Terrorism????...Blame America!!!!

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The Fascist History of Ben Gvir
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gIEqQ3R8AU

 

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THE DUMB AND DUMBER OF STRATEGIC GEOPOLITICS
Jul 9 2026

Aug 8 2026
Hormuz talks positive, Oman says, as Iran warns deal would not open strait

Hormuz talks positive, Oman says, as Iran warns deal would not open strait

Both sides suggest progress in talks to agree a new shipping route through the strait, but a breakthrough remains unclear.

www.bbc.co.uk

There is a substantial record of mental-health professionals publicly describing Trump's lying as pathological or consistent with pathological lying.

What psychologists/psychiatrists are actually pointing to

The argument is not simply that Trump occasionally says things that are false. Politicians routinely exaggerate, misremember, spin or make false statements.

The argument made by some mental-health professionals is that Trump's public behavior displays a persistent pattern involving:

• extremely frequent factual falsehoods;
• repetition of claims after they have been conclusively disproved;
• very large exaggerations of achievements and circumstances;
• apparent indifference to whether statements conform to independently verifiable reality;
• rapid substitution of one explanation for another when confronted with contradictory evidence;
• repetition of claims apparently intended to establish a preferred version of reality rather than communicate factual information;
• grandiosity and an unusually strong need for admiration;
• blaming others when predictions or claims prove false;
• sometimes appearing to accept or repeat claims that are contradicted by readily available evidence.

The Hormuz episode is potentially illustrative because the distinction between rhetoric and physical reality is unusually measurable. Ships either can or cannot safely transit the waterway; shipping companies either resume normal traffic or they don't; mines have either been cleared or they haven't.

 

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What does a depleting munitions supply mean for the Iran war? | This Is America​

 

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@elieenm4391
Senator Kennedy is totally right

@conniebo7694
This guy is trying to talk slick but Kennedy has the facts

@Micheal-s5y
Menu, that guy is lying mixed with his teeth

@James-y9k
Kennedy is not going to claim something that is not fact.

Fact Check

1. Facts - not Rep or Dem blind party unintelligent loyalty.
2. Iraq electricity waiver did not begin in July 2023;
3. the waiver regime started under Trump in 2018,
4. and the Biden administration’s July 2023 action expanded how some payments could be handled (Reuters).
5. All you have to do is figure how to get the transcript of this short, copy it, paste it into any fact-checker or AI Agent of your choice.
6. Then apply intelligence and integrity, not Rep or Dem blind loyalty BS.
7. Most Rep and Dem's - as applicable to political biases world wide - will blindly believe any doggy bag contents as long as it suits their political narrative;
8. because most are wilfully and purposely ignorant* and have no integrity or respect for facts. WTFU !

Colloquially, this can be described as 'purposeful stupidity of the facts' - it fits their biased political agenda.
Though, with many, questions may arise as to 'purposeful' or 'innate'

ChatGPT

The timeline​

1. 2018 — Trump administration creates the waiver framework

After Donald Trump withdrew the United States from the Iran nuclear deal and reimposed sanctions on Iran in 2018, Iraq was allowed to continue importing Iranian electricity and other energy under temporary U.S. sanctions waivers.

The basic problem was practical: Iraq depended heavily on Iranian electricity and gas, so immediately applying the full U.S. sanctions regime would have caused serious problems for Iraq's power system. Reuters describes the waiver as having been introduced in 2018 and renewed periodically afterward.

So if someone says “the Iraq electricity waiver started in July 2023,” that is misleading.

2. 2018–2023 — successive administrations renew the waiver

The waiver did not disappear when Trump left office. The Biden administration continued renewing it, generally for limited periods.

For example, in March 2021, the Biden administration renewed a 120-day waiver allowing Iraq to pay for electricity imported from Iran. Reuters explicitly described this as a continuation of the waiver despite the broader U.S. sanctions regime.

So there is continuity:

Trump creates/uses the waiver regime → subsequent administrations, including Biden, renew it.

