Maira Butt – The Independent Aug 19, 2026

Iran is considering launching attacks on US military targets in Europe if President Donald Trump escalates the conflict, according to a report.

Sources close to Iran’s government told the Financial Times that potential targets included a British air base in Cyprus that was targeted by a drone in March.

Other countries in southeastern Europe such as Bulgaria, which approved US access to its Bezmer air base for refuelling last month, were also weighed up as a potential target for strikes.

It follows warnings that Tehran is considering switching to a “fully offensive” strategy, a senior Iranian official told Reuters on Monday.

A deal between the US and Iran appears further away than ever as Trump declared the Strait of Hormuz as American territory on Tuesday.

Sharing a bizarre map of the region with a large blue circle around the waterway, he declared the vital shipping route “NEW US territory” on Truth Social.

Shortly after sharing the image, the US leader announced that there are “no talks or conversations going on, or scheduled with the Islamic Republic of Iran”.

“The Naval Blockade remains in full force and effect,” he continued on the platform. “The Hormuz Strait is open and operating. All water mines have been removed or detonated.”

However, data shared by Kpler with The Independent shows that only ten vessels passed through on Monday, compared to 130 to 140 before the outbreak of war. Six commodity vessels crossed the strait on Tuesday, according to Kpler data seen by Reuters.

Iran had earlier said the shipping route is to remain closed until the US meet the conditions agreed in an interim deal, according to Iran’s top negotiator Mohammed Bagher Ghalibaf in comments shared by state media.

Conditions include lifting a marine blockade and sanctions as well as releasing Iran’s frozen assets.

Saudi Arabia’s Aramco resumed oil loading from inside the Strait last week with more waiting to load, according to shipping data and trade sources who spoke to Reuters.

Trump’s post labelled the Strait of Hormuz ‘New U.S. Territory’

Tehran says it has reached an agreement with Oman over a plan for ships to transit the Strait and that they are now working to finalise details for a joint statement.

Muscat has been working on a resolution to reopen shipping through the waterway, which passes through both countries

On Monday, the US leader threatened to launch an attack on Oman as a 60-day period to negotiate a ceasefire deal expired.

“If Oman gets in the way, we’ll bomb the s**t out of them,” Trump said in an interview with Fox News, after reports Oman and Iran are working out their own solution to control the strategic waterway.

He was later asked if he was out of patience with Oman and told reporters: “No, I don’t think they behaved very well, but we’d handle them very easily, just like we do other things.”

A deal appeared to be in sight after Iran and the US agreed to a 14-point memorandum of understanding brokered by Pakistan over two months ago.

But the agreement collapsed last month over different understandings surrounding a clause on the Strait of Hormuz.

Iran attacked three commercial vessels passing through the Omani corridor of the waterway. The US almost immediately revoked sanctions relief on Iranian oil sales and US Central Command launched a wave of strikes on more than 80 military targets in response.

Both sides accused the other of violating the ceasefire agreement.

The fifth clause of the MOU states that the Islamic Republic of Iran will “make arrangements using its best efforts for the safe passage of commercial vessels, with no charge for 60 days only, from the Persian Gulf to the Sea of Oman, and vice versa.”

It adds: “The traffic of commercial vessels will immediately start, and considering the need for removing the technical and military obstacles, and de-mining by the Islamic Republic of Iran, will be instated within 30 days.”

The confusion arises over the next section, stating that both sides “will conduct dialogue with the Sultanate of Oman, to define the future administration and maritime services in the Strait of Hormuz, in discussions with other Persian Gulf Littoral States, in line with applicable international law and the sovereign rights of coastal states of the Strait of Hormuz.”

Iran says that this means that the governance of the strait remains under Iranian control and that passage without approval constitutes a violation but the US says that attacks on vessels are a violation of Tehran’s promise to allow commercial vessels unfettered access.

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Rediff – Edited by Utkarsh Mishra Aug 19, 2026

A high-ranking Russian general has issued a stark warning that Israel could ‘cease to exist as a state’ if the escalating West Asia conflict continues to widen, while US-Iran tensions remain high over diplomatic engagement and naval blockades. 

• Lieutenant General Apti Alaudinov of the Russian Armed Forces stated that the ongoing West Asia conflict could result in Israel ceasing to exist as a state.
• Alaudinov accused Israel of attempting to escalate the conflict and draw the United States and NATO into the confrontation.
• US President Donald Trump has reportedly paused talks with Iran, stating that Tehran must be ‘ready to make a deal’, while maintaining a naval blockade in the Strait of Hormuz.
• Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf criticised US officials for believing that increased economic or military pressure would force Iran into further concessions.

“We must realise that the war in the Middle East will only escalate,” Alaudinov said.

Escalation Warnings from Russia

Alaudinov said Israel was seeking to widen the conflict and draw both the United States and the entire NATO bloc into the confrontation.

He argued that such an escalation could ultimately work against Israel, leading to its disappearance as a state.

“I believe that is precisely Israel’s objective to ramp up the conflict as much as possible and drag both the US and the entire NATO bloc into it. They are good at this. Ultimately, they will overestimate their strength and cease to exist as a state,” he added.

The remarks were made as tensions and military hostilities continue to escalate across West Asia.

One of the primary ongoing conflicts is the confrontation between the US and Iran.

US-Iran Tensions and Diplomacy

Meanwhile, as reported by Al Jazeera, US President Donald Trump has asked his negotiating team to hold off talks with Iran until Tehran is ‘ready to make a deal’, adding that there was no conflict within the administration’s position on diplomatic engagement with Tehran.

The official told Al Jazeera that the US had been engaged in ‘positive talks’ with Iran, but Trump had ‘decided to wait’ before proceeding further.

‘There is no conflict’ in the US administration’s approach towards talks with Iran, the official added.

Strait of Hormuz and Iranian Response

Earlier on Tuesday, Trump had contradicted Iran’s position on the strategic waterway, stating that the naval blockade remained ‘in full force and effect’ while the Strait of Hormuz was ‘open and operating’.

In a post on Truth Social, Trump said there were no talks or discussions currently taking place with Tehran, adding that the Strait of Hormuz was operational and that naval mines had been removed or detonated.

“There are no talks or conversations going on, or scheduled, with the Islamic Republic of Iran. The Naval Blockade remains in full force and effect. The Hormuz Strait is open and operating,” Trump said.

From the Iranian side, Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf slammed senior US officials over Washington’s approach to negotiations with Tehran, alleging that the US believes increasing economic or military pressure on Iran would force Tehran to accept concessions beyond the existing agreement.

In a post on X, Ghalibaf hit out at US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, saying both were ‘way out of their league’ in seeking to exert economic and military pressure on the Islamic Republic and arguing that such tactics would not force Tehran to accept additional concessions.

He further urged the US leadership to stop relying on its officials to resolve the situation and instead take responsibility for the problems it had created.

‘Americans think squeezing Iran harder will win concessions that were never part of the agreement. Bessent and Hegseth are way out of their league. Stop waiting for the clown crew to pull a rabbit out of their hat and clean up the mess you made,’ his post read.

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Israel’s far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir has unveiled plans for a new death-row facility featuring gallows and viewing booths, turning the proposed execution of Palestinian prisoners into a central political message.

