Miles J. Varghese

BREAKING: Megyn Kelly on MAGA: Megyn Kelly: “After 14 years inside Fox News, I’m exposing what viewers refuse to see—how the network morphed from news into a propaganda machine designed purely to cheerlead wars, worship Trump, and feed you manufactured rage instead of facts.” Truth.

JUST IN: The IRGC Navy just added a second lock to the gate. Hours after the ceasefire was supposed to reopen Hormuz, the IRGC issued an official directive requiring all commercial vessels to use two alternative corridors near Larak Island to avoid sea mines deployed during the war. Inbound traffic north of Larak. Outbound traffic south of Larak. All ships must coordinate with the IRGC Navy before entering. Until further notice. The mines are real. Iran laid them during the February to April campaign as a defensive measure against the US Fifth Fleet. They are in the standard shipping lanes. The alternative routes bypass the minefields but funnel every vessel through a narrow channel inside Iranian territorial waters, past the same Larak Island where the IRGC toll booth already operates and the patrol boats already escort ships one at a time after verifying clearance codes paid for in yuan or cryptocurrency. This is not a safety measure. It is infrastructure. The mines create the problem. The alternative routes create the solution. The solution requires coordination with the IRGC. The coordination requires toll payment. The toll requires yuan. Each layer reinforces the previous one until the Strait of Hormuz is no longer a waterway governed by international maritime law but a managed corridor operated by a theocratic military force collecting revenue in a currency that is not the dollar. The sequence now runs as follows. A vessel operator contacts IRGC-linked intermediaries. Submits IMO number, ownership chain, cargo manifest, crew list, and destination. The IRGC’s Hormozgan Provincial Command screens for sanctions alignment and assigns a friendliness tier. The toll is calculated at approximately one dollar per barrel for oil tankers, paid in yuan through CIPS or in stablecoins through the Qeshm Island crypto exchange window. If approved, the vessel receives a clearance code and route instructions for the Larak corridors. Upon approach, VHF radio hail, AIS verification, and a patrol boat escort through the minefield-free alternative channel. One ship at a time. Fifteen to twenty ships completed this process in the first 24 hours. The pre-war average was 138 per day. Four hundred vessels are reportedly waiting outside the strait. The Gulf states have declared the toll illegal and refuse to pay. Japan’s prime minister called the strait an international public good. Oman’s transport minister said international agreements prohibit fees. None of this has stopped the IRGC from operating the corridor, collecting the revenue, and turning back tankers that attempt passage without a code. Trump claimed a complete opening of the strait. The strait is not completely open. It is completely controlled. The difference between closed and controlled is that a closed strait generates no revenue and invites military intervention. A controlled strait generates reconstruction funding in yuan, establishes a precedent for non-dollar energy settlement, and operates under the legal fiction of a safety directive that blames wartime mines for the necessity of IRGC coordination. The mines will take months to clear. The alternative routes will become permanent. The toll will become normalised. And by the time Islamabad concludes, the infrastructure of a post-dollar energy chokepoint will have been stress-tested, revenue-generating, and operationally embedded for two weeks under the protection of a ceasefire that was supposed to dismantle it. Full analysis open.substack.com/pub/shanakaans…

WOW! President Trump just completely turned on Tucker Carlson, Candace Owens, Alex Jones and Megyn Kelly. This is probably his biggest mistake he's ever made. So much of the MAGA base looks up to these people, and this is going to get them questioning their loyalty to Trump. If Trump can turn on these people simply because they disagree with him, he can turn on anyone. TRUMP IS DONE! He knows it!

🚨 MAJOR NEWS: CBS News: Diplomatic sources confirm Trump personally agreed Lebanon was part of the ceasefire. Israel also agreed to the terms. Then Israel bombed Lebanon, notwithstanding the agreed-upon cease-fire.

