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link2source – Don’t Let the Drums of War and Asset Liquidation Make You Panic Sell Your Gold | Peter Carlin. – maneco64 @ maneco64 ***Corellation: Symbiotic relationship between gold and oil at trading desks. ** We are coming down in the price of gold. * 03-23-2026 * The Arab oil in the ground has been ‘mitigated.’ – The Arab oil resource is still there and crucial, but its power to single‑handedly dictate terms to the rest of the world has been partially mitigated by infrastructure, diversification, and the early stages of the energy transition. – link2-PERPLEXITY-AI * Prognosticating the outcome of the war in the Strait of Hormuz is impossible: – link2PERPLEXITY-AI – The closure or partial closure of Hormuz is already a fact on the ground, with mines, missile threats, and tanker attacks making normal traffic impossible or prohibitively risky. *
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link2source – Iran War: Why Gold DROPPED & Hidden Rotation to Foreign Stocks & Value Plays – Markets with Christian White @ Markets with Christian
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link2source – The Vile Piece Of Trash – He Ruined Millions Of Lives Just To Line His Own Pockets – Better Bachelor @ Better Bachelor
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link2source – Iran War Day 24: Market Manipulation Monday – Lift the Veil @ Lift the Veil-411 **-** Is this a strategic de-escalation or the greatest market pump-and-dump in history? On Day 24 of Operation Epic Fury, President Trump has officially blinked—or has he? *** Energy Markets and Oil Futures Contracts – – link2-PERPLEXITY-AI – Oil and refined products have spiked sharply since Operation Epic Fury began, but front‑month futures are now whipsawing on war headlines and ceasefire talk while the curve stays tight and elevated. – Brent is around the low‑$100s per barrel (about $101–102), up nearly $30 year‑on‑year and sharply above levels from a month ago.
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Tertön in Tibetan Buddhism – link2-PERPLEXITY-AI – In Tibetan Buddhism, a tertön is a visionary master who discovers “treasures” (terma) — hidden teachings, texts, or sacred objects — that were concealed in the past to be revealed at an appropriate later time for the benefit of beings. -*- link2-YOUTUBE –
History of Tertöns and Termas – Norbu @ norbu77
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link2source – Take Hormuz, control China. Bolton demands Europe fight two-front war. Iran missile false flag? – Alex Christoforou @ Alex Christoforou
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link2source – FAKE DEAL ANNOUNCED ABOUT IRAN TO MANIPULATE STOCK MARKET – MARKETS WERE GOING TO TANK THIS MORNING – jeremiah babe @ jeremiahbabe9308 *** Don’t fall for the paper-gold fall in price. ** Everything is NOT O.K. *
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link2source – Iranian Revolution Yet Again Exposed As Israeli Plot As Trump Played By Israel – Pirate Vagabond @ Pirate Vagabonds
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link2-x – JUST IN: Explosion reported at Valero refinery in Port Arthur, Texas. Nearby residents told to shelter in place – 7:28 PM · Mar 23, 2026 -*-
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link2source – Paul Craig Roberts: Everything Trump Promised About Iran Just Fell Apart – Larry Sparano @ larrysparano87 *** Iran did fire two long‑range ballistic missiles toward the US‑UK base on Diego Garcia, but both failed to hit the island and there are no reports of damage or casualties. – link2-PERPLEXITY-AI – In the early hours of Friday (around 20–21 March 2026), Iran launched two intermediate‑ or long‑range ballistic missiles toward Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean, a key joint US‑UK base roughly 4,000 km from Iran. – Diego Garcia is a small atoll in the central Indian Ocean whose history runs from late‑18th‑century plantations to today’s major US‑UK military base, with a central controversy over the forced removal of its native population. — Mark Edward Kelly is a retired NASA astronaut, former U.S. Navy combat pilot, and currently the senior U.S. Senator from Arizona. – link2-PERPLEXITY-AI – Under U.S. military law, troops have a legal duty to obey lawful orders and a legal duty to refuse clearly unlawful ones.
