They sent heavily armored British police. Sent them in force. Sent them with cannons.
Not to stop the grooming gangs. Not to stop the stabbings, the gougings, the decapitations. Not to stop the slaughter of children.
No, they were sent to stop you from talking about them.
Consider.. for decades these self same officers knew little British girls were being subjected to some of the most horrific abuse possible. And did nothing. Stood down. Looked the other way.
But now word's gotten out. Now there's discussion. Now there's concern. Now the natives are realizing that the whole children getting knifed thing isn't nearly as rare as they were told. Constantly.
Keep in mind these police know the Northern Irish have tried petitions, tried elections, tried lawsuits. They have tried every legal means they could conceive of, every legal means possible. And even when Northern Irish won the Government just went ahead and did it anyway.
As a species humans don't have a word in any language to describe a game that's rigged in such a manner that the opposition only plays it to show you how much they can cheat, get away with it, and call themselves the winner just to demoralize you so you give up and stop playing altogether.
These police know this too. They know about the grooming gangs and the violations, and the corruption. They know all of this. Every single one of those "police officers" knows their own leaders and their fellow officers turned a blind eye when a little girl had her tongue nailed down to make it easier to violate her.
I mean just ask yourself. How much would they have to pay you to turn a blind eye to that kind of child violation?
Because we know how much the average cop makes in the UK and it's nothing to brag about. Yet they show up to work anyway. They collect a paycheck anyway. And they don't care about your human rights, or ethics, or good and evil. They don't share your lofty virtues. They do what they're told.
Because, and I want to make this painfully clear, these are not your countrymen. They are not your friends or fellow citizens.
These policemen are the enforcement arm of an occupational government that will kill you as soon as listen to you choke out on your own blood as they cuff you. They won't think twice. They will shed no tears.
Are these men the enemy of the People? I'll let you decide. But I'm pretty comfortable saying they aren't your friends.
And they are definitely not legitimate. They're just men with clubs given permission.
Adapting the IRA Green Book to the current world:
1. Identity & Association Discipline
The Green Book's "don't be seen with known Republicans" translates directly into digital social graph hygiene. Modern OSINT tools (Maltego, SpiderFoot, social media scrapers) can reconstruct association networks from public data alone, without any informant.
Adaptations:
- Maintain strict identity separation: operational personas must have zero crossover with personal digital identities: different devices, different networks, different email habits, different writing styles.
- Avoid co-location signals: two people who regularly appear at the same cell-tower at the same time build a graph edge even if they never communicate directly.
- Apply graph poisoning: deliberately associate operational accounts with irrelevant nodes to degrade OSINT graph reliability.
- No social media for anyone inside the operational cell. Not even passive lurking on personal accounts from operational devices.
2. Communications Security
The IRA moved from telephone to courier to dead-drops as SIGINT pressure increased. Modern doctrine must go further:
- Use air-gapped devices for sensitive planning; never connect to any network.
- For necessary digital communication, use Signal with disappearing messages, but treat Signal metadata (who talks to whom, when, for how long) as compromised. State actors can obtain this via legal process or network-level analysis.
- Briar or Meek/Tor-based mesh protocols for environments where centralized infrastructure is monitored.
- One-time-pad or pre-shared key systems for highest-sensitivity exchanges; unbreakable without key compromise.
- Treat all smartphones as hostile sensors: microphone, camera, accelerometer, GPS, and baseband processor are all attack surfaces. Physical separation is the only mitigation.
- Use stenographic channels (messages embedded in innocuous files) for exfiltration of plans when traffic analysis itself is dangerous.
3. Pattern-of-Life Disruption
The IRA's instruction to avoid frequenting known Republican houses is now insufficient. Modern COIN and law enforcement use pattern-of-life analysis built from aggregated mundane data:
- Vary routes, timing, and transport systematically. Not randomly, but according to a counter-surveillance protocol that makes statistical profiling unreliable.
- License plate readers cover most urban arterials; use counter-routing that avoids known ALPR corridors, or use vehicles not attributable to cell members.
