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link2source – WARNING: ECONOMY, WAR, AND INFLATION ARE ABOUT TO COLLIDE – THE JOB NUMBERS ARE A BIG LIE – jeremiah babe @ jeremiah babe9308
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link2source – No-one notices when something becomes normal. – link2-PERPLEXITY-AI – psychologists and philosophers call this: habituation or “creeping normality”. – Trump Lost ins hios Own BS + Charlie Kirks Magic bullet & More – Pockets of the Future @ pockets of the future * Taking assets globally in the face of currency devaluation and maximizing hard assets. – getting part of your balance sheet outside the U.S. financial system, denominated in multiple currencies and hard assets, before policy responses (inflation, financial repression, capital controls) box you in – link2-PERPLEXITY-AI -**-
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link2source – Demonstrate Mathematically What’s Happening in the Job Market (for real). –
The UNIMAGINABLE is Happening | Economy COOKED. – Real Estate Mindset @ real estate mindset -*- link – real estate mindset DOT substack DOT com – p – the property tax and bond fraud crisis
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link2source – Trump’s Iran Plan Wasn’t Just Bad. Its Even Worse Than That. –
Pyotr Kurzin | Geopolitics @ PKurzin
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link2source – CANADA: The GOOD NEWS, ALBERTA, C-12, & More From The PERSIAN DISASTER – “The window of opportunity is not open forever.” – Frank Vaughan @ Frank Vaughan – Endemic Unfairness of the Federation (Canada).
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link2source – IRAN DOWNS A US FIGHTER JET | IRAN WAR DAY 35 – Pyotr Kurzin | Geopolitics @ PKurzin – asymmetrical conflict – link2-PERPLEXITY-AI – Asymmetrical conflict (asymmetric warfare) is armed conflict between opponents whose military power, resources, and methods differ so much that they cannot fight each other in the same way.
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link2source – Iran War Day 34: Financial Collapse Imminent? – Lift the Veil @ LifttheVeil-411
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link2source – Wall Street Executive Reveals How a Market Crashes -Dad Saves America @ Dad Saves America
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link2source – Iran war: Special Ops vs. Special Forces w/ Larry Johnson (Live) – The Duran @ TheDuran
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link2source – Trump’s Iran Address: The “Mission Accomplished” Trap? 4/2/2026 – ESW | RogueNews @ Rogue News *** “Choose not to loose.”
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link2source – An Economic Collapse on Purpose? – Civilization Cycle : Your Life is Being Repriced – Civilization Cycle Podcast @ Civilization Cycle Podcast
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link2source – THE EMPIRE OF FRAUD – IT’S GOING TO BECOME A MAD MAX WORLD VERY SOON – jeremiah babe @ jeremiahbabe9308
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link2source – Iran Hits Oil Tanker… War Just Changed – The Hot Zone With Chuck Holton @ hot zone podcast
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link2source – Invasion, Inflation, Cut Backs and more War! Get Ready! – B.T.W., Iran still has missiles left to use on targets! – The Prepared Homestead @ the real prepared homestead
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link2source – Energy War Demic: Why Oil Could Hit $250, Hospitals Are Collapsing & A Stagflation Bust Is Coming – Markets with Christian White @ Markets with Christian
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RE-Migration – link2source – Identity Politics (Ep.101): Power Is Good Actually (Livestream) – Identity Politics @ Identity Politics
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link2source – You Already Live in the New World Order- Francis Hunt “The Market Sniper” – Michael Farris (Coffee and a Mike) @ Coffee and a mike
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link2source – Andrei Martyanov: IT’S OVER: The U.S. Just LOST to Iran… Here’s Why – Dialogue Works @ dialogue works01
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link2source – Paul Craig Roberts: Trump’s War “Victory” Speech and Bondi Firing -Nothing Going According to Plan? – Larry Sparano @ larry sparano 87
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link2source – The World of Cheap Energy About to Get Expensive. – “Total Catastrophe” Col Macgregor TORCHES Trump in SNAP Reaction to Iran War Address – ANI News @ ANINewsIndia *** We are reversing the “Green Revolution” by being complicit in the closure of the Strait of Hormuz. – link2-PERPLEXITY-AI – Closing Hormuz doesn’t just hit oil; it strikes at the chemical inputs that made the mid‑20th‑century Green Revolution possible, and thus at global food security.
