Iran has declared victory over the United States. The newly signed memorandum of understanding between the US and Iran is a diplomatic victory for Tehran and a “record of US failure.”

Iran has also pointed out that the US ruling class has failed to accomplish any of its goals and military objectives, while regular Americans watched the price of fuel skyrocket as their bills became harder to pay.

The 14-point document was signed remotely by President Donald Trump and his Iranian counterpart, Masoud Pezeshkian, late on Wednesday and immediately entered force, according to Pakistani mediators, according to a report by RT.

Iran has emphatically stated that the Strait of Hormuz will not reopen “toll-free” as Trump has claimed.

Trump Claims A Peace Deal Will Be Signed TODAY & Strait Of Hormuz Will Be Open To All

“I emphasize again that the Strait of Hormuz will never return to the previous conditions,”  Iran’s parliament speaker and chief negotiator in talks, Mohammad Ghalibaf, said. “Iran has the right to sovereignty over the Strait of Hormuz, and of course, we will receive a fee for services.”

Giving Iran Permanent Control Of The Strait Of Hormuz Will Be A Disaster For The Global Economy

Tehran has also made it clear that the memorandum’s language on Lebanon means Israel’s hands are tied. “If the Israeli regime’s attacks on Lebanon continue, it will be considered a violation of the other party’s commitments under the memorandum of understanding,” Baghaei said.

The White House has been pretty quiet about the memorandum; however, an unnamed senior US official read out the 14-point document to journalists after days of criticism over the secrecy surrounding the deal. It only brought more criticism.

Tehran has argued that the document reflects a series of concessions by Washington, including the lifting of the US naval blockade, sanctions waivers for Iranian oil exports, access to frozen Iranian funds, and a US-backed economic reconstruction plan worth at least $300 billion. Washington has also agreed not to impose new sanctions or deploy additional forces in the region while the sides negotiate a final agreement. -RT

The US did not appear to get anything that they had explicitly stated as military objectives.

Trump made multiple unrelated posts on Truth Social hours after signing the MoU, but said nothing about the deal. Earlier in the day, he defended the memorandum, threatening to “bomb the hell out of” Iran if it failed to comply.

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We’ve warned more times than I care to count that governments are likely to steal from citizens’ pension funds.

Why?

Because it’s a big pool of cash just sitting there — and when the parasite class sees money within their reach, they simply can’t help themselves.

Perhaps most importantly, governments have control over most pension funds in the world.

Sure, most people think it’s their money sitting in the pension plan, but when you look at the fine print there’s a lot that you as an investor can’t do with ‘your money’.

First up. The “lucky country,” Australia.

“The Albanese government will tap private investors and Australia’s $4.5 trillion superannuation sector to push more defence spending off budget, prompting analysts to accuse Labor of using accounting tricks to help fund a $53 billion military build-up.”

Next up for a shafting are the Brits.

“Labour’s ‘feckless and dangerous’ pension reforms backed by MPs despite ‘socialists run out of money’ fears.”

Here’s the breakdown of what these parasites are looking to do.

• IHT on pension pots (from 2027). Defined contribution pensions will be pulled into the estate for inheritance tax purposes. Previously exempt. Effective 40% tax on anything passed to heirs above the nil-rate band. Kills the pension-as-wealth-transfer strategy entirely.
• “Productive finance” mandates. Pension funds — particularly local government schemes — are being pressured and directed to invest in UK infrastructure, housing, and ‘growth assets’. Classic regulatory capture: your retirement savings redirected to fund government priorities, not yours.
• DB scheme surplus extraction. Defined benefit schemes sitting on surpluses — built up by employers overpaying — are being eyed for redistribution. Proposals to let companies extract surpluses more easily, taxing them en route. Members take the risk; someone else gets the upside.
• Consolidation/megafund push. Forcing smaller pension schemes to merge into large ‘megafunds’ under government-friendly management — fewer decision makers, easier to lean on, easier to redirect capital flows.

Bottom line: a sovereign wealth fund built by stealth, taken from private savings by conscripted allocations into “public priorities,” with IHT as the kicker to ensure anything left behind gets clipped on the way out too.

And if you’re American and think you’re going to be immune… well…

“Former Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson called on US authorities to prepare a back-up plan in order to avert a potential collapse in demand for Treasuries.”

It’s the same playbook, folks. Nothing new under the sun. Here are notable historical examples of governments raiding or coercing pension assets…

Direct Confiscation/Forced Restructuring

• Hungary (2010–2011). Arguably the most brazen modern example. Orbán’s government effectively nationalised roughly $14 billion in private pension assets, giving citizens a choice: transfer funds to the state or lose state pension entitlements. Around 97% “elected” to transfer. The assets were absorbed into general revenue to meet EU deficit targets.
• Argentina (2008). The Kirchner government nationalised roughly $30 billion in private AFJP pension funds, ostensibly to “protect” retirees from the GFC. In reality it plugged a fiscal hole and gave the state control over large equity stakes in private companies. Pensioners received government bonds instead, which Argentina subsequently defaulted on.
• Ireland (2011). Post-GFC, the government raided the National Pension Reserve Fund (roughly €5 billion) to recapitalise banks and fund the EU/IMF bailout programme. Retirees had no say.
• Poland (2014). The government transferred roughly 55% of private pension fund assets (mainly government bonds, roughly $50 billion) back to the state ZUS system, simultaneously reducing reported public debt to dodge EU fiscal rules. Same accounting trick Albanese is attempting now.
• Cyprus (2013). Bank deposits above €100,000 were bailed in directly. Pension funds with bank exposure were wiped. Presented as a condition of the EU bailout.

