The Raw Deal (20 April 2026) with co-host Joe Olson
Jim Fetzer and Joe Olson analyze Russia's potential Article 51 invocation against NATO drone attacks from Finland and the Baltics, speculating on retaliatory strikes against officials. They condemn President Trump's threats to destroy Iran, citing General Dan Kane and Steve Bennett's alleged corruption, while Scott Ritter and Ray McGovern argue Iran holds the strategic advantage. The episode covers EU jet fuel shortages, U.S. drone incursions near Picatinny Arsenal, and the December 2026 draft deadline, alongside critiques of Trump's disconnect from reality regarding war crimes in Iran and conspiracy theories about 9/11 and the moon landings. Ultimately, the hosts suggest the current geopolitical landscape is defined by internal U.S. instability and failed foreign policy objectives. [Automatically generated summary]
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Hormuz Sanctions and Confusion00:14:41
Somebody, not just anybody.
You know, I need someone.
When I was younger, so much younger than today, I didn't believe anybody's help in any way.
I'm all down these days of fun and self assured.
I'm not in the chamber, I'm open up the doors.
Help me if you can, I'm feeling that.
Jim Fetzer, your host on The Raw Deal, right here on Revolution Radio Studio B, this 20th day of April 2026, joined by co host Joe Olson.
We begin with Russia being attacked by drones of all places from Finland and the Baltic states, what may need to declare self defense under UN Charter 51 to respond.
This is an Hal Turner report.
Rather stunning.
Sergei Shoigu stated drone strikes on Russian territory are being recorded via Finland and the Baltic state, resulting in civilian casualties and damage to civilian infrastructure.
In this context, Article 51 of the UN Charter on the Right to Self Defense may be invoked.
Hal Turner's analysis Finland and the Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania.
Are shown above with their country names circled in red.
As a result of drone attacks launched against Russia, the Russian government is now openly saying they may choose to attack Finland and the Baltic states in self defense.
All of them are NATO members.
Instead of attacking these countries, I have to wonder am I still allowed to wonder?
Wouldn't it be far easier, quicker, and more effective for Russia to send military units directly into those units with orders to kill the people?
Giving the orders to send those drones.
It doesn't matter who it is, Russia could just kill them.
Then Russia could announce they killed them and say why, showing proof.
This, I think, would dissuade anyone else from making the same bad decisions as the dead made and would likely, in my view, solve the problem without having to smash and destroy entire countries.
Moreover, the U.S. and Israel set the precedent by.
Intentionally targeting and deliberately killing members of Iran's sitting government.
If it's okay for the US and Israel to target and kill Iranian government officials, it seems perfectly logical to me that Russia can now target and kill officials inside Finland and the Baltic state without fear of world condemnation or even NATO Article 5.
Joe, I think his analysis is spot on.
I find it rather astonishing these attacks are taking place.
Your thoughts?
Yeah, it is pretty astounding.
And the Balkan states are nothing but NATO chihuahuas.
They have absolutely no power.
Most of the countries don't have more than 2 million people population.
And since they were Russian for centuries, they have a large Russian population.
And some countries are not even allowed to vote in the election.
So you have a dysphoria, just exactly like you have in the Palestinian situation in the occupied territory.
It's absolutely crazy.
But I want to mention something today 420, which has significance to certain generations of folks, but it's also.
Bookends two important dates in Texas history.
One of them is April 21st, 1836, when Sam Houston defeated the.
Napoleon of the West, the dictator Santa Ana, who was responsible for killing over a half million Mexicans during his various terms in office.
And the other one is April 19th, which was yesterday, 1881, which was 45 years after we defeated Santa Ana, was the last Apache massacre in Texas.
So, 45 years after we beat the Emperor of the West to free Texas, we were still being massacred by Native American tribes.
Unbelievable.
Well, thank you for that.
Element of Texas history.
Meanwhile, we're back to Trump threatening to blow up the whole country of Iran if a deal is not reached.
The man has clearly lost his mind.
Here's anti war.com reporting.
President Obama threatened to blow up the whole country of Iran if Tehran doesn't agree to a deal he's demanding it sign as the very fragile ceasefire appears on the verge of collapse.
Trump made the comments in an interview with Fox.
Reporter Trey Yinks.
I just spoke with President Trump for about 20 minutes and he told me if Iran does not sign this deal, the whole country is getting blown up.
You want to say that bridges and power plants will be targeted if Iran does not sign this agreement?
The threat from Trump came after Iran said it reclosed the Strait of Hormuz after briefly declaring it open to all commercial vessels.
The Iranian government said the waterway.
Was again closed to the fact that the U.S. was maintaining its blockade on Iranian ports, a violation of the ceasefire agreement.
Trump, I think, has utterly lost his competence.
Here we have more.
Tension drives in the Strait of Hormuz over ship attacks and Iranian threats.
Iran's Revolutionary Guard said they were closing the Strait until the U.S. blockade were lifted.
Two ships reported being hit as they tried to pass through the Strait.
That's From the New York Times.
Here's another now.
Iranian ship seized.
Today, and this is now a tweet from Trump.
Today, an Iranian flag cargo ship named Tuska, nearly 900 feet long, weighing almost as much as an aircraft carrier, tried to get past our naval blockade, and it did not go well for them.
The U.S. Navy guided missile destroyer USS Spruance intercepted the Tuska in the Gulf of Oman and gave them fair warning to stop.
The Iranian crew refused to listen, so our Navy ship Stopped them riding their track by blowing a hole in their engine room.
Right now, U.S. Marines have custody of the vessel.
The two skies under U.S. Treasury sanctioned because of their prior history of illegal activity.
We have full custody of the ship and are seeing what's on board.
President Donald J. Trump.
Meanwhile, here's the outcome Sonar 21.
No negotiations.
Iran will retaliate.
The war will escalate.
Well, that didn't take too long.
Friday's false optimism about an imminent peace deal with Iran, following Donald Trump's claim that Iran had agreed to surrender to U.S. demands, fed wild swing to the positive side in the U.S. stock market and crashed oil prices.
It turns out that Trump was merely manipulating the financial and commodity markets and benefiting wealthy insiders.
There will be no more negotiation between the U.S. and Iran until the U.S. lifts its naval blockade and complies with the 10 points Iran delivered two weeks ago on Sunday.
Iran said it would not participate in a second round of peace talks in Pakistan with the U.S. this week due to America's demands and ongoing naval blockade in the Gulf.
Quote, Iran stated its absence from the second round of talks stemmed from what it called Washington's excessive demands, unrealistic expectations, constant shifts in stance, repeated contradictions, and the ongoing naval blockade, which it considers a breach of the ceasefire.
A state run out said, Relations between Iran and the U.S. further frayed Sunday when the Iranian commercial vessel Tuska, which was en route toward Iran, was intercepted and seized by the U.S. Navy.
The vessel has crossed the Arabian Sea into the Gulf of Oman.
Kepler's map shows the latest track location of the vessel, which was five hours ago.
The boarding of the vessel occurred in international waters.
The ship is under US, UK, and EU sanctions.
Iran vows it will retaliate.
Joe, I don't know.
Trump seems to me to make one stupid decision after another.
Your thoughts?
Yeah, we make stupid decisions when you surround yourself with a stupid cabinet.
So we have his Joint Chief of Staff.
This is General Raisin Dan Kane, F 16 pilot, retired from the Air Force in.
11 03 21.
So in November of 21, he retired as a lieutenant colonel.
He went to work so he could double dip.
He went to work for the CIA from 2021 until 2024, at which point he was selected by Trump because he was at a Trump rally in his uniform wearing a MAGA hat, which is a violation of the military code.
So then you get to the other stuff that you're talking about the corruption in the rest of this cabinet.
We have This tracking Trump deals and profits.
This is at PBS.
It came out this morning.
It's like a five minute long episode, and it goes into the poly market.
And that DJT insiders are in charge of the poly market where they're betting on the futures of whether the oil price is going to go up or down based on insider trading information.
And guess who his Secretary of Treasury used to work for?
Oh, Steve Bennett used to work for George Soros for.
Decades and he was money manager for Soros.
Soros is one of the big time inside traders.
He knew about the Las Vegas harvest.
In August of 2017, he bought 1.2 million shares of MGM resorts, claiming that they were going to go down in value.
Sure enough, on October 1st or whenever it was they had the harvest festival, stocks dropped and he made $40 million in less than two months on a put call.
Absolutely insane.
And this is the guy that we've gotten in charge as Secretary of Treasury.
He's eyeball deep in this insider trading shit, too.
The whole cabinet is rotten.
