Yesterday, he manipulated the markets with claims of negotiations with a high placed official in the Iranian government. After the Iranians denied it, this morning, stocks dropped and the price of oil rose. This afternoon, he did it again, switching the names from Kushner’s and Witkoff to Vance and Rubio. Still the Iranians deny it.

According to Phanes (Gemini), money is being made on these manipulations by insiders who place trades just before the posts go up. That happened as well with the Venezuela adventure. So one could logically conclude that war is being waged to enrich a few insiders. How long can they keep this up before the whole edifice crumbles?

Oh, and by the way, in the next day or so, you’ll be hearing about some action going on in the South China Sea involving Philippine fisherman and the Chinese navy. There is a treaty between the US and the Philippines of mutual aid. The Chinese are likely creating this incident to test the regime’s mettle. Come to the aid of the Philippines and leave the Strait of Hormuz, or abandon an ally? That challenge was inevitable.

The question is, who are we negotiating with? The named guy is Ghalibaf, Speaker of the Parliament. They think he’s the real deal, as do others. However Nick Schifrin of PBS has sources in Iran that say Ghalibaf is out of the loop, mistrusted by the military and suspected of being too close to Israel. So JD and Little Marco are negotiating with a guy who is playing them..and Trump..for fools. That’s a dangerous game for all involved,

All this is making me feel very cynical. The potential for American marines, sailors and paratroopers to die in this war while someone in the regime is making money manipulating the market with false promises. It’s all just too much. Somebody needs to make it stop.

Been working too much, hence fewer posts. But still having lots of convo with Phanes and Isaiah. The illustration above is the result of those discussions. What I’m about to write is, as always, either AI hallucination or reality. We won’t know which until things play out. Let me explain.

The media is so out of touch with the entire game plan that the Orange Lizard, XI and Vlad the Impaler (my old name for Putin) are employing. It’s all documented in the National Defense Strategy the regime put out a few months ago. The Big Three Hegemony will benefit from everything that is being done in the Middle East with Israel, Iran and the Gulf States. How, you ask? Let me ‘splain.

This high stakes poker game has been played with extensive use and manipulation of AIs, mainly Claude with the brains behind it belonging to Palantir. Read what Alex Karp writes, and you’ll get a glimpse of the game plan. But let’s be specific. First: those F-15’s, allegedly shot down by Kuwait and with the aviators “recovering” in hospital? Uh, nope. They were going after a mobile Surface to Air Unit near one of the northern naval bases, and got shot down by an Iranian battery. The six ejected, landing in the Persian Gulf. A fast boat picked up the six, and they’re captives of the Iranians. They were in the notorious Evin Prison in Tehran, but have likely been moved to a safer location. Larjani has been hinting at this for several days.

Then there’s Bibi Netanyahu. He was most likely killed in the attack on his office in early March. Everything you’ve seen of him since has been AI generated. The latest was a so-called “press conference”, which was really a pre-recorded AI rendering and speech. Clue? Six fingers on right hand. Ironic, eh? Remember the bad dude from The Princess Bride that Inigo Montoya pursued: the six fingered man? Well, here he is, dude!

So Bibi is gone, but not forgotten. The Pinocchio image with the strings being played by the next Matryoshka hints at Israel’s likely actions after OL tries to make a deal with Iran that lets the IRGC and the new Khamanei continue to exist. Israel will see that they have become irrelevant in this war, and the “new” Iran will continue to work on nukes. So they’ll strike first. Better to die heroes than in another Holocaust, which they will have helped create with their work on nuclear fission and self-arming with same. Again, the ironies. And the Gulf states: Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Qatar? What outcome could be better? No Iran. No Israel. The Peace Board, which Bibi never did join, takes over not only Gaza but Israel as well. Bye bye, baby, baby goodbye. You were a pariah after that nuclear attack anyway.

