Saturday, July 12, 2025

Collapsing Chaos

 Non-Participants,


  Alex Krainer,  The collapse of West's strategy of chaos
Recent clash between India and Pakistan turned out catastrophic for the Western empire, which is why it quickly vanished from the media.
​  Croatian Admiral Davorin Domazet is well connected among active military circles in NATO and other nations, including Russia. He is also remarkably well informed about military technology and operations in key war theaters around the world.​..
​..Having participated in the 1990s wars in the Balkans at the highest levels of command, Domazet has long recognized the actual fault lines in the ongoing global clash between two systems of governance, well before most other analysts began to catch on. In his book, “The Masters of Chaos,” published in 2005 (20 years ago!) he predicted, among other things, that the great crescendo in this conflict would occur in 2025, which now seems spot on!​ ...
..Domazet spoke about the recent clash between India and Pakistan. The hostilities, which quickly vanished from the pages and airwaves of Western media outlets, were extremely significant...
..On 22 April, a terrorist attack took place in Pahalagam, in India's territory of Jammu and Kashmir. The attack was attributed to Pakistani Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) and its military. It left 25 Indian tourists and one Nepali individual dead. The attack provoked outrage in India and vows of retribution...
..Thankfully, the conflict did not escalate: it died down after only two days of kinetic action. What happened? Domazet provides an important bit of context: over the recent years, India started buying some of their key weapons systems from Western arms manufacturers. One of the most important procurement contracts was India’s $9 billion purchase of 36 Rafale aircraft from France: a staggering $250 million per fighter jet. The strategic objective of that extraordinary splurge was to give India air superiority over Pakistan...
..Pakistan opted for Chinese made weapons systems, including the J-10C fighter jets, which cost about a fifth of French Ravales ($46-$58 million). The J-10Cs can carry 9 missiles and are equipped with a powerful radar that can simultaneously lock on 16 different targets. Pakistani military also relies on Chinese satellites so when India mounted their air attack, Pakistan’s defensive response was almost immediate. India launched six aircraft, at least four of which were the fancy French Rafale fighter jets. The Pakistani Air Force scrambled a Chinese J-10C...  The J-10C, equipped with six Chinese air-to-air PL-15 missiles, identified India’s aircraft from a distance of 200 km. The PL-15s were launched from a distance of 150 km and all six Indian jets were shot downPakistan sustained no loss in the encounter. The event caused shock and consternation in India’s and Western military circles. The following day, India attempted an attack using drones. India procured its drones from Israel; Pakistan again used Chinese drones which proved superior and that attack also failed.
​  This is why that war died as quickly as it did. But beyond just India’s air attacks failing, the episode was a spectacular showdown between Western and Chinese weapons systems. Rather than showcasing the superiority of Western made weapons, it did exactly the opposite.​..
​..Already in 2011, Benjamin Netanyahu made the following statement:
"... the greatest mission that we have is to prevent a militant Islamic regime from meeting up with nuclear weapons or from nuclear weapons meeting up with a militant Islamic regime. The first is called Iran. The second is called Pakistan.
 Because if these radical regimes have nuclear weapons, they will not obey the rules that have been obeyed in the last, almost seven decades." [link, the statement is at 1:13 mark]
​ It appears that Israel is again actively preparing for war against Pakistan. In that, it can count on strong support from Zionist and Indian lobbies in Washington DC.​..  
​..The fear of an Islamic nation possessing a nuclear bomb is an old thing: it is why Israel attacked Egypt in the 1960s and Iraq in 1981. In 2018, Israel confessed to bombing Syria's nuclear facility in 2007, and today it is Pakistan's nuclear program that's in Israel's crosshairs again. Yes, again: already in 1981 Israel developed the plan to strike Pakistan's nuclear program. In this plan, India was supporting Israel by providing air bases where Israeli F16s and F15s could land and refuel before the strikes.
​  The Indians named the plan "Operation Shakti" and Israeli pilots already began training for it. However, Pakistan's ISI found out about this and the country's then ruler Zia ul-Haq reacted immediately. He delivered a blunt message to Israel, saying that if they strike at Pakistan's nuclear facilities, Pakistan would strike Dimona. Ul-Haq also threatened India. Facing a wider war against Pakistan, India backed off. Without India's help, there was no way Israel could carry out the attack, so they backed off too.
​  Another attack was being prepared in 1998. At that time, the Pakistani government received an intelligence report that found that India and Israel were planning to carry out a joint attack against the country's nuclear facilities. Shamshad Ahmad (former Pakistani Foreign Secretary) explained the intelligence report they received:
​  "Sir, we have just received intelligence report that at an Indian airport, squadrons of Indian and Israeli air forces are positioned and are preparing for an attack on Pakistan's nuclear installations in Balochistan. Then I called our Ambassador in New York, Ahmed Kamal. I told him, go... on CNN and say that Pakistan has information that India and Israel are about to launch a joint attack on Pakistan. The Ambassador went live on CNN and it resulted in a good impact because if India and Israel had made such a plan, it would be called off by morning.”...
..India has relied on a very close collaboration with Israeli intelligence to direct action against Pakistan. Particularly today, after its recent humiliation by the Pakistani Air Force, India is anxious to support the next Israeli attack against Pakistan. Predictably, Pakistan is the new, new existential threat to Israel...
..Once more, let’s recall that we’re not observing a chain of unrelated conflicts: all these wars are only different battlegrounds in the same clash between opposed systems of governance: the Western imperial system against all who refuse to submit to it... They are related in another way: Western empire is also losing in all of them. Perhaps the most important war is that between Russia and Western proxy Ukraine, where the comprehensive defeat of the West is imminent.
​  Israel, West’s proxy in the Middle East has also been strategically defeated with the failure of their air defence systems during the 12-day war. Western powers also failed to contain Yemen’s Ansarullah and to effect a regime change in Iran. Their odds of defeating Pakistan are mostly born of desperation, fantasies and wishful thinking, and thanks to the showdown of Western and Chinese weapons technologies, we now have a better appreciation for how the West’s war on China - their ultimate target - might go. It all seems rather hopeless.​..
..According to Admiral Domazet, if they are continuing with escalations and serial arson attacks against peace across the Eurasian continent, it is because they are trying to start a nuclear conflict somewhere in the world as the last hope of preserving their power and their system of governance. Someone will ask, “who is they,” Alex?
​  It is the occult oligarchy that runs the Western Empire, headquartered at the City of London. The oligarchy’s constraint, however, is that they can’t be seen as the instigators of a first-strike nuclear attack. Instead, their game is to provoke another power into using nukes...   Failing that, Israel will do. Israel probably wouldn’t survive such a sinister misadventure, but as far as the occult oligarchy running the Empire is concerned, Israel is expendable.​..
..The real problem, however, is that their opponents - the other systems of governance emerging under Chinese, Russian and Iranian leadership - are well aware of the stakes and of the oligarchy’s playbook. They won’t easily fall into provocations, making this period of history very probably the beginning of the end of the Western Empire.​   https://alexkrainer.substack.com/p/the-collapse-of-wests-strategy-of

​  Trump Attempts to Slow the Inertia of War – Now Sending Weapons to NATO Instead of Ukraine
​  Everyone can see the play by President Trump. Essentially, the “coalition of the willing” (U.K, Germany, France) are not willing to go to war against Russia without the United States in front of them.  Giving the coalition the weapons puts the consequences of their use on the heads of NATO allies.
​  Despite the majority of Washington DC, specifically the Senate thirsting, pleading and demanding an expanded NATO war, President Trump does not want to go to war against Russia. However, simultaneously Trump has to try and steer the war machine controlled by DC, the Senate, USIC and NATO.​    
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2025/07/11/trump-attempts-to-slow-the-inertia-of-war-now-sending-weapons-to-nato-instead-of-ukraine/#more-273993

