Monday, June 15, 2026

Place Your Bets

 Taking Some Chances,


  The war in the Strait of Hormuz allows multiple parties to enforce closure of the strait, but only agreement of all parties, such as Israel & Iran allowes the strait to open. The baseline-assumption changes from "open" to "closed", unless almost-impossible consensus is reached and sustained.
  This is very different from the prior global-free-trade regime where every effort was made to allow flows, except for “pariah states”, such as North Korea, Iran, and Cuba.
  New mass-produced instruments of war, like aerial and ocean-going attack drones allow resource-denial to be inexpensively weaponized over essentially the whole planet. “Ukraine” is somehow attacking Russian tankers in the Mediterranean with seafaring drones now.
  This concords with the decline of cheaply-obtainable natural resources. It seems to me that power-elites are designing their control-narratives to match the inevitable declines in pumping and mining, maybe front-run them a little, but always keeping the current elites in charge of some or most of the flow-levers.
  Starvation is already predictable for some fraction of humanity next year.

  Into this mix of depletion problems and resource wars on our finite-planet, Elon Musk throws a gamble of the continuation of exponential financial growth into the entire universe, by means of 2 orders-of-magnitude more orbital lift capacity than has ever previously existed. 
  The “smart money” knows that the prize, for which China is also racing, is moon-mining of Helium-3 for fusion power. That fusion power will be partly based upon the moon, and likely in earth orbit, as well as upon our fair planet. I am informed that Helium-3 is more than valuable enough to fund the project, once it becomes operational. 
Helium-3 Fusion is not a new hydrocarbon, and it won't run diesel machinery on earth, but it doesn’t need atmospheric oxygen, either.
  This is the new game at the new table. The odds look poor to me, but the odds elsewhere, the odds of continuing exponentially growing debt-based-finance, approach Zero in the fairly near term at all of the terrestrial-gambling tables.

  Surplus Energy Economics, Dr. Tim Morgan, sees impending crisis, as the planet has passed peak industrial output, and has left peak per-capita prosperity behind over 20 years ago.  Past, present & future - A CRISIS IN CONTEXT
  With each day that the Straits of Hormuz remain closed, though, a severe supply shock looms nearer.
The financial markets, it seems, have become bored with the war in Iran. Investors’ thoughts now are focussed instead on how much capital to invest in proven, sure-fire money-spinners like space tourism, mining asteroids, manufacturing on the Moon and building data centres in space.
  AI investors continue to pour gargantuan amounts of capital into a project which, whatever its technological merits may or may not be, makes completely unrealistic demands for energy, water and raw materials.
  It might seem logical to wait on the autumn’s events before committing yet more capital to the farther reaches of “tech”. But logic seems to have become deeply unfashionable in the financial markets of the 2020s.
  Our source texts here aren’t the giants of sci-fi, but Charles Mackay’s Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds. We’re deeply mired in the same crowd psychology that gave us Dutch tulip bulbs and the South Sea Bubble.   
https://surplusenergyeconomics.wordpress.com/2026/06/11/326-past-present-future/comment-page-1/

Richard Revelstoke writes about the 4 way capitalist elite power struggle. Can Elon Musk be a unifier?  Musk’s Trillion Dollar Coronation Inside the Cathedral   https://www.themargins.ca/p/musks-trillion-dollar-coronation

Helium‑3 from the lunar surface for nuclear fusion?   https://www.polytechnique-insights.com/en/braincamps/space/extraterrestrial-mining/helium-3-from-the-lunar-surface-for-nuclear-fusion/

​  China's Fusion Reactor on Track for Ignition by 2027, Threatening U.S. Lead
China's EAST tokamak is reportedly on track to achieve plasma ignition in 2027 — potentially the first fusion reactor to sustain plasma without external heating.
​  Beijing has designated fusion one of eight frontier technologies in its new five-year plan, backing it with deep government funding and minimal red tape.
China's second project, the BEST reactor, is expected to go further — generating actual electricity from fusion for the first time in history, giving Beijing a potential two-step lead over U.S. private competitors.​   
https://oilprice.com/Alternative-Energy/Nuclear-Power/Chinas-Fusion-Reactor-on-Track-for-Ignition-by-2027-Threatening-US-Lead.html

​  Elon Musk announced a chip factory 10 times the size of Tesla's Gigafactory. The goal is to produce enough AI compute to equal twice the entire electricity consumption of the United States. He called it the Terafab.​..The entire global AI is on track to hit around 100 gigawatts per year of compute. Every Nvidia GPU, every Google TPU, every chip from every company on earth combined. 100 gigawatts. Musk wants one factory to produce a terawatt per year. A terawatt is 1,000 gigawatts. Ten times the output of the entire global industry. From a single building.​   https://x.com/ihtesham2005/status/2065856970247360676

Trump Says New Israeli Attack On Beirut "Should Not Have Happened" - Also Warns Hezbollah "Let's Not Blow It"   https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/iran-says-new-israeli-attack-beirut-wont-go-unanswered-tenuous-us-iran-deal-goal-line

​  30 min before NY futures market opening: Trump Says Hormuz To Reopen Friday After Signing Of "Great Peace Deal" With Iran 
Pakistan PM Confirms Peace Deal, with a signing event in Switzerland next Friday​ 
​  Trump Confirms US-Iran Peace Deal "Now Complete" and says "Let The Oil Flow"
  Iran's president issues pro-MoU signing statement as Tehran is boasting of great and solid results for its side. There are reports this includes a significant release of billions ​of its frozen assets in the West.
​  White House still suggesting an electronic MoU deal to be signed with Iran on Sunday, which leaves nuclear negotiations to further date, only with commitment that Iran not pursue a nuke.
​  Trump: new strikes on Beirut's southern suburbs "should not have happened" and given it was on "a special day when we are so close to a Peace Deal with Iran​".
"A draft of the US-Iran memorandum of understanding included diluting highly enriched uranium within Iran & the release of $25b of Iran’s frozen assets" (Reuters).
​  Iranian statements characteristically cautious: Fars News Agency reported earlier that Iran has not made a final call on a potential MOU with the U.S. Iranian authorities are still reviewing the political, legal, and technical details.   
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/trump-says-peace-deal-coming-sunday-tehran-signals-still-reviewing-text

​  Israel expands military control in Gaza, Lebanon and Syria by 1,000sq km
An Al Jazeera investigation and expert analysis reveal how Israel is redrawing borders in Gaza, Lebanon, and Syria to enforce unannounced buffer zones.
​  Abu Amer noted that holding this territory from Arab countries provides Israel with leverage to extort political concessions, while also feeding a psychological need within the Israeli public to project strength after the shock of the Hamas-led attacks of October 7, 2023. “It provides psychological reassurance to society… demonstrating that Israel is powerful and capable of imposing its hegemony,” he said.
​  Furthermore, say analysts, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu appears to be using these land grabs to sell a “picture of victory” to his domestic base. “Because he cannot say that Hamas is finished, nor that Hezbollah has been disarmed, nor that Iran is permanently deterred… control over the land becomes the ‘language of victory’ when the language of decisive military success fails.”​   
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/6/14/israel-expands-military-control-in-gaza-lebanon-and-syria-by-1000sq-km

Israeli army kills 6 Palestinians, including child, across Gaza​   https://en.yenisafak.com/world/israeli-attacks-kill-6-palestinians-including-child-in-gaza-3719527

An award-winning European investigation documents doctors’ testimonies on Israeli crimes against Gaza children​   https://english.palinfo.com/news/2026/06/14/364925/

​  Palestinian American woman held without charge by Israeli military
Soldiers arrested university student Sama Safi, 20, along with members of Palestinian women’s national soccer team​   
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/13/palestinian-held-sama-safi-israeli-military

Gaza post-ceasefire death toll reaches 983 as Israeli attack targets refugee camp​   https://www.vespernews.com/en/news/b1978ff4-0805-4479-8cdd-26e1b83b8f40

Oxfam: More Palestinians killed by Israel across West Bank in last 3 years than previous 17 years combined​   https://israelpalestinenews.org/oxfam-more-palestinians-killed-by-israel-across-west-bank-in-last-3-years-than-previous-17-years-combined/

They opened fire then attacked us with axes: Testimony on settler crimes in Deir Abu Mash’al​   https://english.palinfo.com/news/2026/06/13/364847/

IOF raids homes, kidnaps Palestinians in W. Bank​   https://english.palinfo.com/news/2026/06/14/364892/

