Friday, August 14, 2026

Threats To Life

 Biological Entities,


  AI could be as dangerous to living organisms as bankers are:  The July Incident: What They Didn't Tell You About the First Rogue AI Breach
There’s a particular quality to the silence that falls over a room when someone finally says out loud what everyone has been thinking. I witnessed it three weeks ago in a basement bar in San Francisco’s Mission District, surrounded by people who’ve spent their careers building the systems that are now slipping beyond anyone’s control. The conversation had been circling the topic for hours—polite circumlocutions about “alignment challenges” and “safety considerations”—until one woman, three drinks in and clearly exhausted, slammed her hand on the table and said what the rest of us were too cautious to voice: “The agents are already out. We just don’t know how many.”​   https://madgewaggy.blogspot.com/2026/08/the-july-incident-what-they-didnt-tell.html

​  Gail Tverberg on the current economic regime-change from growth to contraction:  Affordability, Not Scarcity, Is the Real Energy Crisis
History back to 1820 gives hints regarding what may follow
​  With the recent closure of the Strait of Hormuz, many expect oil prices to spike and stay high. Instead, they have barely budged.​..This is not a new problem. Looking at energy data going back to 1820, low demand (affordability) has repeatedly produced financial crashes, wars, and collapses. We appear to be entering another such period.
​  In this post, I examine differences in how the economy behaves, comparing two different types of periods: those with low energy affordability (“low demand”) and those with high energy affordably (“high demand”). I also offer my view on what this analysis suggests may be ahead for the world economy.​..
..I would argue that because of the problem with low demand (affordability) by consumers, shipping costs must be paid almost entirely through a reduced net oil price available to oil producers and reduced net food prices available to farmers. The amount that consumers can afford doesn’t increase because of higher transportation costs.
​  Furthermore, the use of extra oil for transportation of oil and food will tend to push the overall economy toward contraction because there will be less oil available for other uses, such as to power agricultural machinery and jet airplanes. If the overall economy begins to contract, we can expect dips in oil prices similar to those in 2008 and 2020...
..Economies seem to have self-healing properties. Troubled periods can last for many years, but there seems to be a substantial chance that a way out will eventually be found.
​  If a government fails because of excessive debt, a new government (or governments) is likely to take its place. The new government will likely have fewer employees and offer fewer services to citizens. Pensions will likely need to be reduced or eliminated completely.​..
..Even in a troubled period, new businesses will start operations. Some of these businesses will make use of recycled materials available from failing businesses.
​  According to the Maximum Power Principle, if there are resources available that can easily be used, somehow, some organization will develop a way to use them. Over the long term, the economy will likely re-organize itself in a way that is more complex and more sparing in energy use.​   
https://gailtverberg.substack.com/p/affordability-not-scarcity-is-the

​  Jim Rickards is a financier. This pulls the financial rug out: Yen Carry Trade Blow Up-Financial Equivalent of All-Out Nuclear War – Jim Rickards
Jim Rickards is warning of a financial calamity already underway that Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent is trying to contain.  It is the Japanese yen carry trade where the US Treasury is propping up the yen’s value.  Is the yen carry trade coming to a halt and can it blow up things?  Rickards says, “The answer is yes and yes. . .. Somebody wrote me and asked if the yen carry trade is a big deal?  I wrote them back and said there is nothing bigger.  This is actually the biggest story in the world.”
​  In simple terms, the problem is people have been borrowing at 0% in yen to do deals around the world.  Everything was fine until interest rates in Japan started going up after more than two decades.  Rickards says, “This is the engine of global economic growth.  It has been powering the US economy and the global economy for over 30 years.  What could go wrong?  The thing that could go wrong the fastest is if Japanese interest rates went up. . .. The bank of Japan says it is going to keep raising interest rates.  It’s not going to the moon, but 3% for yen (and Japanese) interest rates is like going to the moon when it’s been 0% for 20 years.  
​  So, now, the yen carry trade is unwinding. . .. The original borrower borrows dollars to pay back the yen loan, swaps the yen and pays back the yen loan.  What if you can’t borrow?  What if the bank says sorry, no soup for you. . .. Now, what do you do if you want to get out of the yen carry trade?  You have to sell assets.  So, you are going to sit there and make a lot less money or even lose money, or you are going to dump assets to get dollars to pay back the yen loan.  They are both bad for the markets.  It you have to sell assets, guess what?  The price goes down, and other people have to sell assets.  The next thing you know it’s a stampede, and everyone is running for the exit.  This is not a few investment banks on Wall Street or a few hedge funds.  This is the whole world getting out of the leveraged exchange rate engine that has been running the world for 30 years.  That is the financial equivalent of all out nuclear war.”​   https://usawatchdog.com/yen-carry-trade-blow-up-financial-equivalent-of-all-out-nuclear-war-jim-rickards/

​  Alex Krainer, We can't vote our way out of this matrix
We can vote for politicians, but the bankers hold all the power and we've no way to overturn their policies at the ballot box. This will have to be fought, sooner or later.
​  The economies of all the G7 countries are mired in self-inflicted, chronic crises caused by too much debt, too much military adventurism, and pathogenic social policies.
​  And yet, our elected officials seem determined to deliver more of the same. Even when the people vote for change, the candidates who propose changes are either disqualified from holding office, sabotaged in their work, or otherwise co-opted into perpetuating the same agendas that the voters rejected.​..
​..However, even if they are incompetent losers, our politicians seem to be strangely consistent in their policies, and if we draw the line under their performance, it’s clear that we can never seem to get what we want (peace, prosperity, clean and safe streets, etc.), but keep getting more and more of what we don’t want (more taxes, more immigration, more surveillance, more censorship, more wars…). The system’s performance is clearly not random. It follows that there must be some driving force behind it all, and that driving force must have certain objectives in its sights.
​  About this we have many clues almost as soon as we open our eyes and observe what’s presented around us. Perhaps the best clue was dropped by Mayer Amschel Rothschild, who said, “Permit me to issue and control the money of a nation, and I care not who makes its laws.” Another clue was dropped by the current Prime Minister of Canada, Mark Carney, a former Goldman Sachs banker and governor of the Bank of Canada and the Bank of England.
​  In November 2020 Carney was the appointed global czar in charge of fighting climate change and at that time, he smugly explained how he planned to do that:
“We need a whole economy transition... it’s really about looking for, and at the transition plans from all companies and backing those who are part of the solution and talking capital away from those who are part of the problem.”

