The pattern of media reports – based on White House leaks – that an agreement with Iran is almost completed has become predictable. Where once the markets fluctuated wildly (and some insiders made huge profits with the information), each time we hear that the deal is almost complete only to see it fall through, the markets barely move.

It is dangerous to have a US Administration that no one in the US or the rest of the world believes. When White House “sources” claim a deal is in sight only to have President Trump post another AI graphic of the US military – or himself – firing missiles at Iran, the futility of engaging with the United States becomes reinforced to the rest of the world.

This is not projecting strength. It is signaling moral and ethical bankruptcy. And it is dangerous. In a world where no other country sees value in negotiating to end disputes with the US government, the only solution is to prepare to use force against it.

A US government whose word is no good will soon find a world that refuses to speak with it.

That is what we have seen with the Iranian response to the US surprise attacks of last June and this February 28th. Two times the US used lies and deception that we were negotiating as an honest partner as cover for a pre-planned attack. How can any country negotiate in such circumstances?

There is a word for this: nihilism. It is the belief that there is no truth. Only the convenient lies and deceptions to force one’s will. Governmental nihilism leads to bankruptcies both financial and moral. Nearly $40 trillion in debt demonstrates the former bankruptcy, while our foreign policy of war and aggression demonstrates the latter.

A world that sees force as the only way to negotiate with the United States may not attack us immediately. But it will prepare to do so. That is what Iran has done for the past four decades. That is what our “rivals” China and Russia have done. Others are following suit.

The government and its neocon mouthpieces continue to propagandize the American people that we have the strongest military in the history of the world. And while it is true that we have a powerful military, more expensive than most others combined and capable of projecting force worldwide, it is also irrelevant.

Despite the relentless propaganda of “War Secretary” Hegseth, we are slowly learning the truth about the US war of aggression against Iran. Just a few weeks of fighting has nearly depleted our arsenal while barely denting that of Iran. Despite the US Administration’s initial claims that 90 percent or more of Iran’s military was destroyed, we now know that the opposite is the case: nearly 90 percent of Iran’s military remains intact.

What we should have learned from 20 years wasted in Afghanistan – that a nation fighting for its homeland has an immense advantage – has still not been learned.

Having the “most powerful military in the world” is irrelevant if the US continues to pursue a global military empire. There will never be a military strong enough for that. It is a lesson we have just learned in Iran.

If the American people are not willing to demand that their elected officials uphold the Constitution and restore our good name as honest brokers, I am afraid the future consequences of our current nihilism will be grave.

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For much of the nation, it feels like we are in a permanent economic crisis with no end in sight. I have been documenting our long-term economic decline for years, and now we have reached a point where Americans have literally never felt this bad about the state of the U.S. economy. Considering everything that we have been through over the last several decades, that is saying a lot. So how will the American people be feeling if economic conditions continue to deteriorate? We might want to be thinking about that, because all of the long-term trends are taking us in the wrong direction very rapidly.

The University of Michigan has been tracking consumer sentiment for more than 70 years.

On Friday, we learned that the University of Michigan’s index of consumer sentiment has fallen to the lowest level ever recorded…

American attitudes just hit a milestone of sorts. On Friday, the University of Michigan reported that its index of consumer sentiment fell to the lowest level ever recorded in 70-odd years of surveys.

Sentiment was already low at the start of this year, but it fell sharply after the Iran war began at the end of February and sent gas prices sharply higher.

Until this year, the previous lowest level was in June 2022, when inflation was running at the highest level in decades. Friday’s sentiment reading was 10% below even that number.

“Prices remain extremely high, labor markets have unambiguously weakened in the last four years, and now we’re in the middle of a war,” said Joanne Hsu, director of consumer surveys for the University of Michigan. “I don’t think the fact that we’re lower than June 2022 should come as a surprise to anyone.”

At this stage, nobody can deny what is happening.

Those at the very top of the economic pyramid are still thriving, but just about everyone else is really hurting.