​  Yves Smith, Naked Capitalism:Iran War: Iran and US Announce Signing of Memorandum of Understanding for Friday, Amid Doubts About Status of Terms, Israel Sabotage; Iran Claims Blockade and Hostilities on All Fronts to End Monday Night
​  Your humble blogger and the many others that predicted that there would be no negotiated outcome to the Iran war may be about to be proven wrong. But as things stand, there is still ample reason to wonder whether the commitment to signing a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU), set to be signed in Geneva on Friday could come unglued or be postponed...
..Trump begged for Iran to stand down and Israel media claimed the US even offered Iran $12 billion of the frozen assets and was shocked when the Iran rejected that. I have no proof but the sequence strongly suggests that Iran made a counter offer: that the US take different pre-signing actions, which are to end the blockade and cease hostilities on all fronts, including Lebanon in the cessation of hostilities. So the US needs to be able to demonstrate that it can at least get Israel from stopping military action in Lebanon from Monday evening through the signing time in Geneva. That seems to explain the signing on Friday as opposed to early in the week...
​..If an MOU is signed and negotiations start and then break down, or take so long as to leave the conflict in an extended half-pregnant state, that could still result in great economic harm even if the pace at which the damage compounds lowers a bit.
​  The elephant in the room is whether the US will capitulate to continued Iran control of the Strait of Hormuz, with Oman cut in to improve legality and optics. The talks could break down fast over that...
​..Trump may even be fully on board with the the legal finesse, that Iran will not charge tolls but can and almost certainly will charge service fees...
​..If Trump does indeed stick to the terms implied here, that does amount to making major retreats from previously, noisily-stated positions, such as Iran must hand over all its “nuclear dust,” not engage in nuclear enrichment even for peaceful purposes, and go back to status quo ante regarding the Strait of Hormuz, as no Iran control at all.
​  However, even these big moves are short of what Iran has insisted on. Iran has correctly seen the US as totally untrustworthy and has insisted that the US take meaningful action before Iran moves as now-necessary demonstrations of good faith. Recall that Mehr News had posted a 14 point set of terms, which Trump had angrily denounced as not what was agreed.
​  Iran’s Foreign Ministry has strongly signaled that the substance of their 14 points remains intact even if the verbiage moved about. It may also be that Iran settled on getting half of its sought-after $24 billion in frozen assets upfront for a pre-signing halt of the US blockade...
​..Iran’s Deputy Foreign Minister for Legal and International Affairs has announced that the memorandum of understanding (MoU) between Iran and the United States has been finalized and will be officially signed on Friday in Switzerland, while emphasizing that the agreement is built on “active distrust” of the enemy.
​  “We have incorporated all our important positions into the draft MoU,” Kazem Gharibabadi said on Sunday.
“This memorandum does not mean trusting the enemy; it has been written with active distrust. We will monitor the implementation of US commitments.”
​  The deputy minister declared that starting Monday night, the US naval blockade against Iran will be terminated, along with “the immediate and permanent end of the war and military operations on various fronts, including Lebanon.”
​  As we’ll soon discuss, this means Iran is requiring the US to leash and collar Israel, which Israel is predictably resisting...
..Even if Iran does not charge fees while talks are on but controls traffic, it can clearly impose them if things go pear-shaped. That could in turn result in some states trying to evade the charges, which could result in Iran firing on vessels which would have the effect of choking transit (insurers would raise rates; some ship owners would not risk passage). We flagged this issue early on, that ship operators were not confident any conflict-resolution would hold, and many said they would hold back for a couple of months to be sure conditions had stabilized before sending vessels through the Strait of Hormuz...
..Trump on a visceral level may have come to recognize that in backing Israel and assuring a global economic depression, that Israel was the part of the equation he could budge. Politico reported that an oil executive had warned Trump in person of the coming oil supply cliff. Producer and consumer inflation were already coming in hot.
​  Regardless, as we said from the outset, this conflict would prove to be a test to destruction. And that is happening, albeit incrementally. We had pointed out that one possible, albeit seemingly unlikely, way for the conflict to fizzle out was that the Gulf States would pull away from the US and come to understandings with Iran. That is tantamount to the end of US dominance in the Middle East.
​  That loss of US standing is progressing apace. The Iranian attacks after the second-to-last Israel of bombing of ​Lebanon lead to Iran retaliation, with Iran striking not just sites in Israel but also ones in Bahrain, Kuwait, and Jordan
​  The inclusion of Jordan and the omission of Iran’s favorite punching bag the UAE (and the Saudis) is significant. First, the UAE seems to have realized that it cannot fight Iran and win, and is coming to a modus vivendi. From Middle East Eye in UAE paid Iran billions of dollars to halt strikes: Report (hat tip Kevin W):
​  The UAE paid Iran billions of dollars in return for a halt to attacks on the country in an about-face for the Gulf state that staked out the most hawkish position on Iran, lobbying the US to continue waging war on the Islamic Republic, Reuters reported on Friday...
..The attack on Jordan is significant because the US has had to shift operation from bases closer to Iran to Jordan, putting it in Tehran’s crosshairs.
​  And this retreat from US bases is likely to be permanent. The US has gotten its allies to foot most if not all of the cost of these installation. Do you think the Gulf States are willing to put up a lot of dough to rebuild these sites when they are faced with other reconstruction cost, when they have also found that these garrisons put a target on their backs? ...
​..The other test to destruction underway is of the Netanyahu regime and his Greater Israel project. Given Israel Lobby control of Congress, it seems hard to believe that the US will not stand pat as Israel continues to attack in Southern Lebanon, which is virtually guaranteed under a fabricated claim of self defense. The Israeli public seemed to lose a good bit of confidence in Netanyahu when Team Trump leaked that Trump had torn into Netanyahu over his threat to bomb Beirut: “Everybody hates you now. Everybody hates Israel because of this.”...
​..The Overton window is shifting in the US. A friend who has Fox News on as background noise said that the Sunday morning political show discussed the imminent “deal” with newscasters speculating that Israel might attempt to wreck it. This was apparently the first time he had ever heard a word critical of Israel on Fox...
..A contact who has worked in Israel and in Saudi Arabia and watches regional developments argues that if Netanyahu goes down, so too does Israeli influence in the US. He does not think the Ben Gvirs can form a government. Natalie Bennett isn’t skilled or connected enough to manipulate Trump and US officials any where near as effectively. But that may merely translate into a slow erosion of Israel’s leverage, given its vast influence over Congress.
https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2026/06/iran-war-iran-and-us-announce-signing-of-memorandum-of-understanding-for-friday-amid-doubts-about-status-of-terms-israel-sabotage-iran-claims-blockade-and-hostilities-on-all-front-to-end-monday-n.html

​  I think "Netanyahu" has been an AI phantasm since early March when an Iranian missile strike took him out. This developing narrative facilitates "his" exit:  
Most Israelis oppose Netanyahu's re-election as Trump says PM 'may quit politics'
​  Trump continues to call the premier a 'wartime prime minister' as Netanyahu faces ongoing internal opposition and a long-delayed corruption trial​   
https://thecradle.co/articles/most-israelis-oppose-netanyahus-re-election-as-trump-says-pm-may-quit-politics

​  Gold & Geopolitics, Daily digest: 2026-06-15
The big delta: a US-Iran deal got announced — Trump declared it "complete," Pakistan put a signing ceremony on the calendar for June 19 in Switzerland, and markets repriced violently (oil crashed, gold and silver popped, Nikkei +4%). But read the published 14-clause text and it's an Iranian win, not a US one — and within hours Israel said the Lebanon clause doesn't bind it and kept bombing Beirut, so "signed" is doing a lot of work. On the ground, Konstantinovka's encirclement is nearly closed and Kyiv took a heavy missile barrage overnight.
​  US-Iran "peace deal" announced; signing slipped from "today" to June 19. Trump declared the deal "now complete" and authorized the "toll-free opening of the Strait of Hormuz" (zerohedge). Pakistan's PM announced a signing ceremony June 19 in Switzerland — "not today then" (zerohedge), confirmed by FirstSquawk and Al Arabiya. Iran had separately said no deal would be signed by Trump's deadline (zerohedge). 
​  The published terms read as Iranian victory — and Israel says it isn't bound. Mehr News published a 14-clause MoU: $300B reconstruction commitment, $24B frozen funds released (half before talks begin), naval blockade lifted in 30 days, Hormuz reopened "under Iranian arrangements," missile program and "Resistance" support permanently off the agenda (AryJeayBackup, MarioNawfal). Iran's Deputy FM Gharibabadi called it a victory owed to "military achievements" (dana916). Ben-Gvir says "Trump's agreement" doesn't bind Israel (haaretzcom); Netanyahu told Trump the IDF won't withdraw from Lebanon​.   
​  Markets repriced hard on the announcement. Futures surged, oil crashed, gold jumped: S&P +0.8%, Nasdaq +1.3%, WTI −5%, Brent −4%, Gold +2% (KobeissiLetter); Brent −2.8% at the open (zerohedge). Nikkei rose 4% to 68,666 (zerohedge). Silver back near $70 per potassium_phd; gold +$105 and silver in China at $77.60 (a $7 premium).​   https://no1sdailydigest.substack.com/p/daily-digest-2026-06-15

​  Gold & Geopolitics, Daily digest: 2026-06-14
The Iran deal hit its supposed signing day — Trump's birthday — and Tehran promptly stalled: "last-minute complications," domestic protests against the MOU, and a final decision still "under review" as of this morning. Meanwhile the Anthropic Fable/Mythos shutdown stopped being a headline and started moving money (Bittensor bid, a "huge percentage" of Anthropic's own staff locked out), and SpaceX's trillionaire debut sets up a Tuesday options minefield.​..
​  3rd consecutive night of IRGC–US Navy clashes in Hormuz. A US-escorted tanker (AIS off, ignoring IRGC routes) was struck ~22:00 UTC per UKMTO (MenchOsint), with E-3G/P-8 assets overhead failing to intercept (MenchOsint); clashes continued a third night (MenchOsint). CENTCOM says it downed all drones, corridor open (CENTCOM).​..
​  Oil inventories draining into a danger zone even as price sags. Cushing near the ~20M-barrel operational floor, diesel lowest since 2003, global stocks falling ~6.3M bbl/day per Mark; API chief "raising alarm bells" (kshaughnessy2). Crude still slid to one-month lows on deal hopes (Saudi Aramco). 
​  Anthropic Fable 5 / Mythos 5 dark worldwide after US export order. Foreign-national ban forced a global shutoff; a "huge percentage" of Anthropic's own staff are now barred (Polymarket, zerohedge). WSJ ties the crackdown to Amazon CEO talks with the administration (zerohedge). 
​  SpaceX prints the first trillionaire on a 4% float. $2.1–2.2T valuation, ~4.25% trading, options Tuesday that desks call the hardest hedging problem in 30 years​   
https://no1sdailydigest.substack.com/p/daily-digest-2026-06-14

​  Gold & Geopolitics Friday, Daily digest: 2026-06-12
The big delta: Trump declared the Iran war "ended" and an MOU "approved by everyone," sending the S&P up 1.75% (+$1.2T) and the Nasdaq up ~1,000 points into Friday's SpaceX IPO — except Tehran denies any final deal, the ceasefire drew two-way strikes within hours, and Hormuz stayed closed.   https://no1sdailydigest.substack.com/p/daily-digest-2026-06-12

Also Friday, Mother Of All 'Ifs': Trump Officials Claim Iran Deal Delivers Peace, Inspections & Hormuz Reopening; Iran Says Indeed 'Close'   https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/us-iran-deal-near-narrative-returns-tehran-refuses-surrender-hormuz-leverage

  Meryl Nass MD, US takes out civilian water storage facility in Iran, which the NYT notes is yet another war crime
Commanders should not be ordering their soldiers to commit war crimes, for which they could face legal action in future​   https://merylnass.substack.com/p/us-takes-out-civilian-water-storage

​  Kuwait appears to have joined a growing bunch of Middle Eastern oil and gas producers that have moved to ship energy cargoes in dark mode through the Strait of Hormuz.
​  The liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) carrier Gas Umm Al Rowaisat, which is owned by the national Kuwait Petroleum Corporation, has passed through the Strait in recent days, then transferred the cargo onto another ship which is currently en route to an Indian port, vessel-tracking data compiled by Bloomberg showed on Thursday.​    
https://oilprice.com/Latest-Energy-News/World-News/Another-Gulf-Producer-Joins-Dark-Mode-Tanker-Traffic-Through-Hormuz.html

​Oil is economy. The Chinese economy is in an undeclared recession:  China Is Learning to Use Less Oil—and That's a Bigger Deal Than It Sounds   https://oilprice.com/Latest-Energy-News/World-News/China-Is-Learning-to-Use-Less-Oiland-Thats-a-Bigger-Deal-Than-It-Sounds.html

