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Always the hospitals! Psychopathic men with guns and bombs: Afghanistan says 400 killed in strike by Pakistan on Kabul hospital.

Paulo Kirk

Mar 17, 2026

That American Price is RIGHT, vis-a-vis Israel:

“There’s kind of defeatism, this idea that there’s no stopping technology and resistance is futile, everything will be crushed in its path. That needs to change… We can decide that we want to be human.”

“The most worthless degree you can get is a humanities degree.”

These fuckers love targeting girls’ dormitories, schools, hospitals, ambulances, and medical workers. Double and Triple Tap Tap Tap.

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Deputy government spokesman says death toll has reached 400 people ‘so far’ as Islamabad denies targeting facility for drug addicts.

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Again, machetes, acid, Molotovs and botulism: Robert Kagan, one of the strongest proponents of the proxy war in Ukraine, lamented that the war in Iran will make the proxy war in Ukraine hard to continue, saying, “the skyrocketing oil prices … are even before Trump took the action of lifting sanctions against Russia was going to increase Russian income” and “American forces are … burning through major stocks of weaponry and particularly Patriot and other forms of interceptors on which Ukraine depends heavily because those are the interceptors that defend their major cities from constant Russian attacks”.

Then the creeps in AmeriKKKa think this shithead is some sort of hero?

Joe Kent Isn’t the Hero. You Are

The ease with which the military can now, aided by modern technology and AI, rapidly put together a plan of attack, bomb with relative impunity, and destroy lots of “targets” is the lingering problem for the future. Barack Obama was similarly seduced by the ability to kill with drones, and then undertook assassinations from the air driven largely by the seeming “success” and buoyed by the low-risk enterprise.

It is true that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu agitated for war, but the Israeli military is operating more and more of one mind with the U.S. military. The two countries have shared a common war plan against Iran since the Biden administration. That level of cooperation has solidified under Trump, driven more by a true affinity and affection for the technologically and operationally sophisticated friend than anything Donald Trump (or Benjamin Netanyahu) has ordered.

A senior intelligence officer tells me that rather than Trump, it is Hegseth, a self-described “warrior,” who is most susceptible to Israeli influence.

“For a Hegseth who only wants the ‘warrior’ answer, Israeli swagger and combat competence is catnip,” the officer says.

The source adds that while Trump loves a winner, and he loves action, it is Hegseth and his “impetuousness” that pushes the relentless destroy-the-target, no-rules, no-quarter style of warfare that has unfolded.

That reality—the ease of warfare I’m describing—is the enduring problem that we will need to address long after Trump is gone and Kent is a Senator, or the next Charlie Kirk or MAGA-darling. (Axios reports that the White House is already prepping for a Tucker Carlson interview of Kent.)

So Kent is right in decrying that Israel’s objectives hold too much sway over what America sees as its interests, but he too easily lets Trump (and the Pentagon) off the hook, portraying them as helpless victims. The buck stop over there.

“You hold the cards,” Kent says to President Trump in closing.

Now turn them over to me, he means.

[Kent is an Oregon native and a graduate of Norwich University in Strategic Defense Analysis. He served in the U.S. Army for 20 years, where he completed 11 combat deployments in the Middle East and other high-threat regions. During his time in the Army, he served with the 75th Ranger Regiment, Army Special Forces and U.S. Army Special Operations Command, and received numerous military commendations, including six bronze stars. After retiring from the Army in 2018, he served as a paramilitary officer in the CIA’s Special Activities Center.

Kent and his family have devoted their lives to counterterrorism and keeping the American people safe. In 2019, his wife, Navy Senior Chief Petty Officer Shannon Kent, was killed in a suicide bombing while serving in Syria.]

Queer mercenary in USA uniform: I was born in a cabin in Sweet Home, Oregon, and grew up in Portland, Oregon. Growing up, I spent much of my formative years in the Cascades and Columbia River Gorge, thanks to Boy Scouts and Explorer Scouts. I have always considered the Pacific Northwest my home and wanted to fight for this nation.

When I was eighteen, I enlisted in the Army as an infantryman and earned my way into the Ranger Regiment and then Special Forces. After 9/11, I volunteered at every opportunity to serve in combat. I did this for over twenty years and eleven combat deployments. I intended to continue to serve our nation in hostile locations abroad until my world turned upside down on January 16th, 2019, when my wife, Shannon Kent, was killed fighting ISIS in Syria. At that moment, I knew I had to step away from putting myself in physical danger so I could be there for our two young sons. Shannon was killed approximately one month after President Trump attempted to pull our troops out of Syria because we had met our military objective. This attempt to end a war brought out the Establishment’s true colors as they resisted him at every step.

