Shortages Are Coming

So far, all that oil remains off the market.  It will also now take months to rewtore the flow as well.  right now tanks are going empty everywhere.  This is real compared to the halt back in 1972 or so.  other crisis rarely interfered much with the flow.

This means that the supply problem has become real.

my guess is that canadian crude is been piped into the USA  right now at a real premium.  Wartime surcharge anyone?

noone wants to be seen running out.

Shortages Are Coming

The Strait of Hormuz has been closed for 79 days. Most people haven’t noticed. They will.

Matt Smith @ Crisis Investing

May 18, 2026

https://www.crisisinvesting.com/p/shortages-are-coming

79 days ago, the Strait of Hormuz closed.

11 million barrels a day stopped moving. The IEA called it the largest supply disruption in the history of the global oil market. Gasoline is $4.53 nationally. Diesel is $5.65. You already know that part.

What you don’t know yet is what comes next.

This isn’t an oil story. It’s a cascade. Every refinery that processes crude produces sulphur as a byproduct. That sulphur becomes sulphuric acid. That acid grows your food, mines your copper, and starts your car. The Middle East supplies 24% of global sulphur. Half of seaborne trade moved through Hormuz.

It stopped moving 78 days ago.

The shortages that are coming aren’t priced in.

The Chemical Nobody Is Talking About

Sulphuric acid is the most produced industrial chemical on earth. It’s used in fertilizers, copper mining, semiconductor manufacturing, uranium extraction, lead-acid batteries, EV battery production and so much more.

About 50% of seaborne sulphur trade transited the Strait of Hormuz. In March, global sulphur loadings on dry bulk carriers collapsed 31% in a single month. Persian Gulf exports fell 66%.

Then on May 1, China, the world’s largest sulphuric acid exporter, banned exports entirely to protect its own farmers. Three million annualized tonnes pulled from global markets overnight. Japan, South Korea, and India combined have 500,000 tonnes of spare export capacity. That’s one-sixth of the gap.

The result: sulphuric acid CFR US Gulf went from $155/mt to $400/mt in ten weeks. A 158% increase. Sulphur is up 95% since February 28 — a bigger move than oil itself.

Here’s why that matters for everything downstream.

Metals vs. Food: A War for Acid

Fifty-five to sixty percent of all sulphuric acid goes to fertilizer production. The rest goes to mining: leaching copper, processing nickel, extracting uranium, refining rare earths. When supply collapses, those two sectors fight over what’s left.

Governments will be the ones to decide: Does the remaining supply go to food or to industry? Normally food would be the obvious choice. But, in a time of war will that decision change?

The supply constraints for mining are already showing up in the numbers. Chile, the world’s largest copper producer, imported 151,000 tonnes of sulphuric acid from China in March 2025. February 2026: 32,000 tonnes. March 2026: zero. About 20% of global refined copper production depends on acid-leach operations. That’s a physical availability problem, not a price problem.

Kazatomprom — 40% of global uranium supply — has already cut 2026 guidance by 10% citing sulphuric acid shortages for in-situ recovery. One of their major joint ventures was cut from 6,000 to 3,750 tonnes for the year. Their replacement acid plant isn’t online until late 2026 at the earliest.

In Indonesian nickel, the feedstock for EV batteries, they need 25–30 tonnes of sulphuric acid per tonne of product. Huayou has already idled 50% of capacity. Indonesia sourced 75–80% of its sulphur from the Middle East last year.

China moved quickly to ban exports, but they’re not alone. Zambia implemented partial sulphuric acid export bans. Indonesia is redirecting domestically to protect local agriculture. There will be more.

What’s Already Happening at the Pump

The fuel picture is bad and getting worse. Diesel and jet fuel are at their lowest level in roughly 20 years: 102 million barrels. The US has been exporting oil at record pace to help allies, draining its own product stocks. The IEA confirmed global observed inventories are drawing at a record rate - 250 million barrels in April and May combined.

Truckload spot rates hit $3.61/mile on May 16, within $0.06 of an all-time record. Craig Fuller of FreightWatch called breaking it “inevitable.”

Diesel moves 70% of physical goods in America. Industry analysts estimate 6,000–10,000 small trucking carriers will exit the market if $6 diesel persists. When they go, logistics capacity contracts — and shortages spread to products that have nothing to do with oil.

Eric Nuttall of Ninepoint Partners — who went 100% oil-weighted in January 2026, before the war — said this on May 1:

“We’re not discussing months or quarters. Within the next few weeks, demand will need to be rationalized more than it was during COVID. This is undoubtedly the largest energy crisis that anyone living today has encountered.”

Supply will need to be rationed whether through price or actual allocation to “essential services” or both.

He’s calling for $150 crude to force enough demand destruction to rebalance supply. Brent is at $107. The distance between here and $150 is the distance between ‘expensive’ and ‘rationed.’