​  Gilbert Doctorow,  Glenn Diesen: Wars Bring Together Russia, China, Iran, Pakistan & North Korea​  
​  The first third of today’s discussion was directed at the title subject, namely the growing consolidation of what is a military alliance in all but name between these five Asian powers. The principal source for what I said was last night’s Vladimir Solovyov talk show which featured top level Russian academic Orientalists...
​..We were told that China is now shipping a lot of military hardware to Iran in return for the large quantities of oil it receives from Iran. The hardware includes fighter jets, latest generation air defense installations and a lot more. Moreover, China’s readiness to fight, if necessary, to ensure that Iran is not defeated by Israel, by the United States, was demonstrated by its sending a naval task force to the Gulf in the final days of the Iran-Israeli war – set to attack the U.S. navy if necessary. Surely this signal was not missed by Washington.​  
​  In the words of the panelists last night, Pakistan is ready to send to Iran any and all military supplies that it requires.  Considering that Pakistan is a long-established nuclear power, I suggest that delivery of nuclear bombs to Iran should not be excluded if Iran comes under existential threat. From this angle, the total focus of attention by the United States and other Western powers on the levels of enrichment of uranium going on in Iran is foolishness.  Why build when at any moment you can buy?
​  The other interesting appraisal of the aforementioned ‘axis’ pertains to North Korea, which is said to be seen in its neighborhood as very powerful, far more than you would imagine if The New York Times was your only source of information...​                                                                                                               ​..The Russians are now attacking heavily the Western Ukraine, meaning Lvov and the area between Lvov and the Polish border where incoming shipments of arms from the West are stored for transshipment east to the front. The threat is being felt by the Poles, so that their president Duda yesterday said Poland is considering stopping the use of their airport in the southeastern corner of their country as the hub for Western arms shipments to Ukraine.
​  What is the meaning of the new Russian aggressiveness?  I believe it is a clear signal to German chancellor Merz to watch out because Russia is ready for war and will defend its red lines with overwhelming military force.  Why Merz?  Because as we heard from Vladimir Solovyov last night, ‘he is a Nazi.”  That appears to be the new Kremlin line: Germany has replaced the United States as Russia’s enemy number one.​   
https://gilbertdoctorow.com/2025/07/10/glenn-diesen-wars-bring-together-russia-china-iran-pakistan-north-korea/

​  Andrew Korybko,  Russia’s Formal Recognition Of The Taliban Comes At A Crucial Time For The Broader Region
Trump wants to return US forces to Afghanistan’s Bagram Airbase; there are newfound concerns about the North-South Transport Corridor’s viability after the recent Iranian-Israeli War; and Turkiye is making a powerplay to expand its influence into Central Asia.
​  Russia became the first country to formally recognize the Taliban as the legitimate government of Afghanistan earlier this month.​..
..The gist is that the expansion of Russian economic influence in Afghanistan, the prerequisite of which is formal recognition of the Taliban as that country’s legitimate government, will enable Moscow to pioneer energy and real-sector connectivity with Pakistan’s promising emerging market via Central Asia. For that to happen, however, Afghan-Pakistani tensions must first abate and Afghan-emanating terrorist threats to the region must be neutralized or at least contained...
..All in all, the economic, security, diplomatic, and ultimately strategic opportunities unlocked by Russia’s formal recognition of the Taliban will turbocharge its influence in the broader region, which couldn’t have come at a better time given concerns about the NSTC’s viability and impending Turkish-US inroads.​   https://korybko.substack.com/p/russias-formal-recognition-of-the

Von der Leyen Hides Truth About Coronavirus Vaccine Purchases​   https://sputnikglobe.com/20250708/von-der-leyen-hides-truth-about-purchase-of-coronavirus-vaccines---rdif-ceo-1122411382.html

Von der Leyen blames Russia for no-confidence motion​. The EU chief has labeled her critics “conspiracy theorists”​   https://swentr.site/news/621181-eu-president-confidence-russia/

​  30% voted against her:  Von der Leyen survives confidence vote as dissent surprises Brussels
The European Commission president argued that the EU "needs strength, vision, and the capacity to act"​   https://tass.com/world/1987941

Relations with US will never be the same – von der Leyen​,  Washington and Brussels have been fighting over a tariff increase since February​   https://swentr.site/news/621363-relations-us-never-same-again-leyen/

​Nobaly worser than even the US:  Europe is losing – JPMorgan CEO​, The region’s economic competitiveness is dwindling, Jamie Dimon has warned   https://swentr.site/news/621352-europe-losing-simon/

​  Washington, D.C – Secretary of State Marco Rubio is the latest high-profile victim of an illegal impersonation enabled by artificial intelligence. Several nations’ foreign ministers, a state governor and a U.S. senator received fraudulent AI-generated text and even voice messages apparently from him.​   https://sovereignty.substack.com/p/secretary-rubio-meets-frankenai-a

​  UKRAINE: MUM DIES TRYING TO SAVE SON FROM BRUTAL DRAFT​ -- The footage from Kharkov Region shows an elderly woman attempting to block a van before she collapses to the ground.​   https://michaelwalshwriter.com/2025/07/10/ukraine-mum-dies-trying-to-save-son-from-brutal-draft/

​  Ukraine needs ceasefire by end of 2025 – spy chief​ - A truce with Russia must be brokered as soon as possible, Kirill Budanov has said​ 
“Is it realistic to do so? Yes. Is it difficult? No,” he said. “It takes at least three sides – Ukraine, Russia, and the US. And we will get to this position.”​   https://swentr.site/russia/621366-ukrainian-spy-chief-softens-ceasefire/

​  S​implicius, Trump Flips on Ammo (Again?), as Russian Steamroller Bursts into Zaporozhye 
One wonders how many Patriots the US can realistically even spare:
​  U.S. Patriot missile stockpiles are at just 25% of required levels. - The Guardian...
..Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi told the European Union’s top diplomat on Wednesday that Beijing cannot afford a Russian loss in Ukraine because it fears the United States would then shift its whole focus to Beijing...
..Recently clues have surfaced of China’s support, including Ukrainian channels finding various Chinese parts in new Russian Geran drones, Chinese lasers and other items flooding the Russian frontline, etc. Most are aware that the vast majority of lower end Russian EW systems on the front for the past couple years have been from China, and this goes for many other things like communications, satellite ‘GPS’ transceivers in drones, etc. That’s not to even mention the transports like DesertCross 1000 vehicles and the flood of motorcycles hitting the front. And then there’s the whole backend, with recent reports indicating mass Chinese machining tool transfers for the expansion of Russian tank and barrel production ... 
..Ex-Aidar deputy commander Ihor Mosiychuk leaked a document that was reportedly given to him by an unnamed Ukrainian government minister. The ‘secret’ document is claimed to concern the relocation of the Kiev government to the west of the country...
..Lastly, the most absurd thing you may hear all year: CNN reveals leaked audio of Trump claiming that he ‘scared away’ both Putin and Xi by telling them he would bomb Moscow and Beijing. This was reported last year, but only through hearsay—now there’s a direct leaked recording of it. Of all Trump’s most flagrantly egomaniacal excesses, this may top them all.​   https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/sitrep-7825-trump-flips-on-ammo-again

​  Simplicius, Comedy-Turned-Farce: Trump Pledges a Whole Ten Missiles to Ukraine
​  After failing to coerce Russia into an unfavorable cessation of hostilities (read: surrender), the US is now again playing ‘sanctions’ roulette, which deep state neocon vampire Lindsey Graham has been wedging onto Trump.​..
​..The US sanctions, either way, happen to be stillborn, as skeptical WaPo already informed us last time:
​  On paper, a bill from Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-South Carolina) attempting to enact the toughest and most far-reaching trade sanctions on Russia to date ought to please supporters of Ukraine. But there’s a problem: As bold as the legislation is, it would amount to launching a trade war with nearly the entire rest of the world, cutting off America’s nose to spite Russian President Vladimir Putin’s face.​..
..Ukraine fatigue ramps up in the West. Polish president Duda has made quite a provocative statement, essentially threatening to close down the Rzeszow airport weapons pipeline into Ukraine, which is by far the most critical NATO weapons node.   https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/comedy-turned-farce-trump-pledges

Kyiv calls Trump's words about transferring ten missiles for Patriot a "stupid joke"​   https://en.topcor.ru/61863-v-kieve-nazvali-glupoj-shutkoj-slova-trampa-o-peredache-desjati-raket-dlja-patriot.html

Netanyahu Presents Trump With Nomination For Nobel Peace Prize As Both Downplay 'Two-State Solution'​   https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/netanyahu-presents-trump-nomination-nobel-peace-prize-both-downplay-two-state-solution

​Best candidate of all:  Hind Rajab Nominated for the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize   https://adc.org/hind/#:~:text=Washington%2C%20D.C.,in%20close%20consultation%20with%20ADC.