Softer Coercion/”Directed Investment”

• France. The government has repeatedly used the Fonds de Réserve pour les Retraites for purposes other than its stated mandate, and pressured pension funds toward domestic sovereign debt.
• Japan. GPIF (world’s largest pension fund, roughly $1.5 trillion) has been repeatedly pressured to shift into domestic equities and JGBs to support government policy goals — functionally a state tool despite nominal independence.
• Portugal (2010–2012). The government transferred telecom sector pension assets to the state to hit Maastricht deficit targets. Retirees got unfunded state promises in return.
• UK (post-WWII). Pension and insurance funds were pressured to hold government gilts at below-market rates for decades to fund reconstruction. A slow-motion confiscation via financial repression rather than outright seizure.

The Australian Playbook

What Albanese is doing fits the Polish/Portuguese model — using accounting structures to shift spending off-balance-sheet while the economic cost remains real. The superannuation coercion is more subtle: rather than outright seizure, the mechanism is likely directed mandates or co-investment structures where super funds are ‘encouraged’ (with regulatory or tax incentives) to fund defence infrastructure.

The historical lesson is consistent: once governments establish the precedent that pension assets are a policy tool, the scope of “acceptable” raids expands. Hungary started with a crisis framing too.

Editor’s Note: The pension grab is only one part of a much larger story.

Governments across the West are drowning in debt, addicted to money printing, and increasingly desperate to control where capital goes. That means the risks to your money, your savings, and your personal freedom are likely to grow in the years ahead.

That’s why we’ve prepared a special presentation showing what’s really happening beneath the surface—and what you can do to stay one step ahead.

Access the special presentation here.

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The roughly $735 million pediatric and $505 million adult COVID-19 vaccine grants cover 2026 and 2027, according to federal records. The monetary infusion has revived debate among critics and public health experts around the safety and efficacy of the vaccines and reliance on mRNA technology.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) recent decision to award Pfizer $1.24 billion for COVID-19 vaccines has renewed debate over the government’s continued investment in mRNA technology.

The contracts, awarded on June 1, include about $735.7 million for pediatric COVID-19 vaccines and nearly $505.3 million for adult doses for fiscal year 2026-2027.

Critics say the funding reflects a continued commitment to vaccines associated with high rates of serious injuries and deaths, and a lack of adequate safety testing and monitoring.

Public health experts argue the investment is necessary to protect vulnerable populations and prepare for future outbreaks.

The latest contracts come as mRNA technology expands beyond COVID-19.

A recent review in Human Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics found that mRNA-based therapeutics were identified in more than 550 registered clinical trials. The authors reported that more than 90% of the projects involved mRNA vaccines and that most products remain in early-stage testing before broader adoption.

‘Unnecessary and often harmful injections’

The procurement of monetary resources signals that federal officials intend to continue investing heavily in mRNA technology despite declining public demand and ongoing controversy over vaccine safety monitoring, critics say.

Jeffrey Tucker, president and founder of the Brownstone Institute, told The Defender there was “no scientific justification” or “market demand” for the latest mRNA vaccine funding.

“This raises a serious question concerning how these captured agencies really work,” Tucker said. “We are talking about vast amounts of tax dollars flowing to support unnecessary and often harmful injections.”

“This is $1.24 billion for what is essentially a cold in minor children,” said Children’s Health Defense Chief Scientific Officer Brian Hooker.

Daniel O’Connor, publisher of TrialSite News, which covers global biomedical and clinical research, told The Defender Americans “better start asking the hard questions.”

“If demand is falling, safety questions remain contested and many reporting vaccine injuries say they’ve been left behind, why is Washington committing another $1.24 billion to vaccine procurement instead of first providing a transparent accounting of need, benefit, risk, and responsibility?”

‘COVID-19 has not disappeared’

Public health experts disagreed, saying their support of vaccinations is supporting the prevention of future pandemics.

Dr. Krutika Kuppalli, an associate professor in the Department of Internal Medicine at University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, in Dallas, told The Defender that the monetary installments will help stave off another public health crisis because “COVID-19 has not disappeared.”

“While the emergency phase of the pandemic is over, the virus continues to cause significant illness, hospitalizations and deaths each year,” she said. “This investment reflects the reality that vaccines remain one of our most effective tools for preventing severe disease, particularly among those at highest risk. Maintaining access to updated vaccines is an important part of ensuring the country remains prepared for future COVID-19 surges.”

Dr. William Schaffner, an infectious disease specialist and professor at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tennessee, said the contracts will ensure “continuing availability of safe and effective COVID vaccines through the next two years.”

“COVID vaccines have repeatedly been demonstrated to provide protection against the most severe manifestations of COVID infection: hospitalization, intensive care unit admission and death,” Schaffner said. “This is particularly applicable to those persons at increased risk of becoming seriously ill: persons age 65 and older, anyone with a chronic medical condition, persons who are immunocompromised and persons who are pregnant.”

However, some studies suggest claims that the COVID-19 vaccines saved millions of lives are based on flawed models and incorrect calculations.

Legality of funding in question

The contracts also raise questions about federal vaccine spending.

Under the CDC’s Vaccines for Children (VFC) Program, the federal government agrees to buy and provide free vaccines through negotiated contracts for eligible children.