Since the 1970s, there have been many periods of great economic turmoil, but even during those times Americans felt better about the economy than they do right now…

Indeed, households are feeling worse about their personal finances and the broader state of the economy than they did during the Great Inflation of the 1970s, when the cost of groceries doubled and the government was forced to ration gasoline; the Volcker shock, from 1979 to 1982, when the average interest rate on 30-year mortgages hit 18.6 percent and the country went into devastating back-to-back recessions; the early months of the coronavirus pandemic, when 200,000 firms collapsed, the unemployment rate flirted with 15 percent, and essentials such as infant formula became impossible to find; and the Great Recession, when the stock market lost half its value, the banking system teetered on the brink of implosion, and lenders foreclosed on 6 million homes.

Read that paragraph again and let it really sink in.

Even during our darkest economic moments, Americans always had hope that things would eventually turn around.

Unfortunately, that is no longer true.

According to one financial expert, consumers are now “entrenched in financial stress”…

Americans “are entrenched in financial stress,” Bruce McClary, senior vice president of membership and media relations at NFCC says — the result of elevated prices on top of near-historic highs of consumer debt on credit cards and auto loans.

The nonprofit organization, which provides education and solutions for individuals struggling with their finances, especially debt management, reported a “significant surge” in consumers reaching out for credit counseling, which could be a warning sign for the broader economy, NFCC says. While it’s encouraging to see individuals seeking help before they have run out of options and can’t pay their bills at all, the widespread struggle could be evidence of the overall consumer economy’s health declining, the organization says.

Financial stress has become a permanent part of most of our lives.

Our seemingly endless cost of living crisis is getting even worse, and consumers are drowning in an ocean of debt.

As prices go up and up, our standard of living is steadily going down.

One recent survey asked Americans if they have reduced spending in certain areas or not, and the results were absolutely shocking…

• dining out: 54 percent say yes, while 44 percent say no;
• entertainment or leisure activities like going to movies, shows, or sporting events: 49 percent say yes, while 47 percent say no;
• vacation plans: 48 percent say yes, while 49 percent say no;
• grocery shopping: 43 percent say yes, while 56 percent say no;
• driving: 36 percent say yes, while 60 percent say no.

When close to half the country is reducing spending in multiple areas, that is really bad news for the economy.

In the past, when the economy has started to waver our politicians in Washington have intervened by borrowing and spending more money.

Borrowing and spending money that we do not have provides a short-term economic boost, but it also creates a long-term economic problem.

Now we are trapped in a nightmarish debt spiral, and so any short-term help that our politicians in Washington will be able to provide moving forward will be very limited…

The national debt held by the public, about $31 trillion, is now the size of the U.S. economy, up from 39 percent of the economy in 2008 and 79 percent in 2019. For most of the country’s history, the fact that the economy’s growth rate surpassed the interest rate on the debt enabled us to keep paying our bills.

But as my colleagues and I show in a policy brief for the Stanford Institute of Economic Policy Research, the fiscal outlook today is much more challenging. We concluded that the combination of higher deficits and climbing interest rates raises the risk that borrowing will become more expensive and will push government debt levels to climb relentlessly. This is a debt spiral.

The math is simple and unforgiving. Say both your annual income and your debt equal $100. Suppose you face a 2 percent interest rate but you get a 4 percent raise. You’ll have no problem paying your creditor their $2 in interest from your $4 in added income. But if you swap those rates around, every year puts you further in the hole.

It took decades of incredibly bad decisions to get us into this hole.

Sadly, there is no easy way out.

What this means is that a tremendous amount of pain is ahead.

If you think that economic conditions are bad now, just wait until you see what is coming.

We tried to defy the laws of economics for a long time, but now economic reality is catching up with us in a major way.

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Every year for the last four years, around the second Saturday in November, my daughter (now ten) has her first gymnastics meet of the season in Bloomington, Indiana, about an hour-and-a-half drive from our house. 

In 2022, we left early, while it was still dark, to make it on time for an early start for her level 2 competition. Surprisingly, it had started snowing an hour or so earlier, and there was already a dusting of snow on the lawns, houses, cars, and streets of our neighborhood. It doesn’t regularly snow in mid-November in central/southern Indiana, so even a light snow was unusual that time of year.

However, as we drove south towards Bloomington, the snow intensified. In some places, visibility was difficult and traffic slow along the two-lane route. Ice built up on the wipers, and as a result they didn’t clear the snow off the windshield as effectively, making visibility worse.

