High gas prices have historically been one of the fastest ways to tip an economy into recession, and right now they are doing exactly what they have always done.
But what is getting far less attention is what is happening to the food supply. Fertilizer prices have spiked dramatically because a significant share of global nitrogen supply also moves through the Strait of Hormuz. Farmers are being forced to make impossible choices during planting season. They’re having to use less fertilizer, switch crops, or plant less altogether. Every single option leads to less food and higher prices. Add rising diesel costs on top of that, and the pressure on the entire food chain becomes very real, very fast.
And underneath all of it, there is something that millions of Americans are already living every day. The feeling that their money just does not go as far as it used to. Wages have not kept up. The cost of housing, groceries, and basic necessities has outpaced what most households can absorb. People are not imagining it. The dollar has genuinely lost purchasing power, and that loss is being felt in ways that are hard to ignore.
This video brings all of those threads together because they are not separate stories. They are one story. And understanding how they connect is the first step toward making thoughtful, grounded decisions for yourself and your family in the months ahead. If any of this resonates with you, drop a comment below. We would love to hear what you are seeing where you live."
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"Empty Shelves & Shortages Coming? This Ain't Good"
Adventures With Danno, 4/2/26
"Empty Shelves & Shortages Coming?
This Ain't Good"
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"I'm 73. Here's What I Don't Care About Anymore (And Why You Won't Either)"
Life Lessons,
"I'm 73. Here's What I Don't Care About
Anymore (And Why You Won't Either)"
"For most of my life, I cared about everything. What people thought. Whether I was good enough. Every mistake I made. At seventy-three, I don't anymore. Not because I became bitter. I just... stopped carrying weight that was never mine to carry. In this video, I share what I stopped caring about. And if you're still carrying something heavy...One day, you won't care anymore either."
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"The Empire Of Fraud - It's Going To Become A Mad Max World Very Soon"
Jeremiah Babe, 4/2/26
"The Empire Of Fraud -
It's Going To Become A Mad Max World Very Soon"
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"Evil Walks Among Us: Monsters with Human Faces Wreak Havoc on Our Freedoms"
"Evil Walks Among Us: Monsters with
Human Faces Wreak Havoc on Our Freedoms"
by John & Nisha Whitehead
“But these weren’t the kind of monsters that had tentacles and rotting skin, the kind a seven-year-old might be able to wrap his mind around - they were monsters with human faces, in crisp uniforms, marching in lockstep, so banal you don’t recognize them for what they are until it’s too late.” - Ransom Riggs, "Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children"
"Enough already. Enough with the distractions. Enough with the partisan jousting. Enough with the sniping and name-calling and mud-slinging that do nothing to make this country safer or freer or more just. We have let the government’s evil-doing, its abuses, power grabs, brutality, meanness, inhumanity, immorality, greed, corruption, debauchery and tyranny go on for too long. We are approaching a reckoning.
This is the point, as the poet W. B. Yeats warned, when things fall apart and anarchy is loosed upon the world. We have seen this convergence before in Hitler’s Germany, in Stalin’s Russia, in Mussolini’s Italy, and in Mao’s China: the rise of strongmen and demagogues, the ascendency of profit-driven politics over deep-seated principles, the warring nationalism that seeks to divide and conquer, the callous disregard for basic human rights and dignity, and the silence of people who should know better. Yet no matter how many times the world has been down this road before, we can’t seem to avoid repeating the deadly mistakes of the past.
This is not just playing out on a national and international scale. It is wreaking havoc at the most immediate level, as well, creating rifts and polarities within families and friends, neighborhoods and communities that keep the populace warring among themselves and incapable of presenting a united front in the face of the government’s goose-stepping despotism.
We labor today under the weight of countless tyrannies, large and small, disguised as “the better good,” marketed as benevolence, enforced with armed police, and carried out by an elite class of government officials who are largely insulated from the ill effects of their actions.
For too long now, the American people have rationalized turning a blind eye to all manner of government wrongdoing - asset forfeiture schemes, corruption, surveillance, endless wars, SWAT team raids, militarized police, profit-driven private prisons, and so on - because they were the so-called lesser of two evils.
Yet the unavoidable truth is that the government - through its acts of power grabs, brutality, meanness, inhumanity, immorality, greed, corruption, debauchery and tyranny - has become almost indistinguishable from the evil it claims to be fighting, whether that evil takes the form of terrorism, torture, drug trafficking, sex trafficking, murder, violence, theft, pornography, scientific experimentations or some other diabolical means of inflicting pain, suffering and servitude on humanity.
At its core, this is not a debate about politics, or constitutionalism, or even tyranny disguised as law-and-order. This is a condemnation of the monsters with human faces who walk among us. Many of them work for the U.S. government.