Ben-Gvir’s office announced Tuesday that an execution site is being built inside a newly completed death-row wing at a prison in central Israel. The facility is intended for prisoners sentenced to death under Israel’s newly passed Death Penalty for Terrorists Law. Its exact location has not been disclosed.

According to the announcement, the site will include gallows inside the wing and viewing booths where families of victims will be allowed to watch executions. Ben-Gvir defended the arrangement by saying similar systems exist in other countries, including the United States.

‘We are making history,’ he declared. ‘Terrorists deserve only one thing: death by hanging.’

Election Promise Becomes Campaign Message

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It’s important to read the government’s favored propaganda organs on the right and on the left because they are very useful in helping us predict the future.

In my previous post I featured an article by Fox News about rapidly advancing humanoid robot soldiers, a clear signal that the power elites among Washington’s Epstein class are wanting to prime the pump and get people on the right used to the idea of robots serving in military and law enforcement roles.

Like with the Flock surveillance cameras, don’t worry about your civil liberties being trampled upon, because these armed and dangerous AI robots are “for our safety and security.” They’ll be protecting the border, Fox News tells us. What’s not to love about that? Your typical Fox News viewer will lap it up and feel reassured that their president is using everything at his disposal to keep those nasty illegals from entering the country.

They won’t even think about all of the nefarious and brutal possibilities for AI robots, once they’ve been unleashed. But I guarantee you the government is thinking about it, and planning for it.

What better way, for example, to disarm law-abiding Americans who believe in the Second Amendment than to send robot soldiers into their homes to confiscate weapons that can be made illegal with the stroke of a president’s pen? With 6G technology, they will be able to see through walls, through your clothing, etc., and know who has weapons on their person or in their homes. They will no longer need to risk the lives of a human SWAT team breaking down people’s doors. They will simply sic the robots on you under the color of law. They could simply declare you a danger to yourself or your community by virtue of having too many guns, or the wrong type of guns, while speaking out against the surveillance state.

Trump has already signaled his support for so-called red-flag laws, which allow the government to disarm people before presenting any evidence that they could pose a threat to anyone. On Feb. 28, 2018, Trump said, “Take the guns first,” and worry about due process later.

The federal government has also already decided, earlier this year, to add people they deem “anti-technology” and “anti-data center” to its list of “potential” domestic terrorists who need to be watched.

Fox News never asks the right questions, connects the right dots, or approaches a story like militarized robots from the right angle. It’s just about using them to protect the border, which sounds wonderful to the average Fox News watcher.

Similarly, we see an article in today’s Daily Mail, that merits our attention. The Daily Mail, like Fox, is a notorious pro-war, pro-deep state propaganda outlet read by millions of mostly right-wing Brits, Canadians and Americans, and in an article today it promotes the idea of the U.S. power grid being attacked and taken down by an outside entity.

The article, titled, Warning that mammoth nationwide blackout could last 18 MONTHS as power grid’s appalling weak spots exposed, tells you everything you need to know about what’s coming.

Remember, Klaus Schwab, former director of the World Economic Forum, said six years ago that a major cyber attack would hit the world and “the Covid-19 crisis would be seen, in this respect, as a small disturbance, in comparison.”

These demons always tell us their plans ahead of time. Hollywood is another favorite tool for telegraphing their plans. How many movies were churned out about society-altering pandemics before they launched Covid?

They’ve been telegraphing a debilitating cyber attack for almost as long but that still hasn’t happened. I’d say it’s overdue.

The time to prepare for it is now. Previous government studies from years ago have warned this exact same scenario is likely and that a nationwide outage of one year or longer would result in 90 percent of Americans losing their lives.

The Daily Mail article says the entire power grid could be collapsed, simply by taking out nine key substations.

Below is a brief excerpt:

The United States is at risk of a nationwide blackout that could last 18 months, according to the former chairman of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.

Jon Wellinghoff became aware of the alleged vulnerability after a shooting at a Pacific Gas and Electric Company’s San Jose substation, according to the The New York Times Magazine.

He conducted a power flow analysis that modeled the large-scale effects of knocking out the most critical substation in each of America’s three power grids: the Western, Eastern and Texas interconnections. He said this led him to discover just how easy it would be to cripple America’s power supply.

“We came up with some very astounding numbers,” Wellinghoff said. “If you knock out nine total substations among these three grids, you can black out the entire United States.”

Their quoted expert, Jon Wellinghoff, says it’s so easy to pull off that “a bunch of 12-year-olds with the internet could do pretty easily.”

He then provides a few helpful instructions, almost like he’s hoping someone will attempt the deed he’s warning about, saying “All you have to do is look at a map of the grid and figure out where most of the wires go into the substations—that’s a critical substation.”

First off, we didn’t need the Daily Mail or Mr. Wellinghoff to tell us our power grid has been left vulnerable by our traitorous politicians. People like the late Dr. Peter Vincent Pry started sounding alarm bells about this 20 years ago, and Congress has never appropriated the money to harden the grid against an EMP or cyberattack, even though it would cost a fraction of what it costs to wage even one overseas forever war on the scale of Iraq, Iran, or Afghanistan.

Our politicians are quick to attack other countries, slow to defend our own.

While an attack of this nature could very well be carried out by a foreign power such as China, Russia or Iran, the chances are just as good that our power grid has been designed to be easily taken down, or that the U.S. government itself has aspirations of someday taking it down and blaming it on a foreign government it wants to attack.

BOTTOM LINE: The U.S. power grid is ripe for a false flag attack. This could happen either by leaving it intentionally vulnerable to an attack from a foreign enemy that has already been provoked (like Russia or Iran) or from our own government.

Let’s pay attention and see if similar stories about America’s vulnerable power grid start getting planted in other mainstream news sites, because in today’s carefully cultivated and orchestrated news cycle, everything gets reported for a reason.

If the Trump regime is running out of conventional munitions and still hasn’t subdued the Iranians six months from now, then what? Thanks to Marjorie Taylor Greene, we already know Trump has been considering the possibility of using tactical nuclear weapons against Iran. We already know the U.S. military is rewriting its nuclear doctrine to allow for a broader use of tactical nukes. What better way to justify such a heinous attack than to have a massive cyber or EMP attack against the U.S. power grid? Blame it on Iran. Americans will clamor for revenge.

Then it’s nuke time. The seeds for such an attack have already been planted. All that’s needed is the false flag that can be pinned on the desired target country.

Prepare accordingly.

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Reform and the Tories have renewed calls to quit the European Convention on Human Rights after a migrant who raped a sleeping woman won the right to remain in Britain.

Hendrix Ekwen, 34, took nine years to admit he was to blame for the ‘appalling’ attack on the woman when she was drunk, unconscious and ‘vulnerable’, an immigration tribunal heard.

Because of his ‘sexual entitlement’, he did not accept guilt for the crime and tried to ‘place responsibility of the rape with the victim’.

But he has now won an immigration case to stay in Britain after launching a human rights claim.

A judge ruled he could remain in the UK after Ekwen insisted he had ‘learned his lesson’.

The Tories’ Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp said: ‘It is utterly repulsive this rapist is allowed to stay in the UK.

‘He, and all other foreign criminals, should be deported.

‘A whole industry of open-border activists and lawyers has sprung up to frustrate the ability to remove such criminals – this needs to be torn down.

