The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Threatened to Attack the Gulf Operations of Apple, Google, Microsoft, Nvidia, Boeing and 13 other Companies

Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps has declared 18 American and Gulf technology companies “legitimate military objectives,” signalling an unprecedented shift from targeting military installations toward striking commercial data centres, research hubs and artificial-intelligence infrastructure across the Middle East.

The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps has threatened to begin attacking the Middle Eastern operations of 18 American and Gulf technology companies from 8pm Tehran time on April 1, transforming the regional conflict into a direct confrontation against commercial technological infrastructure.

The warning immediately elevated the risk profile of every American-operated data centre, regional headquarters, cloud computing hub and artificial-intelligence research facility located across the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Bahrain and Israel. [MORE]

Contrary to Dependent Media Propaganda, a So-Called "Rescue Mission" in Iran Ended in Total Failure: 2 C-130 Transport Planes and 2 Black Hawk Helicopters Destroyed

[MORE] AND PROBABLY NOT A RESCUE MISSION AT ALL

From [HERE] The so-called rescue operation carried out by the US military "ended in total failure," the Central Headquarters of Khatam al-Anbiya asserted in a statement on Sunday. The operation, planned under the pretext of rescuing a downed pilot at an abandoned airport, was thwarted by the timely intervention of Iran’s armed forces.

According to the statement, the mission, described as a rapid extraction by the US military, was exposed as a deceptive maneuver carried out to mask Washington's military failure. 

"Based on prior intelligence and further on-site assessments by experts, it was determined that two C-130 military transport aircraft and two Black Hawk helicopters belonging to the US Army were destroyed," the statement detailed, noting that the swift and powerful resistance from Iran's armed forces had compounded the US' repeated failures in Iran.

As a result, the Islamic Republic of Iran was able to demonstrate once more that the "weakened and bankrupt" US military was not a dominant or superior force in the imposed war on Tehran, particularly when faced with the resolve of the nation's armed forces, according to the statement.

Zolfaghari further noted that US President Donald Trump's "resorted to psychological warfare and false claims to cover up his defeat, as the ground reality has proven Iran's superiority in battle."

What did the US claim?

Earlier today, US officials told Axios that special forces allegedly rescued the second crew member of the F-15 fighter jet that was shot down over Iran, following an operation that involved confrontations with the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps and aerial attacks. 

On Friday, an F-15 fighter jet was downed over southwestern Iran. Both the pilot and weapons systems officer ejected and made contact with US forces through their communications systems. The shootdown, described by Axios as a "nightmare scenario," triggered an urgent search and rescue mission, while the IRGC mobilized to locate the missing personnel. [MORE]

With No Reporters on the Ground in Iran to Independently Investigate Trumps Claims, Massa Media Parrots His Lies as Truth to Create an Aggrieved Upon Public Hallucination and Conceal Reality of Defeat

ACCORDING TO FUNKTIONARY:

consensus reality – a movie comprising belief, expectation and the magic of agreeing. 2) an aggrieved upon hallucination. Consensus Reality is the most malefic trickster of all. Whether you think you can or you can’t, or whether you think it is or it isn’t, you’re right! (See: Maya, Granfalloons, Motivated Illusions, Cognitive Illusions, OWLs & Dreamland)

From [FAIR] Since the US and Israel first attacked Iran in late February, it has been easy to spot the stark difference between the New York Times’ distant coverage of Iran and its up-close and personal coverage of Israel.

Multiple Times employees are reporting from and currently living in Israel. These include reporters Isabel Kershner, Aaron Boxerman, Gabby Sobelman, Natan Odenheimer, Ronen Bergman, Adam Rasgon, Johnatan Reiss and Raja Abdulrahim, as well as Jerusalem bureau chief David M. Halbfinger.

They routinely report stories that center Israeli citizens, as in “How Israelis Feel About Another Potential War With Iran” (2/26/26). First-hand Times reports have Israelis taking “Shelter as Sirens Warn of Incoming Missiles” (2/28/26), feeling “Tense But Relieved That Iran’s Supreme Leader Is Dead” (3/1/26) and celebrating “Purim Amid Iranian Missile Attacks” (3/4/26). They also have penned stories on Iranian missile strikes in Israel mere hours after they took place (3/1/26, 3/18/26).

Many articles have been based primarily on statements from Israeli officials (3/1/26, 3/3/26, 3/11/26, 3/19/26) and US officials (3/2/26, 3/7/26). Other articles have centered on the perspective of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and what would benefit him (2/28/26, 3/14/26, 3/18/26).