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link2source – OnlyFans & Radvinsky’s Death, Air Canada Crash, China Developing Africa – V the Guerrilla 3/23/2026 – ESW | RogueNews @ Rogue News *** Money Laundering & Human Trafficking ** Leonid (Leo) Radvinsky, the billionaire owner of OnlyFans, has died at the age of 43 after a prolonged battle with cancer. – link2-PERPLEXITY-AI *
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What do oil futures contract prices suggest about the future of the war in the Strait of Hormuz? – link2-PERPLEXITY-AI – In the parts of the curve where commercial players are actually hedging (say 6–36 months out), prices and vols say they are paying up a lot for short‑term insurance but are much less willing to pay for multi‑year “this stays broken” protection. – link – trading economics DOT com – commodity – brent crude oil
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link2-x – NYC: The Islamic Marxist ruler of New York City has been leading the city’s male population in prayer almost daily. Muslim men take over public spaces and not only exclude non-Muslims but also ALL women. This is illegal. – x.com/amuse
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loosely defining- an approximate, imprecise and abject “Imbroglio”
We Dine on the Next Course!
Tangled dispute;
Altercation leading to;
Astringent, but then;
And again, purported;
Treason, an offense;
The matter in question, presented resoundingly;
Senate hearing clear as a bell;
Betraying of one’s country;
My countrymen, I implore you!
And aiding, abetting inuring enemies;
To wit, Conduct, unbecoming to that benefit;
To inure to;
Drowns us in amply supplied Rule-of-Law;
The classics tossed, Roman law.
We Dine on the Next Course! – by James Legare – 3-23-26
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link2source – “What does it mean to WIN?” – Legal justification for the regime. – Anglosphere – link – a loosely defined grouping of English‑speaking countries, usually centered on the US, UK, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, that share deep cultural, legal, political, and security ties. – the English language and cultural values predominate. – Identity Politics (Ep. 94): Time For A Caudillo (w/ Joey Oliver) – Identity Politics @ Identity Politics -*- link – legislating from the bench – a political phrase used to accuse judges of going beyond interpreting law and instead effectively making new law based. ** Managed Decline (of the system) ***
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Bukele Model confronts organized crime – link -*- Who is Bukele in El Salvador? – Nayib Bukele is the president of El Salvador, a Salvadoran politician and businessman who first took office in 2019 after breaking the country’s traditional two‑party dominance. -*- La Raza Cosmica – La raza cósmica is a 1925 essay by Mexican philosopher José Vasconcelos that imagines a future “fifth race” created by the mixing of all existing races in the Americas, especially through Latin American mestizaje. He presents this cosmic race as a spiritual and cultural vanguard that would someday lead humanity beyond existing racial divisions, opposing Anglo‑Saxon ideas of racial purity but still relying on hierarchical, often explicitly racist descriptions of different groups. – link – La raza cósmica – an agglomeration of all the races in the world with no respect to color or number to erect a new civilization: Universópolis
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link2source – Salton Sea restoration proposal. – Eric Hanscom (ICIP) @ Eric Hanscomdronelaw
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El Salvador‘s approval of life sentences despite human rights concerns – link – El Salvador’s Congress has approved a constitutional reform to allow life sentences for certain serious crimes, deepening an already hard‑line security model that human rights organizations say is riddled with abuses. – link – El Salvador reforms constitution to allow for life sentences – March 17, 2026 – El Salvador’s Congress on Tuesday approved a constitutional amendment to allow for life sentences for charges including murder, rape, and terrorism, as the government of President Nayib Bukele continues its crackdown on the country’s criminal gangs.
