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Debt Rattle July 19 2026

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 July 19, 2026  Posted by at 9:32 am Finance Tagged with: , , , , , , , ,  Add comments


Pieter Bruegel the Elder The Fall of Icarus 1558


• CENTCOM Says US Forces Launch New Strike On Iran (ZH)
• Two American Servicemembers Killed in Jordan, One Missing (CTH)
• Two American Troops Killed by Iranian Missiles on Jordan (ZH)
• Iran Formally Declares MoU Deal Is Dead – Expands Target List (ZH)
• The War Must Go On: NATO Plans For No Endgame (Kirill Kalinin)
• Canada PM Blames US Climate and Energy Policy for Canada Wildfires (CTH)
• As AG, Todd Blanche Will Finally Seek Justice for Dems’ Dirty Lawfare (Hammer)
• Circuit Court OK’s USPS Change With Big Mail-In Ballot Implications (Salgado)
• Will We Have an Election This Year? (Ted Noel)
• Why Fox News Is So Silent About Trump’s Election Fraud Speech (Pinsker)
• The Mayor Has One Guy He Really Wants to Arrest (Robert Spencer)
• The Supreme Court’s AI Collision Course (Boyle)
• James Carville Accidentally Admits He’s a Lunatic (Matt Margolis)
• Hawaii Supreme Court Issues Unhinged Screed Denouncing US Supreme Court (Turley)

 


 

 


 


Early morning.

• CENTCOM Says US Forces Launch New Strike On Iran (ZH)

CENTCOM said US forces struck Iranian missile and radar systems stationed along the Strait of Hormuz, further dismantling Tehran’s surveillance and strike capabilities while eroding its ability to control the maritime chokepoint. “Today at 6 p.m. ET, U.S. forces began launching new airstrikes against Iran at the Commander in Chief’s direction,” CENTCOM wrote on X. CENTCOM added, “The strikes are designed to further degrade Iran’s ability to threaten commercial shipping in the Strait of Hormuz and swiftly punish Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps forces who launched attacks against American service members in Jordan last night.”


State Department Issues “Worldwide Caution”
Iranian ballistic missile strikes on Jordan’s Muwaffaq Salti Air Base, which killed two U.S. service members and injured others, are likely to trigger a major U.S. retaliation.

Israel’s Channel 14 reported late Saturday that President Trump instructed CENTCOM to “open the gates of hell” on Iran.

The U.S. State Department issued a worldwide caution, warning: “Due to heightened tensions in the Middle East, the security environment remains complex, with the potential for unforeseen escalation.”

Will tensions ease before the NY futures open on Sunday evening?

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Dead troops. That’s a red line, alright.

• Two American Servicemembers Killed in Jordan, One Missing (CTH)

According to U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) four Americans were wounded, two killed and one missing following a ballistic missile and drone attack upon Muwaffaq Salti Air Base in Jordan last night.
TAMPA, Fla. — On July 17, two U.S. service members in Jordan were killed in action as U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) and partner forces defended against Iranian ballistic missile and drone attacks. Additionally, one service member is currently missing. Four American service members were medically evacuated to Jordanian hospitals. They have since been discharged. Other personnel who were evaluated for minor injuries have returned to duty. Out of respect for the families, CENTCOM will withhold additional information, including the identities of the fallen warriors, until 24 hours after the next of kin have been notified.


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“The incident raises the number of U.S. service members killed in the war to 16.”

• Two American Troops Killed by Iranian Missiles on Jordan (ZH)

Footage has been widely circulating over the past half-day showing massive Iranian ballistic missile strikes on Jordan. Iran said it targeted a US base there, and took out various aerial and radar assets, and caused casualties among American troops. But the Pentagon has been radio silent on the extent of potential damage, until now: US officials are reporting that two American service members were killed in the overnight Iranian attack. According to emerging details in Axios:


Two U.S. service members were killed and more wounded in an Iranian ballistic missile attack on an airbase in Jordan on Saturday, military officials said. This is the first time U.S. troops have been killed since the fighting resumed two weeks ago. The incident raises the number of U.S. service members killed in the war to 16. On Saturday at least two Iranian ballistic missiles hit the Muwaffaq Salti Air Base in Jordan, which hosts U.S. troops and fighter jets. CENTCOM posted to X, officially confirming the news: “On July 17, two U.S. service members in Jordan were killed in action as U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) and partner forces defended against Iranian ballistic missile and drone attacks. Additionally, one service member is currently missing in action.”

The statement has noted additional injuries: “Four American service members were medically evacuated to Jordanian hospitals. They have since been discharged. Other personnel who were evaluated for minor injuries have returned to duty,” CENTCOM said.

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“Given President Trump has apparently just ordered dozens more aerial refueling planes to the region, the conflict looks to continue going up the escalation ladder ..”

• Iran Formally Declares MoU Deal Is Dead – Expands Target List (ZH)

It is now “official”: the Iranians have declared that the signed Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the United States is dead. Tasnim is reporting Saturday that Iran will no longer fulfill its MoU obligations amid alleged repeat US violations. The past weeks have seen each side hurl warnings and threats to pull out, while attaching conditions that must be fulfilled. But after what is now a full week of renewed fighting, it has been effectively torn up, with negotiations no longer happening. Al Jazeera is citing a top Iran official’s precise statement on suspending the MoU in the following:


“Previously, we have seen again and again Iranian officials accusing the US of violating the MoU and also putting some conditions if the aggression continues. What we’re seeing is Kazem Gharibabadi, Iran’s deputy foreign minister, who is also head of the Iranian technical negotiating team, saying that in practice, the US has violated all the commitments and suspended the MoU entirely. “We also likewise have suspended all of our commitments as a result; we are no longer implementing those commitments,” he added. So, officially, this is the first time the Iranians are saying the MoU is over and they’re not going to implement any clause. ”

Given President Trump has apparently just ordered dozens more aerial refueling planes to the region, the conflict looks to continue going up the escalation ladder for at least the next week or longer. Each side will seek to impose more economic and military pain, while waiting for the other to blink. Battle of narratives over damage and retaliation:

Saudi Arabia has come under attack by Iranian missiles in the last 24 hours, the kingdom is confirming on Saturday, in a major escalation given that this is a first since near the start of the war several months ago. According to Reuters: “The Saudi civil defense early on Saturday issued two early warnings for Al-Kharj city and Yanbu to be alert to “potential danger,” but it later says the danger has passed in both areas, without providing details on the danger that triggered the warnings.

A US official tells the Axios news site that Iran targeted an American military base in Saudi Arabia with a ballistic missile, the first time that the Islamic Republic has directly attacked the kingdom in four months. Locations in Jordan and even Syria have also been hit in recent salvos, but the US military has downplayed these attacks – and there’s a battle of narratives over just how destructive these have been amid the fog of war. Kuwait also reeling from stepped-up attacks…

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“Long-term military support for Ukraine has become a routine policy, showing Brussels and Washington don’t see peace as an option.“

• The War Must Go On: NATO Plans For No Endgame (Kirill Kalinin)

The North Atlantic Treaty Organisation’s recent summit in Ankara has produced a decision that demands scrutiny. NATO member states have committed to providing Ukraine with military assistance worth 70 billion euros for 2026. This is not an emergency measure. This is the institutionalisation of a permanent war budget – a subscription, if you will, to ongoing military confrontation.


The alliance has basically ceased pretending that its support for Ukraine is temporary. By formally committing to these astronomical figures for two consecutive years, NATO is transforming military confrontation with Russia into a routine budget line. European leaders are now casually discussing the maintenance of approximately 70 billion euros per year as part of a sustained, multi-year commitment. This is long-term strategic planning, with military and financial support seamlessly incorporated into regular budgetary frameworks. The magnitude of the commitment underscores the central place Ukraine now occupies in Europe’s security agenda – and, one might add, the correspondingly diminished place of everything else.

Consider the comparison with development assistance to Africa. According to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) figures for 2024, net bilateral Official Development Assistance from OECD Development Assistance Committee members to the entire African continent amounted to US$42 billion, of which US$36 billion went to sub-Saharan Africa. The EU institutions themselves allocated approximately US$7.5 billion in bilateral ODA to African countries, while US$23.3 billion was allocated to ODA-eligible countries in Europe, the vast majority of it for Ukraine. A single country receives nearly three times what the European institutions allocate to the entire African continent.

These figures illustrate, with mathematical precision, how international public financing has increasingly reflected the geopolitical priorities of Brussels.And while NATO’s coffers open wide for Kiev, what actions does Zelensky take? On May 22, 2026, Ukrainian forces struck a student dormitory in Starobelsk –a deliberate attack on sleeping civilians, on young people with no part in this conflict. Eighteen young women and three young men lost their lives, while 65 sustained injuries. Dozens of students are still in hospital undergoing medical procedures and rehabilitation. The Kiev regime continues, with impunity, its never-ending drone strikes against Russian cities, residential neighbourhoods, and energy infrastructure. The West, of course, remains silent. No condemnation. No outrage.

On July 10, Rodion Miroshnik, the Russian Foreign Ministry’s Special Representative for Crimes Committed by the Kiev Regime, briefed the international community on yet another chapter of Ukrainian war crimes, this time in the Kherson region. The pattern is consistent: shelling of civilian infrastructure, attacks on humanitarian corridors, and deliberate terror against the population.

Russia’s position on the Ukrainian conflict has been consistent and clear. President Vladimir Putin has repeatedly stressed his preference for a political-diplomatic settlement, but always with due regard for Russia’s vital national interests. Ukraine has been weaponised as a battering ram in the West’s confrontation with Russia, with blatant disregard for the Ukrainian people themselves. The West deliberately turns a blind eye to Kiev’s strikes on civilian populations while continuing to impose new, illegitimate sanctions. Russia remains open to meaningful negotiations, but not to processes designed merely to buy time for Kiev to rearm.

Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has been equally forthright. Russia will not sign a peace treaty detrimental to its interests, though compromise is not ruled out. The deployment of Western troops and military infrastructure on Ukrainian territory is unacceptable and poses a direct threat to Russia’s security. Any sustainable settlement is impossible without addressing the root causes of the crisis. Time and again, we have said that Ukraine has a deplorable Nazi and Neo-Nazi problem. Nobody believed us. Yet this is something that the Polish government is only now starting to recognise, judging by the recent diplomatic rift between Warsaw and Kiev.

Polish officials have explicitly warned that Poland will block Ukraine from joining the European Union until the historical issues surrounding the Organisation of Ukrainian Nationalists and the Ukrainian Insurgent Army are fully resolved. Let me remind readers that, during World War II, the above-mentioned organisations were complicit in the Volhynia and Galicia massacres, as well as other numerous killings of Poles, Ukrainians, Jews, Russians, and Byelorussians.

Coming back to the present day, Russia needs lasting agreements, not temporary reprieves that allow the Kiev regime to regroup. The Russian side has proposed practical steps, including raising the rank of the Ukrainian delegation heads and establishing working groups on humanitarian, political, and military issues. This is not intransigence, it is a serious approach and a determination to put an end to this conflict. We are ready to engage, but we will not be drawn into a charade. Russia endured eight years of provocation before the Special Military Operation began, and it has now spent more than four years resisting Western efforts to inflict upon it a so-called “strategic defeat.”

The 70 billion euro commitment is clear. NATO is not preparing for peace. It is preparing for perpetual confrontation. It is institutionalising war as a strategic instrument with the full support of European governments that, as President Vladimir Putin repeatedly observed, have assumed the role of vassals rather than acting as fully sovereign states.

Russia remains prepared to listen to sensible and reasonable proposals, but it will not be naive. The record of Western duplicity speaks for itself. I am sure our African friends know this better than anyone else.

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Canada’s not killing its ecoomy for nothing. It only works if you kill yours too.

• Canada PM Blames US Climate and Energy Policy for Canada Wildfires (CTH)

President Trump pointed out Canada’s forestry mismanagement and their failure to follow through with previous promises of investment that have led to catastrophic wildfires now producing smoke streams making U.S. Northern cities and states live under dangerous conditions. Prime Minister Mark Carney was asked about the U.S. government position, and he immediately hit back by saying the cause of Canada’s wildfires is ‘climate change’ and President Trump’s unwillingness to support the Paris Climate Treaty has created the problem that Canada is now dealing with. In short, according to the official policy of the Canadian government, their wildfires are caused by Trump’s refusal to accept global “climate change” policies. WATCH:



It should be noted that Canada clutches its pearls, claiming the USA should send “support” to assist Canada fighting wildfires instead of blaming them for mismanagement. However, reciprocity is a big problem. Most of the firefighting takes place as an outcome of private-public contracts for costs. {SOURCE} The Canadian government blocks U.S. companies from fighting fires in Canada because the Canadian government wants to only pay Canadian companies and workers. U.S. firefighting is not allowed to assist in Canada and get reimbursed.