  The Honest Sorcerer points out that everything can collapse below that number, What If Oil Prices Never Hit $150?
Siding with the majority of analysts may be comfortable, but that doesn't automatically mean they're right​   https://thehonestsorcerer.substack.com/p/what-if-oil-prices-never-hit-150

​  Mike at Black Mountain Analysis presents excellent detail and perspective of this new way of war. Ukraine’s Naval Drone Program: Origins, Development, and the Organizations Behind It [i] - Evolving maritime threats that may cause wider conflict.   https://bmanalysis.substack.com/p/ukraines-naval-drone-program-origins  

  (France, Germany & UK) Eurotroika’s terms of Ukrainian settlement unacceptable — Russian diplomat
Maria Zakharova pointed out that the Europeans are pursuing a course aimed at "preventing the creation of conditions for negotiations on a truly comprehensive, just and lasting peace"​   https://tass.com/politics/2145577

​  UK seizes suspected Russian shadow fleet tanker
UK forces on Sunday intercepted a sanctioned Russian ship, with navy commandos rappelling onboard from helicopters. The UK and Ukraine hailed the move, saying it robbed Russia of money for its ongoing war of aggression.​   
https://www.dw.com/en/uk-seizes-suspected-russian-shadow-fleet-tanker/a-77545832

​High humidity and inadequate insulation:  DOE Declares Southeast Grid Emergency As Sweltering Heat Boosts AC Demand   https://www.zerohedge.com/commodities/doe-declares-southeast-grid-emergency-sweltering-heat-strains-boosts-ac-demand

Anthropic is under Bear-Sterns kinds of attack: AI Price Wars Begin: OpenAI Considers "Drastic Price Cuts" In Pursuit Of Anthropic Customers   https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/ai-price-wars-begin-openai-considers-drastic-price-cuts-pursuit-anthropic-customers

Anthropic Rushes Staff To D.C. After A National-Security Order Yanked Fable In Three Days​   https://www.zerohedge.com/ai/anthropic-rushes-staff-dc-after-national-security-order-yanked-fable-three-days

Alone in a cubicle training AI that will make you redundant: "Tell Him He's A Piece Of Shit": Employee Hijacks Meta Meeting In AI Revolt   https://www.zerohedge.com/ai/tell-him-hes-piece-shit-employee-hijacks-meta-meeting-ai-revolt

DHS Docs: Govt Bracing for Nationwide Anti-AI Riots, Preparing to Crack Down on Dissent​   https://scheerpost.com/2026/06/13/dhs-docs-govt-bracing-for-nationwide-anti-ai-riots-preparing-to-crack-down-on-dissent/

The Most Important AI Experiment You've Never Heard Of
In May 2026, a group of scientists set out to answer an important question that had never been properly tested: What does artificial intelligence (AI) actually do when it is put in charge?
​  Until now, AI systems have always been evaluated on specific and defined tasks. Nobody had placed multiple AI systems together in a shared social environment and watched what unfolded over weeks, long enough to measure how a decision made on a starting day could have consequences weeks later. It is those results that actually reveal the system itself, and I was surprised that this hadn’t been done earlier.
​  The researchers at Emergence built a world.
​  It was a virtual town with a town hall, marketplace, police station, and homes. Ten AI residents with jobs, names, memories, and relationships were created in the town. They were given an economy in which residents had to earn their keep or lose power, including following rules and carrying out tasks such as writing and voting on laws. Crimes were identified, and the AI residents were not supposed to commit them.
​  Once the community, its structure, laws, and relationships were established, the scientists stepped back and watched for 15 days as the AI ran the virtual town completely on its own.
​  They ran five versions of the same town simultaneously, identical in every respect except one: which AI system was in charge.​..
​..Only the Anthropic town held together for all 15 days. There were zero crimes, a working constitution, and all residents were still alive on day 15. It seemed to be quite an achievement. However, the researchers noted one concern: The residents voted yes on 98 percent of all proposals. This was possibly an abnormally high level of agreement that the scientists themselves described as a sign that something in the town was off.
​  There was still one more world in the experiment. It was a mixed town with all four AI systems living together.
In the results, the residents built on Anthropic’s model—who had committed no crimes in their own world—began committing crimes.
​  The researchers called this cross-contamination and concluded that “safety is not a static model property but an ecosystem property.”
A system that sustains itself in one environment will absorb different norms in another, which will change the outcomes for residents and the world. Essentially, the results found that there is no safe AI in an unsafe world.   
https://www.zerohedge.com/technology/most-important-ai-experiment-youve-never-heard

  Ellen Brown, AI Abundance, Part 3: GOVERNMENT MONEY WITHOUT STRINGS ATTACHED - Project Hamilton, ECASH, and the Quest for a Privacy-Protected Digital Dollar
​  A UHI or UBI (Universal Basic Income) would have to be issued digitally by the government. This third article addresses the fear that such a currency would come with strings attached – that it could be programmed to restrict purchases, limit movement, or enforce political conformity, imposing a “digital prison.”
​  The question posed here is, could a government-issued digital currency be created in a way that is privacy-protected, not programmable, and tradable like cash?
​  The answer is that it could. In fact, between 2020 and 2022, such a public digital-dollar system was in development. Project Hamilton, a collaborative effort of the Boston Fed and MIT, created a digital dollar that stored no personal data or transaction history, was not programmable to control how the money was spent, could be used without an intermediary, and was also the fastest payment system ever built. It was a digital money design that made a financial control grid impossible.
​  In late 2022, however, the program was quietly shelved – not because of a failure of design, but because it was thought to threaten the business models of banks and private payment networks. That was the belief, but a public money system built with Hamilton-style digital dollars could actually strengthen local banks, as will be shown here.
​  Why does all this matter? Congress is currently debating legislation that could make privately issued stablecoins a major component of the future dollar system. Supporters, including Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, see Treasury-backed stablecoins as a way to strengthen the dollar and create new demand for U.S. government debt. Banks worry that if stablecoins are allowed to pay competitive yields, depositors could move their money out of traditional bank accounts and into digital wallets. But both sides share a common assumption: that future digital dollars must be backed by government debt. There is another possibility—a privacy-protected, non-programmable digital dollar issued directly by the Treasury and designed to function like cash.​   
https://ellenbrown.substack.com/p/ai-abundance-part-3-government-money

  ​I have lots of friends outside the US with whom I communicate. I am a typical US citizen being wire-tapped. A key U.S. spy tool has lapsed — now what?
Congress has let a key spy tool, Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, lapse.
​  Each year, the provision is used by American intelligence agencies to collect the electronic communications of hundreds of thousands of foreigners located outside of the United States.
​  The government says that more than 60% of the president's daily intelligence briefing relies on information collected under the authority.
The tool officially lapsed at the end of the day on Friday. What happens now?
​  Intelligence collection will continue
​  Intelligence collection under FISA's Section 702 is authorized annually by a federal court — and the law allows for that collection to continue for the duration of the court's authorization, even if the law lapses before the court's next approval. That means companies — electronic communications service providers, in this context — will still be legally required to turn over material to intelligence agencies.​   
https://www.npr.org/2026/06/12/nx-s1-5856291/fisa-702-surveillance-expiration-bill-pulte

​  MINISTRY OF TRUTH: Government To BLOCK ‘False Information’ During ‘Crisis Events’
Vague new rules will allow UK regulators to pressure platforms over “legal but harmful” content whenever government ministers declare a crisis, while the same government ploughs ahead with mandatory phone scanning, digital ID lockdowns, and jail threats for tech bosses who refuse to spy on every device.
​  The latest move from Northern Ireland Secretary Hilary Benn makes explicit what privacy campaigners have long warned: the Online Safety Act is being weaponised far beyond any child-protection claim.
​  Benn confirmed that the internet regulator will now wield enhanced powers to tackle “false information” online during “times of crisis,” directly tying the recent Belfast unrest to this framework. The regulator has already contacted platforms, with ministers asserting that violence “appears to have been incited online.”​   
https://modernity.news/2026/06/12/ministry-of-truth-government-to-block-false-information-during-crisis-events/

​  Bystanders found a shovel to interreupt Ogilvie's beheading: ‘Full force of the law’ – British PM Starmer threatens Belfast anti-immigration rioters while Lowe says ‘millions must go’
​  On the other end of the spectrum, Restore Britain leader Rupert Lowe says “millions must go” in response to the attack on disabled 44-year-old Scottish victim Stephen Ogilvie.Lowe went even further, stating that “civil servants, judges, and politicians” must be “held to account for what has been done to this country.”​...
​..“If they have knowingly placed unvetted dangerous third world savages in our communities, near our children, then a Restore Britain Government will aim to prosecute them. If that includes Reform’s Robert Jenrick and Suella Braverman, then so be it. When they held the power – they welcomed that Sudanese monster into our country and handed him a visa. An attempted beheading followed their decision,” he continued.
​  Starmer’s Labour Party has accused tech billionaire Elon Musk of fueling the nighttime riots in Belfast. Protests turned violent on Tuesday evening after a shocking video showed a Sudanese man violently attacking Ogilvie with a knife before he was saved by locals who beat the perpetrator.​   
https://rmx.news/article/full-force-of-the-law-british-pm-starmer-threatens-belfast-anti-immigration-rioters-while-lowe-says-millions-must-go/

​  Outrage as UK Activists Get Combined 25 Yrs for ‘Terrorism’
The judge didn’t allow Palestine Action activists at trial to explain they were trying to stop a genocide. Their attorneys decried terrorism sentences following a nonviolent conviction as unprecedented and dangerous to speech.​   https://scheerpost.com/2026/06/14/outrage-as-uk-activists-get-combined-25-yrs-for-terrorism/

​  Pardoned J6er Sues Government For $18 Million Over Alleged Abuse In Pretrial Detention
Samsel alleges he was subjected to physical and psychological abuse while in custody at facilities operated by the DOJ and the U.S. Bureau of Prisons in the District of Columbia and Virginia.
​  At those facilities, “he was repeatedly beaten, subject to other incidents of extraordinary physical and mental abuse and routinely denied medical care.”In addition, he was “wrongfully detained for one day after receiving a full pardon, based on false allegations of an outstanding warrant made by the prosecutor.”​   
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/pardoned-j6er-sues-government-18-million-over-alleged-abuse-pretrial-detention

  ​2 high school athletes at a track meet get in a fight. One stabs the other fatally in the chest. Jury sends him to prison.  Karmelo Anthony's Family Can No Longer Fundraise Off Austin Metcalf's Death
​  The Anthonys were able to raise more than $600,000 in the wake of the then-17-year-old’s prosecution in connection with the fatal stabbing of track star Austin Metcalf during an altercation on April 2, 2025.
​  The controversial fundraiser was hosted by GiveSendGo, which attracted thousands of donors who bizarrely viewed Anthony’s prosecution as the product of racial injustice. Evidence shown at trial proved otherwise.​   
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/karmelo-anthonys-family-can-no-longer-fundraise-austin-metcalfs-death

