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Tuesday, April 21, 2026

Postponing the World’s Financial Winter - For How Long?, by Michael Hudson - The Unz Review

 Today’s world is threatened with a more economic kind of global collapse. Iran is defending itself against the prospect of U.S. and Israeli military attack by threatening to destroy OPEC’s oil and gas trade if its survival as a sovereign country is endangered.

“This threat is confronting the world with a fateful choice: Either countries will suffer a deep depression if Trump follows through on his threat to destroy Iran and seize its oil – in which case Iran’s retaliation will destroy OPEC’s energy trade on which many countries have become dependent – or they must actively move to prevent the U.S. attack.”


https://www.unz.com/mhudson/postponing-the-worlds-financial-winter-for-how-long/ 

What Do Pirates Eat? - Kwiatkowski

 https://www.lewrockwell.com/2026/04/karen-kwiatkowski/what-do-pirates-eat/ 


The US-Israel war on Iran is an air and naval onslaught of destruction, by the side that expected a few days of bombing would prevail against a country known for thousands of years as the place other empires go to die.  The “enemy” is a country filled with scientists, mathematicians, teachers and philosophers, in addition to being renown defenders of Islam and of Iran proper. While past and present US administrations were assaulting the Middle East and the rest of the world, riding on the fraying US dollar and a lot of political hot air, the Iranians were learning, studying, preparing.  It is a wise path for all of us, in a post-US imperial world.

The wars of Trump and Hegseth are however serving valuable purposes, despite the bloodshed, global economic strain, and waste of our national credibility.

First, as the Trump Squad actively destroys both US military capacity and command discipline, we Americans will have an unparalleled shot at truly altering the composition and design of the US military from an unaffordable expeditionary colonial force to a defensive people’s army.  The new composition will be designed, in part by those Trump is currently failing to rescue, arm and feed right now.  In other words, the new Pentagon will be able to pass audits, and its budget and its mission will be spare and tight.The Natural DMSO Heali...Quinn, AverlyCheck Amazon for Pricing.

Second, Trump’s wars, and his social media presence, is forcing the very decentralization of global power and finance he fears. His systematic attacks on and seizures of global oil production, and intended control of waterways and military markets are all aimed at preserving dollar dominance, in a world that knows better.  The dollar era is over. Trump is inadvertently sharing this news with the world by the minute.

Third, future war with China is unlikely, rather than imminent. The current and future condition of the US – its overweening and expensive bureaucracy, impossible-to-pay national debt, and massively consumer-oriented economy – means we need China and we like China, notwithstanding the latest National Security Strategy.

Fourth, Israel as the cheerleader and contriver of regional wars, is now seen by most Americans as a danger to the US, a lying murderous country that expects support that it refuses to earn.  What Israel has done and is continuing in Gaza, and now in southern Lebanon, is criminal devastation funded by an unpopular president and more unpopular US Congress.   It is inevitable that Israel will be cut loose from both US politics and military co-dependency in coming years. As things get worse for the average American, he and she will seek savings and scapegoats, and treating Israel like every other ignoble country we deal with gives a lot of bang for that buck. Netanyahu and Trump deserve an award for doing what no previous President and Prime Minister could do – and even a well-timed assassination here or there will not change the future in this regard.

I’m still concerned about what our pirates will eat, until Trump channels Vizzini, and realizes his dream of US and Israeli empire in Asia is a dead end.  I’m thinking that raid of the cargo ship seized off the Coast of Oman will be focused on edibles and drink, and they will find very little.

Someone wrote a book on what the Buccaneers of America ate back in 1678.  It might be a good read for what is left of our Navy leadership in its new role as global buccaneer.  And we already know what the DC pirates eat – shorts bought 20 minutes before the next Trump tweet.

The Consequences of Incompetence - Real Scott Ritter

https://scottritter.substack.com/p/the-consequences-of-incompetence 


The US and Israel launched a surprise attack against Iran using the full strength of their respective air forces.

And they failed.

Today, Iran stands ready to receive a combined US-Israeli strike which will match, but not exceed, the destructive power of those initial attacks.

