As of today, July 20, 2026, the Bab al-Mandeb Strait has not been fully closed, although it is under significant threat.  Yemen’s Houthi rebels announced a maritime embargo against Saudi Arabia on Monday, with Houthi officials stating the strait will be closed to Saudi vessels in retaliation for an alleged attack on Sanaa International Airport.

The US has 100 KC 135 refueling jets parked on open tarmacs (not in hangars) on 2 airfields near Port of Eilat. This will be 

the next target if the escalation path continues. That and the Kuwait desalination and electricity will force Kuwaitis to flee their country.

Also the Israeli petrochemical industry and their desalination and electrical generation plants.

Admiral Alford Thayer Mahan's 100 year-old theory of geopolitics and sea power was ended by missiles in Yemen, Iran and elsewhere.

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 "I'm Not Living In Communist America": Bill Maher Blasts Marxist DSA Democrats, Says He May Vote For JD Vance

"Don't tell me I'm not seeing what I am seeing."

 https://www.zerohedge.com/political/im-not-living-communist-america-bill-maher-blasts-marxist-dsa-democrats-says-he-may-vote

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Trump Vows Iran Will Pay 'Many Times Over' For US Troop Deaths, As Mediators Push 10-Day Ceasefire

Tehran says 'open' to diplomacy but would continue self-defense

 https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/mediators-float-10-day-ceasefire-pezeshkian-tells-citizens-iran-engaged-full-scale-war

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 Pepe Escobar: ALL BETS ARE OFF: US Strike on Iranian Nuclear Site Triggers Dangerous New Escalation

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRZIxv24DoA

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FBI Calls Incendiary Attack On Manhattan Federal Building An "Anti-Government Attack"

"A low IQ suspected left-wing..."

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/explosion-shooting-reported-outside-26-federal-plaza-lower-manhattan

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 Oh My F**king God, They're Doing It Again

Wall Street is again using insurance guarantees to turn difficult-to-rate credit exposure into highly rated securities.

 https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/oh-my-fking-god-theyre-doing-it-again

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Judge Slaps A 14-Day Timeout On Paramount-Warner Bros. Mega-Merger

California Attorney General Rob Bonta, leading the charge, argues the merger would "extinguish competition"

 https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/judge-slaps-14-day-timeout-paramount-warner-bros-mega-merger

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RNC Sues To Stop Non-Residents From Voting In Six States

"If you've never lived in a state, you shouldn't be voting in its elections..."

 https://www.zerohedge.com/political/rnc-sues-stop-non-residents-voting-six-states

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 Buyers Trading In Vehicles With Negative Equity Face Record Monthly Payments: Edmunds

Nearly 30% of U.S. auto trade-ins had negative equity in the second quarter...

 https://www.zerohedge.com/personal-finance/buyers-trading-vehicles-negative-equity-face-record-monthly-payments-edmunds

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 US Gas Prices Cross Politically Sensitive $4 Level Closely Watched By Trump

"Taco Tuesday" inbound?

 https://www.zerohedge.com/energy/us-gas-prices-cross-politically-sensitive-4-level-closely-watched-trump

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SpaceX Has Pumped & Dumped Like Few Other IPOs

It started so well..

 https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/spacex-has-pumped-dumped-few-other-ipos

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Tungsten Miner Soars After Billionaire Forrest Takes 17% Stake

EQ Resources controls one of the largest operating tungsten platforms outside China.

 https://www.zerohedge.com/commodities/tungsten-miner-soars-after-billionaire-forrest-takes-17-stake

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Diesel squeeze tightens across Europe as Iraq buys gasoline and Houthis threaten Saudi oil flows.

 IRAQ'S SOMO just announced they will purchase gasoline for the months of August and September, the first purchase in over 18 months

 Please tell me again there are no shortages; I am all ears

  WHILE CRUDE OIL PRICES ARE STATE-CONTROLLED, DIESEL IS SCREAMING REALITY

  A diesel squeeze is playing out across Europe as a slew of major supply challenges coincide, according to Morgan Stanley, which flagged record refining margins in the region and slumping stockpiles

 https://x.com/business/status/2079067570859094440

 https://citizenwatchreport.com/diesel-squeeze-tightens-across-europe-as-iraq-buys-gasoline-and-houthis-threaten-saudi-oil-flows/#more-228604

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 Australian kids developing high blood pressure at alarming rates with early heart damage already showing in primary school.

  Australian children are developing high blood pressure at alarming rates, with experts saying the condition could be setting kids up for heart attacks, strokes and kidney disease later in life.

Australia’s first-ever clinical guidelines on childhood hypertension aim to address findings that some primary school children already have signs of developing heart damage.

See also  Rep. Thomas Massie: "I spoke to McConnell for about 20 minutes this morning. He said we should end the war with Iran, quit giving aid to Israel, stop spying on Americans without a warrant, and he’s really sorry about how my primary turned out."

 The guidelines were developed by Edith Cowan University’s (ECU) Nutrition and Health Innovation Research Institute (NHIR) and Murdoch Children’s Research Institute (MCRI) in partnership with Hypertension Australia.

 Experts are calling for blood pressure checks to become a routine part of childhood healthcare starting at the age of seven.