​  Israeli Airstrike Slaughters 10 Children Waiting for Nutritional Aid Near Medical Clinic in Gaza​,  When asked about the massacre, the State Department referred the reporter to the state of Israel​   https://news.antiwar.com/2025/07/10/israeli-airstrike-slaughters-10-children-waiting-for-nutritional-aid-near-medical-clinic-in-gaza/

Hamas Willing To Release 10 Hostages, But Israel Wants Total Disarmament​   https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/hamas-willing-release-10-living-hostages-israel-wants-total-disarmament

17 killed in Israeli airstrike in Gaza's Deir Balah​   https://en.mehrnews.com/news/234169/17-killed-in-Israeli-airstrike-in-Gaza-s-Deir-Balah

​  US Sanctions UN Expert For Pushing ICC Case Against Israel
​  Secretary of State Marco Rubio has announced the United States will be imposing sanctions on the United Nations (UN) special rapporteur on human rights in the occupied Palestinian territories, accusing her of anti-Semitism, and supporting terrorism.​  “Today I am imposing sanctions on UN Human Rights Council Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese for her illegitimate and shameful efforts to prompt [International Criminal Court] action against U.S. and Israeli officials, companies, and executives.”​   https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/us-sanctions-un-expert-pushing-icc-case-against-israel

​Go Girl! (Watch your back.)  MTG Moves To Strike Half-Billion Of Military Aid To 'Nuclear-Armed Israel'   https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/mtg-moves-strike-half-billion-military-aid-nuclear-armed-israel

​  'Iran open to resuming negotiations but US must first compensate for its mistakes'​  
​  Araghchi emphasized that for renewed talks, the United States must accept responsibility for its actions toward Iran. He warned that further sanctions or military threats would undermine diplomatic efforts.
​  He also addressed suggestions from the three European countries regarding the activation of the sanctions mechanism outlined in the 2015 nuclear deal, stating that such a move would be tantamount to a military attack and would essentially negate Europe’s role in discussions concerning Iran’s peaceful nuclear program.​   
https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2025/07/10/750977/Iran%E2%80%99s-FM--US-must-compensate-for-its-mistakes

​Puppet getting to work:  Syria's Sharaa Met With Top Israeli Officials In 'Quiet' Normalization Effort   https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/reports-say-syrias-sharaa-met-top-israeli-officials-quiet-normalization-effort

​  Israel Urges the US To Start Bombing Yemen Again
The State Department has hinted that the US might restart the bombing campaign following Houthi attacks on two Greek-owned ships​   
https://news.antiwar.com/2025/07/10/israel-urges-the-us-to-start-bombing-yemen-again/

​Celia Farber,  Michael Wolff's Interview With James Truman in 1994:Jeffrey Epstein And Trump Were Friends And Business Partners For 10 Years



CIA Whistleblower Reveals How Intel Agencies Gather Blackmail On Politicians​   https://www.zerohedge.com/political/cia-whistleblower-reveals-how-intel-agencies-gather-blackmail-politicians

"They Were Child Porn. They Will Never Be Released": Trump & Bondi Punt On Epstein Questions​   https://www.zerohedge.com/political/12-key-questions-all-americans-should-ask-about-shameful-attempt-cover-truth-about

​  Jeffrey Epstein victim attorney Sigrid McCawley drops a bombshell accusing Pam Bondi’s DOJ of withholding a treasure trove of evidence including names of co-conspirators, financial records, and multiple computers. She says the department has every piece of information on who Epstein was working with and a secret group that helped Epstein conceal his crimes against children.​   https://x.com/ShadowofEzra/status/1943369884257153375

​  Jim Kunstler,  Flux Rules​, We're trapped in a structure. We named the Structure 'Jeffrey Epstein'." — Eric Weinstein
​  The President knows he is not exactly in control of his intel “community.” And he aims to do something about it. You could make the case that the so-called “community” is just a giant criminal syndicate engaged in the most nefarious activities ongoing in this world of sin: human trafficking, drugs, money-laundering, weapons, every off-the-book turpitude you could imagine. Nor is John Ratcliffe exactly in control of his own agency, though he can utilize some of its services. . . but more about that later.
​  Forget about Bondi’s gaffe. She is just following orders, as are Messrs. Patel and Bongino, standing down, good soldiers, and only on the Epstein business. You can’t even rule out the possibility that Jeffrey Epstein is not dead. Was it suicide? Or an escape? Shall we say, a rendition to parts unknown? I would not assert that, just proffer it as a possibility, since the events of that night in the Manhattan federal lockup were so astoundingly sketchy — the sleepy guards, the broken CC cameras, the missing minute in the one camera recording that worked, the suicide-proofed jail cell. . . . But, then, the autopsy reports. . . performed upon. . . whom, exactly. . . ?​   
https://www.kunstler.com/p/flux-rules

​  Investigative Journalist Explains Why Epstein Case Will Never Progress…
​  Journalist Nick Bryant notes in this viral clip from the Shawn Ryan podcast that the Jeffrey Epstein case is being covered up by the federal government and will never progress because it would destroy their entire operational system.
​  “Epstein had cameras in all of his homes. Epstein was definitely a blackmail artist,” Bryant notes.​ “The government wants to make sure that that does not come out. A huge part of our political system is predicated on blackmail,” he adds.​  
https://modernity.news/2025/07/09/watch-investigative-journalist-explains-why-epstein-case-will-never-progress/

   ​Even better if ​Epstein was ​Mission-Impossible extricated:  Guest on Tucker leaves him SPEECHLESS with the brutal truth about the Epstein cover-up.
​  Journalist Saagar Enjeti dropped a truth bomb as he explained what the cover-up is really about. He told Tucker: “The lie at this point is not even part of trying to convince [us] any of this is true.” “The lie is a signal to everybody else involved in the scheme that to the ultimate ends, the United States government will go to protect all of you.”​   https://x.com/VigilantFox/status/1942599948014346746

​  Got any nice bridges for sale?  Alex Jones claims the Trump administration holds explosive blackmail material on key Deep State figures — and has struck a secret deal to keep it quiet. According to Jones, the agreement allows Trump to pursue his America First agenda without interference. But if the Deep State breaks that deal, Trump will unleash the Epstein blackmail files.​   https://x.com/ShadowofEzra/status/1943134703097204873

​  Tensions Explode Between Bongino And Bondi Amid DOJ Epstein Memo Fallout
​  Speculation is mounting that FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino is furious over the Department of Justice’s explosive memo concerning Jeffrey Epstein, with anonymous sources claiming he has issued a stark ultimatum to the White House: dismiss Attorney General Pam Bondi or he will resign from his position.​.. ..Friday morning... FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino was absent from work following a heated confrontation with Attorney General Pam Bondi over the handling of the Jeffrey Epstein files. The Washington insider outlet noted that Bongino’s absence sparked speculation about whether he had resigned, though a White House source quickly clarified that he remains in his role at the FBI.​    https://www.zerohedge.com/political/tensions-explode-between-bongino-and-bondi-amid-doj-epstein-memo-fallout-reports