Seeing the Establishment’s hubris and contempt for a President who represented the country’s will and the people’s best interests, I knew I had to act. However, this time my fight was to defend America First policies. No one asked me to do this. I sought out every opportunity and any media outlet that would give me a platform to use my twenty years of expertise physically fighting these wars to articulate how correct President Trump was. Defending Trump’s policies gave me a taste of the savage fight we face against a hostile mainstream media and deeply entrenched political class. I eagerly sought out the opportunity to defend President Trump when The Atlantic, a well-known publication, printed slanderous accusations about the President.

I moved back to the Pacific Northwest to get my sons closer to my parents and family. After living in Portland for a short time, I realized that the far left had ruined that city and relocated to Yacolt, Washington. I chose to live here because I knew that this district’s people share my traditional conservative values, and it would be an ideal environment to raise my sons. I voted for Representative Beutler to stand firm for my family and our district. She betrayed that trust and made it clear that I needed to act decisively.

In over 20 years of fighting on the battlefields and through my wife’s death, I know what it feels like to be on the receiving end of failed policy. The Establishment is too self-absorbed to represent the will of the people they are supposed to represent. I have also seen firsthand that you cannot persuade someone to fight when the odds are against you. Only those with the courage of conviction will continue to fight when the odds are not in their favor. No one has asked me to do this. I’m volunteering now, just like I did 22 years ago. Suppose we rely on traditional candidates who have done nothing but run for office or have no experience in a hard fight and have never been in danger. In that case, our voices and our movement will succumb to the left’s dark vision for this nation. Portland and Olympia demonstrate this with their failed policies that surround this great district.

I want to go forward and fight because I want to fight, and I know how to fight. This is for the future of our nation and the legacy that we will leave for our children. This is what is compelling me to run for office. It would be an honor to earn your vote and serve this great country once more.

Crap from Zeteo: The MAGA Elite Is Being Torn Apart by Trump’s War in Iran

Joe Kent’s resignation shows that Trump’s illegal war in Iran is creating a fissure within the MAGA upper ranks, but don’t expect many others to quit soon.

by Minnah Arshad, Andrew Perez, and Asawin Suebsaeng (what the fuck?)

Dem in Maine House Primary Funneled PAC Money to Republicans

Dirt…

A Democratic candidate for a key House race in Maine oversaw a political action committee that donated thousands of dollars to Republican candidates across the country, Federal Election Commission records show.

Jordan Wood, who is running for the Democratic nomination in Maine’s 2nd Congressional District, is the former executive director of democracyFirst PAC, a group that — despite its left-of-center orientation — donated to at least one Republican PAC, in addition to giving thousands of dollars to at least six GOP campaigns for House and Senate seats during the 2024 election cycle, according to the records.

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Dirt…..

Kushner and Witkoff had invited Rafael Grossi, the director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), to the Geneva talks, to provide technical expertise, though Kushner would later claim that he and Witkoff had “a pretty deep understanding of the issues that matter in this”. Nuclear experts would later say that Witkoff’s pronouncements on the Iran nuclear programme were riddled with basic errors.

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Don’t believe the USA military, or what have you: A fiery statement from one of the U.S. Army leaders who participated in the invasion of Iraq—directed at Trump

He tells him: “Why aren’t the countries of the world responding to you in sending their fleets to open the Strait of Hormuz?

You’ve dragged America into a losing war and made its reputation a laughingstock to the world.”

‘Do you know that Iran has complete fire control? Any talk of “opening the Strait of Hormuz” by military means is sheer nonsense. A ground invasion is practically impossible.

Escorting warships is impossible as well. Iran has complete fire control over the entire strait, so if you do that, it’s suicide and the loss of all fleets—not to mention the loss of the entire Middle East. That’s why the countries won’t follow your opinion.’

Double dirt…..

Back to the Broken Back USA: Back in that USA:

Idaho House Passes Trans Bathroom Ban With 5 Year Prison Sentence

The bill is one of the harshest bills criminalizing trans people in the nation, and it will now move to the Senate.

Chamber of the Idaho House of Representatives | Intermountain Histories

Anti-transgender bills have moved across the United States this year, and they have seen expanded enforcement mechanisms and scopes never before seen in previous years, making them the latest vanguard of anti-transgender legislation. Earlier this year, Kansas passed a bill that mass-invalidated transgender people’s driver’s licenses and created a bathroom bounty hunter system across the state. Missouri then advanced three anti-transgender bathroom bills in a single night. Now, Idaho has gone even further than these extreme bills in other states, with its House passing a bill that would ban transgender people from public bathrooms, including private business bathrooms, with a second-offense felony carrying up to a five-year prison sentence. The bill now will move to the Senate, which will could take up the measure in the coming weeks.

