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IAEA Director General’s Statement regarding nuclear sites in Iran
IAEA Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi. (Photo: D. Calma/IAEA)
(As prepared for delivery)
16 June 2025
Madam Chairperson,
Following Friday’s attacks on nuclear sites in the Islamic Republic of Iran, the military conflict continues. As I reported to the IAEA’s Board of Governors and then to the UN Security Council last Friday, the IAEA is monitoring the situation very carefully. Our Incident and Emergency Centre has been up and running 24/7 from the start, ascertaining the status of Iran’s nuclear facilities and the level of radiation at relevant sites through constant communication with Iranian authorities.
The IAEA is ready to respond to any nuclear or radiological emergency within an hour.
Based on information available to the IAEA, the following is the current situation at Iran’s nuclear sites.
There has been no additional damage at the Natanz Fuel Enrichment Plant site since the Friday attack, which destroyed the above-ground part of the Pilot Fuel Enrichment Plant, one of the plants at which Iran was producing uranium enriched up to 60% U-235.
Electricity infrastructure at the facility, which included an electrical sub-station, a main electric power supply building, and emergency power supply and back-up generators, was also destroyed.
There has been no indication of a physical attack on the underground cascade hall containing part of the Pilot Fuel Enrichment Plant and the main Fuel Enrichment Plant. However, the loss of power to the cascade hall may have damaged the centrifuges there.
The level of radioactivity outside the Natanz site has remained unchanged and at normal levels, indicating no external radiological impact to the population or the environment from this event.
Within the Natanz facility there is both radiological and chemical contamination. Considering the type of nuclear material at this facility, it is possible that Uranium isotopes contained in Uranium Hexafluoride, Uranyl Fluoride and Hydrogen Fluoride are dispersed inside the facility. The radiation, primarily consisting of alpha particles, poses a significant danger if Uranium is inhaled or ingested. However, this risk can be effectively managed with appropriate protective measures, such as using respiratory protection devices while inside the affected facilities. The main concern inside the facility is the chemical toxicity of the Uranium Hexafluoride and the Fluoride compounds generated at the contact with water.
No damage has been seen at the site of the Fordow Fuel Enrichment Plant or at the Khondab heavy water reactor, which is under construction. Bushehr nuclear power plant has not been targeted nor affected by the recent attacks and neither has the Tehran Research Reactor.
At the Esfahan nuclear site, four buildings were damaged in Friday’s attack: the central chemical laboratory, a uranium conversion plant, the Tehran reactor fuel manufacturing plant, and the UF4 to EU metal processing facility, which was under construction.
As in Natanz, off-site radiation levels remain unchanged.
I acknowledge the cooperation and exchange of information between the Iranian authorities and the IAEA. Amid these challenging and complex circumstances, it is crucial that the IAEA receives timely and regular technical information about the facilities and their respective sites. This information is needed to promptly inform the international community and ensure an effective response and assistance to any emergency situation in Iran. Without information, we cannot accurately assess the radiological conditions and potential impacts on the population and the environment and cannot provide the necessary assistance.
The Agency is and will remain present in Iran. Safeguards inspections in Iran will continue as soon as safety conditions allow, as is required under Iran’s NPT safeguards obligations.
I am in touch with the inspectors on the ground; their safety remains our top priority, and all necessary actions are being taken to ensure they are not harmed.
I stand ready to travel immediately and engage with all relevant parties to help ensure the protection of nuclear facilities and the continued peaceful use of nuclear technology in accordance with the Agency mandate, including by deploying Agency nuclear security and safety experts, in addition to our safeguards inspectors in Iran, wherever necessary.
Madam Chairperson,
Military escalation threatens lives, increases the chance of a radiological release with serious consequences for people and the environment and delays indispensable work towards a diplomatic solution for the long-term assurance that Iran does not acquire a nuclear weapon.
Consistent with the objectives of the IAEA and its Statute, I call on all parties to exercise maximum restraint to avoid further escalation.
Last week the Board adopted an important resolution on Iran’s safeguards obligations. The resolution, while containing important proliferation-related provisions, also stressed support for a diplomatic solution to the problems posed by the Iranian nuclear programme. Member States of the IAEA have a crucial, active role to play in supporting the urgent move away from military escalation towards diplomacy. I urge you to pursue every possible diplomatic avenue and I assure you that I remain ready to play my part, including by travelling at the earliest possibility to assess the situation and ensure safety, security and non-proliferation in Iran.
There is arguably no more important and universally supported endeavour than ensuring humankind uses the enormous power of the atom for good and not for destruction. For more than 60 years, the IAEA has been central in helping its Member States to turn this desire into real progress.
With the IAEA’s clear mandate and unique assets, I reaffirm the Agency’s readiness to facilitate technical discussions and to support efforts that promote transparency, safety, security and the peaceful resolution of nuclear-related issues in Iran.
Distinguished colleagues,
For the second time in three years, we are witnessing a dramatic conflict between two IAEA Member States in which nuclear installations are coming under fire and nuclear safety is being compromised.
The IAEA, just as has been the case with the military conflict between the Russian Federation and Ukraine, will not stand idly by during this conflict.
We can and will act within our statutory mandate to assist in preventing a nuclear accident that could result in unpredictable radiological consequences. For the IAEA to act, a constructive, professional dialogue will have to ensue, and this must happen sooner rather than later.
Intractable as it may seem amid the heat of continuing military conflict, we have shown before that – even in such circumstances – respectful and impartial, technical assistance can benefit everyone.
I will continue my constant communication with the opposing parties to seek the most appropriate way to make this happen and I ask Member States to support me in these efforts. I hope this Board, and especially Member States with the greatest capacity to do so, will heed this call to assist the IAEA in helping those who today are exchanging fire, to avoid the worst. There is always time and there is always a place for diplomacy.
CDC’s New Vaccine Advisors Study Cumulative Effect of Vaccine Schedule
by Suzanne Burdick, Ph.D.June 25, 2025The CDC’s advisory committee began its two-day meeting today despite a call from Sen. Bill Cassidy late Monday to delay it. Martin Kulldorff, Ph.D., the committee’s new co-chair, opened the meeting by reassuring the public that the committee members will use “evidence-based medicine” to make vaccine recommendations.
The CDC’s new advisory committee today announced plans to look at the cumulative effect of all vaccines given during childhood.
Martin Kulldorff, Ph.D., the committee’s new co-chair, said:
“The number of vaccines that our children and adolescents receive today exceeds what children in most other developed nations receive — and what most of us in this room received when we were children.
“In addition to studying and evaluating individual vaccines, it is important to evaluate the cumulative effect of the recommended vaccine schedule. This includes interaction effects between different vaccines, the total number of vaccines, cumulative amounts of vaccine ingredients, and relative timing of different vaccines.”
A new committee work group will look into these issues, Kulldorff said. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention currently recommends at least 70 doses of 15 different vaccines for children and adolescents up to age 18.
