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link2source – Mark Thornton on the “Synthetic Boom” – misesmedia @ mises media
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Take it to the next level and visit my substack: link2-substack – Hit the stars! – jameslegare DOT substack DOT com — Hit the Stars
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link2source – Why Airlines Are Scrapping Brand New Planes – Contrails @ contrails1
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link2source – Expensive gas available in California! – the SEVERE CHANGE on Market Street SF – Prime Retails Locations FOR LEASE! – Empty – METAL LEO
@ LeoMetal Traveler
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link2source – The Dark Future of the Colorado River – Beaver Geography @ Beaver Geography
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link2source – “Ships can sink; they’re not invincible.” – The CONSERVATIVE MOVEMENT IS DEAD – “The trend behind every election is socialism.” – MICHAEL SAVAGE @ Michael Savage – English should be made the official language of America, legally.
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link2source – AIRLINES SLASHING FLIGHTS AS JET FUEL COSTS SOAR – TRAVELERS ARE PAYING THE PRICE – Ox Talks @ oxtalks
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Hunter Drohojowska-Philip (writer)- link2-PERPLEXITY-AI – AND Artist Gisela Colon – Gisela Colón is a Puerto Rican–American contemporary artist based in Los Angeles, known for luminous sculptural “monoliths” and other forms she describes as organic minimalism, often linked to Light and Space and Land Art traditions. – link2-IMAGE – Non-Specific Object – (Gisela Colón’s Non-Specific Objects A.K.A. Pods) – Gisela Colón uses the term “Non-Specific Objects” for her Pod sculptures to signal that they are mutable, light‑driven forms that resist fixed identity, reworking Donald Judd’s “Specific Objects” toward organic, phenomenological, and ecological concerns. – link2-IMAGE – Donald Judd’s 1965 essay “Specific Objects” names a “new” kind of artwork—neither painting nor sculpture—that uses three dimensions, industrial materials, and unified form to assert itself as a single, literal object in real space. – link2YOUTUBE (Artist Gisela Colon) –
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link2source – The Importance Of CREDIBILITY In WAR & PEACE – Frank Vaughan @ Frank Vaughan
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link2source – Confusion and People Just Saying Things with Gyrations of Logic. – Trump continues lies in attempt to keep oil prices low. AIA Weekly Update 4.18.26 – John Polomny @ Actionable Intelligence Alert
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Neil Gaimen American Gods – link2-PERPLEXITY-AI – Neil Gaiman’s American Gods is a 2001 fantasy novel that blends myth, Americana, and road‑trip noir, centered on an ex‑convict named Shadow drawn into a quiet war between old gods and new ones in modern America. – link2-source –
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link2source – The Strait “Reopens” and Gold Keeps Climbing – “Avoid the War Zone.” – Many of the wells in the Gulf Countries have been “shut in.” – Doug Casey’s Take @ Doug Caseys Take
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link2source – Chris Whalen: Even If We Cut a Deal Today Inflation Is Not Behind Us – The Julia La Roche Show @ The Julia LaRoche Show – Shortages and Inflation caused by war with Iran would continue even if a deal (truce) were to be made today.
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What determines the price of a Goldback ? – link2-PERPLEXITY-AI – A Goldback’s price is set by its tiny gold content plus a sizable premium for manufacturing, distribution, and market demand, all wrapped into a daily “average exchange rate” that the company publishes. – link – Goldbacks use a vacuum deposition process (Aurum technology) to layer microscopic 24k gold between polymer sheets; this is far more time‑intensive than minting a simple coin or bar.
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link2source – First They Tax the Billionaires, Then the Millionaires, Then You. – Dad Saves America @ Dad Saves America
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link2source – The 1984 Interview That Explains Everything: Yuri Bezmenov – Artificially Aware @ Artificially Aware – Yuri Bezmenov was a Soviet journalist and KGB-linked propaganda specialist who defected in 1970 and later became known in the West for his warnings about Soviet “ideological subversion” and active measures. – link2-PERPLEXITY-AI – You are shaped by the system. Manage perception.
