Scott Ritter: Israel has the right of self-defense:

Shocking New Lab Findings on Glyphosate in Grocery Store Bread - full video with results
https://brightvideos.com/play/vid-27cf0cfc-4dec-443e-8a01-2c187d232169/index.html

Control over the Strait of Hormuz is MORE powerful than any nuclear weapon. Snippet of my interview with Scott Ritter. Full interview at BrightVideos.com

For all the MAGA-tards claiming the USA can export enough oil to make up for the closure of the Strait of Hormuz:

The United States is, without question, the world's largest oil producer -- 13.6 million barrels per day as of 2025, a record high driven largely by efficiency gains in the Permian Basin. Impressive. But the Strait of Hormuz carries 20 million barrels per day through a waterway just 21 miles wide at its narrowest point.

That is not a rounding error. That's a 6.4-million-barrel-per-day gap before we have even accounted for the fact that America itself consumes 20.4 million barrels per day.

Read that again. The U.S. produces less oil than it consumes.

Its exportable petroleum surplus sits at roughly 2 to 3 million barrels per day. (Nowhere near 20 million bpd.)

Replacing Hormuz flows would require the U.S. to somehow stop using its own oil entirely, then increase production by nearly 50% overnight.

That is not a plan. That is a fantasy dressed up as foreign policy confidence.

And before someone brings up "just drill more" -- the EIA is already projecting U.S. production to decline through 2027. The Permian Basin -- America's crown jewel of oil production at 6.6 million barrels per day -- has breakeven costs of $61 to $62 per barrel. Margins are thin. Rig counts are already falling. New wells take one to three years to come online at meaningful scale, and that assumes the infrastructure to export them even exists, which it largely does not.

The U.S. simply does not have the deepwater export terminal capacity to ship 20 million barrels per day to the rest of the world. Building that infrastructure would take years and hundreds of billions of dollars.

Then there is the reserve question. The U.S. holds approximately 83.7 billion barrels of proven oil reserves (not yet extracted) -- enough for roughly 11 years at current domestic consumption levels. If you start aggressively exporting to replace Hormuz volumes on top of that, you are not looking at a long-term solution. You are looking at accelerated depletion of proven reserves.

The countries that would suffer most from a Hormuz closure are not the ones people typically think about in this debate. Europe, Japan, South Korea, India, and China are the primary recipients of Persian Gulf oil. A long-term Hormuz closure would send oil prices to levels not seen in modern history -- some analysts suggest several hundred dollars per barrel in a prolonged scenario -- triggering recessions, supply chain collapses, and humanitarian crises across multiple continents simultaneously.

The numbers here are not ambiguous. U.S. production: 13.6 million barrels per day. Hormuz flow: 20 million barrels per day. U.S. net exportable surplus: roughly 2.8 million barrels per day.

The math ain't mathin'.

No combination of optimism, political will, or American exceptionalism closes that gap in any timeframe that matters during an active crisis.

Geopolitics is complicated. Energy arithmetic is not. Please stop spreading misinformation that leads people -- and policymakers -- to catastrophically underestimate what a Hormuz closure would actually mean for the global economy.

Scott Ritter on why the U.S. empire is incapable of respecting negotiations or diplomatic agreements. Full interview at BrightVideos.com

BREAKING EXCLUSIVE - The State of Florida appears to be reporting FALSE glyphosate numbers in commercial bread products.

We acquired all the top bread brands and tested them in our ISO-accredited laboratory, using NIST-traceable external standards and a validated triple quad mass spec method.

The bread product that Florida reported as having 191.04 ppb of glyphosate (Sara Lee Honey Wheat Bread) was found, in our lab, to only contain 9.87 ppb, earning it an A+++ rating in the glyphosate category. (Because 10 ppb in bread is extremely low.)

Note that I am an opponent of glyphosate on a personal level, and yet I am reporting honest lab results because scientific integrity is critical.

MANY numbers from the State of Florida's "Exposing Food Toxins" website appear to be wildly inaccurate, often by an order of magnitude or more.

What lab was the State of Florida using? Do they even know what they're doing?

Full video explanation here:
https://brightvideos.com/play/vid-27cf0cfc-4dec-443e-8a01-2c187d232169/index.html

The morons lying to you and telling you all the world's oil tankers are now exclusively coming to the U.S. to load up on oil are full of it. They don't even know what global tanker traffic looks like in the first place. Here's the ACTUAL picture on Apr 11, 2026. And no, the U.S. doesn't have spare oil to cover the world's demand anyway...