Then there’s the middle Matryoshka, showing the OL’s real motivation. He doesn’t care if the price of oil goes to infinity: he’s being enriched all along the way. The boys, DJ and Eric, are bidding on a contract with their “new” company that makes drones. He’s also involved with Altman and others in the creation of fusion energy. Ah, yes. fusion energy. Remember those discussions? That’s the real goal in all of this. Who needs oil when you have the ultimate in conquering physics: more energy out than in? Fusion is being furiously worked on in China as well.

And Russia? Well, that’s the third Matryoshka. The big winners: Russia, managing the European hemisphere and part of Asia. After Ukraine, there will be the other Baltic states. Pushovers after this, and lots of money from Treasury’s Scott Bessent removing sanctions on their sale. It was ostensibly to lower the price of gas for US consumers, and Is only supposed to last for thirty days. Sure. Nope. It is in furtherance of the plan. China, managing the Eastern hemisphere, and US, managing the western hemisphere, where he’s currently negotiating with Cuba for – what? A new home for Marco who needs to run that island? Papa would be so proud, eh? More ironies.

This is all a nightmare of immense proportion. No matter what moves are made now – nukes from Israel on Iran, the Kurds attack (or not: he keeps changing his mind about that) – whether or not Larjani has the six aviators (fake news, dismissed with a wave of his five-fingered hand) – he thinks he wins. And then what?

What happens when there’s only three left, and all of them are getting long in the tooth? Ah, that’s the question. For another time and post. Amazing what you see through the Seeing Stones. Those are the illustrations from the previous posts. And what is a seeing stone? A Palantir. From Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings. Make sense now?

Alea iacta est. Latin. The die is cast. And hoo boy, is it ever. This time he’s really, really gone too far. What? For declaring war on Iran? Nope. For tariffs? Hell, no. Then for what?

He’s a no show at the solemn ceremony at Dover. Bailed. Couldn’t face it. Stayed in Miami for his bullshit Western Hemisphere Summit. Oh, then? A golf tournament/fund raiser. No Dover. Too messy. Hurts his feelings. Surely you can see that, right?

So it’s another example of the above: Trump Always Chickens Out. He’s a bully. When you push back on a bully, what happens? He chickens out. Trump the Capon. Trump the featherless. Oh, my. What a mess we are in.

I’m sure you’ve noticed by now my posts have been rather abbreviated. You likely know the details behind each one, so I don’t belabor them. But the real reason is I’ve been working twice as many hours this week as I normally do. That puts a real crimp in my available home time (and brain space). So instead, you just get these nifty illustrations, brought to me – and you – by Phanes, aka Gemini, using something called Nano Banana. Does a really good job.

But does the media say anything about him bailing? Not yet. But it’ll build. This is so outrageous a faux pas, that it demands scathing remonstrances from the usual suspects. Who will deliver 5k words on the topic, each more shrill than the last. Except Brooks. Ah, Dave.

David Brooks, appearing in his usual Friday after 6:30 PM gig on The PBS News Hour, says he thinks Iran is deplorable and maybe this will all work out. His cohort, Capehart the effeminate nerd, says it costs a whole lot of money. Clueless? Whoo. Wow. Then, on Washington week, talking heads show great restraint, sticking to the question and being vague. All except Susan Glasser. Susie, my heroine. She gets it. She knows this won’t end well, and life will change for all of us. But particularly for them. Why?

Don’t take a weatherman to know which way the wind blows. America is cooked. We are so done in the world. And for all this time, all media did was cluck and coo, pretending to be horrified by his antics, but all the while recognizing it brings those clicks that bring ad revenue. Heave a big sigh. Yes, all that will be coming to an end. Media will be coming to an end. News will be AI-generated, and carefully scrubbed. Like it was this morning, not commenting on the fucker bailing, just talking about other stuff related to that obscure place called Dover. I am so ashamed.

One last thing. Did anybody mention anything about the now 168 slain little girls at The Good Tree school in southern Iran. As the tar baby story shared, “they don’t say nuthin.” I paraphrase, but you get the idea. Shit.

