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by Arthur Foxake, 9 July 2026
The UK Maritime Trade Operations centre (UKMTO) reported late on Tuesday afternoon that it had received imformation about a tanker being hit by an Iranian drone and sustaining "minor structural damage" while passing through the Strait of Hormuz., the gas and oil transit chokepoint at the entrance to the Persian Gulf.
The agency said no casualties or environmental impacted had been reported so far and that the vessel was "continuing to its next port of call".
Around 40 minutes earlier, UKMTO said another tanker was reportedly struck by an "unidentified projectile" in the Strait, taking "structural damage". Again no casualties have been reported, it added.
The agency is investigating the incidents and advised vessels in the area to proceed with caution.
Early on Tuesday morning, a third ship reported being hit in the region by an "unknown projectile on the port side," causing a fire, per UKMTO.
According to the agency, the ship was sailing south out of the Strait, close to Limah, Oman. Again, it said there were no recorded casualties or impacts to the environment.
Iran's Fars News Agency claimed one of the ships struck in the Strait is the Al-Ruqayat, which was targeted after allegedly ignoring IRGC navy warnings while passing through the Strait's Omani route. Tehran has said only its approved route through the Strait of HOrmuz is safe. The elite Iranian IRGC resiment did not directly claim the assault, but The Wall Street Journal reported that Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) had fired at two commercial ships.
Majed Al Ansari, a spokesperson for Qatar's foreign ministry, has condemned the attack on the Qatari tanker, calling it an "unacceptable attack on the security & safety of international maritime navigation".
Ansari added that the government of Qatar held Iran "fully legally responsible for this attack & for any resulting damages & consequences".
The Strait of Hormuz has been at the centre of tensions between Washington and Tehran and is a key part in the "memorandum of understanding" agreed by the two sides in June, but constant violations suggest a deal to end the war is as far off as ever
Iran had effectively closed off the Strait after the US launched military action against Iran in February, sparking chaos in global energy markets. Iran's latest violations of the fragile ceasefire come as the world waited for President Trump's response to attacks on commercial shipping at the end of last month. Many commentators opine that negotiations will collapse and full scale war will erupt again as Iran continues to weaponise the strait against The USA and Israel.
Brent crude oil rose 1.4pc to $73 a barrel following the strike, which Iranian state television said happened after the liquefied natural gas (LNG) tanker ignored warnings. Crude oil and Brent is still lower than when the Iran war started and the Gas price before the Ukrainian War started. Yet our petrol is 20p a litre higher and The Energy Cap is 30% higher. We are being totally ripped off and shop prices continue to rocket dur to the transport and energy costs. The cost of living crisis is being ignored by the media but it's forcing millions into debt or poverty.
Oil as a commodity is INCREDIBLY cheap. Just look at a 25 year timeline and take inflation into account. It is the stinking greedy Government that is milking us.
And UK's crazy 'Minister for Net Zero' Ed Miliband is hellbent on locking us into the highest electricity prices in the developed world.
FROM THE ARCHIVE:
Irony Overload: Iran Warns Obama Not To Cross Red Lines
the United States concluded an agreement with Iran which lifted US and International sanctions in return for Islamic Shi'ite Republic agreeing to limit their nuclear ability. At a high level, the US would lead the way in lifting oil and financial sanctions imposed due to Iran’s nuclear programs; in return Iran would reduce their stockpile of enriched uranium,
"West's War In Syria Is Part Of A Global war Waged By The USA And Its Dupes Allies Against Russia"
Arthur Foxake brings us a brilliant analysis of the geopolitical picture from the black Sea and Middle East, but ahead of the embed window we get a few of Arthur's own thoughts on the situation
Labour leader Corbyn rejects bombing Syria, blames BRITAIN and the US for the rise of ISIS: because it will spark more ‘mayhem’
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Another Obama Sponsored Genocide - not Alawi or Christians In Syria but Yazidi in Iraq.More Than ISIS, Iraq’s Sunni Insurgency
The story emerging in Iraq is of another American foreign policy fuck up, a total misreading of the situation by the world's most parochial global power. By December 2013, Sunni leaders had become tired of the jihadi group the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS) actions in their areas and publicly supported the Iraq government’s military campaign against the group’s bases. Unfortunately the ISIS rebels were armed with US military technology and Obama was calling for the resignation of the government in Baghdad, prompting Russia and Iran to support them ...
Poison Gas Used In Syria Sparks Calls For Western Military Invasion
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An Islamic cleric has pronounced a fatwa that permits US-backed FSA rebels to rape non-Sunni women in Syria as part of a "sexual jihad" that has so far involved girls as young as 14 being transported to remote areas of the country to service the needs of ...
Over 4000 Civilians Have Died In Forgotten War.
As attention has focused on Syria ans then on the efforts of the Obama administration, in its dying months, to avenge the defeat of the anointed successor Hillary Clinton and discredit the election victor and President - elect Donald Trump, and simultaneously demonize Russia and President Putin
I Would Do anything To Get Assad Out Of Syria Says Cameron
Syrian president Bashar Assad could be allowed a free pass to flee his country if it would end the bloodshed, David Cameron said today. The Prime Minister said he would do ‘anything to get that man [Assad] out of the country’ but refused to offer Assad a safe haven in Britain. Mr Cameron is on the second day of ...
