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​  Iran Decides to Take Matters in Hand​, Paul Craig Roberts
As I finished writing the article below, Iran decided to take matters out of the hands of Trump and Netanyahu.  The decision was a consequence of Netanyahu’s order to the American-provided Israeli Air Force to commence the bombing of civilian residential areas of Beirut, Lebanon, and warning the residents to flee their soon to be ruined homes.  The Israeli invasion of southern Lebanon has again been halted by the Hezbollah militia, the third time the Israeli Army has been stopped by a mere  militia. Frustrated at Israel’s impotence on the ground, Netanyahu decided to take it out on citizens in Lebanon’s capital further north distant from the battlefield where the Hezbollah militia stopped the Israeli attack. Thanks to Washington, Israel makes up for its inability to perform on the ground with its American Air Force, which its opponents of choice do not have.
​  When defeated on the ground, Israel bombs civilians. The only thing the IDF is good for is murdering women and children.
​  The Iranians told Netanyahu that Iran’s Armed Forces will not tolerate any more Israeli barbarism in Lebanon and Israel had best evacuate its own cities.  Netanyahu quickly backed down on his planned bombing of civilian housing in Beirut suburbs. Trump, who emerges each day as ever more a pathological liar tried to cover up the Iranian defeat of Washington and Israel by claiming to have convinced Hezbollah to stop embarrassing Israel by stopping their advance in southern Lebanon. There is zero chance that Hezbollah will cede southern Lebanon to Israel.​   https://paulcraigroberts.org/iran-decides-to-take-matters-in-hand/

​  Thanks Eleni: A short, clear lesson in post WW-2 history: Iran neither retaliates nor negotiates; it continues its global revolution​  by Thierry Meyssan

We do not understand Iran’s position vis-à-vis the United States and its allies at all: the Iranian people are not surprised by the war. They expected it, given their anti-imperialist stance. They are not so much interested in negotiating an end to hostilities as in establishing a new international order. They are willing to suffer in order to advance their own agenda. Washington may win militarily, but it is Tehran that is making political progress.

​  Westerners completely misunderstand what the Iranians want, a people they know nothing about. They still haven’t grasped the messages of Mohammad Mossadegh and Ruhollah Khomeini: Iranians can liberate their country from Anglo-Saxon colonial exploitation and free the world from Western colonial domination by drawing on their religion for the strength necessary to accomplish this revolution.
​  Mohammad Mossadegh demonstrated that it was possible to reclaim the nation’s assets. He nationalized the oil industry and negotiated the share his country had granted to foreign companies. Certainly, he was overthrown by the CIA and MI6 with the Shah’s complicity, but what he had accomplished could never be undone. Mossadegh awakened an exploited nation.​   https://www.voltairenet.org/article224477.html

​  Iran to deepen ties with ‘principal strategic partner’ China: Ghalibaf
Beijing and Tehran have significantly expanded their strategic cooperation since the start of the US-Israeli war on Iran​   https://thecradle.co/articles/iran-to-deepen-ties-with-principal-strategic-partner-china-ghalibaf

​  Moon of Alabama, War On Iran: After Israel Threatened Beirut Iran Announced To Further Reduce Global Oil Supplies
The Israeli government, pushed by its Zionazis and with the support of the White House, has announced that it will attack the Dahiyeh suburb of Beirut. Dahiyeh is normal civil neighborhood which is claimed to have a Shia majority with sympathies for Hizbullah.
  Israel says it will renew strikes on Hezbollah in Beirut after lobbying for US green light – Times of Israel
Israel announced Monday morning that it would renew strikes on Hezbollah’s stronghold in southern Beirut, after significantly curtailing attacks on the Lebanese capital for weeks at the request of US President Donald Trump’s administration, …
..Lebanon is part of the crumbling ceasefire between the U.S. and Iran.
Iran’s foreign minister warned of the consequences of such a severe breach of the ceasefire:
Seyed Abbas Araghchi @araghchi – 11:04 UTC · Jun 1, 2026
  For immediate attention:
The ceasefire between Iran and the US is unequivocally a ceasefire on all fronts, including in Lebanon.
   Its violation on one front is a violation of the ceasefire on all fronts.
The US and Israel are responsible for the consequences of any violation.
  In reaction to the Israeli announcement Iran has stopped all negotiations and threatened to respond in kind.   https://www.moonofalabama.org/2026/06/war-on-iran-after-israel-threatened-beirut-iran-announced-to-further-reduce-global-oil-supplies.html

Trump Reportedly Ripped Netanyahu In Phone Call, Demanded Lebanon Truce: 'You're F**king Crazy, I'm Saving Your Ass'​   https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/irgc-launches-new-strikes-kuwait-after-us-attacks-until-last-american-soldier-leaves

Iran says damage at Kuwait airport terminal caused by US Patriot missile malfunction​ - IRGC spokesman denies Iranian strike on airport terminal​   https://www.aa.com.tr/en/middle-east/iran-says-damage-at-kuwait-airport-terminal-caused-by-us-patriot-missile-malfunction/3955764

​  It looks like a Shahed, but US/Israel and Russia all have Shahed-clones: Iranian drone attack kills Indian citizen in Kuwait after US strikes Qeshm

Clashes continue as diplomacy between Washington and Tehran shows little progress.​   https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/6/3/iranian-drone-hits-kuwaits-main-airport-after-us-strikes-qeshm-island

​  To what does he refer?  ‘They Were Slightly Provoked’: Trump Downplays Iran’s Attacks Targeting US Bases in Kuwait and Bahrain

At least one person was killed, and dozens were injured during Iran's attack on Kuwait​   

​  “There’s a reason for everything, and we hit them pretty hard last night,” the president told reporters in the Oval Office. “Some people would say they were slightly provoked because we took a strong action for a different reason, so they were reciprocating.”
​  Iran launched the missile and drone attacks after the US bombed a commercial ship attempting to reach Iran and launched strikes on Iran’s Qeshm island.​   https://news.antiwar.com/2026/06/03/they-were-slightly-provoked-trump-downplays-irans-attacks-targeting-us-bases-in-kuwait-and-bahrain/

​  Peace Talks Stall: U.S. Denies Iranian Claims Of Warning Shots At Destroyers​ - U.S. CENTCOM Denies Report​ - Iran Military Fires "Warning Missiles" At US Destroyers In Gulf of Oman​   https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/iran-fm-warns-american-bases-are-legitimate-targets-cites-no-tangible-progress-talks

​  Gold & Geopolitics, Daily digest: 2026-06-06

"Dow record while the leaders bled" finally snapped: Friday's 172K jobs beat killed the rate-cut trade, and everything — stocks, crypto, gold, silver — got liquidated in one session, with the Nasdaq printing its largest point drop in history and Bitcoin slicing below $60K. Overnight the Hormuz standoff went kinetic: a botched US tanker escort drew IRGC ballistic missiles onto US bases in Kuwait and Bahrain, ending the "talks are going well" narrative. Continuation underneath: Russia-Ukraine grinds, South Lebanon hits week 13, and the oil-supply-crisis-meets-falling-price paradox is still unexplained.

​  Everything-down Friday: Nasdaq's largest-ever point drop, S&P sheds ~$2T. S&P 500 closed -2.6%, Nasdaq 100 -4.8% (zerohedge); largest daily point decline in Nasdaq history per Hedgeye; ~$2T market cap erased per Kobeissi; VIX +36%. The 9-week win streak died on the 3rd-strongest jobs report in 18 months.​..

..Fed pivot to HIKE: jobs beat reverses the cut trade. 172K vs 88K expected, a 4-sigma beat; traders now fully price a quarter-point hike by year-end — a complete reversal from the ~40bps of cuts expected pre-war.​..

​..Markets: the jobs report that broke the 9-week rally​ - The "good news is bad news" mechanics: a strong labor market removes the Fed's room to cut, and a corporate sector buried in debt that needs lower rates can't take it. Kobeissi: all 7 hourly Nasdaq candles red, biggest drop since "Liberation Day"; Barchart: QQQ -5%, worst since April 4, 2025.​   https://no1sdailydigest.substack.com/p/daily-digest-2026-06-06

​  Gold & Geopolitics, Daily digest: 2026-06-05

The AI trade finally cracked in public: Broadcom shed ~$350B on a record quarter while the Dow printed a fresh all-time high on the same session — a rotation into health insurers and banks dressed up as a rally. 

​  Trump's Lebanon ceasefire was rejected by Hezbollah within hours as Hezbollah burned through ~6 Merkavas around Beaufort Castle, Oman's main oil terminal took a drone, and Zelensky mailed Putin an open letter proposing direct talks...

..Lebanon ceasefire collapses on arrival; Hezbollah shreds armor. The US announced a Lebanon-Israel ceasefire; Hezbollah's chief categorically rejected it, demanding it cover all of Lebanon and a full IDF withdrawal (zerohedge). On June 4 Hezbollah hit roughly six Merkava tanks around Beaufort Castle with ATGMs and thermal FPV drones (MenchOsint), killing Israeli Captain Eitan Shmuel Lamberg (MenchOsint). Iran says it's prepared to strike Israel if the army moves on Beirut...

​..The new capability: thermal-sighted FPV drones giving Hezbollah night anti-tank strikes, including an RPG warhead into a Merkava's weaker rear door — one of 13 FPV anti-tank ops in a week (war_noir, jonelmer).
​  "Ben Gvir​" called a Lebanon ceasefire "a fantasy"; Trump said he'd maintain the Iran ceasefire unless US troops are killed. Iran's military adviser warned the UAE, Bahrain and Kuwait it would "go after them" after the war.​.​.

​..Trump said he'd be "honored" to meet Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei "to make a deal," that the US will "win militarily or on paper," and that there's no reason to retrieve Iran's nuclear "dust" because it's "entombed" (Kobeissi, zerohedge). Iran countered that no tangible progress has been made.
​  An agreement on releasing frozen Iranian funds is reportedly in its final stages, with a special deposit fund under discussion (FirstSquawk) — Iran wants 50% up front per chatter on the feed...

