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    Pablo Picasso Olga in a hat with feather 1920   • Trumpworld Rages At GOP Holdouts After Tax Bill Stalls In House (ZH) • The Big Beautiful Bill N
    [See the full post at: Debt Rattle July 3 2025]

    #191329
    Germ
    Participant

    What’s difference between “conspiracy theory” and FACT? …

    About 4 years!

    TVASSF

    #191330

    “ People should lay off Trump. Give him a chance to understand the real challenge. Perhaps he will undertake the challenge. Perhaps he will succeed.

    What other chance do we have?“

    I give PCR cred for laying out the basic truth in his outline, but methinks he is way out on the optimism branch, given Mr. Trumps behaviour thus far.

    #191331
    Germ
    Participant

    They poisoned the world.

    Cardiovascular Manifestation of the BNT162b2 mRNA COVID-19 Vaccine in Adolescents

    “Cardiovascular manifestations were found in 29.24% of patients …”

    https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9414075/

    TVASSF -Tick … Tock … Tick … Tock …

    #191332
    those darned kids
    Participant

    “Cardiovascular Manifestation of the BNT162b2 mRNA COVID-19 Vaccine in Adolescents”

    notice they don’t call it “comirnaty”?

    wonder why..

    #191333
    those darned kids
    Participant

    “A 940-page bill is not supposed to be easy.”

    you got that right!

    totatilitarian control grids require bills of at least 737 pages!¡!

    #191334
    those darned kids
    Participant

    thomas massie de la mancha

    #191335
    Dr. D
    Participant

    German women, stop raping black Muslim men, esp when they’re also handicapped.

    pic

    Damn those Germans. And why do they hate women so much?

    Budget:

    1) Put in 10,000 land mines.
    2) Congress removes 9,999.
    3) One poison pill is missed, essentially collapsing the entire U.S. betting industry.
    4) Stop the budget, run out the clock, prevent Trump “Win” even as anemic as it is.

    Repeat with revision 2, 3, 4, and 5.

    Oops!

    And you wonder why people want to expel/arrest all of Congress, especially the GOP.

    $16 Million to rig a Presidential election? Sold!!!

    The sad part is, this is considered BETTER than last month, where they were doing it unrestrained, for free.

    “Are these senators just trying to keep the graft vehicle in place so the money keeps flowing?”

    So many things: oppose all things. They don’t actually know how anything works, just take orders, with gossip and innuendo. It’s not their money. Yes, the money is going exclusively to them, I’m sure they’re dimly aware with deniability. Say s—t because it’s bad Cheeto, who cares if it’s true.

    More like this. There are some inside who actually plan, know, and write “The Memo”, but not these guys. They’re too dumb and too controlled to be trusted with any actual information.

    As you see, they vote FOR USAID, which may dislike (GOP side) and vote FOR infinity health care as long as you’re not a citizen, which no one likes. Explain using any logic except mine above: they’re blackmailed, control, don’t exist.

    • President Trump Firm, No More Tariff Extensions Beyond July 8th (CTH)

    Run out the clock, everywhere, on everything. That’s something government is an expert in: doing nothing, opposing everything.

    “• The Keys to Trump’s Middle East Triumph (Joecks)

    Yuck. None of this is helpful. Here’s one that is: They “took” Iran’s nuclear program. Where is it? Keep that question in mind when you ask “What happens next?” Iran either re-creates it publicly or doesn’t. If it doesn’t then what? The UN weapons inspectors more or less openly said he gave every bit of data to the Israelis and is proud of it, will do it again, and kill more Scientists anywhere he’s let in. Iran unsurprisingly won’t let him in.

    That means if Iran doesn’t instantly create a nuke – which they clearly didn’t WISH to do – they can only…

    Wait for it…

    JOIN BRIICS. That is, be under RUSSIA’S umbrella. CHINA’S umbrella. That is OUR security. That means they lose some sovereignty, and that’s unfair. But what? You tell me.

    Where’s the nuke? NoKo. They outsourced it. That means they can’t get in the cupboard without China. Something like that. Hey, don’t believe ME, how did CHINA act, RUSSIA act? Russia is very cool to Iran, chilly almost. Why? They will support and run Iran’s whole nuclear program. That seems forward, supportive, but yet the diplomatic situation is backward?

    That seems like they know something, don’t trust Iran, haven’t in decades, and need to clear this to get to the new thing. Iran can “Have a nuke” they “Can’t get to” everyone gets what they claim. Russia is guarantor.

    Okay, now WHO in Iran? Who. IRGC? Civilian? Ayatollah? Who has power, who has the MOST power? And Iran just purged every Israeli there as they were all activated for the war, hunted down, and shot. Iran is now in a more stable position than before. That alone was worth getting bombed a little.

