https://www.sott.net Signs of the Times: The World for People who Think. Featuring independent, unbiased, alternative news and commentary on world events. en-us Original content Copyright 2026 by Signs of the Times/Sott.net. For other content, see our Fair Use Policy at www.sott.net. Mon, 13 Jul 2026 22:06:33 +0000 https://www.sott.net/images/sottlogo_rss.jpg SOTT.net https://www.sott.net https://www.sott.net/article/507412-Anti-corruption-probe-links-Kushner-luxury-resort-to-international-drug-trafficking-network Since breaking ground on a multi-billion dollar luxury resort in Albania, the Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump-led project has done more to reveal a corrupt Zionist pay-for-play scheme than it has to shed light on one of the jewels of the Earth that had gone unnoticed until it fell into the hands of the pair of real estate scions, at least as their recounting of the tale of how it came into their purview would have others believe. After protests initially overran the construction sites of the development across Albania's Adriatic coast, that civil unrest against the project amplified to such an extent that over 100,000 Albanians took to the streets of their nation's capital, Tirana, as part of a civilian-initiated referendum against the resort. The movement, which has become known as the "Flamingo Revolution" due to the protected wildlife on Sazan Island and the adjacent Albanian mainland coast jeopardized by the Kushner-backed project, has led the country's largest protests since... https://www.sott.net/article/507412-Anti-corruption-probe-links-Kushner-luxury-resort-to-international-drug-trafficking-network Mon, 13 Jul 2026 22:04:16 +0000 https://www.sott.net/article/507411-The-absurdity-of-the-Hunter-Biden-defamation-case I have taught torts, including defamation for over 30 years, but I have never seen the like of the Hunter Biden defamation case. The defendant made defamatory statements and then just refused to appear. That led to an equally bizarre $1.7 million award by U.S. District Judge Stephen Wilson of the Central District of California to Biden, consisting of just $1 in nominal damages and the rest in punitive damages. Here is the most interesting line of the opinion: "the damage to Plaintiff's reputation is difficult to calculate." It may be the single greatest understatement in the history of judicial opinions. However, the court also noted "Plaintiff does not seek actual damages above a nominal amount." That means that Hunter Biden's counsel, in a default case, elected not to argue for compensatory damages due to loss of reputation. Why would he do that? https://www.sott.net/article/507411-The-absurdity-of-the-Hunter-Biden-defamation-case Mon, 13 Jul 2026 21:38:38 +0000 https://www.sott.net/article/507410-The-Economics-of-the-Surveillance-State "That was a Beria operation in Stalin's time. It was deactivated twenty years ago." - The Living Daylights How did KGB agents commit suicide? Two shots to the back of the head. Remember Lavrentiy Beria's cheerful advice: "Show me the man, and I will find the crime"? Back in the Soviet Union they had so many laws on the books that everybody broke at least one before lunch, I mean, when lunch was available. And if they didn't, they could make up something. Beria just needed enough spies and informants to spot the right violation. Beria would have loved modern America. We've upgraded his whole operation with better cameras, faster computers, and added actual profit margins. https://www.sott.net/article/507410-The-Economics-of-the-Surveillance-State Mon, 13 Jul 2026 21:02:49 +0000 https://www.sott.net/article/507409-British-MP-Rupert-Lowe-exposes-secret-society-behind-UKs-lurch-toward-socialism 'Their emblem is a wolf in sheep's clothing, as if that doesn't tell you what they're doing...' The stunning transformation of Great Britain in recent years — from a beacon of decorum and stiff upper lips to a cautionary tale of wokeness run amok — has been blamed on everything from socialism to satanism. However, Rupert Lowe, a member of the British Parliament and founder of the organization Restore Britain, said the reality may be even more sinister. In a recent appearance on Joe Rogan's podcast, he said a shadowy group of elites known as the Fabian Society was deliberately trying to wreck the country. "I don't know if you've ever heard of the Fabian Society, but if you go and have a look at it, it was basically most of the Labour Party for many, many years," Lowe said, referring to England's leading left-wing party, the equivalent of U.S. Democrats. https://www.sott.net/article/507409-British-MP-Rupert-Lowe-exposes-secret-society-behind-UKs-lurch-toward-socialism Mon, 13 Jul 2026 20:30:56 +0000 https://www.sott.net/article/507408-Europe-is-teetering-on-the-brink The NATO summit sent a message that no one wants to hear. Europe is openly declaring war on Russia — and it's doing so with President Trump's full support. Two Fires That Could Escalate Into a Storm World War I began on July 28, 1914 — 112 years later, the scene looks much the same, because it wouldn't take much for the situation to escalate fully. Today, there are two centers of conflict that have the potential to plunge the entire world into a global conflict. When it comes to Iran, "peacemaker" Trump is breaking the MOU, just as we expected, and is attacking Iran once again — nota bene — during the largest funeral the world has ever seen. Iran has responded militarily, but with restraint. Some link this to the funeral ceremonies. More likely, however, is the implementation of a strategy to bring the West to its knees economically by blockading the Strait of Hormuz. The Middle East and Europe are in a state of limbo — but for how much longer? The Collective West claims that it... https://www.sott.net/article/507408-Europe-is-teetering-on-the-brink Mon, 13 Jul 2026 20:12:01 +0000 https://www.sott.net/article/507407-Watching-Western-Europe-sleepwalk-toward-civilizational-suicide The continent is running out of time to decide what kind of place it wants to be Western Europe is not being conquered by foreign armies. It is being dismantled by its own political elites. While millions of Europeans watch their countries change beyond recognition, the ruling class continues to celebrate the very policies driving that transformation. The numbers alone should set off alarm bells across every EU capital. According to demographic data compiled by Berlin's Rockwool Foundation, the European Union's foreign-born population has surged from around 40 million people in 2010 to approximately 64 million in 2025. Out of the EU's total population of roughly 451 million, around 15% are now of