See also  Dominion drops billion dollar lawsuit against Lindell after years of pressure.

 “We regularly see children as young as 7 and 8 years old with high blood pressure who already have organ damage, including thickening of the heart muscle,” ECU’s Dr Nicholas Larkins said.

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1136176

 https://citizenwatchreport.com/australian-kids-developing-high-blood-pressure-at-alarming-rates-with-early-heart-damage-already-showing-in-primary-school/#more-228648

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 Iran war fertilizer cutoff risks starving 400 million in 2027 global famine shockwave

 For each day that the war with Iran continues, about 400 million people will face a day with no food in the 2027-2028 time frame. (I will show you the math.)

Even more shockingly, MOST of the starvation and food desperation will occur in nations that have no involvement whatsoever in this war.

Thus, the current casualties on the ground, of U.S. soldiers, Iranians or Israelis, will be absolutely dwarfed by the number of famine casualties around the world (largely concentrated in SE Asia, Africa and some Middle Eastern countries such as Somalia).

Here’s the math:

It is broadly understood by most food scientists and agricultural analysts that synthetic fertilizers currently feed about half the world’s population: roughly 4 billion people.

If you conduct deep research on the percentage of synthetic fertilizer that comes out of the Persian Gulf, mostly via natural gas extraction and the Haber-Bosch process to create nitrogen-based fertilizers, you come to find that Persian Gulf fertilizer production accounts to 8% – 12% of the world’s total fertilizer production. (Most fertilizer is produced and consumed domestically and isn’t traded on international markets, so even though Persian Gulf exports as much as one-third of globally TRADED fertilizer, it only accounts for 8% – 12% of global fertilizer production.)

If we settle on 10% here, then we realize that Persian Gulf fertilizer exports keep about 400 million people alive around the world. Thus, end to end, one day of halted fertilizer exports results in around 400 million people not having food for one day, in the end. (The pipeline is long and convoluted due to growing seasons, food harvests, stored food supplies, and so on.)

Similarly, 10 days of continued closure means roughly about 400 million people having nothing to eat for 10 days. Now, we have to account for the fact that people don’t starve instantly. They can survive some period of time without food. This is typically limited to a few weeks. Few people can survive past 45 days without food. So unless food is redistributed from the food-abundant nations to the food-scarce nations, just 45 days of closure of the Strait of Hormuz creates an “air pocket” in the fertilizer supply chains that puts the lives of up to 400 million people at risk due to food scarcity, in its simplest form. But reality is more complex…

Especially when hungry, people are resourceful and most will take steps to avoid starving. There’s the cannibalism factor when people start eating each other, for example. That can keep some groups fed for a while longer, although the people they eat obviously won’t survive. Similarly, there will be much more local hunting of animals (even rats), dumpster diving, the eating of zoo animals, the neighbor’s cat, etc. When hungry, people will eat shoe laces, leather, tree bark, cardboard and all sorts of other things they normally wouldn’t eat, and when you see this behavior, you know things are bad.

 https://citizenwatchreport.com/iran-war-fertilizer-cutoff-risks-starving-400-million-in-2027-global-famine-shockwave/#more-228605

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 UK Ministry of Justice under David Lammy spends your money in court to hide migrant crime breakdown.

Government hiding numbers because they know the over-representation by certain nationalities is massive and will blow up the open borders story. Why fight so hard with taxpayer cash if nothing to hide. This is classic state censorship when facts do not fit the agenda. Real transparency would just publish it and let people decide instead of court battles

 Ah … Lammy’s Ministry of Justice is taking legal action to stop citizens seeing 7 years of foreign national convictions, broken down by nationality and crimes, including rape, grooming, child abuse, murder and manslaughter.

The Information Commissioner has ordered the data to be released. But Lammy is spending taxpayers’ money fighting to keep it hidden.

 He fears the truth is so explosive that we can’t be allowed see it. This is the state censorship of an er … inconvenient truth.

 But we aren’t allowed to speculate, the narrative must be protected

 https://citizenwatchreport.com/uk-ministry-of-justice-under-david-lammy-spends-your-money-in-court-to-hide-migrant-crime-breakdown/

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Usha Vance gave birth to fourth child with JD Vance — the first woman since the 1870s to give birth while her husband is vice president.. Baby boy named after family tradition.

“We are excited to announce that our baby boy, Alec Neel Vance, was born this morning,” Vance said in a statement. “Usha and the baby are happy and healthy, and our kids are overjoyed to meet their little brother.”

Usha Vance, 40, is the first woman since the 1870s to give birth while her husband is vice president.

She and her husband have three other young children, two boys and one girl, who are ages 4, 6 and 9.

 While promoting his new book this year, JD Vance previously said it was unlikely that he would take parental leave once the baby arrived. The couple announced the pregnancy in January and said at the time that she was due in late July.

https://citizenwatchreport.com/usha-vance-gave-birth-to-fourth-child-with-jd-vance-the-first-woman-since-the-1870s-to-give-birth-while-her-husband-is-vice-president-baby-boy-named-after-family-tradition/

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 China Earthquake Nightmare: 59 Quakes In 3 Weeks, Splitting Mountains, A Bigger Disaster Coming

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2uSRZOfbWGs

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 Iran War Escalation w/Robert Barnes