Another new work group will look at vaccines that have not been subject to reviewed in more than seven years, he added. “This was supposed to be a regular practice of the ACIP, but it has not been done in a thorough and systematic way. We will change that.”
ACIP began its two-day meeting today despite a call from Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.) late Monday to delay the meeting until the committee “is fully staffed with more robust and balanced representation.”
On June 11, U.S. Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. named eight researchers and physicians to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) vaccine advisory panel, two days after removing all 17 ACIP sitting members.
However, according to The New York Times, one of the new members, Dr. Michael A. Ross, a physician licensed in Virginia and a former professor of obstetrics and gynecology, withdrew from the committee.
Kennedy reconstituted the committee to “avoid conflicts of interest,” citing past members’ financial ties to pharmaceutical companies, he said in a Wall Street Journal op-ed about the change.
According to Cassidy, although the new committee members “have scientific credentials, many do not have significant experience studying microbiology, epidemiology or immunology. In particular, some lack experience studying new technologies such as mRNA vaccines, and may even have a preconceived bias against them.”
In addition to Kulldorff and Ross, the other six new members tapped by Kennedy are:
Dr. Joseph R. Hibbeln, a psychiatrist and neuroscientist with a career in clinical research, public health policy and federal service.Retsef Levi, Ph.D., a professor of operations management at the MIT Sloan School of Management and a leading expert in healthcare analytics, risk management and vaccine safety.Dr. Robert Malone, a physician-scientist and biochemist known for his early contributions to mRNA vaccine technology.Dr. Cody Meissner, a professor of pediatrics at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth and a nationally recognized expert in pediatric infectious diseases and vaccine policy.Dr. James Pagano, a board-certified emergency medicine physician with over 40 years of clinical experience following his residency at UCLA.Vicky Pebsworth, Ph.D., a registered nurse who holds a doctorate in public health and nursing from the University of Michigan.New committee members will use ‘evidence-based medicine’
Kulldorff opened this morning’s meeting by reassuring the public that the committee members will use “evidence-based medicine” to make vaccine recommendations.
“Vaccines are not all good or bad,” Kulldorff said. The labels pro-vaccine and anti-vaccine “undermine scientific inquiry.”
Caring about vaccine safety doesn’t make one anti-vaccine, Kulldorff said. “In fact, to thoroughly scrutinize and ensure the safety and efficacy of vaccines is a pro-vaccine position, just like the promotion of aviation safety is a pro-airline position.”
Meanwhile, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) today denounced the new committee in an X post, saying AAP will issue its own childhood immunization schedule rather than accept recommendations made by the new ACIP committee members.
According to the AAP’s website, the organization receives annual contributions of over $50,000 from numerous pharmaceutical companies, including Merck, Sanofi and Moderna.
Committee will reconsider Hep. B vaccine recommendation, timing of MMR vaccine
Today’s ACIP meeting includes presentations on the COVID-19 vaccines, updates from HHS agencies, and a vote on RSV vaccines for babies and young children.
The committee will also vote on whether to include RSV vaccines in the federal Vaccines for Children Program. An earlier agenda draft included a vote on the RSV vaccine for pregnant women. However, that vote was dropped from the final agenda.
Tomorrow, the committee will hear presentations on other vaccines, including flu, chikungunya, anthrax and MMRV (measles, mumps, rubella, varicella). Votes are scheduled for flu vaccines and thimerosal-containing flu vaccines. Thimerosal is a form of mercury.
Kulldorff also announced that future work groups will reconsider other vaccine recommendations, including the universal hepatitis B recommendation.
He said:
“Is it wise to administer a birth dose of Hepatitis B vaccine to every newborn before leaving the hospital? That’s the question. Unless the mother is hepatitis B positive, an argument could be made to delay the vaccine for this infection, which is primarily spread by sexual activity and intravenous drug use.”
The committee also plans to create a work group to review the most recent research on vaccinating against measles, Kulldorff said. The work group may reconsider giving the MMRV to 1-year-olds and rethink the timing of the MMR vaccine.
HHS responds to Cassidy’s concerns over CDC’s vaccine committee
When asked to comment on Cassidy’s call for a delay, HHS Press Secretary Emily G. Hilliard said the ACIP meeting would take place as scheduled.
Hilliard pushed back against Cassidy’s claim that the new committee members would be unable to perform their task, saying:
“The new ACIP committee is committed to evidence-based medicine, gold-standard science, and common sense. The ACIP meeting will take place as scheduled. To be clear, the Secretary said he will maintain the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices recommendations without changes.”
Watch ACIP’s live meeting here:
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Gaza’s Grassroots Effort to Ensure Humanitarian Aid Reaches Starving Palestinians
Leading members of the National Gathering of Palestinians Tribes, Clans, and Families standing on al-Rashid street in northern Gaza on June 25, 2025. (Screenshot from video by Abdel Qader Sabbah)Abdel Qader Sabbah, Sharif Abdel Kouddous, and Jawa AhmadJun 28, 2025GAZA CITY—Influential clans, tribes, and community leaders in Gaza have joined forces to launch an independent effort to protect aid convoys and to prevent chaos and looting. The endeavor comes one month after the U.S. and Israel launched a so-called “aid distribution” project that has enabled Israeli forces to kill starving Palestinians every day as they desperately try to get food to feed their families. Since the beginning of the “aid distribution” charade, Israeli forces have killed at least 549 people.
On Tuesday, the National Gathering of Palestinians Tribes, Clans, and Families convened a meeting in Gaza City to launch the initiative. “These trucks arriving in besieged Gaza—which has been starved for 90 days by our enemy—must reach their rightful recipients, the needy,” said Abu Salman al-Mughni, a tribal leader. “They must not go to a corrupt group of thieves and rogue merchants to be sold in the markets at exorbitant prices that no one can afford. For this reason, the tribes, from all factions, have united to secure these trucks, ensuring they reach the warehouses and are then distributed fairly to all our people.”
The effort succeeded in securing a rare shipment of dozens of UN aid trucks that entered through the Zikim crossing on Wednesday; passed through Rashid street, a coastal road, without incident; and arrived at UN warehouses where people lined up to receive the aid. The tribes and community leaders prevented crowds from approaching the area the trucks passed through by erecting a series of barricades and forming human chains. Men associated with the tribes climbed atop the trucks—some armed with rods and others with guns—to escort the trucks to the warehouses.
The process stood in stark contrast to previous scenes where, absent any distribution system, thousands of desperate people overwhelmed aid convoys, with Israeli soldiers opening fire indiscriminately, killing dozens of Palestinians on a daily basis.
“We advise everyone to take a firm stand with their sons and youth to prevent them from heading to the death traps,” Abu Samed Abu Rawaa, another tribal leader involved in the effort, told Drop Site. “We are the protective shield. Everyone must understand that it is the occupier who seeks to spread chaos—they are the ones who want our people to appear this way…to portray our people as barbaric.”
The most prominent figure in Gaza accused of looting aid trucks is Yasser Abu Shabab, a 32-year-old who was previously jailed in Gaza for drug trafficking. Abu Shabab is now the head of a powerful group called the “Anti-Terror Service” that is armed by the Israeli military and has been widely accused of looting aid convoys.