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link2source – America’s BIGGEST Bridge Rebuild Of The Century Just Got Way More Complicated! – Breaking Ground @ breaking -ground 2025 *** Some things cannot be rushed. ***
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link2source – What Trump Doesn’t Want You to Know About the U.S-Iran War – ProfSteveKeen @ prof steve keen
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link2source – Trump’s Iran Ultimatum – This is the end. It is ending. (This regarding the U.S.) – Vaush @ Vaush
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link2source – TRUMP’S Ultimatum, IRAN’S Response, & The CONSEQUENCES For The WORLD – Frank Vaughan @ Frank Vaughan *** Crimes Against Humanity ***
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link2source – Dave Collum | The Ticking Time Bomb Of Hyperfinancialization & How The Middle East Could Spiral – Kontrarian Korner @ Kontrarian Korner
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link2source – Sun March 22, 2026 Financial Markets update. War, Hormuz, Oil, Dollar, stocks, gold, silver, miners. – The Real Channel – Clive Thompson @ clivethompson -jc9my
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link2source – Collapse Has Started – GET OUT Of System NOW | Bill Holter – Boots-on-the-ground, no-nonsense approach. – The “Great Unwinding.” – A large-scale processes of deleveraging, withdrawal, or structural reversal after a period of buildup or distortion. – link2-PERPLEXITY-AI – Debt and leverage: In macro/debt‑cycle language close to Dalio, “unwinding” is the painful part of the cycle where excessive credit, mispriced risk, and asset bubbles are forced to reverse through deleveraging and re‑pricing. – link – acquirersmultiple DOT com — Ray Dalio: Bubbles, Busts and Beautiful Deleveraging.
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“They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for ones country. But in modern war there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason.” – link2-PERPLEXITY-AI – That passage is by Ernest Hemingway, from his 1935 Esquire article “Notes on the Next War.” (a September 1935 Esquire essay in which Ernest Hemingway predicts another European war and warns Americans against being drawn into it.) – link – goodreads DOT com — 53151 -*- Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori – “It is sweet and fitting to die for one’s country.” – from the Roman poet Horace. – link – — grassroots motor sports DOT com – forum – Off Topic Discussion: Notes on the Next War —
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link2source – David Morgan EXPOSES: Iran War, Global Famine & What They Don’t Want You to Know – Markets with Christian White @ Markets with Christian
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link2source – U.S. Is Pushing the Pacific Ocean into California to Create an Inland Sea in the Desert – Fresh Tech @ freshtech _video
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link2source – AMERICA UN-SANCTIONS IRANIAN OIL, CEDES CONTROL OF THE GULF – Vaush @ Vaush
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link2source – Oil Will “Sail” Past $230 | Rory Johnston on Why Iran War Has”Terrified” The Oil Market – The Monetary Matters Network @ Monetary -Matters
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link2-Stew-Peters-X – Thousands of young American men are being sent to certain death as a blood sacrifice to Greater Israel.
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link2source – War, Gold, and the Fed’s Next Move | Mark Thornton – misesmedia @ misesmedia
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link2source – RUBIO vs. Gavin Newsom! – 2028 Presidential Election Prediction (March 2026) – Red Eagle Politics @ RedEaglePolitics
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link2source – Iran War Escalates: Why Simon Hunt Says 2026–2028 Could Trigger Global Depression & World War – Markets with Christian White @ Markets with Christian – Trourism collapses in Dubai as a result of war.
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Press your tungsten to the sky; All the while emotional high!
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Absence (or is it Absinthe) makes the heart grow fonder. – Don’t let dreams founder on the Rockies; By the bye, lettuce, rye, Bitterroots. – Keep trucking those emerald, pearls; coals to New Castle, Whitehall George and Michael Burns. – George and Michael Burns, by James Legare 3-21-2026
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Consider how quickly a recent purchase goes from treasure to clutter. – link2-PERPLEXITY-AI – Hedonic adaptation: We quickly get used to new things, so the emotional “high” of a purchase fades. – Define Hedonic – “Hedonic” means relating to pleasure. – Hedonic vs eudaimonic wellbeing – Hedonic wellbeing: Focuses on pleasure, comfort, enjoyment, and the absence of pain or distress – Eudaimonic wellbeing: Focuses on meaning, virtue, self-realization, and living in line with one’s values.
