Trump threatens to 'obliterate' Iran’s Kharg Island

          (Staff post from THE ABC NEWS AUS on 31 March 2026.)

Trump threatens to 'obliterate' Iranian oil and energy sites if it refuses deal to end war: Donald Trump is threatening to obliterate Kharg Island, which is responsible for 90 per cent of Iran's oil production.  

Donald Trump is threatening to obliterate Iran's energy plants and oil wells if it does not reopen the Strait of Hormuz. The US president posted on his platform Truth Social that the United States would be "blowing up" Iran's strategically important Kharg Island if the nation's leaders refused to make a deal.

He went on to write that the US was in "serious discussions" with a "NEW, AND MORE REASONABLE, REGIME" to end the war. "Great progress has been made but, if for any reason a deal is not shortly reached, which it probably will be, and if the Hormuz Strait is not immediately "Open for Business," we will conclude our lovely "stay" in Iran by blowing up and completely obliterating all of their Electric Generating Plants, Oil Wells and Kharg Island (and possibly all desalinization plants!), which we have purposefully not yet "touched"," he said.

PM Albanese Chased Out of Lakemba Mosque!

           (Matt Hampson’s post from THE SKY NEWS AUS on 22 March 2026.)

‘He should read the tea leaves’: Anthony Albanese deeply unpopular across Australia after mosque heckling. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese's reception at the Lakemba mosque has highlighted his deep unpopularity among broad sections of the country, Barnaby Joyce says.

Anthony Albanese has united broad sections of Australia in their disapproval of his leadership after he was heckled and booed at a Western Sydney mosque. The Prime Minister and Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke were met with hostility during a visit to Lakemba Mosque for Eid prayers marking the end of Ramadan.

Protesters shouted at the senior Labor figures after prayers concluded, with one calling Mr Albanese’s appearance a “disgrace”. Questioned about the mosque incident, One Nation MP Barnaby Joyce on Sunday offered a blunt four-word assessment of Mr Albanese’s leadership: “He can’t do it”.

Get Out of NYC Then (2022), Now Please Come Back!

         (Vaughn Golden’s post from THE YAHOO NEWS on 19 March 2026.)

Desperate Hochul begs wealthy New Yorkers to come back — as Mamdani pressures her to hike their taxes: NY Gov. Kathy Hochul is urging wealthy New Yorkers who have left the city to return, citing competition with other states with lower tax burdens.

NY State Gov. Kathy Hochul is begging wealthy New Yorkers who fled the city to encourage their rich pals to come back and continue padding the Empire State’s lavish public handouts. Hochul made the case against caving to Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s demands that she hike income taxes — by saying she not only wants fat cats to stay in the city, but also by clawing at those who have moved to states with better business climates like Florida.

“Maybe the first step should be to go down to Palm Beach and see who we can bring back home because our tax base has been eroded,” the Democratic governor said at a forum hosted by Politico last week. “I have to look at the fact that we are in competition with other states who have less of a tax burden on their corporations and their individuals,” she said.

USS Tripoli with Marine Division in Strait of Hormuz

(Shishir Gupta’s post from THE HINDUSTAN TIMES on 20 March 2026.)

US Navy giant 'Tripoli' set to enter warzone, may break Strait of Hormuz chokehold: USS Tripoli provides US an opportunity to put troops on ground to secure the Strait of Hormuz, key waterway choked since the conflict began on Feb 28.

The direction that on-going US-Israel-Iran war will take will be decided next week when 50,000 ton USS Tripoli, amphibious assault ship, carrying over 2000 marines of the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU) enters the war theatre in north Arabian sea.

The huge ship with top of the line fighters on board is currently south of Sri Lanka in south Indian Ocean and is on way to force multiply the USS Abraham Lincoln carrier strike group in Gulf of Oman.

The huge ship with top of the line fighters on board is currently south of Sri Lanka in south Indian Ocean and is on way to force multiply the USS Abraham Lincoln carrier strike group in Gulf of Oman. USS Tripoli is 844 feet long (USS Ford, the largest war ship in the world is 1106 feet long) with F-35, MV-22 Osprey and MH60S Seahawk Helicopters on board. It is accompanied with landing ship decks (LSDs) for deploying Marines on enemy land. The battleship is expected to enter the war theatre around March 22-23.

