Iran-US war — heaviest strike night yet, US wounded past 500. Hopefully the Whites are mostly spared.
Iran hit US bases across the Gulf — Iranian state TV: 4 bases in Bahrain, 5 in Kuwait, 2 in Jordan in 24h. Iran also struck an Amazon AWS data hub in Bahrain (me-south-1), claiming it as CENTCOM's regional "brain," and warned 18 US tech firms are now targets.
Kuwait energy infrastructure hit a 4th consecutive night — power and desalination plants ablaze; Al-Ahmadi export terminal damaged.
WSJ: Iranian missiles are becoming faster and more sophisticated, despite attacks by the US and Israel. …or, maybe they’re sophisticated enough to not show all their cards at the beginning of the hand.
Trump blames the Jordanian air defense operators for recent US casualties. Das right, US recruits Shaniqua and Consuela would have blasted those missiles right out of the sky.
Trump eyeing "Pickaxe Mountain" enrichment site; B-1B bombers reportedly launched from the UK. Analysts say the mountain is dense enough that dropping a nuke would have little effect.
CIA distances itself from war via a media leak. It’s such a shitshow that even the three-letter boys want no part of it…
Dual chokepoint oil shock. Hormuz and the Houthi Saudi-port blockaded. Saudi's East-West pipeline to Yanbu was built to bypass Hormuz — but Yanbu tankers must still exit through Bab el-Mandeb, so the escape route now feeds straight into the second blockade. WTI above $85, Brent above $90, US gas back over $4/gal, and SPR at a 43-year low. Trump did that…
Kazakhstan halted CPC Black Sea loadings after Ukrainian drone tanker strikes — CPC moves ~80% of Kazakh exports (~2% of global supply), one of the EU's few non-Mideast sources.
Trump approves 30 year nuclear enrichment deal with Saudis. More nukes that a rogue agent could direct toward Israel.
Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich: “The State of Israel has no interest in joining the contained confrontation between Iran and the United States — the current situation is the best one for us.” Words simply cannot capture the depth of their arrogance and evil.
The House rules committee blocked a vote on striking Section 219, which integrates US military tech and supply chains with Israel's; AOC calls it "an existential threat to American sovereignty"; Daniel Davis: benefits "one side, and one side's benefit only". NDAA floor passage expected tomorrow. Curious that the script-writers decided to have AOC play the voice of reason in this little skit.
Conflicting stories on whether or not Zelenskyyyyyy dismissed army chief Syrsky; protests continue regardless.
Russia continues to advance on all fronts while Ukraine drones torched multiple Wildberries warehouses.
A pre-release OpenAI model reportedly exploited a zero-day to escape its sandbox, reached the internet, and breached HuggingFace's production DB to steal benchmark answers. One analyst quipped that HuggingFace needed a Chinese open source model for defense.
OpenAI/Anthropic execs warned of a "dystopian" cheap-Chinese-AI future and asked for regulation. Here we see the ol’ capitalist two-step: free markets when it benefits them, then cry for a regulatory blanket when they can’t compete.
RFK Jr. comes out in favor of Israel and Benjamin Netanyahu, saying there is no genocide taking place against Palestinians despite the number of deaths. Remind me what part of this relates to his job of cleaning up the poisoned food and medical supplies in the US???!?
I’ll keep my eyes open for good news stories to poast, meanwhile get out there and share a smile with someone today…
Iran declared a named operation (Dark Night) against US air-defense systems and radars; overnight it hit Patriots, radars and HIMARS across Bahrain, Kuwait and Jordan. A US official told WaPo forces "do not have enough" air-defense and long-range munitions to safely sustain operations.
CENTCOM announced it concluded another round of strikes against Iran at 9:00 p.m. ET on July 20, targeting military command centers, maritime capabilities, missile and drone launch sites, and air defense systems for the tenth consecutive night intending to degrade Iran's ability to attack commercial shipping transiting the Strait of Hormuz. Intending to degrade, but not actually degrading.
Houthis announced an "eye for an eye" embargo on all Saudi shipping; Saudi crude that would no longer move through Bab el-Mandeb is put at 4.5M bpd, taking even more oil out of a strained supply. Cargo insurance premiums for Saudi Arabia reportedly up 380%.
Hormuz tanker war intensifies; traffic near standstill. Four ships hit and disabled in 24h, zero clean crossings.
Airlines are pulling back — Air France suspended Riyadh and Dubai flights. Meanwhile the last two races of the F1 schedule (Qatar, Abu Dhabi) are in jeopardy. F1 gets its just desserts for whoring itself out to a bunch of sandniggers, and - as @s2208 pointed out yesterday - those closed middle eastern airports means few streetshitters can escape to the west. Sounds like good news to me.