And that's why we're not going to get a 25th Amendment because all of them are covering for their crimes that they're committing underneath him.
Yes, you know, you're absolutely right.
Meanwhile, Trump pushes a fantasy about Iran, Hormuz, and enriched uranium, also from Sonar 21.
The President of the United States made seven claims in one hour, all seven of which were false.
They did not win the war with these lies, and they will certainly not get anywhere in negotiations either.
With a continuation of the blockade, the Strait of Hormuz will not remain open.
Passage through the Strait of Hormuz will be conducted based on the designated route with Iranian authorization.
Whether the Strait is open or closed and the regulation governing it will be determined by the field, not by social media.
Media warfare and engineering public opinion are an important part of war, and the Iranian nation is not affected by these tricks.
Read the real and accurate news of the negotiations in the recent interview with the Foreign Ministry spokesman.
Friday, President Donald Trump posted a flurry of optimistic messages on Truth Social, referencing in interviews, framing the U.S. Iran war as largely over or nearing the Swiss resolution.
His claims.
Centered on the reopening of the strait, progress toward a broader peace deal and U.S. leverage.
Most of what Trump wrote was forcefully denied by Iran.
We know the claims he made.
It's just embarrassingly bad.
You got a president of the United States lying again and again and again and again.
Here we have the result tensions rise over shipment tax in Iranian, where they have reimposed of necessity.
Meanwhile, we have the Iranian ship seized, as we've already mentioned.
Kevin Barrett here talks about Hormuzian confusion.
Kevin has a knack for putting his finger on things.
I did a press TV interview last Friday, again Saturday.
The topic was Hormuzian confusion generated by Trump's out of control mouth.
The video begins with a brief.
Press tv chosen highlight reel.
The Impossible Happened00:11:19
I think here's what he said Friday.
This is an historic change.
We've seen what really amounts to Iran testing its nuclear option by showing its power over the traffic going through the Strait of Hormuz and therefore its power over the entire world economy, including especially the U.S. vassal states in the region.
And Iran has successfully demonstrated that power.
And that has apparently forced the Americans To push the Israelis back from doing what they wanted to do, which was to continue their genocide in Lebanon.
In Lebanon.
So that problem isn't yet solved, but at least there is a showdown in the aggression coming from the Israelis in Lebanon.
And that was completely done by the leverage of Iran.
So I think this is a very positive development.
And I wouldn't put too much faith in what Trump says at any given time, because for one thing, He doesn't appear to be in full control of his mouth.
Sometimes he deliberately lies.
Sometimes he seems to be almost an unconscious process.
So I wouldn't consider Trump the best source on any of this.
He's going to be trying to lie his way out of the problem he got himself into by allowing Netanyahu to convince him to attack Iran.
So I'd listen to the Iranian leadership.
I would also listen to other third parties, including the Chinese and perhaps the Europeans, perhaps to a certain extent the Pakistanis.
The upshot is that Iran has emerged from this brutal series of acts of aggression, a series of war crimes committed against it, actually more strong, much stronger than it was before.
And the downside is that this is not going to play well with the genocidal maniacs in Tel Aviv.
So it's going to be a continued impetus for conflict coming from those quarters.
But the good news is that, for now at least, It looks like Americans might actually be reacting with at least a slight sliver of rationality, which essentially means admitting that Iran has them checkmated.
And that's going to change the region and the world forever.
Joe, your thoughts.
Yes.
Well, an article you sent me last week mentions a guy named Tony Schwartz, who was the ghostwriter for Art of the Deal.
And in that article, he says that Trump has never read a book since.
In his whole entire adult life.
So, you have that little bit of a problem.
And then also, the reason we're in this horrible mess is because we have no free press in this country.
We've got the most rotten propaganda media imaginable.
Perfect example was on April 8th, Washington Post said, We should eliminate the Iranian ceasefire negotiators.
So, Iran is sending some of their top government officials to meet in good faith after being sneak attacked twice in previous ceasefire negotiations.
Negotiations, and we're supposed to take their leaders out because Jeff Bezos wants to do that.
Well, guess what?
Jeff Bezos also paid $75 million for a documentary on Melania, and out of that, she got $28 million for writing her own screenplay.
Absolutely disgusting amount of insider trading going on with this particular administration and everybody that's involved with them.
You got it, Joe.
You're absolutely right.
Meanwhile, here's a nice round table with Larry Johnson, Ray McGovern, and Scott Ritter talking about the situation.
Do not take another meeting until you've tried this.
Pocket is the world's first AI thought companion built to make.
And it's with Judge Nab.
Scott, to you first.
Did the impossible actually happen in the past 48 hours?
Did Israel and Hezbollah enter into some sort of a ceasefire as President Trump has claimed?
No, the impossible hasn't happened.
Look, I've said the last time I was on your show, I made it quite clear that when we are assessing the situation in the Persian Gulf today, do not think in terms of standard geopolitical analysis.
Don't think in terms of power structures.
This is about American domestic politics.
This is all that is going on right now.
And I made it clear that Donald Trump is going to be spinning things so that he can successfully sell to an American audience the.
The notion that the United States has emerged victorious in this conflict.
I see it in the comments and elsewhere.
I mean, Scott Ritter and Ray McGovern are wrong.
Trump has opened up the Strait of Hormuz.
Dude, Trump hasn't opened up anything.
Iran has control.
Traffic flows through as Iran dictates, not as Trump dictates.
Trump can sit there and say whatever he wants.
There has been no face to face negotiation between Israel and Hezbollah.
There was face to face negotiation between.
Israel and the Lebanese government, in which a ceasefire was worked out.
The Iranians have put pressure on Hezbollah to adhere to a temporary cessation of hostilities, but that's not a ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah.
And the United States certainly didn't play any direct role in this.
And as Trump has clearly stated, the Israeli Hezbollah issue is separate.
100% from the United States Iran issue.
There's a temporary cessation while the United States and Iran work out the final details of whatever this peace agreement will look like.
And I do believe we're going to get a peace agreement, even though Donald Trump appears to be on a self destructive bent, saying things that are clearly contradictory to reality.
But we can't afford to continue this war.
Again, for all the people out there, just so you know, we lost this war.
You can spend it any way you want to, none of our objectives were met.
All of Iran's objectives were met.
Iran holds all the cards.
And Trump right now is just trying to create a politically acceptable way of acknowledging defeat.
Larry, what are your military contacts telling you we should expect next?
What do you say or believe we should expect next?
Well, I woke up this morning, a friend who's involved in one of the op centers sent me his three letter acronym, WTF.
We all know what that means.
Yeah, in response to Trump's treat social post, whatever you want to call it, that, oh, this thing's all settled and it's all done, except we're going to, yeah, that one right there.
All right, let me read it for those who are taking the show audio only.
This is from President Trump this morning.
The USA will get all nuclear dust, in quote, created by our great B 2 bombers.
No money will exchange hands in any way, shape, or form.
This deal is in no way subject to Lebanon either, but the USA will separately work with Lebanon and deal with the Hezbollah misspelled situation in an appropriate manner.
Israel will not be bombing Lebanon any longer.
They are prohibited from doing so by the USA.
Enough is enough.
Thank you, President DJT.
This is what your friend in active duty in the Middle East saw and responded to.
Yeah, that was one of them.
You know, look, the original deal for the ceasefire, and there has been a ceasefire that Iran insisted on, was that there had to be a ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah.
Not just Lebanon, but Hezbollah involved as well.
According to Iranian sources, they were prepared to start launching missiles last night at 8 p.m. Eastern time if there wasn't that ceasefire.
Somehow, I don't know who at the White House got it done, but they finally agreed to a ceasefire that's going to maybe last for 10 days.
That said, part of that original deal was if they got that ceasefire, then Iran would allow.
Traffic to pass through the Strait of Hormuz.
The U.S. claims that there is a blockade.
It is a lie.
It's a complete facade.
It's false.
We don't have enough ships in the area, number one, to do it.
Number two, they don't dare get close to the coast of Iran.
They're staying like 400, 500 miles away because Iran's got coastal defense cruise missiles.
They got short range ballistic missiles.
They got underwater, on the water, and above the water drones.
So everything that Donald Trump has said, and he said that now that.
Iran's going to give up its nuclear enrichment material.
Trump is lying across the board.
Lying.
It's not true.
Hey, Tone, why should people come to the AI Advantage Summit, April 23rd through the 25th?
Ray, I asked Scott at the outset if the impossible had happened that there was actually an agreement between Israel and Hezbollah.
And of course, he gave us.
His usual articulate and well grounded answer.
Let me ask you if the impossible has happened.
Has Trump restrained Netanyahu?