​..Satellite imagery and CCTV showed damage at Ali Al Salem air base in Kuwait despite CENTCOM intercept claims, and CNN footage put USS Ford damage as more severe than the Navy stated...

..Oman terminal struck; Gulf oil infrastructure burning. Oman's main terminal Mina al Fahal took a drone strike, suspending loadings with supertankers anchored offshore (HormuzLetter); a UAE LNG terminal is still on fire, and Kuwait's airport Terminal 1 was hit by a Shahed-136, one dead, 60+ injured...

​..Shipping through Hormuz is reportedly running ~23 ships/day vs a 40-45 baseline, with inventories draining 6-8M bpd (Mark, citing Nuttall). The US has pulled 58M barrels from the SPR since the war began (Hedgeye).
​  Exxon, Chevron, ConocoPhillips and Aramco are all warning of critically low stocks; Josh Young frames it as a 13M→14M+ bpd disruption (ekwufinance, Josh Young). HIGH.
​  The real release valve: China is importing far less, which Javier Blas calls the most important story in markets — without it, oil is "way, way above $100." Venezuela's exports surged +61% YoY to a 7-year high...

..Finland's DefMin "was aware in advance" of Ukraine's June 3 St. Petersburg strike on SPIEF's opening, fueling z-Telegram NATO-complicity reads...

​..Zelensky writes Putin; Russia grinds Zaporizhia. Zelensky's open letter to Putin proposed direct talks and an all-for-all prisoner swap; Peskov's answer was "he can come to Moscow".​..

​..Energy realignment: AfD's Frohnmaier flew to St. Petersburg to meet Gazprom's Miller on restarting Nord Stream, with Putin offering gas "tomorrow" if Germany asks (jackprandelli, Frank_Stones, Lord Bebo). 

​  The Pentagon is likely cancelling a Tomahawk sale to Germany — officially over provoking Russia, really over depleted stockpiles​...

​..US officials have discussed the government taking equity stakes in AI giants, per Jeff Stein — possibly ceded rather than purchased, dividends attached. An MIT study found AI's speed/volume gains aren't translating into genuine productivity.​..

..BoE pumped a record ~£123B via short-term repo in one week with no press coverage, per JustDario — flagged as covering a UK financial strain...

..A Satoshi-era whale dumped ~$350M of BTC after 16 years of holding through Mt. Gox, COVID, Luna and FTX (CryptoNobler)...

​..S&P Dow Jones declined to fast-track SpaceX into the S&P 500, delaying ~$14B in passive inflows by a year-plus while FTSE/Nasdaq add it in days — a setup for real index dispersion...

https://no1sdailydigest.substack.com/p/daily-digest-2026-06-05

​  Gold & Geopolitics, Daily digest: 2026-06-04

The Iran war stopped being abstract: Iranian missiles and drones gutted Kuwait International Airport's Terminal 1, US bases in Kuwait took confirmed hangar hits, Iran's navy claims it "targeted" a US destroyer in the Gulf of Oman — and the same afternoon the House voted 215-208 to halt the war, the first congressional rebuke since it began ... The ECB confirmed gold has overtaken Treasuries as the top global reserve asset. SPR sits at a 2004 low while the strait stays shut.​..

..CENTCOM caught reversing itself. After claiming 100% interception of the Kuwait attack, CENTCOM then accused Iran of a deliberate airport hit — the contradiction was flagged by many (MenchOsint, Daniel Davis, imetatronink). Iran's IRGC counter-claims the terminal was wrecked by a failed US Patriot...

..Iran's navy says it struck the "command-and-control center" aboard a US destroyer in the Gulf of Oman with a truck-launched Ghadir anti-ship missile, citing the IRIS Dena...

​..Araghchi: no tangible progress; return to talks conditional on ending the Lebanon war; any Israeli strike on Beirut resumes the war...

​..Trump insists Iran is close to signing and "won't have a nuclear weapon" (zerohedge) — claims the feed treats as a 3-month-old refrain.
​IAEA now sees Iran's proliferation risk higher than before the war began (zerohedge). Macgregor reports a massive US airlift into the region.​..

​..Oil: SPR at a 2004 low, double-expected draw, Cushing tank bottoms​...

​..Ukraine hit St. Petersburg on the opening day of SPIEF ​(St. Petersburg Intl. Economic Forum)— 354 drones per Russia's MoD, oil terminal ablaze, corvette Boykiy damaged in Kronstadt drydock (dana/rybar, MilitarySummary, Lord Bebo).​..

​..Lebanon: another "ceasefire" while the bombs keep falling​ - US State Dept announced an Israel–Lebanon ceasefire with "pilot zones" under exclusive LAF control (FirstSquawk) — which the feed read as a recycled headline given Netanyahu the same day said Israel is "ready to resume full-scale escalation" and must demilitarize Lebanon.
​  Israeli jets bombed Shoukine, Shahabiyeh, Touline (Lord Bebo); a UNIFIL peacekeeper was killed by an Israeli strike near Marjayoun (MenchOsint). Hezbollah's FPV-drone campaign around Beaufort Castle killed two IDF soldiers and reportedly hit the Northern Command commander's vehicle
​..Drones transited Baltic airspace, triggering alerts in 8 of Estonia's 15 counties — the "proxy war crossed into direct war" framing...​

..AI capex under the microscope: Broadcom craters, Anthropic IPOs at $965B, Burry shorts Nvidia...
​..SpaceX IPO: $1.77T, largest in history, profitability rule waived​...

..Crypto breaks down. Bitcoin under $63,000 with ~$400B market-cap gone since mid-May and $1.8B liquidated, the biggest daily wipe since January...

..AfD's Frohnmaier met Gazprom's Miller at SPIEF to discuss restarting Nord Stream.​   https://no1sdailydigest.substack.com/p/daily-digest-2026-06-04

​  Gold & Geopolitics, Daily digest: 2026-06-02

 Israel hit southern Lebanon, Iran declared the ceasefire void "on all fronts," suspended US talks, and reached for the chokepoints — this time naming Bab el-Mandeb alongside Hormuz. Oil jumped ~8%. 

​  Trump ran the full arc in one afternoon ("I couldn't care less" → "talks back on at a rapid pace" → "no troops to Beirut"), the Lebanon truce he announced lasted about fifteen minutes, and overnight Russia put one of the war's largest missile-and-drone barrages into Kyiv. Markets, naturally, closed the S&P at a record while Bitcoin fell through $70k.​   https://no1sdailydigest.substack.com/p/daily-digest-2026-06-02

​  Moon of Alabama,  War On Iran: Economic Reality Will Force Trump To Defy The Lobby’s Pressure

The Zionist lobby is vehemently against any peace deal with Iran. Israel will do its best to sabotage any resolution of the matter by continuing its war in Lebanon, Gaza and the West Bank. It wants the war on Iran to continue until that country is destroyed as a viable competitor.
​  So far the Zionists hold the upper hand. They can and do defy Trump at every corner. The Lobby has the upper hand. He does not yet dare to take it down.
​  Existing oil inventories, commercial ones as well as state owned strategic reserves, were used as a buffer to paper over the lack of some 15% of crude oil in the global markets. Gas prices at the pump have risen, but only moderately.
​  From now on the situation can only, and will, get worse.
During June and July Prices will rise further. Distribution problems will lead to temporary closure of this or that gas station. Selected oil derived products will become rare.
​  By August western governments will start to introduce rationing measures. Smaller refineries will shut down. Political pressure will increase to a point where it can no longer be ignored. The voices of the (non-oil) industry, financial circles, and the public will become louder than the Lobby’s.
​  Only then will Trump be able to show Netanyahoo the finger. He will have to order Israel to stand down.
At some point Iran and the U.S. will come to an agreement. No one will trust that will hold.​   https://www.moonofalabama.org/2026/06/war-on-iran-economic-reality-will-force-trump-to-defy-the-lobbys-pressure.html

House Passes Dem Resolution to Block U.S. Military Action Against Iran In Narrow Vote​   https://www.zerohedge.com/political/house-passes-dem-resolution-block-us-military-action-against-iran-narrow-vote

Trump Softens Red Line: 'No Reason' To Retrieve Iran's Nuclear 'Dust' As It's Effectively 'Entombed'​   https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/oil-prices-fall-white-house-signals-will-maintain-ceasefire-iran-unless-american

​June 3, Iran Issues 4-Stage Proposal For Deal With US, After Most Intense Overnight Clashes Since April   https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/major-iranian-attack-kuwait-international-airport-leaves-one-dead-63-injured

"The Switzerland of the Middle-East": US Warns Ally Oman That It Better Pick The 'Right' Side In Hormuz Standoff​   https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/us-warns-ally-oman-it-better-pick-right-side-hormuz-standoff

​  BREAKING: Oman's main oil terminal Mina al Fahal hit with a drone strike causing a large explosion, suspending all loading and multiple supertankers now anchored off the port, per Reuters. This comes 9 days after Trump threatened to "blow up" Oman.​   https://x.com/HormuzLetter/status/2062746767225913794

​Valdai Club, This is the dangerous myth holding America hostage - Washington’s global supremacy has become its own tar pit   https://web.archive.org/web/20260531084644/https://www.rt.com/news/640755-dangerous-myth-holding-america/

​  S​implicius, US Wallows in "Stalemate" Purgatory of Its Own Making

​ Now the cat’s out of the bag, and the world is exposed to the embarrassing reality that the months of US strikes did virtually nothing to Iran’s military capability, with Trump forced to cover up and save-face by claiming that he “spared” the Iranian military proper because that was somehow favorable to his post-war vision—sure.
​  The truth is that all the new revelations have unsealed the true aim of US strategy: it was never to totally destroy Iran’s military capability—the US itself never possessed the ability to do so. The aim was to create a brief window of degradation that would allow the Israel-fronted “plan” of overthrowing the Iranian regime to work. The hope was to temporarily slow down and hamper Iran’s military just long enough for the various psyops and false flags to stir up unrest in the country and lead to a Venezuela-style overthrow—but Iran had prepared well, and was not fazed by either prong of the failed operation.
​  CNN concludes:
​  As Iran recovers its missiles, and restores functionality to its missile bases, analysts are concerned that the continued threat posed by this arsenal is being underestimated, especially given the dwindling supply of US missile interceptors.​   https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/us-wallows-in-stalemate-purgatory

​  Philip Giraldi, The Israelization of the United States Military Is Proceeding - Thank You Congress and President Trump!