Iranian women's football team back in Iran!

        (Staff post from THE ABC NEWS AUS on 19 March 2026.)

Iranian women's football team back in Iran, state media announces: Iran's national women's football team has returned to the Islamic Republic after several of the players sought asylum in Australia, Iranian media is reporting.

The outlets shared footage of the players entering Iran after landing in Türkiye and taking a bus to the border. They were greeted by some officials at the border. Most of the team's players left Australia last week, travelling through Malaysia and Oman on their way to Türkiye.

Two Iranian female players, Fatemeh Pasandideh and Atefeh Ramezanisadeh, chose to remain in Australia and have been training with the Brisbane Roar club. Others who initially sought asylum after the team was knocked out of the Women's Asian Cup later changed their minds and said they would return to Iran.

US Seizure of Strategic Kharg Island, Iranian oil?

              (Staff post from THE NEW ARAB NEWS on 07 March 2026.)

A tiny island in the Persian Gulf could be Trump’s secret weapon against Iran. Kharg island holds 94 per cent of Iran’s oil exports and could choke off the country’s economy for years:  American analysts have floated the possibility of the US military seizing control of Iran's largest oil export terminal on Kharg Island: Left is the satellite view of Kharg Island, which hosts Iran's largest oil export terminal.  

A senior US official vowed to take control of Iran's oil on Friday as the devastating regional conflict triggered by the US-Israeli war on Iran neared its second week. "What we want to do is to get such massive oil reserves in Iran out of the hands of terrorists," White House advisor Jarrod Agen said in an interview with Fox Business. 

"Ultimately, we’re not going to have to worry about these issues in the Strait of Hormuz," he said, referring to the strategic Gulf chokepoint vital for global energy. We’re going to get all of the oil out of the hands of terrorists," the official said.

Iran’s Mosaic Defence Doctrine?

           (Staff post from THE NDTV NEWS on 13 March 2026.)

Who Is Mohammad Ali Jafari, Man Behind Iran's Impenetrable 'Mosaic Defence': Mosaic Defence is an Iranian military concept to organise the state's defensive structure into multiple regional and semi-independent layers instead of concentrating power in a single command chain that can be paralysed by a decapitation strike.

When the United States and Israel launched the devastating air campaign on Iran under "Operation Epic Fury," Donald Trump expected a Venezuela-like regime change in Tehran. But nearly two weeks into the war, Iran's Islamic regime continues to fight back, mounting attacks across the Middle East despite several losses to its top leadership.

Experts believe the Islamic Republic's ability to continue the fight stems from its military's Mosaic Defence' doctrine, created years ago by Iranian strategist Mohammad Ali Jafari. Iran's Foreign Minister Seyed Abbas Araghchi describes Iran's defence strategy as a "two-decade study" into "defeats of the US military to our immediate east and west."

US Navy No Longer Fears Suicide Drone Swarms

           (Inder Sing Bisht’s post from THE DEFENSE POST on02 April 2024.)

US Navy to Test Onboard Microwave Weapon in 2026: The US Navy plans to mount a high-powered microwave-based counter-air defense system prototype on one of its vessels in 2026.

The METEOR will be the navy’s first high-powered microwave (HPM) project to counter targets such as drones and anti-ship missiles, USNI News wrote, citing the Navy’s Fiscal Year 2025 budget documents. The US Army and the US Air Force have already been working on their own HPM projects, in addition to other directed energy projects such as lasers.

Advantages Over Lasers: Unlike laser weapons, which melt, burn, or vaporize a target with a high-powered beam, a microwave system can produce a range of effects from disrupting or destroying a target’s electronics to greater destruction. Its wider beam also reportedly holds an edge over the laser to counter multiple targets, such as drone swarms, faster.

Ayatollah Khamenei’s Personal Nurse’s Confession!

(Dr. Leila Husseini Rafsanjani’s post from the usa.kenhnhadep.com on 04 March 2026.)

