We live in interesting times, and they're moving fast...

It was just a couple days ago a CBC story informed me that we (ie Canada) had signed on to a letter from six NATO allies plus Japan vowing support for "appropriate" actions Uncle Sam might take to open the Hormuz Strait. Make of that what you will, but bear in mind this is largely the same crew that promised Ukraine "whatever it takes for as long as it takes." Between the lot of them, that "support" won't go much beyond a strongly worded letter, or maybe two. Before the ink was dry on that letter, Japan had already signed a side deal with Iran to ensure its ships got through, just in case. Which leaves us on the cusp of economic catastrophe. I had no idea how much vital shit comes out of a barrel of crude or a cubic metre of natural gas. Gasoline and diesel, of course. Home heating gas. Jet fuel. Propane. Cooking gas. Helium. The MRI machine in your local hospital requires helium. Sulphur. Apparently you can't etch high-end computer chips without it. And one third of the world's fertilizer comes out of the Gulf. I had no idea. And "no idea" pretty much sums up Mafia Don's strategy when it comes to this war of choice his blackmailers pushed him into. To be clear, it was Bibi's choice, not Donald's. The Israel connection isn't helpful. As American lives begin to fall in this war, more than a few voices are asking why American soldiers are dying for Israel. That's a question that's ultimately going to cost 47 his career and his legacy. America First does NOT include dying for Israel.

Towelheads o' Terror turn tables on Western Civ

That's quite a shit-show unfolding over there since American Exceptionalism and Jewish Supremacy joined forces to spring a surprise attack on Iran. In the middle of what the Iranians thought were peace negotiations! That worked last time, but apparently the towellers weren't having any this time round. Within the hour of the Boss Mullah's demise, Iranian drones and missiles were on their way to every US base in the Middle East and to Israel. That was three weeks ago. They haven't stopped coming since! And they won't stop anytime soon. Damage to the world economy is already into the trillions. Every US base in the ME has been put out of business. Ben Gurion is closed. Seven million Israelis spent all of last night in bomb shelters. Iron Dome is long broken. And the missiles and drones keep coming and coming and coming... Meanwhile, it's harder by the minute to keep alive the fiction that our marvelous Patriots and David's Sling and Arrow are doing anything at all. The clown show in DC wants us to believe there's a plan... as we reindustrialize and home-shore our manufacturing capacity, we'll eventually be able match the drone and missile production capability of Iran. Eventually!

Trump crime syndicate's Arab Gulf States empire going up in smoke

If you follow this sort of thing, you know there's multiple NYC billionaires with substantial investments in the Arab Gulf countries. Jarrod Kushner spearheaded a lot of this action. Moving the embassy, floating the Abraham Accords, and the Gaza "Board of Peace" were all manifestations of Kushner's efforts to cash in on Mideast Mayhem. Hardly a month ago, Arab Gulf states were promising billions to join the Board of Peace. Might as well be a hundred years ago, just a few weeks later. That scam is over. American news platforms are thus far trying to maintain the fiction that the USA-Israel war criminal combine is obliterating, destroying, devastating, etc etc Iran. Iran, meanwhile, has the economy of the Western world, ie the Israel-USA-EU-NATO universe, totally and entirely by the balls. They haven't closed the Straight of Hormuz at all. Chinese, Russian, and Irainian ships are getting through just fine. There's absolutely nothing Israel, USA, or anyone else can do about it. The pundits all over Western media continue to spew fantasies of victory for American Empire and Greater Israel. The Iranian missiles streaming through Iron Dome day and night are telling a different story.

