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Saturday, March 21, 2026

Forget Renewables, The Strait Of Hormuz Crisis Shows The World Still Runs On Hydrocarbons

Strait of Hormuz - where the Persian Gulf meets the Indian Ocean
infographic via freemalaysiatoday.com showing pre - war marine traffic

The Strait of Hormuz is barely 21 miles wide at its narrowest point with only about 12 miles of that navigable by big ships. Yet this narrow maritime corridor carries one of the greatest concentrations of economic risk on the planet. When tensions flare in the Persian Gulf, the shockwaves are felt in India,China, Japan, Indonesia and Australia — and ultimately across the entire global economy.

The reason is simple. Roughly one fifth of the world’s oil consumption and a similar share of global LNG trade passes through the Strait of Hormuz, making it the most critical energy marine chokepoint on Earth. However most of the oil and a lot of the LNG and petroleum products coming out of the strait are headed east towards India, China and Japan rather than turning west towards Europe and the USA. So why is it such a big deal?

Because despite all the huff and puff from the woke brigade Fossil Fuels provide 85% of the worlds energy, the world still runs on oil and gas. Silly countries like the UK and Germany where the governing elites have been captured by the UN and WEF dogma about destroying the planet by polluting the atmosphere with Carbon Dioxide (CO2) a trace gas on which all life depends, are prepared to impoverish their citizenry,industries and destroy their Industrial Base so as to be the goody two shoes CO2 emissions reduction champions because they are fully aligned with globalist politics.

A big part of that elitist environmental virtue signalling has ben the ruch among the governments of the west's great manufacturing nations to export manufacturing industrie and the jobs and prosperity those industries bring, to the emerging economies of the far east, China, India, Indonesia and others. Thu the now consumption driven economies of the west depend for our mnufactured goods on the places the oil, gas, etc. passing through the strait is heading for.

Discussions on energy policy tend to focus on electricity and getting 'free' energy from 'sustainable' sources like wind and solar, but electricity is only about 15% of energy consumption. Rural France relies heavily on heating oil and LPG, and France imports LNG for its gas grid. So France will be just as affected as other European Countries.

But only 2% of petroleum consumed in the USA and zero gas goes past Hormuz. The USA being mostly self-sufficient in oil and gas – so Trump is bothered about closure of Hormuz Straits, because… ? And now USA has Venezuelan oil too….nice one Trumpie. Only 4% of oil and 10% of LNG transiting Hormuz is bound for Europe. Its closure is no biggy, therefore. It’s the destruction of LNG processing that is the problem for Europe. And Europe: if only there were an alternative supply of oil and gas, like Russia – Oh wait a sec.

A sensible, pragmatic government would take the present crisis as evidence that we cannot rely on foreign sources of oil and gas, and that we need to exploit the plentiful resources that lie within our territory or beneath the seas surrounding our archipelago. They would get the oilfields and gasfields open and producing. Not the idiots in the present government, they will just use this as “proof” that we need to move away from fossil fuels and rely solely on green energy. They’ll ignore the inconvenient truth that hydrocarbons are necessary as a raw material for a range of vital industries, and that without fossil fuels to back them up, our “renewable” energy sources are a useless ornament when the sun doesn’t shine and the wind doesn't blow.

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Friday, March 20, 2026

With Both Sides Propaganda Machines Turned Up To Eleven No - one Can Predict How The War On Iran Will End

Right now everybody seems to be playing the game of predicting how Trump's war in Iran will end. Will Trump send in the Marines and put American boots on Iranian ground to start a land war? Will the Ayatollahs close entrance to the Gulf completely and plunge the global economy into total chaos? Will the US Navy supported by six sailors from Britain, a couple of French chefs, and a sheep shearer from Australia (unless he stops off in Bangkok en route to the Gulf and forgets why he left Oz in the first place,) will escort dozens of Tankers a day through The Strait of Hormuz where all marine traffic will be sitting ducks for Iranian artillery, missiles, unmanned drone boats?

It's a futile game because as lomg as Iran has any military personnel it can keep the narrow seaway closed.

There are only two ways this kerfuffle can end: either Iran capitulates, or Iran fights on but becomes a bankrupt failed state with a wrecked economy. Which of the two occurs depends on Iran’s stubbornness, the patience of the USA and Israel and how much support Russia and China are prepared to give their allies in Tehran. For Trump, a quick Iranian surrender is the preferred option for now, but Trump is known for changing his mind and as his original four week timeframe for ending this war is not looking good we should be prepared for an even crazier reaction from the US President.

There is no outcome where an intransigent Iran comes out of this intact, but then it can be argued that Iran has been a failed state since Shah Reza was ousted by a bunch of ragheads who wanted to drag the middle east's most advanced and prosperous nation back to a state of medieval, theocratic ignorance.