What did he mean by enough is enough?
Well, he says right here, Judge, I have instructed Israel to halt its attacks on Lebanon.
They are prohibited from doing so by the USA.
Enough is enough.
Well, we're going to see.
We who are skeptics or have been in this, seen this movie before, we're going to see if that holds.
What else did Trump claim?
Oh, yeah, that the Iranians have agreed to.
Open the Strait of Hormuz in sequela sequelorum forever and ever.
Amen.
It took the Iranians one half hour to disavow that.
So he's still saying things that are very hard to believe.
I'm thinking about Alison in Wonderland when she protested to the Queen of Hearts.
You know, there are lots of, I just can't believe in the Queen of Hearts and you don't practice enough.
I practice before breakfast and I have to persuade myself.
To believe six impossible things before practice.
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NATO Asks for Help Again00:03:54
We have many more additional stories to cover here, including NATO calling President Trump for help after Hormuz, his response making him regret having made the call.
Check this out.
For weeks, NATO dragged its feet on helping America and Israel deal with Iran.
The alliance wrung its hands, issued letters, expressed deep concern, complained loudly about oil prices while refusing to lift a finger to help secure the strait.
Then Iran blinked.
The straight reopened.
The crisis essentially ended, of course, all too briefly.
And right on cue, NATO picked up the phone and called the White House to ask if America needed any help.
You'll probably guess how that went.
Here's a moment captured in all its glory.
Eric Dorey tweeting, Holy crap!
President Trump just told NATO to screw itself, saying they're a paper tiger.
Now that Hormuz's strait situation is over, which of course was merely a chimera, I received a call from NATO asking if I would need some help.
I told them to stay away unless they just wanted to load up their ships with oil.
They were useless when needed.
A paper tiger, President DJT.
Meanwhile, Hamas has rebuffed a trapped disarmament plan.
As Israeli violations stall a ceasefire process, Hamas has rejected a US-backed proposal, signing failure to implement the first phase of the ceasefire and concerns over Gaza's security.
Moss has rebuffed a proposal by a US-backed Board of Peace to disarm the group, signing ongoing Israeli violations in the first phase.
Palestinian sources with direct knowledge told Middle East.
I, the Damas, views the plan presented earlier this month as a trap designed to ignite civil war in the Gaza Strip and destabilize Palestinian society.
Meanwhile, Hezbollah chief vows resistance will respond to Israeli violations when they occur.
How appropriate.
Hezbollah's Secretary General, Naam Qasem, warned in a statement on 19 April, resistance sides will remain in the field and respond to Israel's ceasefire violations.
The fighters will remain in the field with their hands on the trigger and will respond to violations as they occur, assumed lasted.
The ceasefire announcement published by the State Department on 16 April that stressed Israel's right to self-defense would not be impeded by the cessation of a Attacks as an insult to Lebanon and its people, and yet another in a similar vein.
Houthi officials say Babo Manteb may be closed.
A senior official from Yemen's Southeast Warned the group could close the Babo Mendem strain if President Trump continues what he describes as obstructing peace.
Samuel Ezra, Deputy Foreign Minister in Sinead, wrote on X If Sansa decides to close the Babo Mendem, then all of mankind and jinn will be utterly powerless to open it.
Marine Corps War Plans00:15:35
And therefore, it is best for Trump and the complicit world.
To immediately end all practices that bosses and obstruct visa, to show the respect required for the rights of our people and nation.
The Babo Mendeb, of course, connects the Red Sea to the Gulf of Aden, a key shipping route for global trade, particularly oil and other fuels moving through the Gulf, Europe, and Asia.
Joe, this would be an additional calamity.
That's another 10% added to the 20%.
It would greatly exacerbate the calamity already befalling the world because of these events.
Your thoughts.
Yeah, well, Donnie's managed to alienate and piss off everybody on the freaking planet.
He has picked fights with every world leader.
He told last week, he told MBS that he could kiss his ass, which is apparently a worse slur in Arabic than it is in English.
So that's one of our quote allies.
He's also insulted Modi in India and Xi in China.
And then he had the Alaskan summit where he absolutely backstabbed Putin.
So he has nothing to go on for him.
And he's destroyed his own base.
On Thursday, they had a TPUSA rally.
And JD Vance was a guest speaker because Erica Kirk was too busy to show up that night.
She heard that there was an assassination attempt against her.
But there was less than 25% of the venue at Georgia State University.
Filled and the rest of them, and there were booze for JD Vance.
And then you have Marjorie Taylor Greene last Thursday said, Here are the two reasons why I left MAGA and left Congress.
DJT wouldn't release the Epstein files because it would hurt his friends.
That was one of the quotes she had in a private phone conversation with him.
And the next thing is, she called him up and said, Will you please quit calling me a traitor because my son is getting death threats?
Her teenage son.
Is getting death threats.
And Trump said, if they're getting death threats, it's your fault.
And then you had St. Cruz, the Canadian rhino, who's our senator from Texas, calling Tucker deranged leftist psycho.
So that's all pretty much telling.
And then this was a really great episode about a 40 minute long interview with Dennis Kucinich on the Duran.
And I'll put a link to this in the comment sections.
Debt decline in Iran.
Now, this.
Kucinich was Ohio representative from 1997 until 2013.
He opposed all of the Mideast wars, and that's why they drummed him out of office.
But he made a really interesting comment.
He says the reason that they banned Gaza protests and Palestinian protests at the college campuses was so that they could ban all protests against anti war and eliminate having an organized anti war movement that would be easy to mobilize.
And now Selective Services said that all men.
Between the ages of 18 and 26, must register for the draft by December 2026.
If you can't see where this is going, you're absolutely blind as a bat.
Yeah, it's all pretty damn disturbing.
Meanwhile, there's a critical shortage of jet fuel.
EU airlines have just six weeks' supply left, and the planes will stop flying.
The European market is facing a critical shortage of kerosene, which, by the way, is the principal constituent of jet fuel, amazingly enough.
Only six weeks of supply remaining, and the war in Iran is threatening the continent with a major aviation crisis.
Since the war broke out, jet fuel prices have jumped 70%, threatening the financial health of European airlines.
The International Energy Agency has warned that this scarcity may soon lead to widespread flight cancellation to Christ Europe.
To combat the dwindling supply, the EU is reportedly developing an emergency plan to maximize refinery output and stabilize fuel distribution.
Fahi Birol, the director of the IEA, stated that these disruptions are a direct consequence of the ongoing blockade in the Strait of Hormuz.
Yes, yes, I don't think any of us had any doubt about that.
Meanwhile, the U.S. war machine underwhelms.
This is a thoughtful critique from OONS.com by Hui Bin, who writes.
In my mid March essay, Iran is Already Won, I discussed the strategic failure suffered by the U.S. barely a month into the war.
The simple fact that the U.S. war goal has changed from regime change to keep the trade hormones open already points to the strategic defeat of the U.S. since the trade was open to all before the war.
In this piece, I'll dig into the failure at a granular tactical level to show how the US military performance underwhelms.
To the amount of data for my thesis, I split the analysis into two parts.
To start out, let's first call the complete cognitive dissonance of the US ruling elite, which has been the real shock and awe of this war of choice.
The commander in chief, more accurately, liar in chief, daily boasts of unparalleled military success and threatens escalation of violence, echoed by his psychopath bootlicker, Secretary of War Crimes.
If they are to believe, the U.S. military is better than the Wehrmacht in 1940, who wiped out France and the Low Countries in six weeks, or the Soviet Red Army, who killed about 140,000 Japanese.
Kowantong army and captured 640,000 in the Far East in exactly 23 days in August of 1945.
In his deranged mind, Trump probably imagined himself a greater military malice to the world than the Mongol Golden Hordes.
It goes on from there, quite a brilliant piece.
Meanwhile, very appropriate observation, three MEFs.
Marine expeditionary forces won't be enough.
The Marine Corps has a plan to fight.
It needs a plan to keep fighting once the casualties start to mount.
This is by a corporal!
A Marine Corps corporal!
Wow!
The United States is coming to terms with the possibility of another great power war.
Though such a war's specific characteristic cannot be known, one thing is almost guaranteed.
The United States must prepare to respond to mass casualties in the Pacific.
The Marine Corps must face the probability of thousands wounded or killed during the conflict's opening months.
To prepare to replace those Marines expeditiously, the Marine Corps should reactivate the headquarter component of the 5th and 6th Marine Divisions along with those accompanying major subordinate commands.
These divisions should comprise the ground compound elements of the newly created 5th and 6th Marine Expeditionary Forces.