The Scoreboard: Price Changes Since February 28

The Sleeper Nobody Saw Coming: Motor Oil

An internal AutoZone memo, corroborated by multiple independent sources, contains the following:

“We’re facing the largest supply shortage of lubricating fluids in the modern history of America. Realistic, middle-of-the-road estimates are for our average available supply in this product category to drop by 40%.”

Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE produce most of the ultra-high-quality synthetic base stock in virtually every modern motor oil. About 40% of global Group III production is now offline.

The ultra-thin viscosities required by most vehicles built after 2015 — 0W-8, 0W-16, 0W-20 — depend almost entirely on these Gulf base stocks. AutoZone is training staff on substitution protocols right now. Toyota has issued a service bulletin to dealers with blending guidance. Mobil and Shell reportedly told Costco and Walmart they’re out of product to ship.

For a trucking fleet already bleeding on $5.65 diesel, inadequate lubrication is not a nuisance. It’s a compounding existential problem.

The Food Shock Is Already Locked In

70% of US farmers say they cannot afford all the fertilizer they need this spring. In the South, 78%. Urea is up 49%. Anhydrous ammonia up 32%. And yet, Mosaic, the world’s largest phosphate producer, is losing money despite these surging fertilizer prices. Why? Supply chains. Mosaic’s acid input costs are rising faster than output prices.

The USDA has confirmed the lowest US wheat acreage in 107 years of recorded data. Farmers are cutting nitrogen-hungry wheat and switching to soybeans wherever they can.

Here’s the thing nobody in the mainstream is saying clearly: fertilizer applied in May determines the harvest in October. Fertilizer NOT applied in May also determines the harvest in October. That decision is being made right now, and no policy announcement between now and July changes it.

The food price shock you see today is the upstream cost signal. The actual grocery shelf impact hits in fall 2026 and runs through 2027. It’s baked in. The ovens are already on.

What You’ll Actually Run Short Of

The Reopening Won’t Save You

Here’s the trap most people are falling into: they think reopening the Strait means prices crash and shelves refill. Crisis averted. It doesn’t work that way.

The moment the Strait reopens, every country simultaneously tries to refill strategic reserves, commercial inventories, and supply chains. Demand surges an estimated 40%. If this happens, the price doesn’t drop on peace, it spikes on the buying stampede.

That’s why JPMorgan has Brent staying in the low $100s through year-end, even assuming a June 1 reopening.

And that’s the best case. Qatar’s Ras Laffan LNG and helium complex needs 3–5 years to reach full capacity again. Iraq’s older wells may never recover to pre-war output levels. The market hasn’t priced that yet.

Is the market pricing anything yet?

For sulphuric acid, copper, nickel, uranium, and food: the damage from the 2026 disruption runs multi-year regardless of what happens diplomatically.

A National Security Event Dressed as a Commodity Story

The US defense industrial base runs on copper, cobalt, uranium, and rare earths. All of them are processed with sulphuric acid.

If the political fight for scarce acid is won by the fertilizer industry the critical minerals pipeline for military hardware tightens. That’s a multi-year problem that we’re already seeing in the price of copper.

China controls 85% of global manufacturing for the specialized extractants required to separate rare earth elements. Energy Fuels (UUUU) White Mesa Mill in Utah, the only US facility processing rare earths from conventional sources, already has low supplier diversity for those chemicals.

This is not a commodity story. It’s a national security story with a commodity price tag.

The Apathy Problem

Nuttall said it plainly: “There is still a lot of apathy because people seem unable to fully grasp the situation.”

I get it. The shelves are still stocked. The pump still works. It’s hard to act when the product is still there - just $1.50 more per gallon. The human brain treats slow-moving catastrophes like background noise.

But the motor oil memo, the freight rate record, the 107-year wheat planting low, the Kazatomprom guidance cut — these aren’t forecasts. They’re data. The shortage is not coming. It’s here, in the upstream. It travels to the consumer at the speed of supply chains, which is measured in weeks and months, not years.

Supply chains are cracking and even a resolution to the war in Iran today won’t mean they’ll recover in time. And, yes, markets are still sleepwalking through what the data is already screaming.

What This Means For YOU

The question isn’t whether this affects you. It’s whether you’re positioned for it.

That’s what Crisis Investing is about. Every issue identifies the dislocations, names the assets, and gives you a framework for acting before the crowd figures it out.

Here’s the hard truth: most companies touched by this cascade will be crushed by it. The trucking carrier that can’t absorb $6 diesel. The copper miner that can’t source acid at any price. The fertilizer producer whose input costs outrun its revenues — like Mosaic, the world’s largest phosphate producer, losing money into a fertilizer price spike.

But a handful of companies are positioned to do the opposite. They don’t just survive the shortage — they profit from it. One large-scale copper producer, for example, generates its own sulphuric acid on-site and sells the surplus into a market where prices have risen 158% in ten weeks. While its competitors scramble for supply, it’s collecting the windfall. That’s not luck. That’s structure.

Finding that structure — before the crowd — is the entire purpose of Crisis Investing. The shortages are already in the data. The companies that benefit already exist. The window to position ahead of them is measured in weeks, not months. Look out for the next issue of Crisis Investing where we’ll reveal the names.

