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#Iran

Open Thread - Thurs 05 Mar 2026 - A Few Snippets and Some Music

A Few Snippets and Some Music

It’s just a few days past the first year anniversary of my father’s death. So I’m kinda sad and out of it. And then there’s all the crap Trump and his gang of a&&holes are doing towards WWIII. Good distraction from the Epstein stuff, right?

Ron Placone wrote a bit about this:

So, not only is WWIII a possibility, but now would probably be the easiest time, at least in all of the moments I’ve occupied this earth, for them to get away with such a thing. I just don’t see the country that can’t even have unanimous agreement that pedophilia is bad, and as of the writing of this has made zero arrests via the Epstein Files, somehow unite to stop a war.

Speaking of the Epstein Files, keep speaking of the Epstein Files, because that’s what they’re trying to distract you from.

Stuff is still happening with respect to the Epstein files, it’s just that so many have turned away from learning, reporting, thinking about them. But still… Really American notes that ‘Republicans Joined Democrats to Subpeona Pam Bondi in the Epstein Case’ . So there’s that, at least.

The Golden Age of Capitalism -- 1945-2026

Okay, so at some point very soon the existing stocks of global oil will be depleted and ther rest of the world will begin to wonder if any of that knowledge the Cubans built up in surviving US embargo conditions survived -- after, of course, Marco Rubio destroys Cuba. We will wonder those things because we will be experiencing those embargo conditions, only there will be no embargo.

Open Thread - Thurs 26 Feb 2026 - She Said It for All of Us!

She Said It for All of Us!

A day or two ago Caitlin Johnstone wrote a great piece about how this time the war will be entirely different than the previous wars. Joe Shikspack highlighted the piece in his Evening Blues yesterday. I’d read Caitlin’s piece a bit earlier via an email from Caitlin and agreed with everything she wrote. Everything.

The propaganda and lie telling to get ‘us’ to support a stupid idiotic war is so blatant. So repetitive. I’ve heard it all my life. Surely TPTB could improve on this a bit?


From Streetartutopia.com

Tulsi On Point for Puerto Rico

Presidential candidate Tulsi Gabbard has been joining in the protests in San Juan against the current governor of that territory, and she is calling for the governor to resign.

She sent out a number of tweets with videos, including an interview on CBSN (I assume that is CBS news online). She also breifly addresses the situation with Iran and the oil tankers.