Meanwhile, the Times has no reporters based in Iran, as its editors admitted in two Q&A-style articles (3/9/26, 3/16/26). Instead, the paper has largely relied on its Visual Investigations team (3/12/26) and reporters based elsewhere to cover Iran, including correspondents in Israel, the US, Turkey, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, India, Sri Lanka, South Korea, England, France and Germany. The Times reporters who most often quote Iranian voices—like Farnaz Fassihi, Parin Behrooz (both based in the US) and Yeganeh Torbati (reporting from Turkey)—largely rely on telephone interviews (3/2/26, 3/27/26), along with “text messages and social media posts” (3/18/26).

This lack of on-the-ground coverage in Iran has directly resulted in slower coverage and confirmation of US/Israel culpability for deadly strikes. For example, it took five days for the Times (3/5/26) to report that the US was “most likely to have carried out the strike” on the school in Minab that killed at least 175 Iranian civilians, mostly schoolchildren. [MORE]

China’s AI Satellite Maps Are Allegedly Helping Iran Target U.S. Bases, Triggering Urgent Pentagon Force Protection Fears

From [HERE] The U.S. military’s regional force posture is confronting an unprecedented vulnerability because commercially available Chinese geospatial datasets are allegedly shortening Iran’s missile targeting cycle across multiple Middle Eastern battlefronts.

U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency officials believe the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps is actively exploiting Chinese-generated satellite imagery, raising immediate concerns regarding force protection, regional deterrence, and American military survivability.

According to early April 2026 intelligence assessments, Chinese geospatial company MizarVision has published AI-enhanced imagery identifying Patriot batteries, THAAD systems, aircraft shelters, fuel depots, command centres, and logistical infrastructure.

A DIA official warned that the activity represented “a Chinese company, we believe maliciously, providing intelligence on an open-source platform,” directly increasing risks confronting American personnel and allied military installations. [MORE]

The Blight House and Pentagon are Undercounting the Number of Dead or Wounded US Soldiers in Its War On Iran

ALMOST 750 U.S. troops have been wounded or killed in the Middle East since October 2023, an analysis by The Intercept has found. But the Pentagon won’t acknowledge it. [it is not clear how the Intercept came up with this number]

U.S. Central Command, or CENTCOM, which oversees military operations in the Middle East, appears to be engaged in what a defense official called a “casualty cover-up,” offering The Intercept low-ball and outdated figures and failing to provide clarifications on military deaths and injuries.

At least 15 U.S. troops were wounded Friday in an Iranian attack on a Saudi air base that hosts American troops, according to two government officials who spoke with The Intercept. Hundreds of U.S. personnel have been killed or injured in the region since the U.S. launched a war on Iran just over a month ago.

On Tuesday, Trump teased that he would wind down the war with Iran in as little as two weeks despite not achieving many of his stated aims, such as “freedom for the people” of Iran, “tak[ing] the oil in Iran,” and forcing Iran’s “unconditional surrender.” At one point, the president even declared that the war would last “as long as necessary to achieve our objective of PEACE THROUGHOUT THE MIDDLE EAST AND, INDEED, THE WORLD!” [MORE]

6 Months into the Gaza "Ceasefire" Psyop No Pause in Israeli Genocide. Media Should Stop the Mythematics: at Least 1 Million People in Gaza Murdered by Israel/US

From [HERE] Nearly six months into the Gaza ceasefire, which took effect on October 10, the Israeli occupation continues its genocidal war on the Palestinian enclave, killing hundreds and restricting the entry of desperately-needed
aid, with no pause in the attacks or the suffering.

What Are the Terms of the Ceasefire?

On September 29, the US unveiled a 20-point proposal to end Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza, release the remaining captives held in the enclave, allow the full entry of humanitarian aid into the besieged territory and outline a three-phase withdrawal of Israeli forces.

Some of the main conditions of the first phase, include:

• An end to the attack in Gaza

• Lifting the blockade of all aid into Gaza by Israel and stopping its interference in aid distribution

• Release of all captives held in Gaza – alive or dead – by Hamas

• Release of some 2,000 Palestinian hostages and disappeared people from Israeli jails

• Withdrawal of Israeli forces to the “yellow line”

• Open the Rafah crossing between Gaza and Egypt

On October 10, 2025, Trump’s ceasefire took effect in the Gaza Strip. 

Here is what has happened since the ceasefire took effect:

Israel violated the ceasefire agreement over 2,070 times. The average number of violations committed by Israeli forces has reached 13.1 violations per day, according to the Gaza Government Media Office.

Attacks and Killings

> Did not stop

According to reports, including by Palestinian sources, the UN and human rights groups, Israel has killed hundreds of Palestinians in the enclave.

