I did read it, yes, that is why I still had the link open. The title and by-line heavily suggests that SA has taken action or made statements which demonstrate actively moving away from the US. This is contradicted inside the article itself, as quoted prior.

Has their position likely changed? Sure. Is analysis of the timeline worthwhile? Also yes. But there’s literally nothing there which supports the position that any form of action has occurred that alters existing or future US-Saudi agreements. A step towards Ukraine is something noteworthy, but that doesn’t require a step away from the US, and the step away is still speculative.

That’s not to say I am not fine with speculative. It’s just that it’s not the same content described by: '"BREAKING: Trump Just Lost Saudi Arabia. Trump told the man who controls 12% of the world’s oil to kiss his ass. That man just restructured Middle Eastern security with Ukraine, telling Trump, “It’s over”. ’

I didn’t remove the post. I’m not a mod.

The title and by-line were very misleading. I still had the link open, so here you go: https://deanblundell.substack.com/p/breaking-trump-just-lost-saudi-arabia

But nobody said “it’s over”, or broke anything off. The post itself literally says that Saudi Arabia didn’t comment.

Saudi state media covered the summit without mentioning Trump’s remarks. The Royal Court issued no statement. MBS said nothing publicly.

I think the idea that only traditional media is acceptable is really problematic and implicitly favors corporate media manipulation, but I would have removed this substack post for the deceptive summary alone.

I love a faceplant, and this is up there with the best of them. Excellent job nuggeting, Nugget. You do your name proud.

Definitely no argument with that. The article does bury right at the end one interesting detail that explains why it doesn’t help further:

The Post and Courier also reported that around 30 pages of documents listed in an internal DOJ trial evidence inventory still remain missing.

I think the victims’ evidence doesn’t need further corroboration though. They’ve been put on trial more than enough. I want to see investigation of the claims of the accused and their networks.

The headline is misleading, but if she made it up, then why did the Epstein estate settle with her?

I read the linked transcript. It’s mostly hypothesis about the increasing number of leaks and rumors that Trump is unhappy with the effect of mass deportation on his popularity, which is Miller’s big thing. I can believe that, but it’s a long way from anything actively throwing him under the bus. It wouldn’t be surprising if he did soon though.

I don’t think I want to click that link and reward what looks like a pro-fascist puff piece with engagement metrics, but thanks for the offer. She can keep her couch fucker to herself.

Just updated the post. If Petty and Xsponse are involved, and they use CSC, I don’t think they care about the appid issue because it’s possible they control the entire internet infrastructure stack anyway. But that’s only an if.

I fell down a wild rabbit hole.

• Dev Forty Five LLC was created 2 weeks ago and lists Ty Nielson as the registered agent
• Ty Nielson is listed and at some point was described on LinkedIn as the Head of Engineering at Gemini (not the Google product) with location in St George, UT. Gemini lists an office in Ogden, UT on linkedin.
• His employment history says he started as a software engineer, but he may not be the head of engineering. I’m unsure if he lives in Utah at all. He did ask how to do authentication in a React Native app properly in stack overflow 7 months ago. Not a great sign.
• Gemini is a product of Blue Rocket, inc. and the primary address for both companies is listed as a thinkspace in Redmond, WA.
• Blue Rocket Inc. also has an office in Ogden Utah and one in West Palm Beach, Florida according to its linkedin - but withdrew their business registration in FL years ago
• A previous (?) head of product for Gemini and/or Blue Rocket is/was Ryan Petty, who was part of a Federal Commission on School Safety roundtable at the White House with Trump, and DeSantis made him the Chair of the Florida State Board of Education
• Jason Kap owns Blue Rocket inc. and was put on the board of Claritev last year, which is now a defendant in an antitrust lawsuit for conspiring with major health insurers to fix prices. The DoJ is currently siding against Claritev
• Jason Kap used to work at Microsoft, MS is also in Redmond WA.
• Kap may live or still have properties in Redmond WA, Belmont MA, Ogden Utah, and possibly others - through shell companies technically owned by his family, such as Player 85 LLC, for which he is an authorised agent
• Kap may have been an LDS bishop in Redmond during a case where the LDS leadership was accused of covering up child molestation by a former Microsoft employee, Buckland Darrell, who was sentenced again a few weeks ago
• According to floodlit there were victims in both Hartman Park Ward, Redmond and Sammamish Valley Washington.
• The registered agent listed for Blue Rocket and Gemini in WA is Kap’s wife, with a Redmond WA address matching the charity “Sammamish Trails Youth”.