Venom from honeybees found to kill aggressive breast cancer

suddenly we have a real therapy for breaswt cancer.  go get bitten if you are a victim andv see if it really works.

I sure would if i was facing the big C.

We can get stung often and safely so long as we count the number. and never a swarm.

Venom from honeybees found to kill aggressive breast cancer

@Whiplash437

A tiny bee just did what chemotherapy couldn't. Scientists in Australia discovered that honeybee venom can wipe out 100% of aggressive breast cancer cells in under 60 minutes. And the healthy cells around them? Barely touched. The breakthrough came from Dr. Ciara Duffy and her team at the Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research, working alongside the University of Western Australia. They tested venom drawn from 312 honeybees and bumblebees across Australia, Ireland, and England. The target: triple-negative breast cancer and HER2-enriched breast cancer. Two of the deadliest, most stubborn forms of the disease. The weapon: melittin. The same tiny peptide that makes a bee sting burn. At one specific dose, melittin tore through cancer cell membranes completely within an hour. Within just 20 minutes, it shut down the chemical signals cancer cells need to grow and multiply. Bumblebee venom, which lacks melittin, did nothing. Zero effect, even at high concentrations. Scientists then recreated melittin synthetically in the lab and got almost identical results, meaning no bees need to be harmed to develop the therapy. Published in the peer-reviewed journal npj Precision Oncology, the findings are still early-stage. Human trials haven't happened yet. But one thing is clear. Nature has been hiding answers in plain sight all along, sometimes inside the smallest creatures on Earth. Source: Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research / npj Precision Oncology (Dr. Ciara Duffy et al.) Science Focus

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With Commercial Real Estate Still Challenging, Lenders Offload Troubled Loans At A Loss

Still challenging they call it.  turns out that all those professioals discovered that doing their real work at home works wonderfully and coming in one or two days is enough for real face tine.  The pandemic merely made a natural evolution into a revolution.

We are hearing less about claw backs, not least because they no longer have the office space anyway.

So yes everyone downsized.  I still see professional offices with one guy doing the day shift and nary another soul.

With Commercial Real Estate Still Challenging, Lenders Offload Troubled Loans At A Loss

Sunday, May 24, 2026 - 06:20 AM

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/commercial-real-estate-still-challenging-lenders-offload-troubled-loans-loss

Authored by Mary Prenon via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours),

While leasing activity and vacancy trends suggest the U.S. commercial real estate market is stabilizing, office values are still well below post-pandemic peaks, recent reports show.The San Francisco skyline on Jan. 20, 2023. Patrick T. Fallon/AFP via Getty Images

As owners scramble to make payments on under-occupied office buildings, many lenders are reluctant to foreclose to avoid the headache of taking ownership and reselling the properties, according to David Marino, cofounder of Hughes Marino, a San Diego-based corporate real estate advisory firm.

According to Cushman and Wakefield, a global commercial real estate services company, national office sublease inventory in the first quarter declined by 13.6 percent year over year, to 101 million square feet, while vacancy may have peaked. Sublease space peaked in January 2023, at 189 million square feet, according to the commercial real estate services firm CBRE Group.

A February report from the financial data and research company MSCI also shows that office prices are showing signs of stabilization, though they are still well below their post-COVID-19 pandemic peak. Commercial property prices rose by 0.3 percent year over year in January, but downtown office values declined by 1.3 percent, and were down by 40.2 percent from three years ago.

Massive Perks

Speaking recently with Siyamak Khorrami, host of EpochTV's "Market Insider," Marino said the commercial real estate market is still challenging, as the pandemic has made remote work a new normal. "The horses are out of the barn and never coming back," he said.

An April 1 report from job search platform FlexJobs shows that remote-job postings in the first quarter increased by 20 percent month over month, with 65 percent of positions targeting experienced workers. The platform predicts continued growth in the work model for the rest of the year.

An April 16 Bureau of Labor Statistics report shows that 22.6 percent of workers teleworked or worked from home, a measure commonly described as remote work, in March.

Marino said about 85 percent of companies in the United States have had their leases expire in the past six years and have been able to resize, leaving many office markets with 20 percent to 30 percent availability. As a result, commercial landlords have been offering potential tenants massive perks, including free rent packages.

"I just represented a client in an engineering firm for 14,000 square feet, which is basically space for about 7,065 people. And the landlord that just bought a building down the street was in escrow and wanted to win this deal," Marino said. "They gave us an eight-year lease with a year free. In other words, my client moves in at the end of this year and doesn't pay rent in all of 2027."

In addition, Marino said the landlord paid for all of the tenant improvements to remodel the space, plus a cash moving allowance.

'B' Loans

However, banks and lenders can face an even bigger problem when loans cannot be repaid. Rather than pursuing immediate foreclosure proceedings, many lenders are resorting to creative solutions that allow landlords to retain ownership of these buildings, he said.