This is the premise of John Carpenter’s film "They Live", which was released thirty-five years ago and remains unnervingly, chillingly appropriate for our modern age. Best known for his horror film Halloween, which assumes that there is a form of evil so dark that it can’t be killed, Carpenter’s larger body of work is infused with a strong anti-authoritarian, anti-establishment, laconic bent that speaks to the filmmaker’s concerns about the unraveling of our society, particularly our government. Time and again, Carpenter portrays the government working against its own citizens, a populace out of touch with reality, technology run amok, and a future more horrific than any horror film.
In "Escape from New York," Carpenter presents fascism as the future of America. In "The Thing" a remake of the 1951 sci-fi classic of the same name, Carpenter presupposes that increasingly we are all becoming dehumanized.
In "Christine" the film adaptation of Stephen King’s novel about a demon-possessed car, technology exhibits a will and consciousness of its own and goes on a murderous rampage. In In the "Mouth of Madness," Carpenter notes that evil grows when people lose “the ability to know the difference between reality and fantasy.”
And then there is Carpenter’s "They Live," in which two migrant workers discover that the world is not as it seems. In fact, the population is actually being controlled and exploited by aliens working in partnership with an oligarchic elite. All the while, the populace - blissfully unaware of the real agenda at work in their lives - has been lulled into complacency, indoctrinated into compliance, bombarded with media distractions, and hypnotized by subliminal messages beamed out of television and various electronic devices, billboards and the like.
It is only when homeless drifter John Nada (played to the hilt by the late Roddy Piper) discovers a pair of doctored sunglasses - Hoffman lenses - that Nada sees what lies beneath the elite’s fabricated reality: control and bondage. When viewed through the lens of truth, the elite, who appear human until stripped of their disguises, are shown to be monsters who have enslaved the citizenry in order to prey on them.
Likewise, billboards blare out hidden, authoritative messages: a bikini-clad woman in one ad is actually ordering viewers to “MARRY AND REPRODUCE.” Magazine racks scream “CONSUME” and “OBEY.” A wad of dollar bills in a vendor’s hand proclaims, “THIS IS YOUR GOD.” When viewed through Nada’s Hoffman lenses, some of the other hidden messages being drummed into the people’s subconscious include: NO INDEPENDENT THOUGHT, CONFORM, SUBMIT, STAY ASLEEP, BUY, WATCH TV, NO IMAGINATION, and DO NOT QUESTION AUTHORITY.
This indoctrination campaign engineered by the elite in "They Live" is painfully familiar to anyone who has studied the decline of American culture. A citizenry that does not think for themselves, obeys without question, is submissive, does not challenge authority, does not think outside the box, and is content to sit back and be entertained is a citizenry that can be easily controlled.
In this way, the subtle message of "They Live" provides an apt analogy of our own distorted vision of life in the American police state, what philosopher Slavoj Žižek refers to as dictatorship in democracy, “the invisible order which sustains your apparent freedom.”
Tune out the government’s attempts to distract, divert and befuddle us and tune into what’s really going on in this country, and you’ll run headlong into an unmistakable, unpalatable truth: what we are dealing with today is an authoritarian beast that has outgrown its chains and will not be restrained.
We’re being fed a series of carefully contrived fictions that bear no resemblance to reality. Despite the fact that we are 17,600 times more likely to die from heart disease than from a terrorist attack; 11,000 times more likely to die from an airplane accident than from a terrorist plot involving an airplane; 1,048 times more likely to die from a car accident than a terrorist attack, and 8 times more likely to be killed by a police officer than by a terrorist , we have handed over control of our lives to government officials who treat us as a means to an end—the source of money and power.
As the Bearded Man in "They Live" warns, “They are dismantling the sleeping middle class. More and more people are becoming poor. We are their cattle. We are being bred for slavery.” We have bought into the illusion and refused to grasp the truth. From the moment we are born until we die, we are indoctrinated into believing that those who rule us do it for our own good. The truth is far different.
The powers-that-be want us to feel threatened by forces beyond our control (terrorists, pandemics, mass shootings, etc.). They want us afraid and dependent on the government and its militarized armies for our safety and well-being. They want us distrustful of each other, divided by our prejudices, and at each other’s throats. We are little more than expendable resources to be used, abused and discarded.
In fact, a study conducted by Princeton and Northwestern University concluded that the U.S. government does not represent the majority of American citizens. Instead, the study found that the government is ruled by the rich and powerful, or the so-called “economic elite.” Moreover, the researchers concluded that policies enacted by this governmental elite nearly always favor special interests and lobbying groups.
In other words, we are being ruled by an oligarchy disguised as a democracy, and arguably on our way towards fascism - a form of government where private corporate interests rule, money calls the shots, and the people are seen as mere subjects to be controlled.