non-EU origin. Even more astonishing, 7.3 million immigrants were added between 2023 and 2025 alone. It is one of the fastest demographic transformations ever experienced. https://www.sott.net/article/507407-Watching-Western-Europe-sleepwalk-toward-civilizational-suicide Mon, 13 Jul 2026 20:11:19 +0000 https://www.sott.net/article/507406-Mamdanis-affordability-agenda-flops-as-NYC-rents-surge-to-record-highs New York City's socialist mayor, Zohran Mamdani, and his radical-left lieutenants in City Hall promised voters free bus rides, government-run grocery stores, cheap housing, and much more. Yet the dream of a left-wing utopia has not materialized. In fact, rents in the NYC metro area just hit a record high. New data from The Corcoran Group, a major residential real estate brokerage founded in NYC, shows that rents in the metro area have climbed to a new record high. Manhattan's median rent rose 8% from a year earlier to $5,295, while Brooklyn reached $4,350, also up 8%, according to the report. Manhattan's vacancy rate narrowed to 1.49%. In Queens, Rego Park posted particularly sharp increases, with one-bedroom rents up 12% and studio rents up more than 20%. "Manhattan renters are chasing a shrinking pool of available apartments, and the result has become predictable — record rents. Available listings dropped 16% year-over-year in June, while the borough's median rent climbed to a... https://www.sott.net/article/507406-Mamdanis-affordability-agenda-flops-as-NYC-rents-surge-to-record-highs Mon, 13 Jul 2026 19:03:07 +0000 https://www.sott.net/article/507405-Lindsey-Graham-was-a-monster-but-not-exceptional Normal people would be ashamed to be seen with him, dead or alive; Western elites are boasting of how close to him they were. Lindsey Graham is dead. And if we were to apply the old Spartan and then Roman adage "about the dead, nothing but the good," then this is where this text would have to end. Some readers may find this shocking or unkind. But it is a fact that there is no way to write about the intriguingly sudden end of the long-term US senator from South Carolina in a 'balanced' manner and stay honest. Graham was an almost cartoonishly evil man and since he was also very powerful, his moral depravity made a big difference to the lives of all too many. Downplaying that fact out of misplaced piety would be perverse; it would mean to disrespect the many victims of perfidious and brutal US and, in fact, Israeli policies of vicious violence and outrageous injustice that Graham promoted with every fiber of his being for his whole political life. During the Gaza genocide, when... https://www.sott.net/article/507405-Lindsey-Graham-was-a-monster-but-not-exceptional Mon, 13 Jul 2026 19:00:21 +0000 https://www.sott.net/article/507404-US-Congressman-Ro-Khanna-says-he-was-detained-by-Israeli-settlers-during-West-Bank-visit Rep. Ro Khanna, D-Calif., said he was detained by Israeli settlers armed with U.S.-made rifles during a West Bank visit this week that he cast as an unfiltered look at the human toll of Israeli occupation as he weighs a 2028 presidential run. Speaking with Reuters on Thursday in a Palestinian village, Khanna said his ⁠group's van was surrounded by settlers wielding M4 rifles a day earlier while touring a part of the southern West Bank where residents face frequent settler attacks. "We were at a village that Israeli settlers had destroyed, they had destroyed the school, they had destroyed that village, and we were just looking at it," he said. https://www.sott.net/article/507404-US-Congressman-Ro-Khanna-says-he-was-detained-by-Israeli-settlers-during-West-Bank-visit Mon, 13 Jul 2026 18:59:34 +0000 https://www.sott.net/article/507403-Durov-hauled-in-for-questioning-again-in-Paris-Telegram-blasts-case-still-no-evidence As the high-stakes criminal investigation into Telegram nears its second year with no resolution in sight, French authorities have again summoned Telegram co-founder Pavel Durov for questioning. Durov spent around six hours being questioned at the Paris Judicial Tribunal on Wednesday, local media reported, citing law enforcement sources. He's allowed to travel internationally, and to live at his home in Dubai - though he's agreed specific judicial supervision rules, part of which is to periodically return to France when summoned. It marked the fourth time the tech entrepreneur has been interrogated as part of the ongoing investigation, stretching back to his initial arrest in August 2024 at a Paris airport. He was soon after indicted on a dozen assorted charges ranging from complicity in illicit platform activity to non-cooperation with state authorities. Durov's legal team confirmed the questioning to AFP, slamming the lack of progress by French prosecutors, decrying that "almost... https://www.sott.net/article/507403-Durov-hauled-in-for-questioning-again-in-Paris-Telegram-blasts-case-still-no-evidence Mon, 13 Jul 2026 18:53:51 +0000 https://www.sott.net/article/507402-NATOs-last-stand Critics may be misreading the recent NATO summit. It looks to them as if the U.S. is unilaterally siding with Europe against Russia. President Trump is smarter: he knows who has the winning hand, and his direct communications with his peers, Xi and Putin, are not always public. President Trump's earliest critical instincts toward the EU and NATO still hold. While the U.S. is currently extending them some diplomatic courtesy and limited support, Europe is ultimately surrounded on all sides by powers that make it irrelevant in global influence terms. Europe has put itself into this predicament, due to its own domestic economic decline from bad policy choices. It is using war as a way to revive its fortunes. Its odds are long. The EU is surrounded economically by the U.S. to the west; by Russia and China to the east, by a vast Arctic territory to the north that it cannot control, and by India and a rising Middle East power, Israel, to the south. Europe has no strategic maneuvering... https://www.sott.net/article/507402-NATOs-last-stand Mon, 13 Jul 2026 18:27:50 +0000 https://www.sott.net/article/507401-Scenario "Witness list expanding in multi-conspiracy probe out of Fort Pierce. . . ." - Paul Sperry, Real Clear investigations The scene: February of 2027, a federal courtroom in Fort Pierce (St. Lucie County), Florida, the third day of trial in the RussiaGate matter. Defendants seated on the right (from the judge's vantage) are so numerous they require two tables, including John Brennan, James Comey, James Clapper, Andrew McCabe, Rod Rosenstein, Strzok & Page, Bruce Ohr, Lisa Monaco, Mary McCord, Christopher Wray, Marc Elias, and seven other former federal officials. Former President Barack Obama and former