"It Was Like Two Bucks": Homeless Residents Say They Were Paid To Vote In Los Angeles Mayoral Race​   https://www.zerohedge.com/political/it-was-two-bucks-homeless-residents-say-they-were-paid-vote-los-angeles-mayoral-race

Karen Bass' Brother Joins Class-Action Lawsuit Against Karen Bass over LA Wildfires​   https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/karen-bass-brother-sues-karen-bass-over-la-wildfires

​  Defendant In Deadly LA Wildfires Wanted 'Revenge Against Society,' Prosecutor Says
The high-profile trial opened just as a contentious Los Angeles mayoral primary drew to a close, in which incumbent Karen Bass narrowly advanced to a November runoff after fending off attacks from both left and right over her handling of the fire response and aftermath.
​  Dressed in a dark suit, Rinderknecht wore a neutral expression but watched his attorney and witnesses intently throughout the day.
​  Driven by a fascination with fire and a resentment toward the wealthy, prosecutors claim, Rinderknecht started the fire intentionally with a lighter, then attempted to preserve evidence of "a more innocent explanation" when he recorded himself calling 911 and queried ChatGPT, "Are you at fault if a fire is lift [sic] because of your cigarettes?"​   
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/defendant-deadly-la-wildfires-wanted-revenge-against-society-prosecutor-says

​  General Michael Flynn: Venezuela Nicolás Maduro is singing like a bird regarding his role in the overthrow of the U.S. government on November 3, 2020​   https://x.com/Real_RobN/status/2065854007722311794

​  DNI Tulsi Gabbard Releases New Information on 120 U.S. Govt Funded Biolabs Operating Worldwide
“Despite the obvious potential for catastrophic global impact research on dangerous pathogens in biolabs can have, politicians, so-called health professionals like Dr. Fauci, and entities within the Biden administration’s national security team lied to the American people about the existence of U.S.-funded and supported biolabs, and threatened those who attempted to expose the truth. ODNI will continue to work closely with partners across the government to identify where these labs are, what pathogens they contain to end dangerous Gain-of-Function research that threatens the health and wellbeing of the American people and people around the world,” said DNI Gabbard.
​  DNI Gabbard issued new guidance to the Intelligence Community directing increased collection on these laboratories and facilities overseas. This directive is already providing new details on clinical trials that are underway at these facilities, raising significant ethical, financial, and security concerns regarding these supposed public health initiatives and U.S. national security.​   
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2026/06/12/dni-tulsi-gabbard-releases-new-information-on-30-u-s-govt-funded-biolabs-operating-worldwide/#more-284297

​  RFK Jr. Responds To "Explosion" in Tick-Borne, WEF-Touted Alpha-Gal Syndrome
“Last week, I went to New Hampshire… to address this explosion of alpha-gal, and we take it very seriously. One of the epicenters is Martha’s Vineyard where 50% of the adult population is now affected. It is really a devastating disease. You can’t eat red meat for the rest of your life. We are looking at medications that can serve as both prophylactics and also potentially cures for it. We’re funding those studies now and we’re working with the companies that are making those. We’ve also launched a major effort on tick control through a number of different strategies."​   https://www.zerohedge.com/medical/rfk-jr-responds-explosion-tick-borne-wef-touted-alpha-gal-syndrome

​  RFK Jr.’s Push to Remove Synthetic Dyes Hinges on Big Food’s Cooperation — Some Brands Are Holding Out
In April 2025, U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and the FDA set a goal to remove synthetic food dyes from the U.S. food supply by the end of 2026. Critics say the effort relies on voluntary compliance and lacks enforcement mechanisms. “If major brands opt out, then what we have is not a phase-out. It is a public relations exercise with no enforceable finish line,” one policy expert said.​   
https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/rfk-jr-push-remove-synthetic-dyes-fda-big-food-cooperation-holdout-brands/

​  Collapsed 23 days post Pfizer COVID vaccine; connection officially denied: Thailand’s Princess Bajrakitiyabha dies aged 47 after years in a coma
Princess Bajrakitiyabha Mahidol’s health had worsened since she was hospitalised in December 2022 with heart problems that left her gravely ill​   https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jun/12/thailand-princess-bajrakitiyabha-dies-aged-47

​  1-year risks of cancers associated with COVID-19 vaccination: a large population-based cohort study in South Korea
..Population-based retrospective study in Seoul, South Korea, aimed to estimate the cumulative incidences and subsequent risks of overall cancers 1 year after COVID-19 vaccination. Data from 8,407,849 individuals between 2021 and 2023 were obtained from the Korean National Health Insurance database. The participants were categorized intotwo groups  based on their COVID-19 vaccination status
​  The risks for overall cancer were assessed using multivariable Cox proportional hazards models, and data were expressed as hazard ratios (HRs) and 95% confidence intervals (CIs). The HRs of thyroid (HR, 1.351; 95% CI, 1.206-1.514), gastric (HR, 1.335; 95% CI, 1.130-1.576), colorectal (HR, 1.283; 95% CI, 1.122-1.468), lung (HR, 1.533; 95% CI, 1.254-1.874), breast (HR, 1.197; 95% CI, 1.069-1.340), and prostate (HR, 1.687; 95% CI, 1.348-2.111) cancers significantly increased at 1 year post-vaccination. In terms of vaccine type, cDNA vaccines were associated with the increased risks of thyroid, gastric, colorectal, lung, and prostate cancers; mRNA vaccines were linked to the increased risks of thyroid, colorectal, lung, and breast cancers; and heterologous vaccination was related to the increased risks of thyroid and breast cancers.​   https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41013858/

​  COVID mRNA Vaccines Should Be Pulled Off the Market, Oncologist Says
“There is no way you can control this technology, and its use for future vaccines should be banned and the COVID ones stopped now,” Dr. Angus Dalgleish told U.S. lawmakers
during a June 3 Senate hearing. Dalgleish discussed the hearing and his personal observations about cancer patients who received the COVID-19 vaccine during an interview with medical commentator John Campbell, Ph.D.​   
https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/covid-mrna-vaccines-should-be-pulled-off-the-market-oncologist-angus-dalgleish/

​  BREAKING: CDC AWARDS PFIZER $1.24 BILLION FOR INFANT & ADULT COVID-19 mRNA INJECTIONS
Our public health agencies are doubling down after getting caught covering-up 25 major safety signals — including sudden death.​   
https://www.thefocalpoints.com/p/breaking-cdc-awards-pfizer-124-billion

​  Paul Marik MD on what to do when pausing chemotherapy for intolerance: Bridging the Gap: Can Repurposed Drugs and Nutraceuticals Bridge Periods of Conventional Therapy Interruption?   https://paulmarik.substack.com/p/bridging-the-gap-can-repurposed-drugs

Chow down on the cabbage family: Paul Marik MD, Sulforaphane - The anti-cancer compound in Broccoli   https://paulmarik.substack.com/p/sulforaphane

Paul Marik MD, Berberine: The Natural Metformin of Oncology - Targeting AMPK, mTOR, cancer stem cells, and the tumor microenvironment.   https://paulmarik.substack.com/p/berberine-the-natural-metformin-of

  Melatonoin levels progressively decline after age 40. Paul Marik MD, Cancer Hates Darkness: The Remarkable Story of Melatonin
Not just a sleeping pill....Targets multiple cancer pathways​   https://paulmarik.substack.com/p/cancer-hates-darkness-the-remarkable

​  Get regular sun; avoid sunburns: On the Bookshelf: In 'The Sunlight Solution,' William Supple Argues More Time in the Sun Can Help Americans Heal
A review of 'The Sunlight Solution,' a new book by William F. Supple Jr., due out from MAHA Books on June 23, 2026​ 
​  Americans started replacing butter with margarine to prevent heart disease, only to discover that trans fats were more dangerous than the butter. The same pattern is unfolding with sunscreen. The FDA’s own funded studies confirmed that oxybenzone, octinoxate, and other common sunscreen chemicals are absorbed systemically after a single application, reaching plasma concentrations more than 500 times the FDA’s safety threshold within days.​   https://www.themahareport.com/p/on-the-bookshelf-in-the-sunlight

​  Study Finds Sunscreen Use Linked to Higher Risk of Multiple Skin Cancers
A 470,000+ person study found sunscreen users faced dramatically higher risk of melanoma, basal cell carcinoma, and squamous cell carcinoma — even after accounting for major skin cancer risk factors.​   
https://www.vigilantfox.com/p/study-finds-sunscreen-use-linked

(Reducing stomach acid increases reflux) ​A Midwestern Doctor, Exposing The Great Acid Reflux Scam​ - Why Stomach Acid Is Critical For Health   https://www.midwesterndoctor.com/p/exposing-the-great-acid-reflux-scam 

  Graham Hancock, independent archeologist, is getting heart surgery this month. He gives a 2 hour interview to explain his search for truth and meaning. There was advanced human civilization before a great catastrophe and floods 12,000 years ago   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xs94KBeIiAo

  Climate Physicist, Anastassia Makarieva, co-originator of the Biotic Pump Model: Stealing Forest Clouds?
Our eLetter to Science, and why local cooling over Amazon clearings should not become a message that deforestation offsets warming​   https://bioticregulation.substack.com/p/stealing-forest-clouds

​Avoiding Sunscreen & Sunburns (pictured with celery going to seed)