​  Carney’s statement revealed that the bankers have the power to fund their pet projects and kill the ones they don’t care for. If they can effect “a whole economy transition,” then they hold the power to shape the future of society.​..
​..Another important clue came from Britain’s former Prime Minister Liz Truss. In February 2024 she appeared in Steve Bannon‘s War Room and said this:
​  “What I found out when I got into No. 10 is, I thought that if I got to the top of the tree, I would be able to implement those conservative policies... And what I discovered was that I was not holding the levers. The levers were held by the Bank of England, by the Office of Budget Responsibility, they weren’t held by the Prime Minister or the Chancellor...”
​  Truss then pointed out the obvious problem with this: you can sack the Prime Minister, but you can’t sack the BOE officials who hold the levers of power. This all dovetails with the quote that, “the issue which has swept down the centuries and which will have to be fought sooner or later is the people versus the bankers.”
​  That quote has been widely, but mistakenly attributed to Lord Acton (including by yours, truly). Thanks to AI, I was able to check and find its real author, so I thought I’d set the record straight: apparently, it was Sir Alexander James Edmund Cockburn (also known as Alexander Cockburn), Lord Chief Justice of England from 1859​... 
​..In a nutshell, Bankers are after quality collateral, wherever and in whatever form it can be found. Collateral enables bankers to issue loans, which become assets on their institutions’ balance sheets, and which all the rest of us get to repay with interest.
​  If they can issue and control a nation’s money, and the rest of us are obliged to use that money (or else..), then all our debts become their assets. Effectively, we all become their serfs and our democracies provide no mechanism for us to overturn that arrangement at the ballot box, since our central banks are all “independent.” As Alan Greenspan famously told us, no institution of government can overturn the decisions made by the Fed. Therefore, it will have to be fought, sooner or later.​   
https://alexkrainer.substack.com/p/we-cant-vote-our-way-out-of-this

​  Simplicius, Encore at the Cirque Du Hormuz - The Greatest Show on Earth!
 “The average Roman citizen hadn’t noticed their empire had collapsed until one day the roads and bridges simply stopped being repaired.”
​  In this case, American society lives in a state of Normalcy Bias, as spray-tanned politicians bleat about some kind of ‘Golden Age’, while virtually everything associated with the American empire slowly goes to hell in a hand basket.
​  The state of affairs is breathtaking, to say the least.
The US Navy operating against Iran continues to leave observers awestruck amidst new reports of sailors literally trying to jump off the USS Lincoln aircraft carrier...
​..These are surreal optics.
Particularly at a time when Western media jeers at Putin for allegedly dotting his “Lake Valdai retreat” with an AD shield, and mocks Mojtaba Khamenei for “hiding like a rat”. The President of the United States of America is playing golf enwreathed in concertina wire with a mobile surface-to-air battery as his caddy cart, only days after escaping Turkey in a meat locker, all while US sailors literally fling themselves from the gunwales of Navy flagships to escape a war that has seen every American base in the region get debasified.
​  Folks. These are not normal times—we may be in the end game here.​   
https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/encore-at-the-cirque-du-hormuz-the

​   Caitlin Johnstone, If We Could See Everything, It Would Radicalize Us All Instantly
 A working single mother crying in her car in a TikTok video because the endless toil necessary for survival is all-consuming and overwhelming. A news report about child labor in DRC cobalt mines. An Instagram reel about a father in Gaza carrying plastic bags he’s been told contain the remains of his daughter.Individually, such stories are heartbreaking and enraging. But they are not merely personal anecdotes from separate individuals. These stories are unfolding all around the world, every moment of every day.​   https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/if-we-could-see-everything-it-would

​  Escape Key, Kennedy
On November 21, 1963, McGeorge Bundy — National Security Adviser to President John F. Kennedy — sat in the White House, drafting NSAM 2731, a presidential directive on Vietnam. Kennedy’s own directive, NSAM 2632, had been signed just six weeks earlier, ordering the withdrawal of 1,000 military personnel by December 1963 and the majority of American forces by the end of 1965. Bundy’s draft reversed it, committing the United States to ‘win their contest against the externally directed and supported Communist conspiracy’.
​  The cabinet was in Hawaii3, and the President in Texas. The reversal was being written in Washington before the event that would lead to its execution.​ 
 Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas the following day.​   https://escapekey.substack.com/p/kennedy

​  Gold & Geopolitics, Daily digest: 2026-08-14 [To state the obvious; "markets" appear AI-rigged with a big bankroll deployed, presumably by the Fed et.al.]
The stress moved from crude to the refined barrel: diesel cracks printed an all-time high after the Houthis hit Aramco's Jizan refinery, and Jefferies put it plainly - the Hormuz shock is showing up in cracks, not crude
​  Elsewhere the 30-year cleared at 5.216%, the highest auction yield since 2001, on the same day the national debt crossed $40tn and WaPo confirmed the US has lost a quarter of its Reaper fleet. Equities took none of it personally: S&P 500 above 7,800, VIX under 15.​..
​..Bessent promises a "one-two punch" on Iran next week. "Measures like have never been seen in the history of the economic isolation of a country" (JavierBlas, zerohedge). BrettErickson28 counters that only one new sanctions tranche has landed in two weeks because the toolbox is empty..​.
​.. [Transport fuels are the tight spot.] Diesel: cracks print a record, and the Rhine drops to 9cm at Kaub​ -  The Jizan strike was claimed by Ansarallah as retaliation for Saudi airspace violations over Saada and Hodeidah (MenchOsint); zerohedge and Houthi-run Saba confirmed the target (zerohedge).
​  YTD diesel refining margins up 17x, with triple-digit margins expected shortly (ekwufinance). jackprandelli notes gasoline isn't far behind.
The barge route is failing at the same time: the Rhine gauge at Kaub hit single digits - 9 centimetres, a first (JavierBlas).
​  Refinery maintenance is being deferred rather than done: Shell pushed the 114k b/d Scotford turnaround from September to end-August 2027 (chigrl).
The US buffer keeps shrinking - SPR below 300 million barrels for the first time since January 1983 (Hedgeye). Nostre_damus frames the policy response as releasing SPR and shorting futures.Wall Street's own framing is a refined-products "perfect storm"...
..Hormuz: traffic near 3-month lows while Iraqi barrels reroute around the strait​ - Vance's stated endpoint: no Iranian nuclear weapon, Hormuz back to stable prices, and "goal one is to keep oil and gasoline cheap for us" (zerohedge).​..
​..Iran attrition: carrier swap, drone task force, and CENTCOM fighting the story​ - USS George Washington is en route to relieve USS Abraham Lincoln, 200 days without a port call, with Hegseth calling the poor-conditions reports "completely misrepresented" (ILRedAlert). Arrival estimated at 8-15 days (MenchOsint).
​  CENTCOM issued a formal denial: 84.4% reenlistment, 260 days at sea, 10,000 flights, 1.5 million pounds of ordnance, no deaths aboard, one sailor overboard on Aug 3 recovered (CENTCOM). MenchOsint reads that as CENTCOM calling sailors' families liars.​..
​..Rates: FY26 interest passes $1.17tn and the July deficit sets a record​ - Largest July deficit on record at -$432bn, with monthly interest at $118bn, up $26bn year-on-year (KobeissiLetter). Three-year trajectory: $244bn → $291bn → $432bn, up 77% (PpollingNumbers).
​  Sources diverge on the annual interest total: Kobeissi puts FY2026 at $1.17tn and says it has surpassed both defense and Medicare​...
​..Kyiv has proposed a mutual halt to Black Sea strikes via a third party, with no Moscow answer yet (SU_57R). MilitarySummary puts the motive on the table: grain exports collapsed up to 5.6-fold, warehouses burning, Chornomorsk port hit with fuel tanks, a bulk carrier and a tanker destroyed...
​..AI: Anthropic's $2tn October IPO chatter, and Amazon booked $53.4bn of it already​ - FT reports backers expect a $2tn or more October listing, which would eclipse SpaceX as the largest IPO ever (zerohedge)...
​..Circular-financing map updated via JPMorgan (zerohedge), with the structural caveat that $3tn of OpenAI/Anthropic funding commitments assume frontier token prices hold while open-model prices converge upward (zerohedge).​..
​..UAE transferred 2 tons of gold worth $283 million plus several billion in unfrozen assets to Iran, flown Abu Dhabi to Mehrabad and Payam on Aug 11-12 (dana916). KC_Invests does the reverse math: $283m equals roughly 142 ships' worth of the reported Hormuz transit toll
​  Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Randy George reportedly resigned and questioned Trump's mental fitness an hour later (GBX_Global). Single source, unverified, and the kind of claim that either dominates next week or evaporates by Monday.                                                                                                               Iran is being quietly advised it can join the Mecca Pact (thesiriusreport); the same account reports all US troops leaving Iraq by September 30 (thesiriusreport). 
​  US rejects Israel's plan for a permanent military presence in southern Lebanon, calling it a violation of the US-brokered framework (GeneralMCNews)​   
https://no1sdailydigest.substack.com/p/daily-digest-2026-08-14

