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    Pablo Picasso Girl Before A Mirror 1932 • New US Attack Wave On Iran Begins In Overnight Hours(ZH) • Rand Paul Delivers a Cinematic Indictment of Fauc
    [See the full post at: Debt Rattle July 30 2026]

    #246148
    Dr. D
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    ThePlan

    Dr. Fauci x100: Then DO something.

    Answer to the 5th = Yes, actually, it does infer to everyone that you’re guilty AF. That’s why people don’t use it though they should. It exists so the State doesn’t torture a confession out of you, which they still do. So this is a 3rd way.

    Consider in Scottish law, there are also three: Innocent, Guilty, and Not Proven. These might be useful distinctions, but we flatten them down into Hegelian Dialectic. The Social engineers know this and it works wonderfully to them to A / B. If you’re not MAGA you’re a Blue Hair, there is no middle, moderate, moral, third path. Or two, or three, or 100. But that’s a rare case where we allow three: Admitting, Denying, and not speaking at all, pleading the 5th. …Where everyone can socially and reputationally see you’re guilty, but not legally. Both are separate, and both matter.

    • War Pause Holds, Trump Vows To Destroy Pickaxe Mountain If No Deal (ZH)

    What is this “Pickaxe mountain” thingie? We just forgot to bomb it?

    Suggestion: we don’t know WHAT-ALL Iran has been up to. So we bomb every mountain BUT that one. Then as all the sites are cracked and crippled, they retreat to the bunker “we forgot”. Exactly the place we directed the enemy to be. Now we have far greater certainty ALL things are inside it that before, where they were all over the country. Then we bomb it.

    This is how Iran is controlling the war with oil crashing to $80 and we turn the war on and off at will the day before the Congressional 60 days. They are winning which is why they have no air defense and we’re flying sopwith camels over the whole southern front. Yeah, no.

    Okay, man. They hit nothing in the U.S. at all, so no one here notices. People who hate Trump still do, to everyone else the war is just abstract and pointless.

    “Mediators Say US-Iran ‘Close’ To ‘Resurrecting’ Failed MoU Deal (ZH)

    They sign with the CIVILIAN government then someone from the IRGC pays them a little visit. Then we get their names and kill them. Step by step, fewer people to threaten official legal and elected officials!

    “• US Forces Block Attempted Iranian Surprise Attack (Catherine Salgado)

    Just a little bookkeeping here, WHY are we at war with Iran? Um, let’s take the other side:

    IRAN HAS DECLARED WAR ON THE UNITED STATES.

    Now of course they officially declared an active war on us 47 years ago, and we thought they were a mosquito and didn’t do anything about it all that time, but the point’s the same. So when a nation legally declares war on you, what are you supposed to do? Legally or actually?

    Well we chose to do nothing mostly all that time, and fine, I agree. But that didn’t work so well (insert 47 years of details here). But legally, THEY declared war on US.

    Do we ignore that for 100 years? 200 years? What?

    Frozen Conflict: British special. Korea. India. Soviet Wall. Cuba. Etc. Then you’re at-war-but-not-at-war BOTH, all the time. Which is how narcissistic sociopaths function. “Why you hitting yourself? How dare you?”

    So it’s appropriate Khomeni is both alive and dead and they like it better that way. Since normal people can’t conceive of this, take it as their calling card. IF you see this: they’re evil. It’s this group.

    Ritter is masterfully Not Noticing, where history starts Jan 20, 2025. Why did we bomb Iran in Feb? They declared war on us. We didn’t do that, even now. They did. Come to the table and negotiate and then you can withdraw the declaration of war we never had. It’s a thought, I’m not blind to what’s going on, but we’re One-side-onlying here.

    “Khamenei’s regime just executed several more freedom protesters”

    And so does the U.S., all the time. And?

    Also, what Khamenei? Is he or any of them alive? Esp Nutsy? Stop just assuming this because if it’s not him, it’s his stuffed corpse and two jaw wires from the IRGC?

    Meirsheimer: “Trump is looking for an offramp”. Uh-huh. In March, April, May, June, July, and now August. Huh. Boy he sure is bad at offramps! It’s almost like he was never actually looking for one at all!