    “..the Israeli promise of an ‘Iran ready to implode, Syria-style’ – an ‘Epic’ transformation to a ‘New Middle East’ – must have been alluring”

    Trump Telepathy. Very alluring. He knows everything Trump is thinking all the time, and everything every diplomat says that isn’t public and they all deny. Uh-huh.

    “• Biden’s Energy Department Disbursed $42 Billion in Its Final Hours (Varney)

    No one cares. Even asking alone is offensive. Partisan, hate. Gee, where’d that Medicare money go? Sounds like this would have helped a little. Anyone care? Not a bit. OMB.

    “• Russiagate Was A Ploy To ‘Screw Trump’ – CIA Boss (RT)

    It was so bad no one was arrested and isn’t now. It was so bad we’re going to do nothing to un-educate all the lies the public now believes about it.

    “first they came for the pedophiles, and i said “oh hell yeah do you guys need any help getting all the pedophiles?”

    #191336
    those darned kids
    Participant

    no firkin way!

    https://gettrumpfragrances.com/

    hahahahahahahaha,

    what a loser.

    #191337
    those darned kids
    Participant

    why don’t they ever come for the war criminals first?

    #191338
    those darned kids
    Participant

    here’s 375 papers to cite to friends and family”

    https://zenodo.org/records/15787612

    COVID-19 mRNA “vaccine” harms research collection

    #191339
    those darned kids
    Participant

    oops, more:

    I. Spike protein pathogenicity research library (n=375)

    Originally part of the outer coat of the SARS-CoV2 virus, where it functions as a “key” to “unlock” (infect) cells, spike proteins are also produced in large amounts by the mRNA “vaccines,” triggering a short-lived immune response in the form of antibodies. However, a growing body of evidence has shown that the spike protein is harmful by itself, including over 370 peer-reviewed scientific papers collected in section I.

    II. Spike protein and “vaccine” mRNA biodistribution studies (n=61)

    In addition to the pathogenic characteristics of the spike protein antigen, over 60 peer-reviewed studies have demonstrated that both the “vaccine” mRNA encoding for the spike protein antigen and the spike protein itself can penetrate distant tissues, causing systemic harms.

    III. Spike protein and “vaccine” mRNA persistence studies (n=41)

    Over 40 peer-reviewed studies confirm that “vaccine” mRNA and the resulting spike protein antigen persist in the tissues of human vaccine recipients and animal test subjects far longer than claimed by public health officials; viral spike proteins, resulting from natural infection, have been shown to persist even longer, bolstering concerns that the identical “vaccine” spike may also last longer than anticipated.

    IV. Lipid nanoparticle toxicity and allergenicity studies (n=80)

    80 peer-reviewed papers show that ionizable lipid nanoparticles (LNPs) used in the experimental mRNA injections are highly inflammatory on their own, including their polyethylene glycol (PEG) component, an established cause of anaphylaxis (an extreme allergic reaction).

    V. COVID-19 “vaccine” immune imprinting library (n=140)

    Immune imprinting, dubbed “original antigenic sin” by Thomas Francis Jr., occurs when memory B lymphocytes produced in response to an initial viral infection dominate subsequent responses to related viruses. 140 peer-reviewed papers suggest that COVID “vaccines” imprinted the immune systems of recipients through exposure to the “wild type” spike protein from the original Wuhan strain, shaping their response to subsequent variants in potentially harmful ways.

    VI. SARS-CoV2 vaccine and viral variant research library (n=70)

    In addition to the pathogenicity, distribution, and long persistence of the “vaccine” spike protein, this collection of 70 peer-reviewed papers suggests the “vaccines” applied strong selective pressure to the fast-mutating SARS-CoV2 virus, quickly giving rise to “vaccine”-resistant variants.

    #191340
    Topcat
    Participant

    #191341
    Topcat
    Participant

    #191342
    Topcat
    Participant

    Greta is diversifying her range of ’causes’

    #191343
    Germ
    Participant

    Think US “Gain of Function” research has been terminated?

    Fool me once, fool me twice …

    Researchers took canine influenza (H3N2-CIV) and deliberately co-infected dog tracheal tissue with:

    The 2009 pandemic swine flu (H1N1pdm) and the Avian flu H9N2 which is known for high cytokine storms in humans.
    They then serially passaged the virus i.e. sped up evolution in a lab.

    The result was “reassortants” or simply put, hybrid flu viruses containing gene segments from both parental viruses.

    In their own words:

    “The co-infection of canine tracheal explants by H3N2-CIV and H1N1pdm or H9N2-G1H led to a remarkably high rate of reassortment. […] All reassortants replicated with similar or greater efficiency as compared to the parental strains. […] The drastic enhancement in viral replication is concerning and implies a high potential of these reassortants to be introduced into the human population.”

    https://virologyj.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12985-025-02836-1#author-information

    TVASSF – get ready for Round 2.

