no joke. the norwegian ambassador to estonia;

https://eatgrueldog.wordpress.com/2026/08/18/no-joke-3/ 

 

 

 

 It's a tough time to be a
conspiracy theorist. We're
basically just down to Flat
Earth and dragons now
that everything else
turned out to be real

 four minutes with a big fan of flock speaking to the commissioners;

watch............ 

 there's enough of them that they could enforce the law but they don't do more than mumble;

 

 The Foreign Ministers of the United Arab Emirates, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, the State of Qatar, the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, the Republic of Indonesia, the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, the Republic of Turkey, and the Arab Republic of Egypt express their unequivocal condemnation of Israel’s continued illegal settlement policies in the occupied Palestinian territory and their complete rejection of the E1 settlement plan and related settlement activities in occupied East Jerusalem. They also reiterate their condemnation of the violations and acts of violence perpetrated by settlers, with the support of the Israeli occupation authorities, against the Palestinian people and their property. They affirm that these practices in no way diminish the inalienable rights of the Palestinian people, constitute violations of international law and relevant United Nations resolutions, and represent a serious threat to regional and international peace and security.

The ministers warn that the E1 settlement plan constitutes a dangerous escalation that would further settlement expansion and annexation, undermining the territorial contiguity of the occupied Palestinian territory, particularly between the West Bank and East Jerusalem. This threatens the viability of an independent, contiguous, and viable Palestinian state, based on the 1967 borders, with East Jerusalem as its capital. These actions directly challenge international efforts to achieve peace, including President Donald Trump’s comprehensive peace plan, which explicitly rejects annexation and forced displacement, as well as the mechanisms envisaged for its implementation, including through the Peace Council. They also challenge President Trump’s firm commitment to preventing the annexation of the West Bank in order to achieve stability and end the conflict...........more.........

 larry johnson gives us scott bessent taking charge, but failing according to larry;

 

 Scott Bessent says he doesn’t understand why oil is going up. On Thursday, hours after announcing that Washington would keep its naval blockade and hit Iran with the toughest sanctions in history, the Treasury Secretary watched crude climb and told CNBC, “I’m not sure why oil has popped up on this.” He called it a spike he doesn’t understand, and waved it off as noise. Buried in the bafflement is a remarkable assumption: that slapping draconian sanctions on a major oil producer should make oil cheaper. By Friday Brent was near $94, a second straight weekly gain above 5 percent, with Trump promising an “economic D-Day” on Monday.

There is no mystery. This is a Treasury Secretary watching the wrong gauge. Oil is not priced off sanctions announcements; it is priced off barrels reaching refineries. And the barrels stopped arriving in the quantities the world needs — not this week, but as the inevitable result of a strait that has been shut since February. The only puzzle is why it took until August to bite. The answer is that for five months, the shortage was hidden. Break the supply picture since the February 28 attack into three phases and the “mystery” dissolves.

Phase 1 — the oil already at sea (February 28 to early April)
When Hormuz seized up, the oil that fed the world for the next five weeks was already floating toward it. Tankers loaded before the attack kept discharging on schedule, and the in-transit pipeline — millions of barrels between the Gulf and its buyers — emptied onto docks as if nothing had happened. Futures traders saw what was coming and panicked early: WTI leapt from about $67 on February 27 to nearly $99 by March 13, a 47 percent spike in two weeks. But the barrels on the water kept landing, the feared scarcity didn’t show up at the refinery gate, and by early April the last pre-war cargoes had delivered. Then a second cushion arrived.........more...........

  this is the way the world operates these days;

 

Suppose that you, gentle reader, are taken from your home at gunpoint. Not for an afternoon. You are held for thirty-two months. Eventually you are ransomed, released, and you make your way back.

You find your house occupied. Other people live in it now. You explain, politely, that it is yours. They decline to leave.

Their reasoning is not stupid, and it deserves a serious answer. They have been there fourteen months. They have painted the walls, planted a garden, buried their dead in the yard. They invoke John Locke: a man acquires title by mixing his labor with the land, and they have mixed a great deal of labor with it. Where, they ask, were you?

You reply that Locke’s argument governs only unowned things. It applies to virgin territory, or to property genuinely abandoned by its owner. Your house was neither. It was not abandoned; it was taken. You did not leave, you were removed. And through every month of your captivity you told anyone who would listen exactly where you belonged.

They are unmoved. They cite the courts, and here they have a point. In J A Pye (Oxford) Ltd v Graham, the House of Lords held that farmers who had grazed a developer’s land without permission for twelve years had thereby extinguished the owner’s title to some twenty-five hectares. Adverse possession is real law. They are not leaving. You are homeless.

Are you entitled to force your way back into your own home, despite their insistence that you have no right to be there? Yes. And where the law says otherwise, the law is unjust..........more.........

 'our' empire, the evil one, is revealing its true nature under the orange man; 

 

Mafia, piracy, bribing, extortion: talk about a flexible Empire at work

Empire of Chaos, Lies, Plunder, Piracy. And bribes.

Mike Pompeo, former aspiring Tony Soprano, admitted: “We lie, we cheat, we steal.” And we bribe.

A Transition Protocol source, as we revealed live, is unequivocal: The President of the United States – despite having “won” the war on Iran countless times, at least in the Vociferation stakes – made a major attempt to induce IRGC Commander-in-Chief Gen. Ahmad Vahidi and senior Iranian military leadership to break with the government in Tehran through enormous financial inducements.

So here we have POTUS playing good ol’ Divide and Rule – which the Brits learned from the Roman Empire – to fracture the IRGC from the inside.

This was not a mere exploratory diplomatic contact. Trump did not merely want to determine whether Vahidi supported U.S.-Iran negotiations.

According to our source – placed in the tight inner circle of Leader Mojtaba Khamenei – this was a full leadership-buyout operation, modeled on the Venezuela playbook, to fracture the Iranian state.

The attempt miserably failed..........more...........