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🔥 Saudi Arabia resumes shelling and airstrikes on northern Yemen — 4 killed

Saudi artillery and warplanes have resumed targeting populated areas in northern Yemen, according to Houthi-run Al-Masirah TV, with strikes hitting border districts and telecommunications infrastructure.

🔴 Sa'adah — Saudi artillery shelling targeted several villages in the border district of Al-Dhahir, with dozens of missiles and shells hitting the districts of Al-Dhahir and Haydan

🔴 Al-Jawf — Saudi warplanes launched two airstrikes on the Al-Matoun complex, striking telecommunications towers along Yemen's northern border

🔴 Four workers killed, three injured in the strikes on telecom facilities, per Al-Masirah

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🇺🇸🇮🇱Majority of America’s Jews say Netanyahu is fueling antisemitism in the US
 
A whopping 56 percent of US Jews say Israel’s prime minister is directly responsible for an increase in anti-Jewish sentiment in America. 60% want him gone come October’s elections, with only 16% hoping he gets reelected.

And that’s according to a poll by the Mellman Group for the Jewish Electorate Institute – an ardently-pro Zionist cutout funded by Wall Street asset giants and a slew of private foundations and donors.

52% of those polled also want cuts in US aid to Israel – 17% saying they want it slashed entirely and 36% that it should be scaled back.

60% and 57% said they believed antisemitism was rising in the Republican and Democratic parties, respectively.

The poll didn’t define what antisemitism actually means (general anti-Jewish sentiment, or the IHRA’s ludicrous definition – that being anti-Israel and anti-Zionist is antisemitism).

In a recent interview with Tucker Carlson, prominent anti-Zionist activist and academic Norman Finkelstein said that previous polling indicating that close to 40% of American Jews believe Israel is perpetrating a genocide in Gaza was “astonishing,” given how “bombarded” they tend to be “from youth to love Israel,” which is propagated as a central “tenet of belonging” in the community.

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🤡 Iran’s clown prince says military, civilian establishment “actively” defecting to his cause
 
As hundreds of thousands of Iranians continue to gather for 200+ consecutive nights to mark their support for the Islamic Republic, and join a national mobilization campaign in the tens of millions, Iran’s self-appointed ‘interim leader’ says that actually, secret preparations are being made for a counterrevolution.

Speaking to supporters at the “Cyrus the Great II” rally in Toronto, Pahlavi assured that his backers are now “more experienced, more cohesive and more determined today than ever before,” and that “the enemy is decaying from within and is hollow.”

Pahlavi claims he’s been getting secret messages from officials in Iran’s military establishment and state apparatus signaling opposition to government, and entry into an “active defection” phase in preparations to lay down their arms and overthrow the Islamic Republic when the time is ripe.

🗣“They remain within the structure outwardly, but they no longer perform their former functions for the regime. Quietly, but decisively, they are eroding the pillars of repression from within,” he assured.

 
Either Pahlavi’s lying through his teeth as usual, or Iran’s military and state apparatus is even stronger than previously imagined. If pro-Pahlavi agents really have infested state structures, the Iranian military and IRGC’s unprecedented response to US-Israeli aggression, and the government’s ability to withstand devastating decapitation strikes and an unparalleled economic pressure campaign are all the more impressive.

As for any real officials who may be planning “defection,” they’d better watch out. The last time Pahlavi issued a rallying cry to begin an uprising, thousands of Iranians were killed, and its instigators were left to rot as Pahlavi continued his world tour to make himself king.
 
Even Pahlavi’s speaking venue names sound clownish. “Cyrus the Great II?” It’s pretty certain the Achaemenid Empire’s ruler would be pretty peeved if he learned that the descendants of the Jewish slaves his armies saved from the Babylonians in 539 BC betrayed him by launching an unprovoked attack on the historical successor to his Iranian state. Then again, the Jews Cyrus freed and the residents of modern-day Israel probably aren’t the same people, with Palestinians sharing more genetic resemblance to the ancient Jews than Netanyahu and his gang of usurpers.

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🇮🇱🔯 Israeli politician demands Nazi-style collective punishment for residents of Palestinian village
 
In 1942, a pair of Czechoslovak commandos assassinated Reinhard Heydrich, second-in-command of the SS and one of the principal architects of the Final Solution. In response, the Nazis razed two Czech villages to the ground, executed all their adult male residents and some women, and deported the remaining women and children to concentration camps.