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link2source – The war on Iran continues, commodity prices continue higher. AIA Weekly Report 3.21.26 – John Polomny @ ActionableIntelligenceAlert – liquidity and sentiment are what drives markets – link2-PERPLEXITY-AI – These are two of the dominant proximate drivers of market prices and short‑ to medium‑term dynamics, even though fundamentals anchor things over longer horizons. – High liquidity → lower transaction costs. –
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link2source – Iran war a “long-term strategy with transformation outcome.?” – $8 Gas. Oil Cut Off. Has Trump’s Iran Gamble Backfired? – Petroleum laundering? – Dad Saves America @ DadSavesAmerica
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link2source – PUTIN-TRUMP quid pro quo FAKE. IRAN aims for DIEGO GARCIA. US, 5 WAR objectives. NATO Paper Tiger – Alex Christoforou @ Alex Christoforou
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link2source – How the U.S. Pumps Billion Tons of Seawater From Mexico Through Giant Pipelines Into Dry Arizona – WATOP @ WATOP_VIDEO
The giant straw that produces the sucking sound turns the inner sea bordering Mexico into a salt-march slag-heap slurry.
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link2source – FORD Blasts GUN GRAB FAIL As The WAR ESCALATES – Frank Vaughan @ Frank Vaughan
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link2source – SILVER and GOLD Plummet $3 TRILLION | FED Created Economic Depression – Real Estate Mindset @ real estate mindset
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link2source – Hormuz Quagmire /Lt Col Daniel Davis & Scott Horton – Daniel Davis / Deep Dive @ Daniel Davis Deep Dive
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link2source – FED HOLDS RATES- THE TRAP IS NOW SET – Ox Talks @ oxtalks
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“It takes money to kill bad guys.” – link2source – “We are still dealing with the environment that Joe Biden created.” (RE: Munitions) – BLAME GAME, Trump & Israel. RAMP UP money & troops for Iran War. RUSSIAN ships to CUBA – Alex Christoforou @ Alex Christoforou
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link2source – fmr CIA Analyst Larry Johnson LIVE Today 12:00p est – Daniel Davis / Deep Dive @ Daniel Davis Deep Dive
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Pandemonium – link2-PERPLEXITY-AI – Pandemonium means a state of wild uproar, noise, and chaotic confusion, often involving a crowd that is excited, angry, or frightened. It can also refer, in a literary and theological sense, to the capital of Hell in John Milton’s Paradise Lost, where the name was coined from Greek roots meaning essentially “all demons.” – link – merriam-webster DOT com — pandemonium – the capital of Hell in Milton’s Paradise Lost *-*- link2source – TSA Workers Not Getting Paid – TSA Agents Are Quitting EVERYWHERE – Here’s Why – Michael Bordenaro @ Michael Bordenaro *** TSA agents (Transportation Security Officers) are federal employees who screen passengers, baggage, and cargo at airports to keep weapons, explosives, and other prohibited items off planes. – link2-PERPLEXITY-AI -*- link – Transportation Security Officer (TSOs) and Security Support Assistants (SSAs) are the face of the agency, the people on the front lines who play an important role at TSA.
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How do the demons construct Pandæmonium so quickly? – link2-PERPLEXITY-AI – In Paradise Lost the demons construct Pandæmonium almost instantaneously because they still retain their superhuman angelic powers, especially over matter and fire, even after the Fall.
