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100 clergy arrested in morning protest at MSP
Tens of thousands of Minnesotans marched in downtown Minneapolis Friday in a negative 30 degree windchill to protest the federal government’s continuing surge of immigration enforcement — demanding civil rights and a withdrawal of the 3,000 officers sent here by the administration of President Donald Trump.
The demonstration took place on “ICE Out of Minnesota: Day of Truth & Freedom,” a general strike supported by Minnesota unions, progressive faith leaders and community activists. Proponents encouraged all Minnesotans to stay home from work, school and refrain from shopping — disruptions of normal orders of business to protest the presence of federal immigration agents in Minnesota.
The massive protest began at The Commons Park at 2 p.m. in Minneapolis. The march ended with a rally at Target Center.
Natasha Dockter, the first vice president of the Minneapolis Federation of Educators’ teachers chapter, handed out hand warmers to demonstrators at The Commons alongside other teachers.
“I’m out here today because what’s going on in our city is completely and totally unacceptable. It’s impacting the lives of our students and their families that we serve,” Dockter said.
Sergey Goro and Ben Daniel were visiting the Twin Cities from San Francisco and Seattle for the U.S. Pond Hockey Championships, which was delayed due to the extreme cold.
Goro said that he’d been to No Kings protests — demonstrations against the Trump administration’s authoritarian policies — in San Francisco, but that they weren’t as large as the Minneapolis protest.
Daniel agreed: “We can really feel that everyone’s on board here — that this is ridiculous and it’s gotta stop.”
Daniela Morales, 16, carrying a Mexican flag, said her parents are both Mexican immigrants and that she attended the protest on behalf of people who can’t speak out.
“I’m really glad to see everybody come out and support each other and our neighbors and fight against the administration,” Morales said.
Other protests led to arrests
A morning protest at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport led to the arrests of roughly 100 clergy by MSP and Bloomington law enforcement Friday, according to a statement from protest organizers.
Demonstrators at the airport were standing or kneeling on the roadway outside Terminal 1’s departures area and led away by law enforcement.
Jeff Lea, a spokesperson for the Metropolitan Airports Commission, said in an email that the airport “worked in advance with event organizers to best accommodate their right to freedom of expression while also ensuring uninterrupted operations.”
“When the permitted activity went beyond the agreed-upon terms, MSP Airport Police began taking necessary action, including arrests, to protect public safety, airport security and access to Terminal 1,” Lea wrote. Lea confirmed there were around 100 arrests.
At least one demonstrator was also arrested at the nearby Whipple Federal Building, where federal agents deployed chemical irritants into a crowd of protestors, the Star Tribune reported. Around noon, the Hennepin County Sheriff’s Office announced that it had given three dispersal orders for protestors to unblock an access road at the building. The Whipple Building, now a base for federal immigration operations, has been an ongoing site of protests.
Life stood still Friday for many Minnesotans. Over 700 businesses closed Friday to support the “ICE Out” day, according to Bring Me The News, which is keeping a running list.
“It is time to suspend the normal order of business to demand immediate cessation of ICE actions in MN, accountability for federal agents who have caused loss of life and abuse to Minnesota residents and call for Congress to immediately intervene,” the demonstration’s website states.
Over a dozen churches across Minnesota announced prayer vigils to “mourn, pray and plant seeds of hope with one another,” according to ISAIAH, the nonprofit coalition of Minnesota faith and community groups.
Dozens of school districts across the state closed Friday because of the dangerously cold temperatures. Minneapolis Public Schools were already planned to be closed Friday for a teacher record-keeping day.
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U.S. and Israel Strike Iran, Tehran Retaliates: Live Updates
The U.S. and Israel launched a wave of strikes against Iran, targeting its leadership and military assets in an attack that risked sparking a wider conflict in one of the most economically sensitive regions in the world.
Iran retaliated by firing a barrage of missiles and drones at Israel and U.S. bases throughout the region, including ones in Qatar, Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain. The U.S. military intercepted multiple Iranian missiles.
President Trump said he had launched a major combat operation to ensure Americans would never be threatened by a nuclear-armed Iran. He called on Iranians to take control of the government. “I say tonight that the hour of your freedom is at hand,” he said in a video posted on Truth Social.
Iran promised a crushing response to the attack.
Explosions rocked the Iranian capital of Tehran, and other cities, and traffic clogged roads as Iranians fled.
The U.S. military used sea and air-based platforms to launch the strikes overnight.
Sirens sounded across Israel on Saturday, and multiple explosions could be heard across the United Arab Emirates.
The U.S. and Israel plan to carry out several days of intensive attacks, people familiar with the matter said. The Pentagon named the Iran campaign “Operation Epic Fury.”
The strikes were preceded by a monthlong U.S. military buildup that followed a Trump pledge to come to the aid of protesters who challenged the regime at the beginning of January.
Tankers diverted from the Strait of Hormuz and oil prices have been rising over fears of conflict.
Republicans React to President Trump’s Actions in Iran
President Trump took “decisive action” against Iran, said Sen. Roger Wicker (R., Miss.), chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, adding that “this is a pivotal and necessary operation to protect Americans and American interests.”
“Without the use of military force against them, Iran’s ayatollahs would simply continue to grow their ability to threaten Americans and our interests, working in concert with the Chinese Communist Party, the Russian dictator Putin, North Korea, and other terrorist allies,” Wicker said.
Wicker’s message of support reflects the sentiments of most Republican lawmakers, who have long pushed for the regime’s overthrow. Sen. Tom Cotton (R., Ark.), chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, said, “The butcher’s bill has finally come due for the ayatollahs.”
Why Did the U.S. Strike Iran?
President Trump said the joint U.S.-Israeli strikes that began early Saturday are meant to eliminate what he called “imminent threats” from the Iranian regime and to prevent Tehran from obtaining a nuclear weapon.
The goal was to ensure Americans “will never be threatened by a nuclear-armed Iran,” he said in an eight-minute video posted at 2:30 a.m.
Trump didn’t make the case for why the threat was “imminent,” instead framing the strikes as a response to long-standing hostility from the Iranian regime, which he said threatened U.S. troops and bases overseas as well as its allies.
He said his administration had repeatedly sought a deal with Iran, but that Tehran refused and instead tried to rebuild its nuclear program. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the strikes were aimed at Iranian ballistic-missile sites.
Both leaders urged Iranians to rise up after the strikes, calling for regime change. “When we are finished, take over your government,” Trump said. “This is the moment for action. Do not let it pass.”
What Is Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps?
The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps is Iran’s strongest political and economic force. It is more powerful than the national army, with its own ground forces, navy, air force, intelligence and special forces, totaling roughly 125,000 personnel. It also plays a major role in Iran’s economy, trading in consumer goods and dominating major infrastructure sectors, including oil and gas, construction and telecommunications. And it is Iran’s deadliest domestic security force, with a decisive role in putting down recent protests.
The IRGC has managed to persist after suffering major blows in the recent past. President Trump ordered a 2020 strike that killed Iranian Maj. Gen. Qassem Soleimani, who headed the IRGC’s foreign wing, as the military leader was on a visit to Iraq. Last year, Israeli strikes killed many senior guard personnel, including its top commander and the architect of Iran’s ballistic-missile program.
Democrats Condemn U.S. Strikes Against Iran
Democratic lawmakers strongly condemned the U.S. strikes against Iran on Saturday morning, criticizing the president’s use of military force without authorization from Congress. Sen. Ed Markey (D., Mass.) called the attack “illegal and unconstitutional.” Sen. Ruben Gallego (D., Ariz.) said: “No president gets to drag working-class Americans into another war without authorization.”
“These strikes are a colossal mistake, and I pray they do not cost our sons and daughters in uniform and at embassies throughout the region their lives,” Sen. Tim Kaine (D., Va.) said, calling on senators to approve his war-powers resolution to halt the use of military force against Iran. “Every single Senator needs to go on the record about this dangerous, unnecessary, and idiotic action.”
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Strikes in Iran Ongoing, Israeli Officials Say
Israeli strikes across Iran are continuing, hours after they first began on Saturday morning, according to Israeli officials.
Iranian Commanders May Have Been Killed, Iranian Foreign Minister Says
Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said one or two commanders may have been killed in strikes by the U.S. and Israel, but added that “this is not a big problem.”
“Almost all officials are safe and sound and alive,” Araghchi said in a televised interview with NBC News. Araghchi said that Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei was still alive “as far as I know,” and that Iran’s retaliatory attacks on U.S. bases and targets in Israel showed that Tehran’s missile bases survived the strikes.
France, Germany, U.K. Condemn Iranian Retaliatory Strikes
PARIS—Iran must refrain from “indiscriminate military strikes” on countries in the region, the leaders of France, Germany and the U.K. said in a joint statement Saturday in which they condemned Iran’s retaliatory attacks “in the strongest terms.”
The three European leaders urged Iran to resume negotiations and reiterated their position that Iran must end its nuclear and ballistic missile programs. They added that “the Iranian people must be allowed to determine their future.”
The three countries didn’t participate in Saturday’s strikes by the U.S. and Israel, their leaders said, but are in close contact with Washington, Israel and other countries in the region. French President Emmanuel Macron spoke Saturday with leaders in countries including Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Qatar, a French official said.
In an earlier post on X, Macron said the outbreak of war carried “grave consequences for international peace and security,” adding that France was ready to help protect regional allies. He called for an urgent meeting of the United Nations Security Council to discuss what he described as a “decisive moment” and a dangerous escalation that “must stop.”
