[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] … as nearby business blares national anthem and What Does the Fox Say? during services
The Masjidu Salaam Mosque in Lewiston blasted both the town's police department and its neighbor Mid Valley Motors/Leonard Heavy Duty Towing Company over recent incidents during its religious services.
A spokesperson told the Lewiston Sun-Journal: 'The Lewiston Police Department conducted numerous unnecessary and targeted parking enforcement sweeps near the mosque on Friday, ignoring their responsibility to keep the community safe to instead focus on a right-wing grievance.'
But locals and businesses have hit back at the 'right-wing grievance' claim, saying it is unfair for mosque worshippers to clog the parking lots of three local businesses illegally and expect to get away without a ticket.
Mid Valley Motors, a local butcher and a separate Italian bakery have all recently ticketed worshippers' cars for using their lots without buying anything.
Many of the tickets issued were to cars that obstructed or blocked driveways. The mosque is open from before dawn until 11pm every day, with Fridays the busiest day for services.
#4
They're not a race--they're adherents to a poisonous ideology that is incompatible with living in a free society. Tow their cars, sell the cars and use the funds for crime prevention, and deport those frequenting the mosque.
But the oil still exists, and surely will be released for sale once the current difficulties are resolved. And in the meantime suppliers other than Iran, and delivery pathways other than the Strait of Hormuz, are increasing how much they are pumpling and delivering, right?
[VelinaTchakarovaSubstack] Global System Rupture: The Fourth Systemic Crisis and Its Architecture
INTRODUCTION
We are in the fourth and most severe systemic global crisis since the 2007 global financial crisis. The three preceding crises — the Financial Crisis (2007), the COVID-19 Pandemic (2020), and Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine (2022) — each generated higher-order cascade effects that temporarily destabilised the global economic, financial, and supply chain architecture without fundamentally challenging it.
The current crisis, triggered by Operation Epic Fury on 28 February 2026, marks a qualitative system rupture. For the first time, the material foundations of the global system are being attacked simultaneously: energy, water, and food infrastructures; metallurgical and trade-policy value chains; and financial transaction systems — all affected at once, within a geopolitical environment whose institutional crisis-management mechanisms are already fragmented.
The primary shock is unambiguous: the global market is currently missing approximately 10–13 million barrels of oil per day, while roughly 20% of global gas exports have been disrupted. These supply shortfalls form the initial impulse of the current systemic crisis.
IEA Director Fatih Birol has stated that the current crisis is “more severe than the crises of 1973, 1979, and 2022 combined.” These shortfalls drive the central cascade effects — through energy prices, fertiliser production, agricultural yields, petrochemical products, industrial manufacturing, and ultimately fiscal and monetary stability. The crisis is therefore not only multiplicative, but energy-induced and systemically amplified.
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tldr: The price of the remaining oil in circulation goes up.
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Wrote a Scifi story back around 2005 called,
"Good to The Last Drop"
It has sections of the Earth collapsing due all the oil that been pumped out. Creating 100's of Sq Miles of Void or less supported caverns where water was pumped back in to make the oil float up.
The Sand Lands
The Alaska, Gulf and West Coasts and etc...
A cubic mile hold's roughly about 1,101,117,147,429 gallons of oil.
Recent global estimates put daily oil consumption at around 42 Billion gallons per day.
Using these numbers for quick math.
Means we are creating a .038 cubic Mile void/compromised each day.
.038 x 365 = 13.92 cubic mile void/compromised per year
Now say just say the last 20 years = 278.44 Cubic mile void.
Obviously certain areas will have bigger void or compromised areas.
Now say by the year 2036 something like 417.66++ cubic miles.
#4
I've read a bunch of Velina Tchakarova's stuff (TLDR: "We're doomed.") She seems to be a very bright lady, but she's making dire predictions about topics she has at best a superficial knowledge of, and underestimates the ability of capable people to adjust to changes. I'd rather hear from Billy Bob Thornton's character in "Landman".