Iran’s oil economy could be the key for USrael to exploit. The threat of destroying Iran’s oil industry ought to be more effective than the act itself but it carries a huge risk. Destroying the energy industry can’t be undone in the event of regime change or Iran’s surrender. So far, strikes on energy installations have been just small enough to demonstrate that Iran’s economy can be destroyed any time USrael wishes. Iran’s leadership will continue to be circulated until somebody willing to cut a deal takes the reins.

Large scale attacks on Iranian oilfields or an invasion of Kharg Island could easly bring China into the conflict because the Chinese get most of their oil and petrochem products from Iran. And as we have said before Iran can cause catastrophic disruption in the global economy so long as they have the ability to keep The Strait of Hormuz closed. And they can do that as long as China is prepare to keep supplying the missiles and Russia the drones.

Iran can wreck the whole global economy and, so long as it retains the ability to launch missile and drone strikes, can set Arab oil producing states back years. America's claims of economic and military dominance will be challenged by China. EU will go through economic and political hell s it is forced to be dependent on Russian gas and oil. The globe – and now, Americans – will pay a heavy price for letting Israel run loose. Iran has leverage and will use it. They will suffer but not be defeated anymore than Vietnam was.

Longer term the problem we Boggart Bloggers see is that USA is mostly untouchable on their continent – not that their economy can’t or won’t crash – but once they recover from that and a possible civil war they may have an economy, area, navy but without competent leadersp (and the Democrats are even more incompetent than The Republicans,) those things mean nothing.

The UK, under leadership even more incompetent that the US or EU will fail to grasp the opportunity of exploiting the oil and gas reserves under seas surrouding the British archipelago and so continue its decline as leaders and ruling elites congratulate themselves on being the most 'woke' failed state on the planet

Another problem for the USA is that the current conflict hurts others more than the Iran. If the US deep state sacrifices Trump and withdraws from the region there will be plenty countries willing to deal with the Ayatollahs, Japan, EU, India, GCC states, China, Russia.. There is no enduring morailty among states.

USA isn’t really something Iran can touch apart from causing economic pain by keeping the entrance to the Gulf closed. This is enough to cause trouble but end of the day there are still 350 million of them sitting in their own space churning out weapons for revenge, drilling, fracking and pumping for survival. Not sure how a moral rejuvenation of Ameerica would look like and what might induce it. Americans won’t look into a mirror tomorrow and ask “are we the Baddies? Is it us who should have stayed atr home and let other nations deal with their own problems”. This would need cataclysmic levels of deprogramming.

There are some things Iran doesn’t seem to be getting too well. Shia heaven and all but if you allow an experienced well spoken and respected person like Larjani to be killed, you have taken an avoidable loss. Tying one hand behind your back and sparing Israeli IDF reservist civilians instead of taking out their enrgy on day one – mistake.

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Tuesday, March 17, 2026

Residents Of Rome's San Lorenzo District Complain ‘We can’t live like this anymore!’ As Migrant-linked Violence Runs Out Of Control

Violent clashes between police and migrants in San Lorenzo (Picture: ilmessagero.it )

People living in Rome’s San Lorenzo district are protesting noisily about a surge in criminal violence they say is due to large numbers of homeless migrants gathering in the suburb. The latest increase in tensons between residents and 'Asylum Seekers' followed another brutal street attack which left a man in hospital while local political leaders appealed to the government for urgent security measures.

The latest flashpoint occurred in Piazza di Porta San Lorenzo, where a 30-year-old Gambian man allegedly slashed a Moroccan man with a broken bottle in the middle of the street, striking his neck and face and leaving him collapsed on the ground.

The victim was treated at Umberto I Hospital, where he is reported to be in serious condition, while police used footage captured at the scene to quickly identify and arrest the suspect after he fled. For many locals the attack is just the latest in a growing pattern.

Residents say the area has been inundated by homeless illegal immigrants who are often drunk or under the influence of drugs, and who regularly fight among themselves when not busy attacking and robbing passersby.

“The problem is that they don’t just fight among themselves, they also attack us residents. Men, women, and even children,” Sofia, a waitress who lives near Piazza dei Caduti, told newspaper Il Messaggero.

Police arrested a migrant on Monday evening after being called to the San Lorenzo area where the 36-year-old African was throwing bottles in a public park.

When police arrived, the migrant became aggressive and assaulted one of the officers. He then shouted at officers: “I’ll kill you with my own hands. I’ll take you out.” Police bought him under control using pepper spray, and placed him into custody, Il Giornale reports.

While in the officer’s police car, the African continued to be aggressive and threatened the officers, saying: “The judge will do nothing to me tomorrow, and I will be out waiting for you.”