The Cost of the U.S. Military Buildup in the Middle East
Repositioning U.S. military forces to the Middle East before U.S. and Israeli strikes began on Saturday is estimated to have cost taxpayers about $630 million, according to Elaine McCusker, a top budget official at the Pentagon during the first Trump administration who is now a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute think tank.
Moving more than a dozen ships and flying more than 100 aircraft to the region accounts for the bulk of cost, McCusker said. It’s likely that these costs incurred before the strikes started could be absorbed by the Pentagon’s $839 billion budget appropriation for fiscal 2026, she said.
Now that strikes have begun, those costs will increase to account for warplane sorties, aerial refueling, and replacement of the munitions used, McCusker said.
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What the Iran Conflict Means for the Global Economy
Analysts expect the attacks to create global economic shockwaves—threatening to drive up inflation and derail central-bank policies—with the ultimate impact hinging on the conflict’s scale and duration.
While regional economies will likely take the biggest economic hit amid airspace closures and possible trade disruptions, the fallout for the global economy will mainly be felt in the oil market. According to Capital Economics, prolonged disruptions involving Iranian production or the Strait of Hormuz could drive oil to $100, pulling natural gas prices up with it.
Such an oil price surge could add 0.6 to 0.7 percentage points to average global inflation, it said. That could upend a fragile global economy already battered by trade conflicts, encourage major central banks to stop lowering interest rates, or even prompt some to raise them.
Who Is Ali Khamenei, Iran’s Supreme Leader?
Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has ruled the country since 1989 and has the final say on all matters of Iran’s national security. The 86-year-old was a key figure in the movement that led to the overthrow of the shah in the 1979 revolution. The hard-line leader has been in power during a number of previous crackdowns on protesters in Iran, and he has been a lightning rod for those who oppose his uncompromising stance on foreign policy and his repressive policies at home.
In mid-February, Khamenei warned that Iran was prepared to retaliate against an American strike. “More dangerous than the American warship is the weapon that can send it to the bottom of the sea,” he said. The U.S. “may be struck so hard that it cannot get back up.”
Khamenei said in early January that the Islamic Republic he leads wouldn’t back down in the face of street protests and President Trump’s threats to intervene. At a gathering of supporters, Khamenei said, “Everyone should know that the Islamic Republic will not retreat,” and blamed the unrest in Tehran on “vandals” eager “to please the president of the United States.” He also told Trump to focus on problems in his own country.
Any U.S. attempt to remove Khamenei personally, as Washington did with Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro in January, could carry different risks. Iran is a much larger country with defenses built to protect Khamenei. Nor is Khamenei a bureaucrat who can simply be replaced with one more amenable to U.S. interests. The Islamic Republic is based on the idea that the supreme leader is the representative of God on Earth, the pope-like leader of millions of Shiite Muslims across the world. Capturing or killing Khamenei could trigger not just a fierce response from Iran, but a regional upheaval.
China ‘Highly Concerned’ About Strikes on Iran
China’s government said it was “highly concerned” about U.S. and Israel military strikes on Iran, adding that the Middle East nation’s sovereignty, security and territorial integrity should be respected. In a single-paragraph statement, a Foreign Ministry spokesman late Saturday in Beijing urged a cessation of military operations and a return to dialogue to ensure peace in the Middle East.
State-run Xinhua news agency, meanwhile, quoted a Chinese Defense Ministry spokesman as saying “irresponsible actions in arms control” by the U.S. were the greatest source of uncertainty for the global nuclear order and strategic stability. Chinese state media have been reporting developments about the conflict, including with video from the streets of Tehran that gave the impression of a limited impact for the regime from the U.S. strikes. The media reports have avoided reference to President Trump’s earlier call for regime change in Tehran once strikes have ended.
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Why Did U.S.-Iran Nuclear Talks Fail?
Three rounds of negotiations between Iran and the U.S. ended in the same way as last spring’s talks did in 2025: with U.S. and Israeli military attacks on Iran.
Why? The U.S. came in with big demands of Iran, whose regime they considered to be at its weakest point in decades and whose military capabilities had been degraded last summer.
It wanted to end Iran’s enrichment program or at least to put severe limits on it in perpetuity. The administration wanted Iran’s ballistic missiles program to be on the table and Iran’s support for regional proxies. And it wasn’t prepared to lay out for Tehran the kind of sanctions relief it was seeking for concessions, according to people involved in discussions.
Iran was never quite sure where the U.S. red line was – particularly on zero enrichment and negotiating missiles, Iranian officials have said.
But people close to the talks said the negotiations failed also because Iran badly misread the situation and its need to move fast to offer clear concessions.
Those people said Iran expressed openness to various ideas – from an enrichment pause to diluting or sending out its stockpile of highly enriched uranium. But that openness was never translated into hard commitments that were going to be enough for the Trump administration.
And Trump’s patience with a drawn out diplomatic process didn’t last.
Those people said Iran’s hard and fast commitments ultimately didn’t amount to meaningful concessions even on the core issue of enrichment. By Thursday afternoon, after Iran came to Geneva talks with a draft text for a deal that didn’t satisfy U.S. demands, time effectively ran out for diplomacy,
Qatar, Bahrain Say They Repelled Missile Attacks
Qatar said it repelled a second wave of Iranian attacks against multiple locations in the Persian Gulf country. “All incoming missiles were intercepted and destroyed before reaching Qatari territory,” the Qatari Defense Ministry said.
Separately, Bahrain said it had shot down several missiles in its air space, according to a statement by its ambassador to the U.S., Abdullah Al-Khalifa. The statement didn’t mention strikes on the U.S. Naval base in Bahrain.
Trump Didn’t Seek Congressional Approval for Iran Attack
President Trump didn’t ask Congress to sign off on the Iran attack, leading to a showdown with lawmakers who disapprove of the strikes ahead of an authorization vote next week.
Rep. Thomas Massie (R, Ky.), who often tussles with Trump, wrote on social media that the strikes were, “Acts of war unauthorized by Congress.” Massie and Rep. Ro Khanna (D, Calif.) had planned to force a vote next week to block Trump from striking Iran without congressional backing.
Sen. Tim Kaine (D, Va.), who has long pushed for Congress to have a greater say in foreign policy decisions, said in a statement that “American people want lower prices, not more war—especially wars that aren’t authorized by Congress, as required by the Constitution, and don’t have a clear objective.”
Administration ‘Misrepresented Intelligence,’ Top Intelligence Committee Democrat Says
The Trump administration “misrepresented intelligence” in making its case for attacking Iran, Virginia Sen. Mark Warner, the top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee, said in a statement.
“The American people have seen this playbook before–claims of urgency, misrepresented intelligence, and military action that pulls the United States into regime change and prolonged, costly nation-building,” Warner said.
An aide to the senator says he was referring specifically to the administration’s case that Iran was a week away from nuclear breakout and close to making a missile that could hit the U.S.
Warner, as a member of the so-called Gang of Eight, received a briefing this week from Secretary of State Marco Rubio and CIA Director John Ratcliffe on the latest Iran intelligence.
The White House didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.
U.A.E. Condemns Iranian Attack After Person Killed
The United Arab Emirates condemned what it called “flagrant Iranian rocket attacks” on its territory and that of its Persian Gulf neighbors in a statement by the country’s foreign ministry.
A Pakistani national was killed in the strikes, the statement said, providing no other details. “The UAE extended its sincere condolences and heartfelt sympathy to the family and relatives of the Pakistani national who lost their life as a result of these attacks.”
The statement called for “restraint and recourse to diplomatic solutions and serious dialogue,” saying the Emirates “reserves its full and legitimate right to respond to these attacks.”
Plans Set for Rubio Trip to Israel Seen as Move to Mislead Iran
The U.S. and Israel strikes on Iran follow a Friday morning State Department announcement that Secretary of State Marco Rubio would be in Israel for diplomatic talks on Monday and Tuesday, spurring questions among regional experts and diplomats as to whether it was intended to throw Iran off guard.
The statement said that Rubio’s trip would focus on “Iran, Lebanon, and ongoing efforts to implement President Trump’s 20-Point Peace Plan for Gaza.” The State Department didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment on whether the announcement was intended as a feint.
In June, there were similar questions about whether the announcement of a pending diplomatic meeting had been used as a cover for military action. With a round of talks between Trump administration envoy Steve Witkoff and his Iranian counterparts set for June 15 in Oman, Israel struck the previous Thursday.
Rubio wasn’t present when Oman’s foreign minister met Friday with Vice President JD Vance to discuss his country’s diplomatic efforts to avert a war.
“I was surprised by the release that Rubio was going,” said Dennis Ross, the former U.S. Middle East peace negotiator. “But then I became convinced that this was designed to create the impression that the strikes would not take place this weekend and this was disinformation designed to mislead the Iranians.”
Smoke Rises in Tehran
Trump Not Planning to Address Nation on Iran Strikes
President Trump won’t address the nation about the Iran attack Saturday, according to the White House, after officials initially told The Wall Street Journal that he would do so.
Earlier Saturday, Trump posted a video on social media announcing the strikes, describing the operation as “massive and ongoing.” In the eight-minute video, he called on the Iranian people to “take over your government” after the strikes end.
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Is it timely to take up the slack and re-enter his significance on the largely magnified X5 the power of that slide through the looking glass?