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link2source – TRUMP THREATENS TO SEND IRAN BACK TO THE STONE AGE | Lt Col Karen Kwiatkowski – Pyotr Kurzin | Geopolitics @ PKurzin
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link2source – TRUMP’S Address, WAR Realities, The Promise Of MAGA, And More.. – NOT Trump-Derangement Syndrome: but, instead, a presentation of a nuanced view; headwinds politically for MAGA in November due to the lack of progress of the U.S.-Israel war with Iran. – Also, the main headwinds in the current war with Iran (from the U.S. perspective) are strategic incoherence, escalation risks, and severe economic and political blowback. These cut across partisan narratives. This is not merely “Trump Derangement Syndrome.” – link2-PERPLEXITY-AI – Israel is getting “pounded.” – Frank Vaughan @ Frank Vaughan
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Opinions are allowed: However, there is no investment advice anywhere near the content presented. – link2source – Thurs, April 2nd, 2026 -Markets: The oil price is shooting upwards today. Gold, Silver, Stocks – Clive Thompson @ clive thompson -jc9my – “Beware of scammers.” – Scammers usually rely on pressure, urgency, and requests for sensitive info or odd payment methods; if you see any of those, stop and independently verify before acting. – link2-PERPEXITY-AI – Stagflation (stagnation + inflation), defined as: high inflation, weak or zero growth, and high unemployment occurring at the same time.
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link2source – Chase Taylor: Policy Disasters and Miscalculations – The Options for Ending the War? – Competent Man Podcast – Tom Bodrovics @ Competent Man Pod
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link2source – TRUMP ADDRESS LAST NITE WAS CONCERNING – AMERICANS WILL SUFFER HUGE CONSEQUENCES – GAS PRICE TO SOAR –
jeremiah babe @ jeremiahbabe9308
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link2source – “Brutal Energy Shock”–Mike Harris on Coming Shortages, Broken Promises & Disruptions – Christian White @ Christian evan white ** Destroy the enemy at the source. **
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link2source – Trump’s Iran Gamble Escalates – Bill Walton #6381 – Kerry Lutz’s Financial Survival Network @ Fsn Gold and Silver
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link2source – Judgement Day is Everyday MAGA Fake Christians – Terrible Title; Wonderful Content! – Pockets of the Future @ pocketsofthefuture
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link2source – Possible need to adjust your paradigm. – War Slaves of the Great Zionist War — Iran Ground Invasion Will Result in Mass Murder of American – Michael Yon @ Michael Yon Big Honey
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link2source – Trump Iran War Speech REACT /Lt Col Daniel Davis – What’s the reality on the ground near the Strait of Hormuz and Iran, not to mention the middle east (or West Asia). – Reality gets a vote. – Daniel Davis / Deep Dive @ Daniel Davis Deep Dive
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link2source – Finance is a “Charm Daze” – Brunoblockchain @ Build with bruno block chain
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link2source – DIY War, Oil, and a Market in Denial – Doug Casey’s Take @ Doug Caseys Take
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link2source – Iran War Day 32: Trump Admits Defeat, Stock Market Surges – Lift the Veil @ LifttheVeil-411
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link2source – The Violent Comeback of Oil Infrastructure- Shubham Garg – Michael Farris (Coffee and a Mike) @ Coffeeandamike
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link2source – CARNEY, THE NDP, IRAN; An Update On The Situation On This April First – Frank Vaughan @ Frank Vaughan
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Ambient means “surrounding on all sides” or “existing in the immediate environment,” as in ambient air, ambient light, or ambient temperature. – link2-PERPLEXITY-AI – Ambient is an adjective used to describe an aspect of the environment that completely surrounds you, but in a mellow way, like ambient music played softly throughout a restaurant, or the ambient orange glow during a setting sun. – link –
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link2source – Cosmic Eternity — Space Ambient Music for Slow Astral Journey & Deep Stillness | 4K – AMBIENT MUSIC – VIATMOS @ Viatmos
link2source – A handful of lawyers decide the fate of the nation. – BIRTHRIGHT CITIZENSHIP – Words spoken from the corrupt state of California. – MICHAEL SAVAGE @ Michael Savage
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link2source – Scott Ritter: Iran REJECTS Ceasefire — US vs Iran: Missiles Rain Down in BRUTAL Escalation – Dialogue Works @ dialogue works01
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link2source – SAVAGE IS 84 TODAY! – MICHAEL SAVAGE @ Michael Savage
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With the death of small talk comes the end of the world.