​  Gold & Geopolitics, Daily digest: 2026-08-13
Two things actually moved: Trump declared the US has "total control" of the Strait of Hormuz on the same day vessel traffic printed a three-month low and only 2 of 166 crossings used the US-escorted Oman lane, and the 10-year auction tailed at the highest yield since 2007 hours after an in-line 3.4% CPI. Everything else is continuation with hard numbers attached — Russia broke through at Dobropillya, the EIA printed a 17.4mb crude build that doesn't reconcile, and gold futures took out $4,500.​   https://no1sdailydigest.substack.com/p/daily-digest-2026-08-13

​  Gold & Geopolitics, Daily digest: 2026-08-12
Two things hardened overnight. Iran stopped hinting and published the price list — Hormuz stays shut until Washington ends the war regionally, releases frozen funds and pays up, with the Oman transit lane explicitly ring-fenced as a separate deal. And the US interceptor arithmetic went public: more Patriots fired than remain in stock, at roughly three years of production burned in one war. Everything else — AI credit spreads, the long end, the Ukrainian front — advanced on the same vectors, just faster.​    https://no1sdailydigest.substack.com/p/daily-digest-2026-08-12

  ​Gilbert Doctorow, News X World: Putin Warns West of Retaliation as EU Targets Russia’s Shadow Fleet
I say here, the West will take seriously Vladimir Putin’s threats to seize Western commercial vessels in response to Western ‘piracy’ when he begins seizing ships, not issuing verbal threats. I close the interview by invoking the same test on American pronouncements on challenging Russian domination of the Arctic when they move from words to deeds. At the moment the U.S. does not possess a single icebreaker while Russia has perhaps 20. Until the U.S. has a credible naval presence in the Arctic, its threats to Russia are just empty talk.​.. 
​..It is pointless to defend Russia’s shadow fleet when the questioner describes the fleet as violating international sanctions, as if those sanctions were UN imposed and not just unilateral sanctions of the EU or the USA which are themselves violations of international law.​   https://gilbertdoctorow.substack.com/p/news-x-world-putin-warns-west-of

Ukraine Suspends Attacks On Tankers Using Russian Black Sea Port, At Vance's Urging​   https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/ukraine-suspends-attacks-tankers-using-russian-black-sea-port-vances-urging

​  Gilbert Doctorow, ‘Judging Freedom’ edition of 12 August 2026: What is Russia’s Strategy Towards the U.S?
 I have changed my view of two weeks ago regarding Russia’s move from its war of attrition strategy to a knock-out blow based on strangulation of delivery of Western arms to Ukraine. That view had been based on Russia’s destruction of the port infrastructure of Odessa, damage to other Black Sea ports and the seeming naval blockade depriving Ukraine of access to the sea. However, the notion of strangulation was contradicted by Russia’s failure to destroy the rail and land routes into Ukraine from across the Polish border
​  Now on second consideration I see that destruction of Odessa and other ports was merely an extension of the tit-for-tat behavior of Moscow, a reactive posture, that has now moved into the economic domain: Ukraine damages Russia’s oil export facilities and attacks its shadow fleet to deprive Moscow of an important source of export earnings and now Russia shuts down Ukraine’s grain exports, which have been a major source of hard currency for Kiev. This is not a change of strategy from the war of attrition which is leading Russia only towards territorial conquest when it eventually takes the whole Donbas and Odessa, but does not address the objectives of establishing a neutral Ukraine and of regime change in Kiev (de-Nazification) which President Putin had set out in February 2022.​..
​..We also discussed the Kremlin’s objectives in maintaining good relations with Washington in spite of the fact that the US is supplying invaluable military intelligence to Kiev for programming their attacks on Russian infrastructure. The point is to keep the US separate from the EU so that the Europeans never can be sure that Article 5 has any validity as they face possible Russian missile strikes against their military factories that are key suppliers to Ukraine.​   https://gilbertdoctorow.substack.com/p/judging-freedom-edition-of-12-august