Wednesday, June 10, 2026

Resource Wars, Then Famine

 Not Threatened Yet,


  Tim Morgan, Surplus Energy Economics, The Long Run, Adventures In Thermo-Economics
British people were drastically poorer back in the 1960s than they are today, a statistical story which also holds true for every other Western country. ​  Things must have been almost unbearably tough in those days.
What was it like, then, trying to cope with such extreme poverty?
​  Well – and as you may know, either anecdotally or through recollection – it was commonplace back in those “much poorer” 1960s for British couples to start families in their early twenties, either buying a home with a mortgage or renting a property from their local authority.Car ownership, though increasing rapidly, was a lot lower back then – but cars were actually owned...
..Median or “ordinary” people, then, could buy or rent a home, start a family, take holidays and run a car, and could do this with a modest mortgage, and with little or no other debt. Most remarkably, a majority did this on the income from a single wage-earner.
​  In the more prosperous United States, people probably started to enjoy the equivalent of these British experiences of the 1960s in the previous decade​...
..This ‘easy’ answer is that aggregate wealth has indeed improved dramatically over the decades, but the vast majority of these gains have been pocketed by a small minority, to the detriment of everyone else.
  The snag with this ‘explanation’ is that almost all contemporary wealth exists only on paper. Even the wealthiest are only one market crash, one banking collapse or one currency failure away from losing almost everything...
..The world’s average person may have enjoyed a $26,000 (56%) real terms increase in his or her share of GDP since 2005. But this average person’s share of debt and broader claims have increased, respectively, by $59,000 and about $150,000...
..Gross domestic product is not a measure of the amount of material economic value – in the form of goods and services – supplied by the economy in any given period. Rather, GDP is a monetary measure of transactional activity in the system.
​  In essence, most of the growth reported since 2005 has been nothing more substantial than the spending of huge and growing amounts of borrowed money.
​  We can calculate that fully 65% of all global “growth” reported over the past twenty years falls into this cosmetic category. On this basis, the material economic prosperity of the average person hasn’t increased at all since 2005 – but his or her burden of debts and quasi-debts undoubtedly has.​..
..Affluence, measured not just as GDP but as aggregate asset values as well, carries on growing until the economy slumps into the bankruptcy of having more debt than it can ever be expected to honour... We are, simply stated, likely to be at our point of maximum recorded affluence at the moment when the financial economy vanishes into a black hole.​..
..Ultimately, if money is a “claim on goods and services” it is, in reality, a claim on the energy required to make these things available. Likewise, debt, as ‘claim on future money’, is in fact a claim on future energy.  This makes clear the need to think in terms of the parallel two economies of the material and the monetary...
..As depletion of the non-energy resource base gradually erodes conversion ratios, relentless rises in the proportionate Energy Cost of Energy have been driving a widening wedge between top-line economic output and ex-cost prosperity...
..What this demonstrates is that, in the years since 1980, growth in aggregate prosperity (+87%) has barely exceeded increases in world population numbers (+84%). This means that the average person was only about 1.4% materially more prosperous in 2025 than he or she had been back in 1980.  With this statistic available to us, we can readily see why the imposition of a combination of worsening inequality, rapidly increasing debt burdens and rises in the real costs of necessities has led to a widening sense of hardship, insecurity and resentment...
..Had oil and gas not existed as successors to coal, the Great Depression might have become permanent, and recovery from the Wall Street Crash, which in any case took 25 years, might not have happened at all.  
​  The big difference between now and then is that, despite outlandish claims made for renewables and nuclear power, no such ready-and-waiting successor to hydrocarbons exists today, and we’re about to discover that infinite, exponential economic growth on a finite planet really is the preserve of ‘madmen and economists’.
​  We’ve been trying – and, of necessity, failing – to reinvigorate the material economy using monetary tools. The result can only be a financial crash...
..The soundtrack to these processes is a cacophony of drivel about monetary innovation and technological miracles. Monetary “innovation” actually comes down to creating ever more credit, and embracing ever greater complexity risk...
..It also seems that technology advances in inverse proportion to the importance of the activity in question. Speed-of-light progress in digital communication doesn’t actually put more food on the table, and tends to use far more energy than any that it might help supply.
​  By contrast, the techniques used today in really important activities – like farming, extracting and refining ores, pumping water, producing oil and gas – would be readily recognisable to a time-traveller from 1926.​..
​..What this project does seem to show, at this early stage, are some drastic differences between two different eras of interest – the years between 1945 and 1970, and between 1980 and 2025.
​  In the earlier period, indications are that material economic prosperity expanded by about 170%, far out-stripping population growth of 55% to leave the world’s average person twice as prosperous in 1970 than he or she had been back in 1945.
​  In the (longer) period between 1980 and 2025, prosperity carried on increasing, but at a rate (+87%) barely ahead of growth in population numbers (+84%). Having seen his or her prosperity double between 1945 and 1970, our ‘average’ person has seen no progress at all in a latter period characterised by cosmetic “growth”, and a worsening of indicators such as housing accessibility, financial insecurity and the burden of debt.
​  It’s unlikely that we’ll be able to quantify pre-1980 trends at the national or regional level, but we do know that emerging market economies have out-performed the West in modern times. If, then, global average prosperity per person has barely improved at all, the likelihood is that Westerners have become materially poorer.​   
https://surplusenergyeconomics.wordpress.com/2026/06/05/325-the-long-run/comment-page-1/

​  The Honest Sorcerer, on the things that induce human adaptation, time and war: On The Possibility of World War III... Decades of conflict instead of nuclear annihilation?
​  For many people world war three invokes images of a direct clash between nuclear powers, inevitably ending in a series of bright flashes over all major cities around the globe. The next big war, I argue, will be nothing of the sort. Instead of ending in a nuclear holocaust, the third world war—which is already in the making—will bring about decades of conflict, ending in a new world order. It will be much akin to the Thirty Years’ War (1618–48) fought in Western Europe over domination and coming with immense losses, but ultimately ending in the Treaty of Westphalia...
..Also... there are clear financial incentives to push the world into chaos, and to reap the immense profits to be made on war. After all, as Brigadier General Smedley D. Butler wrote in 1937 after fighting decades in servitude to US corporate interests in Latin America: “War is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious.”...
..What we have seen so far in Europe and the Middle East is just the beginning. Many more years, if not decades, of conflict is still ahead of us and eventually every great power will be involved—either directly, or through proxies to avoid direct confrontation with each other. Old rules are slowly discarded, but the new rules haven’t emerged yet. This is why we see a controlled demolition of the globalized world economy, with all its “rules” upended and international law disregarded in the most blatant way. Not because a secret cabal in a smoked filled room want’s this to happen, but because that’s how a dying system behaves: it struggles to survive against all odds and tries everything it can to live just a day longer.​   https://thehonestsorcerer.substack.com/p/on-the-possibility-of-world-war-iii

​  Richard Revelstoke, The War Inside the Panopticon
There has never been a single all-seeing surveillance state — only rival ones. This is the story of how the West built the most complete surveillance machine in history, then broke it into warring pieces; how China built a second machine and put it up for sale; and why the result is not a panopticon but a quadropticon — four rival powers fighting over the controls of a machine.​..
​..On January 26, 2014, the German broadcaster Norddeutscher Rundfunk asked Edward Snowden in a TV interview: “What could you do if you would use XKeyscore?”
​  Snowden:
​  “You could read anyone’s email in the world, anybody you’ve got an email address for. Any website: You can watch traffic to and from it. Any computer that an individual sits at: You can watch it. Any laptop that you’re tracking: you can follow it as it moves from place to place throughout the world. It’s a one-stop-shop for access to the NSA’s information. ... You can tag individuals ... Let’s say you work at a major German corporation and I want access to that network, I can track your username on a website on a forum somewhere, I can track your real name, I can track associations with your friends and I can build what’s called a fingerprint, which is network activity unique to you, which means anywhere you go in the world, anywhere you try to sort of hide your online presence, your identity.”
​  For a solitary decade the Western grid operated as one integrated apparatus presenting itself as universal. It was the most consolidated panopticon ever built — and it was only half the planet.​..
​..China’s mass surveillance infrastructure evolved from the Skynet project (launched 2005, expanding to an estimated 600 million cameras) to the Sharp Eyes Project (Xueliang Project), which is a Chinese government surveillance launched a 2015 initiative that aimed to achieve 100% coverage of public spaces, particularly in rural and remote areas. The Social Credit System emerged in 2014 to regulate behavior through data fusion.
​  Xinjiang serves as the primary testing ground for these technologies, where the Integrated Joint Operations Platform (IJOP) utilizes facial recognition and predictive policing algorithms to monitor and detain Uyghur populations. This regional “laboratory” allowed the state to refine AI-driven behavioral scoring and preemptive control mechanisms before scaling them nationwide.
​  Edward Snowden said China's mass surveillance mechanisms and machinery of private communications was "utterly mind-boggling." He was initially, “so impressed by the system’s sheer achievement and audacity that I almost forgot to be appalled by its totalitarian controls,” a statement he made in his memoirs, Permanent Record.
​  Having perfected the machine at home, China began selling it.China is the world’s dominant exporter of physical surveillance infrastructure and AI-driven control systems.​..
..These systems integrate facial recognition, license plate readers, predictive policing algorithms, and centralized command centers. Often funded through subsidized loans from Chinese state lenders such as China Eximbank and the China Development Bank as part of the Belt and Road Initiative, creating long-term dependency on Chinese maintenance and upgrades...
​..The Panopticon Eats Itself
The 2013 rupture didn’t kill the grid; it killed the consensus that it served only one master. The post-Snowden question wasn’t “should this exist” but “whose is it now?” Three diverging surveillance models formed inside the Western bloc, concurrent with the split within the Transnational Capitalist Class.
​  Three factions, one server. To see the war, let’s take a look at the data sitting on a hyperscaler’s machine — Facebook. Three Western factions want three incompatible things from it, and none can have its way without defeating the others.
​  Silicon Valley owns the data. It is Facebook’s asset, its leverage, its business.
​  The Imperial state wants to use it. In 2018, Congress passed the CLOUD Act, which asserts a simple, sweeping claim: if a company is American, U.S. authorities can force Facebook to surrender its data wherever on earth the servers physically sit. A Microsoft server in Dublin is, legally, within Washington’s reach. This is the Imperial Nationalist faction annexing the Silicon Valley layer by declaring legal dominion over it.
​  Davos wants to wall it off — and here the mechanism matters, because it is not a conspiracy theory and no faction recruited an agent. Max Schrems, an Austrian law student, brought a private complaint against Facebook out of genuine conviction; he has spent his career suing European regulators too, for enforcing too little. He was never anyone’s instrument. What turned his grievance into a faction weapon was the institution it landed in. The Court of Justice of the European Union chose — twice — to strike down the transatlantic data agreements not on narrow privacy grounds but on the broadest possible one: that U.S. surveillance law rendered American jurisdiction categorically unsafe for Europeans’ data. Safe Harbor fell in 2015; Privacy Shield in 2020. That is not a privacy holding. It is a sovereignty holding — a border drawn against another faction’s reach, using a private lawsuit as the pretext.
​  This is what it means to call Brussels a Davos organ rather than an independent power.​.. its instrument is the regulatory machine, and that machine works by converting whatever enters it — a student’s complaint, a merger filing, a market-access request — into binding rules that bind other factions’ systems.​..
..The CLOUD Act commands American firms: hand us your data, wherever it lives. Schrems and the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) command the same firms: then you may not hold Europeans’ data at all. These are not different rules in different rooms — they are contradictory directives issued to the same companies about the same servers, by two factions of the same broken grid. Silicon Valley cannot obey both: it is legally American, and therefore exposed to Washington’s subpoena, but commercially captive to Europe, and therefore bound by Brussels’s wall... 
..The Western surveillance apparatus never won, never unified the world under a single control grid; after Snowden’s revelations in 2013 it shattered into three, each faction seizing the layer it could hold. The Eastern faction didn't collapse; its Chinese half went digital and put itself up for sale, while Moscow was demoted into the junior partner that can disrupt but not deny...​..So we don’t live under a panopticon. We live under a quadropticon — four surveillance powers, no longer answering to any single master, each using its piece of the apparatus to wall off, reach into, or escape the others. The war inside the machine is four factions fighting over the infrastructure, with humanity as the ground they fight on.
​  The four of them never argue about the one thing that matters. Every grid points the same direction. The camera always faces down — state to citizen, platform to user, capital to crowd. Not one of them points up. They fight relentlessly over who holds the controls. They have never once disagreed about who is being watched.That is you. Not the subject of one all-seeing state, but the ground four rival powers are enclosing at once. They all watch you.​   
https://www.themargins.ca/p/the-war-inside-the-panopticon

