June 7 2025

Welcome back, and good health.

That sounds very nasty indeed Raúl – get some rest and let it heal properly!

You are much appreciated. Don’t ever hesitate to take care of yourself.

Thank you for the update! I was getting worried. I hope you heal fully and quickly. I look forward to seeing your take on things in a week or so.

Raul, if you knew how much we all love you around here you would probably squirm around all introverted and everything and not know what to say. Very uncomfortable for everybody. Take good care of yourself, man. Don’t scare us like that! I was about ready to light a penny candle.

All my love. Get well. A little something for your friends to read. Places you post
https://russia-insider.com/
https://conservativeangle.com/
https://yournews.com/area/top-stories/
https://antinuclear.net/?s=meijer
https://www.businessinsider.com/author/ral-ilargi-meijer?op=1 is this really you?

You were missed. I scanned the net for plane crashes, called all the hospitals and couldn’t find you. Be well. Self care is important for you to be able to do the work you do so well.

“all of you, you all trust Trump and Musk so much?”

uh, make that ‘you minus one’ for i would never, ever, never, oh so, neverly trust either of these wretched, filth-headed baby murderers.

kayfabe to the power of kabuki with this nasty bunch..

Ilargi, get well soon. Glad you are still with us!

Glad to see you’re on the mend Ilargi.

Trump and Musk both busy having what Larry Johnson mocked as “a girl fight”.

Titanic egos locked into a mortal High School Heather Hair Pulling Contest.

Pathetic but par for a loser clown show like the USSA.

Bread & Circus

In the depths of the USSR collapsing in the 90’s, life expectancy dropped to 56 for awhile

Think Before Speaking https://drjohnsblog.substack.com/p/think-before-speaking

Charles Hugh Smith sets the stage for a play where the great majority of working people owe debt service to a wealthy few, and the economy can find no way out.
The Ratchet Effect: Easy to Spend More, Spending Less Triggers Collapse
What’s required is not just a revised spreadsheet but an entirely new culture and value system.​ https://charleshughsmith.substack.com/p/the-ratchet-effect-easy-to-spend