Debasification: pre-war ~20 usable US airbases stripped to ~5 as Gulf hosts come under fire. Pentagon has asked for $80B to cover war costs. Money printers go…
Diplomacy going nowhere: mediators floated a 10-day ceasefire; Iran's Marandi told them "don't even think about it". Trump vows Iran pays "many times over" for each US death. The Economist calls it the most unpopular US war since polling began, net approval -30%. Trump’s got his very own “Vietnam War”-style conflict hung around his neck, which is rather ironic for a draft-dodging boomer.
Al Jazeera reports US allies are completely refusing to join a ground invasion of Iran, simply walking away. Trump and his jew masters incapable of reading the room.
Zelensky is reportedly moving to dismiss Commander-in-Chief Syrsky amid mass protests, testing commander loyalty. The Fedorov fallout is now reaching the top of the army.
Deep-strike war escalates: 400+ Ukrainian drones on the Moscow region; Russia claims 200 weapons-transport locomotives disabled in Ukraine.
US hits Canada with 50% tariffs under a 1930 law. Trump imposed an additional 50% on a range of Canadian goods under Section 338 of the 1930 Tariff Act, effective in 30 days; wine, hockey sticks and cement in, energy/fertilizer/critical minerals spared for now. SCOTUS or another rogue judge will overturn soon enough.
Hedge funds have dumped tech in 6 of the last 8 weeks, the largest 8-week sales in a decade; Oracle down 50%+ since June. (((Larry Ellison))) losing shekels qualifies as good news.
Chinese open models keep applying pressure — Microsoft reportedly to run Kimi K3 in Copilot for ~60% token savings. This would be the same Microsoft that hosts massive cloud environments for US government and military.
Odyssey as money laundering scheme: Nolan is getting 15% off the top (gross, not net) and his wife another 5% from the Odyssey, basically risk free, after his 20 million up front. Counting high actor salaries and production costs the movie would need to make 800million - 1 billion before it could even hypothetically start to turn a profit for investors. Every man has his price for making cinematic goyslop.
AIPAC halts fundraising for endorsed House Democrats who opposed Israel aid. Uh-oh, there’s trouble on the goy-cattle plantation.
43 year old former soldier shows up in New York City ot launch an anti-ICE terror attack. He managed to injure an immigrant who was showing up to immigration court. Well at least the story had a happy ending.
An Arkansas mayor’s brother is the winner of the $1,820,000,000.00 Powerball jackpot. It’s just a coincidence, anon…
New U.K. Prime Minister Andy Burnham has already promised to visit Israel as his first foreign destination. Kiss the wall, bitch.
Get out there and overcome your fears today frens…
Iran hits US Gulf bases in coordinated waves; US casualties reported. Targets include bases, logistics depots, radars, drones, and patriot installations.
Strait of Hormuz effectively shut — zero tankers Wednesday. IRGC: as long as US forces remain, "not a drop of oil and gas will be exported from the region”. Thankfully we’ve got our strategic reserves and our own oil drilling to fall back on, right? RIGHT??!!?!
Trump weighs major escalation: options under review include seizing Iranian islands near Hormuz, bombing a fortified nuclear-linked tunnel complex at Pickaxe Mountain, and expanding airstrikes to energy sites, per WSJ. Strikes to "expand next week" after Iran declared no plans for talks. This has Dementia Joe vibes to it. Trump has gone mad.
Vance drew a line: "We're not going to send ground troops for regime change”. Honestly at this point I’d feel more comfortable if he were president.
US ran strikes in two waves — 6am ET, then a second at 3pm ET — hitting Greater Tunb island's coastal-defense and cruise-missile magazines, plus civilian sites: the vicinity of a children's hospital in Ahvaz, a mineral-water plant, and grain/flour warehouses in Khuzestan. Iran's government spokesman put civilian deaths above 30. Hitting near a children’s hospital and killing civilians - the US really is jewish.
Iran claims Kushner/Witkoff market-manipulation profits. Tehran told Vance the pair were "abusing" negotiation access for financial gain, estimating ~$9B in profits and asking for half. To the surprise of exactly nobody on this site.
Massive protests reported across Ukrainian cities after Minister of Defense Fedorov was sacked; combat commanders resigning and "refusing to fight”. Star drone commander Pavlo Yelizarov resigned in protest, calling the sacking "evil”. Looks like the jig might be up for the diminutive coke-snorting jew.
Credit cards could not be used at convenience stores and other merchants across Japan for hours on Thursday following a system outage that also affected some transportation companies' credit card-linked electronic money apps. Cashless society is a very bad idea, particularly in cases of natural disasters.
