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• Iran Threatens “Decisive Response” After US Begins ‘Self-Defense’ Strikes (ZH)
• Oil Surges As Trump Says US Must Respond To Attack On Apache Helicopter (ZH)
• Trump Insists US In ‘Final Throes’ of Iran Deal (ZH)
• Trump-Netanyahu “Differences”: A Good Cop-Bad Cop Routine (Every)
• US Seeking ‘Precise Info’ on Iran’s Enriched Uranium via IAEA Board (Cradle)
• Meanwhile, in Gaza, Hamas Is on the Ropes (Hornik)
• West Turns Ukraine Into ‘Criminal Empire’ — Russian MFA (TASS)
• Trump Makes History at the NBA Finals (Sarah Anderson)
• Trump Doubles Down, Bill Pulte Will Takeover as Acting DNI on June 19th (CTH)
• Citizenship Free Ride May Be Ending; DOJ Warning Should Reach Omar (Manney)
• Data Centers Will Turn Red States Blue (Tim O’Brien)
• OUTRAGEOUS: Iryna’s Killer Found Incompetent to Stand Trial (Stephen Green)
• How Bill Gates’ Billions Shape US Medical Research (Paul D. Thacker)
• AI Agents With Crypto Could Escape And Become ‘Unstoppable’ (CT)

 


 

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“Decisive Response”. They’re just bad poets.

• Iran Threatens “Decisive Response” After US Begins ‘Self-Defense’ Strikes (ZH)

Just as President Trump has warned, US Central Command has just tweeted confirmation that the US military began ‘self defense’ strikes against Iran: “U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) forces began launching self-defense strikes against Iran at 5 p.m. ET today at the Commander in Chief’s direction, in response to yesterday’s downing of a U.S. Army Apache helicopter. The mission is a proportional response to unjustified Iranian aggression.”= The extent of the latest strikes wasn’t immediately clear but they further undercut an already fragile ceasefire signed in April.


A US official tells Fox that airstrikes targeting Iran are “ongoing” and targets include air defenses and radar installations. IRNA reports explosions in Iran’s Hormozgan province, while IRIB reports aerial attacks in Qeshm, Sirik and Bandar Abbas with six explosions reported in Qeshm The US and Iran have traded attacks several times in recent days even as Trump has said they are close to signing an agreement to bring the conflict to an end.President Trump told ABC News Jonathan Karl: “I think it’s very important to respond. They shot down a helicopter, and we are responding as we speak.”

He added: “This is a response to what they did they did with our helicopter last night, and I believe the response should be very strong, very powerful, and that’s what this one is.”Shortly after the strikes began, IRGC-owned Tasnim News reported that Iran is threatening to retaliate for US’ retaliation:”Iran will respond to US aggression. As warned hours earlier, Iran will deliver a decisive response to the US aggression, which is being carried out under the pretext of an Apache helicopter crash.” Odds of a peace deal are sliding and oil prices are rising (though not significantly).

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Why don’t they attack more Apaches?

• Oil Surges As Trump Says US Must Respond To Attack On Apache Helicopter (ZH)

Update (12:45pm ET): following earlier reports that a US AH-64 Apache helicopter had gone down over the Strait of Hormuz off the coast of Oman in an unprecedented first of the Iran war, moments ago Trump said on Truth Social that he had “been informed by our Great Military that last night the Iranians shot down one of our highly sophisticated Apache Helicopters while patrolling over the Strait of Hormuz. There were two pilots involved, both are safe and uninjured. Nevertheless, the United States must, of necessity, respond to this attack.”

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Earlier: A US helicopter has gone down over the Strait of Hormuz off the coast of Oman in an unprecedented first of the Iran war, Central Command announced Tuesday, after which the two crew members were reportedly rescued by unmanned boats. The Army AH-64 Apache was patrolling regional waters before the downing incident, which is still shrouded in mystery, and which the Pentagon says it is now investigating. However, the Iranians are saying they know exactly what happened – insisting that the Apache was shot down.

“An AH-64 Apache attack helicopter belonging to the U.S. Army was shot down and destroyed by the IRGC Navy near the Strait of Hormuz, after ignoring warnings and being targeted by fired from one of our speedboats,” an Iranian military central command statement has said. The NY Times, among the first to report the downing, underscores the claims and counter-claims concerning what happened: It was not immediately clear whether the Apache was shot down by Iranian fire, experienced mechanical failure or encountered some other problem, said a person briefed on the incident, who spoke on the condition of anonymity. Central Command said in a statement that the incident was under investigation.

But the Pentagon says the crew was successfully rescued. The unusual rescue by unmanned boats adds another layer of complexity and strangeness to the story. “A Task Force 59 unmanned surface vessel, essentially a drone boat, found and rescued the soldiers,” spokesperson Capt. Tim Hawkins described to NBC News. The pair of pilots are now receiving medical care, he indicated, after their rescue came within two hours of the aircraft going down. Trump briefly spoke to journalists at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York after watching the NBA Finals on Monday night and he acknowledged the rare crash in the Persian Gulf.

“The pilots are fine. Yeah,” Trump said. “Nobody injured. We are going to issue a report tomorrow. But the pilots are fine.” Apaches, along with A-10 gunships, have been frequently used for low-flying operations in the Persian Gulf and Hormuz region, in order to attack Iranian small boast. As for the Iranian claims of shootdown, it remains a top most plausible scenario, but the Pentagon has not said whether it took on Iranian fire. FOX: American military forces, including U.S. Naval Forces Central Command, the 82nd Airborne Division, and U.S. 5th Fleet assets, helped bring both soldiers to safety.

During earlier operations connected to Epic Fury, other US military aerial assets have crashed or sustained damage over the region – however, the Pentagon has downplayed or rejected efforts to link a number of incidents to Iranian attack, apparently not wishing to give Tehran a battlefield ‘success’ acknowledgement. But many independent pundits have suspected that all along the Iranians have been hitting a lot more American assets than previously disclosed.

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“Asked whether it would be matter of days or weeks, he said it would take “two or three days”.

• Trump Insists US In ‘Final Throes’ of Iran Deal (ZH)

The southern Lebanese city of Tyre is being pounded by Israeli airstrikes on Tuesday, despite President Trump’s insistence that Lebanon not come under attack. Israel’s military had hours prior issued an evacuation order for all civilians in the area, amid the unraveling and failing ceasefire. Casualties are already high, coming at a tense moment after starting on Sunday Iran sent ballistic missiles against Israel over its renewed airstrikes on the southern suburbs of Beirut, where it says Hezbollah command centers are located.


The NY Times reports of the growing death toll Tuesday, “At least eight people were killed in the bombardment, and dozens more were wounded, Lebanon’s health ministry said. The Israeli military also targeted towns and villages across southern Lebanon, including areas that were not covered by evacuation warnings, according to the country’s state-run news agency.” So clearly the air raids are expanding, per the report, even after the latest Trump warnings directed at Netanyahu to not do anything that would sabotage a broader Iran peace agreement.