​ Gilbert Doctorow, Transcript of ‘Judging Freedom,’ 5 June edition
Napolitano: According to the readout of the Russian Foreign Ministry, or put out by the Russian Foreign Ministry, of the telephone call between President Putin and President Trump, President Trump told President Putin, the United States had no knowledge of the drone attack.
So let’s analyze the significance of whether this is credible, it clearly isn’t. How the Russians react when the President of the United States says something like this, and does Donald Trump have control over his own intel apparatus?
​ Doctorow: Well, I’d like to call attention to the time it took him to say that.​ Not to ​speak it over the phone, but why it took him two days to come forward and make a statement. And this was a question that was put to me by an Indian television station yesterday.
​ And I tossed back, why did it take Putin so long to say anything about it also? I think both sides were checking to see who was involved in this attack. And I doubt that Trump would have dared to call Putin until he was personally satisfied that there was no way of pinning this on the United States during his time in office, which is critical.
​ That the United States was involved previously is a hundred percent certain, that this goes back 18 months when Joe Biden was still in the saddle, so to speak. Or anyway, his facilitators, his so-called subordinates, Jake Sullivan and Tony Blinken, were surely in cahoots with the Brits and with Kiev about staging this attack. But they weren’t in office when it took place. And I think Trump wanted to be certain that no one had subverted his intentions. There had been no rogue attack, no rogue participation in the people under him in this previously planned attack. Because it would be deadly to take this up with Putin if Putin had the goods on him and would point a finger.
​ Well, he was satisfied obviously that the United States was not involved in the implementation of a program which it had helped to hatch 18 months ago. As for Mr. Putin, clearly he also was in no rush to talk about this until he understood who were the likely responsible people for it happening.
​ But Trump did call, and I think that is very important to weigh in on the discussions that the airwaves are filled with on various programs, including your own. Is there rogue activity in the United States? Is the government really following Mr. Trump’s dictates? Is there still a deep state? My personal position is there isn’t a deep state. Not that as it was before.​.. There isn’t a deep state after Mr. Trump threw 40,000 people out on the street. Closing of USAID, I think, was a stake through the heart of the Dracula. And the State Department’s being purged now…
..That’s the first extremely important part of what Trump said. The second part, which I think is equally important, I don’t hear a word about. Trump said that he discussed with Putin the negotiations for limiting uranium enrichment in Iran, the negotiations that are ongoing.
​ It’s the first time I’ve heard Trump talk about that. And it is highly important. Why? This is a dog whistle to Mr. Trump’s allies in the Zionist group on both parties in Capitol Hill. He’s saying “Look you don’t like very much my being nice to Mr. Putin and the Russians, but the Russians are with us. We’re aligned completely on keeping the Iranians away from nuclear weapons.​..
​..Napolitano:​ Right, right. Let’s get back to the attacks and President Putin’s likely response. What is the reaction as you’re able to put your finger on the pulse of Russian elites? What is the reaction of Russians in the streets? What is the reaction, if there is any public knowledge of this, of his inner circle?
​ Doctorrow:​ Well, I’ll start with the last, well, next to last. His inner circle will support him in all events. They will smile through gritted teeth as they did the evening before the launch of the special military operation. He had all of his top people there to sign on for responsibility for what he was about to do. They weren’t happy about it.
​ I think the situation today is that they also are probably going to smile through gritted teeth, that is his inner circle. But what about the broad public? The table talk across Russia as people break bread, I think will be highly critical to Putin.
​ I don’t think the Russians are the least bit happy with these whole series of attacks. It’s more than just the headline attack on the air bases. There’s also a general who was blown up in Moscow, as I understand, yesterday. There was an attack on some bridge in Moscow. There was, of course, the attack, the attempt to blow up, with several thousand pounds of explosives to blow up the Kerch Bridge in the last few days.
​ And, of course, there was murderous attacks on civilian trains in Bryansk and Kursk. So the Russians have had a lot to discuss over the table in their kitchen talk, and I don’t suppose that any of it was favorable to Mr. Putin and his go-slowly approach.
​ Napolitano: What do you expect President Putin to do?
​ Doctorow:​ Well, he won’t satisfy the hardliners. That’s a hundred percent sure. Whether he will satisfy the general grumbling that surely is going on, as I say, at breakfast and dinner tables across Russia, that remains to be seen. I don’t imagine that he’s going to depart from his slowly, slowly approach, which will leave a lot of the broad public questioning and unhappy.​ https://gilbertdoctorow.com/2025/06/05/transcript-of-judging-freedom-5-june-edition/

​ 6/5/25 Simplicius, Another PR Stunt Dies Down as Russia Tightens Vise on Sumy
In response to the last week of Ukrainian provocations Putin released a long statement accusing Ukraine of slipping into terrorism and sabotaging the peace talks:
– Ukraine is suffering huge losses and is retreating along the entire front line, so it is trying to intimidate Russia with terrorist attacks
– The Kiev regime, already illegitimate, is degenerating into a terrorist organization, and its sponsors are becoming accomplices of terrorists
– The terrorist attack on the train in the Bryansk region is a targeted attack on civilians
– The Kyiv regime “does not need peace at all”, since it would mean a loss of power for them
– A lull in military action would be used by Kyiv for forced mobilization, pumping up weapons, and preparing terrorist attacks.​..
..Putin seems to have hardened in his stance that it would be pointless to allow Ukraine any long ceasefire respites.
​ Those expecting a furious Russian response—i.e. carpet bombing Kiev with Oreshniks, and the like—were bound to be disappointed in Russia’s reaction. And even more so by the statements of certain Russian officials, in this case from the Deputy Foreign Minister Ryabkov, who claimed that not a single Russian plane was ‘destroyed’ in Ukraine’s long-planned drone raid​:
​ The planes damaged during the terrorist attack of the Kiev regime on June 1 will be restored. This was stated in an interview with TASS by Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov.
​ It’s a bit of a head-scratcher and only serves to discredit Russian authorities, given that we’ve seen fresh satellite photos of planes that clearly appear beyond repair. That being said, so many fake AI-generated versions were interspersed as to legitimately raise questions as to ‘how many’ Russian planes were really lost.​..
​..As for Russia’s response, one Russian analyst worded it best: “Zelensky is in desperate need of a loud tragedy.” Obviously, all such attacks are designed to goad Russia into something which can be sold as an ‘unprecedented massacre’, or the like.
​ That being said, tonight Russian Tu-95s and Kalibr-launching ships staged a new attack which could be amongst Russia’s ‘responses’.​ https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/sitrep-6525-another-pr-stunt-dies

