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Iran's oil storage is maxed out and tanker exports are frozen under the U.S. naval blockade. The regime's solution: hundreds of pickup trucks smuggling subsidized fuel into Pakistan at the Pir Kor border crossing. The government isn't stopping them.

Am I crazy or is the New York Times podcast lady actually trying to argue that insulting Jewish people is worse than the mass murder of children?

Am I crazy or is the New York Times podcast lady actually trying to argue that insulting Jewish people is worse than the mass murder of children?

How Australia’s media used to report Israeli atrocities. (with credit to Jose Teixeira) A 1948 account of the Jewish ethnic cleansing of Palestine by Ronald Monson, Daily Telegraph (Sydney) correspondent in Jerusalem. The tone of Monson's reporting was remarkably different to much of the Western media reporting from Palestine and Lebanon today. Monson did not try to downplay Zionist crimes and he humanised the Palestinian victims. Reporting when journalists were carrying through with their mission, to out the truth and did not succumb to pressure from lobbies with $$$ and threats. Report: They massacred Arab babies From RONALD MONSON In Jerusalem Jewish mortar bombs were coming over the Damascus Gate, bursting with shuddering explosions in narrow alleys when I visited the Jacob E. Spofford Memorial Hospital - American institution — close by the Gate today (Wednesday). I had come to visit the Arab orphans from Deir Yassin. I carried no sweets, because their nurse, Miriam Bedrossian, doesn't think sweets are good for year-old babies. Miriam had cared for these 15 babies since they were brought to the refuge a few days after the massacre of their parents last March. There were 16, but one died of wounds - aged nine months….

We truly have reached AGI. My intern and I built a market research agent using Claude. After spending $50 we found out Opus was hallucinating information and URL links because it couldn't find meaningful data. Making up BS was exactly what one of my other marketers used to do. AI truly has reached human levels of intelligence hasn't it?

BREAKING: Israel is preparing to announce the failure of Iran negotiations, with the US giving Israel immediate authorization to strike Iran's energy facilities after the announcement, per Channel 12.

The plan is greater Israel by any means necessary. That’s it. There is no other 12D chess going on here. The war is destroying the petrodollar, they don’t give a fuck. It’s not part of some deep strategy involving energy resources, it strengthens China immensely. They don’t care. They will burn everything to the ground to try to get greater Israel. It was a common error in analysis to treat the Iraq war as “stupid” or “a mistake.” Paul Bremer dismissing the Iraqi army, obliterating the state through De-Ba'athification, creating the insurgency. It doesn’t make any sense as a strategy unless you understand that the war was for Israel. The Iraqi state had to be pulverized so it could never again threaten Israel. Iraqi academics, engineers, specialists of all kinds had to be killed or chased out in terror. Then ditto in Libya, ditto in Syria. The only plan is to try to do that to Iran. None of this was “a mistake.” None of it was “stupid.” The actual goals were just different from the justifications presented for public consumption. The Israel lobby is immensely powerful but a war with Iran was always the one thing they couldn’t get. U.S. state planners since the Iranian revolution have understood what closure of the strait of Hormuz would mean. It is apocalyptic for the maintenance of the petrodollar that the U.S. empire depends on. The lobby has been working our government for decades now. They’ve finally got a president blackmailed enough and a deep state zogged enough that the initial start of the war could go forward. Now they’re riding on the back of a tiger. The cost of living crisis is coming home. They have to keep the war going over what will be increasing civil unrest. Eventually they’re going to push Trump into doubling down. The goal is to go nuclear. That’s what they think is the way out. Nuking Iran. This is genocidal madness. It’s why everyone in Congress needs to be held accountable for not funding a single dollar for this illegal war. It’s why the anti war movement in this country needs to wake up and recognize that we are in a crisis moment. Our passivity will be taken by the ruling class as permission to do the unthinkable.

India’s political commentator Sanjaya Baru reveals that Modi, during his visit to Israel days before the Iran war, was informed of a regime change operation in Iran. Delhi even started preparing for a post Islamic Republic Iran. This explains the initial five day silence over Supreme Leader Khamenei's death. India's betrayal of Iran, a fellow SCO and BRICS partner and an outstanding ally, offers a great lesson to Russia, China, and emerging Global South leaders like Brazil and South Africa to tread carefully with India. They completely hand in glove with all imperial schemes.

BREAKING: A source close to Ghalibaf says Iran has prepared for "the largest missile launch in history" targeting Israel and US-allied Arab states, ready to fire "upon observing any signs of any strike" this weekend.