    Napolitano: “Isn’t if obvious that the U.S. has lost this war, but still having 98% of the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marines?”
    Meirshiemer, “Obviously. And that is why the U.S. stock and bond markets are at record highs and our bond markets are selling like hotcakes. Because that’s what “Losing” and “Collapse” means.” Ah. Maybe you missed that in their interview. Also, because Iran won is the reason we haven’t a slightest effort in blockading them entirely. That’s what “Winning” means: it means you have no power to stop a blockade and the other side is still fighting. Your inflation is 3,000% and the losing side inflation is 3%.

    Etc. Very tired of saying it. Any takers. No one addresses this, these are some of the very few hard facts we know.

    He then continues with Saudi being a nuclear state which is false. That is not at all on offer, only on Media headlines, because they are incapable of “Simple literacy” and “Using a Phone”. Go look into it. But for example you think they want to build a 3 Mile Island 10 miles from Iran’s Ballistic missiles which they promise to use against Sunni heretics? I don’t think so.

    Also missed, because it is true and the media would burst into flames if they told the truth, Trump bitch slaps Netinyahu about a dozen more times this week THE DAY BEFORE the visit, saying Israel is no help, they’re dumb, they can only dream of having any intel we don’t already have.

    Turkey is a great, strong country, one we actually support, and they hate Israel, and Trump approves of this. Look it up.

    Hmmm…that seems to be against the narrative. No wonder they’re incapable of perceiving it. They can see nothing but pre-sumptions from 1994, when they first learned and haven’t updated their map a single bit since.

    They’re talking about Trump’s pressure, pincer campaign of markets etc, when oil is $85, let’s say $90. What pressure?

    What. Pressure. ???

    I see no pressure on any side, not from the public, the midterms, the markets, other nations, the gulf, nowhere. Not even Russia, China, anywhere. What. Pressure.

    This is a prerequisite, a presumption, taken for granted by Iran.Press.Tv, and Pepe. It made sense! Normally that would have happened, and I’m sure they planned on it, their strategy pivots on this.

    Except all are false. None of these are happening. Trump’s ratings are unmoved. Democrats are plummeting. Gas is high, but tolerable and steady. Markets are fine (lots of hazardous churn for other reasons like AI), but US Bonds and Dollar are stellar.

    THEY JUST SAY THINGS. They just make them up. What they planned to be true in 2026, they just SAY is true now, when it isn’t. Meaning – even worse – THEY HAVE NO PLAN. No Plan B, C, D, as one should. Plan A failed so…we do Plan A again! Like in Ukraine!!!

    Then it doesn’t work and they do it again!

    Day after day after day. The midterms are not in danger. Trump is under no pressure. I’m not sure he cares if they ever act. President Vance can keep it up 10 more years. If there is any pressure, then to the contrary, like President Putin, the pressure is from the MIC that he isn’t bombing and invading ENOUGH! That’s the pressure he has to navigate, from those fiends.
    Fox News for one, demand Trump have a land invasion hourly as “The only way to win.” Ah. Thanks. I’ll put that in the consideration that you’ve been wrong about everything you’ve said since “They’ll greet us with flowers” in 2002, Fox. But my point is, where is the REAL pressure, not the Twitter pressure. I see none.

    So thanks to being under no pressure for anything and not in danger of anyone, Trump is looking for that off ramp to surrender again, and the keys to the White House will be handed over, the Mullahs will be directing the Pentagon’s forces now. The American people will love and accept this.

    Twitter is not reality; didn’t realize I had to say this.

    “Gilbert Doctorow on what Iran might do to Ukraine in retaliation, and how that might be coordinated with Russia:

    Stop. Think. If you were London, and losing all over, this is a trap door to get things moving again. Assume “Iran” (which one?) is run by London. London needs this world war. Unf Russia also knows all that and refuses, so they won’t miss this either. But as a Hail Mary – and they are running out of air daily – this has merit. Expand the two wars into one world war, just as planned!

    …Except every other part of “The Plan” isn’t going to plan.

    “Martin Armstrong asserts: Japan Is the First Domino in the Sovereign Debt Crisis”

    This is probably true and has been predicted. It also stands to reason. Question is, who is positioned to ride the tiger?

    “.The Bank of Japan is trapped.” They’ve said this since Die Hard, in 1987. Also that we’re trapped since 1971, 1979, 1987, 1994, 1999, 2001, 2008, and now. Okay man. Your timing sucks.

    Watch “Scott Ritter. Iran Strike US Airbase”

    O. M. G. Do I have to? Isn’t being wrong about everything for months . And months. And months. And months. proof enough? Don’t I get a pass if this guy is as correct as AI-generated gibberish?