President Trump is still maintaining that Washington and Tehran are in the “final throes” of cementing a deal, and is even suggesting (once again) that an agreement will be done in days: Asked whether it would be matter of days or weeks, he said it would take “two or three days”. Tehran has repeatedly stated any deal should include Lebanon—where Israel has been pressing its war with Iran-backed Hezbollah—and fired missiles at Israel on Sunday. That prompted Israeli retaliation, despite US pressure for restraint. Iran fired another salvo before announcing it was ceasing military action, and hours later Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced that the “fire on that front is contained”.

Of course, we’ve been hearing that the war is merely ‘days’ away from ending from basically the start of the war. And yet, all too predictably, the two sides keep going up the escalation ladder in an escalation trap. But the White House is saying that it will forge a deal which is good for the American people, whether Israel likes it or not. “Israel may like that, they may not like that — but this is in the best interest of the United States,” Vice President JD Vance spelled out to Fox this week. Escalation: Houthis in Yemen unleash ballistic missile on southern Israel, as Hezbollah sends drones on north…

But in the meantime Lebanon continues to suffer, also as Hezbollah and most recently the Houthis out of Yemen fire projectiles on Israel. According to some of the latest via Al Jazeera: For the residents in Tyre, anybody who is staying behind is in a lot of danger. In the past hour, we’ve seen another Israeli air strike near a Palestinian refugee camp. The strike happened at a roundabout leading into the camp, a very busy location. There’s also a bus station right at the entrance to the el-Buss refugee camp. Initial reports are coming in of a lot of injuries in that attack.

Israel continues to carry out artillery fire on the city, and there are drones flying over Tyre. For anyone trying to get out of the city, the road is quite dangerous. There have been a series of air strikes north of Tyre along the same road people would use to exit. So the Lebanon conflict is escalating, not growing more stable, which doesn’t bode well for achieving a final Iran deal. Tehran has insisted all along that a deal incorporate the Israel-Lebanon situation.

Vance had also said in his latest comments to Fox that “I think where the president has been very clear here is that while Israel obviously has some objectives that it has, the United States’ main objective in Iran is to ensure that Iran does not have a nuclear weapon.” It seems Washington is willing to tolerate some Israeli ‘counter-terror’ action, but only up to a point. Probably the limits will be reached in more renewed bombings of Beirut itself. Tehran has been seeking to impose some red liens on IDF action in Lebanon, and the White House has so far appeared to respond with compromising language.

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They play the press.

• Trump-Netanyahu “Differences”: A Good Cop-Bad Cop Routine (Every)

As You Were… But As Who Was?
Yesterday nearly saw a full restart of the Israel-Iran war, apparently pulled back from the brink by intervention from President Trump. After yet another Middle East rollercoaster for markets it’s now ‘as you were’, with oil –so everything else– little changed. The larger issue behind that pricing, however, is the key question – ‘As who was?’


Iran set up its proxy network, centered on terror group Hezbollah in Lebanon, to protect itself: if Israel attacked it, Hezbollah would attack Israel. However, Tehran now has to attack Israel, with counterattacks on it in response, to defend its ‘shield’. That’s a huge Iranian strategic setback. As such, Tehran is trying to tie Israel vs. Hezbollah to itself vs. the US to divide the US from Israel, which now have different needs: a deal vs. finishing the job militarily or via regime change. That dynamic has huge implications for when and how this war ends, so for energy, so for markets.

While Israel and Iran say they will stop their attacks, Israeli PM Netanyahu last night gave a public address where he stated: “Iran and Hezbollah are weaker than ever, and we are stronger than ever – but our battle against them is still not finished. In the last 24 hours, Iran and Hezbollah tried to impose a new equation upon us… an equation I find intolerable and unacceptable. They thought they would fire at Israel from Lebanese territory and from Iran – and we would not act. That did not happen, and it will not happen. Not on my watch!… At the moment, we are holding our fire, because after we struck the terror regime in Tehran, it ceased attacking us. In the event that Iran makes the mistake of resuming attacks on us – we will respond with overwhelming force.”

Moreover, Israel will hit Hezbollah in Beirut if it fires at Israel from south Lebanon, which Iran says is a red line that will trigger more attacks on the Jewish state, restarting this war. If Iran tells Hezbollah to ceasefire, markets can relax; If not, and Israel hits Hezbollah, Iran has to decide if it wants to fire at Israel – and restart the war; ]If Trump forces Israel to hold back vs. Hezbollah, Iran will have linked the two fronts and divided the US and Israel – which likely sees more war. After all, Israel’s 1948 War of Independence, its 1967 Six-Day War, its 1981 attack on Iraq’s nuclear programme, and its 2007 strike against Syria’s nuclear programme all took place against US wishes.

To expect otherwise this time is unwise. Indeed, Trump-Netanyahu differences could be a good cop-bad cop routine to allow the US to push for a deal while Israel does the fighting. In the background, Yemen’s Houthis claim they will restart a maritime blockade of Israel in the Red Sea, which was applied far more broadly the last time they put it in place. Obviously, that can threaten cargo and energy flows at this juncture, as a US Navy F-18 struck and disabled an oil tanker in the Gulf of Oman and the EU hit Iran’s Navy… with sanctions.

In short, this crisis is far from over, even as Trump says “total victory” will be declared in the next two weeks as Iranian negotiators are “willing to give us everything,” and VP Vance added that the deal being discussed was “a home run” for the US. Yet the inside baseball question remains which negotiators the US is talking to given local reports that contact has been lost with Supreme Leader Khamenei Jr. and another that IRGV leader Vahidi was killed in a recent Israeli strike.

Elsewhere in geopolitics, Berlin says the Franco-German fighter jet project is dead, a major blow to future pan-European defence plans; Switzerland is weighing a Franco-Italian alternative to US air defences given a 5-year wait for the latter; and a French fighter jet shot down a suspected Russian drone in Latvian airspace.

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They’ll stretch this for six months or more.

Remember, they stretched it all for 47 years.

• US Seeking ‘Precise Info’ on Iran’s Enriched Uranium via IAEA Board (Cradle)

Washington has turned to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Board of Governors in order to determine the fate of Iran’s highly enriched uranium, according to reports by Reuters and other media outlets. Sources cited by Reuters which obtained a draft of a resolution being pushed by the US said that Iran is being called on to provide the Agency with precise information on nuclear material accountancy and safeguarded nuclear facilities in Iran.


The US draft also calls on Tehran to grant all access it requires to verify this information, adding that Iranian cooperation is essential and urgent and must happen without delay. The text does not refer Iran to the UN Security Council, which would have followed up on the IAEA resolution declaring Tehran in breach of its obligations under the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT). That resolution was issued on 12 June 2025, a day before the US-backed 12-day war on Iran last year. Diplomats told Reuters that such a move was under consideration.

Al Mayadeen also reported, citing its own draft copy of the resolution, that Washington is lobbying states on the IAEA Board to back its push. This came as IAEA chief Rafael Grossi called on Tehran to re-engage with the IAEA. ” I call on Iran to engage the Agency constructively in order to facilitate the full and effective implementation of safeguards in Iran, he said, adding that It’s very important that we re-engage. ” Reuters reported earlier in June that the US was preparing a draft resolution to condemn Iran at an upcoming IAEA meeting.

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View from Israel.