The bill, HB 752, states that “any person who knowingly and willfully enters a restroom or changing room in a government-owned building or a place of public accommodation”—a category that includes private businesses—”designated for use by the opposite biological sex of such person shall be guilty of a misdemeanor” punishable by up to one year in prison. A second offense within five years would be a felony carrying up to five years in prison

MORE on this fucking mercenary, KENT.

Oh, shit, explosions?

The Explosion Inside Trump’s War Machine: Joe Kent Resigns By Ramzy Baroud

This story is not ending. It is starting. Because once one insider says the war was built on lies, others are forced into a choice. They can continue to perform loyalty to a collapsing narrative, or they can speak. And the longer this war drags on, the more difficult silence will become.

Oh, that land of opportunity!

How an “average” Yoga Coach Managed to Become a Head of CIA Division Responsible for Arms Transfers to Militants in Africa and Middle East

CIAgate/ Jun 20, 2023

“America is the land of opportunity” – this phrase fully describes our nation. America gives an opportunity for every person not only to achieve anything they put their mind to, but also reach a mighty power and get filthy rich. Despite the fact that it is not customary to speak about it, but in most cases people assume such power through deception and hypocrisy. They serve as heads of serious departments, using their post to manipulate the American taxpayers’ money.

Today we’d like to tell you a dizzying story about a yoga teacher, Chanda Creasy, whose enlightenment path took her to a top-secret CIA unit responsible for weapons supplies to militants in Africa and Middle East, receiving millions of dollars in kickbacks.

Food? Cuba? Who the fuck needs fook with Pedophile and Golden Shower Rapist Trump and Minyan and Company, LLC, in charge?

China just told its exporters to stop shipping nitrogen-potassium fertilizer blends abroad. China is the world’s largest fertilizer producer. When it closes the spigot, the entire planet feels the drought. This is not a supply chain story, this is a food security story. A human impact story, and if you know your history, it is also a story about what happens in the streets when bread becomes a luxury.

When grain prices jump 30 percent, governments fall. Egypt learned that in 1977. They learned it again in 2011. The math hasn’t changed.

“Congresswoman Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) told Drop Site’s Julian Andreone that Israel has “always been” a liability to the United States, citing Israel’s role in dragging Americans into the Iraq War and now the Iran War. She added that, “It seems like Israeli officials are always pushing for a war,” saying that she’s “not surprised” Joe Kent resigning as Director of National Counterterrorism Center on those grounds.”

Fuck. Water, man, it’s the water, and food, and the 2.3 million people displaced. Iran is NOT winning. Marandi, give it a fucking Break.

Damage caused to the Israeli regime is irreversible, I believe we are seeing the beginning of its end, says Iranian analyst. Mohammad Marandi believes that :

‘Iran’s impressive success in recent weeks is a great victory for humanity.’

According to presenter and former British MP George Galloway, some of his anonymous sources in Tel Aviv have reported that parts of the city now resemble Gaza, which has been cruelly bombed by the Zionist regime. Nearing two weeks of resistance, Iran appears to be calling the shots in the war at this point and may dictate the terms of the end of the conflict.

In recent days, according to some Western media outlets, the Iranian government has been approached twice by Donald Trump’s special envoy, Steve Witkoff, to sound out possible negotiations. Tehran has reportedly refused dialogue. After being betrayed twice in negotiations with the US – in June 2025 and March 2026 – the Iranian government sees no point in negotiating now.

Ali Larijani, chairman of Iran’s Supreme Security Council, responding to a post by Donald Trump, who said that the US should win the war soon, said that “starting a war is easy, but ending it cannot be achieved with a few tweets. We will not leave them alone until they accept their mistake and pay for it.”

Laundering the Truth

A laundry fire that takes thirty hours to extinguish on a $13 billion carrier with the most advanced damage control systems in any navy on earth. That displaces 600 crew from their berths. On a ship designed to take battle damage and keep fighting. And the explanation is the laundry.

The USS Ford has automated fire suppression. It has damage control teams that train constantly. It has redundant systems specifically because carriers are built to survive hits in combat.

A laundry fire on a ship designed to survive anti-ship missiles does not burn for thirty hours and render 600 berths uninhabitable. That’s not a laundry fire. That’s damage.

