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NewsReal: US Govt Make-Believe as Iran Holds Trump & Israel to Fire

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Sun, 31 May 2026 20:15 UTC

The US government continues dragging out terms of settlement with Iran, Israel continues invading, occupying and ethnically cleansing southern Lebanon and Gaza, and the Trump White House continues playing 'MAGA Greatest Hits' to its base. Their detachment from reality is becoming more palpable - and unsustainable, surely? - by the day...

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Highlander · 2026-06-01T10:15:38Z

Iran only needs to take the stupid ideas of trump and his opportunity he created by attacking Iran! The Straits were open, by attacking Iran gave the Iranian nation the opportunity to close its sovereign territory! Along with Oman, who too can wring the neck of the Americans and their Israeli sponsors without any peace agreement! The tolls, can be perfected, yuan payments to China, decreases the value of the dollar! But, creating tariffs for England France Germany America, prior to any of these degenerates getting oil, petrol, diesel, aircraft fuel…..like Trump 200% tariffs increased for every single bomb dropped, aircraft invasion, ship stopped, any reason Iran states resulting in an increase in tariffs! Teach Americans and there dross associated with them, every action creating a reaction, all detrimental to Americans and associated excrement!

Buffalo_Ken · 2026-06-01T18:43:25Z

Trump is a prick - all members of "Trump-team" be advised they are proving themselves to be traitors to the Founders of the land including Jefferson, Madison, Franklin, Washington, Adams and many others. May this upcoming 250th year celebration be recognition as to how far astray the land and federal authorities have departed the desires of the founders - who were just seeking Liberty from god-damn England.

Buffalo_Ken · 2026-06-01T18:50:34Z

Buffalo_Ken - May England fall into a deeper hole than it already is within - and may the UK be nevermore - all the harm they have caused is known and proven.

Let the UK split up - Ireland goes first in separations then Scotland, the Wales, the India forever, Canada as well - and lastly the prison colony of Australia gives the finger to the City of London - a dens of theives no doubt.

May the America's come to their senses - and completely disregard the hold of the "brits" and the "zigaboos" - and then let Justified Retribution be delivered 21st century style!

I pray to that cause I ain't no puppet of mammon - and may the brits be forever destined to be remembered as twits and harmful ones - and may the zigaboos be literally eliminated - one at a time.

It is known who they are.

Let Benny get justice first, but if not that - let it be delivered to his family direct - tis most deserving and Justified Retribution takes no prisoners.

~

This is my prayer for the upcoming 250th!

Seeker101 · 2026-06-02T02:19:56Z

Buffalo_Ken Great thoughts BK. Sadly I think Oztraya is fooked, way too many pedos in way too many positions of power. For example; Magistrates and their unlawful Star Chamber "caught's" plus judges, lawyers etc., are all members of the BAR based in Whitehall and have sworn their allegiance to a foreign power and that makes them traitors, but nothing is done. People still rock up to these unlawful courts and cough up their hard earned cash to these parasites stealing our wealth.

How many Orstrayian parliamentarians have dual citizenship? How many have never sworn the oath of allegiance? Short answer, too many! As I said, we are fooked.

Highlander · 2026-06-02T08:38:00Z

Buffalo_Ken That’s why they are called Perfidious Albion. I cannot for the life of me understand the English mentality! I don’t know if it’s the lack of education, knowledge of their history, greed, racism, hatred, or an air of superiority but they are like lemmings! They allow the destruction of everything they fought two world wars and now actually support Nazism that which three generations of men gave their lives to destroy! They now elect! We in Scotland haven’t voted for any of them for tories 84% friends of Israel. coming up to 75 years, and labour friends of Israel for twenty five years. In fact they gerrymander the voting system to ensure they get seats in our parliament, the world’s oldest parliament. Wales and its nation is finding its feet and nationhood, Ireland is one nation, soon England will need to stand on its own two feet and instead of having there fingers in our pockets, stand on there own feet and pay there own parasites and cancer!

Buffalo_Ken · 2026-06-02T17:48:31Z

Highlander Perfidious Albion indeed.

Buffalo_Ken · 2026-06-02T17:50:17Z

Seeker101 - one day I hope to visit Australia - I want to go the the Finke River Basin!

I hope the "mates" there get their place in order.

Regards,

Ken

Buffalo_Ken · 2026-06-02T20:05:06Z

Seeker101 - here is the thing....I didn't renew my passport - I ain't ever gonna fly on any aeroplane again - so how the hell am I going to get to Australia and see the Finke in person - probably nothing but dryness there but when it flows that river remembers - tis the oldest one on the globe revealed!

So - I got a soft spot for Australia - and maybe at some point there will be dirigibles available to slowly float in the atmosphere from us of a to Australia round the bend.