​ Few Americans know the history of how Israel’s “wag the dog” relationship with the United States developed. Israel’s 1967 successful war against its neighbors demonstrated to military planners in Washington how a qualitative edge in weapons could enable a small country to resist much larger and seemingly more powerful adversaries. Israel was largely supplied with French weapons at the time that reportedly out-performed the Russian equipment in the hands of Syria and Egypt. As a consequence, in 1968, with strong support from a heavily lobbied Congress, Zionist influenced US President Lyndon B Johnson approved the hitherto blocked sale of F-4 Phantom fighters to Israel, establishing the precedent for continuing US support of Israel’s Qualitative Military Edge, generally referred to by the acronym QME, over its Arab and Christian neighbors. Five years later, in the aftermath of the 1973 Yom Kippur War, the United States and Israel came to an understanding whereby they tacitly adopted the doctrine of active US maintenance of Israel’s QME. After that war, the United States also quadrupled its foreign aid to Israel, effectively replacing France as Israel’s largest arms supplier.
​  This de facto commitment to maintaining Israel’s qualitative edge was subsequently made explicit by President Ronald Reagan and has been confirmed by every US administration since that time. Substantial supplementary weapons shipments under Presidents Barack Obama, Joe Biden and Donald Trump have even supported Israel’s genocide in Gaza and its attacks on non-threatening Syria and Lebanon.​..​ 

..Israel’s Lobby, regarded as the most powerful foreign policy lobby deployed against Congress and the White House, has used its access to power to constantly expand its role in weapons development to satisfy what Israel sees as threats against it...

..Currently Israel and its friends in Washington are moving to complete integration of many aspects of how our military operates at various levels with Israeli counterparts. No other US “ally,” which the Jewish state is not technically, including NATO members, has anything like this access and ability to influence developments...

..Those who think Israel has too much power have a point as it is even strong enough to shut down First Amendment Freedom of Speech, both by suppressing or even criminalizing what it regards as criticism of itself...​ Even though Israel is widely known to be a major nuclear weapons power, members of the US government are not allowed to state that that is the case...  And the irony is that Israel only has the weapons because it stole the nuclear fuel and timers from the United States. President John F Kennedy tried to stop the nuclear weapons program and many believe he was assassinated by Israel as a result!​ ...

..Congress is considering passing a bill that will give Americans serving in the Israeli army US government provided full benefits like education, jobs and medical care just as if they had been serving in the United States military. Indeed, the legislation currently working its way through Congress would, for the first time in American history, treat service in a foreign army both legally and in practice as equivalent to service in the US armed forces — but only where that foreign army is Israeli...

..The National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for 2027 released on May 13th. Section 224 of the House version of the Act entitled “United States-Israel Defense Technology Cooperation Initiative” integrates “US-Israeli military research and development, co-production of weapons systems, licensing agreements, AI, directed energy, data integration, and missile defense.” It creates the framework for “bilateral research and development, co-production of weapons, joint ventures, licensing agreements, and seemingly every manner of US-Israeli military-industrial complex cooperation.” The result is to completely connect the functionality of the US military with that of the Israeli military. The implementation of the agreement would arguably do more to irreversibly link the US military to the Israeli military than the $200 billion in military assistance Israel has received from the United States.​..

..A persistently pro-Zionist Congress has accomplished this shift in the relationship quietly, almost secretly. Though it has been done clearly channeling through the White House and Netanyahu’s leadership, it has been obtained without the knowledge and consent of the American people to whom the US government is allegedly responsible. And, of course, all the integration expenses will be borne by the US taxpayer. Interestingly, of course, it should also be noted that the integration of the US military with that of Israel comes at a time when the American public is expressing unprecedented levels of distrust in and dislike of the Israeli government. That is perhaps no coincidence as Netanyahu seeks to create unbreakable legal and administrative ties between the two countries...

..“The shift will strip away the political and diplomatic oversight mechanisms that make the relationship publicly accountable, moving it from a visible annual aid vote into the opaque machinery of defense acquisition, where oversight is limited and political accountability is minimal...​ And this all comes at a time when the Israeli military has repeatedly used U.S. weapons in strikes that have violated international humanitarian laws in Gaza, and as Israel has repeatedly violated ceasefires (as has the US itself) in the Trump administration’s unnecessary war with Iran.”​   https://www.unz.com/pgiraldi/the-israelization-of-the-united-states-military-is-proceeding/

​  New Footage Reveals Ford Carrier Damage Far More Severe Than Pentagon Acknowledged

The major blaze erupted in March at a moment Iran claimed to have directly hit US naval vessels, but crisis was consistently downplayed by Pentagon officials at the time.
​  The obtained video reveals severely destroyed sleeping quarters, showing sailors' bunks entirely reduced to charred, twisted metal. The ceiling directly above the berthing areas appears completely gutted by the intense flames, while exposed wiring hangs from overhead and thick ash blankets the floor.
​  One sailor and eyewitness stationed on board the aircraft carrier told CNN: "I seriously thought we were going to lose the ship. It’s either fight or die."
This doesn't sound like some localized fire in a small compartment, but a massive emergency - which as we now ​know derailed the Ford's ongoing Iran mission.​   https://www.zerohedge.com/military/new-footage-reveals-ford-carrier-damage-far-more-severe-pentagon-acknowledged

​  Two out of three ships leaving the Strait of Hormuz now sail in the dark. The United States military quietly told seventy of them how to do it in three weeks. Transponders off. Lights out. Hugging the Omani coast. Iran charges up to two million dollars per tanker on the other side of the same water. The strait is now run by two shadow administrations.​   https://x.com/shanaka86/status/2061254566843466226

​  Richard Revelstoke, The New Grand Chessboard

This piece is part of a longer project — a book-in-progress, The Capitalist Civil War, a four-faction feud inside the transnational capitalist class.

​  The trend in geopolitical circles is to declare Mackinder obsolete because geography is abolished by the internet. But this is misguided. The truth is stranger than a geopolitical theory. The Heartland thesis is not dead. In some respects we are watching it play out in real time.
​  Today, there is the middle powers coalition consolidating the Eurasian interior. China sits at its center, the largest industrial power the world has ever seen, reaching westward by rail, pipeline and road through the Belt and Road Initiative, which it has spent two decades building. Russia is joined at China’s hip — a resource-rich junior partner, co-dependent, supplying energy and raw materials — Brzezinski’s nightmare. On Brzezinski’s Grand Chessboard, the game is going badly for the Americans. A brief glance at the Iran War is ample proof.

​  Mackinder called the pivot area the permanent zone of conflict. What is happening is a perfect storm — the thing Brzezinski wrote his book to prevent: the Eurasian coalition, refusing to stay divided, organizing the Heartland against the maritime order that has policed it since 1945.
​  A great deal of foreign-policy commentary is simply Mackinder and Brzezinski regurgitated back to us in the present tense, and it is not wrong to do so. It is only incomplete. Mackinder’s theory still describes something real, and what it describes is happening. The Old Chessboard is still being played, but while it is playing, a second board has been laid over it...
​  But look at what actually is happening now, and how. Capital moves as electronic settlement through a handful of clearing systems. Information moves as data through cables, servers and platforms. And increasingly the coordination of everything else — logistics, markets, weapons, the management of the flows themselves — moves through computer servers, through the accelerating layer of artificial intelligence. All of them have a physical infrastructure, but none of them is territory in Mackinder’s sense. They are networks, and they run through infrastructure: payment rails, data centers, fibre-optic cables, fabrication plants, the algorithms, the internet itself, and the chips that run them.
​ This is the New Grand Chessboard.​..

​..The new board’s most important pieces cut across states. The contest over the second board is being waged by the four factions of the global propertied class. Global communication and transportation, the internet and international trade produced globalism and an elite class of transnational players, and this class, once united by the rules-based order, has splintered into four factions. The second grand chessboard is the transnational capitalist class fighting over the financial-data infrastructure of the planet.​..

​..The factions are fighting over the segments of the New Grand Chessboard. The Davos institutionalists hold the legacy financial plumbing and the rules; the Silicon Valley insurgents hold compute and are reaching into money; the State Capitalist coalition holds the industrial base and is building rails (literally railroads and metaphorically the financial rails) to escape the others’ control; the Imperial Nationalists hold the reserve currency and the guns. Each controls a chokepoint the others cannot easily route around, which is exactly why none can have a clear victory over the others. They are entangled in the way that only people fighting over shared infrastructure can be — unable to defeat one another without damaging the thing they are all trying to possess.    https://www.themargins.ca/p/the-new-grand-chessboard

​Simplicius on recent NATO wargames: European Wargames Bolster West's Delusions While Conveniently Stoking Fears   https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/european-wargames-bolster-wests-delusions

  Thanks Eleni. Towards the Disintegration of Germany, by Thierry Meyssan

As the United Kingdom and Ukraine push Germany to prepare for war against Russia, we are witnessing the collapse of a reunified Germany. The country is deeply divided into two distinct peoples. Its identity is now in question. The dissolution of the Federal Republic of Germany is now inevitable. Meanwhile, the peace agreement between Washington and Moscow will lead to the annexation of parts of Ukraine and Transnistria by Russia. And the European Union’s abandonment of its values will bring about its demise.​   https://www.voltairenet.org/article224627.html

​  AI "Hornet" drones attack civilian fuel tankers, which now avoid Crimea. Ukraine using AI drones to strike vital convoys supplying Russian troops

The Ukrainian military is stepping up its campaign to destroy vehicles supplying Russian forces along crucial roads in occupied Ukraine using new AI drone technology, experts say.