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link2source – Wells Fargo Customers Quietly Switching to Credit Unions — What They’re Getting Wrong… – Epic Real Estate @ Epic Real Estate
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link2source – Loser Trump is a Demon & all these Mage Fake Chistians are Worshiping Donnie the Demon – Pockets of the Future @ pocketsofthefuture
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link2source – THE TRUTH THEY’RE NOT TELLING YOU ABOUT GAS, WAR & THE ECONOMY – jeremiah babe @ jeremiah babe9308
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link2source – Is $10 Gas Next? The War’s Hidden Cost – Kelleran’s Korner 3/31/2026 – ESW | RogueNews @ Rogue News
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link2source – Identity Politics (Ep. 99): The Case That Ends America (w/ Tom Claeys) – Fuel Prices Increasing. – Identity Politics @ Identity Politics
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link2source – Ambient Music – A Long Way Home – Deep Emotional Sci Fi Ambient for Lost Astronauts – Athena IV @ athena iv
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link2source – Bill Holter: Gold New Highs Next? Are We Being Lied To About the Iran War? – Wealth Building Blueprint – Vladyslav Grabarskyy @ Vladyslav Grabarskyy
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link2source – Trump Tells Aides He May End War Without Reopening Key Oil Route, David Cay Johnston Joins 3/31/26 – The Iran Mess Likely to Just Get Worse. – So Many Options Off the Table. – The Mark Thompson Show @ the mark thompson show ** Devastating Blow to Energy Flow on a Global Scale. **
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link2source – SECRET SHADOW LEDGER | A Century of Accounting FRAUD – Real Estate Mindset @ real estate mindset
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link2source – IRAN WAR LATEST /Col Jacques Baud & Lt Col Daniel Davis – Daniel Davis / Deep Dive @ Daniel Davis Deep Dive
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link2source – Alasdair Macleod: Iran WAR Is Triggering Global FIAT COLLAPSE – GoldRepublic Global @ Gold Republic _Global
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link2source – An inescapable blackmail web. – ‘Trump is Trapped’ in Iran as Israeli Fanatics Push For Total Armageddon: Bob Moriarty – Commodity Culture @ Commodity Culture
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link2source – Col Douglas Macgregor LIVE Today 11:00a est – Daniel Davis / Deep Dive @ Daniel Davis Deep Dive – Pentagon prepares for weeks of ground operations in Iran. – link2-PERPLEXITY-AI – the Pentagon is drawing up options for limited but extended ground operations inside Iran. – Daniel Davis / Deep Dive @ Daniel Davis Deep Dive
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link2source – Rob Kientz: Why I’m Slashing My Spending & Saving Money NOW (Something BAD is Coming) – The economics of oil (price of $80 to $100 necessary per barrel). link-2-PERPLEXITY-AI – Oil in the 80–100 dollar range per barrel is roughly where many producers, petrostates, and investors are all “comfortable,” but it is also where consumer economies start to feel real pain and where demand and policy push back. – U.S. shale “full-cycle” breakevens for new wells cluster around 65–70 dollars per barrel, with free‑cash‑flow breakevens near 60–70 once corporate overhead and payouts are included. – CapitalCosm @ capitalcosm *** Global economics not expected to improve. ***
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Is it just a losing battle? – link2source – What do U do when U Know U already Lost + Pockets of the Future @ pockets of the future – What is Iran’s Isfahan? – link2-PERPLEXITY-AI – sfahan (Esfahan) is a major historic and industrial city in central Iran, and it also refers to a nearby complex of key Iranian nuclear facilities. – link – a city in the Central District of Isfahan County, Isfahan Province, Iran — the capital of the province, county, and district.
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The Crippled-Garbage Government. – link2source – It Was the Best of Times; It was the Worst of Times. – Here Comes The Sun – The Sun Also Rises. – MICHAEL SAVAGE @ MichaelSavage – News Depressing.