A police press release said the migrant is already well-known to local police and has a long list of criminal charges. According to the Italian newspaper, a neighborhood assembly has now been called in response, with residents describing a situation that has become “unsustainable.”

Katia Pace, one of the organisers of the meeting, said violence has escalated sharply in recent weeks. “Cases have increased visibly in the last two months. Just a few days ago, two women were beaten and robbed,” she said. Despite stepped-up patrols and recent police operations that led to multiple arrests in nearby districts, residents say the response falls short of what is needed to restore order. “It’s not enough,” said Maria, another concerned resident. “We can’t live like this anymore.”

Scenes of disorder that are fuelling residents fears that the illegals are creating a 'no go area' have become commonplace. In public parks, families with young children are forced to navigate areas where men sleep on benches, drink heavily, argue, and urinate openly, heightening fears about safety and hygiene.

This kind of thing is a familiar story throughout Europe where the link between mass immigration and violent crime is now undeniable. Most European governments are still reluctant to acknowledge the extent of the problem or intrduce measures to combat it, but the Swedish government is giving a lead with its 'smash the gangs' policy but in far too many instances authorities are afraid to act because they will be accused of racism.

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Sunday, March 15, 2026

Trump Plan To Open The Strait of Hormuz By Putting US Marines Boots On Iranian Soil Is Doomed To Fail

by Colonel Sealey Farquhar

President Donald Trump's latest escalation of the war in Iran invoves sending US marines to the Middle East to reopen the Strait of Hormuz as concerns grow that rising oil prices could cause a global recession . The president ordered a warship carrying an expeditionary unit to sail for the middle east in a move that could lead to boots on the ground in Iran.

Mr Trump pledged that US forces would hit the Iranian regime “very hard” over the next week and added that the war with Tehran would end “when I feel it in my bones”.

More commercial tankers came under fire from Iranian forces on Friday after the new supreme leader pledged to keep the strait closed until attacks on Iran stopped.

Pete Hegseth, the US defence secretary, insisted to reporters that they “don’t need to worry about” the strait. It was “something we are dealing with”, he said. Hesgeth seems to have forgotten that he said Iran could not close the Strait of Hormuz a few days before thety closed it.

US officials confirmed on Friday that the USS Tripoli had already left Okinawa, Japan, with 5,000 sailors and a Marine Amphibious Ready Group, the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit on board.

The expeditionary unit is capable of carrying out special air and surface operations and has landing force capabilities, but is unlikely to arrive for another two weeks.

Members of the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit, which is capable of launching ground assaults Credit: US Marine Corps

This orce will join the USS Abraham Lincoln and the USS Gerald R Ford, which are already in the region.President Trump is sending US marines to the Middle East to reopen the Strait of Hormuz as concerns grow that rising oil prices could cause a global recession.

Trump pledged that US Marines forces on the ground would hit the Iranian regime “very hard” over the next week and added that the war with Tehran would end “when I feel it in my bones”.

More commercial tankers came under fire from Iranian forces on Friday after the new supreme leader, obviously not dead or in a coma as was reported by mainstream media in the week, pledged to keep the strait closed until attacks on Iran stopped.

It is hard to imagine that Trump’s Iran War will be finished in a few weeks, such claims are propaganda as both sides appear to be digging in for a long conflict. Quite the contrary, like all the predictions made by his expert adviers the whole project has not been thought through. The bid to effect regime change in Iran and take control of its oil and gas resources via a puppet government will collapse in failure, misery and shame in the Strait of Hormuz.

The Gordian Knot of the Strait of Hormuz’s defense or maintenance is unsolvable. The Strait is a death trap. Iranians operating from their own soil can make it so at their whim. They are positioned perfectly to launch boats, missiles or mines to destroy or cripple all ship traffic. They are close to the one and only narrow path all that is navigable by big ships like oil tankers must follow inside the horn of the strait. Michael Clark, a British SkyNews television Military Analyst has recently explicated this point in the below SkyNews program excerpt at about 2:10:

https://news.sky.com/video/analysis-the-strait-of-hormuz-is-in-effect-blocked-due-to-risk-posed-by-iran-13514529

The above strategic conundrum is the abyss of miserable failure laid before Donald Trump in the Anglo-Iranian War. Horribly, something like it is repeated in all projects or programs throughout the Trump administration. It is characteristic of Donald Trump’s every action because he always fails to plan research and think through, with wisdom, prudence, intelligence, knowledge, insight and mature equanimity, before acting.

Here are four examples.