​ Open mouth; Insert foot: Kremlin Says Threat Is ‘Existential’ After Trump Likens Ukraine War To ‘Two Kids Fighting In The Park’
The Kremlin on Friday responded to President Trump’s prior day’s comments which likened the Ukraine war to a schoolyard fight.
​ “Sometimes you see two young children fighting like crazy, they hate each other and they’re fighting in a park,” Trump said on Thursday. “Sometimes you’re better off letting them fight for a while and then pulling them apart,” he added.​ https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/kremlin-says-threat-existential-after-trump-likens-ukraine-war-two-kids-fighting-park

​ Controversial Christian Zionist appointed to lead US-Israel Gaza aid scheme GHF
​ The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), a widely criticised US-Israeli initiative accused of facilitating Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza, has appointed an evangelical Christian Zionist, Rev Johnnie Moore, a close ally of Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu, as its new executive director.
​ Moore’s appointment follows the abrupt resignation of Jake Wood, a former US marine and humanitarian aid leader, who left the role citing the GHF’s inability to operate “while upholding humanitarian principles of humanity, neutrality, impartiality, and independence.”​ https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20250604-controversial-christian-zionist-appointed-to-lead-us-israel-gaza-aid-scheme-ghf/

Israel bans Gazans from approaching aid distribution centers​ https://www.yenisafak.com/en/news/israel-bans-gazans-from-approaching-aid-distribution-centers-3703038

​ UNICEF: Gaza aid distribution ‘a veneer’ for displacement
People in Gaza have been pushed to the absolute limits of survival, says James Elder, UNICEF spokesperson in Gaza. The new system of aid distribution installed by Israel is about forcing a population to move to the south, using food as bait, he says.​ https://www.dw.com/en/unicef-james-elder-gaza-aid-displacement/video-72792684

​ ‘Premeditated genocide’: Brazil’s Lula slams Israel over Gaza war
Lula criticises Israel during Paris visit, as German FM voices rare criticism of onslaught in Gaza and West Bank settlements.​ https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/6/5/premeditated-genocide-brazils-lula-slams-israel-over-gaza

Israel warns it is “prepared” to “act accordingly” to stop Greta Thunberg’s so-called Freedom Flotilla Coalition from reaching Gaza​ https://endtimeheadlines.org/2025/06/israel-warns-it-is-prepared-to-act-accordingly-to-stop-greta-thunbergs-so-called-freedom-flotilla-coalition-from-reaching-gaza/

​ Netanyahu Arming ISIS-Aligned Jihadis In Gaza, Israeli Defense Sources Confirm
​ At the direction of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the State of Israel is arming an ISIS-aligned Jihadist gang in Gaza, unnamed Israeli defense officials confirmed to the Times of Israel on Thursday. While refraining from validating that particular characterization of the weapon recipients, Netanyahu confirmed that Israel is “activating clans in Gaza that oppose Hamas.” Significantly, the prime minister is accused of green-lighting the weapon handovers without securing his cabinet’s permission.
​ News of Netanyahu’s latest provision of aid to Sunni extremists in the Middle East first came via remarks made by opposition Knesset member and former defense minister Avigdor Lieberman.​ https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/netanyahu-arming-isis-aligned-jihadis-gaza-israeli-defense-sources-confirm

​ Netanyahu admits Israel backing ‘criminal’ groups, rivals of Hamas, in Gaza
First acknowledgement Israel using armed gangs, which aid groups have accused of stealing aid from trucks.​ https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/6/5/netanyahu-admits-israel-backed-armed-rivals-of-hamas-in-gaza

​ A 63-Year-Old Medical Worker Spent Three Months as a Human Shield for Israeli Brigades in Gaza
“They dressed me in military uniform, and asked me to search in homes for explosives.”​ https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/palestinian-gaza-human-shield-three-months

