No tankers.

Not a single tanker (red icons) currently in the Strait of Hormuz (but a bunch at anchor on either side).

https://www.marinevesseltraffic.com/HORMUZ-STRAIT/ship-traffic-tracker?map=vf

Strait of Hormuz ship traffic map.

Near as I can tell, red markers are oil tankers, green are cargo and pink are fishing boats. Arrow shape means ship is moving, dot shape means not.

Looks like there are a number of ships waiting at the entrance of the strait. I dunno if that means much...

https://www.marinevesseltraffic.com/HORMUZ-STRAIT/ship-traffic-tracker?map=vf

Watched until I got sick of it.

Last impression was of Johnson with a look on his face as if he was about to jump up and yell Halleluiah.

Mara Largo shooter says:

TMZ reported on Sunday that the man who was shot and killed by Secret Service agents after he breached the secure perimeter at Mar-a-Lago with a shotgun was “fixated” on the files tied to Jeffrey Epstein and believed there was a “government cover-up” protecting his accomplices.

The report is based on text messages from February 15 and from “sources who worked” with the man — identified as 21-year-old Austin Tucker Martin — at a North Carolina golf course. TMZ also reported that Martin “regularly expressed support” for President Donald Trump; he apparently wasn’t as much of a MAGA fan anymore, considering he was prepared to attack the president’s estate.

“I don’t know if you read up on the Epstein Files, but evil is real and unmistakable.” Martin said in the recent text messages. “The best people like you and I can do is use what little influence we have. Tell other people about what you hear about the Epstein files and what the government is doing about it. Raise awareness.”

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/mar-lago-gunman-reportedly-fixated-235641538.html

Well, he wasn't all wrong at all...

Here's a quote worth quoting:

Elmo's big Mars plans

come down to earth (or at least the moon). Seems that Mars colonization will have to wait a while longer now that reality has set in.

https://www.universetoday.com/articles/spacex-makes-a-huge-pivot-wants-to-build-on-the-moon-instead

This Charlie Angus article is worth a read.

I’ve never been drawn to conspiracy theories.

I have read all the books on the Kennedy assassination, and the recent Secret History of the 60s about Charles Manson. They make for fascinating reading. But at the end of the day, I still question the existence of some great master plan.

Perhaps the hardest thing to admit is the chaos that can be unleashed by one random actor like Lee Harvey Oswald.

Having said that, that’s exactly what makes the latest Epstein dump so disturbing. It reads like a jigsaw puzzle where all the chaos agents of our time suddenly fit together in a frightening war on democracy and reality itself.

Steve Bannon.
Peter Thiel.
Donald Trump.
4Chan.

https://charlieangus.substack.com/p/the-conspiracies-that-hide-in-plain

Trump is not the only one with world-scale megalomania.

"Elon Musk lays out a new vision of AI satellites as SpaceX acquires xAI"

Sez he wants to put one million satellites into orbit...

https://www.universetoday.com/articles/elon-musk-lays-out-a-new-vision-of-ai-satellites-as-spacex-acquires-xai

If Alberta Falls, Canada Falls

"If Alberta Falls, Canada Falls

Charlie Angus / The Resistance
Jan 29, 2026

"Finally. Someone in the public has spoken the word ‘treason’.

How else to describe the manipulations of the Quislings who have been meeting with Trump officials to break Alberta from Canada?

For the last year, I have been calling out the “Donbas Playbook” being used by the MAGA machine. I have raised questions about the massive slush fund of American money being put on the table to drive the break up our nation. And I have been calling out the manipulations of MAGA Premier Danielle Smith.

The stakes are getting higher."

https://charlieangus.substack.com/p/if-alberta-falls-canada-falls

Any vibes from the US sources on this? Angry but not surprised.....

Trump Shits Again on NATO Allies

"We've never needed them; we have never really asked anything of them," Trump said of his NATO allies in an interview with Fox News in Davos, Switzerland, on Thursday.

"You know, they'll say they sent some troops to Afghanistan, or this or that. And they did, they stayed a little back, a little off the front lines."

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/trump-nato-allies-comments-afghanistan-9.7058277

So sez the draft-dodger in chief....