- Facial recognition is now deployed in many urban CCTV networks. Use counter-FR techniques (IR-LED glasses, masks, hairstyle changes) in surveillance-dense areas.
- Gait analysis can identify individuals even with face concealed; change footwear type and carry weight distribution.
- Conduct counter-surveillance detection routes (SDRs) before and after any sensitive meeting.
4. Anti-Interrogation (Updated)
The Green Book's "say nothing" doctrine remains fundamentally correct and is actually stronger in jurisdictions with strong right-to-silence protections. Modern additions:
- Device passcode compulsion: in many jurisdictions, biometric unlock (face/fingerprint) can be legally compelled; PINs/passphrases cannot in the same way. Use passphrases only.
- Full-disk encryption on all devices (LUKS on Linux, VeraCrypt containers for sensitive data) with duress passwords that wipe or present sanitized content.
- Understand parallel construction: evidence obtained through classified means (NSA intercepts, stingray data) is laundered into "normal" police evidence chains. Assume any evidence against you may have origins you cannot challenge.
- Pre-arrest legal preparation: know your attorney, have them on retainer, establish a check-in protocol so your absence triggers legal response.
5. Intelligence Collection (Offensive OSINT)
The IRA's Intelligence Officer role was formalized. Modern insurgent/counterinsurgent OSINT is vastly more powerful due to open data:
- OSINT on adversary forces: social media of military/police personnel frequently leaks unit affiliations, deployment patterns, and home addresses; systematic collection via tools like theHarvester, Shodan (for infrastructure), and GEOINT from satellite imagery (Sentinel Hub, Google Earth historical imagery).
- GEOINT: analyze patrol patterns, checkpoint locations, QRF response times from publicly observable data before any operational planning.
- SIGINT-lite: cheap software-defined radios (RTL-SDR) can monitor unencrypted tactical radio, TETRA (with limitations), and aircraft transponders (ADS-B) to map adversary movement.
- Infrastructure OSINT: power grids, water systems, and communications infrastructure topology is frequently mapped in public utility filings, GIS databases, and academic papers.
- Counter-OSINT: regularly audit your own footprint: run your personas through the same tools an adversary would use; find your leaks before they do.
6. Compartmentalization & Cell Structure
The IRA eventually moved to a cell structure after early ASU (Active Service Unit) compromises. The principle maps directly to modern organizational security:
- Need-to-know is absolute: no member should know the identity, location, or role of members outside their immediate cell.
- Dead drops over direct handoffs for materials and information, physical or digital (encrypted cloud dead drops using pre-shared symmetric keys).
- Duplication avoidance: no two members of the same cell should hold the same sensitive information simultaneously. Distribute risk.
- Use out-of-band confirmation for any instruction that involves significant action; a separate pre-agreed channel or code to verify authenticity and prevent false-flag manipulation.
7. Support Network & Counter-OSINT
The Green Book's "support barrier" doctrine -- embedding in community structures to create human shields between the organization and the enemy -- has a modern corollary:
- Build legitimate-appearing infrastructure (businesses, nonprofits, community organizations) that create plausible explanations for meetings, finances, and movements.
- Financial OPSEC: cash remains king for operational expenses; cryptocurrency is traceable unless handled with extreme discipline (Monero > Bitcoin; coin-join; never KYC exchanges).
- Counter-infiltration: the IRA's greatest failures came from informants placed in leadership. Modern countermeasure is behavioral vetting protocols: staged trust, compartmentalized access, and monitoring for anomalous information-seeking behavior by insiders.
The Fundamental Constants:
Despite all technological change, the Green Book's foundational insight remains true: the human element is the decisive vulnerability . The PIRA was not defeated by SIGINT, it was ultimately cracked by informants (notably Freddie Scappaticci/Stakeknife) and the shift to intelligence-led policing. Every layer of technical OPSEC is ultimately only as strong as the most compromised human in the network. The Green Book's demand for "total allegiance" was a crude but direct attempt to solve this problem. Modern doctrine replaces ideological binding with structural compartmentalization: no single human can compromise what no single human knows.