Conversely, the Canadians quickly want to come to the U.S. to fight fires because the USA reimburses firefighting companies at a higher rate than Canada. The USA has no federal restrictions on Canadian firefighting assistance. Canadian firefighting professionals would rather fight forest fires in the USA because they make more money. There is no incentive for U.S. firefighting professionals to volunteer their time and effort without getting reimbursed; which is the position of Canada. In essence, come to Canada and fight our fires for free because we will only pay Canadians. However, also, let our Canadian firefighters come to the USA and make money. It is a very Canadian argument.

“TRUTH SOCIAL – “We are holding Canada responsible for the fact that they are not properly maintaining their Forests, and Brush therein, and the United States is being unnecessarily invaded by filthy, polluted, and unhealthy air, the quality of which is dangerous, and totally unacceptable! I will call the Prime Minister during the day to find out what they are going to do about it. The cost is incalculable! Canada has refused to engage in basic Forest Management and Debris Removal, knowing that such refusal will lead to exactly this result. This is Willful Negligence, and becoming a yearly occurrence, costing the United States Billions of Dollars, which cost of this pollution must of necessity be added to the TARIFFS Canada is currently paying. Thank you for your attention to this matter! President DONALD J. TRUMP”


Last point(s). First, Canadians have no idea about how the reimbursement rates work and how their government refuses to set reciprocal standards for firefighting payments and subsidies. Canadians make emotional arguments because they genuinely do not understand the process and government system. The government likes them to remain uninformed.

Second, Prime Minister Mark Carney makes his “climate change” blame argument in French because he doesn’t want to be put on blast by an American alternative media system who have caught on to his duplicity and will make his insanely insufferable arguments go viral. Canadians cannot argue on substance because they are intentionally misinformed by their govt. Carney continues to manipulate communication tools (in this example language) as part of the long-standing Canadian propaganda system.

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“As legal eagle Jonathan Turley said on Fox News, Blanche is one of the most qualified attorney general nominees in the history of the Justice Department.”

• As AG, Todd Blanche Will Finally Seek Justice for Dems’ Dirty Lawfare (Hammer)

It’s easy to forget, but from 2022 through 2024, Democrats engaged in some of the most reckless, republic-destabilizing actions since their partisan forebears fired on Fort Sumter in 1861. In colluding to prosecute then-former (and future) President Donald Trump on sham legal grounds across four different jurisdictions and three separate prosecutors, Democrat-Lawfare Complex thugs acted in a manner more befitting tribal warlords of a third-world hellhole than elected officials in the greatest country on earth. They crossed a line that never should have been crossed, effectuating the old Stalinist creed, attributed to Soviet secret police chief Lavrentiy Beria: “Show me the man and I’ll show you the crime.”


Many have conveniently forgotten or moved on, but we are still learning more about the Democrats’ depths of lawfare depravity.

Over the past couple of weeks, we have learned more about so-called special counsel Jack Smith, the one-man wrecking ball who brought the twin federal probes against Trump in Washington, D.C. (the 2020 election case) and Florida (the classified documents case). Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) revealed that Smith’s own henchmen may, ironically, have committed the same classified documents offenses for which Smith prosecuted Trump. Grassley also revealed Smith obtained text messages from 44 Republican members of Congress — despite the fact that Smith has explicitly denied doing exactly that.

That looks an awful lot like perjury. And perjury is actually just the tip of the iceberg. There are myriad other crimes that Smith and his primary colluders — namely, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg and Fulton County, Ga., District Attorney Fani Willis — likely committed. For instance, federal law criminalizes conspiring to “injure, oppress, threaten, or intimidate any person … in the free exercise or enjoyment of any right or privilege secured to him by the Constitution or laws of the United States.” That is an awfully good match for the lawfare cabal’s coordinated assault on Trump and the rule of law.

There has thus far been no accountability for Democrats’ debilitating lawfare. Former Attorney General Pam Bondi, to her credit, oversaw the indictment of scandal-plagued former FBI Director James Comey, but the case was dismissed on bogus procedural grounds. The same thing happened to the Bondi Justice Department’s indictment of New York Attorney General Letitia James, who in 2018 had sought statewide office in the Empire State on a Beria-esque platform: James said her run for office was motivated by a desire to hold “that man in the White House” accountable. Forget about securing the blessings of liberty or meting out justice. For some, it’s just “orange man bad” all day long.

Enough already. These scoundrels must pay for the havoc they unleashed upon the American people and the torch they took to our rule of law. Democrats drone on endlessly about “norms,” but their lawfare cabal blew up countless norms and laughed about it — and then conveniently forgot it all ever happened. But that’s not how it works. Only with real accountability and justice for those who acted so wrongly can we ensure this lawfare never happens again. And in light of the new Grassley revelations, Rabbi Hillel’s famous question comes to mind: “If not now, when?”

Fortunately, Todd Blanche, Trump’s acting attorney general, who just had his confirmation hearing to take the job permanently, is the perfect man to secure real lawfare justice for the American people. Blanche has a sterling resume for the nation’s top law enforcement job. As legal eagle Jonathan Turley said on Fox News, Blanche is one of the most qualified attorney general nominees in the history of the Justice Department. He prosecuted violent crimes for eight years in the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York. More recently, he served as Bondi’s deputy attorney general, which means he ran the department on a day-to-day basis.

Even more significant is what Blanche did between those stints at S.D.N.Y. and Main Justice: He represented Trump as the president’s lead criminal defense attorney at the very height of the Biden-era lawfare. That shows Blanche is principled. That shows he has moral courage — far more, frankly, than the crusty barnacles of the conservative legal establishment. But even more important, it means Blanche lived firsthand through the Democrats’ lawfare hell on earth. If anyone wants accountability now, it’s Blanche. And he knows where the bodies are buried. Americans deserve justice for the Democratic lawfare that almost destroyed the republic. Todd Blanche will help us get it. He should be swiftly confirmed.

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“Nearly every voter in California casts a ballot by mail ..”

How do you reform that?

• Circuit Court OK’s USPS Change With Big Mail-In Ballot Implications (Salgado)

The Washington, D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that the United States Postal Service can move ahead — for now — with a rule change with major implications for mail-in ballot reform and state compliance with federal review. The court granted the motion for stay in the case of the NAACP v. USPS, based on the strength of the appellants’ arguments. In other words, the court agreed that USPS is likely to win its case based on the Constitution and on the timeframe which the Postal Service has to implement a framework for ballots ahead of the midterm elections.


Bill Essayli, first assistant U.S. attorney for the central district of California, posted, “This ruling is a win for election integrity and would have significant implications for states like California that refuse to submit their voter rolls to verify compliance with federal election laws.” The decision came July 17, the day after President Donald Trump revealed disturbing evidence of mass election fraud in the United States, both from domestic actors and foreign governments. One of the areas where Trump emphasized that our election system is extremely vulnerable to manipulation is through mail-in ballots.

All the USPS is attempting to do is to demand from states certain data and certain envelopes related to mail-in ballots in order to ensure a more secure chain of custody and fewer opportunities for falsified ballots. The NAACP is screeching and wailing about it, but all it is doing is displaying its own determination to facilitate fraud. The only reason one would be horrified at a requirement for submission of voter lists and serialized ballot barcodes is if one knows there is some hanky-panky ongoing, and wants to ensure it continues.

The exact quote from the circuit court decision is below: “Appellants have made a strong showing that they will likely succeed on two of their arguments. First, their proposed rule is likely neither constitutionally nor prudentially ripe for review … Next, appellants have demonstrated irreparable harm on the ground that absent a stay, the district court’s injunction ‘will render [them] unable’ to ‘issue and implement a final rule in advance of the November 2026 general election.’ … Finally, on this record, any countervailing harm to appellee and the public does not outweigh appellants’ success on the two ‘most critical’ stay factors.”

This is very important language going forward, because the D.C. Circuit Court, of all places, has lent legitimacy to arguments in a case that could be crucial as the Trump administration seeks to close fraud loopholes for the midterm election this November. In California, for instance, mail-in ballots dominate elections. And we all saw how that played out with the recent contested Los Angeles mayoral race. Below is from the newly declassified documents that the Trump administration published this week:

We can only pray that the Trump administration ends up winning this case. Otherwise, Democrats and Chinese commies will keep stealing more and more elections.

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“Given the massive amount of fraud that Trump revealed (and that slipped by most people), it’s questionable whether we’ve actually had any elections recently.”

• Will We Have an Election This Year? (Ted Noel)

President Trump gives a great stump speech. But when he’s trying to educate America about critical issues like election integrity, he sucks. Sorry, but it’s the truth. That’s why I’m calling this session of the “Make Elections Safe Again” (MESA) seminar to order. Take your seats and pull out your writing tools. While you’re at it, let’s have a Simultaneous Sip in memory of Scott Adams. The President laid down a lot of factual materials. But they were scattered like Jenga blocks. Let’s put them into a meaningful order. Our first stop must be China.


The FBI, CIA, and DHS are releasing a pot full of data that the ChiComs have gotten hip-deep into our election apparatus. They have complete records of 220 million American “voters.” We’ll explain those scare quotes momentarily. But given that we have around 340 million people in the US, that’s close to two-thirds of everyone here. And that raises our first Red flag. The voting age population of the US is about 261 million. The typical registration rate for voting-age adults is 70-85%. 85% of 261 million is 221 million. Interesting. If we use the highest registration rate, then every likely registrant is in China’s database. Every. Last. One.

But something stinks with that arithmetic. You see, the “voter eligible” population (VEP)—yes, that number is different from “voting age”—is only 239 million. Take that stirring spoon out of your eye for a moment. And wipe the coffee off your shirt. The 22 million difference includes legally present aliens—visa holders, green card residents, and so on. We don’t actually know how many illegals are in it, or if that number is even bigger. But it’s a lot, and when we look at the VEP, apply that huge 85% registration number to it, and hit ENTER, there may be as many as 203 million actually eligible registered voters.

Before you spill your coffee a second time, put it down and consider this. That arithmetic means that China has at least 17 million fraudulent voter registrations in its hacked data. The number of fraudulent voter registrations known by China is larger than the population of forty-six states. Only New York, Florida, Texas, and California are larger. That’s not a problem. That’s a disaster. And America is being swept away by the flash flood. It’s time to get real. That 17 million number is a best-case calculation. If we use the 70% registration rate, it could be as high as 61 million. That’s more than the voter-eligible population of California, Texas, and New York…combined.

You read that right. This isn’t a disaster; it’s a nuclear catastrophe because if China is able to hack our systems to get all that data, it’s able to hack in to write new data. Could that many vote switches swing a key election? I wonder… Eighteen states have refused to grant voter roll access to the Feds, and in the most comprehensive analysis of state-by-state data, they have a total of 120 million voter-eligible adults, with 100 million registered, for an 83% registration rate. Reading the data differently can lead to the conclusion that these Democrat-run states have more voters than adults. Something is very rotten in Denmark.

Let’s move to Trump’s statement that we know of at least a quarter million non-citizens who are registered to vote in federal elections. It turns out that this is just four states!

DHS Document (highlight added).


We must wonder what the number would be if all states shared their data with the feds. Add in the 400,000 dead people known to be on the rolls, and anyone with an IQ above room temperature must wonder if it’s possible to have an election anywhere. Which raises a key question: What is an election? Democrats scream about “losing our democracy!” I won’t debate the issue of democracy versus. republic. But we do have democratic elections at many levels. Unfortunately, very few of them are actually elections. Six years ago (have I been writing for AT that long?!?!), I wrote that:

An election is a process of counting votes for candidates. Only valid, lawful votes may be counted. A valid lawful vote is:
• Cast by an eligible, properly registered elector as prescribed by laws enacted by the state Legislature.
• Cast in a proper form as prescribed by laws enacted by the state Legislature.
Any process that does not follow these rules is not an election. Anything that proceeds from it cannot be regarded as having any lawful import.

Let’s start at the beginning. To be eligible, you must be consuming oxygen, at least 18 years of age, a US citizen, and a resident of your voting district for a period that the state defined. That means that something north of two million registered names are already known or reasonably estimated to be ineligible. That’s enough to invalidate pretty much any election, since every fraudulent vote cancels out an eligible voter.

Next, your “vote” indicates your preference on a given issue. It can be who should assume a particular office or whether a given voter initiative should pass or not. That “vote” must be indicated in a manner that the state legislature requires. And that preference must be presented to voting officials in the time window the legislature set. (No, California’s insane “count forever” system is not the subject of this essay.) Again, if a ballot arrives from an improper person or in an improper manner, it also cancels out the vote of a real voter. As I said six years ago:

Most commentators suggest that a process of collecting pieces of paper with marks on them is an election regardless of errors, omissions, and even deliberate malfeasance. This is a mistake. Imagine a golf tournament where every bad shot by one player gets a do-over, but the competing player has to follow USGA rules in detail. One player gets to drop freely out of hazards, but the other has to tackle every embedded ball as it lies. The result is a travesty.