    #191344
    Topcat
    Participant

    #191345
    Topcat
    Participant

    #191346
    zerosum
    Participant

    Who is listening?

    I have a dream – BBB – HOUSE DEMOCRATS
    VS
    I have a dream – BBB – HOUSE REPUBLICAN

    ‘Big Beautiful Bill Act’ , the procedural measure

    PRESIDENT TRUMP – “Nobody wants to talk about GROWTH, which will be the primary reason that the Big, Beautiful Bill will be one of the most successful pieces of legislation ever passed.
    THIS GROWTH has already begun at levels never seen before.
    Trillions of Dollars are now being invested into the USA, more than ever before.
    Likewise, hundreds of Billions of Dollars in Tariffs are filling up the coffers of Treasury.
    ————-

    One item in the BBB that few Republicans are objecting to is the bill’s increase in military spending.
    The House version of the BBB added 150 billion dollars to the Pentagon’s already bloated budget.
    The Senate bill gave the military-industrial complex 156 billion dollars. Increasing military spending contradicts President Trump’s promise to stop wasting money on endless wars that have nothing to do with ensuring the security of the American people.

    A return to a noninterventionist foreign policy is the only way we will be able to begin to pay down the national debt and restore a government that adheres to the constitutional limits on its powers and respects all the people’s rights all the time.
    ———–

    Everywhere there is talk of war


    Everywhere there is talk of war
    July 2, 2025
    Paul Craig Roberts

    What is the purpose of war?

    So the wars are about nothing but the selfish aspirations of Israel for regional hegemony and Washington for world hegemony.
    Be sure you comprehend that it is nothing but the selfish aspirations of two countries that are the cause of millions of dead, maimed, and dislocated peoples, for the destruction of entire countries in the Middle East –Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Syria, Palestine, and Lebanon, with Iran a current target and with Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, and Turkey waiting in the wings.

    The US is responsible for massive deaths, injuries, displacement, and destruction in Ukraine (and Palestine) and for provocations of Russia, such as the attack on the Russian strategic triad that eventually will result in nuclear war, with China waiting in the wings.

    The US currently is increasing the pressure on Russia by fomenting color revolutions in former Central Asian provinces of the Soviet Union.

    Who is it that wants war so badly that facts are unacceptable?
    —————–

    https://realclearwire.com/articles/2025/06/30/shovel_ready_despite_warnings_bidens_energy_department_disbursed_42_billion_in_its_final_hours_1119426.html

    Shovel Ready: Despite Warnings, Biden’s Energy Department Disbursed $42 Billion in Its Final Hours
    By James Varney
    ————-

    #191347
    Topcat
    Participant

    AI distorting “Reality”

    The next battleground.

    AI is going to accelerate the Reality Distortion Force Field into Warp Drive

    Your conformation bias will just allow you to go, “That’s an AI fake” everytime you don’t agree with something that someone else presents as ‘proof’

    #191348
    Topcat
    Participant

    A digital ‘photo’ is just a spread sheet.

    Modifying it is just tinkering with the content in certain rows and columns which if not done with amazing mathematical ‘blending’ precision is detectable.

    #191349
    kultsommer
    Participant

    He’s comin’ to town.
    Again.

    The July 7 visit will mark Netanyahu’s third trip to Washington to meet Trump since the US president returned to office in January 2025, and will ………

    Trump is practicing chair-assist move while congress-folks are eager for a new round of applauses.

    #191350
    Noirette
    Participant

    Re. the Trump support figures up top. Many polls are quite ‘partial’, some are ‘manipulated’, even without intent to skew, anyway let’s take it on, the results reflect that ‘cheap’ labor depresses long-term nationals / residents salaries, job opportunities, advancement, etc.

    Getting rid of the ‘intruders’ ‘illegals’ seems an obvious, simple solution, the hope being, our incomes will rise.

    Very real beefs imho as ‘productivity gains’ have been for a long time, say roughly 50 years, shunted to the top 10% – to the 1% – at the expense of the workers doing the job. This is common knowledge, but it leads to zero politically (see the like of Bush, Obiman, Pelosi or Sanders..)

    So manhandling and kicking out the ppl one can blame (poor immigrants, etc.) instead of destroying, changing, the system is an easy ‘out’ and allows some citizens to grasp some hope for change.

    Targetting some group for xtreme cruelty – incarceration – killing … is a common tactic. Bush opened Gitmo, Trump is opening some new prison? (Idk the details). Trump’s thing though is ‘deportation’, I doubt he beats on the numbers – Obama was tops (one link.)