Meanwhile in Pakistan, just kidding. This is the new Islamized Texas.
Welcome to Park Pointe Center in Sugar Land - the all-Islamic shopping plaza where our newly imported voting bloc now gathers at night to strut around with their goats like it’s a freaking petting zoo before the main event.
Yes, you read that right. This is what Tuesday nights, hell, even election night, now look like in Texas.
Cowboys officially swapped for halal slaughter parades.
The barbaric Islamic ritual of Eid al-Adha kicks off today. A night not of “peace”, but of screams, blood, and unimaginable animal suffering.
The videos of animals crying, shaking, and bleeding out slowly as they’re ritually tortured by Muslims are sick and gut-wrenching.
As the animal bleeds out in agony, they recite: “Bismillah, Allahu Akbar” - “In the name of Allah, Allah is the Greatest.”
The very same words are shouted during most terrorist attacks. Same ritual. Same blood. Same so-called god being praised.
Only Islam’s “Allah” would ever demand such suffering. There is no righteousness in this. Only horror, sanctified by violence and dressed up as faith.
Have we completely lost our minds?
Sugar Land is now allowing this.
Welcome to the Islamization of Texas, folks.
This will piss some people off, and I don't care:
The reason for the burgeoning popularity of AI is twofold:
1. Most people are inherently lazy
2. AI isn't "smart", it's just that most people are dumber than AI.
For the second point, this is also why companies are rushing to AI. The bar for performance has moved so low, unmitigated crap has become the standard. Therefore, anything that rises even slightly above this bar is now heralded as a Godsend.
This is also why companies don't really care about the stupidity of H1-B hires. They're not worse; they're just a cheaper lateral move.
AI isn't going to replace skilled, intelligent workers.
Just all the workers lazier and dumber than it.
And, sadly, that's quite a few.
I just paid $5.59 per gallon for Diesel fuel.
Where the hell did all that cheap American oil go?
I'll tell you exactly where: it's sailing straight to Europe and Asia, where foreign buyers are happily paying premium prices. We're the world's #1 oil producer, pumping a record 13.6 million barrels per day. Yet U.S. companies are exporting over 5 million barrels of crude every single day, much of it to Europe and Asia, because that's where the bigger profits are.
Oil doesn't care about flags or patriotism. It's a global commodity that flows to the highest bidder. So if we actually want cheaper gas at the pump here at home, American drivers will have to outbid those overseas markets and pay even higher prices ourselves… or watch the tankers keep sailing away full while we foot the bill at the pump.
Looks like the promise Trump made of a short war, cheap, plentiful oil for Americans, drill baby drill, and now, fuel prices going back to normal was either a miscalculation, or a lie?
And it seems like it's only going to get worse. :(
This is fucking nauseating. This is the Texas GOP. A man born and raised in India and a gay guy who doesn't know how to wear boots.
Good luck and good night.
🚨BREAKING: 21 people shot, including children across Chicago so far this weekend, mass shooting last night & 5 police officers hospitalized after being mowed down by an 18-year-old at a teen takeover on the West Side.
Chicago is a total war zone ruled by Democrats.
There is a growing awareness among everyday people right now that the elite establishment REALLY DOES consider the masses to be expendable.
It was psychologically convenient to brush aside talk of "depopulation" and "extermination" as groundless theories and fairy tales designed to scare people, but now, as the AI data centers are expanding and taking over the farm land, water supplies, power grid and local political power, people are starting to freak out as they realize they are suddenly powerless to stop it all.
Local governments no longer listen to local citizens. Elections no longer represent the people, and the federal government doesn't even pretend to represent the American people any longer.
Corporate CEOs openly talk about replacing "low-value" humans beings with higher-value AI systems, and NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang openly and publicly talks about how AI systems will need "1,000 times more power" in the years ahead, which means the near-total displacement of humanity from the big picture.
For the very first time in the minds of many people, they realize that people like Steve Quayle, Alex Jones and myself (Mike Adams) were sincere in our warnings and accurate in our predictions. We were trying to save you, not scare you.