The Gaza Government Media Office said Israel shot at civilians 840 times, raided residential areas beyond the “yellow line” 95 times, bombed and shelled Gaza 1051 times, and demolished people’s properties on 271 occasions. 

It added that Israel had also abducted about 50 Palestinians from Gaza. [MORE]

Stop Pretending Military Spending is about ‘Defense’ and that Soldiers Fight for Our Freedom

$1.5 trillion.

With a “t.”

That’s how much US president Donald Trump wants Congress to appropriate for military (falsely called “defense”) spending in 2027.

And that number — there’s no other way to put this — is insane. The only proper date for such a spending request, followed by a winking grin emoji, is April 1.

Let’s compare.

At the height of the US war in Vietnam, in 1969, the US government spent about $85.5 billion ($761 billion in inflated 2026 dollars) on “defense.”

In 1991, when the US deployed hundreds of thousands of troops for Desert Storm, the US government spent about $313 billion, or $750 billion accounting for inflation.

In 2004, while fighting wars in both Iraq and Afghanistan, that number was about $450 billion, or $780 billion in 2026 dollars.

Yes, it’s wartime again.

As usual, the war — this time with Iran — is entirely illegal/unconstitutional (only Congress can declare war, and it hasn’t).

And, as usual, the war is entirely optional and serves no defensive purpose whatsoever.

The president keeps telling us THIS war will be over Real Soon Now, and he started talking about a $1.5 trillion military budget months before he launched Operation Epic Fail, so the 40% bump clearly isn’t about Iran. [MORE]

WHO Teams With Singapore Firm Tied to Pfizer, Bill Gates to Roll Out Global Vaccine Passports

Five years after digital vaccine passports were introduced during the COVID-19 pandemic, the World Health Organization (WHO) is partnering with an investment firm linked to COVID-19 vaccine maker BioNTech and the Gates Foundation to roll out “interoperable digital health wallets.”

The WHO announced earlier this week that it is partnering with Temasek, a firm owned by the Singapore government that participated in a $250 million investment in BioNTech in June 2020 — a few months before BioNTech released a COVID-19 vaccine in conjunction with Pfizer.

The initiative “builds on lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic, which demonstrated the urgency of reliable, verifiable digital health documentation,” the WHO said.

The initiative will begin with digital international certificates of vaccination or prophylaxis and will later expand to “broader personal health summaries.” It will be piloted in the 11 member states of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations to develop a “replicable model” for potential export to other countries.

The initiative is a result of last year’s amendments to the WHO’s International Health Regulations(IHR), which called for “globally recognized digital health certificates.” [MORE]

Nicolas Hulscher: 840,000 Americans Killed by Deadly COVID Injections

Dr. Robert Malone: Pediatric COVID Vax Death Data Being Blocked By Makary & Overton!

Teens 5 Times More Likely to Develop Heart Conditions After mRNA COVID Injections

From [HERE] Teenagers were up to five times more likely to develop myocarditis and pericarditis, and up to 10 times more likely to experience an anaphylactic reaction shortly after receiving an initial two-dose series of the mRNA COVID-19 vaccines, according to a new peer-reviewed study.

The study, published last week in Scientific Reports, also found an increased risk of appendicitis, epilepsy and convulsions, and lymphadenopathy — or swollen lymph nodes — in teens who received two doses of the Pfizer or Moderna COVID-19 shots.

The study was conducted by 13 Norwegian researchers using data from the Norwegian Patient Registry and the Norwegian Cause of Death Registry.

The researchers examined the data for 496,432 teenagers ages 12-19 in Norway — both vaccinated and unvaccinated — to analyze the short- and mid-term safety of the mRNA COVID-19 vaccines among teenagers.

Key findings included:

• A fivefold higher rate of myocarditis and pericarditis among teenagers following the second dose (adjusted incidence rate ratio of 5.27) compared to unvaccinated teens.

• A 37-fold higher rate of myocarditis and pericarditis among 12- to 15-year-olds who received the two-dose series, albeit among a small number of cases.

• An approximately tenfold higher rate of anaphylactic reactions after the second dose, though based on a small number of cases.

• A 65% higher risk of epilepsy and convulsions in infection-free teenagers who received the two-dose series.

• A 47% higher risk of acute appendicitis nearly two months (56 days) after completing the two-dose COVID-19 vaccine series.

Blight House is Buying Warehouses Across the U.S. for “Detention Centers”

Immigration and Customs Enforcement is buying up warehouses across the country to build a massive network of detention centers.

