The Oil War That Should Never Have Happened
Big Money has chained us to dirty, deadly oil for decades. Now, as climate alarms clang, Trump wages a deadly war as an Epstein smokescreen--and because Israel told him to.
The timing is pure Epstein. The impetus is money, via AIPAC and hidden front organizations, straight into Trump’s election coffers in 2020, and very likely some vague or specific promise to try to keep this man in control of the United States going forward. At first, it was just that Trump handed Americans’ free speech rights over to being defined by Israeli interests as being the following:
Any criticism of Israel or denial of Israel’s so-claimed “right” to the Palestinian Corridor is an act of anti-Semitism.
NO, IT IS NOT.
It is a basic, inviolable free-speech right in this country to disagree—without being punished for it in any way—and to recognize an ICC indictment of Gallant and Netanyahu on grounds they have committed war crimes and crimes against humanity for targeting civilians, starving them, and attempting to commit genocide by bulldozing shelter.
Please see the references at the bottom of this article to access ICC indictments of Sinwar, Netanyahu, and Gallant.
It is the right of every American to say that, although grief will always attend the attempted extermination of the entire Jewish population of earth in World War II, not everything the State of Israel does deserves or should get a pass.
It is not to say that when Israel tries to effect the extermination of the Palestinian population of Gaza it is something they get to do because they were hideously treated by the Christians for 2,000 years and targeted by the Germans in a way so brutal and sadistic it beggars belief.
As the Armenians are not exempt from national and international law, so the Jews also are not exempt.
If the indigenous tribes of North American—56 million of whose ancestors died in the colonization of the Western Hemisphere, are not exempt from obeying tribal, national and international laws—so the Jews AND NETANYAHU SPECIFICALLY are not exempt from following basic standards of human behavior in peace and war.
And when the Rohingya and the Tibetans finally escape the murderous grip of the Chinese government, they will also be subject to local, tribal, national and international human rights conventions—although in the case of these two groups, they have never argued or behaved otherwise.
If you think that Israel isn’t attempting to completely gut Americans’ First Amendment rights—but only in their own self-interest, mind you, and not in the interests of all groups, or Americans in general, and certainly not in the interests of Muslims in general and Palestinians and Palestinian-Americans specifically—just look at what Israeli influence, through the Trump administration, has tried to do at Harvard and Columbia universities. It is what they will continue to do until the Supreme Court, apparently owned lock, stock, and barrel by the Trump Administration and the Radical Right, stops them.
Now I will be the first to say that HAMAS leader Yahyah Sinwar, architect of the October 7th attack on an Israel concert and widespread slaughter in the settlements near the border, deserved the ICC indictment handed down on him—and I perceive his assassination as a legitimate act of war.
But the leaders of both the State of Israel and the United States of America are playing the same game.
“Cry “Havoc!” and let slip the dogs of war.”*
Both Trump and Netanyahu are facing roughly the same fates, which may include any and all of the following:
Complete and total loss of political power, followed by
Exposure to criminal impeachment for Constitutional violations, followed by
Criminal indictments, followed by
Life in Prison
The Silver Lining for Netanyahu of the October 7th Attacks
As absolutely dirty as I think Netanyahu is, he was absolutely devastated by the October 7th attacks, as was every Jew in Israel, every Jew in the United States, and every Jew worldwide. And for every American, the craven, sadistic slaughter, the taking of hostages—and the keeping of them for years—is worthy the most vociferous condemnation.
HAMAS is an absolute scourge on the Palestinian people, whom it has endlessly used for its own wealth—its billionaire leaders living in luxury in and running its operations from luxurious Qatar—and its endless rages, its impoverishment of its own people, and its virtual enslavement of its own women (very close to Iranian or Saudi levels). HAMAS has for years carried out the dirtiest kinds of terrorist attacks inside Israel, including loading firearms with nails that have penetrated children’s eyes, blowing up buses and pizzerias, and taunting all four religious groups in Jerusalem, and holding a profoundly strict grip on the Temple Mount, and enforcing the Jordanian Wafq to the nth and hyper-insulting degree.
HAMAS has stationed its snipers and saboteurs in kindergartens, schools, and hospitals and fired upon them using children and the sick as human shields, just daring the IDF to attack or retaliate, and stationing the cameras to make the most of the alleged attacks when they fired first.
All the while, they have run a racket on their own children, training them at the toddler level to hate every Jew and to glorify suicide death and murder. Here’s a photograph that says it all, and proves again why HAMAS has been fairly classified as a terrorist organization:
All that said, the Israelis have endlessly encroached on what was agreed to be Palestinian territory, building endless waves of settlements to run Palestinians off the land. Waves of arrests have followed. And while HAMAS fighters fire from behind the lines of children they have run up against the chain-linked fences to use them as human shields.