In their remarks, tribal and clan leaders singled Abu Shabab out by name, warning that anyone associated with him would be dealt with harshly. “[Israel] propped up that disgraced and condemned Abu Shabab in order to spread corruption in the land,” Dr. Alaa El-Din Al-Aklouk, a leading member of the National Gathering of Palestinian Tribes, Clans and Families, said. “Some of our sons and family members join Abu Shabab and run around in order to recruit people. You men must advise your sons and youth to stay away from this filthy germ created by the occupation.” Echoing comments by Israeli officials, Shabab has blamed Hamas for looting aid trucks without providing any evidence—a claim that both the UN and international organizations have also denied.
Hours after the tribal and community-led initiative to secure the aid convoys was launched on Wednesday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Israel Katz issued a joint statement accusing Hamas of stealing the aid and ordered the Israeli military to prevent it.
In response, the Government Media Office in Gaza said the Israeli government was “promoting lies” in order to “legitimize the continued blockade, starvation, and the prevention of humanitarian aid.”
“This tragedy is for whom?”
Israel imposed a full-spectrum siege on Gaza on March 2, with no food, medical supplies, fuel, or other humanitarian goods allowed to enter for nearly three months—the longest total blockade since Israel’s genocidal assault began. The Israeli siege brought the entire population of Gaza to the brink of famine, with malnourished children dying of hunger.
On May 27, the U.S.- and Israel-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) began distributing a trickle of aid through four militarized distribution hubs, three in remote parts of southern Gaza and one near Wadi Gaza. The project was condemned by the U.N. and international organizations—which previously led aid distribution in Gaza—as a weaponization of aid. The scheme forced thousands of desperate Palestinians to walk for hours over long distances through Israeli military zones to reach the hubs. Separate from the GHF system, a small number of U.N. aid trucks, mostly carrying flour, has also sporadically been allowed in. The total amount of aid being distributed is not nearly enough to stave off mass starvation, according to the U.N.
Israeli troops have shot at, shelled, and attacked the crowds with tanks and quadcopters on a daily basis both at, or near, the GHF hubs, and as they gathered near the UN aid trucks. Over the past four weeks, at least 549 Palestinians have been killed and over 4,066 injured, according to the Gaza health ministry, in what are now commonly called “aid massacres.”
Meanwhile, the humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders (known by its French acronym MSF) labeled the GHF aid distribution scheme “slaughter masquerading as humanitarian aid” and called for it to be “immediately dismantled.” The group said in a statement on Friday that the GHF “is degrading Palestinians by design, forcing them to choose between starvation or risking their lives for minimal supplies.”
Last week, the White House and State Department authorized a $30 million USAID grant to the GHF, with possible additional grants of $30 million that could be dispersed on a monthly basis.
The executive chairman of the GHF, Johnnie Moore—an evangelical Christian and a former Trump adviser—has rejected all criticism of the GHF and echoed Israeli talking points that deny the mass killing of civilians by Israeli troops at, or near, GHF hubs. “The US endorsement of the effort is Exhibit A that it is actually working, despite a disinformation campaign that is very deliberate and meant to shut down our efforts,” Moore said in a televised interview on Sky News on Friday. “The IDF is a professionalized military. Hamas is intentionally harming people for the purpose of defaming what we’re doing.”
His comments came despite revelations published by Haaretz on Friday that confirmed what Palestinians in Gaza have been saying for the past four weeks—that Israeli soldiers are opening fire on unarmed Palestinians gathering near food distribution sites, even when they posed no threat. In the report, soldiers said Israeli commanders instructed troops to shoot at civilians approaching aid sites before they opened or after they closed—using machine guns, mortars, and grenades. Soldiers described systematic live fire, including from tanks and said the killings weren’t isolated mistakes but part of a pattern dubbed “Operation Salted Fish”—the Israeli version of Red Light, Green Light. “We shoot, they run, we shoot again,” one soldier said. “This is our communication.”
The association of tribal and community leaders have said they will continue their efforts to protect and organize the limited amount of aid that is being allowed into Gaza. “We pledge to stand by our people during this unjust siege,” al-Mughni said. “Every day, we are losing 40 or 50 martyrs. This tragedy is for whom? And at what cost? We must put an end to this destructive phenomenon.”
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Via https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/gaza-tribal-clans-protect-aid-convoys-massacres
Proof Israel Lost War: “Sizable Portion of Military, Intelligence, Energy, and R&D Facilities Destroyed”
The American people are not being told why Israel agreed to a ceasefire with Iran. Yes, Israel was rapidly running out of air-defense interceptors (making it more vulnerable to Iranian attacks.) But that issue is only of secondary importance. The real reason they wanted a ceasefire was because they were getting systematically pulverized and needed to stop the bleeding fast. That’s why Israel ‘threw in the towel’ less than 2 weeks after the opening salvo, because Iran was decimating one target after another with no end in sight. So, Israel capitulated.
Of course, that is not the story we’ve been reading in the western media where there’s no mention of the vast destruction of Israeli strategic targets (by Iranian ballistic missiles); that news has been completely omitted from the mainstream coverage. But that’s why Israel persuaded Trump to find a diplomatic off-ramp; because the losses were beginning to mount and Iran was not ‘letting up.’
Did you know that it is illegal to post videos or photos of buildings that have been struck by Iranian missiles in Israel? In other words, if you publish photos of smoldering buildings, infrastructure or military bases, you will go to jail. This is how the government controls the narrative and convinces the public that they are winning a war they are actually losing. But don’t take my word for it; here’s a video clip of an Israeli newscaster explaining how government censorship is impacting the peoples’ ability to figure out what is going on:
CH13’s Raviv Drucker: We have to say there is a bit of an Iranian aspect to the way we report missile strikes on our side. I’m not talking about the Weizmann Institute, but there were alot of missile hits on IDF bases, on strategic sites, that we still don’t report about to this day. And there’s a clear reason for that, which everyone at home understands. But along that clear reason, it created a situation where people don’t realize how precise the Iranians were and how much damage they caused in many places. We just know about the Weizmann Institute; there are many places we don’t know about. https://twitter.com/SuppressedNws/status/1938336639748624420
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What can we glean from this statement?
That Iran’s new generation of ballistic missiles are abundant, precise and lethal. To his credit, the newscaster seems to think that ordinary people deserve to be told about these cutting-edge weapons so they can make informed decisions regarding their own safety. We agree with this view, but we also know that the heavily censored, state-controlled, agenda-driven media is not going to change the way it disseminates information. After all, the media’s objective is not to inform but to shape public opinion.
