Debt Rattle July 12 2026
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Joan Miró Caballo, pipa y flor roja (Horse, Pipe and Red Flower) , 1920 • Iran Rejects US Talks As Mojtaba Calls For ‘Vengeance’ (ZH) • US Orders Iran
[See the full post at: Debt Rattle July 12 2026]Lindsey Graham “died suddenly” right after returning from Ukraine.
EMS couldn’t retrieve him.
The Governor of SC will appoint somebody for the interim…“Chest pain” on scanner report from EMS call to Senator Graham’s DC home. https://x.com/MyLordBebo/status/2076211264397672919
Last 48 hours:
1) Visits Ukrainian drone factories
2) Russia strikes drone factories
3) Graham “dies suddenly”It could, of course, be a sudden heart attack right after returning home, but it could also be that he was struck in a drone factory by Russia. https://x.com/MyLordBebo/status/2076215636435288462
Iran attacks five Gulf nations, shuts Hormuz after US bombing: All to know
Tehran hits back at several GCC countries, following the most intense US bombing since an MoU was signed last month.Where did the latest US strikes hit?
CENTCOM said its third round of strikes on Iran last week was “holding Iranian forces accountable” for their recent attack on a Cyprus-flagged ship in the Strait of Hormuz.It said it hit about 140 military targets that “included Iranian missile and drone sites, naval capabilities, ammunition storage facilities, communication networks, and coastal surveillance locations”.
It added that more than 300 targets were struck over the course of three nights throughout the week “to degrade Iran’s ability to attack civilian mariners and commercial vessels freely transiting the strait”.
Iran’s state broadcaster IRIB said the US launched air attacks on the outskirts of the city of Veysian, in the western Lorestan province, while another strike hit a military base in Iran’s Khondab.
Officials from Bushehr, on Iran’s southern coast, told local media that US forces attacked five cities in the province, including Asaluyeh, Dir, Bushehr, Dashti and Tangestan.
Tehran has said the loss of lives and the extent of damage are under review.
Where did Iran hit back overnight?
Since the start of the ongoing conflict in late February, Tehran has accused the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries of actively supporting US military operations by hosting its bases and allowing it to use their airspace.
Oman
The IRGC claimed a “heavy and surprise” attack on logistics support centres and refuelling platforms used by US aircraft carriers at the port of Duqm in Oman, according to
The IRGC’s public relations office told IRIB the sites were “destroyed” in the attack.Qatar
The IRGC said it also targeted Qatar’s Al Udeid airbase with ballistic missiles and claimed to have destroyed a fighter plane maintenance centre, as well as a command-and-control centre at the base.Qatar’s Ministry of Defence said it intercepted incoming Iranian fire. Three people, including a child, were wounded as a result of falling shrapnel from the interception of Iranian attacks, Qatar’s Ministry of Interior said.
Kuwait
Iran’s army said it used explosive drones to target a Patriot air defence system, an ammunition depot and a radar site belonging to the US military in Kuwait.Bahrain
In another wave of drone attacks, Tehran targeted a US communications system and radar site in Bahrain.Jordan
The IRGC said it targeted US military facilities at Prince Hassan airbase in Jordan with several ballistic missiles, and claimed to have destroyed a command-and-control centre at the base, as well as hangars housing MQ-9 drones.————
The hotel where Graham was staying was also blown up, according to zhers..
Open casket?
Calling Madam Tussaud….Here is more info for evaluation.
https://en.irna.ir/news/86205841/UAE-must-answer-for-role-in-US-aggression-against-Iran-Deputy
UAE must answer for role in US aggression against Iran: Deputy FM
Kazem Gharibabadi, Deputy Foreign Minister for Legal and International Affairs
Tehran, IRNA – The deputy foreign minister for legal and international affairs says a newly published US government document amounts to an official acknowledgment of the United Arab Emirates’ active role in the US military aggression against Iran.Kazem Gharibabadi wrote on X on Friday that the US Department of Commerce had issued a document easing export control regulations and upgrading the UAE’s export status in recognition of its support for the military aggression against Iran.
He described the move as Washington’s official admission and a disgraceful document for Abu Dhabi carrying “direct international responsibility and legal consequences.”
The UAE must be held accountable, Gharibabadi asserted.
Earlier, the US Department of Commerce said it would upgrade the UAE’s status under US export rules, removing it from two restricted country groups and making it eligible for license-free exports of controlled military items, certain satellites and spacecraft, and dual-use goods used in oil and gas production, desalination and civil nuclear power.
Recent reports had already revealed that the UAE played a far more active role in the US–Israeli war of aggression against Iran than previously known, carrying out dozens of airstrikes on Iranian territory from the opening days of the war.
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IMO and Oman Launch “Phased Evacuation” for Transits in Strait of Hormuzhttps://maritime-executive.com/
Building on the agreement between the United States and Iran and news of “constructive talks” with reports of “encouraging progress,” the International Maritime Organization, working with Oman, announced the start of an evacuation plan for shipping trapped in the Persian Gulf region. Oman will be taking the lead with the IMO monitoring and providing daily updates on the number of vessels departing the region.
Oman, in its official notice, highlights the need for a “gradual and controlled evacuation of vessel traffic.” It notes that there are two lanes available to the north and the south while reiterating that the normal Traffic Separation Scheme is not safe. Last week, the joint operation issued a warning on Friday after a mine was confirmed, while there were reports that there are as many as 80 mines in the primary lanes.
Because shipping is moving through a temporary maritime corridor, Oman warns of an elevated risk of collisions. It notes that the lanes are confined and require monitoring to ensure security.
“We will begin the implementation of the evacuation plan for over 11,000 seafarers still stranded in the region,” said IMO Secretary-General Arsenio Dominguez while also highlighting the confirmed deaths of 14 innocent seafarers during the conflict. “We have secured the necessary safety guarantees and have thoroughly verified the conditions for safe navigation to support these operations.”
Dominguez referred to it as a “large-scale operation,” while the Omanis said it will be conducted in a phased approach based on groups of vessels. They will be contacting the vessels in the designated groups and allocating a transit day.
It will still be up to the individual ship and its operators, but once they have been given their assigned day, they can move to a designated waiting area in international waters. Masters can opt for either the northern route through Iranian territorial waters or a southern route through Omani territorial waters. Vessels are instructed to contact the coastal state on their selected route to confirm that traffic conditions permit them to proceed.
The Maritime Executive learned that the 40 ships received the first designation to make the transit. The map illustrates the location of those ships which can now proceed to the holding area and begin their transits through the Strait of Hormuz.
Oman highlights that the transits will be without imposing any tolls and in keeping with international law to ensure freedom of navigation. Vessels are being instructed to ensure their AIS is transmitting while transiting. The arrangements published by the Royal Navy of Oman, however, do not address the entry of shipping into the Gulf, but they promise further updates.
The International Chamber of Shipping released a statement saying, “The IMO evacuation plan is a welcome development to delivering this coordination and restoring freedom of navigation. It is vital this plan works in harmony, rather than conflicting, with existing mechanisms.”
The IMO’s move comes as factions in Iran continue to say that the Strait is closed and report that they are not issuing permits. Despite that, indications are that some ships are making it out of the Gulf. Reports have said transit levels are approaching the highest levels since February, before the start of the conflict.