    Getting rid of much cheap imported labor will kill, or reduce, or slowly strangle, many biz in the US who are dependent on it. Agri, fast food, landscaping, home hairdressing, pool maintaince, nail shops, and more, idk. Construction. Agri imho is the biggest choke-point.

    https://www.foxnews.com/politics/deporter-in-chief-obama-surpassed-deportations-under-trumps-first-term

    So Trumpy is caught between a rock and a hard place. He needs to favor, represent, aid, his base, and at the same time be a Maga Leader who supports the MIC, Big Med, Big Pharma, and increasing Police State (DHS, etc.), cutting social benefits (Medicaid etc.), sending many to their death. (Military funding not taken into account here.)

    #191351
    jb-hb
    Participant

    So manhandling and kicking out the ppl one can blame (poor immigrants, etc.) instead of destroying, changing, the system is an easy ‘out’ and allows some citizens to grasp some hope for change.

    Part of the system is hundreds of billions of dollars in NGO budgets with huge, sophisticated transportation and logistics infrastructure to gather, transport, and funnel people into Europe and the US, a machine that continually runs, substituting one source population if one supply runs low. Never sleeping, always working while other people consider the issue every once in a while.

    Mass unlimited illegal migration IS The System.

    Although you and I never were evil enough to think of PEOPLE as a bioweapon, someone most definitely does and is consistently, relentlessly, aiming it at the poor.

    Getting rid of much cheap imported labor will kill, or reduce, or slowly strangle, many biz in the US who are dependent on it.

    Who will pick the cotton?

    Slavery always STOPS growth. Cato – for wealth growth, just buy land. Put sheep and slaves on it. Repeat. Why the hell would I do anything else?

    The Greeks and Romans made steam boilers and metal cylinders similar to Victorian steam machinery with tight tolerances. There was no particular reason they couldn’t have had steam locomotives and ships except that they had too many slaves. The US South pre Civil War was stunted in terms of science, engineering, industry, infrastructure, because they had slaves. They were stuck with LESS wealth because of the cheap labor.

    Plus what you GET with your cheap labor is people from a low-trust society who do things like attach every shingle on your roof with a single nail x millions of new homes and all the knockon effects from that – insurance claims, water damage, the need to do the roof again multiplied by millions etc.

    But it is easy to go ahead and use the cheap labor anyway if we refuse to measure or look at the costs. Not actually cheap. Benefit with cheapness in one particular area, tons of spread-out causes we look away from, someone else’s problem.

    #191352
    poppie
    Participant

    2 ways to photoshop. 1) Erase objects. Also called smudge, mask, etc. Detectable. Time consuming. Fairly easy. 2) take 2 pictures. move objects from picture B to picture A. Less detectable. Maybe less time. A little harder.
    Take a picture of the waterway and drop a copy of Stalin in it. The example given would not exist. So what that means is that photoshop detectors will have low fale alarms. High missed detects. It does not detect photoshop, you still dont know if its photoshoped.

    #191353
    John Day
    Participant

    Amex pays $70K for gay ‘throuple’ to get their mitts on a baby…

    Amex pays $70K for gay ‘throuple’ to get their mitts on a baby…

    Odd, no?

    #191354
    jb-hb
    Participant

    My new job really brings insurance to the top of awareness. I talk to a LOT of people who say rising insurance costs are deeply affecting them. A lot of them are in California.

    Think about California 10, 20, 50 years ago.

    The further you go back in time, are there less people who would vandalize or destroy your vehicle?

    Are there less people who would steal your vehicle?

    Do you feel your streets get safer as you look further back in time?

    As you go further back in time, are there less people driving around without insurance and/or without a license and/or driving extremely badly? Are there less or more hit and runs 20, 50 years ago?

    If you go back 20 years, 50 years, do you have more conscientious clearing of brush around power lines and other sensitive areas?

    If only reality worked on the basis of causality. If only there were something Californians DID over the past 50 years that could be identified. Don’t worry if anything bad happens “randomly” and inexplicably though, so long as you had insurance.

    And I still cannot figure out how every major city is so proud of “welcoming” tens or hundreds of thousands of “newcomers” in a single year, getting them all driver’s licenses for voting, and yet I never, ever see this reflected in people attending driving school on the roads. While my customers cannot understand why their auto insurance premiums are “so high”

    #191355
    Germ
    Participant

    Hey, Honey – let’s go and get death-vaxxed together! …

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-14870317/EastEnders-Heather-Peace-wife-Ellie-Dickinson-battling-breast-cancer-heartbreaking-admission.html

    TVASSF – and they have no idea. Absolutely none. Remarkable!

    #191356
    jb-hb
    Participant

    The wife mentioned a client got a weird horrific cancer and is undergoing a super rare, super difficult operation soon with fairly scant hopes of survival.

    The client base is fairly chatty and she gets to hear what is going on in their lives a lot of the time.

    Her overall reaction “Why are so many people getting such weird, rare cancers now?”

