Rob Ryan

Isn't it funny how this "partnership" always requires the EU to be in charge, and the UK to pay for it. Doesn't sound like much of a partnership to me.

Who is stealing from the DOD? Again! The US spent $28.7 billion during the first two weeks of the Iran War — $2.1 billion per day. This makes it the most expensive war per day cost and the Epstein coalition is suffering a humiliating defeat at the hands of the Iranians. And now Trump wants $200 billion more while the pentagon can’t account for $2.52 trillion of assets. Again! Recall sept. 10th, 2001!

A common climate myth is that the rise of modern CO₂ is 'unprecedented'. The usual alarm narrative says it's rising 'faster than anything in 800,000 years' at a pace that is unprecedented. But this is a misconception. No one can know the speed of ice sealing shut for sure because it's almost impossible. The speed of past warming episodes will remain largely hidden from us. This limitation is embedded in the laws of physics and ice core studies for more than a century. Before snow turns into solid ice, it exists in packed snow, known as the 'firn'. This refers to the porous, packed layers of snow that eventually settle into glacial ice. But this doesn't happen overnight and ice bubbles are not sealed off from the surrounding air. So the air can move freely through the firn for decades or even centuries before the weight of new snow finally crushes the pores shut. Because the air can circulate during those 50 to 200 years (depending on the site’s snowfall rate) a single bubble doesn't represent a year. It can represent a rolling average of a century. This is known as 'temporal smoothing'. If a massive CO₂ spike occurred 10,000 years ago but only lasted 40 years, the ice core would smooth it out. It's impossible to know the pace of change when glacier ice forms. These spikes are averaged into the surrounding centuries of lower data, making them appear as tiny, invisible bumps.

100% scam; 0% science

Hegseth has fired almost one general for every aircraft lost in the past 24 hours So much winning

I can’t tell exactly what Trump means by this. I don’t know if he is taunting NATO nations, like the UK and France, to come get their oil, or if he is threatening to take oil from Iran. Whatever it is, Trump is setting up something significant.

Labour Loves the Countryside. It Just Hates the People Who Run It. A woman walks into a tailor's shop in Helmsley, North Yorkshire. She loves the heather hills, she says. The wooded dales. The purple moorland stretching to the horizon. What she cannot stand is the shooting that takes place on the Glorious Twelfth. Jeremy Shaw, the tailor, has heard this before. He considers whether to explain that the heather she travelled three hours to admire exists because of the grouse moor she despises. The gamekeepers who manage the land, suppress the bracken, and keep the moorland in the condition that makes it worth visiting. The cake, in other words, was baked by the baker she came to castigate. What is worrying is that the government shares her confusion. On March 18, Labour published its Land Use Framework. Half a million acres earmarked for solar panels. Nine percent of farmland committed to rewilding. And buried on page 45, a proposal to license game bird shooting, potentially restricting pheasant and partridge releases onto estates. The trail hunting ban came first. Licensing comes next. Each measure arrives with its own rationale. Together they form a programme. Licensing does not prohibit. Bureaucracy does not ban. Smaller shoots simply cannot absorb compliance costs, fold quietly, and nobody in Whitehall answers for the consequence. A Natural England case near Helmsley shows the method. A longstanding partridge shoot was barred from releasing birds until after the season had already started. Shoot days cancelled. Revenue gone. Natural England's hands formally clean. Helmsley bucks every trend in British retail. Four pubs in the town square. A Michelin-starred inn nearby. A tailor forty years in business in what a mentor once called a dying trade. Seventy-five percent of Shaw's revenue is shooting-related. The Pheasant hotel runs at sixty percent shooting occupancy through winter. The deli sells local cheese to Norwegian and German sportsmen. Shooting contributes £3.3 billion annually to the UK economy and supports nearly 147,000 jobs. Pull the shooting thread and the weave comes apart. One Helmsley pub changed hands a few years ago. The new owners decided they wanted nothing to do with shoot trade. They lost heavily, then went back to the estates cap in hand. The market delivered the verdict that policy is not yet ready to impose openly. Licensing achieves the same result without anyone having to take responsibility. The conservation argument collapses under scrutiny. Grouse moor owners have restored 217,000 acres of upland heath in the past 25 years. The almost-extinct curlew is four times more likely to fledge on a managed grouse moor than on unmanaged moorland. The landscape that Whitehall has identified as the problem is the reason the landscape exists in the form they claim to value. When asked what economic trade-offs it had actually modelled, the government was vague. Officials said they recognised shooting's cultural importance and would work with industry toward a sustainable relationship. Starmer has been invited to visit Helmsley and see how the economy functions. He has not replied. He should go. He should meet the gamekeeper loading double guns through winter to keep the household solvent. The beaters earning seventy pounds a day. The tailor measuring 24 keepers for tweed suits stitched with Essex lining and Yorkshire zips. What rural Britain is being offered instead is a licensing regime that will first eliminate smaller shoots, then larger ones, then the hotels and tailors and pubs, until the moorland reverts to bracken and the towns that shooting sustained join the dying high streets that apparently only the countryside had managed to avoid. The heather on the North York Moors, Jeremy Shaw at Carters Country Wear, and the market town of Helmsley. All three exist because of shooting. Labour's Land Use Framework puts all three at risk.