Both Bongino and Patel May Resign If Pam Bondi Stays As Attorney General​   https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2025/07/11/report-both-bongino-and-patel-may-resign-if-pam-bondi-stays-as-attorney-general-n4941674

​  The Trump Admin drama sure is keeping this in the news (intentionally?): MTG says Americans are ‘not going to accept’ there is no Epstein client list
The federal government said Monday there is no Jeffrey Epstein client list after Attorney General Pam Bondi said evidence was “sitting on my desk” in February​   https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/marjorie-taylor-greene-jeffrey-epstein-client-list-b2786010.html

​  Owners cull us, the herds:  Omniwar – Weaponization of Everything – Catherine Austin Fitts
 Mankind is under attack from all angles, and it’s not simply to control us but to kill us too.  CAF says, “Omniwar is the weaponization of everything.  It’s the weaponization of all the different systems we use, including food, health and finance. . .. There are literally injections that are bioweapons, and this is the weaponization of our healthcare system.  I do a screen for a mutual fund, and one of the funeral home companies is a stock, which has more than doubled or about doubled since we bought it.  So, you’ve got a recent healthcare insurance stock going down 40%, while the funeral homes are going up significantly.  People have been observing this because this is not the first insurance company to take a nosedive from the drop in life expectancy and  acceleration of the deaths.” The poison we are getting is being delivered to us on purpose.  It is high tech, and it’s not just in the CV19 bioweapon injections.​   https://usawatchdog.com/omniwar-weaponization-of-everything-catherine-austin-fitts/

Brennan and Comey Under Criminal Investigation for Trump–Russia Hoax​   https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2025/07/08/brennan-and-comey-under-criminal-investigation-for-trumprussia-hoax-n4941563

​  Ron Johnson prepares to issue subpoenas for DOJ, FBI in Butler shooting probe as anniversary nears
Johnson claimed his investigation is still getting "stonewalled" nearly a year after the incident
, and that he needs more documentation and information to move his investigation forward. It is not clear when the subpoenas will go out.​   
https://justthenews.com/government/congress/ron-johnson-prepares-issue-subpoenas-doj-fbi-butler-shooting-probe-anniversary

France opens criminal case against Musk’s X​ - Politicians claim that the platform’s algorithms boost hate speech and threaten democracy​   https://swentr.site/news/621372-france-investigates-musk-x/

​  Turkey Becomes First Country To Block Grok After The AI Bot Insults ErdoÄŸan
This ban, as reported by Reuters, cites a violation of Turkish law, which criminalizes insulting the president with penalties up to four years in prison.​   https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/turkey-becomes-first-country-block-grok-after-ai-bot-insults-erdogan

Trump puts 35% tariff on Canada, eyes 15%-20% tariffs for others​   https://finance.yahoo.com/news/trump-puts-35-tariff-canada-003831560.html

Canada Adds 70 Percent More Port Capacity to China to Escape Trump’s Tariffs​   https://mishtalk.com/economics/canada-adds-70-percent-more-port-capacity-to-china-to-escape-trumps-tariffs/

​  Trump threatens to hit Canada with 35% tariff next month if country does not help with fentanyl
“If Canada works with me to stop the flow of Fentanyl, we will, perhaps, consider an adjustment to this letter,” 
Trump wrote to Carney. “These Tariffs may be modified, upward or downward, depending on our relationship with your Country.”​   
https://justthenews.com/government/white-house/trump-threatens-hit-canada-35-tariff-next-month

Trump To Impose 30% Tariffs On Mexico, European Union​   https://www.zerohedge.com/economics/trump-impose-30-tariffs-mexico-european-union

​  Ellen Brown says to "first stop the bleeding":  Why Public Funds Should Be Deposited in Publicly-Owned Banks
​  A thriving economy requires that credit flow freely for productive use. But today, a handful of giant banks diverts that flow into an exponentially-growing self-feeding pool of digital profits for themselves. Rather than allowing the free exchange of labor and materials for production, our system of banking and credit has acted as a tourniquet on production and a drain on resources.​..
​..By making banking a public utility, with expandable credit issued by banks that are owned by the people, the financial system can be made to serve the people and local enterprise without draining their resources away. Credit flow can be released so that industry and free markets can thrive, and the economy can move closer to reaching its full potential.   https://justmoney.org/why-public-funds-should-be-deposited-in-publicly-owned-banks/

​  Charles Hugh Smith,  Three Choices, None Good​  The moral rot of unlimited debt looks "free" but it's unaffordable in the end.
  The problem here is inflation is distributed asymmetrically, along with the primary surplus. The wealthy, powerful elites skim off the surplus, and they're equally adept at distributing the "inflation tax" to the middle and working classes, which soon meld into a single class, the impoverished.
​  A funny thing about Wetware 1.0 is we're hard-wired to take note of rampant unfairness and eventually we respond in a destabilizing fashion, for example, uprisings, revolts, revolutions, etc.
​  3. The third option is to root out all the moral rot that's consuming the economy's surplus and our future, scrap all the programs designed in the bygone eras of 50+ years ago (defense, Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, higher education, etc.) and start from scratch with new programs whose expenses are limited to what the economy generates as surplus.​  In other words, go Cold Turkey on our addiction to living on debt.​   
https://charleshughsmith.substack.com/p/three-choices-none-good

​  Dr. Marian Laderoute,  There are two general mechanisms causing clotting deaths related to the COVID-19 spike mRNA shots not addressed by the CDC COVID-19 mRNA Safety Team of Dr. Sarah Meyer
​  One involves "bioweaponized SARS-CoV-2" (Image 4) , and one involves shedding of the mRNA spike protein on exosomes also referred to as "bioweaponized HERV-K102"​ (Image 3).​   https://hervk102.substack.com/p/there-are-two-general-mechanisms

​  Medical Cartel Sues RFK Jr. for Pulling COVID Shot Recommendation for Kids and Pregnant Women
Despite overwhelming evidence of harm, the AAP, ACP, APHA, and IDSA are fighting to keep poisoning children, pregnant women, and their unborn babies.​   
https://www.thefocalpoints.com/p/breaking-medical-cartel-sues-rfk

​  MerylNass MD,  "Not Just a Blip”--JAMA Study Confirms Long-Term Collapse in U.S. Children’s Health—ACIP Member Demands Radical Overhaul/ TrialSite News   https://merylnass.substack.com/p/not-just-a-blip-jama-study-confirms

   Killing the weaker ones first...  Moderna’s mRNA COVID Shot Gets Full FDA Approval for “At-Risk” InfantsDespite links to heart damage, brain damage, cancer, and mass death.   https://www.thefocalpoints.com/p/breaking-modernas-mrna-covid-shot

​  Dr. Sucharit Bhakdi: Because Of mRNA Vaccines, The Brains Of Billions Of People Are Not Working Anymore. "The mRNA vaccines cause the destruction of brain cells. Obviously. And that is what we are now experiencing. We're seeing -- I'm afraid to say BILLIONS OF PEOPLE -- whose brains are not working anymore. Not as they should be. They are altered. And they don't have the willpower anymore. They don't have the intelligence anymore..."​   https://x.com/newstart_2024/status/1943542593326809093

​  A group of government-backed, globalist-funded Dutch scientists is celebrating after developing a mutant strain of “bird flu” that spreads rapidly through humans and causes agonizing death in every single mammal that becomes infected with the deadly virus. The researchers used gain-of-function to modify the virus to jump from birds to mammals with a 100% fatality rate. However, critics are warning that the development is another dangerous chapter in the global gain-of-function agenda. The government-funded lab in the Netherlands has successfully engineered a mutant strain of H5N1 bird flu that spread between mammals and caused 100% mortality in lab animals, according to a peer-reviewed study.​   https://x.com/newstart_2024/status/1943398931188080961