Frankly, it’s worth the effort, actually, albeit as a morally imperative question, of which everyone appears so very devised about. That I introduced this premis, to many other underlying essential , minimally biased opinions, it may shed further light to some individuals unimpressed by prima facie type narratives.

I suggest that acting per say has become a necessary curse for leadership since way back to Abraham Lincoln’s time, and as the media has become the message with an ever growing rate, the tests for courage, truth and political platforms have become typified into a melange of uncertainty.

How can anyone nowadays purview the narrowed gate through which real politicians can enter into such political arena that few are capable of entering? Many do, and more than acknowledge who dare enter, can only change the opinions developing about them, rather than to find their acting skills.to be truly believable performances.?

The idea is, another shadow opinion runs parallel to those in high offices, that is the parallel mass consideration that there is two ways to see that office, one being the corrupting dynamic of the snowballing of the third for more and more of it until it’s inevitable corruption, and the other is an equally tenable solution that the original three part system serves as a holy grail to assure checks and balances, that will eventually survive any challenges encountered .

With this premise then, I think in many ways it’s justified to reassert the second term, which can and must be connected to the first term’s aims and objectives brought about.

This attempt may go somewhere,or die as a simple reductive monologue, but may serve as a store of the separable intentional framework serving the Founding Fathers, with less conventional and more unifying and fed back information.