Khamenei’s Personal Nurse Goes Viral After Her Confession: ‘I Begged HIM to SURRENDER to JESUS’.

I begged Iran’s Supreme Leader to surrender to Jesus Christ. I was his personal nurse for six years. I held his hand through his cancer treatments. And 3 weeks before he died, I looked him in the eyes and told him the truth. What you’re about to hear is my full testimony.

I am recording this on March 4th, 2026. 4 days ago, the Supreme Leader I served was killed in an air strike. I escaped from Evin Prison during the chaos. His son is about to be named the new supreme leader. And if the Islamic Republic finds me, I will not live to see tomorrow. But the world needs to hear this. All of Iran needs to hear this. So I am speaking while I still can.

My name is Dr. Leila Husseini Rafsanjani. I am 42 years old. I was born in Isfahan, Iran in 1984, 6 years after the Islamic Revolution. My father was a low-ranking mullah. My mother was a housewife who never learned to read. I have two younger brothers who became engineers. I was the only daughter, the invisible daughter.

Long History of Bad-Blood between US and Mad-Mullahs

        (Jefferey Fields’s post from THE CONVERSATION on 18 June 2025.)

US and Iran have a long, complicated history, spanning decades before US strikes on nuclear sites: With the U.S. bombing of three nuclear sites in Iran, relations between the two countries have arguably reached one of the lowest points in modern times.

But the bad blood between the two countries isn’t new: The U.S. and Iran have been in conflict for decades – at least since the U.S. helped overthrow a democracy-minded prime minister, Mohammed Mossadegh, in August 1953. The U.S. then supported the long, repressive reign of the Shah of Iran, whose security services brutalized Iranian citizens for decades.

The two countries have been particularly hostile to each other since Iranian students took over the U.S. Embassy in Tehran in November 1979, resulting in economic sanctions and the severing of formal diplomatic relations between the nations.

Singapore is Dying: TFR Collapsed to 0.87!

                (Staff post from the STRAIT TIMES NEWS on 27 February 2026.)

SINGAPORE – Singapore plans to take in between 25,000 and 30,000 new citizens every year over the next five years, as the government moves to offset falling birth rates and a rapidly aging population.

Deputy Prime Minister Gan Kim Yong, speaking on Feb. 26 during the debate on the Prime Minister’s Office budget, said the citizen population could start shrinking by the early 2040s without intervention, as Singapore’s total fertility rate (TFR) fell to a record low of 0.87 in 2025.

“Over time, it will be practically impossible to reverse the trend, because we will have fewer and fewer women who can bear children,” DPM Gan said, noting that the TFR decline translates to just 44 children and 19 grandchildren for every 100 residents today.

He stressed the need for a “carefully managed immigration flow to augment our low birth rate,” while maintaining a stable citizen core and ensuring that new arrivals do not overwhelm public infrastructure such as housing and transport.

Ayatollah Khamenei is Dead: Burn-in-Hell MOFO!

        (Staff post from the SYDNEY MORNING HERALD on 01 March 2026.)

‘One of the most evil people in history’: Khamenei killed in strikes, Trump confirms. US President Donald Trump says the death of Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei is the “greatest chance” for Iranians to take back the country following a stunning new chapter in American military intervention that opens the potential for retaliatory violence in the Middle East and elsewhere.

Iranian state media confirmed the death, without elaborating on a cause of death, following the most ambitious strikes on the country by the United States and Israel in decades on Saturday Australian time.

In a social media post on Sunday Australian time, Trump called Khamenei “one of the most evil people in history” and said that “heavy and pinpoint bombing” would continue “uninterrupted” in the coming week and possibly beyond.

US President Donald Trump said that Ayatollah Ali Khamenei could not escape the US and Israeli web of surveillance. “This is not only Justice for the people of Iran, but for all Great Americans, and those people from many Countries throughout the World, that have been killed or mutilated by Khamenei,” he said in the post.

NYC Is Truly Fucked by Mamdani’s Muslims?

(Based on public posts from the FACE BOOK in February 2026.)