First, the failure of his program for manufacturing workers to experience burgeoning job opportunities and “a better paycheck” as a result of his ludicrous tariffs. The real manufacturing employment statistics easily prove this. the highest manufacturing employment in the U.S. was 19.5 million in 1979 but that since then it has steadily declined due to automation, among other things. That makes good sense. The losses in manufacturing jobs due to automation will never be reversed. Assembly line automation advances are salutary, sound and permanent improvements in efficiency which it would be folly to undo or abandon.

Second, the folly or failure of his frequent statements that NATO members are united behind him and have increased their defense spending to 4% or 5% of GDP. As of June 3, 2025, only Poland, Lithuania and Latvia exceeded 3.5%. All other NATO countries were under 3.5%.. Please read this report for that information in Graph Three:

https://www.nato.int/content/dam/nato/webready/documents/finance/def-exp-2025-en.pdf

As Deutsche Welle asked in a recent article: “Can debt-laden NATO members spend billions more on defense?” If NATO members seriously plan to increase defense spending to 5% of GDP by 2035 — a ‘quantum leap,’ according to the Atlantic Alliance's General Secretary, Mark Rutte there must be serious doubts that the most indebted members [can] really afford the hike.”

This report clearly explains that most NATO countries are too broke and indebted to pay the 5% target by 2035. That they could meet Trump's defence budget target is an impossible pipe-dream due to the economic miseries of 100 years of European Socialism.

Third, the miserable, embarrassing failure of Donald Trump’s deportation policies which are Unconstitutional. Boston, Massachusetts United States District Court Judge Brian E. Murphy’s 81 page decision, issued on February 25th, concluding that his deportation of asylees or refugees to third countries is illegal has damned this project. This is reported in the following WGBH online article, which includes an embedded url or link to the full District Court Memorandum and Order:

https://www.wgbh.org/news/local/2026-02-25/mass-judge-rules-against-trump-administration-policy-for-third-country-deportations

Fourth, all his Executive Order tariffs were recently nullified by the Supreme Court as Unconstitutional. That was a complete disembowelment of his Presidency. He will now have to repay about $188 billion.

The calamitous failure of his Iran War is replicated or reflected in the similar failure of all his administration’s major “programs.”

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Thursday, March 12, 2026

Iran Tightens Grip On The Gulf As Mosquito Fleet Bites Foreign Commercial Oil Tankers

Iran's Deputy Foreign Minister Majid Takht-Ravanchi today (12 March 2026) denied reports that Iran was laying mines in the Strait of Hormuz. Takht-Ravanchi's remarks come days after the US said it had struck multiple Iranian vessels, including 16 minelaying vessels operating near the Strait of Hormuz.

"Some countries have already talked to us about passing the Strait, and we have cooperated with them," the Deputy FM was quoted as saying by AFP. "As far as Iran is concerned, we feel that those countries that joined the aggression should not benefit from safe passage through the Strait of Hormuz."

News sources in the middle east report that India has agreed passage for 28 ships through the strait, but this is not confirmed.

UK Defense Secretary John Healey said the reports had become "clearer and clearer that the Iranians may have started mining in the strait."

Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Mojtaba says the closure of the Strait of Hormuz should be continued as a tool to pressure the enemy as reports from Reuters and other international sources suggested Iran has begun marine mine laying operations to further block sea traffic through the Strait of Hormuz.

He additionally stated that "all US bases should immediately be closed in the region and those bases should be attacked."

Attacks on US bases in the Gulf region and as far away as the Mediterranean have been ongoing this week, as the cross Gulf drone and missile strikes continue, most recently in northern Iraq, and around Erbil.

On the question of base attacks, he claimed that Iran "only" targets military bases and sites, and says this will continue. However, he did try to assure angry Gulf neighbors, who have been pummeled by Iranian missiles and drones for close to two weeks now, that Iran believes in "friendship with our neighbors".

The message, which may have been released in response to reports that the Ayatollah had been seriously injured in a bomb strike and was in a coma, further praises 'martyrs' of the Islamic Republic and is one that emphasizes Iran is not backing down, despite the immense daily US-Israeli bombings so the economic outlook for the west is grim as we face a months long oil and energy crisis.

He also 'thanked' regional militias for their 'support' - at a moment Shia Iraq militant groups are said to be launching strikes on US targets inside neighboring Iraq. Ominously, the new Ayatollah is warning of opening "other fronts".

Elsewhere in The Gulf two oil tankers were struck overnight in the Gulf asas Iran intensified its attacks on foreign ships across the region. The vessels were reportedly hit by small, fast, remote-controlled boats on Iran's Mosquito Fleet, in effect marine drones laden with explosives. The attack took place in Iraqi waters, with footage showing one of the tankers ablaze.

The aftermath of the attack on the oil tankers in the Gulf near Iraq
Picture: screen grab from AFP

Iraqi authorities said oil Iraqi ports had “completely stopped” operations following the attack, hours after Donald Trump insisted the United States had already won the war.