Qatar and Pakistan, as the joint mediators, also issued a joint statement after the first round of discussions between Iran and the United States in Switzerland. It said that the two sides, among other agreements during the talks, had resolved to maintain a “communication line” during the 60-day period. The goal is to honor the terms of last week’s Memorandum of Understanding and to “avoid incidents and miscommunication with the aim of safe passage for commercial vessels through the Strait of Hormuz.”
Factions within Iran, however, assert that this is just temporary and after the 60 days, the Strait of Hormuz will become an Iranian waterway. Last week its so-called Persian Gulf Strait Authority announced it would begin requiring ships to have “insurance” for the transit. For the first 60 days, they said it would be free, but after that, they said they might charge fees.
The IMO, however, asserts that Iran and the United States are making “a decisive step” toward restoring maritime security and bringing to an end the unacceptable attacks against civilian shipping.
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InterContinental Kyiv is the most likely hotel Lindsey Graham used.
No. Lindsey Graham’s hotel in Kyiv was not hit.
Every verified source — Ukrainian, Russian, Western, and milblogger ecosystems — shows zero attacks on the hotel used by his delegation.I
“HOLY SH*T IT’S HAPPENING”
What? What is happening, local housewives ask? Don’t keep it to yourself. All implication, assumption and innuendo, they use this word form similar to “When is somebody going to do it?”, which is said about his assassination. But that implies anyone knows what we’re talking about. We’re all thinking the same thing so we know what “It” is.
I don’t, and everyone else appears pretty seriously to disagree with each other, so there’s no “It” here to happen.
So just let me know what YOU think is happening, as there is no “Us”. Don’t keep me in the dark. I’m annoyed because the word form is worse than AI’s “It’s not this, it’s that”, and the pre-assumption completely blinds them, thoughtstopper.
“this space will be able to produce 1 million Optimus robots per year.”But I don’t want 1M Optimus robots a year, nor indeed any other kind. We can’t power them without shutting off the humans, which is also just building Skynet while we watch.
“For a hundred years, nobody caught it.”
Literally everyone caught it but you. And it still doesn’t make electric semis make sense for the 5 OTHER reasons.
Charging time, power to weight, you’re carrying the batteries which is a load in itself. A car is mostly empty, it can add the extra weight. A truck runs at its limits. And so on. Everyone always knew this. Again, with the meta assumptions. “We” knew this. Sorry you didn’t. It’s not an assumption or reality “We” ever had.If solar power in space is harnessed for useful work at scale,”
Can you show me space dust doesn’t take panels apart before they produce any appreciable power? It takes more power to launch them, if they stop working can we drop them into the sun and not into a kessler reaction? There are about 1,000 such issues. We can’t fix that s—t even here on earth. Solar glass is a toxic waste dump.
Suppose we have the power: and then someone does good with it and not evil? Why? I would think it would be 9:1 evil to good by the basic design. Anyone whose ‘food’ comes from space, the Expanse, forgets about and has no need for earth. Eventually discarding and conquering it. And our only home, the only place that had green life before you started glassifying all life to build your factories.
Oh, but “not this time” Mary Shelley says. Elon is good but will also live 1,000 years and not be replaced by a less-good guy, ever.
“SpaceX is building a giant air separation plant next to Starbase.”
Great. It takes a thing called “Energy”. Do you have that? Or are you building a nuclear plant too?
“Iran has thrown Trump’s ultimatum and Saturday deadline right back at Washington”
Definition of “Good Faith”. It doesn’t matter what is written if no one has it. Also lets you just pick whichever side out of a hat and say they’re the good guys and the other isn’t.
“But this appears to have been reduced to simple ultimatums being shuttled between capitals by Qatari mediators.”
Ultimatums That neither really follows.
“The memorandum of understanding (MoU) itself is barely alive at this point,”
Breaking the MoU and dragging it out was always the point. They’ve been pretty clear about it. They still think the midterms matter, so they need this. They need this having no army, navy, or air force to speak of. All they have is uselessly dicking around, so they do that.
“names are fully documented from the highest to the lowest ranks, will carry their dream of a peaceful death in bed to the grave.”Yeah, you’re a retard. Yeah, all our names are listed? They’re on payroll in our open society. People are well aware of Hegseth and every colonel under him. Duh. This is no intel magic trick, you just look stupid. What is the “Won’t die in bed” stuff. DOES anyone actually want to die in bed? Not soldiers I hope, or you’re fired. Also not scared and don’t care. YOU make up that I die in bed and won’t get that. Uhhh, thanks? Do I want a fudgie-pop too? And a teddy bear and I won’t get that either, ha ha? What the literal?
Bomb me or don’t bomb me but STFU. I can’t take the talking, that’s way worse than the shooting.
Let’s see what else: An Expert, a Professor, from a Socialist school, in a failed Socialist city says we have no escalation? I think we do when we haven’t bothered to hit them yet. He says Iranians actually LOVE all this war stuff, no oil revenue and no water and fully, enthusiastically support it.
And I’ve also heard the Opposite, that they’ve had about enough. Which is true? (Below vvv)
““The balance of military capabilities did not change over the weekend,” Pape said.”
Truer words were never said. Iran has no military now, and ours is barely used. So where do you suspect that’s going, Papes? The nation that HAS the military and is completely, hilariously untouched, can’t even notice, loses all political will, he says! Of course! That’s how wars work and why we have them, because having no water has no effect on the will of the people of a nation.
If only Genghis Khan had known that killing things and having wars doesn’t work at all! Could have saved everyone a heap of trouble if only they’d consulted some Experts. The nation that’s leveled is the winner, and the one that’s untouched is the loser who surrenders of course.
“Judging by this week, which marked a dangerous return to guns-a-blazing in the Persian Gulf,”
Is it? We sent off a couple missiles in our spare time. I don’t see us in a lather, nor has much changed. We hit the bridges to China, etc, so they can’t resupply to build the more missiles. This sucks because when Iran becomes normal again, they’ll have to rebuild all that stuff and it’s pointless and expensive. But the Death cult never retreats without salting the earth. Then blame someone, use GSR, guilt on the next generation for doing what needed to be done, what they arranged to haev to happen in order to CAUSE the guilt they use as a lever. Look at Germany since 1950 or the Kids of the American Left. So historically illiterate it’s terrifying. But that’s the point of making some side cross some red line.
“The only question will be the extent to which the Islamic Republic escalates in return.”
That is the question, except that it depends not on will or choices at all. They have none. It only depends on how many physical missiles they actually have. We are trying to get them to shoot off the last ones and get it over with. So every missile they shoot is filling OUR plan and outcome, not theirs.
Again: they are fighting an enemy that is COMPLETELY untouched. They haven’t shot up a WalMart yet. Our whole nation is completely wide open and they haven’t touched a feather. So WE are the ones who are supposed to be afraid and collapse here? They can shoot all missiles or none at all and makes no difference to us. Their escalation or complete lack of we don’t even notice.
Now BAHRAIN may not like it much, but then they’ve already been hit and it was like getting hit by a toddler. And since Iran has demonstrated intent to bomb everyone anywhere near them, you think Bahrain will surrender now and let Iran re-arm and let them? No! Now it’s more vital than ever to end this for UAE, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia. Iran doing this demonstrates how vital the war is to regional peace.
…Which I did not believe, initially. They did, living in the region and dealing with Iran for decades. I thought they were exaggerating. Clearly not.
“• From Musk to Truth Social: Critics Say Biden SEC Targeted Trump’s Allies (JTN)Does anyone not think this is true? Go ask Democrats themselves, in the streets. My guess is they agree and approve. Totally partisan. You have to stop the Hitler that follows the courts, arrests no one and hires only gays and immigrants.