Since that Islamist-Communist Zohran Mamdani’s winning of the NYC mayoral elections last year the World’s Greatest City, the New York City, has gone to the dogs as the Islamists completed their takeover of NYC.

All the grand promises of Mamdani are gone too. First the promise of Rent Freeze. But now NYC rents are rising fast instead of falling down since Mamdani’s announcement of ten percent rise in property taxes to pay for his massive 127-billion-dollar budget which is bigger than the 117-billion-dollar budget of the whole State of Florida.

Second the promise of free buses and subsidized people grocery shops are both gone as the New York State Governor has bitterly rejected the Mamdani’s plan of two percent more tax on NYC billionaires.

NSW Police Busted Muslim Protesters Praying

(Nicola Smith’s post from the FINANCIAL REVIEW on 11 February 2026.)

NSW Police blasted over treatment of praying protesters at rally: New South Wales police crossed a red line when they forcefully disrupted Muslims praying on the street during a protest against Israeli President Isaac Herzog, says Australia’s special envoy to combat Islamophobia.

Envoy Aftab Malik has demanded an apology for the police treatment of praying protesters, saying it was “simply unacceptable”. A decision by the Albanese government to invite Herzog this week to console the Jewish community in the aftermath of the Bondi attack prompted nationwide demonstrations against the Israeli government’s actions in Gaza and angry confrontations with the police on Monday night.

In one widely shared incident, NSW Police appeared to repeatedly punch an unarmed man showing officers his hands and in another, a group of Muslim men kneeling in prayer outside the Town Hall were roughly moved on by officers.

NSW Premier Chris Minns said there was “no suggestion under any circumstances that police would have wanted to cause offence to the people praying or get in the way of people lawfully exercising their religion”.

Mandani’s New York City Is Open Landfill Site?

     (Sarah Fortnisky’s post from the HILLS on 02February 2026.)

Christie rips Mamdani over garbage removal in New York City: Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) criticized New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani (D) for his handling of the snow cleanup and subsequent garbage removal since last month’s major storm.

“I give him a C because he seemed to move a bunch of the snow, but couldn’t figure out how to do anything else when that was going on,” Christie said in an interview on “Real Time with Bill Maher” on Friday, when asked to grade Mamdani’s performance during the storm.

“He didn’t pick up the garbage. You walk through it — all our kids live in New York City. I’ve been there since the snowstorm — the garbage is piled up everywhere,” he continued. Streets in New York City have been littered with garbage bags as pickup delays have plagued the five boroughs since a foot of snow blanketed the city late last month.

Xi Jinping’s Slow-Motion Fall from Grace

              (Lim Tean’s post from the FACEBOOK on 30 January 2026.)

Xi Jinping’s Hua Guofeng Moment: How A Strongman Lost Power In A Slow-Motion Coup. I am often accused of “sensationalism” when I write about Chinese politics. Usually, it’s from those who mistake visibility for authority and press statements for power. They can never comprehend that Beijing operates though omission, ritual,and silence- who disappears, who stops being mentioned, which roles hollow out while titles remain.

To demand literal proof in this system is not prudence- it’s ignorance. Real China-watching is about reading tea leaves, not headlines. What’s happening to Xi Jinping right now is a slow-motion political coup, the kind Deng Xiaoping perfected against Hua Guofeng( Mao’s succcessor) over 3 years between 1978-81.

Hua wasn’t overthrown with tanks or public announcements; he was quietly marginalised, stripped of real authority while keeping his titles, as Deng rebuilt alliances and shifted institutional power behind the scenes.

Mother-Fucker Is Dying? Dictator Wounded By Rockets

Is Myanmar Dictator Senior-General Min Aung Hlaing dying or even dead? That is the question every Burmese and his or her dog eagerly asking for answer right now. In the early morning of February-27 inside the Mandalay Palace, five of the seven Chinese-made 107mm shock rockets landed and it was later confirmed by Myanmar Army sources that several Burmese army officers were killed.

Rumours later are that Min Aung Hlaing himself was seriously wounded and ended up in a military hospital. He was inside the Palace preparing to participate in the Buddhist Ceremony for crowning himself as the King of Myanmar.