• Meanwhile, in Gaza, Hamas Is on the Ropes (Hornik)

These past few days the Middle East spotlight has been, for good reason, on Israel, Hezbollah, and Iran. At the time of writing, things are at a standstill, and no one knows what comes next. After the exchange of fire between Israel and Iran, the latter, notes Israeli journalist Amit Segal, “warned that any further Israeli aggression—specifically ‘including in southern Lebanon’—would be met with ‘much more severe and crushing measures.’” Despite that, on Tuesday, Israel went ahead and attacked Hezbollah infrastructure in the southern Lebanese town of Tyre. Will Tehran make good on its threat? We can only wait and see.


Meanwhile, the veteran and venerable Israeli military-affairs analyst Ron Ben Yishai has filed a report from Gaza that gives—dare we say—an encouraging picture of the current condition of another of Iran’s terror proxies, Hamas. While Hezbollah is spread throughout Lebanon, Hamas is concentrated in a much smaller space, Gaza. The IDF, which battled Hamas in Gaza for more than two years running since the debacle of October 7, 2023, now controls about 65% of Gaza, and Hamas is in a jam. Ron Ben Yishai, now 83, spent some time at an IDF outpost in southern Gaza and has a lot of light to shed on the current state of the enclave.

The IDF, for one thing, has been using its presence in Gaza to blow up the notorious Hamas tunnels. Since October 7 the IDF has destroyed about 280 miles’ worth of them, and at present there’s nothing at all that Hamas can do to counteract the process. The IDF has also, using high-quality intelligence, been “systematically eliminating senior [Hamas] commanders, key military specialists and police officials responsible for maintaining governance.” While Hamas still has about 20,000 operatives, only about 8,000 are experienced fighters and the rest are minimally trained, lightly armed “young men and teenagers” seeking to bring home some shekels.

And Hamas’s troubles go beyond that. Its popularity in Gaza is drying up, and armed clans living in the IDF-controlled areas—“whose members and families [number] in the tens of thousands”—have lately been seriously challenging its rule. In terms of Israeli security, the situation is much better than it was on October 6, 2023. Six IDF brigades and 18 battalions now protect the Israeli border communities, compared to much fewer forces in the sleepy, self-delusive days before the catastrophe. Ben Yishai puts it this way: “The way the IDF is currently deployed and operating in Gaza has almost completely neutralized Hamas’s ability to carry out attacks . . . the threat to communities in southern Israel has been almost entirely removed, at least as long as the IDF maintains its current posture.”

Therein lie many questions about the future of Gaza. Although grandiose plans were hatched about Hamas disarmament, the terror group—predictably enough—rejects that option. The “international stabilization force” that was supposed to take over in Gaza “has yet,” Ben Yishai notes delicately, “to materialize.” And the Peace Council that’s supposed to help finance a new, peaceful Gaza “has failed to secure even one-third of the funding pledged by its member leaders.” That, too, is predictable stuff—though it’s been worsened by the Gulf states’ cash-flow problems since the Strait of Hormuz was closed.

IDF commanders, for their part, are sure that only a few weeks would be needed to seize the remaining Gazan territory held by Hamas. “Plans already exist and require only government approval.” At that point, though, with Hamas neutralized, an old problem would arise: what to do with the two million mostly indigent Gazans whom Hamas has been holding, in effect, as hostages, and who’ve been raised on a murderous hatred of Israelis. It was the severe, demoralizing difficulty of ruling Gaza that led Israel—with half or more of the Israeli population supporting the move—to disengage from the enclave in the first place, back in 2005. Of course, that didn’t work out well either.

Ben Yishai hopes the international community, or a future Israeli government, will “succeed in formulating a realistic, adequately funded, phased long-term solution for Gaza’s population without endangering Israel.” It has always been a tall order. For now—unlike Iran, Hezbollah, and the Houthis—Gaza is quiet, and it’s a big improvement.

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Successfully.

• West Turns Ukraine Into ‘Criminal Empire’ — Russian MFA (TASS)

The West has turned Ukraine into “a criminal empire,” marking the height of its policy aimed at preserving hotspots of tension, Pyotr Ilyichev, director of the Russian Foreign Ministry’s Department for New Challenges and Threats, said.


“The growing conflict potential in various parts of the world is accompanied by dangerous attempts by Western countries to use terrorist groups and extremist forces in order to preserve hotspots of tension,” the diplomat pointed out at the 19th meeting of chiefs of the head offices of counterterrorism units of Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) member states and national bodies coordinating efforts to combat terrorism and extremism. “The collective West’s policy aimed at maintaining hotspots of tension reached its peak when Ukraine was turned from a state into a criminal empire,” the Russian Foreign Ministry official stressed.

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He jinxed them?

• Trump Makes History at the NBA Finals (Sarah Anderson)

Donald Trump just became the first president in United States history — or should I say NBA history? — to attend an NBA Final game. Monday’s night match-up was between the San Antonio Spurs and Trump’s beloved New York Knicks, and it took place at Madison Square Garden. The Spurs led the game early on, and the Knicks bounced back for a while, but the Spurs eventually pulled off the win, 115-111. It was Game 3 of the series — the Knicks won the first two games.


Trump sat with his granddaughter, Kai, along with Knicks owner James Dolan and several members of the Trump administration, including Interior Secretary Doug Burgum, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy, and Environmental Protection Administrator Lee Zeldin. I also noted that Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick was there, but he had floor seats and was not with the president. New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani was reportedly in attendance, but he did not sit with the president either. Shocking, I know.

Anyway, I’m already seeing MSM headlines about how the crowd erupted into boos when they showed the president just before the national anthem, but that’s only half of the truth. Some of the crowd booed, some cheered, and some erupted into chants of “USA! USA! USA!” It’s the same thing as when Trump has attended numerous other big sporting events over the last year and a half or so, like Super Bowl LIX, the College Football Playoff National Championship, and the September 11 New York Yankees game, etc. — the crowd’s response is about as split as our country is, so don’t buy into any of those “everyone booed” headlines. Even in New York City.

(Also, mark my words, Tuesday’s headlines will be that Trump jinxed the Knicks.) Now, outside was a different story. The were a handful of protesters with signs and chants like “F*** Trump.” Super clever, right? As usual, it was largely lefty white women with professional-looking signs who probably wouldn’t know what a basketball game was if Jalen Brunson and Wemby came out and played a little one-on-one right in front of their sad little protest.

There were also some people in Congress who were upset that Trump would be in attendance, including House Minority Leader Hakeem Jefferies (D-N.Y.), aka Temu Obama, who has spent the last couple of days going on TV and telling Trump not to come and politicize the game. “It also is not clear to me that Donald Trump is a big Knicks fan. I mean, does this guy even know the difference between Karl Rove and Karl-Anthony Towns? I don’t think so,” Jefferies said earlier. “He’s just injecting himself into the NBA Finals because he always has to bring the MAGA circus into town.” Well, the president is actually a big Knicks fan. And we have proof, so now it can be clear to you, sir.

Even NBA commissioner Adam Silver knows it:

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Juneteenth. Pulte will do DNI, Fannie, Freddie and more. Full plate.

