Hi, everyone, and big thanks to Jason Barker, of Knights of the Storm for his military insights re the US-Iran "rescue" narratives, and thnx to all the good people who joined us to dig into the news and find some solid pro-freedom lessons. Thanks, also, to the excellent journalists whose work we got to discuss. Join the Conspiracy, m-f 6 PM on Rumble or X, and visit this here Substack for more! Here is some of what we got to cover!
On Easter Sunday morning, President Trump sent a shockingly vile “Truth Social” message to Iran - something designed not only to threaten, but to add insult to Trump’s already mountainous pile of mass murder and War Crimes.
Yet one wonders whether this undeclared military campaign – launched without the required congressional Declaration of War – might not be unfolding as King Trump hoped. The Iranians fired back with a string of mocking responses. Let’s look at Trump’s pertinent posts, going back two weeks, and see his mercurial and hazardous Imperial attitude, leading to this latest offense.
Here is today’s TRUMP TANTRUM - Headline: “Trump Threatens To ‘Take Out’ the ‘Entire Country’ of Iran in a Single Night - News From Antiwar.com” LINK
AND…
If Trump thinks he can destabilize Iran to benefit Israel, he is wrong. He also is wrong re the ultimate outcome here — Iran will not fall, and the Iranian government will continue to run the Strait and Persian Gulf.
THE “RESCUE” OP
Perhaps the President finds himself in a sour temper due to a botched ground incursion, an effort funded in the same manner as his other war crimes - through the political extraction of private wealth. Trump and MAGA are portraying as “heroic” the US military involved in this illegal act. Fox News hosts called the extraction of a US soldier a “miracle”. People are taking this seriously
Reports indicated that “hundreds of special operations troops” had penetrated far inside Iranian territory. What for? WHY? Before we dig into that, let’s look at the Fox-News-delivered “official” story, that the fighter pilots were conducting runs against “missile silos” — this is preposterous, given the area, the rank of the “missing pilot”, and the assets devoted to the “rescue” op. (Click on the vid to hear the official fantasy tale)…
-Officials are presenting the failed mission as a triumph. But accounts suggest the loss of twelve aircraft in one mission alone: two C-130s, four Little Bird helicopters, four Black Hawk helicopters, and two MQ-9 drones. American spokesmen insist some of the craft were deliberately destroyed to keep them from enemy hands, while the Iranians assert they brought the aircraft down themselves.
Serious doubts linger about the official narrative.
Why, for instance, was the downed pilot recovered some 110 miles (other reports make that far fewer miles, but that he CLIMBED SHEER CLIFFS) from the purported crash site – and a full 48 hours later? Could you travel 110 miles through mountainous terrain in 48 hours? Possibly, but that’s not likely.
The President mentioned injuries, yet the airman supposedly trekked across that distance, climbing 7,000-foot mountains, all while evading detection after a catastrophic wreck. Equally puzzling is how U.S. forces managed to set up a clandestine landing zone, land two massive C-130 transports, and then advance thirty-five miles through hostile terrain to extract the injured pilot. According to The Telegraph, the operation utilized agricultural runways located a mere thirty miles from Isfahan, home to one of Iran’s key nuclear sites. Interesting.
Some observers now suggest the true objective of this mission may have been an attempt to seize Iran’s main cache of highly enriched uranium – approximately 440 to 970 pounds at 60 percent purity. This looks like a typical insertion op, either for Isfahan, or Natanz, with many aircraft involved, not to “get a downed guy”, but to offload a lot of boots to get into an area across the mountains (and performed without proper logistical prep). Here is a map of the area.
Here is more, showing the locations of Iran’s major (and formerly open to IAEA and US inspectors) nuclear power and research sites. The following is in two parts, and you will be able to see where they dovetail/overlap.
-Here are Larry Johnson and Scott Ritter, Sunday evening, with DD Geopolitics, discussing the faulty narrative Trump’s DoD is offering for something that looks like a larger operation than “rescuing” a man.
Here are key still-shots, from Sonar 21 (thanks to Larry Johnson!!) and from Will Schryver.
-Here is Daniel Davis with Jim Webb cued to a spot in their conversation that focuses on key problems with the US Admin narrative.
-As these inconvenient questions mount, the U.S. has imposed a blackout on satellite imagery covering Iran and the broader Middle East. As we noted Friday, Planet Labs has agreed to cooperate with the restriction. Washington has warned of sanctions against any other imaging firms that might release ground-level photos from the “conflict zone.” Notably, Planet Labs confirmed it would suppress imagery stretching back to March 9. This sort of information suppression during conflict is as predictable as it is disturbing.