The attacks sent oil prices soaring on Thursday, with crude hitting more than $100 (£80) a barrel, despite record releases of strategic crude reserves to dampen one of the worst oil shocks since the 1970s.

The two tankers - carrying cargos of extremely flammable naphtha and condensate, - were attacked while present in loading area.Tanker ZEFYROS was scheduled to head to Khor Al-Zubair Port on March 12 to load additional 30,000 tons shipment of naphtha. This incident negatively affects Iraq’s security and economy and also represents a threat to safety of maritime navigation and oil activities within Iraqi territorial waters, SOMO says.

According to an Iraqi port official speaking to the Reuters news agency, authorities have successfully evacuated 25 crew members from the two ships. Despite these efforts, the fires have remained ablaze on both vessels.

One tanker, which was flying a foreign flag, is believed to be American, though its specific nationality has not been confirmed. The attack took place within Iraq’s territorial waters, but no group has claimed responsibility for the incident.

It turns out that perhaps the area is not as "safe" as President Trump said it was. And as a reminder, the US Navy already said it was 'too dangerous' to escort tankers through still.

As a result of these hits on tankers, Iraq one of the first Persian Gulf majors to start reducing oil production after the near-closure of Hormuz, closed its oil ports, followed by Kuwait and Saudi Arabia as Iran tightened its grip on the entrance to the Gulf. The cuts forced forced the International Energy Agency to act with a co-ordinated release of 400 million barrels — a historic drawdown that is significantly higher than the volume that followed Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022.

Oil prices are surging higher on the news with WTI back above $91 - now up on the week and 20% higher than yesterday's lows.

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Wednesday, March 11, 2026

Pushback Against Globalism Gathers Strength As Centre - right AfD Advance In Germany

Leaders of The European Union musth be seeting with rage, despite all their political, propaganda and lawfare efforts to stop the rise of the Alternative für Deutschland (AfD), the most hated (by the left and Eurofederalist) political force in Germany, keeps showing robust signs of life, whether in its impressive showing in a state election on Sunday or in a recent courtroom victory. In a regional election on Sunday (8 March), the AfD more than doubled its previous vote share for the parliament of Baden-Württemberg, one of the most prosperous and heavily populated states in western Germany. On February 26, a German constitutional court dismissed a case brought by the country’s domestic spy agency aimed at having AfD, Germany’s second most popular political party, classified as a “confirmed right-wing extremist” organization. The “confirmed right-wing extremist” designation has been a key tool in the campaign among establishment and left-wing politicians to ban the AfD entirely on grounds that they are a 'threat to democracy.'

This is far - left bollocks of course, it is the AfD’s extremist enemies who seek to ban and censor it, who deny it its parliamentary privileges, who have launched arson attacks against its leaders, and who have assaulted its members. The AfD has done none of these things to its opponents, nor has it called on supporters to resort to violence against its opponents. AfD has abided by every legal ruling against it, however tendentious. The AfD is Germany’s staunchest supporter of Israel and German Jews; it alone has tried for years to cut off the U.N. slush fund that supports Palestinian terrorism.

What makes the AfD so toxic for the globalist left is that its policy portfolio commits the cardinal sin of making the case that mass migration by semi - educated, unskilled, culturally incompatible third world peasants and labourers who have no intention of integrating into German society is destroying traditional German culture and identity.

They also go against the approved narrative by pointing out that Germany’s open-borders policies are saddling the country with a crime- and terror-prone, welfare-dependent, culturally alien population that consumes taxpayer resources while only intermittently giving something back to German society, usually in the form of unwanted sexual attention to German women or trying to give the German car industry back to the by driving into a crowd of German people at a Carnival or Christmas Market .

Its other crime against democracy is in calling for the enforcement of laws already on the books regarding the deportation of criminal aliens and other migrants who have no right to remain in German society. At its core, its heresy is to assert that a country has a right to decide its level of immigration and resulting culture change, rather than that level being determined by the will of the migrants themselves.

Ionically the German trying to get AfD banned as a threat to democracy and the EU leaders condemning Trump’s ‘betrayal of democracy’ see it as perfectly normal to levy fines against European nations whose elected leaders defy EU policy (Poland, Hungary), or to enact punitive trade chastisements on nations that elect to leave a supposedly benign and voluntary trading bloc (the UK).

These same European fans of democracy happily watch the liberal consensus crumble as they increasingly deny their own populations the free speech on which democracy depends, and react with fury to Americans pointing this out. They talk openly about banning parties that don’t follow a globalist line (like the AfD in Germany) or have compliant judges who simply reverse election results they didn’t like (EU and judicial collusion in Greece, Spain, Belgium and Romania).