    Remember, Iran sunk our aircraft carrier, Trump landed 1M men, and when that didn’t work, he nuked Tehran. I mean, it was last month, surely you remember.

    Thanks to Ritter, I changed all my investments since the market crashed and the USD is 30c, while Iran is now the currency of Switzerland. And that only makes sense since they’ve annexed Oman and called a truce with Saudi Arabia, who is co-habiting Mecca with them.

    Ritter: Interview: FeelzFeel, Feely-Feelz. Moralizing, Guilt, Innuendo. Anger, Hate, HATE!!!!. I hate, do you hate!?! Yeah I hate so much I must be right! Hey, did you know leaders of nations R bad m’kay? Saudi Arabia are uniquely corrupt, while the US is ALSO uniquely corrupt. Ah. So first among equals, and Iran is uniquely moral and all ‘round swell guys. We’ve seen this for years! Iran is well known to be mother Theresa worldwide!

    Ritter: Iran can lift their pinky and Saudi will cease to exist. But despite being arch enemies for 1,000 years, somehow never have, and not now either, despite the war. In fact, they can’t seem to hit anything. Why?

    All Saudi refineries are burning, can be destroyed in a couple hours, yet oil is $85, as every trader on planet earth is wrong, but Ritter is right. No facts, details, etc as were the refineries and ships hit with paper smoke bombs again? Or real weapons? Ritter neither asks nor cares. Markets seem to tho.

    Saudi is going to collapse. For not reason. Then be run…by nobody. Iraq he says. Which is 100 miles away, across a sea, a smaller country, and is itself in chaos. So I’ll put that on the board as a Ritter prediction: Saudi is collapsing as we speak, it will be run by no one at all. Or Iraq’s central government will occupy and run it. Full points either way.

    Very smart customer. Everyone knows this will definitely happen. And Iran will be the sole power there, because…all the other nations have ceased to exist, he says? Probably out to Egypt, Libya? Pakistan also vanishes? Same rules, same plan. Go ahead and listen.

    He then again hypothesizes the U.S. land invasion which not a single asset supports. We have made no moves whatsoever. He also knows exactly how many missiles we have down to the one. And also, while saying he’s confused, doesn’t understand what’s going on, and Trump seems insane to him, ALSO he knows exactly what our internal war strategy is. Ah. Re-read that sentence. That’s why we listen to him, because he’s so frustrated and being unable to understand anything that he’s furious and losing his mind.

    …Instead of asking questions. Instead looking. Instead of listening. Why.

    “I always listen to people who are over emotional and losing their mind; it makes me much more selective.” — Spinal Tap

    “War On Iran: – U.S.’ Missile Defense Stock Is Severely Depleted
    These numbers by CSIS, which show what is left in the stockpile of U.S. air-defense missiles, explain Iran’s current strategy.”

    Don’t you remember? We ran out of Missiles during the 12 Day war a year ago and have nothing left. We are disassembling washing machines for their chips and rare earth. That’s why we have no air defense and Iran is flying their copters over us daily.

    “Patriot missiles are down to some 800.”

    And you believe them? Here’s an organization that’s failed every audit ever tried and they not only know how many down to each one how many missile we have, we openly share this with the media, sending a fax to every hostile nation on earth as they count down. 799. 798. Yup. That makes sense. When has the Military ever lied? We’re landing in Europe in Calais, not Omaha in Normandy. Trust us. There is no SR71 Blackbird, that’s a conspiracy theory.

    “The US ran out of targets it could reach without risking valuable aircraft, CENTCOM “

    See what the meta-reality is in that sentence. That up to now we are bombing everything with no risk to aircraft. That’s how you know Iran is winning, that we can bomb them freely and daily with no risk. The other meta-conclusion is that if you want to risk some aircraft, we still have some targets. 3) We also don’t know how much risk. 5% more? 55%? 99%?

    “Now go ahead and rate Socialism and Capitalism.”

    They both suck but one sucks less than everything else that’s been tried.

    #246149
    Michael Reid
    Participant

    The deaf, dumb and blind Empire of Piracy

    Pepe Escobar

    July 29, 2026
    Imperial deafness, dumbness and blindness is set to worsen.

    Join us on Telegram, X, and VK.

    Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su

    The ways Iran is dismantling the entire American military ecosystem across West Asia with an extremely disciplined strategy are something to behold.