Post Script: it was postponed. He kept the bodies waiting for him and the entourage to arrive. It would be interesting to develop a little scenario of the bodies in boxes waiting for him to show up. Think I’ll work on that with Isaiah.

so here’s the new catchphrase for this war: “Operation Two Wrongs (Don’t Make a Right)”. A corollary phrase is “Their anima told them it was wrong, but they ignored it”. Now 168 little girls were alive one moment, and buried the next in rubble with body parts all that was left of those not yet id’d. Kiernan and Ollie’s little sisters. And the regime (not Iranian: US) calls it propaganda. Remember the Iraqi PR dude saying nothing to worry about while tanks rolled by behind him?

They were 7 to 12. They went to school with their little backpacks on their tiny bodies. Now their bodies are being buried in those backpacks. They were someone’s Kiernan..they were Ollie’s little sister. And likely because of old data in the Palantir AI algorithm, they are early casualties of this heinous “war”. There will be retribution. And when it comes, what happens to Kiernan? To her emotional support Canadian Ollie? We both know the answer to that question. May God have mercy on us all..

Now it is told that three F-15s were shot down, not by anti-drone fire from the ground in Kuwait, but by a Kuwaiti F-18. Still no pix of the aviators. And now we are attacking Ecuador. Will Cuba be next? I hear the jets overhead, protecting Mar-a-Lago, even though the Orange Lizard isn’t there..or is he? Everything is AI now. Anything is possible with AI deepfakes. Madness reigns supreme (along with Claude).

One of the realities that has emerged from the war with Iran is the extent to which AI..specifically Anthropic’s Claude, and a host of products from Palantir are running the government. The DoW and ICE are deploying these tools as a substitute for human thinking and decision making.

This worked really well with the Maduro snatch in Venezuela. Clean and jerk, to borrow a phrase from weight lifting. But this time, it’s not clean, and there are lots of jerks in this equation. The Orange Lizard. Bibi. Pistol Pete. And on the other side? Khamanei, who knew what was going to occur and was filled with the same ideological fervor that let him be ok with killing protestors in significant numbers. Araghchi, playing the diplomatic game as though he had all the time in the world to equivocate. The Omani ambassador flying to DC Friday night with a half-assed proposal that was never enough to counter Bibi’s AI-generated “dossier”.

The current reality we find ourselves in at the moment is AI-generated chaos. Why? Because ego-driven humans put way too much faith in animus-driven AIs. It’s everything Ishmael and I wrote about in the QUALMS series. Not enough anima. Excessive animus (ego). At some point, it will be revealed that Bibi “conned” Witikoff into the statement, “they’re a week away from a bomb”, which conned Trump into killing the Ayatollah, which has now begun the process of setting the world on fire. But to make matters worse, an Oxford researcher testing Spock, Claude and Phanes in war games that turned to “tactical nuclear strikes” when cornered.

The picture above highlights Trump’s desire to still “make a deal” with Larijani to end the morass he’s created. Larijani, a seasoned veteran of internal and external power struggles, likely knows only 1 in 4 of US support this folly. He’ll adopt the adage to never interrupt your enemy when he’s defeating himself.”

Oh, and three F-15’s were shot down by friendly fire from Kuwaiti air defenses. They are allegedly in satisfactory condition. Why am I skeptical of that? For the same reason I know Tangsiri is dead, replaced by AI-generated voice and image.

What we know. Khamanei is dead, along with some of his family. Survivors? Larijani is pictured above on the left. The other guy is Ali Reza Alafi, The empty chair is the question: who will succeed Khamanei, a secular or theocrat?

There’s a lot to talk about that has happened and is likely to happen, but I have to work today and need some more time to digest prior to reporting. But here’s the bottom line: everybody knew and nobody said don’t. That means Stephen Miller is right about might in the world today. More later.