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According to a report in the Welt am Sonntag, Germany has experienced a huge rise in the number of terror-related cases in just one year, with prosecutors having dealt with more than 900 cases so far in 2017, compared with 250 cases initiated throughout 2016. Around 700 Islamic extremists now living in Germany have been identified by the Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA) as posing a potential terror threat.

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Polling companies in Germany are indicating that support for Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservative Christian Democratic Party is still slipping with the election only one week away. More disturbingly perhaps for Hausfrau - Volkfuhere Merkel is the news that over a third of Germans are still unsure how they will vote. An opinion poll published today (15 September) on Friday showing the number of undecideds was not coming down fueled uncertainty about the kind of coalition that will emerge from an election on September 24.
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Merkel Faces Crisis As German Ruling Coalition Collapses

German Chancellor Angela Merkel faces a crisis in her ruling coalition after Bavarian Premier Horst Seehofer demanded she take steps to halt the tide of illegal immigrants entering the country. To have any chance of surviving, the government must present new initiatives for controlling illegal immigration, deal with the critical situation on the Austrian border ...

New German Coalition in Peril as Potential Partners Clash over 200,000 Annual Migrant Limit
Reports that German Chancellor Angela Merkel has agreed a proposal from coalition partner and leader of the Christian Social Union (CSU) Horst Seehofer to limit the number of asylum seekers in Germany to 200,000 per year to secure a ruling coalition may be somewhat premature. Other coalition partners are not as positive on the policy.

Merkel Calls for Beginning of Coalition Talks With Greens, Free Democratic Party
German Chancellor Angela Merkel officially announced on Saturday for the first time that her conservative bloc of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and its Bavarian sister party Christian Social Union (CSU) will seek to form a coalition government with the centre right Free Democratic Party (FDP) and left wing loony Greens.

German Elections: Anti - EU party AfD 3rd In Polls

Elections take place in Germany this Sunday, September 24, for the federal assembly (Bundestag) and the presidency (Chancellor). While Angela Merkel looks set to win a fourth term as Chancellor and the most likely outcome of the election is another "Grand Coalition" between Christian Democrats and Social Democrats that coalition will be a much-weakened if late polls are to be believed.
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Brexiteer Steven Woolfe: EU needs to ‘learn about democracy’ MEP Stephen Woolfe, a prominent figure in the UKIP campaign team during the referendum run up has claimed the European Union needs to “learn about democracy” in cos he mademment on Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt’s remarks comparing the European Union to the Soviet Union. Woolfe claimed the Foreign Secretary’s remarks were a “strong message” to … Continue reading Soros Sponsored "Democracy Spring" Launches Program Of Civil Disobedience
So there you have it, the 'radical left' are sponsored by one of the nastiest, greediest corporate capitalists ever, a shameless advocate of global totalitarian government proposed by theelistist socialist group The Fabian society over a hundred years ago and towards which these supporters of 'oligarchical collectivism' have been working ever since.

In Parallel With The Upheaval In European Politics, A Similar Cataclysm Is Happening In The USA Having reported for three or four years now the rise of the anti - Integration parties in European Union member nations, UKIP in Britain, the FN in France, AfD in Germany, Denmakr's Peoiple's Party, Five Star and the Liga Nord in Italy, the Sweden Democrats and others in every E U member state, we now look at what is going on in the USA as campaiging for the presidential election gathers pace.

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War On Cash - A Country By Country Guide
More on the global war on cash being waged by ruling elites in parallel with their war on privacy as they try to exert total control over everything.

EU Stitch Up To Promote Euronazi Selmayr Is Typical Of The EU’s Contempt For Democracy "2018-03-15T20:12:22+00:00"> Martin Selmayr – would you buy a used car from this man? (Image: Daily Mail) The former Prime Minister of little Luxembourg (population less than Leicester,)Jean-Claude Juncker who now struts the world stage as if he is important, has worked one of the slimiest political stitch ups ever to ensure his favourite sycophant and chief … Continue reading

Re-Branding Dissent - The Quiet Destruction Of Democracy
Many people, all the contributors to this publication among them, fear that democracy is being destroyed. OK, OK, hipsters will say but ‘we’ve never had democracy’, or, ‘it was destroyed long ago’, but left wing deceit aside, I think its worth actually thinking about how, many forms of democratic expression, effective dissent and peaceful self-determination are being outlawed and abolished in a sustained attack on free speech and civil rights.

How Mainstream Media And The Major Political Parties Are Making Sure Voters Do not Hear The Voices Of Politics' Most Powerful Critics
As the General Election campaign starts to heat up, we try to shift focus away from the squabbling between Conservative and Labour about who can make the most promises they have no intention of keeping and to the real issues concerning jobs, social breakdown , mass immigration, and loss of national sovereignty.