Marino noted that there have been "hundreds and hundreds of foreclosures" throughout the country, in particular during the past three years. Typically, he said, commercial loans include a "balloon" provision, which requires repayment or refinancing within seven to 10 years, or the property must be sold.

"What's happened in the last three years is a lot of owners have hit that balloon mark and interest rates went from 3 to 6 percent, so if your occupancy goes from 90 to 60 percent, you're immediately underwater," he said. "Lenders in those situations have generally foreclosed on the properties and resold them at a big discount."

In some cases, lenders don't want to foreclose because they don't want to become landlords. As an alternative, Marino said, they may split an existing loan into two pieces. In this scenario, a lender could, for example, take a $100 million loan and set $30 million of that aside as a "'B' loan," treating it as a different loan.

"What I've seen in the last three years is the lending community getting very creative, trying to salvage what they can," he said. "The lenders don't want to foreclose on the real estate, nor do they want to put somebody into default unnecessarily."

According to Marino, some metro areas are affected more than others. In San Diego, he said, 11 high-rise office buildings have already been foreclosed or are going through a forced-sale process when the loan hit the balloon payment stage.

A couple of those buildings are being converted to residential use, which Marino describes as a "micro trend" and not a significant impact on office inventory nationwide. He noted that close to a third of quality buildings in the city have already transitioned through financial negotiations with lenders.

Downtown Los Angeles and San Francisco have also experienced their share of office building foreclosures, Marino said.

"There's still going to be more, and the developers that own these things, frankly, are handing the keys back," he said. "There [are] some really ugly tax consequences."

For example, he said, if a buyer purchased a building for $200 million with $150 million in debt and today the building is worth only $80 million, the owner would rather walk away.

"These are typically individual assets with their own individual Partnership Agreement, and they're collapsing all over the country," he said.

No Signs Of Systemic Fallout

To Khorrami's question about how this will impact banks and lenders, Marino said it would depend on the percentage of the lenders' assets allocated toward commercial real estate.

"The rollover of the debt is typically distributed over many, many years, so you don't have all these loans really expiring at the same time within one financial institution," he said. "My experience so far is that we're not going to see a collapse of the banking sector because of commercial real estate."

While the road could be bumpy, he said, it's not going to be a trigger effect like it was during the early 1990s. Many of the older vacant office buildings are being sold at land value, minus the cost of demolition to start over and convert them into residential projects.

RentCafe, a rental housing research platform owned by Yardi, estimated in a March report that about 90,300 apartment units were in the office-to-residential conversion pipeline nationwide at the beginning of this year, marking another record year for such projects.

The warehousing market, meanwhile, appears to be booming, Marino said. He noted that the rise of online shopping has created an escalating demand for huge warehousing space.

"You look at an Amazon distribution building, and some of these things are a million square feet," he said. "They're some of the biggest buildings in the country."

The issue is that construction, including land acquisition, permitting, and design, can often take up to three years, he said.

From 2020 to 2025, Marino noted, 1.2 billion square feet of warehouse buildings were being constructed across the country. In another five years, he predicts, the country could see an unprecedented amount of massive warehouse construction.

Another Detransitioner Wins A Huge Settlement

This whole phenomena was guaranteed to produce real lawsuits and be completely demolished.  so here we are.  There may be some argument allowing an adult to wreak his body.  It is otherwise gross child abuse.

Yet here we are and i am still saddened.

howvthis came to happen is beyond me, yet we still have feminists. They are mostly died out though.

Another Detransitioner Wins A Huge Settlement

Saturday, May 23, 2026 - 05:25 PM

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/another-detransitioner-wins-huge-settlement

A woman who underwent a double mastectomy after identifying as "nonbinary" has reportedly secured a confidential $3.5 million settlement after suing the mental health professionals who approved her for the life-altering procedure. Camille Kiefel, 36, alleged in a malpractice lawsuit that two Oregon therapists signed off on the surgery after only brief telemedicine consultations, despite a documented history of mental health issues. The settlement was reached just days before the case was set to go to trial.

The case is already fueling renewed scrutiny of how quickly some medical providers have approved irreversible gender procedures for vulnerable patients struggling with serious mental health issues.

The settlement comes after another detransitioner, Fox Varian, won a $2 million judgment back in February against the providers who referred her for a double mastectomy at age 16. Soon after the settlement was announced, the American Society of Plastic Surgeons announced its position on gender transition surgeries for minors, concluding “there is insufficient evidence demonstrating a favorable risk-benefit ratio for the pathway of gender-related endocrine and surgical interventions in children and adolescents.” According to reporter Benjamin Ryan, at least 30 detransitioners have sued healthcare providers in the past four years.

Kiefel’s complaint, filed in 2022, named licensed clinical social worker Amy Ruff and licensed professional counselor Mara Burmeister, along with their respective employers, Brave Space and the Quest Center for Integrative Health. According to the suit, it took only two telemedicine Zoom sessions, each lasting about an hour or less, for Kiefel to get approval for the surgery.