YOU REALLY ARE CONSIDERED EXPENDABLE by the ruling elite. They really are working on ways to exterminate you. They see you as in their way... biomass roadkill to be scraped off the pavement of "progress" so they can continue their drive toward AI superintelligence and world domination.
Now, suddenly, there seems to be emerging panic among those who were late to these realization. They are only JUST NOW figuring out they need extra food supplies, off-grid money (metals) and a plan to bug out of the cities to survive as far from the centralized control grid as possible.
I feel sorry for them. Denial worked for years, but no longer. Now human beings are in the crosshairs. You have been scheduled for termination. If you're only just now figuring this out, you're LATE, LATE, LATE! For a very important date, no doubt.
So follow the White Rabbit, because the adventures in "wonderland" have only just begun to be revealed. And it's more twisted and bizarre than you ever could have imagined.
Good luck to all.
Yesterday, Divers doing a routine maintenance check at the Converse Reservoir Dam in Mobile, AL discovered an underwater grenade type IED.
The FBI bomb squad had to be called in to safely detonate it.
The Reservoir and Dam are critical infrastructure, and this is being called “an unprecedented threat“
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has been made aware of the situation.
[Full Substack Link, and first part of the piece.]
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Now the data is here. And it confirms everything.
I have run this research across four separate large language models. I have cross-referenced every claim against the U.S. Energy Information Administration, the International Energy Agency, Bloomberg, Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan, Fortune, the Associated Press, Reuters, PBS, CNN, and the United Nations. I have verified the expert assessments from Carlyle Group, Rystad Energy, Shell, Chevron, and the EIA administrator himself.
What I am about to show you is not speculation. It is not opinion. It is the documented, sourced, verified trajectory of the global oil supply as it exists right now, on May 8, 2026.
If you can hear me, your life depends on what is in this article. I am not being dramatic. I am not overstating this. I am telling you that the data says the United States of America will run out of usable oil by July 4, 2026. Europe will run out this month. The food system that feeds you runs on diesel. Diesel runs out first.
Read this. Understand it. Act on it today. Not tomorrow. Today.
THE LAST TANKER
On May 3, 2026, a Hong Kong-flagged tanker called the New Corolla docked at the Port of Long Beach, California. It was carrying two million barrels of Iraqi crude oil loaded at the Port of Basra on February 24, four days before the United States and Israel launched Operation Epic Fury against Iran and the Strait of Hormuz effectively closed.
That tanker was the last one. The last oil shipment from the Middle East to reach American shores. It arrived, it unloaded, and now it is gone.
The buffer that kept fuel flowing for two months, tankers that were already at sea when the war started, is exhausted. Bryon Stock, director of the Chevron El Segundo refinery, one of the largest refineries on the West Coast, called it a “significant milestone that I’ve not seen or faced in my 27-year career.” His refinery normally receives 20 percent of its crude from the Arab Gulf. That supply is now zero. California imports roughly 60 percent of its crude. Roughly 20 percent of that came from the Middle East. Gone.
For two months, the world coasted on oil that was already at sea. That floating inventory masked the full scale of what was happening. It kept prices high but stable. It kept fuel flowing. It kept people thinking this was just another spike at the pump.
That illusion ended on May 3 in Long Beach.
We are no longer in a price crisis. We are entering a physical shortage. A point where fuel stops being available at any price because there is none left to sell.
WHAT HAPPENED TO THE STRAIT
The Strait of Hormuz is a narrow waterway between Iran and Oman. Before the war, roughly 120 commercial vessels transited it every day. It carried 20 million barrels of oil per day, 20 percent of the global seaborne oil trade. It was the single most important energy chokepoint on the planet.
On February 28, 2026, the United States and Israel launched strikes against Iran that killed Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Iran retaliated by closing the strait. By early March, only three oil tankers transited in a single day where fifty had passed days earlier. Iran deployed mines, IRGC gunboats, anti-ship missiles, and drone attacks to enforce the closure. On March 4, Iran formally declared the strait closed and threatened to attack any vessel attempting passage. Dozens of documented attacks and incidents involving commercial vessels have occurred since the maritime phase began.