And Iran will respond with missile and drone attacks which will exceed by an order of magnitude the targeted destruction of its previous retaliatory strikes.

The US and Israel launched a surprise attack against Iran using the full strength of their respective air forces.


And they failed.


Today, Iran stands ready to receive a combined US-Israeli strike which will match, but not exceed, the destructive power of those initial attacks.


And Iran will respond with missile and drone attacks which will exceed by an order of magnitude the targeted destruction of its previous retaliatory strikes.


Iran will change the cycle of escalation by going straight for the jugular.


And Trump won’t know what hit him.


The consequences of incompetence are real.


Something Trump and the American people are about to find out in real time should the US go forward with the threats to resume bombing Iran in the next few days.

Desperation in Defeat - Vox Popoli

 Clown World appears to be losing any sense of perspective as its grasp on global power continues to slip away. None of these reports can be considered highly reliable, but there do appear to be some signs that we may be on the verge of finding out if nukes are real or not.

  1. In the last 24 hours, the U.S. military blasted out nearly 100 Emergency Action Messages (EAM’s) on its High-Frequency Global Communications System (HFGCS). These are the encrypted orders sent to nuclear submarines, strategic bombers, and missile launch crews. On a normal day, you get about 10. The Pentagon has issued ZERO public statement.......

https://voxday.net/2026/04/21/desperation-in-defeat/ 
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  1. On Saturday night, US Joint Chiefs of Staff Air Force general Dan Caine stormed out of an emergency meeting with Trump. Insiders indicate that Trump wanted to evoke the nuclear codes as a deterrence against Iran during the ceasefire talks in Islamabad. But General Caine refused and invoked the US Uniform Code of Military Justice, the UCMJ, claiming specifically Article 92, covering Failure to Obey. Inside the military we call that the “duty to refuse” clause, that if given an unlawful order, we have a duty to refuse… Apparently, the Joint Chiefs of Staff went ahead and invoked the Article 92 clause.
  2. The US military has abandoned its last base in Syria and Russian warships are now docking in Syria.

Could be legit, could be cover for invoking the removal of the Short Fat Trump, could be both, or it could be fake. Either way, things do appear to be moving toward some kind of short-term resolution in the next month.

Why Diet Is the Foundation of The Metabolic Approach to Cancer

 The dietary foundation is not an “adjunct” to the metabolic protocol—it is the central pillar that determines whether the rest of the strategy works or fails.

At its core, the multi-axis framework is designed to impose coordinated metabolic stress on the tumor: lowering glucose availability, suppressing insulin/IGF-1 signaling, activating AMPK, inhibiting mTOR, and destabilizing mitochondrial function. A high-carbohydrate diet directly counteracts each of these mechanisms.

Trump, Sanity, and Obedience - Ed Curtin

 It takes a system to wage war, and civil and military obedience to support it. That system – what former CIA analyst Ray McGovern has adroitly named MICIMATT: The Military-Industrial-Congressional-Intelligence-Media-Academia-Think-Tank system – is so deeply woven into American society and therefore the hearts and minds of its citizens and military personnel that one can only hope against hope that Trump’s orders will be disobeyed by many. It is a desperate hope, I realize....


....‘What has happened to the country that we love?’ But how many look in the mirror and ask, “Am I a guilty bystander or an active supporter of the United States’ immoral and illegal wars all around the world that have been going on for so many years under presidents of both parties and have no end? Do I support the new cold war with its push for nuclear war with its first strike policy? Do I support, by my silence, a nuclear holocaust?’

The questions still linger. Let Thomas Merton and the twenty-two years-old Bob Dylan have the last words:

For since man has decided to occupy the place of God he has shown himself to be by far the blindest, and cruelest, and pettiest and most ridiculous of all the false gods. We can call ourselves innocent only if we refuse to forget this, and if we also do everything we can to make others realize it.

Why Did the Government Lie About the COVID Vaccines?

 Story at a Glance:


•Like many vaccines before it, the safety and efficacy of the COVID vaccine was oversold to the public to create the vaccine program.

•As more and more issues emerged with the vaccine, rather than acknowledge them or change course, the government, media and medical press chose to hide all of it to protect the vaccine program.