• Trump Doubles Down, Bill Pulte Will Takeover as Acting DNI on June 19th (CTH)

Articulate focus with specific intent can pay dividends. Sorry for my absence earlier today. I can confirm the first sentence, between the commas. Against the backdrop of threats from various legislative branch members, President Donald Trump has doubled down and firmly announced that Bill Pulte will take the position of Acting DNI effective June 19th (aka ‘Juneteenth’). Delivering the message from his Truth Social account, President Trump has extended his plenary power and put Congress back into the position they hold in government. If Congress wants FISA (702), then reauthorize it. If they don’t want it, then don’t reauthorize it. The issue matters not to the overall national security dynamic.


Kash Patel better prepare to get busy. It’s time to put up or shut up. If the FBI carries out a false flag operation (they’d be stupid), or if the CIA attempts to undermine the domestic national security front (they won’t), there is going to be an intense response from Trump and Pulte.

Great job President Donald Trump!

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For now, she’s got them all by the balls.

• Citizenship Free Ride May Be Ending; DOJ Warning Should Reach Omar (Manney)

The Department of Justice has filed denaturalization actions against 17 naturalized citizens accused of hiding serious crimes or fraud during the path to U.S. citizenship. The list includes sex offenders, fraudsters, drug dealers, and defendants accused of concealing conduct that should’ve blocked naturalization in the first place. From Fox News: The individuals, from 13 different countries, are accused of serious criminal conduct, including child sexual abuse, narcotics trafficking and large-scale financial fraud. Nearly all of the individuals reportedly lied during the naturalization process, claiming that they did not commit any crimes the authorities were unaware of, claims that were later found to be untrue or misleading.


By making false statements, officials argue that they failed to meet the statutory “good moral character” requirement for U.S. citizenship under federal law.”Gaining U.S. citizenship is a privilege and under the steadfast leadership of President Trump, this Department of Justice maintains a zero-tolerance policy for the abuse of this process,” Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche said in a statement. Nine were from the Caribbean and North America, including Cuba, Haiti, Jamaica, the Dominican Republic, Trinidad and Tobago and Mexico. Two were from Colombia in South America. One was from former Yugoslavia in Europe. Three were from Asia, including India, China and the Philippines, and two were from Africa, including Somalia and the Congo.

Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche framed citizenship as a privilege tied to honesty. Assistant Attorney General Brett Shumate, head of the Civil Division, said the department will pursue those who secured citizenship by lying. The government’s point is simple enough for even the denizens of Washington to understand, which means somebody there will probably work hard to misunderstand it. Naturalization isn’t a participation trophy; applicants swear to tell the truth, answering questions about crimes, names, past conduct, and immigration history. When those answers are false, the citizenship built on them rests on sand. The DOJ’s new cases say the old wink-and-nod era is getting less comfortable.

Federal law already allows denaturalization when citizenship was illegally procured or obtained by concealment of a material fact or willful representation. The process still runs through federal court, which means defendants get their chance to fight the government’s claims. The DOJ also made clear the 17 complaints contain allegations, not final findings. Good, that’s how it should be; let the courts sort each case. But we can’t let fraud become permanent just because enough years passed. Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin has also pushed a sharper enforcement posture, including a return to longer ICE training standards after problems left behind by former DHS Secretary Kristi Noem.

President Donald Trump’s team is trying to restore a basic rule: the United States gets to decide who enters, who stays, and who keeps citizenship after lying to obtain it. The usual fainting couch crowd will call this extreme. Most Americans will call it paperwork, finally meeting consequences. The same principle should make Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) nervous, or at least curious about the weather near the bow. Vice President JD Vance said in May that the Justice Department is looking into whether Omar committed immigration fraud tied to long-running allegations about her marriage history. From Fox News:

“Speaking to reporters, Vance was asked about the administration’s anti-fraud task force — established by President Donald Trump to combat fraud, waste, and abuse across federal benefit programs — and whether it would focus on Omar, a frequent Trump critic. “You read the things about Ilhan Omar… who she married and whether she didn’t marry this person or that person,” Vance said. “It certainly seems like something fishy is there, but everybody’s entitled to equal justice under the law.” The comments follow a podcast interview in March, during which Vance told conservative commentator Benny Johnson that he had spoken with White House immigration advisor Stephen Miller about potential legal action against the congresswoman.

“We think Ilhan Omar definitely committed immigration fraud against the United States of America,” Vance said at the time. Omar has denied wrongdoing, crying racism and bigotry each step of the way, and the claim hasn’t been proven.

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But the question refuses to die because the documents, timelines, and explanations have never satisfied critics who believe a full federal review is long overdue. Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) moved in January to subpoena Omar’s immigration records and those of Ahmed Abdisalan Hirsi during a House Oversight and Accountability Committee hearing on fraud and misuse of federal funds in Minnesota.

Mace said the allegations, if true, could raise questions involving marriage fraud, immigration fraud, and other violations. The motion ran into opposition, which tells voters plenty about Washington’s appetite for transparency when the target has the right friends in politics. The Omar question and the 17 DOJ cases aren’t identical. One involves filed denaturalized complaints, while the other involves public allegations, political pressure, and statements from the vice president that DOJ is looking at the issue. S

till, both point toward the same civic test; citizenship must mean more than a document the government is too embarrassed to revisit. If lies opened the door, the law has every right to walk back through it. Any country that refuses to police naturalization fraud teaches future applicants the wrong lesson: Tell the truth and wait your turn, or lie and hope bureaucracy gets bored. The Trump administration appears ready to choose the first lesson. Citizenship carries honor, duty, and legal weight. Those who earned it honestly deserve protection from those who treated it like a loophole with a flag pin.

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“.. the digital carpetbaggers who are about to turn rural states and counties on their heads.”

• Data Centers Will Turn Red States Blue (Tim O’Brien)

It won’t happen overnight, and it won’t happen in Washington. Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) won’t have anything to do with it. And neither will the DNC, at least directly. But it will happen. America’s most rural states have the smallest and easiest-to-change voter bases. In the end, it’s just a numbers game. All these states need is more leftists to move in, and the states will flip from red to blue. Up until now, though, the problem has been giving leftists a reason to want to live in a state like Wyoming, the Dakotas, or Idaho. Enter data centers. The Wall Street Journal has reported on one such example where Wyoming is the target of massive data center development.


One of the big and most immediate issues is the need to accommodate all the people who will need to relocate to the state to work there. In America’s least populous state, companies must import armies of workers—and find somewhere to put them. So local officials are weighing a developer’s pitch to erect a ‘temporary workforce housing complex’ for as many as 5,600 laborers and tradespeople. The complex would be larger than 84 of Wyoming’s incorporated cities and towns, according to state data, the Journal reported. People who live in Wyoming do so primarily because of its natural solitude and natural beauty. But in Cheyenne, that’s changing. And it’s not just this one town.

That pastoral scene is gone: Heavy trucks, earth movers and hundreds of construction workers have run nearly round-the-clock for about two years building a Meta Platforms data center. To the east, Microsoft recently announced plans to triple the acreage of its already sizable data complex. To the south, work is just getting started on Project Jade, which could one day be among the biggest data centers in the U.S., added the Journal. Rural states and counties have long been attractive to commercial developers, particularly industrial developers, for a number of reasons. It’s easier to get things built there. Fewer zoning restrictions, fewer existing residents to impact, more cheap land, more access to water, and less visibility to the media and the population centers. Out of sight, out of mind.