By the week ending May 3, Lloyd’s List reported only 40 ships crossed the strait in the entire seven-day period. That is roughly five or six per day. Pre-war traffic was 120 per day. That is a 95 percent collapse in commercial shipping through the most important oil corridor on Earth.
The United States imposed its own naval blockade of Iranian ports on April 13. On April 23, Trump ordered the Navy to destroy any Iranian boats laying mines. On May 3, Trump said the U.S. would help free stranded ships, then paused the effort. Iran warned the U.S. to stay out.
The strait has been effectively closed for over two months. As of late April, the International Maritime Organization reported approximately twenty thousand mariners and two thousand ships stranded in the Persian Gulf. Insurance firms are refusing war-risk cover for Hormuz transits, and the London Joint War Committee has expanded its designated high-risk zones. War risk premiums have increased four to six times pre-war levels. Even vessels willing to attempt passage face insurance costs that make the trip economically unviable.
WHAT “TANK BOTTOMS” MEANS AND WHY IT WILL END YOUR WAY OF LIFE
You are going to hear a phrase in the coming days that most Americans have never encountered: tank bottoms.
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🚨🚨 Here it is — white mothers, you are a threat to the United States.
Newly released CIA documents, obtained through the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), confirm that the Biden terrorist administration identified “motherhood” and “homemaking” as indicators of “white racially and ethnically motivated violent extremism” (REMVE).
Don’t miss the trigger warning at the bottom of its own CIA intelligence product regarding how white women promoting motherhood are considered a threat to the United States.
In making sense of a complex event, it's often best to start with the facts and then work backwards from there. So what are we to make of this weekend in Iran?
My theory is we just saw an attempt to seize Iran's stockpile of enriched uranium unravel.
Down the rabbit hole.⬇️
Let's run through the timeline and the location of key events first:
The evening of April 2nd, the Iranian military released a video of them shooting down a USAF aircraft. This was initially claimed as having occurred over the Persian Gulf, but apparently occurred near Isfahan. Wreckage corresponding to an F-15E of the 494th Tactical Fighter Squadron was recovered from a site south of Isfahan the morning of April 3rd, although geolocation of the very barren crash site took some time (fig. 1).
The afternoon of April 3rd, a number of USAF HH-60s and an HC-130 fueler (!) were spotted operating further south and west in Iran, over Kogiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad Province, as well as at least one A-10, an MQ-9 Reaper, and apparently an F-35. An antiaircraft battle developed and the Combat Search and Rescue (CSAR) HH-60s (fig.2) and an A-10 were damaged, with the A-10's pilot ejecting over the Persian Gulf. The HH-60s were reported as "damaged" and one was photographed trailing smoke. Reports emerged at that time that the pilot of the F-15E (which had crashed near Isfahan, although this was then-unclear!) had been rescued, while the WSO remained at large. Provincial authorities in Kohgiluyeh asked civilians to be on the lookout for an American aviator around this time and numerous photos of militia searching for him emerged.
The next day passed relatively uneventfully. The evening of April 4th, however, there was a report of more helicopter activity slightly further north, in Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari Province, accompanied by a washed-out photograph of an unknown helicopter flying very low on a very dark night (fig. 3). Later that night news emerged that the F-15Es WSO had been rescued... and that C-130s had been abandoned and scuttled at a forward base in the Isfahan area during the withdrawal of a company-size SOF force that had landed in the area, over 100 operators ostensibly having been sent to rescue one aviator. Photographs that emerged as dawn broke showed two burned-out C-130s and several destroyed MH-6 Little Bird SOF assault helicopters, in a scene reminiscent of the aftermath of Operation Eagle Claw (fig. 4). A USAF C-295 tactical transport was caught on video around that time flying in Iran - presumably outbound - at extremely low altitude.
So, what are we to make of this?