Sec'y of State Hillary Clinton, named as "unindicted co-conspirators," are not present in the courtroom for the sake of decorum. Former MI6 agent, the slippery Christopher Steele, purveyor of the infamous "dossier," is on-the-lam, whereabouts unknown. The charges against the bunch are Seditious Conspiracy (18 U.S. Code § 2384), Conspiracy to Obstruct Justice (18 U.S.C. §§ 1503,... https://www.sott.net/article/507401-Scenario Mon, 13 Jul 2026 18:27:03 +0000 https://www.sott.net/article/507400-US-conducted-successful-UFO-Luring-Operation-advocate-claims-as-government-files-detail-orb-encounters A UFO advocacy figure has claimed that the Office of the Director of National Intelligence conducted a successful operation designed to attract unidentified objects over a sensitive U.S. government testing facility. Jordan Flowers, executive director of the Disclosure Foundation, made the claim during an appearance on CBS News. The Disclosure Foundation is an advocacy group focused on Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena, or UAP. Flowers said the incident could be understood by bringing together recently released government documents and statements made publicly by members of Congress. https://www.sott.net/article/507400-US-conducted-successful-UFO-Luring-Operation-advocate-claims-as-government-files-detail-orb-encounters Mon, 13 Jul 2026 18:25:06 +0000 https://www.sott.net/article/507399-Key-revelations-from-4th-batch-of-Pentagon-UFO-files The Pentagon released its fourth new batch of UFO files on July 10, including a transcript from a conference that included scientists who worked on the Manhattan Project. This release of information on UFOs, which the government refers to as unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP), has a total of 40 files, including 19 videos, 14 documents, four audio clips, and three images. The mix of partially unredacted files and historical documents is sourced from multiple agencies, including the CIA, FBI, Pentagon, NASA, and the Department of Energy. The Pentagon said it is not the last release of UFO files in relation to President Donald Trump's executive order, according to a statement from chief Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell. https://www.sott.net/article/507399-Key-revelations-from-4th-batch-of-Pentagon-UFO-files Mon, 13 Jul 2026 18:24:35 +0000 https://www.sott.net/article/507398-Analysis-Higher-electricity-rates-in-Blue-States-linked-to-renewable-energy-policies A new analysis by Always On Energy Research and the Institute for Energy Research concludes that renewable energy mandates and net-zero policies have contributed to higher electricity prices in states that adopted them, while states with fewer climate-related mandates generally have lower electricity costs. The analysis examined electricity pricing data from the U.S. Energy Information Administration and found that most states with electricity rates above the national average voted for the Democratic presidential nominee in the 2020 and 2024 elections. According to the report, 86 percent of states with above-average electricity prices supported the Democratic nominee in both elections. By comparison, 80 percent of the 10 states with the lowest electricity prices voted for the Republican nominee. Researchers said the study focused on identifying policy differences between states with higher and lower electricity rates. https://www.sott.net/article/507398-Analysis-Higher-electricity-rates-in-Blue-States-linked-to-renewable-energy-policies Mon, 13 Jul 2026 17:35:48 +0000 https://www.sott.net/article/507397-DOJ-Warns-State-Election-Officials-Can-Be-Charged-Over-Noncitizen-Voting The Department of Justice (DOJ) has sent letters to election officials across the country, warning them that they could be charged if they let noncitizens receive ballots or vote in elections. "Any election officer, including the chief election officer of the state, who knowingly retains noncitizens on the state's [voter list] or facilitates noncitizens in receiving and casting ballots could be subject to criminal liability," Harmeet Dhillon, the assistant attorney general for civil rights, said in the letters, which were sent on July 7. It is also a crime to prevent people who try to vote from voting, the officials were also told. https://www.sott.net/article/507397-DOJ-Warns-State-Election-Officials-Can-Be-Charged-Over-Noncitizen-Voting Mon, 13 Jul 2026 14:40:36 +0000 https://www.sott.net/article/507396-Typhoon-Bavi-brings-heavy-rain-triggers-floods-in-northern-and-eastern-China Although downgraded to a tropical storm, it still brought heavy rainfall and triggered serious flooding in the country's northern and eastern provinces. Read more about Typhoon Bavi: https://sc.mp/8471a5 After making landfall in eastern China on Sunday, Typhoon Bavi has made its way into northern China, where the storm has triggered heavy rainstorms and floods. https://www.sott.net/article/507396-Typhoon-Bavi-brings-heavy-rain-triggers-floods-in-northern-and-eastern-China Mon, 13 Jul 2026 14:08:44 +0000 https://www.sott.net/article/507395-Severe-flash-floods-triggered-by-torrential-rainfall-hit-northern-Tajikistan On July 11, 2026, catastrophic flash floods and mudflows devastated parts of northern Tajikistan, with Darg Village in the Ayni District of the Sughd Region being the hardest-hit area. Triggered by torrential mountain rainfall, massive torrents of mud and rock swept through residential areas, carrying away vehicles, severing power lines, and destroying local roads and bridges. Authorities have not yet released an official toll for casualties or injuries as emergency teams continue assessing the situation. https://www.sott.net/article/507395-Severe-flash-floods-triggered-by-torrential-rainfall-hit-northern-Tajikistan Mon, 13 Jul 2026 12:53:39 +0000 https://www.sott.net/article/507394-Man-dies-after-being-attacked-by-his-dog-in-New-South-Wales-Australia A man has died after he was attacked by his dog on his property in north-west NSW. Emergency services responded to reports of a dog attack at a property on Timor Road in Coonabaraban at about 10am on Sunday. Orana Mid Western Police District officers arrived and found a 55-year-old man suffering from serious injuries. He was assessed by paramedics but died at the scene. Police said the dog was euthanased by officers at the property. A report will be prepared for the coroner. https://www.sott.net/article/507394-Man-dies-after-being-attacked-by-his-dog-in-New-South-Wales-Australia Mon, 13 Jul 2026 11:57:39 +0000 https://www.sott.net/article/507393-Meteor-fireball-over-Italy-and-3-other-countries-on-July-10 We received 42 reports about a fireball seen over