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link2source – They’re Lying About Everything – Richard The Fourth @ Richard The Fourth 32 *** Truth, Half-Truth, and the absence of any mention of Truth. ***
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link2source – Election Fraud? – TRUMP: Economic Depression SUSPENDED | NO INCOME TAX – Real Estate Mindset @ real estate mindset
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link2source – Why War Is Pushing Gold Down and Oil Up | Mark Thornton – misesmedia @ mises media
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link2source – AI Uses and Iran Ceasefire Fragility – CUSS WITH GUS – 4/16/2026 – ESW | RogueNews @ Rogue News
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link2source – All of Humanity At War – Explorers’ Guide To Scifi World – Clif High W_Scifi World @ ClifHigh W Scifi World
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link2source – War Doesn’t Stop the Casinofication of the American Economy – misesmedia @ mises media
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link2source – Reading books, deeply pleasurable, so they are. – I’M TELLING YOU: books are more important than ever – Kylan Emms @ Kylan Emms
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link2source – Mamdani LEGALIZES “Property Theft”… as NYC BANKRUPTS ITSELF – Cash Jordan @ Cash Jordan
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link2source – War Timeline, Europe’s Agenda, Supply Shocks, Agentic AI and Humanoids: Simon Hunt – Christian White @ Christian evan white *** NOT the consensus view. ***
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link2source – Identity Politics (Ep. 104): Clickbait Brain and the Right (w/ Keith Woods) – Identity Politics @ Identity Politics
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link2source – The IndoctriNATION w/ David Snedeker 4.15.26 – Dave Snedeker @ Dave Snedeker-r4k
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link2source – Rory Johnston: 13 Million Barrels Per Day Missing, Why Aren’t Markets Reacting? – Competent Man Podcast – Tom Bodrovics @ Competent Man Pod *** The energy air-pocket took six weeks to arrive in North America and now it’s arriving. – link2PERPLEXITY-AI – In this context, an air‑pocket is a period where crude oil flows temporarily drop sharply because earlier supply was interrupted, but the impact only shows up once ships already at sea have arrived and been unloaded.
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link2source – The Iran War is Creating New Economic Reality | FT’s Martin Wolf – Pyotr Kurzin | Geopolitics @ P Kurzin
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link2source – San Francisco HOMELESSNESS is getting out of control.. – Steven Nguyen, PharmD, MPH @ steven d nguyen
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link2source – MY LAST VIDEO – My LIGHT Is OLD And FADING & It’s Time To LET GO – Frank Vaughan @ Frank Vaughan
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link2source – “Trump Lied: Here’s What the Iran War is REALLY About!” | Nolan Bauerle – Brandon Gentile @ brandon _gentile
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link2source – Jet Fuel Crisis Looms, Risk-On Market Gobbles Up AllBirds AI Pivot – Nobody Special @ Nobody Special Finance
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link2source – EM Burlingame | The Problem With Worshipping At The Altar Of GDP – War is Chaos. – Algorithmic high-frequency trading. – Kontrarian Korner @ Kontrarian Korner
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link2source – Oil Prices, Housing Prices, Fake Prices. – Currency Meltdown on the Way as Powers that Be Have no Choice But to Inflate. – “The worst places to be in terms of your investments.” – maneco64 @ maneco 64 – Crack-up boom, Von Mises – link2-PERPLEXITY-AI – A crack-up boom, in Ludwig von Mises’s sense, is the terminal phase of inflation: the public loses confidence that money will retain any value, flees into real goods and assets, and the monetary system disintegrates. *** “CPI is not inflation.” ***
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link2source – World of Chaos. Is Trump Antichrist? – Leo Hohmann – aminutetomidnite @ a minute to midnite 2406
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A system of alliances that spans every continent; Pax Americana – link2source – Thomas Turek @ thomas turek history nerd –
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link2source – Datura Gave This Woman Schizophrenia Forever – Tales From The Trip! @ tales from the trip
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link2source – THE COMING STORM; preparing for the coming socialist/communist revolution – It may be that you are attacked because you are successful. Don’t listen to the rhetoric of losers. – People who are consistently failing or embittered often rationalize their situation with stories, and you should treat that “rhetoric” as suspect rather than authoritative. – link2-PERPLEXITY-AI – Nuance and caveats: Not every “loser” in some contest is a fool; sometimes the person who just lost a battle has the clearest view of what actually went wrong. – MICHAEL SAVAGE @ Michael Savage *** Avoid toxic people. *** Again with the communist mayor in NYC.
