Good Monday morning beloved sentients. The cartoon of Foghorn Leghorn shown above took me back to a time when the world loved America…and America led humanity down some joyful and harmonious paths. Canada was an enthusiastic follower…with our own unique twists, of course.
The Foghorn Leghorn cartoon series began in 1946, the year I was born. It continued to the early 1960’s….all during the heyday era of American animation. The Foghorn Leghorn rooster joined The Roadrunner, Disney’s Mickey Mouse, Sylvester and Tweety…and many other familiar characters who came into our theatres and homes via film and TV.
It seems to me that the trajectory of American cartoon animation parallels the trajectory of American culture popularity in the world. It ended, coincidentally, in the early 60’s when the US government, now occupied by Zionists after the assassination of JFK…started to betray America’s origins based on “the American Dream”...first in the jungles and swamps of Viet Nam….then in many other countries until now the routine is old and tattered
US Imperial Strategy: First, the Zionist mafia usurpers used the occupied US media to vilify a resource rich but militarily vulnerable country–then attack it on some jerry-rigged pretext or another. Finally, drag the entire world down so that…
Instead of watching the hilarious Foghorn Leghorn on our black and white TV’s we were forced to watch an interminable bloodbath of innocent people…followed by a half-hearted regret “period” before the next assault….
Oh! for the long gone days of Foghorn Leghorn.
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Warning:
Ali Larijani, secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, said Sunday that he had received information about an alleged plot to stage a 9/11-style attack and falsely blame it on Iran.
“I’ve heard that the remaining members of Epstein’s network have devised a conspiracy to create an incident similar to 9/11 and blame Iran for it,” he said on US-based social media company X.
Source middle East Monitor
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Greencrow comments: This is highly likely, In order to force the American military off to their deaths for Israel, there has to be some fabricated attack on US soil or its military. They will have to come up with a highly imaginative False Flag this time because the meme is tired…we’re sick of it!
Also, during the past few days Trump is stunningly demanding “allies” help open Strait of Hormuz. He wants to drag the NATO “allies”in so he can blame them for it being closed. Nobody’s buying it.
To channel yet another character from American cultural history….Trump has become the current “Tar Baby”. Nobody wants to touch him.
US cultural icon “Tar Baby” – illustration of ‘Brer Rabbit’ with tar baby.
Greencrow comments: Ironically, Trump has made the US into the “Tar Baby” of the globe.
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If Trump has already won the Iran war, why does he need foreign ships to help him end it?
“A week ago, President Donald Trump told Britain not to bother sending ships to the Middle East because he’d already won the Iran war.
Now, he’s calling on America’s “special relationship” ally; fellow NATO states; and even China to dispatch vessels to open the Strait of Hormuz. He implied that if help didn’t arrive, Europe’s US defense umbrella and his planned summit this month with Chinese leader Xi Jinping could be at risk.
Trump’s salvo, in an interview with the Financial Times, was a fresh sign that despite his multiple Iran victory laps, the war is far from over.”
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Greencrow comments: Trump is looking for an off ramp to get out of his long planned visit to China to meet with Xi. How can he face the humiliation of leaving the Persian Gulf in a shambles due to his blackmail caused war on Iran for Israel? What will Xi say to him about it? Xi doesn’t even have to say anything….as the Latin legal phrase goes Res Ipsa Loquitur...the thing speaks for itself.
Military News – Two US aircraft carriers in retreat?
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Greencrow comments: remember when I said [many times] on this blog that aircraft carriers are military dinosaurs…sitting ducks asking to be bombed….well….
And remember when Trump said…and I quote: “Canada has nothing we need.”
Canada to release additional 140K barrels of oil per day starting in April
Canada to release additional 140K barrels of oil per day starting in April
If Canada gets any more involved in the attack on iran than that there will be blood in the streets. There is a sizable Muslim population in Canada and, as well, most Canadians are sympathetic to Iran and realize it is fighting OUR battle against the Ziofascist monsters.
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Greencrow comments: Here is a very good op-ed that encapsulates the current situation:
Iran has Trump over a barrel after his bungling | Opinion
Iran has Trump over a barrel after his bungling | Opinion
Opinion by John Stoehr
“I was telling you the other day that the Iranians have the president’s number. They know that all they have to do to win this war is exhaust his will to fight with enough “economic pain.”
Donald Trump’s will to fight was already limited, as the point of the war was creating conditions in which an old, depleted and unpopular president looked big, tough and loved on American TV.
But I’m having second thoughts. Trump is going to want to TACO – I would guess very soon – but war against this regime isn’t like invading Venezuela. Trump might want to quit, but the Iranians are setting things up so he will have to ask for their permission.
The risk could be worse even than a forever war: The US “must consider the possibility that they will be engaged in a long-term war of attrition that will destroy the entire American economy and the world economy,” said Ali Fadavi, advisor to the Iranian Revolutionary Guards’ commander-in-chief, according to AFP.
What I’m thinking of is this morning’s attacks on three oil tankers in the Strait of Hormuz, a narrow section of the Persian Gulf through which passes about 20 percent of the world’s oil supply. The Iranians had brought the shipping lane to a stand-still since the start of Trump’s war. That’s the chief reason oil prices soared Monday. (In my neighborhood in New Haven, the price at the cheap gas station spiked by about 80 cents in the last week.)