“The same thing applies to elections. If there are a handful of improper votes, we can suggest that there was in fact an election, perhaps tainted, but the election wasn’t materially harmed. But when the people charged with managing the election decide to ignore the law, whatever process they supervise is not the process defined by the law. Therefore, it is not an election. This leaves us with two problems. First, how do we protect actual elections? This involves multiple issues. Trump’s initiative to prevent mailing ballots to non-voters is a good start and should succeed in the appellate courts. Next, states need to clean up their voter rolls. Finally, mail-in voting should be restricted to those who are unable to vote in person.

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“One of the longterm consequences of Fox News settling its lawsuit with Dominion Voting Systems for $787.5 million is that FNC programming will avoid discussing voter fraud.”

• Why Fox News Is So Silent About Trump’s Election Fraud Speech (Pinsker)

This is a major new story, because the PR implications are enormous: America’s #1 conservative media outlet is AWOL in the election fraud debate. Which means, if Republicans are going to win the PR argument, we must do it without Fox News as a counterbalance to the mainstream media. After President Donald Trump’s primetime address on voter fraud on Thursday evening, the media noticed something curious: Fox News Channel was ignoring the story.


Mediaite: Fox & Friends Completely Ignores Trump’s Election Speech — Doesn’t Mention It Once in 3-Hour Show “As other networks picked apart President Donald Trump’s prime-time address to the nation early Friday morning, Fox News went in a completely different direction. Fox & Friends produced not one mention of the president’s address from the night before, during which the commander in chief once again attempted to cast doubt on the integrity of American elections — pointing a finger at Venezuela and China.

Instead, the regular lineup of co-hosts Brian Kilmeade, Ainsley Earhardt, and Lawrence Jones discussed the latest campaign of U.S. airstrikes against Iran, the air quality crisis choking much of America, disastrous flooding in Texas, the World Cup, and a “phenomenal” speech — by Marco Rubio. Near the end of the three-hour show, the F&F crew turned it over to America’s Newsroom host Dana Perino for a preview of the 9 a.m. show. In it, she also did not mention the speech.”

Mediaite wasn’t the only outlet that noticed this omission. Over on CNN, Brian Stelter told viewers, “And here’s maybe the best tell of all: Fox News did not spend much time on this after the speech. They moved on right away. Fox News barely talking about this speech this morning. That tells me some of Trump’s allies in MAGA media know this might not be a winning issue for him.” Actually, it tells me Brian Stelter — CNN’s “chief media analyst” — knows a helluva lot less than I do about how the news media actually functions. Here’s the CNN clip:

Other left-leaning outlets adopted similar talking points. The New Republic: Trump’s Favorite News Show Totally Ignores His Election Fraud Speech “President Trump’s rant to the nation about election fraud Thursday night was full of inaccuracies, previously known information, and claims unsupported by evidence. On the biggest conservative TV network, Fox News, which Trump watches regularly, no one is giving it much attention Friday morning. […] Laura Ingraham didn’t even discuss the speech, even though Trump was scheduled to speak just two hours later. Jesse Watters gave it a passing mention at the end of his show, prioritizing one of his correspondents interviewing people in bathing suits at Central Park. Sean Hannity gave the speech a small amount of discussion and said his show would look into it in the coming days.

The Nation’s sub-header told its readers, “Not even Fox News buys Trump’s new lies, but they will be used to undermine the midterms.” From the article: “Surprisingly, there are some lies so outrageous that even Sean Hannity is reluctant to endorse them. […] “In fact, [Trump’s] speech was so disgracefully packed with lies that even some of the president’s most loyal lapdogs decided to keep their distance from it.” […] The lukewarm response from flunkies like [Hannity] is telling. They were right to want nothing to do with the speech.

The left-wing media is pushing this interpretation because it directly undermines President Trump’s argument and credibility: “Not even Trump’s ‘flunkies’ at Fox News believe this nonsense! The president is lying again!” It was a clever way to score political points.But the truth, alas, is even darker and more disturbing. About two years ago, I pitched a cybersecurity expert to a prominent Fox News producer. S/he is someone I’ve worked with since Barack Obama’s first term. (For obvious reasons, I don’t want to reveal his/her name, but he/she produces one of FNC’s most high-profile Monday through Friday TV shows.)

The topic I pitched was cyber vulnerabilities in U.S. voting machines. The producer sent me a one-sentence reply: “I like it – but We don’t touch election fraud in any capacity.” Nothing else needed to be said. Unless you’re a total moron (or CNN’s “chief media analyst”), you could read between the lines: One of the longterm consequences of Fox News settling its lawsuit with Dominion Voting Systems for $787.5 million is that FNC programming will avoid discussing voter fraud. The topic appears to be forbidden. Fox News shuns it like the plague. (Or like Taco Bell’s lettuce.)

Which means, FNC’s silence on Trump’s voter fraud claims isn’t an editorial decision; nor does it mean that the president’s speech was “so disgracefully packed with lies that even some of the president’s most loyal lapdogs decided to keep their distance from it.” And it absolutely, positively, 100% doesn’t mean what Brian Stelter told CNN’s viewers was the “best tell of all” — that “some of Trump’s allies in MAGA media know this might not be a winning issue for him.”

[..] the biggest, most influential conservative media outlet in America, by a yuuuge margin, is still Fox News. If FNC doesn’t have a free hand to fight back, Republicans have lost an important PR asset. Unfortunately, this seems to be the case: For legal and business reasons, Fox News cannot rally public opinion on this issue; apparently, it’s been censored and defanged. Which means we’ll have to win the election fraud argument without FNC’s help.

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”The Mayor Who Wants to Empty Prisons and Defund the Police Has One Guy He Really Wants to Arrest.”

Mamdani thinks he’s the president.

• The Mayor Has One Guy He Really Wants to Arrest (Robert Spencer)

Zohran Mamdani, the Marxist Twelver Shi’ite mayor of New York City who wants to empty out the prisons, defund the police, and replace cops with social workers, has suddenly become a law-and-order guy. While he wants all manner of thugs, felons, and psychopaths menacing the law-abiding citizens of his once-great city, the callow authoritarian does have one man he is determined to put behind bars: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.


The New York Post reported Saturday that Mamdani “says he’s still weighing whether he can arrest Benjamin Netanyahu when the Israeli prime minister is scheduled to visit the Big Apple in September.” The mayor, whose hatred for Israel burns with such intensity that he says that he entered politics because of the alleged plight of the Palestinians, wants to arrest the Israeli prime minister for several key reasons. Foremost among them is the fact that if he does arrest Netanyahu, he will become the foremost hero of the left and the forces of jihad worldwide. His place in the pantheon of renowned leftists will be ensured. Everywhere he goes and whatever else he does throughout his lifetime, adoring sycophants will be ready everywhere to grant him his every wish.


Mamdani’s pretext for attempting to gain this heroic status is the International Criminal Court’s Nov. 2024 arrest warrant for Netanyahu. He said when it was issued that as mayor, he would have Netanyahu arrested if he came to New York City. Yet Mamdani’s road to supplanting Che Guevara as the communist on all the t-shirts faces several formidable obstacles: neither the U.S. nor Israel recognize the authority of the International Criminal Court, and the arrest warrant itself increasingly appears to have been a cynical ploy on the part of Muslim prosecutor Karim Khan to divert attention from sexual misconduct charges that he himself is facing.

Then there’s the fact that actual experts in urban warfare have examined the IDF’s record and found that it actually succeeded in reducing the number of civilian casualties beyond even what the Americans accomplished in Iraq and Afghanistan, despite Hamas’ relentless efforts to drive up the number of civilian casualties for propaganda purposes.

Mamdani, however, may be a millennial, but he is no slacker. He is not giving up that easily, and “is in an ‘active conversation’ with authorities ahead of Netanyahu’s trip to Manhattan for the UN General Assembly.” Despite the lack of evidence against Netanyahu, Karim Khan’s manifest corruption, and the ICC’s lack of jurisdiction, the boy commie remained defiant, saying: “I believe that Prime Minister Netanyahu belongs in the Hague. He’s a war criminal who has been charged by the International Criminal Court.”

That and $9.82 will get you a cup of coffee in a jihadi coffee house in Brooklyn, but Mamdani was ready to meet objections with an argument from authority (logically, kids, that’s the weakest of all arguments): “And what you will find is that is an opinion that is held by many, purely because of what his actions have wrought over these last many years.” Many people can be wrong, as we have seen in numerous totalitarian states, the two elections of Barack Obama, and much more, but don’t expect an up-and-coming young Marxist of the caliber of Hizzoner to take any note of that.

Mamdani did admit, at very least, that he “wasn’t sure if he had the authority to order the NYPD to cuff Netanyahu, but that he would act as aggressively as the law would allow.” He’s badgering his aides and hapless city employees now to see if he can slap the cuffs on the Israeli prime minister for the crime of defending Israel against the inexorable jihad: “The mayor is in ‘an active conversation’ with the city’s Law Department over the matter, he said.” Mamdani declared: “Whatever the law allows me to do in New York City, that’s what we will do, but we won’t be writing our own laws to that end.” Oh, that’s a relief!

Mamdani might also want to arrest the Israeli prime minister because Netanyahu has his number. “I think he should look at who he’s condemning, who he’s praising. He’s condemning Israel, the one democracy that stands shoulder to shoulder with American values. Who does he champion? Hamas, that calls openly to massacre every Jew on earth, that conducted that horrible massacre [on Oct. 7, 2023], the worst massacre on Jews since the Holocaust.” Indeed. Netanyahu even added the irrefutable coup de grace: “And in fact I think secretly, he hates America.”

It ain’t even all that well-kept a secret, Mr. Prime Minister. Here’s hoping that when you come to the Big Apple, you can stay out of the slammer.

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Do we also give AI models personhood? Decide now!

• The Supreme Court’s AI Collision Course (Boyle)

Imagine a tight House race in a swing state. In the final weeks of the campaign, a new super PAC begins spending heavily against the incumbent. It runs ads on local television and reaches individual voters with highly tailored texts. The messaging is hard-hitting and seems to be swaying the electorate. None of it traces back to the opposing campaign.


It also doesn’t trace back to any human operative. The super PAC is funded by a single LLC whose donor cannot be identified, and its spending decisions are being made by an AI agent that has been given a budget and a political objective and is now operating without any meaningful human direction. The “consultants” placing the ads are software. The text messages were crafted by the AI.

This is not a hypothetical we will face in some distant future. The technology already exists. A wealthy person, foreign government, or corporation that wants to influence an election without ever exposing themselves to scrutiny could set up such a campaign operation today. And under the Supreme Court’s current campaign finance doctrine, the states and Congress may have little power to stop it.

The AI industry has emerged as one of the largest forces in American politics. Super PACs funded by AI companies and their investors have raised well over $100 million to shape the 2026 midterms, backing candidates in both parties who share the industry’s preferred approach to regulation, and attacking those who don’t. So far, their ads rarely mention artificial intelligence at all. They talk about issues like immigration, corruption, and cost of living, and it isn’t obvious to the average viewer that these ads were funded by a multi-billion dollar industry with its own unspoken legislative wish list.

But there’s a deeper, less-obvious dynamic operating in the background. The constitutional doctrine that currently protects the right of these companies to spend millions in our elections is the same doctrine that will be asked to protect something even stranger: The “speech” of artificial intelligence itself.

Modern campaign finance doctrine has been established, affirmed, and extended by Supreme Court decisions over the last 50 years. In Buckley v. Valeo (1976), it held that raising and spending money in political campaigns is tantamount to speech itself, and, therefore, that most legislative efforts to address the influence of money in elections would be subject to strict judicial oversight. First National Bank of Boston v. Bellotti (1978) extended this framework to corporations, and then, most famously, Citizens United v. FEC (2010) extended it further to independent spending.

The court’s campaign finance jurisprudence was not built with artificial intelligence in mind, but its logic isn’t confined to the campaign finance context. If “speaker identity” does not matter for corporations and unions and super PACs, why should it matter when it comes to AI platforms?

It is thus easy to envision the Supreme Court concluding that AI-generated output is protected speech. Indeed, serious legal scholars are already arguing so. These scholars are not distorting the court’s doctrine, but simply following it to its logical conclusion. As John Ehrett and Brad Littlejohn recently warned, “The logic of the Court’s caselaw pushes forcefully in a single direction: Toward constitutional protections for everything AI, and beyond.” It is only a matter of time before an AI company, facing a regulation or decision it would rather not live with, asks the court to make that conclusion the law of the land. (This isn’t hypothetical; an AI company has already raised a First Amendment defense against a wrongful death lawsuit.)

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“I don’t want to argue that Russia interfered in the 2016 election on Trump’s behalf, because I know they did.”