Apparently, his secret plan was leaked to the Resistance Forces by one of his so-called loyal generals and the Mandalay PDF (People Défense Force) had managed to fire seven 107mm Chinese Shock Rockets at his temporary residence at the Myanmar Army’s Middle Command HQ (La.Pha.Kha.). 

Failed Military Coup: Xi Jinping Still in Power?

  (Translation of Si Thu Soe’s post from the FACEBOOK on 28 January 2026.)

China’s Paramount Leader, President Xi Jinping, was at the Jingxi Hotel in Beijing in early January when the PLA troops loyal to General Zang Youxia and General Liu Zhenli went in and tried to arrest him.

Unfortunately for the two rebelling PLA generals the coup plot was leaked just a few hours before the raid and the loyal troops of Xi Jinping managed to immediately arrest General Zang Youxia. But just before his capture the 75-years-old General Youxia had managed to contact his deputy General Liu Zhenli.

General Liu Zhenli sent a heavily-armed PLA war-column and rescued his boss General Youxia and took him away to the PLA HQ in Bejing. President Xi Jinping had now fled and hiding inside an underground military tunnel at 600 ft below a fortified Beijing PLA base.

10,000+ Iranians Killed inside Prisons by the Guards

         (Staff post from the MSN on 27 January 2026.)

Activists have claimed that Iranian protesters captured by the regime's security forces are being executed by prison guards, who then say they died amid the brutal crackdown on mass riots. Kimia Alizadeh, an Iranian-born Olympic athlete, took to social media to share what she claims was a harrowing account of the regime's actions.

According to a Tehran-based lawyer who spoke to her, civilians who were arrested for taking part in the mass protests against the regime from late December to mid-January are being executed. Their deaths are being 'registered as "killed on previous days" by prison guards.'

The lawyer purportedly told the athlete: 'There is no trial. There is no investigation. The coroner confirms the death for the past few days. 'Our hearts and eyes burn with blood, mourning, and anger.' Protests in Iran erupted in late December following the fall in value of the country's currency.

With the nation already in years-long economic turmoil - caused by mismanagement of the country's finances, major sanctions from the UN, US and EU, and America's joint military operation with Israel to take out Iran's nuclear capabilities - the fall in value of the Iranian rial left the country's citizens furious. Protests began in Tehran and quickly spread across the country. In response, the regime harshly cracked down on them.

Coup Foiled in China: Xi Purges All Top Generals!

(Noor Quarashi’s post from the DAILY MAIL UK on 25 January 2026.)

President Xi's military purge claims biggest victim as he removes China's top general and takes total charge of armed forces - fuelling fresh uncertainty over invading Taiwan: President Xi has achieved total control of China's armed forces after removing a top general over alleged 'violations of discipline and law'.

Zhang Youxia is the latest high-ranking figure subjected to Xi Jinping's long-running purge of military officials. The move is said to have fuelled fresh uncertainty over the country's invasion of Taiwan amid doubts Mr Xi could pull off the contingency with 'no senior leaders in charge'.

Gen Zhang, the operational leader of the People's Liberation Army (PLA) had survived several round of removals and was previously thought safe in his role as a close childhood friend of the president. The 75-year-old, who is a member of the ruling politburo, is also one of the only Chinese military commanders with combat experience - having fought in the 1979 Vietnam war.

US copied Iran's Shahed Kamikaze drones

(Anika Burgess’s post from the ABC NEWS AUSTRALIA on 24 January 2026.)

The US developed its own version of Iran's Shahed attack drones called the Low-cost Unmanned Combat Attack System. Russia's version of Iran's fast, cheap Shahed attack drones have been wreaking havoc during the Ukraine conflict, saturating the skies nearly every night and terrorising civilians.

Highly adaptive and hard to intercept, the United States witnessed how the long-range exploding drones profoundly reshaped the Ukraine war. So they got hold of one and reverse-engineered it. The Pentagon did not attempt to hide that its new Low-cost Unmanned Combat Attack System (LUCAS) drone was based on the Iranian Shahed-136 when it was unveiled last year.