Apulia, Calabria, Campania, Molise, Puglia, Sicilia, Split-Dalmatia County and Tivat Municipality on Friday, July 10th 2026 around 23:59 UT. For this event, we received one video. https://www.sott.net/article/507393-Meteor-fireball-over-Italy-and-3-other-countries-on-July-10 Mon, 13 Jul 2026 11:28:53 +0000 https://www.sott.net/article/507392-Shallow-magnitude-6-4-quake-strikes-off-Papua-New-Guinea A magnitude 6.4 earthquake has struck offshore southeast of Lorengau, Manus Province, Papua New Guinea, according to the US Geological Survey (USGS). There is currently no tsunami threat to Australia, Hawaii, or other Pacific regions. There are no immediate reports of damage or casualties. Authorities are continuing to monitor the situation. There is an early discrepancy in reported magnitude. Some USGS-based reports initially listed M6.5, while later updates and other reports show M6.4, which is common as earthquake parameters are refined after the initial solution. https://www.sott.net/article/507392-Shallow-magnitude-6-4-quake-strikes-off-Papua-New-Guinea Mon, 13 Jul 2026 11:16:46 +0000 https://www.sott.net/article/507391-How-Israel-planned-the-Gaza-genocide-decades-ago In October 2023, Israel found an excuse to breathe new life into an old story of slaughter and expulsion. The chief differences this time have been of scale and duration The truth slowly comes to light: Israel's genocide in Gaza was planned decades ago. Listen to the testimonies of four Israeli soldiers who served in Gaza. Soldier 1: "Human lives didn't matter. You could kill, there was no law. No one would say a word to you. But it's not a good feeling. It mainly kills your humanity." Soldier 2: "At first I wasn't willing to execute Arabs who weren't resisting [that is, civilians]. Then we came to the conclusion that we had to kill. We went through the process of ceasing to see them as human beings." Soldier 3: "We caught guys, lined them up and eliminated them. In retrospect, it looks like murder." Soldier 4: "We would roam through refugee camps in Gaza and carry out purges... Every soldier who was there created a 'concentration camp', and they didn't hesitate to kill people who... https://www.sott.net/article/507391-How-Israel-planned-the-Gaza-genocide-decades-ago Mon, 13 Jul 2026 02:14:59 +0000 https://www.sott.net/article/507390-Is-Life-Just-Different The idea of 'biological agency' — that life devises its own goals and behaves accordingly — complicates our understanding of what it means to be alive. But does it serve a scientific purpose? In 1993, a team led by the planetary scientist Carl Sagan tentatively concluded that there is life on Earth. Not much of a deduction, you might think — except that the researchers confined their evidence to observations made by the Galileo spacecraft, which had flown past our planet three years earlier on a looping journey to Jupiter. So great is the transformative power of life that its presence can be detected just from the light and radio waves our planet emits or reflects into space. Today we scan the cosmos for some of these telltale signatures light-years away. Life leaves a mark, yet even now there's no scientific consensus about what makes living things so different from inorganic substances like the rocks, gases, and oceans that are the sole components of dead worlds. Many scientists... https://www.sott.net/article/507390-Is-Life-Just-Different Mon, 13 Jul 2026 01:20:41 +0000 https://www.sott.net/article/507389-NewsReal-Horns-of-a-Dilemma-Why-Trump-is-Damned-if-he-Does-Damned-if-he-Doesnt-Take-Out-Iran Two high-profile deaths of politicians in three days - one in the US and one in the UK - has the internet guessing as to what happened to US Senator Lindsey Graham, along with former Tory and British Reform party member Ann Widdecombe. Graham dropped dead 'after returning from his 10th visit to Ukraine', and Widdecombe was brutally murdered in her home and the suspect(s) is at large. The latter was a rare voice of reason in British politics, but the former most certainly will not be missed (by normal people). Meanwhile the US-Iran 'ceasefire' is definitely 'off again' and, while it remains to be seen if hostilities will explode to the levels they reached in March, the pressure Trump is under from the Israel First crowd means he's left with this choice: do nothing, get assassinated 'by Iran', then your successors 'finish the job anyway' while your legacy is left in tatters. Or, 'finish the job', tank the global economy, and your legacy will still be left in tatters. A horrible... https://www.sott.net/article/507389-NewsReal-Horns-of-a-Dilemma-Why-Trump-is-Damned-if-he-Does-Damned-if-he-Doesnt-Take-Out-Iran Sun, 12 Jul 2026 21:44:14 +0000 https://www.sott.net/article/507388-Americas-Doctrine-of-Unpredictability Great powers rarely decline because they lack military strength; they falter when the world loses confidence in their judgment. America's increasingly erratic approach to Iran suggests that unpredictability has evolved from a diplomatic tool into a dangerous doctrine with consequences extending far beyond the Middle East. Washington's Shifting Signals For decades, American foreign policy rested upon a foundation that transcended individual presidents, political parties, and election cycles. Allies occasionally disagreed with Washington, while adversaries frequently challenged its objectives, but few questioned the existence of a coherent strategic framework. American commitments were generally understood to extend beyond the latest headline, allowing governments, military planners, and global markets to anticipate Washington's likely course of action even amid periods of international crisis. That assumption has been crushed by an administration that seems intent on alienating the... https://www.sott.net/article/507388-Americas-Doctrine-of-Unpredictability Sun, 12 Jul 2026 20:17:21 +0000 https://www.sott.net/article/507387-Eight-NATO-allies-to-create-new-satellite-mega-constellation The network will involve Denmark, Canada, Finland, Germany, Norway, the Netherlands, Sweden and Turkey. Eight NATO countries plan to link their military satellites into a "mega-constellation" to enable "high-speed communications, intelligence and missile tracking," the alliance announced on Tuesday at its Summit Defence Industry Forum in Ankara, in a move that joins a number of other a new initiatives aimed at improving NATO space capabilities. Connecting multiple national satellites will "overcome the cost, time and coverage limitations of single-nation satellite fleets," a NATO press release said. The new network, called the Hybrid Alliance Layered Operations in Space (HALO), initially will involve