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link2source – 23: The Fall of the Third Rome – Apostolic Majesty @ Apostolic Majesty *** 1453 Fall of Constantinople – link2-PERPLEXITY-AI – The Fall of Constantinople in 1453 was the Ottoman conquest of the Byzantine capital after a roughly two‑month siege, ending the Byzantine Empire and marking a major turning point between the medieval and early modern eras. – History of the Russian Duma – The Russian Duma is the name for Russia’s representative assemblies, beginning with the tsarist parliament created after the 1905 Revolution and continuing as the lower house of parliament in post‑Soviet Russia.
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link2source – Why Gen Z is Being Brutally Exploited – Fin Harrington @ Fin Harrington
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link2source – This is a High-Stakes Regional Chess Game- Kevork Almassian – Michael Farris (Coffee and a Mike) @ Coffeeandamike
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link2source – The invisible liquidity pump is working. – Effects of Oil Shortage Ripple Throughout Asian Economies – Nobody Special @ Nobody Special Finance
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link2source – Why We Must Brace for the Coming Storm – Fin Harrington @ Fin Harrington *** Historically speaking: enduring peace is an unheard-of luxury. * Death by Mediocrity. * anacyclosis definition – link2-PERPLEXITY-AI – Anacyclosis is the ancient Greek theory that forms of government succeed one another in a recurring cycle, with “good” regimes degenerating into “bad” ones in a predictable order. – In political theory, anacyclosis (Greek ἀνακύκλωσις, “going around in a cycle”) is a cyclical theory of political evolution. – link – * link2-pronunciation –
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link2source – Why America is Being Brutally Erased From the Inside – Fin Harrington @ Fin Harrington – This video looks at the forgotten roots of American identity, from the cowboy and the frontier to the Constitution, the Revolution, immigration, and the European inheritance that shaped the United States from the beginning. It explores the argument that America did not appear out of nowhere, but was built by a specific people, carrying a specific history, culture, legal tradition, and way of seeing the world. – 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act passed by Congress – link2-PERPLEXITY-AI – Congress passed the 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act (the Hart–Celler Act) in the 89th Congress, with the House approving it by 320–70 and the Senate by 76–18; President Lyndon B. Johnson signed it into law on October 3, 1965. -*- Abolished the earlier “national origins quota” system from the 1920s.
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link2source – Iran War Insider Source Reveals MASSIVE News (as gold heads to $38,000?!) | Simon Hunt – CapitalCosm @ capital cosm
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*** LES TROIS MOUSQUETAIRES ***
link2-PERPLEXITY-AI – Roman de la Rose – LES TROIS MOUSQUETAIRES – l’incipit des Trois Mousquetaires d’Alexandre Dumas. – link2-youtube – Les Trois Mousquetaires by Alexandre Dumas (1802 – 1870) Part 1 | Free Audiobook -*- gutenberg DOT org – txt – FREE French-Language book –
Le premier lundi du mois d’avril 1625, le bourg de Meung, où naquit
l’auteur du Roman de la Rose, semblait être dans une révolution aussi
entière que si les huguenots en fussent venus faire une seconde
Rochelle. Plusieurs bourgeois, voyant s’enfuir les femmes du côté de la
Grande-Rue, entendant les enfants crier sur le seuil des portes, se
hâtaient d’endosser la cuirasse et, appuyant leur contenance quelque
peu incertaine d’un mousquet ou d’une pertuisane, se dirigeaient vers
l’hôtellerie du Franc-Meunier, devant laquelle s’empressait, en
grossissant de minute en minute, un groupe compact, bruyant et plein de
curiosité.