First and foremost, the official story - that a huge direct-action SOF force landed near Isfahan with assault helicopters and heavy transport aircraft to rescue one fugitive airman - is nonsense. Not because the USAF won't go to extreme lengths to recover isolated personnel - it can, will, and did in this case - but because that's an absolutely nonsensical way to accomplish that mission. It's a totally inappropriate force package for a mission to go in, extract a single person from a remote area, and leave. Ergo this SOF task force was there on other business.
So how were the pilots actually recovered? In all likelihood, exactly the way you would expect them to be recovered - by USAF PJs in long-range helicopters, under cover of darkness. The rescue force probably recovered the pilot from the Isfahan area late at night on April 2-3 and were caught in daylight as they exfiltrated, leading to the aforementioned antiaircraft battle the morning of April 3rd and a high-risk refueling over Iranian territory that was filmed by many Iranians on the ground, as well as a shot-down A-10 trying to clear a path for the helicopters to exfiltrate. The WSO was likely recovered from his hide site near Isfahan by HH-60 in a quiet and deliberate operation the night of April 4-5. One or two birds, in and out under cover of darkness - a far cry from the gung-ho stories currently being spun.
So what about the SOF rodeo happening at the same time? Well, why was an F-15 flying downtown to Isfahan the evening of April 2nd to begin with? Probably because there was a huge direct-action raid planned in the Isfahan area for the night of April 4-5, likely going after enriched uranium at an underground facility in the region, and the Iranian air defenses around Isfahan weren't going to suppress themselves. The plan was likely to fly several MH-6 assault birds and a sizable force of operators via C-130 and C-295 to a forward staging area near Isfahan the evening of April 4th, hit a reported cache site or sites for enriched uranium, and try to make it out with the magic dust by daybreak on April 5th.
In any event the USAF wasn't going to send transports somewhere it wouldn't send strike aircraft. So the Air Force cashed its check on claims of air superiority and in went the strike package the evening of April 2nd - and lo and behold one of the F-15Es went down because reports of the demise of the Iranian air defense network had been greatly exaggerated. Any rational planner would have scrubbed the SOF operation at this point because they'd lost control of the situation and the Iranian defenses had proven more effective than planned.
We went ahead anyways and inserted the SOF task force the evening of April 4th. I strongly suspect that this force was immediately discovered by Iranian drones that would have been up and searching for this WSO, because five transport aircraft including at least two C-130s (about what would be required for a bunch of Little Birds and a company-sized element of operators with equipment) landing at a desert airstrip 50km from Isfahan (and in the same general area where the WSO was taking cover) would be pretty God-damn obvious to anything with thermals. Iranian troops immediately deployed and began converging, the task force probably took indirect fire, and the operational commander immediately aborted mission and retreated in the three remaining operational aircraft. Scuttling charges on delayed fuzes burned two C-130s and an unknown number of MH-6s that had been abandoned at the airstrip around dawn.
The story that they were there to rescue the WSO was concocted at that time to cover the disastrously failed raid, as were logistically implausible claims that the task force had been rescued by three additional aircraft after the two C-130s got stuck on the LZ and were scuttled - perhaps to minimize the scale of the effort. Claims that a large battle took place appear to be similarly exaggerated - video has emerged of a single group of Iranian militia apparently killed in a drone strike, but nothing of the nonstop bombing and firefights that were rumored across Telegram all night. I remind the reader that the events of the last few days have proven quite conclusively that Iranians seem to have plenty of internet access to post photos and video when they actually have something worthwhile to film.
I'd like to note that Hegseth fired General George - US Army Chief of Staff - on April 2nd, apparently because he just wasn't a good fit for the job and definitely not because he'd told him that this whole scheme was insane. It seems to me that the good General's advice should have perhaps been heeded.
Nah, you guys know what? I’m just gonna come out and say it. And when I’m done saying it, tell me if it’s “blatant Islamophobia” or just…. you know… reality.
Let me explain to you some of the things I witnessed with my very own eyes in multiple Muslim countries. This will not be for the weak or faint of heart.