US financial institutions exposed to private debt, per Bloomberg:

STATEMENT: This week, Labour Party officials, including Labour peer Mike Katz, have launched a series of defamatory claims against me. For legal reasons, I have been advised not to repost the defamatory statements, but let me make this clear: Keir Starmer and his cronies will not silence me. The attacks come after a Labour MP that I interviewed about McSweeney was suspended from the party. He had been a Labour member since the age of 13. In 2024, the Labour Party hierarchy chose to ignore me as I came within 693 votes of taking one of their “safe seats”. Now that my audience is growing, Starmer's administration have gone on the offensive. If ending jury trials, introducing digital IDs, and supporting a genocide wasn't enough, Labour now want to “delegitimise” the journalists exposing their actions. I am not intimidated, but I do need your support. Help me take on Starmer’s Labour: chuffed.org/project/175916…

Rubio: Imagine if Iran funded the well-being of its people, rather than its military Trump, two days later: We can’t fund daycare or Medicaid, we need more money for our military

Well, well, well… Was his name really Barack Hussein Obama — or was it Jean Paul Ludwig? Let me explain. After digging through records and old documents, something strange surfaced: the Social Security Number 042-68-4425, the one linked to Barack Obama, was originally assigned to a man named Jean Paul Ludwig — a French-born immigrant who came to the U.S. in 1924. He was reportedly given that SSN in March 1977. Now here’s the kicker: Ludwig spent most of his adult life in Connecticut, which explains why his SSN begins with 042 — a prefix reserved for Connecticut residents. Obama? Never lived or worked in Connecticut. So why would he have a Social Security number tied to that state? It gets even more curious. Ludwig reportedly passed away in Hawaii, where Obama’s grandmother, Madelyn Payne Dunham, just happened to work in the probate office of the Honolulu Courthouse — with access to files of deceased individuals and their personal records, including unused Social Security numbers. The theory is that Ludwig’s death was never properly reported to the Social Security Administration, likely because he never received benefits. That meant his number sat dormant — and accessible. Some believe Dunham may have quietly found a number that belonged to someone long gone — someone not receiving benefits — and handed it off to her grandson, whose citizenship status has long been questioned by skeptics due to connections to Kenya and Indonesia. And that’s just the beginning. If Trump — or anyone else — ever pushes past the birth certificate and straight into the mystery of this SSN, it’s going to be chaos. You’ll see heads spin on the left like never before. Because you can debate birthplaces all day long, but using a Social Security number that wasn’t assigned to you? That’s fraud. This isn’t about politics. This is about the law — and the truth. Let people make their own decisions, but they deserve to know. If you’re reading this and just shrug it off? Then maybe you’re okay with being lied to. But if not, spread the word. Because justice for this country is long overdue. In God We Trust. FOLLOW ME, THE NEXT DROP WILL BE SHOCKING