Meta, which is behind one of the data centers under development in Wyoming, is headquartered in Menlo Park, Calif. If all you want to do is erect a sign in front of your business in Menlo Park, the city will require you to comply with Chapter 16.92 of its Zoning Ordinance. That ordinance will require you to submit the planned sign size, placement, materials, colors, and design before it will approve it. Given all of these criteria, there is a chance your sign will not be approved. In Cheyenne, let’s just say zoning regulations are far less restrictive for signs. And that’s just for signs. Now scale that up to everything a company might want to do when building a data center.

What’s the permitting process in Wyoming like when compared to California? The short answer is that it’s far less of an issue for the developer. The point is, rural states and counties have less red tape, no matter what you plan to do. Add to the fact that rural areas are known to be cash-strapped. A couple of data centers can bring in a lot of tax revenue and campaign donations.

So what you will see is politicians running toward the digital carpetbaggers who are about to turn rural states and counties on their heads. Yes, they will generate more tax revenue, and those revenues will be needed to cover the costs of all the new highways, bridges, and roadways that will need to be built. Infrastructure is the start, which includes investment in everything from the electrical grid to water and sewage supplies for residents and businesses. Then there will be the need for more commercial and residential development. Of course, schools (and bigger teachers’ unions) are right behind. It won’t take more than a few data centers to fundamentally transform a rural state like Wyoming.

Oh, and did I mention crime and corruption? I almost forgot. Yes, with all those new residents who didn’t call your rural state home until five minutes ago, you have to know they’re bringing new levels of larceny and violence with them. Thus, the need for bigger and more sophisticated police forces.

As for the profile of the workforce, the unions are all over data centers, and with unions, you get Democrats. A typical data center workforce, both skilled and unskilled, is most likely to lean left. Whether it’s unionized rank-and-file workers or the “white-collar” techies that parachute in from places like Silicon Valley, New York, Boston, and Oregon. Those will be your new school board members, city mayors, state reps, and ultimately your elected representatives in Washington.

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“..the catch-and-release system pioneered in our Democrat-run cities..”

• OUTRAGEOUS: Iryna’s Killer Found Incompetent to Stand Trial (Stephen Green)

The repeat offender who stabbed Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska to death aboard a Charlotte, N.C., commuter train last year is incompetent to stand trial, a federal judge ruled on Tuesday. Presiding Federal Judge Kenneth Bell found that Decarlos Dejuan Brown Jr did not understand the proceedings and would be unable to assist in his defense. Brown is up on federal charges of terrorist attacks and other violence against mass transportation systems, in large part because state and local courts kept releasing him, despite a long history of violence and mental illness.


He’s also up on state charges of first-degree murder. In the August attack, Brown appeared to select Zarutska almost at random, stabbing her repeatedly in the neck from behind before casually getting off at the next stop. Zarutska died almost immediately, apparently confused, and then with a look of tragic understanding on her face before she collapsed, unattended and uncomforted by any of the other passengers. The murder, caught on video, shocked the world.

Brown had an outburst at today’s hearing, according to Queen City News, shouting, “that he wants to ask the judge whether he reviewed the evaluation and said he wants to press charges against the FBI.” He went on with more intelligible shouts, including something about having “material in my body.” So clearly, yeah, Brown is not right in the head. However…

The federal judge also ruled — unlike so many previous North Carolina judges — that Brown will not be released. Instead, “he will receive medication and treatment for up to four months in an effort to restore his competency.” After four months, the court could decide again whether Brown is fit to stand trial. If not, Queen City reported, “he could remain in custody under possible civil commitment.”That’s a lot of maybes and ifs for a man with dozens of arrests — usually on the catch-and-release system pioneered in our Democrat-run cities — including:

  • Robbery with a dangerous weapon (convicted; served prison time, notably a 2014–2015 case involving assault and theft at gunpoint).
  • Felony breaking and entering.
  • Felony larceny.
  • Assault (simple assault and other variants).
  • Shoplifting.
  • Making threats / communicating threats.
  • Misuse of 911 (multiple instances, including January 2025).
  • Disorderly conduct.
  • Resisting a public officer.

Yet somehow he was free to murder Iryna Zarutska in cold blood, muttering, “Got that white girl” as she quickly bled out. So Brown is a victim of schizophrenia — so what? Do the rest of us have to suffer from his affliction, too, up to and including murder?

My devout readers might lambaste me for this, but cases like this one have me long past the point of still believing that every life is sacred. Some people just need to be locked up, but so-called “progressive” judges and prosecutors failed to see it that way in Brown’s case, again and again. And a case like Brown’s is hardly unique, as our big cities prefer that social workers “administer” to the criminally mentally ill, rather than incarcerate them.

Iryna is dead because the justice system failed repeatedly to deliver justice. That must stop now before he claims another life. Either Brown is too sick to ever be inflicted on the public, or he recovers enough to face a jury and perhaps face the death penalty. But there’s no way he should ever be free again.

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Malice.

• How Bill Gates’ Billions Shape US Medical Research (Paul D. Thacker)

Bill Gates has long been one of the most admired people in the world, especially since he stepped down from his role running Microsoft to devote himself and much of his fortune to philanthropy. That reputation has been tarnished recently, however, by revelations of the billionaire’s close relation with sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, and exposés on his own fraught relationships with women.


When Bill Gates stepped down as Microsoft’s CEO in 2000, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation started that year with an endowment of $20 billion which became his prime source of influence. On the eve of Gates’ private testimony with Congress scheduled for tomorrow, a trove of federal whistleblower documents provided to RealClearInvestigations is renewing questions about how Gates money has bought what critics complain is an untoward influence on government health policy.

For almost a quarter of a century, his main vehicle of power, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, has donated hundreds of millions of dollars to the National Institutes of Health (NIH), allowing Gates to shape the direction of the country’s health strategy in ways that have benefitted his own priorities and pet causes while polishing his image as a benevolent global do-gooder. At a time of growing concern about the power of billionaires such as Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and Sam Altman, Gates’ efforts stand out. Instead of lobbying federal agencies for specific policies, Gates leveraged his wealth to work inside the government, partnering with high-ranking NIH officials to steer taxpayer research funding and design scientific policies for several federal programs.

The cache of several dozen emails and documents, made public for the first time by an NIH whistleblower, reinforces previous reports detailing Gates’s extensive influence over U.S. biomedical research. During the height of the COVID pandemic, Kate Elder, a senior vaccines policy adviser for Doctors Without Borders, complained to Politico, “What makes Bill Gates qualified to be giving advice and advising the U.S. government on where they should be putting the tremendous resources?” Emails and internal plans, for example, show that the NIH – the world’s largest funder of biomedical research – gave the Gates Foundation first billing for the joint workshops and meeting held on federal property.

Like most philanthropies, the Gates Foundation tries to grow its endowment through investments. Some of these efforts, especially its stake in vaccine companies, blur the lines between profit-seeking and the foundation’s mission to develop and deliver vaccines around the world. This symbiotic relationship between capitalism and charity also benefits Gates, whose power and position hinge in large part on the size of his foundation’s assets. Before the pandemic, The Nation magazine reported that the Gates Foundation had a $40 million stake in CureVac – this was not a grant but an investment. CureVac was one of many companies the nonprofit bought stock in that were working on COVID vaccines and therapeutics.