‘The Conservative Party has a plan to end this so we can deport all foreign criminals.

We will leave the ECHR and any other obligation that gets in the way, as well as abolishing the immigration tribunal meaning only the Government will decide who can and cannot stay.’

Zia Yusuf, Reform UK’s home affairs spokesman, said: ‘A Reform government will deport this savage rapist.

‘We will leave the ECHR and all foreign treaties that allow activist lawyers and judges to keep monsters like Hendrix in Britain, endangering British women and girls.’

Ekwen, an Italian national, came to the UK in 2009, when he was already 18, to join his mother and siblings in the North East of England.

Between 2012 and 2014, he was involved in five domestic abuse incidents and in 2015 he received a conditional discharge for possession of cannabis.

In 2020, he made an application under the European Union Settlement Scheme which would allow him to stay in Britain.

However, later that year he was found guilty at Newcastle Crown Court of one count of rape, which took place in 2017, and he was jailed for eight years.

At the Upper Tribunal of the Immigration and Asylum Chamber, Deputy Upper Tribunal Judge Rebecca Pickering described the attack as ‘appalling’, adding: ‘In 2017 [Ekwen] raped the victim.

‘[Ekwen] and the victim did not know one another, but were out with mutual friends on the night in question. Drinking was involved.

‘[Ekwen] and his friend at some point in the evening moved to the victim’s home. The victim had consensual sexual intercourse with [Ekwen’s] friend.

‘The victim then fell asleep. The victim was awoken by someone having sexual intercourse with her whilst lying behind her.

‘She expected it to be [Ekwen’s] friend when in fact it was [Ekwen]. As soon as she realised she demanded [Ekwen] and his friend to get out of her home and reported this to the police.’

Even after being found guilty at his trial in 2020, the rapist ‘maintained his innocence’ and ‘tried to place responsibility of the rape with the victim’.

Judge Pickering called this ‘deeply troubling’ but added that he has come to accept responsibility through ‘a slow and gradual process’.

Ekwen initially appealed against his deportation at the First-tier Tribunal of the Immigration and Asylum Chamber.

He said that he had ‘learned his lesson’ – however, he also claimed his involvement in the offence was ‘inadvertent’ and said that he had just ‘misinterpreted signals from the victim’.

After losing the first-tier hearing, he appealed at the Upper Tribunal and ‘explained that he now understands that his actions constituted rape’.

Judge Pickering said that since 2017 there has been a ‘substantial period during which reflection, maturation and personal development may occur’.

She has now allowed him to stay because Ekwen saying he didn’t want to be known as ‘that kind of person’ was evidence of his ‘genuine shame’.

She said in her ruling last month: ‘[Ekwen’s] conviction for rape is an exceptionally serious matter. I have no hesitation in describing the offending as appalling.

‘The victim was vulnerable by reason of intoxication and because she was asleep…The impact upon the victim was profound.’

But she added that she didn’t believe Ekwen posed a sufficiently serious threat to the public to justify his deportation.

His appeal was allowed on human rights grounds and he won the right to stay in the UK.

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God Poet Transmitting…….

Here we have one more place that the Synagogue of Satan wants for a relocation project, AND… it caught fire. The coincidences these days are amazing. It must be due to some planetary configuration, yeah? I don’t believe in coincidences. What I do believe in is what I wrote two days ago, about the word being delivered to the door of humanity’s greatest antagonizing demographic, by an agent of the source of all antagonisms… telling them their credit would no longer be honored… anywhere.

I mentioned that the servants of The Dark Lord have all been given an internal memo that their days are numbered, and the ticking of the Doomsday Clock, as it approaches The Buzzer, is going to get louder, and LOUDER. The tension is going to ratchet tighter, and TIGHTER. The panic is going to intensify… until the ever-pressing grip on fake reality… formerly being held by the people… who thought they were creating reality… begins to squeeze them around their own necks until they cannot breathe.

When God is making big changes in The World, he doesn’t do it all of a sudden, except in the final moments. He always does it in stages… so that people have the opportunity to step away from the engines of destruction that are using them for fuel pellets.

It’s a truly funny thing about reality, the more that things and conditions start to Get Real, the more the people engaged in the experience think it is just a phase they are passing through, like that fiction about the frog in the slowly-coming-to-boil pot; just because it’s a metaphor doesn’t mean it isn’t real in another context, Visible said… while paraphrasing himself through a form of analogical syntactical inversion.

I go my own way, so I am not engaging in anaclasis per se when I rely on what great minds delivered to me in past times. However, it is important that you understand that I know the meaning and implication of what I am saying, and the words I use, even if you don’t until you get around to looking them up.

What I find most disturbing is that many people won’t bother. They will just go right on by. I NEVER do that. I never let something go by until I have some idea of what it means. I am never afraid to admit that I don’t know something in order to at least learn… through inquiry… that I don’t need it in the first place (grin).

I don’t have to use big words or engage in complex presentations to get my point across. I do not have to play dissonant melodies that resolve into something not even implied in the previous movements, or notation, to create a vehicle that will accompany the lyrics to my songs effectively, but… I can.

Any pretentious twit, with a brain of any relative capacity, can do this sort of thing, if they want to make themselves look smart to stupid people, BUT… why would anyone want to do that? Why not seek out an intelligent audience in the first place?

Stupid people are never going to catch on to the implications of gradual progressions in streams of thought that are designed to communicate deeper meaning, SO… WHY BOTHER??? If a large body of the population has no interest in the truth to begin with, why would you stir them up? They are only going to beat you to death if you don’t find some distraction that serves to occupy them while you get away to safer environs.

Think of it as… forewarned is forearmed… like when you know enough to take the necessary steps… to tie the female black widow spider’s legs together with web filament… before you mate with her. I imagine there is… likely… a more complex workaround of some kind, if you happen to be a praying mantis, and I am pretty sure that it is not prayer.

There is ALWAYS a solution to every problem. Just because it isn’t in the annals of conventional wisdom due to its potential to hurt the bottom line of the predator class… that makes their living from you dying in all kinds of horrible ways… doesn’t mean it isn’t somewhere to be found, if… you… take… the… trouble… to find it!

Bradford Angier, the author of How to Stay Alive in the Woods, once made the observation that many people died of starvation in the wild, while surrounded by all kinds of edible flora. Heh heh, the first link that comes up when you search the title of the book is a novel written by a Tribe Member to get some of the audience of people looking for Angier’s classic tome. They never miss a trick, but they are about to find themselves in a situation where no trick is going to work, oh no, my precious!

Materialism… the mindset of Materialism, not material culture itself, which is critical to The Purpose of Demonstration, is the downfall of many, and these days it is very easy to see that in action, IF you can see at all. These days, many people move about in a haze of visual and auditory sensory hallucination, and let’s not leave taste, touch, and smell out of the loop because they very much factor in as well.

When the sensory bandwidth is your whole world, you are… to my way of thinking… in really big trouble, and it is only a matter of time (and you are running out of time) before you are informed of this.

Materialism is the noxious oxide of life, and creates a stupor where people mistake ignorance for intoxication.