• James Carville Accidentally Admits He’s a Lunatic (Matt Margolis)

On Thursday, President Donald Trump delivered a primetime address laying out new evidence of multiple security breaches in U.S. elections, breaches he says a self-proclaimed “shadow government” and the Biden administration concealed from the public. The left had a collective hissy fit, and ABC, CNN, and NBC all refused to carry the speech on their regular news programming. James Carville went on CNN with Wolf Blitzer and blasted the networks for the blackout. Before you give him any credit for this, wait until you hear his reasoning; it tells you everything. “I think the president of the United States acting loonier than a tune is newsworthy,” Carville said.


“I don’t think we should have hidden that from the American people.” Blitzer, apparently sensing this was a strange hill for a Democrat to die on, asked whether Carville really believed Trump deserved even more publicity. Carville confirmed he did. “I think the mistake was made by the networks not to show it in its entirety, so people could see him in full and understand just how far this man has gone down the road,” he said. “I would say there was nothing normal about [the speech],” Carville added. “You can do it with clips, and you can get people on, but there’s nothing like people sitting there, watching the whole thing, to tell them what’s really going on.”

So according to Carville, a president who questions the integrity of American elections (with evidence) is a lunatic, and the country deserves to see the lunacy uncut and unfiltered. Fine. Let’s apply that standard to Carville himself. This is the same man who has spent a quarter-century insisting the 2000 election was stolen from Al Gore. In fact, just days before Trump’s address, he repeated the claim on his own podcast.

“Now, let me give you a brief history of 21st century American presidential politics, and I’m going to tell you the truth, and this is the gospel truth. You can go ahead and question about it. It’s s**t,” Carville said. “In the year 2000, it was Al Gore and George W. Bush. Al Gore clearly won Florida. They stopped the recount. The Supreme Court just decided an American election throughout the will of the people. The only reason, the only reason that that race was close enough for Scalia and Rehnquist and company to steal, you understand I get this straight, well, because Ralph Nader ran. That’s right. There was an attack from the left.”

Al Gore “clearly won Florida”? This has been settled for decades, and he most definitely did not win. Carville refers, of course, to Bush v. Gore, in which the Supreme Court stepped in to halt the endless recounts as Gore’s campaign kept trying to rewrite the counting rules until the numbers came out the way it wanted. Carville also conveniently forgets that — say it with me — every single recount of that election showed Bush won the state. Every one of them.

Then there’s 2016, which Carville treats as settled science on par with the laws of physics. Last year, during an interview on NewsNation, he said, “For God’s sakes, man, I’m 80 years old. I don’t want to argue that the earth is round. I know it’s round. I don’t want to argue that gravity is real. I know it’s real. I don’t want to argue that Russia interfered in the 2016 election on Trump’s behalf, because I know they did.”

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Does every state have its own Supreme Court?

• Hawaii Supreme Court Issues Unhinged Screed Denouncing US Supreme Court (Turley)

[..] the Hawaii Supreme Court just issued a truly shocking opinion that unleashed a torrent of rage and recrimination against the majority of the United States Supreme Court, including suggesting that they are de facto racists. The opinion by Justice Todd W. Eddins is devoid of judicial restraint and decorum. The fact that other justices would join in such an unhinged screed is a disgrace to the court and the Hawaii bar. The case itself raised an issue of the admissibility of evidence at a criminal trial, which the court found denied the defendant a fair trial due to later scientific developments.


The issue raises some interesting questions of the standard that applies to such challenges. (While unanimously vacating the conviction, the court actually divided 3-2 over the standard). The majority ruled that the false-evidence standard applied under the state constitution when prosecutors knowingly present untrue testimony, holding that all that is required is that there is a “reasonable possibility” that the challenged evidence influenced the vote of any juror. Reasonable minds can disagree on that standard, but the opinion suddenly veers off into a completely gratuitous and irrelevant attack on the integrity of the United States Supreme Court.

Equally troubling is that legal pundits like Mark Stern (who covers the Supreme Court for Slate) have heralded Eddins as “the one judge who has the guts” to denounce the Court. Eddins writes a chest-thumping diatribe about how his court “takes no instruction” from the “hubristic originalists” on the Supreme Court. Of course, it has been 210 years since Martin v. Hunter’s Lessee (1816) held that the Supreme Court has appellate jurisdiction over state court rulings. It has been roughly 170 years since the Court ruled in Ableman v. Booth (1858) that state courts cannot overrule or obstruct judgments of the federal courts.

Justice Eddins and his colleagues are not declaring a judicial insurrection but rather a form of passive aggression, a pledge to minimize any orders from a Court described as “driven by agenda and intent on swiping power that belongs to the people.” He was asserting the separate authority under the state constitution to render opposing opinions, presumably when those decisions do not contravene federal rights. Eddins asserted that the majority of justices “systematically dismantles democratic safeguards, steamrolls constitutional liberties, and tramples human dignity. He proclaimed that their attack on democracy itself does not chart the course for the Hawai’i Constitution.

The opinion quickly becomes nothing short of a rave: What this court has done to constitutional rights, democratic institutions, and the rule of law explains why Hawai’i’s Constitution takes no instruction from it. Eddins then vents on a variety of cases, including the Dobbs decision, that he describes as the Supreme Court’s imperious ideology that has gutted the rights of citizens. Unlike the Supreme Court, Eddins declares that his court will “follow principles, not agendas” and take “no guidance” from “the Supreme Court’s imperious ideology.” He included broadsides against the Supreme Court barring racial gerrymandering and other forms of racial discrimination, including a disgraceful claim that “The Roberts Court sees only white.”

In rejecting what he claims as his colleagues seeking to apply a standard imported from the demonized Supreme Court, Eddins dramatically declared that this court needs no part of this. The Hawai’i Constitution was built to stand on its own. And so it does. It was the most substantive declaration since Sen Cory Booker’s “I am Spartacus” moment. The Hawaii Supreme Court will not truly stand on its own. It is part of a constitutional system that requires adherence to binding precedent, even rulings that Eddins finds obnoxious. Obviously, the state can impose its own constitutional values so long as it does not contravene federal rights and jurisdiction, which are quite broad. The rest comes off as using a judicial opinion to virtue signal.

For some of us who value federalism, there is no question that state courts have the authority to protect state constitutional values that do not violate the federal Constitution. Ironically, it is the conservative majority that is most likely to defend that state authority. However, Eddins could have made that point without the vituperative and injudicious attack on his federal counterparts who hold different jurisprudential views. Notably, Eddins cited Justice Jackson as the model of true fealty to the law. He is not the first state supreme court justice to do so, as discussed earlier in a case from the Wisconsin Supreme Court.

Since her confirmation in 2022, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson has established a legacy that is fast becoming one of the most radical in the Court’s history. Her sole dissents have drawn sharp criticism from conservative and liberal colleagues. These federal and state Supreme Court opinions are a glimpse into what awaits the country if Democratic leaders carry out their threat to take over the Supreme Court by adding four liberal justices in the image of Justice Jackson.

Nevertheless, pundits like Stern are lionizing Eddins for his pledge to use his court to resist: “When state judges refuse to carry that project any further than federal law requires, the machinery of judicial supremacy begins to jam. Eddins has shown his colleagues exactly where to stick the wrench.” Nothing says judicial restraint like a good wrench throwing. It is not even the Calvinball jurisprudence of Justice Jackson. Justice Eddins reduces our judiciary to the level of Rip Torn’s Dodgeball:

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  • July 19, 2026 at 9:32 am #245196
    Raúl Ilargi Meijer
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    Pieter Bruegel the Elder The Fall of Icarus 1558 • CENTCOM Says US Forces Launch New Strike On Iran (ZH) • Two American Servicemembers Killed in Jorda
    [See the full post at: Debt Rattle July 19 2026]

    July 19, 2026 at 10:49 am #245215
    tboc
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    isn’t Juan Guaido the poster boy for fair, uncoerced and intrusion free elections?
    Make Juan the face of MESA.

    is there a 3D printer that creates the over supply of self important white people?
    splain, to ole cracker, the difference between a nigger in a Cadillac and a whitey in a Mercedes

    from over here it looks like radical atheists with a comsumption driven mindset is the greatest danger

    word for the day: ubiquitous
    The market place of fear is ubiquitous in the current media landscape.

    July 19, 2026 at 11:11 am #245216
    Michael Reid
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    July 19, 2026 at 11:35 am #245217
    Dr. D
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    From yesterday, is the point to USE the State of Emergency (election) Powers?

    No.

    The point is to say we CAN do it. That’s leverage. Congress now has two choices: they can settle with “American elections are merely insecure and we would like to fix it” and lose the next one or retire,

    OR

    They can get in a deadly shootout when the FBI comes to raid their home and get back those Chinese gold bars like that CIA guy had. Your choice. Personally I prefer the shooting. Please, please do not retire and just disappear with mere election integrity restored. I WANT you to be raided, shot up, arrested and jailed by the hundreds. Too good for you really.

    However, there is “Being an Adult” and the Civil War thing. So yes, I can also just accept us being reasonable and restoring all without having to admit how bad it got. It’s very quiet and expedient. GO AWAY. If not, We CAN. And WILL.

    This is contrast the level of power we have to do this now. Unlike 2001, 2010, 2014, 2016, 2020… We can fight slowly with dozens and dozens of options, layers of defense, leading you around. It was slow, sure, yet here we are.

    So what’s it gonna be, boys? Sign the Save Act and accidentally get voted out? (No. MI6 would activate their blackmail) Or NOT sign and MAKE them do it. Yes. And so much the better for me. People need to know. The uglier it is, and the more in our face, the stronger we will remember it 100 years from now.

    “$100 Billion & Climbing: Iran War Price Tag Believed Far Higher Than WH Estimates

    Probably. However, Iran took a $750 Billion dollar loss and rising on a country 1/4th our size. A TRILLION dollars. 47 years of military wiped out, now probably everything else too.

    What did we spend having “The Peace”? Oh: so it was ALSO probably $100B or more over the years. Well. You tell me then. A bargain at twice the price so we can leave? I thought you didn’t want Empire or those bases. Done.

    You can tell they’re all Empire Assets because they’re very very sad while the American people are very happy about leaving. Wolfe, Sachs, Ritter, MacGregor. All super sad.

    “they can’t win unless they cheat And the media’s OK with it”

    They say this regularly in speeches and online. I don’t make them say it. I’m not even sure a lot have thought it through, they are being part of the herd. But that’s the only and direct conclusion of their own words and fears.

    “Iran has vowed to strike US bases across the region in response to US attacks on Iran.”

    Yes, but we don’t want most of those bases, so thank you.

    The bases that are in UAE, Bahrain, etc, you’re bombing Every. Single. One. Of your neighbors, you fools, who you have to live with for the NEXT 5,000 years, just as you have the last 5,000. So congratulations. We don’t have to live with any of them.

    Anyone still think this is “Iran” doing this? Grab a Persian cabby off the street, what do you think his approach would be? Yes, tough, but not idiotic. Again, I did not believe Iran was “just run by crazies” but it’s just run by crazies. Who hate the Iranian people.

    “Trump has told CENTCOM to “open the gates of hell” on Iran.”

    The “Taco Tuesday” people should be very pleased. “TACO” again being “Trump Always Chickens Out”. So…you’re all happy now, right? You like this? He did what YOU told him to do: he did not “Chicken Out”. Yeah, no, that’s not what they will say, demonstrating acute mental illness.

    Now WHY did this happen? Finally we’re getting past “Trump is panicked and doesn’t know what to do”. Thank God. No. He knew, EVERYONE KNEW “Iran” wouldn’t just sign. Duh. So this HAD to happen, duh. The point of it was to OFFER, to give an okay deal that got billions flowing overnight so long as there were no nukes and regional dominance – that is, EMPIRE, but a Persian one – and to demonstrate to the World, that is the Global South, etc that they would never take it. I mean, WE knew that, but you have to try, right? Try good and hard? So that was why we were at “War” (not really) for a mere 40 days, then 100 days of negotiations mostly and little bombing.

    So again, what is the approach and direction of the MUSLIM nations there? The ones Iran is bombing like half the Muslim nations on the planet right now? And Israel is not? And Iran has entirely forgotten Israel exists who can do whatever they want, I guess?

    Yeah, seeing this, they don’t want Iran as a dominating regional power either, it confirms all their worst fears. Iran is happy to bomb anything they can reach, even Turkey and Kuwait’s civilian airport.

    “The incident raises the number of U.S. service members killed in the war to 16.”

    Yeah, no. 1,016? Sure. 2,016? Sure. 5,016? Probably not. It is bad policy to arrange so nothing you say and release is trusted.

    “• Iran Formally Declares MoU Deal Is Dead – Expands Target List (ZH)

    They were worried about desalinization plants and have made forays into striking them. — Again, with what, how badly, reporters don’t say, so I assume a $50 Amazon drone put out with a fire extinguisher. …Or they would say it was serious, right?
    This is bad, right?