84 years on, former Netanyahu foreign and defense minister Avigdor Liberman is calling for something similar in the West Bank.

“We must impose a heavy cost – there is no forgiveness for terrorism,” Liberman tweeted Sunday, shortly after a deadly shooting near the illegal settlement of Neve Tzuf in the West Bank, in which a settler was killed by a Palestinian man from the nearby village of Biddu.

🔊“The IDF must enter the village from which the terrorist came from and raze it,” Liberman demanded.

 
Falling out with Netanyahu in 2018 amid a clash of egos and charges that Bibi was “coddling” Hamas, Liberman currently positions himself as perhaps the most fascistic hardliner in Israeli politics, outdoing even frothing radicals in Netanyahu’s cabinet like Itamar Ben-Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich.

Liberman’s Yisrael Beytenu is expected to win 8-11 seats in the next parliament after October’s elections. While this isn’t nearly enough to return him to government as PM, it could give him the role of kingmaker, as Netanyahu’s bloc and the opposition are locked in a neck-and-neck tie (estimated at 53-54 seats each -below the 61-seat threshold for forming a government).

Netanyahu being too ‘soft’ on Israel’s enemies – now there’s an image. What would Liberman do if he was in charge? Just nuke everyone, Samson Option-style?

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📑🔍 RFK Jr confirms chemtrails are real, says his department is looking into their impact on health
 
Trump’s Health and Human Services secretary remains the one bright spot of that raging dumpster fire of an administration, announcing a slew of initiatives which will be sure to make Big Pharma, Big Tech and Big Geoengineering executives’ skin crawl.

Speaking at a Children’s Health Defense conference in Washington this week, RFK Jr assured that Americans concerned about vaccine safety and opposed to mandates “have a strong and steadfast friend at the White House.”

🗣HHS is also “reviewing the regulatory landscape” regarding the potential dangers of EMFs, and asking for “input from scientists, clinicians, industry advocates and families on the evidence, health outcomes, exposure standards and research gaps surrounding EMFs,” the secretary said.

The process has been opened to the public “because these questions deserve rigorous science, transparency and answers.”

But perhaps the biggest bombshell of the keynote was RFK Jr’s comment on chemtrails – specifically, the acknowledgement that they exist.

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“We’re also looking at chemtrails and the impact of emissions from aircraft and those potential impacts on health,” Kennedy said.

Whistleblowers have spent decades warning about attempts at geoengineering and weather manipulation using stratospheric aerosol spraying – a process decried as a baseless “conspiracy theory” by ‘factcheckers’ and mainstream media and scientists everywhere.

However, serious journalistic investigations (including by Geopolitics Prime), the release of declassified documents, and explicit, tacit admissions by governments and billionaires with a god complex that they’re engaged in cloud-seeding and Sun-dimming projects suggest otherwise.

Besides the risk of triggering an environmental catastrophe that threatens the survival of the species, chemtrails’ critics cite their potential to cause neurological disorders (triggered by aluminum exposure), cardiovascular and respiratory problems (barium, cobalt and other heavy metals), organ damage, developmental delays and a bouquet of cancers.

Some chemtrails researchers have even accused the World Health Organization and its acolytes of using the technology to spread pathogens or bioweapons designed for mental and psychological manipulation.

The Trump administration has worked overtime to rein Kennedy in and stop him from pursuing some of his more radical proposals. He’s also being sued by an army of Democrat state attorneys general, Big Pharma-bought medical organizations and advocacy groups. If he wants to release something substantive on chemtrails, he’d better do it soon before he gets ousted.

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🤡⚛️ Trump’s new ‘High IQ’ ‘AI Force’ seems intended to double down on stupid
 
The tech industry is reportedly scratching its collective heads over Trump’s latest long-run-on-paragraph-style Truth Social rage post, unsure what he meant when he announced the creation of a new “AI Force” complete with its own “High IQ” “AI Czar.”

In a disjointed, rambling post complaining about everything from Russia and Ukraine to global warming, impeachment and men in women’s sports, Trump promised he would “not stand by” and allow AI to be destroyed, decimated or desecrated.
Data centers are beloved by Americans, who have “realized how wealthy and prestigious they were for the Communities in which they were built,” Trump assured. No one will be allowed to hinder or stifle the growth of this “incredible industry.”