Giving the Marine Corps, at least on labor, a strength of six Marine Expeditionary Forces, if a potential additional is organized from the reserve.
History shows the pros and cons of fielding a standing professional military prior to 1914.
The British Army was considered one of the best in the world, certainly in its own eyes.
Lying strictly on volunteers, it was able to maintain order throughout the empire and defeat threats to the colony.
British soldiers were well trained and equipped.
Many saw combat in Britain's colonial wars.
However, at the Battle of Mons in 1914, The first battle of World War I involving the United Kingdom, the 100,000 mostly professional soldiers of the British Expeditionary Force were compelled to retreat by the far greater numbers of the Imperial German First Army.
While the Imperial German Army also was highly professionalized and employed a command philosophy that promoted initiative at the small unit level, British soldiers were more experienced.
Furthermore, many British soldiers spent their entire careers in the army as opposed to German, who were usually conscripted for a certain duration and then kept on reserve status.
The dichotomy meant that although British soldiers usually had more combat experience at an individual level, Germany had more with military experience.
Those could be reassimilated into the army rapidly and deployed to the Western Front.
Now, what I want to add here, Joe, is that Trump has talked about sending Marines to launch an amphibious assault of Iran.
But as a former Marine Corps officer trained in the techniques of amphibious assault, I tell you it would be a suicide mission.
It's preposterous.
The geography, the train, the preparation all favor Iran.
It would be a catastrophe for the American military.
And to make an additional observation, even if they were able to take some kind of beachhead, Which I regard as preposterous.
How can you support it with logistics?
There's no way to maintain logistics support to a force, American forces in Iran, even if they were able to secure some kind of landing there.
It's a military absurdity.
Joe, your thoughts.
Yes, this is a quote that's attributed to Churchill.
The British Navy operates on rum, sodomy, and the lash.
And there's other articles.
Sodomy?
Yes, that's why they raped the cabin boys.
If you were a good crewman, you got to rape the cabin boy after the captain raped the cabin boy.
Yeah, disgusting.
Yeah, so that's one little problem.
And what a number of commentators online have mentioned, including McGovern and Scott Ritter, is that we've entered a new era of warfare, just like World War I was a mechanized warfare where you had machine guns, airplanes, and tanks for the first time that were able to project power.
Now we've got drones, and there's a great 48 minute long video at Electric Intifada by John Elmer, and he goes into great big detail.
About half of this program is dedicated to the Iran side of this conflict, and the next half is based on just Hezbollah in Lebanon.
It's really fascinating.
Then I recommend Brian Berletic, he says that the title of his video is Using Iran to Distract from World War III.
Well, he gets it wrong.
He keeps saying there, Repeatedly, that the United States is the big bully and we're the problem.
The problem is the United States is 100% captured.
He says that Israel is our vassal.
Actually, America is Israel's vassal.
So get it straight, Brian.
You're looking at it through the wrong lens.
And then there's another one that's pretty interesting that fits in with this same project.
Tucker loses it on anti Semitism.
This is a Young Turks video, and it goes on about the FISA.
And how they spy on us in order to protect the pedophile oligarchs.
And this is a 13 minute long video.
If you watch those three videos, you'll get a really good projection of what's going on.
And the burlet video is only eight minutes long.
So we're only talking about dedicating an hour and 20 minutes of your time.
Yeah, excellent, Joe.
Excellent, excellent, excellent.
Meanwhile, Iran has actually increased its production of attack drones, increased it.
Just fascinating how efficient they are and how pathetically weak and inept is the United States.
Tenfold since the June war, press, TV reporting.
Deputy Chief of Staff of the Iranian Armed Force said Iran increased the reduction rate of attack drones tenfold during a seven-month period.
After a U.S. Israeli war in June of last year, that was a 12-day war.
Speaking in a televised interview published Thursday, Brigadier General Al-Urza Sheikh said Iran had succeeded in making a significant increase in drone capabilities.
He added that the Iranian Air Force is prepared for any possible scenario in the future by learning from past events.
Unlike Trump, who appears to learn nothing from no matter what happens.
The armed forces at Cape Habilly confront responded to Trenton's that prevent the enemy from achieving its goals are a direct result of lessons learned from the 12 day war back in June of 2025.
The senior army commander pointed to Iran's very extensive strategic achievements and said, Today we can say that the Islamic Republic has created a new literature.
In the field of defense and security, meaning made historic progress and developments.
I agree completely.
Meanwhile, the US is only barely starting to respond to the demands of drone production.
As this report from Asia Times explains, the US is starting to respond to drone incursions on US territory, but the response has not matched the growing threats from drones, which are likely to get worse.
Drone Swarms in 202500:10:19
In 2025, the US tracked 34,000 drones along its southern border, a significant increase over 2024.
Late in 2024, there were reports of mass sightings of drones across New Jersey, New York, and Pennsylvania.
The government argued some of these sightings were caused by public misidentification of authorized flights, with military officials said there was a concurrent pattern of unauthorized incursions over sensitive sites, such as the Piatinny Arsenal, Picatinny Arsenal.
DEFCOM Armament Center at Picatinny is a lead collaborator on projects like Golden Shield, where the Army is developing autonomous counter drone systems and sensors.
Golden Shield is designed to solve the problem of drone swarms and high volume aerial threats by automating the response chain.
This is a very active program recently tested at Fort Hood by the 1st Cavalry.
Golden Shield would be a high priority target of America's top adversaries.
Joe, what do you make of this?
Is the U.S. likely to have drone attacks on the United States?
Well, we certainly could have capacity for that to happen, considering all of the folks we've imported into this country.
And we've also got the problem of Israelis using things like that as false flags.
Interesting thing last week, one of the members of the Poland parliament.
Brought an Israeli flag with the Star of David replaced by a swastika, and it was all in blue and white, just matching the flag colors.
And he held it up the whole time he was delivering a speech.
He said that we've signed a security agreement with Israel, and currently they have over 2,000 Mossad spies inside Poland, and we do not think that they're working in Poland's best interest, and we want them deported.
And they voted to have them deported.
So that happened last week in Poland.
So you talk about fracturing your.
Your base, this could actually sweep a bunch of other countries in Europe that are tired of having Mossad manipulating their governments and creating assassinations because they'll assassinate anybody for any reason.
You disagree with them on one thing and then they'll assassinate you.
The same way their character assassinating Megyn Kelly, MTG, Tucker Carlson, virtually anybody that doesn't tow 100% Zionist Liebstrom.
Program, a Yunnan plan to capture all of the Middle East, is an enemy of the state.
So, bottom line is, they've been assassinating world leaders for centuries.
Absolutely disgusting tribe that has earned the reputation that they have.
Meanwhile, Admiral Ambassador Charles Freeman explains that Israel's strategy has just collapsed.
Let's check this out.
He's a pretty savvy.
Hi, everybody.
Today's Friday, April 17, 2026.
And our dear friend, Ambassador Chas Freeman, is here with us.
Welcome back, Ambassador.
Thank you.
Glad to be with you, Nima.
Maybe you can help me understand what is happening.
Then let me play a clip of Donald Trump talking about what's going on.
Maybe that may somehow help us to understand.
It's booming.
You know, you don't read about it.
You don't see it so much because of what's going on in Iran, which is really, you know, it's been two months.
I mean, two months.
You've been in other wars for 18 years, four years with me.
I'm in there for a month.
Well, he said he'd get out a month.
Did you see where I did a list last week?
17 years in Vietnam and five years in Afghanistan and more, much more than that, and all these different places.
And I said, we're in there for two months.
And you know what?
We're going to have victory very shortly.
This is not.
And against a very tough, smart country.
These people were fighters.
And, you know, I don't want to claim it before the fact, but they have no navy left.
158 ships at the bottom of the sea.
Oh, my goodness.
158, think of it.
158.
I got angry.
I said, why didn't you save them?
We could have used them, you know.
They would rather shoot them than save them.
I said, what the hell?
It's only money.
But some of them were good.
They had one named the Soleimani.
You know what the Soleimani?
We took him out.
He was the worst, one of the worst terrorists in the history of this country, this world.
They killed many of our people.
Is that going to help us to understand what's going on?
I'm afraid it doesn't help at all.
It's rambling, incoherent, delusional.
And it's more and more apparent that President Trump has lost touch with reality.
And so we see now increasing demands. from both sides of the political aisle in the United States, asking to invoke the 25th Amendment and remove him from office on the grounds that he's unfit for office.
Some of the things he says are so totally detached from reality that it's quite unnerving to hear him.
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Well, Ambassador Freeman is such a reasonable guy.
Let's listen to a few more of his thoughts here in this exchange.