Because Iran has also been mining the waters, shipping firms have asked the US Navy for escorts. Trump hyped the possibility to ease markets, but the Times reported today that the Navy has declined all requests. Last night, Trump said US forces destroyed 10 “mine-laying vessels,” but the AP described them as “inactive.”
Trump was warned. He was told that a war with Iran could trigger oil shocks, especially at home, where the affordability issue is the primary force eating the heart out of his presidency. But the risks were “downplayed,” the Times said, in favor of a plan to “decapitate” Iran. While the military told Trump the regime would fight to the death, “other advisers remained confident that killing Iran’s senior leadership would lead to more pragmatic leaders taking over who might bring an end to the war.”
Obviously, that didn’t happen. First, because Israel, not the US, killed Ali Khamenei. Second, because his son, Mojtaba Khamenei, the new supreme leader, is more determined to prolong combat to avenge the deaths of his dad, mom, wife and son. Yesterday, a US official tried to commence ceasefire talks. Khamenei said no.
Trump thought Iran was going to be another Venezuela. In addition to the Times reporting, that’s clear from his demands. He said he wanted “UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER.” He said he wanted a say in who is chosen to be Iran’s next leader. He called on the dissidents to rise up and overthrow the government. He suggested the US would take a stake in Iran’s oil reserves.
All these things happened, to varying degrees, in Venezuela. No one appears to have told Trump that the new enemy is Iranian or that Iranians don’t roll over. But even if someone had, it probably would not have changed his thinking. Things are going badly at home. A made-for-TV war would change the subject. And anyway, what’s one s——- country compared to another?
Iran’s agency was minimized so much in Trump’s war-planning that it was just assumed oil prices would return to normal at the end of the war. “The purposeful disruption in the oil market by the Iranian regime is short term, and necessary for the long-term gain of wiping out these terrorists and the threat they pose to America and the world,” Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said.
But, as they say, the enemy gets a vote.
This morning, Iran took responsibility for attacking three oil tankers. A drone strike also hit a port in Oman. Now, the AP said “the Iran war has blocked the Strait of Hormuz.” In response, the International Energy Agency said member countries would release a historic 400 million barrels of reserve oil. But, according to the Times, oil prices shot up anyway. Meanwhile, when asked about reopening the strait, the president told Newsweek: “It’s working out very well, and I think you are going to see that.”
Trump is lying, because lies are pretty much all he and his top aides have left. Evidently, they thought this war was going to be easy-peasy. There was no plan for regime change, according to US Senator Chris Murphy, after a classified briefing. There was no plan for stopping Iran’s nuclear program. And there was no plan for the Strait of Hormuz. “They don’t know how to get it safely back open,” Murphy said, “which is unforgiveable, because this part of the disaster was 100 percent foreseeable.”
The US energy secretary tried easing concerns Sunday by saying oil prices will drop once the US stops Iran’s ability to attack oil tankers. “We’re massively attriting their ability to strike with missiles and drones, and that rate of attrition will increase in the coming days,” Chris Wright told Fox. “Energy will flow soon.”
But even if that was achieved today, it would be “months before we started to see oil come down,” according to CNN. “One oil analyst said it could take one to three months after the conflict is over to start getting oil back to normal through the Strait of Hormuz.”
And that’s assuming the US has the capacity to reopen the strait and guarantee safe passage for oil tankers in the future. Some experts say that would likely take a massive ground invasion, a generation-defining investment of resources and manpower that American public opinion is united in saying is out of the question.
Iran is winning, suggested Newt Gingrich. Without a plan for the strait, Iran has Trump over a barrel. “If they can’t keep it open, this war will in fact be an American defeat before very long, because the entire world, including the American people, will react to the price of oil if the strait stays closed,” he said.
Trump finds himself in a place familiar to previous presidents mired in forever wars. He can’t leave without hurting himself. He can’t stay without hurting himself. He’s going to lie in the hope that lying frees him from responsibility. But as the saying goes, the enemy has a vote. Chickening out is no longer an option.
He can TACO when Iran says he can.“
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Greencrow continues: Below is a photo of one of the prominent Iranian leaders walking with the people through the streets. Mojtaba Khamenei still has not appeared in public since the February 28th attack that killed most of his family. While he has released one statement…the reins of the Iranian government appear to be in the courageous hands of several competent leaders. There has been a rumour Khamenei was taken to Moscow for medical treatment because his injuries are more serious than has been made public.
The above photo was taken from the excellent former CIA analyst Larry Johnson blog post at Sonar21 made a day or two ago. Here is the link to that analysis
The Empire is Losing Control – Consequences
The Empire is Losing Control – Consequences
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Finally, while there are several [possibly AI] reported sightings of Netanyahu—he is still not doing his job—chairing the Israeli Security Council meetings. That’s where the rubber hits the road.
Greencrow concludes: As I said at the outset of this post—the foundational positive, inspirational reputation of America has been forever lost. Now America has been rendered into a daily, deadly clown show by an obnoxious bully.
Gone forever are the days when America was the Mecca for modern cultural entertainment, innovation and….most of all….global freedom. Now, the Trump regime is hounding all the American free speakers like Tucker Carlson OUT of the country.
How it will end, no one knows—it doesn’t look pretty from today’s vantage point to the horiZon.
Stay tuned.
Greencrow as the crow flies 