Western Civ trapped in Biggly Heap 'o Shit

I'm kinda an armchair doom-scroller, who follows international geopolitics because I've lost faith in professional sports. I mean, at some point you can't explain decades of Leaf failures without resorting to conspiracy theories. While I am not at all surprised that, as playoff season rolls around, the Leafs suck harder than ever, it does shock me to read that games are deliberately tossed in order to nab the top draft prospects. That's gotta be Russian propaganda for sure! I don't know about you, but for me personally I'm kinda coming round to the view that, all things considered, what we call "Russian propaganda," tends to be more accurate, more timely, more relevant than the usual same-old from ABC/BBC/CBC/CNN/Fox/etc. According to the Rooskie propaganda, they are winning the war in Ukraine. Ya! And if that's not foolishness enough, some of our adversaries are secretly supporting Iran in their futile defiance of God, America, and Israel, not necessarily in that order.

Iran's alleged nuclear program and Canada's support for the criminal Trump-Bibi war

Benyamin Netanyahu has been warning the world of Iran's imminent nuke since at least '92. For at least that long, plenty of well-placed experts have consistently called out that claim as bullshit. In December 2011 I published a post titled "Mossad boss dismisses Iranian nuclear threat." Tamir Pardo is long retired and still calling BS on Bibi's BS. Many other IDF, Mossad, and Shin Bet alum have joined him, but generally only after they retire. In 2007 a US intelligence report came to the same conclusion. Since then, the 18 US intel agencies have confirmed the same conclusion year after year.. Iran abandoned its nuke program in 2003. There has never been any evidence that it has been reconstituted. That conclusion has been reiterated as recently as June '25. In between, the Islamic Republic signed on to Obama's nuke deal which opened Iran to international inspectors. On March 3 the PM of Canada announced on his official website, his "regrettable" support for the absolutley illegal and unprovoked attack on Iran, in the midst of what Israel and the US pretended were negotiations. "Despite more than two decades of diplomatic efforts, Iran has not dismantled its nuclear program." No mention anywhere of the nuke deal negotiated under Obama. No mention of multiple reports from US intel debunking Netanyahu's serial lies. No mention it was Trump himself who kyboshed the nuke deal. Mark Carney prefers the lies of the warmongers to taking a stand. After all, when push comes to shove, keeping Trump happy far outweighs questions of principle.

Fuhrer Doug Ford shows true colours

I recall Doug Ford promoting himself as an everyman populist in his early political career. That was quite a long time ago. Alas, as he clawed his way up the greasy pole of power, his populism morphed into something else by the time he arrived at the top. We've had one dubious shenanigan after another where friends of Douggie, a crowd that includes every billionaire real estate developer Toronto has produced in the last 50 years, would make out like bandits at the expense of that quaint relic "the common good." Ontario Place, the Science Centre, that Greenbelt razzle-dazzle that would have added a few more billions to the accounts of a handful of real estate billionaires... oh Douggie, what have you become? I think the answer is clear. With his drive to exempt himself and his cabinet from Freedom of Information requests, he's become a full-fledged tyrant. If he can pull this off, democracy will be safe from prying pinkos who are forever trying to trip up good, or in the case of Fuhrer Ford, stupendously fabulous, responsible, and ethical governance.

Trump up Shit Creek, no paddle

There are decades when nothing happens; then there are days when decades happen. We're living through some of those days now. The American Empire is transitioning from gradual decline to chaotic freefall in front of our eyes. The biggest loser in this transition is Israel. Once the US is driven out of the Gulf, Israel as we know it, will cease to exist. It will, in the fullness of time, emerge as a single unified state wherein every citizen, Jew, Muslim, or Christian, has the same rights. Same rights to property. Same rights to a gun permit. The apartheid bastion of Jewish supremacy American largess has enabled for the last fifty years will be no more. It looks to me like the billionaires who bought the White House may be starting to have second thoughts. Apparently there was considerable White House lobbying among the hedgies to assure them the Iran war wouldn't disrupt markets for more than a few days, max. As Trump's three day war enters it's third week, Pentagon boss Pistol Pete Hegseth, the cartoonish Secretary of War, is dispatching 5,000 marines to the area. To do what? My guess is they're going there to die. When you listen to the speechifying of Hegseth or Trump, the hubris oozing out of them is utterly nauseating. Off-the-charts misplaced pride... biggly fall soon. Greatest in history!