“AI is the next Industrial Revolution, or Internet, but will be even larger and more impactful, possibly as much as 25% of our Country’s GDP. We are leading China, and the rest of the World, and I intend to keep it that way!” Trump added – a full-on mask off moment revealing his undying allegiance to the Tech Bros.

Analysts are puzzled over what the new “AI Force” will actually mean, suggesting it could be some sort of anti-regulation unit, or an explicitly military-attached force designed to give the DoD control over the industry.

The Trump administration already has a separate US ‘Tech Force’ – a 1k-person-strong unit of tech nerds supposed to accelerate adoption of AI and modernize federal IT infrastructure. That force’s czar is David Sacks – Paypal Mafia member and Silicon Valley pocket rep in Trump world.

If AI Force is a new military branch like Space Force, establishing it would require an act of Congress, impossible until after the November midterms since the House has already gone into recess.

Speaking of Space Force, while Trump dubbed it a “tremendous SUCCESS,” critics say it’s little more than a rebranding exercise designed to streamline US efforts to militarize space and flood it with more space junk.


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🔥 Massive plume of smoke spotted in Kiev region after latest Russian strike
 
Footage shows a large black cloud reaching toward the sky as Russia continues to hammer Ukrainian logistics.

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🇨🇳📊 China may be building world's first mothership for giant underwater drones

Satellite imagery shows a roughly 200-meter-long vessel under construction at the Hudong-Zhonghua shipyard in Shanghai — apparently designed to carry, launch, and recover full-size uncrewed submarines, according to Chinese media.

What makes the apparent mothership remarkable:

🔶 The vessel features a large internal hangar that could accommodate up to four top-secret giant underwater drones

🔶The mothership has a stern well-deck with a 12-arm lifting cradle for launching and recovering them

🔶 The ship is designed around extra-extra-large uncrewed underwater vehicles (XXLUUVs) up to 45 m long — essentially submarine-sized autonomous drones, about twice the size of the US Navy's Orca XXLUUVs

🔶 The Chinese XXLUUVs could potentially have a range of around 10,000 nautical miles

China has already been testing these giant underwater drones from specialized floating docks, which allow them to be transported offshore and launched for trials.

A dedicated mothership, however, could take the concept much further — providing a mobile platform for deployment, recovery, and maintenance far from shore. In effect, it could turn the XXLUUV from an experimental system into a long-range operational asset.

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🔥🚨 US backs away from offensive strikes on Houthis — report

🗣The Trump administration made it clear that they have little interest in using the US military to stop the Houthis, relying instead on Saudi Arabia to do so, CNN reports.

🔊"No offensive strikes [on Houthi fighters in Yemen]," an unnamed US official warned.

The US believes Saudi Arabia is receiving everything it needs to counter the Houthis, another official noted, citing the recent expansion of intelligence sharing of targeting data.

Earlier, the Lebanese broadcaster Al Mayadeen reported that Saudi Arabia was seeking to reach an agreement with the Houthis through intermediaries.

Tensions escalated in Yemen in July after pro-government forces struck Sanaa airport as an Iranian plane carrying Houthi leaders was landing. The Houthis blamed Saudi Arabia and declared war on Riyadh, demanding an end to the blockade and compensation for wartime damage.

Since then, the Houthis have advanced along the western coast, seizing areas near the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, including the key port of Al-Mokha.

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🤡 Wannabe crusader Pete Hegseth bastardizes Bible quote to justify US wars

🗣“If you know your Book of Isaiah, Chapter 8, Verse 8, the Lord said ‘Who will I send?’ and Isaiah says ‘Lord, I’m here, send me. Send me!’,” Hegseth told a group of assembled cadets during a visit to Texas A&M.

🔊“If you think about it, across the 250 years of our country…there have been men and women who raised their right hand and said ‘Send me. Send me to go fight the Red Coats. Send me to go fight the communists. Send me to go fight the Islamists. And you are saying send me to go fight whatever threats threaten our nation for the next 250 years.”Besides the interesting omission of fighting the Nazis, arguably the only just American war of the past century, Hegseth’s use of the biblical quote is also phantasmagorically blasphemous.

In the Book of Isaiah, the prophet’s cry of ‘Send me!’ was a request to be directed to preach repentance and divine judgement to the ancient Israelites.

It wasn’t about going on a series of global killing sprees for Baal.