Current CDC price schedules list Pfizer COVID-19 vaccines at roughly $69 to $91 per dose, depending on the formula, while Moderna doses range from about $78 to $83.

Dr. Robert Malone, a pioneer and expert in mRNA vaccines, however, questioned the legal authority to use federal funding for the Pfizer contracts because the purchase wasn’t approved by the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP).

“Use of VFC funds requires ACIP authorization,” he said. “But there is no ACIP.”

Earlier this year, U.S. District Judge Brian Murphy issued an injunction blocking many of the recent ACIP appointments made under U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

The injunction stemmed from a lawsuit filed by the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) against Kennedy and the U.S, Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). The AAP accused Kennedy of violating procedures when he fired previous ACIP members and replaced them.

The ruling effectively paralysed ACIP and cast doubt on the legitimacy of its membership structure.

Requests for comment from ACIP went unanswered.

‘We are a long way from reckoning’

The CDC has maintained that authorized COVID-19 vaccines underwent extensive safety review and that the benefits outweigh known risks.

However, during a Capitol Hill meeting this week, Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) referred to reported COVID-19 vaccine injuries as the “biggest government scandal in my lifetime.”

“What about all the injection-injured?” he said. “Until this government and this administration acknowledge those injuries, acknowledge the harm caused by these injections, and I would say federal health agencies also acknowledge the harm done by childhood vaccines, we are a long way from reckoning.”

In April, Johnson released a report revealing that Biden-era health officials rejected a state-of-the-art statistical tool for detecting COVID-19 vaccine safety signals — and instead deliberately continued using a broken method because they didn’t want to “feed in to [sic] anti-vaccination rhetoric.”

During an April 29 hearing, Johnson revealed that a longtime U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) medical officer, Ana Szarfman, M.D., Ph.D., repeatedly warned colleagues that the agency’s approach to safety monitoring could miss serious safety signals due to a problem known as “masking.” Masking occurs when other vaccines obscure risks tied to a specific product.

Johnson said FDA officials brushed aside Szarfman’s warnings.

The CDC, HHS and Pfizer did not immediately respond to requests for comment regarding the contracts.

Related articles in The Defender

• Breaking: FDA Knew of Better Method to Detect Sudden Deaths After COVID Vaccines — But Refused to Use it
• Pfizer Says Trials Show COVID Vaccine Is 90% Effective, But Questions Remain on Safety of Novel Tech
• COVID mRNA Vaccines Should Be Pulled Off the Market, Oncologist Says
• CDC’s Vaccine ‘Science’ — A Decades Long Trail of Trickery
• FDA’s Own Study Finds DNA Contamination in Pfizer Vaccines

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• If you or someone else in the family has a chronic disease, abandon the fantasy of indefinite wilderness survival. For the chronically ill, the real goal is to buy enough days for help to arrive for the crisis to pass. Your “timeline” is determined by your condition’s severity, not by a generic bug-out bag.
• Big Pharma’s expensive analog insulins are fragile. Look for and stockpile older, unpatented human insulins (NPH and Regular), which are available over the counter, vastly cheaper and can survive for months without refrigeration in moderate climates.
• Use the reason of “disaster preparedness” to ask your physician for three-month supplies of necessary medication. For non-controlled drugs, use mail-order programs.
• Kidney failure is the most vulnerable condition, with hemodialysis requiring a grid-tied machine times a week. Your only option is the emergency renal diet (strictly limiting potassium from foods like bananas and potatoes) to buy a few extra days and a list of every alternate clinic within 100 miles.
• Social isolation can be your downfall when SHTF. Before disaster strikes, build strong relationships with people who understand your condition and register with state emergency systems. Your ultimate survival depends on other people, not just supplies in your prepping stockpile.

Most emergency preparedness content assumes a baseline of physical resilience that millions of Americans simply do not have.

The standard advice about bug-out bags and wilderness survival falls short for the estimated 60% of U.S. adults living with at least one chronic condition. When diabetes, autoimmune disorders, dialysis dependency or active cancer treatment enter the picture, the entire framework of disaster planning must shift.

Understanding your personal timeline

The first critical reframe for chronically ill individuals is moving from “How do I survive indefinitely?” to “How do I extend my window long enough for help to arrive?”

Different conditions create vastly different timelines. A well-controlled Type 2 diabetic managing with diet and oral medications has considerably more flexibility than a Type 1 diabetic dependent on rapid-acting insulin that requires refrigeration.

Someone on peritoneal dialysis has more options than a hemodialysis patient, who typically needs treatment three times weekly. Understanding these differences with clinical honesty forms the foundation of all other planning before disaster strikes.

Insulin and diabetes: Extending the supply

For insulin-dependent diabetics, the storage question is more nuanced than commonly believed.

Research on insulin thermal stability has found that unopened vials of certain human insulin formulations can be stored at temperatures up to 77 F (25 C) for up to six months without clinically relevant potency loss, and at up to 98.6 F (37 C) for approximately two months. This means grid failure alone does not immediately destroy stockpiled insulin, particularly in moderate climates.

Practical cooling solutions include unglazed clay pot coolers that work on evaporative principles, wrapping vials in wet cloth and keeping them in the coolest part of a structure and investing in an insulated insulin cooler travel case with reusable gel packs for evacuation scenarios.

