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BREAKING: Iran considers collecting tolls from shipping through Strait of Hormuz 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.news/fs4nzb?update=…

BREAKING: US may ‘unsanction’ Iranian oil to ease pressure from US-Israeli war roiling energy markets 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.news/fs4nzb?update=…

The US didn't just attack Iran. It closed the Strait of Hormuz itself, and nobody's talking about the real reason why. @anasalhajji, one of the most respected energy analysts in the world, just published an extraordinary breakdown of what's actually happening in the Strait of Hormuz. The short version: Iran didn't close it. Insurance companies did. And the US has every incentive to let it happen. Here's what actually occurred. Emails were sent to oil and LNG tankers claiming to be from the IRGC, saying the strait was closed. No official Iranian statement backed this. Nobody knows who actually sent the emails. But within hours, European insurance companies canceled policies or jacked premiums so high that tanker operators couldn't move. Cargo ships and container vessels passed through fine. Nothing happened to them. Only oil and LNG tankers were affected. Why? Notably, the administration has not criticized the insurance companies or pushed back on rising oil prices, a departure from its usual stance of vocally opposing anything that raises energy costs for American consumers. Meanwhile, Venezuelan oil was pre-positioned in US ports before the crisis began, specifically to replace Iraqi crude that would be cut off by a Hormuz closure. That doesn't happen by accident. The 2025 National Security Strategy document lays out the framework: US dominance runs through AI, and AI runs through cheap, abundant energy. The strategy is to make energy cheap domestically and expensive for competitors. To do that, you need control of global chokepoints: Panama Canal, the Red Sea, Greenland's Arctic passage, and now Hormuz. The Hormuz disruption accomplishes several goals at once. It forces Asian companies to abandon long-term LNG contracts with Qatar and the UAE in favor of American suppliers. It cripples competitor access to fertilizer exports (33% of global supply transits Hormuz). It drives chip manufacturers to reshore to the US. And Trump's offer to provide Navy escorts and US-backed insurance for tankers gives America indirect control over the strait indefinitely. The biggest beneficiaries of a closed Hormuz are the US and Russia. The biggest losers are Europe, Asia, and the Gulf states themselves. Iran is the excuse. Energy dominance is the goal.

Strange how the US launched a war that could be purposely designed to fast track its own collapse. Reminds us of how so many govts willingly tanked their own economies during the scamdemic. ibtimes.co.uk/iran-strait-ho…

NHS "narrowly avoided" collapse during Covid pandemic and patients were failed, inquiry finds bbc.in/478PgI4

@nickbalo87 @Geopolitics_Emp Thanks for your interest. You can buy it here. thetechnocraticdarkstate.com

The Technocratic Dark State: Trump, AI, and Digital Dictatorship with Iain Davis (Full Interview) @_InThisTogether By John Titus In early November, Solari published my review of Iain Davis’s book, The Technocratic Dark State: Trump, AI, and Digital Dictatorship—a book I consider an absolute must-read. Davis is an independent investigative UK journalist and author who publishes at his own website as well as at other New Media outlets such as Unlimited Hangout. The Technocratic Dark State is his fourth book. As I wrote in my review, The Technocratic Dark State “provided so many penny-drop moments that I lost count of them.” For that reason, I was eager to do an interview with him to dive into some of his most critical insights. Our discussion starts with how money creation relates to the “tech bros,” with Davis’s compelling argument being that the partnership between old-line money creators and Big Tech facilitates two important goals: the continuation of U.S. dollar hegemony and central control of the population. We also explore the concept of “interoperability,” a term I once wrongly dismissed as an empty buzzword. From there, we take a look at the so-called Dark Enlightenment, consider the tech bros’ use of deception, and discuss features of the digital gulag, including digital IDs, as well as Davis’s ideas about how to resist. On the topic of resistance, Davis fittingly ends his book with a useful reminder from 16th-century French philosopher and magistrate Étienne de La Boétie: “Resolve to serve no more, and you are at once freed. I do not ask that you place hands upon the tyrant to topple him over, but simply that you support him no longer; then you will behold him, like a great Colossus whose pedestal has been pulled away, fall of his own weight and break in pieces.” Full Report: solari.com/the-technocrat… Subscribe to shop.solari.com

'My daughter thought she was talking to a boy online and sent nude pics – but it was someone else.’ @SkyNewsAdele speaks to the parents of a girl groomed online as Sky News gets exclusive access to a world‑first report on global online offenders. trib.al/fiUx9VJ