@JoshHall2024 You are the enemy

🚨BREAKING: 🚨 Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard has reportedly uncovered a DEEP STATE COUP PLOT to remove President Trump from office by SABOTAGING his war effort in Iran in order to turn the American people and the US military against him. Gabbard is also said to have discovered communications between former HIGH-RANKING MILITARY AND INTELLIGENCE OFFICIALS from the first Trump administration and the Biden administration and active members of the military involved in this war in which they are being told to DISOBEY AND REFUSE TO CARRY OUT ORDERS made by President Trump. The Deep State within our government is alive and well... THE ENEMY WITHIN is the greatest existential threat that our nation faces today.

This is big... Anthropic just announced a model so powerful they won't release it to the public out of fear over the damage it will cause 😨 Claude Mythos Preview found thousands of zero-day exploits in every major operating system and web browser... The numbers are hard to believe: > $50 to find a 27-year-old bug in OpenBSD, one of the most security-hardened operating systems ever built > Under $1,000 to find AND build a fully working remote code execution exploit on FreeBSD that grants unauthenticated root access from anywhere on the internet > Under $2,000 to chain together multiple Linux kernel vulnerabilities into a complete privilege escalation exploit For context: these are the kinds of findings that previously required elite security researchers working for weeks. Anthropic engineers with no formal security training asked Mythos to find exploits overnight. They woke up to working code the next morning. The results were so impressive Anthropic assembled Apple, Google, Microsoft, Amazon, NVIDIA, and seven other organizations into Project Glasswing: A $100M defensive coalition. They're not releasing this model publicly. Instead, they're racing to patch the world's infrastructure before models like this proliferate.

BREAKING: Trump plans to declare a NATIONAL EMERGENCY to steal the midterm elections, according to a leaked memo.

Canadian Lauren Chen and her husband, who were recently allowed back into the United States by the Trump Administration after fleeing to Canada following their involvement in a Russian-backed intelligence operation which provided millions of dollars to Chen in order to spread Russian propaganda to American Conservatives via her now-defunct Tenet Media, was invited to today’s event celebrating Easter at the White House.

The Financial Times is reporting something that should be front-page news everywhere.       Pete Hegseth didn’t just help design the Iran war. He championed it publicly, cheered it on, and sold it to the American people. And according to the Financial Times, while his own department was in the final stages of preparing to launch it, his broker at Morgan Stanley was attempting to make a multimillion-dollar investment in the defense companies that build the weapons we used to fight it.       The investment didn’t ultimately go through, but only because the fund wasn’t yet available on Morgan Stanley’s platform. Not because anyone stopped it.      If these reports are accurate, the Secretary of Defense was positioned to profit from a war he helped start, using information no private investor could ever have. That is a profound betrayal of every service member he commands, and of every American who trusted this Administration with their national security.      No one should be cashing in on privileged information while lives and national security are on the line.

@shaunmmaguire They're not against America. They're against Trump. Trump is harming American interests and, more dangerously, undermining the principles that make America great. By opposing him, they're supporting America.

This is the part that keeps getting buried under the raw numbers. Hegseth spent months pressuring Army Secretary Dan Driscoll to remove four decorated colonels from the one-star promotion list. Two Black men. Two women. Driscoll refused, because their records demanded it. So Hegseth pulled their names himself… which legal experts say he likely had no authority to do. The defense secretary is supposed to approve or reject the entire list, precisely to prevent this kind of targeted discrimination. Then Army Chief of Staff Gen. Randy George - the Army’s top officer - asked to meet with Hegseth to discuss the blocked promotions. Hegseth refused to meet. Refused to discuss his decisions at all. Then he fired George. Whose term wasn’t supposed to end until September 2027. Nine U.S. officials across all four branches confirmed the NBC reporting. “There is not a single service that has been immune,” one said. The officers’ attributes being cited for removal include past support for Covid vaccine mandates… and association with Mark Milley. The Pentagon’s response to every outlet that asked: “fake news.” They didn’t dispute a single name.