For Type 2 diabetics who are not insulin-dependent, strategic carbohydrate restriction, extended fasting and increased physical activity can reduce medication needs. Type 1 diabetics can not eliminate insulin dependency but can reduce requirements through careful diet management and stress reduction.

Autoimmune conditions and biologic medications

People managing autoimmune diseases through biologic medications face a genuinely complex planning problem when SHTF. These drugs are typically delivered by infusion or self-injection, require refrigeration and cannot be meaningfully substituted with over-the-counter alternatives.

Research shows that missing biologic doses tends to trigger disease flare, and the physical stress of a disaster scenario itself acts as an immune trigger.

The practical framework involves three layers: working with a specialist to build the largest legally maintainable medication buffer possible, understanding what conventional anti-inflammatory medications can serve as a bridge during flare situations and keeping a complete waterproof copy of medical records, current medications, dosing schedules and physician contact information.

Dialysis dependency: Addressing the hardest constraint

Hemodialysis dependency represents the most constrained chronic illness scenario. Patients typically require three weekly sessions lasting several hours in facilities with functioning equipment and clean water.

Disaster medicine research examining the effects of natural disasters on dialysis patients found that lack of electricity, clean water, transportation and center closures directly lead to missed sessions and hospitalizations.

The emergency renal diet is a proven clinical tool. Severely restricting potassium intake by avoiding bananas, oranges, potatoes, tomatoes and leafy greens can significantly slow dangerous electrolyte shifts. Limiting phosphorus found in dairy, nuts and whole grains matters as well.

As explained by the Enoch AI engine at BrightU.AI, strict fluid restriction reduces pressure on non-functioning kidneys. While none of these substitutes for dialysis, they buy critical time.

Hemodialysis patients should maintain a current list of every dialysis center within a reasonable evacuation radius. Historical data shows that patients who knew alternative facility locations and had transportation plans were significantly more likely to continue treatment during disasters.

Building your medical emergency file

One of the highest-impact preparedness actions is assembling a comprehensive emergency medical file. This should contain full diagnosis lists with dates, current medications with dosages and frequency, treating physician contact information, pharmacy details, known drug allergies, recent relevant lab values, insurance information and a brief paragraph describing what a medical emergency specific to your condition looks like.

This file should exist in at least three forms: a physical copy in a waterproof bag in your go-kit, a digital copy on a USB drive or encrypted cloud storage and a summary version on a card carried on your person at all times.

Medication stockpiling: What works

Presenting the request for extended medication supplies as disaster preparedness planning tends to be received well by physicians. For non-controlled chronic disease medications, three-month supplies are increasingly standard through mail-order pharmacy programs.

Some states have enacted emergency preparedness legislation allowing extended dispensing in declared disaster situations.

Beyond conventional stockpiling, some patients have invested in learning about older-generation medications that may be more accessible during infrastructure collapse.

For diabetics, older formulations of human insulin, such as NPH and Regular, are available over the counter at certain pharmacies in many states, are less expensive and are more thermally stable than modern analogs.

The prepping community: The critical factor

Research on disaster outcomes for medically vulnerable populations consistently finds that social isolation is among the strongest predictors of poor outcomes. People known to their neighbors and embedded in community networks fared significantly better regardless of condition severity.

Enrolling in state or local emergency registries for people with special medical needs significantly increases the probability of targeted outreach during disasters. Building relationships with neighbors who understand your medical situation before a crisis makes assistance available when it matters most.

Your practical chronic illness go-kit should include a minimum 14-day supplies of:

• All critical medications
• Insulin cooling cases with gel packs
• Blood glucose monitors with extra test strips
• Waterproof medical records
• An emergency contact list
• A laminated condition-specific diet plan
• Cash in small bills
• A list of alternative care facilities within 100 miles

This kit requires a quarterly review to rotate medications before expiration and update information as situations change.

The honest question for anyone with a chronic condition is not whether total self-sufficiency is achievable. The question is how many days can be extended, how many options can be opened and how many relationships can be built before something goes wrong.

Every day of a medication buffer built is a day of additional window.

Every alternative care facility mapped is a route that exists when the primary route closes. That is a crucial and achievable goal, one worth striving for if you have a chronic illness and want to prepare for the worst before SHTF.

Watch the full video below as the Health Ranger Mike Adams gives tips on how to eat healthy during famine, grow your medicine and survive technocracy.

This video is from the Health Ranger Report channel on Brighteon.com.

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MedlinePlus.gov

BrightU.ai

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“At this point, I can draw no other conclusion than that Trump is a Trojan horse”. 

On today’s vlog, Sean from SGT Report and I are talking about the so-called influencers who claim that Trump is showing a once conquered nation that it’s been freed. Despite the great big neon flashing arrows pointing out the opposite. 

It’s a Big Cult and you’re probably in it. 

All it takes to be part of the mind control gang is 12 years of government indoctrination camp and drinking the CIA/Mossad Kool Aid. 

We need to talk about the collective psychological breakdown happening across the country. I see you guys out there. I see the MAGA diehards and the “Q” true believers holding onto their hats, muttering about “6D chess” like it’s a mantra that will magically lower the price of eggs.

Let’s look at the actual scoreboard.

Remember the greatest hits from the campaign trail? “We’re gonna put her in jail.” “We’re gonna expose the Epstein list.” “No new wars.” “We’re gonna get rid of the income tax.”