Rest assured that when and if fascism finally takes hold in America, the basic forms of government will remain: Fascism will appear to be friendly. The legislators will be in session. There will be elections, and the news media will continue to cover the entertainment and political trivia. Consent of the governed, however, will no longer apply. Actual control will have finally passed to the oligarchic elite controlling the government behind the scenes.
Sound familiar? Clearly, we are now ruled by an oligarchic elite of governmental and corporate interests. We have moved into “corporatism” (favored by Benito Mussolini), which is a halfway point on the road to full-blown fascism.
Corporatism is where the few moneyed interests - not elected by the citizenry - rule over the many. In this way, it is not a democracy or a republican form of government, which is what the American government was established to be. It is a top-down form of government and one which has a terrifying history typified by the developments that occurred in totalitarian regimes of the past: police states where everyone is watched and spied on, rounded up for minor infractions by government agents, placed under police control, and placed in detention (a.k.a. concentration) camps.
For the final hammer of fascism to fall, it will require the most crucial ingredient: the majority of the people will have to agree that it’s not only expedient but necessary. But why would a people agree to such an oppressive regime? The answer is the same in every age: fear. Fear makes people stupid.
Fear is the method most often used by politicians to increase the power of government. And, as most social commentators recognize, an atmosphere of fear permeates modern America: fear of terrorism, fear of the police, fear of our neighbors and so on. The propaganda of fear has been used quite effectively by those who want to gain control, and it is transforming the populace into fearful, compliant, pacified zombies content to march in lockstep with the government’s dictates.
This brings me back to "They Live," in which the real zombies are not the aliens calling the shots but the populace who are content to remain controlled. When all is said and done, the world of They Live is not so different from our own. As one of the characters points out, “The poor and the underclass are growing. Racial justice and human rights are nonexistent. They have created a repressive society, and we are their unwitting accomplices. Their intention to rule rests with the annihilation of consciousness. We have been lulled into a trance. They have made us indifferent to ourselves, to others. We are focused only on our own gain.”
We, too, are focused only on our own pleasures, prejudices and gains. Our poor and underclasses are also growing. Injustice is growing. Inequality is growing. A concern for human rights is nearly nonexistent. We too have been lulled into a trance, indifferent to others. Oblivious to what lies ahead, we’ve been manipulated into believing that if we continue to consume, obey, and have faith, things will work out. But that’s never been true of emerging regimes. And by the time we feel the hammer coming down upon us, it will be too late.
So where does that leave us? The characters who populate Carpenter’s films provide some insight. Underneath their machismo, they still believe in the ideals of liberty and equal opportunity. Their beliefs place them in constant opposition with the law and the establishment, but they are nonetheless freedom fighters.
When, for example, John Nada destroys the alien hypno-transmitter in "They Live" he delivers a wake-up call for freedom. As Nada memorably declares, “I have come here to chew bubblegum and kick ass. And I’m all out of bubblegum.” In other words: we need to get active and take a stand for what’s really important. Stop allowing yourselves to be easily distracted by pointless political spectacles and pay attention to what’s really going on in the country.
As I make clear in my book "Battlefield America: The War on the American People" and in its fictional counterpart "The Erik Blair Diaries," the real battle for control of this nation is taking place on roadsides, in police cars, on witness stands, over phone lines, in government offices, in corporate offices, in public school hallways and classrooms, in parks and city council meetings, and in towns and cities across this country.
All the trappings of the American police state are now in plain sight. Wake up, America. If they live (the tyrants, the oppressors, the invaders, the overlords), it is only because “we the people” sleep."
Free Download: Olaf Stapledon, "Sirius: A Fantasy of Love and Discord"
"But what a universe, anyhow! No use blaming human-beings for what they were. Everything was made so that it had to torture something else. Sirius himself was no exception, of course. Made that way! Nothing was responsible for being by nature predatory on other things, dog on rabbit and Argentine beef, man on nearly everything, bugs and microbes on man, and of course man himself on man. (Nothing but man was really cruel, vindictive, except perhaps the loathly cat). Everything desperately struggling to keep its nose above water for a few breaths before its strength inevitably failed and down it went, pressed under by something else. And beyond, those brainless, handless idiotic stars, lazing away so importantly for nothing.
Here and there some speck of a planet dominated by some half-awake intelligence like humanity. And here and there on such planets, one or two poor little spirits waking up and wondering what in the hell everything was for, what it was all about, what they could make of themselves; and glimpsing in a muddled way what their potentiality was, and feebly trying to express it, but always failing, always missing fire, and very often feeling themselves breaking up as he himself was doing. Just now and then they might feel the real thing, in some creative work, or in sweet community with another little spirit, or with others. Just now and then they seemed somehow to create or to be gathered up into something lovelier than their individual selves, something which demanded their selves sacrifice and yet have their selves new life. But how precariously, torturingly; and only just for a flicker of time! Their whole life-time would only be a flicker in the whole of titanic time. Even when all the worlds have frozen or exploded, and all the suns gone dead and cold therewill still be time. Oh God, what for?"