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[REGNUM] The Nazis' rise to power in Germany in 1933 is one of the most tragic events of the 20th century in its aftermath. A persistent myth surrounds it: the majority of Germans voted for Adolf Hitler's NSDAP party in the Reichstag elections. The reality, however, is somewhat different.
The blame for the transformation of the Weimar Republic into the Third Reich lies primarily with the republican elite, which became entangled in intrigues, violated its own laws, and ultimately “outsmarted itself.”
In March 1927, a cartoon was published in the satirical magazine Simplicissimus. Germans—a bourgeois, a civil servant, a worker, a communist, a soldier in a steel helmet, and a Nazi stormtrooper—were holding the letters "Republik" (republic), but the individual letters didn't form a word. The caption explained the meaning of the image: the republic with its institutions existed, but the republican spirit that united the people did not.
And this, it should be noted, was the apogee of the "golden twenties." Then, instead of billion-mark bills (about which they used to say, "Hurry up and buy a cup of coffee and watch the money depreciate while it's still cold"), a normal currency arrived: one new Reichsmark, equal to a trillion old ones.
The economy recovered from its nosedive. Hoping to transform Germany into an effective satellite, the United States curbed the appetites of its European allies (primarily the French), who were demanding reparations under the Treaty of Versailles.
At the instigation of the United States, the Dawes Plan was adopted, restructuring reparations payments, easing the terms for American loans, and withdrawing French occupation troops from the coal-mining Ruhr region. In exchange, international control over the Reichsbank and railways was granted. The Weimar Republic joined the League of Nations, becoming one of the European democracies.
The left-wing and far-right threats seemed to have disappeared. The Communists (who had made their last attempt at revolution in 1923) focused on fighting the Social Democrats. Grigory Zinoviev, head of the Comintern Executive Committee, forbade the Communists from forming an alliance with the SPD—the "social fascists." The struggle for a common—workers'—electorate was commonplace.
The real Nazis from Hitler's NSDAP remained mere news providers for the newspapers. Ernst Röhm's "brown" stormtroopers regularly clashed with activists of the "Union of Red Front Soldiers"—the "Front Company." But from the perspective of normal politics, the Nazis were marginal.
Hitler, convicted in 1923 for organizing the Munich Beer Hall Putsch, was released. However, the number of National Socialist voters in the elections was within the margin of error (3% in the 1924 Reichstag vote).
However, the stability of the "Dawes and Jazz Age" was visible.
HOUSE OF CARDS
Weimar's electoral laws made it impossible to form stable governing coalitions. The Weimar Constitution had few supporters: the urban intelligentsia, habitually voting for liberal parties and the founding fathers, the Social Democrats.
The Catholic industrialists of the Ruhr and the Lutheran Prussian landowners, the Reichswehr generals, and the banking elite all chose the right. Catholics and national conservatives opposed Weimar: they saw the republic as a consequence of defeat in the Great War and a "stab in the back."
Instead, it was necessary, if not to recreate the Kaiser's empire, then to organize a stable, functioning authoritarian government.
The Communists could not forgive the Social Democrats for the brutal suppression of the 1918 uprising, in which Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg were killed. Ernst Thälmann's party believed that the protracted rule of the "German Kerenskys" would end with a proletarian revolution.
At the head of this republic without republicans stood the aging Reich President Paul von Hindenburg, a war hero in a country with a reduced army, a monarchist who was forced for the time being to put up with the governments of the “Versailles traitors.”
All it would have taken was a small blow to this "Tower of Babel," and it would have begun to crumble. But the shock proved serious: the global economic crisis that began in 1929 with the US stock market crash. The Weimar economy, dependent on support from overseas, collapsed once again.
The middle classes and workers experienced a sense of déjà vu: inflation, lines for free soup, confusion and anger. The specter of either a "red" revolution or a "black" dictatorship of the Reichswehr loomed again—and both options began to seem like viable options.