Hundreds of millions of dollars have already been spent to create huge immigrant jails, often in small towns, Bloomberg reports. The agency paid $102 million for a warehouse near Hagerstown, Maryland, and $70 million in cash for a warehouse in Surprise, Arizona.

And that’s just the cost to purchase the buildings—ICE also has to pay to turn them into jails with bathrooms, beds, dining, and recreation facilities. A third warehouse purchase in El Paso, Texas, could be one of the largest jails in the United States when completed, housing 8,500 beds.

ICE plans to use up to 23 warehouses around the country to detain immigrants in even more cities, including in Minnesota, Indiana, Louisiana, Missouri, Mississippi, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Virginia. The new strategy is a shift for ICE and the Department of Homeland Security, which has been relying on many tent camps, such as the notorious “Alligator Alcatraz” in south Florida.

People who live near the proposed jails are pushing back against the plan, with protesters showing up in Hagerstown to protest on January 20 despite freezing temperatures.

In Oklahoma City, the owners of a warehouse backed out of a deal Thursday to build an ICE facility, following local backlash to the plan. Similarly, the owners of a warehouse in Salt Lake City announced they had “no plans to sell or lease the property in question to the federal government” after protesters showed up at their offices. [MORE]

ACLU Looks to Stop More Cities from Installing Automatic License Plate Readers - Devices can Watch Where you go and Record Where you Have Been

The ACLU of Iowa is raising constitutional concerns about new surveillance technology being considered in Coralville.

The city of Coralville is looking to join other communities in Eastern Iowa to install automatic license plates for readers like Flock cameras.

Flock cameras scan car license plates, and police can use that data to find suspects or build an investigation, but the ACLU said this type of surveillance is essentially breaking people’s Fourth Amendment right to a reasonable search and seizure. It’s also worried about what happens to that data after it’s collected.

Linda Petersen joined almost two dozen people in a conference room at the Coralville Library to ask the ACLU about its concerns over Automated License Plate Readers like the Flock cameras the city is currently looking into.

“We don’t know if they are tracking people’s license plates, we don’t know whose getting that data, who has access to that data,” said Petersen. “It just seems to be much more of a surveillance state.”

If approved by the city council, Coralville would join a growing list of communities in Eastern Iowa to install Flock cameras. Cedar Rapids, North Liberty, and Dubuque already have this technology in place. [MORE]

DHS is Using Facial Recognition Software and Social Media to Track U.S. Citizens as Trump Implements the Surveillance State

From [HERE] The Zionist Trump Administration and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) are now implementing their surveillance state in major cities around the nation, using ICE agents, many of whom were trained by the Israeli IDF, to implement it.

In Minneapolis, ICE agents have begun to use facial recognition software to identify U.S. Citizens who oppose the activities of ICE, as reported by the New York Times

On the morning of Jan. 10, Nicole Cleland was in her car trailing an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent through Richfield, Minn., her hometown.

Suddenly, the agent turned into a series of one-way streets and stopped, getting out of his white Dodge Ram, said Ms. Cleland, who volunteers with a local watchdog group that observes the activity of immigration officers. The agent then walked over to Ms. Cleland’s car and surprised her by addressing her as Nicole.

“He said he had facial recognition and that his body camera was on,” said Ms. Cleland, 56, who had not met the agent before.

Ms. Cleland was one of at least seven American citizens told by ICE agents this month that they were being recorded with facial recognition technology in and around Minneapolis, according to local activists and videos posted to social media, which were verified by The New York Times.

None had given consent for their faces to be recorded.

Facial recognition is just one technology tool that ICE has deployed in Minneapolis, where thousands of agents are conducting a crackdown.

The technologies are being used not only to identify undocumented immigrants but also to track citizens who have protested ICE’s presence, said three current and former officials of the Department of Homeland Security who were not authorized to discuss confidential matters.

ICE is using two facial recognition programs in Minnesota, they said, including one made by the tech company Clearview AI and a newer program, Mobile Fortify.

The agency is also using cellphone and social media tools to monitor people’s online activity and potentially hack into phones.

And agents are tapping into a database, built by the data analytics company Palantir, that combines government and commercial data to identify real-time locations for individuals they are pursuing, the current and former officials said. [MORE]

Judge finds IRS violated the law thousands of times by handing over confidential taxpayer information to ICE

 A federal judge on Thursday slammed the Internal Revenue Service for handing over confidential taxpayer information to the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, saying it violated the law “approximately 42,695 times.”

In November, U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly halted the Trump administration’s effort to use identifiable information held by the IRS to further its mass deportation campaign, a decision now pending before the D.C. Circuit.