    My reaction, deadpan “Yes, if only we knew of something different we all did about, oh, about 4 years ago. If only there were some rational explanation.”

    “Spiritually Californian” — a term I heard when someone was explaining Jordan Peterson and his family members. Why they SEEM to have a grip on things only to slip and righteously go full blue-square in very embarrassing, obviously wrong ways. Jordan Peterson saying Kavenaugh should just give up on his Supreme Court nomination because a political operative who scrubbed her social media and had 2 doors on her house so she could rent office space instead of SEEKING JUSTICE based on THE TRUTH. (dude, weren’t YOU persecuted?!?!?? You remember?)

    Like yeah, yeah, the Petersons try to fight the good fight, sure they come from Canada, sure they had to flee that country because of how Liberalism has no antibodies against Leftism and he was being persecuted — but even when it attacks him personally, he can’t always fight it — he’s Spiritually Californian – this is his culture, tradition, underlying perception of reality. Spiritual Californians are everywhere.

    We’re finally moving. The Stabmore, (the hotel Denver converted to house criminals and illegals like California does) 100 yards away, has a lot to do with it. More garbage everywhere. Disturbing new people walking or staggering around. Incoherent insane yelling in public, day and night. Businesses around it inexplicably closing. And of course the general way Denver is being run layered on top of that. The local library is no good anymore, for instance. My car was broken into, but after popping the hatchback and crawling forward, they found the stick shift, so I still have a car.

    Anyone can realize the “Ew, it’s not so good anymore, we need to move” but the specifics as to why and even more so the causes are forbidden. They are to be invisible, but if they are brought up, noticing means you are a Big Meanie.

    I was kinda wtf, this is YOUR neighborhood being ruined that we will be fleeing. You can’t just consciously see it and talk about it? Compared to the time and effort of having to move across town BECAUSE OF IT, isn’t that LESS difficult?

    And then it hit me watching that rant about the Petersons. My wife’s mother in law, huge blue square. Her brother, same. The family moved to Denver back when she was a little girl… FROM CALIFORNIA. She’s mentioned that to her family members, SHE is suspect in their eyes. Possibly secret MAGA!!! (I promise you, not so, just a left leaning normie) The family is spiritually Californian.

    And that’s fine, it just means that there are costs to your religion (like to pay more for your housing, time and effort packing, moving, unpacking, expenditures on boxes, packing materials, a moving company…. higher insurance premiums for everything, increased feelings of indignation with increasing frequency, cognitive dissonance… extremely superior and correct expert-aligned exotic cancers…)

    #191357
    phoenixvoice
    Participant

    Congress and the BBB…

    …What Thomas Massie understands intuitively, (and perhaps the 10 holdouts as well,) is that you don’t get change by taking the usual, “tried and true” route — in this case, by compromising on 95% of the bill to get the 5% of what you want. The only way to get change is to go a different route: the “no” vote. “Nos” can be very powerful. When enough “no votes” band together, the BBB can be busted up into multiple bills.

    #191358
    kultsommer
    Participant

    Coincidentally returned, two weeks ago, from Chile and Rapa Nui. Childhood dream fulfilled.
    Five and a half hours to fly from Santiago to land on little dot in the Pacific. Fascinating place!
    As for the Moai transport, older indigenous folks are of an opinion that it was done by using a Mana – a special “Good given power”.

    #191359
    Topcat
    Participant

    @jb-hb

    Liked your take on ‘cheap’ labor.

    Spot on.

    No one in the USSA has had an honest Adult debate on cheap labor, especially cheap migrant labor like ever

    Both parties, the Rethugs and the Demonrats have wealthy donors who benefit enormously from migrant labor, illegal or legal, doesn’t matter.

    Trumptard’s ICE is under-staffed and at the rate they are deporting it will take DECADES to make a dent in the 20 million+ ‘illegal migrant’ numbers. It’s in the hundreds of thousands deported not the millions.

    Trumptard lies about everything including cheap migrant labor. His Class loves it.

    ICE is a puppet show for the Dumbasses

    I just saw an estimate saying there were actually closer to 50 million ‘illegals’ depending on your definition in the USSA, accumulated over generations.

    Upper Middleclass: OMG, who will nanny my offspring, and pick my lettuce and clean my commode!

    The USSA will Never out manufacture China. Like never ever. It’s too late to catch up.

    Not with cheap labor, not with ‘educated’ labor, not with nothing.

    The only purpose the USSA has for the rest of the world, it’s raison d’être is to CONSUME manufactured goods, not to make them.

    The USA MIC is a pitiful manufacturing grift, not a real industrial base.

    Multi billion dollar aircraft carriers that can be sent the the bottom of the ocean with a single cheap hypersonic missile.

    The F-35 Lardbucket that needs dozens of hours of maintenance to fly for one hour.

    M-1 Abrams tanks the Russians use for target practice.