Some people like to play The Odds. I knew a couple of disreputable characters back in the day. Well, I encountered all kinds of low life all the way up to recent times, and the only reason it doesn’t happen much anymore is that I don’t go out much anymore, and I certainly don’t go to a wide variety of locations, given some of what can happen in them. These sorts of things are being GENERATED by invisible means, in case you are trying to figure out how they happen…

…but back to these disreputable characters. They determined, according to their own perverted math, that they were going to get lucky by the numbers, so to speak, so they would ask every girl they ran into if they wanted to have sex, although they put it more coarsely than that. As one of them said to me, Hey! About one in ten is up for it, so… on they went.

In these times of convenience and broken moral compasses, there is a surprisingly large number of people who go through life in this fashion. It’s the Kardashian method of parenting the young. It’s a sad… sad state of affairs at this time, and it’s happening at a wide reach, and you can also… definitely say that The Devil is loose in the halls of power because…

…Trump and his stooges, all of whom are in Talmudic mind-shackles, are energetically strategizing ways to attack Iran with nuclear devices. There is NO OTHER OPTION for them, other than to admit defeat. The reason they haven’t done it already is that the blowback would alter the course of history, and NOT in America’s or her leash-master’s favor.

It was happening at a slower pace, but now… that pace is speeding up, and it is going to become pedal-to-the-metal soon; I’m talking about The Awakening, and the attendant waves of consciousness-altering force… impacting on our collective awareness. Everyone who can be awakened is going to be awakened to the level that is possible for them.

Even some of the deep dreamers are going to be hauled up to the surface against their will, if only to give them a chance to catch on. Maybe they will and maybe they won’t, but God is the fountainhead of compassion, and… that is how he works.

People in their separated state of awareness do not get how intensely God feels the separation that exists between him and the parts of himself that he gave the freedom to go their own way. God cares deeply.

However, he is in no rush. As he told me just the other day, “visible, one of the reasons I never showed any concern about the trials and tribulations you were passing through was because I had already seen how it was all resolved later on. I am in the past, present, and future at all times. I am the very definition of Eternity. I know where it’s all headed, and my angels guide the course of existence as it pleases me for it to go. I’ve been doing it over and over for countless ages, so… I do have to be innovative in my schemes.”

Heh heh, well, I didn’t know anymore… after he said it… than before he said it, but… it was comforting nonetheless.

I wasn’t being a show-off or a smart-ass in some of the earlier portions of this post; I was simply trying to say that paying attention is one of the most critical industries you can engage in. It is… literally… the difference between life and death. There are a few things that are more important, like loving God with all your heart, soul, strength, and mind, but… paying attention is up there, believe me.

If you pay attention, you will find that your capacity to pay attention increases to the point that you can hardly believe what you are noticing, and the surprise that comes with that is… can be… extraordinary, and…

…One Last Thing…….

End Transmission…….

Today’s Original Song is-

♫As Real as a Newly Made-Up Face♫

Here is the third discourse from The First Church of The Presence of God.

Here is the most recent chapter from the audiobook version of The Dark Splendor.

Here is a remarkable translation of Shankara’s Crest Jewel of Wisdom. You can… if you are open to it, literally feel the force of the words. Shankara is one of the greatest of Buddhist teachers, and the man who also made one of my favorite quotes, often posted here;

“These three are difficult to obtain in this world and depend on the mercy of the gods- the human birth, the desire for salvation, and the company of the great-souled ones.” He goes into a little more detail about that in this commentary. I VERY MUCH recommend you read at least the brief portion that I linked here, and I VERY MUCH recommend that you read the whole thing. Charles Johnston is remarkable for making timeless statements more impactful.

Links appear at Substack=

https://lesvisible322755.substack.com/

LINKS FROM MOSTLY X, WHICH HAS AGAIN LOCKED ME OUT, AND THIS TIME COMPLETELY FOR DOING ABSOLUTELY NOTHING AT ALL. WHADDYA GONNA DO?

Truth!=

https://x.com/Gregoreeee8148/status/2089068100402483376

Montesquieu has been a hero of mine for decades along with de Rochefoucauld=

https://x.com/Kristof_Poland/status/2089050035908444637

The most corrupt location I ever lived in=

https://www.foxnews.com/us/penn-state-cocaine-bust-nets-14-arrests-over-alleged-pledge-coke-cutting-indoctrination-rituals

HAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Crazier and crazier=

https://x.com/ClownWorld/status/2089188256726323211

What do you think about this!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!=

https://x.com/ImBreckWorsham/status/2089459974854316271

AND… how about this????????????????=

https://x.com/Rothmus/status/2089371280260706554

Getting nailed=

https://x.com/nextlevelclip__/status/2080728248250438096

This is how Queen got their start=

https://x.com/nextlevelclip__/status/2086611070178021534

This should be One Last Thing, but we’ll stick it in here=

https://x.com/nextlevelclip__/status/2052093311318729036

This is all being engineered by Rothschild and frontman Soros. They know their time is ending=

https://x.com/mattvanswol/status/2089317567231902198

They are also fomenting this=

https://x.com/Vertigo_Politix/status/2089042678822687218

Hard to believe, isn’t it?=

https://x.com/forbiddenmerch/status/2088835839778226571

Just in case you didn’t know these things=

https://x.com/SamaHoole/status/2088832696155820150

israel at their best=

https://x.com/Parodyjeffx/status/2087556575774773574

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• The United States has abandoned negotiations with Iran and shifted from a policy of immediate military destruction to one of slow economic strangulation, a move that signals the beginning of what military analysts increasingly describe as an unwinnable war with chilling parallels to Iraq.
• President Donald Trump’s abrupt halt of the bombing campaign near the Strait of Hormuz late last month came amid stunning admissions from top military brass that the American arsenal has been critically depleted, with precision munitions and interceptor missiles running dangerously low and the list of viable targets near the strategic waterway exhausted.
• This strategic retreat, reported by CNN on Tuesday, reveals a military machine that fired its best shots and failed to achieve its objectives.
• We’re now facing the grim reality of a prolonged conflict against a nation far more formidable than Iraq ever was.
• The White House’s pivot from what one source described as “going from ‘hammer Iran ASAP’ to ‘strangle them’ over time” represents a desperate improvisation for an administration that miscalculated Iran’s resilience and now finds itself trapped in a conflict with no clear exit strategy.
• The June 17 memorandum of understanding, which provided a 60-day window for peace talks, expired Monday amid mutual accusations of bad faith.
• Iran’s closure of the Strait of Hormuz has disrupted roughly a quarter of global seaborne oil trade, creating economic shockwaves worldwide.
• The strategy shift mirrors the Iraq War’s false pretenses and predicts a similar quagmire with far higher stakes.

The depleted arsenal and the illusion of military supremacy

A bloviating narcissistic president can talk a big game, but the revelation that the United States military has largely exhausted its stockpiles of precision-guided munitions and interceptor missiles should alarm every American citizen who has been told that the nation’s military might is unmatched. The five-week bombing campaign against Iran, launched jointly with Israel on February 28, consumed billions of dollars worth of ordnance while achieving none of the stated objectives of crippling Iran’s military capabilities or forcing Tehran back to the negotiating table. Pentagon officials reportedly warned Trump that continuing the current pace of operations was unsustainable, forcing the administration to reconsider its approach.