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link2source – John Haller – Fiery Debate with Tony on the Iran War. Important. Must Hear! – aminutetomidnite @ aminutetomidnite2406 *** The West Invaded by Islam. * There are powerful interests who want to collapse the economy. ***
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link2source – Israel U.S.A War on Gas Oil Consumers & Fukushima 15 Years of Radioactive Fallout Extinction Event – Environmentalist Dana Durnford @ DanaDurnford1
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link2source – Lawrence Lepard: War Means Much Higher Inflation and $15,000 Gold – Competent Man Podcast – Tom Bodrovics @ CompetentManPod
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link2source – OIL & GAS FIELDS BURN As GABBARD Torpedoes TRUMP’S WAR JUSTIFICATION – Frank Vaughan @ Frank Vaughan
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link2source – SILVER and GOLD TANK | AIRPORT: 60,000 Unpaid TSA Agents – Real Estate Mindset @ real estate mindset
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link2source – GAS PLANTS HIT, NEW DHS PICK LOSES HIS MIND DURING HEARING, TRUMP MULLS ABANDONING PERSIAN GULF &MOR – Vaush @ Vaush *** Inflation Numbers Bad (from before the War with Iran) *** recent attacks or damage to energy or gas infrastructure in the context of the wider Iran–Israel conflict – Israel struck Iran’s giant South Pars gas field, a core source of Iranian gas (shared with Qatar), prompting Iran to warn that Gulf energy assets are now “legitimate targets.” – Iran responded with drone and missile attacks on regional infrastructure, including: the Shah gas field in the UAE (operations suspended after a large fire), Iraq’s Majnoon oil field, and a major Emirati port facility. – link2-PERPLEXITY-AI – *** Iraq’s Majnoon oil field is one of the world’s largest onshore oil fields and has been the target of several Iranian-linked drone attacks during the current U.S.–Israel–Iran war, though so far without reported damage to production facilities. – link –
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link2source – THE STRAIT OF HORMUZ CRISIS IS JUST THE BEGINNING | Anas Alhajji – Pyotr Kurzin | Geopolitics @ PKurzin
link2source – Trump did not have a ‘Plan B’. – Trump Has No Idea What He’s Doing in Iran | Trita Parsi – Pyotr Kurzin | Geopolitics @ PKurzin
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link2source – The most successful act of the political left in recent memory. – Identity Politics (Ep. 93): Antifa SHUT DOWN (w/ C. Jay Engel) – Charlie Kirk Assassination – link – On September 10, 2025, Charlie Kirk, an American right-wing political activist, was assassinated at Utah Valley University in Orem, Utah, while speaking at an outdoor campus debate planned by Turning Point USA, the conservative youth organization he co-founded and led. Kirk, aged 31, was a close ally of US president Donald Trump and a highly influential figure in the MAGA movement. *** – Fort Worth Texas Antifa Conviction of Federal Charges for Terrorism, ICE-Facility Ambush – link2-PERPLEXITY-AI – A federal jury in Fort Worth has convicted nine people linked by prosecutors to a North Texas “Antifa cell” for a July 4, 2025 ambush-style attack on the Prairieland ICE Detention Center near Alvarado, south of Fort Worth. – link – Antifa Cell Members Convicted in Prairieland ICE Detention Center Shooting. * Civil‑liberties critics note this is the first federal terrorism case explicitly targeting alleged Antifa supporters, and see it as a test of how far the Trump administration’s domestic terrorism framework can go. **
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link2source – Iran War & Global Energy Markets /Lt Col Daniel Davis & Steve Jermy – Daniel Davis / Deep Dive @ DanielDavisDeepDive
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link2source – A Violent Process – 6 Fingers and Secret Bunkers: The Netanyahu Conspiracy Explained – Kelleran’s Korner 3/17/2026 – Eastern European Slavic Peoples and their connection to the land. – ESW | RogueNews @ Rogue News – The Occult Symbolism of “The Wall.”
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link2source – WHY DID WE REALLY BOMB IRAN? – WE AREN’T GOING BACK TO NORMAL TIMES – jeremiah babe @ jeremiah babe9308
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link2source – Globally Everyone Is Jumping The U.S. Ship As Even Washington Realises Iran War Is A Bridge Too Far – The Sirius Report @ the sirius report
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link2source – TRUMP: Housing Market Emergency – Real Estate Mindset @ realestatemindset
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link2source – The Real Agenda in the Middle East- Dave Collum and Bob Moriarty – Michael Farris (Coffee and a Mike) @ Coffeeandamike
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link2-PERPLEXITY-AI – tibetan book of the dead – The Tibetan Book of the Dead is a Tibetan Buddhist funerary text meant to be read aloud to the dying and the recently deceased to guide consciousness through the process of death and rebirth. – link – The Bardo Thodol — bar do thos grol, ‘Liberation through hearing during the intermediate state’), commonly known in the West as The Tibetan Book of the Dead, is a terma text from a larger corpus of teachings, the Profound Dharma of Self-Liberation through the Intention of the Peaceful and Wrathful Ones, revealed by Karma Lingpa (1326–1386). It is the best-known work of Nyingma literature. In 1927, the text was one of the first examples of both Tibetan and Vajrayana literature to be translated into a European language and arguably continues to this day to be the best known.