Kiefel's history at the time of those consultations showed obvious signs of mental health issues that should have been taken into account, but clearly were not. She had a documented record of trauma, depression, ADHD, and suicidal ideation. Her path toward identifying as "nonbinary" began even earlier.

She has described a childhood incident in which her best friend was sexually assaulted when both girls were in the fifth grade. "I started dressing more masculine after that," she recalled. "I just wanted to protect myself." In college, a women's studies course introduced her to the concept of being nonbinary, and she came to believe adopting that identity could explain the gender-related distress she had carried since childhood.

Despite the approval of the mental health professionals, the surgery did not resolve her gender dysphoria, and within two years, she detransitioned.

In the interim, she developed vertigo, tinnitus, and Raynaud's syndrome, a condition that causes extremities to go numb and cold. She eventually began working with a naturopath and exploring the relationship between gut health and mental wellbeing. Once she addressed her physical health through nutrition, she says both her mental and physical condition improved substantially.

That improvement is what forced the harder question.

"So while I'm addressing all my physical health issues, I start to question whether or not the surgery was helpful for me," she told Fox News Digital. "And then about a year and a half later, I de-transitioned."

"I didn't want what happened to me to happen to other vulnerable girls and women," she said.

Her lawsuit alleged professional malpractice, intentional infliction of emotional distress, and fraud, each rooted in the same core allegation: that she was neither properly evaluated nor genuinely informed before she consented to an irreversible procedure. "And I wasn't given true informed consent. And that's something that everyone deserves to have for any medical procedure," she said.

Kiefel says she reached out to gender medicine organizations in hopes of creating dialogue around how vulnerable patients are screened and counseled. Those efforts went nowhere. "So for many, I think for a lot of this is going to be the lawsuits that are actually going to create change," she said. Given that Brave Space, one of the named defendants, has since shut down permanently, the courts may be the only venue left with any real leverage.

Despite detransitioning, her body will never be the same. “And it is difficult because there's like little reminders like, I'll be looking in a mirror after taking a shower and those ugly scars are still there," she said. "Dresses don't fit me the same way ... I'd like to have kids, but I would never be able to nurse them, and I'll never have that connection with them, and then they won't get the benefits of breast milk. So it's been difficult."

Despite the physical and emotional scars caused by her transition, by her own account, Kiefel is now the most mentally stable she has ever been.

Cases like this are likely to reshape gender medicine for years to come, as doctors, therapists, and hospitals face growing legal and financial pressure over how quickly irreversible procedures were approved for vulnerable patients. The era of rubber-stamping gender interventions after cursory evaluations appears to be coming to an end, with malpractice lawsuits succeeding where internal oversight and medical institutions failed.

The Decades of Evidence SSRI Antidepressants Cause Mass Shootings

In my youth, we had no such thing.  Every mass shooting since then has been associated with anti depressants.  So yes, they are indicated as dangerous to vulnerable folk.

no one is allowed to connect the dots and impose safeguards.

you vare not stopped from connecting those dots.

The Decades of Evidence SSRI Antidepressants Cause Mass Shootings

How Dangerous Must a Drug Be Before it is Pulled from the Market?

By A Midwestern Doctor

The Forgotten Side of Medicine

May 22, 2026

Note: the only other examples I know of where a drug hurts non-users are birth control pills (which are designed to not break down) being recycled in certain municipal water supplies and shedding of the COVID-19 vaccines—something which theoretically should not be possible but nonetheless is happening and harming the more sensitive members of society.

What follows is a revised and updated article summarizing the extreme dangers of those drugs I was requested by a few readers to write in light of recent tragic events and what was recently uncovered from the 2023 shooting at a Christian elementary school.

Before we go any further, I want you to consider something. Mass school shootings have become so common, many Americans (outside those in the community directly affected by a shooting) barely take notice of them now. However, despite the fact the media has now habituated us to viewing this as an normal facet of life, in the not too distant past, teenagers did never shot up their schools (rather the idea was so inconceivable, they’d frequently bring a rifle to school to use for sports). What then was it, and why has it never been publicly discussed?

Since SSRIs first entered the market, many have noticed the unusual correlation between their consumption and completely out of character violently psychotic behavior, such as extremely disturbing homicides or suicides being committed by the individual. As the years have gone by, more and more evidence has accumulated (e.g., through lawsuits against the drug companies) that SSRIs cause psychotic violence, and in parallel, as the usage of these drugs has spiked, more and more grisly killings have occurred.

Note: a minority of people who take SSRIs greatly benefit from them (particularly those who have deficient methylation), while others (particularly those who have excessive methylation or deficient liver metabolism of SSRIs) tend to have the worst reactions (e.g., violent psychosis). While this is relatively easy to screen for, because there is a general unwillingness to acknowledge that SSRIs could be dangerous, almost no one in the medical field assess for this prior to starting the drugs or changing their dosages. That subject is discussed further here.