    The whole CENTCOM support infrastructure is (devastating) fair game: from costly early warning radars to full air defense systems; from hangars to logistics hubs; from fuel and ammunition storages to forward operating bases; from naval and maritime surveillance assets to intel collection and communications nodes.

    There’s already a Greatest Hits playing all across the spectrum. Featuring, for instance, Tower 22 – which supports ops in al-Tanf; Muwaffaq Salti Air Base – which hosts U.S. aircraft for multiple ops; Erbil in Iraqi Kurdistan, which supports intel and special ops; Bahrain, which as everyone knows hosts the U.S. Navy’s Fifth Fleet HQ; Kuwait – a massive logistics and staging area; Qatar – which hosts the forward HQ of CENTCOM and the largest U.S. air base in West Asia.

    Hits on all these nodes relentlessly undermine the myth of American power projection. New rules determine these nodes are essentially being rendered deaf, dumb and blind. Unlike The Who’s classic, Persia is now the kid in the (military) candy store, playing a mean pinball against the Empire of Chaos, Lies, Plunder and Piracy.

    Iran knows where everything is located – to the millimeter. No need to go for flashy photo ops Shock’n Awe-style monopolizing the news cycle. What matters is the Chinese torture of steadily degrading the enemy’s capabilities; the strategy is painfully methodical, and painfully precise.

    No wonder the Empire of Piracy is catatonic. What to do when your massively expensive and nearly irreplaceable sensing and monitoring hardware is being reduced to ashes? When your screens go deep dark? When the arrogant imperial confidence of the entire chain of command is being torpedoed in real time?

    The Iranian Way of War is a sophisticated mix that may eventually be studied in Western military academies. All logically interconnected – from destruction of enemy support infrastructure to steady degradation of intel, surveillance, and reconnaissance capabilities; from attrition of air defense and interceptor inventories to widespread disruption of logistics.

    And all that is supremely cost effective – but certainly not for the attacking Empire, as every (malfunctioning) Patriot costs millions of dollars, and simply cannot defend scores of different locations simultaneously.

    In a nutshell: this is how a systematic degradation of the whole regional architecture that allows the U.S. and its vassals to project military power across West Asia looks like. Played out in front of the whole Global South. The manual is available for all, live, in real time.

    Everything is running out

    Iran’s precision, restraint and reach is shutting up the whole vociferating spectacle emanating from the Empire of Narratives – as Iranian missiles and drones relentless strike fighter jets, Black Hawks, data centers (as in the Amazon central hub in Bahrain), logistics depots, power plants – and more.

    The Global South just needs to check the satellite images of proverbial craters across Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain and UAE. And Iran hasn’t even started yet. Were Iran to obliterate Qatar’s remaining LNG trains, that would leave most of the planet with no LNG from Doha for at least a decade – not to mention the helium for making microchips.

    The massive humiliation of hitting and disabling one of those multibillion-dollar sitting ducks is being kept for the appropriate time. And as everyone knows, Iran runs the clock, and time is on its side.

    None of that, of course, minimizes the risks of the escalation ladder; and we are still in the middle of what could become the Mother of All Escalation Ladders.

    But then, suddenly, the imperial machine stops – and CENTCOM refrains from bombing Iran for a few days. At a closed meeting in Washington last Friday, someone with an IQ over room temperature (J.D. Vance? Gen. Caine? Both?) dared to warn neo-Crassus that his Mother of all Escalations was destined to fail.

    And that was due to a bunch of obvious reasons; from no Patriots available to widespread Gulf petromonarchy panic; from the risks to the global economy to a massive oil crisis just around the corner.

    Does that mean that neo-Crassus will return to the MoU that he signed and then bombed? Of course not. Pln B may look more like intensifying “economic pressure” via extra embargoes and sanctions, as recommend by the real estate Talleyrand of the times, Kushner, the Epstein lite family “advisor”.

    So it’s not only global oil reserves – and the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) that are running out. THAADs, Patriots, JASSMs, Tomahawks, everything is running out.

    Hit the Ansarallah groove

    And then there is Ansarallah and the Yemeni Armed Forces – now in full flight drawing Saudi Arabia into a suicidal escalation after breaking the equation of unilateral air deterrence.