​ Israeli Strike on Christian-Run Hospital in Gaza Kills Four Journalists
The Episcopal Diocese of Jerusalem, which runs the hospital, condemned the attack as an ‘unprovoked assault against civilians’​ https://news.antiwar.com/2025/06/05/israeli-strike-on-christian-run-hospital-in-gaza-kills-four-journalists/

​ WHO urges ‘urgent protection’ of key Gaza hospitals
​ The WHO said the Nasser Medical Complex and Al-Amal Hospital risk becoming “non-functional” because of restrictions on aid and access routes, further damaging a health system already battered by months of war.
​ “There are already no hospitals functioning in the north of Gaza. Nasser and Amal are the last two functioning public hospitals in Khan Younis, where currently most of the population is living,” the UN agency said in a statement on X.
​ “Without them, people will lose access to critical health services,” it said.​ https://www.arabnews.com/node/2603568/middle-east

Trump’s Embrace of Dystopian Palantir Spying Tool Sends Stock Soaring​ https://scheerpost.com/2025/06/05/trumps-embrace-of-dystopian-palantir-spying-tool-sends-stock-soaring/

3 more Israeli soldiers jailed for refusing Gaza combat orders due to ‘exhaustion’​ https://www.yenisafak.com/en/news/3-more-israeli-soldiers-jailed-for-refusing-gaza-combat-orders-due-to-exhaustion-3703037

​ Revulsion for Israel Surges Worldwide, New Survey Finds
​ “In 20 of the 24 countries surveyed, around half of adults or more have an unfavorable view of Israel,” Pew reported on 3 June. “Around three-quarters or more hold this view in Australia, Greece, Indonesia, Japan, the Netherlands, Spain, Sweden and Turkey.”
​ Pew says it last asked the question in 10 of the countries included in its new survey in 2013. “In seven of these countries, the share of adults with a negative view of Israel has increased significantly.”
​ Israel was most unpopular in Turkey, with 93 percent of respondents viewing it unfavorably. Turkey was the only country in the immediate region of Palestine to be surveyed by Pew.
​ Among European publics surveyed, Israel was viewed most negatively in the Netherlands (78 percent), a remarkable fact in a country whose governments have traditionally been staunchly pro-Israel.​ https://scheerpost.com/2025/06/05/revulsion-for-israel-surges-worldwide-new-survey-finds/

​A long grooming project, taking well over a decade, explains Kit Klarenberg, How MI6 Helped HTS Seize Syria https://www.kitklarenberg.com/p/how-mi6-helped-hts-seize-syria

South Korea’s new President Lee vows to pursue talks with North and bolster ties with US and Japan​ https://lasvegassun.com/news/2025/jun/03/south-koreas-new-president-lee-vows-to-pursue-talk/

Threats and accusations drama: The Day After: Trump ‘Not Interested’ In Talking As Musk Continues To Make Case Against BBB https://www.zerohedge.com/political/day-after-trump-not-interested-talking-musk-continues-make-case-against-bbb

​ China Grants Rare Earth Export Licenses To Top Three U.S. Automakers
President Donald Trump held a highly anticipated 90-minute phone call with Chinese President Xi Jinping on Thursday. Trump described the conversation as “very good” and mentioned that a potential visit to China is being planned — though Beijing or Washington has not confirmed the trip.​ https://www.zerohedge.com/commodities/china-grants-rare-earth-export-licenses-top-three-us-automakers

​ FDA Approved Hundreds of Drugs With No Evidence They Work
​ A two-year investigation by The Lever found the FDA approved hundreds of drugs over the last several decades with little to no evidence that they work. The investigation found that many of the approved drugs that provided no benefit were allowed to stay on the market, despite evidence that they cause serious harm.​ https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/fda-approved-hundreds-drugs-no-evidence-they-work/

​ ‘The Narrative is Cracking’: CDC Adviser Who Promoted COVID Vaccines for Pregnant Women Resigns
Dr. Lakshmi Panagiotakopoulos, a pediatric infectious disease expert who helped promote the COVID-19 vaccine to pregnant women, resigned today from her position as co-leader of a CDC working group on the COVID-19 vaccine and is leaving the agency, Reuters reported.​ https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/cdc-adviser-resigns-covid-vaccines-pregnant-women-lakshmi-panagiotakopoulos/