Denmark, Canada, Finland, Germany, Norway, the Netherlands, Sweden and Turkey, a NATO official told Breaking Defense today. A NATO official said: "But we expect more to come. NATO is in the early stages of the initiative. HALO focuses on the procurement of both transport satellites and... https://www.sott.net/article/507387-Eight-NATO-allies-to-create-new-satellite-mega-constellation Sun, 12 Jul 2026 20:16:23 +0000 https://www.sott.net/article/507386-When-words-undo-reality For decades, American power rested not only on military strength, economic dominance, technological supremacy, or control of financial flows. It also rested on something less visible, yet just as decisive: the capacity to shape reality through narratives, institutions, and shared symbolic frameworks. Donald Trump did not create the crisis of these frameworks. He revealed it. I. Austin: words that do things To understand what is at stake, it helps to return briefly to the philosopher J. L. Austin and his celebrated distinction between statements that merely describe reality and statements that perform an action: When a judge pronounces a couple married, the words do not simply describe a situation — under the right conditions, they bring it into being. Austin called such utterances performatives. But performatives only work because they are underwritten by institutions, conventions, and a shared world of recognition. Their force depends on what Austin called felicity conditions: the... https://www.sott.net/article/507386-When-words-undo-reality Sun, 12 Jul 2026 20:15:49 +0000 https://www.sott.net/article/507385-Egypt-inaugurates-sprawling-Octagon-military-headquarters-complex Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi said the strategic command represented a "significant leap" in Egypt's command and control and operations management systems. BEIRUT — Flanked by gleaming Egyptian military equipment in an elaborate ceremony, on Saturday Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi inaugurated the nation's new, sprawling strategic command headquarters in what Cairo described as the largest complex of its kind in the Middle East. The country's state information service said in a statement: "This massive facility transcends traditional military headquarters, serving as a miniature administrative and defense hub. It operates as an integrated center for crisis management and smart command." The 22,000 acre (34 square mile) complex is located in Cairo's New Administrative capital, and includes eight buildings forming an Octagon shape, according to a government factsheet. America's Pentagon, by contrast, is dominated by a single building that's about 29 acres, still... https://www.sott.net/article/507385-Egypt-inaugurates-sprawling-Octagon-military-headquarters-complex Sun, 12 Jul 2026 20:14:34 +0000 https://www.sott.net/article/507384-Is-the-US-having-its-socialist-moment In the last few weeks, we have seen self-described democratic socialists winning primary elections across the country. Most were closely associated with Zohran Mamdani, the socialist who became mayor of New York City this year, who is seen by many on the left as a figure who is finally able to enact the kind of agenda that had made Bernie Sanders and AOC popular in previous election cycles. The growing popularity of this kind of explicit, full-on socialism and the indisputable electoral success it's having in some primaries has predictably caused establishment liberals, conservatives, and libertarians to panic. Centrist commentators across the country have been sharing the most extreme policy positions and previous statements from the socialist candidates who won their races, seemingly under the assumption that the radicalism alone will be sufficiently off-putting to enough people. That is, at best, a dangerous misreading of the situation. Despite the surface-level rhetoric used by... https://www.sott.net/article/507384-Is-the-US-having-its-socialist-moment Sun, 12 Jul 2026 20:13:06 +0000 https://www.sott.net/article/507383-A-Most-Sinful-Man Lindsey Graham had come to define the United States over the course of the past quarter century. This was not a good thing. Lindsey Olin Graham is dead. He served the State of South Carolina in one form or another for 36 years, the last 23 of which were as a United States Senator. Lindsey Graham postured himself as a man of integrity and honor, a patriot's patriot, who put service to country above all else. A Christian. But the reality is he was anything but. Lindsey Graham was a servant of sin, and his life embodied at its core at least five of the cardinal sins of mankind: pride, greed, wrath, envy, and lust. Lindsey Graham had an excessive belief in his abilities, and that of the causes he purported to support. Pride is considered the original and most serious sin, leading to a sense of superiority over all others. Lindsey Graham was a proud man, in the most negative and damnable sense of the word. Lindsey Graham was a greedy man, in so far as he possessed an insatiable desire... https://www.sott.net/article/507383-A-Most-Sinful-Man Sun, 12 Jul 2026 17:53:55 +0000 https://www.sott.net/article/507382-Warmonger-extraordinaire-Lindsay-Graham-dead-at-71 Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., who was elected to the Senate in 2002 and was a close political ally of President Donald Trump's, has died, his office confirmed early Sunday. He was 71. Graham died Saturday night "from a brief and sudden illness," his office said in a statement. "Senator Graham's family appreciates prayers at this time and asks for privacy during this incredibly difficult period," the statement said. President Donald Trump led tributes Sunday to "one of the greatest people and Senators I have ever known," describing Graham as a "true American Patriot" in a Truth Social post. At the White House, flags were lowered to half-staff. https://www.sott.net/article/507382-Warmonger-extraordinaire-Lindsay-Graham-dead-at-71 Sun, 12 Jul 2026 15:32:38 +0000 https://www.sott.net/article/507381-Severe-flash-flooding-in-Sichuan-China-Cars-and-animals-swept-away-record-breaking-rain-of-8-8-inches-in-just-6-HOURS Severe flash floods have inundated the streets of Sichuan, China. Torrential rainfall has transformed urban roadways into rushing rivers, carrying enough force to sweep away multiple vehicles and threaten local infrastructure. https://www.sott.net/article/507381-Severe-flash-flooding-in-Sichuan-China-Cars-and-animals-swept-away-record-breaking-rain-of-8-8-inches-in-just-6-HOURS Sun, 12 Jul 2026 13:01:00 +0000 https://www.sott.net/article/507380-Meteor-fireball-streaks-across-sky-in-Java-Indonesia-triggering-loud-boom-on-July-11 A celestial object, strongly suspected