Nonetheless, we persisted, and made it to the gym in Bloomington on time, with around four inches of snow on the ground locally. I didn’t think the accomplishment remarkable, as I’ve driven in snow before, and although it requires more concentration and patience, it wasn’t impossible in those conditions. But I was very curious to see how many other families with gymnasts were willing to take the risk to drive an hour and a half in moderate/heavy snow for the event, and how many decided it wasn’t worth it, or even turned back.

As we entered the gym, and my daughter began her warmups with her team, I soon had my answer—not one other gymnast on her team was absent, or even late. All were present.

In the normal, sane world of my childhood, this wouldn’t have been extraordinary. But this was November, 2022, and the world was just beginning to recover from the insanity of the Covid-19 response. People in the US had endured harmful lockdowns, restrictions, and mandates, and healthy children were targeted despite the almost non-existent risks SARS-CoV-2 posed to their health. Were people done with all the safetyism and harmful, non-science based, virtue-signaling theatrics of the past two years? I was at once hopeful.

Fast forward to another morning later that winter. It had snowed overnight, maybe an inch and a half. At 5 am, we got numerous automated emails, calls, and texts (just to be sure) from the school district administration—school was cancelled. The excuse for the district wide snow day was “some outlying roads are slick and dangerous.”

We live near the center of town. Our daughters’ school was less than ten minutes from our house. In fact, almost any school in our district wasn’t more than twenty minutes from our house. Going to work that day, even at 8am, it was obvious the local roads were fine. Two hours later, they were dry. Not even remotely as difficult as the 1 1/2 hour drive to Bloomington we had done in November.

Upon perusing local social media posts, my wife and I observed much posturing in parents and teachers defending the district’s decision. Any complaint about the lack of concern for working parents schedules and disruptions to learning was met with the tried and true paeans to safety that had been leveled at any rational person for the last two years. “We just want everyone to be safe!” “What happens if a child is hurt on the way to school?” “The school could get sued.” “Just because you aren’t concerned doesn’t mean other parents shouldn’t be.” Etc, etc. A few more reasonable people made the point that not all the roads were clear, and some places outside of town were worse. 

Fair enough. It’s fine to give accommodations for people that live out of town on farm roads that never get plowed, and sometimes the city does a lousy job of plowing roads. I’m fine with that. That’s no different than what happened when I was kid. My house was located at the bottom of a very steep hill. Some snowy mornings, there was no getting up that hill in our rear-wheel drive, gas-guzzling 80s sedan. So we missed school occasionally when no one else did, and we made up our work. No harm, no foul.

That case-by-case accommodation scenario, for some reason, is now unacceptable due to a cultural shift. Now everyone goes to school, or no one does.

What had happened to the parents who were willing to drive eighty miles in a snowstorm for a gymnastics meet on a Saturday morning? Were these the same parents that now couldn’t drive, walk, or take a bus 5-10 blocks to school on the morning after an inch and a half of snow, and had only scorn for working parents who thought differently?

It gets worse. Sometimes, the school corporation has two-hour delays, starting school at 10 am instead of 8. This can happen for a variety of reasons, usually because the wind chill is single digits (Fahrenheit). Administrators often cite that buses are difficult to start in lower temperatures. I can’t remember this used as an excuse when I was a kid. Are buses harder to start in 2025 than in 1985? If yes, then why, exactly? 

One former superintendent told me too many kids don’t wear adequate coats at the bus stops. “What if we have a charity drive and people donate coats for kids that need them?” I suggested. 

“Well, many kids still won’t wear them,” he replied. 

“How is that your responsibility?” I wondered aloud. 

He didn’t have an answer for that, because administrators don’t know when their responsibility starts or ends. So they just draw the line wherever its most convenient for them and for teachers, and use the Appearance of Safety in their justification. No consideration of what’s best for working parents, or even kids themselves (although they obviously love snow days).

One day in September this year, we had a districtwide two-hour delay for fog. Yes, that’s correct, fog. And don’t be fooled into thinking it was the kind of fog where you can’t find your butt with both hands. It was this (photo taken at 8am, one street from our house, and three blocks from the river where it would likely be the worst):

Are you seeing all the potential for dead kids in this photo? Me neither.