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link2source – Al Jazeera English | Live – Al Jazeera English @ al jazeera english
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link2source – Paul Craig Roberts: Iran EXPOSED Israel’s Air Defense – Iran’s Victory Would Have a Silver Lining – Dialogue Works @ dialogueworks01
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link2source – Jerome Powell Issues DIRE Warning | Systemic DEBT COLLAPSE – Real Estate Mindset @ realestatemindset
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link2source – Yet another fascinating day on planet Earth. – Gold Rallies $27 As Economy Nears Brink Of ‘Destruction’ – Arcadia Economics @ arcadiaeconomics – Iran War Continues. Trump threatens possible destruction of Iranian oil wells if Strait of Hormuz closure not ended. –
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link2source – TRUMP’S THREATENS TO OBLITERATE IRAN | DAY 31 OF IRAN WAR – Pyotr Kurzin | Geopolitics @ PKurzin
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link2source – American Gothic – Brunoblockchain @ Buildwithbrunoblockchain – “America is a gangster state.”
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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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link2source – Fed Delays, Oil Surges, Metals React – Patrick Mueller #6380 – Kerry Lutz’s Financial Survival Network @ FsnGoldandSilver
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link2source – The Islamic Tet Offensive. – link2-PERPLEXITY-AI – “The Islamic Tet Offensive” is a metaphor, not a single, formal operation; it refers to the idea of a coordinated, surprise, multi-front wave of attacks by Islamist (often Iran-aligned) actors modeled conceptually on the Viet Cong/North Vietnamese Tet Offensive of 1968. – link –
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link2source – The Crisis Hidden Inside the Iran War – Patrick Boyle @ P Boyle
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Cortes of Cádiz – link2-PERPLEXITY-AI – The Cortes of Cádiz was an emergency, empire-wide parliament that met in Cádiz from 1810 and produced Spain’s first liberal constitution in 1812, during the Napoleonic occupation.
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link2source – The Cycle Will Turn. – The TRUTH About The War In Iran: The Worst Crisis in 30 years – The Jay Martin Show @ The Jay Martin Show *** Short-term pain for long-term gain? *** The Strait of Hormuz – Look for the dogs that don’t bark. – link2-PERPLEXITY-AI – The phrase comes from Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes story “Silver Blaze,” where Holmes notes “the curious incident of the dog in the night-time”: the watchdog did nothing. – In politics and intelligence work, “the dogs that don’t bark” are the actors, institutions, or reactions that are conspicuously absent where you would normally expect noise, protest, or attention.
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link2source – Col Douglas Macgregor: US WILL NOT BEAT IRAN – Daniel Davis / Deep Dive @ Daniel Davis Deep Dive
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link2-PERPLEXITY-AI – define “Gods of Lower Broadway” – “Gods of Lower Broadway” is a metaphorical phrase W.E.B. Du Bois uses in his novel The Quest of the Silver Fleece to mean the powerful financial and commercial interests centered in New York’s lower Broadway/Wall Street district, who ultimately decide people’s fates and priorities in a capitalist society. It personifies business elites, investors, and market forces as quasi-divine authorities whose decisions override moral or educational ideals. – link -gutenberg DOT org — files — 15265 — 15265-h — 15265-h DOT htm – Lower Broadway sits at the northern edge of what became New York’s Financial District, and by the 19th century the stretch of lower Broadway and the nearby narrow east–west streets (including Wall Street) formed the concentrated landscape of American “captains of finance.”
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link2source – 300 US Soldiers Wounded 13 Killed as Israel Vows to Sacrifice as Many US Troops as Needed – Environmentalist Dana Durnford @ DanaDurnford1
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link2source – guest Mark Sleboda Trump’s plan XYZ, now what? – Stanislav Krapivnik @ Mr Slavikman
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link2source – MEGA MARKET MELTDOWN | Private Credit Crisis | FRAUDGATE – Disruption of supplies and commodities globally. – Real Estate Mindset @ realestatemindset
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The look, his face; content.
So sublime.
The way, I walk. That way.
How far the time. And now this beachhead.
No standing on, nor queue, that counter.