In retaliation—and out of fear—Israel has for decades refused to let the Palestinians have cement, so the infrastructure of the territories crumbles. It has bulldozed the residences of the relatives of those it believes have committed crimes. It has jailed Palestinians for decades, sometimes without clear legal right to do so, and year after year and decade after decades, Palestinians die in this conflict at a rate four times higher than Israelis do.
Meanwhile, the entire Arab world wrings its hands while HAMAS and Hizbollah, allied with Iran, have lobbed missiles into northern Israel, while the Saudis have gone on TV whining about the treatment of Palestine to deflect attention from their human rights violations and written $25,000 checks to the families of suicide bombers killed in the act of murdering Jews.
Shi’a Iran—arch enemy of Sunnis everywhere and especially of Saudi Arabia—have similarly deflected criticisms of its staggering panoply of human rights aggressions by calling Israel and the United States “the great Satan” (who, in Islam, is iblis, a created being, not a concept). Iran’s insane abuses of its own people, its insane torture prison system, its arrest of foreigners, ever accusing them of being CIA. It has tortured, flayed, and burned students, leaving their charred bodies in the approaches to university buildings, to stop dissent and fair elections. It has tortured and jailed women’s rights activists by the dozens and put Nobel Prize and Cannes winners in lockdown so they could not receive their awards—and SPEAK.
Meanwhile, Netanyahu,
Netanyahu on the Brink
Just before the October 7th attack, Israelis flooded the streets in protest of Netanyahu.
On 21 November 2019, Netanyahu was officially indicted for breach of trust, accepting bribes, and fraud. Netanyahu was immediately required to relinquish his ministry portfolios other than prime minister. Netanyahu's trial in the Jerusalem District Court began on 24 May 2020, with witness testimony starting on 5 April 2021. The prosecution listed 333 witnesses. The prosecution rested in July 2024.
[On October 7th, 2024, HAMAS attacked.]
Netanyahu's testimony in his defense began that December, 2024.
Now what is very worrying about this trial is that first Netanyahu, a la Donald Trump, tried to pretend he had immunity. The Israeli Supreme Court didn’t buy it.
Then, Netanyahu tried to autonomously neuter the Supreme Court so they could not try him, convict him, and remove him from office. This brought people into the streets in a purple rage.
Donald Trump, who refrain from supporting criminals, chides the Supreme Court on behalf of Netanyahu in July of 2025. To quote Mr. ALL CAPS:
"Bibi Netanyahu's trial should be CANCELLED, IMMEDIATELY, or a Pardon given to a Great Hero, who has done so much for the State."
Basically, it was the same pitch Trump made on behalf of Bolsonaro, who tried to overthrow his country and kill the real election winner, Lula da Silva. Da Silva told Trump to take a hike and stop meddling in the affairs of the Brazilian Supreme Court.
In November of 2025, Netanyahu asked for that pardon. He hasn’t yet pulled this off.
Meanwhile, more in reaction to the threat that he’ll be dragged out of office and wind up in prison for decades, he carried out an extermination campaign that has left Gaza in ruins, earned him an indictment for war crimes and crimes against humanity from the ICC, and limited his travel to countries where he can’t be arrested on an international warrant. One of those is the United States, where he and his people have showered a president with so much money, Netanyahu and the American Israel Political Action Committee owns him.
Which brings us back to Donald Trump.
Donald Trump at the Portal to Hades
There are the four of them: Orban, Trump, Netanyahu, and Bolsonaro.
Bolsonaro is in jail for 27 years.
Netanyahu, the moment Israelis are willing to rein in his shocking violence and incessant warring, will be in jail for 10 years or heavily fined—and if we’re blessed he’ll be arrested overseas for crimes against humanity, tried by the ICC, convicted, jailed and wind up like Milosevic.
Orban will likely get away with.
Trump is going down. This will be harder because the Supreme Court basically gave him a get-out-of-jail free card in his last term and has backed hideous things he’s done. But the Epstein matter is NOT going away.
The timing of this war appears to have had two causes:
Israeli intelligence pegged a date on which a huge gathering of Iranian higher-ups was to take place at Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei’s personal residence, a sprawling, palatial compound in the center of Tehran.
Details of Trump’s alleged rape of a 13-year-old girl were found to be “lost” from the files forked over, then found, and simultaneously Pam Bondi got into very, very hot water in refusing to release the rest of the Epstein files, which number in the millions of emails, videos, notes, flight logs, and details from “Rape Island” and now from the ranch Epstein owned in the Southwest, in whose sands the bodies of two girls are alleged to be buried. Bondi is now being threatened with impeachment, and that has to scare Trump to death. She goes, he goes, I think.
So Netanyahu and Trump went to war, and Trump—and the incompetent, adolescent Hegseth—joined him in the most dangerous Wag the Dog scenario in world history.