“The IRS violated the [Internal Revenue Code] approximately 42,695 times by disclosing last known taxpayer addresses to ICE through [Taxpayer Identification Number] Matching without confirming that ICE’s request set forth the ‘address of the taxpayer with respect to whom the requested return information related,” Kollar-Kotelly wrote.

The judge issued the 13-page opinion in response to the Center for Taxpayer Rights’ motion asking whether, if the case were still fully before her, she would allow the government to file a supplemental declaration by IRS Chief Risk and Control Officer Dottie Romo, and grant limited discovery. [MORE]

Tennessee Advances Bill Blocking Landlords from Disarming Tenants

On March 16, 2026, the Tennessee Legislature transmitted Bill SB0350 to Governor Bill Lee. Governor Bill Lee is expected to sign the legislation.  Governor Lee signed a Constitutional Carry Bill in 2021. Bill SB0350 guarantees renters’ rights to keep and bear arms will not be subject to cancellation by rental contracts. The bill does not apply to state and federal government leases or rentals of property. The bill applies to both residential and commercial renters. While Governor Lee is expected to sign SB0350, if he does not veto the bill by the 28th of March, the bill will become law without his signature.

The Tennessee Senate passed the bill on February 27, 2026, by a vote of 27 to 5. The Tennessee House followed with a 72 – 22 vote on March 9, with an amendment.  The Senate concurred with the amendment on March 12, 32 -0. Governor Lee is term-limited in Tennessee. His term will expire when a new governor takes office in January of 2027. [MORE]

The Unstoppable Homemade Firearm. Are 3D-printed guns making gun control obsolete?

The 3D-printed gun movement has survived the downfall of its charismatic founder, a major defeat at the Supreme Court, and involvement in one of the most talked-about crimes of last year.

Meanwhile, the guns have gotten good. Really good. Today's hobbyist gun makers are creating better and better weapons that are easier and easier to make, including some with wildly creative designs.

There's anger and passionate disagreement about strategy, law, copyright, and leadership. The movement's critics are scathing: Lizzie, who met her husband Spezz through an online 3D-gun printing forum, calls movement founder Cody Wilson "a thief, a federal informant, and a pedophile." Spezz says "most of the cool stuff he does he just steals from other people." Wilson, for his part, is dismissive: "If you have evidence, present your evidence."

But in the meantime, this technology is fundamentally undermining the power of the state to control our access to firearms. And what I can't figure out is why more people aren't talking about it. [MORE]

Supreme Ct says the Right to Carry a Gun is Inalienable but in Liberal Cities Cops Kill/Arrest Blacks Everyday for Gun Possession. 1 Baltimore Cop Killed 2 Men this Year b/c He Believed they Had Guns

From [HERE] On the evening of Tuesday, February 24, two Baltimore Police officers, Omar Rodriguez and Arthur Fuog, fired numerous shots at 37-year-old Dwight Hawkins after a short footchase, killing him in the street in his neighborhood of Belair-Edison. Rodriguez, a member of the Group Violence Unit, was also one of the officers involved in the death of beloved arabber Bilal Abdullah by the Upton Metro Station in June, the department confirmed. 

“They went into the liquor store, and the individual and several other people in the store started to move around a little bit. The officers believed this individual was armed,” Commissioner Richard Worley said about the Tuesday shooting.

According to the Independent Investigations Division of the Attorney General’s Office, which investigates all cases of police-involved fatalities, the officers followed Hawkins as he left the store. Outside the store, Hawkins began to run. 

“Officers gave the man multiple commands. As the man continued to run, he pulled out a handgun, coming in close proximity to one of the officers. Two officers fired their service weapons, striking the man,” the IID’s initial statement reads. 

In a porch camera video shared on social media, Hawkins runs across a side street, between two cars, and up onto the other sidewalk, pursued by three officers screaming “Hands! Hands! Let me see your fucking hands!”

As Hawkins tried to run back across the road, one of the officers cuts in front of him. “Do it!” someone yelled and one of the officers starts shooting and continues shooting well after Hawkins has fallen to the ground. Another officer also fires, and someone yells “woooo!” in a way that sounded celebratory, followed by the word “fuck!” screamed in a way that sounded more invigorated than concerned. 

The video is too grainy to see any evidence of a gun, but the body motions do not appear to show any brandishing or pointing of a weapon. Eleven shots can be clearly heard on the audio, although Worley in a press conference claimed at least sixteen shots were fired. 

“Allegedly, if he did have a gun, the video shows he never pulled it out. He never pointed it,” Hawkins’ cousin Chante Fenner told WJZ. “We need justice, and it’s not right.” [MORE]