​  BBC Verify has confirmed footage of at least 14 incidents published in the past week of vehicles carrying food, fuel and ammunition being targeted along critical routes connecting Russia to Crimea.​   https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cdjp0n7rn41o

'Putin's Davos' Forum Opens Under Heavy Ukrainian Drone Attack, With Candace Owens & Trump Official In Attendance​   https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/putins-davos-opens-under-heavy-ukrainian-drones-strike-candace-owns-trump-official

​  Simplicius, Ukrainian drones transited Estonia to hit St. Petersburg during the International Economic Forum. Ukraine's SPIEF Attack Aims for Max Provocation, as Drones Witnessed Coming From Baltic Direction   https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/ukraines-spief-attack-aims-for-max#poll-530919

Ukrainian Drone Smashes Into Russian Passenger Bus, Killing 8 Civilians​   https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/ukrainian-drone-smashes-russian-passenger-bus-killing-8-civilians

​  Russia Weighs $50 Million Plan To Influence Armenia's Election

Reuters reported that Russian officials discussed influence operations aimed at weakening Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan ahead of Armenia’s June 7 parliamentary election.
​  One alleged proposal involved temporarily bringing Armenian passport holders living in Russia back to Armenia to vote for opposition candidates.
Despite the reported efforts, polling suggests Pashinyan’s Civil Contract Party remains the clear frontrunner as Armenia debates its future relationship with Russia and the West.​   https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/russia-weighs-50-million-plan-influence-armenias-election

​  Jared Kushner's Controversial Island Resort Reveals Scheme To Expand Israel's Sphere Of Influence
The proposed Sazan Island Resort highlights how Affinity Partners uses private investment to push the Trump administration's foreign policy. 

​  Transforming the Gaza Strip into oceanside luxury properties built atop a mass grave isn’t the only real estate development project proposed by Jared Kushner that has embroiled him in controversy. Across the Mediterranean Sea, Albanian authorities have opened an anti-corruption investigation into a company led by Kushner that hopes to transform an island off of the country’s coast into a luxury resort. While Kushner contends that his vision for the island is rooted in transforming it into a paradisaical resort, that picturesque image hides how the project serves as a vehicle for him to advance his ulterior political motives. The probe into his latest development project is the second major anti-corruption investigation in as many years that has exposed a strategy executed by Kushner to use the massive amount of private investment capital at his disposal to advance the interests of the State of Israel and expand the Zionist World Order he continues to fight in the vanguard of.​..

​..Kushner minced no words, making it clear how nations that aligned themselves with Israel would receive the benefits of investments from his firm. Kushner expounded on how that dynamic could be used to expand the sphere of Zionist influence, remarking, “We’re looking at opportunities to invest in countries who have joined the Abraham Accords, but we’re also looking at opportunities to invest in countries that might join the Abraham Accords and to create economic packages to incentivize them.”​   https://ddgeopolitics.substack.com/p/jared-kushners-controversial-island

House Defies Trump By Advancing $8BN New Ukraine Aid Package​   https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/house-defies-trump-advancing-8bn-new-ukraine-aid-package

​Gilbert Doctorow on Russia shifting more of the economy to warfare: Miscellaneous observations on the Russian home front   https://gilbertdoctorow.substack.com/p/miscellaneous-observations-on-the

They want a Russia-Ukraine energy-war truce, not peace. Germany, France, UK See Opportunity To Revive Putin Talks Without Washington   https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/germany-france-uk-see-opportunity-revive-putin-talks-without-washington

US, China Militaries Hold 'Candid' Deconfliction Talks In Hawaii As Trump Goes Quiet On Taiwan​   https://www.zerohedge.com/military/us-china-militaries-hold-candid-deconfliction-talks-hawaii-trump-goes-quiet-taiwan

​US tank-bottoms loom: Europe Has "Serious, Really Serious Problems" If US Cuts Oil Exports, Currie​   https://www.zerohedge.com/commodities/europe-has-serious-really-serious-problems-if-us-cuts-oil-exports-currie

​  Commodity Markets Are Living On Borrowed Time​, Helen Thomas 
Governments and industry have softened the impact of energy and commodity supply disruptions by releasing reserves, reducing inventories, and increasing operational flexibility.
​  These measures are temporary, and continued inventory drawdowns are pushing oil and metal markets toward historically tight conditions.
​  Once inventories become critically low, higher prices may become the primary mechanism for balancing supply and demand, leading to weaker economic growth and lower consumption.​   https://www.zerohedge.com/commodities/commodity-markets-are-living-borrowed-time

​Kit Klarenberg, on attempts to finally realize Hitler's dream, EU Imperialism Rising After Hungarian Coup   https://www.kitklarenberg.com/p/eu-imperialism-rising-after-hungarian

A run on private-credit shuts the gates: Blackstone's Private Credit Fund Joins Peers In Gating Investors After Surge In Redemptions   https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/blackstones-private-credit-fund-joins-peers-gating-investors-after-surge-redemptions

  The nagging question that demands an answer: America's gold is missing and President Trump knows it.
A 1974 article in a New York periodical stated that the Rockefeller family was directing the Federal Reserve to liquidate Fort Knox gold at below-market prices to unnamed European buyers. 3 days after her tip launched that story, Louise Auchincloss Boyer, Nelson Rockefeller's personal secretary, fell to her death from her 10th floor Manhattan apartment. 

  The investigation ended there and the gold was gone. 

  For 14 years, industrialist Ed Durrell wrote to over 1,000 government and banking officials demanding a full accounting of what remained in the vaults of Fort Knox. European financial circles were already treating the disappearance as a fact while Washington refused to schedule an audit. 

  Then Reagan's Gold Commission told Congress in 1982 that the Treasury owned none of that gold. Imagine that! Whatever gold remained in Fort Knox had been transferred to the Federal Reserve — a private banking cartel — and was being held as collateral against the national debt.   https://x.com/LightOnLiberty/status/2060856658784342357

​  The Slow Disappearance of Cash in Europe​ - Under the guise of fighting money laundering, the EU is making anonymous economic activity progressively harder.

​  Starting in July 2027, Europeans will no longer be allowed to pay businesses or professionals more than €10,000 in cash (roughly $11,500). Any transaction above €3,000 (just under $3,500) will require mandatory customer identification. This is another step toward political uniformity across Europe, stripping countries of autonomy and subtly pushing citizens toward the digital euro.
​  This measure, part of the new Anti-Money Laundering Regulation (AMLR), applies directly to all Member States. Under the pretext of fighting money laundering, Brussels is imposing yet another form of forced harmonization that ignores the principle of subsidiarity: the idea that decisions should be made at the level closest to citizens and national governments.​   https://fee.org/articles/the-slow-disappearance-of-cash-in-europe/

​Recently "untouchable", John Bolton To Plead Guilty In Documents Case, Pay $2M Fine: Report   https://www.zerohedge.com/political/john-bolton-plead-guilty-documents-case-pay-2m-fine-report

Stabbed to death by a protected​-minority: UK Police Officers Admit DEI Training Pressured Them To Ignore Dying White Teen Henry Nowak​   https://www.zerohedge.com/political/uk-police-officers-admit-dei-training-pressured-them-ignore-dying-white-teen-henry-nowak

Aww Look At The Cute Dancing Robot Police State Surveillance Dog…Dallas World Cup venues roll out prancing Boston Dynamics Spots for “security”​   https://modernity.news/2026/05/30/aww-look-at-the-cute-dancing-robot-police-state-surveillance-dog/

​  And don't say Palantir is genocidal: Philly Cops Admit That They’re Tracking “First Amendment Activity” Critical of AI
A law enforcement document obtained by The Intercept shows police scan social media looking for posts opposing AI data centers.​   https://theintercept.com/2026/06/01/ai-data-center-protest-police-surveillance/

Florida Becomes First State To Sue "Unsafe" OpenAI And Sam Altman Over AI Harms​   https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/florida-becomes-first-state-sue-unsafe-openai-and-sam-altman-over-ai-harms

​It's not profitable and needs 100X the world's available electricity: AI’s Coming Reality Check: When the Physics Finally Hits the Hype   https://internationalman.com/articles/ais-coming-reality-check-when-the-physics-finally-hits-the-hype/

'The Pricking Is Coming': Dalio Warns AI Bubble Will Burst Like Dot-Com, But Tech Will Endure​   https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/pricking-coming-dalio-warns-ai-bubble-will-burst-dot-com-tech-will-endure

'The Best Solution Is To Murder Him In His Sleep': AI Can Learn Violent Tendencies From Each Other​   https://www.zerohedge.com/ai/best-solution-murder-him-his-sleep-ai-can-learn-violent-tendencies-each-other

​"Bob's your uncle" explained in first of 21 minutes. Thanks Lucy: One Family Behind Three Wars — The Cecils Nobody Teaches   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSg0X7XXkDg

​  We are organisms evolved to the schedule of sunlight: Is 'Daylight Saving' a Public Health Problem?
Experts say the debate should not be about whether to change the clocks, but which time we should live by​   https://www.themahareport.com/p/is-daylight-saving-a-public-health

I believe there were lab leaks, that "necesitated" ​targeted release​s: There was no Lab Leak: COVID-19 was Spread Intentionally on Multiple Continents​   https://paulcraigroberts.org/there-was-no-lab-leak-covid-19-was-spread-intentionally-on-multiple-continents/

These 2 US stories about the US bioweapons facility at Ft, Detrick being closed for "breaches" in July 2019, and opened back up for business in November. 2019​:

​  8/2/19: “We are coordinating closely with the CDC to ensure that critical, ongoing studies within bio-containment laboratories are completed under appropriate oversight and that research animals will continue to be cared for in accordance with all regulations,” she said in an email. “Although much of USAMRIID’s research is currently on hold, the Institute will continue its critical clinical diagnostic mission and will still be able to provide medical and subject matter expertise as needed to support the response to an infectious disease threat or other contingency.”
https://www.fredericknewspost.com/news/health/fort-detrick-lab-shut-down-after-failed-safety-inspection-all/article_767f3459-59c2-510f-9067-bb215db4396d.html  
​  11/24/19: The Army's premier biological laboratory on Fort Detrick reported two breaches of containment earlier this year, leading to the Centers for Disease and Control halting its high-level research.
The U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases announced Friday that it would restart its operations on a limited scale.
https://www.military.com/daily-news/2019/11/24/cdc-inspection-findings-reveal-more-about-fort-detrick-research-suspension.html

  By May 17, 2020 I posted this in Answers   https://www.johndayblog.com/2020/05/answers.html

 ​The first signs that something terrible had gone wrong with the security at the Fort Detrick bio-defence facility fifty miles north-west of Washington DC were when cases of a previously unknown and serious respiratory illness appeared at a retirement village on the western outskirts of the capital in July 2019.  The first cases were noted on June 30th amongst the 260 residents of the Greenspring Assisted Living unit, with the infectious disease later affecting 19 staff and taking the lives of some older residents...
​  ​I propose that the scheme devised in desperation last summer for this “diversionary tactic”, was to send the Fort Detrick Virus with the soldiers set to compete at the Wuhan games in three months’ time, while trying to keep a lid on the domestic epidemic until the new year, and a lock on the inquisitive media. Rehearsing for the subsequent global pandemic called for “Event 201” to prepare participants for what they might have to face, and bring their organizational and media responses into line...
 ​  ​Whether this theory is the correct one may not yet be proven, but it does provide an explanation to the conundrum of the genie that was accidentally released from the bottle but intentionally released from Wuhan. And we must all now suffer the consequences of that US “culpable manslaughter” as we learn to live with their engineered Genie.​  https://ahtribune.com/world/covid-19/4152-american-genie.html

​For more, see my post from 6/21/2021 Fort Detrick  https://www.johndayblog.com/2021/06/fort-detrick.html

The Ethial Skeptic: “Omicron” Predated SARS-CoV-2 Wuhan by Years   https://theethicalskeptic.com/2024/11/13/omicron-predated-sars-cov-2-wuhan-by-years/

Jessica Rose Ph.D. Moderna is building a modified mRNA "vaccine" for Ebola Bundibugyo - CEPI just gave them $60 million to accelerate development   https://jessicar.substack.com/p/moderna-is-building-a-modified-mrna

  Meryl Nass MD, Ron Johnson's hearing today on the COVID shots causing cancer

Senator Johnson deftly corrected the misinformed doctor about modified mRNA, and showed very deep understanding of the corruption that pervades every aspect of medical research.​   https://merylnass.substack.com/p/ron-johnsons-hearing-today-on-the

​  Top Doctors Testify that Covid-19 Vaccine Can Cause Cancer
At Senate hearing chaired by Ron Johnson, expert testimony suggests Covid vaccines were more dangerous than media and health officials claimed.​   https://www.themahareport.com/p/top-doctors-testify-that-the-covid

​  John Leake, Pfizer Whistleblower Christine Cotton Takes Her Life After Year of Excruciating Idiopathic Pain

French clinical data analyst and two-time guest on the Focal Points announced she cannot endure the pain anymore. Was she screened for thallium poisoning?​   https://www.thefocalpoints.com/p/pfizer-whistleblower-christine-cotton

​  Jessica Rose Ph.D. on the Renin Angiotensin Aldosterone system that controls body water, salts and blood pressure: New paper shows how spike protein induced autoimmunity derails the RAAS - Revisiting my video on the RAAS from April 2021 and a new study confirming my original hypothesis   https://jessicar.substack.com/p/new-paper-shows-how-spike-protein

Paul Marik MD, Perioperative Repurposed Drugs To Reduce Metastase - Cancer & Metabolic Healing   https://substack.com/home/post/p-189675677

Sasha Latypova relates the history of vaccines causing cancer: 175+ Years of Cancer: The Big Picture the Establishment Doesn't Want You to See.   https://sashalatypova.substack.com/p/150-years-of-cancer-trends

​  "Neuroplasticity" induction: NEW STUDY: Advanced Alzheimer’s Patient Regained Speech, Memory, and Bladder Control After a Single Psilocybin Dose
An 80-year-old woman with advanced Alzheimer’s — who had barely spoken for years — experienced rapid and sustained improvement after taking 5g of psilocybin mushrooms.​   https://www.thefocalpoints.com/p/new-study-advanced-alzheimers-patient

​

Doing OK With Speech & Bladder (pictured prepping carrots from over-planted rows for refrigeration)

Farming In Mud

 Consumers of Agricultural Products,

  I may have mentioned my intention to install a large new garden bed I have been preparing at our rural homestead. Yesterday we had a nice extended lunch with my Uncle Don, who is 96, and his lady-love, Dagmar, who was a little German girl in WW-2 and its aftermath.

  As rains were expected in the evening, we hurried to Yoakum to get final bed prep and planting done before the garden bed became mud.

  I had already roto-tilled this bed 3 times, which is fairly rough work, as roto-tillers buck up and down a lot and need the tines cleaned after each minute of use in this clay soil with deep grass roots.

  When we arrived in Yoakum a little after 5 PM I thoroughly raked the bed for dry grass to throw out, and to even the low spots, intending to further roto-till 8 rows and use my brand new seeder to plant purple-hull black-eyed peas, a variety which tends to grow upright for a one-time machine harvest at about 4 months. My intention is to have Wrens Abruzzi rye in the bed the non-summer 8 months of the year, a simple 2 crop rotation which whould help build the soil. 

  This is a novel project for me. I don't know of anybody doing it.

Theoretically, it is feasible, but the devil is always in the details. 

  The roto-tiller cannot eliminate all of the deeply established grass roots, something people used to know, originating the term "grass roots", which now lacks a clear meaning.

  I can foresee a lot of ongoing difficulty as I will need to keep cutting down crops with live roots and planting the next crop into the established roots, while chopping the plants down in place as mulch, to eventually integrate into the soil.

  Yesterday evening, right as I finished raking, it started to rain lightly, but I still needed to run the roto-tiller down 8 rows and plant them, so I kept going, because I wanted to roto-till before the bed turned to mud. It did get superficially muddy, and my flip-flops got so much mud on the bottems that I had to go barefoot. There were no sharp things, so I could. I roto-tilled the 8 rows, spacing them across the 24 ft. of bed width in the 34 ft long bed.

  I had never used the seeder before, but had spent a couple of hours reading negative reviews on various seed-planting devices, and this one was the least-bad choice without doubling or tripling the price. 

  The front wheel rotates, and a belt commects the wheel-pulley to a pulley that rotates a collector-plate (8 disserent sizes), which scoops a seed in each litte cutout and transfers it to a tube tat drops it into a little furrow it digs. Then a little metal spade pushes the soil closed over it, as one proceeds, pushing downward and forward. 

 You can see that this would not work into established grass roots, and might clog up in mud. It  would also not work in hardpan soil. It did not work at first in my superficially muddy tilled-rows, so I had to adjust the belt tension with a wrench and pliars, then the seeder-wheel rotated properly. the light rain continued, and the mud progressively covered the wheels.

  There was a tendency for a mud plug to collect seeds down at the bottom of the seed-dropper tube, so I removed it at the end of each row, having a mud blob with seeds in-hand, which I walked up a row to distribute, or threw pieces of. The mud was getting muddier.

  I finished all of my passes with the seeder, and had to get a bunch of seed out of the bin by hand.  The seeder fell over and spilled out the last seeds twice, so I walked up and down some rows seed-dropping by hand, noticing that a lot of the seeds were just on the surface, and pushing them into the mud with my feet as I proceeded. This became the final-step of the planting routine as I carefully trod each row twice, squishing visible seeds into mud with my feet until I did not see any more seeds on the surface.

  I had to do a lot of cleaning up of myself and the seeder with a hose after that. I left the seeder in a covered workspace.

Our rain guage showed 1/16" of rain, but it has rained a lot in recent weeks, so the soil had ladequate moisture at the start. this morning the guage showed 3/8", indicating further and substantial rain overnight. With fresh coffee in hand I went to examine the patch. Many seeds hadbeen superficiallyrevealed by the rain, and were partly visible in the mud. We expect rains fairly often for the next week or 2, and I decided not to push them in with my feet again this morning.

We will see how the birds and critters do with this new food source...

Barefoot Agronomist

Just Waiting

 Pensive,

  There is a lot of  change stacked up, which will impact us suddenly, and everybody is just going on normally until something happens, if I might summarize so succinctly, what I see all around me. Well, gas prices came down this past week,  so summer vacation plans can go ahead and proceed.

  This feels unnatural to me, and maybe a little unnatural to a lot of people, but just behaving habitually is working for now, so ... 

I don't know just what plans our shadowy puppet masters have to present as solutions to the coming crisis, but I presume that they won't "let it go to waste".

Gold & Geopolitics, Daily digest: 2026-06-01

The "ceasefire" stopped pretending: overnight the US struck Iranian radar at Goruk and Qeshm and a telecom tower at Sirik, and Iran answered with a ballistic missile on a US base in Kuwait — 4 US service members and 3 contractors wounded. 

​  On top of that, Iran's president handed in his resignation and Konstantinovka's defense collapsed. Markets, naturally, shrugged: the Shiller PE (price: earnings ratio) is within 3.5% of the dot-com record, oil is bid but paper stays capped, and Trump ordered the first physical Fort Knox audit in 70 years.

​  US and Iran now openly trading strikes mid-"ceasefire." CENTCOM confirmed "self-defense strikes" on Iranian radar/drone command sites at Goruk and Qeshm over the weekend, plus a Sirik (Bandar Sirik) telecom tower; IRGC says it then hit the airbase the attack launched from.​..