​  Meryl Nass MD,  There is a massive CRISIS in farming and food: Door to Freedom is building a coalition and a campaign to educate the public and turn this looming crisis around.  The campaign will roll out in September. We are building the website and gathering "content," assets, allied organizations and staff right now.   https://merylnass.substack.com/p/there-is-a-massive-crisis-in-farming

Kyle Young (not cloud seeding)  What Caused The Floods In Texas?   https://secularheretic.substack.com/p/what-caused-the-floods-in-texas

17 Out-Of-Place Artifacts That Suggest High-Tech Civilizations Existed Thousands (Or Millions) Of Years Ago​   https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/17-out-place-artifacts-suggest-high-tech-civilizations-existed-thousands-or-millions

​Persisting  (featuring Eastern Fence Lizard warming on our patio)


Tuesday, July 8, 2025

Trying To Hold It Together

 Flummoxed,


  Surplus Energy Economics looks again at our economy in the post-peak phase:  Henry's Paradox ,  The business of Economic Contraction
  In Henry’s paradox, we take a look at some of the practical consequences for business of the ending and reversal of growth. In a future article – the working title is Robert’s paradigm – we’ll examine some of the political implications of economic inflexion. Finance might merit a further article in this series...     ..In microeconomic terms, paying high wages eats into the bottom line. Macroeconomically, though, low wages in the economy mean weak demand for all businesses’ products and services.
  This was why Henry Ford favoured paying his employees a lot more than might have been strictly necessary, understanding that his (and others’) workers were the motorists of the future. He famously more than doubled the daily wage of most of his employees in 1914.
  In more recent times, a partial answer to “Henry’s paradox” has been to augment comparatively low real wages with an abundant availability of credit.
  Consumers nowadays routinely use credit for purchases which in earlier times were paid for out of disposable incomes or savings. Rapid credit expansion carries serious risks but, until quite recently, they have not been immediate risks...
..The new wild card in the deck is the ending and reversal of growth in the “real” economy of material products and services. This moment of inflexion from economic expansion into contraction is undoubtedly imminent, and might, indeed, have already arrived.
  Stated at its briefest, the productive process which uses energy to convert raw materials into products, artefacts and infrastructure has long been losing momentum as fossil fuel energy is depleted.
  The ECoEs – the Energy Costs of Energy – of fossil fuels have been rising rapidly, and no proven equivalent or lower cost alternatives exist.
At the same time, non-energy resources – including minerals, water and agricultural land – have been gradually but relentlessly degraded.
  We can’t ‘fix’ this problem using financial innovation, because money is an operating adjunct of the underlying material economy. Since these issues relate to the characteristics of materials, their parameters are framed by the laws of physics...   

..How, then, will economic contraction play out in business?
Start by imagining that you own a bridge, of which the fixed costs – including operation, maintenance, repair and administration – total $10m per year.
  On top of that, you need to set aside $5m annually in depreciation for the building of a replacement bridge when the existing one reaches the end of its useful life, plus another $5m to provide investors with a satisfactory return on their capital.
  If 2 million people use this bridge, you need to charge each customer $10 to cover your $20m of aggregate costs (operation, depreciation and capital).
If, though, the number of users falls to 1 million, you have to raise your unit price to $20.
  But doing this might very well trigger a vicious spiral by driving further declines in customer numbers, if people are unwilling – or unable – to pay this higher usage charge.
  To stay viable, you might need to reduce the depreciation charged against earnings. This means that you won’t be able to build a new bridge when the current one wears out.
  You might also be forced to reduce the return that you provide to investors.
  These prospective diseconomies of scale have negative implications, then, both for returns on existing invested capital and for future investment in new and replacement productive capacity.
  But they are by no means the only, or even the largest, adverse business consequences of a contracting material economy.
  Another is the potential loss of critical mass. As other businesses suffer the effects of material economic contraction, some of the components or other inputs that you need might become unaffordable, or cannot be sourced at all.
  Cost reduction can only go so far in countering the effects of the taxonomy of de-growth, although de-layering the organization, and cutting down on the outsourcing of the non-essential, are obvious defensive moves.
  A critical process here is simplification, which comes in two forms.
  Simplification of product means reducing the variety of goods or services offered to the customer. Does the consumer really need to choose between 50 varieties of breakfast cereal, or will his or her needs be met by an offer of just ten?
  Simplification of process means reducing the complexity of the ways in which goods or services are produced...
..Of course, discretionary compression might mean that some businesses are just the wrong places to be...
..As the economy grew larger, so it became ever more complex. As the economy shrinks, the tide of complexity can be expected to recede.
Simplification of product and process is a strategy consistent with this broader trend towards the de-complexification of the economy.
  The eventual destination – for governments as well as for businesses – might be the disappearance of top-down, centralized organizations and their replacement by more localized, bottom-up alternatives. This could result in pockets of growth which offset, if only in part, the broader trend of contraction.   
https://surplusenergyeconomics.wordpress.com/2025/07/06/306-henrys-paradox/comment-page-1/#comment-46307

Tipping Point: When Populations Peak   https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/tipping-point-when-populations-peak-0


  Practical nationalism:  EU nation ‘ready to fight’ for Russian gas – PM
Slovakia’s Robert Fico has slammed Brussels’ planned phase-out of Russian energy as an ideological decision and a threat to sovereignty   
https://swentr.site/news/621065-slovakia-fight-russian-gas/

  Goldman Sachs Expects Another OPEC+ Superhike in September
The OPEC+ producers are expected in August to agree on another superhike in production for September that would complete the unwinding of the 2.2 million barrels per day (bpd) output cuts, Goldman Sachs said after the alliance surprised the market with a larger-than-forecast boost for August.   https://oilprice.com/Latest-Energy-News/World-News/Goldman-Sachs-Expects-Another-OPEC-Superhike-in-September.html

  When the Drones are Coming, They Turn Off the Internet
  Dimitri’s wife is grabbing her purse to go to the grocery store, when he casually says “it’s 5:45.” She just as ordinarily replies, “I’ve got cash.”  Dimitri sees the slightly puzzled look on my face and flippantly notes, “they turn off the internet at six thirty now,” shrugs, and goes back to reading his paper...
..As I contemplate the contrasts in social resilience, my most familiar reference point is life after a hurricane.  In Florida when we are dealing with the aftermath of a hurricane, no power, no water, no internet, etc., you adapt to life without modern technological conveniences.
  If you’ve ever lived amid the aftermath of natural disasters, you understand the need for a plan and quick adaptation. Do it a few times and adaption becomes ordinary. Horrible in ways, yes; awkward, certainly. But you take things in stride; overcome, figure out the optimal solution and keep moving.  However, not everyone is prepared to consider a disruption an ‘inconvenience’ and many people who need consistency to retain stability end up in panic.  I think long term readers well understand the reference.
  As Dimitri goes back to the paper my mind shifts to stuff I’ve heard in bits and pieces but never given context before.
  I think about this U.S. ‘Space Force’ thing, and now realize there are people who have gamed out modern warfare more than we discuss as a western technological society.
  My mind also thinks about those reports I read a few years ago about various western govt offices concerned about the ability of Russia to target U.S. satellites. Suddenly I realize cell phone and telecommunication is not their concern.
  There’s no internet; the problem is bigger than a temporary outage of Uber.
 I wonder how the commercial air traffic between Kazan, Moscow and St Petersburg is not disrupted.  Old school stuff applies. Meanwhile, the kids, lots of them are playing outside as kids do – apparently life amid modern drone warfare is resilient.   No one is staring at the sky.
  It is very odd to see how quickly a non-technology driven society can adapt to no electricity and no internet as an ordinary part of daily life.  An entire nation just figures out the optimal solution, in part because their time between analog and digital has been short.  Russians have a totally different context of dependency.   
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2025/07/05/when-the-drones-are-coming-they-turn-off-the-internet/#more-273806