There are a lot of Republicans I want to investigate, that’s for sure. Let’s just play cards on it. I’ll play one from my deck, then you play one from yours. We investigate them one by one and, you know, have anyone go to jail for anything, ever?
“the US granted Berlin the Patriot license in 2022 after the escalation of the Ukraine conflict. Four years later, it still has not built a single missile, while factory construction only started in late 2024.”Nuff said. Germany is not a real country. The EU is not a real continent. Soooo….apparently it exists to money-launder, not fight or produce? No kidding! Also to blame others. Wouldn’t want to miss that one. The feminine, blame criticize, do nothing, pretend you’re innocent and not engineering the whole drama that would be complete peace without you.
Mamdani: Not important and neither is NYC.
“Chinese auto companies to reverse the engineering and begin to deliver the same quality vehicles at much lower prices.The Chinese then stop purchasing the Volkswagen vehicles and purchase the cheaper version,”
It would be different if we had seen this for 80 years in a row, as Japan, Korea, Vietnam, and Germany themselves did this in one of the most consistent economic realities in economics. Oh. Wait.
“Maybe Canada will take note, likely they will not. The only way to avoid this issue is to protect the domestic market.”
That’s called “The American Plan”. That’s it. Simple. And it’s also Trump’s plan. Thankfully. Because like Chinese mercantilism, we’ve proven it works.
Apple + AI What do I say about them being the dumbest people in the world. I can’t stop AI but at least I’m universally suspicious of it. I lack the POWER to push back, whereas Apple did and does. So again, any average Taco Bell employee is smarter than any Harvard CEO.
Ro Khanna is not that cool, but he’s got street-cred now:
US lawmaker harassed, held at gunpoint by Israeli settlers in occupied West Bank
The Jewish settlers reportedly wielded US-made rifles to intimidate the US lawmaker and his delegation
https://thecradle.co/articles/us-lawmaker-harassed-held-at-gunpoint-by-israeli-settlers-in-occupied-west-bankStanislav Krapivnik: BREAKING: U.S. Strikes Iran as Tehran Targets ATACMS| Lindsey Graham Dead at 71
Chinese e-commerce platforms are selling miniature heads that, according to Fred Lambert at the EV blog Electrek, are being used to “trick Tesla’s cabin camera into thinking a driver is paying attention.” https://www.zerohedge.com/technology/doll-heads-apparently-fooling-tesla-fsd-facial-recognition-update-next
D writes:
We hit the bridges to China, etc, so they can’t resupply to build the more missiles. This sucks because when Iran becomes normal again, they’ll have to rebuild all that stuff and it’s pointless and expensive.
I conclude:
D is RETARDED and sorry for your loss of decency
@ Dr D.
“Again: they are fighting an enemy that is COMPLETELY untouched. They haven’t shot up a WalMart yet.”
And again: At no point did George Washington and his band of merry men lay siege to Buckingham Palace and overthrow the rulers of the British Empire. That all remained completely untouched and unbothered, outside of the troublesome territory in North America, and continued to rule nearly a quarter of the known world for centuries thereafter. So I guess that therefore Britain must have won the US War of Independence and your kids all swear allegiance to the Union Flag at school? No?
Stop with the transparently stupid straw man arguments – please. I used to rather enjoy your perspectives, but recently your characteristic writing style is just becoming a parody of its previous self.
A small nation fighting on it’s home turf can defeat an empire that must extend supply chains halfway around the world, and which derives no financial benefit from ‘Winning’ even if it does.
Larry Counts Hours …
Let’s follow the timeline. According to the official story: 911 call from his DC residence at 8:30pm ET on July 11 for suspected cardiac arrest. He “died at home.” This is total bullshit! So let’s go thru the timeline. Senator Graham arrived in Kyiv between 09:45–10:45 local on July 10th. The train he took from Poland departed Warsaw at 18:15 hours local on July 9th. It was an overnight train. To arrive in Poland in time to take the 18:15 train, Lindsey would have departed Dulles International Airport at around 0700 local on July 9 — the flight from Dulles to Warsaw is 9 hours. So Lindsey Graham arrives in Kyiv by 11 am Friday morning. He meets with Zelensky and tours a drone factory. Then we are asked to believe that he returns to Washington, DC after spending less than 24 hours on the ground. Again, I call bullshit!!The earliest train back to Warsaw departs Kyiv-Pasazhyrskyi at 07:40–08:00 on the 11th and arrives Przemyśl Główny in the afternoon (~17:00–18:00). That is at least nine hours. That would make it roughly 1100 hours in Washington, DC. Let’s assume he has an hour to get to the airport and the plane takes off at 1900 hours local from Poland. The flight going west takes 10 hours… This means the earliest the plane could have landed at Dulles is midnight on the 11th. That is 3 ½ hours after Graham reportedly died at home. As I noted at the outset… The story of Lindsey Graham’s death at home is BULLSHIT!
I agree with Larry–the timeline issue is critical here. Could it be that Lindsey met his end in Kiev? I am not saying it is 100% but the probability is very high that he died in Kiev. Was he an accidental (or maybe deliberate?) victim of Russian strikes at the drone factory he visited or was something else involved in his demise? Who knows. But there is very little doubt that he was a war criminal, warmonger, supporter of terrorism and genocidal maniac. Good riddance.
http://smoothiex12.blogspot.com/2026/07/larry-counts-hours.html
Now that Lindsey Graham is FINALLY departed this Vale of Tears (or, in his case, gutter of human depravity) maybe we’ll finally get to find out the sordid details of his particular brand of perversion.
I mean, EVERBODY knew he was majorly kinky from the moment he showed his face and spoke, but while he was still alive he was able to keep a lid on people openly reporting or talking about his dirty little big secrets.
Anybody here willing to hazard a guess? Was it garden variety queerdom or something more exotic? I’m betting it was REALLY deeply dark, like something along the lines of torture murder of little boys before cannibalizing their reproductive organs.
Whatever it was, the Israeli’s were willing to sell it and Lindsay was willing to buy.
Copilot helped
Summary of NEW events after the 3rd wave
Iran closes Hormuz.Iran launches multi‑country missile/drone retaliation.
Two ships hit, one abandoned and burning.
Explosions at multiple Iranian coastal military sites.
U.S. intercepts cruise missile + drone.
U.S. launches new strikes at 17:00 ET (this is the key “after 3rd wave” event).
Hormuz remains contested.
EIR Daily News • Sunday, July 12, 2026
EIR NewsJuly 12, 2026 . 4:39 AMOver 40 million Iranians mourned the passing of there Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Khemeini. CC/Tasnim News Ageny/Masoud Shahrestani
The LeadLet’s Keep the Republic: Defeat The Empire for All Humanity
by Megan Dobrodt (EIRNS) — Jul. 11, 2026
“Both theaters of war, the Iran situation and also the war in Ukraine, are escalating,” Schiller Institute founder Helga Zepp-LaRouche told the 162nd meeting of the International Peace Coalition on July 10. “I think that if we are not changing course very, very quickly, that we soon will have reached a point of no return.”
There is no sign, however, that the Epstein-class elites of the West intend to do any such thing, as over the past week we have witnessed a ratcheting up of provocations, broken commitments, and further moves toward militarization—including with nuclear-capable weapons.
