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  • in reply to: The Hearty Salon… 07 September 2026 #93889
    amarynth
    Keymaster

    I think this is very real, excepting that no time span is given.

    Check out tweet by Tucker Carlson.  https://x.com/TuckerCarlson/status/2099906095905165701 (Yes, I know, but ignore the American RaRa – the bunch there still want to ‘save America’.)

    The idea is that the US is getting ready to flatten (Iran? Syria? … ? …? whatever, take your pick) after the mid-terms.  If Trump becomes lame duck after the mid-terms, this is a nice platform for the other crowd to stand on, and continue to supply Israel.  All the paperwork will have been done.    Bear in mind that as Ukraine is proxy in the North, so Israel is proxy in West Asia.  We all know that, but I still expect that war to increase in size.  Perhaps by bits and pieces but I don’t expect peace and continuing building a planet.  So as weapons continue to pour into Ukraine, so weapons will continue to pour into Israel, the killer fighter dogs of empire.  The same is true around certain countries (Quad, Phillipines and so on in the east.)   The idea still is to break Russia apart and to own the East and China.  None of that has changed.  The idea still is that if whatever fails, the chaos will be so great, that someone can swoop in and pick up pieces.  (Like Germany and Europe after the 2ndWW).  It is for that reason that I believe this story is true or partially true, or based in some kind of hoped for fact into their future.  (Those are also as we understand the last weapons left in the US, but I question that their ammo boxes are dry – they may be dry today).

    OK .. Carlson

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    According to an informed federal official, in the coming months the Trump administration plans to send a total of 40,000 Mark 84 and Blu-117 bombs to the government of Israel.

    Each bomb weighs 2,000 pounds. This appears to be the largest transfer of conventional explosive ordnance from the United States in modern history.

    How big is this shipment? It amounts to 40,000 tons of bombs. For perspective, the largest American air raid of World War Two was the Eighth Air Force’s attack on Berlin in March of 1945. Combined, the 2,023 Allied aircraft involved dropped about 3,000 tons of bombs. That’s 7.5 percent of what Trump is sending to Israel.

    That same month, March of 1945, the US Army Air Forces began the single most destructive bombing raid in human history, Operation Meetinghouse over Tokyo. More than 100,000 Japanese civilians were killed. By the end of that operation, the US had dropped 1,600 tons of bombs. That’s four percent of what Trump is sending to Israel. World War Two ended five months later, when the US dropped an atomic bomb on the city of Hiroshima. The shipment Trump is sending to Israel amounts to more than three times the destructive power of that nuclear explosion.

    There is no precedent for what the Trump administration is doing. Nor is there a justification. The government of Israel is not fighting World War Two, or even a war. It is engaged in periodic skirmishes with a guerrilla force in Lebanon, and it is working to exterminate an unarmed civilian population in Gaza. Neither front requires modern 2,000-pound bombs. An American-made Mark 84 has a destruction radius of half a mile. It releases a thermal wave the temperature of the surface of the sun. Within 100 feet of the explosion, rock melts and human flesh turns to vapor. The bomb collapses apartment buildings and leaves craters thirty-five feet deep.

    Until the war with Iran, the US military generally avoided using the Mark 84 in urban areas. It kills too many civilians. For the Netanyahu government, that’s been the upside. In the weeks after October 7, the IDF dropped nearly six hundred 2,000-pound bombs on densely populated areas in Gaza, including on more than 100 officially designated civilian evacuation zones. The slaughter was so grotesque and embarrassing that for a moment the Biden administration paused a shipment of Mark 84s. Those shipments quickly resumed under Trump. Now they’ve accelerated.

    It’s hard to overstate the scale of the crime the Israeli government is committing in Gaza. Over the last three years, more than a quarter-million Palestinians have been killed or wounded by Israeli forces there. The majority of them have been noncombatants: women, the elderly and tens of thousands of children. Many thousands more remain missing, presumably entombed under the rubble of 200,000 collapsed buildings. So far the Israelis have destroyed 92 percent of all homes in Gaza, and 34 of the 36 hospitals. By comparison, the 1945 Allied bombings of Dresden, now acknowledged as a war crime, destroyed about half of the city’s inhabited buildings.

    By any definition, what the Netanyahu government has done in Gaza is genocide. The 40,000 new bombs the Trump administration is sending will be used to do the same in Lebanon, and likely in other countries in the region. If you wanted to extend the Iran war into the indefinite future, this is exactly what you’d do. So far none of this has received public scrutiny. At some point, inevitably, it will be described in media accounts as an “arms sale.” It is not an arms sale. It is a gift, funded by American taxpayers through the Foreign Military Financing program, an arrangement designed to disguise welfare as capitalism: Congress appropriates money to the executive branch, which transfers the cash to Israel to “buy” American-made weapons, in this case from General Dynamics. Politicians claim this is a win for America. Most voters have no idea they paid for it. The bill in this case is about $3 billion. Add that to the $352 billion the US Treasury has transferred to Israel since 1951.

