Friday morning #headlines recap
War news...
Iran fires largest single salvo in weeks during Trump’s April 1st speech — 10 ballistic missiles at central Israel; 19 drones + 4 ballistic missiles at Bahrain; Panamanian-flagged tanker AQUA 1 leased by Qatar struck, hull breach confirmed by IRGC. April 1st speech? Moar like April Fools speech, AMIRITE?!!?
Israel struck Iranian nuclear negotiator Kamal Kharazi at his Tehran residence — Kharazi was actively arranging JD Vance talks via Pakistan intermediaries. Israel taking any and all measures to prevent negotiations.
Sadara Chemical shuts ALL production indefinitely. 3M+ tonnes annual petrochemical capacity offline. Apparently the plant is intact, but the supply chain of necessary raw materials has dried up.
Hormuz as yuan toll gate is now operational. Selective clearance for China, Russia, India, Iraq, Pakistan. Everyone else: pay in yuan or anchor and wait. Meanwhile European diesel futures hit $200/barrel. A quick bit of research shows that it was trading at under $100 per barrel as recently as February.
Pentagon briefed Trump on nuclear material extraction plan from Fordow/Natanz: 82nd Airborne parachute drop, build runway from scratch in hostile territory, excavate 80-90m of mountain rock, extract ~450kg HEU in hazmat suits, fly out through Iranian air defenses — all simultaneously under missile/drone fire. ”Chat, please write up the most farcical battle plan possible and present it to the president.”
Uranium particulates were found in soil samples from the site of the Israeli bombing of Hassan Nasrallah on Sept 27th 2024. If Israel was using low-level nukes then they’d likely do the same thing to Iran…
Other stuff…*
(((Robert Kagan))) has penned an oped in The Atlantic outright calling the US a rogue state, just weeks after (((Bill Kristol))) complained about Israel essentially being a burden to the US. Pants being shidded behind the scenes? I still hold out a 3% chance that Trump is intentionally turning over the apple cart.
Todd Blanche sees himself as a “principled” conservative and views investigations of Trump enemies like Jack Smith as an “abuse of power.” He also says he has no idea what country Epstein was affiliated with and whether or not he was a spy. Behold your next US AG.
Apparently more cabinet members are leaving soon, including Patel. Shuffling the deck chairs on the Titanic…
Hegseth firing count tops 15, including Randy George, the U.S. Army's top officer. I have a bad feeling about this…
Outrage as Oracle makes thousands of foreign-worker requests amid layoff bloodbath. On a positive note, Iran said they bombed an Oracle data center.
Allegedly Trump is doing a UFO reveal in May and will issue a commemorative coin to go with it. Would’ve been enough to make PT Barnum blush.
Americans would be ‘up at night worrying’ if they knew the truth about alien life, Tennessee Rep. Tim Burchett says. Actually Tim, I’m up at night worrying about what the jews and their lapdogs in the US government are doing to the world my offspring will have to live in. I don’t give two shits about the aliens unless they are here to exterminate my enemies.
Maintain a steady balance out there today, the weekend is almost upon us…
SaṁainGoat