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🏴☠️ 🇺🇸 🇮🇷 The Strait of Hormuz Crisis: Week 8 Recap: Competing Blockades and Piracy Surge
April 27, 2026
In this episode of What's Going on With Shipping?, Sal Mercogliano dives into the eighth week of the intensifying maritime conflict between the United States and Iran. As both sides enforce competing blockades across the Strait of Hormuz, the Gulf of Oman, and the Arabian Sea, the "choke points" are truly being choked, with significant implications for global trade and oil prices.
00:00 – Intro: Staged Takeover Analysis
01:25 – JMIC Update: Somali Piracy Surge
01:58 – "PEG LEG" & The Pirate Action Groups
03:05 – Regional Threat Overview: The Mine Question
05:41 – The "Umpire's" Data Check: Cargo vs. Tankers
07:22 – The "Donut Hole" & Global Impact
16:04 – Stateless Vessels & Article 110
27:50 – Soapbox: Why No LCS Surge?
33:18 – Economic Fury: Sanctions & Global Trade Shifts
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Miatta Fanbulleh is Liberian.
She is now in charge of Britain's Energy Security.
Meanwhile this is what Liberia looks like:
Beaches covered in excrement.
No waste management.
Absolute filth.
THE COST OF THE AMERICAN DREAM HAS EXPLODED.
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Owning a home.
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Buying groceries.
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Driving to work.
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Paying insurance.
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Even your morning coffee.
Nearly every major household expense costs dramatically more than it did just a few years ago.
Over the last 7 years:
• Coffee: +127%
• Home prices: +60%
• Auto insurance: +51%
• Gasoline: +49%
• Electricity: +44%
• Shelter: +35%
• Groceries: +33%
And that's before paying for healthcare, transportation, or eating out.
This is why so many families feel like they're falling behind even when they get a raise.
The biggest financial problem for millions of Americans is that everything is going up at the same time, while the government keeps showing a 2% inflation target.
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Biohacker Bryan Johnson claimed he cloned himself as a newborn for the purpose of providing him blood and cells.