Will Egypt Seize Libya For Its Oil
If the conflict in Syria, currently showing signs of spreading to Turkey, Iraq and Kurdistan were to escalate into a regional war, a proxy for east and west to butt heads without sustaining too much domestic damage, is Egypt likely to take advantage of the distraction and
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The political establishment in Berlin was shaken yesterday when Germany’s far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) rose to a record 28 per cent in the latest weekly INSA voting intention poll published on April 25, widening its lead over the conservative bloc to 4 percentage points.
The result marked the highest level ever recorded for the party by INSA and was up one point from the previous week.
The conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party of Chancellor Friedrich Merz and their Bravaria - only sister party the CSU was unchanged from the previous week at 24 per cent, while the Greens slipped one point to 12 per cent.
The Social Democratic Party (SPD) held steady at 14 per cent, and the Left Party remained at 11 per cent.
With 11 per cent of votes going to parties that would fail to enter Parliament, a governing majority would mathematically require at least 45 per cent of the vote share among parties clearing the threshold.
If other parties continue to rule out cooperation with the AfD, branding hem far right and a threat to democracy, viable governing coalitions would be limited to three-party alliances, the poll suggested.
A coalition of the centre right CDU, socialist SPD and lunatic fringe Greens would command 50 per cent, while the CDU, SPD and the Left would total 49 per cent.
While the pushback by German voters against the globalist slow motion coup d'etat and the inexorable rise of AfD is as encouraging as the growing strength of Reform and other boadly conservative parties in Britain, Rassemblement National in France, and similar traditionalist and soft nationalist parties in Italy, Netherlands,Spain, Poland and across the whole European continent the leftist / globalist blob is still very much in control.
Germany is suffering from a crisis of crises brought on by that milieu which regards itself as the country’s morally, intellectually, and administratively legitimate leadership class but which has, for years, sustained a regime of reality-avoidance, self-congratulation, and rhetorical substitutes for genuine action. For years the nation has been trapped in a mass immigration crisis and not on top of that they have an economic crisis, an unemployment crisis, an energy crisis as Net Zero policies destroy energy security a deindustrialisation crisis and, as the impossiblity of electing a stable government becomes clear a crisis of democracy.
The reality situation is not that mistakes have been made. Mistakes are part of politics. The real root of the multiple problems is that Germany has produced a class of managerial ruling elites that refuse to change course, or take responsibility for their failures even when the consequences of its actions are exposed. These arrogant elitists, political, legal, business and academic, do not correct themselves or even acknowledge mistakes, because they no longer measures themselves against reality but against the approval of their own circles. The elite class does not want to be right before the tribunal of reality; it wants to be right before the followers of its ideology.
So instead of addressing the economic crisis, curbing uncontrolled mass immigration or focusing on rebuilding the energy infrastricture they obsess over Net Zero and Environmental Social Governance (ESG)
The destruction of Germany isn't happening in a vaccum, its happening in ALL western nations (USA too, Trump is a mere hiccup in the progress to esablishment of a gloal, technocratic dictatorship. The truth is fantasists (progressives) have taken over the west and are QUITE WILLING to see the commoners, the common family, the common communities, the common culture(s) all sacrificed so the elites can see if their FANTASIES of turning the developed nations into dystopian slave societies pan out.
Its pure insanity but its happening because of a well orchestrated take over of ALL government operations by brainwashed psychopaths who don't depend on reality to generate their own personal income, benefits, career success. The ONLY way things change, in ALL western nations, is when the outcomes (violence, poverty, social and financial destruction) truely hits the commoners. Its arrived.
FROM THE ARCHIVE:
Britain's Self Destructive Race To Net Zero Is Driven By Corruption In High Places
Late last year it was revealed that almost half the Conservative Party MPs in the U.K. Parliament belong to a group promoting extreme Net Zero ideas that is funded by a small group of green billionaires led by the ECF and CAF, along with Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisers and Oak Foundation.
The Truth Has Become An Enemy Of The State And Must Be Kept Hidden At All Costs
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The Theraputic Society Is Destroying Civilisation
Many of the problems afflicting Britain and its neighbours appear to be related to what has been called The Theraputic Society, Nanny State and paternalistic liberalism. As government grows, corporate industry and private business is increasingly coming to resemble the public sector, ruled less by economic rationality than by an intrusive bureaucracy functioning increasingly like an HR department.
UK Gov. Fossil Fuels U Turn Means Its All Over For Net Zero
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Double Blow To Irish Woke Wonks - Voters Reject ‘Progressive’ Reforms to the Constitution By Big Majorities
Simpering, limp wristed Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar whose government has faced protests because it is claimed they govern in the interests of the liberal elite and ignore the Irish people, suffered two blows to his ambition to turn Ireland into the wokest country in Europe last weekend. Varadkar admitted on Saturday that voters had delivered “two wallops” to the government, which, led by Leo himself, had pushed for a "Yes" vote on a pair of referendums.