​..Iran's President Pezeshkian submits his resignation, saying the IRGC has taken over and the government is excluded from decisions. Khamenei's acceptance unclear; Iranian state-aligned voices call the framing "fake news."​   https://no1sdailydigest.substack.com/p/daily-digest-2026-06-01

  Gold & Geopolitics, Daily digest: 2026-05-31

​ The "deal is done" story inverted overnight: Trump swapped his blockade-lifted claim for "tougher terms" (uranium limits, denuclearization, Hormuz guarantees) while Iran's IRGC declared it now controls all Strait traffic "with full authority" — and shot down a US drone over its own waters early Sunday. 

​  On the ground, Konstantinovka has largely fallen, and Japanese crude reserves just posted the biggest drawdown in the country's history. 

Continuation underneath it all: record tech concentration, the Fort-Knox-reval​uation chorus, and a US consumer running on fumes.​..

​..IRGC declares "full authority" over all Strait of Hormuz traffic — vessels must obtain permission and use designated routes or be "targeted." Khatam al-Anbiya statement via MenchOsint, First Squawk. Iran separately says 20 ships transited in 24h.​.. 

​..Iran's state-TV MOU text has Tehran deciding the route and fees — the opposite of "return to normal." Don Durrett's one-liner captures the gap: "USA: the Strait has to return to normal. Iran: we now control the Strait. Media: they're close to signing."
​  The $300B reparations number drew open mockery — $70B to bomb, $300B to rebuild, with analysts calling Trump "an idiot" for it. Unconfirmed figure, treat as a circulating claim.​..
​..Kuwaiti base: Iranian missile injured 5 US troops, damaged 2 MQ-9 Reapers. CENTCOM called it a ​"successful interception​"; MenchOsint and Armchair Warlord say a Fateh-110 actually hit, "intercepted" by two Reapers parked on the tarmac. Drop Site notes Kuwait's documented pattern of blaming "falling shards." ​...
​..Physical oil shortages have begun, per Chevron's CEO — rationing and shortened workweeks already in some Asian markets, US distillate at a 23-year low, ~1bn barrels missing.​.​. Backed by record Japanese crude drawdown and Goldman's "demand destruction" warning​.​.
​..Tech now 37% of the S&P 500 — past the 2000 dot-com peak. Hedgeye and Kobeissi, who adds tech equals 91% of US GDP and 41 AI stocks drove 70¢ of every dollar added since ChatGPT.​..

​..S&P 500 just made 9 straight weekly gains, longest since 2023; meme and high-short-interest names having their sharpest run since 2021; hedge-fund gross exposure at the 100th percentile; implied correlation at a record low. Goldman's read: "all greed, no fear."​...

​..Real disposable income -1.1% YoY, biggest drop since Oct 2022; savings rate down to 2.6%, lowest since 2022, on the 12th straight month of spending outpacing income.
​  Home foreclosures soared 26% in Q1. Don Durrett, flat: "the consumer is broke."​...

​..The Fort-Knox-audit-then-revalue narrative is now near-daily — GoldTelegraph pricing the reserve at $667B, maneco64 framing reval as "the ultimate debt-crisis solution," Don Durrett noting the US "just began filling its SWF."
​  The most concrete datapoint: John Macintosh via SilverSeek — the US flipped from net silver importer (~19Moz/mo) to net exporter (~35Moz/mo), a 54Moz/mo swing, with the only coherent explanation being US-China rare-earth payments settled in gold and silver rather than dollars.​..

..F-15 downed by a Chinese shoulder-launched missile, plus a China-supplied stealth-spotting radar, per NBC via Mario Nawfal — "complicates US-China relations." Unverified, but a notable escalation if true...

​..Pakistan replacing the UAE as Iran's import/transit hub — 2-3hr overland routing, 45-55% lower freight cost, plus LNG/oil moving to China and Pakistan by rail. Sanctions-evasion architecture forming.​.​.
​  Bessent's "we outright grabbed the wallets" ($1B Iranian crypto) reframed as a feature, not Iran-specific — Kathleen Tyson and Ben Norton argue it's the Tether/USDT teardown that was always coming under the stablecoin plan.​   https://no1sdailydigest.substack.com/p/daily-digest-2026-05-31

​  Gold & Geopolitics, Daily digest: 2026-05-30

The Iran "deal" went from Axios leak to full pantomime: Trump posted explicit demands on Truth Social, declared the naval blockade lifted, then convened a 2-hour Situation Room meeting that ended with no decision — while Iran rejected every clause within hours. 

​  Two genuinely new items: Romania's president admitted the Galati drone was a Russian Geran diverted by Ukrainian air defence, and Bessent boasted of "outright grabbing" $1B in Iranian crypto wallets. Everything else is continuation with a sharper edge — oil-shock warnings from Exxon AND Chevron, an S&P blow-off top, and Hezbollah turning Merkavas into scrap.​   https://no1sdailydigest.substack.com/p/daily-digest-2026-05-30

​  Gold & Geopolitics,  Daily digest: 2026-05-29

Russian drone strikes NATO member Romania. A Geran-type drone entered Romanian airspace overnight and hit a 10th-floor apartment in Galati, near the Ukrainian border. Full explosive payload detonated. Two people lightly injured, ~70 evacuated. Romania scrambled F-16s with authorization to engage. Romanian Defense Ministry confirmed the strike.​..
​..Iran-US escalation cycle intensifies despite "ceasefire." US struck near Bandar Abbas; IRGC retaliated against a US airbase in Kuwait; Iran fired warning shots at four vessels attempting to cross Hormuz; Iran shot down a US drone. Vance says Trump is "not yet ready" to endorse the Iran deal, citing distance on uranium enrichment.​.​.
​..Israel bombs Beirut after month of quiet — 14 dead. IDF struck targets across Lebanon including Beirut, breaking a month-long lull. Evacuation orders now cover 20% of Lebanon, with more than half north of the Litani. Spain called it "completely unacceptable".​..
​..Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket explodes on Florida launchpad. The rocket, intended to launch Amazon Leo network satellites, detonated at Cape Canaveral. Amazon says satellites were not yet loaded. Bezos says all personnel safe, "we'll rebuild". SpaceX remains the only operational competitor.​..
​..Pentagon positioned to attack Cuba, awaiting Trump's go-ahead. Per Politico, the US has spent months positioning troops and weapons. USS Nimitz and Iwo Jima are off Cuba's coast, though analysts note the carrier lacks a full air wing, suggesting posturing over imminent ops.​   https://no1sdailydigest.substack.com/p/daily-digest-2026-05-29

​  Intercepted Iranian Missile Injures 5 Americans At Kuwaiti Air Base; Tehran Identifies Two Key MOU Sticking Points

Iran is pushing forward legislation formalizing control/management of Hormuz Strait shipping, which flies in the face of Trump warnings & conditions.
​  An Iranian Fateh-110 short-range ballistic missile targeted Kuwait's Ali Al Salem Air Base, a key operational hub for the U.S. Air Force. BBG says missile intercepted, but falling debris struck part of the base, injuring five Americans.
​  Two more American drones reported destroyed or damaged in the Kuwait base attack (DropSite/BBG).
Iran says two big MOU agreement issues remain & are not finalized: Unfreezing of Assets & Sanctions, Nuclear File​   https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/intercepted-iranian-missile-damages-us-reaper-drones-injures-five-kuwaiti-air-base

​   Trump Toughens Terms Of Iran Deal Framework, As Bessent Pinpoints Tehran's 'Big Mistake'

Israeli PM Netanyahu says he has "instructed the Israeli military to expand the maneuver in Lebanon" after the occupation of the strategic Beaufort Castle, which he says marks "a dramatic change" in Israel’s operations.​   https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/trump-tightens-terms-iran-deal-framework-bessent-pinpoints-tehrans-big-mistake

Israel Seizes Crusader Beaufort Castle, Marking Deepest Plunge Into Lebanon In Decades​   https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/israel-seizes-crusader-beaufort-castle-marking-deepest-plunge-lebanon-decades

​  Missiles Rain Down On Northern Israel In Large Hezbollah 'Revenge' Operation​   

Northern Israel has come under heavy attack from Hezbollah on Saturday, after this past week a full-scale war has resumed in southern Lebanon, which even saw the resumption of Israeli airstrikes on Beirut's southern suburbs, much further to the north.
​  Even while Tel Aviv maintains the illusion of a ceasefire with Lebanon (as in, its government and national army), there is no ceasefire with Iran-linked Hezbollah, following weeks of sporadic drones being sent on northern Israel, as well as troop positions of invading IDF forces.​   https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/missiles-rain-down-northern-israel-large-hezbollah-revenge-operation

​  Hezbollah vs IDF at Ramim outpost: 2x FPV drones deliver 2x RPG anti-tank warheads vs 2x IDF Iron Dome air defence missile firing units at IDF border base on 23 May; two of 15 Iron Dome launchers targeted in this war.   https://x.com/jonelmer/status/2060204095391031600

​  The Strait of Hormuz is within the territorial waters of both Iran and Oman. Bessent Warns Oman On Hormuz Toll Scheme, After Trump Threatened To 'Blow Up' US Ally   https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/bessent-warns-oman-hormuz-tolls-after-trump-threatened-blow-us-ally

  A new global energy and finance system will need to be worked out, as all the destroyed infrastructure is rebuilt.  Oil's Peace Dividend Is Real, But Normalization Is Not A Light Switch   https://www.zerohedge.com/energy/oils-peace-dividend-real-normalization-not-light-switch

Huh?!  Congress Quietly Moves To Intertwine US, Israeli Militaries On Formal Level   https://www.zerohedge.com/military/congress-quietly-moves-intertwine-us-israeli-militaries-formal-level

​  Ukraine killed 21 Russian students and lied about it: What really happened in Starobelsk
Ukrainian diplomats attempted to dismiss the tragedy as “a fake story” as Russian parents mourned their children​   https://web.archive.org/web/20260530084900/https://www.rt.com/russia/640743-ukraine-lied-starobelsk-recap/

​  They mean military command centers, not the Parliament/Rada: Russian Officials Walk-Back Threats of 'Systematic' Devastation of Kiev 'Decision-Making Centers'?   https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/russian-officials-walk-back-threats

It was electronically hijacked into Romania by Ukraine: NATO Condemns Russia After Drone Smashes Into Romanian Apartments: 'Grave Escalation'   https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/nato-condemns-russia-after-drone-smashes-romanian-apartments-grave-escalation

   Russia Strikes Back: Euroclear appeals immediate enforcement of $256 bln Central Bank ruling
 Euroclear has filed a complaint with the Moscow Arbitration Court against the immediate enforcement of a ruling to recover 18.2 trillion rubles ($256 bln) under a lawsuit by the Central Bank, a source familiar with the proceedings told TASS.