Then I get to land without a passport required and check out the Finke river basin!

~

A fella can dream - can he not?

Peace!

Ken

~

ps - this is good.... Oztraya - I got a story bout that place at my Substack - tis called Sally and the Navigator!

Check it out why don't ya!

Buffalo_Ken · 2026-06-02T20:15:09Z

Seeker101 - I kid you not - here is what the "ai" has to say - real time:

Sally and the Navigator is a serialized story by Buffalo_Ken published on Substack, featuring two characters who make significant life choices and eventually sail together. The narrative begins with their births: Sally on a military base and the Navigator in a damp cavern, with the Navigator thinking of Sally moments after his own birth. The plot involves Sally returning to a futuristic "Colorado Base" in 2112, a location named for the blood spilled there, where she eventually meets the Navigator. Key elements of the story include:Themes: Travel, destiny, and the "one-way choices" made at birth and later in life.Setting: A mix of personal history and a speculative future involving a "Colorado Base" described as sinister and blood-stained.Structure: The story is presented in chapters, with the author noting it requires "stewing" time and involves puzzle-like clues such as the "Hexagon Puzzle."

Seeker101 · 2026-06-03T00:24:01Z

Buffalo_Ken Sounds intriguing BK. I always enjoy some SF mixed with timey, wimey stuff.

Seeker101 · 2026-06-03T00:37:13Z

Buffalo_Ken I've an old Viet vet mate who never flies. He's been across and back to the states several times. (Has a ex-wife & kid there) At least once on a container ship, another time as crew on an ocean going yacht. If you're in for a real adventure continent hopping is a real thing, like across Berring strait, down through China all the way to Vietnam at the bottom which I've been told by travelers is really great, then island hop to New Guinea. Avoid Singapore, then a short sail to the world's oldest continent. Sweet, would only take a few months. Yep, the Finke would be cool. I have on my bucket list a Northern Territory trip to see some of those amazing rivers in flood. Then there's that place where the tide builds up and gushes through a narrow gap, cool.

Buffalo_Ken ·

Seeker101

· 2026-06-04T18:38:54Z

Buffalo_Ken · 2026-06-04T19:25:33Z

Seeker101 - humor me here Seeker101 if you don't mind - I want to share this:

Sally and the Navigator make a one-way choice INTRODUCTION

When Sally was born it was in an unfamiliar place for Sally’s family. They were on the base and that is basically where Sally was born. The young mother held the baby close and they both celebrated new life together in a new way being Sally was in the moment of celebration out of her mother’s body and that is time moving on.A few days after her birth Sally was assessing the situation and thinking - I preferred it where I was before, but then her mama came and held her tight and Sally felt safe.

*~*

The Navigator was born before Sally. It was near a fire in a cavern somewhat damp, but not overly so. Family members were nearby to participate, assist, or observe as the case may be….it was a family event hopeful. The Navigator it is said came out lightning quick in a fairly smooth manner per the perspective of his mother. A few days later he was in a rocker and he felt the waves in his mind and he thought of Sally…..he don’t know what else to think about because he really just wanted to go back to where he had been…

~

Here is the story - from me!

[Link] - Sally and the Navigator! - by BK.

~

Ken

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Seeker101 ·

Buffalo_Ken

· 2026-06-05T00:32:18Z

Buffalo_Ken · 2026-06-05T20:47:15Z

Seeker101 - I can't resist adding one more link about a site of mine....its harmless link about "A Place to Remit" - in some ways I consider sott.net a fine place for that.....

Anyhow - here is the link: [Link]

Jason · 2026-06-02T04:26:10Z

It's always been make believe. Hollywood.

Buffalo_Ken · 2026-06-02T19:56:41Z

So Israel desires Lebanon now I reckon being they couldn't get Iran.

10 minus Israel equals what?

I'd say most likely a negative number

And imaginary place -

sort of like Israel is

to most of us

just don't get

all the killing and

needless harm of that

place called

Israel.

~

BK, Poem of the Day, 6226 1556

parzival · 2026-06-04T01:26:23Z

"Remember, there was joy before all this; and it's still here, if you just look for it" Ten divine moments celebrating life, from among the greatest of musicians, whose spirit will not fade away by Mark Crispin Miller Jun 03, 2026 Substack: [Link]

Buffalo_Ken ·

parzival

· 2026-06-04T18:39:50Z

parzival ·

Buffalo_Ken

· 2026-06-05T00:12:30Z

Mayday Mike · 2026-06-07T11:32:52Z

America; like everywhere else is just an idea, There are no more "States and People" anymore in America, there are only employees.

Buffalo_Ken · 2026-06-07T17:59:23Z

Mayday Mike - fair enough on that - and who needs indentured servitude.