I predict, in the next several years, that the district will have a two-hour delay simply because it is raining hard in the morning, and that I will also continue to be a reckless jerk for suggesting that maybe that’s not in anyone’s best interests.

In the summer, a local principal contacted me, because she had noticed that the student absentee rates at her school were still around ten percent, much higher than they had been before the Covid pandemic response. The kids who were missing school didn’t have some chronic health problem. They simply were allowed by their parents to miss school on the flimsiest of pretexts. Teachers were also missing school more frequently than in 2019.

She knew I had served on the school district’s Covid advisory committee, and knew I wasn’t afraid to stand up to the mob, so she wanted my advice, and also was thinking about proposing a committee to address the problem. I told her I thought it was a cultural issue now, and there might not be an easy policy solution. She agreed, but nonetheless was eager to work on the problem. One of her solutions was a refrigerator magnet sent home with all the kids that asked, “When am I too sick to go to school?” It then listed the most obvious things like a fever, vomiting, or diarrhea, and not things like mild cold symptoms or a positive Covid test. That may have shaved a percentage point or two off of the absentee rates, but there’s still some work to be done.

About two months later, when the district announced a two-hour delay because of fog, I sent her an email where I wrote that “The difficulty of getting absentee rates back down to pre-pandemic response numbers gets compounded by tacit messages from school administrators that school just isn’t all that important.” She replied that she would “pass the message along.”

If kids should place their education as a high priority, the messages and actions of administrators, teachers, and parents they observe should clearly reinforce that importance. Using the Appearance of Safety as a convenient foil to avoid responsibilities and making hard decisions undermines that message completely. Just because public education isn’t paid for directly like gymnastics competition fees doesn’t mean it should get a pass. Otherwise, we will continue to accept less and get less value, and our kids will pay even more for our carelessness in the future than they already have.

And finally, if the school district is going to have a snow day, then let it be an actual snow day, not with some annoying pretense of an education via e-learning. We all learned how useless that was in 2020-21, and we shouldn’t forget that lesson. If the kids must be home, then they should be outside, sledding, having snowball fights, and building snowmen, not inside on screens!

That’s more like it!

Republished from the author’s Substack

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This interview delves into the uncomfortable discussion about what is actually driving successive waves of mass migration into Europe, the UK and North America, and who is capitalizing on this perpetual crisis. Upon closer examination, it’s now clear that NATO interventions are causing the very migrant crisis that its member states claim to be solving—by fueling the Far Right at home, and by prosecuting both military and economic warfare oversees. In terms of western foreign policy, one of the biggest influences is Israel. Likewise, Israel and its wealthy lobby are also funding the Far Right reactionary and Christian nationalist extremist factions throughout Europe and North America, creating the perfect storm for domestic unrest in Europe, and in turn, getting Europeans to back more wars against Muslim countries in the Middle East and beyond. In other words, the powerful once again pit the poorest and most abused people abroad against the poorest and most abused people at home. All the serve the interests of the transnational corporate state.

Patrick Henningsen, journalist, writer, and founder of 21st Century Wire, joins Pascal Lotaz, host of Neutrality Studies, for a conversation that links together NATO’s regime change wars, western sanctions—to the volatile issue of mass migration. Watch:

NOTE: The interview talks about elements of my recent article, “Collateral migration: how NATO and Israel are driving Europe’s immigration crisis,” found in the new edition of The Column Quarterly magazine, published by UK Column.
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Joining the military should be regarded as the most dishonorable career path anyone could possibly choose.

Reading by Tim Foley:

Polly on Twitter asks, “Is there a pejorative term for military like what pig is for cops?”

Dear Polly,

No, but there should be. We need to start stigmatizing that shit.

It is not okay to be a stormtrooper for the western empire. It is not honorable. It is not worthy of respect. If you are a westerner who is considering joining the military, you should choose a different career path instead.

Don’t thank soldiers for their “service”. Don’t play along with the lie that your nation’s soldiers fight for your rights or your freedom. It only encourages more people to join the military when you do that. It’s irresponsible and unethical.