Votes of no confidence in governments required, under Weimar law, new elections to the Reichstag—which increasingly irritated citizens.
But the demand for "order" by no means implied a vote for the NSDAP Fuhrer. Hitler lost to Hindenburg in the presidential election.
The 1930 elections, held against the backdrop of a downward spiral, gave the Nazis 18% of the vote. Hitler gained the second-largest faction after the SPD, but only against the backdrop of a general split. No one wanted to ally with the "brown" party.
BOMB UNDER THE REPUBLIC
The Reichstag dismissed more and more governments, new votes were scheduled, and the parties of the Republican coalition (the SPD and the Liberals) were rapidly losing votes. The Communists campaigned, citing the example of the USSR: excluded from the global capitalist economy, it was said to be immune to the crisis.
The right, including Hindenburg's supporters, demanded that the General President begin to rule directly, bypassing parliament.
Fortunately, the Weimar Constitution allowed for the establishment of a regime that would devalue it. Article 48 granted the president dictatorial powers in the event of a vaguely defined threat to public order. A law specifying how a state of emergency should be understood was never passed.
This constitution was created in 1919 by the Social Democrats amidst a civil war with rivals from both the right and left. At that time, SPD leader Friedrich Ebert became Reich President, and Article 48 was written for him. The Social Democrats apparently didn't anticipate that the old "reactionary" Hindenburg would ever seize the opportunity.
And he took advantage of it - at the instigation of his son Oskar (who held the post of his adjutant) and the inner circle of the politician Franz von Papen, General Kurt von Schleicher.
The "Circle" appointed its own chancellor, the non-partisan conservative Heinrich Brünning. He began to combat the consequences of the Great Depression with emergency decrees and austerity measures.
Left-wing politicians saw the emergency as a dictatorship. The press dubbed Brüning "Chancellor Hunger," with newspapers run by Joseph Goebbels particularly active in this regard.
The result was the simultaneous fall of the cabinet, the dissolution of the Reichstag, and new elections in 1932. These elections marked the pinnacle of the NSDAP's parliamentary success: less than 37.4% of the vote. This meant that 62.6% of Germans who voted did not want the Nazis to come to power. But these votes were dispersed, resulting in them becoming the largest faction in parliament.
OUR PEOPLE
Once again, a government coalition failed to be assembled. And Hindenburg refused to "manually" appoint the NSDAP Führer as Chancellor. Following a personal meeting, the president declared: Hitler could perhaps receive the post of Postmaster General, but he should not count on the Chancellorship.
The system had already been living for several years in a semi-presidential, semi-authoritarian regime, where Hindenburg's entourage had disproportionate weight.
The government was taken over by a Prussian aristocrat, a friend of the president's friends, von Papen. This "insider" turned out to be a weak politician, who was overthrown within months by another figure from the inner circle, General von Schleicher.
Not the most famous military leader, he was a seasoned political intriguer. But in 1932, his growing ambitions prompted him to emerge from the shadows. After the fall of Papen's cabinet, Schleicher wrested the chancellorship for himself.
The "scheme" had to include a Reichstag vote of no confidence in Papen's cabinet. And that meant new parliamentary elections, the second of 1932. Incidentally, in these elections, the Nazis' vote fell by 4 percentage points, to 33%. According to memoirs, despondency reigned in the Brown House, the NSDAP headquarters.
Meanwhile, former Chancellor Papen began to turn Hindenburg against the new Chancellor, Schleicher. The "Old Master" was told that the general wanted to become a dictator, was undermining the president, and was conspiring with parliamentary figures to achieve this, including Hitler's main rival within the NSDAP, Georg Strasser. Which, incidentally, was true; Schleicher had conducted such negotiations.
Papen hinted: why not reach an agreement with Hitler if he so desires power? We should give the Führer a "tasty" ministerial post and another one or two portfolios for his Party comrades.