JUST IN: Iranian state television is broadcasting footage of American military wreckage on Iranian soil. Two Black Hawk helicopters and one C-130 transport, burned in the mountains of southern Isfahan. Iran says it shot them down. The United States says it blew them up itself. The full story is that American special forces were stranded inside Iran after their aircraft failed, destroyed their own machines to protect their secrets, and waited for a second wave to take them home. The sequence, reconstructed from Fox News and the New York Times citing senior US officials, is this. After the F-15E was shot down on April 3, JSOC operators and Pararescuemen inserted into the Dehdasht mountains via Night Stalker helicopters to extract the evading weapons systems officer. Two C-130 transports landed at a remote forward arming and refuelling point inside Iran to support the operation. Both aircraft became immobilised. Whether the cause was terrain, enemy fire, mechanical failure under combat load, or some combination is not publicly confirmed. What is confirmed is that the aircraft could not leave. The operators faced the decision that defines the difference between this war and every press conference about it. Leave the aircraft intact and let the IRGC capture American avionics, encrypted communications, night-vision technology, and classified software. Or destroy the aircraft, strand themselves deeper inside enemy territory, and trust that a second rescue would come for the rescuers. They chose the second option. Three additional transports arrived under fire. The stranded operators, the Pararescuemen, and the WSO boarded. They flew out of Iran. Zero casualties. The operation that began as a rescue of one man became a rescue of the rescuers, and all of them made it out because nobody in the chain decided the mission was too broken to complete. The footage Iran is showing tonight is real. American military hardware, destroyed on Iranian territory. But it was not destroyed by Iran. It was destroyed by Americans who flew it there, because the secrets inside the machines were worth more than the machines, and because the operators trusted their country would send more aircraft into hostile territory to bring them home after they blew up their ride. The last time American aircraft were destroyed on Iranian soil was Desert One, 1980. A helicopter collided with a C-130. Eight Americans died. The mission aborted. The wreckage was paraded on Iranian television for weeks. Forty-six years later, American aircraft were destroyed on Iranian soil again. This time the destruction was deliberate. Nobody died. The man they came for came with them. And the footage Iran broadcasts as a victory is evidence of operators who chose to sacrifice hardware rather than secrets, and a chain of command that sent three more planes into the same airspace to finish what the first wave started. The wreckage is real. What it represents depends on who is looking. Iran sees downed American aircraft. America sees a rescue that succeeded despite losing its ride home. The truth is in the burning metal: a war that was supposed to be easy just required the most complex combat extraction in decades, and the men who pulled it off had to destroy their own helicopters to do it. open.substack.com/pub/shanakaans…

UPDATED 🚨 🌑 Mar 22: “Open Hormuz in 48 hrs!” 🌓 Mar 26: “Open Hormuz in 5 days!” 🌔 Mar 27: “Open Hormuz in 10 days!” 🌕 Apr 4: “Open Hormuz in 48 hrs!” 🌒 Apr 5: “Open Hormuz by Tuesday!” 🌖 Apr 7: “Open fuckin’ strait by Tue!” 🌓 April 7: “Open Hormuz by Wednesday”

