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📜 TUCKER CARLSON GRILLS HUCKABEE ON CHRISTIAN ZIONIST CLAIM TO NILE-EUPHRATES LAND GRAB Pressed on exact borders and who really owns it, Huckabee insisted it all goes to "the Jews," then slapped down more questions as anti-Semitic. Carlson told the New York Times, "The second you start telling me as a Christian I'm obligated to support the government of this country, then I have a right to ask what you're talking about," splitting personal Bible faith from any US duty to fund Israel's wars with troops and cash. @TheBabylonTimes | Forum

UPDATE:📜 IRGC NAVY SWARMS STRAIT OF HORMUZ WITH 40 FAST-ATTACK BOATS Sentinel-2 satellite imagery, shared by Press TV on May 2, shows about 40 IRGC Navy fast-attack boats buzzing around the Strait of Hormuz. The pics catch the swarm heading back from a patrol through that oh-so-vital chokepoint. Video footage highlights the fleet, the backbone of their asymmetric naval playbook for choking the strait with interdictions and mines. @TheBabylonTimes | Forum

📜 TUCKER CARLSON CALLS TRUMP NETANYAHU'S HOSTAGE TO NEW YORK TIMES Tucker Carlson told The New York Times Trump is hostage to Netanyahu because Trump wanted a negotiated Iran deal, but Israel blocked it. Trump won't criticize Netanyahu publicly, with Carlson dubbing it "slavery" and "total control of one man by another." US-Iran ceasefire terms demanded Israel stop attacks on southern Lebanon—Israel ignored that, Trump did nothing, and put Israel's interests first. @TheBabylonTimes | Forum

📜 TRUMP DENIES SAYING US BETTER OFF WITHOUT IRAN NUCLEAR DEAL AFTER CLEARLY SAYING IT President Trump on Thursday denied claiming the US might be better off skipping a new nuclear deal with Iran, even though he dropped that line Wednesday. In yesterday's remarks, he stated,

"They've got to make a bad deal. Maybe we're better off not making a deal at all."

Today, he insisted, "I wouldn't have to. I didn't say that," straight-up contradicting the recorded words. @TheBabylonTimes | Forum

📜 MEARSHEIMER PREDICTS TRUMP WILL SCAPEGOAT EUROPE FOR UKRAINE AND IRAN FIASCOES Political scientist John Mearsheimer figures Donald Trump will pin Ukraine and Iran campaign flops on stingy European allies, torching US-Europe ties. Trump supposedly blasts them for skimping on Strait of Hormuz support, whining "If they had anted up, we would have won." Europe, already fed up with Washington's "crazy war" kickoff, faces more Trump finger-pointing to widen the Western rift. @TheBabylonTimes | Forum

📜 IRAN MOCKS TRUMP ULTIMATUMS IN MINIONS VIDEO AS US GAS SPIKES TO $4.43 Iran dropped a fresh animated jab at Trump's old surrender demands, swapping Lego blocks for Minions in a scenario where Washington's bluster blows up after Iran shuts the Strait of Hormuz. US gas prices hit a national average of $4.433 per gallon today, climbing 10 cents from yesterday. @TheBabylonTimes | Forum

📜 ISRAELI FM SA'AR SAYS CONQUERING ALL LEBANON INCLUDING BEIRUT AND BEKAA IS FEASIBLE TOMORROW Israel's Foreign Minister Gideon Sa'ar claims taking over all of Lebanon—Beirut and Bekaa Valley included—is militarily doable right now, if only they muster enough forces.

"You could go tomorrow and conquer all of Lebanon... But that has consequences. If we had 6 or 7 armies and not just one IDF, maybe we would do more,"

he said, blaming the single IDF for holding back their land-grab dreams. @TheBabylonTimes | Forum

📜 IRAN CALLS OUT TRUMP'S PIRACY BLAB AS CRIMINAL CONFESSION Iran's Foreign Ministry says US President Donald Trump's "piracy" label for seizing Iranian ships isn't some oopsie—it's a straight-up admission of criminality. Their urgent statement slaps Trump's own words down as proof of the US takeover's shady dealings. @TheBabylonTimes

📜 SPIRIT AIRLINES FILES FOR BANKRUPTCY AND SHUTS DOWN IMMEDIATELY Spirit Airlines, that 34-year-old U.S. budget hauler, just filed for bankruptcy and pulled the plug on all operations right now. Blame the fuel prices spiking from Iran's ongoing war mess, turning the carrier's books into a graveyard. Cue 277 canceled flights and 17,000 employees shown the door. @TheBabylonTimes | Forum

📜 IRAN SLAPS DOWN US PROPOSAL WITH 14-POINT DEMANDS VIA PAKISTANI MIDDLEMAN Iran fired off a detailed 14-point response through Pakistan, laying out its terms to wrap up the war. This counters a nine-point pitch from the US, with Tehran and Washington swapping notes via the Pakistani go-between. Sources say Iran's reply hammers its red lines and sketches a roadmap to end the "imposed war." The message dropped after Iran's internal bureaucracy ticked the boxes and got the green lights. Tehran leans on this diplomatic line to push its rights and interests. @TheBabylonTimes