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link2source – AMERICA FIRST Buried BY ISRAEL In MIDDLE EASTERN SAND – Frank Vaughan @ FrankVaughan
link2source – Prof. John Mearsheimer : Iran’s Patient Strategy Undermines Trump – Judge Napolitano – Judging Freedom @ judging freedom
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link2source – “HOUSING IMPLOSION”… New Yorkers REVOLT as “Socialist” Mamdani STEALS THEIR HOMES – Cash Jordan @ Cash Jordan
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link2source – US Gets Smashed. Irrecoverable Losses. Trump/Hegseth Panik | Stanislav Krapivnik – Neutrality Studies @ neutrality studies *** Longer, and more babbling posts issued from the Trumpian White House (as the words get simpler, the vocabulary decreases). The style of governance, ideology, and culture associated with Donald Trump’s presidencies evolves with the increasing desperation à la Iran. – Neutrality Studies @ neutrality studies
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link2source – SILVER’S ENDGAME | Private Credit Catastrophe | Crypto WARNING – Real Estate Mindset @ realestatemindset *** Invest in yourself. ***
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link2source – Yes Benjamin Netanyahu is Dead & After 15 Years of Fukushima Nuclear Fallout Earth is Now Dying Too – Environmentalist Dana Durnford @ DanaDurnford1 *** The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear accident began on March 11, 2011. ***
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link2source – HOOVER DAM Loses 30% Power — 176-Foot Drop EXPOSES Southwest Water Crisis! – Lorenzo’s Disaster Forecast @ Lorenzos Disaster Forecast – Las Vegas water situation currently – link2-PERPLEXITY-AI – Las Vegas still has a reliable water supply today, but it remains heavily drought‑exposed because Lake Mead is low and long‑term conservation and cutbacks on the Colorado River are essential to keep it that way. – Lake Mead is around 1,065 feet above sea level as of mid‑March 2026, about 164 feet below its full pool elevation of 1,229 feet. – Southern Nevada (Las Vegas area) takes almost all of its drinking water from Lake Mead via the Southern Nevada Water Authority (SNWA). SNWA has deep intakes and a “third straw” so it can still draw water even at much lower lake levels, which protects local reliability. – link – SNWA’s “deep intakes” and “third straw” are the physical pipes and pumps that let Las Vegas keep pulling drinking water from Lake Mead even when the reservoir is very low.
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link2source – The Fundamental Problem with War is that it is Unpredictable. – The War is Evolving: George Friedman on Miscalculations in Iran – Geopolitical Futures @ Geopolitical Futures GPF
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link2source – Iran War Has Economy On Verge Of Complete Meltdown – Arcadia Economics@ arcadia economics
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link2source – Why a Closed Strait of Hormuz Is a ‘Smoking Risk’ for Global Markets | WSJ’s Take On the Week – The threat of higher inflation. – WSJ Podcasts @ WSJPodcasts
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link2source – Alasdair Macleod: Oil Shock & Hyperinflation – Mining Network @ Mining Network *** America’s not going to win this war! ***
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link2source – Bill Evans – My Foolish Heart (12 Hours – Live Performance) – treeman Micool Jacksonn @ treeman_mj *** Jazz Piano Music ***
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link2source – Programmable Money – Real Estate Mindset @ realestatemindset
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link2source – Paul Craig Roberts: Iran is WINNING – Dialogue Works @ dialogue works01 – Strait of Hormuz: The President of the U.S. on the edge of a nuclear confrontation. – link2-PERPLEXITY-AI – The Strait of Hormuz is effectively a war zone amid a U.S.–Israeli conflict with Iran, and President Donald Trump is openly prioritizing preventing an Iranian nuclear capability over the economic and escalation risks, which puts the U.S. on the edge of a nuclear confrontation. – link – chatham house DOT org 2026/03 Conflict Strait of Hormuz Spilling Over Into the Indian Ocean
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link2source – We Were Wrong About Chernobyl’s Elephant’s Foot – That Chernobyl Guy @ thatchernobylguy2915
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link2source – STRAIT CLOSED FOR 2 WEEKS ALREADY – Larry Johnson On Iran War – Strait of Hormuz – Mario Nawfal @ MarioNawfal
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link2source – How big of a problem is the Strait of Hormuz for Donald Trump? | Inside Story – Al Jazeera English @ aljazeeraenglish *** Using Geography to Defeat the U.S. – A Game of Endurance. ***
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link2source – TRUMP’S IRAN WAR IS WRECKING THE GLOBAL ECONOMY | Peter Schiff – Pyotr Kurzin | Geopolitics @ PKurzin
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link2source – Scott Ritter LIVE Today 2:00p est – Daniel Davis / Deep Dive @ Daniel Davis Deep Dive
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link2source – Iran War – An Engineered Crisis to Bury the Petrodollar and Usher in a New Monetary Order. – maneco64 @ maneco64 – Petrodollars are U.S. dollars earned by oil‑exporting countries from selling petroleum, and the term also refers to the wider system of pricing global oil trade in dollars that developed after the early 1970s. – link2-PERPLEXITY-AI – * A petrodollar is simply a U.S. dollar received in exchange for exported crude oil or petroleum products.