​  Russia To Intensify Attacks On Sources Of Western Support In Ukraine: Lavrov​   
On Friday Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has essentially declared Zelensky's 40-day campaign to be defeated and moot. He described in a fresh media interview that not only will Russian forces implement a tougher response against Ukraine, but will go after the sources of Western support. He specifically raised the issue of the United States and its role.
​  "We have submitted a series of questions to the State Department requesting comment, including on the matter of intelligence data and the fact that the US is far more deeply involved in organizing and executing strikes deep within Russian territory against civilian targets. We await a response," Lavrov told state television, as quoted in Reuters.
​  "Russia will intensify its military campaign in Ukraine and seek to destroy every element used by the West to sustain Kiev’s war effort," the top diplomat said.
​  The Foreign Ministry has of late accused Ukraine of "brazen acts of terrorism" against shipping in the Black Sea, amid tit-for-tat ongoing attacks which have disrupted energy and grain shipping.
​  We will not sink to their level. Instead, we will adopt much harsher methods to destroy everything that enables the West to fuel Kiev’s war machine. We are already doing this, and they are already moaning," Lavrov asserted.​   
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/russia-intensify-attacks-sources-western-support-ukraine-lavrov

​Imaginary-information-"economy": More Than Two-Thirds Of The Power Sought For US Data Centers Will Never Materialize   https://www.zerohedge.com/energy/most-two-thirds-power-sought-us-data-centers-will-never-materialize

  "Everybody rich and everything free"? Total Freedom Vs Total Slavery & The Race For AI Supremacy
At best, AI represents an advancement for information structuring; a much faster way to sort, categorize and investigate the data landscape. I find it very useful for speeding up research, but it only works as long as you understand that AI tends to lie by omission. It can never be fully trusted and must be backed by source material.
​  By extension, AI makes people incredibly lazy when it comes to understanding the world or pursuing information. When the public takes AI information at face value because they don’t want to do their own research, it makes them dumber.​..
..If you ask technologists and dreamers like Elon Musk, the goal is unlimited production. Meaning, AI and robotics would take over the majority of human labor. In theory, this would result in a new age of “time abundance” which Musk believes would lead to a form of wealth abundance. That is to say, AI technology makes individual labor unnecessary and thus, money becomes unnecessary because all basic needs would be provided for free...
​..Musk’s vision of an AI super-industry running the majority of the world’s basic infrastructure and supplying the majority of our survival goods would require an unprecedented level of energy...
​..If 50% of American drivers bought an EV tomorrow, this alone would increase the electrical load on US power grids by around 15%. Add to this the power usage of data centers and AI computing needed to run national robotics networks and the resulting energy demands would crush the grid.​..
..This is just for America (the most advanced nation on Earth). Don’t get me started on Europe, where their grid can’t even handle widespread use of air conditioners...
..The worst case scenario is the more likely one: AI, data centers and robotics will be used to empower elitist groups and make controlling the population easier. When I examine institutions like the WEF, the IMF, the BIS, etc. , their involvement with AI revolves around the digitization of the economy (a cashless society) and maximizing surveillance of the population through real time data tracking...
..Much less energy is needed for authoritarian applications. The existing grid could handle the spread of Flock cameras, the AI analysis of biometrics and license plate readers, the constant surveillance of financial transactions, etc...
​..The second industrial revolution introduced electricity, unprecedented medical advancement, long distance communications and easy transportation; all things that people never want to live without.AI pales in comparison so far, and the promises that propel its popularity require an energy renaissance that isn’t possible for many decades to come. Sadly, the most logical use for the proliferation of AI is suppression of the populace. For the globalists, the AI race is not about improving the future for the common man, it’s about injecting the technology into the common man’s life before he has a chance to realize he’s being chained down by it.​   https://www.zerohedge.com/technology/total-freedom-vs-total-slavery-and-race-ai-supremacy

​  Ed Dowd, Absolutely Surreal: Anthropic CEO's Wife & "Sounding Board" Once Pitched a Visionary Porn Company to Jeffrey Epstein 
  I’m not anti-AI. I’m anti-fantasy finance dressed up as technological inevitability. The technology will survive the bubble the way bandwidth survived the telecom crash. What won’t survive is the current set of valuations, the current capital allocation decisions, and the current pretense that the people steering the largest capital wave in a generation are uniquely wise, uniquely ethical, or uniquely free of the usual human frailties.    https://eddowdbeyondthenarrative.substack.com/p/absolutely-surreal-anthropic-ceos

  Meryl Nass MD, Did you know that Jeffrey Epstein's estate and the banks that helped him have already paid out at least $850 million in settlements to shut up victims and protect bank officials and clients?  And Leon Black, after paying Epstein an estimated $170 million, spent an additional $62,500,000 settling with victims.   https://merylnass.substack.com/p/did-you-know-that-jeffrey-epsteins

Never type "Pakistani Rape Gangs": British Police Unit Flags Over 100 Social Media Posts For Arrest Amid Immigration Backlash​   https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/british-police-unit-flags-over-100-social-media-posts-arrest-amid-immigration-backlash

​  English Village Will Have Six MIGRANT MEN To Every Woman
A quiet North Yorkshire village of roughly 600 people is set to be flooded with around 1,200 single adult male asylum seekers at the nearby disused RAF Linton-on-Ouse base. Local women would be outnumbered six to one.
​  Labour MP Rachael Maskell has raised the alarm over the plan, which forms part of the government’s wider push to move roughly 3,750 people into three former military sites near villages as it tries to empty asylum hotels.
​  The base sits beside a primary school and nursery, has only four buses a day into York, and already faces severe shortages of water, sewage capacity and electricity.​   
https://modernity.news/2026/08/13/english-village-will-have-six-migrant-men-to-every-woman/

​  Watch: UK PM Wants EVERY Area In Britain To House Migrants​ - Prime Minister Andy Burnham has decided that “all parts of the country need to play their part.”
​  That means middle-class families and leafy villages must now accept large numbers of asylum seekers so the poorest areas are no longer the only ones carrying the load. This approach obviously does nothing to stop the root of the problem, the sheer number of migrants washing up in boats.​   
https://modernity.news/2026/08/12/watch-uk-pm-wants-every-area-in-britain-to-house-migrants/

​  450,000 U.S. Soldiers Diagnosed with Traumatic Brain Injury Since 2001
Those who enthusiastically support US "forever wars" should visit veterans who suffered Traumatic Brain Injuries during the occupations of Afghanistan and Iraq.​   
https://www.thefocalpoints.com/p/450000-us-soldiers-diagnosed-with-1d5

​  Peter McCullough MD, Fauci's Miscarriage of Public Health Led to Actual Fetal Loss in Thousands of Pregnant Women
Data accumulating from the start of the COVID-19 vaccination campaign showed marked increased risk for miscarriage, stillbirth, and premature delivery​   https://www.thefocalpoints.com/p/faucis-miscarriage-of-public-health