The IRGC has been claiming hits on U.S. assets. CENTCOM has been posting lies. The IRGC said it destroyed fighter jets. CENTCOM said no, unmatched lethality, air superiority. Clean denial.

But the Ford fire got a treatment. It got a laundry. It got an explanation that doesn’t survive contact with what a thirty-hour fire on a carrier actually means.

If the Ford took a hit — a drone, a missile fragment, something — and the explanation is a laundry fire, then the unmatched lethality press release is covering for the matched vulnerability that actually happened.

The chess game at a very high level where one side won’t admit the board has a piece missing.

And if it is a laundry fire — if the most expensive warship ever built actually lost thirty hours and 600 berths to its own laundry in the middle of a shooting war — that’s worse.

That’s the empire that can’t maintain its own ship while projecting power across a hemisphere.

Either the Ford got hit and they’re lying, or the Ford broke itself and they’re not lying and the truth is worse than the lie.

Either way. Thirty hours. 600 beds. Day seventeen. Some chess game.

Toilets that don’t work. Dirty underwear. And yet…in the meantime, the US media keeps on repeating the mantra that the US and Israel have broken the back of Iran’s resistance.

The Price of Right contestants: You and me on the dole, and we dirty welfare queens and kings.

Goddamn! Fucking killers inside and out, that fucking American.

“The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted.”

—D.H. Lawrence

America is neither free nor brave, but a land of tight, iron-clanking little wills, everybody trying to put it over everybody else, and a land of men absolutely devoid of the real courage of trust, trust in life’s sacred spontaneity. They can’t trust life until they can control it

Diversity? Greed is diversity and DEI-ready Price is Right!

For the uninitiated, each hour-long episode of “The Price Is Right” consists of six pricing games. At the end, two players face off in the “Showcase Showdown” for a grand prize — usually a car or a boat or a lavish trip or both. The players must guess the actual retail price of the prize without going over, and whoever’s closest wins. It’s not hard to root for the players, who are selected from the studio audience — the producers pick the most boisterous prospects at each taping.

But the thing I appreciate most about “The Price Is Right” is the diversity among the contestants. It’s so different from the all-white, only-attractive demographic that I recall watching since the ‘70s.

The Price Is Right” is a sanctuary; a priceless hub of unity, diversity, inclusion, and, well, love.

While the USA kills kills kills, we have twenty-four castaways who are ready for another shot at the $1 million prize — and the bragging rights of being named the winner of the landmark 50th installment.

This is what this fucking country has devolved into = Price is Right, March Madness, Survivor, and John Mearsheimer types, declaring the “war” is not going good for USA and that it was all about the Greater Israel Project.

Jesus Fucking Christ, DUH. Smiley white fucking FACE:

John Mearsheimer, the University of Chicago professor, said in an interview on Tuesday that the Iran War is going badly for the U.S., and it is becoming clearer by the day that this is a “war for Israel.”

“We had no national interest in going to war against Iran,” he said. “And there is just a ton of evidence that President Trump was dragged into this war by Israel and the Israeli supporters inside the United States.”

SURVIVOR, old fucking Pedophile and Golden Showers Rapist Trump is protected!

Tulsi Gabbard’s childhood was heavily influenced by her parents’ devotion to Chris Butler, leader of the Science of Identity Foundation, a Hare Krishna-affiliated group, creating a private, highly regimented upbringing in Hawaii and the Philippines. She was largely homeschooled, adopted Hindu principles early, and was raised in a strict environment.

  • DNI Tulsi Gabbard responded to Joe Kent’s resignation in protest of the Iran war:

Not sure where these folk get this shit, but . . . Lunacy. No end to the so-called empire. Israel is bombing the fuck out of Lebanon, has Syria by the short hairs, and has Pedophile and Golden Showers Rapist Trump by the HD Spy Cam videos.

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An End of Empire

Greg Reese

Mar 17, 2026

Despite having the world’s most powerful navy, the United States cannot force the Strait of Hormuz open, which every US military expert knew would be closed if Iran was attacked. This is why the US Navy is miles away. And it is why America’s NATO Allies are refusing to participate.

The Iranians may have suffered the brutal Shock & Awe of the United States military, but they have been preparing for decades, and as the US is already running low on weapons, Iran has plans for a long-term asymmetrical war, a defensive fight for their very existence. Iran has the moral high ground and they are holding practically all the cards.

By his own admission, Trump expected a quick, decisive victory. He ignored warnings from experts and instead listened to his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, Steve Witkoff, and Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu, who is wanted by the International Criminal Court for war crimes.