This, from Daniel Davis and Mario Nawfal, at about 10 this morning, encapsulates the positions the Iranian government might be exploring, since they appear to hold most of the cards and since Trump has committed so many tactical errors in this overall unconstitutional and immoral attack.
The President appeared alongside military officials in the Oval Office for a press briefing at 1 p.m. They lied, over and over. They lied so much that their claims about the gutsy soldier who fled so many miles don’t match, from minute to minute, and their rationale for landing big planes, then using small choppers to pull out the soldiers while blowing up the planes don’t ring true because they had many other assets that they took off the planes, and which they ALSO did not blow up. And here, you will see Pete Hegseth attempt to liken the rescue to the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ.
At the presser, Trump admitted to giving the order to destroy the B1 Bridge west of Tehran, thus openly admitting not only to anti-constitutional and immoral action, but to a War Crime. Trump said he could take out the entire country in one night, implying a massive bombing session, tomorrow night.
And, prior to the presser, Trump admitted to WANTING THE OIL, while lying about how the Iranian people want him to “keep bombing.”
Daniel Davis offers some key thoughts on this thirst for OIL
TRUMP JUST BOMBED SOUTH PARS GAS FACILITY - further deteriorating the gas-supply infrastructure
THE ECONOMIC CONSEQUENCES
One wonders what the economy will look like, what grocery store prices will be like, in one month.
Headline: “Amazon set to add 3.5% surcharge for US, Canadian sellers due to elevated fuel costs” LINK
COMPOUNDING THE PROBLEM - UKRAINE
They hit another pipeline, it appears. Headline from RT: “Ukrainian drones target key US-linked oil hub in Russia – Defense Ministry — RT Russia & Former Soviet Union” LINK SUPREME COURT ACTIVITY RAMPS UP
For what it is worth, here is the latest from the SCOTUS, this pertaining to a Contempt of Congress charge against Steve Bannon. Headline: “Supreme Court vacates Steve Bannon contempt-of-Congress charges” LINK
- And the SCOTUS hearing of arguments re “Birthright Citizenship” is being portrayed as constitutionally tied to immigration policing. Since the immigration policing issue was left by the Founders to the states, and since the word “immigration” doesn’t appear in the federal constitution, the question of whether a person born to foreigners while those foreigners are in any state is a moot one when it comes to the feds kidnapping the child and sending the child to another nation.
Let’s dig into it with an overview and some key links. The case is called “Trump v. Barbara” (docket 25-365), and it challenges President Donald Trump’s executive order attempting to limit birthright citizenship.
SO, when it comes to State jurisdiction and how it ties to birthright citizenship (naturalization) (which, again, has nothing to do with federal immigration policing)? Let’s dispel the fiction that states don’t have legal (according to the Const, not Natural Rights) jurisdiction over all visiting foreigners save for dignitaries. Some examples of foreigners who were prosecuted for committing crimes in STATES, and who are IN PRISON in those states because the states hold jurisdiction over them.
1. Charles Ng (Hong Kong-born)Ng, a Hong Kong native who later served in the U.S. Marines, was captured in Canada after fleeing, extradited to California, and tried/convicted in Orange County Superior Court (California state court) in 1999 for 11 counts of first-degree murder (part of the notorious Leonard Lake/Charles Ng serial torture-murder spree in the 1980s). He was sentenced to death and remains on death row at the California Medical Facility (a California state prison) in Vacaville as of 2025–2026.
Wikipedia overview with case details and current status: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Ng
Recent confirmation of upheld conviction and ongoing incarceration (2022–2025 reports): https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/courts-upholds-death-penalty-for-charles-ng-1.6536811 and California Department of Corrections condemned inmate list references.
2. Christian Gerhartsreiter (aka “Clark Rockefeller”; German-born)
Gerhartsreiter, born in West Germany, was captured in the U.S. (Massachusetts) after a high-profile kidnapping case. He was tried and convicted in Los Angeles County Superior Court (California state court) in 2013 for the 1985 murder of Jonathan Sohus in San Marino, CA. Sentenced to 27 years to life; he is currently serving his sentence at San Quentin State Prison (California state prison) as of 2024–2025 reports. This was a major media case due to his elaborate con-artist/impostor history.
Wikipedia with full background and imprisonment details: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Gerhartsreiter
2024 Boston Globe report confirming ongoing imprisonment at San Quentin: https://www.bostonglobe.com/2024/11/11/opinion/con-artist-clark-rockefeller-prison-painter-journalist/
IMMIGRATION POLICE STATE
Another terrible story of state aggression. Headline: “Army veteran deported to Jamaica after decades in the US” LINK
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