This logistical reality undermines the entire narrative of American military invincibility that has sustained decades of interventionist foreign policy. Unlike Iraq in 2003, which possessed a shattered military and no meaningful air defense capabilities, Iran entered this conflict with advanced Russian-made S-300 and domestically produced Bavar-373 air defense systems, underground missile production facilities, and a demonstrated ability to absorb punishment while continuing to retaliate. Iranian Defense Minister Aziz Nasirzadeh has directly threatened American bases across the Middle East, and Tehran’s ballistic missile arsenal can reach U.S. installations throughout the region, threatening thousands of American troops with a single launch sequence.

The blockade that became a boomerang

When Iran closed the Strait of Hormuz shortly after the joint U.S.-Israeli bombing campaign began in late February, the move was dismissed in Washington as an act of desperation that would quickly be reversed under military pressure. Instead, the closure has become the central front of this conflict, with the U.S. Navy declaring its own blockade in April and guiding ships through routes that Iran considers illegal, a tacit admission that the United States cannot simply reopen the waterway by force.

The economic consequences of this standoff have been catastrophic and are nowhere near fully realized. The Strait of Hormuz handles around 25 percent of global seaborne oil and liquefied natural gas trade, and its closure has already contributed to oil price volatility that threatens to push the global economy into recession. Energy analyst Greg Priddy notes that Iran seems to be seeking a path back to negotiations with Trump, preferring not to strike Arab neighbors, but desperation breeds recklessness when a nation concludes it has nothing left to lose.

Iran’s key negotiator, Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, delivered a stark message on Tuesday when he declared that the Strait of Hormuz will remain closed until the United States lifts its blockade, releases Iran’s frozen assets, and removes sanctions. This position represents a hardening of Iranian demands, not a softening, and suggests that Tehran believes time is on its side. The expiration of the June 17 memorandum of understanding, which provided a 60-day window to negotiate a definitive peace deal, further dims prospects for diplomatic resolution, with Ghalibaf denouncing Washington’s “theater diplomacy” and charging that the United States has been issuing unacceptable ultimatums rather than engaging in genuine negotiation.

US doesn’t gain control over Iran’s nuclear program either

Iran’s nuclear program adds another combustible element to this crisis. Decades of U.S. intelligence assessments, including a 2007 National Intelligence Estimate, concluded that Tehran halted its weapons program in 2003, and more recent evaluations reaffirm that Iran is not actively developing nuclear weapons. Ali Larijani, an aide to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, warned in April that an attack by the United States or Israel would force Iran to reconsider its nuclear stance, declaring that Iran would move toward weapons capability because it must defend itself. The irony is stark: a war launched under the pretense of preventing Iranian nuclear weapons may well produce exactly that outcome.

Trump’s abandonment of negotiations, confirmed in his Tuesday Truth Social post declaring that “there are no talks or conversations going on, or scheduled, with the Islamic Republic of Iran,” while insisting that the blockade of Iranian ports remains “in full force and effect,” leaves the United States with no diplomatic off-ramp and no military path to victory. The strategy of strangulation assumes that economic pressure will eventually force Iranian capitulation, but this assumption ignores Iran’s four decades of surviving sanctions, its strategic patience, and its demonstrated willingness to absorb suffering rather than surrender sovereignty.

The parallels to Iraq are impossible to ignore, but the differences are more important. Iraq was a devastated nation emerging from a decade of sanctions, with a fractured military and no meaningful ability to project power beyond its borders. Iran is a regional power with advanced missile technology, the ability to close a critical global chokepoint, and the capacity to make any occupying force pay an unspeakable price in blood and treasure. The United States spent eight years fighting a counterinsurgency in Iraq, losing thousands of soldiers and trillions of dollars before withdrawing in failure. A war against Iran would make those eight years look like a skirmish.

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RT.com

AmericanProgress.org

Yahoo.com

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The attached photo (above) shows Ayatollah Khomeini without his turban or beard, and resembling a British Freemason. The powerful evidence is that he was British-Indian, that his father was British Mid-East “adventurer” William Richard Williamson of Bristol, England, and that his mother was Indian, from either Punjab or Kashmir. 

World wars are hoaxes engineered by the Rothschilds to destroy Christian Western civilization and murder patriots and believers. 

Evidence that the Rothschilds are on both sides of all world wars is on this website and in my Illuminati books, especially Illuminati4 Genocide & War which I offer here at no cost.

by Patrick O’Carroll – (henrymakow.com)

By 1978, Ruhollah Khomeini was in exile in the holy city Najaf, Iraq, from whence Saddam Hussein expelled him that same year.

In the newspaper Libération, Dominique Lorentz highlighted the fact that the Zionist West (specifically USA, France, and Britain) viewed Khomeini as a TOOL to destabilize or overthrow the Shah. Lorentz reported that the Western-Zio “intelligence” “services” relocated Khomeini to just outside Paris:

https://www.reuters.com/article/world/corrected-in-a-quiet-french-village-a-cleric-plotted-irans-revolution-idUSKCN1PP2OB/

Of course, this required the active complicity, or at least the explicit clearance, of the Zionist French Regime.

Next, all the major Zionist “intelligence” “services” and media transformed Khomeini’s international image into that of a “Respectable Holy Man” whose political headquarters were now at Neauphle-Le-Château, 25 miles west of Paris.

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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?

President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump meet with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife Sara Netanyahu at the White House, Monday, March 5, 2018, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

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.

Netanyahu promised the Chabad Rebbe Menachem Schneerson that he would start a “social cataclysm” to summon the “Messiah” (i.e. the Antichrist.)

Iran will retaliate by destroying desalination plants in the Gulf states and Saudi Arabia, and with them, the petrodollar. Who knows how Iran’s allies will respond.

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 Former US lawmaker claims high-level talks underway on potential nuclear weapons use against Iran

https://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/?p=330119

Former US Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene claimed Sunday that high-level strategy meetings are underway to discuss the potential use of nuclear weapons against Iran.

“I’m not speculating, I know. And it’s pure evil,” Greene wrote on US social media platform X. She did not provide evidence to substantiate the claim.

Greene alleged that the US government was considering lowering the threshold for nuclear weapons use despite President Donald Trump’s repeated claims of victory in the war and assertions that Washington has control over the Strait of Hormuz.

The former lawmaker warned that such an escalation could trigger a global “nuclear holocaust,” leading to an economic depression and unprecedented casualties.

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Telegraph CONFIRMS Trump Wants to NUKE Iran

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President Donald Trump‘s approval rating has fallen to the lowest level of his presidency, according to a new Reuters/Ipsos poll that concluded on Monday.

Just 33 percent of respondents in the four-day survey, down from 35 percent, said they approved of Trump’s performance in the White House, while 64 per cent disapproved.

Trump’s approval rating, which is now lower than at any point in his current term, has tied the lowest level of his prior term reached in December 2017.

Just under half the country approved of his presidency when he returned to the White House in 2015, but Trump’s popularity took a hit after he ordered strikes on Iran alongside Israel.

The ensuing conflict paralyzed a fifth of the global oil trade, triggering a surge in the price of gasoline that is weighing on U.S. households – and on Trump’s Republican allies defending congressional majorities in November midterm elections.