    The cost of any confrontation between Ansarallah and Riyadh spells Devastation Row for the empire: the toxic double tap of turbo-charging oil prices plus the proverbial joint “disruption” of navigation and trade in the Strait of Hormuz and the Bab al-Mandab. There’s no way the Saudis can escape this strategic trap – which they brought on themselves.

    The last time the oil refining behemoth Abqaiq – handling as much as 7% of global crude processing – burned in 2019, Riyadh surrendered to Sana’a in no time.

    Aramco has already suspended operations in Abqaiq. Translation: at least 7 million barrels of oil a day off the global market.

    Even empty tankers headed to Yanbu port in the Red Sea are denied passage by Yemen through the Bab al-Mandab. Couple that with the East-West pipeline under de facto strangulation, and Saudi Arabia is totally imobilized, no matter the torrents of spin.

    Yemen hit where it really hurts. Saudi Arabia has only four main oil terminals, and ten main refineries. Apart from Jizan – whose fuel storage tanks were already set ablaze – they are grouped into three extremely convenient target zones. Yemen can easily incinerate the western part, the Iraqi resistance the eastern part.

    Yemen has all it takes to cripple the East-West pipeline corridor/Yanbu oil terminal loading plus the Suez canal detour with just a few ballistic missiles, saving their best and their ISR for whatever may come next.

    In the bigger picture, the Russia-China-Iran interlocking strategic Eurasia partnerships remain in full effect. That’s Russia-China in practice supporting the Axis of Resistance.

    Iran uses the Russian Murmansk system – inexorably jamming GPS and blinding U.S./Israeli missiles.

    Iran also uses Chinese Beidou – the equivalent of GPS, unjammable by the Americans and rendering precision to the centimeter to Iranian missiles and drones.

    And Iran uses the Russian Kometa: electronic chips equipping missiles and drones wreaking havoc on American electronic warfare.

    Meanwhile, in the diplomatic front, Tehran rejected every other U.S. ultimatum. Iran’s Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, Kazem Gharibabadi, revealed there have been indirect talks with Washington in both Islamabad and Muscat – also confirmed by Pakistani mediators.

    Team Neo-Crassus even demanded, in Muscat, that the U.S. should keep “managing” the southern route of the Strait of Hormuz. Tehran refused: it’s back to the MoU or nothing. Imperial deafness, dumbness and blindness is set to worsen.

    The deaf, dumb and blind Empire of Piracy

    #246150
    Michael Reid
    Participant

    Why the U.S. Military is ‘Earth’s Greatest Enemy’ (w/ Abby Martin) | The Chris Hedges Report

    #246151
    tboc
    Participant

    spending money i am told we do not have to kill human beings for a purpose indisdernible.in a display of power that is an affront to human decency

    the citizens of the US will eat the sandwich even when there is no bread.
    Rand Paul and Josh Hawley – who coulda knowed?

    when i look at my nation today the parable of the wise and foolish builder comes to mind. The Spock boomers can fuck up a wet dream

    the image at the top of the day’s post is an example of gutter snipe mentality

    #246154
    D Benton Smith
    Participant

    Everybody has heard the shopworn old cautionary observation, “Live by the sword, die by the sword,” which is nothing more than a more a picturesque way of saying that “The wages of sin are death”, “Fuck Around and Find Out,” or “Karma will getcha if you don’t watch out.”

    Far fewer (far, far, far FAR fewer) have thunk that thought far enough through to encounter the SECOND HALF OF THE SAME THOUGHT, which is that picking up the sword in the first place is proof that the swordsman is already dead. That’s why the sword looks like a solution to a problem to them. They are DEAD, and so they do not see that the LIVING thing they seek to kill with the sword is no longer accessible to them. Life has moved on but they cannot see that life because it is invisible to them. They, themselves, are no longer able to recognize its presence in others with the same clarity and poignancy and value that they see it in themselves. That’s why they don’t see the life in the people they wish to kill with the sword. So so tragic.

    So think about that the next time you consider the advisability of using physical force to change somebody else’s mind. Ask yourself if the victory you seek is worth the price you are about to pay. Is it worth dying for?

    #246157
    zerosum
    Participant

    Iran on the attack against US bases in Jordan and KSA picking on Iraq
    Plus news and updates from Yemen and Egypt.
    Ismaele
    Jul 29, 2026

    https://geopolitiq.substack.com/p/iran-on-the-attack-against-us-bases
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    #246158
    zerosum
    Participant

    The United States is the aggressor.