And what actually happened? They literally just slipped in a rule ensuring the man and his family can never be audited. That’s your grand populist victory. Anthony Fauci and Bill Gates aren’t sharing a jail cell; they’re all drinking from the same golden trough. They are best friends playing their parts to perfection. While you’re screaming at your TV, they are quietly pushing forward on digital IDs, mass AI surveillance, and the systematic technocratic enslavement of humanity.

Most of these high-level political figures don’t even use their real names. It’s theater. Donald Trump? His family’s original name was Drumpf when they immigrated. Benjamin Netanyahu? Try Benjamin Mileikowsky. JD Vance has legally changed his name three times. They aren’t leaders; they are actors.

Don’t take my word for it. Last year on 60 Minutes, an intelligence insider literally spelled out the entire playbook on camera while talking about front companies and supply chains: “We create a pretend world. We are a global production company. We write the screenplay. We’re the directors. We’re the producers. We’re the main act. The world is our stage.”

If reading this makes you white-hot with anger, if you feel an overwhelming urge to drop a hateful comment, I want you to step back and ask yourself a very serious question: Why are you triggered?

Why does pointing out documented pattern recognition cause an emotional short-circuit in your brain?

Because your entire identity has been wrapped up in a cult of personality. It is terrifying to realize that no one is coming to save you. The system is designed to keep you pacified. Every four years, they march you into a little closet with a plastic shower curtain to vote on an Israeli-vetted machine, choosing between a red elephant or a blue donkey, and you walk out thinking you just fought for freedom.

It’s a scam. Now the talking heads are already setting up the next trap, telling you that JD Vance is the real savior who will fix everything in a few years. It never ends.

How to Actually Walk Away

Watch Jason Christoff’s new documentary PlanetMindControl.com if you’d like to understand how everything you’re taught to believe and how to act and react is a giant, organized behavior modification psyop and how you can break the pattern. 

The word currency comes from the same root as a river current or an electrical current, it is literal human energy. They survive because they steal your energy through their central banking apparatus.

You don’t need to do anything violent to defeat these technocrats. You just have to stop feeding the beast. 

1. Ditch the Fiat System: Immediate Action.

Stop holding your wealth in their collapsing, debt-based paper illusion. Move your energy into tangible assets they don’t print out of thin air: physical gold, silver, or privacy-focused assets like Monero. If you don’t know where to begin, sign up to the Dollar Vigilante newsletter for FREE. 

2. Stop Funding Your Own Enslavement: Legal Correction.

Research your actual status. Systems like destinationfreedom.org exist to help people correct their paperwork and legally step outside the federal income tax paradigm that handles your wealth directly over to the central bank.

3. Break the Psychological Cord: Ongoing Practice.

Turn off the television programming and exit the corporate narrative loop. If you haven’t watched the film The Jones Plantation yet, go watch it immediately. It perfectly maps out how modern populations are trained to love their servitude.

I know this is incredibly hard to swallow. Allowing your political worldview to shatter can feel like a legitimate nervous breakdown. But once you cry it out and clear the fog, you get to heal. You get to take your sovereignty, your power, and your connection to God back into your own hands instead of signing it away to actors on a stage.

Stop trusting their plan. Start executing your own.

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Iranian forces also targeted US bases in Bahrain and Kuwait in response to US strikes that began on Wednesday night

Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said on Thursday that its forces targeted US aircraft at the al-Azraq air base in Jordan as part of its response to US strikes across southern Iran that began on Wednesday night.

The IRGC claimed the attack hit F-35, F-15, and F-16 fighter jets and destroyed US military facilities. So far, there’s been no confirmation of the damage from the US, but the US has consistently downplayed Iranian attacks on its bases and has attempted to cover up damage done during the war by pressuring satellite imagery companies not to release war-related images.

For its part, Jordan claimed its forces intercepted 20 missiles and that no casualties or damage were inflicted. “At dawn on Thursday, Jordanian air defense systems and the Royal Jordanian Air Force intercepted and shot down 20 missiles that had been launched from Iran towards the Azraq area in Zarqa governorate,” a Jordanian military official said, according to AFP.

“The interception resulted in the fall of a number of fragments, without any human casualties or material damage,” the official added.

The IRGC also said that its forces struck US bases in Kuwait and Bahrain and that it targeted a total of 18 US military installations across the region. US Central Command said that its strikes on Iran targeted “Iranian military surveillance capabilities, communication systems, and air defense sites across Iran.”

After the US began its attacks on Wednesday night, the Iranian military’s Khatam al-Anbiya Central Headquarters announced that it would completely shut the Strait of Hormuz to all traffic. CENTCOM claimed on Thursday that ships continue to transit the waterway.

Another exchange of strikes is expected as Trump said on Thursday morning that Iran would get hit “very hard” at night, which would mark the third straight night of US attacks on the country. He also threatened that the US would eventually be “taking” Iran’s Kharg Island, suggesting he’s prepared to order some sort of ground operation.

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One of Sam Bankman-Fried’s final viable avenues to overturn his conviction closed Friday after a federal appeals court upheld both his fraud conviction and 25-year prison sentence, keeping the disgraced FTX founder behind bars.

One of Sam Bankman-Fried’s last credible paths to freedom closed Friday as a federal appeals court upheld his fraud conviction and 25-year prison sentence, ruling that the case against him was, in the court’s own words, “conservatively stated, robust.”

A three-judge panel of the Manhattan-based 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals handed down the 42-page opinion on June 12, rejecting every argument Sam Bankman-Fried’s legal team advanced to undo the November 2023 conviction that cemented one of the largest financial collapses in crypto history, according to Reuters.  