    Yes, but Iran just demonstrated, suppose we just don’t go to war, and don’t risk those plants. So next year, 10 years from now, you’ll be SAFER? Iran just showed they’re willing to leverage and bully you by bombing them. So if that’s true, then the EARLIEST time is the best time to act, not later when there are thousands more people and assets Iran can threaten. So like “the war budget”, above, we have been in a long cycle, run by people who, think only short-term, accidentally, on purpose. Then you eventually trade the short-term reality for the long one again, like a responsible adult, and do the hard thing. Then you’re the bad guy, no one gets ice cream today.

    Consider tho.

    And what was the MoU? Iran was bombing everything in OMANI waters. Wtf. Bomb your own waters, I guess, by the coast they’re yours, but the other side of the strait is OMAN’s. Now they’re mad the U.S. just as equally bombing IRANIAN waters, at the behest of Oman. How do you like it? Can we stop now? We’ll go back to you leaving Oman alone, international ships alone, and you can just do whatever you want in Iran and Iran’s coastal waters.

    “Despite clear footage of impacts they still deny it and lie that all of them were intercepted.”

    Unf very hard to tell anything, but OF COURSE many got through. That’s a given.

    “• As AG, Todd Blanche Will Finally Seek Justice for Dems’ Dirty Lawfare (Hammer)

    I’ll point out that “Republican” congress has done zero to seat anyone, anywhere. This just came up in…Washington? Where the State tried to seat a AG, using powers about how the Feds refuse to seat one. We’re…18 months in now? Not a single one? It’s almost like Congress is afraid of the Law for some reason, and don’t want criminals removed and stopped.
    Professional courtesy. (P.S. after the State legally seated the AG, Trump fired him an hour later. If WA wants him, he has to be evil, right? Same people as won’t deport rapists and lose 275,000 kids?)

    So ONE out of 96? You don’t get a medal.

    ““Nearly every voter in California casts a ballot by mail ..”

    Not only that, they’re still counting the LA Mayor’s race. We count until I win, then we stop! …And you thought I was kidding a few years back when I said that like a troll. I forget, the lowest person’s numbers…doubled…from where they expected to land?

    “CHINA CREATED FAKE DRIVER’S LICENSES TO GET FRAUDULENT MAIL-IN BALLOTS FOR JOE BIDEN”

    Luongo-Kokinda interview worth watching where they spend a lot of time on this and accusing China.

    Why? He doesn’t say anything. Trump merely says “Elections are vulnerable” wouldn’t you like to fix them then, everybody? Who can argue with that? He didn’t say “2020”. He didn’t say “We’re arresting everyone”. That’s what media WANTS and has primed to say. But can he say “It’s MI6 and the EU, as seen with Steele”? No. But there has to be something.

    So he says CHINA did this – and I’m sure they did – but not that we’re bombing them tomorrow over it. Just that we’re being fools and need to close these CHINESE loopholes – not Democrat ones. See?

    Okay, why?

    Well Xi is ALSO fighting the same people and executing a number of coup members just as we have here. IF this was done without him – or even if it was Xi’s orders – he can use this accusation and material to execute and purge more of his (British) enemies in the CCP. We HAND him the list of all the agents we know of. He goes and jails them. Done. They promise not to do this again. Done. They don’t dick with us in Iran or Panama or whatever. Done. We’re all at an understanding, it’s all settled. Balance of powers. Rules.

    Now he could pick Russia, Germany, Venezuela, anyone, to hand the magic ticket to, but he chose China, quid pro quo. They take a tiny black eye no one cares about and gets a big thing done. This is how it has always been and we all understand, it works less bad.

    ““Given the massive amount of fraud that Trump revealed (and that slipped by most people), it’s questionable whether we’ve actually had any elections recently.”

    Yes, the nation is 60/40 Red. That’s mostly because everyone blue wants to sterilize your kids and worship where people put their pee-pee. But so long as they are on the 20% for like 10 issues – like Save Act or legal Immigration – the nation is solidly 60/40 Republican. Anything within a 1,000 miles of fair election and they’ll lose badly. Soooo….they would have to give working people Healthcare or something? Anything? They have zero issues for normal Americans and are the Orange Man Bad / Burn it all Party.

    The “Burn it all” of which you speak is my job and house, you fools. That’s the gas station I use to get to work. Rittenhouse was they guy trying to PREVENT that neighborhood from being burned down.

    “Fox is barely talking about Trump’s obsession at all…”

    Similar to the Rape Gang scandals in England. An “Obession” of the Mentally Ill. WHY are you all still talking about this? Like can’t you just move on? “What difference does it make at this point???” Probably the numbers are all exaggerated anyway, so let’s not go look.

    So there were 50,000 felonies committed, not 100,000, so every felon goes free? How does that work? And for Rotherham, so if it’s not 250,000 that gets you mad, exactly what number of rapes would be enough to address and stop? 200,000? 100,000? 10,000?

    …Because to the rest of us, it’s ONE. ONE felony. No. You may NOT.

    But we knew this about Fox news all along. They were INVENTED to be captured opposition since before they wrote the incorporations documents. Does anyone not know this? Look at their guests if the owner being a far-eft liberal in service of England doesn’t convince you.

    “I don’t want to argue that Russia interfered in the 2016 election on Trump’s behalf, because I know they did.”
    –Carville

    Okay then, we agree! Election integrity is vital, and we should have firm IDs and reduce mail-in to almost zero as Jimmy Carter said! Man, this is going to be easy to fix!

    “• The Mayor Has One Guy He Really Wants to Arrest (Robert Spencer)

    Do it! I can only imagine what Nutsy’s Security detail would do to you and NYC police. And rightfully so. Think of Putin or Khrushchev would do if they arrested him. The KGB would say “Aw, that’s okay then. Fair cop, I guess.”

    “Hawaii Supreme Court Issues Unhinged Screed Denouncing US Supreme Court (Turley)

    Law is downstream from Culture, a thing the Left knows and the Right ignores. It doesn’t matter WHAT the law if everyone ignores it or interprets it as something else. We have ten-thousand laws we no longer enforce, and hundreds we should and ignore: like Grand larceny and rape I guess? Losing 500,000 kids in the system?

    Yes, as States are in theory sovereign nations, they all have their own parliaments and supreme courts. They do not commonly interact with the Federal Level though. But again, that’s a CUSTOM. If CULTURE says they should, ignore, and secede, they will.

    And for example, NY has a law enshrining gun rights in the State Constitution. The NYS Supreme Court has “Just said” and ignored it for generations, being one of the most gun-controlled since day one 1910 or 1969. So in NY both courts and both constitutions are being ignored. …And to my mind, there is a process for that: CHANGE THE LAW. It’s not too hard to change the NY Constitution if you want to, just go through the legal process and do it officially and correctly.

    But it’s “The Law” and we don’t follow that. We write it to “Just Make S—t Up” after. People jailed, harmed for Covid? Was there a law for that either? …Exactly as I said at the time. If it’s really important, you can pass the law, right? A: NOPE. We’re narcissistic sociopaths. We do whatever WE want, for US, that minute. It reverses a minute after when it doesn’t suit us.

    I can steal YOUR stuff; you can’t steal MINE. The law is whatever I made up just now and can get away with.

    “Musk: “GDP is a function of average productivity per person.”

    Well, he’s a dips—t then because GDP is just government spending now. That’s NEGATIVE GDP.

    What is “Productivity”? When we pave forests and target and kill every endangered species, destroying all human health? A: Yes. So I don’t want more of it. I want less.

    What amazing and impossibly stupid things will the Fox News Guests come up with today?

    Always wrong, year after year, never in doubt. And fine, so be it. But then what’s the excuse for the rest of us, who believe and repeat it, knowing they’ve been wrong for +10 years?

    July 19, 2026 at 2:11 pm #245221
    Michael Reid
    Participant

    Iran’s ELITE units attacked the U.S. Air Base in JORDAN! The U.S. can no longer hide HUGE losses!

    July 19, 2026 at 2:32 pm #245222
    John Day
    Participant

    Global Financial Reset 2026 https://drjohnsblog.substack.com/p/global-financial-crisis-2026

    The working-hypothesis I promote is that what we see in the world “not making sense” is the transition to economic contraction after 300 years of economic growth powered by fossil fuels and advances in the technology to burn them to perform work and make useful things. The concept of “Peak Oil” was calculated by the world’s foremost petroleum-geologist, M. King Hubbert around 1957, came true for the US peak around 1971, and peak conventional-oil around 2005. The Arab Oil Embargo and Global Financial Crisis followed those inflections from increase to decline.
    In late 2018 there was a peak in oil + condensates, followed by the repo-crisis the next August, Event 201 in New York to war-game a global coronavirus pandemic, the go-live in Wuhan in December 2019, and COVID-lockdowns and bank-bailouts in spring of 2020.

    June 13, 2020 I posted this from Fabio Vighi:
    ​ The mainstream narrative should therefore be reversed: the stock market did not collapse (in March 2020) because lockdowns had to be imposed; rather, lockdowns had to be imposed because financial markets were collapsing. With lockdowns came the suspension of business transactions, which drained the demand for credit and stopped the contagion. In other words, restructuring the financial architecture through extraordinary monetary policy was contingent on the economy’s engine being turned off. Had the enormous mass of liquidity pumped into the financial sector reached transactions on the ground, a monetary tsunami with catastrophic consequences would have been unleashed.
    As claimed by economist Ellen Brown, it was “another bailout”, but this time “under cover of a virus.” Similarly, John Titus and Catherine Austin Fitts noted that the Covid-19 “magic wand” allowed the Fed to execute BlackRock’s “going direct” plan, literally: it carried out an unprecedented purchase of government bonds, while, on an infinitesimally smaller scale, also issuing government backed ‘COVID loans’ to businesses. In brief, only an induced economic coma would provide the Fed with the room to defuse the time-bomb ticking away in the financial sector.

    A Self-Fulfilling Prophecy: Systemic Collapse and Pandemic Simulation

    ​ November 2025 saw a year of rising US tight-oil output with a new and slightly higher peak of oil + condensates. In February the US attacked Iran for no apparent reason better than Israel told them to. That war forced the Strait of Hormuz closed, which was widely predicted, greatly reducing the flows of sour crude oil, natural gas, helium and fertilizer to the world, and impairing global financial arrangements based on those flows of core commodities.

    This doesn’t make sense in the context of the last 300 years of growing global wealth based upon utilization of fossil fuels, but if that flow has finally peaked, and we face a long decline of real wealth, then we need to reconsider how it might make sense in the context of a world of less…
    The world declining in real wealth does not mean the decline happens evenly, and one consortium of wealth might maintain wealth by destroying the industrial production capacity of a rival consortium, and/or choking off its supplies of critical resources, as at the Strait of Hormuz, or the Black Sea, for instance.
    War of resource-denial is an attractive option, because the choking of critical supplies to a rival can be imposed at less expense than traditional kinetic war for productive territory. Imposing an early loss or a relatively more severe loss upon a rival, or even upon a neutral player, may improve the relative standing of a robust player within the game hierarchy, even if absolute wealth lessens in the process.
    I propose that the initiatives we are seeing from the US, Russia and China reflect, a new form of game being played in the long decline of industrial economy, with different limitations and objectives than were assumed in the centuries of growing global industrial economy.
    Since 2008 risks have all been concentrated under national public programs, while profits have been legally garrisoned to private ownership, which is largely hidden from view. What is about to take place is partly described in The Great Taking, which ellen Brown explained well here: The Great Taking, How They Can Own It All https://ellenbrown.com/2023/10/03/the-great-taking-how-they-plan-to-own-it-all/
    The looming risk to our elite “owners” is revolution. To that end they are arranging vast, life threatening-wars to emergently occupy and kill-off the men who might work together to overthrow them and redistribute wealth within their countries. Those men are now to be known as “Communist Terrorists”, if you please.