The State of Florida claims that Nature's Own bread contains over 190 ppb of glyphosate.

We tested Nature's Own Thick-Sliced White Bread, using our ISO-accredited lab with a $400K LC-QQQ instrument (mass-spec) and found less than 6 ppb.

We found the same pattern with all the other breads the State of Florida claims to have tested. ALL their numbers were wildly high, compared to what we found. And we've been doing this sort of testing for 10+ years across 10,000+ food samples.

Looks to me like the State of Florida has some explaining to do...

See the full video at brightvideos (dot) com.

There are people dumb enough right now to believe that two U.S. destroyers are "clearing mines" in the Straight of Hormuz.

U.S. naval destroyers are incapable of clearing mines.

The U.S. Navy dedicates specific ship classes and platforms to mine warfare:

1. Avenger-class Mine Countermeasures Ships (MCM)
The primary dedicated MCM vessels in the U.S. fleet. They use sonar, remotely operated vehicles (ROVs), and mechanical/influence sweep gear to detect and neutralize mines. The Navy has been retiring hulls from this class and transitioning to newer methods.

2. Littoral Combat Ships (LCS) with MCM Mission Packages
The Freedom-class and Independence-class LCS are designed to accept modular mission packages, including a Mine Countermeasures Mission Package.

3. MH-53E Sea Dragon Helicopters
These heavy-lift helicopters are specifically tasked with airborne MCM, towing sweep gear through the water to detonate or clear mines magnetically and acoustically.

4. MH-60S Seahawk Helicopters
Equipped with the Airborne Mine Neutralization System (AMNS) and laser mine detection systems, these serve as a more modern airborne MCM platform supplementing (and gradually replacing) the MH-53E.

Note that none of these are destroyers.

You've been punked yet again by the lying Pentagon and lying Trump administration.

Instant IQ test: If you think the speed of light is a constant, you fail. Though this is what is taught in every university, it's provably false.

It should be self-evident, for example, that the speed of light slows when entering water, or a prism, or any any refractive solid. I'm not going to bother explaining this if you don't already know it.

So then people say no, the speed of light in SPACE is a constant!

That's not true either. We already know that light follows the curvature of spacetime, which is impacted by the "gravity" projection of mass.

That alone tells you that light's speed, relative to us, depends on the fabric of spacetime. If you stretch spacetime, light appears to move faster. If you condense it, light appears to move more slowly. If you bend spacetime, light follows the bend because from the point of view of the light, it's still traveling in a straight line... but REALITY is now curved.

And at the event horizon of a black hole, right at the edge, the "speed" of light, of course, reaches zero.

Obviously.

So no, the speed of light is not a constant. That's maybe 7th grade physics. Most people still believe it, though. Which just tells you that people don't think much beyond whatever they were told in the name of "science."

REAL scientists are people who are curious about the universe. Those are precisely the people who are called "anti-science" by the authoritarian science establishment which insists you question nothing and swallow everything.

Like a black hole swallowing light.

For those who think the Strait of Hormuz is "international waters," you're flatly wrong.

The United States claims territorial waters extending 12 nautical miles off the coast of CONUS. Beyond that, it claims a "Contiguous Zone" of 24 nautical miles from shore, where the U.S. government can enforce customs, immigration and sanitation laws.

In addition, the U.S. also claims an Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) that's up to 200 nautical miles from shore, claiming control over managing all natural resources including oil and gas.

The Strait of Hormuz is 21 nautical miles at its most narrow point. Those 21 nautical miles of water touch Iran on the North and Oman on the South.

There are no "international waters" in this portion of the strait. The North portion is clearly well within Iran's territorial waters -- even according to U.S. definitions -- and the South portion is clearly well within Oman's territorial waters.

Put another way, if the United States sat where Iran sits today, the USA would clearly and forcefully proclaim the entire strait to be its own territorial waters.

MAGA-tards don't know any of this because they never even heard of the Strait of Hormuz until about six weeks ago.

JD Vance doesn't know what the term "negotiation" means.

He says, basically, "We showed up, gave them our demands, said this was our final offer, and they refused to agree to it. So we left."

That's not "negotiation." It's not diplomacy. Trump, JD Vance and the entire American Empire are all incapable of negotiation or diplomacy. The very concepts are completely alien to them.