    The root causes of the current situation are clear: The United States’ ongoing unlawful actions pose a serious threat to regional stability, freedom of navigation, and the security of the Persian Gulf and the Strait of Hormuz.

    The Islamic Republic of Iran has exercised, and will continue to exercise, its inherent right of self-defence, in accordance with Article 51 of the Charter of the United Nations7, to protect its people and to defend and safeguard its sovereignty, territorial integrity, and vital national interests against US acts of aggression.


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    #246159
    charles
    Participant

    I think I see some trends. Zionism and Jihadism are neither any better than the other. The US and Iran are neither any better than the other. And now that Russia has filed against Pavel Durov, Russia and Europe are neither any better than the other. Of course these are all the elites of their domains. In all those domains the populations are better than their elites.

    #246161
    zerosum
    Participant

    ROUND AND ROUND WE GO.
    Tariffs increases the cost of all goods and services.
    Tariffs increases the cost of imports and exports.
    Tariffs increase the cost of inflation.
    Energy costs are also increased.
    The US tariffs are increasing the cost of energy that they import.

    #246162
    Michael Reid
    Participant

    Nima R. Alkhorshid: BREAKING: U.S. Launches Strikes on Iran

    #246163
    Michael Reid
    Participant

    Alex Krainer: The Inevitable Just Happened: MASSIVE Middle East Shifts

    #246164
    Michael Reid
    Participant

    Michael Hudson: What the Media Missed: Iran’s Masterplan to Break US Hegemony

    #246165
    Michael Reid
    Participant

    Pepe Escobar: US Bombs Iran & Iraq: ‘All Bets Are Off’ as Middle East Braces for War

    #246166
    Michael Reid
    Participant
    #246167
    DarkMatter
    Participant

    Fauci lied in the hearing every time he said ” I respectfully decline to answer.”

    #246168
    Michael Reid
    Participant

    Ukraine War Narrative COLLAPSES. Europe Starts Panicking | Ian Proud

    #246169
    Michael Reid
    Participant

    Alastair Crooke: Iran DESTROYS THREE F-35s as US Attacks BACKFIRE, Trump in PANIC MODE

    #246170
    WES
    Participant

    Ukraine:

    It looks to me that the Ukrainian military leaders are shifting away from somewhat rational trained military leaders, toward more hardline irrational ones, who’s main qualification is their utter loyalty to the Nazi cause.

    This shift indicates the military situation in the Ukraine, is now becoming ever more desparate, by the month.

    In time the desparation, will become weekly, then daily, then hourly.

    In the end, the Nazi hardliners might seize control away from the west as the Ukraine spirals hopelessly into it’s final agonies of organizèd military defeat.

    Then all that will be left are cells of terrorism/gorilla war/civil war?

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    #246172
    Michael Reid
    Participant

    MIDDLE EAST IN DEPTH W/LAITH MAROUF – IRAQ, YEMEN, & SAUDI ARABIA FIGHT AS MORE IRAN MISSILES FLY

    #246173
    Michael Reid
    Participant

    WARRIOR UPDATE W/SCOTT RITTER – EPISODE 121 – UKRAINE GETS LANDLOCKED – MIDDLE EAST EXPLODES

    #246174
    Michael Reid
    Participant

    THE WIT & WISDOM OF MARK SLEBODA – IRAN PUMMELS ENEMIES – ODESSA CLOSED FOR BUSINESS

    #246177
    Michael Reid
    Participant

    LARRY C JOHNSON – IS THE DEPT OF WAR COVERING UP THE TRUE NUMBER OF CASUALTIES?

    #246185
    Michael Reid
    Participant

    Larry Johnson: Iran’s Two-Front Attack – U.S. Bases Hit & Ships Bombed

    #246189
    Michael Reid
    Participant

    John Mearsheimer: Ukraine Is Landlocked & Donbas Enters Endgame

    #246191
    zerosum
    Participant

    https://www.cnbc.com/2026/07/30/egypt-drone-gas-ship-damietta-port-iran-war.html?msockid=11679b2d76e964cf128f8c8d772e65f2

    Who and why

    Egypt says drone hit two ships at Mediterranean port as attacks on energy infrastructure widen

    Araghchi calls Egypt key regional partner, warns of Israeli ‘plots’

    Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said Thursday that Egypt was an important regional friend and partner whose security was of utmost importance to Tehran.