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entendez vous bien – link2-PERPLEXITY-AI – En français courant, « entendez-vous bien ? » signifie « est-ce que vous entendez correctement ? » ou « avez-vous une bonne audition ? ». – link –
regardez la différence
link – francais authentique DOT com: ecouter entendre regarder voir quelles differences – « Vous entendez bien ? » = question sur la capacité auditive.
heureusement
« Heureusement » signifie « par chance », « fort heureusement », « heureusement pour moi/toi/eux ».
Si rapide et si complet
« Si rapide et si complet » est parfaitement naturel en français.
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link2source – MARKETS PROPPED ON FALSE CEASEFIRE HOPES – Gerald Celente @ gcelente
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link2source – Hormuz Blockade, Panama, China, More – Michael Yon @ Michael Yon Big Honey *** What is the ‘Grand Strategy’ ? *** Population Reduction is the Goal of the System. ***
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link2source – White Flight : Liberalism Destroyed California – Old Stirling @ Old – Stirling
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Define truce with historically significant examples – link2-PERPLEXITY-AI – A truce is a formally agreed pause in fighting between opposing sides, usually temporary, intended to suspend hostilities without necessarily ending the war itself. – closely related to terms like ceasefire and armistice – Mutual agreement: Both sides consent to suspend hostilities – Temporariness – War continues in law – Truces often create space for negotiation – —
Historically significant examples: Christmas Truce of 1914 (First World War) – link – Truce at Gallipoli, 24 May 1915 – link – On 19 May 1915, roughly 40,000 Ottoman troops attacked the ANZAC perimeter at Gallipoli, suffering catastrophic losses under concentrated rifle and machine‑gun fire. – Informal contacts between Australian and Turkish front‑line units on 20 May led to proposals for a temporary armistice to clear the dead. – During the truce all offensive operations along the agreed sector stopped; parties from each side entered no man’s land to retrieve and bury bodies under strictly controlled rules.
Ottoman troops attacked the ANZAC perimeter at Gallipoli several times in 1915, most notably in a massive, coordinated assault on 19 May that set the stage for the burial truce of 24 May. -*- link – Third attack on Anzac Cove
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link2source – AI: Depression by Success or Failure- John Rubino – Michael Farris (Coffee and a Mike) @ Coffee and a mike
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Global Marxism – link2source – The Silent Radicalisation of The Left | Emmet Connor – Globalism = Global Control – Peter McCormack @ PeterMcCormackShow
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*** Zcash *** about ZEC and Zcash Crypto – link2-PERPLEXITY-AI – Zcash is a privacy-focused blockchain protocol, and ZEC is its native coin that enables optional private or transparent transactions using advanced zero-knowledge cryptography.
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link2source – Target and Whole Foods LEAVE NYC… as Mamdani Launches 5 FREE GROCERY STORES – Cash Jordan @ Cash Jordan **-* Zohran Mamdani
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link2source – Toxic Housing Market – HOME BUYERS REVOLT | Housing Market CRISIS – Real Estate Mindset @ real estate mindset
link2source – Melody Wright | Why Residential Real Estate Is Like The Slow Moving Titanic – Kontrarian Korner @ Kontrarian Korner
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link2source – London Paul: Energy Shocks, Silver Crisis, Food Shortages, & Financial Collapse Ahead –
Competent Man Podcast – Tom Bodrovics @ Competent Man Pod
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link2source – Space Ambient Music — Pure Cosmic Relaxation — Mind Relaxation – Relaxation Ambient Music @ Relaxation Meditation Music
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link2source – Oil Lower as Iranian Tankers Test US Blockade, Bank Earnings Mixed – Nobody Special @ Nobody Special Finance *** Oil touches everything. – link2-PERPLEXITY-AI – Oil is embedded in almost every part of modern life: energy, food, transport, materials, and prices across the whole economy. – macro–geopolitical angle: Oil is still the central lever of macro power: it shapes growth, inflation, alliances, reserve-currency status, and the tempo of great‑power rivalry.