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Keep in mind, Operation True Promise III unleashed no less than 22 salvos of state-of-the-art ballistic missiles (many used for the first time) that delivered withering blows to a number of heavily fortified Israeli sites that were regarded as ‘the most protected military bases in the world.’ Iran’s missiles blew through Israel’s defenses like at every turn reducing their targets to twisted metal and broken blocks of cinder. (One weapons expert estimates that just 5 percent of Iran’s ballistic missiles were intercepted.) This is from an article at Press TV:
Iran destroyed the so-called “Israeli Pentagon”, the Kirya military-intelligence complex in central Tel Aviv, which is shown as a smoldering hulk in the few photos published on X. Despite being one of the most heavily fortified locations in the occupied territories, protected by a multilayered shield of Israeli and American defense systems, the complex was unable to repel the Iranian missile barrage in the very first phases of True Promise III…. Press TV
Iranian missiles also took-out the Aman military intelligence headquarters at the Glilot Mizrah Interchange, near Herzliya. Aman oversees elite spying units such as Unit 8200 (signals intelligence), Unit 504 (human intelligence), and Unit 9900 (geospatial intelligence). The compound also houses Mossad’s operational headquarters—the Israeli regime’s notorious foreign intelligence agency….
Iran also struck the ‘impregnable’ Nevatim Airbase in the Negev desert with over 30 ballistic missiles causing extensive damage that (of course) was not reported. Nevatim houses most of Israel’s F-15s and F-35s although we do not have an estimate of how many of those warplanes were destroyed. Here’s more from Press TV:
Other targeted airbases included Tel Nof and Ben Gurion near Tel Aviv, Ramat David near Haifa, Palmachim on the Mediterranean coast, and Ovda near Eilat.
Iranian missiles, including those used for the first time, targeted the command and control centers of the Israeli military and Mossad in both Tel Aviv and Haifa…..
On June 16, Iranian ballistic missiles hit the Bazan Oil Refinery in Haifa—the regime’s largest fuel processing center, which supplies around 60 percent of its gasoline, 65 percent of diesel, and over 50 percent of its kerosene.
The strikes caused significant damage, forcing the complete shutdown of the refinery and its subsidiaries. The Israeli energy minister later admitted the facility would need major reconstruction, estimating a partial restart no sooner than a month.
A nearby power plant was also damaged, triggering widespread blackouts across central regions of the occupied territories.
On June 23, Iranian missiles struck near a power station in Ashdod, triggering a powerful explosion and localized blackouts. Explosions and outages were also reported near Hadera, where Orot Rabin—Israel’s largest power plant—is located
In addition, Iran directly targeted military-industrial sites involved in recent Israeli aggression. Chief among them was the Rafael Advanced Defense Systems complex north of Haifa—home to multiple factories and R&D buildings that produce key elements of Israel’s military hardware.
Rafael manufactures Iron Dome and David’s Sling missile interceptors, both of which have failed repeatedly in stopping Palestinian and Iranian missiles. It also produces cruise and guided missiles used in strikes against Iran, including Spice kits and Popeye, Rocks, Spike, and Matador missiles.
The Kiryat Gat Industrial Zone—a major center for microprocessor and high-tech military production—was also struck. Iranian strikes reportedly damaged key production lines vital to Israel’s drone and surveillance programs.
Further south, the Gav-Yam Negev Advanced Technologies Park near Beersheba, which hosts firms working in cyberwarfare, AI, and military tech, was not spared. Many of these companies collaborate closely with the Israeli military and the Mossad.
Another high-profile target was the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, south of Tel Aviv. Known for its military R&D and partnerships with Israeli military agencies, the institute suffered devastating damage to key laboratories. Members and professors of the institute confirmed the loss of years’ worth of research. The Weizmann Institute also plays a role in Israel’s clandestine nuclear program, with many of Dimona’s nuclear scientists having graduated from or taught at the institute. Press TV
Let’s summarize: In a little more than a week’s time, Iran struck or obliterated:
The “Israeli Pentagon”, the Kirya military-intelligence complexThe Weizmann Institute of Science which plays a role in Israel’s clandestine nuclear programThe Aman military intelligence headquarters at the Glilot Mizrah Interchange, near Herzliya. Aman oversees elite spying units such as Unit 8200 (signals intelligence), Unit 504 (human intelligence), and Unit 9900 (geospatial intelligence).Branches of the Israeli ministry of interior affairs responsible for internal military coordinationThe Mossad’s operational headquartersIsrael’s most protected Nevatim Airbase (and the Tel Nof Airbase)Ben Gurion Airport (repeatedly) as well as Ramat David, Palmachim and Ovda near Eilat.The Command-and-Control Centers of the Israeli military and Mossad in both Tel Aviv and Haifa…..The Bazan Oil Refinery in Haifa—Israel’s largest fuel processing centerA giant power station in Ashdod, triggering a powerful explosion and localized blackouts.The Rafael Advanced Defense Systems complex north of Haifa—home to multiple factories and R&D buildings that produce key elements of Israel’s military hardwareThe Kiryat Gat Industrial Zone—a major center for microprocessor and high-tech military productionThe Gav-Yam Negev Advanced Technologies Park near Beersheba, which hosts firms working in cyberwarfare, AI, and military tech. [image error] Tel Aviv at dusk[…]
We should note that there is no formal agreement between Iran and Israel. (No signed document or explicit commitments) The ceasefire was brokered through back-channel diplomacy, primarily mediated by Qatar. A senior White House official and a diplomat briefed on the talks indicated that Israel agreed to halt strikes if Iran ceased its attacks, and Iran signaled compliance with these terms through Qatari mediation. Trump announced the ceasefire as a “complete and total ceasefire” to be phased in over 24 hours, although there have been numerous violations by both sides since the original deal was made on June 23. (Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi initially stated there was “no agreement” but indicated Iran would stop its response if Israel held up its end of the bargain.)
The problem, of course, is that the ceasefire is not going to hold because Israel and the US see the truce as merely a way to buy-time to regroup and prepare for the next round of hostilities. (The same as Minsk) Consider the comments of Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz who said the following on Saturday:
This doesn’t sound like a man who is looking for a ‘lasting peace’ or even a temporary end to the fighting. It sounds like someone who’s already settled on a strategy for resuming the hostilities and is merely waiting for the green light (from Bibi) to put the plan into motion.
But what might that plan be, after all, Israel was already employing its top-line military weaponry and advanced air-defense systems. What other tools do they have that could be used to produce a different outcome that the one they just experienced after just 12 days of conflict?
This is where is gets scary because Israel has only two options: Either it draws the United States deeper into the conflict (including the deploying of ground forces) or it ‘goes nuclear’. There is no third option. So, whatever Bibi and his generals have ‘up their sleeve’, it’s going to be of a different force and magnitude than what we saw during the last dust-up. Check out this baffling blurb from the Times of Israel‘s Saturday edition:
After the US strike on Iran earlier this week, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and US President Donald Trump agreed on a rapid end to the war in Gaza and expansion of the Abraham Accords, Israel Hayom reports, citing “a source familiar with the conversation.”
According to the outlet, Trump and Netanyahu agreed in a phone call that the war in Gaza would end within two weeks. Four Arab states, including the UAE and Egypt, would jointly govern the Gaza Strip in place of Hamas. The terror group’s leadership would be exiled, and all hostages would be released.