Trump, who campaigned on promises to keep inflation in check and avoid long-lasting wars, initially pledged the conflict with Iran would take a few weeks. But Iran has proved resilient and has kept the oil trade through the Strait of Hormuz largely bottled up even as the conflict has cooled.

Some 80 percent of Americans – including 87 percent of Democrats and 71 percent of Republicans – think U.S. involvement in Iran “will go on for an extended period of time,” the Reuters/Ipsos poll found. Just 16 percent said the conflict would likely end in a few weeks.

Trump justifies high gas prices

Trump told a political rally in Garden City, New York, on Friday that paying “a tiny little bit more for your gasoline” is ​worth the cost of ensuring “a very evil country” could not have a nuclear weapon, one of his stated rationales for the war.

Throughout the conflict, the president has alternated between threats of escalation and assertions that a peace deal is imminent. Only one in five Americans – and just half of Republicans – think the war has been worth it, the latest Reuters/Ipsos poll found.

Concerns about the war and gasoline prices have Republicans nervous about their hopes of defending their slim majority in the U.S. House of Representatives in the November 3 elections, and Democrats increasingly see the U.S. Senate also within their grasp.

Reuters/Ipsos polling this month has shown voters prefer Democrats ​over Republicans as better stewards of the economy for the first time in about a decade. The latest poll showed 38 percent of voters think Democrats will handle the economy better, compared to 35 percent who prefer the Republican approach. Democrats are also seen as better equipped to manage the cost of living.

The Republican approach to immigration has remained more popular than that of Democrats throughout Trump’s term, with a sharp fall in border crossings and sustained nationwide crackdown ordered by Trump. But Republicans are losing ground amid deadly confrontations and a surge in detainees, including children.

Some 40 percent of registered voters said Republicans have the better approach on immigration policy, compared to 38 percent who pick Democrats, according to the latest Reuters/Ipsos poll. That 2 percentage point spread is the lowest of Trump’s term. Republicans led by 26 points in January 2025.

The Reuters/Ipsos poll, which was conducted online, gathered responses from 1,166 U.S. adults nationwide and had a margin of error of 3 percentage points in either direction.

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America is quickly devolving into a militarized technocratic surveillance state and a story that recently appeared on the Fox News network is enough to make you shudder at the possibilities.

A company called Foundation Robotics is now discussing potential “national security deployments” of its Phantom humanoid robots along the southern border. Foundation Robotics is a Silicon Valley-based startup focused on developing advanced humanoid robots for military and industrial applications, replacing humans in American factories and along the front lines in wars and tense border-policing situations.

The company reportedly received up to $100 million in backing from Saudi royals and also has one of President Trump’s sons, Eric Trump, as its chief strategy adviser. Its CEO, Sankaet Pathak, was the CEO of the bankrupt fintech firm Synapse before it collapsed amid accusations of unethical investment practices.

The journal Financial Debate wrote this about him last year:

“The fallout from Synapse’s failure, including millions of dollars in missing deposits and unresolved issues with partner banks, has cast a shadow over Pathak’s reputation and potential success with Foundation Robotics Labs.”

But now Pathak has resurfaced with a new company and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security may be getting ready to sign a fat contract with this sketchy character.

Fox News spoke with Pathak for an August 16 article, in which the tech CEO said he has already demonstrated the capabilities of the company’s Phantom MK1 robots to the Department of Homeland Security for border deployment.

“We’re in conversations with almost all national security government bodies, so Air Force, Navy, Army, DHS,” Pathak told Fox. “We continue to have dialogues. We’re starting to negotiate contracts and some applications for them.”

Pathak said Phantom MK1 robots are designed to navigate rugged terrain that can be difficult for vehicles, drones and fixed cameras.

“If drones and watchtowers were able to solve for everything, why do we still have humans at the border?” Pathak told the outlet.

The Phantom MK1 robot soldiers are already being beta tested by Ukraine in its war with Russia, CNBC recently reported.

Take a look at the fearsome MK1 humanoid robot in the 2-minute video below.

It was reported in on April 23, 2026 that the U.S. Marines have already signed a $24 million contract with Foundation:

Foundation Future Industries, a Silicon Valley startup developing humanoid robots, landed the $24 million contract to test its “Phantom” android with the Marine Corps, according to a Thursday, April 23, Fox Business report. Company founder and CEO Sankaet Pathak appeared alongside Eric (Trump), Foundation’s chief strategy advisor, on the network’s Mornings with Maria on Thursday to speak about the technology and similar advancements in China.

These developments would indicate we are one step away from seeing AI robot soldiers policing the streets of America and brutalizing human beings based on algorithmic orders designed to guard our all-important “national security.”

If the Flock camera controversy is any indication, abuses of this technology will get brushed aside as “misuse of the system,” leading to programmers or other human scapegoats being fired or prosecuted while the technology itself continues to be deployed and portrayed as “critical for our safety and security.”

Anything the robots do wrong will be blamed on faulty human programming, not the fact that robots should have never been unleashed on civil society in the first place. That’s the technocratic way.

The purpose is the same as with the “shock gloves” potentially being worn by ICE agents that I reported on last week. It’s always the same purpose. To strike fear into the hearts of average people who make up what globalist power elites consider the dregs of society, the ignorant masses. They know they are outnumbered and are only able to maintain their grip on power by creating a perception of invincibility. Hence, they have their Flock and Axon surveillance cameras (eyes) on every street, highway, parking lot, walking and bike path, their Raven listening devices hidden throughout our cities, and even the air above us is being slowly dominated by their spy drones.

Next up will be their AI humanoid robots deployed to “keep the peace” among an increasingly anxious populace, seeing their dollar devaluated, their jobs replaced by AI, their health and car insurance made unaffordable, and even food becoming totally unaffordable for a growing number.

This is why they need 9,000 AI data centers operating as military installations across the United States – to power the AI robots, drones, spy cams, digital/programmable money, biometric ID system and total surveillance grid.

They will have to deploy scarier and scarier technology to keep the people in line as the collapse takes hold and can no longer be denied.

This type of technology in the hands of a rogue government the likes of which we’ve seen in Washington since the Covid scamdemic hit in 2020, should send alarm bells ringing in every freedom-loving American.

First Lady Melania Trump has also been making the rounds promoting robots,

She told a crowd at the White House last September that “the robots are here” and that it is “our responsibility to prepare America’s children” for the AI-driven decades ahead.

Donald Trump runs the government and the world like a mob boss. He is very intent on building out the infrastructure of the beast system, from advanced 6G wireless that he admits has creepy surveillance capabilities, to an inexplicable number of AI data centers, to his family’s investment in drones, crypto, robots and Axon spy cameras, he’s become the technocrats’ biggest asset.

Let’s not forget who Trump’s mentor was: the late Roy Kohn, a New York City mob lawyer whose whole career was based on bullying and intimidating his way to the top.

To anyone who bends the knee and offers praise, Trump loves and condescendingly offers kudos, no matter how morally compromised they might be.

But anyone who dares to speak out against a Trump policy based on their own critical thinking skills will draw Trump’s ire and should expect to be crushed.

This is a very unhealthy environment because it means none of Trump’s top advisers are willing to confront him with hard facts he doesn’t want to hear, whether it be on his war with Iran, unleashing Israel on Lebanon and Gaza, or further weaponizing ICE and other federal agencies here at home.