to be a meteor, streaked rapidly across the skies of Java, triggering a loud boom on Saturday (July 11, 2026) at approximately 21:30 WIB. This astronomical phenomenon caused a stir among residents across multiple provinces, spanning West Java, Central Java, and Yogyakarta. A brilliant blue-green flash of light was observed cutting across the night sky, stretching from the Bogor and Ciamis areas to the western horizon of Yogyakarta. Meanwhile, residents in the Cirebon area reportedly heard a thunderous explosion loud enough to rattle the windowpanes of their homes. The National Research and Innovation Agency (BRIN), together with relevant astronomical monitoring stations, is still gathering data to determine the size and impact point of the space rock. The public is advised to remain calm, as such giant fireball phenomena typically burn up completely in the atmosphere before reaching the ground. Daryono, the former Director of the BMKG's... https://www.sott.net/article/507380-Meteor-fireball-streaks-across-sky-in-Java-Indonesia-triggering-loud-boom-on-July-11 Sun, 12 Jul 2026 12:04:49 +0000 https://www.sott.net/article/507379-Tourist-injured-after-bison-tosses-him-8-feet-into-the-air-at-Yellowstone-Park-Wyoming A tourist was seriously injured after a bull bison charged at him and tossed him about eight feet into the air at Yellowstone National Park in the US on Friday evening. The incident took place at the Bridge Bay Campground, located south of Fishing Bridge, where the animal had reportedly been behaving aggressively and charging at both people and vehicles. The man was walking with his young grandson when the attack unfolded. According to Mike MacLeod, a professional photographer from Bozeman, Montana, the pair had been keeping a safe distance, around 100 yards, from the bison. MacLeod, who witnessed the incident, said the animal had already charged at a group of children who were taking photographs. The children managed to move out of its path, while campers began warning others as the bison ran through the area. The animal later stopped to roll in a patch of dirt, a common behaviour among bison, and appeared to calm down. Believing the danger had passed, the grandfather and grandson... https://www.sott.net/article/507379-Tourist-injured-after-bison-tosses-him-8-feet-into-the-air-at-Yellowstone-Park-Wyoming Sun, 12 Jul 2026 11:10:52 +0000 https://www.sott.net/article/507378-Meteor-fireball-over-Colorado-and-Wyoming-on-July-10 We received 13 reports about a fireball seen over CO and WY on Friday, July 10th 2026 around 08:02 UT. For this event, we received 2 videos. https://www.sott.net/article/507378-Meteor-fireball-over-Colorado-and-Wyoming-on-July-10 Sun, 12 Jul 2026 09:42:52 +0000 https://www.sott.net/article/507377-Ocean-rift-zone-saw-spreading-happen-in-a-sudden-burst The crust expands at mid-ocean rifts. But how? One of the central features of plate tectonics is the formation of new crust at mid-ocean ridges. Part of the spreading process that drives continents apart, it was arguably the discovery of these ridges that drove widespread acceptance of plate tectonics as a theory. Thanks to decades of exploration, we now have a good picture of what the crust that forms at the site of spreading looks like. But we still have an incomplete idea of how its features are actually produced. In other words, we have a good idea of the outcome of the process, but not a detailed picture of the process itself. That is starting to change. In 2024, a team of French scientists was able to remotely monitor a major event on the border between the Australian and Antarctic plates, only two months after they installed equipment on the ocean floor. Their data shows that most of the spreading occurred in a relatively short time window, and some key events happened... https://www.sott.net/article/507377-Ocean-rift-zone-saw-spreading-happen-in-a-sudden-burst Sat, 11 Jul 2026 22:08:28 +0000 https://www.sott.net/article/507376-The-Men-Who-Own-the-War-Now-Run-It There was a time when the arms dealer waited in the corridor. He financed the campaign, endowed the think tank, took the general to dinner, and hoped the man inside the office would remember him when the contract came up. The wall between the money and the decision was thin, often corrupt, but it was there. Someone held the public trust, and someone else tried to buy it, and you could at least tell the two apart. That wall is gone. The financier no longer waits in the corridor. He holds the office. He signs the checks. He is the buyer and the seller, the regulator and the regulated, the public interest and the private portfolio, fused into a single man in a single suit, and the arrangement is entirely legal, which is the whole problem. One of these men may already be familiar from a previous article. His name is Friedrich Merz. https://www.sott.net/article/507376-The-Men-Who-Own-the-War-Now-Run-It Sat, 11 Jul 2026 21:39:44 +0000 https://www.sott.net/article/507375-Clown-world-Federal-judge-orders-DHS-not-to-obey-order-from-another-federal-judge A federal judge on July 8 said the Trump administration must not comply with an order from another federal judge and must continue to have key functions of an immigration database disabled. Judge Sparkle Sooknanan of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia said that officials with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and other agencies shall keep disabled the ability to look up Social Security numbers and carry out mass uploads in the Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements (SAVE) system. Sooknanan ordered the Trump administration in June to disable the features, finding that recent updates to the database violated privacy laws by disclosing Americans' Social Security numbers and other sensitive information. https://www.sott.net/article/507375-Clown-world-Federal-judge-orders-DHS-not-to-obey-order-from-another-federal-judge Sat, 11 Jul 2026 21:01:16 +0000 https://www.sott.net/article/507374-RFK-Jr-to-issue-list-of-injuries-caused-by-COVID-19-vaccines Health officials are proposing a plan to clarify which COVID-19 vaccine side effects would be eligible for government financial compensation, according to a new notice. The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and one of its divisions said in a description of a proposed rule released on July 1 that they plan to establish an injury table for COVID-19 vaccines through the Countermeasures Injury Compensation Program (CICP). "The Table will list and explain injuries that, based on compelling, reliable, valid, medical, and scientific evidence, are presumed to be caused by covered COVID-19 countermeasures, and set forth the