​  Patriot missile systems are what they need and want.  Trump pledges more weapons for Ukraine​,  The US suspended shipments last week, citing concerns over depleting stockpiles
​  “We’re going to send some more weapons. We have to. They have to be able to defend themselves. They’re getting hit very hard now,” Trump told reporters during a dinner with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
​  “Defensive weapons, primarily, but they’re getting hit very, very hard. So many people are dying in that mess,” he said, without elaborating.​   
https://swentr.site/news/621168-trump-promises-weapons-ukraine/

  Proposed Gaza Ceasefire Details Revealed As Netanyahu Visits White House Monday
  Associated Press has obtained a copy of the latest ceasefire proposal -- which now incorporates a personal guarantee from Trump that Israel won't violate this ceasefire as it did a previous one.
  Contrary to the wishes of Hamas, the proposed arrangement is a truce rather than an assured permanent end to the war, which has killed at least 55,000 people, according to Gaza's health authority, while rendering much of the territory uninhabitable. Here are the key provisions reported by AP:
  The deal centers on a 60-day ceasefire, during which Hamas would transfer 10 living captives to Israel along with 18 dead ones. It's believed Hamas is still holding upwards of 25 living hostages.
   While the ceasefire is going, the Israel Defense Forces would withdraw from Gaza to a buffer zone along the territory's Israeli and Egyptian borders.  
  During that time, a major increase in humanitarian aid would flow into Gaza. Notably, it would be distributed by United Nations organizations and the Palestinian Red Cross. Since late May, a shadowy group led by a pro-Israel American evangelical who's a mutual friend of Trump and Netanyahu -- the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation -- has been taking the lead on aid distribution. The group and IDF have faced withering condemnation during that time, as hundreds of Palestinians have been killed at the distribution points, with IDF soldiers confirming they've been using deadly weapons as a barbaric form of crowd control.
  Also the negotiations for a permanent ceasefire would take place.   
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/proposed-gaza-ceasefire-details-revealed-netanyahu-visits-white-house-monday

  ‘Going hungry’: More than 700 Palestinians killed seeking aid in Gaza  Palestinians say they have no choice but to go to deadly US- and Israeli-backed aid sites amid growing starvation.   https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/7/5/going-hungry-more-than-700-palestinians-killed-seeking-aid-in-gaza

 Sleeper Cells, Assassination, Death To America, & Nukes: Carlson's Full Interview With Iranian President
  "I’m of the belief that we could very much, easily resolve the differences and conflicts with the United States through dialogue and talks," Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian told Tucker Carlson...
..Pezeshkian described that Iran's aim, prior to the June war starting, was to achieve "the framework or the basis for a deal in which the rights of all nations, the Iranian nation, would be respected." Iran has consistently insisted that it be able to keep enrichment, as a matter of national sovereignty and for peaceful domestic energy purposes.
  "We never wanted anything beyond the respect for our rights - rightful rights," he told Carlson.
  Carlson asked Pezeshkian if Iran will allow other countries to verify Iran's enrichment activities. Pezeshkian says "we are ready to hold talks" over monitoring and that "we stand ready" to accept it. However, the fact that Israel and the US just bombed the Islamic Republic has introduced major complications...
..Sleeper cells in US cities? "This is what Israel is trying to put into your minds," the Iranian leader said...
..On the question of future diplomacy, Pezeshkian said "I believe that the United States President can very well guide the region and the world to peace & tranquility. Or on the other hand to lead it to forever wars." He also said that the Islamic Republic is not seeking nuclear weapons.
  "We see no problem in re-entering the negotiations," he continued, but then qualified:
  "How are we going to trust the United States again. We re-enter the negotiations then how can we know for sure that in the middle of the talks the Israeli regime will not be given the permission again to attack us."...
..Axios and others also reported that the US had been secretly conspiring with the Israelis to greenlight the attack even as talks in Oman and Rome were happening. These reports present the nuclear dialogue as a ruse to lull the Iranians into thinking that all was okay...
.."My proposal is that the US administration should refrain from getting involved in a war that is not its war. It is not America's war," the Iranian leader said. "It is Netanyahu's war that is having its devilish machinations for the whole region."...
..Pezeshkian was asked directly by Carlson whether Israel had attempted to kill him, to which the Iranian leader confirmed it, and added, "I’m not afraid to sacrifice my life for my country, for my country’s freedom. But will it bring security and peace to the region? It will only bring more bloodshed."...
.."It was not the United States that was behind the attempt on my life. It was Israel. I was at a meeting, we were discussing how to move forward, and thanks to the intelligence and spies they had, they tried to bomb the area where the gathering was held. God decides who lives and who dies. We are not afraid to become martyrs."
  At same time he sought to stress that Iran has never sought to assassinate President Trump, despite American media reports and the claims of some of the US administration's own officials.
  "I would like to tell you and remind you that this is not Death to the American people or to the officials. Death to crimes and atrocities. To bullying. To the use of force," Pezeshkian said.   
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/sleeper-cells-assassination-death-america-nukes-carlsons-full-interview-iranian

  Israel rushes to ‘depopulate’ northern Gaza before possible ceasefire: Report
  Israel is “trying to take advantage of the few remaining days before any anticipated truce to expand the scope of destruction and annihilate cities,” a source close to Palestinian factions told Anadolu.  “Israel seeks to destroy what remains of life-sustaining infrastructure in northern Gaza, eliminating any chance for Palestinians to return in the future.”   https://www.aa.com.tr/en/middle-east/israel-rushes-to-depopulate-northern-gaza-before-possible-ceasefire-report/3623421

  Israeli military says it attacked about 130 targets in Gaza overnight
Among the targets were various Hamas sites, including command posts, weapons depots and rocket launchers, the army press service reported   
https://tass.com/world/1985935

  Israeli Organ Harvesting Industry Exposed :  Started by IDF & Israeli Medical Corps in the 1990s
This video reveals the horrors of the Israeli government’s organ harvesting operations, which is using the war in Gaza to conceal the illegal harvesting of Palestinian organs after killing them, and then burying them in unmarked graves.   
https://stateofthenation.info/?p=24718

  The killing of cardiologist in Gaza must be Indonesia’s wake-up call  
  Dr Marwan al-Sultan was not a soldier. He was one of Gaza’s last remaining cardiologists, and the director of the Indonesian Hospital in northern Gaza—a facility built with donations from ordinary Indonesians. For months, he worked amid airstrikes, shortages, and siege, refusing to abandon his patients even when he had the chance to leave.
  On 2 July, an Israeli airstrike killed him, along with his wife, daughter, and sister, in the apartment where they had sought shelter. The missile struck only the room where he was sitting. His son-in-law is missing and presumed wounded. None of them posed a threat. None carried weapons. Their deaths are not collateral—they are calculated.  
https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20250705-the-killing-of-indonesian-cardiologist-in-gaza-must-be-a-wake-up-call/ 

UNRWA calls for immediate fuel delivery to Israel-blockaded Gaza before shutdown of basic services  
"Fuel must be allowed in at scale through the UN, including UNRWA, to maintain lifesaving services,” including hospital generators, ambulances, bakeries, and water pumps.   https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20250705-unrwa-calls-for-immediate-fuel-delivery-to-israel-blockaded-gaza-before-shutdown-of-basic-services/

  Oxycodone laced flour is not ‘humanitarian aid’ it is bioterrorism
  Flooding Gaza with Oxycodone hidden in flour packages and distributed under a false pretence of ‘humanitarian’ intervention feels just about right in terms of the levels of depravity we have come to expect from the ‘most moral army’ in the world.   https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20250701-oxycodone-laced-flour-is-not-humanitarian-aid-it-is-bioterrorism/