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Trump warns Tehran ‘more to follow’ after strike destroys Iran’s largest bridge
Two people reported killed in attack on newly completed suspension bridge after strike splits structure in half
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15:23 EDT Thursday, 02 April 2026
Donald Trump claimed responsibility for destroying Iran’s largest bridge, a day after he threatened to bomb the country “back to the stone ages” if a deal to end the five-week-long war he started was not reached.
The US president shared footage of part of the newly built 136 metre-high $400m B1 suspension bridge between Tehran and Karaj collapsing dramatically on to the causeway below amid a rising plume of black smoke.
Two people were reported killed in the incident on Thursday, in which the middle of the bridge was struck twice. Later imagery showed a clear gap at the heart of what had been one of Iran’s premier infrastructure projects.
“The biggest bridge in Iran comes tumbling down, never to be used again,” the US president posted on the Truth Social website, and he warned there would be “much more to follow” if a settlement was not reached.
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It was not clear if the bridge was being used by civilians at the time, though there appeared to be a lorry on one side of the bridge. One video appeared to show a projectile hitting the span where there was already damage.
A day earlier, in a primetime speech Trump had declared the war the US and Israel launched on Iran on 28 February was a success “nearing completion”, and that the US would “very shortly” achieve nearly all its strategic objectives.
But in his White House address, the president also repeated a threat to destroy Iran’s power plants, potentially cutting off electricity to millions of people. “We are going to hit each and every one of their electric generating plants very hard and probably simultaneously,” he said.
The attack on the bridge was one of several confirmed attacks in Iran this week, despite the difficulty of getting unsanctioned information out of the country, where the internet has been shut down by the authorities.
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Footage of a major strike earlier this week on a missile base in the city of Isfahan was confirmed on Thursday as genuine, with fiery plumes and secondary explosions filmed from a nearby car, whose driver expresses surprise at the scale of the attack.
Isfahan is also where Iran is thought to have moved some or all of its 440kg stockpile of 60% enriched uranium, which in theory could be used to make 10 nuclear bombs if it could be enriched to 90% if Tehran still had the technology available.
There has been speculation in the US that Trump has considered a high-risk airborne raid to seize the radioactive material from its underground storage – though the president said late on Wednesday that it was buried so deeply that “I don’t care”.
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Though most observers took Trump at his word, the US president has in the past engaged in misdirection. On 28 February, the US and Israel attacked and killed Iran’s supreme leader Ali Khamenei and several associates at a point when negotiations over a new nuclear deal were thought to bear fruit.
Iran also said the Pasteur medical institute in Tehran was hit on Thursday. Israel said it had struck a headquarters used by Iran’s Revolutionary Guard to finance armed proxies across the Middle East the day before.
Iran said it would conduct “more crushing, broader and more destructive” attacks in the future. The war would continue until the “permanent regret and surrender” of Iran’s enemies, said Ebrahim Zolfaqari, spokesperson for the Iranian military’s Khatam al-Anbiya central headquarters.
Iran, however, has suffered far more than the US and Israel, in more than 15,000 bombing raids since the start of the war. At least 1,900 people have been killed and 20,000 injured in Iran since the start of the war, according to a rough estimate by the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies.
Oil prices jumped by 7% a barrel to $108 as there appeared to be no immediate sign of the conflict ending. António Guterres, the UN secretary general, warned that the world is “on the edge of a wider war” with catastrophic global implications as he called for an end to the fighting.
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April 2, 2026 4:23 AM UTC
World anxious to open Hormuz Strait while Trump and Iran trade threats
Summary
Trump vows to hit Iran back to the ‘Stone Ages’
Oil benchmark jumps after Trump speech, stocks slide
Iran says it is discussing with Oman a protocol for Hormuz
Ships would need licences and permits, Iran deputy minister says
Iran warns of ‘broader and more destructive’ attacks
Dozens of countries sought ways to restart vital energy shipments through the Strait of Hormuz on Thursday after U.S. President Donald Trump vowed more ​aggressive attacks on Iran, sending oil prices higher again and deepening strain on consumers.
After speculation proved untrue that Trump might discuss ending the war in a speech on Wednesday, the president persisted with ‌threats on Thursday, saying in a social media post: “IT IS TIME FOR IRAN TO MAKE A DEAL BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE”.
He also posted video of the U.S. bombing a newly constructed bridge on Thursday between Tehran and the major northwest suburb of Karaj. The B1 bridge was scheduled to open to traffic this year. According to Iran’s state media, eight people were killed and 95 others were wounded in the U.S. attack.
“Striking civilian structures, including unfinished bridges, will not compel Iranians to surrender,” Iran Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi said in a statement.
In the speech on Wednesday ​night, Trump repeated his threats against Iran’s civilian power plants and gave no clear timeline for ending hostilities, drawing vows of retaliation from Iran and depressing share prices.
“We’re going to hit them extremely hard over the next two to ​three weeks,” Trump said amid mounting domestic pressure to end the conflict. “We’re going to bring them back to the Stone Ages where they belong.”
Nearly five weeks after it started ⁠with a joint U.S.-Israeli aerial assault, the war in Iran continues to spread chaos across the region and roil financial markets, raising the pressure on Trump to find a quick resolution to the conflict.
Britain chaired a virtual meeting on ​Thursday of some 40 countries to explore ways to restore freedom of navigation that did not produce any specific agreement, although participants agreed that all nations should be able to use the waterway freely, one official said.
Iran has effectively shut down the ​Strait of Hormuz, which normally carries about a fifth of the world’s total oil trade, in retaliation for U.S.-Israeli attacks that began on February 28. The war has caused an increase in oil prices, inflation concerns, supply-chain problems and worries about the impact on the global economy.
Tehran offered a competing vision for future control of the strait, and said it was drafting a protocol with neighboring Oman that would require ships to obtain permits and licenses.
“These requirements will not mean restrictions, but rather to facilitate and ensure safe passage and provide better services to ships that pass through this route,” ​Deputy Foreign Minister Kazem Gharibabadi said, according to the official IRNA news agency.
An Iranian military spokesperson said the strait would remain closed “long term” to the U.S. and Israel.
The European Union’s foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas pushed back against Tehran’s plan, saying ​Iran cannot be allowed to charge countries a bounty to let ships pass. “International law doesn’t recognise pay-to-pass schemes,” wrote Kallas on social media.
OIL HITS $108
Benchmark Brent crude prices jumped by about 7% to around $108 per barrel, U.S. bond yields spiked and global equity markets gave back ‌gains.
“The key question ⁠in all investors’ minds is ‘When is this going to be over?’” said Russel Chesler, head of investments and capital markets at VanEck Australia.
Trump in Wednesday’s speech told countries that rely on fuel shipments through the Strait of Hormuz to “just grab it”.
However, European and other states have said they will only help secure the strait if there is a ceasefire.
“It can only be done in consultation with Iran,” French President Emmanuel Macron said.
IRAN THREATENS MORE ATTACKS
Iran’s armed forces responded to Trump with a warning of “more crushing, broader and more destructive” attacks in store.
The war will continue until the “permanent regret and surrender” of Iran’s enemies, said Ebrahim Zolfaqari, spokesperson for the Iranian military’s Khatam al-Anbiya central headquarters, in a statement carried by Iranian media.
Iran’s Fars news agency later ​listed several bridges in Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Abu Dhabi and ​Jordan, which host U.S. military bases, as potential targets ⁠for Iran’s military in response to the U.S. attack on the B1 bridge. The Revolutionary Guards said they had targeted an Amazon cloud computing centre in Bahrain.
There are fears the conflict may leave Iran with a stranglehold over Middle East energy supplies now that it has shown that it can block the Strait of Hormuz by targeting oil tankers and attacking Gulf countries hosting U.S. ​troops.
Gulf states say they reserve the right to self-defence but have refrained from responding militarily to repeated Iranian attacks over the past month, seeking to avoid escalation into ​a far more devastating all-out ⁠Middle East war.
Iran’s parliament was reviewing a bill that would formalise the blocking of vessels from hostile countries passing through the strait and the charging of tolls for others wishing to pass, spokesperson Abbas Goodarzi said.
STRIKE ON IRAN BRIDGE KILLS 8
Thousands of people have been killed and tens of thousands injured across the Middle East since the war began, with the head of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies delegation saying on Thursday that medical needs were rising exponentially and supplies could run ⁠low.
Sirens and the ​booms from interceptors rang out over Jerusalem after the Israeli military said it had identified the launch of a missile from Yemen toward ​Israel.
Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthis first claimed an attack on Israel at the end of March, as the conflict with Iran has expanded across the region.
Fuel shortages have already caused economic strains across Asia and are expected to bite in Europe soon, while a report by two U.N. agencies warned a sharp economic ​slowdown could spark a cost-of-living crisis in Africa.
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Trump proposes “historic” defense spending budget, eyes 10% cut to other federal programs

Summary

Defense increase of $500 billion includes Golden Dome, ships

Request includes potential pay raise for troops

Cuts green energy spending, slashes NASA budget

President Donald Trump on Friday requested a 10% cut in non-defense spending for the 2027 fiscal year and a massive $500 billion increase in the military budget, as the U.S. continues its war against Iran.