The US Air Force had released a request for information seeking to develop "a 1:1 copy" of the so-called kamikaze drone. US officials even told CNN and defence publication The War Zone that a LUCAS squadron was deployed to the Middle East in December "to flip the script on Iran".

Why Does Trump Want Ice-Covered Greenland?

(James FitzGerald’s post from the BBC NEWS UK on 22 January 2026.)

Why does Trump want Greenland and what could it mean for Nato and the EU? US President Donald Trump has said he is seeking "immediate negotiations" to acquire Greenland for national security reasons - and insisted he "won't use force".

His repeated demands to take control of the territory have been rejected by Greenland's leaders, and by Nato member Denmark, of which the island is a semi-autonomous territory. This has led to a wider diplomatic row, with Trump initially threatening additional trade tariffs against a number of European allies for opposing his plans.

At the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Trump said he had dropped the proposed tariffs after forming "the framework of a future deal with respect to Greenland" following talks with Nato Secretary General Mark Rutte.

Everlasting Empire: Trump USA's Donroe Doctrine

(Staff post from the WIKIPEDIA’s DONROE DOCTRINE in January 2026.)

The Donroe Doctrine, alternatively styled as the Trump Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine, refers to principles of President Donald Trump's foreign policy in the Americas. An adaption of the historical Monroe Doctrine, it describes a perceived desire by the second Trump administration to assert American predominance in the Western Hemisphere.

Trump's efforts to rename the Gulf of Mexico, acquire Canada, the Panama Canal and Greenland as well as pursuing military action against Venezuela have all been cited as part of a Trump corollary to the Monroe Doctrine. Additionally, Trump's "America First" agenda and skepticism of multilateralism has contributed to a view that the U.S. is focusing on its own hemisphere at the expense of traditional alliances, such as NATO.

Following U.S. strikes in Venezuela, Trump himself referred to "the Donroe Doctrine", stating that "American dominance in the Western Hemisphere will never be questioned again". While supporters see the doctrine as restoring American primacy and combatting the influence of China and Russia in the region, critics have suggested that it could set a precedent for illiberal regimes to violate the rule of law and pursue territorial expansion.

Sino-Burmese Wars (1765-1769)

      (Aron Plamondon’s post from the EBSCO in 2023.)

The Burmese-Chinese Wars were a series of military conflicts primarily between the Burmese kingdoms and the Chinese Ming Dynasty, spanning from the mid-15th to the late 18th centuries.

These wars were largely influenced by the complex relationship between the Tai peoples, including the Shans of Burma, and the Chinese, who sought to assert control over the region, particularly the strategic Irrawaddy waterway.

The first significant conflict began in 1438, driven by the ambitions of a Maw Shan chieftain, Thonganbwa, which led to a protracted struggle for dominance. Throughout the following decades, the wars involved numerous battles, shifting allegiances, and periods of both conflict and uneasy peace.

Notably, the conflict in the 1760s was sparked by Burmese incursions into Shan territories, prompting Chinese military responses that ultimately ended in failure. The conclusion of the last major conflict in 1769 resulted in the Kuangton Treaty, which fostered a temporary restoration of trade and diplomatic exchanges.

Why US will never collapse as the empire?

             (AI Overview from the Google Search on 31 December 2025.)

The United States has not experienced a traditional "collapse" like historical empires due to a combination of unique geographic, economic, and political factors. Unlike empires that relied on ruling over unwilling subjects and remote colonies, the U.S. established a form of global influence often described as a "rules-based international system" or a "benign hegemon".

Key reasons cited for the US's resilience and longevity include: Geographic Security and Resources: The continental U.S. is geographically isolated from powerful adversaries by two large oceans and possesses vast natural resources and a large, fertile landmass. This has largely shielded it from the sort of foreign invasions and constant border wars that contributed to the collapse of past empires like Rome.

Economic Strength: The U.S. has long maintained the world's largest and most diverse economy, supported by a strong internal market and the global dominance of the U.S. dollar as the world's reserve currency. This financial influence allows it to exert power differently than traditional empires, often through economic means and globalization, rather than direct colonial rule.