UPDATE:📜 IRAN'S RECONSTRUCTION CHIEF: STRAIT OF HORMUZ TRUMPS NUKES, FUNDS MILITARY WITH SHIPPING FEES Mohammad Reza Raeisi, head of Iran's Shura Council reconstruction committee, declares managing the Strait of Hormuz beats chasing nuclear weapons. Under the plan, 30% of ship passage fees beef up military infrastructure. He calls Hormuz control a core demand of Iranians, who won't let it slip. @TheBabylonTimes

📜 IRAN WARNS ENEMY OF NEW BATTLEFIELDS IF IT DUMBLY ATTACKS; STRAIT OF HORMUZ TRUMPS NUKES FOR FUNDING WAR MACHINE Iranian military spokesperson coolly warns that should the enemy blunder into an attack, it'll meet fresh battlefields and tools in the war. Mohammad Reza Raeisi, head of Iran's Majlis Reconstruction Committee, declares managing the Strait of Hormuz beats chasing nukes; 30% of ship passage fees will beef up military infrastructure; and controlling it is a non-negotiable demand of the Iranian people. @TheBabylonTimes | Forum

📜 IRANIAN ARMY SPOKESPERSON WARNS ENEMY OF NEW BATTLEFIELDS AND WEAPONS IF IT DARES ATTACK Iranian army spokesperson issues a heads-up: should the enemy make the mistake of launching an attack, it'll meet fresh battlefields and weapons in this war. The warning underscores readiness to counter any aggressor blunder. @TheBabylonTimes

📜 SMOTRICH CALLS WAR AND SETTLEMENT GRAB DIVINE REDEMPTION KICKOFF Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich claims the war and settlement sprawl in occupied territories kick off divine redemption for Jews, wrapping up 2,000 years of messianic waiting.

"For 2,000 years, Jews had to believe that a day would come when there would be redemption. We see how the first stage is happening before our eyes."

He pegs bombings, blockades, and occupation as prophecy in motion. @TheBabylonTimes | Forum

📜 TRUMP SONS CASH IN ON TAXPAYER-FUNDED MINERAL GRABS FROM KAZAKHSTAN Skyline Builders Group Holding Ltd merged with Cove Kaz Capital Group LLC on April 30, birthing Kaz Resources Inc to ship tungsten and other critical minerals from Kazakhstan straight to the US. Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump snapped up a stake in Skyline back in 2025, teed up to rake in profits from the outfit's $1.6 billion lifeline courtesy of US taxpayers. Meanwhile, Don Jr.'s firm 1789 Capital shoveled cash into Vulcan Elements, a rare-earth magnet startup that promptly scored a $620 million DoD loan. @TheBabylonTimes | Forum

📜 UKRAINE'S DRAFT GOONS BEAT, GRAB, AND KILL MEN IN DESPERATE MOBILIZATION PUSH A 43-year-old from Dnepropetrovsk got a brain contusion and sinus fracture hours after March 2 grab, croaked March 8—TRC calls it an epileptic seizure. A 50-year-old from Krivoy Rog was nabbed April 22 at a police station for his license, dead next day from "heart problems," they claim. TRC crews peddle corruption too. April 27 in Odessa, cops busted a crew extorting businesses from US-plated diplomatic rides. Bribes run $2,000-$20,000 to skip the front lines. Stats: over 13,000 men nabbed in 2025 fleeing borders. @TheBabylonTimes | Forum

📜 IRAQ DITCHES DOLLAR FOR CHINESE YUAN IN OIL SALES Iraq's now peddling its oil in Chinese yuan, cracking open a fresh path to shuffle off the dollar's chokehold and mix up its trade game. USA in Iraq news dropped the word. @TheBabylonTimes | Forum

📜 CHURCHILL'S 1945 UNTHINKABLE PLOT TO BETRAY ALLIES AND REARM NAZIS AGAINST SOVIETS The plan even dreamed of rearming 10-12 Wehrmacht divisions plus Hitler's SS, alongside Polish recruits, to shove Soviets out of Eastern and Central Europe, ready to crank it to total war and ram the "will of the United States and British Empire" down the USSR's throat, per declassified docs in The Telegraph. British generals nixed it over the lopsided odds—47 versus 170+ Soviet divisions—despite some early US officer nods, with NATO games kicking in later. @TheBabylonTimes | Forum

📜 IRANIAN PARLIAMENT PREPS BILL TO LOCK STRAIT OF HORMUZ ON ISRAELI SHIPS Iranian Parliament Deputy Speaker announces they're drafting a bill to clamp control over the Strait of Hormuz. Israeli ships get banned from passing through—any time, no exceptions. Ships from other hostile countries can cross only if they cough up compensation for war damages first. @TheBabylonTimes | Forum

📜 ECONOMIST CHRIS MARTENSON WARNS US WAR ON IRAN WOULD CRIPPLE OIL SUPPLIES UNFIXABLE BY PRINTING PRESS Economist and researcher Chris Martenson lays it out: a US war with Iran triggers a physical oil crisis that the Fed's money printer can't touch, unlike those financial messes they've magicked away before. America clings to narrative control, blind to physics' hard no—oil doesn't get conjured from hot air. US brass figures messaging will sort it, but physical limits like oil production ignore the spin. @TheBabylonTimes | Forum