    “We must all be vigilant against Israeli plots and false-flag operations designed to undermine regional peace,” Araghchi said in a post on X

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    #246193
    John Day
    Participant

    Two California Democrats are moving to outlaw AI-generated campaign ads at the federal level, just days after a Republican rival for the governor’s mansion used the technology to hammer their party.
    Sen. Adam Schiff (D-CA) and Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) on Monday reintroduced the AI Ads Act, which would make it a federal violation to use artificial intelligence to impersonate candidates or committees in federal races. https://www.zerohedge.com/political/see-hilarious-ai-ads-furious-california-democrats-want-banned

    #246195
    Michael Reid
    Participant

    IRAN BOMBS U.S. LNG TANKER IN EGYPT, CIA AND MOSSAD SEARCH FOR MOJTABA – w/ Larry Johnson

    #246196
    Michael Reid
    Participant

    Russia for the First Time downed an Enemy F-16 with an ‘R-73’ missile launched by a ‘GERANIUM’ drone

    #246197
    zerosum
    Participant

    Spain provides legal pathways for refugees and asylum seekers, while also implementing a mass regularisation program for undocumented migrants to integrate them into society.

    What happened today.

    Spain provides legal pathways for refugees and asylum seekers, while also implementing a mass regularisation program for undocumented migrants to integrate them into society.
    Spain did not announce a new policy today about legal pathways or mass regularisation — but today’s major Spain‑migration news is a large-scale surge of migrants entering the enclaves of Ceuta and Melilla, triggering emergency responses and political pressure. Your statement about Spain providing legal pathways and running a mass regularisation program describes Spain’s broader policy stance, but today’s events were about a sudden influx at the border.

    🟦 Flash Update: What happened today in Spain (July 30, 2026)
    Thousands of migrants crossed into Spain’s North African enclave of Ceuta from Morocco, prompting Spain to deploy military reinforcements and declare a humanitarian emergency.

    2,000–3,000 people reportedly crossed today alone.

    Ceuta’s regional president declared an “absolute humanitarian and social emergency.”

    Spain sent 60 troops and additional police to stabilize the border.

    Migrants arrived by swimming, using inflatable devices, or breaking through gates.

    Nine bodies were found today, adding to 60 recent deaths linked to crossings.

    Melilla also saw clashes at the Beni Ansar crossing.

    Spain’s Interior Minister is traveling to Ceuta tomorrow to coordinate the response.

    🟧 Context: Spain’s broader migration policy (your statement)
    Your description matches Spain’s long-term policy direction, not today’s event:

    1. Legal pathways for refugees & asylum seekers
    Spain has been expanding humanitarian visas, asylum processing capacity, and protections — especially after recent Supreme Court rulings limiting summary returns at sea.

    2. Mass regularisation program for undocumented migrants
    Spain is currently running one of Europe’s largest regularisation schemes:

    1.27 million applications submitted by undocumented migrants seeking legal status.

    Government originally expected 500,000, but demand doubled.

    Final deadline was June 30, 2026.

    Over 1 million applications confirmed by the government.

    This program aims to integrate long-term residents into society and reduce exploitation in Spain’s large informal labor market.

    🟩 How today’s events connect to Spain’s policies
    Spain’s open regularisation program and legal pathways coexist with strict border enforcement at Ceuta and Melilla — the EU’s only land borders with Africa.
    Today’s surge appears linked to:

    People‑smuggling networks exploiting recent court rulings.

    Migrants attempting to reach EU territory before enforcement tightens.

    Humanitarian desperation in Morocco and West Africa.

    Spain’s government is trying to balance:

    Human rights protections,

    Legal integration, and

    Border control during sudden influxes.
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    Michael Reid
    Participant

    BREAKING:Pravin Sawhney-Heavy US Strikes Iran Just BLEW UP the HORMUZ 50-50 Deal,Here’s Why?

    #246201
    Michael Reid
    Participant

    Russia Huge Strike Across Ukraine Great Destruction; US Without Patriots Ukraine No AD; Dobropiliya

    #246202
    zerosum
    Participant

    It’s not called selling. It’s called trading.

    China has begun the largest transfer of military cargo to Iran to date. 16 Chinese military transport aircraft carrying weapons have landed in Iran in the last 50 hours!

    https://t.me/AussieCossack/50430

    #246203

    Our old buddy Chase Hughes talks about the smart phone.
    You know all this.

    The point about dreams- for those of you with phones, is this true? You never dream you are using your phone?

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