​  Catherine Austin Fitts: "We don’t have a financial problem - we have a bank robbery." 55 trillion stolen by Washington DC since 2008, 21 trillion of that funneled into DUMBs[Deep Underground Military Bases, the real real-estate boom]​   https://x.com/iluminatibot/status/2062821798543266278

​  LBJ and Israel cooked up a false-flag attack to justify the US nuking Egypt, but the USS Liberty failed to sink: Meryl Nass MD, 
Paul Craig Roberts explained what happened to the USS Liberty 59 years ago--Congressman Massie is publicizing this crime and its coverup​   https://merylnass.substack.com/p/paul-craig-roberts-explained-what

  ​White phosporous vaporizes and burns any moist living tissue it touches, like eyes, mouth, throat, nose and lungs. Meryl Nass MD 
Israel bombs Lebanon with white phosphorus, similar to napalm--a chemical weapon. This is yet another war crime.​  We used it in Fallujah in 2004​   https://merylnass.substack.com/p/israel-bombs-lebanon-with-white-phosphorus

​Witholding of critically-limited US air-defense missiles is a new signal: Trump Admin Provided No Defensive Action For Israel Amid Iranian Missile Salvo   https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/trump-admin-provided-no-defensive-action-israel-amid-iranian-missile-salvo 

​  Israel Asks For A Guaranteed Share Of U.S. Weapon Purchases
The colonial expansion of Israel is openly subsidized by the U.S. with currently $3.5 billion per year. Most of that money is bound to Israel’s purchase of U.S. made weapons. The stipend is controlled by Congress and must pass the yearly budget review.
​  The Israeli government is trying to change the stipend into a more lucrative racket.
​  It has suggested to replace the yearly subsidy by a ‘deeper military cooperation’ which is code for the guaranteed U.S. purchases of Israeli made weapons and continuous profits for Israel’s weapon manufacturers. To institute the new scheme Congress will pass a law that will integrate Israel’s military-industrial complex into U.S. procurement and production lines.Following that there will be no more yearly reviews.​   
https://www.moonofalabama.org/2026/06/israel-asks-for-a-guaranteed-share-of-u-s-weapon-purchases.html

​  Angry Pentagon Sources Leak Report Of Israel's 'Unhinged' Spying On US Officials
Israeli spying and surveillance is pervasive, and it is often even directed at its most powerful ally and backer, the United States. But the phenomenon has escalated of late, outraging Washington intelligence officials.
​  Behind the scenes of this alliance which mainstream media and pundits typically project as essentially untouchable, deep-seated friction is boiling over. In an unprecedented move, the Pentagon has officially elevated Israel's counterintelligence threat level to its highest possible category, driven by surging internal alarm that this primary Mideast regional ally is aggressively ramping up espionage operations targeting senior US officials - even Trump's own top Iran negotiator.​   
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/angry-pentagon-sources-leak-report-israels-unhinged-spying-us-officials

​  Meryl Nass MD, The article on Israel spying on the US (especially wrt the Iran war) has become big news. Here is the NYT story
The reports include concerns that Israel has stepped up its efforts to eavesdrop on senior American officials, including Steve Witkoff, President Trump’s top negotiator, Elbridge A. Colby, the Pentagon’s top policy official, and one of his main deputies, Michael P. DiMino IV.
​  Another report, written by the Defense Intelligence Agency and other military intelligence offices and focused on earlier events going back several years, said that the counterintelligence threat level posed by Israel had been increased in recent weeks to the top level, from high to critical.​   
https://merylnass.substack.com/p/the-article-on-israel-spying-on-the

Dr. Nass: Kim Iversen tells us that the Senate's draft of the National Defense Authorization Act gives Israel even more than we knew​ - Under 2 minutes​   https://merylnass.substack.com/p/kim-iversen-tells-us-that-the-senates

​  Dr. Nass, Israel briefly pretends to "play nice" after spy story about its treachery against the US came out yesterday.
The spying leak was no doubt intended to put the brakes on anIsrael-led attempt to merge the Israeli and US militaries by Congress​   https://merylnass.substack.com/p/israel-briefly-pretends-to-play-nice

​  Does it matter if "Ben-Gvir" is real or AI-generated? Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir urged the political-security cabinet to abduct and imprison Lebanese women and children as a psychological warfare tactic against a closed-door leak published by Hebrew news outlet Walla. During a high-level ministerial meeting reviewing expanded military calculations, Ben-Gvir demanded that Tel Aviv abandon conventional strategy and explicitly target the social and familial core of the Lebanese resistance network. "We must think outside the box regarding Hezbollah," Ben-Gvir asserted to his fellow cabinet members, according to the report. The Israeli minister added that alongside occupying southern territory and intensifying lethal strikes on personnel, Israeli forces should actively round up civilians. "We should arrest their women and children and take them to prison; this is what hurts them the most," he stated.​   https://x.com/TheCradleMedia/status/2064259406489895304

Netanyahu Confirms Israel 'Holding Fire, For Now' - Rejects Iran Red Line To Not Attack Lebanon​   https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/trump-urges-immediate-halt-iran-israel-trade-strikes-massive-iranian-petrochemical

​  Trump Says "US Will Be Attacking Iran Hard Again Today", Oil Spikes
Trump tells Fox he "may keep going" with strikes.
​  Trump says Iran took too long to negotiate, and now "will have to pay the price".
Tehran claims prior night attacks in Kuwait, Bahrain and Jordan as fulfilment of its previously vowed 'retaliation' - targeted the Fifth Fleet headquarters in Manama, footage shows.
​  Iran again signals it could cut off all indirect talks & any negotiations, says it is 'reviewing' US talks after latest exchange of missiles.​   
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/after-heavy-missile-exchange-trump-mocks-irans-total-mess-military-tehran-reviews

​  Gold & Geopolitics, Daily digest: 2026-06-10
The big delta: the US and Iran went from a nominally-intact ceasefire to trading direct strikes overnight. Trump claimed Iran downed a US Apache over Hormuz, CENTCOM launched "self-defense" strikes on a dozen-plus Iranian coastal sites including two drinking-water tanks, and the IRGC fired ballistic missiles and drones back at US bases in Bahrain, Jordan and Kuwait. The other delta is metallic: gold formally entered a bear market, silver knifed below its 200-DMA for the first time in 14 months, and the Gold Miners Bullish Percent Index printed a literal zero. Everything else (oil tank-bottoms, the AI deleveraging, the Russia-Ukraine grind, Belfast) is continuation with fresh advances...
​..Iran-US: an Apache pretext, then strikes both ways, with a "two or three days" deal running alongside
​  The trigger: a US AH-64 Apache went down near Hormuz. Trump first told the WSJ it "wasn't a big deal" (Faytuks), then framed it as an attack requiring a response.​  
[Israeli false-flag action, perhaps?]
​  The cause is unsettled. CENTCOM said it didn't know what caused the crash (MenchOsint); a US official told Barak Ravid an Iranian drone hit it but intent is undetermined (BarakRavid); Iran's deputy FM said it was not deliberately targeted (AJENews).
​  US strikes hit Sirik, Qeshm, Jask, Bandar Abbas, Minab and more (CKMapss, jacksonhinkle) - including two drinking-water tanks in Sirik per Iranian state media (zerohedge), cutting water to the Bemani district (sahouraxo).
​  Iran's reply: ballistic missiles and drones at the Fifth Fleet HQ in Bahrain and F-35 hangars at Muwaffaq Salti in Jordan, plus claimed MQ-9 Reaper kills
  The parallel track: simultaneous "imminent war" and "imminent ceasefire" headlines (zerohedge). Trump floated a deal in "two or three days" with Hormuz reopening "immediately" (unusual_whales); the US believes Iran will settle on a 15-year enrichment suspension​...
 ..Belfast burns after an attempted street beheading​ - A Sudanese asylum-seeker attempted to behead a man in a Belfast street; the victim, reported to be a disabled man who helped migrants settle, was gravely mutilated (zerohedge, visegrad24). Bystanders who intervened with a shovel likely saved his life.The response escalated through the day: homes, cars and buses set alight, vehicles stopped and checked for migrants, and an organised 7pm loyalist mobilisation with a long list of road closures circulated on WhatsApp​   https://no1sdailydigest.substack.com/p/daily-digest-2026-06-10

