Oil Soars Over 9% After Israel Attacks Iran
June 12th, 2025Via: RTE:
Oil prices surged more than 9% today, hitting their highest in almost five months after Israel struck Iran, dramatically escalating tensions in the Middle East and raising worries about disrupted oil supplies.
ISRAEL ATTACKS IRANIAN NUCLEAR AND MILITARY FACILITIES
June 12th, 20252023: “Whatever is coming, it’s not going to be contained to Israel. Is Iran next?”
It took a bit longer to happen than I thought…
Via: France24:
Israel attacked Iran’s capital early Friday in strikes that targeted the country’s nuclear program and raised the potential for an all-out war between the two bitter Middle East adversaries. It appeared to be the most significant attack Iran has faced since its 1980s war with Iraq, with multiple sites around the country hit.
Apple Introduces Digital Passport IDs, Marking Major Step Toward Normalized Digital ID Integration
June 12th, 2025Via: Reclaim the Net:
Apple’s latest announcement at WWDC 2025 marks another step in the steady integration of digital identity into everyday mobile technology. With iOS 26 set to introduce passport-based digital IDs in Apple Wallet, users will soon be able to present a digital form of identification at supported TSA checkpoints and within certain apps requiring age or identity verification.
Apple reiterated that the feature is “not a replacement for your physical passport,” but it will serve as an official ID for domestic travel and other select uses.
The Transportation Security Administration has confirmed it will accept digital passports for security screenings on domestic flights, effectively extending the reach of biometric and device-linked identity systems into routine aspects of public life.
This shift is part of a larger trend: the normalization of digital ID as a prerequisite for everyday interactions.
Partial Evacuation of U.S. Diplomatic Personnel and Families from Middle East
June 12th, 2025Via: Al Jazeera:
The United States is preparing a partial evacuation of its embassy in Iraq and has authorised “the voluntary departure” of dependants of US personnel from locations across the Middle East, including Bahrain, Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates, as regional security concerns rise.
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Speaking on Wednesday evening, US President Donald Trump said the order to move staff out had been given because the region “could be a dangerous place”.
“We’ll see what happens. We’ve given notice to move out, and we’ll see what happens,” Trump said.
Trump then added in reference to Iran: “They can’t have a nuclear weapon, very simple. We’re not going to allow that.”
South Korea Lab Makes Bird Flu 100% Lethal in Mammals
June 12th, 2025Via: Jon Fleetwood:
South Korean scientists have conducted a lab experiment that made a purported wild avian influenza “bird flu” virus 100% lethal in mammals, achieving total death in infected mice by enabling the virus to adapt inside their bodies and spread to others.
The dangerous move comes as the U.S. develops a “next-generation” universal vaccine platform called ‘Generation Gold Standard’ that will focus on avian influenza jab creation, signaling a coordinated international push to engineer and preemptively vaccinate against lab-enhanced bird flu strains with pandemic potential—despite worldwide fallout from similar COVID-era strategies.
Published June 2025 in Virology Journal, the study describes how researchers at Konkuk University infected mice with a highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza strain—one that already contained a small percentage (4%) of a mammalian-adaptive mutation known as PB2-E627K.
That tiny minority of mutant virus was enough to take over and kill every infected host.
Department Of Homeland Security Predator B Drones Are Orbiting Over Los Angeles
June 12th, 2025They might be getting ready for the Billionaires Against Trump chaos planned for Saturday.
Via: The War Zone:
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has been flying its Predator B drones, also commonly referred to by their military variant designation of MQ-9 Reapers, over Los Angeles as part of the U.S. government’s response to the unrest there, the agency confirmed to us on Wednesday. The flights are in response to protests that escalated to violence on multiple occasions, following a massive operation by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) last Friday.
Billionaire Walmart Heiress Promotes Nationwide Anti-Trump Protests
June 12th, 2025A Wal-Mart billionaire blows her dog whistle and the obese goblin people will be out in their best hammer and sickle attire to resist the Orange Man this Saturday.
Got it.
Via: Forbes:
Walmart heiress Christy Walton, one of the richest women in America, has joined a small group of billionaires speaking out against President Donald Trump.
The 76-year-old Walton, who is worth an estimated $19.3 billion according to Forbes, paid to take out a full-page advertisement in The New York Times on Sunday calling on readers to “mobilize” on Saturday, June 14. The advertisement appears to be an escalation of one she paid for in March, also in The Times print edition.
At the top of the ad are the words “No Kings,” which appear to reference a political organization that’s coordinating hundreds of anti-Trump protests across the U.S. this Saturday, June 14, the same day Trump is slated to host a military parade in Washington, D.C.. Organizers of the counter-protests told Axios they are expecting this to be the largest single-day rally since the start of the administration. No Kings spokesperson Andrew Cook told Forbes there will be more than 1,800 events across the country. (The group is not planning a protest in D.C. as part of their plan to “make action everywhere else.”)
“Pentagon Has Been Pushing Americans to Believe in UFOs for Decades”
June 12th, 2025The Wall Street Journal claims the entirety of the UFO phenomenon was made up by the Pentagon.
Mmm hmm.
Here’s some useful commentary from Richard Dolan on this:
Via: Gizmodo:
UFOs have been back in the news a lot lately, and it may be the case that the government wants it that way. Last week, the Wall Street Journal published the first of a two-part series that probes the ways in which the Defense Department has been responsible for creating and fostering the UFO mythology in America.
“Walmart Goes Big With Drone Delivery Expansion”
June 11th, 2025Via: Wired:
Walmart, with its partner Wing, plans to bring drone delivery to 100 new stores in five new US cities: Atlanta, Charlotte, Houston, Orlando, and Tampa.
National Guard Deployed in Texas
June 11th, 2025Via: Fox:
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has deployed National Guard troops across the state ahead of more anti-ICE protests.
Abbott announced the move early Wednesday in a post on X as protests sprang up in parts of Texas and across the U.S. this week.
“Texas National Guard will be deployed to locations across the state to ensure peace & order,” Abbott wrote in the post. “Peaceful protest is legal. Harming a person or property is illegal & will lead to arrest. @TexasGuard will use every tool & strategy to help law enforcement maintain order.”