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Were Rotherham Abuse Victimes sacrificed To Save The Labour Party
One of the victimes of Rotherham's grooming and child abuse gangs has put a political perspective on the scandal by claiming she and other victims were ignored, effectively sacrificed to the tender mercies of the gangs to ensure Labour did not lose votes in the town. The young girls were abused by Muslim men for years on end, but council did nothing to stop the crime.
Miliband Promises Same Old Shite - Not A Word About Action Against Paedophile Sex Gangs
Labour leader Ed Miliband's keynote speech at the Labour Party conference woyuld have to be the best speech of his life if he hoped to be Prime Minister after next years election, the consensus of opinon said. Ed's friends and opponents awaited the speech with very different hopes and expectations. in the end as Ed dodged the bg issues, the economy and debt, law and order, immigration and Europe, it was probably his enemies who were happier.
The Left's Rhetorical Technique Explained
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The Hate And Prejudice The Bourgois Left Find Acceptable
The neo - fascist left are quick to jump on any of the forbidden pejudices, racism, sexism, homophobia, islamophobia and so on. But as we have seen, they find pejudice and hated againt Christians and white Europeans quite acceptable. The bourgeois metropitan set might think that is acceptable but where I come from it's called hypocrisy.
Ve Haff Vay Of Making You Konform. The Tide Is Turning against the Autoritarian Left
The left's self confidence has had a hint of desperation about it for a long time. From their constant whines about the sexism, racism and homophobia of the working class who happen to be the party's core constituency to the substitution of smearing UKIP for policies in the european Election this is a party of arrested adolescents throwing a hissy fit because people are laughing at them.
Secret Justice Threatens The Right To A Fair Trial
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These stupid laws insult the public and threaten free speech When the law forbids us to insult or offend somebody, to insult or offend a religion, race, skin colour or sexual preference, free speech and other important democratic rights are under threat. When the law then goes on to say that anyone accused of these offences has no right to defend themselves and the word of the accuser is sufficient evidence on which to obtain a conviction then we have abandoned justice and are ruled by fascists.
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by Arthur Foxake, 5 Aprul 2026
In a bad tempered rant laden with expletives Donald Trump has threatened to strike more of Iran’s critical infrastructure if the Strait of Hormuz is not reopened by Tuesday.
Ludicrously claiming Iran's air defences had been obliterated on a weekend when at least three American aircraft were shot down by those 'obliterted' air defences did nothing at all to boost the President's credibility, not that he had much of that left anyway.
“Tuesday will be Power Plant Day, and Bridge Day, all wrapped up in one ... Open the f---ing strait, you crazy b-----rds, or you’ll be living in hell – just watch! Praise be to Allah,” Trump ranted on Truth Social.
This latest threat is likely to have exactly as much effect on the people Trump only days ago called 'the new, more reasonable regime, as all his previous ones. Closing the sea entrance to The Persian Gulf was always Iran's secret weapon since the regime seized control of the vital waterway at the start of the conflict, only allowing ships from friendly countries to sail through it.
The US president previously gave Tehran a 10-day window to agree to a deal to end the war and reopen the strait. When that deafline passed he appeared to extend that deadline to “Tuesday, 8:00 PM” in a social media post and insisted a deal with Tehran could still be struck as soon as Monday.
We can only wait to see what happens on Tuesday when the strait remains closed.
Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guard Corps (IRGC) has said that they can sustain the Strait of Hormuz closure for years and will cut US military logistics, a senior security official told Iranian broadcaster Press TV, citing the sea-based supply of regional American bases.
Though the 2026 crisis has so far affected mainly The Gulf States and east Asian nations, if the Strait of Hormuz is not reopened it will eventually hit Europe harder than a couple of years of the special military operation. Europe has become the main victim of the US /Isreali coalition’s war with Iran, and it is preparing for the worst period since 2022, as well as sharply increased fuel costs.
The data is interim, but with oil rising by $20-30 (for example, from $85 to $110, which has been observed over the past couple of weeks) and the EU’s oil imports at around 10 mbpd, daily spending increases by $200-300 million per day. This will result in €70-100 billion in additional oil costs by the end of the year.
Even without extreme peaks, the growth of LNG contracts and spot prices gives +10–20% to the current base – or €40–70 billion of additional costs. Thus, with Europe's energy infrsstructure already at crisis point due to the obsessive pursuit of Net Zero, energy losses alone will amount to €110–170 billion.The rise in energy prices leads to a decline in industrial performance. This primarily affects the chemical, metallurgical, and fertilizer industries.
But the financial crisis will be worse than the energy crisis.
In a moderate scenario, they could fall by 5-15% (underproduction and capacity conservation), which would result in a loss of €120-200 billion in industrial output. Additionally, the side effects of inflation would result in another €80-120 billion in losses due to domestic demand. The decline in indices (STOXX 600) by 6-10% per month (according to Reuters) is not only a concern for speculators, who would lose €800 billion to €1.2 trillion on paper.
There is also a real effect, underinvestment. It will amount to €50-100 billion.Even without an extreme scenario, Europe will have to unearth its budgets to compensate for prices and support industry. It all depends on generosity, but €50-100 billion in additional expenses can be seen.In general, the total losses of the EU from the US war in Iran will amount to €410-690 billion by the New Year. Because even if the war ends quickly, many of the Gulf’s production facilities have already been destroyed, and key LNG infrastructure will take a year or more to repair.