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*** Venus and Adonis ***
Thus weary of the world, away she hies, 1189
And yokes her silver doves; by whose swift aid
Their mistress mounted through the empty skies,
In her light chariot quickly is convey’d; 1192
Holding their course to Paphos, where their queen
Means to immure herself and not be seen.
link2-PERPLEXITY-AI – These lines are the closing couplet of Shakespeare’s narrative poem Venus and Adonis, describing Venus’s retreat to her shrine at Paphos after Adonis’s death, borne away in her chariot drawn by silver doves.
– link – “Thus weary of the world, away she hies” – Venus, exhausted and disillusioned by earthly love and grief, departs from the mortal world.
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The Bank of North Dakota and the Great Depression – link2-PERPLEXITY-AI – ***-* – link2source –
The End of ZOG – Brunoblockchain @ Build with bruno blockchain – Interest Rates should be determined by the market. Interest rates (should) emerge from supply and demand for loanable funds. -** Israeli Junta and ZOG – link2-PERPLEXITY-AI – **-** – A “junta” in political science usually describes a small group of military officers who seize power and rule directly, as in classic Latin American or African coups.
The States (of the Union) are starting to “get the joke” and wanting to regulate important things themselves, instead of relying on the Federal Government to act in good faith. – link2-PERPLEXITY-AI – Washington no longer unquestioned center of gravity — dual‑sovereign system.
Israel has at times imposed explicit military government over occupied territories—for example, the “Israeli Military Governorate” after the 1967 war governed the West Bank, Gaza, Sinai, and Golan under military rule until it was replaced by the Civil Administration in the early 1980s.
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– Though Nonpartisan League (NPL) leaders were recalled in 1921, the new governor, Ragnvald A. Nestos, wanted to give the NPL institutions a good chance to succeed. The Bank of North Dakota and the State Mill and Elevator were new ideas in government. Nestos hoped that these two institutions might help to alleviate the agricultural depression of the 1920s.
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By 1936, the Bank of North Dakota had lost $8.8 million on the rural credit program. Funds had to be transferred from other state funds to keep the Bank of North Dakota from failing. The Bank of North Dakota did not close, but it had to find a way to sell the land it had acquired from foreclosures and make new loan policies.
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*** Poems of Petrarch ***
link2-PERPLEXITY-AI – define petrarchan roles – “Petrarchan roles” usually refers to the characteristic positions or functions within the Petrarchan sonnet form, especially the way its two parts “act” in relation to each other.
examples in the public domain of Petrarchan sonnet form – link2source – The Sonnets, Triumphs, and Other Poems of Petrarch by Francesco Petrarca – celebrated collection of poetry written in the 14th century – emotional and philosophical depth characteristic of Petrarch’s style.
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The Sonnets, Triumphs, and Other Poems of Petrarch.
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Poems of Petrarch *- link2 – gutenberg DOT org:
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link2source – ‘ZOG’ is a bad word. – The End of ZOG – A racist conspiracy theory? – Brunoblockchain @ Build with bruno blockchain
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link2source – Joanie Stahl – Iran War. Triggering a Global Economic Disaster? – aminutetomidnite @ a minute to midnite2406
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link2source – Trump Averts Catastrophe By Closing Strait HARDER & BETTER – Arcadia Economics @ arcadia economics
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link2source – A Summary Of Hormuz Drama | Latest Details As Of 13th April – NewsBaba / Mahfuz Talukder @ Mahfuz Talukder 25
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link2source – The Trump-Netanyahu Realignment- Brandon Weichert – Michael Farris (Coffee and a Mike) @ Coffee and a mike
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The old rules don’t apply. – link2source – The Great Reset is happening…now what? – A Broke Millionaire @ a broke millionaire
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link2source – Is this the End of Trump & MAGA? –
Richard The Fourth @ Richard The Fourth 32
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link2source – TRUMP’S NAVAL BLOCKADE TAKES EFFECT | W/ Amir Handjani – Pyotr Kurzin | Geopolitics @ P Kurzin
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link2source – CANADA – The DECLINE Of A NATION & TRUMP As MESSIAH? – Frank Vaughan @ Frank Vaughan *** Forced to fight a war that has been lost for years. * Resource Wars Will Continue. ***
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link2source – Iran DEFIES Trump’s BLOCKADE… Then Their Oil Plants GET ERASED – Cash Jordan @ Cash Jordan
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link2source – Oil Rises, Stocks Fall as Iran Peace Talks Break Down – Nobody Special @ Nobody Special Finance
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link2source – Hormuz — Israel Is Unsustainable – Michael Yon @ Michael Yon Big Honey
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link2source – NYC Bans “FREE DELIVERY”… Amazon Closes 7 Warehouses PERMANENTLY – Cash Jordan @ CashJordan *** Socialism *** Communism *** NYC is set to ban Amazon’s business model and the commerce giant has already promised to move to NJ once the ban is in effect. Journalistic report. Includes news footage for purposes of commentary, criticism and analysis.