As you might imagine, there are many taboo areas in medicine (e.g., suggesting that vaccines can cause neurological damage to children). However, out of all of them, I’ve found by far the most hostility is directed towards anyone who insinuates mass shootings may be linked to SSRIs (e.g., I got in quite a bit of professional trouble for doing this in the past).

One of the first articles I wrote on Substack (on 5-27-22) was an attempt to provide the mountain of evidence showing there was a direct link between SSRIs and psychotic violence. It went viral and since then I’ve noticed there has gradually been more and more people who have been willing to speak out on it. I attribute this to the current political climate (the Trump presidency and the vaccine mandates has made conservatives much more willing to question both big media and big Pharma) being one where this message wanted to be heard and other conservative commentators seeing a large audience for it existed.

Two months later (on 7-25-22), Tucker Carlson aired what I believe to be the first segment I’ve seen in the mainstream media discussing this taboo topic:

Note: I edited out the political commentary from this segment. The full version of it can be viewed here.

Since that time, other prominent conservatives have spoken out on this issue (e.g., Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene). Conversely, the horror of the “far-right hysteria against SSRIs” has become a talking point of the left (e.g., see this Huffington Post piece and this Slate piece)—something I suspect is due to the high rates of psychiatric medication usage in the modern left and big Pharma buying out the Democratic party during Obama’s presidency.

Fortunately, those attacks did not work, and the violent risks of SSRI’s have gradually become more acceptable to talk about (e.g., RFK Jr. has mentioned this article during his presidential campaign and since then has successfully created the “Make America Healthy Again” movement):

Note: The above image has been updated for this article.

One of the immensely depressing things for someone who is awake to this issue is watching the same script be repeated (we need to ban all guns and have more mental health care [i.e. psyche meds] for everyone) each time one of these shooting happens. Fortunately, this script is losing its appeal and SSRIs are more and more frequently being brought to the public’s attention.

Recently Matt Walsh also did a segment on this topic, which like Tucker’s segment was seen by millions of people. Note: the full version of this episode can be viewed here.

Having watched this dynamic play out for decades, it’s hard for me to put into words how monumental of a change this newfound awareness of the dangers of SSRIs is. The only comparable example I can think of are many people now being open to considering the dangers of childhood vaccination—something which has taken a century to bring into the public awareness (e.g., my friends who gave everything they had to speak out in the 1980s and 1990s on vaccine safety were almost completely alone and cannot believe just how much the public’s receptivity to this message has changed in the last few years).

Correlation or Causation?

\One of the most common arguments used to dismiss the link between SSRIs and psychotic violence is that people who are mentally ill are more likely to be on psyche meds, so the “correlation” between psyche meds and psychotic violence is simply a product of pre-existing mental illness and would have happened independently of the psyche med.

However, while claiming “correlation is not causation” makes it possible to refute this link while sounding intelligent in the process, there are a few major problems with this argument.

First, there is a lot of evidence tying SSRI usage to these events, including clinical trial data that was hidden from the public (until it was obtained through discovery). Since that evidence was not covered in Tucker or Walsh’s presentation, it will be the focus of this article.

Second, there is a black-box warning on the SSRIs for them increasing the risk of suicide, something which can only be possible if some degree of causation does in fact exist.

Third, these psychotic events are completely out of character for the individuals who commit them, and in many cases they report a very similar (and disconcerting) narrative of what they experienced prior to and during the shooting.

Note: Big Pharma,working hand in hand with the FDA fought tooth and nail for decades to prevent a warning from ever being added to the SSRIs. I believe this is in part due to how much money is made off of these drugs (presently SSRIs make over 17 billion dollars per year).

The SSRI era

Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) have a similar primary mechanism of action to cocaine. SSRIs block the reuptake of Serotonin, SNRIs, also commonly prescribed block the reuptake of Serotonin and Norepinephrine (henceforth “SSRI refers to both SSRI and SNRI), and Cocaine blocks the reuptake of Serotonin, Norepinephrine, and Dopamine. SSRIs (and SNRIs) were originally used as anti-depressants, then gradually had their use marketed into other areas and along the way have amassed a massive body count.

Once the first SSRI entered the market in 1988, Prozac quickly distinguished itself as a particularly dangerous medication and after nine years, the FDA had received 39,000 adverse event reports for Prozac, a number far greater than for any other drug. This included hundreds of suicides, atrocious violent crimes, hostility and aggression, psychosis, confusion, distorted thinking, convulsions, amnesia, brain-zaps, a feeling that your brain no longer works right, and sexual dysfunction (long-term or permanent sexual dysfunction is one of the most commonly reported side effects from anti-depressants, which is ironic given that the medication is supposed to make you less, not more depressed).

A large body of data also exists that corroborates this. For example, numerous large studies show half of those prescribed SSRIs (typically to “feel better”) quit using them because they cannot tolerate their side effects, 20-40% of users develop bipolar disorder, over half of users develop sexual dysfunction, half of SSRI users experience significant withdrawals when they stop the drugs. Additionally a variety of other side effects also exist (e.g., users frequently report becoming emotionally anesthetized to life and taking an SSRI during pregnancy significantly increases the risk of a fetal birth defect).