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link2source – Footage from the Colorado River Revealed The Compact Nobody Can Save – Eruptions Now @ EruptionsNow
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link2source – Why Returning From Mars Is Impossible: Feynman’s Warning – Imagine Physics @ Imagine Physics 2.0
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link2source – Fukushima 15th years of Radioactive Fallout – Trump Nukes Iran With A-10 Warthog DU Max Rearburn – Fukushima Daiichi nuclear accident: A level‑7 nuclear disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi plant in Ōkuma, triggered by the 11 March 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami. – link2-PERPLEXITY-AI – Environmentalist Dana Durnford @ Dana Durnford 1
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link2source – Why the US Is Sending 2,200 Marines to the Strait of Hormuz ? | Andrei Martyanov – Efe Berke @ mine craft dunyalariiiiii
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link2source – Iran War Analysis: Will the Trump Administration Put Boots on the Ground? Fair Observer – Fair Observer @ FairObserver *** Unless the enemy destroys you, there is always tomorrow, and today is never decisive. – link2-PERPLEXITY-AI – a strategic maxim: patience and long‑term thinking matter. link – For good generals do not attack in open battle where the danger is mutual, but do it always from a hidden position, so as to kill or at least terrorize the enemy while their own men are unharmed as far as possible.
—Vegetius, De Re Militari – [1] – Vegetius was a Roman writer living in the late 4th to early 5th century CE.
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link2source – Proof of life? Trump asks China for Hormuz help. Zelensky to the rescue. Big drone attack Moscow – Alex Christoforou @ AlexChristoforou
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Licentiousness in the Roman Empire was real but uneven: Roman elites tolerated wide male sexual freedom while still upholding an ideal of self‑controlled, orderly family life, and later Christian critics portrayed the whole system as morally corrupt. – link2-PERPLEXITY-AI – licentiousness in the Empire of Rome – link -Roman ideas of sexual behavior were structured around mos maiorum (the “way of the elders”), emphasizing household stability, hierarchy, and male honor, not personal purity in a modern sense.
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link2source – “Rapid Capitulation” not occurring as expected in a military sense. – Something Seriously Wrong is Happening Inside the Iran War – Strategies of annihilation or “lightning war” (for example, blitzkrieg) are often designed to cause such a fast collapse in command, logistics, and morale that surrender seems the only rational option. – link – Pyotr Kurzin | Geopolitics @ PKurzin
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link2source – Trump vs. Reality: What’s Really Happening in the Iran War. V the Guerrilla 3/13/2026 – ESW | RogueNews @ RogueNews
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link2source – Col Douglas Macgregor: IRAN WAR Not Ending Anytime Soon – Daniel Davis / Deep Dive @ Daniel Davis Deep Dive – Iran is still launching ballistic missiles and striking targets in Israel and around the Gulf, showing its military capability remains intact. *** Col. Douglas Macgregor is a retired U.S. Army colonel, author, and political-military commentator known for his role in the 1991 Gulf War and for advocating major reforms of U.S. ground forces. – link – Gulf countries have cut 6.7 million barrels per day (about 33% of regional production) because oil cannot be exported if shipping through the Strait of Hormuz is blocked.Storage tanks filled up, forcing producers to shut down oil extraction. 35% of global fertilizer shipments are also halted, which could increase food prices worldwide.