time periods in which the onset of these injuries must occur after the administration or use of these covered COVID-19 countermeasures," a summary of the rule, which has not been made public, stated. https://www.sott.net/article/507374-RFK-Jr-to-issue-list-of-injuries-caused-by-COVID-19-vaccines Sat, 11 Jul 2026 20:47:56 +0000 https://www.sott.net/article/507373-Crimes-against-humanity-The-CIAs-sickest-secret-may-finally-be-exposed New MKULTRA hearings have reopened questions about victims, destroyed files, and experiments America never answered for A decorated US Air Force serviceman with no history of violence suddenly abducted, raped and murdered a three-year-old girl. When a search party found Jimmy Shaver wandering near San Antonio, Texas, he appeared to be in a trance, unable to explain where he was or how he had gotten there. After his arrest, he reportedly failed to recognize his own wife when she visited him in jail. Until the moment he was executed four years later, Shaver insisted he had no memory of committing the crime for which he had been sentenced to death. More than seventy years later, some researchers believe his case may have been linked to one of the CIA's darkest Cold War programs: MKULTRA, the covert project that sought to manipulate, erase and ultimately control the human mind through drugs, hypnosis and psychological experimentation. https://www.sott.net/article/507373-Crimes-against-humanity-The-CIAs-sickest-secret-may-finally-be-exposed Sat, 11 Jul 2026 20:41:27 +0000 https://www.sott.net/article/507372-The-pastor-pipeline-that-helped-put-Venezuela-under-Israel-influence Venezuela's turn toward Israel did not begin in the rubble. The earthquake gave the world the story it was meant to see, rescue teams, drones, prayers, gratitude. But the real machinery was moving somewhere else. In Caracas, Venezuela's Jewish-community leadership opened the door. The evangelical channel ran through Texas and Florida, where Trump's faith network met Rubio's Venezuela politics. The strangest part was waiting inside Chavismo itself, where Nicolás Maduro's own son had spent years building the religious infrastructure that made the pivot possible. The public version began on the morning of July 3, 2026, when Venezuela's acting president, Delcy Rodríguez, performed two acts of thanks in quick succession. One was staged for the international cameras. The other was posted on the state's own Instagram account. In the first, Rodríguez stood before reporters and thanked Israel by name. She welcomed a delegation from the Israel Defense Forces that had arrived with drones and... https://www.sott.net/article/507372-The-pastor-pipeline-that-helped-put-Venezuela-under-Israel-influence Sat, 11 Jul 2026 20:19:27 +0000 https://www.sott.net/article/507371-Hidden-deep-sea-turbulence-could-alter-climate-and-fisheries-within-one-lifetime Tiny, invisible swirls and twirls — not much bigger than a coin — deep below the ocean's surface are silently shaping some of the biggest forces shaping our climate: sea level rise, fisheries collapse, extreme flooding and how much carbon dioxide the ocean absorbs. An international research team, led by the University of Cambridge, found that deep ocean turbulence — the process that distributes heat, nutrients and carbon from the surface to the seafloor and back — affects our lives not on a scale of thousands of years, as was previously thought, but within the span of a human lifetime. However, the tools used to predict these effects and inform policy do not adequately represent this turbulence, or the speed at which it moves. The results are reported in the journal Nature Communications. https://www.sott.net/article/507371-Hidden-deep-sea-turbulence-could-alter-climate-and-fisheries-within-one-lifetime Sat, 11 Jul 2026 20:03:01 +0000 https://www.sott.net/article/507370-Uncovering-three-new-kings-of-Assyria A new study co-written by Yale's Eckart Frahm provides evidence that the ancient kingdom of Assyria had three more kings than previously thought. Imagine, if you will, that an industrious scholar has unearthed credible evidence of a missing monarch in the accepted historical line of succession of the British crown. Another Elizabeth who ruled for a brief period, perhaps. Or a Charles III who preceded the current king, effectively making him Charles IV. Such a finding would shake up the popular understanding of how the crown has been passed down over the ages and leave scholars with a whole new set of questions about the British monarchy. New research into the ancient Assyrian kingdom promises to be similarly disruptive for the world of Assyriologists. A study by Yale's Eckart Frahm and Alexander Johannes Edmonds, of the University of Münster, in Germany, provides evidence for three previously unknown Assyrian kings who ruled for brief periods in the 10th and 8th centuries B.C.E.... https://www.sott.net/article/507370-Uncovering-three-new-kings-of-Assyria Sat, 11 Jul 2026 17:18:04 +0000 https://www.sott.net/article/507369-Canada-admits-Justin-Trudeaus-climate-agenda-was-a-scam Is it too little, too late for the struggling nation? Former Prime Minister Justin Trudeau gave Canada a lost decade. A key contributor to the country's stagnation was the Liberal government's obsession with climate change and its ushering in of green energy policies that were disastrous for a nation rich in natural resources. To make Canada great again, Prime Minister Mark Carney is abandoning climate alarmism and embracing what made the country wealthy in the first place: crude oil. Canada Loves Oil Again On June 30, the prime minister published a 17-minute YouTube video, focused exclusively on his predecessor's climate agenda. He used words like "expensive" and "divisive" to describe Trudeau's environmental endeavors. Carney essentially admitted that Pierre Poilievre and the Conservatives were right. For right-wing political pundits, this was a rare win for the incumbent. Indeed, in a bid to resuscitate the ailing Canadian economy, Carney is trying to make the country fall back... https://www.sott.net/article/507369-Canada-admits-Justin-Trudeaus-climate-agenda-was-a-scam Sat, 11 Jul 2026 17:05:45 +0000 https://www.sott.net/article/507368-The-cost-of-heat-Why-Europes-economy-is-melting From damaged roads to soaring power prices, scorching summer weather is exacting a heavy economic toll on the EU. Western Europe has been enduring another record-breaking heat wave, with temperatures topping 40C in several countries. France, the UK, Germany and Switzerland have all seen their hottest June temperatures on record, while the extreme weather has disrupted transport, power generation and industrial output. The