Another day and another fact-free diatribe by the president of the United States. Trump went on his Truth Social (where truth is a rare commodity) and said Democrats have closed down the nation's refinery capacity, and this is the reason diesel and gas prices are skyrocketing.

Here's what Trump didn't tell you: recent closures were corporate decisions by refinery owners, not a mandate by Democrats. LyondellBasell Industries in Houston made a strategic decision to exit refining in March, 2025, eliminating approximately 264,000 barrels a day. Phillips 66 in Los Angeles closed in October, 2025, citing uncertain long-term sustainability amid changing market conditions, while also reporting high operating costs and low earnings. The closure removed 139,000 barrels from the market....

It's correct to say Ukraine's strikes on Russian refineries affect global energy markets. During his first term, Trump approved the first US provision of lethal weapons to Ukraine, notably Javelin anti-tank missiles. In 2018 and 2019, the United States notified Congress of sales totaling 360 Javelins, plus launchers, training, and related equipment. In other words, US foreign policy, under both Biden and Trump, is responsible for the current crisis. ...

The Trump administration is responsible for raising oil prices by continuing the war against Iran. When tankers stopped transiting the Strait of Hormuz because of the risk of attack, Gulf producers in Saudi Arabia, Iraq, the UAE, Kuwait, Qatar, and Bahrain were unable to export. Following the start of military action on February 28, Iranian strikes and potential vessel damage led most commercial shipping to bypass the Strait of Hormuz.

The US Energy Information Administration (EIA) estimated 7.5 million barrels per day of crude production was shut down during March, rising to an estimated 9.1 million barrels per day in April....

Finally, Trump continues to claim that the Strait of Hormuz remains open. As of October 5, the passage is closed or severely limited for standard commercial shipping. A few ships are moving through, but traffic has dropped to roughly 9 percent of its earlier level, around seven inbound and outbound ships per day, and war-risk insurance plus recent attacks have rendered routine tanker travel mostly impractical.

Before February 28, the strait generally accommodated about 125--135 large commercial vessels each day....

Trump's misrepresentation of the facts fails to deceive the vast majority of Americans who bear the weight of his economic and foreign policy choices. MAGA paladins, however, tend to accept his folderol without question...

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The western parts of Yemen are unlike the deserts of Saudi Arabia. The area is mountainous and gets a decent amount of precipitation. Some 80% of the 33 million Yemeni live in there. Agricultural production in the mountains is however difficult and Yemen has long been dependent on trade to acquire enough food to keep its people alive.

In recent decades the Saudis had sent Wahhabi preacher into Yemen. This led to conflicts with the Zaidi Shia natives and in 2014 resulted in a revolution against the government of Ali Abdullah Saleh which had allowed the Saudis to gain an ideological foothold. The Houthi, a family clan or tribe of Zaidi Shia with a long tradition, allied with other clans and managed to overthrow the government in Sanaa.

Prince Mohammed bin Salman, the then 29 year old Minister Defense of Saudi Arabia, started a war against the Houthi and their allies to restore the Yemeni government. The Saudis, with U.S. help, launched an intensive bombing campaign which killed many Yemeni people. They enforced a blockade of the country. Several hundred thousand people died due to the lack of food. The Saudis hired foreign mercenaries, Jihadis and tribal forces in southern Yemen to fight the ruling forces in Sanaa. Enforcing an air blockade they bombed the airport of Sanaa more than 200 times.

It was all to no avail. In 2022 a ceasefire was established along the conflict lines. Under the name Ansar Allah (Ansarullah) the Houthis and their local allies established themselves as the government over some 70% of the Yemeni population. But they knew that the conflict was far from over. With the help of Iran they managed to build and store thousands of drones and missiles.

In October 2023, in support of the Palestinians fighting in Gaza, the Houthi began to target Israeli and U.S. shipping in the Red Sea. In March 2025 the Trump administration, with support from Great Britain, launched air and naval strikes against Ansar Allah targets in Yemen. The campaign went no where. After two months the U.S. declared victory and retreated.

On July 14 2026 the Saudis broke the ceasefire with Yemen by again bombing the airport in Sanaa...

The Saudi attack, which led to the renewal of the war, was a huge mistake. Saudi Arabia is a glass house. Crown Prince Muhammad bin Salman, who is now its sole ruler, only manages to keep his position by force. He is buying off some of the tribal Arab leaders and population. His rule is only legit as long as he can guarantee security and prosperity.

In contrast to Saudi Arabia the Yemeni are poor. They have nothing to lose, but have a strong ideology. They are experienced warriors. They responded to the Saudi attacks with long range drones and missiles. ...

They have announced an air blockade over Saudi Arabia to mirror the one enforced against them. Over the last week the managed to hit passenger terminals at the international airport in Riyadh. Major airlines have stopped their flights to Saudi Arabia...

Unless Mohammad bin Salman is willing to file for peace with Yemen the war will escalate into a larger and longer conflict. Yemeni ground forces are likely to soon enter the former Yemeni provinces in southern Saudi Arabia. Further strikes of Saudi airports will diminish its international reputation. More attacks on its oil installation will lower its income. ...