Balance as the day, it diminished longer.
Nor possibility of vaporous regret.
So crash the waves.
So far the rude park.
So deep infinite blue.
And I imagine.
And on. I think; of soft vanilla; ice cream.
The lost battle of a melting day.
Mistook and misbegotten.
Pliable. The handsome sand.
And spark of a memory; the dewy grass, we just left.
Misadventure. Not time just now.
A momentary lapse of fortune.
The seasonality. Imagine being turned away.
Set aside. Forgotten, then remembered. All the good layered in a trifling regret.
And now; decanted white wine of finest summer.
A long beach, no longer to itself.
Foundered.
Eddies flow.
I know we know.
Querulously nature argues.
Zen, and then, again.
You saved this time, setting sun, setting rays.
Forgotten.
An August breeze. To remember again?
Thoughts are lost. Finally mine.
Time.
Enjoin the beach. Underfoot. Sandy feet. Breezy hair.
That look, that beckons, perilous rock.
Forgot.
And so. So sublime.
This time.
— So Sublime: Invitation to Ice Cream – by James Legare 3-29-2026
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link2source – IRAN AWAITING US GROUND INVASION | IRAN WAR DAY 30 – Pyotr Kurzin | Geopolitics @ P Kurzin
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link2source – A LONG WAR – AWACS HIT: This Week It Gets PRICED IN – Frank Vaughan @ Frank Vaughan *** link2-PERPLEXITY-AI – On March 28, the Houthis launched a salvo of ballistic missiles from Yemen toward southern Israel, claiming they targeted “sensitive military sites” in the south. – Iran-backed Houthi forces in Yemen have formally entered the current Iran–US–Israel war by firing ballistic missiles at Israel.
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link2source – I found San Francisco’s WORST SECRET – METAL LEO @ LeoMetal Traveler
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link2source – Dangerous ground invasion. US circular goal to open Hormuz. Zelensky claims Russia helping Iran – infantry and special forces possibly to take Kharg Island. – link2-PERPLEXITY-AI – U.S. officials have outlined options for “limited ground operations” in Iran, explicitly mentioning possible raids on Kharg Island and nearby coastal sites, framing these as time‑bounded actions rather than a full‑scale invasion.
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link2source – How Co-Branded Credit Cards Ruined Aviation – The Only Nolan @ The Only NoIan
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The Centralist Republic of Mexico (Spanish: República Centralista de México), or in the anglophone scholarship, the Central Republic,[2] officially the Mexican Republic (Spanish: República Mexicana), was a unitary political regime established in Mexico on 23 October 1835, under a new constitution known as the Siete Leyes (lit. ’seven laws’) after conservatives repealed the federalist Constitution of 1824 and ended the First Mexican Republic. It would ultimately last until 1846, when the Constitution of 1824 was restored at the beginning of the Mexican–American War. ***** Two presidents would predominate throughout this era: Santa Anna and Anastasio Bustamante.
link – to source – Centralist Republic of Mexico
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link2source – The U.S. – Iran War Part 28 1/2: Sunday News Round Up With Towel – Grant Smith Ellis @ Grant Smith Ellis
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link2source – Andrei Martyanov: Why America Can’t Win This War? – Dialogue Works Highlights @ Dialogue Works 01 Clips – Petroleum Oil sold by the Barrel in Rubles.
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The Texas Revolution (October 2, 1835 – April 21, 1836) was a rebellion by Anglo-American immigrants as well as Hispanic Texans (known as Texians and Tejanos respectively) against the centralist government of Mexico in the Mexican state of Coahuila y Tejas. The uprising was part of a larger revolt against the Centralist Republic of Mexico that included other provinces opposed to the regime of President Antonio López de Santa Anna. The Mexican Congress passed the Tornel Decree, declaring that any foreigners fighting against Mexican troops “will be deemed pirates and dealt with as such, being citizens of no nation presently at war with the Republic and fighting under no recognized flag”. Only the province of Texas succeeded in breaking with Mexico, establishing the Republic of Texas. It was eventually annexed by the United States about a decade later.