I think the time is ripe for protests - about time some indignancy begins to emerge.

What you think Mayday Mike!

~

BK

Mayday Mike · 2026-06-07T21:12:58Z

Buffalo_Ken It is a privilege to serve your fellow man under any capacity. Indentured or not.

It is not protests that will change the arrangements(social contracts), exiting and opting out will do that; what they did in Nepal(realized it's all of them) and Italy(stopped paying their bills) is the indignation needed to show.

Society as we know it, is obsolete: fiat currency, corporations, social contracts, shady syndicates, and so on. Other arrangements(and preparations) are being imagined, planned, made, and implemented to 'replace' the LARP game: SOCIETY .

Buffalo_Ken · 2026-06-08T18:20:31Z

Mayday Mike - I concur.

This is a fairly long interview ( it is here at sott already I just noticed ) and basically I doubt it contains much in the way of "new info" for readers here, but I do think it is indicative that resentment is growing.

[Link] - Tucker Carlson interviewing Jimmy Dore (from a few days ago).

I appreciate some of Jimmy Dore's sentiment and in a few segments of the discussion he spoke along the lines of some of what you mentioned above with respect to " resistance ".

Regards,

BK

Buffalo_Ken · 2026-06-08T18:27:05Z

Mayday Mike - correction - the video here at sott is not the same one as I linked....but lately I have been appreciating Tucker's episodes. If nothing else it represents growing resentment and indignancy and I don't think indignancy goes away until there is justice.

Now maybe the "nefarious ones" are hoping that resistance becomes "more active" so they can implement their plans, but I consider that most precarious and and underestimation of just how fedup folks are becoming - I suspect for many it has been stewing for years and this is the sort of thing that can explode and rapidly take on its own energy - and then "nobody controls" the outcome. I reckon that is where we are headed.

Mayday Mike · 2026-06-09T01:04:36Z

Buffalo_Ken They(Charlie Kirk, Tucker, Massie, Jimmy) are all highly skilled when it comes to rhetoric and spin. Tucker moreso because of his background, education, and training.

When it comes to 'finding God' in the cacophony of propaganda. It mostly boils down to how well one can integrate the truth and trust one's own intuition and instinct with the truth.

The "nefarious ones" have always been a thing, we'll always have to contend with those, just as we have to contend with the poor, needy, and so on; The "outcome" is fluid, adaptable. Not something to control but something to position alongside/towards/away from(depending on alignments/inclinations/inhibitions).

Buffalo_Ken · 2026-06-10T16:41:09Z

Mayday Mike - you are on a roll - I concur again.

Myself - I find solace just doing jobs around the homestead place trying to make it better. So the garden is in now and doing well so far and nothing more to do there presently but wait for the plants to grow. So, for the last few days I've been trying to "clean out" under one of our places and the former owner put a lot of stuff under the house and turns out it included some big ole drawers and other "odd pieces" for lack of a better descriptor (I ought post a picture and I will elsewhere) that happened to fit nicely right over the drawers and so I wiped the drawers down after removing the "odd pieces" pleasantly discovered from the boxes they had been contained in for likely about a decade and then moved this here and moved that there and took some other "construction" he had under the house and put it somewhere better and sorted this and re-arranged that - and all I can say is this sort of work is satisfying for me .

At the end of the day I've gotten some good exercise and spent time outside and arranged things in a manner to improve our storage and our desires - cause my wife is soon to retire and we need space in what is going to be our "new place" and I'm always trying to improve the place for us.

~

I hear what you are saying about "rhetoric" and nobody is perfect, but if somebody who has an audience shares sentiment consistent with my own, then in general I don't "look for any agenda" in it - I support it. We each have something to contribute I think and I'd much rather have a beer with Tucker, Massie, or Jimmy (can't have one with Charlie anymore), then some shitface like the trumptser's pompous son-in-law or any zigaboo for that matter - I can't stand even being near the likes of them.....they are so contrary to my way of thinking - I consider them essentially like "poison" - and they are hardly of merit. Tucker, Massie, and Jimmy on the other hand - do seem to have merit - but of course - nobody is perfect.

~

Regards,

BK

Seeker101 ·

Buffalo_Ken

· 2026-06-12T00:02:51Z

Buffalo_Ken · 2026-06-10T18:52:39Z

Let me share this - Tolkien wrote it:

[Link] - via Lew Rockwell...

Gandalf and Frodo: Malcom Guite: Video

Buffalo_Ken · 2026-06-10T18:54:20Z

Buffalo_Ken - so the "1-ring" was the one to rule them all....but Frodo had it and he did hand it to Gandalf - Gandalf is a wizard and Frodo a hobbit - tis only the hobbit able to hand the one ring off....

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