Regarding Iran—which just finished burying its assassinated Supreme Leader before a reported 40 million mourners, the largest funeral in recorded history—the situation remains very volatile, with renewed attacks on both sides. Despite media rumors and Trump’s claims to the contrary, Iranian officials have announced that at this point they are not seeking negotiations with the United States and that the US has repeatedly breached the June MOU. As if to prove the point, on Friday, the State Department piled new sanctions on Iran. President Trump took to Truth Social late Thursday night to announce that “1,000 Missiles are Locked and Loaded and aimed at the Islamic Republic of Iran, with thousands…more to immediately follow,” should Trump be assassinated. Should we be surprised if, as reports claim, British intelligence’s proxy, Israel, did, indeed, pass intelligence to the US about such an alleged assassination plot?
It would behoove anyone who might otherwise get swept up in reacting to the death threats coming from both sides to ask themselves, “Cui bono?” If such an assassination were to become the fuse to a world war, who built the bomb?
The Ukraine situation is no different. On Friday, a Russian military expert charged that American intelligence helped organize and support a thwarted drone attack on the Rostov-on-Don airfield, understood to be the operational nerve center of Russia’s Special Military Operation, while earlier in the week, NATO’s Ankara summit locked in €70 billion in new 2026 arms for Kiev, and Germany moved to buy up to 400 nuclear-capable Tomahawk missiles from Washington.
But the real target of all this was never Tehran or Moscow; it is the emergence of a new system of governance, a win-win paradigm of development among sovereign nations, outside the control of the geopolitically driven, neo-imperialist elites of London and Wall Street. That imperial structure, administered via the bestial Epstein class, is what must be broken by those patriots in the West who still remember the mission of the recently celebrated US Declaration of Independence.
Even inside Washington, cracks are showing due to growing pressure from the American population. Rep. Ro Khanna, [detained for over an hour] this week in the West Bank by armed settlers carrying American-made M4s, called the Democratic establishment “clueless about how much of a moral test” Palestine, Gaza, and Israel have become. Rep. Thomas Massie has announced that he will vote down the rule to bring the NDAA bill to the floor unless his amendment striking Section 219—the US-Israel military merger—is included. Sen. Chris Van Hollen and others are circulating a Dear Colleague letter against the Senate’s companion provision. Rep. Adam Smith, who initially opposed that same amendment, reversed himself after his own constituents made clear they’d had enough.
Why are the Epstein-class elites so desperate to keep the war machine running regardless of the cost? Because their system is utterly bankrupt, and they know it. A real president—one capable of keeping the republic—would do what independent presidential candidate Diane Sare is calling for: implement Lyndon LaRouche’s Four New Laws to Save the USA, starting with the reinstatement of Glass-Steagall and a bankruptcy reorganization of the entire speculative financial system, clearing the way at last for a return to the American System of credit-driven physical development.
“The big enemy which we have to fight,” Zepp-LaRouche said, “is the idea of empire”—the evil and inhuman system the United States was founded to end. The people who wrote the Declaration would likely not recognize what has been made of the US republic in service of a financier class that answers to no one; they would, however, recognize those founding intentions in the New Paradigm now taking shape among the BRICS and the Global Majority. They would embrace China’s Belt and Road Initiative not as a rival to be contained, but as a fellow traveler on the same road they set out on in 1776—and they would celebrate, joyfully, a real chance to free humanity from poverty and war forever.
“You can actually win against the empire if you unite and have a good plan,” Zepp-LaRouche said in referencing Friedrich Schiller’s purpose in writing his Revolt of the Netherlands. “You can bend even the stretched arm of the worse dictator and actually win for the good cause.”
Overwhelming Congress with calls to block the NDAA’s Section 219 in the House and 1217 in the Senate is an urgent task for anyone who wishes to do just that. As Diane Sare’s call to action reads, “Call your congressmen today and every day until their office confirms that they will not pass the NDAA if it includes any provision to merge our military with Israel or any other nation. In this 250th anniversary year of our Declaration of Independence, let’s heed Ben Franklin’s admonition and keep our Republic.”
Contents
Strategic War Danger
Who’s Stoking Trump’s Assassination Fears? (↓)
More Time to Stop NDAA Merger of U.S., Israeli Militaries! (↓)
US Promoting Counter-narrative of an Iran Seeking to Bow Down Before Trump (↓)
Thwarted Rostov-on-Don Plot Was ‘Tip of the Iceberg,’ Russian Expert Says, Citing Direct US Involvement (↓)
Poland, France Hold First Talks on Macron’s Nuclear Umbrella (↓)
New World ParadigmChina, Namibia Elevate Ties to ‘Community With a Shared Future’ (↓)
Science and TechnologyChina Recovers Long March-10B Booster in World-First Net Capture (↓)
Collapsing Imperial SystemIsraeli Settlers, IDF Detain Rep. Khanna in West Bank for 90 Minutes (↓)
In-Depthhttps://eir.news/2026/07/daily-brief/eir-daily-news-sunday-july-12-2026/
Counting The Hours https://drjohnsblog.substack.com/p/counting-the-hours
Third Round of US Strikes Hits 140 Targets After Hormuz Ship Attack; Iran Retaliates On Kuwait, Jordan Bases
The IRGC declared the Strait of Hormuz closed “until further notice” and until the end of “American interventions.” Tehran framed its actions as defensive and retaliatory, launching ballistic missiles and drones at US-linked targets in Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, Jordan (including Muwaffaq Salti Airbase), and Oman…
..Earlier on Saturday, Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi traveled to Oman on Saturday for talks on the future of Hormuz, but there was no sign of involvement by senior US envoys. Also Earlier, Iran demanded that the US implement key commitments under a recent deal before more talks take place, rejecting Trump’s contention that negotiations could continue without a ceasefire. Tehran said Washington must meet Iran’s conditions for resolving transit issues through the Strait of Hormuz and normalizing its oil exports.
On Friday Trump threatened to shower Iran with “1000 Missiles” if it acted on a threat to kill the US leader, “in this case, ME!”
The US had also demanded that Iran publicly declare all channels of the Hormuz open to shipping and pledge not to attack civilian vessels transiting the waterway…
..Iran has thrown Trump’s ultimatum and Saturday deadline right back at Washington, saying that instead it is the United States that must first meet the agreed-upon conditions in order to normalize shipping and energy transit in the Strait of Hormuz.
Fars news agency reports Saturday that Iranian leadership is demanding that the US implement “agreed-upon understandings” before any talks take place. While the White House has declared the ceasefire to be ‘over’ – it has also indicated ongoing contacts and talks with Iran via mediators. But this appears to have been reduced to simple ultimatums being shuttled between capitals by Qatari mediators. There are no actual sit-down talks on the horizon. https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/iran-rejects-us-talks-mojtaba-calls-vengeance-trump-warns-1000-missiles-are-locked Reports vary: Tehran Declares Hormuz Closed, But Ships Are Still Transiting
“Commercial traffic through the Strait of Hormuz continued at reduced levels, with vessels transiting via both the southern Omani corridor and the northern Iranian-controlled route,” the Joint Maritime Information Center wrote in a note early Sunday. https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/tehran-declares-hormuz-closed-ships-are-still-transiting Lindsey Graham died due to a heart attack? Lindsey Graham suffered chest pain at his D.C. home after returning from Ukraine and then went into cardiac arrest before dying. Emergency services were called to his DC home, according to police scanner audio...