    Himars that were made obsolete in months by Russian AD.

    The imaginary “Golden Dome’ AD boondoggle wet dream.

    The list is endless.

    None of it even qualifies as a ‘manufacturing base.’

    And the part about cheap labor stifling innovation rings true.

    Slaves are not entrepreneurs, neither is minimum wages labor.

    Innovation needs a middle class, the USSA has a dying middle class.

    #191360
    Doc Robinson
    Participant

    Easter island statures were “walked” like that in a demonstration done back in 2011, as reported in a National Geographic article, July 2012. I recall reading the article at that time.

    Looking at the many moai abandoned there in various stages of completion, Rapu explained how they were engineered to walk: Fat bellies tilted them forward, and a D-shaped base allowed handlers to roll and rock them side to side. Last year, in experiments funded by National Geographic’s Expeditions Council, Hunt and Lipo showed that as few as 18 people could, with three strong ropes and a bit of practice, easily maneuver a 10-foot, 5-ton moai replica a few hundred yards. In real life, walking miles with much larger moai would have been a tense business. Dozens of fallen statues line the roads leading away from the quarry. But many more made it to their platforms intact.

    https://archive.org/details/if-they-could-only-talk/mode/2up

    #191361
    phoenixvoice
    Participant

    Amex “throuple”

    The most messed up part for me is how, once they got the baby-via-surrogacy that is biologically related to one of them, they left one month-long vacation — without the infant, using 4 weeks of the 20 weeks paid “paternity leave” for vacationing rather than bonding with the infant. Obviously, priorities are misplaced — the children are probably “trophies” rather than beloved projects.

    #191362
    John Day
    Participant

    Head Fakes https://drjohnsblog.substack.com/p/head-fakes

    Simplicius, Russia Launches Largest Drone Swarm of Entire War as Ukraine Gets Forgotten​
    This jumped out at me. Warfare is changing ra[pidly: This now makes multiple F-16s shot down by Geran drones. The problem appears to be they are incapable of locking onto the drone as it has a very small IR signature, so they are being forced to engage the drone at extremely close ranges, which peppers the F-16 with shrapnel after the drone explodes.​ https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/sitrep-62925-russia-launches-largest

    The US has sent the old stockpiles to Ukraine and the new stockpiles to “Israel”, can’t produce weapons quickly, and is running low, so “Israel first”: Simplicius, Major Setback for Ukraine as US Cuts Aid Due to Critical Weapons Shortages
    ​ Politico revealed that the US is reportedly halting supplies of critical weapons systems to Ukraine because the US’ own stockpiles of these have sunk to record lows.​..
    ​..Included among the items being pulled back are missiles for Patriot air defense systems, precision artillery rounds, Hellfire and other missiles that Ukraine launches from its F-16 fighters and drones.
    ​ Note that GMLRS ammo for the HIMARS and 155mm artillery shells are amongst the key systems included, although as of yet I haven’t found any other sources validating these specific claims—rather, they all mention ‘weapons systems’ more ambiguously.​..
    ​..But now, breaking reports claim that the US has dropped back down to a mere 40k per month due to huge production problems:
    ​ The Army recently told Congress that 155mm production currently stands at 40,000/month. This is, of course, a decrease from the 50,000/m LaPlante stated last year.
    ​ We now have a likely explanation for why it fell. The new shell body production facility in Mesquite, TX is massively behind schedule. The first two of three production lines are still not fully completed, and the third is likely to miss its due date.
    ​ The Army has formally notified General Dynamics Ordnance and Tactical Systems that their management of the facility is being reviewed for breach of contract. They have until July 10 to detail how they might be able to get things back on track​.
    ​ As a result, the Army’s Load, Assemble and Pack capacity exceeds their ability to produce the metal parts of the projectiles. Previously there was a stockpile of shell bodies that were being drawn on by the LAP facilities, but those must have been exhausted, so projectile production has now fallen to 40,000 which is what the other metal parts plants can produce. Mesquite’s 3 lines are supposed to produce 10,000 shell bodies each.​..
    ..I had covered the “new” General Dynamics Mesquite factory before, particularly the fact that it was built by Turkey, featuring Turkish CNC lathes and other equipment, and staffed with Turkish workers. It’s not unlike the TSMC factory in Phoenix which was unable to find ‘suitable’ American workers to ably man the production lines. When I first learned of the Turkish sourcing, I immediately had my doubts that this boondoggle “automated” factory would amount to much; now it seems those doubts have been vindicated.​ https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/major-setback-for-ukraine-as-us-cuts

    ​ Russian forces discover cache of Ukrainian chemical drone munitions – FSB
    Moscow has accused Kiev of systematically violating the Chemical Weapons Convention​ https://swentr.site/russia/620814-russian-forces-drone-chemical/