I don’t think I’ll continue on. There’s clearly a lot going on here and it is not looking good. Edit: I lied. But this is the end for me:

• Ryan Petty is currently the Chief Product Officer at XSponse
• Xsponse “is a comprehensive AI security ecosystem committed to enhancing detection, alerting, and mass notification.” It lists a Florida virtual office as it address but it’s registered in Delaware via Corporation Service Company.
• Corporation Service Company, specialises in being a DE address for companies to claim DE tax residency, and as separate services will act as an ICANN registrar, manage and deploy TLDs and do monitoring and enforcement as “brand protection”. Amongst many other things they do.

Not good.

It’s a rental. I’m wondering if it’s not basically a front. The guy listed is a 22 year old (edit: age is maybe not the same guy) “head of engineering” for a company owned/run by Blue Rocket Incorporated, which seems to typically be a parent company to a lot of places.

Some guy in Utah, apparently. The company was registered on the 18th of March.

Via Utah Division of Corporations and Commercial Code Business Registration search which did not allow a direct link to individual results.

They also have a $73 billion nuclear and gas collaboration to build next-generation small modular reactors and natural gas power plants.

This article seems to want to push the idea that Japan is distancing itself meaningfully. Japan is making deals with both Iran and US - Japanese media just announced Iran is allowing Japan access through the Strait. Make no mistake, the Takaichi government is a conservative government, with all that entails. And Japan is forever finding ways to bend around legal constraints without breaking rules outright.

This is what bothers me when I see the phrase “Trump’s war on Iran”. It both diminishes the responsibility of all of the other people making it happen and erases the atrocities occurring in other places directly affected by the conflict.

I’m glad Lebanon is finally getting some coverage but dismayed that it took so much violence to get around to that. I also wonder how many more places and people are getting no coverage at all. While it’s a largely separate conflict, the near total silence about the war in Sudan is a good example.

had their Nazis exterminated (not all of them, but “enough”)

Did they though?

There were 177 defendants at the Nuremberg and other trials, 142 were convicted and 25 sentenced to death. But the The Office of Chief Counsel for War Crimes had identified 2,500 major war criminals, and the United States forces arrested almost 100,000 Germans as war criminals.

Even if we assume that 2500 number is truly the number of major war criminals responsible for the genocide and enslavement of millions, that comes out to a 5.68% (142/2500) conviction rate, and 1% death rate (not all 25 died by execution).

It seems unlikely that the genocide and enslavement of over 10 million people was the responsibility of only 142 people, let alone 25.

What happened to the rest of them? Many of them used the Ratlines. Germany may never have recovered from it’s Nazi problem, it may simply have exported some of it.

Persona’s exposed code compares your selfie to watchlist photos using facial recognition, screens you against 14 categories of adverse media from mentions of terrorism to espionage, and tags reports with codenames from active intelligence programs consisting of public-private partnerships to combat online child exploitative material, cannabis trafficking, fentanyl trafficking, romance fraud, money laundering, and illegal wildlife trade

In the 1930’s, IBM subsidiary companies were responsible for the census data and concentration camp cataloguing systems in Nazi Germany (and it’s invaded territories). The numbers tattooed on prisoners were five-digit IBM Hollerith numbers, corresponding to their dedicated punch card. With an estimated 40k+ camps of different types, the machine leases would have been very lucrative for IBM. They won’t say how lucrative, and they made sure they had complex financial setups through “neutral” countries.

IBM systems also underpinned the concentration “internment” camps in the US holding people of Japanese background. But of course, they’re much louder about their 1930’s history in winning the US Social Security contract - older SSNs were also Hollerith numbers.

It would be amusing that punch cards were a more secure system if history didn’t look like it was rapidly repeating.

There was a controversial article in Slate from a decade ago about “double hit” drivers killing people because of the perception that paying the compensation for someone’s death was cheaper than paying for someone’s lifelong disability care, might that be it?

But even if true, that still seems a little different than what “paying to get out of murder” implies.

They executed Bai Tianhui a few months ago for taking $156 million in bribes in his role as a financial services manager. If he couldn’t buy his way out of a bribery conviction, I’m not sure how much buying your way out of a murder would cost.

They also jailed the former justice minister 3 years ago for life for concealing his brother’s crimes and taking bribes, so I’m guessing that even if it used to be a popular option, it might be a bit harder now.

Reposting the comment I made in the other thread here too:

The bottom half is a cropped section of the top, which unfortunately detracts from the very real tragedy of the far too many people pictured.

The headline for this article from Jan 30 is probably sufficient explanation for that: US approves major new arms sales to Israel worth $6.67 billion and to Saudi Arabia worth $9 billion

Note that the guardian article also says the decision to attack Iran was made end of November 2025. They stockpiled exactly for this situation. Admittedly that’s supposedly mostly ground equipment, not bombs, but that also raises further questions about the intent.