•Because of this, there has been a profound loss of trust in the medical system never seen before in history, and as extensive polling shows, vaccines have gone from being something almost all of the public blindly supports to something a majority of Americans are skeptical of.

•Senator Johnson, who since 2020 has been relentlessly fighting for COVID transparency and accountability recently obtained records proving beyond a shadow of a doubt that the CDC and FDA were aware the COVID vaccines were causing myocarditis and strokes but nonetheless concealed this from the public to continue pushing vaccines.

•This article will present exactly what Johnson uncovered, the extensive polling data which shows the unprecedented loss of trust in the medical system and explore how we can best make use of the unique moment we have arrived at.

https://www.midwesterndoctor.com/p/why-did-the-government-lie-about?publication_id=748806&utm_campaign=email-post-title&r=y7h5a&utm_medium=email 

I'm Sorry Does Not Cut It - Denninger

 I demand executions -- after trials, of course, with all who did this and deliberately concealed it at the time subject to same.

Further, every medical so-called "professional" who lied, with knowledge of same, must be stripped of every penny they have and imprisoned.  No exceptions, no apologies, and Pfizer must be destroyed with every bit of their market cap rendered worthless.

Vital safety checks were not carried out on Covid vaccines before they were rolled out to millions, Germany’s pandemic inquiry has heard.

A former chief toxicologist for Pfizer said the mRNA jabs were not checked for any cancer causing properties “due to time constraints” which he said is “regrettable.”

Nor were proper checks done on its impact on pregnancy, the inquiry was told.

"Regrettable"?

Has Christianity become “Socially irrelevant, even if privately engaging”? - The American Vision

 Over time, Christianity ceased to be a comprehensive, world-changing religion. “[W]here religion still survives in the modern world, no matter how passionate or ‘committed’ the individual may be, it amounts to little more than a private preference, a spare-time hobby, a leisure pursuit.”[8] Theodore Roszak used an apt phrase to describe much of modern-day Christendom: “Socially irrelevant, even if privately engaging.”[9]

The advance of Islam in our day has taken place because of Christianity’s privatized religion and the advance of secularism. Religion, like nature, abhors a vacuum. G.K. Chesterton observed that when people cease to believe in God, they do not end up believing in nothing; they end up believing in anything, no matter how absurd.

The World Inside the World - Vox Popoli

 This is a really excellent post on the reality of the hidden aspect of human history. I’ll be posting at least one more link to another part of the post tomorrow:

Father Chad Ripperger describes how demons besiege the imagination and emotions to such a degree that the person cannot think outside the perceptual box that has colonized them. He calls this obsession in the clinical, theological sense. The person is not fully possessed. They function. They hold jobs. They make decisions. They simply cannot perceive anything outside the boundaries the besieging force has constructed around them. He has observed, publicly, that this pattern is identical to the psychology of ideological movements. He has said that when you strip the veneer away, communism and diabolic psychology operate on the same structural logic.

Now consider a different kind of morphing.

Watch a college freshman arrive at an elite university in September. Watch them again in June. The vocal fry has set in. The upswing at the end of declarative sentences, turning statements into questions. The flattened affect. The identical vocabulary deployed across thousands of individuals who believe themselves to be independent thinkers.

They did not choose this. It overtook them.

By the time they reach Silicon Valley, the morphing is complete. They speak as one voice. They believe they arrived at their opinions independently. Listen to the way Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI, speaks. The measured cadence. The pauses calibrated to signal thoughtfulness. The vocal register that never rises and never breaks. It is the voice of a system, not a person.....


https://voxday.net/2026/04/18/the-world-inside-the-world/ 

....Ripperger describes the same dynamic from the exorcism room: demons, he says, put a perspective on your imagination. They alter how you perceive a person, a situation, a reality. The thing itself has not changed. Your perception of it has been replaced. He says this is how demons destroy marriages, careers, and institutions. They do not change the facts. They change how the possessed person sees the facts.