Note: I and many colleagues also believe the widespread adoption of psychotropic drugs has significantly distorted the cognition of the demographics of the country that frequently utilize them (which to some extent stratifies by political orientation), which in turn has created a wide range of detrimental shifts in our society.

SSRI homicides are common, and a website exists that has compiled thousands upon thousands of documented occurrences. As far as I know (there are most likely a few exceptions), in all cases where a mass school shooting has happened, and it was possible to know the medical history of the shooter, the shooter was taking a psychiatric medication that was known for causing these behavioral changes. After each mass shooting, memes illustrating this topic typically circulate online (often citing many of the same individuals in the picture in the previous section).

Note: while the media initially reported this link, as the media became more corrupt (due to Bill Clinton legalizing direct to consumer drug advertising in 1997—allowing the pharmaceutical industry to become the largest media advertiser and thus buy its silence), the SSRI status of shooters stopped being reported. Because of this, we now rarely hear any of the shooter’s medical history (with the only exception I know of being the recent 2023 shooting).

However, as mentioned above, the idea that “SSRIs cause mass shootings” is treated with widespread ridicule and animosity in a manner not that different from how anyone who claimed the “COVID vaccines were NOT safe and effective” was treated in 2020. For instance, the argument to debunk both was always “correlation is not causation” (e.g., the young healthy lady who had a fatal heart attack immediately after a vaccine might have had that happen anyways), and when data to support this contention is presented, it is always ignored by the other side.

Since there are many serious issues with psychiatric medications, to avoid being too long, this article will exclusively focus on their tendency to cause horrific violent crimes, something which was known long before they entered the market by both the drug companies and the FDA.

Lastly, for anyone who reads this article is presently taking an SSRI or SNRI, it is critically important to NOT suddenly stop taking them. Because their manufactures dose them at excessively high levels, these drugs are very addictive and produce very strong (and longlasting) withdrawal symptoms that many (including numerous readers here) have shared. More importantly, there are also many cases of catastrophic events (e.g., a suicide or mass murder) that followed the abrupt discontinuation of an SSRI or a change in its dose. If this is something you choose to do, you need to gradually taper down the dosage (sometimes to the point you use sandpaper to slowly shrink a pill) with a professional who has experience in this area.

However, since doctors who help can you safely withdraw from an SSRI are difficult to find, we put together a guide on the (incredibly unfair) withdrawal process which can be viewed in the second half of this article.

Note: Many of the stories I will share in this article are similar to those I have received from numerous readers (e.g., see the comments on the first article, second article, third article, and fourth article along with numerous comments on Twitter)—which I believe highlights how common SSRI injuries are. Many of these stories are very difficult to read through, but I nonetheless believe need to be heard.

Was US Rep. Thomas Massie a Victim of a Stolen Primary Election?

election rigging has become more and more visible and remains unchallenged.  The method is obvious.  Mail in makes it possible.  And vaway we go.

How can this be stopped?  The money is too entrenched and cheating is too obvious

It has all fully emerged and is hardly a secret..

Was US Rep. Thomas Massie a Victim of a Stolen Primary Election?

May 22, 2026

Don’t expect the DOJ to investigate

Paul Craig Roberts

Questions have arisen whether the primary election was stolen from US Rep. Thomas Massie.

Among the evidence suggesting a stolen primary are:

A total of 30 or 40 people at Ed Gallrein’s victory party.

Hundreds of people showing support for Massie at his concession speech.

Gallrein had 70 campaign donors from Kentucky. His campaign funds came from outside the district and the state.

Massie had 1,545 campaign donors from Kentucky.

The vote split was substantially different from what the polls indicated.

10,000 mail-in ballots appeared at the last minute.

A highly improbable 356% increase in voter turnout in a primary election, an indication that people who did not vote got voted. The ghost voters were not present at Gallrein’s victory party.

With the Israel Lobby contributing at least $10 million of a $30 million war fund to unseat Massie and with Trump sending the Secretary of War on the campaign trail to stress virtues of

An alternative explanation is that Kentucky Republicans were satisfied with Massie, as they had been for 14 years, but abandoned him when Trump emphasized the split. Perhaps not many voters were sufficiently involved to understand the issues and what was at stake and just went with the president. In other words, the outcome was another consequence of insouciant Americans.

Trump warns of possible military action in Cuba

The Regime in Iran was always going to be a difficult tactical and strategic problem and the current position of apparent standoff was comletelty predictable and is the central reason for Iranian leadership ability to hjold the line.  It is also why their nuclear ambitions must be stopped

Cuba is a very different matter and after the removal of Maduro, they are the only rogue regime standing.  They also have zero support.  sort of like the sorry history of Haiti.

Removing that government is the easy part.  What bothers me is the replacement and sadly this is also monroe doctrine country.  The USA will not really allow participation when that is what is so needed.  This is no small problem and it also includes Venezuela.  