This means that energy prices will not drop to their previous levels. Additionally, if Trump continues to wage war, with oil prices exceeding \$120 and gas prices fluctuating, the EU’s net losses could exceed a trillion euros per year. By the way, from the beginning of the special military operation to Iran, the transition to new energy rails and the associated production problems (the German company BASF has shut down in Germany and moved to China), the EU’s total losses were estimated at €2.0-2.4 trillion in cumulative economic effects.
This includes overpayments for energy (€700-900 billion), reduced production (€600-800 billion), and subsidies (€650-750 billion).Europe has lost about €2+ trillion of economic resources over the past 3-4 years, and the damage could exceed a trillion per year. The situation has become worse because energy has become structurally expensive, rather than temporarily expensive.
In fact, Europe is transitioning to a new model of expensive and not always physically accessible energy, with the relocation of energy-intensive industries outside the EU (deindustrialization) and an increased dependence on imports. This includes not only energy but also energy-intensive goods.
When the reality of all this finally dawns on European virtue-signalling-obsessed leaders it will be too late for them to staep back from this journey to civilisational suicide they have put their countries on.
FROM THE ARCHIVE:

President Donald Trump issued a 48-hour ultimatum to Iran, demanding it reopen the Strait of Hormuz or risk the 'obliteration' of its power infrastructure (Picture:Getty)
The question nobody seems to be asking is why are we aligning with euro our history tells us go west. OK socialist Europe does not like Trump or American free market economics and are quite open about it. For his part Trump has told them what many Americans have always believed, that European leaders are a bunch of limp wristed faggots, obessed with virtue signalling and delusions of moral superiority, content to let the USA be custodian of the free world's security while in Europe, more sophisticated statesmen wallow in existential angst over problems like how much we should pay African, South American and Caribbean nations in reparation for The Atlantic Slave Trade, which no living person had anything to do with in any way.
In insulting UK and European leaders over their reluctance to inolve their cointries in the latest middle east conflict, Trump only says what other presidents were to polite to speak of in public and should be applauded for what the real liberals of former times would call speaking truth to power (or to be accurate, delusions of power.)
FROM THE ARCHIVE:
Irony Overload: Iran Warns Obama Not To Cross Red Lines
the United States concluded an agreement with Iran which lifted US and International sanctions in return for Islamic Shi'ite Republic agreeing to limit their nuclear ability. At a high level, the US would lead the way in lifting oil and financial sanctions imposed due to Iran’s nuclear programs; in return Iran would reduce their stockpile of enriched uranium,
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The story emerging in Iraq is of another American foreign policy fuck up, a total misreading of the situation by the world's most parochial global power. By December 2013, Sunni leaders had become tired of the jihadi group the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS) actions in their areas and publicly supported the Iraq government’s military campaign against the group’s bases. Unfortunately the ISIS rebels were armed with US military technology and Obama was calling for the resignation of the government in Baghdad, prompting Russia and Iran to support them ...
If the conflict in Syria, currently showing signs of spreading to Turkey, Iraq and Kurdistan were to escalate into a regional war, a proxy for east and west to butt heads without sustaining too much domestic damage, is Egypt likely to take advantage of the distraction and
Irony Overload: Iran Warns Obama Not To Cross Red Lines
the United States concluded an agreement with Iran which lifted US and International sanctions in return for Islamic Shi'ite Republic agreeing to limit their nuclear ability. At a high level, the US would lead the way in lifting oil and financial sanctions imposed due to Iran’s nuclear programs; in return Iran would reduce their stockpile of enriched uranium,
"West's War In Syria Is Part Of A Global war Waged By The USA And Its Dupes Allies Against Russia"
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News from the Persian Gulf war zone today is that Iraq has shut down some oil wells, following the kead of Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain, the Emirates and Saudi Arabia. Qatar has also shut down is gas wells and the process ‘trains’ needed to liquefy natural gas.
This is bad news for Europe particularly, and for the rest of the free world and is, as we reported yesterday, due to the virtual closure of the Strait of Hormuz and because of potential missile and drone attacks on the vulnerable and highly exposed production installations. With our energy security already compomised by Net Zero lunacy this could be disastrous for Europe.
While oil and LPG prices have increased on all global markets, commodity traders have not yet recognized the length and severity of the supply crunch these shut downs will cause. Prices, currently in the high $90s per barrel, will need to get much higher ($150+/bl) to cause an equivalent demand destruction.
Even if the war on Iran stopped tomorrow and the Strait could be reopened immediately (which would require US Marines' boots on Iranian ground) it would take many weeks until the flow of supplies returned to normal levels.
Oil wells, like electricity generating stations, once shut down, cannot be brought back oline at the flick of a switch. The bore of an unused oil well may close up, sediments may block the oil flow, valves start to fail. It means that drilling rigs will need to be setup at each of the wells a task involving several days work even if all materials are readily available, before the oil starts to flow. There are thousands of wells that have been shut down.