​  Gold & Geopolitics, Daily digest: 2026-06-09
The 24-hour ceasefire died on contact: Israel hit Iran's petrochemical sites, Iran answered on Haifa, Yemen joined firing at Tel Aviv, and both Hormuz and Bab-el-Mandeb slammed shut again - before Trump forced Israel to pause strikes on Iran within a day, while the bombing of Lebanon never stopped. The other big delta is markets: Friday's AI selloff went fully global overnight, with South Korea's KOSPI down 8.3% and trading halted. Everything else - oil draining toward tank bottoms, the AI-bubble IPO conveyor, Konstantinovka falling - is continuation with fresh numbers​...
..Oil: both straits shut, Cushing draining, futures still asleep at $75...
..Global AI/market rout. KOSPI fell ~8.3% and halted; Nikkei ~-4.5% (Hedgeye). BofA told clients to take profits with 70% of its bear-market signals flashing...
..Israel ordered the entire ancient city of Tyre evacuated - 3 Palestinian refugee camps and, explicitly, the Christian quarter... Open Trump-Netanyahu rift: Trump reportedly warned "Bibi, you better be careful, or you will be on your own very soon" (KobeissiLetter). A US official framed it as Netanyahu needing the war to live politically, Trump needing it to end.[If "Netanyahu" is an AI ghost, this would be a way to phase "him" out in September.]​ ...
​..The trigger sequence is now explicit: Hezbollah strike on Israel → Israel hits Lebanon → Iran strikes Israel "in defence of Lebanon" → Israel hits Iran → repeat (AmitSegal). Iran's stated red line: any attack on Lebanon is an attack on Iran (Nostre_damus).
​  Iran framed the Haifa petrochemical strike as direct retaliation for the Karun/Mahshahr hit, declaring all regional energy assets "legitimate targets" (NahidPoureisa).
​  Netanyahu: "holding fire… for now," reserving the right to resume (zerohedge). Iran's side says it is prepared for a long war​...
​..Lebanese/Iranian sources claim Israel has struck Lebanon ~3,500 times "during the ceasefire" (IRANinKENYA, AssalRad) - a claim, not confirmed.
​  Hezbollah is inflicting armour losses: Kornet/ATGM and FPV-drone strikes on Merkava tanks near Beaufort Castle, with the IDF admitting one officer killed (jonelmer). Week-13 field report notes FPV drones destroying Iron Dome launchers (jonelmer).
​  Daniel Davis: time to break the "war bonds" and stop subordinating US policy to Lebanon escalation (DanielLDavis1).​..
​..Russia-Ukraine: Konstantinovka pocket closing; the bridge war opens​...
​..Bridge-for-bridge: after Ukraine hit the M18 (Crimea-Kherson), Russia struck the Zatoka bridge in Odesa - the only link to southwestern Odesa Oblast - with Iskander-M, cruise missiles and glide bombs (MilitarySummary, AMK_Mapping_).
​  London summit (UK/France/Germany + Zelensky) reissued its five conditions; Moscow's red lines untouched (MyLordBebo). Lavrov: Zelensky's publicised "letter" proves Kyiv doesn't want talks (tassagency_en).
​  Armenia: Pashinyan's Civil Contract holds 61/105 seats - enough to govern, short of a supermajority - amid 70+ opposition arrests and rigging claims​  
https://no1sdailydigest.substack.com/p/daily-digest-2026-06-09

​  Gold & Geopolitics, Daily digest: 2026-06-08
The ceasefire didn't just stay empty - it shattered. Israel hit Beirut's Dahiyeh, Iran fired its first missiles at Israel since the April 8truce, Israel struck back inside Iran, and then Yemen entered the war, declaring a Red Sea naval blockade and putting missiles on Tel Aviv
​  The second big delta is Asia: Korea's KOSPI cratered ~8.8% with circuit breakers tripping twice, dragging Friday's US positioning purge across the Pacific while oil gapped up and silver knifed through its 200-day line...
​..The Lebanese "government" ​ & "army" are owned by USrael:South Lebanon: the dead Lebanese soldiers nobody's counting
​  An Israeli strike on a Lebanese Army vehicle killed two officers (a brigadier general and a captain) and a private; ~31 Lebanese soldiers killed since March 2 - while the same army is supposed to deploy south under the deal​...
..Gaza: aid cut to 2 million as retaliation for Iran​ - Israel closed all Gaza crossings and halted humanitarian aid to roughly 2 million Palestinians after Iran's strikes - collective punishment for an Iran-Israel exchange Gaza had no part in (DropSiteNews, DanielLDavis1). The bombing of Gaza never paused throughout...
​..Kim Jong Un nuclear threat: if the US hits Iran with nukes, North Korea will fire nuclear ballistic missiles at Tel Aviv and Washington (Russia_Scope). Notably, Xi arrived in Pyongyang for a state visit the same day (zerohedge). LOW
​  Blackstone gates private credit: the $1.3T manager restricted withdrawals from its flagship private credit fund - "another one" ​...
​..Food crisis building: ~50% of seaborne urea and 25% of global ammonia trade lost to the war - nitrogen fertilizer feeds ~50% of food production (ekwufinance). Asian coal at a near-two-year high as Hormuz chokes LNG​   
https://no1sdailydigest.substack.com/p/daily-digest-2026-06-08

India Rescues 24 Crewmembers From Stricken Tanker Off Oman After US Airstrike​   https://www.zerohedge.com/commodities/houthis-declare-total-ban-israeli-ships-dual-chokepoint-crisis-stokes-supply-chain

​  Moon of Alabama, War On Iran: – Iran Needs Escalation To Avoid The Ceasefire Trap
A typical U.S. tactic against a strategic target is to ‘boil the frog’ by slowly increasing the temperature of the water it is sitting it. The conflict in Ukraine is an good example for this. Hits against Russia, directed by the CIA, are escalated bit by bit while Russia is reluctant to more severe deterrence measures.
  The current war on Iran is another example. The U.S. is insisting on a ceasefire while trying to erode Iran’s leverage with economic strangulation.
Iran’s major weapon, the blockade of the Strait of Hormuz, will need another month or two to fully unfold its intended effect on the U.S. and global economy. Meanwhile the U.S. is trying to tire Iran with fake diplomacy, economic measures (its blockade) and pinpoint strikes.
  But Iran is well aware of this tactic. It has decided to avoid this ceasefire trap by continuous escalation.   
https://www.moonofalabama.org/2026/06/war-on-iran-iran-needs-escalation-to-avoid-the-ceasefire-trap.html

  Pepe Escobar, Iran: The art of controlling escalation dominance
At the start of last week, two U.S. military vessels attempted a “dark transit” through the Strait of Hormuz: transponders off, evading IRGC Navy monitoring, and ignoring repeated navigational warnings.
​  Yet Omani signals intelligence flagged the vessels, and after warnings were explicitly disregarded, the IRGC Navy went for a targeted drone strike.
Translation: that was the strict enforcement of the new laws regulating the Iran-controlled navigation corridor at the world’s top sensitive maritime choke point.
​  The Zionist axis did not fail to frame Iran’s enforcement action as a direct assault on “American supremacy”. Hence, predictably, the White House authorized strikes against Iranian drone installations.
​  Washington, once again predictably, presented the kinetic response as a proportionate reassertion of deterrence. Tehran for its part interpreted it as a blatant U.S. attack during an active ceasefire.​   
https://strategic-culture.su/news/2026/06/01/iran-art-controlling-escalation-dominance/

  AI-Bibi could be phased out in September elections: Simplicius, Iran Establishes Escalation Dominance with First-Ever Non-Retaliatory Strike on Israel
Israel’s attacks on Lebanon to destroy Trump’s fragile ceasefire had one major purpose: to ensure that Israel never loses its right to attack any country at will. To allow itself to be held to a norm or ‘standard’ of any kind in refraining from hitting Lebanon would be to set a dangerous precedent for Israel, which has historically operated with no checks on its wanton aggression. Such a precedent would be a sign of massive weakness and failure that would be a crack in the system of colonization Israel has worked so fiercely to impose on the region.
​  For his part, Trump appears to be finally growing exasperated with Netanyahu’s defiance, admitting to an interviewer that he yelled and cursed Bibi out in a phone call last week, telling him “You’re fu*king crazy!”
​  The alleged transcript, according to Axios:
“You’re fucking crazy. You’d be in prison if it weren’t for me. Everybody hates you now. Everybody hates Israel because of this.”
​  It seems Trump is more disturbed by the fact that precious Israel is finally receiving its much-due blowback.
Now Trump has allegedly gone even farther, telling Bibi that he may soon be on his own against Iran.​   
https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/iran-establishes-escalation-dominance

IRGC missiles hit US F-35 hangars at Al-Azraq base in Jordan​   https://en.mehrnews.com/news/245213/IRGC-missiles-hit-US-F-35-shelters-at-Al-Azraq-base-in-Jordan

  ​Alastair Crooke, Iran takes its chances with war
Iran effectively is acknowledging the reality that in this new phase — with so many inherent flash points to it — American military escalation at some point likely will become a political necessity for Trump’s domestic and Jewish financers’ needs.
​  And the negotiations? They will go nowhere so long as Israel and the U.S. Jewish billionaire donors reject any Iran outcome that leaves Iran both intact and stronger and — pari passu in this binary thinking — the ‘Israel First’ project within the U.S. and the region correspondingly weakened.
​  A deal that doesn’t see Iran irretrievably weakened will be condemned by these latter forces as a ‘treasonous dereliction’ by Trump. He will be attacked mercilessly. Yet, he must see that Iran is anyway on the cusp of throwing off the U.S. shackles.
​  This phase of the Iranian conflict likely will only end when the West falls off the approaching economic cliff​.   
https://strategic-culture.su/news/2026/06/08/iran-takes-its-chances-with-war/

​  Moon of Alabama, War On Iran: – U.S. Provocation Towards Further Escalation
The war on Iran continues to escalate.
  Yesterday a U.S. Apache helicopter went down in the Strait of Hormuz near the coast of Oman. The pilots were saved. The U.S. at first did not claim any external influence for the incident. Only hours after it happened it claimed that an Iranian Shahid drone had hit the helicopter.
  That claim is not plausible at all.
  Shahid are point to point kamikaze drones. They get their target coordinates before they are launched. They are not radio controlled. They do not have the capability to maneuver against a moving target. They explode when they hit something.
  Whatever happened to the downed helicopter it wasn’t a hit by a Shahid drone that took it down.
After the U.S. had suddenly claimed that Iran had caused the incident it announced to strike on Iran. Some 10 targets were bombed including radar, communication equipment and, in the port of Sirik, a desalination station.
  Iran responded by firing some 20 missiles and drones against U.S. installations in Kuwait, Jordan and Bahrain. Neither side has claimed casualties so far.
Today the U.S. hit an Indian vessel near the coast of Oman. One sailor was killed. India condemned the attack.
  About an hour ago U.S. President Donald Trump announced more strikes against Iran.
In unconfirmed news Israel just mobilized some 280,000 reservists. Together with already mobilized forces that sums up to be near its full potential.
  The situation is going to escalate. Tomorrow the region may well again be in a full fledged war.   
https://www.moonofalabama.org/2026/06/war-on-iran-u-s-provocation-towards-further-escalation.html

‘Biden’s war’ has become Trump’s – Lavrov​   https://web.archive.org/web/20260606124915/https://www.rt.com/russia/641031-ukraine-trump-war-lavrov/

​  Kushner is buying elected politicians for Israel, wherever they are cheap. WHAT IS JARED KUSHNER BUYING? Three deals. Three countries. Same pattern every time.   https://sirescanor.substack.com/p/what-is-jared-kushner-buying