- Olaf Stapledon, "Sirius: A Fantasy of Love and Discord"
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"Reality Avoidance"
"Reality Avoidance"
by Morris Berman
"It's quite amazing how the news is endlessly about filler, which is what I call it. Very little of this has anything to do with reality, which the Mainstream Media and the American people avoid like the plague. What then is real?
1. The empire is in decline; every day, life here gets a little bit worse; all our institutions are corrupt to varying degrees; and there is no turning this situation around.
2. A crucial factor in this decline and irreversibility is the low level of intelligence of the American people. Americans are not only dumb; they are positively antagonistic toward the life of the mind.
3. Relations of power and money determine practically everything. The 3 wealthiest Americans own as much as the bottom 50% of the population, and this tendency will get worse over time.
4. The value system of the country, and its citizens, is fundamentally wrong-headed. It amounts to little more than hustling, selfishness, narcissism, and a blatant disregard for anyone but oneself. There is a kind of cruelty, or violence, deep in the American soul; many foreign observers and writers have commented on this. Americans are bitter, depressed, and angry, and the country offers very little by way of community or empathy.
5. Along with this is the support of meaningless wars and imperial adventures on the part of most of the population. That we drone-murder unarmed civilians on a weekly basis is barely on the radar screen of the American mind. In essence, the nation has evolved into a genocidal war machine run by a plutocracy and cheered on by mindless millions.
Most Americans hide from these depressing, even horrific, realities by what passes for the news, but also by means of alcohol, opioids, TV, cellphones, suicide, prescription drugs, workaholism, and spectator sports, to name but a few. This stuffing of the Void is probably our primary activity. In a word, we are eating ourselves alive, and only a tiny fraction of the population recognizes this."
"Trump The Destroyer Says Iran's Electric Grid And Desalination Plants Supplying Water To Millions Now Potential Targets, Setting Stage For Global Humanitarian Disaster"
"Trump The Destroyer Says Iran's Electric Grid And Desalination
Plants Supplying Water To Millions Now Potential Targets,
Setting Stage For Global Humanitarian Disaster"
by Leo Hohmann
"The President of the United States threatened in a nationally televised speech Wednesday night to “bomb Iran into the Stone Age,” taking out their civilian infrastructure, meaning their electricity grid, desalination plants, hospitals and other systems that directly impact human life.
Clarification: This would shut down human life in that part of the world. And when humans cannot survive in their homeland, they migrate to other parts of the world. Iran has promised that if Trump makes such a move, they will respond in kind, striking similar targets hosted by U.S. allies in the Gulf, meaning the UAE, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and Bahrain. All of it will lie in ruins.
With escalating rhetoric like this, and no end in sight to this totally unnecessary war on Iran, the Persian Gulf is facing an existential water security threat, according to a report by The Cradle. Without water, no human life can survive.
This manufactured crisis, if it continues down the path Trump has set it on, will cause a humanitarian catastrophe unlike anything seen in modern history. And keep in mind that with such a catastrophe comes more Islamic refugees into the West where basically the same people supporting this war will then whine and complain about how Islam is “changing our culture” and “taking us over from within.”
According to the report by The Cradle attacking civilian infrastructure in Iran would be catastrophic due to the following facts:
Total dependence: The Arab Gulf states rely almost entirely on seawater desalination for survival, including Qatar and Bahrain which get 99% and 90% of their drinking water from the sea, respectively.
Huge infrastructure: There are 3,401 desalination plants in the region producing more than 22 million cubic meters of water daily, nearly one-third of global desalination output.
Energy vulnerability: About 75% of Gulf desalination plants rely on cogeneration, meaning water production is tied directly to electricity generation. Attacks on gas pipelines or power stations could shut down water output without touching the desalination units themselves.
Cyber risks: Modern desalination plants have complex digital control systems, making them vulnerable to cyber-attacks that could make water unfit to drink.
Environmental dangers: Potential oil spills, chemical leaks and attacks on nuclear or oil industry sites which force desalination plants to close. The Persian Gulf traps pollution, threatening marine life and raising water-treatment costs.
Legal ambiguity: While international law classifies water facilities as protected civilian infrastructure, the destruction of which constitutes a war crime, the U.S. and Israel claim they are legitimate targets under the pretext of “dual use.”
Trump says he doesn’t care if the Strait of Hormuz stays closed and he indicated in a leaked report to the Wall Street Journal that he is looking for an off ramp in which to withdraw the massive U.S. military presence in the Middle East. We can only hope this is accurate but if I was a betting man, I’d say it was deliberate misinformation that the U.S. government “leaked” to its notorious neocon water boys at the Wall Street Journal.