However, Arab allies have repeatedly asserted that they will not take part in the postwar rehabilitation of Gaza absent Israeli acquiescence to the Palestinian Authority gaining a foothold in Gaza as part of a pathway to a future two-state solution, but Netanyahu has flatly rejected any PA role in the Strip….
Trump and Netanyahu were joined on the “euphoric” call late Monday night by US Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Israeli Strategic Affairs Minister Ron Dermer, says Israel Hayom….
Saudi Arabia and Syria would establish diplomatic ties with Israel, and other Arab and Muslim countries would follow suit…. Israel, for its part, would express its support for a future two-state solution, conditioned on reforms made by the Palestinian Authority. Meanwhile, the leaders agreed that Washington will recognize Israeli sovereignty in some parts of the West Bank. Times of Israel
People who follow events closely in the Middle East know that nothing in this article is true. There’s not going to be a rapid end to the war in Gaza, there’s not going to be a rapid expansion of the Abraham Accords, and there’s certainly not going to be Israeli support for a two-state solution.
Iran’s Victory, America’s Defeat
Dmitry Orlov
The recent twelve-day rocket and drone duel between Israel and Iran with a cameo appearance by some American Tomahawk missiles and a heaping handful of bunker-busting bombs came to a sudden conclusion that is, if anything, inconclusive. “Who won this silly caucus race?” the animals asked. There followed some inconclusive muttering. “At last the Dodo said, ‘Everybody has won, and all must have prizes.'” And so Alice handed out some comfits, a box of which she had serendipitously discovered in her apron pocket.
Of course, it wasn’t all fun and games. All sides sustained damage.
• Israel sustained damage appraised at upwards of $10 billion (a casual estimate, which works out to around a thousand dollars per Israeli man, woman and child). Israel also demonstrated its inability to protect its tiny territory from Iranian missile and drone strikes even with help from US and British warships parked off the coast in the Mediterranean, which attempted to intercept whatever they could. As for the benefits accruing to Israel as a result of this attack — there weren’t any.
• Iran has sustained even more damage, especially in lives lost, among them some high-ranking officials of the Iranian government, military and nuclear science. There was also some damage done to three of Iran’s sites that are part of Iran’s nuclear program. But Iran also gained a great deal as a result of this attack. Perhaps most significantly, Iran has demonstrated the ability of its hypersonic missiles (which neither the US nor Israel know how to make) to penetrate US and Israeli missile shields.
• The US got yet another black eye from an Iranian attack on a US military base — its largest base in the region. Just as had happened with the previous Iranian attack on a US military base, the Americans did nothing in response. The previous Iranian strike was on a US military base in Iraq which followed the US assassination of Iranian general Qasem Soleimani, who was blown up using a drone while he was on a state visit to Iraq. The US also earned itself a major scandal back home because it is entirely unclear even if it did, whether it was anywhere close to developing a nuclear weapon; and if so, whether its putative nuclear weapons program was destroyed, damaged, delayed or in any way inconvenienced by the American bunker-buster and Tomahawk missile strikes, or whether it was instead accelerated, the Iranians having been given an opportunity to ascertain that the only thing worse than nuclear weapons is not having any.
Thus it is clear that all three parties suffered some amount of damage, none of it fatal, but still rather nasty. Kinetic military actions are inevitably like that. But did anyone win? To answer this question, we have to dig deeper — as deep as the Fordo nuclear facility, which is located approximately 90 meters underground beneath a mountain near the city of Qom, which the Americans unsuccessfully attempted to destroy using their bunker-busting bombs. These bombs can only penetrate 60 meters into the ground, and that only if the ground is made of something softer than the basalt of that mountain. Basalt rates around 6 on the MOHS hardness scale — twice as hard as the reinforced concrete of which bunkers are typically made, so the bunker-busters only penetrated 30 meters at best, leaving Fordo intact under 60 more meters of rock. Please don’t tell that to Trump or his head might explode.
All of this might lead an innocent bystander to believe that something or other nuclear is at the crux of this entire imbroglio. Iran indeed has a rather successful nuclear research program and either was or was not developing a nuclear weapon — depending on which set of liars you believe. There are the professional liars at the 18 US intelligence agencies (who lied about Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction, Syria’s chemical attacks, Russia’s invasion of the Ukraine, the Skripal father and daughter poisoned by Novichok in the UK and much else). There are also the IAEA officials, who, for three years running, haven’t been able to figure out who (the Ukrainians, as happens to be the case) is shelling the Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant, the largest in Europe, keeping in mind that Zaporozhye, the nuclear plant included, are now Russian territory. These liars said that Iran does not have a nuclear weapons program. On the other hand, there is Donald Trump and his entourage, who, along with Israeli PM Bibi Netanyahu, were adamant that Iran does have a nuclear weapons program, and were then equally adamant that US air strikes had destroyed it.
Bibi’s brain pan is perpetually overheating over the idea that Iran will develop a nuclear weapon and immediately use it to destroy Israel. Bibi takes at face value the popular Iranian street chant “Death to America! Death to Israel!” But there are other factors to consider. First, there is a “fatwa” (a standing injunction) from Iran’s supreme leader Ali Khamenei against developing nuclear weapons and no Iranian scientist or engineer would dare to violate it. Second, Iran certainly has nothing against Jews, having been home to Jews for thousands of years and even grants the Jewish community specific representation in its parliament.
What the Iranians are against are not Jews per se but Zionism (which UN Resolution 3379 declared to be a form of racism), be it Israeli or American. But it’s all the same to Bibi because he is a Zionist and can’t imagine a non-Zionist Israel living in peace alongside a non-jihadi Palestine. Truth be told, I can’t imagine that either, given that Israel is chock-full of Zionists and that the Palestinians have a bone to pick with them.
Be that as it may, the idea of Iran using a nuclear bomb (if it had one) to blow up Israel is ridiculous because Israel is tiny and there is no way to nuke any one piece of it without also nuking lots of Palestinians (who are fellow Muslims), not to mention the Al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem, which is one of the holiest places in Islam.
No matter what the crowds in Tehran like to chant at rallies, “death to Israel” cannot come from an Iranian nuclear bomb. How about “death to America,” then? According to IAEA reports (yes, that IAEA, whose head thinks it possible that Russia is relentlessly attacking its own nuclear power plant), Iran has some 500kg of uranium enriched to 60% U235 (the isotope useful for making things that go “Bang!”).
Assuming 50kg of such enriched uranium per nuclear charge (enough to create a critical mass), Iran has enough of it to make an absolute maximum of 10 relatively crude nuclear bombs big enough to destroy a mid-sized city. Iran has enough uninhabited desert to test such a device in open air, as the US once used to do at a test range in Nevada or Russia near Semipalatinsk in Kazakhstan, or Novaya Zemlya in the Arctic. Iran could also opt to test it underground, as North Korea chose to do when developing its nuclear arsenal.