Qatar’s liquefaction of natural gas is an even bigger problem as sactions over Rssia's war with Ukraine have cut off supplies from that source making exports from the Gulf even more vital and the process to create Liquefied Petroleum Gas is quite complex:
The first step on the onshore facilities is the separation of condensate from gas. The separated condensate is stabilised and sent to storage to await export. The natural gas then flows to the liquefaction trains for processing into LNG. During the first phase of this process, sulphur compounds, carbon dioxide, and water are removed in stages. The gas is then chilled using propane and mixed refrigeration processes.
The heavy hydrocarbons are separated out and fractionated into liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) and plant condensate. The cryogenic main heat exchanger in each train then cools the gas to approximately – 150 °C, liquefying it in the process. Finally, as the pressure is reduced to almost zero, the temperature decreases to – 162 °C, nitrogen is removed and LNG is transferred to one of the storage tanks prior to being loaded into a LNG vessel.
When a liquefaction system shuts down all the product in it will have to be removed. The whole cryogenic chain, once stopped, will warm up and will need to be cooled down again to its very low working temperatures. The metal structures involved do not react well, to say it mildly, to frequent changes in temperature. Failures will occur. Repairs will be needed.
It will take at least two months to revive the Qatari process trains. This of course only after the war has ended. Some 20% of the global LPG supply will thus be unavailable for a lengthy period of time.
The big mouths and bigger egos on the American side of the conflict have not only let the cat out of the bag but have painted a very complete picture for Gulf Control Councol (GCC) rulers to see a long war is completely against their interest. Their ambassadors got dressed down very well by Lavrov with what some have described as tough love. Despite that, GCC rulers now see Russia as more powerful than the US Empire in the Gulf region and with Russia comes China.
The big dilemma for GCC rulers is their investment
portfolio in the west which has the very real possibility of becoming a
total loss if war spreads beyond the gulf region and becomes global conflict. The economies of EU members and the UK are already in a death spiral of debt. Likewise are US corporate assets within the GCC that Iran
aims to eliminate as part of its goal to eject all US & European related assets
from the region.
Shi’a leaders have now issued fatwas calling for jihad in support of Iran, a move that coulfd have a major impact on events in Iraq. Hezbollah has been performing very well in the eastern Mediterranean so far.
Iran’s 91 million people are spread out across the nation aside from the 10 million or so that live in the Tehran metro region, meaning the US - Israeli war effort needs to target an area the size of Europe, while Occupied Palestine houses about 7.5 million Zionists 75% of whom are concentrated in Tel Aviv and Haifa metro areas making it far easier for Iran to concentrate its attacks.
While this is going on economic damage continues to mount up, particularly amongst four key US East Asian allies–South Korea, Japan, Taiwan, and Philippines, all of which are dependent on energy imported from the Persian Gulf. That factor along with EU food security dependence on fertilisers derived from oil brings the possibility of shifting the geopolitical balance away from the USA Empire since Trump has made clear he doesn’t care if the world enters a massive depression caused by prolongation of the war.
FROM THE ARCHIVE:
Irony Overload: Iran Warns Obama Not To Cross Red Lines
the United States concluded an agreement with Iran which lifted US and International sanctions in return for Islamic Shi'ite Republic agreeing to limit their nuclear ability. At a high level, the US would lead the way in lifting oil and financial sanctions imposed due to Iran’s nuclear programs; in return Iran would reduce their stockpile of enriched uranium,
How Hillary Clinton Planned The Syrian Holocaust We bring you evidence that the destruction of Syria was planned by the USA and Israel long before the US engineered 'spontaneous uprising'known as The Arab Spring ...
Another Obama Sponsored Genocide - not Alawi or Christians In Syria but Yazidi in Iraq.More Than ISIS, Iraq’s Sunni Insurgency
The story emerging in Iraq is of another American foreign policy fuck up, a total misreading of the situation by the world's most parochial global power. By December 2013, Sunni leaders had become tired of the jihadi group the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS) actions in their areas and publicly supported the Iraq government’s military campaign against the group’s bases. Unfortunately the ISIS rebels were armed with US military technology and Obama was calling for the resignation of the government in Baghdad, prompting Russia and Iran to support them ...
If the conflict in Syria, currently showing signs of spreading to Turkey, Iraq and Kurdistan were to escalate into a regional war, a proxy for east and west to butt heads without sustaining too much domestic damage, is Egypt likely to take advantage of the distraction and
Irony Overload: Iran Warns Obama Not To Cross Red Lines
the United States concluded an agreement with Iran which lifted US and International sanctions in return for Islamic Shi'ite Republic agreeing to limit their nuclear ability. At a high level, the US would lead the way in lifting oil and financial sanctions imposed due to Iran’s nuclear programs; in return Iran would reduce their stockpile of enriched uranium,
"West's War In Syria Is Part Of A Global war Waged By The USA And Its Dupes Allies Against Russia"
Arthur Foxake brings us a brilliant analysis of the geopolitical picture from the black Sea and Middle East, but ahead of the embed window we get a few of Arthur's own thoughts on the situation
More Than ISIS, Iraq’s Sunni Insurgency
The story emerging in Iraq is of another American foreign policy fuck up, a total misreading of the situation by the world's most parochial global power. By December 2013, Sunni leaders had become tired of the jihadi group the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS) actions in their areas and publicly supported the Iraq government’s military campaign against the group’s bases. Unfortunately the ISIS rebels were armed with US military technology and Obama was calling for the resignation of the government in Baghdad, prompting Russia and Iran to support them ...