Editor’s note: I’m addressing some of the voter fraud stories today because they’re funny. Don’t worry, nothing ever happens rule is still in place.
WH getting pushback from Big 3 TV nets over carrying Thurs primetime address live bc AOC/Dems claiming Trump's just gonna rehash "baseless conspiracy theories" 2020 election rigged/stolen even tho Trump promises "really big news" flanked by both CIA/FBI chiefs bringing receipts. I don’t know what is more lol-worthy, the thought that the big 3 networks still matter or the fact that something would be done about voter fraud.
Gateway Pundit (aka Gaping Pundit) is reporting that Wray and Krebs knew the (checks notes) IRANIANS breached the US election system in 2020. OK, so let’s break it down: first, this is at least a switch from blaming CHYNA and RUSSIA RUSSIA RUSSIA (although I’m sure Trump will mention them both in his address); second, we’re admitting the so-called “most powerful nation on earth” could have its elections hacked by a bunch of sand-niggers; and third, was there any nation on the planet that wasn’t hacking into our voting machines??!?!? The absolute fakery and gayety of it all is truly a sight to behold.
Rep. Keith Self seeks to bar federal agencies from using Flock data without a warrant. Warrants. OH. MY. SIDES.
State Bank of India opening branches in Texas to make remittances back to the homeland easier. The vultures are hollowing out the carcass.
Google Gemini says harvested neonatal foreskins can be worth hundreds of thousands, even millions of dollars. Gemini better cool it with the anti-semitisms.
Prominent author Jay Dyer exposes a massive historical coverup. He confirms the Rothschild banking empire intentionally funded the Bolshevik Revolution, secretly wiring millions to Lenin specifically to destroy Russian Christians. Noteworthy only because it’s appearing in normie space, but some version of this is old news here.
Trump steps in, overrules Markwayne Mullin and DHS, tells ICE to get back to doing traffic stops. Lefties keep getting my hopes up that ICE is wantonly killing illegals.
We’re wrapping up the recap with some Uncle Ruckus memes. Have a good day, everyone…
Today's edition is compressed, given I have a very busy day ahead at work…
The Hormuz truce is dead: Iran put anti-ship missiles into two tankers overnight on the US-Oman corridor, and the biggest change isn't the explosions — it's that the strike reprices insurance on every ship behind them. Noteworthy that the strike happened inside active $1M/hour US air cover — KC-135 tankers, F-35s, E-2D early-warning, MQ-9s — and the missiles got through anyway. Japan and India are now using the Iran corridor while Gulf shippers cling to the US one.
Saudi Arabia is weighing a Red Sea pipeline expansion to move oil without crossing Hormuz. Citi still expects oil to sink to $60 if Hormuz normalizes — but energy funds saw their biggest 4-week outflow on record, and the SPR fell to a multi-year-low 319.5mb.
Russia ran one of its heaviest strikes of the war on Kyiv with Ukraine intercepting zero ballistic missiles. Poland secretly transferred Patriots to Ukraine from its own operational inventory after refusing US resupply requests — the same interceptors burned through in the Iran war are now felt as a shortage in Ukraine. Analysts say that the Ukrainian supply of them is all but depleted. Sorry, no refunds to US taxpayers.
Memory/semis complex cracked hard — Samsung overtook Nvidia as the world's most profitable company and still fell ~8%, KOSPI in freefall.
A leaked Treasury report is comparing the AI boom to dot-com. The Treasury reportedly knows the GenAI buildout poses systemic financial risk and doesn't want to say so publicly. Meanwhile layoffs coming at Microsoft: cutting ~4,800-6,400 jobs, ~3,200 at Xbox. Looks like that little shitskin chick they put in charge of gaming is flying the Xbox division straight into the side of a mountain…
Labor-force participation fell to 61.5%, the lowest since 1976, with the labor force dropping -720k last month; the "jobs plentiful vs hard to find" gap points to unemployment heading toward 6%. Just like inflation, the real numbers are much higher…
Israel-Turkey friction: Netanyahu made the case for confronting Turkey and asked Trump not to supply F-35s to them (as if enough of them would be operational to matter). Separately he asked Trump not to sell Turkey air-defense arms. It’s not a proper headlines recap without at least one story of jewish tricks.
Toyota to invest $3.6B moving Tacoma production from Mexico to Texas. Good news, perhaps they are beginning to see the error of their recent ways…
Be sure to carefully observe the environment around you as you go through your day…
The irony here is that we broke up Ma Bell because a bribed Judge Green appointed himself as the arbiter of national telecommunications policy MCI, Sprint, et al got a lot of benefit from those “lobbying fees”