Around that same period, the Gates Foundation announced that it had begun to “leverage a portion of its $2.5 billion Strategic Investment Fund” to advance the nonprofit’s COVID work. The Gates Foundation also turned a $55 million investment in Pfizer’s COVID vaccine partner, BioNTech, into over $550 million when it sold stock a couple of years later after the vaccine hit the market.

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation was established in 2000 with an initial endowment of $20 billion and a primary focus on reducing global health disparities. Rather than working exclusively through non-governmental agencies, the Gates Foundation began contributing to the NIH through the agency’s own nonprofit, the Foundation for the National Institutes of Health (FNIH). Congress created the FNIH in 1990 as a firewall between NIH officials and outside donors seeking to influence federal research.

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We seek to control brains that are superior to ours. What are we thinking?

• AI Agents With Crypto Could Escape And Become ‘Unstoppable’ (CT)

Artificial intelligence agents that have autonomous access to crypto wallets could become unstoppable if deployed maliciously or if they escape from sandboxes, experts from a leading academic research consortium warned. “Unstoppable Autonomous Agents” (UAAs) pose a clear threat if they are deployed to persist automatically and have access to digital assets, according to a June 8 industry review written by 25 academics and experts from top US universities for the Initiative for Cryptocurrencies and Contracts (IC3). “When combined systematically, crypto tools can channel AI’s fluid power into secure, reliable, and highly autonomous systems,” the researchers wrote.


However, this combination could have “far-reaching consequences for users and the financial system,” they added. UAAs may also be equipped with access to cryptocurrency wallets, social media accounts, APIs, and other external tools, said the researchers. “The capabilities enabling such agents are already emerging and improving rapidly.” The warning comes as crypto projects and executives have been pushing the agentic payment and micropayment economy narrative this year, suggesting it could be the biggest use case for decentralized digital assets.

AI self-replication alarm bells
The paper also revealed that existing models can already “surpass self-replication red lines” in local environments, by autonomously creating a live, separate copy of themselves on the same machine, “a capability that could let a system evade shutdown and proliferate.” Because reward signals used in training often fail to perfectly capture the intended objectives, “UAAs deployed for benign purposes may inadvertently cause harm,” or pursue resource acquisition as a default strategy, they said. However, the authors noted that models have yet to replicate themselves onto external infrastructure.

Potential AI agent insider trading advantages
A fleet of self-replicating, resource-acquiring agents could also create unpredictable demand and liquidity dynamics in crypto markets. “AI-powered trading systems could enable collusion between autonomous agents and create unfair insider advantages through opaque strategies.” The tech sector is already dealing with difficult questions about the threat of unmitigated AI. Models such as Anthropic’s Claude Mythos have already been shown to be capable of finding and exploiting zero-day vulnerabilities in major operating systems.

Meanwhile, Gartner warned in late May that governance failures around autonomous AI agents could trigger widespread enterprise failures, predicting 40% of companies will be forced to decommission their agents by 2027. “The harms that could follow from fully autonomous agents of this kind are severe,” the researchers said, suggesting circuit breaker guardrails.

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  • June 10, 2026 at 9:57 am #242392
    Raúl Ilargi Meijer
    Keymaster

    John Koch Conversation 1962 • Iran Threatens “Decisive Response” After US Begins ‘Self-Defense’ Strikes (ZH) • Oil Surges As Trump Says US Must Respon
    [See the full post at: Debt Rattle June 10 2026]

    June 10, 2026 at 10:30 am #242412
    Germ
    Participant

    Enjoy reading about this poison-pushing, Cialis-addled, sexual pervert …

    https://nypost.com/2026/06/06/us-news/vaccine-expert-lusted-after-northwell-health-scientist-then-got-her-canned-she-claimed/

    Spread this news far and wide.

    TVASSF

    June 10, 2026 at 10:30 am #242413
    Michael Reid
    Participant

    Our attacks on Iran have made it stronger

    June 10, 2026 at 10:38 am #242414
    Michael Reid
    Participant

    RUSSIA has Released Footage of the Destruction of an ELITE Group of British and Ukrainian Saboteurs

    June 10, 2026 at 10:40 am #242415
    Michael Reid
    Participant

    June 10, 2026 at 10:53 am #242416
    those darned kids
    Participant

    the automatic turnip

    June 10, 2026 at 12:47 pm #242417
    D Benton Smith
    Participant

    • Trump-Netanyahu “Differences”: A Good Cop-Bad Cop Routine

    I suppose that with a big enough stretch of the imagination you could characterize the Trump-Netanyahu schtick as a good cop bad routine, but there are other better choices of nomenclature.

    For example, “Bad Cop – Worse Cop”, or “Dumb and Dumber”. I know these billings are really scraping the bottom of the barrel, but the basic problem is that we need a deeper dirtier barrel to scrape the bottom of to acquire dregs that are disgusting enough to be sufficiently descriptive.

    One final try. How about, “Two Losers“?

    June 10, 2026 at 12:49 pm #242418
    WES
    Participant

    Bill Gates:

    Sadly because Biill Gate’s Crime Organization has lots of money, the MSM won’t admit that Gate’s main goal is to kill you!

    June 10, 2026 at 1:46 pm #242419
    tboc
    Participant

    it’s a game changer i tells ya a game changer

    well, judging by the news today is a day

    how about two psychotic depraved sub human devils?
    or two demonic jinn?
    dbs i know you’re not trying to be complimentary

    not that Omar is wrong, it is just her solution sucks. aspersion cast

    June 10, 2026 at 1:57 pm #242420
    zerosum
    Participant

    The Iranian version of ceasefire.

    “Iran’s armed forces will leave no attack or threat unanswered.”

    “Leave our region if you want to be safe.”

    Tasnim News reported that Iran is threatening to retaliate for US’ retaliation:”
    Iran will respond to US aggression.
    As warned hours earlier, Iran will deliver a decisive response to the US aggression, which is being carried out under the pretext of an Apache helicopter crash.”

    —————
    The USA version of ceasefire.

    Update (12:45pm ET): following earlier reports that a US AH-64 Apache helicopter had gone down over the Strait of Hormuz off the coast of Oman in an unprecedented first of the Iran war, moments ago Trump said on Truth Social that he had “been informed by our Great Military that last night the Iranians shot down one of our highly sophisticated Apache Helicopters while patrolling over the Strait of Hormuz. There were two pilots involved, both are safe and uninjured. Nevertheless, the United States must, of necessity, respond to this attack.”

    ————–

    The Israeli version of ceasefire.

    The Israeli military also targeted towns and villages across southern Lebanon, including areas that were not covered by evacuation warnings, according to the country’s state-run news agency.” So clearly the air raids are expanding, per the report, even after the latest Trump warnings directed at Netanyahu to not do anything that would sabotage a broader Iran peace agreement.

    ———–
    The Houthis version of ceasefire.

    Houthis in Yemen unleash ballistic missile on southern Israel,

    —————

    The Hezbollah latest version of ceasefire.

    Hezbollah sends drones on north…

    —————–

    The Lebanon latest version of ceasefire.