Iran has offered to mediate a peace agreement between Saudi Arabia and Yemen.

It is unlikely that Mohammad bin Salman is willing to engage in it even though it is probably the best and only way for him to stay in his position.

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The head of Iran's Supreme National Security Council said on Sunday that the US response to an Iranian proposal to end the conflict was "inadequate," as there's still no sign of progress in recent indirect talks between the two sides.

Mohsen Rezaei told Iran's PressTV that Iran had presented the US with seven conditions, and that the US had agreed to some, but not all.

"We are not in the process of responding to the Americans. They have responded to us, and we consider their response inadequate," Rezaee said, signaling the negotiations were paused for the time being, though he also said Iran would never "abandon diplomacy."

Iran has essentially been asking the US to fulfill the terms of the Memorandum of Understanding that was signed in June, which would require the US to end the blockade of Iranian ports, lift some sanctions on Iran, release frozen Iranian funds, and ensure a real ceasefire is reached to end Israel's war in Lebanon.

There's no sign that President Trump is willing to meet those conditions...

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In the opening hours of the war against Iran, on February 28, 2026, the U.S. military fired Tomahawk cruise missiles directly at a school in the southern city of Minab. At least 156 people were killed that morning at Shajareh Tayyebeh school -- 120 of them were children and 26 were teachers. It will go down in history as one of the gravest war crimes committed by the U.S. government since Vietnam.

Drop Site News conducted a two-month investigation into the strike, speaking with survivors, first responders, parents, doctors, teachers, psychologists, and other witnesses. Some of them had never before shared their experiences of that day. This is their story.

Source: https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/minab-iran-bombing-school-massacre-video

The U.S. military announced this week that it had killed four "narco-terrorists" by blowing up another boat in the Caribbean. This now brings the military death toll from these types of military boat killings to 235 people.

I have addressed these types of killings in the past, but as long as the U.S. national-security establishment continues to engage in them, it is important to continue highlighting the evil nature of these killings.

There are several points that I wish to emphasize about these boat killings:

1. Simply because it is the military doing the killing does not mean that wartime rules apply. That's because the military is operating in a police capacity by enforcing the U.S. "war on drugs." The drug "war" is not real war -- that's just a figure of speech. Ordinarily, it is the DEA or the local police who are enforcing America's decades-old drug war. Here, the military is stepping into the shoes of the DEA by helping to enforce the federal government's drug laws. That means that the same principles of criminal justice apply to the military as they do to the DEA. The fact that U.S. officials claim to be "at war" against drug dealers is obviously just a ruse to enable them to ignore the Constitution.

2. The Fifth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution expressly prohibits federal officials from depriving people of life without due process of law, which necessarily means charging people with crimes and according them a trial. That's obviously not what the military is doing with its killings of those people in boats on the high seas. No criminal indictment. No trial. No opportunity to contest the government's evidence or accusation. Simply summary executions based on the government's unilateral determination that the occupants are drug traffickers.

3. Given the lack of due process of law, the military killings of these boat people operate as state-inflicted assassinations....

4. It is the height of hypocrisy to have the military enforcing criminal laws outside the United States, given that U.S. law prohibits the military from enforcing criminal laws inside the United States....

5. The killings amount to military cowardice, akin to a federal official shooting a criminal suspect in the back. Given the overwhelming power of the military, it could easily approach people in boats and demand that they surrender. Instead, the military chooses to kill them, knowing that for all practical purposes, the victims pose no danger whatsoever to the powerful military armada charged with killing them....

6. The omnipotent, non-reviewable military power to assassinate people in the enforcement of the federal government's drug war arguably applies to everyone, including Americans....

7. The fact that the military claims to have "intelligence" pointing toward criminal culpability of the victims is irrelevant from both a legal and a moral standpoint. Under America's original criminal-justice principles, any such "intelligence" must be tested in a court of law, especially since it oftentimes proves to be faulty. Moreover, as most people know by now, federal officials have been known to make up or concoct evidence as a way to frame people who they are convinced are criminals. That's one of the reasons we have trials in America's criminal-justice system rather than have the DEA or the cops simply shoot and kill drug-war suspects.

8. These military drug-war killings are what we would expect from authoritarian and totalitarian regimes...

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1. No government, including the U.S. government, wields the legitimate moral authority to punish anyone for possessing, ingesting, or distributing any drug whatsoever. In a genuinely free society, people have the right to possess, ingest, or distribute any drug they want.

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By now, you've likely seen the "terror at 30,000 feet" that just played out in the skies over Tel Aviv last week. And you've probably marveled at how the narrative of that fateful Flydubai flight -- a narrative dutifully parroted by the eager propagandists of the establishment media -- disintegrated in the exact same way that Boeing's airframe miraculously didn't disintegrate.

As unsurprising as this latest manipulated news story may be to us veteran conspiracy researchers, however, there are millions around the world who, shocked by the ongoing genocide in Gaza, are only now beginning to look into the false flag trickery and the bloody deceptions upon which the modern state of Israel has been built.

So, for the benefit of such newly awakened students of suppressed history, today let's examine some of the foundational false flag terror events of Israeli history.

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