US Presidents Of The Past warned Against Secret, Shadow Government. By now it should be obvious that peacemake, joybringer and putative aquatic pedestrian Barack Hussein Obama was never really in charge of the US Government. Whatever Obama said would happen, all the American government's policies ensured the opposit would happen. The embedded article thows some light on how the US government really works

Obama's Terrible Trade Pact Is a Scam That Must Be Stopped Says Jim Hightower
Having written a book on the evil trade treaty that will transform the democratic nations into corporate oligarchies, we step aside and hand the baton to Jim Hightower of Alternet who is equally outraged about the iniquities of TTIP's equally evil twin, TPP.

Google Has Become A Threat To Democracy Authored by Mike Krieger via Liberty Blitzkrieg blog, About 10 years ago, Tim Wu, the Columbia Law professor who coined the term network neutrality, made this prescient comment: “To love Google, you have to be a little bit of a monarchist, you have to have faith in the way people traditionally felt about the king.” Wu was right. … Continue reading

Another Reason To Get Out Of EU. UKIP MEP Hits Out At Fishing Policy That Penalises British Fishing Crews
As the General Election campaign starts to heat up, we try to shift focus away from the squabbling between Conservative and Labour about who can make the most promises they have no intention of keeping and to the real issues concerning jobs, social breakdown , mass immigration, and an often overlooked area in which our EU membership has perhaps done more damage than any other, the fishing industry.

Democracy: Does It have A Future Or Has Global Totalitarianism Won?
The General Election in Greece (January 2014) could have much wider effects than most elections in small nation, the vote could decide the future of the European Union and have a major breaing on whether democracy can survive the push towards government by a global, corporate oligarchy. It look like being an interesting few months if the anti - EU party wins as polls suggest they will.

Democracy Hating Leftie Judges Choose Self Interest Over Justice Yesterday judges in the UK High Court joined the band of traitors in Parliament, the Civil Service, the Bank of England and the media who are trying to overturn the democratic vote to take Britain out of the European Union. The judges ruled in favour of a challenge to the vote, even though it has … Continue reading

Greece Votes On Whether Its People Have Any Future The voters of Greece will choose today, whether their country, the cradle of democracy, has a future of not. They are voting in a general election which could result in Greece trying to renegotiate the terms of its bailout with international lenders and even quitting the EU if the expected victory for hard line left wing party Syriza.

The leader of Syriza, Alexis Tsipras, has pledged to write off much of Greece's huge debt and revoke austerity measures ...

Luxembourg defends massive corporate tax dodging
Over the past week the whole media circus, mainsteam and broadcast, new media, bloggers, the world and his dog, was getting excited about the revelation that traditional tax haven but also founder member of the EU, Luxembourg has been facilitating wholesale corporate tax dodging and this 'business' was given the all clear by the then Prime Minister of the Grand Duchy,

European Commission puts business profits before the needs of the world’s poorest.
While the left try to win elections by creaming 'racist' and 'bigot' at anyone who disagrees with their pro - EU, pro - globalisation, immigrant - loving, gay - loving, paedophile loving authoritarian agenda, thus pissing off the social class who make up the Labour Party's core vote, the thinkers amongs us are seeing the European Federalisation, Agenda 21, Global Government project for what it ius ... Adolf Hitler's dream come to fruition

Privatization of Water as an Owned Commodity Rather Than a Universal Human Right
Corporate powers and the United Nations are planning on privatising water resources including rainfall, yes you did read that right, privatising the rain. The CEO of food processing bastards Nestlé spoke of the plan last year when he said companies like his had a right to make money from sellling OUR water, now those Stalinisdt shits at the United Nations and The World Bank are planning to steal the stuff life depends on.

Representative government Is Being Replaced By A Global Technocracy
When Peter Mandelson, the architect of the New Labour project that gave Britain it's most authoritarian government in three hundred years and sold out national sovereignty to supranational bureaucracies, says that representative democracy is dying, he does not sound as if he will be one of the chief mourtners. What can we do to rescue our democratic freedoms from smooth faced technocrats like Mandelson?

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Military Experts Advising Trump Overlooked Iran's Mosquito Fleet - Taking Kargh Istand Is Not An Easy Option For Winning The War

Iran's IRGC receives new fast boats armed with laser-guided missiles

A batch of unmanned speedboats for Iran's Mosquito Fleet

The Telegraph today carried a story headlined: "The tiny island of Kharg that could let Trump beat Iran without sending a single soldier," claiming to offer insight into the latest thinking of 'experts' on how to progress the war on Iran. Like most war stories it took a simplistic view of what could be a near impoosible task.