We've already observed that Trump appears to be completely disconnected from reality.
He keeps implying that there is about to be some further evidence of victory.
He defines victory as the destruction of Iran's almost non existent Navy and its almost non existent Air Force and the huge amount of damage that the United States has done.
The civilian infrastructure in Iran, which is a war crime.
He doesn't seem to be bothered at all, as he said, by international law or other constraints.
There is a sort of ceasefire now in effect in Lebanon.
And that, I say, is sort of a ceasefire because typically when the Trump administration tries to do deals, They don't agree on the terms of the deal.
They just make an announcement that something has been agreed and there's been no meeting of the minds under it.
And it's very clear that the original ceasefire proposal by Pakistan included Lebanon.
It's also clear that Israel had no desire to respect that.
It's apparent that the current so called ceasefire in Lebanon. Is not respected by Israel.
Israeli politicians have apparently been outraged by Donald Trump's premature announcement of that ceasefire.
We don't know what is backing it up.
Israel's still occupying southern Lebanon, what's left of it.
It's turned southern Lebanon basically into a wasteland, applying the same technique it applied in Gaza.
So I'm not sure what sort of victory this is.
Iran has not capitulated, it will not capitulate.
Hezbollah has not capitulated, it will not capitulate.
Hamas has not capitulated, it will not capitulate.
What victory are we talking about?
A very strange idea of the purpose of war, as though the sole purpose of war is to kill people and destroy buildings.
I thought the purpose of war was to make an adjustment in Relations or policies on the part of the enemy.
In other words, to break the will of the enemy and to have the enemy do what you want.
But not a single stated objective of either Israel or the United States has been achieved so far.
No victory.
It's very hard to know what he's talking about.
Joe, give us your comments.
I think the ambassador is giving a very nice summary overview.
I like the ambassador, but I really like Nima, man.
He's a really interesting guy.
He was born and raised as a child in Iran, and then his parents moved to Brazil.
So he grew up in his teenage years in Brazil.
He got an engineering degree from a university in Germany, and I don't think Germany offers engineering degrees in anything other than German.
And now he's a professor down in Brazil.
He's always well mannered, really well informed, and he lets his guests do most of the speaking.
He's a great interviewer.
I really admire his work.
And his website, his YouTube channel is Dialogue Works.
So, anyhow, and Freeman's one of the great.
I watch probably three or four episodes of NEMA every day and a half for about two years now.
Really?
Oh, that's fascinating, Joe.
That's absolutely fascinating.
And the fact that he's got a background in engineering, of course, makes him a kindred spirit.
But he speaks and writes Farsi, and he spent a three month vacation with his family in Iran, right?
Between the 12 day war surprise and the now 50 day war surprise.
So he was over there for three months, inculturating himself again to the Iranian people and all of his relatives.
So he's very well informed about what's going on on both sides of this equation.
As gas prices continue to hover around $4 a gallon, and I guarantee they're going to go up, Republican senators are hoping the war in Iran ends soon before it costs the GOP the upper chamber in the 2026 midterm election.
Too late.
I hope that we are arriving at an exit strategy here to bring this to a close to preserve our security interests and bring down the cost of gasoline.
Said Josh Hawley, Republican of Missouri.
Hawley said the clock is ticking.
Senator Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, Politico, she and a group of senators are working on drafting an authorization for the use of military force against Iran, which would lay out when and how Trump could use force.
Murkowski said the end of April would be a deadline for hammering out the text of the draft.
Other Republicans worried they will want to know.
Warned they will want to know about the Trump Admins strategy for the war of billions in additional funding to request it.
I think our members are going to be very interested in what the next steps are, says Admins Majority Leader John Toon of South Dakota.
Soon then, the war, which has caused fertilizer prices to spike, has had a big impact on his constituents in South Dakota.
And indeed, Joe, worldwide, the fertilizer thing is, I think, the sleeper here.
Because it's going to make such a major difference in food supply.
Meanwhile, Patrick J. McShea writes it's time for MEGA to distance itself from Israel.
He begins with a couple of quotes.
When the President of the United States threatens to annihilate 92 million people because he doesn't like a government policy on a shipping lane, that's not a negotiation tactic or strategic ambiguity.
That's a threat of genocide, Scott Ritter.
Everyone is afraid of being physically hurt by Israel.
Talker.
Trump is the best thing to ever happen to us.
He's a magician of the highest, or his job is to create confusion and usher in a new world order.
Maria Abrevec, deeply involved in Pizzagate and other whores we have experienced.
Trump continues to lose chunks of his base.
Since early last year, before it was talked into or blackmailed into bombing Iran by Bibi Netanyahu, the first of our peace presidents' broken promises.
Then he balked on releasing the rest of the JFK documents, gave us nothing on what really happened on 9 11, then reneged on his campaign promise to release the Epstein files before ordering the cover up.
He's losing more of his base than he will admit.
And I'm sure Sandlers are telling him he's beloved.
He believes the entire country embraces him, like the raucous NFC fight night crowds.
Trump attacked people like Candace Owen, Tucker Carlson, Marjorie Taylor Greene, and Megyn Kelly as low IQ losers who never cared about the main agenda, while nothing could be further from the truth.
These former Trump influencers and many more continue to leave the Trump train in droves.
Baron Coleman, Colonel Douglas McGregor, Tim Bull, Alex Jones, Judge Apolitano, Ewan Weber, Scott Ritter, Jason Whitlock, Matt Walsh, Dave Smith, and on and on.
These people were Trump supporters a year ago.
Trump would not have won without these influencers he's now attacking.
Trump attacked Pope Leo.
Was critical of this unnecessary Rand war.
He went after influencer Riley Gaines.
Chris I. Trump, after he reposted an AI generated image depicting him as Jesus Christ, Trump said he had no idea why anyone would find a Fannie.
Joe, the guy's lost it.
Your thoughts?
Yeah, well, one of the people he's completely alienated, Marjorie Taylor Greene, has another video that she did.
All of our emails go to IDF.
Why do they need to have data centers all across the country?
Because they're giving IDF absolutely 100% of our information, and they've got algorithms so they can sit there and sort through it, and they're giving all of us a credibility score.
So that's kind of one problem.
We might not be able to vote our way out of this nightmare, but let's just concentrate on one key figure in this whole bullshit, and that's Limpy Graham, the South Carolina.
Member of the South Carolina House from 1993 to 1995, a House of Representatives for the U.S. between 1995 and 2003.
And he's been a senator since 2003.
So he's been in public, quote, public service for 33 years.
And he thinks he's a great war commander.
He's an attorney and he's within the Air Force.
So he has the Air Force perspective on anything that's involved, just like the clown that we've got in Raisin Kane.
He's what they call An armchair pilot, anyhow.
So, bottom line is he's a real piece of shit, but we may be able to vote out certain people in certain offices.
And there was a great interview with a guy named Dr. Tom Stalkup, S T A L C U P. He's running for House of Representatives against a 100% rhino in Brooklyn, Massachusetts.
And he did an hour long interview with Judicial Watch.
And it's really compelling about the TWA.
And because he's a PhD physicist, he understands the physics of it.
He explained the TWA crash completely well, and he mentions that there was a 2013 documentary.
Well, guess what?
At TNT Radio, we interviewed the CBS reporter, Christina Borgeson, who did the initial report for CBS, saying that it was a shoot down by a missile fired from a U.S. submarine off of Long Island that knocked down TWA 800.
And she had foam samples that were brought to her.
Independent of the NTSA.
And when she disclosed it to the members of CBS, they contacted the FBI, and the FBI came over and seized her stuff.
Even though she didn't have a chance to get the chemical deposits tested, it had a red color indicating that it had been part of an explosive.
So that plane was brought down by explosive.
And then we had Sandy Berger, who was the NSA chief under Slick Willie, and Rush Limbaugh called him Sandy Bergler because he went into the National Archives.
And he snuck out all of the presidential notes involving that particular situation, along with a few others, and stuffed them in his pants and his underwear and his socks.
And he walked out and he actually got caught on the last time they went to the NSA.
And he got a one year probated sentence.
You're stealing government documents.
But it turns out what he had stolen on the event of TWA was the margin notes that Clinton wrote in pencil with the amount of money that he was going to get from Raytheon and Lockheed over their missile failure in order to keep it quiet and make it look like it was an accident.
So, tell me again how this thing works.
Wow.
It is stunning.
It really is stunning.
The corruption.
Meanwhile, here's Tucker blasting the new definition of anti Semitism, which we've.
Turning discomfort into comfort.
RG heating, cooling, and plumbing.
I can dance and make a concrete at the same time.