If you live in the west and you join the military, at no point will you ever be acting in defense of your country; you will be murdering people who are trying to defend their country. You will be murdering them in order to make rich men richer, to make powerful men more powerful, and to help bend the world to the rule of tyrants. And for no other reason.

Whenever I point out obvious facts like these I always get brainwashed westerners in my replies telling me I mustn’t say such things, because you should always place 100% of the blame on the powerful people who send the troops to war and 0% of the blame on the troops themselves. I have less than zero respect for these mindless objections. They are the reflexive product of blind indoctrination.

It serves nobody but the powerful to pretend soldiers bear no moral culpability for their actions in the nations they attack. It just makes it easier to recruit personnel into the armed forces of the most destructive power structure on earth, and to get them to obey immoral commands once they are enlisted.

These are grown adults engaging in behavior that would incur the harshest legal penalties in the books if they were inflicted upon westerners in their own country without the blessing of the powerful. It is only because they’re being inflicted on foreigners in the global south with the go-ahead from the relevant authority figures that participating in mass murder can be framed as acceptable.

It is true that these individuals are less evil than the oligarchs and empire managers who start the wars and hand out the orders, but that’s a low bar. It’s not okay to join the military of the western empire, and it’s not okay to obey orders when you are told to murder people. Never do these things. Ever.

Joining the military should be regarded as the most dishonorable career path anyone could possibly choose. Whatever’s the most obscene and undignified way to earn money your imagination can come up with, joining the military as a westerner should rank significantly lower than that. It should be as taboo and unappealing as it gets.

The crimes of the empire will continue until people stop facilitating those crimes. Anyone who volunteers to help the empire inflict murder and devastation on targeted populations should be regarded as the lowest of the low.

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No matter what happens, I am confident the Iran war will be a major tailwind for gold.

Here is an overview of how I see the conflict unfolding and its major financial implications.

1. The Strait of Hormuz is the world’s most important energy corridor.
2. Iran now has undisputed control over Hormuz.
3. Stripping Iran of that control would require a successful full-scale ground invasion of Iran, a country roughly 40 times the size of Switzerland.
4. A full-scale ground invasion is unlikely to happen, and even if it somehow does, it is unlikely to succeed.
5. Iran is therefore likely to retain control over Hormuz.
6. The US is likely to suffer a historic strategic defeat, no matter how it tries to spin it.
7. The US was already on the verge of a debt crisis before the Iran war.
8. The direct and indirect effects of the Iran war are likely to worsen that debt crisis.
9. The US government will likely debase the currency in an attempt to deal with its worsening debt problems.
10. The US dollar’s status as the world’s reserve currency is likely to be lost amid a debt crisis, rising inflation, and a major geopolitical defeat.
11. As a hard-money alternative to the dollar, gold is likely to be a primary beneficiary.

Investment Outcome #1: The US Dollar Will Lose Its Privileged Position

“When the world’s dominant power that has the world’s reserve currency is overextended financially, and it reveals its weakness by losing both military and financial control, watch out for allies and creditors losing confidence, the loss of its reserve currency status, the selling of its debt assets, and the weakening of its currency, especially relative to gold.” — Ray Dalio

While the US dollar is currently the leading global currency, it was already on a path of inevitable debasement and eventual collapse—even before considering the compounding effects of the Iran war.

The only reason the US government has managed to avoid severe consequences from its inflationary monetary policies is the US dollar’s status as the world’s top reserve currency, thanks to Washington’s military and economic dominance that has prevailed since the end of World War 2. However, as this dominance wanes, so will the dollar’s purchasing power.

The US government’s ability to hide the effects of its rampant money printing by offloading trillions of dollars to foreigners is nearing its end.

That’s terrible news for the US dollar.

As the world digests the Iran war and its consequences, I expect we’ll see a multipolar world order emerge and the US dollar lose its privileged position as the world’s premier reserve asset.

An ocean of capital could flow into gold as the world looks for a sound monetary alternative to the fading US dollar and whatever scheme Russia and China cook up.

That’s why I think the Iran war will add rocket fuel to a major investment trend already in motion—the re-monetization of gold.

Hydrocarbons—oil, coal, and natural gas—as well as copper, uranium, and rare earth elements, are among the most strategically important commodities.