The 2027 budget request comes as the president faces risky choices abroad, with the administration sending U.S. service members to ​the Middle East, and a weary public at home feeling the economic crunch of skyrocketing gas prices due to the conflict.

The request ultimately requires approval by Congress, where disagreement over Trump’s spending decisions recently led to the longest ‌government shutdown in U.S. history.

The huge proposed surge in defense spending to $1.5 trillion, up from about $1 trillion in 2026, includes a 5% to 7% pay raise for military personnel at a time when thousands of servicemembers are actively deployed.

The White House boasted that this defense funding approaches the “historic increases just prior to World War”

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April 3, 2026 4:27 AM UTC
Downed planes raise new perils for Trump as Tehran hunts for missing US pilot
Summary
Two-seat F-15E jet was shot down over Iran
A-10 combat plane shot down near Strait of Hormuz
Two crew members rescued, one being hunted by Iranian forces
US embassy in Lebanon warns US citizens to leave
Trump threatens to hit bridges and power plants
Two U.S. ​warplanes were downed over Iran and the Gulf, Iranian and U.S. officials said on Friday, with two pilots rescued and a third still missing and being hunted ‌by Tehran’s forces.
The incidents show the risks still faced by U.S. and Israeli aircraft over Iran despite assertions from U.S. President Donald Trump and his Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth that their forces had total control of the skies.
The first plane, a two-seat U.S. F-15E jet, was shot down by Iranian fire, officials in both countries said.
The second plane, an A-10 Warthog fighter aircraft, was hit by Iranian fire and crashed over Kuwait, with the pilot ejecting, two U.S. ​officials said.
Two Blackhawk helicopters involved in the search effort for the missing pilot were hit by Iranian fire but made it out of Iranian airspace, the two U.S. officials told ​Reuters.
The degree of injuries among the crew of the aircraft remained unclear. The status and whereabouts of the missing F-15E crew member was not ⁠publicly known.
Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps said it was combing an area near where the pilot’s plane came down in southwestern Iran and the regional governor promised a commendation for anyone who captured or ​killed “forces of the hostile enemy.”
Iranians, who have been pummeled by American air power for weeks, posted gleeful messages celebrating the plane downings. Iran’s Parliament Speaker Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf said on X that the ​U.S. and Israel’s war had been “downgraded from regime change" to a hunt for their pilots.
Trump has been in the White House receiving updates on the search-and-rescue operation, a senior administration official told Reuters. The Pentagon and U.S. Central Command did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
NO SIGN OF END TO WAR
The prospect of a U.S. service person being alive and on the run inside Iran raises the stakes for Washington in a conflict with low ​public support and no sign of an imminent end.
Iran has officially told mediators it is not prepared to meet with U.S. officials in Islamabad in coming days and that efforts to produce ​a ceasefire, led by Pakistan, have reached a dead end, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday.
The U.S. and Israel opened the campaign with a wave of strikes that killed Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on ‌February 28. ⁠The war has killed thousands and threatened lasting damage to the global economy.
So far, 13 U.S. military service members have been killed in the conflict and more than 300 have been wounded, according to the U.S. Central Command.
Iran has rained drones and missiles down on Israel. It has also taken aim at Gulf countries allied to the U.S., which have so far held back from joining the war directly for fear of further escalation.
In a security alert on Friday, the U.S. embassy in Beirut said Iran and its aligned armed groups may target universities in Lebanon and urged U.S. citizens in the ​country to leave while commercial flights are still ​available.
Israel has been waging a parallel campaign ⁠against Iran-backed Hezbollah in Lebanon after the militant group fired at Israel in support of Iran.
TRUMP THREAT TO STRIKE BRIDGES, POWER PLANTS
On Friday, as Trump threatened to hit its bridges and power plants, Iran struck a power and water plant in Kuwait, underlining the vulnerability of Gulf states that rely ​heavily on desalination plants for drinking water.
On Thursday, Trump posted footage on social media showing dust and smoke billowing up as U.S. strikes hit ​the newly constructed B1 bridge ⁠between Tehran and nearby Karaj, which was due to open this year, and said more attacks would follow.
“Our Military, the greatest and most powerful (by far!) anywhere in the World, hasn’t even started destroying what’s left in Iran. Bridges next, then Electric Power Plants!” he wrote in a subsequent post.
On Friday, a drone hit a Red Crescent relief warehouse in the Choghadak area of Iran’s southern Bushehr province.
Kuwait Petroleum Corporation said ⁠its Mina al-Ahmadi ​refinery had been hit by drones. Other attacks were also reported to have been intercepted in Saudi Arabia and Abu ​Dhabi. Missile debris landed near the Israeli port of Haifa, site of a major oil refinery.
Oil markets were closed after benchmark U.S. crude prices gained 11% on Thursday following a speech by Trump that offered no clear sign of an imminent ​end to the war.
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‘Unhinged madman’: US politicians react to Trump’s expletive-laden threat to Iran

Marjorie Taylor Greene and Bernie Sanders among those responding with alarm to Trump writing ‘open the fuckin’ strait, you crazy bastards’

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Some US politicians have reacted with alarm and questioned the US president’s mental state after Donald Trump issued an abusive, expletive-laden threat to Iran in which he called on the regime to “open the fuckin’ strait [of Hormuz], you crazy bastards”, as he threatened to further attack the country’s energy and transport infrastructure.

The US president wrote on his Truth Social platform: “Tuesday will be Power Plant Day, and Bridge Day, all wrapped up in one, in Iran. There will be nothing like it!!! Open the Fuckin’ Strait, you crazy bastards, or you’ll be living in Hell - JUST WATCH! Praise be to Allah. President DONALD J. TRUMP.”

It comes as the Trump administration hurtles towards another self-imposed deadline – this time, Monday – for Iran to reopen the strait of Hormuz. One of the world’s most critical shipping lanes for oil and gas, the strait has been effectively shut since the US and”

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The circused ringleaders are wagging their tales.

