Anonymous ID: 9055bd Sept. 14, 2026, 11:25 a.m. No.25037342   🗄️.is 🔗kun

>>25037167

When Disney thought two Jedi lesbians making a baby using the Force was a good idea, the franchise died

Firefly, Battlestar Galactica, or even a reboot of that old show "Quark" that had a space trash collector dude as the main character. Somebody wake up Pinewood Studios and ITC and bring forth some Red Dwarf

Anonymous ID: 9055bd Sept. 14, 2026, 11:50 a.m. No.25037405   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>7410

Gulf States Postpone Iran Talks as Houthis Strike Saudi Arabia

Reuters September 14, 2026

 

TAIZ, Yemen/DUBAI, Sept 14 (Reuters) – Arab states in the Gulf called off a meeting with Iran planned for Monday, while Yemen’s Houthis launched a new attack on Saudi Arabia after fighting that has extended the Middle East war to another theater and further jeopardized global oil supplies.

 

The Iran-aligned Houthis said they fired dozens of missiles and drones at a military airbase in Khamis Mushait in southern Saudi Arabia, hitting aircraft hangars, radar systems, runways and ammunition depots. They described the attack as retaliation for hundreds of Saudi airstrikes on Yemen in recent days.

 

Saudi authorities announced several emergency alerts there and in three other southern cities which have previously come under Houthi fire.

 

The Houthis launched a lightning advance last week in Yemen, culminating in the seizure of an island in the mouth of the Red Sea on Friday. A separate attack that day, which Riyadh blamed on Iran-backed fighters in Iraq, knocked out Saudi Arabia’s east-west pipeline, the main route for Middle East oil bypassing the blockaded Strait of Hormuz.

 

OIL PRICES JUMP

Crude oil prices rose more than 4% on Monday when the market reopened after the weekend’s developments, with benchmark Brent crude futures LCOc1 above $109 a barrel. The politically sensitive average retail price of diesel in the United States hit a new all-time high above $6.23 a gallon.

 

Traders say that if the Saudi pipeline remains shut for more than a few days, it could cut off as much as 4% of global oil supply. Images from space show sections of the pipeline damaged by blazes. Riyadh has not given a firm estimate for how long it will be shut.

 

Oman had been due to host a meeting on Monday with Iran and Gulf states to discuss negotiations aimed at reopening Hormuz, the world’s most important oil shipping lane, largely closed since the U.S. and Israel attacked Iran at the end of February.

 

But Oman’s Foreign Minister Sayyid Badr Albusaidi announced overnight that the meeting had been postponed “in the interests of consensus.” Iran said the postponement was at the request of Saudi Arabia.

 

Meanwhile, Iran issued a list of 77 ships it said had violated its protocols for operating in the Strait of Hormuz. Any ship on the list would face “restrictions on future passages, including fines, detention, or confiscation.”

 

Exactly how much oil is escaping through the strait has been difficult to confirm, as ships that manage to pass often switch off their transponders and transfer cargoes to other ships on the far side.

 

U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright said on Monday the average number of ships crossing the strait covertly with U.S. support was increasing. But independent monitors have suggested oil flows could have dropped off this month since fighting re-escalated after a quiet August.

 

EXPANSION OF WAR TO YEMEN POSES DILEMMA FOR TRUMP

The upsurge of fighting in Yemen poses a dilemma for Washington, which is under pressure to aid its Saudi allies but anxious not to expand the costly war to a new theater.

 

Saudi Arabia has led an Arab coalition battling the Houthis since shortly after the mountain fighters captured Yemen’s capital in 2014. The war there had largely been quiet under a ceasefire for the past few years, but fighting has now resumed, with the Houthis driving back forces from a Saudi-backed government based in the south.

 

The International Organization for Migration estimates 82,000 Yemenis have fled fighting since the start of the month as the Houthis swept into cities, including the historic Red Sea port of Mocha last week.

 

On Friday, the Houthis captured Perim Island, inside the Bab el-Mandeb, the “Gate of Tears” strait, at the mouth of the Red Sea.

 

U.S. President Donald Trump is under pressure to end the war to relieve the global energy shortage and lower prices that are hurting the fortunes of his Republican Party ahead of mid-term elections in November.

 

Saudi state media reported that Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman had met in Jeddah on Monday with the commander of U.S. regional forces, Admiral Brad Cooper.

 

Three sources have told Reuters that Washington has so far rebuffed pleas from the prince to intervene in Yemen beyond providing intelligence. Trump confirmed over the weekend that he had spoken to the prince, and said the Houthis had also phoned asking Washington to keep out of the dispute.

 

More:

https://gcaptain.com/gulf-states-postpone-iran-talks-as-houthis-strike-saudi-arabia/

Anonymous ID: 9055bd Sept. 14, 2026, 11:52 a.m. No.25037410   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>7415

>>25037405

Notice the Reuters spin

>U.S. President Donald Trump is under pressure to end the war to relieve the global energy shortage and lower prices that are hurting the fortunes of his Republican Party ahead of mid-term elections in November.

 

'member when the economists predicted $* for regular in California if Valero shut down? Yeah, they are headed there

 

California average gas prices

Regular Mid-Grade Premium Diesel

Current Avg. $6.0012 $6.2166 $6.4206 $8.1544

Yesterday Avg. $5.9877 $6.2086 $6.4090 $8.1367

Week Ago Avg. $5.8602 $6.0759 $6.2814 $7.8256

Month Ago Avg. $5.5766 $5.8139 $6.0042 $6.9165

Year Ago Avg. $4.6463 $4.8776 $5.0667 $5.1573

 

https://gasprices.aaa.com/?state=CA