Says Britain's unelected leader (hey, that's democracy!) Andy Burnham. The Mother Of All Energy Crises is coming down the (dry) pipe. And on this day, recalling the bloody British coup against the democratically elected Iran government

The US military has launched a daring logistical operation in the heart of the Middle East. As the Axios portal found out, the United States organized the secret transportation of oil through the Strait of Hormuz, ignoring Tehran and its Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.

According to the newspaper, from 15 to 20 oil tankers pass through the southern channel of the strait along the coast of Oman every day. The total volume of exported oil reaches about 10 million barrels per day, which is about half of the figures recorded before the outbreak of the conflict in the region.

“How did you go bankrupt?  Two ways. Gradually, then suddenly.” This quote appears in Ernest Hemingway’s 1926 novel The Sun Also Rises.

In the dialogue, the character Mike Campbell responds to Bill Gorton’s question with this line, highlighting how financial ruin often results from small, compounding compromises before a final, decisive collapse.

The following are my notes from and my reactions to a Chris Martenson video on the imminent collapse of all Western currencies.

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Negotiations between the US and Iran have reached an impasse. Trump keeps insisting that a deal is coming, which has kept oil markets sanguine. Unfortunately, a diplomatic off-ramp is becoming less likely.

Every administration reaches for the same line. Iran, we are told, is the world’s foremost state sponsor of terrorism — a claim now central to the case for war. It carries the weight of an official designation: Iran has sat on the State Department’s list of state sponsors of terrorism since January 19, 1984, the longest-running designation currently on the books, alongside Cuba, North Korea, and Syria.

Every administration reaches for the same line. Iran, we are told, is the world’s foremost state sponsor of terrorism — a claim now central to the case for war. It carries the weight of an official designation: Iran has sat on the State Department’s list of state sponsors of terrorism since January 19, 1984, the longest-running designation currently on the books, alongside Cuba, North Korea, and Syria.

Multiple reports that Trump is considering using nuclear weapons against Iran. 

Do you think a gangster – a child rapist and sex trafficker — would hesitate to murder millions?

Trump and Netanyahu both belong to Chabad a Jewish supremacist cult dedicated to destroying Western Christian civilization by starting a nuclear war.

Both men are facing imminent election defeat. Both are going to jail for their crimes. Both have powerful personal incentives to blow up the world.

The deputy chief of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) says Iran’s air defense systems shot down more than 200 enemy aircraft, including drones and manned aircraft, during the recent US-Israeli aggression.

Speaking at a ceremony commemorating the martyred Leader of the Islamic Revolution, Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei, on Tuesday, Major General Mostafa Izadi said that the downing of over 200 enemy aircraft had stirred serious public scrutiny in the United States and fueled internal instability within the Israeli regime.

The Trump administration is examining whether to pull troops out of the Gulf as a result of the US-Israeli war on Iran, with the Pentagon weighing the risks facing large US bases in the region that have come under Iranian drone and missile attack.