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Iranian hackers claim Kirk was an inside job… You know, I will believe an anonymous Iranian man, over anybody in the United States government. ON HOW CHARLIE KIRK WAS KILLED⁉️

BREAKING: The US is doubling its reinsurance guarantees for ships passing through the Strait of Hormuz to $40 billion. Berkshire Hathaway, AIG, Liberty Mutual, Travelers, Starr and CNA are joining Chubb in the program. $40 billion in insurance commitments. But no naval escorts. No crew protection guarantees. The US is telling shipping companies "we'll cover your losses" while Iran is telling them "we'll sink your ships." Insurance doesn't stop a drone or a mine. Shippers are not convinced. The strait is still down 94% in traffic. Gas in the US just passed $4 a gallon for the first time since 2022. And Trump posted today that the US can "take the oil and make a fortune" - hours after doubling the insurance program meant to reassure the same markets he keeps destabilizing.

The diplomatic track just collapsed simultaneously with the military one. A US F-15E has been shot down over Iran with two crew members missing (one found and rescued). And Iran has now told mediators the Pakistan talks are dead, the US demands are unacceptable, and the current round of ceasefire efforts has reached a dead end. Both tracks failed on the same morning. The sequencing matters. The aircraft was shot down. Iran confirmed it publicly and offered a bounty for the pilots. Washington confirmed it to Reuters and the WSJ. And within hours of that confirmation Iran delivered its clearest diplomatic rejection of the entire war to the mediators in Pakistan. Iran is not separating the military and diplomatic tracks. It is running them in coordination. A downed F-15 with one missing crew is leverage. You do not negotiate away leverage the moment you acquire it. You hold it and let the other side calculate what it is worth. The US demands being called unacceptable is not new language. What is new is the timing. Iran waited until it had a confirmed shootdown and two missing American pilots before delivering that message to mediators. That is not coincidence. Turkey and Egypt are now scrambling for new venues. Doha or Istanbul. The Islamabad track that Pakistan built over weeks is gone. Starting from scratch in a new city with fresh proposals takes time Washington may not have before April 6. Markets are closed for the three-day weekend. That removes the bond market pressure valve until Monday morning. The 10-year yield cannot move to 4.50 until markets reopen. That gives Washington a weekend without the financial forcing function that has historically been the most reliable mechanism for policy reversal. The diplomatic track is dead for now. The military track just suffered its most significant single loss. And April 6 is 3 days away. The next move belongs entirely to Washington. And Washington just lost both its Army Chief of Staff and its diplomatic framework on the same day it lost an F-15.

Iran’s foreign minister said Tehran wants “a permanent resolution on Iran’s terms, not a temporary arrangement.” Their Demands: 1. War reparations 2. Hormuz sovereignty recognition 3. Permanent ceasefire 4. Sanctions lifted 5. US base closures in the Gulf. Agreeing to even one of these would amount to a major U.S. concession, since it would undercut the premise that this was a law enforcement action against an Iranian nuclear threat. Iran is not looking for an off-ramp; it is seeking a victory settlement.

@Godfrey_Bloom @TRobinsonNewEra So true!

The Greatest Betrayal In English History - My Easter Message To Our MUSLIM King

Why are Barry Hussein Soetoro Obama’s records still secret & hidden?

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Stacy Sheridan is the former Senior Director of Advancement at Turning Point USA (TPUSA), where she handled fundraising and worked closely with Charlie Kirk for years. She spoke at his memorial service last September, sharing personal stories about his support during her husband's illness. She's now frequently seen as a close advisor/companion to Erika Kirk (Charlie's widow) at public events, which is why some online call her a "handler." Her TPUSA affiliation ended recently amid unverified allegations of financial dealings via her own companies, but those remain claims without confirmed legal action.

Erika never has her family around. I mean absolutely no one. Just her and her handler, Stacy Sheridan. Don’t mind me, I’m just jealous. 😌