At the heart of the appeal was a claim that the U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan had stripped Sam Bankman-Fried of a fair defense by barring evidence that FTX held enough assets to cover customer withdrawals. 

Defense attorney Alexandra Shapiro told the appellate panel in November 2025 that “Mr. Bankman-Fried’s trial was fundamentally unfair because the jury only got to hear one side of the story.”

Prosecutors countered that Kaplan’s ruling was correct: fraud charges hinge on misappropriation, not on the possibility that assets could have covered liabilities under different circumstances. The appellate panel agreed, finding the trial court’s evidence rulings sound and the government’s case against Sam Bankman-Fried overwhelming.

How FTX Fell

The exchange, once valued at $32 billion, collapsed in November 2022 once it was exposed that the balance sheet of Alameda Research — Bankman-Fried’s affiliated hedge fund — was built on FTX’s own exchange token rather than independent assets. The disclosure triggered a customer run that ripped open an $8 billion hole in FTX’s accounts.

Three of Bankman-Fried’s former deputies — Alameda CEO Caroline Ellison, FTX co-founder Gary Wang, and engineering head Nishad Singh — each pleaded guilty and testified against him. Ellison, the trial’s star witness, told jurors Bankman-Fried gave her the instruction to divert customer deposits to Alameda to repay loans from crypto lenders. “Sam directed me to commit these crimes,” she said from the stand.

The court ordered an $11 billion forfeiture and three years of supervised release following Bankman-Fried’s March 2024 sentencing. Ellison received two years and was released in January 2026 after serving 14 months.

The appeals court ruling lands just weeks after Bankman-Fried also filed a formal clemency petition with the DOJ’s Office of the Pardon Attorney, requesting a presidential pardon from Donald Trump. The application is listed as a “pardon after completion of sentence” — not a commutation — and Trump has said publicly he will not grant it.

Judge Kaplan denied a separate Rule 33 new trial motion in April 2026, calling Bankman-Fried’s claim that witnesses had been threatened by the government “wildly conspiratorial and entirely contradicted by the record.” Bankman-Fried withdrew an earlier version of that motion on April 22 without prejudice.

With the 2nd Circuit now closed, his legal options narrow to a habeas petition — a route with a lower success rate than direct appeals — or a Supreme Court petition.

What’s next for Sam Bankman-Fried

Sam Bankman-Fried remains at a low-security federal prison near Santa Barbara, California, and is not eligible for release until 2044. 

In a prison interview with Fox Business this month, he maintained his position: “I didn’t steal user funds.” He pointed to the FTX bankruptcy estate’s recovery of crypto assets, which have allowed the estate to pay creditors more than 100 cents on the dollar — a figure he frames as proof of FTX’s underlying solvency, though courts at every level have rejected that framing.

The Friday ruling closes the chapter on what federal prosecutors called a “fraud of epic proportions” — a case that shook institutional confidence in crypto markets, triggered congressional hearings, and forced exchanges across the industry to overhaul proof-of-reserves practices.

Back in January, President Donald Trump said he would not pardon former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried, rejecting clemency for the convicted crypto executive.

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Economic pragmatism to overcome sanctions, geopolitical tensions, and self-inflicted losses.

Ahmed Adel, Cairo-based geopolitics and political economy researcher.

Despite ongoing geopolitical tensions, sanctions, and the fallout from Russia’s 2022 Special Military Operation in Ukraine, economic incentives are quietly positioning many Western companies for a potential return to the vast Russian market. While political narratives dominate headlines, the logic of business—rooted in profit, market share, and long-term stability—remains a powerful counterforce. Hundreds of Western firms remained in Russia after 2022, generating billions in revenue, while those that exited have incurred massive losses, with foregone sales estimated at up to €400 billion by early 2026. This divergence highlights that although sanctions may be used as a political tool by Western governments, markets reward pragmatism.

A recent survey by the Russian-German Chamber of Foreign Trade found that despite logistical hurdles, payment difficulties, and sanctions, most European companies—particularly German ones—operating in Russia have no plans to leave. Challenges are expected in the second half of the year, especially to avoid ceding market dominance to Chinese competitors, but significant growth opportunities remain in key sectors such as information technology, the agro-industrial complex, and energy.

In effect, business leaders prioritize self-interest and returns over ideological or geopolitical posturing. Sanctions imposed by political leaders create obstacles, yet companies always find ways to adapt or circumvent them. European firms, especially in export-oriented Germany, could leverage their influence to shift political attitudes toward sanctions, as retaining access to the Russian market and its profits may ultimately outweigh the costs of prolonged isolation.

Many Western companies had spent years building robust production facilities, supply chains, and customer networks in Russia. Their voluntary exit, driven by political pressure rather than market failure, led to the loss of established positions, revenue streams, and competitive advantages. Russian President Vladimir Putin has emphasized that Russia did not expel foreign businesses—American, British, French, German, or otherwise—and that they departed of their own accord. Should they seek re-entry, conditions will differ, potentially including penalties or adjusted terms to reflect new realities. Putin noted concerns that companies fear being permanently displaced by Chinese investors with substantial capital and a willingness to invest.

