Joe Brass

JUST IN: Germany now requires all men aged 17-45 to get permission from the military before leaving the country for more than 3 months.

@IreneMavrakakis I would avoid any cars that are newer than 2016 because the quality, durability and cost to maintain has gotten really bad. Stick with cars made between 1996 and 2016.

Mandatory Impaired Driving Prevention Technology (Section 24220)  •Passive Monitoring Systems: Cars must include technology that passively detects impairment without requiring a breathalyzer test every time. •Surveillance Technology: Infrared cameras and sensors will likely be installed on steering columns or A-pillars to track eye movement, pupil dilation, and drowsiness patterns. •Performance Monitoring: Systems will monitor driving behavior, such as steering patterns or lane departures, to detect fatigue or impairment. •Vehicle Interlock: If the AI determines the driver is impaired (blood alcohol content $\ge$0.08% or severe drowsiness), the system can prevent the engine from starting or limit vehicle speed. •Implementation Timeline: While initial targets were earlier, this technology is expected to be standard in all new passenger vehicles by the 2027 model year.

JUST IN: You do not fire your Army Chief of Staff in the middle of a war for no reason. You fire him because of what comes next. Pete Hegseth called General Randy George on April 2 and told him to retire immediately. The Pentagon confirmed it within hours. No reason was given. Not publicly. Not privately. A senior Army official told Fox News that Hegseth offered George nothing: no misconduct, no operational failure, no policy disagreement on the record. Just a phone call and a career ending in the middle of the most significant American combat operation in two decades. George is the 24th general or admiral Hegseth has removed. But he is not the 24th. He is the one that matters. The Army Chief of Staff. The man whose signature sits between a president’s intent and the order that sends soldiers across a beach or into a tunnel complex. The 82nd Airborne is deploying right now. Marines from the 31st MEU are staged on the USS Tripoli. JSOC operators are at forward bases in Israel, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE. Kharg Island, 90 percent of Iranian oil exports, sits 16 kilometres off a coast that someone will have to decide whether to approach. And the four-star general whose job it was to advise whether that approach should happen was removed 48 hours after Trump told the nation the war would continue for two to three more weeks. The replacement is Vice Chief General Christopher LaNeve. He was Hegseth’s senior military aide before this appointment. The man who carried the Secretary’s briefcase now commands the Army the Secretary is reshaping. The chain of command did not break. It shortened. The distance between a television studio and a combat order just collapsed to zero intermediaries who were not personally selected by the man giving the order. No reason was given. That is the tell. When someone is removed without explanation during a crisis, the explanation is the crisis itself. George either objected to something or was about to. The ground option. The power plant strikes. The Kharg raid. The escalation that turned a highway bridge in Karaj into rubble on the same day he was told to leave. Something in the next two weeks requires a chief who will not push back, and the Pentagon solved that problem by installing one trained as Hegseth’s aide. A former Fox News weekend host just fired a four-star general with combat tours in Iraq and Afghanistan, replaced him with his own former assistant, and did it during a live war in which the next decision could put American soldiers on Iranian soil for the first time in history. No hearing was held. No misconduct cited. The Army woke up on April 3 with a new chief it did not choose, in a war it did not start, preparing for a phase the previous chief apparently could not be trusted to execute. The question is not why George was fired. Every general in the building knows why. The question is what order is coming in the next fourteen days that required removing the one man in the chain of command who might have said no. The war has no perimeter. The chain of command has no objectors. And the next phase has no one left to stop it. open.substack.com/pub/shanakaans…

@federalreserve Ron Paul was right! #EndTheFed

@Rothbard1776 @RealCandaceO youtube.com/watch?v=B39W91…

It’s all tied together, @RealCandaceO. The same Uniparty Deep State who hijacked and killed the 2010 Tea Party movement and derailed Ron Paul’s 2012 campaign are the same media organizations, multinational corporations, special interests and political forces we’re battling today.

@Rothbard1776 @RealCandaceO The very next day after the 2012 RNC sham against Ron Paul I walked into my local registrar of voters office and switched my party affiliation from republican to libertarian because of how blatantly corrupt the upper levels of the GOP were at that convention.

JUST IN - Pete Hegseth fires two more generals, David Hodne and William Green Jr., alongside Army Chief Of Staff Randy George — Reuters

🔥BREAKING: 🚨 "Secretary of War" Pete Hegseth Fires Top General Who Opposed Iran Ground Invasion Gen. Randy George, as Army Chief of Staff, was responsible for preparing and equipping the Army for large-scale combat. He reportedly expressed serious concerns about the high risks, enormous costs, and potential heavy casualties of a full-scale ground invasion of Iran a large, mountainous country with a battle-hardened military. You can no longer warn about the dangers to our soldiers without getting fired. Gen. Randy George was ousted today for raising serious concerns about a major U.S. ground war in Iran. If protecting American lives gets you removed… who will protect our troops now? Experts warn that Iran would be far worse than Afghanistan or Iraq PLEASE Pray God protects our troops, and pray that this madness ends before a single American boot touches Iranian soil.”🙏🙏🙏 #IranWar #USMilitary #PeteHegseth #RandyGeorge #GroundInvasion #TroopSafety #MilitaryLeadership

It's Time to Take Down your Smart Cameras 😬 youtu.be/UMIwNiwQewQ?si… via @YouTube

There is a near-perfect correlation between US oil prices and US CPI inflation, as shown in our below analysis. As WTI crude surges above $112/barrel, we believe the US economy is bracing for 3.5%+ CPI inflation, particularly if current prices persist through April. Asset owners will be the only winners in the long-run.

BREAKING: An Israel-backed terror group called "the United States of America" has blown up a bridge in Iran

I got a raise and a bonus today so I’m gonna celebrate with a half a tank of gas

🚨 Urgent: The U.S. Secretary of Defense has asked Army Chief of Staff Randy George to resign and retire immediately.

"The Romans occupied England in the 5th century, so anyone of Roman descent has a historical claim to the land." It's one of the best sketches I've ever seen, it is so accurate and highlights the situation in Palestine.

Israel 'shoot thumbs off' when learn man set to be surgeon

Imagine if Iran bombed and destroyed the Golden Gate Bridge in California, what would you call it? TERRORISTS The U.S bombed and destroyed the highest bridge in Iran, the B1 bridge, why do you call it “PEACE”? Bombing a bridge is a war crime under international humanitarian law

🚨‼️ BREAKING 💥 Urgent: The final execution of over 10,000 Palestinian prisoners in Israeli occupation prisons has begun; we learn this with profound sadness.