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link2source – The Big Paradox: Why Immigration Divides America Like Nothing Else | Fair Observer – Fair Observer @ FairObserver – ICE Flooded Minneapolis – link2-PERPLEXITY-AI – Trump administration’s decision to send thousands of federal immigration agents into the Minneapolis–St. Paul area — “Operation Metro Surge.” —
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link2source – Dead Astronauts – Deep Space Emotional Ambient Sci Fi Music – Athena IV @ athenaiv – Ambient Music –
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link2source – Houthis enter war. Iran vows revenge for energy strikes. Rubio; Zelensky liar, fight with Kallas – Alex Christoforou @ Alex Christoforou *** Bad news for the planet and a choke point for energy.
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link2source – Un-American Forces in America. – OLD QUEENS PROTESTS KICK OFF ACROSS COMMUNIST COMMUNITIES – MICHAEL SAVAGE @ Michael Savage
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link2source – You Can’t Lose 20% of the World’s Economy- Matt Bracken – Michael Farris (Coffee and a Mike) @ Coffee and a mike – The Chameleon-Sociopath’s technique of listening to someone and finding out what their wants and needs are and then play to them. – link2-PERPLEXITY-AI – The sociopath gains leverage, not connection (this is a common manipulative pattern). He asks many questions, listens intently, and watches your reactions to learn your hopes. – The synchronicity of historical trends. – link2-PERPLEXITY-AI – Synchronicity in historical trends is the idea that recurring patterns in events and eras are not just causal sequences, but also “meaningful coincidences” that reflect deeper structures in psyche, culture, and time. – Synchronicity is the concept that refers to the simultaneous occurrence of external events that are meaningfully connected to internal thoughts or feelings, without a clear causal relationship. – link – Jung suggested that synchronicity operates at the level of “the whole of human experience and history,” implying that collective psychological archetypes help shape when and how similar epochs manifest.
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link2source – Housing Market Crashing In On Itself | Mortgage Rates Skyrocket – bifurcated housing market; payment and price. One segment can see strong demand and rising or sticky prices. – link2-PERPLEXITY-AI
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link2source – Operation Epic Failure continues. Commodity prices continue higher. AIA Weekly Update 3.28.26 – John Polomny @ Actionable Intelligence Alert
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link2source – Mamdani ‘EVICTS’ NYC’s Middle Class… Buses SOLD OUT as TERROR GRIPS CITY – Cash Jordan @ Cash Jordan – Communism in NYC with a Mamdani Smile – link2-PERPLEXITY-AI – – New York’s long radical left tradition — Zohran Mamdani, and his charismatic persona – a Rorschach test for what “communism” means in 2026.
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No man is crushed by misfortune unless he is first deceived by prosperity. – link2-perplexity-ai – from Seneca – what actually crushes us is not bad luck itself, but the illusion that good fortune was permanent.
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Valero’s Port Arthur, Texas refinery, THE 8TH LARGEST OIL FACILITY IN THE US, IS FULLY OFFLINE. – link2-PERPLEXITY-AI – Valero’s 380,000–435,000 bpd Port Arthur refinery was fully shut down after the March 23 explosion and fire, but Valero has already begun the process of restarting the plant and aims to bring major units back online within days, so the outage is currently expected to be temporary rather than long‑term.
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To be human is to understand the world via stories. – link2-PERPLEXITY-AI – Our memories tend to organize as episodes and plots: “what happened,” “why it happened,” and “what it means,” rather than as loose data points.
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World War III – link2source – Look for the Silver Lining. America is GOING TO WAR. And we’re going to lose. – Ian Carroll @ Ian carroll show – The Death Trap that is the Straight of Hormuz, Or, The Geographic “Kill Box”. – At its narrowest, the navigable shipping lanes are only a few miles wide, forcing large tankers into predictable routes that are easy to surveil and target. – link2-PERPLEXITY-AI – The strait is deep and wide enough for the largest crude carriers, but that same predictability makes them slow, constrained targets under the guns and missiles of nearby Iranian territory and islands. – Iran’s coastline and island positions (like Qeshm and Kharg) turn the waterway into a natural firing gallery for anti‑ship systems and mines.
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link2source – War ‘Nail in Coffin’ of Economy as Credit Crisis ‘Spirals Out of Control’: Melody Wright – Commodity Culture @ Commodity Culture *** In this new economy, Bad things happen that ‘change your math’.