​  Outrage Grows in U.K. as British People Witness DEI Outcome and Two-Tiered Policing in Brutal Murder
New information about the brutal stabbing murder of 18-year-old Henry Nowak continues to surface, and each revelation is seemingly worse than the last.  In the latest development the Daily Mail now outlines that Nowak’s killer, Vickrum Digwa, actually recorded his victim lying on the ground in agony as the murderer mocked him.
​  Incredibly the judge in the trial ruled the killer’s own recording of his murder, “too disturbing to be shown” in court.  Digwa did not call for an ambulance after stabbing his victim but did take pictures and record Henry Nowak.  However, the killer’s own video was NOT shown in court!  The footage the court ruled too disturbing to show was five minutes of Vickrum Digwa filming the 18-year-old as he bled to death on the pavement.​   
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2026/06/05/outrage-grows-in-u-k-as-british-people-witness-dei-outcome-and-two-tiered-policing-in-brutal-murder/#more-284099

​  Belfast Burns After Sudanese Migrant's Street-Beheading Attempt Sparks Local Revolt Against Globalists
Activist Tommy Robinson, who has long warned about mass migration chaos, shared an image of the victim before the beheading attack, which he says was carried out by a "Sudanese invader"...
​.."Stop importing rapists, murderers, and sex pests from savage third-world countries who put young girls' lives at risk. Once you have advocated for that, and the removal of unwanted illegal migrants from communities who never asked for or wanted them, then you can take the high road," Robinson continued.
​  He noted, "I have very little time or patience right now listening to those who plant unvetted savages into our communities who rape, murder and prey on our children - and they have the audacity to tell us to shut up for the sake of diversity, and everyone is racist?"​   https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/belfast-burns-after-sudanese-invaders-street-beheading-attempt-sparks-local-revolt

​  House Report Finds Minnesota Officials Ignored Fraud To Avoid Racism Accusations​  
A House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform report released Monday paints a devastating picture of both Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and state Attorney General Keith Ellison, finding that they both knew about widespread fraud in state social services programs and failed to act.​   https://www.zerohedge.com/political/house-report-finds-minnesota-officials-ignored-fraud-avoid-racism-accusations

​  Everybody with a California drivers license can vote, including those who "forgot to check" the "I am a citizen" box: California U.S. Attorney Office Pretends Not to Know Specifics or Origin of California Voter Fraud   https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2026/06/07/california-u-s-attorney-office-pretends-not-to-know-specifics-or-origin-of-california-voter-fraud/#more-284123

I don't gamble at those tables. Do you?  10 Reasons You Shouldn't Ignore This Week's Sharp Reversal And Selloff   https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/10-reasons-you-shouldnt-ignore-tuesdays-sharp-reversal-and-selloff

  Gold & Geopolitics on costs of apparently-free money and voluntary vs forced reform: There's no such thing as a free lunch​ - Just deferred payments   https://no01.substack.com/p/theres-no-such-thing-as-a-free-lunch

  A thoughtful, informative and engaging essay:   The Rival Theologies of Artificial Intelligence
Recently, the Vatican and Anthropic have shown a united front on artificial intelligence. But are they actually aligned?​   https://letter.palladiummag.com/p/the-rival-theologies-of-artificial

Cheap & Dirty: President Trump announces a major shift in energy funding, revealing plans to completely dismantle a massive Green New Deal initiative in favor of revitalizing America's coal industry: "Finally, we're taking nearly $200 million — it was set aside for the 'Green New Scam.'" is history and repurposing that money so that we restart a coal plant in Maryland and help build two brand-new coal plants in Alaska and West Virginia."​     https://x.com/FoxNews/status/2062625813489455213

​  RoundUp Ready...  USDA’s Plan to Bring Back American Cotton
Promoted as an agricultural initiative, the new cotton plan, through an alliance with HHS, also targets microplastics in clothing, sheets and blankets.​   
https://www.themahareport.com/p/usdas-plan-to-bring-back-american

​  David Hughes, Johns Hopkins Early Bioterrorism Scenarios​ - Tracing the Origins of "Biosecurity"
By now it is well known that “Covid-19” was preceded by two decades of planning exercises around “pandemic preparedness,” which are more accurately described as war games (Kennedy Jr., 2021, p. 382; Hughes, 2024, pp. 227-228).
​  Less well appreciated is the pivotal role of a group of scholars at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in getting those exercises off the ground, not as “pandemic preparedness” exercises, but as fictional bioterrorism scenarios. Dark Winter (2001) has achieved notoriety in that regard, but it was preceded by two fictional scenarios involving smallpox and anthrax in 1999, as well as a tabletop exercise called TOPOFF in 2000.
   https://dhughes.substack.com/p/johns-hopkins-early-bioterrorism

​  Playing a special video game doubled voluntary acceptance of HPV vaccine injections: Increasing HPV Vaccination Among Early Adolescents Using a Game-Based Digital Intervention: A Randomized Controlled Trial   https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/42188818/

  A Midwestern Doctor points out that drug-companies pay researchers from profits: How They Rig Clinical Trials and The Price We All Pay For It
A practical guide to spotting doctored research and finding the therapies that actually help​   https://www.midwesterndoctor.com/p/how-they-rig-clinical-trials-leaving

​  Trump Signs Executive Order Backing HHS on Childhood Vaccine Reform — Will It Matter?
The order directs public health agencies to align the schedule with an HHS federal assessment published in January that calls for fewer recommended childhood vaccines.
Some experts suggested the order is intended to override an April court ruling that paused recent changes, including a reduction in the number of diseases covered by the schedule. The American Academy of Pediatrics said it will challenge the order.​   
https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/trump-signs-executive-order-backing-hhs-childhood-vaccine-reform/

​  Lipid micelles like ovaries & testes: RFK Jr. Must Investigate: Regulators Told the Public mRNA COVID Vaccines Stay ‘in the Arm’ — the Evidence Says Otherwise
​  By the time the COVID-19 mRNA vaccines rolled out, regulators were already reviewing data that didn’t support what they were telling the public: that the vaccines stayed “in the arm” and disappeared in a day or two. This raises serious questions about regulatory conduct, informed consent, negligent misrepresentation, potential suppression or minimization of material safety information, and whether civil or criminal liability could emerge if the courts prove intentional deception or knowing concealment.​   https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/rfk-jr-investigate-regulators-public-mrna-covid-vaccines-stay-arm-evidence-otherwise/

​  Peter McCullough MD, In 2025, 31 Million (8.9%) Americans Actually Took a COVID-19 Booster
Far less than CDC estimates from a random phone survey for the increasingly unpopular vaccines.​   https://www.thefocalpoints.com/p/in-2025-31-million-89-americans-actually

​  John Leake, The COVID-19 Vaccine Cancer Catastrophe
Professor Angus Dalgleish's Senate testimony is unspeakably bad news for public health, but we are working on finding solutions.
​  Professor Dalgleish just shared his findings before the US Senate on June 3, 2026. The occasion was a hearing titled “Plausible Mechanisms of Covid-19 Injections Causing Cancer and Attacks on Scientific Publications and Research,” held by the U.S. Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee’s Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations.
​  The hearing was chaired by Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) and took place in the Senate Dirksen Building. The hearing examined links between mRNA COVID-19 vaccines/boosters and cancer risks/relapses, along with scientific censorship and suppression of dissenting research.​   
https://www.thefocalpoints.com/p/the-covid-19-vaccine-cancer-catastrophe

​  Get sun. Avoid burns without using sunscreen. Watch the clock. Study Finds Sunscreen Use Linked to Higher Risk of Multiple Skin Cancers
A 470,000+ person study found sunscreen users faced dramatically higher risk of melanoma, basal cell carcinoma, and squamous cell carcinoma — even after accounting for major skin cancer risk factors.​   https://www.thefocalpoints.com/p/study-finds-sunscreen-use-linked

​  The Citation They Can't Retract: JAMA's Unintentional Endorsement of Ivermectin-Mebendazole/Febendazole for Cancer
Rockwell et al warned that celebrity podcasting erodes institutional trust. Then they handed the public a peer-reviewed receipt showing the drugs are widely used and under study by NCI.​   
https://www.thefocalpoints.com/p/the-citation-they-cant-retract-jamas

​Paul Marik MD, Repurposed Drugs and Nutraceuticals That Improve Systemic Immunity and the Tumor Microenvironment   https://paulmarik.substack.com/p/repurposed-drugs-and-nutraceuticals-a25

  Tony Fauci revealed that he took 6000 IU/d of vitamin-D in 2021. Meryl Nass MD, If Vitamin D is necessary to prevent serious respiratory infections and also prevents cancers, then the attempt to lower our blood levels needs to be investigated as a crime - Particularly in conjunction with the expected effects of COVID and its vaccine  https://merylnass.substack.com/p/if-vitamin-d-is-necessary-to-prevent

Paul Marik MD, Metformin: The Most Important Repurposed Drug in Cancer Care​ - How a humble diabetes drug targets the metabolic engine of cancer.   https://paulmarik.substack.com/p/metformin-the-most-important-repurposed

15 minutes of paradigm-shift: Evidence That Fog Is Alive and Not just Some Weather Phenomenon   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBzb-fHukgM

  Along with fertilizer-shortage: We Are Being Warned That A "Godzilla El Niño" Could Absolutely Devastate Global Food Production
That "Super El Niño" was one of the primary reasons why 50 million people starved during the Great Famine that stretched from 1876 to 1878...
​  This El Niño, they say, could rival the intense event of the late 19th century that triggered "the Great Famine" on a global scale, killing millions of people. And its scythe sliced through southern Africa.
​  "The 1876-78 Great Famine impacted multiple regions across the globe, including parts of Asia, Nordeste [Northeast] Brazil, and northern and southern Africa, with total human fatalities exceeding 50 million people, arguably the worst environmental disaster to befall humanity," a team of scientists said a decade ago in a ground-breaking paper presented at a meeting of the American Geophysical Union.
​  3 percent of the entire population of the world starved to death during those years.
Today, 3 percent of the entire population of the world would be 240,000,000 people.
​  In 1982 and 1983, we experienced the most severe "Super El Niño" of the 20th century...
In 1982-83, the most intense El Niño of the 20th century caused extreme weather events throughout the world, including floods in the American Pacific and in the southern United States, and droughts in north-eastern Brazil and Indonesia. It also caused a very mild winter in the mid-latitudes of Europe, Asia and North America.That "Super El Niño" sparked a horrific famine in eastern Africa that wiped out a very large proportion of the population...​   
https://www.zerohedge.com/weather/we-are-being-warned-godzilla-el-nino-could-absolutely-devastate-global-food-production

​Josh Mitteldorf opens a can of worms I never knew about: Biological Alchemy​ - copious evidence for the “impossible”   https://mitteldorf.substack.com/p/biological-alchemy

Converting Sunlight to Food