..GRAHAM WAS JUST VISITING DRONE FACTORIES IN UKRAINE! Russia attacked drone factories in Ukraine! Lindsey Graham “dies suddenly” I have to ask, did Russia kill Graham in Ukraine and they cover it up? https://x.com/MyLordBebo/status/2076209769639973327 The Russian Ministry of Defense reported the conduct of high-precision strikes at night weapons long-range and strike dronesThe main targets of the attack were military-industrial complex enterprises in Kyiv, which specialize in the production of medium- and long-range unmanned aerial vehicles for the Ukrainian military…
..According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, the Kyiv-71 and Burevestnik facilities, as well as military airfield infrastructure in the Kyiv region, were damaged. Large fires and plumes of smoke from secondary detonations of the munitions were observed at the impact sites. https://en.topwar.ru/286076-rossijskie-sily-nanesli-udary-po-obektam-vpk-ukrainy-po-vypusku-dronov-v-kieve.html LINDSEY GRAHAM’S TIMELINE Last 48 hours:
1) Visits Ukrainian drone factories 2) Russia strikes drone factories 3) Graham “dies suddenly”
It could, of course, be a sudden heart attack right after returning home, but it could also be that he was struck in a drone factory by Russia. https://x.com/MyLordBebo/status/2076215636435288462 Larry Johnson, The Lindsey Graham Timeline Does Not Work… He Died in Kyiv
Let’s follow the timeline. According to the official story: 911 call from his DC residence at 8:30pm ET on July 11 for suspected cardiac arrest. He “died at home.” This is total bullshit!
So let’s go thru the timeline. Senator Graham arrived in Kyiv between 09:45–10:45 local on July 10th. The train he took from Poland departed Warsaw at 18:15 hours local on July 9th. It was an overnight train. To arrive in Poland in time to take the 18:15 train, Lindsey would have departed Dulles International Airport at around 0700 local on July 9 — the flight from Dulles to Warsaw is 9 hours.
So Lindsey Graham arrives in Kyiv by 11 am Friday morning. He meets with Zelensky and tours a drone factory. Then we are asked to believe that he returns to Washington, DC after spending less than 24 hours on the ground. Again, I call bullshit!!
The earliest train back to Warsaw departs Kyiv-Pasazhyrskyi at 07:40–08:00 on the 11th and arrives Przemyśl Główny in the afternoon (~17:00–18:00). That is at least nine hours. That would make it roughly 1100 hours in Washington, DC. Let’s assume he has an hour to get to the airport and the plane takes off at 1900 hours local from Poland. The flight going west takes 10 hours… This means the earliest the plane could have landed at Dulles is midnight on the 11th. That is 3 ½ hours after Graham reportedly died at home. https://sonar21.com/the-lindsey-graham-timeline-does-not-work-he-died-in-kyiv/ “What Makes It Even Stranger…”: Trump Describes Saturday Night Phone Call With Lindsey Graham Hours Before Senator’s Death
“What makes it even stranger is that I got a call last night sometimes in, you know, the early evening, maybe in the 7:00’s. And he called and he said, “We’re all set for the Save America Act,”” Trump told host Kristen Walker. “He was pushing the Save America Act like crazy. He got back, said he just landed from Ukraine. I said, “That’s a long trip to make.”” https://www.zerohedge.com/political/sen-lindsey-graham-dead-71-following-brief-and-sudden-illnessJuly 10: Israel Hands US Curiously-Timed Intelligence Saying Iran Plotting To Assassinate Trump https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/return-war-iran-sends-ballistic-missiles-kuwait-bahrain-qatar-jordan-after-us-struck
Trump Took Old Air Force One To Leave Turkey As Security Measure: White House
The White House said Thursday that President Donald Trump’s departure from the NATO summit in Turkey aboard the old Air Force One was a “distraction and misdirection” intended to address threats against him. https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/trump-took-old-air-force-one-leave-turkey-security-measure-white-houseBait for an Israeli false-flag? Trump Left Orders To Obliterate Iran If Assassinated: ‘Bomb Them At Levels Never Seen Before’ https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/trump-left-orders-obliterate-iran-if-hes-assassinated-bomb-them-levels-never-seen
Gold & Geopolitics, Daily digest: 2026-07-12
Iran struck the GFS Galaxy, closed Hormuz, and drew a third US strike round. Iran hit the Cyprus-flagged container ship M/V GFS Galaxy in the strait; one crew member missing, engine-room fire (CENTCOM, KobeissiLetter). IRGC then declared the Strait of Hormuz closed “until further notice” (KobeissiLetter, Barchart). US launched a third round, ~140 targets that night, 300+ across three nights…
..Iran retaliated against US bases in six Gulf states – including its own mediator, Oman. Ballistic missiles and drones hit sites in Bahrain (5th Fleet HQ, Manama), Qatar (Al Udeid), Kuwait, Jordan (Prince Hassan / Muwaffaq Salti), UAE (first strike in two months), and Oman’s port of Duqm, a US Navy refueling hub…
..The structural problem: after 2008, IRGC split into 31 provincial commands with pre-delegated authority to keep firing after the leadership is killed – which it was, in February. New Supreme Leader Mojtaba has shown no face, voice or video in four months, reportedly disfigured in the strike, yet is the man expected to sign a promise (shanaka86). His only message so far is a call for vengeance…
..Sen. Lindsey Graham dead at 71. His office cited “a brief and sudden illness” Saturday evening (MyLordBebo); confirmed by Barchart. He had returned from Kyiv on Friday after meeting Zelensky…
..The prevailing read: China demand destruction is swamping the Hormuz risk. Flat-to-contango futures curves, an ~8-cent prompt spread, and China auto sales crashing point to a deflationary recession, not a shortage premium (Jeff Snider via Mark4XX).
The UAE is uniquely equipped to bypass the strait and hit record production, but global supply still sits 9.4 mb/d below prewar (aeberman12).
Tanker traffic through the strait had all but halted before the closure; the few inbound VLCCs are “completely insufficient” to end the shut-in…
..Russia-Ukraine: Bachivsk falls in Sumy; Kyiv’s air defense uncontested for 9 days; Odesa ports pounded
Russia’s MoD claims liberation of Bachivsk in Sumy (MilitarySummary, GudadzeLevan); geolocation shows Russian control of northern Konstantinovka (MilitarySummary).
Ukraine’s air defense is described as collapsed – roughly nine days without interceptions, Kyiv hit by Iskanders and jet-powered Geran drones that now make up 25-30% of Russian UAVs (MilitarySummary, MilitarySummary).
Russia ramped strikes on Odesa/Chornomorsk port infrastructure and cargo ships (AMK_Mapping, MilitarySummary); Ukraine hit back at the Syzran oil refinery (MilitarySummary) and closed the Azov Sea after destroying 28 vessels…
..AI bubble: capex tops $1tn, now a quarter of US GDP growth https://no1sdailydigest.substack.com/p/daily-digest-2026-07-12Iran crowned champion at 2026 International Mathematics Olympiad in China https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2026/07/10/771981/Iran-crowned-champion-2026-China-International-Mathematics-Competition
The Manufacture of Impunity. How a Political Apparatus Secures Its Crimes and Captures American Power
Gaza, Lebanon, and the Architecture of a State’s Violence
A thousand days. – Say it slowly, because Gaza no longer can.
A thousand dawns over a strip of land smaller than a city, each one breaking not upon rooftops but upon their absence.
A thousand nights beneath the same drone that does not sleep, does not blink, does not forgive. There, time is no longer counted in seasons, or harvests, or the growth of children — it is counted in funerals, and in the funerals that could not be held, for want of hands to dig.