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link2source – Did Albert Pike Really Predict that the Middle East War is Leading to World War III? – aminutetomidnite @ a minute to midnite2406
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link2source – Communism, TSA, Free Markets & Squandered Resources. – The TSA Wastes $12 Billion and Still Fails 90% of the Time – Dad Saves America @ Dad Saves America *** The TSA is running out of staff, airport security lines are spiraling out of control, and Congress still can’t resolve its fight over DHS funding. – link2PERPLEXITY-AI – TSA/DHS shutdown crisis – DHS funding lapsed in mid‑February. – Save America Act Voter ID Law. – Markwayne Mullin: Trump’s nominee for DHS secretary: a Republican politician and businessman from Oklahoma who, as of 2026, is serving as the United States secretary of homeland security in President Donald Trump’s administration. – link – (Assumed office – March 24, 2026) – They’re ensconced in the politics of our fiscal catastrophes (TSA). – Centralization, Federalization, Tom Daschle, TSA – Using 9/11 to centralize and federalize airport security, with Tom Daschle as a key congressional actor and the TSA as the institutional result. – Before 9/11, airlines hired private contractors to do screening.
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link2source – Fertilizer, Pharmaceuticals adversely affected by war in Strait of Hormuz. – CANADA & IRAN – Snooze Fest vs. Global Disaster – Higher Prices Coming. – LNG – Frank Vaughan @ Frank Vaughan
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link2source – Trump And Israel Are Losing This War BADLY – Vaush @ Vaush
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link2source – Don Durrett: 2026 is the Last Year of American Greatness Which Brings a New Gold All-Time High – Competent Man Podcast – Tom Bodrovics @ CompetentManPod
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Neocons in the administration – link2source – New York Times: ’13 U.S. Bases Uninhabitable’ — We Could’ve Just Marched Home – RonPaulLibertyReport @ RonPaulLibertyReport
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link2source – Identity Politics (Ep. 98): Victimhood or Victory (Livestream) – Identity Politics @ Identity Politics
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link2source – Why Gold and Silver fell? Oil shock is coming BIG! – John Polomny – Triangle Investor @ triANGLEI NVESTOR
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“Forget your personal tragedy. We are all bitched from the start and you especially have to be hurt like hell before you can write seriously. But when you get the damned hurt, use it—don’t cheat with it.” — Ernest Hemingway, Letter to F. Scott Fitzgerald – link2-PERPLEXITY-AI
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link2source – 4 Million People Displaced by US-Israeli War with Environmentalist Dana Durnford – Environmentalist Dana Durnford @ Dana Durnford1 – link2-ARCHIVE – archive DOT org – details: why radiation and chemotherapy need to be banned from hospitals
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link2source – Andrei Martyanov: Iran Just SHOT DOWN a New Jet and Drops Hammer After Israel’s Nuclear Attack – Dialogue Works @ dialogueworks01
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“The aesthetics of modernism, with its denial of the past, its vandalization of the landscape and townscape, and its attempt to purge the world of history, was also a denial of community, home, and settlement.” – Scruton is arguing that modernist aesthetics in architecture and design don’t just change how things look; they dissolve the preconditions for belonging—eroding memory, place, and the thick social life that grows around them. *** END QUOTE – Sir Roger Scruton – link2-PERPLEXITY-AI – Art Berman’s “energy is the economy” thesis is that real economic activity is fundamentally constrained by energy and materials, not by money or finance, and that most mainstream economics is “energy‑blind.”
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link2source – Iran: The Biggest Blunder in History- Art Berman – Michael Farris (Coffee and a Mike) @ Coffeeandamike – Energy is the Economy – Art Berman – link2-PERPLEXITY-AI –
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link2source – IS THIS THE END OF THE PETRODOLLAR? – LAGUNA BEACH NUCLEAR ATTACK SIRENS – MORTGAGE DEMAND PLUNGES – jeremiah babe @ jeremiahbabe9308 – IRAN –
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Lucretius Vespillo and Minutius Rufus were at Oricum, with eighteen Asiatic ships. – link2-PERPLEXITY-AI – That line is from Julius Caesar’s Civil War (Book 3, chapter 7), describing Pompeian naval dispositions at the start of the Adriatic campaign in 48 BCE. – link2source – The Adriatic campaign of 48 BCE is the phase of Caesar’s civil war when Caesar and Pompey fought for control of the eastern Adriatic coast (Epirus/Illyricum) and the crucial base at Dyrrhachium.
