(9 June 2026) It is now 11 pm MST June 9, or, 5 AM GMT, June 10. We have been watching world and Mideast events surrounding the closure of the Strait of Hormuz by the IRGC.
The Strait has been closed to normal traffic for 101 days.
The idea of the Second Signpost having started March 2 (with the closure of the Strait of Hormuz) is still in play. And it will remain in play and then either be disproved when the regime is completely disbanded, or will be confirmed when the Ram runs out across the Middle East.
HormuzTracker is a website that tracks the effects of the closure of the Strait of Hormuz across the world. On the home page is a clickable globe to visually see where the countries are that are most impacted. One of the webpages, “Countries”, keeps a tab of dozens of countries.
The website states in the About page:
“HormuzTracker.org is an independent, open-source crisis intelligence tool. It was built and launched during the first weeks of the 2026 Strait of Hormuz crisis to fill a gap: no single resource was tracking which countries had declared energy emergencies, imposed rationing, or faced food insecurity from the closure — all in one place, with sourced data.”
Conclusion
HormuzTracker is a “taking peace of mind from the earth” tracker. It is a tool that may help us watch how and where the second horseman is operating to take peace from the earth.
Here in the US, assuming Iran takes a break between now and September, we still have three months to get ready. However, with each month, prices will climb and we may see fuel shortages.
Keep watch.
Categories: In The News, Signpost #2: Iran, USA in the End Times
THE FOUR SIGNPOSTS 
About factors that take away the peace from the earth…
The Hormuz tracker site is really good.
But there is more.
We already know that the bad effects of the upcoming El Nino on the world’s food production will be aggravated by the fertiliser shortage caused by the Hormuz Crisis, which was triggered by Trump and Netanyahu. This will take away the peace from many people.
But there already is another disaster already going on that in all probability will be greatly aggravated by the second Signpost: Ebola.
The CDC recently warned this may become the worst Ebola outbreak on record. They project no less than 65% chance of more than 20,000 cases by late August.
Probably even higher because I do not think they calculated all the turmoil in caused by the Hormuz crisis, which should become ever more serious this summer.
Now imagine the Second Signpost happening this very fall, exactly when Ebola is getting out of control, and that because two Trump governments have all but destroyed everything the USA had built up which could have helped contain it…
Ebola is way less contagious than corona, but it is a cruel and horrific disease, with about 33% mortality, way higher than corona.
The expression “peace taken away” might prove to be an euphemism.
The word “panic” might fit better.
The text below explains why this is so serious. Consist of excerpts from two recent NYT articles (behind a paywall):
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/21/opinion/ebola-outbreak-virus-spread-usaid.html
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2026/06/09/opinion/ebola-outbreak-africa-usaid.html
In August 2014, an Ebola outbreak in West Africa grew into an epidemic 67 times as large as any prior Ebola outbreak — a warning of what the virus is capable of if not contained early. It came to an end because the international community, led by the USA, stepped up to help frontline health workers and leaders in Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea in their fights against the virus. After this outbreak, which killed over 11,000 people, the world strengthened systems to catch and contain Ebola outbreaks early.
When Ebola emerged in Eastern Congo in 2018, the international community stepped up again to support local responders, this time with the WHO coordinating and ample US government backing. Even with more than 700 WHO officials deployed to reinforce the Congolese Ministry of Health, it took two years to contain it, and the outbreak claimed 2,300 lives.
Mind, this was a huge effort even with all of the infrastructure built after 2014 in tact: surveillance networks, rapid response teams and diplomatic partnerships. Why so difficult? Armed conflict in Eastern Congo had forced millions from their homes and left many health facilities damaged or destroyed.
What about the present Ebola outbreak of 2026?
Less than a week after it was first declared, this was already the third-largest Ebola outbreak in history.
We have no effective treatments or vaccines yet for the virus variant driving the current outbreak.
In most Ebola outbreaks, fewer than 500 people have been infected. The first few months are crucial to stop the spread. Today, there are already over 569 confirmed cases, just 25 days since the latest outbreak was declared.
The current situation in eastern Congo and Uganda combines the most dangerous aspects of the 2014 and 2018 outbreaks — the worst Ebola outbreaks in history. The virus was already spreading for several months before it was detected in May 2026, and there are no approved vaccines or treatments for this particular form: the rare Bundibugyo strain.
The conflict in eastern Congo has worsened over the past few years, with more than 3.4 million people now displaced from their homes. About a million of them are in a region where government has lost control. Over 100 armed groups are now active in the region, many of them hostile to the national government and international groups. Goma, a key humanitarian and logistical hub, is under the control of a rebel group, and the city’s airport, essential to previous aid operations, has been closed since January 2025. This worst of regions is where the first cases in the current outbreak appeared. Other cases have popped up in Kampala, Uganda.
On top of all of this bad news: This time around, we have far less capacity to respond.
In his first term Trump dissolved the National Security Council’s global health security team, put in place after the 2014 Ebola epidemic. In his second term he hollowed out the White House’s Office of Pandemic Preparedness and Response Policy. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) — which helps coordinate early response and contact tracing in a crisis like this — lost a quarter of its staff members in the past year.
In 2015 CDC and WHO worked side by side. Such collaboration would be much more difficult today; ever since the Trump administration withdrew from the WHO, CDC staff members have been barred from working with the organisation.
Trump also dismantled USAID. This left clinics, community health workers and humanitarian organisations that formed the backbone of health care across eastern Congo without crucial funding. Slashed alongside USAID was a specialised rapid response team — dozens of experts, including people with direct Ebola response experience, trained and ready to deploy for exactly this kind of moment.
Other donor countries have also cut back funds as global aid budgets have fallen and defence spending has increased, leaving health facilities across the region without the supplies in place to combat the virus.
Ebola can still be contained — but only if the world finds the will to do it, and if the current efforts using AI to make a vaccine ASAP are successful. All of this must work out for the better during the Hormuz Crisis this summer and possibly the Second Signpost this fall…
Adamant –
You wrote – “The expression “peace taken away” might prove to be an euphemism. The word “panic” might fit better.”
I only use the words of Scripture. You know “eirene” (peace of mind) is used in Revelation 6 about the second horseman.
But your use of the word “panic” fits in with what Jesus said in both Matthew 24:6 (about not being “alarmed” in the NIV which is “throeo” and actually means “scream from terror”) and in Luke 21:9 (about not being “frightened” in the NIV which is “ptoeo” and actually means “fly off in terror”). So “panic” is perfect.
Trump dismantling USAID was one of his best policies. It was a money laundering scheme. Any little good it did was for propaganda purposes.
President Obama’s legacy was very complicated. He left us with much of the ideologically compromised staff that made Trump’s cuts necessary, and he attached ideological strings to much of the aid he sent to poor countries in Africa and elsewhere around the world. Those people would not have been of any help getting ready for what’s coming.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=635rbuteJoo
This is a link to the Glenn Beck program. According to Beck Trump has been (MY WORDS) smuggling oil past the Straight of Hormuz. That is the reason that the price of oil isn’t higher. Since all sides have professional speech writers I must be critical of someone who constanly says “a deal is around the corner”. I hope this report is true, but there are still ships in the Gulf. I posted this story on this collumn because it has the Hormuz Tracker. I don’t know how to interpret the readings. Maybe other readers can. I hope Trump isn’t lying to create more journalistic or stock market news “opium”. I have listened to the first fourteen minutes.
Karl,
I’ve heard that story as well. 100 million barrels smuggled out doesn’t make prices stable – its the global inventory in storage 14 times that size that are stabilizing prices.