A thousand days, and the arithmetic is unbearable: more than 73,000 dead, over 173,000 wounded, 9,500 more still folded into the concrete, waiting for hands that will not come.
More than half of them women, the old, the very small. Twenty-one thousand of them children — a generation entered into a ledger before it could learn to read one. And twelve thousand pregnancies lost — miscarried or ended under starvation and the ruin of the hospitals: a people struck at the root, before breath.
They killed the ones who film it — 262 journalists. They killed the ones who dig for the living — 145 rescuers, 1,700 healers. They did not merely wage a war. They made a method of it — and the world, for a thousand days, agreed to call the method by another name.
This is not about a people, a religion, or a supposed nature. It is about a state, a specific government, and the machinery that has kept its crimes running in broad daylight for a thousand days. Name it precisely — and the thousand days become an indictment that no delay at The Hague, no veto in New York, no bomb out of Washington can any longer disguise.
In 2026 the question is no longer whether crimes are being committed. An unprecedented convergence of independent bodies has settled that. The question is by what mechanism a state commits them in full view, theorizes them, replicates them from one theater to the next, and secures the guarantee of the world’s foremost power. That is the machinery to dismantle. https://www.globalresearch.ca/manufacture-impunity/5932595 Israel launches fresh airstrikes in southern Lebanon, injuring 7 despite US-brokered deal
Israeli forces hit several towns in south as framework agreement calls for phased withdrawal from Lebanese territory https://www.aa.com.tr/en/middle-east/israel-launches-fresh-airstrikes-in-southern-lebanon-injuring-7-despite-us-brokered-deal/3995104 Power cuts plunge Gaza hospitals into darkness as Israeli attacks persist
Gaza is suffering from an energy crisis that is affecting hospitals struggling to treat patients amid Israeli bombing. Medical staff describe working under increasingly dire conditions as fuel and power run short. https://www.vespernews.com/en/news/63a3470f-6122-4b88-a4c4-138602e0a565 Detained Palestinian woman documents the escalation of violations inside Israeli prisons
Shahd Muhammad Adi, 23, revealed her testimony regarding the escalation of assaults and violations that Palestinian women prisoners are subjected to inside Israeli occupation prisons.
The prisoner, Adi, who is a nursing graduate from the town of Beit Ummar and detained since last March 25, reported that she has been subjected to harsh mistreatment since the moment of her arrest, as she was forced under threat to take off her jilbab in very cold weather.
She explained in her testimony that the jailers recently stormed the women prisoners’ rooms numbers 6, 7, and 8 while they were performing the Qiyam al-Layl prayer, where they blindfolded them, and forced them to lie down on the ground, before they confiscated their copies of the Quran.
She described the raid of last May 13 as the “most violent”, clarifying that the prison forces used stun grenades and police dogs during it, and carried out physical assaults while voicing verbal insults and brandishing weapons. https://english.palinfo.com/news/2026/07/11/366494/Report documents 1,183 Israeli violations in West Bank in one week https://english.palinfo.com/news/2026/07/11/366491/
Ro Khanna gets street-cred: US lawmaker harassed, held at gunpoint by Israeli settlers in occupied West Bank
The Jewish settlers reportedly wielded US-made rifles to intimidate the US lawmaker and his delegation
Rep. Ro Khanna says that the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) arrived on the scene and continued his detention, which is unsurprising considering their documented cooperation with settlers. https://thecradle.co/articles/us-lawmaker-harassed-held-at-gunpoint-by-israeli-settlers-in-occupied-west-bank Turkey Seeks Moscow Permission To Offload S-400s, Paving Way For US F-35 Deal
In a move that could break a years-long defense procurement deadlock with Washington, Turkey is finalizing the sale of its Russian S-400 air defense systems to Gulf states, potentially clearing the way for Ankara to buy US F-35 fighter jets, Turkish newspaper Hurriyet reports Friday.
For Ankara, offloading the Russian hardware resolves a years-long costly diplomatic and military bottleneck and controversy – a situation which dramatically improved after President Trump gave a clear greenlight during the annual NATO summit in Ankara this week. https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/turkey-seeks-moscow-permission-offload-s-400s-paving-way-us-f-35-deal This corridor would not use the Israeli Port of Haifa: France eyes Syria as ‘vital energy corridor’ amid Hormuz crisis
Macron visited Syria this week along with the head of TotalEnergies
The announcement follows French President Emmanuel Macron’s visit to Damascus on Tuesday, where he met with former Al-Qaeda chief and self-appointed Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa to discuss regional stability.
Joining Macron on his visit, TotalEnergies head Patrick Pouyanne described the nation as being “at the crossroads of the Middle East,” positioning it as a vital transit link between Iraq and the Mediterranean Sea.
Since April, Iraq has been transporting oil through Syria by truck for re-export, exporting over 600,000 tons of fuel oil between April and June to bypass the closure of the Strait of Hormuz.
Last month, officials from both countries discussed rehabilitating the shared Kirkuk–Baniyas oil pipeline and establishing energy transit mechanisms. https://thecradle.co/articles/france-eyes-syria-as-vital-energy-corridor-amid-hormuz-crisis The Kirkuk–Baniyas pipeline is a currently defunct crude oil pipeline built by the Iraq Petroleum Company from the Kirkuk oil field in Iraq to the Syrian port of Baniyas. The pipeline went into operation in April 1952... It was the second “Big-Inch” oil pipeline in the Middle East after the 1,080-mile Trans-Arabian Pipeline in 1950. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirkuk%E2%80%93Baniyas_pipeline
Simplicius 7/8/26, Trump and Rubio Hopeful Ukrainian Deep Strikes Bring Russia to Negotiating Table https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/trump-and-rubio-hopeful-ukrainian
Simplicius reports Russian oligarchs are getting patriotic since sanctioned: Russian Oligarch’s True Warning Hidden in Plain Sight
The Economist published two important pieces centered on Russian “oligarch” Andrey Melnichenko, who is labeled one of Russia’s most ‘enigmatic’ wealth titans despite at times occupying first place amongst Russia’s richest men as, what Economist calls, the world’s “fertilizer king” and Russia’s “biggest industrialist”. He’s presented as particularly unique due to his more “centrist” position as someone who’s both inhabited Putin’s inner circle, yet also spent years living the Westernized liberal and Europhile lifestyle typical to Russian billionaires...
..The journal admits that Western sanctions actually did the opposite of their intent, and pushed Russian elite back into the state’s bosom, with Melnichenko—who chose to live in Switzerland for a long portion of his life—himself admitting that for the first time he felt Russia was his only home…
..Melnichenko was amongst the first and most astute to recognize what must be done. He decided to get back in good favor with his motherland, which he had begun to use merely as a source of extraction and profits while he enjoyed life abroad. He returned and began to ingratiate himself with Russian elites, re-learning the system and re-absorbing the true national ‘pulse on the ground’…
..He then notes that Russia is seen as standing at a crossroads between four different potentialities, all of which sound grim, and which the Economist uses as the chief centerpiece to hook the series’ narrative on.
But it is a deliberately misleading hook, because they disingenuously present it as Melnichenko’s visions of a collapsing Russia with no options. In reality, Melnichenko presented the four “doom” scenarios in order to really pose his fifth redemptive one...
..Critically, the theme of his entire piece can be condensed into one word: Sovereignty.