GLOBAL IMPACTS OF TRUMP'S WAR ON IRAN AND NEW BLOCKADE:
Here's what Trump is setting into motion for America, while his remaining low-IQ followers stupidly cheer U.S. oil exports and claim Trump is "winning!"

If this is what winning looks like, we're living in Idiocracy:

OIL AND ENERGY
- Brent crude oil prices surpassed $100 per barrel and could reach $150-$200 per barrel if closure continues
- Gasoline prices in the US have already risen to nearly $4 per gallon
- Jet fuel prices rising, affecting airline costs and ticket prices
- US Strategic Petroleum Reserve drawdown of 172 million barrels as emergency measure
- Risk of permanent damage to Gulf energy infrastructure extending supply disruption by years
- Parts of the world's largest LNG plant sustained missile damage estimated to take up to five years to repair
- Net daily oil shortfall of 14.5 to 16.5 million barrels per day despite pipeline bypass routes

LUBRICANTS
- Higher prices for industrial lubricants, motor oils, and metalworking fluids
- Shortages of specialty lubricants relying on Gulf-origin sulfonate-based additive packages
- Rising costs for fleet operators, manufacturers, and heavy industry
- Tighter availability of base oil stocks used in domestic lubricant blending

NAPHTHA
- 24% reduction in global seaborne naphtha supply
- Asian petrochemical plants bidding away US-origin naphtha, tightening domestic availability
- Higher feedstock costs for US ethylene and propylene crackers
- Cascading price increases across all naphtha-derived chemicals and materials

SULFUR AND SULFURIC ACID
- Near-total disruption of sulfur supply from Gulf states, which account for roughly 45% of global supply
- Degraded military supply chains due to sulfur shortages affecting the US defense industrial base
- Higher EV battery production costs due to sulfuric acid shortages affecting high-pressure acid leaching of nickel, cobalt, and copper
- Tighter copper and nickel refining as sulfuric acid becomes scarce at processing hubs
- Rising fertilizer prices particularly for MAP (monoammonium phosphate) and DAP (diammonium phosphate) phosphate fertilizers
- Industrial slowdowns in copper belt processing and battery precursor refining
- Higher costs across renewable energy storage manufacturing

HELIUM
- One-third of global helium supply offline due to Qatar's production disruption
- Helium distributors rationing deliveries as of early April 2026
- Risk of stored liquid helium evaporating in stranded containers after approximately six weeks
- Hospital MRI operations threatened as liquid helium supplies for superconducting magnets tighten
- Semiconductor fabrication plants facing cooling and process gas shortages
- Fiber optic cable manufacturing disrupted due to helium process requirements
- Aerospace and defense sector impacted including rocket propulsion systems
- Rising costs for all helium-dependent electronics and precision manufacturing

POLYMERS, PLASTICS, AND POLYETHYLENE
- 85% of Middle East polyethylene exports transit the strait, driving global shortages and price spikes
- Higher prices for food packaging across all grocery and consumer goods sectors
- Automotive parts costs rising due to polymer and plastic resin supply tightening
- Medical devices affected by shortages of high-grade plastic resins and polymer components
- Construction materials including pipes, insulation, and sheeting facing price increases
- Agriculture films used for mulching, greenhouse covers, and silage becoming more expensive
- Consumer electronics enclosures and housings facing higher input costs
- Monoethylene glycol shortages tightening supply of polyester fibers, packaging, and textiles
- Asian buyers redirecting demand to US polymer suppliers, raising domestic prices
- Methanol supply tightened, raising costs for resins, coatings, adhesives, and fuel blending

FERTILIZERS AND AGRICULTURE
- Urea prices at the New Orleans import hub surged 32% in a single week, from $516 to $683 per metric ton
- Urea prices up 50% globally since the start of the crisis as of late March 2026
- Some US fertilizer prices rose more than 40% in the first month alone
- 30% of globally traded fertilizer normally transits the strait, with no pipeline bypass available
- Russia suspended exports of ammonium nitrate, removing a major alternative supply source
- China blocked phosphate exports, removing 25% of global phosphate supply
- Natural gas prices up as much as 70%, directly raising the cost of producing nitrogen fertilizer
- Higher corn and soy prices as input costs rise across the Midwest farm belt
- Reduced planted acres as farmers cut back on nitrogen-intensive crops due to cost
- Elevated food prices across the supply chain for months to come due to planting season disruption
- Risk of smaller 2026 harvest putting upward pressure on global grain prices
- Food price inflation arriving several months after the initial energy shock, affecting all consumers
- Downstream effects on livestock feed costs, processed food prices, and grocery bills