    ​ Baltic Sea’s WW2 chemical legacy demands Russia-NATO cooperation – expert
    Germany has been trying to extract sunken munitions on its own, while Russia has been left out of the loop completely ​
    ​ An estimated 1.6 million tons of wartime ammunition, primarily left by Nazi Germany, are scattered across the seabed of the North and Baltic seas. While most of them are conventional shells, some 40 tons contain deadly chemical agents, such as mustard gas, phosgene, and other compounds. The munitions have been deteriorating over the decades and now pose a hazard to the marine environment​. https://swentr.site/news/620754-baltic-sea-chemical-weapons/

    #191363
    John Day
    Participant

    Iranian cheap-electricity for government Bitcoin mining was much reduced: BOMBING OF IRAN SABOTAGED THEIR BITCOIN MINING OPERATION!​ https://francesleader.substack.com/p/bombing-of-iran-sabotaged-their-bitcoin

    ​Bitcoin is useful to countries under $US sanctions. from 3/21/25: North Korea Becomes Third-Largest Government Bitcoin Holder https://www.fintechweekly.com/magazine/articles/north-korea-becomes-third-largest-bitcoin-holder-after-bybit-hack

    ​ No weapons-grade enrichment in Iran – Foreign Ministry spokesman
    Israel’s claims that Iran has been secretly developing nuclear weapons are false, Esmail Baghaei has said​ https://swentr.site/news/620722-iran-no-weapons-grade-enrichment/

    ​This is a treasure trove of detailed information about the (sometimes almost) “invisible” B-2 bomber and its vast network of complex high-tech life support.
    B-2 vs Iranian Air Defense: Genuine Game Changer or Expensive PR Stunt [i]
    ​ Did the B-2 genuinely change the game in Iran and bring peace through force, or was it just a masterfully orchestrated PR stunt?​
    (Israeli 5th-column sabateurs and spies helped take out Iranian air defenses, and Iran stood down and let B-2s bomb the 3 sites the US notified them of ahead of time, so B-52s would have worked.)​ https://bmanalysis.substack.com/p/b-2-vs-iranian-air-defense-genuine

    ​ British MPs invite deposed shah’s son to promote Iran regime change in parliament
    Pro-Israel Labour and Conservative MPs have organised Monday’s event with the controversial Reza Pahlavi​ https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/deposed-shahs-son-promote-iran-regime-change-uk-parliament-event

    #191364
    John Day
    Participant

    ​ Gaza’s Grassroots Effort to Ensure Humanitarian Aid Reaches Starving Palestinians
    Tribal and community leaders in Gaza are uniting to secure aid convoys after over 500 people have been killed in daily aid massacres.
    ​..Revelations published by Haaretz on Friday that confirmed what Palestinians in Gaza have been saying for the past four weeks—that Israeli soldiers are opening fire on unarmed Palestinians gathering near food distribution sites, even when they posed no threat. In the report, soldiers said Israeli commanders instructed troops to shoot at civilians approaching aid sites before they opened or after they closed—using machine guns, mortars, and grenades. Soldiers described systematic live fire, including from tanks and said the killings weren’t isolated mistakes but part of a pattern dubbed​ “Operation Salted Fish”—the Israeli version of Red Light, Green Light. “We shoot, they run, we shoot again,” one soldier said. “This is our communication.”​ https://www.globalresearch.ca/gaza-grassroots-effort-ensure-humanitarian-aid/5893252

    Israeli lawmakers accuse Netanyahu of trading Gaza war for end to his corruption trial​ https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20250629-israeli-lawmakers-accuse-netanyahu-of-trading-gaza-war-for-end-to-his-corruption-trial/

    ​ Trump says ‘not going to stand’ for Netanyahu’s continued prosecution
    Trump slams Netanyahu’s corruption trial as a ‘witch hunt’, says US won’t tolerate it amid Israel-Iran tensions and ongoing Gaza ceasefire talks.​ https://www.newarab.com/news/trump-says-not-going-stand-netanyahus-prosecution

    Court Cancels Israel PM Netanyahu’s Trial Hearings this Week​ https://english.aawsat.com/world/5159500-court-cancels-israel-pm-netanyahus-trial-hearings-week

    Trump Pivots To Pressuring Israel For New Ceasefire Deal In Gaza​ https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/trump-pivots-pressuring-israel-new-ceasefire-deal-gaza