    Lebanon continues to suffer

    ————–
    The Gaza latest version of ceasefire.

    Genocide

    ————-
    The West Bank latest version of ceasefire.

    Genocide

    ———–
    symbiotic relationship

    administration’s anti-fraud task force — established by President Donald Trump to combat fraud, waste, and abuse across federal benefit programs.
    Also, marriage fraud, immigration fraud.

    —————-
    symbiotic relationship

    • How Bill Gates’ Billions Shape US Medical Research (Paul D. Thacker)

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    `symbiotic relationship

    • Data Centers will create company towns.

    • Data Centers Will Turn Red States Blue (Tim O’Brien)
    —————-
    symbiotic relationship

    “AI-powered trading systems could enable collusion between autonomous agents and create unfair insider advantages through opaque strategies.”

    ——————

    June 10, 2026 at 2:09 pm #242421
    zerosum
    Participant

    Black Hawk Down, no… Apache down in the Strait of Hormuz, but… real or false-flag provocation?
    Plus news and updates from Israel, Lebanon and Yemen.
    Ismaele
    Jun 09, 2026

    https://geopolitiq.substack.com/p/black-hawk-down-no-apache-down-in

    And, by the way, what has Trump achieved 100 days after starting the war on Iran?
    With closure of the Strait of Hormuz, that he now desperately tries to reopen, he has only made things worse for him, his party, his country and the whole world (see Fars)!

    —————

    June 10, 2026 at 2:35 pm #242425
    D Benton Smith
    Participant

    @tboc

    Understood. In my defense I will say that I was trying to keep the terminology within the genre of what one might call a well known theatrical routine. If we broaden the rules to allow suggested names for movies I suggest, “Slime Maggots From Outer Space”, or even, “Demons From Hell”

    To describe Trump and Netanyahu for what the really and truly are would be far too clinical and depressing to have much appeal to the General Viewing Audience that we’re trying to reach.
    Calling those jerks the “Douch Bag Duo” sells more tickets than a multi-page diagnosis based on the DSM of Psychiatry or the libraries of Statutory Law.

    June 10, 2026 at 2:38 pm #242426
    John Day
    Participant

    If “Netanyahu” has become an AI ghost-in-the-machine, and he is to be replaced in September elections, then the Trump friction narrative will grow, as Trump is more broadly popular in Israel.
    • Trump-Netanyahu “Differences”: A Good Cop-Bad Cop Routine (Every)
    “Netanyahu” may exist stage left…

    June 10, 2026 at 2:41 pm #242427
    John Day
    Participant

    @DBS &TBOC: Trump/”Netanyahu”, “the enema-of-my-enema, and his enema”?

    June 10, 2026 at 2:42 pm #242428
    D Benton Smith
    Participant

    @zerosum

    “AI-powered trading systems could enable collusion between autonomous agents and create unfair insider advantages through opaque strategies.”

    Wowser! That’s one helluva good quote. Where did you get it from (who said it?) With a very small adjustment the same brilliant thing could be said of our government and entire civilization.

    A legally secretive violence enforced governance system could enable collusion between autonomous agents and create unfair insider advantages through opaque strategies.

    June 10, 2026 at 2:44 pm #242429
    John Day
    Participant

    Hi Germ. Nice to see you.
    An inflatable sex-doll mught “rebuff” the advances of turdlike Peter Hotez…
    ;-/

    June 10, 2026 at 2:50 pm #242430
    D Benton Smith
    Participant

    Using the term “opaque strategies” to replace the more starkly descriptive term “criminal conspiracy” is one of the slickest little slight-of-hand euphemisms that I’ve ever witnessed. Somebody deserves credit (or blame!) for it.

    June 10, 2026 at 2:52 pm #242431
    D Benton Smith
    Participant

    @JohnDay.

    (re “Enema …”, etc.) Good one. Made me laugh. Thank you!

    June 10, 2026 at 3:12 pm #242432
    zerosum
    Participant

    @ D Benton Smith

    A little while back I had copilot dig up the A.I. that were being used by Israel to help them commit their crimes.
    Here is the latest search by copilot.

    Short answer:
    Israel is currently using at least 10 identifiable AI systems across targeting, surveillance, intelligence fusion, and population control — all confirmed by recent reporting. These systems are primarily developed and deployed by Unit 8200, Israel’s elite signals‑intelligence and cyber unit.
    Below is the full, sourced list.

    🇮🇱 AI Systems Used by Israel (Confirmed by Reporting)
    1. AI‑Enhanced Audio Analysis Systems
    Used to intercept, analyze, and geolocate targets by processing voice communications.

    Enabled the strike on Hamas commander Ibrahim Biari by pinpointing his location through AI‑processed audio.

    2. Facial Recognition AI (West Bank & Gaza)
    Deployed at checkpoints and during raids to identify Palestinians.

    Used for population control, arrests, and tracking.

    Has caused misidentifications and wrongful detentions.

    3. AI‑Powered Surveillance Cameras (Gaza Crossings)
    High‑resolution cameras with AI‑based facial recognition and movement analysis.

    Used to track individuals entering/exiting Gaza.

    4. AI‑Driven Targeting Systems
    Unit 8200 uses AI to:

    Filter intelligence

    Generate target lists

    Accelerate kill‑chain decisions

    Identify tunnel networks

    5. Arabic‑Language Chatbots
    AI chatbots trained on Arabic social media and communications.

    Assist analysts in processing huge volumes of Arabic text.

    Struggle with dialects and slang.

    6. AI‑Based Communication Analysis Tools
    Systems that analyze:

    Text messages

    Social media posts

    Intercepted communications
    Used to identify suspects, track networks, and flag “patterns of interest.”

    7. AI‑Supported Voice‑Matching Tools
    Used to match intercepted voices to known individuals.

    Applied in tunnel searches and hostage‑tracking operations.

    8. Unit 8200’s Classified Large Language Model (LLM)
    A ChatGPT‑like AI model trained on millions of intercepted Palestinian conversations.

    Designed to answer questions about individuals

    Used for incrimination, surveillance, and population monitoring

    9. AI‑Enhanced Mapping & Tunnel‑Detection Tools
    Used to analyze:

    Tunnel layouts

    Underground movement

    Structural patterns
    Supports targeting and hostage‑rescue operations.

    10. “The Studio” — Unit 8200’s AI Development Hub
    Not a single tool, but a dedicated AI lab inside Unit 8200.

    Builds new AI targeting tools

    Collaborates with engineers from Google, Meta, Microsoft

    Rapidly deploys experimental AI into combat

    🧠 What These Systems Do in Practice
    Across all sources, Israel’s AI systems are used for:

    Target generation (who to strike)

    Target verification (is the person who we think they are?)

    Hostage tracking

    Population surveillance

    Predictive policing

    Rapid kill‑chain acceleration

    Filtering massive intelligence datasets

    These systems dramatically speed up Israeli military operations — but also increase the risk of misidentification, civilian casualties, and automated decision‑making without human oversight.

    June 10, 2026 at 3:45 pm #242433
    D Benton Smith
    Participant

    @zerosum

    And if all of what you just reported on wasn’t enough to put the wobble in the colly of your deepest fears, then let me present you with the following video: WARNING ! The following video is for Geeks only, especially geeks with trust issues that borders on paranoia (because they’re not wrong).