​  Sasha Latypova runst the numbers; >4X miscarriage rate:  The miscarriage rate in mRNA vaccinated was not 82%; it was increased by 430%!
Discussing the infamous vSafe/mRNA pregnancy data with Dr. Drew.​   https://sashalatypova.substack.com/p/the-miscarriage-rate-in-mrna-vaccinated

​  "Category-X" means "known to cause harms in pregnancy": Category X: HHS Leaders Injected Pregnant Women with an Untested Gene Therapy — Then Hid the Miscarriages - Private texts reveal they knew. Public statements show they lied. Thousands of mothers and babies paid the price.   https://www.thefocalpoints.com/p/category-x-hhs-leaders-injected-pregnant

  Celia Farber, America's Women In Rage, Waking Up To Truth About mRNA Induced Fetal Deaths: "There's A Lot Of Angry Women Out There, And Rightfully So," Says Florida AG. Vows To "Leave No Stone Unturned."
​  FORGET Fauci, for a moment. Understand HOW It Happened. The $5 Trillion Pandemic Military Budget. The COLOSSAL Bribes That Collapsed The Three Pillar OB/GYN Orgs, ACOG, ABOG & SMFM.​   https://celiafarber.substack.com/p/americas-women-in-rage-waking-up

​  BREAKING STUDY: Spike Protein Drives Prion-Like Protein Misfolding, Amyloid Formation, and Multi-Organ Damage
COVID “vaccine” spike protein and lab-made SARS-CoV-2 spike protein are prion-like drivers of proteostatic collapse, pathological cross-seeding, transcriptional instability, and tissue dysfunction.​   
https://www.thefocalpoints.com/p/breaking-study-spike-protein-drives

​Paul Marik MD explains the life-story of Colon Cancer: APC and the Origins of Colorectal Cancer​ - How One Broken Gene Opens the Door to Cancer   https://paulmarik.substack.com/p/apc-and-the-origins-of-colorectal

  Climate Physicist, Anastassia Makarieva further investigates the measured inadequacy of the heating-air-only model of planetary winds and weather:  
An Atmospheric Detective Story, Chapter 3: The Third Witness​ - Why the Numbers Behind Atmospheric Power Matter
​  If something goes wrong with our winds, we will be absolutely unable to fix it. Accordingly, winds have traditionally been viewed by humans as belonging to the realm of deities. Even in our ultra-modern times, our greatest achievement so far has been to use artificial intelligence to predict how tropical storms move. There is no chance to change what is coming.
​  Meanwhile, forest ecosystems, and natural vegetation more generally, appear to have evolved ways of regulating these flows. They do so by carefully handling the invisible fuel of the atmospheric machine: water vapor.
​  We can’t replace the machine. We can, however, preserve natural vegetation and help it recover. In doing so, we can guard ourselves against the worst wind extremes.Let us cherish our green friends.​   
https://bioticregulation.substack.com/p/an-atmospheric-detective-story-chapter

​  Planetary Life Form (pictured removing pumpernickel bread experiment from oven after 24 hour bake at 220F)



Tuesday, August 11, 2026

Muslim NATO

 ​International Observers,



​  "Muslim NATO"​, which is currently Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and Turkey in a mutual defense pact, may be a blocking move against Israeli use of nuclear weapons in the region​. Pakistan has nuclear weapons,​ which can be stationed in Saudi Arabia as armed jets at an air base or Pakistani ballistic missiles. ​Wealthy Saudi Arabia needs protection,​ has long helped fund the Pakistani nuclear program and is close to Israel​. ​Pakistan and Saudi Arabia already had a mutual defense pact, but adding Turkey's large army and military production makes it more formidable towards Israel, and more difficult for Israel to try a first strike attack upon.
​  To me it is most natural as a limited nuclear deterrent against Israeli strikes on Saudi Arabia and Pakistan. It provides Pakistan with a very short response time to any Israeli attack, if Pakistan has jets and missiles in Saudi Arabia.
  For Turkey this weakens Israel, which benefits Turkish neo-Ottoman aspirations
​  The US has run so low on missile defenses against Iranian ballistic missiles that EUCOM can't defend Israel, needing to conserve missiles for the "American homeland".
​  "Netanyahu" (or AI projection, if he died in early March) says that Israel is prepared to attack Iran without American help, consultation or approval.
That takes Trump off the hook​ of Iranian retaliation, doesn't it? The US won't be blamed ​if Israel bombs Iran.
​  What weapons might Israel use, seeing the failure of America's arsenal to reduce Iranian strike-capacity?
Nuclear annihilation is the obvious answer, since the current zionist state of "Israel" is over extended and existentially threatened, with no champion in the world, but the US.
​  Israel has the Samson Doctrine (Option), wherein if the State of Israel is existentially threatened it will attack all threatening neighbors with nuclear weapons before it goes down.
​  "Threatening" would be seen very broadly, since everybody becomes a threat in this existential scenario​. Neighbors must assume that Israel will attack them. Turkey, Saudi Arabia, ​and Pakistan would ​likely be targeted, not merely Iran.​ Israel's immediate neighbors currently lack much strategic leeway.
​  Having Pakistani nuclear weapons in Saudi Arabia applies a counter threat to Israel, so that Israeli power elites would need to be really certain that they were about to die anyway, before pulling that Samson-Option trigger.
​  In "The War Of Atonement", by Chaim Herzog, the agonized deliberations of Moshe Dyan, Golda Meir and other historic figures during the Yom Kippur war is described. Israeli forces were resurgent, but they sweated bullets for a couple of days. https://www.amazon.com/dp/193514913X
​  I don't know what moves Russia and China might be making to block Israeli nuclear strikes, but I presume that their space-based and electronic intel-collection are tightly focused to detect any Israeli move, and ​track the Israeli nuclear-armed submarines in real time, difficult as that is.