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“Trump Warns Iran He Could Strike ‘Every Power Plant,’ in WSJ Interview
‘If they don’t do something by Tuesday evening, they won’t have any power plants and they won’t have any bridges standing’
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WASHINGTON—President Trump threatened to destroy all of Iran’s power plants if the country’s leaders don’t agree to reopen the Strait of Hormuz by Tuesday evening, ratcheting up pressure on Tehran.
“If they don’t come through, if they want to keep it closed, they’re going to lose every power plant and every other plant they have in the whole country,” Trump said in an eight-minute interview with The Wall Street Journal on Sunday.
Pressed on when he thinks the war will end, Trump said, “I will let you know pretty soon.”
“But we are in a position that’s very strong, and that country will take 20 years to rebuild, if they’re lucky, if they have a country,” he said. “And if they don’t do something by Tuesday evening, they won’t have any power plants and they won’t have any bridges standing.”
The comments came hours after U.S. forces in a daring early Sunday morning mission rescued an American aviator trapped in Iran for more than 24 hours. They also come as Iran appears determined to carry out a war of attrition and demonstrate its control over Persian Gulf oil shipments.
Asked if he is concerned that the people of Iran, a country of 93 million people, could suffer if civilian infrastructure is hit, Trump said, “No, they want us to do it,” arguing that Iranian people are “living in hell.”
In recent weeks, Tehran has been mobilizing its population in ways that seek to harness the spirit of its 1980s war with Iraq, including drives to recruit millions of Iranians.
In a social-media post on Sunday morning, Trump threatened to destroy Iran’s power plants and bridges on Tuesday if the Strait of Hormuz isn’t reopened. But the post offered few details about how expansive the attacks might be.
Under international law, the military is allowed to strike civilian power plants and other key infrastructure only if it contributes to a military operation and civilian harm is minimized.
The Journal previously reported that aides to Trump have said these types of narrowly focused strikes are allowable because they are meant to hamper Tehran’s ability to build missiles, drones and nuclear weapons. Widespread strikes on power plants and bridges, regardless of military value, raise legal and humanitarian questions.
In the interview, the president also shared new details about the dramatic rescue of two U.S. airmen whose F-15E was shot down over Iran. Trump said the Friday rescue of the first airman was kept quiet so a search could continue for the second pilot, who was wounded but climbed up to a mountain crevice where he was rescued.
The Central Intelligence Agency carried out a deception operation to help protect the U.S. airman, the Journal has reported, spreading word within Iran that American forces had already located him and were preparing to fly him out of the country.
“We didn’t play up the first one, because then they would have found out about the second one,” Trump said. “You know, normally this is not done. When airmen go down, you can’t get them in very tough countries.”
The two pilots were in the same plane but landed a long distance apart because of the speed at which the jet was flying when the airmen evacuated, Trump said.
“Even though they’re only separated by five or six seconds, five or six seconds when you’re going 1,000 miles an hour, so that’s many miles, right?” he said.
“They were out there looking for him, the soldiers were all over the place looking for him because they knew he was somewhere. A lot of great things happened.”
In the interview, Trump declined to answer whether the U.S. believed Iran used Chinese or Russian air defense capabilities to shoot down the American plane. “Maybe they did, maybe they didn’t,” he said.
The president’s self-imposed Tuesday deadline comes as Iran approaches Trump’s earlier 10-day deadline to make a deal and open the Strait of Hormuz—which was slated to end on Monday. On Sunday afternoon, Trump posted “Tuesday, 8:00 P.M. Eastern Time!”
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Latest: Vice President Vance in Hungary today.

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BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — U.S. Vice President JD Vance arrived in Hungary on Tuesday in a bid to turn the tide of an election campaign where long-serving Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, a close ally of President Donald Trump, is trailing in the polls.

Vance’s two-day trip, where he is scheduled to hold an official visit with Orbán and later appear at one of his campaign rallies, offered the clearest sign yet that the Trump administration is going all-in for an Orbán victory when Hungarians go to the polls on Sunday.

Orbán is running for his fifth-straight term as prime minister. He and his nationalist-populist Fidesz party are facing their toughest race in two decades against a center-right challenger, the Tisza party led by Péter Magyar, that could bring an end to Orbán’s 16 years in power.

Long accused by critics of taking over Hungary’s institutions, clamping down on press freedom and overseeing entrenched political corruption — charges he denies — Orbán has become an icon in the global far-right movement.

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Religious front: just as he spoke from Rome:

‘pope pronounced that the threat to bomb Iran totally, is “Totally Unacceptable”

A noticeable item just cam through :woozy_face:

‘President Donald Trump said Friday the United States is prepared to take military action against Iran if upcoming negotiations in Pakistan fail, noting that American naval forces are being outfitted with advanced weaponry.

In comments to the New York Post, Trump said the outcome of the talks could become clear quickly as U.S. officials travel to Islamabad to pursue a broader agreement following this week’s ceasefire.

“We’re going to find out in about 24 hours. We’re going to know soon,” Trump said’

On the Don Lenon show, concurrently, Christi Noem’s anger at transsexuals doesn’t jive with her dominatrix girlfriend’s telling the world that she ain’t bothered by everybody finding out about her.

Vance in Hungary

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Trump makes a dire prediction, or, Trump reboots the staging.

Who can go towards the oracle or, recede from a forgone conclusion?

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I felt that something I just posted on the PN forum has a place over here too…

According to Google, the following is a tiny glimpse of a few of Trump’s activities in the first half of 2026…

1. On February 14 and 15, he played golf at the Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach, Florida.

2. On February 28, he danced to the song “YMCA” at a MAGA fund-raising gala in an ornate ballroom at his Mar-a-Lago resort.

3. On February 28, a few hours after dancing to the song “YMCA,” he murdered 120 little schoolgirls in Iran.

4. On June 8, he traveled to New York City to watch the New York Knicks play the San Antonio Spurs at Madison Square Garden.

5. On June 14 (today - his birthday), he is scheduled to host a professional UFC fight night directly on the south lawn of the White House.

The unfortunate point of the above list is that a huge percentage of Americans (make that brain-dead zombies) are unable to discern any significant difference between #3 and that of the other numbers.

It has become quite obvious that America is sleep-walking (make that sleep-running) down that special highway that AC/DC sang about.

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Interesting that Trum has changed character from the early days of his first administration, through the stolen second, as before Netanyahu was an avid supporter and benefactored, now, the tides and winds of conflict shifted again: 



 Here is the most up to date report from Tel Avive, albeit from an ‘insider’ which seems credible with the rising Israeli defiance quoted as ‘we must do what we must, with or without the council and approval of the United States;



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t has become quite obvious that America is sleep-walking (make that sleep-running) down that special highway that AC/DC sang about.
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That the above is becoming a foregone conclusion, has become apparent from the following disclosure of a coming visit:

‘ Washington, DC – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been warning of a grave Iranian threat to Israel and the world for more than 30 years.

United States President Donald Trump heeded those warnings in June and bombed Tehran’s nuclear facilities. But it appears that Netanyahu is still not satisfied and will be pushing for more military actions against Iran when he returns to the US on Sunday to visit Trump at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida.

Israeli officials and their US allies are beating the drums of war against Iran once again, arguing that Tehran’s missiles must be addressed urgently.

But analysts said another clash with Iran would stand in stark opposition to Trump’s stated foreign policy priorities.

Sina Toossi, a senior fellow at the Center for International Policy think tank, said that while Trump is pushing to deepen economic cooperation and forge diplomatic ties between Israel and Arab states, Netanyahu is seeking military domination over the region.

“This desire for perpetual US involvement, for perpetual wars against Iran to really break the Iranian state reflects Israel’s aim for unchallenged dominance, unchallenged hegemony and expansionism,” Toossi said.

“And so I think that’s at the root of Netanyahu’s goals and the direction he wants to push the US into supporting, but that’s going to come to a head with US interests going in another direction and wanting more stability in the region that doesn’t necessitate direct American military involvement.”