It was more of the same Wednesday night, with Trump bragging in one breath about how he has totally defeated the Iranians, then promising in the next breath to hit them again, only much harder, if they don’t accept his “deal” to end the war. We can only hope that the vast majority of Americans see through this nonsensical and double-minded gibberish.
If Trump says he’s looking for a peace deal, we should assume that means the opposite will occur. That means more war. More deaths of both Americans and Iranians. More destruction. Only this time targeting civilians instead of military assets. These are his words, not mine. Listen to his speech. If he hits civilian infrastructure as he promised, we will see a flood of refugees that is impossible to even calculate. Imagine a country of 92 million people with no electricity and little to no water.
With who he has become, it would be just like Trump to escalate the war and order some sort of dramatic attack over Easter weekend. The symbolism is hard to miss. The president of the world’s largest “Christian” nation delivering a fatal blow to civilian infrastructure on the holiest day in Christianity. To a Muslim in Iran, America represents Christianity, whether we see ourselves that way or not. Trump is essentially saying to them: Happy Easter from the Christians! Welcome to the Stone Age!
Trump has twice used fake diplomacy to double-cross the Iranians, giving them hope that negotiations might produce a solution to the standoff, only to attack them when it looks like a deal has been reached. Iran will not fall for Trump’s trickery, again.
But that won’t stop Trump from trying to manipulate the oil markets through his chicanery, talking about ending the war through non-existent peace talks while at the same time preparing for another major escalation. Even the oil markets are starting to wise up. When Trump took to the podium for his Wednesday night speech, oil stood at about $100 a barrel. As soon as the speech ended, oil started rising, and it stands at $108 a barrel at 4 p.m. Thursday.
In a post to Truth Social before his Wednesday speech, Trump said the U.S. would soon be concluding its “lovely stay in Iran.” In follow-up comments, he suggested the U.S. could respond to Iranian actions “twenty times harder” with “Death, Fire, and Fury.”
I personally do not believe Trump will back off of Iran until the regime is gone and a U.S. puppet installed. This is a process that could take months or years, and the entire global economy will go into the tank, but they will in the end get what they want: a Western puppet whose style of governing is more in tune with the financial AI-powered control grid where everybody and everything is monitored 24/7 in real time.
Iran had its own system of controlling its citizens, so don’t think I am exonerating that regime or holding it up as righteous. But it operated outside of the Western NWO beast system that is being rapidly developed right under our noses. That cannot be allowed. Cuba, another nation that has been forced to learn how to exist outside the system, will also be brought to heel, along with a few other countries. It’s all part of bringing in the digital reset under a new one-world system and much smaller global population.
Those on the right who continue to believe that the United States is a force for good fighting against evil are in for a rude awakening. They will have all of their most ingrained assumptions about their country’s government shaken to their core, and because they have misjudged the character of the U.S. regime, they will be caught completely off guard when everything starts to be revealed for what it truly is. The unraveling will force them into robotic compliance with the new authority structure.
If we look at what Trump is doing and not what he is saying, it sure looks like he is gearing up for some type of major new military operation, whether that be a ground assault on Iranian islands in the Persian Gulf or some other big surprise involving perhaps a new secret weapon.
Here’s the bottom line: Trump has become the poster child for the illegitimate use of military force. When have you ever heard a U.S. president use threatening words like, “I’ll bomb you back to the Stone Age”? Trump is openly talking about taking away, destroying, everything that sustains life in a 5,000-year-old civilization of nearly 100 million people. How can this possibly play to the benefit of the United States or the world?
And we say the Iranians are evil terrorists? The Russians and Chinese are evil? When have any of those countries’ top leaders made any threats approaching this level of destruction? This type of bullying from an ignorant and bombastic president suits the globalists’ purpose in destroying America as it rachets up hatred for America around the world, speeding up dedollarization and cooperation among nations that would like to get out from under the American yoke. It also facilitates anti-Christian and anti-Jewish sentiment.
After energy supplies dry up, food shortages will be next. “We’re staring at global famine now,” said Col. Douglas MacGregor in an April 2 interview with Judge Andrew Napolitano. “We could not bring Serbia to its knees after 78 days of relentless airstrikes…What he’s saying (to Iran) is we are going to hit anything and everything we can if you don’t submit to us.” (See entire interview below.)
Trump ran on a platform of peace and prosperity. He’s bringing worldwide destruction and economic misery. Everything he said about Iran in his April 1 speech could be applied to our own nation over the last couple of decades, certainly since the 2003 Iraq war. The U.S.-Israeli tag team has become a global death cult. Get in its way, and they will bomb you into the Stone Age, kill your school children, destroy your water, electrical and hospital system.