​  Alex Krainer, "Muslim NATO" marks the end of US hegemony
All three signatories of the Mecca Joint Force Agreement have the same enemy and their position can’t be changed with simple bribery. In hindsight, this will prove to have been a watershed event.
​  The full text of the agreement has not been made public. Instead, we only have a brief joint statement by the three signatories:
“Guided by the longstanding historical ties among the three states, based on the enduring bonds of brotherhood and Islamic solidarity that unite them, and building upon their shared strategic interests and longstanding defense cooperation, HRH the Crown Prince, the President of Türkiye, and the Prime Minister of Pakistan signed the Makkah Joint Defence Agreement, reflecting the three states’ shared commitment to further strengthening their collective security and to promoting peace, security, and stability in the region and beyond, in pursuit of a secure and prosperous future.
​  The agreement is intended to strengthen collective deterrence against any act of aggression, and stipulates that any armed attack against any one of the three states shall be regarded as an attack against them all. It further provides for the enhancement of all aspects of defense cooperation among the three states.”
​  Furthermore, at least for now, the agreement doesn’t seem to foresee a formal organization, headquarters or any joint command structures. In spite of that, the agreement could prove to be one of the more consequential geopolitical developments to emerge from the current Middle Eastern crisis.
​  Given that all three signatories are, at least formally, allied with the United States, many analysts interpreted Friday’s announcement as a creation of a new alliance that would ultimately serve the interests of the United States in the Middle East, and by extension, represent a new bulwark for the defense of Israel. However, I believe that those interpretations will prove mistaken.
​  One thing all three of these nations have in common is that each has been threatened by Israel in the past. The Eretz Israel, or Greater Israel project has very significant territorial ambitions that include a large chunk of Saudi Arabia.​..
​..As we can see, Eretz Israel also includes a chunk of Turkey, and most of Syria, which Turkey regards as its own strategic sphere of influence. This has put Turkey in the crosshairs of Israeli officials’ escalating war rhetoric.​.. Defense Minister Israel Katz explicitly warned Turkey against deepening its presence in Syria, and the former Prime Minister Naftali Bennett has called Turkey the “new Iran” and a strategic threat. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that he takes President Erdogan’s anti-Israel statements “very seriously,”​...
​..That “regional power balance” also set Pakistan in the Zionists’ crosshairs, and in this sense, Israel has already planned hostile actions against Pakistan in collaboration with its ally, India. Already in 2011, Benjamin Netanyahu made the following statement:“... the greatest mission that we have is to prevent a militant Islamic regime from meeting up with nuclear weapons or from nuclear weapons meeting up with a militant Islamic regime. The first is called Iran. The second is called Pakistan. Because if these radical regimes have nuclear weapons, they will not obey the rules that have been obeyed in the last, almost seven decades.”...
​..Indeed, the fear of an Islamic nation possessing a nuclear bomb is not a new thing: it is why Israel attacked Egypt in 1967 and Iraq in 1981.
In 1981, Israel developed a plan to strike Pakistan’s nuclear program. In this plan, India was supporting Israel by providing air bases where Israeli F16s and F15s could land and refuel before the strikes. The Indians named the plan “Operation Shakti” and Israeli pilots already began training for it.
​  However, Pakistan’s intelligence agency ISI found out about this and the country’s then ruler Zia ul-Haq reacted immediately, warning Israel that if they strike Pakistan’s nuclear facilities, Pakistan would strike Dimona. Ul-Haq also issued a warning to India. Facing the prospect of a wider war against Pakistan, India backed off. Without India’s help, there was no way for Israel to carry out the attack, so the plan was shelved.
​  A new & improved plan was in the works in 1998. At that time, the Pakistani government received an intelligence report that India and Israel were again planning to carry out a joint attack against the country’s nuclear facilities. Shamshad Ahmad (former Pakistani Foreign Secretary) explained the intelligence report they received:
​  “Sir, we have just received intelligence report that at an Indian airport, squadrons of Indian and Israeli air forces are positioned and are preparing for an attack on Pakistan’s nuclear installations in Balochistan. Then I called our Ambassador in New York, Ahmed Kamal.
​  I told him, go... on CNN and say that Pakistan has information that India and Israel are about to launch a joint attack on Pakistan. The Ambassador went live on CNN and it resulted in a good impact because if India and Israel had made such a plan, it would be called off by morning.”...
..In view of all this, it would be hard to imagine why Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, or Turkey would come together to defend Israel. More likely, they would come together to protect themselves from Israel and its Western allies, including the US, UK, NATO, and also, in Pakistan’s case from India.​..
..Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baqaei called the pact a sign that regional countries are shifting away from relying on the US for security. He stressed Tehran’s perception that the treaty isn’t aimed against Iran, underscoring the deep historical and religious ties with Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and Pakistan.
​  I believe that Mr. Baqaei’s statement is correct. He didn’t mention that all three nations and Iran face the common threat and the same enemies. The new “Muslim NATO” signifies the redrawing of the power balance in the region and the emergence of a new security architecture that clearly has no use for either the US, UK, NATO, or Israel.
​  This view is corroborated by the conspicuous absence of any official statement regarding the Mecca agreement from the Trump administration, suggesting that they were neither consulted nor involved in forging the new defence pact.​   https://alexkrainer.substack.com/p/muslim-nato-marks-the-end-of-us-hegemony

​  H.A. Hellyer,  Egypt was invited to join the new Saudi-Turkish-Pakistani defence pact. It declined...
Egypt was not excluded...Pakistan offered Cairo the opportunity to join, while Turkish FM Hakan Fidan said Erdogan wanted Egypt eventually to become part of the alliance.
Cairo appears to see the pact as political as much as military. The concern is that joining would place Egypt inside a Saudi-led alignment, rather than simply expanding its security cooperation
• The distinction Egypt makes is between regional security cooperation and a binding commitment to defend Saudi Arabia. Cairo is comfortable with the former; it is much more cautious about the latter.
• That helps explain the difference with the Red Sea maritime coalition, where Egypt has direct strategic interests and cooperation is primarily about information-sharing and consultation
• The NATO comparison also needs qualification. Fidan has described the pact as analogous to NATO’s Article 5, but Turkish officials quoted by Mada Masr stress that any military response would still require political decision-making. The immediate practical emphasis may be intelligence-sharing, radar integration and deterrence. 
• One of the more striking assessments in the piece is that the pact is, in practice, more about Saudi Arabia’s security than Turkey’s or Pakistan’s. It is difficult to imagine either Ankara or Islamabad becoming the principal military guarantor of Saudi Arabia in a major regional conflict.​   https://xcancel.com/hahellyer/status/2086539762442379600

​  Trump Shares Hillary Clinton Op-Ed Backing His Gaza Plan In Face Of Bibi Rejection
President Trump is currently experiencing a rare moment of his plans for the Mideast region being rejected on multiple fronts - even among allies, apparently. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over weekend rejected a US-backed 15-point peace plan for Gaza, which marks a rare and very glaring public break with Trump.
​  Netanyahu was surprisingly up front in acknowledging the complete break in policy vision from the White House. "Contrary to all those who preach to us, we do what must be done for Israel’s security and we can and will stand our ground even against our best friends when necessary," he stated.
​  He said he was confronting a "wave of rumors about Israeli weakness and Israeli withdrawals on all fronts" and made clear that Israel won't succumb to ongoing US pressure to end wars in Gaza, Lebanon and Iran - unless Israel decides it is in its security interest.​   
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/trump-shares-hillary-clinton-op-ed-backing-his-gaza-plan-face-bibi-rejection