Poison Gas Used In Syria Sparks Calls For Western Military Invasion
Claims circulating in Washington, London and Brussels that chemical weapons have been used in the Syrian conflict have prompted less conspiracy theories and more intelligent discussion that we might expect. Even so commentators in mainstream media have divided into two opposing camps – those who believe that President Obama's failure to ...
Syria's Dirty War Looks Set To Get Dirtier
'From unobtrusive, anonymous offices scattered around the middle east, in Qatar, Jordan, Turkey and Croatia, CIA officers have acted as brokers and overseers of a programme of massive arms shipment to Syria's rebels. The western powers operation to support those trying to overthrow the Assad regime is officially denied and ...
An Islamic cleric has pronounced a fatwa that permits US-backed FSA rebels to rape non-Sunni women in Syria as part of a "sexual jihad" that has so far involved girls as young as 14 being transported to remote areas of the country to service the needs of ...
Over 4000 Civilians Have Died In Forgotten War. As attention has focused on Syria ans then on the efforts of the Obama administration, in its dying months, to avenge the defeat of the anointed successor Hillary Clinton and discredit the election victor and President - elect Donald Trump, and simultaneously demonize Russia and President Putin
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USS Abraham Lincoln in the Straits of Hormuz (Picture: US Navy)
The giant warship is one of two aircraft carriers deployed to the region in recent weeks, and the only one relatively close to Iranian shores.The attempted strike is part of Iran’s revenge attacks after the US and Israel killed supreme leader Ayatollah Khamenei.
The US military said it hit an Iranian ship as part of its ongoing operation.
"The ship is currently sinking to the bottom of the Gulf of Oman at a Chah Bahar pier," the US military wrote. "As the president said, members of Iran's armed forces, IRGC and police 'must lay down your weapons'. Abandon ship."
UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer who spent the past week trying to appease President Trump and save his disatrous Chagos deal while simultaneously sucking up to the Iranian regime, today abandoned this futile attempt to ride two horses with one arse, especially as he's better known as a sausage jockey than an equestrian stunt man, and declared UK support for the US / Israeli campaign.
It has often been said common sense is an uncommon quality. You can already see how the US and Israel are losing the plot in a conflict many fear could escalate into nulear war. Trump talks about four weeks, while Iran is ready to fight US and Israel for months, maybe years, and even US lawmakers can feel their president is in deep trouble, with no real plan after the first strikes. Needless to say, a prolonged war with Iran around the Gulf will lead to an energy crisis in the developed nations
It is the same show as last year when the US and Israel bombed Iran's nuclear plants, but decalred victory too soon: chest beating, “shock and awe,” TV bragging, bombs, planes, fireworks in the sky, but no real strategy and no way out. We saw this in Iraq, we saw it in Afghanistan. That is why I am sure US and Israel will end up stuck and bleeding.
And somewhere, Putin is watching all this, smiling, counting every mistake, knowing Washington is burning energy, money, and power in another endless war it cannot win.
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Irony Overload: Iran Warns Obama Not To Cross Red Lines
the United States concluded an agreement with Iran which lifted US and International sanctions in return for Islamic Shi'ite Republic agreeing to limit their nuclear ability. At a high level, the US would lead the way in lifting oil and financial sanctions imposed due to Iran’s nuclear programs; in return Iran would reduce their stockpile of enriched uranium,
How Hillary Clinton Planned The Syrian Holocaust We bring you evidence that the destruction of Syria was planned by the USA and Israel long before the US engineered 'spontaneous uprising'known as The Arab Spring ...
Another Obama Sponsored Genocide - not Alawi or Christians In Syria but Yazidi in Iraq.More Than ISIS, Iraq’s Sunni Insurgency
The story emerging in Iraq is of another American foreign policy fuck up, a total misreading of the situation by the world's most parochial global power. By December 2013, Sunni leaders had become tired of the jihadi group the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS) actions in their areas and publicly supported the Iraq government’s military campaign against the group’s bases. Unfortunately the ISIS rebels were armed with US military technology and Obama was calling for the resignation of the government in Baghdad, prompting Russia and Iran to support them ...
If the conflict in Syria, currently showing signs of spreading to Turkey, Iraq and Kurdistan were to escalate into a regional war, a proxy for east and west to butt heads without sustaining too much domestic damage, is Egypt likely to take advantage of the distraction and
Irony Overload: Iran Warns Obama Not To Cross Red Lines
the United States concluded an agreement with Iran which lifted US and International sanctions in return for Islamic Shi'ite Republic agreeing to limit their nuclear ability. At a high level, the US would lead the way in lifting oil and financial sanctions imposed due to Iran’s nuclear programs; in return Iran would reduce their stockpile of enriched uranium,
"West's War In Syria Is Part Of A Global war Waged By The USA And Its Dupes Allies Against Russia"
Arthur Foxake brings us a brilliant analysis of the geopolitical picture from the black Sea and Middle East, but ahead of the embed window we get a few of Arthur's own thoughts on the situation
More Than ISIS, Iraq’s Sunni Insurgency
The story emerging in Iraq is of another American foreign policy fuck up, a total misreading of the situation by the world's most parochial global power. By December 2013, Sunni leaders had become tired of the jihadi group the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS) actions in their areas and publicly supported the Iraq government’s military campaign against the group’s bases. Unfortunately the ISIS rebels were armed with US military technology and Obama was calling for the resignation of the government in Baghdad, prompting Russia and Iran to support them ...