Now you gotta emote.
The energy is always.
Events we're watching now that are very confusing.
And those would include the president advocating for re-upping FISA.
Now, FISA, without getting too boring about it, is the law which has to be voted on periodically by Congress that allows the U.S. government to spy on Americans.
To spy on them.
Now the whole point of it is supposed to be to spy on foreigners who are threatening us.
But the nature of the technology being what it is, there are cases where we pick up communications from Americans.
And in order to make that legal, we need this thing called FISA.
Tucker Carlson has become a lot more outspoken in regard to what President Trump is up to and how his actions hurt the American people.
In this case, it has to do with mass surveillance of American citizens and allowing our government to spy on us without ever having to obtain a warrant.
So before we get into.
Tucker's comments about Trump and the little flip flop that he engaged in when previously he spoke out against FISA.
Cenk, I'm curious what your two cents are.
Yeah, two points I want to make here after you give us the facts, which is the difference between Fox News Tucker Carlson and online Tucker Carlson and why that is.
And then I want to talk about how Barack Obama and Donald Trump have the same exact policy.
And I don't know if you guys heard that in mainstream media.
People clarified that for you.
And we'll tell you why they're both dead wrong.
Go ahead, Anna.
So, Glenn Greenwald did a fantastic write up about FISA, including providing historical context in his Substack.
So, I highly recommend you read the entire piece.
However, I'll give you some excerpts that I think are critical in understanding what FISA is.
Now, despite running in 2024 by vowing to kill FISA, based on his quite valid claim that spying powers had been abused against him, meaning Trump, for political ends in the 2016 presidential campaign.
Trump on Monday demanded that FISA be fully renewed yet again with no reforms, safeguards, or limits of any kind.
And, uh, just to give you a sense of how nefarious FISA really is, there's a particular section you should know about.
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Section 702 of FISA grants the NSA, the national security agency, the power to spy on certain communications of American citizens without a warrant.
So let's just briefly gloss over the history.
And this really is glossing over the history, but it's important for you to know at least the biggest details, most important details here, because after 9-11, the Bush administration ordered the NSA to spy on the communications of American citizens without warrants for the first time ever.
This was the first time.
And you have to understand the mindset of the American people at the time.
We had just suffered the absolute worst terror attack on U.S. soil.
Thousands of Americans were killed.
The World Trade Center was attacked.
Towers come tumbling down.
I mean, people are terrified.
And usually nefarious governments like to use, like to tap into that fear in order to increase their own power.
And that's what happened here.
So the Bush administration, you know, not only did they go with the Patriot Act, but they also Expanded the surveillance powers that the government has on American citizens.
So, how was the Bush administration allowed to get away with this?
Because it's unconstitutional.
You know, it flies in the face of unreasonable searches and seizures.
Well, they claimed that the NSA would just stop listening to calls or reading messages if they were spying on a foreign national, but that person was conversing with an American citizen.
So, Joe, of course, we know all about flies.
I think it's.
Really bad that Trump was slipped on FISA.
Your thoughts?
Yeah, well, what they used FISA for during the Russiagate thing was that they used it to spy on Carter Page and two other people.
I don't remember who the other ones were.
Papadopoulos, I think, was one of them.
But anyhow, I followed it extensively at the time that it was happening.
This was all orchestrated by the FBI and the DNC.
And one of the people that worked at the DNC knew what was going on because he was reading all the emails.
That was Seth Rich.
And he was shot in the back.
Twice with a low caliber rifle, most likely a.22 or pistol.
And he ended up in a hospital and they called Donna Brazil and they said, You need to come to the hospital right now.
He had non life threatening injuries and they ordered all of the staff except for one doctor in Donna Brazil to be in the room when they gave him whatever it was that they gave him in the way of an IV to go ahead and knock him out because he was a real problem.
The problem was he had downloaded tons of data and sent it to.
WikiLeaks.
And when WikiLeaks started posting it, that's when they threw Assange in solitary confinement in England and kept him in prison for seven years.
So that's bottom line what's going on.
It was absolutely 100% concocted by members of the FBI.
And the thing about the 702 was that if they had something really suspicious on somebody, they allowed themselves two degrees of association.
So if they found your email in that one, they could also check all of your emails.
And everybody that you've been emailing, independent of that supposed third party.
So, bottom line is the FISA was 100% corrupt.
They got, I think, 17 different FISA warrants, and nobody knew that you were being prosecuted or spied on because it was all secret courts and it was all corrupt as it could possibly be.
And he was right to say kill it, and now he's wrong to say keep it alive because he's completely 100% compromised.
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Yeah, you got it right, my friend.
Write 100%.
Really bad, really bad.
Meanwhile, this is an interesting joke, it's the only time I think I've heard Kamala Harris say something that was both significant and true.
Former U.S. Vice President Harris accuses Netanyahu of dragging Trump into Iran war.
I don't expect even this minimal amount of truth to come from her, but there it is.
Potential.
2028 candidate says Americans do not want war.
U.S. servicemen put at risk.
Netanyahu has repeatedly denied claim.
Says U.S. President made decision for the good of his country.
Fat chance.
U.S. President Donald Trump was pulled into the war with Iran by Israel against the will of the American people.
Former U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris claims Saturday.
Entered into a war, got pulled into it by Bibi Netanyahu.
Let's be clear about that, said Harris.
Referred to Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu by his nickname.
He entered a war that the American people do not want, put at risk American service members, she told a Democrat Party fundraiser in Detroit.
Netanyahu has repeatedly derided the idea that he dragged the U.S. into war with Iran.
Calling it fake news, insisting Trump based his decision only on what he thinks is good for America.
A New York Times report earlier this month credited Netanyahu's high stake prediction that the war against Iran would be swift with talking Trump into green lighting the op, while his top aides told him that the Israeli premier's assessment was exaggerated.
Israel launched its campaign against Iran alongside the U.S. on Web 28 to degrade the Iranian regime military capability, distance threats posed by Iran, including its nuclear ballistic missile programs, where the nuclear, of course, is purely for peaceful atomic energy, and create the conditions for the Iranian people to topple the regime.
The military and other Israeli leaders have said, I am so critical of Kamala.
And of course, she's doing this as an opportunist because she sees this as a big issue.
for the midterm elections.
And of course, the ambassador was Trump, who was the anti-war candidate.
So he's now put the Democrats in a position of regaining their past status in that role.
Here we go.
He entered a war, got pulled into it by Bibi Netanyahu.
Let's be clear about that.
Entered a war that the American people do not want, putting at risk American service members, I mean, as I say, I'm extremely critical of Kamala Harris.
I think she's a nitwit.
But in this case, of course, she's 100% on the right side.
Joe, I know you're not going to argue with that assessment.
Meanwhile, here we have AIPAC and the pro Israel lobby are wasting money on Democrats, according to antiwar.com.
This is very interesting.
The American Israel Public Affairs Committee, AIPAC, and its allies.
Have long been considered one of the strongest lollies in Washington, exercising outside influence, especially on U.S. policy toward Israel and the Middle East.
Recently, it's reported Mossall has come under question, and votes in Congress the last two days show why, or at least that there's a stark partisan divide.
For all the hundreds of millions of dollars ABAC and allies have given to Democrats, they got exactly 14 votes from Democrats in the House and Senate.
The last two days on four key votes regarding the war on Iran and U.S. weapon transfers to Israel, which computes to a paltry bang for the bot.
The votes were on the Iran war power resolution in both houses to oppose that Trump had been deeply unpopular, reckless participation in the war on Iran, and on two resolutions to stop U.S. caterpillar bulldozers used to demolish Palestinian homes and 12,000 half ton bombs.
Used by Israel against Palestinians, Iranians, and Lebanese.
All these votes, three in the Senate, one in the House, failed along closely divided, nearly total partisan lines.
So one might consider the vote a win for APAC.
Net Yellen, President Trump, but let's do the math on these votes and APAC's return on investment.
Democrats, members of Congress, APAC had a possible total of 355 Democrat votes.
It could have Gotten 47 Senate times the three Senate votes for a total of 141 on war power bulldozers, 214 Democrats in the House, grand total 355.
Got 14.
14.
And five.
We'll be right back with Joe Molson after this break.
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That Osama had nothing to do with it?
That the twin towers were blown apart by a sophisticated arrangement of mini or micro nukes?
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He heard them go off and felt himself stepping over dead people.
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Iran has three active uranium mines one at Sinkhan, S A G H A N D, one at Nargan, N A R I G A N, and one at Gislin, G C H I N E. Together, they have a combined capacity of about 5,000 tons of uranium and would give Iran a century's worth of electric power without burning their hydrocarbons, which they can put on the world market.