1. They didn’t just massacre one another in Baghdad, they chopped each other up into little pieces and stuffed them in underground vats. SPC Plocica was the only one with a strong enough stomach to fish the pieces out with a coat hanger so we could confirm the report. Don’t worry @Primz94933160 was there too as a witness. Rib cages with rotted flesh, pieces of legs with shoes attached, arms, hands, you name it. It was the most disgusting thing I’ve seen with my two eyes.
2. The obsession with having sex with children or feminine men. The saying over there was women are for breeding and men are for fun. We had to protect our fairer looking male Soldiers from being molested CONSTANTLY. But that isn’t the worst part. I once stumbled upon an Afghan colonel r*ping his 11 year old assistant, I heard the unholy noises emanating from his tent on our FOB. When I moved to interdict I was stopped for fear of a Green on Blue incident. And then we were all “educated” on the fact that this was CULTURALLY ACCEPTABLE FOR THEM TO DO. It was as normal as breathing.
3. Women are less than nothing to them. I would always ask how many children elders had for small talk. They could have 10 kids. 7 daughters and 3 sons. What will they tell you? They have 3 sons. I watched a man carrying his dead daughter in his arms to my FOB. She died due to a malfunctioned bomb we dropped. That didn’t matter to him. He dropped her on the ground with a stone cold face and demanded we pay him. She was f*****g NOTHING to him. He left the body with us and walked away counting his money.
4. Some of them have sex with animals. Ask me if I saw a man from COP 763 in east Baghdad mount a donkey in the middle of the night through a RAID FLIR camera. Because the answer will be yes.
5. They did heinous things in battle. Suicide bombings. Using their own wives as human shields. Using children as shields. Shooting from mosques. Spitting at our working dogs… or worse.
This all sounds crazy right? And I bet my comment section will flow with similar horror stories. It almost sounds like I’m making it up huh? I wish I was. I really do.
I know good Muslims in America. One of them is among my closest friends. But he’s passed through the American filter…HEAVILY. I can safely say he is literally one of us.
My question for you is, how are you not “Islamophobic”? My assessment comes from 4 total years immersed in multiple Islamic nations.
I wish I could say I’m sorry that I’m an inconvenient truth teller against your agenda.
But I’m not sorry at all. You must open your eyes. You MUST see this is a problem. Don’t you? How can you not?
Every country in Asia is running the same clock right now.
They just have very different numbers.
Japan: 254 days. The most prepared nation on earth. Built those reserves after being embargoed in 1973, a humiliation so severe they spent the next 50 years ensuring it could never happen again. Refiners are asking to open them. The government said not yet.
China: approximately 10 days before domestic operations face real constraints. Already halted diesel exports to protect what it has.
India: Gas cuts to industry of 10 to 30% already implemented. Not projected. Implemented. Today.
South Korea: 1.6 million barrels per day through Hormuz. That pipeline is now air.
Japan has three weeks of LNG inventories.
Pakistan: no strategic reserve.
Bangladesh: no strategic reserve.
No buffer. No option. No plan B.
This is the thing the aggregate numbers obscure. When analysts say Asia faces disruption, they are averaging 254 days of Japanese preparedness with zero days of Pakistani preparedness and calling it a regional crisis of moderate concern.
That is not one crisis. That is twelve different crises at twelve different velocities hitting simultaneously.
The countries with reserves will deploy them in sequence, each release sending a price signal that accelerates the clock for the countries beneath them on the buffer ladder. Japan releases. Prices drop temporarily. Then the release ends. Prices resume. South Korea releases. Same pattern. Then India. Then nobody is left with a buffer and the war is still running.
That is the cascade mechanism. And it has a name in energy economics.
It is called strategic reserve depletion under sustained supply shock. The last time it happened at this scale was 1973. That ended with the global recession of 1974 and a complete restructuring of Western energy policy.
Japan built 254 days of reserves because of what happened in 1973.
On day seven of this war, they are already being asked to open them.
The number that should terrify every energy desk in the world is not 254.
It is seven.
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