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 I think this is crucial at this time, the most crucial one surpassing all the other wars and flare ups, that is used as a smokescreen to justify it as the central logistic map of the Middle East. 

 It cuts into the heart of the screened out motives: the control of oil, the renewal of interest in the public interest in USED purchase of electric cars, as the way to control geo politics globally.

 Trump may be on que in denoting this fact, and Israeli  comment of dissatisfaction with IS military tech might, as examplary preview which echoes his statement that Israel has to be self serving and take the initiative, before his upcoming Washinon/Florida visit.
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I took this issue up with Google’s AI Overview…

Me:

What percentage of the biblical writers who warned of a time - when the whole world would be allied in battle against Israel - were Jewish?

AI Overview:

100% of the biblical writers who warned of a global alliance gathering for battle against Israel or Jerusalem were Jewish.

To which I ask: - Can there possibly exist a more obvious example of a “self-fulfilling prophecy” than to have the modern-day descendants of those who penned that particular prophecy, do everything necessary to guarantee the fulfillment of that prophecy?

One of the lasting memories I have from listening to Christian pastors and ministers speak of “End Times” prophecies, centers on the theme of how in the end, pretty much the entire world will gather together to do battle against Israel (Jerusalem).

The sermons were always presented in a way that made the Jews of Israel…

(God’s “chosen” people - the bastion of righteousness and unwavering loyalty to God)

…appear to be the “innocent victims” in the end times scenario.

However, what the preachers failed to mention…

(or perhaps, at the time, simply didn’t realize)

…is that it would be Israel’s (land-stealing) actions and horrible (genocidal) treatment of others in the end times that will cause the world (with good reason) to gather against it…

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It appears so but appearances may be a deflected inverse variation. Let me explain. The irony may be the camouflage with which reality turns into appearance. Nietzche was being ironic, with his transvaluative efforts, He may have such inversion in mind,for the reason that maybe he wrote such only human narratives intentionally, so that a truly enlightened social organization could reverse the formula, so that the unavoidable could be prevented.

His father was a Christian minister after all, and it is not inconceivable incorrect to say that Wagner saw this same predicament from the get go.

The sources used can be found , in a matter of time, and I suppose Adorno may be a good starting point.

No need to go further until such viewpoint can be sourcefully discussed.

The fact of Jewishness does concern social organization around Jesus, after all He was Jewish, psycho socially and ttheologucally.

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Adorno maintained a sustained critique of Heidegger, opposing his ontology while occasionally revealing subtle, latent affinities in their philosophical concerns.

Adorno’s Critique of Heidegger

Adorno’s engagement with Heidegger was largely critical and polemical. He viewed Heidegger’s fundamental ontology as a form of anti-epistemological philosophy that neglected the social and historical dimensions of human experience, which were central to Adorno’s critical theory (PhilArchive) philarchive.orgphilarchive.org. Adorno often used Heidegger as a foil to articulate his own dialectical epistemology, emphasizing the structured relationship between subject and object, in contrast to Heidegger’s phenomenological and existential approach (PhilArchive) philarchive.orgphilarchive.org. This opposition was not personal but philosophical, reflecting Adorno’s concern with the limitations of Heidegger’s approach to knowledge and reality.

Points of Convergence

Despite his critique, Adorno’s work occasionally intersects with Heidegger’s thought. Both philosophers challenge traditional empiricist epistemology and question the assumptions of modern philosophy of the subject. Adorno’s notion of the “nonidentical” bears resemblance to Heidegger’s concern with Being, particularly the idea that certain aspects of reality are suppressed or forgotten in conventional metaphysics (PhilArchive) philarchive.orgphilarchive.org. These parallels, however, are coincidental rather than indicative of philosophical agreement, as Adorno’s critical method and social-historical focus diverge sharply from Heidegger’s ontological concerns.

Philosophical and Historical Context

The relationship between Adorno and Heidegger was marked by a “refused communication,” with minimal personal contact and no collaborative dialogue (JSTOR) JSTORJSTOR. Adorno’s critique was part of a broader effort to defend the critical paradigm against what he saw as Heidegger’s irrationalist tendencies. Scholars like Hermann Mörchen have explored this complex interaction, noting that while Adorno’s opposition was relentless, there were latent affinities in their attention to the human condition, particularly regarding the tension between illness and wholeness in philosophical reflection (JSTOR) JSTORJSTOR.

Significance

Adorno’s critique of Heidegger highlights the contrast between critical and phenomenological approaches to transcendental philosophy. While Heidegger emphasizes Being and existential wholeness, Adorno foregrounds social critique, historical consciousness, and the rational structure of experience (PhilArchive) philarchive.orgphilarchive.org. Understanding this dynamic is crucial for interpreting Adorno’s negative dialectics and his broader project of critical theory, as it situates his philosophy in opposition to, yet occasionally in dialogue with, Heideggerian ontology.
In summary, Adorno’s view of Heidegger is one of sustained opposition, tempered by subtle philosophical intersections, reflecting both the divergences and the occasional convergences between critical theory and existential ontology (Stanford University Press) sup.orgsup.org.

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The assumption that religious texts would be neutral arbiters is about as humorous as the assumption that politicians wont act in a self-serving manner.

You do not need religious texts or for that matter any other lens to view actions through.
You literally just need to look at the actions.
And even if there is an argument to be made in regards of the self defense of Israel. Everyone with just a biopsy piece sized brain understands that this is just used as an excuse for extremely brutal acts of.. not even war, just literally terrorism.

Even under the best and out-most kindest of interpretations, Israel has proven thousands of times that it operates on a collateral damage doctrine, meaning that civilian life is of no kind, and zero priority to them (wonderfully aligned with the american way of doing war)

And yes.
Much like many other communities that could not shut the f up once they achieved their goals (feminism and the lgbtq community comes to mind) they kept going and going and going until now there is a generational backlash against them and the public widely regards them as animals.
And rightfully so.

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And how such intersection/interaction reflects Trump’s apparent double dealing!?

From the lates AP release comes this:you be the judge , fill in the inexplainable holes.

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TRUMP APPEASES KIM | As North Korea Wages War in Europe

Trump is reducing pressure on Pyongyang without any meaningful concession in return, even as North Korea deepens its military relationship with Russia and becomes increasingly involved in Putin’s war

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Donald Trump and Kim Jong in June 2019, where Trump became the first sitting US president to cross the Military Demarcation Line into North Korea.

Donald Trump says he has a “very good relationship” with Kim Jong Un, but the problem is that Kim is no longer simply threatening America’s allies in Asia. His troops, missile crews and ballistic weapons are now becoming increasingly embedded in Russia’s war against Ukraine.

Frankly, in my view, Kim Jong Un’s meaningful relationship today is with Vladimir Putin, not Donald Trump.

There are moments in politics when timing tells you almost everything you need to know. Only last week, people were again asking whether Donald Trump had finally changed his position on Ukraine — whether the reality of Putin’s war, Russia’s continued attacks, and North Korea’s increasingly direct involvement might finally have shifted the calculation.

A week later, we appear to have our answer.

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Trump is once again reminiscing about his past meetings with Kim Jong Un, boasting about their “very good relationship,” while ordering the Pentagon to substantially reduce military exercises with South Korea, a longstanding US treaty ally.