And generate capital streams.
So it's a good idea for Iran to use their naturally occurring uranium inside their own country to produce power so they can sell more of their other resources, which are the petroleum products.
Here's one more article, by the way, to round things out.
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Netanyahu Approval Ratings00:04:05
Voters think candidates who won't stand up to AIPAC won't fight on other issues either, according to a new poll.
I have no doubt.
Michigan Democrat primary for the U.S. Senate is the freeway dead heat, according to a new bulk of the Edinburgh Dropside News and ZTO.
The Pultham data for progress found 22% of likely Democrat primaries support Dr. Abouli Asayad, endorsed by Bernie Sanders, a vocal critic of Israel.
23% support Haley Stevens, a pro-Israel Democrat who had been backed by party leaders in Washington, D.C.
And 22% support Mallory McMorrow, the J Street endorsed candidate.
Position yourself in between Stevens and El Sayed.
Notably, a third of voters were undecided, and a majority, 64%, said they were less likely to support a Senate candidate who received donations from AIPAC and other pro Israel groups, while 10% said they were more likely.
Joe, I think that's very telling that Americans are catching on, that AIPAC.
Is not promoting American interests, but those of Israel and abusing the nation to benefit a foreign state.
Your thoughts?
Yeah, I like that saying.
It's not all of them, but it's always them.
Yeah, turns out that in Israel, Netanyahu has about 90% approval rating for attacking all of their neighbors simultaneously, endlessly.
But in the United States, about 60% of the Jewish population is opposed to the Iran war, and they're probably opposed to the Lebanon war.
And so, bottom line is, this is making Life is dangerous for all the rest of the Jews on the planet because of what Nadiahu is doing.
And his party, the Likud party, only had 27% of the electoral vote in their parliament.
And he was elected by a coalition.
And the coalition includes some other further right wing groups.
And so, bottom line is, he is in a very tenuous situation.
He's got multiple criminal charges against him that, as long as he's commander in chief during a war, he can't be prosecuted.
But if there was ever a ceasefire, Within a couple of days, he could be brought before the Supreme Court of Israel and convicted and removed from office.
So that's what he's doing.
He's fighting to preserve himself.
He could give a flip less about all the collateral damage.
That's just the Goya that deserve it.
And that includes the Goya that are Jewish.
As I'm sure you know, the judge who was signing over his case died in a mysterious automobile accident where now modern vehicles can be controlled remotely by virtue of their computerized components.
I don't think it's a mere coincidence that this guy who died was the Netanyahu judge who appears to be incorruptible.
So he's desperately doing everything he can to make it come out for him.
Including, of course, maintain these wars.
He knows if the wars were to end, he would be toast.
We have a very odd situation where Beathead says they quoted a fake Bible verse from the film Pulp Fiction.
This is really crazy.
I'm also distraught to learn that they have eliminated chaplains of various faiths.
Only Christian Zionist chaplains are allowed to serve the military now.
Which is going to have an adverse effect on recruitment, I think.
I mean, after all, if you're putting your life at risk for the nation, you certainly would want to have the opportunity to have consolation from a minister, priest, or rabbi of your own faith.
Giuliani Jesus Image Clip00:04:17
Here we have Hegsteth doing his thing.
So the prayer is CSR 2517, and it reads and pray with me, please.
The path of the downed aviator.
Is beset on all sides by the iniquities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men.
Blessed is he who, in the name of camaraderie and duty, shepherds the lost through the valley of darkness, for he is truly his brother's keeper and the finder of lost children.
And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger those who attempt to capture and destroy my brother.
And you will know my call sign, Sandy One, when I lay my vengeance.
And you will know my name is the Lord when I lay my vengeance upon thee.
And that's where he shoots him.
Another story about it.
Except quoted, malfiction is scripture, and it gets worse from there.
This is so bad.
David Schuster is back with his weekly countdown of the internet sharpest comedic satire this week.
The material practically wrote itself.
One cabinet member quoted scripture that turned out to be not scripture.
Trump boasted something so unkind she had to pretend it was something else entirely.
C-SPAN became accidentally hilarious by stating facts.
And the number one clip came from the last country to expect.
Oh, it's harder than anything produced in the United States this week.
Five clips ranked in his top pick.
This guy.
Appears to be quite good.
I don't see the clip here to play itself, but Joe, I mean, how bad.
Here we have, here we have something.
Well, hello, folks.
Welcome back to Amped Up with David Schuster and Cliff Schechter.
I'm Cliff Schechter.
That is the Emmy Award winning.
Cliff, we have some news.
We have some news.
It is now clear why Donald Trump posted that image of himself as a Jesus or as a doctor.
That is Donald Trump's health care plan.
Nicely put.
Donald Trump just shows up dressed like Jesus, claiming to be a doctor to anybody if your kid has sniffles or anything.
And you're definitely going to let Donald Trump alone in a room with your kid.
We all know that because that would be good.
Okay.
We could keep making the jokes, but the man almost, it's hard to introduce him, Lev Parnas, who will be joining us.
We bonded when I met him at the State of the Swamp because I'm just going to put Lev in here right now.
Hello, Lev.
Hey, guys.
Hey, David.
Hey, Cliff.
Hey, man.
I'll just say quickly I bonded with Lev because my grandfather at six months got off a boat from Odessa.
Here in the United States.
So we got some good Ukrainian Judaism going on.
But that's like my Ukrainian grandfather I never had.
Or father.
You're younger than that.
Sorry, father.
I forget how old I am.
Well, I'm already a grandfather.
So I'm officially a grandfather.
Global Iran War Protests00:03:32
I can't believe it.
I saw that with Aaron about two weeks ago, three weeks ago.
Congratulations.
Thank you.
So, I'm going to ask you.
I mean, there's so much to talk to you about.
Go ahead, Dave.
But I want to say something involving Rudy Giuliani.
It's a little bit off the news, but Rudy Giuliani is lobbying to become Donald Trump's attorney general.
Now, given your past with Rudy Giuliani, I thought you're the perfect person to ask.
What is your reaction to Rudy Giuliani wanting to be attorney general?
That's not quite on point, alas.
We do have a couple other stories here.
Why are anti war protests in the war in the West muted on Iran?
I think that's a hell of a good question, Joe.
This is from Al Jazeera.
Despite global opposition protests over Iran lag behind Gaza and Ukraine, fatigue, fear, and disillusionment are responsible, say, endless.
I'm not so sure.
The U.S. Israeli war on Iran has kept the world on edge for nearly seven weeks, with a fragile ceasefire offering a tense pause over the past 10 days.
U.S. and Israeli attacks on the 90 million strong oil rich nation have killed.
More than 2,000 displaced million damaged vital infrastructure, including areas near Iran's nuclear sites.
U.S. President Trump also threatened to wipe out Iran's whole civilization if it did not accede to Washington's demands in retaliation.
Iran has attacked Israeli targets, fired missiles at Gulf countries, and the wider region.
The ongoing Pakistan backed ceasefire between Washington and Iran is threatened because of Israeli airstrikes in Lebanon, which have killed more than 1,300 in its invasion of southern Lebanon.
Opinion polls in the U.S. and Europe say the war is deeply unpopular.
But widespread anger against the Iran war has failed to turn into mass street protests, such as during Israel's genocidal war on Gaza and Russia's war on Ukraine.
Though the reverberations from the war on Iran have been felt globally, with oil and gas price increases, fertilizer shortages, stock market involuntility, the effects have been felt faster than in most previous conflicts.
Why?
The past few clear answers, but analysts say several factors might help explain why the war has triggered fewer protests than other neocon recent conflicts in its early days.
According to armed conflict location and event data, the US based nonprofit tracking violent events, armed conflicts, and protests, to around 3,200 Iran war demonstrated worldwide in the first month since the US Israeli attack began on Feb 28th.
By contrast, 3,700 in the first month after Russia's 2022 invasion of Ukraine.
It's made 6,100 in the first month against Israel's war on Gaza.
Artemis Moon Mission Stunt00:13:24
Joe, what's going on?
Why aren't we getting more protests against the war on Iran?
Your thoughts.
Well, if you don't allow college students to be able to protest, then there's a large part of your organization right there.
So that's item number one.
And then, you know, nobody has any spare time and nobody has a job and nobody has money to get in a car and go to a rally.
And so, bottom line is they've completely incapacitated free speech and freedom of assembly and free press.
So, we have none of our First Amendment protections.
So, that's why you don't have protests, is because you're powerless against a machine that's this manipulative, number one, and this divisive, and number two.