He accuses the West of trying to undermine and sabotage Russian sovereignty, and carefully implies that the broader conflict between Russia and the West revolves around the West’s disintegrating security architectures viewing Russian sovereignty as a threat to them—which is precisely accurate and true… ..He goes on to pose the four scenarios, though it must be said, he specifically notes these are scenarios being discussed in the West…
..The four scenarios Melnichenko gives are:
“A humiliated Russia lingering on the periphery of the West.”
Russia becomes a vassal of China, ending its relationship with the West.
Russia becomes fragmented and falls apart like the USSR.
Russia becomes a “fortress: closed, mobilized, in permanent siege”, and a state of “perpetual emergency.”
As stated, these are Western fantasies, and the ‘Overton window’ of Russia’s future that Western politicians and pundits alike would like us to believe is the only trajectory of Russia’s fate. Melnichenko tacitly disagrees, but cleverly makes sure not to make this too obvious as he’s writing for a Western audience for the purpose of reconciliation.
Melnichenko finally reaches the inescapable conclusion, which is that the very heart of the conflict revolves around the issue of Russian sovereignty, and by ignoring this, the Europeans doom the conflict toward existential escalation:
“How Russia conducts its own political process and towards what ends it directs its sovereignty is a question that can be resolved only inside Russia itself, without deference to external preferences. Any attempt to manage this process from outside is not only doomed but counterproductive: it destroys the very condition—sovereignty—without which sustainable peace is impossible in principle. This must be accepted, not out of sympathy for Russia but from the understanding that no alternative to this recognition exists.” …
..In reality, what he’s laying out is his accurate portent for Russia’s future, one where businesses, oligarchs and citizens alike, all work toward a common sovereign revolution. This is sold as being beneficial to the West because, as he foresees things, it creates “predictable” stability—but the real threat is hidden in the message that the West is pushing Russia to become more unified and powerful than ever before. https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/russian-oligarchs-true-warning-hiddenGilbert Doctorow, Russia is losing the war!
Those who listen to Scott Ritter, to Colonel Macgregor, to Larry Johnson on their nearly daily podcast appearances and believe that the inexorable progress of Russian forces on the line of contact in Donbas, moving towards the Dnieper and conquest of the entire Donbas mean RUSSIAN VICTORY are being deceived. As I have been saying for some time, loss of the Donbas, even loss of Odessa will not force Ukraine to capitulate and will not put an end to the ever more damaging Ukrainian attacks on Russian critical infrastructure in the energy sector.
Moreover, those attacks deep inside Russia directed against infrastructure could just as easily be directed against President Putin, against his family, against the State Duma. In a word, the Russian Federation is now as vulnerable to “Ukrainian” attacks as is Kiev to Russian attacks. In that sense, the war is now at a stalemate and is going against Russia, because Kiev is waging all-out war while Russia is still holding one arm behind its back while seeking the approval of progressive humanity for its forbearance and humane behavior.
Why do I come to this conclusion? I was prodded to it by the latest news that the broadcaster wanted me to comment upon, namely a successful drone attack on a major refinery near Samara. Look at the map: Samara is more than 1,000 km southeast of Moscow in the heartland of European Russia. It must be close to 2,000 km from wherever in Ukraine these drones were launched. This strike was most likely using highly advanced drones supplied from Europe which are guided by military intelligence provided to Ukraine by the USA. In short, Russia is under attack from NATO, for which the Ukraine is only a dummy warrior.
Today’s New York Times has an article on a secret factory in Germany now providing AI controlled drones to Ukraine. This is a state-of-the-art attack system and it makes Germany a co-belligerent just as the formerly proposed delivery of its Taurus missiles would have been.
The consequences of these infrastructure attacks, on attacks on Russian oil tankers inside Russia as well as on the open seas, is that Russia has severe fuel shortages in many regions. It has now banned export of diesel fuel so as to compensate for shortages at home. Vice Prime Minister Novak has just announced that Russia is importing refined petroleum.
This situation is no longer just an inconvenience for car owners in one or another locale. It is going to cripple Russian industry, including military industry if it continues and escalates, which now seems likely.
Note that until recently Russia accounted for 12% of global diesel exports. That loss now is driving up fuel costs globally.
But for Russia, there has to be a response appropriate to the now developing existential threat: the factories producing these drones, wherever they are, in Germany or elsewhere, must be destroyed. Now! If Russia fails to act, it is going to lose the war and to lose its sovereignty, regardless of how many speeches President Putin makes calling his citizens to sit tight and ignore what is happening to them. https://gilbertdoctorow.substack.com/p/russia-is-losing-the-war 7/8/26 John Helmer, The Ankara Summit Declaration is vague enough and precise enough to mean everything and nothing to President Donald Trump and those he regards as his subordinates, clients, and marks in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).
In White House politics, it balances between the party for escalation of the war against Russia and the party for de-escalation and peace; that’s to say, pause in the war against Russia…
..As for the Ukraine, whose drone warfighting against Russia is now being integrated within NATO strategy, plans, and staffs, Trump has extracted the new promise for this year and next of €140 billion of British, European and Canadian state budget spending in the US: “€70 billion in military equipment, assistance and training for Ukraine and…sustaining at least equivalent levels in 2027”. This is the NATO strategy of two more years of war to bring down Putin and Trump profiteering from the first war on Russian territory fought by the allies since their seven-year regime change operations between 1918 and 1925.
In exchange, Trump has promised to curb his tongue and tweet: “Allies underscore that this support must be equitable, predictable, and sustainable in the long-term.”
To exemplify what Trump thinks this means for himself, he told Vladimir Zelensky on the summit sidelines: “with respect to Ukraine. Well, we’re going to talk about that [Patriot missile systems]. Look, it’s a defensive weapon, which I like better than an offensive weapon. It’s the best… those companies that make the Patriot and make all of the great stuff, the Tomahawks, all of the great stuff. We have the best stuff, many things… one of the things I think we’re going to be talking about today, just a little birdie told me this, about the fact that we’ll give them [Ukraine] the right to make Patriots. We’ll show them how to do it. It’s very complex, actually. But you’ll figure out the complexity quickly. And we’re talking about that and we’ll — the company that makes them, which is building now four plants. You know, all of our companies will be able to do this in two to three months...” https://johnhelmer.net/the-nuclear-option/#more-94604 Trump’s ‘cruel gift’: Why Patriot license will be useless for Ukraine
The production rollout will likely face nearly impossible technological and security challenges, multiple experts argue https://web.archive.org/web/20260711022421/https://www.rt.com/news/642844-trumps-cruel-gift-patriot-ukraine-useless/ Ukrainian Expert Dismisses Trump Pledge On Patriot Missile License As Empty PR
Anatolii Khrapchynskyi, development director of the Fly Group Ukraine defense company, said Trump’s wording was ambiguous because he referred broadly to producing “Patriots,” without specifying whether he meant missiles, launchers, radar systems, command centers or components.
Missile production alone involves a vast supply chain, Khrapchynskyi said, with hundreds of companies making parts such as control surfaces, engines, guidance systems and communications equipment.