But the uncomfortable reality is that the relationship that actually matters today is the one between Kim and Putin, and Trump? Well, it’s becoming increasingly difficult to see exactly where he fits into this particular ménage à trois.

At almost exactly the same moment Trump was talking up his personal relationship with Kim, Kim was reaffirming his increasingly close relationship with Moscow.

Russia and North Korea are openly deepening their strategic cooperation, while Pyongyang has become directly involved in Russia’s war against Ukraine, more so now than at any point since 2022.

That is what makes the timing so extraordinary.
Vladivostok, April 2019: Kim Jong-un and Vladimir Putin

North Korea is helping Russia wage war in Europe, while the President of the United States is publicly worrying about offending North Korea and cutting exercises with the ally North Korea directly threatens.

Unfortunately, this is becoming a depressingly familiar pattern.

Week after week, America’s traditional alliesare publicly criticised, pressured or treated as though they are the problem, while authoritarian leaders receive remarkably conciliatory language and gestures.

Whatever Trump believes his personal relationship with Kim Jong Un might achieve, geopolitics has moved on considerably since their meetings, while Kim has chosen his strategic partner, openly — Vladimir Putin.

It’s hard not to see now how Trump is somehow not having his strings pulled like a marionette, with the pattern becoming increasingly difficult to explain away.

There have been countless rumours and theories over the years — kompromat, business interests, personal relationships, financial leverage and Russian influence among them. The kompromat allegations, in particular, have never been publicly proven, despite years of investigation and speculation, even with Epstein hanging around his neck like a lead weight.

But frankly, I don’t need rumours to judge what I can see happening in front of me.

I keep hearing the same thing:

“He’s changed, Shaun.”

Then another week passes.

Another concession, another attack on an American ally, another piece of pressure removed from Moscow — and another moment when Putin appears to emerge as the beneficiary.

At some point, you have to stop judging Trumpby what people insist he secretly intends to do and start judging him by the consequences of what he actually does, something I’ve been consistent on from the beginning.
This weekend, Donald Trump announced that he had ordered the Pentagon to “substantially reduce” US participation in joint military exercises with South Korea, describing the drills as expensive and sending an unnecessarily “hostile” signal towards North Korea.

Trump justified the decision partly by pointing to his “very good relationship” with Kim Jong Un.

Just a day earlier, Trump had posted an old photograph of himself with Kim at the Korean Demilitarised Zone, writing that the pair “get along great,” Trump returning to one of his favourite pieces of political nostalgia, personal diplomacy of his first presidency.

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A new development shows how fragile the whole situation is becoming. Fox News published Trump’s latest dictum:

“Trump Threatens to Bomb Oman if It ‘Gets in the Way’ of Iran Conflict

President tells Fox News U.S. forces could strike Gulf nation if it interferes in Strait of Hormuz blockade

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President Trump threatened to bomb Oman if the country “gets in the way” of U.S. efforts to reach a peace deal with Iran.

“If Oman gets in the way, we’ll bomb the s— out of them,” Fox News’ Trey Yingst reported Trump saying during a phone interview Monday.

Trump, according to Yingst, said U.S. forces could strike the Gulf nation if it interfered in the blockade of Iranian ships in the Strait of Hormuz. The president said the blockade was putting pressure on Iran but offered no timeline for ending the conflict, saying he was in no hurry.

Iranian negotiators have held talks with Oman in recent weeks over a provisional arrangement to manage shipping through the strait. Those talks are continuing, and yet to yield any tangible results.

Iran’s military has continued to fire at ships transiting the waterway without its permission, seeking to maintain its grip on commercial traffic. Unlike earlier in the conflict, when the U.S. retaliated against such attacks ”

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/ Read the fine lines in between the rhetoric, and see the veiled threats as open to interpretation, yes, but all these calculated threats, show an increased level of uncertainty, giving those on Iran’s side less and less reluctance to take him seriously; unless that too was an intentional factor.

( note: his doc calls out a worried note that has him in a serious decline, his health is very worrisome, as he falls asleep in the middle of important meetings.)

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Here is Trump’s greatest headache at the worst time possible, and a prediction:

If, present threads continue, the loss of His appeal will make further MAGA restriction necessary for long term existential betterment.

True or false?

“Saudi
Arabia shuts down a pipeline as Houthis seize an island, opening a new front in the Iran war
CAIRO (AP) — Saudi Arabia said Friday it shut down a major pipeline a day after it was attacked by drones, and Yemen’s Iranian-backed Houthi rebels captured a strategic island at the southern entrance to the Red Sea, two officials said, opening a new front in the Iran war .
The Houthis made their biggest territorial gains in years along the Bab el-Mandeb Strait , one of the world’s key shipping lanes. The advance could boost Iran’s strategy of driving up world oil and gas prices to pressure the United States.
Saudi Arabia said it had shut down the East-West pipeline after it was attacked the day before. The Saudi Ministry of Energy called the shutdown “a precautionary measure.”
The Saudi Foreign Ministry blamed the attack on several drones that came from Iraq. In a statement carried by the state-run Saudi Press Agency, the kingdom said it would not respond to give the Iraqi government “an opportunity to take the necessary measures." The Iraqi government condemned the assault and ordered an investigation.
Saudi Arabia and the United States bombed Iranian-”

UPI Sept 12, 2026

(It’s 9/11 day in LA a big event going on there and elsewhere)

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Another sticky wicker:

“ “ORLD

Explosion hits another weapons site in Bulgaria

An explosion caused a fire at a weapons storage site in central Bulgaria overnight, local media and ​officials said on Saturday, the second blaze at ‌a munitions facility in the past few weeks.

No one was reported injured in the blaze, which broke out near the village of Tsareva ​Livada and could be seen lighting up the ​night sky in videos broadcast locally.

“At the moment, the ⁠fire is on the territory of the storage base ​of the factory. It is moving from warehouse to warehouse," ​Gabrovo regional governor Kristina Sidorova told journalists in the early hours of Saturday.

Local media reported that the fire was at a site run ​by EMCO, which experienced an explosion at another facility ​last month, citing an EMCO company official. Reuters was not immediately able ‌to ⁠reach EMCO for comment.

EMCO is run by Bulgarian arms trader Emilian Gebrev, who Bulgarian prosecutors allege was the target of past attacks on his facilities by Russian operatives.

In 2024, Bulgaria ​issued an ​arrest warrant for ⁠six Russian citizens accused of involvement in the destruction of EMCO arms depots that were ​storing munitions for export to Ukraine and ​Georgia ”

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Reuters

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Trump enters the stage. Right. Now what???
The most important man in the world, let’s not deny that Role pro empire. And Vance, the next, in a contesting field, with no apparent heir.

Hope not jumping the gun or anything else, this is much more important to me, as it connects with the chaos everywhere, then to contain it, as The Middle East let to it’s own devices, will explode , or implode with terrific violence, yes, with a singularity to befuddle Mankind.

And is this not the midterm elections, where all stops should be pulled out, including any presumed rights to succession,

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Here is a humorous side to the Trump-Kim relationship:

President Donald Trump was asked why **Iran**could not be allowed to develop nuclear weapons when North Korea already had them and was still growing its arsenal. He tied his answer to Kim Jong Un. Trump said, “Because he respects me and he likes me.”