  What new research reveals about Gaza’s real death toll — and why it’s far higher than official figures
Israel claims Gaza’s health ministry inflates civilian deaths, but a new survey suggests it may be undercounting them
Independent researchers estimate 83,740 people have died in Gaza since Oct. 7, 2023 — far more than official reports   
https://www.arabnews.com/node/2607034/middle-east

  Israeli army kills two in West Bank, including one teen
  “At dawn today, Tuesday, 15-year-old child Amjad Nassar Abu Awad was martyred by Israeli gunfire in the city of Ramallah,” the ministry said in a statement.  “Also at dawn today, 24-year-old young man Samer Bassam Zagharneh was martyred by Israeli gunfire near the town of Dhahiriya” in the southern West Bank,   https://www.arabnews.com/node/2606530/middle-east

  Israeli Forces Kill 288 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip Over Three Days:  Another 1,088 were wounded as Israel's relentless strikes continued throughout the weekend   https://news.antiwar.com/2025/07/06/israeli-forces-kill-288-palestinians-in-the-gaza-strip-over-three-days/

Report Estimates US Used $1.25 Billion Worth of THAAD Interceptors To Defend Israel From Iranian Missiles   https://news.antiwar.com/2025/07/02/report-estimates-us-used-1-25-billion-worth-of-thaad-interceptors-to-defend-israel-from-iranian-missiles/

  Israeli media outlet Haaretz has reported that the U.S. military used 93 'THAAD' interceptor missiles in 11 days to defend Israel, revising earlier estimates by others of $800 million to an actual cost of approximately $1.2 billion.
  With an annual production rate of roughly 36–48 'THAAD' interceptors, the United States used nearly two years' worth of interceptors during the war.   
https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/news-selections/world-news/u-s-used-two-years-worth-of-thaad-interceptors-to-defend-israel-over-11-days

  Israeli Military Says Intercepted Missile Launched from Yemen
  The Israeli military said it had intercepted a missile launched from Yemen towards Israel in the early hours of Sunday, with sirens activated in several parts of the country.
  A spokesperson for Yemen's Iran-backed Houthi militias said in a statement several hours later that the group had fired a ballistic missile at central Israel's Jaffa area.
  Israel has threatened the Houthis- which have been attacking Israel in what they say is solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza - with a naval and air blockade if their attacks on Israel persist.  
https://english.aawsat.com/arab-world/5161873-israeli-military-says-intercepted-missile-launched-yemen

  Israel Bombs Ports, Power Plant In Yemen After Month-Long Pause
  On Sunday Israel's military launched airstrikes on three ports and a power facility against Houthi-controlled Yemen, resulting in the group launching a barrage of missiles in retaliation. Israel is calling the major new initiative 'Operation Black Flag'.
  The Israeli military (IDF) announced it had targeted the Red Sea ports of Hodeidah, Ras Isa, and as-Salif, as well as the Ras Kathib power station. Additionally, it described striking a radar system aboard the Galaxy Leader, a ship previously seized by the Houthis and currently docked in Hodeidah.  
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/israel-bombs-ports-power-plant-yemen-after-month-long-pause

​  UK restores diplomatic ties with Syria after grooming Sharaa for power
The UK played a key role in sparking the 2011 war and bringing Sharaa to power, including by sending British citizens to join the Nusra Front and ISIS​   
https://thecradle.co/articles/uk-restores-diplomatic-ties-with-syria-after-grooming-sharaa-for-power

​  US Ends Foreign Terror Designation On Syria's HTS, Nearly 2 Months AFTER Trump Met Its Leader​   
It's not just ironic, but scandalous, that Trump met with a US-designated terrorist during this Gulf tour while in Saudi Arabia. If any individual American citizen did the same, they would likely be investigated and prosecuted by the FBI. But Sharaa is the "former" al-Qaeda in Syria man who helped overthrow Bashar al-Assad, and that's apparently all that Washington cares about.​   https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/us-ends-foreign-terrorist-designation-syrias-hts-nearly-2-months-after-trump-met-its

​  Meryl Nass MD, The CIA (wrongly) accused Congressional staffers in 2014 of illegal acts and refused to let Congressmembers read the report they produced--regarding torture of Iraqis after 9/11. SSDD. This was an intense CIA coverup of Abu Ghraib and other black torture sites and exploits   https://merylnass.substack.com/p/the-cia-wrongly-accused-congressional

  Mike Mihajlovic presents the (convincing) circumstantial evidence that a B-2 bomber was shot down over Yugoslavia and crashed in a Croatian forest.  
"Something Big" Was in the Air: B-2 Over Yugoslavia [i]​  The B-2As' combat missions over Yugoslavia​   https://bmanalysis.substack.com/p/something-big-was-in-the-air-b-2

​Russia has so many borders to threaten: Andrew Korybko,  The UK Aims To Entrench Its Influence In Estonia In Order To Lead The Arctic-Baltic Front   https://korybko.substack.com/p/the-uk-aims-to-entrench-its-influence

Trade Crackdown: 12 More Countries To Receive Tariff Letters After Japan, South Korea​   https://www.zerohedge.com/economics/trade-tariff-recap-all-eyes-todays-12pm-signed-letters-announcement

​  BRICS Expands to 56% of World Population, 44% of Global GDP: Vietnam Joins as Partner Country
With the addition of Vietnam, the extended BRICS+ has 20 members and partners, as of July 2025.
The 10 BRICS members are Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa, Egypt, Ethiopia, Indonesia, Iran, and the United Arab Emirates.
The 10 BRICS partners are Belarus, Bolivia, Cuba, Kazakhstan, Malaysia, Nigeria, Thailand, Uganda, Uzbekistan, and Vietnam.
Together, the BRICS 20 make up 43.93% of the global economy, when their combined GDP is measured at purchasing power parity (PPP), according to IMF data.​   
https://scheerpost.com/2025/07/05/brics-expands-to-56-of-world-population-44-of-global-gdp-vietnam-joins-as-partner-country/

  Jim Rickards, who has long used these analytical tools.  Superintelligence Will Never Arrive
​  Artificial Intelligence is a powerful force, but there’s much less there than meets the eye. AI may be confronting material constraints in terms of processing power, training sets and electricity generation. Semiconductor chips keep getting faster and new ones are on the way. But these chips consume enormous amounts of energy, especially when installed in huge arrays in new AI data centers. Advocates are turning to nuclear power plants, including small modular reactors to supply the energy needs of AI. This demand is non-linear, which means that exponentially larger energy sources are needed to make small advances in processing output. AI is fast approaching practical limits on its ability to achieve greater performance.
​  This near insatiable demand for energy means that the AI race is really an energy race. This could make the U.S. and Russia the two dominant players (sound familiar?) as China depends on Russia for energy and Europe depends on the U.S. and Russia. Sanctions on Russian energy exports can actually help Russia in the AI race because natural gas can be stored and used in Russia to support AI and cryptocurrency mining. It’s the law of unintended consequences applied to the short-sighted Europeans and the resource-poor Chinese.​  
[Think "Iran", too.]​   https://dailyreckoning.com/superintelligence-will-never-arrive/

  ​I personally believe a body-double was murdered, based on photographs of the victim, which don't match Jeff's ear whorls.  FBI Concludes Jeffrey Epstein Had No Clients, Didn't Blackmail Anyone, And Definitely Killed Himself​   https://www.zerohedge.com/political/fbi-concludes-jeffrey-epstein-had-no-clients-didnt-blackmail-anyone-and-definitely-killed