Our politicians have sold us out to foreign interests. Trump was supposed to be different. He’s failed us on every front. And now he’s sunk to a new low, even for him. He used a prime-time address to the nation to try to sell us on an unpopular and immoral foreign war. What I saw on that podium was a babbling, blood-lusting, vain fool - the alter ego of Lindsey Graham and other cartoonish politicians sold out to the military-industrial complex. What did you see?"
"Donald Trump’s Addled Speech on Iran"
"Donald Trump’s Addled Speech on Iran"
by Larry C. Johnson
"Wow! That was awful. Was Trump sedated? His monotone, delusional delivery reminded me of the character Dustin Hoffman played in Rainman. Trump plowed no new territory. Instead, he provided a Reader’s Digest summary of his recent Truth Social posts… i.e., Iran is defeated, the Iranian Navy and Air Force are destroyed, victory is ours, but we’re going to bomb the hell out of them over the next three weeks.
I am pretty sure that some on Wall Street will continue to delude themselves with the belief that this war is nearing an end and, once Trump declares the final victory in three weeks that he will order US troops to come home and the war will be over. Not a chance. During the next three weeks, Iran will continue to degrade and demolish the US bases and equipment that is in Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates. As long as Qatar does not allow combat aircraft to take off from Al Udeid, Iran will ignore it.
Prior to his speech, the market for oil futures had dropped significantly, with both WTI and BRENT falling below 100. After his speech, both surged back above 100, increasing 3.5% and 4.4% respectively. Trump’s speech failed to reassure the oil markets that the war would end anytime soon.
Trump did not back down from his previous threat to attack Iran’s power grid. If he does that, along with Israel, Iran will turn off the lights in Israel, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Bahrain and Kuwait. Iran’s ability to do this is a direct consequence of the depletion of the US air defense systems - i.e., the Patriot missile batteries and the THAAD. Iran also will retain its choke hold on the Strait of Hormuz - even if the US decides to try to put troops on Kharg Island or some other piece of Iranian territory.
Although the Saudis and the Emiraties are threatening to join the US and Israel by declaring war on Iran, both countries will face devastating economic pressures in the coming weeks… Especially the UAE. Dubai, once a glittering city filled with wealthy ex-pats and hookers, has become a ghost town. Its economy is frozen and shows no signs of thawing anytime soon."
Bill Bonner, "Liquidation Sale"
George Burns and Gracie Allen in ‘College Holiday'
"Liquidation Sale"
by Bill Bonner
Baltimore, Maryland - "Seeking Alpha: Foreign central bank holdings of Treasuries at the NY Fed at the lowest level since 2012. In simple dollars and cents terms, say goodnight, Gracie.(Few readers will recall the close of the George Burns-Gracie Allen show. That’s one of many overlooked nuisances of growing old; not many people know what you’re talking about. And then, you can’t remember either.)
The debt goes up. Interest payments go up. Lenders disappear. And there’s no way to bring the ‘debt spiral’ under control. Shanaka Anselm Perera: "BREAKING. The United States Treasury’s own consolidated financial statements for fiscal year 2025 report $6.06 trillion in total assets against $47.78 trillion in total liabilities. That is a negative net position of $41.72 trillion. And that number excludes Social Security and Medicare, which CBO projects add another $50 to $70 trillion in unfunded obligations over 30 years. Steve Hanke and David Walker wrote in Fortune on March 23 that these numbers constitute insolvency under any standard accounting framework...But the numbers are the Treasury’s own. They are published on Treasury.gov. They are audited. And they show a government whose liabilities exceed its assets by a ratio of nearly 8 to 1.
Now layer the war on top. Annual interest on the national debt reached $1.22 trillion in fiscal year 2025. That is more than the defense budget. More than Medicare. The war supplemental request for the Iran conflict exceeds $200 billion. The Federal Reserve cannot cut rates because Hormuz-driven energy inflation has pushed PCE to 2.7 percent and rising. Every basis point the Fed holds is a basis point that compounds against $39 trillion in gross debt. The war that was supposed to last weeks is now costing hundreds of billions while the borrowing cost of financing it rises with every barrel of oil that does not transit the strait. The arithmetic is circular and accelerating. The war spikes energy prices. Energy prices spike inflation. Inflation prevents rate cuts. Higher rates increase the cost of servicing $39 trillion in debt. Higher debt service costs expand the deficit. The expanded deficit requires more borrowing. The borrowing occurs at higher rates because the war is still running. The circle has no exit as long as the strait is closed."
This is why foreigners no longer want to hold US Treasuries; they don’t trust us to do the right thing. A nation deep in debt should be cutting back on its expenses, not increasing them. And a successful empire, late in the game, should be making friends and allies, not enemies.