    The Honest Sorcerer, The Oil Price “Mystery”​ – Why high oil prices are a mythical red dragon – and what to focus on instead
    The real issue is not the price of crude oil. Remember: the economy runs on refined products: gasoline, diesel, jet fuel etc. The cash (wholesale) price for ultra low sulfur diesel fuel, powering everything from goods transportation, agriculture, mining, construction and acting as a back up fuel for electricity generation, has returned to $4 per gallon, or $168 per barrel. How does that compare to a ~$80 oil price?​ …
    ​..It is not oil at $150 which will kill the economy—that is a mythical red dragon “economists” scare their audience with—but record high fuel prices. Citing the cost of crude oil is thus a total misdirection.
    Making matters worse, much worse—and fitting neatly into this little story we are uncovering here—are the recent and highly successful Ukrainian drone strikes on Russian refineries and shipping on the Sea of Azov and the Black Sea. Russian diesel exports were already down by 683,000 barrels a day but now they have completely collapsed to zero from 800,000 barrels a day before the war, forcing Russia to import fuel. Needless to say this comes on top of Persian Gulf diesel exports falling by more than 520,000 barrels compared to last year—a deficit which is also supposed to increase due to renewed Hormuz hostilities. And while usually the US Gulf is the main producer to fill such gaps, refineries there are already running at full bore, at 96% utilization. This would make India the world’s refining swing producer but New Delhi has recently doubled export duties on diesel and jet fuel as the government wants more of those barrels available at home before they leave for overseas buyers. This is how the world enters a major diesel fuel crunch—potentially leading to a historic economic downturn—even as oil prices stay comfortably below $100 a barrel. https://thehonestsorcerer.substack.com/p/the-oil-price-mystery

    “We’ve Burned Through All Buffers”: Oil Traders Warn Market Running On Fumes​ https://www.zerohedge.com/energy/weve-burned-through-all-buffers-oil-traders-warn-market-running-fumes

    July 19, 2026 at 2:33 pm #245223
    John Day
    Participant

    Meryl Nass MD posted this, 2 things: having and treating cyclosporiasis, and what might be the end game of the recent uptick in the Iran War
    After Pepe (Escobar) spoke eruditely for 30 minutes, he finally got to the bottom line: what does this all mean?
    ​ He says, and this makes sense to me too, that the only plausible explanation for what Trump is doing is that those who control Trump have a potential plan to bring on the Great Reset. And since they control how it will go down, they can profit as it happens.
    Pepe says (my transcription):
    ​ “This is not a conspiracy theory. I heard this same possibility of discussion from well placed, anonymous sources. It is a calculated implosion of the global economy. ‘Let’s blow it all up.’ As our last measure, because it [things] won’t get better. Of course we can profit. We can zero out our foreign debt. We can restart all over again.’ So this would be the new meaning of the Great Reset. This is the only plausible, logical, rational explanation….”​ https://merylnass.substack.com/p/2-things-having-and-treating-cyclosporiasis

    ​ Caitlin Johnstone on deep state weaponization of the New Red-Scare: They’re Launching A New COINTELPRO For The 21st Century
    The Trump administration has announced a renewed crusade against “far-left terrorism,” which sounds okay if you don’t know that the word “terrorism” only ever means “behavior which goes against the agendas of the western empire.”
    ​ The United States has for example placed sanctions on UN special rapporteur Francesca Albanese for calling attention to Israeli atrocities in Gaza, justifying the move by claiming the human rights expert has “expressed support for terrorism”. In the UK, police have been arresting people on terrorism charges just for holding signs which say “I oppose genocide, I support Palestine Action”.
    ​ The designation has nothing to do with actual acts of terrorism as the average westerner conceives of that notion. In 2024 the US government removed its $10 million bounty on former Al Qaeda leader Ahmed al-Sharaa (AKA Abu Mohammad al-Jolani) because he facilitated Washington’s regime change agendas in Syria, where he is now the sitting president.​ https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/theyre-launching-a-new-cointelpro

    ​Simplicius on US looking for suckers to invade Iran: Speculations Over Ground Campaign into Iran Again Heat Up as US Moves to “Isolate” Coastal Zone https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/speculations-over-ground-campaign

    Larry Johnson, China’s Beidou Satellite System is a Game Changer in Iran’s War with the US
    Hat tip to Kevin Wamsley of Inside China Business. His recent video explaining the importance of China’s Beidou satellite navigation system provides a critical insight into the current success of Iran’s missile strikes on US and Israeli targets. It is a game changer.
    ​ Let me summarize it. During the 12-day war in June 2025, Iranian missiles and drones struggled against sophisticated Israeli and American electronic warfare. GPS jamming and spoofing repeatedly disrupted their guidance systems, limiting their effectiveness during the intense 12-day conflict. Fast-forward to early 2026, and the battlefield dynamics had shifted dramatically. Iran’s precision strikes began threading through advanced air defenses, hitting high-value targets across the Gulf with surprising accuracy. Intelligence analysts pointed to one key factor: Iran had ditched GPS for China’s Beidou satellite navigation system.
    ​ The US unwittingly provided the spark that ignited China’s quest for the Beidou. The story begins in 1993 when a single Chinese container ship, the Yinhe, sailing to Iran, the vessel was accused by the CIA of carrying chemicals for weapons production. Middle Eastern ports, under pressure from the US, refused entry and the ship was stranded in the Indian Ocean. The US not only pressured allies but reportedly disabled the ship’s GPS access, forcing it to drop anchor for weeks. Inspections in Saudi Arabia eventually cleared the vessel, but China received no apology or compensation.
    ​ This humiliation—losing navigation mid-ocean due to reliance on a foreign-controlled system—became a pivotal lesson for Beijing. It accelerated development of an independent satellite navigation network: Beidou (BDS).​..
    ​..Beidou outperforms GPS in coverage and precision across roughly 165 countries, offering a resilient alternative that cannot be unilaterally jammed or spoofed by Western powers.
    ​ After the 2025 conflict exposed vulnerabilities in GPS-dependent systems, Iran moved decisively. By late 2025 or early 2026, it integrated Beidou into its missile and drone arsenals.​..
    ​..Key advantages of Beidou for Iran include:
    Resistance to jamming/spoofing — Advanced frequency-hopping and anti-interference tech.
    ​ Higher accuracy — Circular error probable under 5 meters in key regions, enabling precise strikes with fewer munitions.
    Real-time command — Secure messaging allows mid-flight adjustments over long distances.
    ​ This upgrade has contributed significantly to Iran’s ability to penetrate US defenses in the Gulf countries and dramatically improved Iran’s ability to strike critical targets, which has undermined confidence in US security guarantees in the Gulf.​ https://sonar21.com/chinas-beidou-satellite-system-is-a-game-changer-in-irans-war-with-the-us/

    ​ Gold & Geopolitics, Daily digest: 2026-07-18
    The Iran-US war jumped a rung overnight: night seven of US strikes reached Iran’s underground weapons storage for the first time, and Iran answered by hitting Prince Sultan in Saudi Arabia — its first direct strike there in nearly four months — while US officials quietly confirmed American casualties at Jordanian bases.
    ​ Oil ripped toward $90 with the Strait of Hormuz down to a trickle.
    ​ On the screens, China’s Kimi K3 dethroned Fable 5 and set off a synchronized tech flush that put the SOX in a bear market, wiped a claimed $1T off SpaceX, and — for a few hours — handed Apple the most-valuable-company crown back from Nvidia. Korea’s margin-call cascade is the structural story underneath.​ https://no1sdailydigest.substack.com/p/daily-digest-2026-07-18

    July 19, 2026 at 2:34 pm #245224
    John Day
    Participant

    ​ Gold & Geopolitics,​ Daily digest: 2026-07-17
    The Iran war went vertical overnight: a sixth straight night of US strikes moved openly onto Iranian bridges, railways and a civilian airport, and Iran answered by hitting five Gulf states at once — Bahrain’s BAPCO refinery burning, the King Fahd Causeway struck, Al Udeid in Qatar targeted. The financial tell shifted from Korea to Japan, with the Nikkei entering a technical correction and the memory/AI complex leading a global risk-off. Meanwhile Kostiantynivka has fallen and Kyiv’s government is eating itself over the ​(Defense Minister) Fedorov sacking.​ https://no1sdailydigest.substack.com/p/daily-digest-2026-07-17

    ​ State Department Issues “Worldwide Caution” As US-Iran Tit-For-Tat Spirals Into Regional Crisis
    CENTCOM says two US troops killed in Iranian attack on Jordan base.
    ​ Iran formally suspends MoU with the US, declaring agreement is over & commitments will no longer be fulfilled.
    US strikes disrupt southern Iran’s telecom network, knocking out 116 communication towers amid new infrastructure war.
    ​ Iran pounds Kuwait’s energy infrastructure, damaging power & desalination facilities.​ https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/kuwait-pounded-iranian-barrage-oil-and-desalination-plants-come-under-attack

    ​ Al-Tanf moderate-terrorist training center: IRGC Targets US Command Center In Syria In Unprecedented Attack
    Iran’s large-scale ‘retaliation’ on US bases and Gulf states overnight included a rare first if confirmed. The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said it conducted a missile or drone attack on an American special operations command center at al-Tanf in Syria on Friday.​ https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/irgc-targets-us-command-center-syria-unprecedented-attack

    ​ Israel And The United States Are Merging Their Militaries. Here’s Why.
    In June 2026, Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu wrote to Republican Representative Marlin Stutzman of California, saying that “the time has now arrived [for Israel] to move from aid recipient to partner” with the United States. Yesterday, on Fox News, Netanyahu again repeated the proposal to move “from aid to partnership“.
    ​ What Netanyahu proclaims is at the core of the proposed “United States-Israel Defense Technology Cooperation Initiative”, which has been included in a section of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) that seeks to push the Pentagon budget to $1.5 trillion in 2027. This proposal to the annual military policy bill aims to essentially merge the Israeli and the US militaries.
    ​ While the initial bill, the “United States-Israel FUTURES Act,” failed as a standalone bill, the core provisions have been included in the NDAA. This aims to “expand and accelerate bilateral defense technology research, development, testing, evaluation, integration, and industrial cooperation” between the US and Israel, led by an “executive agent” decided by the US Defense Secretary.
    ​ This merger would integrate the United States and Israeli occupation militarily, including “data fusion”, “network integration”, research and development, weapons and bio-manufacturing, and collaboration with AI, cyber, and quantum machine learning technologies. While the Israeli occupation forces and US military are already deeply connected and share many of their genocidal tactics, this represents a significant entanglement of the two most belligerent and murderous militaries in the world.​ If passed, this would be the most integrated the United States is with any country on earth.​..
    ..In this case, the merger will deepen ruptures across the political, social, and economic system as the United States moves closer to its proxy. The main beneficiaries of this will be the weapons companies that profited immensely from and have made Israel’s genocide in Gaza possible, as they enter into new seamless contracts.
    ​ Israel is increasingly viewed across the world, and within the United States, as a pariah state. In the US, 60% of adults have an unfavourable view of Israel. This push to further integrate with Israel puts the US on the line in an attempt to ensure the continuation and longevity of the settler colonial project. By entrenching the US military with Israel’s own, it provides a layer of protection that goes even further than the impunity that has given Israel full rein to commit a holocaust in Gaza and further colonisation of the occupied West Bank. This integration will mean that Israel is given unfettered support to carry out its genocidal trajectory for the total colonisation of Palestine, inhibiting any future presidents from changing this relationship​…
    ..This is a clear response to the massive movements that have erupted across the world for nearly three years in opposing Israel’s genocide and the role of countries in facilitating it. The US is, in a way, absorbing Israel to provide the legitimacy being chipped away at internationally and domestically, ending the narrative opposition to unlimited foreign aid to Israel, which has garnered bipartisan support…
    ​ This NDAA is dangerous. Through the US-Israeli integration, it would facilitate more deadly technology, more weapons for genocide, and make it nearly impossible to sever support for Israel by the US.​ https://scheerpost.com/2026/07/15/israel-and-the-united-states-are-merging-their-militaries-heres-why/

    Flashback: US game plan on Iran written in Tel Aviv, claim Israeli insiders​ https://israelpalestinenews.org/flashback-us-game-plan-on-iran-written-in-tel-aviv-claim-israeli-insiders/

    July 19, 2026 at 2:35 pm #245225
    John Day
    Participant

    ​ ‘Go to Hell’: JD Vance Accuses Israeli Officials of Trying to Prolong Iran War
    “There are some people within their system, we know beyond a shadow of a doubt, who are manipulating and trying to change American public opinion to keep the war going on indefinitely,” Vance said.
    ​ He argued that those involved were not advocating continued military action in pursuit of a clearly defined objective, but were instead seeking to prolong the war without an endpoint…
    ​..Vance referred to reporting suggesting that some of those funds had reached online influencers who later attacked him and the ceasefire agreement.
    ​ “When I open up the pages of Time magazine and I see that there’s a literal foreign influence campaign being funded to tank the very deal that I was pursuing, and, oh by the way, many of the people who were receiving that money were actually attacking me in completely dishonest ways, my response to that is: ‘Well, go to hell,’” he said.
    ​ “I’m going to do what I have to do for the American people. I represent Americans first,” Vance added.​..​
    ​..Vance’s unusually sharp comments suggest that the disagreement is no longer being contained behind closed doors and has instead developed into a public struggle over US policy, Israeli influence and the future direction of the war.​ https://www.palestinechronicle.com/go-to-hell-jd-vance-accuses-israeli-officials-of-trying-to-prolong-iran-war/