Next comes the method of delivery. Russia is the only country big enough to test its ICBMs on its own territory; everyone else has to locate a test target somewhere in the ocean and sail to that location to see whether the missile hits it. Iran does have a converted oil tanker that could be used for that purpose. Theoretically, therefore, Iran could manage to put together 10 Hiroshima-sized nuclear bombs and build 10 ICBMs to carry them to the United States, but to what purpose? Quite recently, Iranian officials were in negotiations with the US to have sanctions lifted; would nuking the US, or even just threatening to nuke it, help lift sanctions?
This brings up a larger question: what are nuclear bombs good for anyway? The general idea is that if you have nuclear weapons, other nuclear powers will not attack you. Is that really so?
• North Korea’s Kim Jong Un did manage to position himself so that he can now return Donald Trump’s love letters unopened. He has nothing to fear from the US now that he can nuke California, but this was as much a result of clever diplomacy as nuclear strategy and the deciding factor may not have been North Korean nukes but massive North Korean artillery batteries aimed squarely at the South Korean capital Seoul, which is just across the border, along with the nearby US military base.
• Israel maintains a policy of nuclear ambiguity (many think it does have some nuclear weapons). Did this prevent Iran from attacking it with rockets? No, it did not, and so the deterrent value of Israeli nukes against Iran is zero.
• The US reports having 3,078 nuclear warheads, although many of these are quite old and if used may just make a nasty radioactive hole in the ground instead of going “Bang!” Be that as it may, did this prevent Iran from attacking US military bases in the Middle East? No, it did not, and so the deterrent value of US nukes against Iran is also zero.
• Elsewhere in the world, India and Pakistan both have nukes and nevertheless they recently had a limited military confrontation over a terrorist strike in Kashmir. The fact that both sides had nukes prevented them from escalating the conflict, and that is an excellent result.
• Russia has 4,380 nuclear warheads. Did this prevent the US from fighting a proxy war against it, with the Ukraine as the proxy (as openly admitted by US Secretary of State Marco Rubio), launching drones and missiles deep into Russian territory? No, it did not, and so the deterrent value of Russian nukes against US-instigated proxy wars is also zero.
We are therefore forced to conclude that nuclear weapons are rather hugely overhyped and aren’t particularly useful in deterring aggression except in certain specific cases.
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Via https://boosty.to/cluborlov/posts/e3fdbd36-3674-41e6-885f-1da5c4987788
June 29, 2025
Disgraced Pentagon still insists Iranian Nuclear Facilities ‘Destroyed’
By Drago BosnicGlobal Research, June 28, 2025[…]The Isfahan Nuclear Research Center is an atomic scientific center and a key uranium conversion facility located southeast of Isfahan, a historic city in central Iran. The Natanz Nuclear Facility is Tehran’s main uranium enrichment complex, situated approximately 120 kilometers north of Isfahan.And last but certainly not least, the Fordow Fuel Enrichment Plant, a heavily fortified uranium enrichment facility buried deep into a mountain approximately 30 km northeast of Qom, another historic city in northern Iran (you get a lot of those in a country whose history spans millennia). Expectedly, the Fordow facility is the main point of contention, as the US insists that it was destroyed, although irrefutable evidence for that is sorely lacking. Precisely this notion enraged Trump, who even pointed out that B-2 pilots were supposedly “upset by all the fake news”.
“Secretary of Defense (War!) Pete Hegseth, together with Military Representatives, will be holding a Major News Conference tomorrow morning at 8 A.M. EST at The Pentagon, in order to fight for the Dignity of our Great American Pilots. These Patriots were very upset!
After 36 hours of dangerously flying through Enemy Territory, they landed, they knew the Success was LEGENDARY, and then, two days later, they started reading Fake News by CNN and The Failing New York Times. They felt terribly! Fortunately for them and, as usual, solely for the purpose of demeaning PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP, the Fake News (Times and CNN) lied and totally misrepresented the Facts, none of which they had (because it was too soon, there were no Facts out there yet!). The News Conference will prove both interesting and irrefutable. Enjoy!” Trump posted on Truth Social.
The controversy was also exacerbated by a Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) report leaked to CNN. Namely, the agency’s assessment strongly suggested that Operation “Midnight Hammer” fell flat after the US airstrikes failed to destroy Iran’s nuclear program.
CNN cited “two of the people familiar with the assessment” who allegedly said that “Iran’s stockpile of enriched uranium was not destroyed”, one of whom concluded that “the centrifuges are largely intact”. In addition, several other sources reported that Tehran moved the enriched uranium out of the three facilities before the US sent the B-2 strategic bombers to attack them. The DIA’s report also claims that Iran’s nuclear program was “set back maybe a few months, tops”. In the meantime, these assessments were dropped in favor of Trump’s claims, with Israeli and top US spy agencies (including the CIA) backing him.
However, even their reports still question the validity of Trump’s claims that Iranian nuclear facilities were “totally obliterated”.
Namely, CIA Director John Ratcliffe stated that his agency “obtained a body of credible evidence [that] indicates Iran’s Nuclear Program has been severely damaged”.
Obviously, we could simply dismiss this as pure semantics, but “totally obliterated” and “severely damaged” are two very different outcomes. Trump’s rather “colorful” way of expressing his opinions can certainly add to the general confusion, but a matter like this requires 100% accurate damage assessments. And yet, top officials of the Trump administration continued to use similar ways to describe the supposed “success” of Operation “Midnight Hammer”. For instance, Hegseth used terms such as “decimating, obliterating and destroying Iran’s nuclear capabilities”.
Worse yet, instead of providing the alleged “irrefutable” evidence that Iranian facilities were “totally obliterated”, the press briefing largely focused on very detailed accounts of what American troops in the Middle East are “going through” (as if anyone is forcing them at gunpoint to participate in the all-encompassing US aggression against the world). In addition, just like Trump himself, DoD and Pentagon officials appointed by him stressed the strain of flying 37 hours from Missouri to Iran. And while Hegseth mostly relied on emotions and cheap jingoism, General Dan Caine, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, focused more on the specifications of the GBU-57A/B MOP (Massive Ordnance Penetrator) 14-tonne “bunker buster” bombs that were dropped on Fordow and Natanz facilities, insisting they “functioned as designed, meaning they exploded”.
However, Caine himself effectively invalidated his own briefing by saying that
“the Joint Force does not do [battle damage assessments]”, adding that “by design, we don’t grade our own homework” and that this is done by intelligence services. However, those same agencies initially denied the facilities were destroyed and changed their assessment only after massive political pressure to do so. Worse yet, Caine cited one of the B-2 pilots, saying that “the blast from the initial bombs was so big as it was like an overwhelming flash of daylight”.
This goes entirely against Caine’s explanation of how the MOP works, when he stated that it explodes underground, meaning there are little to no visible explosions on the outside. To make matters worse, Caine also admitted that the Iranians built a concrete cover that further reinforced the Fordow facility.
And yet, the matter of potential radioactive fallout has never been addressed by anyone in the Trump administration or the Pentagon.