​  According to the source, the complaint against the immediate enforcement of the ruling to recover funds under the Bank of Russia lawsuit was filed this week.   
​  In December 2025, the Bank of Russia filed a lawsuit against Euroclear in the Moscow Arbitration Court for 18.2 trillion rubles ($256 bln), amid the European Union's plans to use frozen Russian assets to finance Ukraine. This amount includes frozen funds, the value of blocked securities, and lost profits.
https://tass.com/economy/2139077

​  Russia, Afghanistan sign military cooperation deal in Moscow
The deal was signed at the International Security Forum, during which Russian officials demanded a US release of Afghanistan’s frozen assets

​  Shoigu urged western countries to release Afghanistan’s frozen assets and take responsibility for the country’s reconstruction during the event.“We are convinced that western countries must unfreeze frozen Afghan assets, fully acknowledge their full responsibility for their 20-year presence in Afghanistan, and assume the entire burden of post-conflict reconstruction of the country,” Shoigu said.
​  One day later, on 28 May, Russia’s Deputy Defense Minister Vasily Osmakov met with Yaqoob in Moscow to discuss regional security and potential bilateral military cooperation.
​  According to the ministry, the two sides addressed security issues in Central and South Asia, as well as the outlook for cooperation between their armed forces, including areas of military collaboration.​   https://thecradle.co/articles/russia-afghanistan-sign-military-cooperation-deal-in-moscow

​  Manufacturing Consent for Trump’s Invasion of Cuba

The US seriously takes the position that we can impose (strained invocations of) US rules against terrorism and engage in extrajudicial seizures, as in kidnapping. The article below describes how we are now putting a lot of weight on the thin reed of enforcing Batista-era property rights.​   https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2026/05/manufacturing-consent-for-trumps-invasion-of-cuba.html

​  Richartd Revelstoke, on the power struggle between 4 visions of "capitalism", The Four-Clocks Problem

Building on the fracture of the Transnational Capitalist Class outlined in Chapter 1 and Chapter 2, this chapter examines the four clocks — decades (Davos), election cycles (Imperial Nationalists), product/civilizational arcs (Silicon Valley), and dynasties (State Capitalists) — and why their incompatibility produces a stalemate.
​  Davos plans in decades. Imperial Nationalists plan in election cycles. Silicon Valley plans in product cycles and civilizational arcs. State Capitalists plan in dynasties. These are not stylistic differences. 

​  Each faction’s temporal horizon is its theory of power. Davos believes power flows from coordinating long-horizon institutional commitments. Imperial Nationalists believe power is maintained and exercised by compressed transactional victories. Silicon Valley believes power flows from circumventing institutions altogether. State Capitalists believe power flows from outlasting opponents. Time is not what they disagree about. Time is the medium through which each faction theorizes power itself.​   https://www.themargins.ca/p/the-four-clocks-problem

​  Ellen Brown teases out Musk's "AI Abundance" scheme, which China is already having to deal with. Henry Ford paid his workers enough to buy Fords, but Robots don't get paid when they replace humans.  THE AI REVOLUTION: WHERE CAPITALISM MEETS SOCIALISM - The Abundance Paradigm, Part 2.   https://scheerpost.com/2026/05/26/the-ai-revolution-where-capitalism-meets-socialism-the-abundance-paradigm-part-2/

  The Honest Sorcerer, The AI Takeover Has Arrived​ ...but it looks completely different from what we imagined

The stock and housing market crashes, as markets run out of buyers who still believe “the economy is booming” and it’s worth investing into.
​  The economy shrinks 10-15% to match the new supply-demand balance created by a lack of vital physical inputs on one side, and a lack of purchasing power on the other. Prices, trade flows and production volumes eventually stabilize, but at a permanently lower level. And while growth might eventually return, it will be wholly inadequate to raise economic activity back to its pre-war, pre-AI levels. Historians looking back on 2025 will say: that was the year when we passed peak global economic activity.​   https://thehonestsorcerer.substack.com/p/the-ai-takeover-has-arrived

"The Real Part Of This Economy Is Not Doing Well": Ed Dowd Warns 'Just Wait 'Til The AI Bubble Bursts'​   https://www.zerohedge.com/economics/real-part-economy-not-doing-well-ed-dowd-warns-just-wait-til-ai-bubble-bursts

Yes, the CEO of Blackrock needs ALL the suckers: WATCH: Larry Fink Demands Access to Americans’ Savings, Pension Funds to Bankroll AI​   https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2026-05-28/watch-larry-fink-demands-access-americans-savings-pension-funds-bankroll-ai#google_vignette

​Meryl Nass MD on the efficiencies of AI-Technocracy: Patrick Wood and I discuss Trump's trip to China and the secret plans for Trump's World Order   https://merylnass.substack.com/p/patrick-wood-and-i-discuss-trumps

Escape Key, on the roots of AI-Technocracy:  Planning in the USSR - Nobody reads 1960s Soviet planning manuals in 2026. They should.   https://escapekey.substack.com/p/planning-in-the-ussr

Patrick Wood, Technocrats Using AI To Disappear Dissent Completely​ - How can we counter this?   https://patrickwood.substack.com/p/technocrats-using-ai-to-disappear

​  A researcher spent two years documenting what AI is doing to the way humans think. His conclusion fits in one sentence. 

AI is standardizing human thought. Across societies. Across cultures. Across generations. Simultaneously. At a scale no technology in history has ever achieved. 

​  The paper is called "The Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Human Thought." Published July 2025 on arXiv. Written by independent researcher Rénald Gesnot, categorized under Computers & Society and Human-Computer Interaction. It is not a benchmark paper. It is not a capability paper. 

​  It is something rarer — a systematic analysis of what happens to human cognition, creativity, and intellectual diversity when billions of people outsource their thinking to the same machine.​   https://x.com/iam_elias1/status/2050482315068109139

​"Poverty"? For Real? Not Pandemics?  What Are Americans Most Worried About?   https://www.zerohedge.com/personal-finance/what-are-americans-most-worried-about

  The US has totally bought into this. My wife, a school librarian sees these effects every day.  Norway gave an iPad to every student, and it nearly tanked its education system   https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/norway-gave-ipad-every-student-180000736.html

​  UK’s Social Media Ban Trudges Ever Onward

The main talking point is that “social media is like cigarettes”. Everyone is saying that, it’s the meme of the day.
​  It’s a sentiment originally taken from a new report submitted to the consultation by the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges.Titled “Growing up in an online world”, it contains this hilarious line in the foreword:
…there is, I think, an overwhelming consensus that excessive screen time can harm children and young people and we need to call this out unflinchingly rather than passively wait for someone else to prove causation”.​..

​..Since all the proposed measures rely on age verification for enforcement, they all achieve the end goal: No more online anonymity, for kids or adults alike.
​  Debating the list is pointless, and making a choice counterproductive. It’s like choosing the colour of your electric chair: It makes no difference to the end result, but your entirely cosmetic choice lends tacit approval of the whole process.
​  We all know where this is going: Age gating everything, everywhere and then – eventually – digital ID.​   https://off-guardian.org/2026/05/26/its-all-so-tiresome-uks-social-media-ban-trudges-ever-onward/

​  Professor Ugo Bardi continues to worry about modes of mass population reduction: The Age of Drones has Come: the End of Cities as We Know Them?

Never ask for whom the drone is coming, it is coming for thee.​   https://senecaeffect.substack.com/p/how-to-survive-at-the-time-of-drones

Immigrant Hordes Set Paris Ablaze Because Their Soccer Team Won​   https://www.zerohedge.com/political/immigrant-hordes-set-paris-ablaze-because-their-soccer-team-won

​  Le Pen leads every major rival in new French presidential runoff polling
Whether the National Rally's presidential candidate is Le Pen or Bardella, the party is in great shape​   https://rmx.news/article/le-pen-leads-every-major-rival-in-new-french-presidential-runoff-polling/

​  Masters of "control narrative" took pen names, wrote "Josephus" and hammered-together the (approved) Bible: THE PISO FAMILY OF WRITERS

RULING ROYALTY OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE IN THE EARLIEST CENTURIES​   https://francesleader.substack.com/p/the-piso-family-of-writers

​  Well you can't just let people think it is ok to air that without comment, can you? British Ofcom Investigates Airing of Trump Interview Calling Climate Change a “Hoax”   https://jonathanturley.org/2026/05/29/british-ofcom-investigates-airing-of-trump-interview-calling-climate-change-a-hoax/#more-245298

  Paul Craig Roberts clarifies: Has President Trump Committed High Treason?

The principle right is free speech. It is the First Amendment, because without free speech it is impossible for citizens to hold government accountable for violation of the other protections from, and limits on, government power.
​  Trump’s affinity for Zionist Israel has led him into an act that violates his oath of office and possibly caused him to commit high treason against the United States.
​  Trump has created by executive order what in effect is a Sedition Act for Israel that prohibits United States citizens from using their First Amendment right to criticize Israel for the genocide of Palestine, the rape and torture of Palestinian prisoners, the destruction of Palestinian homes, villages, and olive groves by Israeli settlers who blatantly steal Palestinian land, assassinations of foreign leaders, undue influence over the U.S. legislative and executive branches, state governments, media, finance, and education, and wars of aggression against Middle Eastern countries. 