But the decisive step was taken by the Nazis themselves.
ORDINARY CORRUPTION
In January 1933, scandalous details of abuses under the Eastern Aid program emerged. Hindenburg, having become president, approved this program of financial support for large Prussian landowners.
And the Nazis, in a private bargaining session with Hindenburg's entourage, played their trump cards. Party intelligence—the foundation of the future Gestapo—discovered that the president's son, Oskar, had been using state funds from the "Eastern Aid" program for personal purposes (including keeping women) and evading taxes.
The president was informed that the Nazis were "in the know" through future Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop. At the same time, leaks began to appear in the press, mostly through newspapers close to Schleicher.
The event that brought the Nazis to power was a behind-the-scenes meeting on January 22, 1933, between Hitler and Hindenburg Jr.
After a two-hour conversation, the president’s son and adjutant came to his father and declared: “Now there is no other option but to appoint Hitler as chancellor.”
On January 30, 1933, Hindenburg unilaterally appointed Adolf Hitler as head of a coalition cabinet with Vice-Chancellor Papen.
Besides Hitler, there were only two NSDAP representatives in the cabinet: the future Reichsmarschall Hermann Göring and the future "protector" of occupied Czechoslovakia, Wilhelm Frick. But in just over a year, the Nazis completely destroyed the shaky structure of the Weimar Republic.
When Hindenburg died in August 1934, Hitler became not just Führer and Reich Chancellor—by this point, he was a dictator in a one-party, hierarchical state. But this turn of history was not preordained.
In France in the early 1930s, numerous left-wing and centrist forces united to form the Popular Front, preventing right-wing radicals from gaining power. In Britain, Oswald Mosley's Nazis failed to make inroads into a field divided between two traditional forces (the Tories and Whigs) and a new force—the Labour Party.
Weimar had more than one killer. The economic crisis, the emergency decrees, the old elites' hatred of parliament, the ideological split on the left, the disunity of the conservatives (Catholics always "played separately" from Lutherans).
The Nazis did not achieve a democratic victory; the majority of citizens had no demand for a racial doctrine or aggressive war. Germans demanded a stable, functioning state mechanism. But the Berlin authorities, instead of responding to public demand, became preoccupied with intrigue. The result was a tragedy not only for Germany but for the entire world.
Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin is in italics.
[ColonelCassad] The Deep State is completely unfazed and is rejoicing in Trump's failures in the war against Iran.
The NYT has long been a mouthpiece for the US intelligence community, and every such setback for Trump now plays into the Democrats' hands. It's noteworthy that following such admissions, former CIA Director Brennan also called for Trump's removal under the 25th Amendment.
They can try…
Globalists now objectively benefit from Iran's successful resistance, as it helps them pressure Trump to overthrow him this fall.
New York Times: Trump's war weakens the US in four ways. The most tangible blow to the US and the world is Iran's increased influence on the global economy thanks to its control of the Strait of Hormuz. Trump's lack of foresight regarding this strait demonstrates its clear ineffectiveness.
The second blow is related to the US military position in the world. This war has demonstrated the vulnerability of the American military to new methods of warfare. The world has seen how a country spending a hundred times more on defense than its adversary can be inferior in resilience on the battlefield.
The third significant cost of the war concerns US allies. Japan, South Korea, Australia, Canada, and much of Western Europe have refused to support the US in this war. These countries no longer view America as a reliable ally. The fourth damage concerns the moral authority of the US. Trump has undermined these values throughout his political career, and perhaps never to such an extent as last week, when he made vile threats to destroy Iranian civilization. This could be considered a war crime.
The facts are generally clear: Trump made a monstrous strategic error that undermined both his personal position and that of the US. And Iran now has Trump by the balls, preventing him from extricating himself from a protracted war that is burying both his prospects and those of the Republican Party.