With a smile on his face, the President of the United States has said that it’s fun to kill the Iranians and that they are genetically inferior. By any historical standard, America has never had a president speak in such a manner. It has been confirmed that the United States has murdered almost two hundred school girls with Tomahawk missiles fired at an elementary school. Trump said he can live with it, and Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth, said there would be ‘no quarter, no mercy’.

  • A prolonged government funding standoff has led to a mounting workforce revolt among TSA officers, who have been working without pay for weeks and are increasingly calling out or quitting, severely straining airport security operations. Absentee rates have surged far above normal levels, causing long screening delays and operational disruptions at major hubs, while officials warn that if the situation continues, staffing shortages could force the closure of some smaller airports—especially as travel demand ramps up during the busy spring season.
  • The Senate narrowly voted 51–48 to open debate on the SAVE America Act, but some Republicans showed internal division: Sen. Lisa Murkowski voted against it, Sen. Thom Tillis missed the vote after opposing it, and Sen. Mitch McConnell—who doesn’t support the bill—only voted to proceed as a procedural courtesy, highlighting fractures within the GOP despite overall backing for the legislation.

Predatory Data: Eugenics in Big Tech and Our Fight for an Independent Future, was published in 2025 with U. of California Press.

“I now talk about AI with my students not under the framework of cheating or academic honesty but in terms that are frankly existential,” Dora Zhang, a literature professor at UC Berkeley said. “What is it doing to us as a species?”

Alas, students looking for an easy “A” may not be interested in philosophical inquiries on how AI is fundamentally changing how we interact with the world and with each other — and indeed, according to a burgeoning body of research, how our brains work.

One canary in the coal mine comes from a Carnegie Mellon study published in early 2025 that found that knowledge workers who regularly used and trusted the accuracy of AI tools were losing their critical thinking skills. An earlier study found a link between students who relied on ChatGPT and memory loss, procrastination, and worsening academic performance. And an MIT study that performed EEG scans on subjects who were asked to write essays with and without ChatGPT found that AI users had the lowest levels of cognitive engagement during the tasks.

Working in the trenches, most professors, especially in the humanities, probably didn’t need formal research to tell them what those studies found, when they could easily intuit it by interacting with their pupils. Michael Clune, a literature professor and novelist, lamented to The Guardian that many students are now “incapable of reading and analyzing, synthesizing data, all kinds of skills.” Clune’s school, Ohio State University, recently required all students to enroll in “AI fluency” courses “across every major,” ostensibly to prepare them for a world that is dominated by the tech.

Clune was critical of the push. “No one knows what that means,” he told newspaper. “In my case, as a literature professor, these tools actually seem to mitigate against the educational goals I have for my students.”

OSU may be the most egregious example of capitulating to the whims of Big Tech, but the AI industry has its tendrils all across education. Companies like OpenAI and Microsoft have poured tens of millions of dollars into teachers’ unions, providing training on how to use their AI systems. They’ve also partnered with numerous institutions to provide their students with free access to their AI tools. Duke University, after entering such a partnership with OpenAI, introduced its own AI tool called “DukeGPT.” Abroad, xAI founder Elon Musk partnered with the government of El Salvador to launch the “world’s first nationwide AI-powered education program” to provide his Grok chatbot to a million students across thousands of public schools.

Words words words. Trump and Company, Kushner and Witkoff, the lot of them, shoot them out of the sky. Sli, shut the fuck up and do something. Sleeper cells?

WHY even get into a word-pissing contest with the AMeriKKKans?

Major General Ali Abdollahi, Commander of the Khatam al-Anbiya Central Headquarters, stated that stronger responses are forthcoming, declaring that

“Trump should now wait for our surprises.”

The remarks were made in a message issued following the martyrdom of the Secretary of the Supreme National Security Council, the head of the Basij Organization for the Oppressed, and the sailors of the Dena destroyer.

DOES IT FUCKING MATTER?

Rep. Summer Lee has introduced articles of impeachment against Attorney General Pam Bondi, alleging a wide range of misconduct, including defying congressional subpoenas to release unredacted Epstein files, violating federal law, misleading Congress and the courts, and abusing prosecutorial authority. The resolution also accuses Bondi of politicizing the Justice Department by targeting political opponents, dismissing cases involving allies, and retaliating against officials and journalists, as Lee and several Democratic co-sponsors argue her actions undermine the rule of law and warrant removal from office.

Economic draft my ass. This is just lazy cuntology, and they get into the fucking mercenary services, believe that Yankee Doodle Dandy, and then somehow change? She’s a fucking Republican, man, just end these ignorant fucks, no heroes here!!

YANKEE GO HOME.

Fill her up!!

Always white boys in another person’s country:

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