scorching temperatures are burning a multi-billion-euro hole in the EU's already fragile economy. From parched fields to idle factories, the bloc is feeling the heat beyond what thermometers may indicate. Economists, meanwhile, warn that climate-driven heat waves are no longer temporary events but a structural macroeconomic risk. Productivity is the first casualty The most immediate economic cost of extreme heat is lost productivity. According to German insurer Allianz Trade, every additional degree between 30C and 35C cuts labor productivity by roughly $1.30 per... https://www.sott.net/article/507368-The-cost-of-heat-Why-Europes-economy-is-melting Sat, 11 Jul 2026 17:04:13 +0000 https://www.sott.net/article/507367-War-on-Iran-These-are-the-heritage-sites-devastated-by-US-and-Israeli-attacks From Isfahan to Tehran to Khorramabad, Israeli and American strikes have damaged landmarks, including some inscribed by Unesco. Iran's history is layered with conquest, cultural renewal and craftsmanship - all of which can be seen in its remarkable heritage sites. The iconic turquoise domes of Isfahan and the intricate interiors of mosques and palaces across the country are internationally renowned. Iran's architectural heritage can be divided roughly into two eras. The first is the pre-Islamic period, which included Iranian empires such as the Achaemenids and Sassanids, and the second involves a succession of Islamic empires and states, starting with the Rashidun caliphate and ending with the Qajar state until the early 20th century. Iran has 29 sites recognised as World Heritage Sites by Unesco - the tenth most sites in the world. But these sites have come under attack over the past two and a half weeks by Israel and the US. https://www.sott.net/article/507367-War-on-Iran-These-are-the-heritage-sites-devastated-by-US-and-Israeli-attacks Sat, 11 Jul 2026 17:03:22 +0000 https://www.sott.net/article/507366-A-new-strategic-plan-being-pushed-by-the-Israeli-settler-movement-would-establish-100-outposts-in-the-heart-of-Palestinian-cities The Israeli settler movement and its allies in the government have submitted a plan to build 100 new outposts in Palestinian-controlled areas of the West Bank. The move would effectively eliminate the Oslo Accords. Israel's annexation project in the West Bank is coming to a head as the Israeli settler movement pushes for a new strategic move that stands to render the 1993 Oslo Accords obsolete and further cut Palestinian population centers off from each other. The project surfaced last week when Israeli newspaper Israel Hayom reported that a coalition of Israeli settler groups announced plans to establish 100 new settler outposts in Areas A and B of the West Bank. These areas were created by the Accords, and together they make up about 40% of the West Bank, theoretically falling under the partial control of the Palestinian Authority (PA). Until recently, the establishment of Israeli settlements and settler outposts in Area A — supposedly under full PA control and making up 18% of... https://www.sott.net/article/507366-A-new-strategic-plan-being-pushed-by-the-Israeli-settler-movement-would-establish-100-outposts-in-the-heart-of-Palestinian-cities Sat, 11 Jul 2026 17:02:43 +0000 https://www.sott.net/article/507365-Mali-reveals-Al-Qaeda-extremists-in-the-Sahel-receive-training-drones-from-Ukraine-support-from-France Malian officials say France is supporting Al-Qaeda groups to destabilize its former colonies in Africa's Sahel region. Malian authorities announced on 9 July that militant groups with links to Al-Qaeda carrying out terror attacks in the country were trained and armed by Ukrainian specialists. Fousseynou Ouattara, Vice President of the Defense Commission of Mali's Transitional Council, said authorities identified militants who received training in Ukraine to carry out operations using kamikaze drones produced by Kiev. "These young people are known, we have now added them to our lists, and we have their names," Ouattara said. The militants fighting the Malian government belong to a Tuareg-led separatist group, the Azawad Liberation Front (ALF), and Jamaat Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimeen (JNIM), an extremist group linked to Al-Qaeda. https://www.sott.net/article/507365-Mali-reveals-Al-Qaeda-extremists-in-the-Sahel-receive-training-drones-from-Ukraine-support-from-France Sat, 11 Jul 2026 16:59:38 +0000 https://www.sott.net/article/507364-Why-have-central-bankers-gone-radio-silent-on-the-digital-currency-agenda During the 2020 pandemic hysteria there was a mad rush by globalist institutions like the WEF, IMF, BIS and numerous national central banks to speed-run the concept of "CBDCs" (Central Bank Digital Currencies) into the mainstream consciousness. The idea of digital currencies rooted to a blockchain ledger was presented as a solution to the pandemic. A number of globalists asserted that digital exchange would be necessary because "paper money carries the covid virus." This was, of course, complete nonsense. There was zero evidence that shifting to digital would prevent the spread of the virus in any way. But, as I've said for years now, covid was their big play. It was intended to become a nexus point for a global coup; the "New World Order" takeover. The elites figured the population was so terrified that they would agree to anything without a logical reason. They were wrong, at least in the long run. The virus was a dud (which seemed to catch them by surprise) and the death rate... https://www.sott.net/article/507364-Why-have-central-bankers-gone-radio-silent-on-the-digital-currency-agenda Sat, 11 Jul 2026 16:54:24 +0000 https://www.sott.net/article/507363-6-4-magnitude-earthquake-hits-South-Sandwich-Islands A powerful magnitude 6.4 earthquake struck the South Sandwich Islands region at 10:26 UTC on July 11, 202, according to the US Geological Survey (USGS). The epicenter was located 2 390 km (1 485 miles) SW of Edinburgh of the Seven Seas (population 271), Tristan da Cunha, Saint Helena, and 2 448 km (1 521 miles) ENE of Ushuaia (population 56 825), Argentina, News.Az reports, citing The Watchers. There is no tsunami threat from this earthquake. The USGS issued a Green alert for shaking-related fatalities and economic losses. There is a low likelihood of casualties and damage. Overall, the population in this region resides in structures that are a mix of vulnerable and earthquake-resistant construction. The predominant vulnerable building types are adobe block with concrete bond beam and unreinforced brick with concrete floor construction. https://www.sott.net/article/507363-6-4-magnitude-earthquake-hits-South-Sandwich-Islands Sat, 11 Jul 2026 14:33:02 +0000