With the world’s foremost chaos agent in the White House, his globalist puppet masters will continue to stir the pot, potentially up to the white-hot level of nuclear war, or anything else it might take to tear down what’s left of the post-World War II world order in preparation for the establishment of the new digital world order, or beast system.

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Vlad Litnarovch – United24Media.com Aug 17, 2026

Poland is preparing for the possibility of a full-scale war with Russia while warning that Moscow could stage a major provocation within the next several months, Deputy Defense Minister Cezary Tomczyk said, according to Polsat News on August 17.

Tomczyk said Poland’s government and military are no longer treating a confrontation with Russia as an unthinkable scenario.

Warsaw is actively planning for how the country would operate under the worst possible conditions, even as officials hope those preparations never have to be put into practice.

“We are preparing for war, hoping that it will never begin,” Tomczyk said.

Poland’s preparations extend well beyond its armed forces. According to the deputy minister, Warsaw is also strengthening the country’s energy sector and critical infrastructure against the possibility of future aggression.

Tomczyk pointed to the SAN counter-drone system being developed under Poland’s East Shield program, describing it as a major element of the country’s preparations and “a huge, state-of-the-art anti-drone system, the most advanced in Europe.”

He said most of the system is being designed specifically for wartime conditions rather than routine peacetime operations.

“Eighty percent of this system’s capabilities are being built for wartime; only a small part of it may be usable in peacetime conditions. We are not building an army for a press conference. We are building it with the understanding that it must be ready to conduct operations in defense of the state under extremely unfavorable conditions, and we must have the tools to do that,” Tomczyk said.

This warning comes amid reports that Russia established at least 10 new or upgraded drone facilities near its borders with Belarus and Ukraine, including launch sites that could eventually place NATO territory, including Poland and its capital Warsaw, within range of Moscow’s most advanced long-range attack drones.

At the same time, Polish officials believe a direct war is not necessarily the most immediate danger.

Polish soldiers during live fire excercises in Cincu, Romania. Click to enlarge

Tomczyk warned that Russia could carry out a large-scale provocation within months, although he did not specify what form such an operation might take.

He said Warsaw has changed the way it evaluates threats and no longer divides potential scenarios into those considered realistic and unrealistic.

“We no longer divide scenarios into realistic and unrealistic, only into probable and improbable. Today, I would no longer set a deadline. Even some large-scale provocation by the Kremlin could just as well happen within a few months,” Tomczyk said.

The warning comes amid growing concern in NATO about how quickly Russia could rebuild its military capabilities after its war of aggression against Ukraine.

Tomczyk referred to an assessment by NATO’s top commander in Europe, Gen. Alexus Grynkewich, that Russia could restore enough military power by 2027 to pose a significantly greater threat to Europe.

Much, Tomczyk said, will depend on what happens in Ukraine.

“If this war ends, that would obviously be very good, but then it is highly likely that Russia will begin rebuilding its potential for the next armed conflict,” he said.

Polish school children undergo firearms training. Click to enlarge

For Warsaw, supporting Ukraine is therefore directly connected to Poland’s own security.

Tomczyk argued that Russia is not currently prepared for a direct confrontation with NATO and would lose such a war, pointing to Ukraine’s ability to hold back Russian forces despite the enormous imbalance in resources.

“Today, Putin’s Russia is not ready for a confrontation with NATO and would lose such a war. All the more so because we can see that Ukraine has stopped Russia—let alone the full potential of the Alliance. We must be aware of our own strength. Use it, put our affairs in order, support Ukraine, and keep Russia as far away from us as possible,” Tomczyk said.

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Press TV – Aug 17, 2026

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.

He added that the enemy had entered the war with a calculated scenario of “regime change” and disintegration, but suffered defeat on all fronts and failed to gain access to Iran’s nuclear industry.

Turning to the role of the Iranian people in the enemy’s defeat, Gen. Izadi emphasized that the people’s conscious presence had neutralized all enemy ploys, to the extent that national cohesion and authority were strengthened more than ever before.

He also noted that, according to available information, 80 percent of young Americans oppose war with the Islamic Republic of Iran.

Izadi said the “Islamic Republic’s system of Velayat-e Faqih” was the foundation of Iran’s current strength and position, adding that it must be protected.

The United States and Israel waged their second war of aggression against Iran on February 28, with the assassination of Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei and several high-ranking military commanders.

In response, the Iranian armed forces carried out 100 waves of counterattacks over 40 days, targeting US and Israeli military assets, which resulted in significant damage.

On June 17, Washington and Tehran announced a Pakistani-mediated memorandum of understanding (MoU) aimed at ceasing military operations across various fronts, including Lebanon, reopening the Strait of Hormuz, and lifting the naval blockade on Iran.

However, Washington violated all provisions of the understanding, prompting Iran to deliver a firm response.

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Also see:

IRGC shoots down US MQ-9 Reaper drone over Hormozgan

Or view here: https://www.realjewnews.com/?p=2556

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Vigilant Citizen – Aug 17, 2026

Warning: This article contains images and content that some might find upsetting or triggering.

Perez Hilton (real name Mario Armando Lavandeira Jr.) is often called “the original celebrity social media influencer.” He was indeed ahead of his time, as he rose to prominence with snappy blog posts featuring pictures and captions years before social media even existed.

The name of the blog he launched in 2004? PageSixSixSix. Yes, as in 666. Keep that in mind.

PageSixSixSix is actually an apt name to describe whatever is happening in Hollywood. Also, it is an accurate way of describing what will eventually happen to him, over 20 years later, as he’ll end up headlining gossip websites himself.

That’s because Hilton did not merely remain a blogger; he became a celebrity himself and mingled with some of Hollywood’s biggest names.

Industry Darkness

When one deals with the higher-ups of the industry, things are bound to get weird. And they did.

For instance, in 2008, Perez was on the set of the 2008 movie Another Gay Sequel: Gays Gone Wild with RuPaul. Other than the fact that the interview (and the entire movie) is gross and reeks of sexual exploitation, it took a bizarre direction.

RuPaul with Perez: “I’m in a relationship with Satan. We love Satan.”

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United States President Donald Trump posts an image on his Truth Social account showing the Strait of Hormuz as a new US territory.

The post, bearing no caption, comes days after the US leader vowed he would “soon” declare the vital waterway a US territory, as Washington and Tehran struggle to reach a deal to end their nearly six-month conflict.

It remains unclear how serious Trump is about the move, as he has repeatedly issued sweeping threats against Tehran during the negotiation period that were not ultimately carried out.

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Middle East Eye – Aug 18, 2026

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.

The evaluation is being led by the Department of War’s policy office, The Washington Post reported on Tuesday, saying the war was viewed as “a once-in-a-generation chance for the Pentagon to reconsider its presence in the region”.

The report said that the US has already signalled that it might not rebuild its bases attacked by Iran to pre-war status.

The Washington Post corroborates Middle East Eye’s June report that cited current and former US officials as saying that a reckoning with the US’s old basing framework was expected as a result of the war.

Former senior US officials have raised the prospect of a drawdown for months.

“The truth is that we are not as inclined to occupy these bases now that we have seen what the Iranians can throw at them,” David Petraeus, a former director of the CIA and head of Centcom, which oversees all military forces in the Middle East, told Bloomberg in May.