ALUMINUM AND METALS
- Gulf states account for roughly 20% of global raw aluminum exports and 9% of production
- Rising input costs for US automotive, aerospace, and construction manufacturing
- Over 150,000 tons of aluminum pulled from London Metal Exchange warehouses
- Higher costs cascading into vehicles, aircraft components, and building materials

SEMICONDUCTORS AND ELECTRONICS
- Helium and sulfur shortages constraining chip fabrication processes
- Semiconductor supply tightness raising costs for smartphones, vehicles, washing machines, and data centers
- Risk of helium prices increasing ten-fold or more before meaningfully impacting chip cost to consumers
- East Asian fab operators facing electricity shortages as LNG supply collapses, risking plant closures

FOOD SUPPLY AND CONSUMER PRICES
- US Department of Agriculture projected a 3.1% average food price increase using pre-war data, now likely understated
- Grocery prices expected to rise across multiple categories as fertilizer, energy, and packaging costs compound
- Higher fuel prices feeding into transportation and logistics costs for all food distribution
- Speed and extent of food price pass-through varies by category but all sectors are exposed

MACRO-ECONOMIC AND STRATEGIC
- Crisis described as the largest supply disruption in the history of the global oil market
- Risk of stagflation as inflation rises and economic growth slows simultaneously
- Stock market declines globally and bond market sell-off already underway
- Interest rate policy complicated as central banks weigh supply-side inflation against recession risk
- China and Russia positioned to gain strategic influence over petrochemical and fertilizer supply chains
- If petrochemical plant closures cascade in Asia, China could establish long-term chokepoints over key supply chains
- Port congestion expected as rerouted vessels arrive in clusters, straining US inland logistics
- Shipping insurance rates rising sharply, adding cost to all rerouted cargo
- Empty container shortages tightening US export capacity as shipping lanes are reorganized
- US defense industrial base facing near-total disruption of critical mineral inputs including sulfur

If Trump promised to block all oxygen in the atmosphere to punish Iran, Trump's retarded followers would celebrate it as a "Win!" ... until they all suffocated to death, that is.

From WINNING to WHIMPERING. That's Trump's legacy now.

Trump on April 5th: "Open the F---in' Strait, you crazy b------s, or you’ll be living in Hell - JUST WATCH!"

Trump on April 12th: I will join you in closing the strait.

Total surrender. And an admission that all the celebrated bombing of Iran accomplished nothing.

China's power grid is largely powered by coal and renewables (hydro, solar, wind), NOT natural gas and oil.

It's U.S. allies in the region (Taiwan, South Korea, Japan) who depend far more heavily on gas and oil, compared to China.

Anyone arguing that Trump blocking the Strait of Hormuz is going to pressure China to pressure Iran to reopen the strait isn't well-schooled on reality.

If anything, South Korea, Taiwan and Japan are going to be screaming at Trump to stop the escalation before they suffer power grid collapse and industrial "lights out" scenarios.

Meanwhile, China can purchase gas and oil from Russia, Brazil, Africa and Canada to get by.

The United States produces about 13.6 million barrels of oil per day and consumes about 20.6 million barrels per day, leaving a gap of roughly 7 million barrels that must be filled by imports — mostly from Canada and Mexico.

The U.S. has no spare oil to EXPORT to the world to make up for the entire Persian Gulf. Trump MAGA-tards are delusional (of course).

Weeks ago, when Trump announced that the U.S. Navy would escort tankers through the Strait of Hormuz to open the waterway, MAGA-tards celebrated Trump's, "5D Chess! It's open!"

Now, after Trump has announced the CLOSURE of the strait with a new U.S. naval blockade, those same MAGA-tards are announcing, "Still 5D chess! It's closed!"

If Trump announced that the Strait or Hormuz would be magically transformed into a Disney log ride, those same people would scream, "5D Chess! LOG RIDE!"

Because they are dumber than dirt. Complete idiots. Incapable of rational processing of reality. They are the only people still remaining in the Trump camp. IQ < 90 skin bags of mindless obedience with zero intelligence.

If Trump calls Iran's blockade "racketeering at the global level," then what do you call Trump's invasion of Venezuela and the seizing of Venezuelan oil and Russian oil on the high seas? Or the war of aggression against Iran?

Literally everything Trump accuses Iran of doing, Trump already did it himself against some other country.