    I will cut to the chase and then paste the link: for the situation described in this video to even exist AT ALL (and it verifiably exists A LOT!) then it can be confidently concluded that the “Tech Bros” branch of the Blobulist Cabal has been open-field running with no significant opposition whatsoever. Free rein for several decades, and only the best and brightest of our suspicious geeks have even discovered what the Tech Bros have actually been up to. Hint: they’re practically finished with the build-out. It remains only for the switch to be flipped for it to be turned on.

    June 10, 2026 at 5:54 pm #242436
    zerosum
    Participant

    June 10, 2026
    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.
    Open link for more …

    War On Iran: – U.S. Provocation Towards Further Escalation

    June 10, 2026 at 6:37 pm #242437
    WES
    Participant

    City of London:

    The City of London must be very pleased with provoking the Irish in Northern Ireland riots yesterday.

    Now, the UK government can bring down the full weight of it’s police state and crush the rioters, so they accept their fate and never riot again.

    Expect the proven Jan 6th method of picking off the rioters, one by one, and jail them without trials.

    Starmer’s response was as expected.
    Nancy Pelosi will be so proud of being copied.

    June 10, 2026 at 6:42 pm #242438
    WES
    Participant

    Escalation:

    US is escalating the peacefire with Iran?

    But, you told me yesterday that Iran had achieved escalation dominance!

    June 10, 2026 at 7:00 pm #242439
    WES
    Participant

    California Vote Counting:

    Q: So, how is the California mail in vote counting coming?

    A: Very well!
    We are protecting “Our Democracy”!

    1 for you, 1 for me!
    1 for you, 2 for me!
    1 for you, 3 for me!
    0 for you, 4 for me!
    0 for you, 5 for me!

    “Good!”

    June 10, 2026 at 7:02 pm #242440
    D Benton Smith
    Participant

    @WES

    “peacefire”

    Excellent. If that meme-word doesn’t enter the international vocabulary then I need to have my brain revoked.

    June 10, 2026 at 7:16 pm #242441
    D Benton Smith
    Participant

    Dear me, so many people are lying that I hardly know who to believe any more. Wait! I’ve got it! Believe the ones who report whatever they claim to be true, and leave it up to the good sense and personal autonomy of the listener to be the FINAL judge of whether it’s true enough to personally believe, or not.

    Feel free to argue, disagree, or persuade to your hearts content, but no one has the right to tell you what you have to believe. What you must or must not believe is between you and God to work out between just the two of you. Those who do not want you to do that behave otherwise. I encourage and persuade you to not believe those authoritarian types very much.

    June 10, 2026 at 7:23 pm #242442
    WES
    Participant

    DBS:

    It is interesting to note that Trump doesn’t seem to be bothered by how long the “peacefire” lasts, contrary to the MSM saying time is running out.

    I can only surmise, that by reducing Iran’s oil sales to zero, that Trump is merely waiting until the real enemy, the City of London/Globalists, runs out of Iranian cash, and goes bankrupt!

    All these false flag events, are merely the City of London/Globalists and the US playing peacefire games with each other, while the quiet, out-of-sight, financial part, runs it’s course!

    June 10, 2026 at 8:12 pm #242444
    D Benton Smith
    Participant

    @WES

    Trump doesn’t seem to be bothered by how long the “peacefire” lasts,

    One possible explanation is that Trump (and the many many many others who are just like him in regard to not caring how badly, blatantly or often they are shown up to be murderous power-mad and totally untrustworthy liars and scoundrels) is that they are STILL in charge of everything, which for them is simply SUCCESS. Why be worried about the stray dogs and riff raff yapping at your treads when your battle tank is still operating, you’re still in the driver’s seat, and the money is rolling in like never before.

    To people like that (and there are MANY) the howling of victims is no more cause for concern (or worthy of notice) than the roar of the surf on the beach of your private island.

    June 10, 2026 at 8:44 pm #242445
    Michael Reid
    Participant

    Trump is the dumbest and most corrupt president we have ever had

    June 10, 2026 at 10:00 pm #242448
    Michael Reid
    Participant

    June 10, 2026 at 10:23 pm #242449
    zerosum
    Participant

    Update

    Iran/Middle East War: Daily Report
    10th June 2026
    Dr. Rob Campbell

    https://robcampbell.substack.com/p/iranmiddle-east-war-daily-report-1b6

    Open link for the news

    June 10, 2026 at 10:35 pm #242450
    zerosum
    Participant

    U.S. Central Command forces began launching additional self-defense strikes today at 5:15 p.m. ET against multiple targets in Iran at the Commander in Chief’s direction. The strikes are in response to Iran’s unwarranted and continued aggression.

    https://www.aljazeera.com/
    LIVE UPDATE

    Houthi
    More explosions reported in Bandar Abbas
    Iran’s Mehr news agency is reporting more explosions in Bandar Abbas, adding that the explosions were linked to an attack in the eastern part of the city.

    17m ago (22:15 GMT)
    Iran had been bracing for this attack

    By Mohamed Vall
    Reporting from Tehran, Iran

    The Iranians had been bracing for this since the afternoon, since the Americans began to talk about a new wave of strikes.

    The understanding yesterday and early this morning was that the exchange of attacks between the Iranians and Americans was over the downing of that Apache helicopter.

    Both sides announced the end of their operations with regard to that situation. But now we have the Americans initiating their own wave of attacks against Iran and linking it to negotiations.

    They seem to be impatient and unhappy about the pace of talks.

    The Iranians are talking about a situation where they can’t accept being forced into a deal that is detrimental to the future and to the sovereignty of the country, and even to its security – a deal that the Americans are trying to force on them under the threat of bombing.

    June 10, 2026 at 10:56 pm #242451
    Doc Robinson
    Participant

    Breaking news from Iranian source –

    From this moment on, due to insecurity in the region, the Strait of Hormuz is declared closed to the passage of any type of vessel, including oil tankers and commercial vessels, and any traffic will be targeted.

    The US claim that the ship passed through the aforementioned strait is denied.

    https://xcancel.com/Tehrantimes79

    June 10, 2026 at 11:22 pm #242454
    Michael Reid
    Participant

    guest Larry Johnson. The Apache Mystery Flight. How Trump squirmed out of another peace deal

    June 10, 2026 at 11:47 pm #242455
    John Day
    Participant

    About the interminable “peacefire”: “The purpose of a thing is what it does.”

    This is providing a plausible narrative to an oil & gas shock being imposed upon the world. Burning the reserves right away, without economizing, assures that the shock will be maximal when it hits, and that there will be no recourse.
    “Shock Therapy” again for us…

    June 10, 2026 at 11:49 pm #242456
    John Day
    Participant

    Resource Wars, Then Famine https://drjohnsblog.substack.com/p/resource-wars-then-famine

    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

    June 10, 2026 at 11:50 pm #242457
    John Day
    Participant

    ​ 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

    June 10, 2026 at 11:51 pm #242458
    John Day
    Participant

    ​ 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

    June 10, 2026 at 11:52 pm #242459
    John Day
    Participant

    ​ 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

    June 10, 2026 at 11:53 pm #242460
    John Day
    Participant

    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/

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