    How did this happen? The request for 40,000 new high-explosive civilian-killing bombs originated at the US Embassy in Jerusalem, which is run by Christian Zionist Ambassador Mike Huckabee and his aide David Milstein, who is the stepson of Fox News host Mark Levin. From there it moved to the State Department, where Marco Rubio enthusiastically approved it. At this point, only four more people need to sign off before the bombs ship to Israel: Senators Jim Risch and Jeanne Shaheen, the chairman and ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee; and Congressmen Brian Mast and Gregory Meeks, the top two members of the equivalent House committee. All four are committed neocons. Collectively they’ve taken millions from the Israel lobby. In 2015, Brian Mast traveled to Israel to volunteer for the Israeli military. In 2023, Mast showed up in the House of Representatives wearing an IDF uniform. It’s hard to imagine any of them hesitating before sending more free bombs to Israel. Only public outrage can stop this.


    Mr P, in the next post, is probably close to the target with his thoughts on how these will be used, and when.  We are getting closer to nukes.  And as the power of the US degrades, so they will most probably think nuke.

    Also, the timing.  Bear in mind the Israeli election is close and the differences between the parties (changing every five minutes) are stark.  The differences are how hard, how brutal and how fast.  That election is being fought on how quick the Palestinians and surrounding countries can be deleted off the map.  In the US, bloody bibi is still the chosen one, and this will help him election wise.

     

    in reply to: The Hearty Salon… 07 September 2026 #93596
    amarynth
    Keymaster

    Please tell me this is not real.

    in reply to: The Hearty Salon… 07 September 2026 #93449
    amarynth
    Keymaster

    Francesca Albanese’s next report to the UNSC deals with ecology in time of genocide.  She has just asked for papers and it will be out early 2027.  Her current report will be published soon and deals with Media in ties of genocide.

    in reply to: The Hearty Salon… 07 September 2026 #93372
    amarynth
    Keymaster

    Yes yes … where I live the difference between leftists and those take leftists is so clear .. and everyone knows.    I had lunch wtih friends a few ago, and they had some lovely people visiting, people that I did not know before.  And they wanted to know what I do.  I am always really careful in saying anything   but explained a little very vanilla like, and then changed the conversation with a joke .. OK; now I hope you are not CIA – and that elicited a very big laugh around the table … No, we’re leftists – real ones.  So much for my careful explanation – they saw right through me.

     

    in reply to: The Hearty Salon… 07 September 2026 #93300
    amarynth
    Keymaster

    Friends, China is preparing for war, and don’t get sidetracked with that little island called Taiwan.  That is only the name of the western pretext as China can fall into Taiwan one early morning and by the afternoon the Taiwanese will be lining up for new documentation.

    This is almost a hidden portion of China’s activities.  Seems like they trust in God but are tying up their camels.  They hope and prepare for piece but also, they are actively now preparing for war.

    I watch the new weapons roll out and sometimes I am astounded.  We were talking about building aircraft carriers and in the last years, we learned that western style aircraft carriers are not really defensible – that is changing.

    Here is the latest drone.

    This drone might be the most crucial piece for the completion of China’s Carrier Kill Chain.

    Meet the WZ-8 : Cruises at 160,000 ft MACH 3 where No capable air defence could reach.

    It will spot the U.S. carrier’s thousands of km away then send its approx Coords to the missiles

    Now China has updated their National Defense Mobilization Act (first time in seven years that they’ve touched this document).  See the latest on the Dailies.  This document if one reads it carefully, is the integration of civil ‘defense’ with military ‘defense’, a seamless war machine of 1.4 billion Chinese.

     

    in reply to: The Hearty Salon… 07 September 2026 #93299
    amarynth
    Keymaster

    Well, I guess there are no more Indians to shoot.  Yikes.

     

    in reply to: The Hearty Salon… 07 September 2026 #93293
    amarynth
    Keymaster

    I thought you would pick up on the ecology theme Periol.  Thanks.

    There is an interesting byway on this highway.  The area around Chernobyl, the exclusion zone, that was completely closed, through the years developed a healthy ecology – strange but true.  I don’t have any links easily available now – its has been years of a little research here and a little there.

    The story goes that wolves established thoroughly first, healthy animals and from that point onward the ecology developed in the last 40 years to what is now considered a healthy crop of diverse large and small animals and rare species and and flora in support.

    in reply to: The Hearty Salon… 26 August 2026 #93242
    amarynth
    Keymaster

    Agree fully.  And to get to the other side of the world for the Chinese, they need aircraft carriers to carry their stuff.  We need to put an eye on the weapons on those carriers.  I see something every now and again.

     

    in reply to: The Hearty Salon… 26 August 2026 #93222
    amarynth
    Keymaster

    There is this thing – talking about ecology and a clean earth in time of war.  If anyone remembers, just recently the Israeli water desalination plants went off-line – from memory 6 out of 7 stopped working or were taken offline because of on algae bloom which would break them.