12 Important Questions That All Americans Should Be Asking About The Shameful Attempt To Cover Up The Truth About Jeffrey Epstein
#1 Why were Jeffery Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell arrested and charged with operating an enormous sex trafficking ring that supposedly involved thousands of clients if no such clients ever existed?  As Robby Starbuck has pointed out, apparently we are supposed to believe that all of the powerful men that visited Epstein’s island were “just there to catch some waves and relax”
#2 Why did U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi tell Fox News in February that Epstein’s client list was “sitting on my desk right now to review” if no such client list ever existed?…
#3 What was in the “thousands of documents” related to the Epstein case that were suddenly discovered in February?
#4 When Bondi claimed that the Epstein flight logs would “make you sick” in March, what did she mean by that?
#5 In May, Bondi confessed that there were “tens of thousands of videos” related to the Epstein investigation.  What was in those videos?
#6 Other than Jeffery Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, why hasn’t anyone else that was involved in the sex trafficking operation ever been arrested?​   
https://themostimportantnews.com/archives/12-important-questions-that-all-americans-should-be-asking-about-the-shameful-attempt-to-cover-up-the-truth-about-jeffrey-epstein

​  John Leake​, on "the Blob""No Evidence" of Epstein Blackmail Operation Not Surprising
Jeffry Epstein was the construct of intelligence agencies that know how to maintain silence and to cover their tracks.
​  When institutions and powerful individuals operate for long periods without scrutiny, they may be tempted to commit such outrageously corrupt acts that disclosing them to the people becomes an insurmountably difficult task.
​  For years there has been a lot of consternation about the refusal of federal agencies such as the CIA and FBI to disclose what they know about Jeffrey Epstein (as well as about the assassination of JFK, the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the murder of Seth Rich, and countless other stories). Guys like me have also noticed how the U.S. government, including Congress, can’t ever quite seem to get to the bottom of the origin of SARS-CoV-2.
​  The truth of these stories carries incalculable liabilities—liabilities that would call into question whether the involved institutions should be allowed to continue existing.
​  Disclosing the truth could also instantly demolish the persistent naïveté that enables most people to maintain their allegiance to their governments and to believe the endless train of BS that we are told every day about everything.​   
https://www.thefocalpoints.com/p/no-evidence-of-epstein-blackmail

​  Diddy’s Cell-Block Mate Blows Whistle: “Trial Was Rigged to Protect DC Pedophile Ring”
When the architect of legal loopholes for pedophiles is out here praising the outcome, you know exactly what kind of game is being played.

https://vtforeignpolicy.com/2025/07/diddys-cell-block-mate-blows-whistle-trial-was-rigged-to-protect-dc-pedophile-ring/

​  Saturday some entity cashed in almost $9 billion in Bitcoin, not much impacting the price. Somebody bought itOver the Past 24 Hours Eight Dormant Bitcoin Wallets Were Awakened for First Time in 14 Years on the 4th of July Withdrawing 80.009 Bitcoins Equaling $8.69 Billion
Stay-tuned, it's coming here:  Germany's Pension Ponzi Scheme Is Collapsing: What Comes Next​   https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/germanys-pension-ponzi-scheme-collapsing-what-comes-next

​  Kicking in the door of a "noble lie" in Germany:  Migrants will not stop molesting and assaulting children at swimming pools in the best and most democratic Germany of all time   https://www.eugyppius.com/p/migrants-will-not-stop-molesting

​  The Big Four Just Became Five: Walmart Quietly Captures the Beef Chain​  
​  Walmart has spent over $660 million building its own beef empire—from processor to packaging plant to retail shelf. That makes them more than just a grocer; it makes them the fifth major packer, joining Tyson, JBS, Cargill, and National Beef. The press calls it “resilience,” but ranchers know what it really is: vertical consolidation dressed in feel-good PR.​   https://beefnews.org/the-big-four-just-became-five-walmart-quietly-captures-the-beef-chain/

​  A Midwestern Doctor,  DMSO Heals the Lungs and Cures Chronic Respiratory Diseases;  How DMSO treats Asthma, COPD, Pneumonia, ARDS and Pulmonary Fibrosis   https://www.midwesterndoctor.com/p/dmso-heals-the-lungs-and-cures-chronic#poll-341858

  Meryl Nass MD,  Money grubbing Donald Rumsfeld and breaking bad Ralph Baric/Jim Haslam's substack with a few additions of mine
Go to Jim’s substack (Reverse Engineering the Origins of SARS-CoV-2) for the original version, but read below to see my appended remarks and graphics. I will use the left-aligned line that normally indicates someone else wrote a section to indicate my additions.​   https://merylnass.substack.com/p/money-grubbing-donald-rumsfeld-and

​  ‘Only Place Left for Me’ is Long-Term Care, Says Vaccine-Injured Bus Driver
Canadian school bus driver Michael Oesch 
told medical commentator John Campbell, Ph.D., that most doctors won’t formally acknowledge his vaccine-induced transverse myelitis, a disabling, degenerative neurological condition. He now lives in a long-term care facility.​   
https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/only-place-left-for-me-long-term-care-says-vaccine-injured-bus-driver/

​  Residents of Hawaii’s Big Island Pass Law to Keep Cell Towers Away from Homes, Schools
Under the ordinance, the first of its kind in the state, new cell towers and antennas on Hawaii’s Big Island must be at least 600 feet away from homes and schools. 
Debra Greene, founding director of Safe Tech Hawaii, said the ordinance “paves the way for other local jurisdictions in Hawaii to follow suit and implement similar ordinances.”​   
https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/hawaii-big-island-law-cell-towers-antennas-homes-schools/

​  Alaskans Join Forces With CHD to Fight Giant Cell Tower in Residential Area
Sitka for Safe Tech, a legal and advocacy group on the remote Alaska island of Sitka, has teamed up with Children’s Health Defense’s Stop 5G initiative to prevent the installation of a proposed 120-foot wireless broadband tower in Sitka’s residential zone.

​  60% of Parents Support Review of CDC Childhood Vaccine Schedule, New Poll Shows
A poll of over 1,000 registered voters conducted June 24-25 by John Zogby Strategies shows that 49% support reevaluating the current vaccine schedule, while 21% are undecided, and only 30% want to keep the current schedule. Sixty percent of parents with young children supported reviewing the schedule.

​  Thimerosal in Vaccines May Contribute to Autism Severity, New Analysis Shows
The first peer-reviewed study to systematically track trends in the rates of intellectual disability, defined as an IQ of less than 70, among children with autism found that those rates have risen and fallen in association with the presence of thimerosal in vaccines recommended to children and pregnant women.​   
https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/thimerosal-vaccines-may-contribute-autism-severity-new-analysis-shows/

​  Meryl Nass MD says "Caveat Emptor":  This is a doozy of a story: Chinese Triads invaded Maine, purchased (with mortgages) several hundred buildings and converted them to illegal marijuana grows, mostly untouched by law enforcement
  Trafficked workers; used potentially deadly, unlicensed pesticides by mixing them with sawdust and burning them to smoke the weed and kill pests without regard for the health consequences​   https://merylnass.substack.com/p/this-is-a-doozy-of-a-story-chinese

Texas Floods Kill 50; Search Ongoing For Dozens Of Missing Campers​   https://www.zerohedge.com/weather/texas-floods-kill-24-search-underway-missing-girls-summer-camp

​  The bridge near Marble Falls, Texas​  collapsed into the flood waters​, as the family drove over it. 17 year old Malaya got the ​car door open,and the rest of the family out of it. They ​searched up and down the river calling her name for 3 days.  Rest In Peace, Malaya Hammond​;  She Saved Her Whole Family​   https://celiafarber.substack.com/p/rest-in-peace-malaya-hammond

​China is much bigger than Texas:  Three Gorges Dam Opens 11 Gates – Collapse Threat Rises, Floods Ravage Downstream!   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7BH9oywYYI

You probably know somebody who has needed to know this and didn't. Skip through to the informativre points:  How to STOP a DOG ATTACK in 3 Seconds    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iE8IjSRouuU

Gardener in the sun after 5 days of rains