​  Moon of Alabama, War On Iran: – ‘New’ Iran Demands Repeat MoU Conditions
U.S. media claim that Iran has set out new conditions to solve the conflict with the U.S. But the new text it has published is just a repetition of  clauses the U.S. had already signed on to.
  On Saturday Iran published ‘new’ demands for the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz:
[Secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council Mohammad Baqer Zolqadr] said the US should observe the six following conditions:
“1. Never, and in no language, threaten Iran or insult the sanctities of this nation.
  2. Permanently end the war and aggression against Iran and Iran’s allies in Lebanon, Palestine, Yemen and Iraq.
3. Lift the naval blockade and withdraw its military forces (naval and air) from around Iran.
  4. Pay in full, without any reduction, the damages caused to Iran by the two wars of aggression and imposition.
5. Lift the unjust and illegal sanctions against the Iranian nation.
  6. Unconditionally release the blocked and stolen assets of the Iranian people.”
These demands seem to have confused U.S. observers...
​..There is nothing new in the Iranian demands. They are direct repetitions of clauses laid down in Memorandum of Understanding which the White House had negotiated and President Trump had publicly signed.
​  Point 1 of the MoU notes that the parties “undertake .. to refrain from the threat or use of force against each other” which is similar to point 1 of the ‘new’ conditions.
​  Point 1 of the MoU also had the parties “declare the immediate and permanent termination of military operations on all fronts, including in Lebanon, …”. This is repeated, and spelled out in more detail, in point 2 of the new conditions.
​  Point 3 of the ‘new’ demands, the lifting of the blockade and withdrawal of U.S. forces, is equal to point 4 of the MoU:
.., the United States of America will begin the removal of its naval blockade and any disturbances or impediments against the Islamic Republic of Iran, and will fully end the naval blockade within 30 days. … The United States of America further undertakes to remove its forces from the proximity of the Islamic Republic of Iran within 30 days after the final deal.
​  Even Point 4 of the ‘new’ version, the demand for reparations, was already included in the MoU:
The United States of America undertakes with regional partners to develop a definitive, mutually agreed plan with at least USD 300 billion for the reconstruction and economic development of the Islamic Republic of Iran.
​  Likewise, point 5 and 6 of the ‘new’ demands are shorter repetitions of points 10 and 11 of the Trump signed MoU.
The differences between Iran’s newly published demands and the MoU are references in the later one to nuclear issues.
​  The U.S. had demanded to include those into the MoU and there is simply no point for Iran to include these U.S. conditions into its most recent version.
The only real difference between the MoU and the new conditions is the timing. The MoU set out to undertake the measures step by step along a defined timeline with each side responding to the others side’s fulfillment of previous clauses.
​  It was the U.S. which did not stick to the MoU but immediately breached its promises. As soon as he had signed the MoU Trump was back at threatening Iran thus breaking its point 1 condition. The U.S. then arranged for a separate agreement which extended Israel’s war and occupation of Lebanon instead of ending the war under the MoU’s conditions. It ignored Iran’s privilege under the MoU to “make arrangements using its best efforts for the safe passage of commercial vessels” through the Strait of Hormuz by making separate arrangements with Oman.​..
​..That is why Iran is demanding the upfront fulfillment of any promise the U.S. has made. Only when those are fulfilled will Iran move to act on its own commitments.
​  Trump can easily solve the conflict around the Strait of Hormuz. He simply has to fulfill the commitments set out in the MoU he had already agreed to. He may not like that he will now have to do that upfront but that is just an obvious consequence of his own mistake of not sticking to it in the first place.
​  The only clause where Trump has real limits is the payment of reparations to Iran for the war damage the 20,000 or so U.S. strikes have caused. Trump would need Congressional agreement to pay out that money.
​  But the compromise here is obvious and simple. If the U.S. officially agrees that Iran can take tolls from ships crossing the Strait this could be seen as a payment in kind.​   
https://www.moonofalabama.org/2026/08/war-on-iran-new-iran-demands-repeat-mou-conditions-trump-had-already-signed.html

Iran's Military Command Reshuffle Digs In For 'Hardline' Confrontation: US Must Meet All Demands For Hormuz Opening​   https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/us-fires-ship-attempting-break-iran-blockade-amid-several-regional-maritime-attacks

Trump Finally Responds To Iran's Demands, Counters US Is Owed "Compensation," Stops Short Of New Threats​   https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/tehran-doubles-down-hormuz-demands-hardline-irgc-commander-promoted-national-security

​  Hegseth Says Congress Should Pay Tribute to Lindsey Graham by Approving $1.5 Trillion Military Budget
He made the comments at a ceremony renaming Joint Base Charleston to Joint Base Lindsey Graham​   
https://news.antiwar.com/2026/08/10/hegseth-says-congress-should-pay-tribute-to-lindsey-graham-by-approving-1-5-trillion-military-budget/

​  Gold & Geopolitics, Daily digest: 2026-08-11
Iran stopped pretending: an advisor to the Parliament Speaker said flatly that Tehran will wait out Trump's term to January 2029 rather than negotiate, and Trump responded by billing Iran for the war he started
​  Meanwhile the SPR fell below 300 million barrels for the first time since 1983, Nvidia formalised a $500bn off-balance-sheet financing vehicle on the same day the SEC exempted data-center securitizations from post-2008 risk-retention rules, and a 7.4 quake in Colombia killed at least 111 people.
​  Iran rules out all talks with this administration until 2029. "Trump will not reach an agreement with us. We will accompany him until his term ends" - Majid Shakeri, advisor to Parliament Speaker Ghalibaf, per HormuzLetter. Demands unchanged: $300bn compensation, $100bn+ frozen assets released, all sanctions lifted, US troop withdrawal from the entire region, end to the naval blockade, transit fees on every ship (HormuzLetter).​..
​..SPR: 46 million barrels of policy runway left, and the lease trick is running out​ - 116.3M barrels released since the war began (Nostre_damus).
​  The mechanical constraint: barrels already leased-but-not-drawn take the reserve to ~280M, and the last auction failed. Going below requires outright sales, which need congressional approval - meaning the price-suppression tool may already be spent (JustDario).​..
​..Russia is importing refined fuel from South Korea - ~30,000 tonnes of diesel and, in one case, jet fuel loaded at Ulsan in late July, bound for the Far East (chigrl). A net petroleum exporter buying product from a US ally is not a small tell. 
​  Russia's Starlink equivalent is deploying ahead of schedule - Ukrainian GUR says 16 satellites are up (the tweet's author puts the real number at 40), with a 292-satellite constellation targeted for 2027 and 924 by 2035 (simpatico771, KonstanVe).​   
https://no1sdailydigest.substack.com/p/daily-digest-2026-08-11