3. June 2023 — Iraq receives another waiver

In June 2023, Iraq obtained a sanctions waiver that allowed it to pay roughly $2.76 billion in accumulated gas and electricity debts to Iran. Reuters reported that the waiver was necessary for Iraq to make those payments without violating U.S. sanctions.

This is important because it shows that the waiver regime was already operating before July 2023.

4. July 2023 — Biden administration changes the payment mechanism

This is where the distinction becomes important.

On July 18, 2023, the Biden administration issued a new 120-day waiver that allowed Iraq to make payments to Iran through non-Iraqi banks. Reuters reported that the goal was partly to prevent Iran from cutting electricity supplies to Iraq during the extremely hot Iraqi summer.

So the most accurate way to characterize the history is:

The Trump administration established the Iraq sanctions-waiver framework in 2018. The Biden administration inherited and repeatedly renewed that framework. In July 2023, Biden made an important change allowing Iraq to make certain electricity payments through non-Iraqi banks, thereby expanding how the existing waiver could operate.

That is materially different from saying “Biden created the Iraq electricity waiver in July 2023.”

 

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Palestinians & Israeli's killed or injured since 10 Oct 2025 ceasefire (Gaza)​

source: Claude​

Here are the most up-to-date figures for the period since the Gaza ceasefire took effect on October 10, 2025 through August 11, 2026 (per Al Jazeera, citing Gaza's Ministry of Health / Government Media Office — the most recent tallies available):

Since the ceasefire (Oct 10, 2025 – Aug 11, 2026):

• (a) Palestinians killed: at least 1,259 Since the ceasefire took effect, Israeli attacks have killed at least 1,259 Palestinians and injured 4,146.
• (b) Palestinians injured: at least 4,146
• (c) Israelis killed/injured: 5 Israeli soldiers killed (as of late July 2026 reporting) — the last being one who was killed in February 2026 by Israeli forces in a friendly fire incident, the other four having died as a result of "combat" in southern Gaza in October 2025. Precise injury figures for Israeli soldiers over this period were not reported in available sources.

Notes on the data:

• These are Gaza Ministry of Health / Gaza Government Media Office figures, as reported by Al Jazeera. UN OHCHR's independently verified figure was lower (629 verified as of early April 2026), since verification lags behind reported tolls.
• Different outlets report slightly different running totals depending on their cutoff date (e.g., Doctors Without Borders cited 1,185 killed / 3,816 injured as of mid-June 2026; Antiwar.com cited 1,200 killed as of July 26, 2026) — the ~1,259/4,146 figures are the most recent (Aug 11, 2026).
• These figures are contested/attributed to a single-side source (Gaza's Health Ministry); Israel disputes some tolls and does not independently confirm them.

• 1,259 killed and 4,146 injured over ten months is not what most people picture when they hear "ceasefire."
• Al Jazeera's tracking found Israeli attacks/violations occurred on 275 out of the past 305 days of the ceasefire, meaning there were only 30 days during which no violent attacks, deaths or injuries were reported — which does suggest the fighting never really stopped, just changed scale. Al Jazeera
• MSF* has explicitly argued this is not a ceasefire but "structural violence by another name", and UN officials have used similarly blunt language. Doctors Without Borders
• Israel has also not completed the withdrawal or disarmament steps in the plan, and aid flows have run well below agreed levels.

* MSF: Médecins Sans Frontières, known in English as Doctors Without Borders.

end of source: Claude

A CEASEFIRE WITH 1,259 DEATHS & 4,146 INJURIES
PERHAPS BELOW WILL EXPLAIN WHY THE CEASEFIRE WITH ISRAEL IS MERELY A TOKEN STUNT OF ISRAELI DECEPTION AND STRUCTURED VIOLENCE - NO CEASEFIRE WAS EVER INTENDED.

As 2 Arab states reportedly plot war, how fortified are Israel's borders?

The Times Of Israel