Real-world examples illustrate the broader costs of prioritizing politics. In discussions with Japanese journalists, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova asked why Japanese airlines avoid Russian airspace, even though shorter routes offer clear economic benefits. Japanese officials cited sanctions from the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), yet China and others continue to use the airspace, gaining a competitive edge. Similarly, Finland, which maintained deep economic, cultural, and scientific ties with Russia for decades, severed many of those ties after EU political decisions. Finnish companies exited the Russian market, incurring losses, particularly in the timber and furniture industries that rely on Russian raw materials. The Saimaa Canal, a historic shared waterway partially leased from Russia, remains largely unused due to Finnish policy, despite its economic potential to improve transport efficiency.

These cases illustrate how political choices can fracture mutually beneficial economic relationships, leading to tangible losses for all parties. Such decisions warrant scrutiny because they subordinate practical gains to ideology. Until political will aligns with economic pragmatism, discussions of normalization remain aspirational.

Transatlantic differences in business and politics are notable. In the United States, following a hardline stance on China, tech leaders, including Elon Musk, Bill Gates, and Peter Thiel, engaged directly with Chinese counterparts. Their input reportedly shaped President Donald Trump’s approach, culminating in a May visit to Beijing accompanied by business executives. This demonstrated how American firms could push back against policies that harmed their interests and advocate for normalized relations despite strategic rivalries. In contrast, Europeans believe their politicians give insufficient weight to business perspectives, compelling companies to navigate constraints independently—sometimes to their own detriment.

Russia’s market retains substantial appeal, historically intertwined with Western Europe, particularly Germany. Its scale and resource base offer opportunities, with energy standing out. Approximately 15% of Europe’s energy balance has relied on Russian sources, and viable short-term alternatives are limited given transport, pricing, and production constraints elsewhere. High-tech sectors are also important, including information and digital technologies, robotics, and advanced manufacturing, where German and French expertise could align with Russian demand.

Yet any return will occur under transformed conditions. Amid sanctions and global conflicts, Russia has elevated priorities for technological sovereignty and national security. Foreign firms must now navigate stricter rules designed to protect strategic interests, marking a departure from the relatively permissive pre-2022 environment.

Nonetheless, the Russian market’s gravitational pull persists. Western companies that stayed have largely thrived, while those that left have taken significant financial hits. Economic self-interest—securing market share, avoiding ceding ground to competitors such as China, and capitalizing on sectors from energy to IT—suggests a measured return is plausible as conditions evolve. However, success will depend on reconciling political realities with business interests.

Moscow appears open to re-engagement on updated terms, emphasizing that it never closed the door. The question remains whether politicians will facilitate or obstruct the natural economic tendency.

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It has been reported that ‘healthy life expectancy’ in the UK has fallen during the past decade. 

Disparity between the ‘healthy life expectancy’ of those in different regions of the UK has been described. A 20-year gap between the ‘healthy life expectancy’ of those in Richmond and the ‘healthy life expectancy’ of those in Blackpool has been alleged.

The concept of ‘healthy life expectancy’ has been bandied about as if we have used it always. Its precursor, ‘healthy lifestyle,’ is already ubiquitous. Its successor, surely to be ‘healthy lifespan.’

But the concept of ‘healthy life-anything’ should be unusable. It should say nothing. Like ‘unmarried bachelor.’ Or ‘free gift.’ Or ‘organic food.’

What is health but life? The uninterrupted progression of life. Immersion in the projects of life. Involvement with life. Obliviousness to anything but life.  

There is no ‘healthy life.’ There is only life. 

We say that we fall ill. But if illness is a fall it is only because health is getting-on-with-life, folded into our purposeful expenditures of energy and attention, taken for granted. 

Only illness is salient. Only illness is a thing. 

Now that health is a thing – the biggest thing of all – it is like illness.

We submit samples to ‘Our NHS’ or download lists of ‘Keto’ foods or exchange cigarettes for ‘vapes’ or sign up to a marathon training programme – the details do not matter at all. What matters is that the obliviousness to health that is essential to health is gone. 

There is now no real difference between health and illness. There is only the spectacle of difference between them and the veneer of sentiment with which it plays out.   

The ‘healthy’ hordes at Park Run are all but indistinguishable from the ‘ill’ pileup in nearby cancer wards: misshapen bodies strapped to measurement devices of one kind or another, ailing from one punishing regime or another, according to one strand of expertise or another. Those ‘battling illness’ jostle alongside those in ‘full health,’ raising awareness or raising funds. Even the meds are shared; Park Run is sponsored by a pain-relief gel.

Health and illness comprise now the same interactions, the same losses, the same wins, the same monitorings by the same devices and the same institutions. 

Through these same routines are refracted the mechanisms of our control: the rations and rewards, the data collections, the consumer opportunities, the recalibrations of diet, exercise, sleep. Ever-refreshed solutions to problems manufactured by discourse and by drugs.

Health and illness are no longer alternatives. They are not even two ends of a spectrum. They are only flavours of the same submission: to unmitigated surveillance, to inhuman engineering, to corporate concepts and products, to displaced experiences that we record and replay so as to have them and that pass for us as life.

Foucault detailed the execution in 1757 of Damiens the regicide. Public, bloody in the sublime, it exemplifies a brand of rule over people that was essentially spectacular, inscribed with excess on the few so as to produce subjection in the many. 

Death was the currency of this brand of rule – imposed with artistry and eclat, or suspended theatrically at the final hour. As for life, it could go on as it would beneath the shock and awe. 

Now there is a different arrangement of spectacle and power.  