​ Naomi Wolf provides an email at the end, but nobody seems to answer it:
An Open Letter to HHS Secretary Kennedy and FDA Commissioner Marty Makary: Deliver on MAHA Agenda​ https://naomiwolf.substack.com/p/an-open-letter-to-hhs-secretary-kennedy

North Carolina city accused of discharging cancer-causing chemicals into drinking water
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has urged the state to allow limits on 1,4-dioxane pollution into the water supply.
​ Environmental groups sued the ​City of Asheboro, North Carolina, on Tuesday, claiming that it was collaborating with manufacturers to discharge carcinogenic materials into the drinking water of nearly 900,000 residents.
​ According to Cape Fear River Watch and the Haw River Assembly in their suit, the ​City of Asheboro’s wastewater treatment plant has been discharging 1,4-dioxane into the Haskett Creek, upstream of drinking water supplies.
​ “Asheboro has, for at least a decade, allowed StarPet and other industrial users to send highly contaminated wastewater into the city’s wastewater plant,” the groups said. “The city welcomed this pollution despite knowing it would flow straight through its wastewater plant and into downstream drinking water supplies.”​ https://www.courthousenews.com/north-carolina-city-accused-of-discharging-cancer-causing-chemicals-into-drinking-water/

​Meryl Nass MD has very good illustrations and graphics here: My talk at the Freedom Food Fest in Hudson, NY: Photos, Powerpoints and a prepared talk https://merylnass.substack.com/p/my-talk-at-the-freedom-food-fest

Tesla admits it would ‘suffer financial harm’ if its self-driving crash data becomes public​ https://electrek.co/2025/06/05/tesla-admits-suffer-financial-harm-if-self-driving-crash-data-becomes-public/

​Casual riders and pedestrians are not ready for 30 mph collisions: It’s official: NYC will impose a new 15 MPH speed limit on electric bikes https://electrek.co/2025/06/05/its-official-nyc-will-impose-a-new-15-mph-speed-limit-on-electric-bikes/

​ The Colorado River Basin Has Lost Enough Groundwater Alone To Fill Lake Mead​ Groundwater is running out at 2.4 times the speed of surface water
​ The world’s groundwater is disappearing at a rate so great as to knock the Earth off its axis. Like any global threat, though, while we may all be affected by the problem, some places are feeling it more than others – and this time, it’s the southwest US that’s feeling the heat.​ https://www.iflscience.com/the-colorado-river-basin-has-lost-enough-groundwater-alone-to-fill-lake-mead-79484

holy crap, doc, humans is dumb.

and mean, it seems.

we shoulda put those headlines on the voyager thingy instead of chuck berry.

we coulda warned ’em, not invited them to some supposed sock-hoppin’ shindig.

they gonna get here and all we’ll be able to offer them is some fruit loops (with safe, all-natural colorings!) and that horrible “america proudly” song they play at chrump rallies.

“God Bless the U.S.A.” (also known as “Proud to Be an American”[2][3]) is an American patriotic song written and recorded by American country singer Lee Greenwood, and is considered to be his signature song. Released by MCA Nashville on May 21, 1984, it appeared on Greenwood’s third album, You’ve Got a Good Love Comin’. It debuted at number seven on the Billboard Hot Country Singles.

That summer, the song was included in a film about President Ronald Reagan, the Republican presidential nominee, that was shown at the 1984 Republican National Convention.[4] “God Bless the U.S.A.” gained prominence during the 1988 United States presidential election campaign, when Greenwood performed the song at the 1988 Republican National Convention and at rallies for the Republican nominee, George H. W. Bush.[5][6] The song was also featured in television advertisements for Bush.[7] The song became popular once more during the Gulf War in 1990 and 1991. As a result of its newfound popularity, Greenwood re-recorded the track for his 1992 album American Patriot.

The popularity of the song surged following the September 11 attacks and during the 2003 invasion of Iraq; after the former, the song was re-released as a single and peaked at number 16 on both the Billboard Hot 100 and Hot Country Songs charts in 2001.[8] A re-recorded version of the song was released in 2003, under the “God Bless the U.S.A. 2003.” The song platinum certification by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA)—signifying 1,000,000 units sold—by July 2015.[9] The song experienced further popularity after another Republican president Donald Trump used it at campaign rallies.

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