So, shocking, but that's where we are.
Joe, it's very interesting that Bart Sabrell, among others, has been pointing out this Artemis moon thing is such a fraud, such a hoax.
I pointed out that when you have Earth 55 times more massive than the moon, photographs of Earth from the moon should envelop the entire visual field.
And yet, what we get instead are what appear to be images of an object.
About the size of the moon as it appears from Earth that have been colorized to resemble Earth.
I mean, this seems to me a simple proof.
The whole thing's fraudulent.
I got several articles here Bart Sabrell, Moon Man's Top Secret Presidential Document.
Bart Sabrell, NASA's Artemis, Too Little, Too Late, proves the Apollo fraud.
And my own, the Apollo moon landings, How We Know We Didn't Go.
I just love to have your thoughts about this old Artemis thing, which seemed to me to be just a ridiculous stunt to, you know, reenact the greatest tokes to which the world has ever been subjected, namely the claim that man went to the moon.
Not a chance.
Your thoughts.
We discussed this on an earlier program.
There was a YouTube video produced by Alpha Tech called SpaceX Refueled to the Moon.
And it's on YouTube, and it talks about the liquid methane, which has to be cooled down to minus 260 degrees Fahrenheit in order to remain liquid, and the liquid oxygen, which has to be cooled down to 297 degrees Fahrenheit.
And it's going to require, in order for him to land on the moon, SpaceX is going to have to have 10 to 16 flights, each carrying 200 tons of fuel, and put them at the Lagrange point, which is the equidistant gravity point between the Earth and moon, which is about 60,000 miles away from the surface of the moon.
So, you've got this whole fleet of fuel carriers that are sitting there in idle waiting to be used.
And then it's boiling this stuff off because it's a little bit colder than that or a little bit hotter than that when the sun shines on it.
So, bottom line is you have all these different ways that you could lose the amount of fuel that you got there.
And without that fuel, you can't possibly get onto the moon because you have to have retro rockets to land without having a problem.
Then you have to get off the moon.
Then you have to get out of the moon's gravity.
And then you have to have enough fuel available when you get back.
Toward Earth's gravity because you're going to be accelerating towards the Earth to be able to slow yourself down to the point where you can actually use the ceramic tiles and keep from burning up.
So, bottom line is if SpaceX proved anything, it proved that the Apollo mission absolutely didn't happen.
And you and I did a great conspiracy theory program on this one hour long called Perplexing Apollo Questions for NASA.
And that was based on an article that I'd written at Principia Scientific using the Saturn V schematics and data and algorithms.
From NASA.
This is their official document showing what the requirements were in order to be able to supposedly do the moon landing in 1969.
And it's absolutely preposterous.
They only had 89,000 gallons of fuel left and they were at 115 miles altitude above the Earth and they were moving at 15,000 miles per hour, which is what it takes to be in low Earth orbit.
But they didn't have enough fuel to do the escape velocity to even get out of Earth's gravity, much less anything else for the rest of the trip.
So the whole thing is just 100% fictional.
It's just so embarrassing.
Joe, I got to say, you know, I understand Trump gave an order, he said, under no conditions release the Epstein files.
Do whatever you need to do, even have a war to distract the public.
I think this moon thing is just another distraction to avoid.
The Epstein file release, Joe, I think honest to God, it comes down to that.
Trump is even willing to put the world in jeopardy with a war that was unnecessary in order to circumvent.
Confronting the realities of the Epstein files.
It is grotesque.
Your thoughts.
Well, exactly like we mentioned in our conspiracy theory discussion of this.
Tricky Dick was in a real difficult situation in 1968.
He was up for re election.
He had raging anti war protests going on because of the assassination of RFK, JFK, and MLK.
There were riots going on, race riots going nationwide.
And so he had a big image problem that he needed to solve.
And the biggest way to solve that problem was to.
Fulfilled JFK's promise that we would go to the moon in this decade.
So we'll just hurry up and pretend like we went to the moon.
Did you see the video that I sent you the trailer to?
Fly me to the moon.
And it's even the name of the fake spacecraft is Artemis there.
That was Artemis 1.
So they're rubbing it in our face by having this thing called Artemis 2.
Joe, it's just outrageous.
Well, a Sony comedy is more accurate than what NASA produces in the way.
Yeah, Life imitating art.
Yeah, it was funny.
Absolutely stunning.
Well, I'd be glad to have any further thoughts you may have, my friend.
Here's part of what Art Sabrell has to say.
Too little, too late.
Only after putting one astronaut in space for 15 minutes, NASA supposedly set an eight year goal in 1961 to land a rocket vertically on the moon, turn off the engine, leisurely walk around,
launch back off the moon with a different rocket, dock with another spacecraft going over 3,000 miles an hour in lunar orbit, which Artemis cannot even achieve, burn another rocket to leave lunar orbit and return.
Safely to Earth from a distance a thousand times further than the space station, all ahead of schedule, within an eight year goal.
When today, after putting 350 astronauts in space and with 60 years of better technology, NASA is eight years behind schedule just to fly around the moon once or accomplish only 20% of what NASA claims they did 57 years ago in 1969 with one millionth the computing power of a cell phone.
On the very first attempt, someone is lying somewhere.
Either NASA has the technology today to land people on the moon, which they are hiding, or they falsified the supposed moonwalking in 1969.
As NASA has no problem with us believing they have this moon landing capability by already having made the claim as such, NASA must have falsified the original claim.
It's just astounding to me that any adult human being would be plagued by the moon landing hoax.
But, Joe, it seemed to be true on a rather large scale.
Further thoughts?
Yeah, we live in a false paradigm reality bounded by faux science, fake history, financed by fiat counterfeit currency, and directed by demonic demons.
And I've kind of covered the full spectrum on this.
And on April 9th, we posted an interview that I did on April 7th with Chris Heasley at D Bang FM radio station.
And here's the can you put the camera on?
Screen share?
Hang on, Joe.
Go right ahead, my friend.
Okay.
This is the introduction to the hour long interview.
Body electric secrets, regrowth of limbs, and other miracles.
And I go through the history, the Spanish flu history based on the great influenza by John M. Berry.
Interesting information there.
Bio, oh, COVID 19.
I attended 50 medical rallies in Texas since 2020, and I've talked to all of the top doctors and a whole bunch of other medical professionals.
Suppressed alternative theories.
H. pylori, Leotril, Right to Try Laws, which is absolutely a joke, Raymond Reif, and then also Body Electric, which is a book that I've read for an interview on Coast to Coast AM, written by Dr. Robert O. Becker.
And he was able to regrow amputated limbs and decorted spinal columns on lab rats in 1965, but they didn't allow that technology to be used.
And recently they've allowed it to use some of his technology, which includes generation of stem cells.
Using DC currents, low voltage DC and low amperage DC currents, which was part of his understanding.
And I wrote an article for that called Body Electric Secrets, which is at Principia Scientific.
It's linked along with a whole bunch of other sources in this particular posting at Principia Scientific.
I urge everybody to go see it.
Body Electric Secrets, Regrowth of Limbs and Other Miracles.
Tell me about the regrowth of limbs thing that's always fascinating me, Joe, but I have never felt I understood.
Is this bona fide?
100%.
Going up through the evolutionary ladder, when you get planaria and starfish, you can cut a planaria in four pieces, it'll grow four planarias.
You can cut a starfish into five pieces, it'll grow five starfishes.
You can cut a salamander's face off and remove one eye and half of its skull, and it can completely regrow it.
And that's what he was concerned about how it was able to do that.
And what he realized was that your body has a DC electric circuit.
Which involves your motor and sensory nerves, and they're sending these electric currents back and forth.
Well, somewhere along the evolutionary chain, we lost the ability to direct regrowth of all the different cells.
We can still regrow a scab.
If you get a cut, you can regrow a little bit of skin.
But what happens is for the salamanders, their corpuscles are the same as ours.
They've got no nucleus, which means they have more room for, damn it, mind like a steel trap, hemoglobin.
The iron molecule that's inside your blood vessels, inside your corpuscles, which allow it to carry more oxygen than if it was just a regular cell.
And it can also carry more CO2 once it's depleted the oxygen.
So, this is what moves the oxygenation of your blood through your body.
By sending the proper DC signal, he's able to create any particular skin type or tissue type.
He can reproduce bone, marrow, nerves, skin.
Muscles, all in the way that they were originally designed by the original DNA that's inside your body.
So you have the ability to do that, but the government doesn't want you to have the ability to do that because.
Let me ask is there potential here for veterans who have lost limbs to regrow them?
100%.
If you got your spinal cord.
Yeah.
Yeah.
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