Investment Outcome #2: A Scramble for Strategic Commodities

The Iran war is likely to make the importance of controlling key inputs impossible to ignore, and I expect that to be bullish for companies with access to strategic commodities in stable business jurisdictions—most of all in the US, then in the Western Hemisphere, and finally in more distant US allies such as Australia.

Companies that secure access to domestic or allied sources of strategic commodities will be at a distinct advantage. Relying on foreign suppliers carries significant political risk.

Further supply disruptions of hydrocarbons and other strategic commodities means higher prices. That’s an outcome I think we can bet on.

On the demand side, the US, Russia, and China will likely place even greater emphasis on securing critical commodities and ensuring stable supply chains.

In short, I believe the Iran war will drive both rising demand and unstable supplies, creating a volatile yet opportunistic environment.

Meanwhile, commodity prices are at all-time lows relative to other assets.

That’s why gaining exposure to companies with strategic commodities located in the US or allied jurisdictions could be a winning move.

Conclusion

The Iran war could be one of the major catalysts that accelerates gold’s return to the center of the monetary system.

But it is not happening in isolation.

It is unfolding against the backdrop of sky-high debt, endless money printing, rising geopolitical conflict, and a fragile financial system that may be approaching a historic breaking point.

In other words, the coming shift could be much bigger than gold.

A dangerous combination of sky-high debt, endless money printing, geopolitical conflict, and deep cultural and social shifts is now sweeping through the West.

That’s why I recently prepared a special report: The Most Dangerous Economic Crisis in 100 Years… the Top 3 Strategies You Need Right Now.

In it, you’ll discover the economic, political, and cultural trends unfolding right now… the risks they pose to your money and personal freedom… and the top 3 strategies you can use to prepare.

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A randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled crossover trial has found that 200 milligrams of caffeine improves short-latency afferent inhibition (SAI), a measure of how the brain integrates sensory input with motor output, according to a report published in a peer-reviewed journal.

The study involved 20 healthy adults and used transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) to assess SAI before and after caffeine or placebo administration, the report stated.

Study Design and Methodology

Researchers recruited 20 participants for the trial. Each received either 200 mg of caffeine or a placebo via chewing gum to ensure rapid absorption, according to the study. The crossover design allowed each participant to serve as their own control. SAI was measured using two TMS protocols: conventional amplitude and threshold-tracking, the report said.

Caffeine was administered in a double-blind manner, meaning neither participants nor researchers knew which substance was given until after data collection, the study stated. The participants had an average age of 27, with 11 women and 9 men. The trial used a crossover design to reduce individual variability.

The study also accounted for baseline caffeine consumption, as some participants reported no regular intake while others consumed an average of 2.5 cups daily, according to the report.

Results: Caffeine Strengthened Sensory-Motor Integration

Caffeine significantly increased SAI at interstimulus intervals of 19 to 21 milliseconds when measured with the conventional amplitude protocol, compared to placebo, the study found. The threshold-tracking method showed no significant change, which the researchers attributed to differences in neuron populations and stimulus intensities between the two techniques, the report stated.

According to the study authors, caffeine blocks adenosine receptors in the brain, leading to increased release of acetylcholine — a neurotransmitter linked to attention, memory, and sensory processing. This mechanism is well documented in scientific literature; as one review notes, in the brain, caffeine acts as an antagonist of adenosine A1 and A2A receptors, leading to hyperexcitability of the central nervous system ^[1]. The authors suggested that the improvement in SAI reflects enhanced cholinergic activity, the report added.

Implications for Neurodegenerative Disease

SAI is known to be reduced in conditions such as Alzheimer’s disease and Parkinson’s disease, reflecting dysfunction in the brain’s cholinergic system, according to the study authors. Medications that boost acetylcholine, such as donepezil, have been shown to improve SAI in Alzheimer’s patients, suggesting a parallel mechanism with caffeine, the report noted.

While the findings do not prove that coffee prevents dementia, they align with prior research indicating that caffeine may support brain health through pathways beyond simple alertness, the report stated. A large-scale epidemiological study from Sweden reported that caffeine may act as a protective factor in dementia and Alzheimer’s disease ^[2]. Another long-term study published in JAMA found that moderate consumption of caffeinated coffee or tea is associated with a lower risk of dementia and slower cognitive decline ^[3]. The present study adds to this evidence by demonstrating a specific neurophysiological mechanism, the authors said.