The Iran War and Grinning Oil Billionaires
What is now threatened is a world oil supply collapse. Oil is up 30% since March 6. Oil billionaires are over the moon right now, raking in cash. But even they know this is a calculated risk.
Trump’s blustering threat to destroy Iran’s energy infrastructure in 48 hours was met with an immediate—and credible—push back that Iran stop all traffic through the Hormuz Strait and destroy every desalination plant in the Persian Gulf area. That would effectively take both oil and water, and every country in the Middle East would collapse in less than six weeks.
Trump has never held any good cards in this bluff. Iran will never surrender. Iranians will die to the last man and kill every Iranian man, woman and child in the process. An as Israeli intel said this morning, their next move will be to create nuclear weapons—which, of course, Trump claimed last summer he’d completely destroyed. Another lie.
This whole thing was a HUGE mistake, and we will be paying it for it in price instability, worsening affordability, and threats of terrorist violence for decades.
And it should never have happened this way.
Oil billionaires chained us to oil. Now it threatens global war and climate disaster.
In 1996, we had a plan. The world largely recognized that if we did not find alternatives to oil, we were going to create a world that was incredibly hostile to human health and happiness, indeed credibly hostile to human habitation on this planet. Here, today, is the result of 30 years of effort, and you can absolutely tell where people took it seriously and where they didn’t — or where monied interests undermined every effort they made. From the UK’s “Green Match”:
For awhile, things seemed to be getting better. A group of nations led the way, proving that changing our ways wasn’t impossible at all. If you look at what the top countries did, you see how things can change. Note Costa Rica way over in Central America, which is a country that made a point of getting off oil. Now Costa Rica is very lucky, as she has the kind of heavy volcanic power we find in Iceland. But it was also intention.
But when you look at the bottom, you see countries that put growth and profit ahead of everything else—notably China—or who are major oil producing countries: Saudi Arabia, Iran, Malaysia, and Indonesia. But there are others—Turkey significantly—who are not major supplies but spends virtually no effort on this problem.
The winners are Sweden, Denmark, and the UK. Western Europe as a rule does well.
The United States, even while it has had Democratic administrations that pushed environmental protections. But the next map shows why the U.S. really has lackluster performance.
We are huge producers of oil, and what that means is that the Billionaires Club, which either owns and pumps the oil out of the ground or consumes most of it have no intention of letting oil go.
And that is why I saw we are CHAINED TO OIL BECAUSE THEY HAVE MANIPULATED GOVERNMENTS TO KEEP THEIR PROFITS GOING.
And here’s the cost:
The World Meteorological Report
Today is World Meteorological Day, so the World Meteorological Organization Released its annual report. The summary from the report:
Geneva, Switzerland (WMO) – The Earth’s climate is more out of balance than at any time in observed history, as greenhouse gas concentrations drive continued warming of the atmosphere and ocean and melting of ice, according to the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). These rapid and large-scale changes have occurred within a few decades but will have harmful repercussions for hundreds – and potentially thousands – of years.
Key messages
WMO State of Climate report confirms 2015-2025 hottest 11 years on record
Earth’s energy imbalance is highest in sixty five-year record
The ocean has been absorbing about eighteen times the annual human energy use each year for the past two decades
Extreme weather impacts millions and costs billions
WMO’s State of the Global Climate report 2025 confirms that 2015-2025 are the hottest 11-years on record, and that 2025 was the second or third hottest year on record, at about 1.43 °C above the 1850-1900 average. Extreme events around the world, including intense heat, heavy rainfall and tropical cyclones, caused disruption and devastation and highlighted the vulnerability of our inter-connected economies and societies.
The ocean continues to warm and absorb carbon dioxide. It has been absorbing the equivalent of about eighteen times the annual human energy use each year for the past two decades. Annual sea ice extent in the Arctic was at or near a record low, Antarctic sea ice extent was the third lowest on record, and glacier melt continued unabated, according to the report.
“The State of the Global Climate is in a state of emergency. Planet Earth is being pushed beyond its limits. Every key climate indicator is flashing red,” said UN Secretary-General António Guterres.
“Humanity has just endured the eleven hottest years on record. When history repeats itself eleven times, it is no longer a coincidence. It is a call to act,” said Mr Guterres.
And we are now in this STATE OF EMERGENCY because wealth buys countries—and presidents and the militaries that some of thing look upon as their personal possession.
Turn up for NO KINGS. We need 12 million people. You can’t assume somebody else will show up in your place.
Protect your vote and those of others.
And VOTE. We need both Houses of Congress and the Presidency. Then we can handle the Supreme Court to handle foreign and corporate money.
Then we can get off oil. We must.
And make sure that if there are boots on the ground in Iran, they’re Israeli boots. I don’t want to see a replay of Americans dying in Kuwait in Desert Storm only to find out Kuwaiti youth were drinking and dancing in the underground bars in Cairo.