JUST IN: Iran threatened to hit Jubail for decades. It never needed to. The Strait of Hormuz did the job. Sadara Chemical Company, the $20 billion joint venture between Saudi Aramco and Dow Chemical, has indefinitely shut down all production at its Jubail complex in eastern Saudi Arabia. Every line halted. Every cracker cold. Every reactor idle. The company says it cannot provide a resumption date, calling it “contingent on domestic and international factors,” which is corporate language for: we do not know when the strait will reopen, and neither does anyone else. Sadara is one of the largest integrated petrochemical facilities on earth. Its cracker produces 1.5 million tonnes of ethylene per year. Its 26 downstream units convert that into 750,000 tonnes of polyethylene for packaging and pipes, 350,000 tonnes for films and coatings, 360,000 tonnes of ethylene oxide for detergents, plus propylene, polyols, and isocyanates feeding construction, automotive, textiles, and agriculture across three continents. Total capacity exceeds three million tonnes. All of it offline. Not because a missile hit the plant. Because the feedstock arrives by sea through a passage the IRGC now controls with a toll, a clearance code, and a $2 million fee in yuan. This is what economic chokepoint warfare looks like when it works. No warhead. No crater. No dramatic satellite imagery of burning infrastructure. Just a phone call from the operations manager to the board saying we cannot source naphtha and the cracker cannot run without naphtha and the naphtha cannot arrive because the strait is not open and the strait is not open because a war that started 4,000 kilometres away has turned the most important waterway on earth into a permissioned corridor. The plant is intact. The plant is also useless. Asia is hit first and hardest. China, India, South Korea, and Taiwan are the primary importers of Gulf polyethylene and ethylene derivatives. Packaging plants are already rationing. Polyethylene spot prices in Asia and Europe spiked 10 to 15 percent within hours of the announcement. Construction supply chains that depend on polyethylene pipe and insulation are extending lead times. Automotive interiors, textiles, consumer electronics casings, and agricultural films all trace back to the same cracker that is now sitting cold in the Saudi desert because the molecule that feeds it cannot pass through a strait 1,500 kilometres away. The 2026 financial results for both Aramco and Dow will be materially impacted. Sadara cost $20 billion to build over a decade of construction. Its output feeds global supply chains that generate multiples of that value downstream. The shutdown is not a line item. It is a systemic event that demonstrates what happens when one geological chokepoint controls the feedstock for an entire industrial ecosystem. Iran did not fire a single missile at Jubail. The toll regime, the insurance bifurcation, the yuan payment system, and the selective clearances achieved what a barrage of Shaheds could not: the indefinite closure of a facility that took a decade to build and serves customers in 50 countries. It cannot restart until a strait that nobody controls is declared “open, free, and clear” by a president who posted on Truth Social that the alternative is the Stone Ages. The plant is intact. The plant is silent. And the molecule that would make it run is sitting in a tanker that cannot move. open.substack.com/pub/shanakaans…

Bondi was awful, but no worse than Patel. Noem was terrible, but no worse than Hegseth. Funny that it’s only the women who get fired.

Trump last year: "I'm not going to touch Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid." Trump today: "It's not possible for us to take care of daycare, Medicaid, Medicare."

Kristi Noem rigging the property appraiser’s exam while governor so her daughter could get her license, killing a puppy, & giving her boyfriend a powerful job in govt while cheating on her cross-dressing spouse is not that unusual on the spectrum of Republican politician behavior

🚨 The guy on the left was arrested and convicted for illegally selling missiles to Iran during the Reagan Administration. The guy on the right is a Fox News "military analyst” who thinks Iran shouldn't have missiles. They're the same guy.

Many Iranians supported your war, because your plan was to liberate Iran. Instead you celebrate sending a civilization to the Stone Age. Great leaders build, not destroy. They serve humanity, not murder schoolgirls in the name of Jesus Christ. I weep to see America like this.

The President of the United States woke up this morning and posted a 150-word personal attack on Bruce Springsteen. Not on Iran. Not on the tariffs crashing global markets. Not on the recession warnings. Bruce Springsteen. There is a standard psychological tool called the Hare Psychopathy Checklist. It has 20 items scored on a scale from 0 to 40. The cutoff for a diagnosis of psychopathy is 30.  The average person scores around 4. The average maximum security prisoner scores 22.  A panel of eminent psychiatrists assessed Trump before his 2024 sentencing in New York. He scored 36 out of 40.  The 25th Amendment exists precisely for this. Section 4 allows the Vice President and a majority of the Cabinet to declare the president unable to carry out his duties.  It has never been used. In any normally functioning democracy, the bar would be far lower. Most leaders in that position resign themselves. Instead, this one is on Truth Social at 7:58 AM calling a rock legend a dried-up prune. America is fighting a war it cannot exit in Iran. Markets are in freefall. Allies are making alternative plans. And the man with the nuclear codes is writing concert reviews. Gandalv / @Microinteracti1