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link2source – Watch the ‘Big Short’. The Big Short tells interlocking stories of a few outsiders who realize the U.S. housing market is a time bomb and quietly bet on its collapse, getting rich when the 2008 crisis hits. – link – The Calm Before The Storm – Peak Financial Investing @ Peak Financial Investing *** Market Manipulation of Oil Derivatives (Fake Prices) Contracts. *** Oil derivatives markets can be (and have been) manipulated through tactics that create artificial prices or false order-book signals, even when no genuine supply‑demand change exists. – link – Manipulation of benchmark price assessments (physical cargo trades during a pricing window used to settle swaps/futures). – link –
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link2source – Oil Armageddon & The End of the Petrodollar – FoFty @ foftytrader
link2source – JOBS, and where did they go?? – Concerns about our Economic Future. – Downward Diary @ EmpLemon
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link2source – Trump Administration is Ending the Republic- Col. Larry Wilkerson – Michael Farris (Coffee and a Mike) @ Coffeeandamike
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link2source – Boots on the Ground After All! – US hits Kharg Island, 5000 Marines deployed. Trump rejects Putin offer. Zelensky meets Fresh Prince – Alex Christoforou @ AlexChristoforou
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link2source – Global commodity supply disruptions to cause global recession? AIA Weekly 3.14.26 – John Polomny @ Actionable Intelligence Alert
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link2source – Identity Politics (Ep. 92): After the Fall (Livestream) – Identity Politics @ IdentityPolitics
link2source – Is Trump Actually Hurting America? Matt Smith – Michael Farris (Coffee and a Mike) @ Coffee and a mike ** You have agency and there are things that you can do for yourself and your family. ***
link2source – The Iran War Crisis: Ex-CIA Analyst Helima Croft on Oil Shock & Energy Risk | The Weekly Wrap – Steve Eisman @ Real Eisman Playbook
link2source – Aircraft downed. France/Italy beg Iran open Hormuz. PickAxe Mountain operation. Bessent oil panic – Alex Christoforou @ AlexChristoforou
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link2source – Why Iran Is Holding Back- Larry Johnson – No End to the Ground-breaking News from the Strait of Hormuz. (the narrow waterway between Iran and the Arabian Peninsula that links the Persian Gulf to the Gulf of Oman and the Arabian Sea). – link2 (PERPLEXITY-AI) – the Strait of Hormuz has effectively become the epicenter of a fast‑escalating, system‑level crisis, and each day adds another layer of “ground‑breaking” news rather than resolving it. – Michael Farris (Coffee and a Mike) @ Coffeeandamike ** Fuel prices to continue rising world-wide. **
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link2source – Iran Fires a Financial Weapon at the Dollar. Safe Passage Through Hormuz if Oil Paid for in Yuan. – Kharg Island – Kharg is about 25 km (16 mi) off Iran’s coast and roughly 55 km (34 mi) northwest of the port of Bushehr. – maneco64 @ maneco64 *** Arnold Rothstein “Bucket Shop” * A bucket shop was a pseudo‑brokerage that let small customers “trade” stocks in tiny lots, often for a small premium over the listed price, but without placing real exchange orders. * link (Perplexity AI) *
WAR WEATHERS of CONVENIENCE; it’s so damned convenient. Profit meets Control sailing into the open seas.
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link2source – Trump pals around with Jake Paul as the Strait of Hormuz destroys the world Economy – The spiritual energy behind an auspicious wind. – Pockets of the Future @ pockets of the future
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link2source – Flying In This Country Is A HUMILIATION Ritual. This Is How Far We’ve Fallen – Matt Walsh @ MattWalsh
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– THE HORMUZ STRAIT * Economic Armageddon *
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Yet More War Between the States!
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