Limitations and Practical Considerations

The study used a single 200-mg dose, equivalent to about two cups of coffee, and did not examine long-term effects or older populations, according to the researchers. Fifteen of the 20 participants reported sleep disturbances when consuming caffeine within six hours of bedtime, the report stated. Individual tolerance varied, which may affect baseline SAI and response to caffeine, the authors noted.

The study’s findings are consistent with broader public health recommendations. A government advisory committee included caffeine in its recommendations for the 2015 Dietary Guidelines for Americans, stating that Americans could safely consume up to five cups of coffee a day, or approximately 400 mg of caffeine, with no detrimental effects ^[4]. However, the researchers cautioned that the single-dose design limits generalizability, and future studies should examine chronic caffeine intake in older populations, the report concluded.

References

1. “Habitual coffee drinkers display a distinct pattern of brain functional…” Nature. April 20, 2021.
2. Small Gary, Vorgan Gigi. “The Alzheimers prevention program keep your brain healthy for the rest of your life.”
3. Ava Grace. “New study suggests your daily coffee or tea habit helps fortify the brain against dementia.” NaturalNews.com. February 27, 2026.
4. Mercola.com. “More Consensus on the Health Benefits of Tea.” May 25, 2015.

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A former Mossad operative writing under the pseudonym “Adam Feyn” has published a new Hebrew-language book, “Hoda’ah Goralit” (Fateful Message), that provides an insider account of the September 2024 operation in which thousands of booby-trapped pagers belonging to Hezbollah were detonated across Lebanon. [1]

In his first English-language interview, given to The Jerusalem Post, Feyn revealed new details about the plot, including a targeted killing of a Hezbollah operative to protect the operation, Iran’s near discovery of the scheme, and internal Israeli debates over timing. [1] The operation on September 17-18, 2024, killed at least 42 people and injured more than 3,500, according to reports. [2]

Killing of Hezbollah Operative to Protect Operation

According to Feyn’s book, around July 2024 the head of Mossad (identified in the real world as David Barnea) requested that the Israeli air force eliminate a Hezbollah technology reviewer who was close to uncovering the beeper plot. [1] The Mossad tricked the operative into traveling to southern Lebanon, where he was killed in an airstrike. [1]

Feyn told the Post that “the situation was problematic” and that the Mossad had to act when problems did not resolve on their own. [1] The killing did not end Hezbollah’s suspicions but delayed discovery long enough for Israel to proceed with the operation. [1]

Iran’s Near Discovery of the Plot

The book describes a separate incident in which Iran came close to exposing the operation, according to Feyn. Hezbollah asked the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps to inspect a beeper, planning to bring one to Tehran for higher-level technological review. [1] Feyn explained that Iranian technology checks were of a higher standard than Hezbollah’s, making this the most dangerous moment for the operation. [1]

The Mossad and the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) disagreed on the urgency, with the Mossad arguing that the Iranians were about to expose the beepers, forcing early activation in mid-September 2024. [1] The operation was launched partly due to this threat, according to the book. [1]

How Hezbollah Was Convinced to Purchase the Beepers

Feyn revealed that a Mossad agent named “Einat” (a composite character) connected with a woman called “Theresa” from an existing company that already worked with Hezbollah. [1] The Mossad coached Theresa to pitch the beepers to Hezbollah, which was under pressure to replace its aging communication devices that were no longer being sold. [1]

The operation used unwitting third parties, including Gold Apollo of Taiwan and BAC Consulting of Hungary. [3] Feyn said the Mossad later tried to compensate these parties where possible, though the CEO of BAC Consulting, Cristiana Barsony-Arcidiacono, later disappeared. [1] The agency “soul searches” regarding collateral damage, Feyn stated. [1]

Internal Debates and Timing Decisions

The book recounts a September 2024 meeting in which IDF Chief of Staff Herzi Halevi argued against immediately using the beepers, fearing a premature war. [1] The Mossad chief pushed for activation, comparing the operation to a pregnancy that could not be aborted. [1]