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link2source – America’s TSA Meltdown – misesmedia @ misesmedia
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link2source – Rocket Launch for Gold and Silver Yet to Come As Treasurys’ Safe Haven Status Evaporates. – maneco64 @ maneco64
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Specific Forward-Looking Statements (Predictions) – link2source – GROUND INVASION – It Starts This Weekend & There Will Be Consequences – Damage to the Gerald Ford – link2-PERPLEXITY-AI – On 12 March 2026, a fire broke out in the ship’s main laundry spaces while she was operating in or near the Red Sea during operations linked to the Iran war. – Frank Vaughan @ FrankVaughan
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link2source – Identity Politics (Ep. 97): The President’s Praetorians (w/ Andrew F. Morrison) – Identity Politics @ IdentityPolitics – Replacement Migration and Department of Homeland Security Funding Battle in Congress – link2-PERPLEXITY-AI – Replacement migration is a demographic policy concept about using immigration to offset low birthrates and aging populations, while the current Department of Homeland Security (DHS) funding fight in Congress is a partisan clash over immigration enforcement and border policy that is shaping how, and whether, DHS gets money at all. *** ICE at the Airports, what are they accomplishing? – link2-PERPLEXITY-AI – They are mainly providing support to TSA at overwhelmed airports while still retaining their full immigration‑enforcement powers. – ICE remains an immigration enforcement agency; officers at airports can question individuals about status, run database checks, and detain or arrest people they believe are in violation of immigration laws.
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link2source – Veles | Competition Of The Apex Elites & The Birth Of A New Economic System – Kontrarian Korner @ KontrarianKorner -** Benjamin “Bibi” Netanyahu is the current prime minister of Israel and the longest‑serving prime minister in the country’s history. – link2-PERPLEXITY-AI – Netanyahu has served as prime minister in three long stretches: 1996–1999, 2009–2021, and again from 2022 onward.
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link2source – The Destruction Of The Zionist World Order – Theodore Shoebat @ theodoreshoebat9142
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link2source – Chaos In The U.S.A. – Kelleran’s Korner 3/24/2026 – “Energy is the currency of all economies.” – ESW | RogueNews @RogueNews
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link2source – The REAL Reason Gold & Silver Prices Crashed As War Broke Out – Arcadia Economics@ arcadia economics *** Never to tire of regime change. * link2-PERPLEXITY-AI * The perpetual pursuit of overturning established governments—often from abroad—rather than settling into stable order. *
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link2source – LUKE GROMEN | Open or Closed: The Strait of Hormuz is the Only Thing That Matters! – Metals and Miners @ metalsandminers
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link2source – Total COLLAPSE of Private Credit | Pension Funds COOKED – Real Estate Mindset @ real estate mindset
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link2source – Why the Left Wants Trump to Fail in Iran – CUSS WITH GUS – 3/25/2026 – ESW | RogueNews @ RogueNews
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link2source – Identity Politics (Ep. 96): Victimhood Is Real Privilege (w/ James Fulford) – Identity Politics @ Identity Politics – Sclerotic governing class (usa) – link2-PERPLEXITY-AI – In U.S. political talk, a “sclerotic governing class” means an entrenched elite that has grown rigid, self‑protective, and unable to adapt or reform, even as public problems mount.
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Music to hear, why hear’st thou music sadly?
Sweets with sweets war not, joy delights in joy:
Why lov’st thou that which thou receiv’st not gladly,
Or else receiv’st with pleasure thine annoy?
If the true concord of well-tuned sounds,
By unions married do offend thine ear,
They do but sweetly chide thee, who confounds
In singleness the parts that thou shouldst bear:
Mark how one string sweet husband to another,
Strikes each in each by mutual ordering;
Resembling sire, and child, and happy mother,
Who all in one, one pleasing note do sing:
Whose speechless song being many, seeming one,
Sings this to thee, ‘Thou single wilt prove none’.
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