    ​ ‘Palestine is disappearing’: Church backs genocide report despite Chief Rabbi’s bid to block debate
    A detailed Palestinian Christian report documenting Israel’s genocide in Gaza, the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians and Israel’s apartheid system will be discussed across the Church of England after its General Synod overwhelmingly backed engagement with the document, despite warnings from pro-Israel groups, including Britain’s chief rabbi, Sir Ephraim Mirvis.​ The Synod voted to stand in solidarity with Palestinian Christians and their fellow Palestinians.​ https://israelpalestinenews.org/palestine-is-disappearing-church-backs-genocide-report-despite-chief-rabbis-bid-to-block-debate/

    ​ ‘They want to break our will’: Gaza flotilla activist tells of rape in Israeli detention
    Anna Liedtke files criminal complaint in Israel over alleged attack by female guards and says abuse was intended to silence campaigners​ https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jul/15/gaza-flotilla-activist-rape-complaint-israel-anna-liedtke

    Family Wiped Out, Police Targeted: Israel’s Genocide Claims 16 More Lives​ https://israelpalestinenews.org/family-wiped-out-police-targeted-israels-genocide-claims-16-more-lives/

    ​ Dead or Detained? Families in Gaza Search for Their Loved Ones
    With over 9,500 missing in Gaza, Palestinians search for family members under the rubble, in the “numbered graves cemetery,” or in Israeli prisons.​ https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/missing-unidentified-gaza-dead-detained-numbers-cemetery

    July 19, 2026 at 2:36 pm #245226
    John Day
    Participant

    ​ Warnings grow over sick Palestinian women prisoners in Damon Prison
    Fatima Saed Youssef, 34, is among the most serious cases in the prison. She suffers from hepatitis C, in addition to a severe infection at the site of a surgery she underwent before her arrest.
    ​ Youssef has also lost around 22 kilograms within a few months of her detention, raising growing fears that her health could deteriorate further due to continued medical neglect.
    ​ The AMO said Fatima’s suffering is not limited to her illness, noting that her six children are being deprived of their mother. Her family also lacks accurate information about the level of medical care she is receiving inside the prison because of restrictions on visits and communication.​ https://english.palinfo.com/news/2026/07/15/366715/

    The West Won’t Punish The Settlements. Its Two-State Solution Was Always a Sham​ https://scheerpost.com/2026/07/15/the-west-wont-punish-the-settlements-its-two-state-solution-was-always-a-sham/

    ​ Jewish settler runs over six-year-old Palestinian child in al-Khalil
    According to the sources, the settler fled the scene following the incident. Palestine Red Crescent Society ambulance crews transported the child to a hospital for medical treatment.​ https://english.palinfo.com/news/2026/07/16/366719/

    Israel’s prevention of Palestinians from returning to Gaza entrenches forced displacement​ https://english.palinfo.com/news/2026/07/15/366690/

    ​ Israeli occupation forces on Wednesday uprooted nearly 40 centenary olive trees in the village of Zabuba, west of the occupied West Bank city of Jenin, according to a local source.​ Zaki Jardat, head of the Zabuba Village Council, reported that the occupation forces escorted bulldozers near the villagers’ homes, where the heavy machineries razed approximately two- dunum land plot and uprooted nearly 40 decades-old olive trees.​ https://english-wafa-ps.translate.goog/Pages/Details/172665?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=wapp

    July 19, 2026 at 2:36 pm #245227
    John Day
    Participant

    Israel keeps killing in Gaza as it polishes its reputation in US – Daily Update​ https://israelpalestinenews.org/israel-keeps-killing-in-gaza-as-it-polishes-its-reputation-in-us-daily-update/

    ​ Israel advances crocodile plan to stop Palestinian prisoners escaping
    Government removes legal protections for Nile crocodiles as Ben Gvir pushes for detention compound ringed by reptiles​ https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-advances-crocodile-prison-plan-palestinian-prisoners

    ​ Saudis Cleared To Buy A Whopping 20,000 Laser-Guided Rockets
    The Saudis are clearly arming themselves to defend against a massive number of drones in future conflicts.​ https://www.twz.com/air/saudis-cleared-to-buy-a-whopping-20000-laser-guided-rockets

    Russia Pressing Ahead On Rail Link To Iran & Azerbaijan To Ease Strain On Maritime Routes​ https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/russia-pressing-ahead-rail-link-iran-azerbaijan-ease-strain-maritime-routes

    Bromance Breaks Out Between “Man of Peace” Trump And Azerbaijani President​ https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/bromance-breaks-out-between-man-peace-trump-and-azerbaijani-president

    July 19, 2026 at 2:37 pm #245228
    John Day
    Participant

    ​ Thursday 7/16/26, Simplicius, Political Crisis in Kiev as Shrinking Zelensky Ousts Popular Defense Minister
    By all appearances, the winds of revolution are stirring through Ukraine.
    ​ Large crowds have gathered in protest of President Zelensky for his decision to remove the popular Defense Minister Mykhailo Fedorov.
    Since his appointment early this year, Fedorov was said to have been instrumental in fighting corruption and transforming the AFU into even more of a technologically dominant force.
    ​ At only 35 years of age, Fedorov was young, dashing, intelligent, energetic, and because of these things, posed a direct threat to Zelensky who, rumor had it, feared that Fedorov was gearing up to eventually vie for the presidency himself.
    ​ But the main reasons Fedorov was dismissed was reportedly over a loggerheads with Syrsky, who himself told Zelensky in no uncertain terms that it was either “me or him”.
    ​ In short, Syrsky made Zelensky choose between the two all because Fedorov had criticized Syrsky and wanted him removed. Perhaps even more importantly, Fedorov was fighting to stop the massive grift in the Defense Ministry, which was a big no-no as the “senior officials” making a killing off of military contracts had essentially turned it into a mob and did not want anyone cutting off their tap of Western funds.​ https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/political-crisis-in-kiev-as-shrinking

    ​Also Thursday, July 16, Moon of Alabama, Another Anti-Western Coup In Kiev
    Today, in addition to another barrage of Russia missiles, Kiev was also struck by a power struggle between the mafia like ‘family’ around acting president Vladimir Zelensky and the western financed ‘grant structures’ around the unconstitutional anti-corruption authorities.
    Six month ago Zelensky installed the 35-year old Mykhailo Fedorov as Minister of Defense. Last night, under the guise of a larger cabinet reform, he fired him.
    Fedorov is a tech savvy ‘silicon valley’ guy who knows how to promote himself. His job was to reform the draft system and the recruitment offices known for snatching people off the street to feed them as cannon fodder into the assault brigades of the Soviet-trained Commander in Chief General Alexander Syrsky (‘the best general the Russians have’).
    Fedorov set out to modernize the Ukrainian army by hyping drone warfare and more effective procurement. This however led to resistance from two important constituencies.
    The regular military despised Fedorov for his lack of knowledge about military affairs. Fedorov bought fancy ‘cyber’ weapons and long-range drones while the soldiers said their needs were elsewhere.
    Those of the Zelensky ‘family’ who were making billions from military procurements were aghast when Fedorov started to cut into their business…
    ..Meanwhile the core job Fedorov was hired to do, the reform of the recruiting system, has made zero progress. Public attacks on recruitment officers and news of draftees dying during the drafting process appear nearly daily.
    ​ Fedorov had gained some prominence with western journalist and ‘grant structures’ aligned with EU and U.S. non-government organizations. As soon as it was known that he would be fired they called for demonstrations. This morning a few dozen people turned out for another ‘cardboard Maidan’.
    ​ Immediately recruitment officers appeared to check who of those protesters were eligible for military service.
    ​ Fedorov has made the big mistake to think that the war should be about winning against Russia. https://www.moonofalabama.org/2026/07/another-anti-western-coup-in-kiev.html

    Friday, July 16, Zelensky’s Cabinet Reshuffle Backfiring As He Names New Defense Minister
    Amid a continuing status of martial law in Ukraine, one European headline underscores that President Zelensky’s significant cabinet and defense ministry reshuffling has ‘backfired’.
    ​ Public outrage and rare protests have ensued in the capital and across various cities after he sacked popular Defense Minister Mykhailo Fedorov, who many Ukrainians see as having turned the tide of the war with Russia, implementing an ambitious tech-focused drone strategy.​
    ​ Zelensky has now confirmed the dismissal by appointing Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) chief Yevhen Khmara as acting defense minister.
    ..Chief Foreign-Affairs Correspondent of the WSJ, Yaroslav Trofimov, has pointed out that “Many Ukrainians (and not just Ukrainians) see this as Zelensky putting petty politics ahead of winning the war.” If the protests grow rapidly, it could cause Zelensky’s external supporters to sour on him.​ https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/zelenskys-cabinet-reshuffle-backfiring-he-names-new-defense-minister

    Moon of Alabama, Economist: Let’s Start A War To Get Europeans Used To It
    The Economist, the British media outlet of the Rothschild banker clan, has long been pushing for war against Russia.
    ​ It is troubled though, because the population of (west-)Europe has no interest to die for those who profit from such conflicts.
    Various surveys in Europe have found that people have no interest in ‘defending their country’, when that ‘defense’ is proposed to happen on the east side of the Dnieper river.
    ​ The editors have thus invited a U.S.-financed scholar to provide ideas on how the Europeans can be enticed to war.
    Nathalie Tocci, a James Anderson Professor of the Practice at the John Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies Europe, took up the invitation (archived):
    ​ “EUROPEAN LEADERS understand that conflict is closer than ever—hence the sharp rise in defence budgets, as showcased at NATO’s recent summit in Ankara.​
    ​ Since Russia’s full-scale invasion in 2022, European leaders have often expressed awe at Ukrainian resilience. But there is something else behind Europeans’ amazement: fear that they may not show the same resolve. This is not because of some inherent courage in Ukrainians which Europeans lack. It boils down to the fundamentally different ​”
    Mrs. Tocci’s answer, as we will see, is “no!”​ …
    ​..What, exactly, Mrs. Tocci, is the “benefit” of having ones brethren killed?
    ​ “Were European soldiers to be stationed in Ukraine, it would bring reality closer to home. And perhaps a fraction of Ukraine’s courage, humility and creativity could infect other European societies. European troops would not be put in harm’s way out of sheer generosity, but to help prepare for war—and prevent it from spilling into the rest of the continent.​”
    ​ Oh – sending German, French and Italian soldiers to Ukraine to kill Russian’s would “perhaps” bring a “reality”, which today does not exist, home? It would prevent the war “from spilling into the rest of Europe”?
    ​ So German, French, Italian soldiers sent to kill Russia soldiers in Ukraine would deter, not provoke, Russia from sending Oreshniks, or even larger nuclear missiles, to Berlin, Paris or Rome? (If you believe that please contact Mrs. Tocci’s sponsor.)
    ​ That would, obviously, not be the case.
    But to prevent a larger European war is, as Mrs. Tocci writes ‘on invitation’ by The Economist, not the real aim of such an endeavor.
    ​ Her concern is to “encouraging citizens to develop a mindset that would better prepare them for war”. To do so, she says, we should provoke a war that is guaranteed to engulf us all.​ https://www.moonofalabama.org/2026/07/economist-lets-start-a-war-to-get-people-used-to-it.html

    ​Andrew Korybko on the next-door neighbors’ feelings, Nearly Half Of Poles Now Want To Stop Arming Ukraine https://korybko.substack.com/p/nearly-half-of-poles-now-want-to

    July 19, 2026 at 2:41 pm #245231
    John Day
    Participant

    ​ EU to strip draft age Ukrainians of refugee protection​ – Military-age newcomers must prove compliance with Kiev’s mobilization rules under the new scheme​ https://web.archive.org/web/20260716052407/https://www.rt.com/news/643091-eu-ukraine-men-protection/

    Make ​Russia Nuke Germany & France? Germany To Join French Nuclear Exercise, Deepening ‘Counter-Russia’ Deterrence​ https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/germany-join-french-nuclear-exercise-deepening-counter-russia-deterrence

    ​ Zelensky ‘wants civilian deaths’ – Ukrainian spy​ – Kiev was allegedly plotting a terrorist attack that would overshadow the Moscow Crocus City Hall massacre​ https://web.archive.org/web/20260716075814/https://www.rt.com/news/643114-zelensky-wants-civilian-deaths/

    July 19, 2026 at 2:43 pm #245233
    John Day
    Participant

    The war must go on: NATO plans for no endgame​ – Long-term military support for Ukraine has become a routine policy, showing Brussels and Washington don’t see peace as an option​ https://web.archive.org/web/20260717165752/https://www.rt.com/news/643181-nato-ukraine-no-endgame/