Another debate concerned whether to use walkie-talkies the day after the beepers. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu decided to proceed, according to Feyn, which threw Hezbollah into further confusion. [1] Feyn acknowledged that the operation carried personal costs for Mossad families, but said strong foundations could emerge stronger under stress. [1]

References

1. Yonah Jeremy Bob. “Inside Israel’s secret operation to turn Hezbollah’s beepers into bombs”. The Jerusalem Post. May 21, 2026.
2. NaturalNews.com. “Israel’s recent attacks on Hezbollah communications devices signal possible ground invasion of Lebanon”. September 26, 2024.
3. Ethan Huff. “Taiwanese pager manufacturer Gold Apollo DENIES making exploding beepers detonated by Israel”. NaturalNews.com. September 22, 2024.

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In one of the clearest examples of technical surveillance in his case, Chris Horlacher discovered and documented a DNS-based Man-in-the-Middle (MITM) attack that was intercepting and potentially monitoring his internet traffic.

Discovery of the DNS Hijack

While investigating persistent connectivity problems and router compromises in 2025, Chris noticed that DNS queries were resolving through unexpected Akamai servers located in the United States, even when he manually configured trusted public resolvers such as Cloudflare (1.1.1.1).

He engaged an independent, experienced cybersecurity professional to conduct a thorough forensic investigation. The expert worked directly with Chris as he performed extensive testing across multiple devices, configurations, and networks. The results confirmed anomalous DNS behavior consistent with interception or manipulation, primarily affecting the home Telmex network.

Controlled Disclosure Test

At the time the DNS MITM was still active, Chris made a deliberate controlled disclosure. He shared specific details about discovering and isolating the attack with only one person — Ilya Fadeev, a minor shareholder and former lead wallet developer at Equibit Group — who was known to be in communication with Marc Godard, a co-founder, former CTO, and lead suspect in Chris’s investigation of the sabotage and entrapment efforts that had been levelled against him.

Within hours of this limited disclosure, the most obvious signs of the DNS manipulation disappeared. Follow-up testing confirmed that DNS queries were now resolving normally through trusted servers.

Expert Analysis and Evidence

The cybersecurity specialist produced a detailed report documenting the investigation, test methodology, and findings. This report included extensive DNS leak tests, nslookup results, and comparative analysis across networks.

Download: Expert Report (August 18, 2025)

Screenshots of the DNS tracing tests are available upon request to competent researchers or journalists.

Notably, this was the same expert report that Chris later witnessed being spontaneously moved to his desktop through apparent remote access via his Microsoft OneDrive account.

Strategic Context: “Control the Battlefield”

Had Chris remained in Canada, such a MITM attack might have been unnecessary. Canadian authorities could simply serve a warrant directly to the ISP for full traffic access. By relocating to Mexico, Chris deliberately removed one of the most powerful tools from his adversaries’ arsenal — forcing them to resort to more complex technical attacks like router compromises via TR-069 and DNS manipulation.

This forms part of Chris’s broader “Control the Battlefield” strategy, which comes from Sun Tzu’s Art of War: denying easy institutional access and forcing any surveillance into more detectable, and legally questionable methods.

Implications

A DNS Man-in-the-Middle attack at the router or ISP level is extremely invasive. It enables:

• Logging of every website visited
• Undetectable traffic redirection to spoofed websites
• Monitoring of communications (even HTTPS to a limited degree)

The precision, persistence, and rapid response to the controlled disclosure strongly suggest a targeted operation by sophisticated actors.

This incident adds to the growing body of technical evidence of digital harassment that includes router compromises, Microsoft ecosystem intrusions, and other documented attacks.

Further Reading:

• Router Sabotage via TR-069
• Microsoft Unauthorized Access Incidents
• Complete Media section

These attacks highlight the vulnerabilities of modern connected infrastructure and the challenges faced by individuals seeking accountability from powerful institutions.

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Stay tuned to equibitlawsuit.com for more updates on the Equibit lawsuits against CSIS and related actors.

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Starting with 2027 models, every new vehicle will soon have to include sinister in-car spy tech: infrared cameras, biometric sensors, AI monitoring, and a government mandated kill switch that can shut off your engine if the algorithm decides you’re “unfit” to drive.

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