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not directly related to this thread But check out the new price average New vehicles now sell for an average of nearly $50,000 https://www.pbs.org/newshour/economy/new-vehicles-now-sell-f...

The Trump administration’s account of an incident on Saturday involving two U.S. Navy destroyers near the Strait of Hormuz appeared to be undercut Sunday as Iranian state media released footage contradicting claims made by the Department of Defense. On Saturday, U.S. Central Command claimed that two U.S. Navy destroyers had successfully “transited the Strait of Hormuz” and began operations to clear the waterway of sea mines placed by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. President Donald Trump repeated the claim in a social media post, while a U.S. official also said destroyers had not received a threat from the IRGC, per Axios' Barak Ravid. Tehran refuted the Trump administration’s claim, however, with a report from Bloomberg suggesting that the two destroyers were “forced to turn back” after receiving threats from the IRGC, and that the destroyers had not passed through the strait.

The US is wasting time and resources in overseas conflicts, National security should be built on domestic strength, specifically by securing our power grid and reducing global oil dependence. We have the technology, tools, solar, wind, advanced battery storage, nuclear power and electric vehicles to make this happen. We have the wrong people in place to make this happen.

What China Just Learned From the Iran War: Beijing watched America bomb Iran and drew its own conclusions about red lines, deterrence, and Taiwan. The lessons are not the ones Washington wants China to learn: A blockade of Taiwan would hurt the global economy more than Iran’s blockade of the Strait of Hormuz. https://www.theatlantic.com/national-security/2026/04/china-...

and N Korea is sidelined by the USA because N Korea does not have anything we 'want' i.e. oil gold silver rare earth......

Iran Newspapers and News Media Guide http://www.abyznewslinks.com/iran.htm

good book highly recommend Iran: A Modern History Charting the rise of modern Iran with Yale historian Abbas Amanat https://macmillan.yale.edu/middleeast/iran/publications/iran...

"History does not repeat itself, it rhymes"

Iran a Modern History Very good book highly recommend it https://macmillan.yale.edu/middleeast/iran/publications/iran...

Who Knew ‘Slick’ Gavin Newsom Was Such an Economic Maestro? https://archive.is/AuMwz#selection-1193.0-1193.59

isn't that on oxymoron?

Iran's 10-point plan includes:

1. Guarantee that Iran will not be attacked again

2. Permanent end to the war, not just a ceasefire

3. End to Israeli strikes in Lebanon

4. Lifting of all US sanctions on Iran

5. End to all regional fighting against Iranian allies

6. In return, Iran would open the Strait of Hormuz

7. Iran would impose a Hormuz fee of $2 million per ship

8. Iran would split these fees with Oman

9. Iran to provide rules for safe passage through Hormuz

10. Iran to use Hormuz fees for reconstruction instead of reparations

Those that use mychart; in the messaging conversation section where you message your health care providers. In the past you could delete that conversation. No more. Inquired as to why the delete feature was gone and was told, that now all the conversations are part of your medical record. And who has access let alone who's selling those records? You want a private conversation with your doctor? Have it in person with them.

discussion here: https://www.reddit.com/r/MiddleClassFinance/comments/1scs22h...

security should be built on domestic strength, specifically by securing our power grid and reducing global oil dependence. We have the technology, tools, solar, wind, advanced battery storage, nuclear power to make this happen. We have the wrong people in place to make this happen.

garlic tabs will do that

why?

is it not basically just an iPhone? (I have not had a mac since the classic mac)

stl ?

why? they will be allowed to pass through the strait with no problem

This is going to be a longer war. Iran is slowly burning up the Israeli missile defense stockpiles when one Iranian drone receives 10 missiles fired in defense. When the stockpiles are gone, then the Iranian counter-attack will begin in earnest

Only the dumbest people think that a spontaneous uprising occurs during a bombing campaign. And the new leaders will be as hardline as the old

he looks sinister

and this would add to the already sky high debt

Do you continue to help build the architecture of authoritarianism?

I do I'm peculiar

“the First Amendment is a cheap thing if all it provides is the assurance that one may say what a current majority is willing to hear.” Charles Rembar

Edith Bolling Wilson, Woodrow Wilson's second wife, is sometimes described as America's first woman President because of the role she played after the President's massive stroke in October 1919 https://millercenter.org/president/wilson/essays/wilson-edit...

I dont trust this

“ The republic which sinks to sleep, trusting to constitutions and machinery, to politicians and statesmen, for the safety of its liberties, never will have any,” Wendell Phillips 1850 born in 1811 Boston Massachusetts he graduated Harvard law School when he was 16

and what or whom cleans the machine?