Poison Gas Used In Syria Sparks Calls For Western Military Invasion
Claims circulating in Washington, London and Brussels that chemical weapons have been used in the Syrian conflict have prompted less conspiracy theories and more intelligent discussion that we might expect. Even so commentators in mainstream media have divided into two opposing camps – those who believe that President Obama's failure to ...
Syria's Dirty War Looks Set To Get Dirtier
'From unobtrusive, anonymous offices scattered around the middle east, in Qatar, Jordan, Turkey and Croatia, CIA officers have acted as brokers and overseers of a programme of massive arms shipment to Syria's rebels. The western powers operation to support those trying to overthrow the Assad regime is officially denied and ...
An Islamic cleric has pronounced a fatwa that permits US-backed FSA rebels to rape non-Sunni women in Syria as part of a "sexual jihad" that has so far involved girls as young as 14 being transported to remote areas of the country to service the needs of ...
Over 4000 Civilians Have Died In Forgotten War. As attention has focused on Syria ans then on the efforts of the Obama administration, in its dying months, to avenge the defeat of the anointed successor Hillary Clinton and discredit the election victor and President - elect Donald Trump, and simultaneously demonize Russia and President Putin
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Spain’s solar boom is running into a harsh reality: too much sunshine has created an energy glut, crashing prices and spooking investors, writes Hans van Leeuwen in the Telegraph.The article lays bare the insane voodoo-economics underlying all this Net Zero/Green energy nonsense.
In Spain, solar panels make much more sense than in the northern latitudes of UK with our cloudy skies and loooooong winter nights. So much sense that they’re producing too much energy, causing the price electricity companies pay producers to drop drastically. What happens then? Sell the excess energy to someone else – the French, or us – lowering prices elsewhere?
Nope, the grid and interconnectors can’t take the surplus energy, last year a sunny spell in summer overloaded transformers on the national distribution grid and knocked out electricity supply to homes and businesses over a large part of the country. Continue covering thousands of square miles of productive agricultural land with panels that produce electricity nobody wants and Store it? Nope: no-one bothered to think about storage technology (or rather the lack of it). Provide the energy to Ramon and Luz in the house down the road, at a zero price? Nope, not allowed: because the whole push is wrapped in a bonkers guaranteed-price straitjacket.
So, instead: switch off the solar plant. Yes switch them off because the gas and nuclear power stations must be kept running in order to level the loading on the grid when supplies from intermittent sources suddenly fluctuate. These fabulous solutions to pollution, supposedly providing cheap energy, have to be switched off to keep the price high. For years this blog has been saying Net Zero is a scam built on the Climate Catastrophe hoax.
It’s tempting to read this as “greedy investors gaming a badly thought out system, traducing good intentions”; that is certainly our problem in Britain, particularly net zero crazy Scotland where energy producers are paid more for NOT producing electricity than they earn from current fed into the grid, and there may be some element of it in Spain.
But whether it’s the evil Capitalists putting up the money, or government doing it directly (and the generation/transmission complex is a textbook case of potential market failure), someone has to pay for the construction and maintenance of these expensive, brand-new solar plants and they are not cheap to build and maintain. Perhaps this prioritising theory over reality is why green power has failed so miserably.
It seems to me that a guaranteed future price is one of the most counter productive ways of raising the money. As your friendly local free-market economist will tell you, it suppresses an important signal.
Some signal is getting through nevertheless, and investment in solar in Spain is drying up. What’s wrong with that? Well, it’s only wrong because Spain has to expand solar, according to Book of Net Zero 1:1 – even if the market signals (and the underlying realities they reflect) don’t make it worthwhile. Build more solar plants, and switch them (and the existing ones) off more often.
The logic of the Net Zero lobby is totally insane.
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Scientists says Nuclear Is The Way Forward For Clean Energy – Do Ursidae Defecate In Sylvan Landscapes?
Climate Scientists' Mathematical Models Of Reality Wrong Again…New Study Shows Jet Stream Strengthening, Not Weakening
recent research by Samantha Hallam et al published in the journal Climate Dynamics looks at the seasonal variations over decades in Northern Hemisphere jet stream latitude and speed over land for the period 1871–2011. The authors report that they found no evidence of weakening of the sort climate alarmists have been warning about for the past three decades.
Shock for The Green Blob - Rewilding is to blame for Mediterranean forest fires
Official Advice - Prepare For Blackouts This WinterOr at least, to be acccurate, rewilding is partially to blame for Mediterranean forest fires. Which is darkly amusing as that man most insistent upon rewilding, George Monbiot, is trying to tell us that it’s all about climate change.