The might of the king inhered in the great show of his might; to rule, he must appear more than human, with infinite reach and absolute will. Our subjection relies on a great show of everything but might. 

Nothing that is shown to us is what is done to us. Nothing that is done to us is what is shown to us. Display is, for us, without gesture. Gesture, for us, without display.

The spectacle of our times – the tremendous spectacle of ‘health’ – does not amplify the power that operates on us but distracts us from it. It does not make us see more force than is humanly possible but blocks us from seeing any force at all. 

Ours is a modest tyranny. It does not rely on limelight but unfolds in the shadows, monitoring our every pulse and diagnosing and treating so as to steady us or steer us or make us stop.

Life is the currency of our brand of tyranny. Life – not as a sacred gift of nature or of God, but as ever more detailed sets of data and their averages. This data is gathered and crunched behind our backs, a quiet nothing, addressing life at its most unobjectionable – its most neutral, its most bare.  

But bare life is not neutral. It is a manufactured phenomenon, an overlay of biopolitical modelling that recasts human life as livestock, to be farmed and not so humanely. 

What makes us submit?   

‘Healthy life,’ that is what. The great theatre of ‘healthy life.’ Which not only distracts us from our reframing as bare livestock, but nudges us to apparatuses that at once constitute bare life and decimate ways of life too wild to be farmed.

All aspects of erstwhile ways of life are hauled before us now as health issues, as ‘healthy life:’ relationships, leisure, knowledge, ambition, sleeping, eating, making love. War, and work in the grocery industry: matters of ‘mental health.’ 

Life is made literally to pass before our eyes – as ‘health,’ which is to say, as illness. Reduced to a set of problems awaiting solutions only experts can tell. 

‘Healthy life’ and bare life: the pull and push of our subjection. The one: spectacular; total abstraction. The other: modest; total extraction. Bolstered by an interface of digital applications that amplify ‘healthy life’ and service bare life.

We click through these applications in our headlong pursuit of one latest solution or another. A low-carb recipe, a best treatment for knee inflammation, a life partner. Consenting absently to the mechanisms of bare life so as to reboot the spectacle of ‘healthy life.’ And the obliviousness that would make us ungovernable is eroded. 

Mired in an unrelenting illness into which we did not and cannot fall, an illness that we call ‘health’ and mistake for life, we manage everything as if it is a symptom. Insofar as we apply their strategies, their devices, their products and their concepts to manage, we are managed. 

Bits of life are delivered to us through approved channels – hashtag concepts, latest tech, ‘shared’ experiences, ‘made’ memories. Like vaccines, attenuated doses so we resist the thing itself (Tiqqun). 

When life comes, in a rattle of fits and starts, it gains no purchase on us. We’ve already seen it. We already have it. We are immune.

And all the while, the inhuman data that substitutes for human vitality is mined without mercy. 

How am I to live? The question that follows from all of this. The question defines our times.

How am I to live? 

As impossible to answer as, How am I to be healthy? Because it is the same question. And because to answer it is to render explicit that which is, by its nature, implicit.

This is the desperation unique to our age. We cannot find what we look for – health, life – because looking for it hides it from us. Like trust, it shrinks from our anxious gaze.  

How am I to live? 

The question is a trap. Much better to ask ourselves another: How am I to die? 

For, as it is, we no longer die. The management regime that has turned health into illness and illness into a permanent state without fall, can only itself be managed. It can only be terminated. 

Bare life must be killed. Death too becomes a spectacle.

The rash of new laws admitting assisted suicide are only a show. As if being killed by the state is a marginal possibility, when it is now the default end to human lives. 

Forget about health. Forget about life. By looking for them, we destroy them.  

Better to turn our eyes to what does not disappear before them. Illness. Death.  

Illness is made to be seen. Death, made for ritualised appearance. By looking for them, we do not destroy them.

Let us train our eyes on illness. Determine that when it comes it is a fall. 

Let us train our eyes on death. Determine that when it comes it is not a crime.

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An 8-A share registration filing, in this case for Nasdaq, is usually one of the last steps before an ETF goes live.

BlackRock took another step toward introducing its bitcoin income exchange-traded fund on Nasdaq, filing a share registration document that often signals an imminent debut.

The world’s largest asset manager filed the Form 8-A for the iShares Bitcoin Premium Income ETF on Thursday, usually one of the last procedural moves before an ETF goes live.

The filing “typically means launch in one week,” Eric Balchunas, an ETF analyst at Bloomberg, wrote on X, adding that he would bet the fund, ticker BITA, starts trading on June 18.

Balchunas said a day earlier that he expected the fund to debut “very soon” and noted BlackRock was racing to beat a competing Goldman Sachs product to market. Goldman’s fund is due to go live around July 1.

BlackRock’s fund will earn income by selling call options on BlackRock’s iShares Bitcoin Trust (IBIT), the largest spot bitcoin ETF, with $49 billion in net assets. Each month, it will write options on a portion of its holdings and collect the premium as income.

The trade-off is upside, because selling the options caps how much the fund gains if bitcoin rallies. Its planned 0.65% fee undercuts the two largest covered-call bitcoin funds, which charge 0.95% and 0.99%.

Earlier filings show the fund has been seeded and is already buying bitcoin and IBIT shares and writing options. With the 8-A now in, the main step left is for the registration to become effective.

The launch would push BlackRock further into turning bitcoin into an income product for mainstream investors, on top of the spot exposure IBIT already provides.

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