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link2source – HEALTHCARE system is quietly breaking down (on the inside) – Steven Nguyen, PharmD, MPH @ stevendnguyen
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link2source – They are bankrupting us. How to protect yourself. – A Broke Millionaire @ abrokemillionaire
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link2source – Winston Churchill Was Bought By Bankers in 1938 — The Transaction That Started WWII – Market Fault Lines @ Market Fault Lines
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link2source – Oil Rises, Stocks Fall as Iran Peace Talks Break Down – Nobody Special @ Nobody Special Finance – The first round of peace talks held in Pakistan over the weekend between the US and Iran went nowhere causing the price of oil to rise back above $100 per barrel and causing stocks to sell off.
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The Currency War (Trump’s) – link2source – Strait of Hormuz Blockade: The Petrodollar’s Last Stand. Gold’s the Supreme Reserve Asset. – maneco64 @ maneco 64 – link2-PERPLEXITY-AI – A petrodollar is a U.S. dollar earned by an oil‑exporting country from selling crude oil, and by extension the term refers to the post‑1970s system in which most global oil trade is priced and settled in dollars, with those proceeds often recycled into dollar assets such as U.S. Treasuries. – link2-investopedia – Understanding Petrodollars: Definition, History, and Global Impact: DEFINITION: Petrodollars are crude oil export revenues denominated in U.S. dollars.
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link2source – I Found the “Canceled” Legend… and He Has a Warning for Every Bitcoiner – Brandon Gentile @ brandon _gentile
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link2source – Why Amtrak’s Most Important Tunnels Are Doomed – Half as Interesting @ half as interesting
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Edward Hopper (American, 1882-1967) – link2-PERPLEXITY-AI – Edward Hopper was a major American realist painter and printmaker, best known for evocative images of modern urban life marked by solitude, stark light, and psychological tension. – Associated with American Realism, depicting ordinary scenes such as city streets, diners, gas stations, and modest interiors with meticulous structure. – key work: “House by the Railroad” (1925) – an isolated Victorian house beside train tracks, often cited as a key early work of his mature style. – link2-source – “What holds the viewer is that the artist’s vision seems under control and yet, on closer inspection, the viewer realizes that the visible surface is a tissue of improbabilities and unreadable shifts in space. “
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link2-PERPLEXITY-AI – “A dying culture invariably exhibits personal rudeness. Bad manners. Lack of consideration for others in minor matters. A loss of politeness, of gentle manners, is more significant than is a riot.” – Robert A. Heinlein
When civility, empathy, and simple courtesy start to disappear, that’s the early warning sign that a culture’s shared values are disintegrating.