​  U.S. critics of Israel are not even permitted to complain about the Jewish Anti-defamation League’s slander, libel and defamation of them. For an American to complain of being defamed by Zionists is to risk punishment for anti-semitism.
​  To state it plainly, Trump and his acting attorney general have given priority to protecting Israel, a foreign government, over the First Amendment rights of U.S. citizens. Clearly, this means that Trump and his accommodating acting attorney general are serving a foreign interest by suspending without any right or authority to do so, the First Amendment rights guaranteed to U.S. citizens by the U.S. Constitution.​   https://paulcraigroberts.org/has-president-trump-committed-high-treason/

​So Martial-law enforced by the IDF in the US next? Congress Quietly Moves To Intertwine US, Israeli Militaries On Formal Level   https://www.zerohedge.com/military/congress-quietly-moves-intertwine-us-israeli-militaries-formal-level

Congress established the Memorial to John F. Kennedy... Trump Blasts "Barack Hussein Obama Judge" After Kennedy Center Renovation Blocked   https://www.zerohedge.com/political/trump-blasts-judge-after-kennedy-center-renovation-blocked

As you've heard, and equal in value to 100 of 1990 $US:  US government prepares to print $250 note featuring Trump's face   https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/clypeyx6nemo

  Attorney John Klar explains that the FDA has to follow the law or the courts will reverse its findings. More ‘Forever Chemicals’ in Drinking Water? 

What Is the EPA Up To?  While the legacy media and some MAHA activists criticize a new approach by the EPA, it’s actually a shrewd and practical move.​   https://www.themahareport.com/p/more-forever-chemicals-in-drinking

​  Alex Krainer​ certainly remembers "Event 201" in October 2019,​ Pandemics and the march of totalitarianism (part 1 of 2)
The pandemics are pushed by the bankers. This report examines what their ultimate objectives are, and what we can do to defeat them.

​..The whole narrative about the plight of this cruise ship was as though it was crafted in the 19th century – a nearly complete, inexplicable radio silence. Even Jake Rosmarin’s updates after his damsel in distress call on 4 May, became minimal and telegraphic, matching almost word for word the updates issued by the ship’s operator, Oceanwide Expeditions, as though they compared notes to make sure that everybody stayed on the message.
 ​  Another oddity about this cruise was its improbable likeness with another ill-fated voyage. It was the fictitious, simulated voyage of a ship in the so-called, Polaris II exercise, the world’s biggest pandemic preparedness simulation. Polaris II was conducted in April 2026, just as the real MV Hondius was already traversing the Atlantic.
​  The simulation scenario involved a crew of researchers embarking on an expedition to the arctic and getting infected by a pathogen that emerged from the permafrost. In this scenario, the WHO jumped into action to reclaim its own relevance. They declared that mitigating the pandemic made global cooperation with the WHO essential, not optional.​   https://alexkrainer.substack.com/p/pandemics-and-the-march-of-totalitarianism

Pandemics and the march of totalitarianism (part 2 of 2)​ - The pandemics and totalitarian rule go hand in glove, and their instigators are the bankers.

​  It may not be a coincidence that the COVID 19 pandemic came on the back of a gathering collapse in the banking sector. The Federal Reserve was forced to step into the REPO markets as the lender of last resort in September 2019 to bail out the banking system. This was the first such intervention since the 2008 Global Financial Crisis. When central banks step into the repo markets, that’s a sure sign that the system was on the verge of collapse...​

..In 2021 the Fed set up a Standing Repo Facility which was on standby since the pandemic with nearly zero transactions until September of last year when it saw a sharp rise in activity. The Bank of England has been active in British repo markets since the summer of 2024 and the ECB has followed suit. ​  Last November, the ECB issued a stark warning that Euro zone banks must prepare for unprecedented shocks causing severe disruptions with far-reaching consequences for the financial system – their words, not mine.

​  If that is so, you might ask, what would the bankers need pandemics for? Well, there’s a lot you can do behind the smokescreen of emergencies that you couldn’t do in normal conditions, especially if those emergencies suspend the ordinary functioning of society. For example, you could lock people down and impose curfews to keep the risk of disruptive social uprisings under control.
​  You could also grant yourself massive bailout funds under the pretense of saving the economy and you can impose central bank digital currencies and other forms of draconian controls on the population under the guise of fighting the pandemic and keeping everyone safe. Some of those systems of control have already been developed.​..

..The bankers’ fingerprints on such plans can be found in a number of documents produced by the World Economic Forum under their Great Reset agenda. An early version of this plan was articulated in a document titled “Scenarios for the Future of Technology and International Development,” published by the Rockefeller Foundation in 2010.
​  On page 18, titled “Lock Step,” the document described their vision of the future as “A world of top-down government control and more authoritarian leadership, with limited innovation and growing citizen pushback.” The way they planned to usher this New Normal was a “pandemic the world had been anticipating for years…” Sure enough, we did get that “pandemic,” in 2020 along with the world of top-down government control and more authoritarian leadership.​   https://alexkrainer.substack.com/p/pandemics-and-the-march-of-totalitarianism-1d6

​   What are the rights of a US Citizen? U.S. May Finally Allow Hantavirus-Exposed Americans to Leave Government-Mandated Biocontainment Facility — But Only Under 24/7 Surveillance - One locked-up passenger said: “This is not acceptable. We’re not f*cking criminals.”    https://www.thefocalpoints.com/p/us-may-finally-allow-hantavirus-exposed

  Cured by Chinese Acupuncture? NOOOO!!  Study Reports 96% Remission Rate of Alpha-Gal Syndrome with Novel Desensitization Technique

With nearly 500,000 Americans now affected by tick-induced meat allergy, a peer-reviewed study reports almost unbelievable results using Soliman Auricular Allergy Treatment (SAAT).​   https://www.thefocalpoints.com/p/study-reports-96-remission-rate-of

​  BREAKING: Largest Human Cancer Study of Ivermectin + Mebendazole Is Now PEER-REVIEWED and PUBLISHED in a Major Cancer Journal
84.4% of cancer patients taking ivermectin + mebendazole for 6 months reported either CANCER DISAPPEARANCE, TUMOR REGRESSION, or CANCER STABILIZATION.​   https://www.thefocalpoints.com/p/breaking-largest-human-cancer-study

​  Meryl Nass MD points out that African countries know the score: Some good news! A summary of the last week's WHA meeting reveals an energetic push by small nations for national health sovereignty, and less WHO governance

Worldwide, public health governance has lost its head of steam, thanks to many of us revealing its real intentions​    https://merylnass.substack.com/p/some-good-news-a-summary-of-the-last

​  Long rumored to be a US military bioweapon that got off the reservation: BREAKING: HHS Secretary Kennedy Announces Major Action to Combat Lyme Disease - The era of ‘gaslighting’ Americans suffering from Lyme disease and other tickborn illnesses is over, Kennedy said Friday   https://www.themahareport.com/p/breaking-hhs-secretary-kennedy-announces

  A Midwestern Doctor explains directive-question-polling: The Secret Poll That Almost Killed Vaccine Reform

A leaked poll exposes the propaganda techniques that were used to derail vaccine reform and also are used against us every single day

​  Since MAHA and RFK came into power, the pharmaceutical industry has disproportionately focused its lobbying on neutralizing vaccine safety reform, with a key tactic being to stall meaningful action until Trump’s term expires so everything can be quietly rolled back.
​  A central tool in this effort was a single poll conducted in late 2025, which concluded that vaccine skepticism is political suicide — results so dire they convinced the White House to shelve vaccine safety as a public issue until after the midterms.
​  However, 25 other polls told a starkly different story: institutional trust has collapsed to historic lows, clear majorities support vaccine safety research and liability reform, and three MAHA-allied polls found that championing vaccine reform made candidates more favorable to voters, not less — while the leading Senate opponent of RFK’s vaccine work just lost his primary with only 24.8% of the vote.
​  The Fabrizio poll achieved its outlier results through a series of deliberately biased design choices not present in earlier versions (which got opposite results).​   https://www.midwesterndoctor.com/p/the-secret-poll-that-almost-killed

​  Jessica Rose Ph.D. tells the story in documented book-chapter-and-verse [SV40 sequence is carcinogenic]   From Baric's blueprint to SV40 and back again

Synthetic biology, dual-use research, and the illusion of biodefense​   https://jessicar.substack.com/p/from-barics-blueprint-to-sv40-and

​  Well then, it's ok to skip them? BREAKING: Study Finds Pediatric Flu Shots are a COMPLETE FAILURE

Study of an ENTIRE Spanish region (~400,000 people) found NO reduction in flu cases or hospitalizations after mass flu shot rollout to children 6 months to 5 years old.​   https://www.thefocalpoints.com/p/breaking-study-finds-pediatric-flu

​  Not "illegal" to overfill your oil 1/4 quart, clean the mass airflow sensor and throttle body, blow the dirt out of your air filter, or drive-ahead, minimizing use of gas pedal and brake. Useful short video: 17 “Illegal” Tricks That Instantly Make Your Car Run Better   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkbhuiLUodw

  Kyle Young has done wide ranging research into how food grows, and is grown, with and without chemicals that kill weeds and soil bacteria. Glyphosate is almost a forever-chemical. Pillbugs are ok. Microbes, Glyphosate, Fertilizer, Famine and Pillbugs   https://secularheretic.substack.com/p/microbes-glyphosate-fertilizer-famine

  Climate Physicist Anastassia Makarieva, co-originator of the Biotic Pump Model: Atmosphere as a Steam Engine: New Results - I love my work!

I would like to communicate and share a very special mood I am now in — we have just completed a one-year job, finalized and submitted our paper, “Atmosphere as a Steam Engine.” It sheds so much light on the physics of the biotic pump, on condensation-induced atmospheric dynamics, and ultimately on how plants, by creating vapor, literally make the atmosphere do work. It is an accomplishment, a milestone. I am quietly proud and exceptionally satisfied.​    https://bioticregulation.substack.com/p/atmosphere-as-a-steam-engine-new

​Collecting Precipitation (pictured in morning garden after rain)