An empire has to do two things in order to stay in business. It needs to provide security - not just for itself but for its vassal states as well. It also must nurture a financial system (with a solid currency) that allows people to produce and trade. If it can’t pay its bills, or keep the trade chokepoints open, what good is it?
On Monday (we were so sick yesterday...we couldn’t write), we focused on trading routes...and how the job of the empire is to keep them open.This leads us to a cluster of assumptions and guesses.
First, either our government is woefully ignorant of these things...or, more likely, ignorance is just a job qualification. Its real, historic mission is to weaken the empire. Intelligent, well-read leaders couldn’t do the job.
Second, the current policies and programs of the US government are a mixture of improv war and toxic chaos. The Strait of Hormuz was open. Now, it’s closed. POTUS says he will open it...then, he says it’s not his problem...and most recently, that he’ll end the war whether it is open or not. This is not exactly the strategic thinking that you’d expect from a great empire.
Third, the whole Trump team - or most of it - is hewn from scrub pine, not majestic oak. Hegseth’s character, for example, would be rejected by Marvel Comics as too much of a simpleton.
Bondi, meanwhile, should have her photo on a south Florida billboard: ‘Need a bond? Call Bondi!’ Trump himself, had his father not been one of the richest men in the outer boroughs, might have been a successful owner of a bar...or maybe a car rental franchisee.
Fourth, the original inspiration for the attack on Iran was said to be to obliterate its nuclear bomb program. It didn’t matter that Iran apparently had no nuclear program, according to international inspectors...nor that if it had, it had been obliterated last June...nor that it was actively negotiating in order to avoid getting bombed. Nor did it seem to occur to the Hegsethians that the more they bombed Iran the more Iran and every other nation in the world would want to get nuclear weapons to protect themselves from US bombing.
We don’t have an AK-47 at home. And there’s no battle-worthy tank in the back yard. We count on the feds to make these things unnecessary. Likewise, middle-level nations, who might be capable of making nuclear bombs, decided to spare themselves the expense. Instead, they trusted in the US - the great empire - to protect them...and along with the UN and other international institutions...to administer a system of rough justice among member states. Now they wonder: Can the US, its currency, its credit, or it military power really be trusted?"
"Most Americans Have 90 Days Left - And Layoffs Are Exploding"
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Dan, I Allegedly, 4/2/26
"Most Americans Have 90 Days Left -
And Layoffs Are Exploding"
"Most Americans are far closer to financial collapse than they realize - and the warning signs are everywhere. In this video, I break down the shocking reality that many households are just 90 days away from serious financial trouble if their income stops. With rising costs for housing, food, insurance, and debt, even a short disruption can trigger a financial free fall. This isn’t theory - it’s happening right now as more people fall behind on mortgages, credit cards, and everyday expenses. At the same time, massive layoffs are accelerating across multiple industries, including a reported 30,000+ job cuts at Oracle as companies shift toward automation and artificial intelligence. I also explain the key warning signs that your job could be at risk - from sudden changes in communication to reduced workloads and increased oversight. Add in restaurant closures, struggling industries like auto and entertainment, and a weakening economy, and you start to see the full picture. This is a critical breakdown of what’s happening right now - and what you need to watch for next."
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Adventures With Danno, "Incredible Sales At Kroger"
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Adventures With Danno, 4/2/26
"Incredible Sales At Kroger"
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"This Is Israel's Worst Nightmare"
COL. Lawrence Wilkerson, 4/1/26
"This Is Israel's Worst Nightmare"
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Wednesday, April 1, 2026
"Breaking News: Map Reveals Imminent WW3 Escalation, Russia Frantically Deploying Reserves To South"
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Canadian Prepper, 4/1/26
"Breaking News: Map Reveals Imminent WW3 Escalation,
Russia Frantically Deploying Reserves To South"
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"War May Be About to Widen Hugely"
"War May Be About to Widen Hugely"
by David Haggith
"I’m putting this headline/video right on top because this guy makes an awful lot of clear-headed, basic sense. If you get this in time, you can listen to it ahead of the president’s speech or read the editorial:
Now that the Houthis have joined the war and Iran has stated they are tasked with closing the Red Sea, this war could easily become a global catastrophe. We all know how easily this tiny group of dessert rats managed to shut down the Red Sea for all shipping traffic last year. Imagine that both sides of the Arabian peninsula now become shut down to shipping. Now you’re talking a loss of maybe 40% of oil supply being cut off and an enormous amount of other commercial shipping through the Suez Canal. At that point, which could begin tomorrow, following the president’s speech tonight, given that it happened in one day last year, we move from a prognosis of global recession to a full-on global depression.