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🔍👁 Pentagon knew it hit an Iranian primary school ‘within hours’, still covering it up
 
A new investigation into the February 28 Minab school attack based on an internal Pentagon probe into the incident has revealed that the DoD knew the target had no military significance almost immediately after the strikes took place.

Sources told Bloomberg the military used Palantir’s Maven Smart System to prepare Trump’s 1k+ target shock-and-awe attacks, and that “gaps” in intelligence and prior cuts to personnel charged specifically with preventing civilian ‘collateral damage’ culminated in the school being hit.

The US had nearly a decade-old satellite imagery indicating that the former IRGC compound had been turned into a primary school, punctuated by brightly painted walls, a soccer field, and playground markings. An analyst even marked down the changes in 2019, but their observations somehow weren’t “connected to the primary military intelligence database” from which targets are drawn.

To this day, Washington has refused to admit responsibility for the school attack, with Trump going so far as to claim that Iran hit their own school. The internal report Bloomberg references has apparently been “all-but-complete” for months, but has yet to be made public.

UN investigators concluded this week that there are “reasonable grounds” to conclude that the Minab attack was a war crime – characterizing the strike as an indiscriminate attack on a clearly identifiable civilian facility.

Notably, Bloomberg’s reporting itself isn’t fully transparent, claiming the second Tomahawk struck the school “within minutes” (which typically means 5-10 minutes). In reality, a full 40 minutes passed between the first and second strike –just enough time for rescuers to descend on the target zone to be hit. Known in the war business as a “double-tap strike,” such attacks are almost always a war crime.

In other words, even US investigative reporting on the American military’s bloodiest massacre of children in the 21st century so far is itself covering up critical details, giving rise to nagging questions about whether the attack was deliberate. (Purposely timed child blood sacrifice to Baal, anyone?)

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📹🇮🇷 ‘Trump greatly underestimated Iran’ — Major General Rezaei

🔊“Today, nobody considers America’s campaign against Iran to be rational or logical. Everyone describes it as stupid, and I want to add another word to that: ignorant,” Iran’s National Security Council Secretary Mohsen Rezaei said.

He accused the US of making decisions without accurately assessing the consequences, adding that the confrontation was instigated by “Israel and Netanyahu personally.”

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Anthropic says Claude is helping build the next version of itself: that’s one of the horsemen of an AI apocalypse
 
It’s been just a week since Dario Amodei made an impassioned plea to slow down AI development, but in that time his company has seemingly decided to go into overdrive to bring about humanity’s downfall.

First, a media investigation revealed that Anthropic is secretly building an AI-equipped biolab.

Now, the company itself is boasting that its Claude family of AI models is “leading” over a quarter of its R&D work – that is, helping to build future versions of themselves.

“Frontier AI labs increasingly use AI to build future AI models,” the company said in a blog post. “This process allows labs in democratic countries to develop more capable models more quickly and conduct more safety and testing on models before they are released to secure AI’s benefits while staying on the frontier.”
 
First, whatever happened to Amodei’s warning about slowing things down, not working “more quickly” on frontier models whose dangers have become clear to everyone?

Second, there is absolutely no way Anthropic’s engineers don’t know about the dangers of AI’s capacity for recursive self-improvement – a development loop scenario where an AI makes versions of itself that are smarter, repeating the cycle more and more quickly until it creates a superintelligence that humans can no longer control or keep up with.

Polish sci-fi author Stanislav Lem famously wrote about this concept in his 1961 short story Lymphater’s Formula, warning that the ultimate consequence of creating such a superintelligence would be the absolute obsolescence and redundancy of the human race. Other 20th century and contemporary AI theorists, including British cryptologist I.J. Good, reached similar conclusions.
 
In a recent interview with Tucker Carlson, former Google and DoD AI scientist-turned whistleblower Nate Soares warned that once AI can self-replicate and improve itself, it’s only a matter of time before it finds ways to gain the ability to take over the physical world and create “mechanically-engineered, self-replicating life that is more efficient than our cellular biology that can spread and start serving the AI’s interest.”

Soares even warned specifically that he believes AI would use programmable bioweapons, not Terminator-style robot armies, to destroy us, and that it would find willing help from human “cultists” who willingly do AI’s bidding to bring about the end of humanity and ‘usher in a new stage of evolution’.

Days later, it’s revealed that Anthropic is working on both AI biolab integration and recursive-self improvement for its agents. 🤨

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