    #191366
    John Day
    Participant

    Proof that Israel Has Lost the War: “Sizable Portion of Military, Intelligence, Energy, and R&D Facilities Destroyed”. Mike Whitney ​
    ​ Let’s say, some unexpected 9-11-type catastrophe was to take place in the next few weeks that had Iranian fingerprints all over it. And let’s say this false flag was destructive enough that the “usual suspects” on Capitol Hill and the MSM demanded that Trump take immediate action and bomb Iran. If that scenario were to unfold, then wouldn’t it better for Bibi and Trump to be able to point to their recent efforts for resolving the Gaza crisis? Wouldn’t they benefit from the perception (by the public) that they had been actively pursuing peace but were unexpectedly derailed by Iran’s actions?
    ​ Indeed, they would.
    ​ Of course, this is all just speculation; I don’t know what’s going to happen. But when you have hardliners like Katz, National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich and countless others in Netanyahu’s looneybin government who believe that Israel must “keep the sword raised” to ensure Iran does not recover its military capabilities (Smotrich), then a prudent person will prepare for the worst.
    ​ Keep in mind, a number of Israeli leaders have repeatedly stated that Netanyahu should “finish the job”, which is an intentionally vague term that refers to the use of a nuclear weapon.
    ​ In order to determine the probability of such an event, we must ask ourselves whether a government that justifies the killing and forced starvation of millions of women and children in their charge, has the moral scruples to oppose the use of the world’s most lethal weapon?​ https://www.globalresearch.ca/heres-proof-that-israel-lost-the-war-iran-destroyed-a-sizable-portion-of-israels-military-intelligence-industrial-energy-and-rd-facilities-mike-whitney/5893172

    ​ Israel kills 72 in Gaza, including hungry Palestinians waiting for food
    Calls for a ceasefire grow as US and Israeli leaders discuss a potential truce amid escalating violence in Gaza.​ https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/6/29/israeli-air-strikes-kill-dozens-in-gaza-amid-worsening-humanitarian-crisis

    ​ US contractors fire live rounds as desperate Palestinians seek food in Gaza
    Videos and testimony reveal chaotic scenes and alleged misconduct at the controversial American-run aid sites as Gaza reels under siege and starvation.​ https://trt.global/world/article/2a5e1859d0ce

    Israeli Military Orders New Evacuations in Northern Gaza​ https://english.aawsat.com/arab-world/5159408-israeli-military-orders-new-evacuations-northern-gaza

    Starvation and Anarchy Grip Gaza as Israel Tightens Siege​, Gaza Trapped: Two Million Civilians Caught in Blockade and Chaos​ https://english.pravda.ru/world/163035-gaza-crisis-israel-blockade/

    #191367
    John Day
    Participant

    US keeps Gaza truce details secret, voices support for Israel amid West Bank annexation calls
    State Department spokesperson Tammy Bruce refuses to reveal modalities involved in Trump’s Gaza truce plan and reiterates Washington “stands with Israel” as senior Israeli ministers call for annexation of occupied West Bank.​ https://trt.global/world/article/83ca00104c5f

    ​Puppet rulers can get-things-done: Syria could drop demand that Israel return the Golan Heights – media
    Earlier, the IDF attacked the country, claiming to be protecting the Druze population​ https://swentr.site/news/620818-syria-golan-heights-claim/

    ​ Alex Krainer with financial primer (Prepare yourself): Why governments can’t balance their books – EVER!
    Without a radical reform of the monetary system, deficit spending and accumulation of public debts will continue to accelerate regardless of who is in power. The problem is systemic.​ https://alexkrainer.substack.com/p/why-governments-cant-balance-their

    Trump Vs. Musk: “Big, Beautiful Bill” Feud Sparks Overnight Political Firestorm​ https://www.zerohedge.com/political/trump-vs-musk-big-beautiful-bill-feud-sparks-overnight-political-firestorm

    ​ Trump says DOGE should investigate Musk​, The Tesla and SpaceX CEO has received more US government subsidies “than any human being in history,” the president claimed​ https://swentr.site/news/620816-musk-trump-tesla-subsidies/

    #191368
    John Day
    Participant

    Elon Musk Backing Thomas Massie Against Trump-AIPAC Challenger​ https://www.informationliberation.com/?id=64973

    Not So Fast: Massie Announces He Has Enough Votes To Block ‘One Big Beautiful Bill’ In The House​ https://www.zerohedge.com/political/house-gop-faces-rebellion-johnson-scrambles-salvage-trump-tax-bill

    On The Cusp: House Democrats Stall ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ For Hours After GOP Votes To Advance​ https://www.zerohedge.com/political/cusp-house-democrats-stall-big-beautiful-bill-hours-after-gop-votes-advance

    After ‘8 Hours Of Hogwash’ From Rep. Jeffries, House Republicans Pass Trump’s ‘Big Beautiful Bill’​ https://www.zerohedge.com/political/cusp-house-democrats-stall-big-beautiful-bill-hours-after-gop-votes-advance

    Japan Finally Admits Its Carmakers Have Been Paying All Trump Tariff Costs As Trade Talks Collapse​ https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/japan-finally-admits-its-carmakers-have-been-paying-all-trump-tariff-costs-trade-talks

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