Namely, the uranium used as fuel in nuclear power plants is enriched at 3.67%, which is considered far below the 90% or higher used in nuclear weapons. It should be noted that the Chernobyl and Fukushima disasters used precisely this sort of nuclear fuel, which still resulted in massive radioactive contamination. On the other hand, the Fordow facility had uranium enriched at 60%, meaning that radioactive fallout would’ve been far worse. Given the fact that no radiation was detected in the aftermath of the US strike, the only logical conclusion is that the reactors weren’t destroyed. Some have tried to explain this by claiming that this is because the Iranians moved the uranium several days or weeks before the US attack.
However, Trump himself refuted those claims, insisting that the cars and trucks seen at Fordow were moving the concrete that was used to reinforce the facility. In the meantime, the mainstream media are citing “European capitals” as the source of the claim that Iran supposedly “moved the enriched uranium elsewhere” (although nobody seems to know where exactly). Financial Times insists that
“Iran’s highly enriched uranium stockpile remains largely intact following US strikes on its main nuclear sites, European capitals believe, calling into question President Donald Trump’s assertion that the bombing ‘obliterated’ the Islamic republic’s nuclear programme”. Further citing two anonymous sources, FT claims that “Iran’s stockpile of 408kg of uranium enriched close to weapons-grade levels […] had been distributed to various other locations”.
And yet, despite all the uncertainty, the Trump administration keeps insisting that the facilities are at least “no longer operational”. Bizarrely enough, Trump has even suggested US investment in a “peaceful Iranian nuclear program”. Namely, according to CNN, the Trump administration “has discussed possibly helping Iran access as much as $30 billion to build a civilian-energy-producing nuclear program”. The report also suggests that “America’s Arab partners would foot the bill”. This is yet to be confirmed, but if true, it could reveal that Trump’s motivation for the strikes was at least partially economic and financial. Namely, Iran’s nuclear facilities were built with Russian, Chinese and North Korean assistance, so bombing them (after 15 years of planning) was a good way to get Moscow, Beijing and Pyongyang “out of business” in Iran.
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WEF Scientists Develop Bird Flu Strain with “100% Kill Rate”
Sean Adl Tabatabai
WEF-backed scientists at Brazil’s Butantan Institute have developed a terrifying new bird flu strain with a “100% kill rate,” engineering chimeric H5N1 viruses through reverse genetics, according to a peer-reviewed study. These lab-created pathogens, unprecedented in nature, raise chilling concerns about the risks of such experiments under the guise of pandemic preparedness.
The study reveals that the creation of these deadly viruses was justified as a means to develop vaccines, effectively crafting both the threat and its supposed solution. Critics argue this dual role fuels suspicions of orchestrated crises, as the generation of such lethal pathogens in a lab heightens global fears of accidental release or deliberate misuse, demanding urgent scrutiny.
Modernity.news reports: Brazil’s efforts mirror NIH-funded gain-of-function work in the U.S. and Japan that reconstructs pandemic-capable bird flu viruses and drives mammalian adaptation and drug resistance.
It also mirrors recent work in South Korea, where scientists combined three separate bird flu viruses into a single lab-built chimera using reverse genetics, engineering heat resistance, altered host targeting, and enhanced human cell entry.
The new Brazil study, titled “Production and Immune Response Against Pandemic Influenza Candidate Vaccines as Preparedness Against the Circulating H5N1 Influenza Viruses,” was published June 8 in the journal Vaccines.
It outlines how scientists combined genetic material from multiple bird flu strains with a lab-adapted influenza backbone to create three novel virus constructs intended for vaccine development.
“All of them were produced in a PR8 influenza strain backbone by reverse genetics,” the authors explained.
This technique—reverse genetics—is widely recognized as a powerful gain-of-function–style method that allows researchers to build new viruses from plasmids, reassembling them in host cells to generate live, replication-competent viruses with custom properties.
What They Did: Novel H5Nx Viruses Built from Scratch
The study’s authors engineered three recombinant “candidate vaccine viruses” (CVVs):
A/Astrakhan/3212/2020 (H5N8), Clade 2.3.4.4b
A/duck/Vietnam/NCVD-1584/2012 (H5N1), Clade 2.3.2.1c
A/Anhui/1/2005 (H5N1), Clade 2.3.4
Each virus was artificially constructed by inserting surface protein genes (HA and NA) from known H5 strains into a 1934 lab-adapted virus backbone (A/Puerto Rico/8/1934, or PR8), creating entirely new viral entities.
These combinations do not exist in nature and were generated solely through laboratory manipulation.
The chimeric viruses were then mass-produced in over 1 million embryonated eggs under industrial conditions and tested in live rats for immunogenicity.
Why It Matters: Gain-of-Function by Another Name
Although the term “gain-of-function” is not used in the paper in reference to the authors’ own work, the study involves constructing novel viruses with pandemic potential using the same tools and techniques that have fueled global controversy over high-risk pathogen research.
According to U.S. biosecurity definitions, a lab-created virus qualifies as an enhanced potential pandemic pathogen (ePPP) if it is likely highly transmissible and highly virulent in humans, and is genetically manipulated or selected to confer such properties.
This study’s authors acknowledge the dangers explicitly, writing:
“Events observed in gain-of-function experiments… may occur through natural evolution processes… Four mutations… increased transmissibility to ferrets.”
They also note that circulating H5N1 strains are showing natural mutations identical to those previously introduced in controversial 2012 ferret GOF experiments, raising concerns that both nature and the lab may be converging on high-risk outcomes.
Hemorrhaging Embryos & Clade-Specific Immunity
The study also reports that chicken embryos inoculated with these lab-created viruses developed hemorrhagic lesions, an abnormal result not seen with seasonal influenza viruses.
“The recovered embryos displayed hemorrhagic lesions… These features were not observed with seasonal influenza strains. The reasons… are unknown.” (p. 8)
Meanwhile, vaccine effectiveness was poor unless paired with a squalene-based adjuvant (IB160) and administered in two doses.
Even then, immune responses were clade-specific, meaning the vaccine only worked against the exact virus it was built from, offering no protection against other circulating H5 variants.
Lab-Made Viruses with Pandemic Potential
In the name of preparedness, the Butantan Institute has built entirely new influenza viruses in the lab, then scaled up their production and tested them against real-world bird flu threats using gain-of-function–style reverse genetics.
While described as a vaccine development study, the methodology and implications suggest these experiments are functionally identical to high-risk pathogen research, with no indication of outside oversight and no safety assurances for the populations potentially affected by intentional or accidental release.
The viruses tested in this study did not exist until scientists built them—raising serious questions about what exactly is being prepared for, and at what cost.
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Via https://thepeoplesvoice.tv/wef-scientists-develop-bird-flu-strain-with-100-kill-rate/
June 30,2025
Texas Bans Bill Gates’ Lab-Grown Meat
Baxter Dmitry
Governor Greg Abbott has signed a new law banning the sale of lab-grown meat statewide—citing major health concerns and a firm commitment to protecting Texas ranchers and the state’s proud, traditional meat industry.