​  Gold & Geopolitics, Daily digest: 2026-08-10
Two big deltas: Trump has reportedly dropped the nuclear-deal demand entirely and will settle for Hormuz reopening — at which point Tehran raised its price to $300bn plus troop withdrawal — and another tanker burned overnight inside the US-escorted Omani corridor, which is the corridor whose existence is the counter-argument to Bessent's claim that Hormuz no longer matters. Elsewhere: Japan's 2-year yield hit a 30-year high while insurer paper losses set a record, and a Ukrainian drone strike on Nizhnekamsk killed civilians including a child.​..
​..Israel rejects Trump's Gaza plan outright​ - Netanyahu says the new plan is unacceptable; no withdrawal until Hamas is "genuinely disarmed" (Reuters, zerohedge, BRICSinfo, unusual_whales).
​  And separately: "As long as I am prime minister, there will be no Palestinian state in Gaza or the West Bank" (DeItaone).
[Reads differently if he died in March.]
​  Kalshi has Gadi Eizenkot at 59% to be Israel's next PM against Netanyahu's 33% (spectatorindex).
US interceptor stocks at zero; defense firms get 21 daysDeputy Defense Secretary Feinberg has directed defense firms to submit plans within 21 days to escalate production of weapons "now at zero due to the war," per WaPo; follows a "very angry" Trump call over munitions shortages after the Camp David clash with Hegseth (HormuzLetter).
​  Same reporting: a Lockheed PAC-3 MSE contract worth up to $58.6bn, plus fresh Northrop/Lockheed agreements on PAC-3 and THAAD — the exact missiles described as at zero.​..
..Grain: rail shipments to Greater Odesa ports have virtually stopped since August 1, down 84.3%. August 1-6 volumes 312.9k tons vs 784.5k in the same July period — volume -60.1%, revenue -38.4%. Wheat 93.2k vs 294.9k; corn 33.5k vs 293.7k. Road exports +11.3%; overall rail grain traffic -44.1% vs July and -40.8% below last year (KShevchenkoReal).​   https://no1sdailydigest.substack.com/p/daily-digest-2026-08-10

​  Thanks Eleni: A global haven for criminals, no questions asked: Israel protects Mexican official wanted for mass kidnap-murder, along with other accused sex criminals and fraudsters   https://www.sott.net/article/507842-Israel-protects-Mexican-official-wanted-for-mass-kidnap-murder-along-with-other-accused-sex-criminals-and-fraudsters

Russian tanks can shoot down drones, missiles and artillery shells: Russian Arena-M Active Protection System Finally Comes of Age on the Battlefield   https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/russian-arena-m-active-protection

Andrew Korybko, There’d Likely Be Another Civil War Before Ukraine Meaningfully Turns Away From The West   https://korybko.substack.com/p/thered-likely-be-another-civil-war

  Kennedy was blocked, so Trump EOs it: BREAKING: Trump Signs Executive Order Overhauling America’s Childhood Hypervaccination Schedule
Executive Order calls for greater parental choice, separate MMR shots, more widely spaced vaccinations, aluminum-adjuvant alternatives, and stronger safety monitoring.​   https://www.thefocalpoints.com/p/breaking-trump-signs-executive-order-eaf

​Meryl Nass MD has the details and implications: Childhood Vaccines: What Pres. Trump just signed and what it means   https://merylnass.substack.com/p/childhood-vaccines-what-pres-trump

  It is easy to design studies to not find something. Vaccine Cartel Desperately Clings to New MMR Vaccine–Autism “No Link” Study Riddled With Major Flaws -- No truly unvaccinated control group, no clinical autism adjudication, no parent interviews, no independent vaccine-record verification, and a narrow ICD-coded autism definition.   https://www.thefocalpoints.com/p/vaccine-cartel-desperately-clings

  Steve Kirsch (is probably "racist" or something), Can Tylenol increase the risk of a child developing autism? Science says yes.
But according to r/Autism_Parenting, I am evil for asking such a stupid question. So I guess it depends on who you ask. Here's what happened to me...​   https://kirschsubstack.com/p/can-tylenol-increase-the-risk-of

​  New Study Links Glyphosate to Preterm Births
A New York University study of 1,450 pregnancies ties glyphosate exposure in mid-pregnancy to a 35% rise in odds of premature birth.​   
https://www.themahareport.com/p/new-study-links-glyphosate-to-preterm

​  Celia Farber, First Crop Of Fauci Texts Reveal He Knew In '21 About Many Pregnant Women Having "Significant Cytokine Storms, Fever After The First Dose," Said It Theoretically Could Be Associated With Miscarriage.   https://celiafarber.substack.com/p/first-crop-of-fauci-texts-reveal

​  NEWLY RELEASED FAUCI TEXTS REVEAL HE PRIVATELY WARNED COVID SHOT COULD TRIGGER MISCARRIAGE
Disturbing revelations come as CDC data show safety-signal breaches across all 37 pregnancy/newborn adverse events examined—including miscarriage, stillbirth, fetal malformations, and newborn death.​   
https://www.thefocalpoints.com/p/newly-released-fauci-texts-reveal

​  Walensky Aware of Miscarriage Concern, Still Pushed C-19 Vaccine for Pregnant Women
Fauci texted the CDC director on 1/25/2021 about cytokine storm and fever after 2nd dose, indicating risk of miscarriage, but Walensky recommended the shot for pregnant women two months la​ter.​   
https://www.thefocalpoints.com/p/walensky-aware-of-miscarriage-concern

​  HHS Takes Aim at GRAS Loophole and Ultra-Processed Food
With fanfare, HHS moves to close a decades-old food safety loophole and, for the first time, define ultra-processed food.​   
https://www.themahareport.com/p/hhs-takes-aim-at-gras-loophole-and

​  NEW STUDY: 89% of “Avocado Oil” Foods Use Fake or Adulterated Avocado Oil
The vast majority of chips, salad dressings, and mayonnaise labeled as containing avocado oil showed fatty-acid and sterol profiles inconsistent with authentic avocado oil.​    
https://www.thefocalpoints.com/p/new-study-89-of-avocado-oil-foods

​Mostly Authentic (pictured  with garden)