Following this, on Saturday Ukrainian economist and financial analyst Alexey Kushch – considered an expert of Ukraine’s defense production – was cited in regional media as dismissing Trump’s promise as mere empty PR. https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/ukrainian-expert-dismisses-trump-pledge-patriot-missile-license-empty-pr Politician says Kiev behind Monaco attack over tycoon’s plan to expose Ukraine corruption
Viktor Medvedchuk says the uncovering of the schemes “would have spelt a disaster for the Kiev regime ahead of the NATO summit” https://tass.com/world/2158413 Polish MEP tears up Ukrainian Nazi collaborator flag at EU parliament (VIDEO)
Ewa Zajaczkowska-Hernik lashed out at Kiev, insisting that “there is no moral difference between honoring the SS and honoring the UPA” https://web.archive.org/web/20260708132857/https://www.rt.com/news/642715-polish-mep-tears-ukrainian-nazi-flag/ Andrew Korybko, The European Parliament’s Condemnation of Zelensky’s Nazi Glorification
The European Parliament overwhelmingly voted to approve an amendment to last year’s Commission report on Ukraine to include language criticizing Zelensky’s recent glorification of the OUN-UPA…
..Former conservative Prime Minister Beata Szydło shared some critiques of the amendment, which are worth paying attention to. In the words of this sitting MEP, “the UPA’s murders of Poles were not defined as genocide, and there is no condemnation of the currently widespread promotion of Banderism in Ukraine. In contrast, there are many provisions (in the overall document) facilitating Ukraine’s access to the EU market—which will harm the Polish economy.”
Despite the symbolism of this move, including that it happened just before Poland commemorates the “National Day of Remembrance of the Victims of the Genocide of the Citizens of the Polish Republic Committed by Ukrainian Nationalists” on 11 July, Zelensky and company weren’t fazed. Nawrocki candidly disclosed that his meeting with Zelensky on the sidelines of last week’s NATO Summit in Ankara didn’t resolve this issue, nor did he expect it to, and he reaffirmed that it’s “non-negotiable” for him.
Lvov (known to Poles as Lwów and Ukrainians as Lviv), which is the cradle of Ukrainian nationalism, also isn’t backing away from its Regional Council’s plans to honor the UPA, its genocidal commander Roman Shukhevich, and ideologue Oleg Olzhich across the coming year. The chairman also “propose[d] to ask the regional military administration to develop a set of actions aimed at counteracting disinformation, perhaps to establish an appropriate center staffed by specialists in Polish-Ukrainian relations.”
Nowhere near as provocative but still extremely disrespectful was the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry urging Poland not to revive Nawrocki’s bill from last year banning Banderism, which was rejected by the ruling liberal coalition but might now be approved by them given their policy reversal. This echoes Zelensky’s Chief of Staff Kirill Budanov’s false warning about allegedly “immature escalatory steps” by Poland ahead of 11 July in which he also falsely compared Poland with Russia in an attempt to maximally enrage Poles.
Reflecting on the context in which the European Parliament just criticized Zelensky’s glorification of the OUN-UPA, it was a positive step but also an incomplete one since their WWII-era crimes weren’t described as genocide and the overall document backs Ukraine’s access to the EU market at Poland’s expense. Zelensky and company also weren’t fazed by this development either. Therefore, the Polish-Ukrainian dispute is far from over. https://www.globalresearch.ca/european-parliament-criticism-zelensky-oun-upa-glorification/5933047 ‘We are not at war’ – NATO state questions bloc’s Ukraine strategy
Escalation against Russia does not guarantee a peaceful resolution, Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babis has warned https://web.archive.org/web/20260710070041/https://www.rt.com/news/642800-babis-nato-ukraine-strategy/ Mark Carney and Volodymyr Zelenskyy Announce Creation of New Canadian Bank for NATO/Climate Money Laundering, with $900 Million Seed Money from Canadian Taxpayers
To establish part of the background, remind yourself that former Canadian Minister Chrystia Freeland was appointed by Zelenskyy to lead a Ukraine redevelopment operation. Today, speaking from Ankara, Turkey, Carney and Zelenskyy announced a $900 million fund for short, mid-term and long-term investment in Ukraine...
..A few hours later Prime Minister Carney and Volodymr Zelenskyy announced a new Canada-based financial institution called the Defense, Security and Resilience Bank (DSRB). {citation}
CANADA – […] “Mark Carney, welcomed the support for the Canada-led DSRB by: Albania, Belgium, Greece, Latvia, Luxembourg, Romania, Türkiye, and Ukraine. These countries will be entrusted with defining the initial policies and directives of the Bank, shaping its operations and ensuring benefits flow to members’ economies.” […] Leveraging a strong credit rating, the Bank will provide long-term, low-cost financing for defence, security, and resilience initiatives across supply chains.” (more)
When you see the term “resilience initiatives” think climate change. Specifically, think carbon capture and carbon trading mechanisms. The DSRB banking approach, in combination with Chrystia Freeland heading the Ukraine Economic Development operation, then takes us to the carbon capture deal with Alberta [carbon capture and storage (CCS) project] and then, wait for it,…. The TKMS (Thyssen Krupp Marine Systems) submarine purchase contract with Germany.
You see, unbeknownst to most people, TKMS has a subsidiary that was just founded, literally just founded weeks before Carney announced the $20 to $30 billion submarine contract.
In announcing the TKMS contract, CBC noted: “The German government also proposed establishing a carbon capture facility deploying TKMS technology in partnership with Alberta.” That would be TKMS Calvion GmbH (TKMS-CG) which was a company formed within TKMS on May 16, 2026.
So, think about this. Mark Carney tells Alberta Premier Danielle Smith that a condition for the Alberta pipeline is authorization of a carbon capture scheme that will be contracted to the recently created subsidiary of TKMS, TKMS-CG. who Carney knows is about to get the submarine contract. https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2026/07/07/mark-carney-and-volodymyr-zelenskyy-announce-creation-of-new-canadian-bank-for-nato-climate-money-laundering-with-900-million-seed-money-from-canadian-taxpayers/ Ceasefire is ‘worst-case scenario’ for Ukraine – head of Zelensky’s favorite arms maker
Reaching a truce with Russia will prompt “all” Ukrainian men to flee the country, while the West will forget Kiev, the head of corruption scandal-plagued firm Fire Point has claimed https://web.archive.org/web/20260710052755/https://www.rt.com/russia/642818-ukraine-ceasefire-worst-scenario/Paul Craig Roberts, Latest US Supreme Court Decision Places the US in the Hands of the Monied Interests
“Whether the Democratic Party, the Republican Party or other parties, all political parties and candidates going forward can compete equally under the same rules regarding coordinated expenditures and can structure their fund-raising, spending and political speech on a level playing field as they see fit within the law.”
This is ignorant nonsense. The Supreme Court is saying that the monied interests it has empowered can compete on equal terms. This competition excludes the American electorate. What the Supreme Court has done is to remove any influence of voters on government policy. The government’s policy is determined by the money of the interest groups that elects presidents, federal and state representatives and senators, governors, mayors and county commissions. All American voters are permitted to do is to vote for the candidates financed by vested interests. Every American vote is pointless.
We, in our stupidity, call this “democracy,” and we recently celebrated our “independence” instead of acknowledging our captivity. https://paulcraigroberts.org/latest-us-supreme-court-decision-places-the-us-in-the-hands-of-the-monied-interests/ Caitlin Johnstone thinks face-recognition “robot-dogs” might be programmed to kill citizens: It’s A Race Between Revolutionary Consciousness And The Implementation Of Police Robots https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/its-a-race-between-revolutionary
Communist-Terrorists are worse than armed robots with face recognition! Rubio Convenes 60-Nation Summit To Confront Transnational Far-Left Terrorism https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/rubio-convenes-60-nation-summit-confront-transnational-far-left-terrorism
LAPD ending deal with company operating license plate-reading cameras https://abc7.com/post/lapd-ending-agreement-surveillance-company-flock-safety/19483200/
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