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link2source – Warning: Current Government Printing Is Going to Collapse The Economy – VRIC Media @ vric media *** Spending in excess of taxes causes deficits; accumulated deficits cause debt. ***
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link2source – The Mass Immigration Scam – JimmyTalks @ Jimmy Talks-1 – link2source – Homophily (from Ancient Greek ὁμός (homós) ‘same, common’ and φιλία (philía) ‘friendship, love’) is a concept in sociology describing the tendency of individuals to associate and bond with similar others, as in the proverb “birds of a feather flock together“. – The low-friction society. – Innate Preference –
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link2source – WARNING SIGNS ARE FLASHING – THE NEXT PRICE SHOCK OIL, FOOD AND PROPERTY TAXES – jeremiah babe @ jeremiah babe 9308
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link2source – How LA Became A Dystopia – Hoog @ hoog -youtube
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link2source – US TO IMPOSE NAVAL BLOCKADE | w/ Ross Harrison – The Global Gambit | Pyotr Kurzin @ the global gambit
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link2source – CEASEFIRE OFF | TRUMP BLOCKADE | VIOLENT MARKET FLIP – Real Estate Mindset @ real estate mindset
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link2source – US TO IMPOSE NAVAL BLOCKADE | w/ Ross Harrison – Pyotr Kurzin | Geopolitics @ P Kurzin
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link2source – to have deep thoughts – BEST INTRO EVER! – IRAN Negotiations, & TRUMP’S Blockade – Frank Vaughan @ Frank Vaughan
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link2source – Israel’s Uncertain Postwar Future- Theodore Postol – Michael Farris (Coffee and a Mike)@ Coffee and a mike
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*** POETRY ***
When forty winters shall besiege thy brow,
And dig deep trenches in thy beauty’s field,
Thy youth’s proud livery so gazed on now,
Will be a tattered weed of small worth held:
Then being asked, where all thy beauty lies,
Where all the treasure of thy lusty days;
To say, within thine own deep sunken eyes,
Were an all-eating shame, and thriftless praise.
How much more praise deserv’d thy beauty’s use,
If thou couldst answer ‘This fair child of mine
Shall sum my count, and make my old excuse,’
Proving his beauty by succession thine.
This were to be new made when thou art old,
And see thy blood warm when thou feel’st it cold.
*** *** END QUOTE: – by, William Shakespeare – link
*** *** *** Don’t stop reading; that’s the key!
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*** *** link2-PERPLEXITY-AI – When you are about forty, age will “attack” your forehead like an army, carving wrinkles (trenches) into the “field” of your beauty.
The fine “uniform” of youth that everyone admires now will be like a worn-out garment, valued very little.
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link2source – The System Is Starting to Crack – Adam Taggart #6379 – Kerry Lutz’s Financial Survival Network @ Fsn Gold and Silver
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link2-PERPLEXITY-AI – Romeo is again speaking to Tybalt in Act 3, Scene 1, trying to defuse the conflict without revealing his secret marriage to Juliet.
ROMEO.
Tybalt, the reason that I have to love thee
Doth much excuse the appertaining rage
To such a greeting. Villain am I none;
Therefore farewell; I see thou know’st me not.
Romeo tells Tybalt that he has a strong reason to love him (their new kinship through Juliet), and that this reason excuses what would normally be his anger at Tybalt’s insulting challenge.
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Don’t live in the past unless you have the period-specific furnishings.
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link2source – How the Ruling Class Understands and Uses Power Ep.3 – Xoaquin Flores 3/24/2026 – ESW | RogueNews @ RogueNews – Materialist versus Idealist world view and personal agency – link2-PERPLEXITY-AI – A materialist worldview tends to see personal agency as emerging from and constrained by physical and social conditions, while an idealist worldview tends to see agency as grounded in mind, consciousness, or reason as something more fundamental than matter. *-* Trapped in a Matrix of our own making. – The “Matrix” as social construct – “the Matrix” as a metaphor for socially constructed reality – We internalize norms and roles until they feel like “just the way things are,” which is what Fromm calls “automaton conformity,” a way of escaping the anxiety of genuine freedom.