Trump warns of possible military action in Cuba and says 'I'd be happy to do it' as Marco Rubio declares the nation a 'US national security threat

By ELIANA SILVER, SENIOR FOREIGN NEWS REPORTER

Published: 02:33 EDT, 22 May 2026 | Updated: 05:00 EDT, 22 May 2026

US President Donald Trump on Thursday warned of possible military intervention in Cuba, as Secretary of State Marco Rubio declared that Cuba has been a national security threat for years.

Trump said previous US presidents have considered intervening in Cuba for decades but that 'it looks like I´ll be the one that does it.'

'Other presidents have looked at this for 50, 60 years, doing something,' Trump told reporters when asked about Cuba during an environmental event in the Oval Office.

'And, it looks like I´ll be the one that does it. So, I would be happy to do it.'

Secretary of State Marco Rubio told reporters separately that Cuba has been a national security threat for years because of its ties to US adversaries such as Russia and China and that Trump is intent on addressing it.

Rubio, the son of Cuban immigrants who has long taken a hard-line against Cuba´s socialist leadership, said the Trump administration wants to resolve differences with Cuba peacefully but is doubtful the US can reach a diplomatic resolution with the island's current government.

Trump's 'preference is always a negotiated agreement that´s peaceful. That´s always our preference. That remains our preference with Cuba,' Rubio said in Miami before boarding a plane to attend a NATO meeting in Sweden and then visit India.

'I´m just being honest with you, you know, the likelihood of that happening, given who we´re dealing with right now, is not high,' he said.

Trump said previous US presidents have considered intervening in Cuba for decades but that 'it looks like I´ll be the one that does it'

A Cuban in exile holds up a sign that reads 'Assassins and terrorists' as they celebrate Cuba's Republic Day in Miami, Florida on May 20, 2026

Top Trump aides - including Rubio, CIA chief John Ratcliffe and other senior national security officials - have met with Cuban officials in recent months to explore possible improvements in relations. But the U.S. side has come away unimpressed from those talks, leading to even more sanctions imposed on the Cuban government in the past week.

Over the years, Cuba has gotten used to 'buying time and waiting us out,' Rubio said. 'They´re not going to be able to wait us out or buy time. We´re very serious, we´re very focused.'

When asked whether the US would use force in Cuba to change the island's political system, Rubio repeated that a diplomatic settlement was preferred but noted that 'the president always has the option to do whatever it takes to support and protect the national interest.'

He pushed back on a reporter´s suggestion that it sounded like 'nation-building,' insisting it was about addressing a national security risk.

The renewed threat takes on greater weight a day after the administration announced criminal charges against the island's former leader, Raúl Castro.

Federal prosecutors on Wednesday unveiled an indictment that accuses Castro of ordering the shootdown in 1996 of civilian planes flown by Miami-based exiles. The charges, which were secretly filed by a grand jury in April, included murder and destruction of an airplane.

Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel has condemned the indictment as a political stunt that sought only to 'justify the folly of a military aggression against Cuba.'

The Castro indictment has led many to believe that the Trump administration is following the same playbook it did when it captured then-Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro in a military operation in early January.

Maduro, who has been imprisoned in the U.S. since his seizure, faces federal drug trafficking charges and has pleaded not guilty.

The US military touted the arrival of the USS Nimitz aircraft carrier and accompanying ships to the Caribbean Sea on the same day the charges against Castro were announced.

US Southern Command said the ships are taking part in maritime exercises with partners in Latin America that began in March.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio told reporters that Cuba has been a national security threat for years because of its ties to US adversaries such as Russia and China

A man walks on a street in Havana as Cuba reconnected its electrical grid across much of the island following a nationwide blackout that left about 10 million people without electricity

Rubio would not discuss how the US might move to implement the indictment against Castro, who turns 95 next month.

Trump has been threatening military action in Cuba ever since ousting Maduro and then ordering an energy blockade that choked off fuel shipments to Cuba.

That has led to severe blackouts, food shortages and an economic collapse across the island.

The Trump administration this month also has slapped new sanctions on Cuba, the largest of which is against Grupo de Administración Empresarial S.A., a business conglomerate operated by the Cuban Revolutionary Armed Forces.

On Thursday, Rubio announced that the sister of the GAESA's executive president, who was living in the U.S., has had her green card revoked and been arrested, and is now in US Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody.

'Past Administrations have permitted the families of Cuban military elites, Iranian terrorists and other reprehensible organizations to enjoy lavish lifestyles in our country funded by stolen blood-money, while the people they repress at home suffer in increasingly dire circumstances. No longer,' Rubio said in a statement.

Trump has ratcheted up talk of regime change in Cuba after pledging to conduct a 'friendly takeover' of the country if its leadership did not open its economy to American investment and kick out US adversaries.

China opposes US sanctions and pressure on Cuba, a Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson, Guo Jiakun, said Thursday.

'China firmly supports Cuba in safeguarding its national sovereignty and national dignity and opposes external interference,' Guo added.