    ​ Gilbert Doctorow on the inexorable pressure upon Russia to militarily escalate against Europe, Crimea – the new war zone
    In my latest interviews and essays, I have made reference to the 3-hour international teleconference hosted by Russian staff based in Vienna who report to Sergei Lavrov at the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Their conference was intended to raise international awareness of the ‘terror attacks’ that Ukraine is directing against the civilian population of the Kherson region, which is one of the 4 oblasts incorporated into the Russian Federation via referenda held in September 2022. The main speakers in this Zoom teleconference were the governor of Kherson oblast, leading doctors and victims of kamikazi drones and land mines laid by Ukrainian drones. We were told that the Ukrainian attacks have resulted in all electricity being cut off in the oblast and to generally unsupportable living conditions.
    ​ This conference was entirely in line with the collection of evidence by the Russian investigative authorities regarding Ukrainian war crimes, as if there will be a kind of Nuremberg trial when the conflict ends in Russian victory. It is surely also intended to show the broad Russian public that its government is DOING SOMETHINHG about the marauding Ukrainians. However, it seems not to have occurred to the organizers that what they were saying and presenting indicates clearly that Russia is losing the war notwithstanding the advance of its troops along the line of confrontation in Donetsk…
    ..Now I write to add to this picture what I have just learned from a 20-minute phone conversation with Petersburg friends who made it back home today after a grueling and very nervous trip that began in Feodosia, on the east coast of Crimea, where they have a tiny house on a hill overlooking the town where they have spent summers for the last 20 years.
    ​ This couple had planned to stay in Crimea until September, as was their custom, but the near total halt to gasolene sales due to Ukrainian destruction of refineries and storage tanks serving Crimea left them high and dry on the hill since local drivers who took them around in the past now had no fuel. So they were left without the possibility to get down to the town for provisions… Moreover, Yevpatoriya is one of the several municipalities in Crimea that has daily blackouts: the electricity has been cut by drone attacks on substations.​..
    ​ Under these circumstances, our friends were very lucky to procure train tickets to get out thanks to their advanced age, which gave them priority.​.. At the train station in Feodosia hundreds of Russian summer visitors were desperately trying to get out. And once our friends got their seats on the train provided to them out of solicitude for old pensioners, they were lucky that their train made it across the Kerch bridge to mainland Russia without delays. I say that because the parallel automobile bridge has in recent days seen suspension of traffic for 12 hours or more at a time…
    ..But once across the bridge, the challenges facing our Petersburg friends did not end. As they approached the city of Krasnodar, a major agricultural hub to the northeast, their train came under constant and insistent drone attacks. Fortunately, the train crew was prepared to counter the drones, probably with small arms. And so they escaped from this threat and moved on into central Russia and eventually to Petersburg.
    ​ The point of this story is that today Crimea is a war zone. What Vladimir Putin achieved with the liberation of Crimea in March 2014 is now being lost by the latest phase of the ongoing Russia-Ukraine war.​ https://gilbertdoctorow.substack.com/p/crimea-the-new-war-zone

    ​ They couldn’t re-tool old machines to make re-designed shells, nor wait for new machines: New $500M Artillery Shell Plant Failed To Produce Any 155mm Parts – A scathing new Pentagon Inspector General report found problems at the plant delayed the Army’s 100,000 round-per-month goal. https://www.twz.com/land/new-500m-artillery-shell-plant-failed-to-produce-any-155mm-parts

    Alex Krainer has lived in reality. “Natural monopolies” should be public. It’s old news: Is private enterprise best?
    Western free market ideology says, yes; but empirical evidence and real life experience says, no. Private enterprise often destroys value rather than create it.
    ​ At the very least, real-life experience suggests that not all private enterprises are superior, nor are all state-run enterprises inferior. In the past, I shared the experience with the trash collection services in Croatia. During the socialist era, trash collection was run by state companies, and our towns and cities were clean and orderly. I remember that many foreign visitors would remark how our cities were remarkably clean, and they really were.
    ​ But then, in the early 2000s, the service was privatized and the magic of private, free market capitalism took effect. Today, trash collection is much more expensive than before, private owners reduced the number of collection points, forcing everybody to carry their trash farther (effectively working for trash collectors for free), and the cherry on top is that our cities are no longer clean and orderly.​..
    ​..Earlier this week, Thames Water, Britain’s largest water utility company, disclosed that they were about to run out of money and their annual results showed that they’re £18.5 billion in debt. The independent online news publication, OffGuardian, appropriately commented:
    ​ “You are a monopoly. You are selling something literally everyone needs for literally everything they do literally every day and that falls from the sky for FREE. How in the hell are you not making money?”
    ​ To make the very long story short, Thames Water was privatized in 2006. It was acquired for about £8 billion by an investment consortium led by the Australian merchant bank Macquarie. The following year, Thames Water made £241 million in profits. So far, so good – yay, free market capitalism! But the new owners paid themselves £656 million in dividends in 2007, nearly triple the profits the company earned. Thames Water continued to pay its owners over £200 million in dividends every year for seven consecutive years.
    ​ When it was privatized in 2006, Thames River had zero debt, but already in the first year under its new owners, the company’s debt load went to £3.4 billion. By 2017 it soared to £10.8 billion and by 2026, as we saw, to £18.5 billion… It’s a neat business – a legalized, open-ended looting operation.​..
    “..During the 11 years in which our funds were shareholders in Thames Water, we oversaw the largest investment programme in the company’s history and the highest rate of investment per customer in the industry.”
    ​ Whatever this ​”largest investment programme, highest per customer in the industry​” was, it was NOT done to improve the service it provides to its customers. To the contrary, in private ownership, Thames River service deteriorated spectacularly. Macquarie was perfectly aware of this, and knew to get out just in time.​..
    ..In the four years after Macquarie’s exit, Thames River was fined £32.4 million for 11 water pollution cases involving recurring spills of untreated sewage into streams, rivers and the sea. Thames Water wasn’t the only private utility polluting Britain either: between 2015 and the 2023, there were 59 prosecutions of water companies in England.​..
    ..One of the first things Thames River’s owners did after they acquired the company was to set up offshore subsidiaries in the Cayman Islands. This is not normally required to improve water treatment service for customers in England. What it does do, however, is facilitate large-scale looting of public wealth and money laundering. Even Thames River employee pension scheme wasn’t spared: in 2008, the company’s pension fund had a £26.1m surplus. By 2015, it was £260 million in deficit.​ https://alexkrainer.substack.com/p/is-private-enterprise-best

    July 19, 2026 at 2:44 pm #245234
    John Day
    Participant

    ​Who gets to control the narrative machines? Trump Wants To Revoke Broadcast Licenses Of Networks That Didn’t Air His Election Meddling Speech https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/trump-wants-revoke-broadcast-licenses-networks-didnt-air-his-election-interference-speech

    ​ The Supreme Court’s AI Collision Course​
    Imagine a tight House race in a swing state. In the final weeks of the campaign, a new super PAC begins spending heavily against the incumbent. It runs ads on local television and reaches individual voters with highly tailored texts. The messaging is hard-hitting and seems to be swaying the electorate. None of it traces back to the opposing campaign…​.
    .The super PAC is funded by a single LLC whose donor cannot be identified, and its spending decisions are being made by an AI agent that has been given a budget and a political objective and is now operating without any meaningful human direction. The “consultants” placing the ads are software. The text messages were crafted by the AI.
    ​ This is not a hypothetical we will face in some distant future. The technology already exists. A wealthy person, foreign government, or corporation that wants to influence an election without ever exposing themselves to scrutiny could set up such a campaign operation today. And under the Supreme Court’s current campaign finance doctrine, the states and Congress may have little power to stop it…​
    ..The constitutional doctrine that currently protects the right of these companies to spend millions in our elections is the same doctrine that will be asked to protect something even stranger: The “speech” of artificial intelligence itself.​ https://www.zerohedge.com/ai/supreme-courts-ai-collision-course

    Flock Safety Defends Cameras After AI System Triggers Wrongful Police Stops Of Two Journalists​ https://www.zerohedge.com/technology/flock-safety-defends-cameras-after-ai-system-triggers-wrongful-police-stops-two

    “Just The Beginning”: Japan Buys Billions In Nvidia Rubin Chips To Power Humanoid Robots​ https://www.zerohedge.com/technology/just-beginning-japan-plays-24-billion-nvidia-rubin-chip-bet-power-humanoid-robots

    Humanoid Loses Its Head In World’s First Full-Size Robot Combat Tournament… And Keeps Fighting​ https://www.zerohedge.com/ai/humanoid-robot-loses-its-head-worlds-first-full-size-robot-combat-tournament-and-keeps-fighting

    July 19, 2026 at 2:45 pm #245235
    John Day
    Participant

    ​ The first (3/4) part gets into a lot of specific details of the necessity to design electric vehicles from the ground up differently from internal combustion vehicles. Every inefficiency demands more expensive battery. Having discovered this at near-fatal expense, both ford and Toyota approach showdowns with financial emergencies, with very different near-term strategies. Ford & Toyota Are Betting the Farm on the SAME Desperate HAIL MARY | Engineer Explains https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k77X47h6OVU

    Andrea now has a newborn who she can’t hold, lovingly smile into the face of, or nurse. Judge Revokes Bail for Mother Charged With Murdering Twins Who Died 8 Days After Vaccines – This is easily the most disturbing story of the year. https://www.vigilantfox.com/p/judge-revokes-bail-for-mother-charged

    Steve Kirsch, The Official Louisiana State Data Has No Other Explanation: US Childhood Vaccines Are Increasing Infant Mortality
    54/55 subgroup analyses show harm. It’s not random. It follows a perfect dose-response gradient (antigens/aluminum). Critics have all failed to explain how this is consistent with a safe vaccine.​ https://kirschsubstack.com/p/the-most-devastating-anti-vax-study

    Invisible cysts on fresh produce: CDC HAN on cyclospora infections in the US
    The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued a Health Alert Network (HAN) on the increase in cyclosporiasis in the United States.
    The numbers published by the federal health agency are as follows:​ Since May 1, 1,645 lab-confirmed cases were reported to CDC in people who acquired cyclosporiasis in the United States. Cases were reported by 34 states.​ https://outbreaknewstoday.substack.com/p/cdc-han-on-cyclospora-infections

    July 19, 2026 at 2:46 pm #245236
    John Day
    Participant

    Paul Marik MD says to strictly avoid sunburn, but cultivating daily moderate sun exposure without burn appears beneficial for most people.
    Preventing Melanoma (Part 1): Why This Dangerous Skin Cancer Develops​ Its​ the(intense-episodic) UV radiation​ https://paulmarik.substack.com/p/preventing-melanoma-part-1-why-this

    ​ BREAKING: 25-Year Study of an Entire Country Finds Most Major Hormonal Birth Controls Are Associated With an Increased Risk of Meningioma Brain Tumors​ – Nationwide data covering 3 million Danish females link popular birth-control pills, Depo-Provera shots, and high-dose hormonal IUDs to elevated meningioma risk.​ https://www.thefocalpoints.com/p/breaking-25-year-study-of-an-entire

    ​Metformin is the life-extending “fountain of middle-age”, but it’s a secret (bad for business): Why ‘Big Pharma’ Will Never Make a Cheap Anti-Aging Drug https://www.realclearscience.com/blog/2026/07/16/why_big_pharma_will_never_make_a_cheap_anti-aging_drug_1194451.html

    Injured and bereaved Senators know not to talk about vaccine-injuries. Deny to survive: A Midwestern Doctor, What The US Senate Showed America About COVID-19 Vaccine Toxicity — COVID-19 vaccine injures are so common many of the legislators who pushed them have also been severely injured—but still won’t admit it. This culture of silence around these injuries must end. https://www.midwesterndoctor.com/p/what-the-us-senate-showed-america

    July 19, 2026 at 2:47 pm #245237
    Michael Reid
    Participant

    Tucker Carlson Says Trump Betrayed Voters on Iran

    July 19, 2026 at 2:53 pm #245238
    Michael Reid
    Participant

    ‘He’s Weak’: Tucker Carlson on How Trump Failed America | The Mishal Husain Show

    July 19, 2026 at 3:08 pm #245239
    zerosum
    Participant

    RUSSIA STRIKES BACK💥 Record Missile Storm on Kyiv⚡ Odesa Port Hit🚢 Syrskyi Under Fire🪧 MS 19.07.2026


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    The start of the “infrastructure war” in the Middle East
    Plus news and updates from Israel, Lebanon and Yemen.
    Ismaele
    Jul 18, 2026

    https://geopolitiq.substack.com/p/the-start-of-the-infrastructure-war
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    July 19, 2026 at 4:16 pm #245240
    Michael Reid
    Participant

    Ray McGovern: Iran’s Precision Strikes on Jordan Send Shockwaves Across the Gulf

    July 19, 2026 at 5:32 pm #245241
    Michael Reid
    Participant

    Russia Escalates Biggest Strikes On Kiev Odessa Huge Destruction; Kiev Protesters Demand Syrsky Quit

    July 19, 2026 at 5:52 pm #245242
    Michael Reid
    Participant

    A MASSIVE ECONOMIC “STORM IS COMING” – w/ Fmr. Wall Street’s Edward Dowd

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