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link2source – WHAT THE IRAN WAR IS REALLY DOING TO THE GLOBAL ECONOMY | Dana Samuelson – Higher-for-longer oil prices. – Pyotr Kurzin | Geopolitics @ PKurzin
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link2source – NYC’s Subway Just IMPLODED… as Mayor Mamdani BLAMES TRUMP – Cash Jordan @ Cash Jordan – Zohran Mamdani – Mayor of New York City
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link2source – Scott Ritter : What Awaits US Ground Troops – Judge Napolitano – Judging Freedom @ judgingfreedom *** Kharg Island (Kharg or Khark) lies about 25 km off Iran’s southwest coast in the northern Persian Gulf, roughly opposite the port of Ganaveh and near the approaches to the Strait of Hormuz. – link2-PERPLEXITY-AI – Geologically it is a coral outcrop that Iran has developed into a heavily industrialized oil hub with storage tanks, jetties, and support facilities.
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link2source – The America You Knew Is Gone – Vaush @ Vaush
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link2source – Peace, De-escalation, or Re-positioning? – TRUMP DESPERATELY SEEKS WAY OUT OF IRAN WAR | Daniel Davis – Pyotr Kurzin | Geopolitics @ PKurzin
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link2source – The Disaster Continues – War, Famine, & Supply Disruption – Frank Vaughan @ Frank Vaughan *** Edward Gibbon most famously links famine to war in his description of Justinian’s reign, where he writes of “the triple scourge of war, pestilence, and famine” afflicting the empire. – link2-PERPLEXITY-AI -* In Book XLIII (chapter 43) Gibbon describes how prolonged warfare under Justinian produces or intensifies famine and disease across the empire. He notes that sieges (like those of Naples, Cumae, and Rome) led to exhausted provinces, soaring food prices, and starvation among both civilians and soldiers. *- link–
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The very fact that things could get worse means that you haven’t hit rock bottom. – link2-PERPLEXITY-AI
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link2source – SITREP 23MAR26 | EIEIO, War, Supply Chain, and Intel – Bear Independent @ Bear Independent * “War is a game of resources.” *
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link2source – Col Doug Macgregor LIVE TODAY 11:00a est – Daniel Davis / Deep Dive @ Daniel Davis Deep Dive – Douglas A. Macgregor
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If the school you attend makes you feel smart, you need another school.
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link2source – Identity Politics (Ep. 95): Saving People From Themselves (Livestream) – The “War-for-Oil” argument never made sense. *** Identity Politics @ IdentityPolitics *** If you’re Gen-Z you don’t even know what it’s like to have a country. You don’t get it. *** It’s not the end of the American Empire no matter the outcome of the war with Iran. – link2-PERPLEXITY-AI – Even a disastrous war with Iran would mark a phase change in American power, not an instant “end of empire.” – Kent’s resignation as a result of the war with Iran. – link2-PERPLEXITY-AI – Joe Kent resigned as director of the National Counterterrorism Center in open protest of President Trump’s decision to go to war with Iran, arguing the conflict was unnecessary and driven by Israeli pressure rather than an imminent threat to the United States.
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thy name that is my enemy – link2-PERPLEXITY-AI – Juliet’s speech in Act 2, Scene 2 of Romeo and Juliet – true value lies in inner qualities –
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‘Tis but thy name that is my enemy;
Thou art thyself, though not a Montague.
What’s Montague? It is nor hand, nor foot,
Nor arm, nor face, nor any other part
Belonging to a man. O, be some other name!
What’s in a name? That which we call a rose
By any other name would smell as sweet;
So Romeo would, were he not Romeo call’d,
Retain that dear perfection which he owes
Without that title. Romeo, doff thy name,
And for that name which is no part of thee
Take all myself.
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Remember to be your own best friend; because you are! –
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In war there are surprises making it all the more deadly.
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– THE HORMUZ STRAIT * Economic Armageddon *
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Aim for the Moon; You may yet hit the stars. Your ship shall cruise by Milky Way; Then journey back ’round Mars. Your goal shall not be reached, and yet your soul quite high; grounded Earth you shall return and here your loves rely. – by James Legare, Hit the Stars – 4-19-2026 – link-PERPLEXITY-AI –
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Thanks for reading: thy name that is my enemy.
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