With the help of Houthis, small as they are, Iran has the capacity to shut off a lot of lights around the world, putting large regions in the dark. Then how is NATO or Europe going to stay out of this? They’re not going to just sit and wait for their lights to come back on. At some point they will be pressed to greater involvement. Yet, the more they get involved in the Middle East, the more oil transportation and refining likely gets knocked out.
On top of that, the Pashtuns, the largest tribal group in the world - who live primarily in Pakistan, Afghanistan, India and Iran - have just offered to join the war as a jihad in Iran’s defense. While the tribal members in the video probably don’t speak officially for Pakistan, and its not possible to say if they even speak for the majority of Pashtuns, the Pashtuns are a large enough people group to have significant influence on official decisions in Pakistan and Afghanistan. Many high officials in both nations are Pashtun.
Pakistan has nukes. Whether they would use them or not, that certainly changes the calculus. Do these guys have enough influence, if things get desperate enough in Iran, to decide that now is the time to do with Pakistan’s nukes what Iran has been threatening? They could completely wipe Israel out.
That may still be reaching, so let’s say nukes stay out of the equation: You still have Iran, Hezbollah in Lebanon, the Houthi’s and now thousands of Pashtun soldiers united in jihad against Israel. Does anyone think that they will back down before they destroy Israel now that things have united them to this degree? So, is Trump going to get out and then just sit and watch Israel and his buddy Netanyahu get ripped to shreds without US help?
This war may abruptly go all-out world war if Trump, tonight, takes the next step he is threatening and begins a land invasion with troops on the turf. Russia is moving nuclear submarines into the gulf and has said that if a land invasion by the US takes place, they will defend Iran. Putin didn’t say Russia would use its nuclear weapons, but that is primarily what those subs are good for. China also said it is ready to deploy 100,000 troops into Iran, should the US launch a ground invasion.
All kinds of headlines whisper today that the president’s big speech tonight may be about starting a ground invasion. The president keeps talking both sides multiple times a day: He may do a ground invasion; he may pull out altogether. He could use the talk to claim he is now pulling out because of his big victory, leaving the region in total chaos with nothing resolved at all. Or we could plunge full on into the darkness world war tonight.
Trump may think he will pull out in two more weeks (the ultimate extent of his original deadline), but if the war leaps to that global level, it will go so wild he will have no idea what he is going to have to do. Maybe TACO in a hurry, still leaving utter chaos in a situation that has accomplished none of the original objectives he has mentioned. (See: “DEEPER LIES: Trump Displacement Syndrome Hits MAGA in Bitter Outrage over Betrayals.”)
Is confusion a plan? It could be. Let’s hope that what appears to be confusion on Trump’s part about what his objectives really are and what he’s going to do is just intentional chaos to keep Iranians disoriented and off balance, but that certainly doesn’t appear to be the case. He looks and sounds more like a loose canon firing off new objectives and denying old ones every minute. He looks like he suffers Trump derangement. Forget the syndrome. He looks and sounds deranged. Period. Maybe that’s just the plan - a broadening of “the weave” to keep the enemy confused. I doubt it.
We’ll see what Trump does tonight in his big special address to the nation. I doubt this is Armageddon yet, but it is sure a path that has the potential to get us there. I think there are a lot more events to come in between; so, this may just result in an absolutely chaotic Middle East that lays the ground for Armageddon down the road IF Trump pulls out tonight. But, boy, it has never looked so close.
By the way, today was Passover when God rescued Israel from Egypt. Is deliverance like happened with Egypt or like the Six-Day War with Egypt in our time still God’s plan? Or is Israel going to be taught that you cannot take and hold the Promised Land while continuing to reject its promised Prince of Peace? Hence, why he is called the “Prince of Peace.” Peace only come under his rule, and I certainly don’t mean that in any Christian Nationalist way."
"US Marines vs IRGC Navy"
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OPTM, 4/1/26
"US Marines vs IRGC Navy"
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OPTM, 4/1/26
"Russia's Kadyrov Just Did Something So
Out Of This World…Israel trapped in Iran"
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Musical Interlude: 2002, "The End of the Journey"
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2002, "The End of the Journey"
Amazingly beautiful...
"A Look to the Heavens'
"Braided, serpentine filaments of glowing gas suggest this nebula's popular name, The Medusa Nebula. Also known as Abell 21, this Medusa is an old planetary nebula some 1,500 light-years away in the constellation Gemini. Like its mythological namesake, the nebula is associated with a dramatic transformation.
The planetary nebula phase represents a final stage in the evolution of low mass stars like the sun, as they transform themselves from red giants to hot white dwarf stars and in the process shrug off their outer layers. Ultraviolet radiation from the hot star powers the nebular glow. The Medusa's transforming star is near the center of the overall bright crescent shape. In this deep telescopic view, fainter filaments clearly extend below and to the left of the bright crescent region. The Medusa Nebula is estimated to be over 4 light-years across.”
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