This is why it is very important to not only devote yourself to speaking the truth to the greatest extent possible, but also knowing your own mind. I once had what I am certain was a demonic dream, because not only were the dream-thoughts definitely not my own, but the characterizations of other people in the dream were intrinsically false and fundamentally different than what I absolutely know to be my true perspective on them. It was scripted to attempt to influence my thinking in a destructive direction, and the temptations offered were not of a sort that even appealed to me.

It was rather like seeing an email and immediately recognizing it to be spam. What the false non-science of modern psychology calls “the subconscious” is actually made up of several elements, and one of them is the pathway with which spirits, both good and evil, communicate with the mind.

And, of course, it’s even more important to avoid doing the sorts of things that open up one’s mind to alien influences. Keep those doors resolutely shut, and even if your personal weaknesses lead to you repeatedly open them again and again, never tire of going back and shutting them, every single time.

Science is considerably more fake than genuine. And history is considerably deeper and darker than is generally acknowledged. And not every individual with whom you speak is speaking for himself.

Are World Leaders Possessed? The Ancient Technology of Demonic Transfer

 This week, Tucker Carlson called the President of the United States the Antichrist on his podcast. The Vatican hosted the International Association of Exorcists, who warned Pope Leo XIV of a global surge in Satanism and formally requested a trained exorcist in every Catholic diocese on earth. Father Chad Ripperger, one of the most prominent demonologists in the modern Church, has been describing the specific mechanics of how demonic influence operates through institutions and individuals.

Is it possible that world leaders are operating under the influence of an ancient demonic force? I have spent over a decade researching exactly this. I wrote a book about it. The answer is more disturbing than the question, because the ancient world did not merely describe possession. They built infrastructure for it. They named it. They classified its stages. They identified the methods of induction, the patterns of institutional spread, and the vulnerability of those closest to power.

This piece traces that infrastructure from the temples of Sumer to the Roman imperial court to the Vatican’s operational taxonomy of demonic influence, and into the halls of modern government. Along the way, you will learn why the word “idea” describes something that owns you rather than something you own, and what the Catholic Church has quietly identified as an emergency in 2026.

Full text:
https://drheatherlynn.substack.com/p/are-world-leaders-possessed-the-ancient 

Saturday, April 18, 2026

Marjorie Taylor Greene Exposes the Jewish Billionaire Trio Backing Thomas Massie’s Primary Challenger, by Jose Alberto Nino - The Unz Review

 May 19, 2026 will deliver the most honest test we have seen. Israel’s ethnic cleansing campaign in Gaza, which the entire world saw via livestream, may have finally produced a growing anti-Zionist current among Republican voters in the United States. The question is whether the growing anti-Zionist sentiment can stand against Jewish billionaire money. Should Massie lose, the defeat will expose a brutal truth: American politics functions as a Jewish oligarch playground where elections are mere theater.


https://www.unz.com/jnino/marjorie-taylor-greene-exposes-the-jewish-billionaire-trio-backing-thomas-massies-primary-challenger/ 

10 Essential Barter Items When the Grid Goes Dark

 


Imagine waking up one morning and everything is… silent.

No hum of electricity. No glowing screens. No running water. No way to pay, no way to call for help, no way to rely on the systems that quietly hold modern life together.

At first, people would assume it’s temporary. A few hours. Maybe a day.

But then the days stretch on.

Gas stations stop working. Grocery store shelves empty within hours. ATMs become useless boxes. Law enforcement is stretched thin. Fear begins to spread faster than any virus ever could.

And then comes the shift — the moment when people realize money no longer means anything.

Because in a world without infrastructure, cash is just paper.

That’s when humanity reverts to something far older, far more primal:

Barter.

https://madgewaggy.blogspot.com/2026/04/10-essential-barter-items-when-grid.html?m=1

Trump Pushes Fantasy about Iran, Hormuz and Enriched Uranium - Johnson

 Trump’s flurry of messaging was primarily directed at manipulating the stock and oil markets. He succeeded, with the US stock market soaring while the future price of oil fell significantly. Investors foolishly believed that Trump was telling the truth. He was not… He lied.


https://larrycjohnson.substack.com/p/trump-pushes-fantasy-about-iran-hormuz