When serious export of Iranian oil started it was soon met by a problem. Iran’s coast is relatively shallow. Big tankers have a lot of draft. It was thus troublesome for Iran’s oil industry to deliver large loads of crude oil to big ships.

The answer to this problem was Kargh Island a tiny, flat, featureless islet surrounded by deep water, some 15 miles off the Iranian coast. The government in Tehran, incollaboration with the oil companies built a termina able to load very large crude oil carrying vessels on the island. Today 90% of all Iran's petroleum products are handled by the Kargh Island Terminal.

For decades dimwit American politicians and military leaders have dreamed of fetching Kharg to thereby get control over Iran’s oil production: In an interview with a British newspaper back in 1988, an up-and-coming New York property mogul named Donald Trump was asked about his plans for the future.

Never one to be lost for words he, boasted that he might one day run for president and vowed to win back “respect” for America on the world stage. He also had stern words for the theocratic regime of Iran’s Islamic Republic, already a sworn enemy of America in the wake of the 1979 US hostage crisis.

“They’ve been beating us psychologically, making us look a bunch of fools,” Trump told The Guardian. “One bullet shot at one of our men or ships, and I’d do a number on Kharg Island. I’d go in and take it.”

Several figures of the current Trump administration have likewise opined that the taking of Kharg would give the U.S. a hold over all Iranian oil exports – now and in future.

However the American leadership is skirting some serious optic problems which have been vastly underplayed in US & western media, and so are effectively unknown to the population at large. These factors point to a long war, energy shortage and a global economic crisis.

JCOS (Joint Chiefs of Staff) Chairman Gen. Dan Caine, yesterday emphasized three U.S. objectives in Iran: destroying Iranian ballistic missile and drone capability, striking ‘deeper into Iran’s military and industrial base’ and continuing to decimate Iran’s navy to allow maritime traffic through the Strait of Hormuz.”

Aside from Iran’s Navy being far from the sole obstacle effecting Hormuz Maritime traffic, the Pentagon must eventually deal with the presumed destruction of all or most of their regional bases – which, again, few people outside government and the military know anything about.

Kargh Island for example is too close to the mainland to be taken easily, modern shore based artillery located many miles back from the coast could easily reach ships attacking the island. Hormuz, already partly blocked by Irainan Navy ships sunk by US and Israeli bombing raids is effectivly closed to shipping from hostile states and could remain so for many months, causing prolonged chaos in the global economy Iran was never going to be a pushover.

And in both cases there is an even more deadly threat to the naval personnel manning the ships inolved in leading the allied advance. Iran has developed, or rather revived, an unconventional naval strategy known as the “Mosquito Fleet.” Instead of relying only on large warships to defend its waters, Tehran has focused on builing a fleet of hundreds — possibly thousands — of small, high-speed attack boats designed to challenge much larger naval forces in the Persian Gulf and the Strait of Hormuz.

The term “Mosquito Fleet” refers to a large number of small, fast, heavily armed boats operated mainly by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy (IRGC Navy). These boats are: Equipped with anti-ship missiles, Capable of speeds between 50 to 110 knots (approximately 90–200 km/h,), Small enough to maneuver quickly and approach larger vessels. Because of their speed and size, they can rapidly close in on larger warships, launch missiles, and retreat before facing a full counterattack.

Iran’s Mosquito Fleet strategy is specifically designed to exploit the vulnerabilities of a billion-dollar carrier like the USS Abraham Lincoln. Shore based Iranian commanders conceal large groups of these fast-attack crafts in civilian fishing ports, specialised underground maritime bases carved into the Persian Gulf cliffs, and even simple truck trailers.

These vessels can be wheeled out, launched from a random beach, and begin attacking a tanker or destroyer within minutes. The U.S. cannot target every garage along a 1,300-mile coastline. Iran possesses thousands of these boats, many of which are now unmanned kamikaze vessels packed with hundreds of kilograms of explosives.

While a U.S. destroyer’s Aegis combat system may be one of the best in the world, it has its limits. If 50 boats attack from 50 different directions simultaneously, the ship’s guns simply can’t pivot quickly enough to engage them all. It only takes one boat getting through to cause a USS Cole-type disaster.

A U.S. Hellfire missile costs approximately $150,000, while a single Iranian speedboat may only cost about $20,000. If the U.S. has to fire 500 missiles to stop a swarm, they end up spending millions to destroy plastic boats. Iran can produce these vessels faster than the U.S. can manufacture high-tech missiles.

Trump and Wright both made high-profile claims regarding naval escorts and unblocking the Strait of Hormuz. When Wright deleted his post and the Navy confirmed that no escort occurred, it sent a clear signal to the markets and Tehran that the U.S. is currently unable or unwilling to enter the kill zone of the narrow straits.

Game and second set to Iran.

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