    The end or rather the beginning of this story – the Israelis destroyed Gaza’s sewage handling systems, so raw sewage went into the sea where the desalination plants are – ergo, the algae bloom.  But that is not the end of it.  Israel then dumped vast quantities of a poison, name which I cannot remember, into the sea, to deal with the algae.

    Same as my fear of a massive oil spill, the damage to the earth do not end even when the shooting ends.

    in reply to: The Hearty Salon… 26 August 2026 #93221
    amarynth
    Keymaster

    Hi Mr P – a few short things, hopefully factual .. Nothing really to do with Sal:

    I was listening to someone, I think it was Smoothie, who said that in the Black Sea the Russians take out superstructures, so if the ship sinks, the oil or other cargo remains undisturbed and simply goes to the bottom to avoid specifically oil spills.  I sit in trepidation that one of these oil tankers get struck and we start having major oil spills.   Who says a major oil spill is not a weapon of war.

    Then, the Strait of Hormuz can open tomorrow, but there is no more infrastructure left in the region to do anything with a ship full of crude.  It will take years to repair.  And of course, the US is trying to stop every refinery everywhere.  It is my opinion that if the Iranians say that if they cannot have their oil undisturbed, nobody can.  And this is the idea of the hegemon as well.  If we can’t have the oil, nobody can.  In the meantime, the world is beginning to panic fiercely.  I was reading some commentary out of South Africa where they just had a gas and diesel price increase that is un-absorbable by the citizenry and business, and unsustainable for a very shaky economy.   ‘No Oil’ is now fast reaching the rest of the world.

    One more .. Picked up somewhere that the US Navy is clearing mines (have cleared ALL mines) in secret and in the dark of night – low profile boats and such things – sounds like a fairy story to me.

    OPEC I believe is kinda dead and of no account.

    Sal?  He is still kvetching on the 12 mile/kilometer? spelt out in the so-called Law of the sea – UNCLOS.  There is no more international law and Iran declared that they will keep the whole region responsible.  I believe that bit is crying for something that really does not exist any longer.

     

    in reply to: The Hearty Salon… 26 August 2026 #93185
    amarynth
    Keymaster

    There is now a series of this MAGA guy out there, and it makes me just sad.  I did a few projects in the south and of course we lived in Florida, so, these people were there of course up North Florida.  But I cannot say that they ever made me sad.  They were just people doing their people thing and a smile and a kindness soon got you a sweet iced tea if you could ignore the gun and pray the tea jar was clean. Lots of stories about the Southern Folk that still make me laugh today.

    in reply to: The Hearty Salon… 26 August 2026 #93007
    amarynth
    Keymaster

    A passport?  Say it ‘aint so.  The drone flew in with its passport?

    in reply to: The Hearty Salon… 26 August 2026 #92914
    amarynth
    Keymaster

    I do like Carl Zha and wish I had enough money to subscribe to his history channel – Silk & Steel podcast. He shares a lot though.

    in reply to: Chronicles of the Apocalypse – 31 August 2026 #92889
    amarynth
    Keymaster

    Yup.  Rodriques is doing what is possible.  I see the little things that are not really in the media.  When Delcy announced this deal, the document was in English.  She has never done an English release ever.  All her work is in Spanish and then gets translated.

    Yes, all of those that are now abandoning Venezuela sounding Oh so Holy,must just pick up their kitbags and go.  ‘Yesterday’ they were all in favor, but forget things like the announcement of this ‘hemisphere’ is the US hemisphere.  Little things, just now suddenly and for the first time, after this announcment, Maduro sends pictures from the jail … Just around this announcement Maduro’s son says Venezuela is doing the right thing.

    Now we are waiting to see what will brew out in Brazil.  These people will take their hemisphere back as they did in the ’70s.  I see a lot of the writing now calling ‘Nuestro/a America’, i.e., our America.  That huge stinky scandal on highly sophisticated right wing meddling is making a massive impact.  The leftists (and left and right has different meanings in the LAC) people suddenly understand why they are losing elections.

     

    in reply to: Chronicles of the Apocalypse – 31 August 2026 #92849
    amarynth
    Keymaster

    Well, that should make no difference whether they wanted to or not.  It is their oil.  Whatever they wanted to do with it within the Bolivarian revolution is their business .. no?   And yes, they wanted to develop.  But that is like saying Cuba and Brother Fidel never wanted to hold the Cuban revolution.   Or, Iran does not really want to to hold onto the Strait of Hormuz.   Or Nicaragua never wanted to really really go with their Sadinista revoltuion.  Or Russia really really actually wanted to get their international bank trading accoumts stolen.

    These were revolutionary movements against the US, who considered all of that their own back-yard.

    But Venezuela in the Bolivarian Revoltution wanted and actually did for years, ship affordable oil to Cuba, to some Island Nations and others.  They really wanted to use their oil for good, and for years, they did.  They shared oil with the Cuban physician’s program and supplied their region with affordable oil, sanctions or no sanctions.

     

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