The UK government is putting plans together for days of organised blackouts this winter, in what they call a "reasonable worst-case scenario" for energy shortages, according to reports in manstream media. Naturally they are blaming this on the embargo on importing gas from Russia but in reality Britain has never imported any more than a small amout of its gas from Russia. The real reason politicians and energy company CEOs are panicking is entirely due to their obession with obtaining all our energy from intermittent sources like wind and sunshine ...
UK Households Are Paying Wind Turbine Owners To Not Generate Electricity
On another near windless day here in the United Kingdom, Boggart Blog came across a very interesting piece if news. According to figures published by the business and management consultancy LCP, british taxpayers have been paying operators of wind turbines farms for the time their windmills were NOT generating electricity increased to record levels last year ...
Net Zero Is A Dangerous Fantasy, But Scientists Believe In Fairies It Seems
With oil and gas prices rocketing and the highly propted sustainable energy sources performing way befow expectations the energy crisis currently gripping Europe (with worse to come as food shortages start to bite, polticians still seem more intent on pandering to the green lobby and chasing the dream of a fossil fuel free world rather securing the energy and food supplies needed by the people they serve.
New UN Report on Climate Change – Nothing New, Nothing True
The latest United Nations (“UN”) Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (“IPCC”) report, published this week, once again, in scaremongering tone and the language of the panic stricken, claims that the planet is in peril (we are facing climate disaster, the clock is at one minute to midnight, we must take urgent action to destroy civilisation if we are to save the planet, the usual over - dramatised guff designed to spread fear and panic,) basically the same claim as they have been making at least twice a month for the past 20 years.
We need energy security – not Net Zero
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has prompted a major rethink in the West. We have suddenly found ourselves vulnerable not just to rising prices in oil and gas, but also to inflation in other commodities – such as food and fertiliser. Of all these problems, the security of our energy supply has most exercised minds.
Net Zero Gone With The Wind - Boris Johnson Plans Seven New Nuclear Plants And Shelves Wind Expansion
Reports in mainstream media suggest Boris Johnson has done a U turn on his recently announced massive expansion of wind powered generating capacity. Sources in Westminster claim Boris has shelved his masterplan for a giant, floating wind farm in The North Sea and the government will reconsider plans to double or even treble the number of wind turbines in the countryside and approve plans for up to seven new nuclear reactors instead.
Climate Change Research Paper Censored by The British Hydrological Society For Telling The Truth
The Daily Sceptic today published an article by retired research scientist James Dent, whose specialist field was hydrology and meteorology. Mr. Dent was involved in research projects aiemd at understanding the factors influencing climate, and their effects on environments, [ ... ] he was the World Meteorology Organisation Chief Technical Advisor to the Flood Forecasting and Warning Centre in Bangladesh, a low lying nation especially prone to flooding ....
Freak Weather Around The World Begs Questions
With Britain and other parts of northern Europe basking in unseasonably warm temperatures which are forecast to last for a few days, while parts of the USA gring to a halt under a blanket of snow dumped by freak storms are, accoring to climate scarmongers, a signal that irreversible warming had arrived, it is perhaps timely for a hot topic from ten years ago, geoengineering came under the microscope again. This report from Global Intel Hub seems a good way to kick off the debate. ... Continue reading >>>
The True Cost Of The Green Energy Boom Is Now Being Realized
For four decades we have been fed a constant stream of propaganda assuring us that green energy was the only way forward if we wanted to secure supplies of the energy essential to a modern society while preventing the environmental catastrophes that would be the inevitable consequence of climate change caused by the Carbon Dioxide (CO2) emitted by human industrial, commercial and social activity. ... Continue reading >>>
Electricity cuts and power crisis predicted for Britain’s New Year Holiday
Shapps carefully omits to mention that the government’s only contingency plan for providing the power needed to meet peaks of demand (a sudden cold snap for example) is to spark up the thousands of diesel generators the earth loving politicians have concealed in goods containers on compounds sited around the country. Yes you read that right, diesel generators ...
Now Even ‘Hockey Stick’ Mann Admits The ‘Pause’ In Global Warming Is Real
“It has been claimed that the early-2000s global warming slowdown or hiatus, characterized by a reduced rate of global surface warming, has been overstated, lacks sound scientific basis, or is unsupported by observations. The evidence presented here contradicts these claims,” the paper in Nature Climate Change says.
German Scientist Confims Climate Change Ia A Politically Motivated Scam
Even as the inbred idiot Prince Charles was babbling to a hand picked audience about the skid marks in his underpants being caused by Climate Change, a somewhat more scientifically literate person, Dr. Friedrich Karl Ewert, a retired geologist and data computation expert, has confirmed what those of us dubbed 'climate deniers' have been telling you for years ...
It Looks As If Carbon Credits Scam Has INCREASED CO2 Emissions
As the climate change scare becomes more and more exposed for the money making fraud it always was, they green weirdie beardie, rope sandal wearing tree huggers get more hysterical and stupid in their arguments that we must all return to medieval lifestyles, the billionaires like Al Gore who hope to profit from it keep flogging the dead horse and the angrier and more vicious the left wing hate mobs become in their witch hunts.
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