“This is much more than when I was commander at Central Command,” he added.

Another former head of Centcom, General Frank McKenzie, said in July that the US needs to relocate its bases in the Gulf to Israel and neighbouring countries to better protect its assets from Iran’s missiles and drones.

No one in their right mind would ever put the Centcom forward headquarters, you know, 100 miles away from Iran, [in Qatar], yet that’s where it is,” he told the Jewish Institute for National Security of America, referring to al-Udeid military base.

McKenzie said that the current US basing system in the Middle East has become an “artefact”, describing it as a legacy of the Cold War, when the US was concerned about a potential Soviet invasion of the oil-rich Arab Gulf states and later, the counter-insurgencies the US waged in Iraq and Afghanistan.

“[The US] strategy does not match the reality on the ground,” he added.

The Washington Post reported that US Admiral Bradley Cooper, the current head of Centcom, has supported discussions about potentially moving US troops westward from the Gulf.

Iran has already effectively forced the US away from the Gulf coast. The Islamic Republic has targeted Bahrain, home to the US’s Fifth Fleet; Qatar, home to US Central Command’s headquarters; and air bases in Kuwait and the UAE.

The US’s presence in small Gulf states close to Iran, such as Kuwait and Bahrain, has been exposed as particularly vulnerable. The US already relocated west during the war.

MEE was the first to report that the US gained access to Taif Air Base in Saudi Arabia in March after Iran pummelled Prince Sultan Air Base, southeast of Riyadh.

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Patriot stockpiles around the world are dwindling.

All the MSM is awash with reports about the result of Ukrainian drone and missile strikes inside Russian territory.

And there’s no denying that they are taking a toll – even if it’s not nearly as grave as the wishful thinking of the partisan journalists would suggest.

But what is not nearly as well reported is the toll of the massive, unrelenting Russian strikes: the Ukrainian Black Sea ports have ceased operations; the military sites have been pounded non-stop; and, most importantly, the power generation and energy transmission infrastructure is hanging by a thread.

The terrible Ukraine blackouts of last winter may become even worse, and Ukraine now has no Patriot air defense missiles to try to shoot down the overwhelming Russian missiles and drones.

So, Kiev regime leader Volodymyr Zelensky is out begging for the – by now – rare Patriot missiles; something that German press calls ‘a sign of desperation’.

Die Welt reported:

“For Ukraine, the situation before winter is so precarious that Volodymyr Zelensky has not only called on his diplomats to sound the alarm all over the world, but is also doing so himself. ‘This year I am asking our US partners to sell me five percent of their missile stockpiles’, Zelensky said in an interview with CNN on Thursday. If that happens, the president said, ‘we will survive the winter and save lives. If they sell us ten percent, we will destroy all of Russia’s ballistic missiles’.

Zelensky’s cry for help is a sign of desperation. Air defense missiles are in short supply all over the world. Neither the Europeans nor the USA have had enough. Just a few weeks ago, media reports made the rounds that Donald Trump’s options for action in the Iran war are limited due to a dramatically reduced missile stockpile.”

By now, everyone understands that Donald J. Trump’s ‘promise’ to grant Ukraine a license to produce Patriot anti-aircraft missiles was made ‘in the heat of the moment’.

“We haven’t talked to the companies yet”, Trump admitted.

“Trump revised his assessment a few weeks later. ‘It’s a difficult thing’, he said with a view to the release of corresponding intellectual property during the cabinet meeting in Camp David two weeks ago. ‘We haven’t agreed on it yet’, Trump said. There is a risk that ‘the people you give the technology to turn against you’, he added.

[…] Apart from the political decision required for licensing a co-production of the state-of-the-art missile with Ukraine, the manufacturer would also have to agree. ‘I strongly doubt that Lockheed Martin will release the keys to its production’, said JC Lintzenich, Visiting Senior Fellow of the German Marshall Fund (GMF) in Washington, in an interview with WELT. Previously, he was chief security policy advisor to Republican Senator Thom Tillis. ‘These are the crown jewels of the company and no one wants them to fall into the hands of China or Russia and be copied there’, he said.”

But even if the license was indeed given, production in large quantities would be years off ‘due to the complexity’.

In 2025, Lockheed Martin delivered 620 missile units, and the only licensed production abroad, in Japan, delivers only 30 units per year ‘because key components are missing’.

As we see, what’s not in shortage are reasons for Zelensky’s desperation

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Remix News – Aug 17, 2026

The Spanish Civil Guard has now confirmed there have been 15 rapes in Ceuta since the mass migrant invasion at the end of July, which has continued to shake Europe. In response, women are now reportedly fleeing the city in greater numbers as sexual violence spreads and scenes from the city portray a government unable to contain the growing chaos on the beaches and streets.

The latest rape reportedly occurred on Friday night on Lisboa Street, where three migrant brothers reportedly sexually assaulted a 10-year-old girl. An investigation is ongoing regarding the incident. Remix News reported last week that five underage Moroccan girls had reportedly been raped in Ceuta since July 30, along with one underage boy. Since then, the number has risen to 15, according to the Spanish newspaper El Mundo.

Women in Ceuta are now reportedly looking for an exit. Two sisters, Yoli and María José, say they have left the city until the crisis ends due to fear for themselves and their daughters.

“What we are going through is very hard and it is very hard to hear journalists justify this Government, justify everything. We can’t take it anymore, we feel humiliated, trampled. I have had to take my daughters out of their house because the Government does nothing, because Mr. Pedro Sánchez is on vacation in La Mareta. Nobody cares about us,” said Yoli to Spanish television network Cuatro.

There have now been dozens of videos of women, both young and old, expressing their fears over the crisis. One asked, “Why do I have to leave my city, the city where my mother gave birth to me, where I was raised, and where I want to raise my children? What we are living through is very extreme.”

“I need someone to walk me to my front door at 29 years old. I never thought I would have to live through this situation we’re facing – never.”

Another woman said she woke up to find a Moroccan migrant in his underwear in her bed after he climbed up multiple stories to slip into her room through the balcony window early in the morning.

The sexual assault of the 10-year-old girl has also shocked residents, with one local woman saying she was now afraid to let her children go outside.

The Civil Guard has already identified approximately 1,800 minors, who have all been issued an identification bracelet. Sources cited by El Mundo indicated that these minors are simply released back to the streets since they cannot be returned to Morocco.

Beyond the threat of rape and sexual assault, daily life has also come to a halt in many respects. Many areas of the beach remain occupied by thousands of migrants, while health services speak of a catastrophe due to the influx of patients, many carrying and transmitting diseases like tuberculosis.

The government has tried to present a picture of calm but an announcement that tents would start being erected for the migrants has fueled fears that many of the migrants could be in the area for some time to come. Meanwhile, 1,500 agents of the Civil Guard and the National Police, along with military personnel, continue to operate in the area.

Police sources have also pointed out deficiencies in border controls, among them problems with air conditioning and identification systems.

During controls, Spanish police have also detained an immigrant with history of terrorism and other crimes, who also had an arrest warrant from Interpol. The detainee remains in Ceuta while the procedures for his extradition are completed. The case raises fears that during the chaos, migrants with terrorist motives may have made their way to European territory.

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