Globalists see this and rub their hands with glee, merrily rebroadcasting the narrative that Iran is winning and the depths to which Trump has driven the United States. In some areas, globalist propaganda is becoming almost indistinguishable from Iranian propaganda.
This, of course, doesn't mean that globalists have suddenly fallen in love with Iran, but they currently have overlapping situational interests.
Let’s see what they all think two weeks from now.
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Once Tehran is reduced to a sheet of slightly warm, slightly glowing glass, America will be truly defeated and we shall slink off into the sunset with our tail between our legs.
[TWZ] The USS Boise has been stuck in limbo for more than a third of its career, and was still years and billions of dollars away from returning to service.
U.S. Navy has abandoned plans to return the Los Angeles class attack submarine USS Boise to active duty. This brings an end to the saga of a still-incomplete major overhaul of the boat, which has lasted more than a decade now. In that time, it has become a poster child for the Navy’s worrisome struggles to tackle huge maintenance backlogs, as well as larger concerns about the availability, or lack thereof, of naval shipyard capacity in the United States.
The Navy announced its decision to inactivate Boise, which was first commissioned into service in 1992, earlier today.
“After a rigorous, data-driven analysis, we’ve made the tough but necessary decision to inactivate the USS Boise,” Navy Adm. Daryl Caudle, Chief of Naval Operations, the service’s top officer, said in a statement. “This strategic move allows us to reallocate America’s highly-skilled workforce to our highest priorities: delivering new Virginia and Columbia class submarines and improving the readiness of the current fleet. We owe it to our Sailors and the nation to make these tough calls to build a more capable and ready Navy.”
“The move is part of the Navy’s broader, data-driven initiative to optimize the fleet’s composition, ensuring that every dollar is invested in capabilities that directly contribute to maintaining a decisive warfighting advantage,” the service also said in a press release. “Funds and personnel associated with the planned overhaul of USS Boise will be redirected to support other Navy priorities, including the timely delivery of America’s submarine capability.”
To date, the Navy has spent approximately $800 million on Boise’s overhaul, which is still only 22 percent complete, the service separately told Semafor. The total estimated cost to complete the overhaul had risen to $3 billion, according to Fox News.
“At some point, you just cut your losses and move on,” Secretary of the Navy John Phelan also told Fox News in an interview ahead of today’s announcement. “The Boise represents 65% of the cost of a new Virginia class submarine, yet it only delivers 20% of the remaining service life.”
The Navy had originally planned for Boise to begin its overhaul in 2013, but the timetable was repeatedly delayed, primarily due to a lack of shipyard availability. The submarine has not been to sea since it returned from its last cruise in January 2015. The boat was deemed unable to conduct normal operations by 2016, and it formally lost its dive certification the following year.
The Navy moved Boise from its home port in Norfolk, Virginia, to Newport News Shipbuilding’s facilities in 2018. Newport News Shipbuilding is a division of Huntington Ingalls Industries (HII).
The submarine returned to Norfolk the following year amid competing funding priorities. It went back to Newport News in 2020, but did not actually enter a dry dock there until 2021, after which limited maintenance work began. The full overhaul was then further set back due to budgetary issues, with a formal contract only signed in 2024.
#6
Unless you're into vehicle restorations for taking up garage space, exhibits, or parades and such, throwing money into rust buckets is sort of wasteful.
Unless the old vehicle actually does something that modern ones can't, which in this case is questionable.
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Unless the old vehicle actually does something that modern ones can't
The Biden presidential library, coffin and Puerto Rico trench sinkhole deep water tsunami buffer.
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In the 70s it only took about 18 months to refuel and upgrade boomers‘ This strategic move allows us to reallocate America’s highly-skilled workforce to our highest priorities: delivering new Virginia and Columbia-class submarines and improving the readiness of the current fleet. We owe it to our Sailors and the nation to make these tough calls to build a more capable and ready’. Dept of the Navy.” .
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#11
Somebody didn't take the Musk team seriously during the DOGE period.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