In 2023, Biden’s Department of Agriculture gave the green light to the nation’s first lab-grown chicken—meat manufactured from chicken cells in a laboratory bioreactor, no farms or natural processes involved.
Supporters, including billionaire investor Bill Gates, claim lab-grown meat is the future: a solution to climate change, disease, and environmental destruction. But behind the shiny sales pitch lies a deeper agenda—one that replaces real food with synthetic substitutes and puts control of the food supply into the hands of tech billionaires and unelected bureaucrats.
Critics aren’t buying it. In states like Texas, where ranching is more than an industry—it’s a way of life—lawmakers are pushing back, citing threats to public health, food sovereignty, and rural economies.
Because when meat is no longer raised, but “engineered”, the question isn’t just what’s on your plate—it’s who gets to decide.
“This ban is a massive win for Texas ranchers, producers, and consumers,” said Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller. “Texans have a God-given right to know what’s on their plate, and for millions of Texans, it better come from a pasture, not a lab. It’s plain cowboy logic that we must safeguard our real, authentic meat industry from synthetic alternatives.”
Texas is not the first US to legislate against Bill Gates’ lab-grown meat products. Florida and Alabama have passed similar laws, with many states set to follow suit with legislation in the pipeline to protect citizens.
Violations of the new Texas law, which goes into effect in September, could result in a felony charge and/or a fine of up to $25,000.
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June 30, 2025
Florida Becomes First State to Ban Chemtrails and Jail Perpetrators
Sean Adl-Tabatabai
Florida has become the first state to ban chemtrails, enacting a pioneering law effective July 1, 2025, that prohibits weather modification activities and imposes jail time on perpetrators. Signed by Governor Ron DeSantis, the legislation positions Florida as a stronghold against geoengineering practices like chemtrails, which critics argue endanger health and the environment.
DeSantis, touting Florida as the “Free State,” emphasized that the state will not tolerate reckless climate manipulation experiments. The law targets shadowy geoengineering efforts, responding to widespread concerns about their impact, and sets a precedent for other states by enforcing strict penalties, including imprisonment, for those who violate the ban.
Infowars.com reports: This historic legislation, Senate Bill 56, makes it a third-degree felony to engage in geoengineering or weather modification, with penalties including up to five years in prison and fines up to $100,000.
Florida’s bold step follows years of public outcry and mounting evidence suggesting that geoengineering—deliberate interventions like stratospheric aerosol injections (SAI)—poses severe risks. The state’s Department of Environmental Protection will establish a hotline and online form for citizens to report suspected geoengineering activities, signaling a proactive approach to enforcement.
Other States Follow Suit
Florida is not alone in this fight. Tennessee passed a similar law in 2024, banning the release of chemicals into the atmosphere, and other states are taking notice. Kentucky, Louisiana, Minnesota, and Arizona have introduced bills to curb geoengineering, with Louisiana’s House passing a “chemtrails” ban in June 2025.
Pennsylvania State Senator Doug Mastriano has also proposed legislation targeting these practices, reflecting a growing nationwide skepticism about unchecked atmospheric tampering. This wave of legislative action suggests a broader awakening to the dangers of geoengineering, fueled by grassroots movements and independent researchers.
Dane Wigington’s Alarming Research
At the forefront of exposing geoengineering’s dark side is Dane Wigington, lead researcher at GeoengineeringWatch.org.
Wigington’s decades-long investigations reveal how practices like ice nucleation, stratospheric aerosol injections, and radio-frequency transmitters wreak havoc on the environment.
Ice nucleation, used in cloud seeding, involves dispersing chemicals like silver iodide to induce precipitation, often disrupting natural weather patterns and contaminating soil and water. Stratospheric aerosol injections, which spray reflective particles like aluminum or sulfur dioxide into the atmosphere, are touted as a climate fix but may deplete ozone, alter rainfall, and increase global temperatures in unintended ways.
Wigington’s research also highlights the use of radio-frequency transmitters to create “heat domes”—high-pressure systems that trap heat and manipulate the jet stream. These artificial weather barriers can steer storms or exacerbate droughts, destabilizing ecosystems.
“What we’re seeing in our skies are not condensation trails,” Wigington has stated, pointing to lab tests showing elevated levels of aluminum and other metals in soil and water, correlating with heavy aerial spraying.
His findings, echoed by figures like Robert F. Kennedy Jr., underscore the urgent need for transparency and accountability.
Official Admissions Fuel Concerns
The veil of secrecy surrounding geoengineering has begun to lift, with high-profile admissions lending credence to long-standing suspicions.
In a 2016 speech at the Council on Foreign Relations, former CIA Director John Brennan openly discussed stratospheric aerosol injection as a potential tool to counter climate change, describing it as “a method of seeding the stratosphere with particles that can help reflect the sun’s heat.”
This rare acknowledgment from a top official confirmed what many had dismissed as conspiracy theory: governments have explored and, in some cases, deployed these technologies.
A Call to Action
Florida’s ban is a victory for those who have long warned about the perils of geoengineering, from environmental degradation to potential health risks like respiratory issues linked to aerosolized particles.
As Wigington notes, “the damage is cumulative, and we’re running out of time to stop it.”
With other states following Florida’s lead, the momentum is building to halt these experiments before irreversible harm is done.
As Florida demonstrates courage, other patriots nationwide are demanding similar protections to ensure American skies remain free from manipulation and the planet’s natural systems are preserved.
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Via https://thepeoplesvoice.tv/florida-becomes-first-state-to-ban-chemtrails-and-jail-perpetrators/
June 30, 2025
Lincoln: Expanding the Franklin/Hamilton “American System” to Make US World’s Leading Industrial Power
Who We Are: America’s Fight for Universal Progress, From Franklyn to Kennedy Volume II 1830s-1890s
By Anton Chaitkin (2025)
Book Review
(Part 1)
In Volume II, Chaitkin carefully traces the crucial role of American advocates for the Franklin/Hamilton “American System” (see Hidden History: How Ben Franklin and Friends Created Britain’s Industrial Revolution) in making the US the world’s foremost industrial power.
For me the most interesting parts of Volume II concern Lincoln’s career as an ardent supporter of the American System of political economy and the legacy of Benjamin Franklin’s Philadelphia Philosophical Society in 1) trying to industrialize the South during Reconstruction; 2) fostering Thomas Edison’s role in bringing cheap electrical energy to America’s poor; and 3) using American System economic concepts and inventions to spur industrialization (and thwart British imperial ambitions) in Germany, Russia and Japan.
Lincoln joined the pro-industrialist movement started by Benjamin Franklin (see Hidden History: How Ben Franklin and Friends Created Britain’s Industrial Revolution) in the 1830s. The former was an ardent supporter of pro-industrialist Henry Clay, who represented Kentucky in both the House and Senate and ran (unsuccessfully) as president against incumbent Andrew Jackson in 1832.
Significant milestones in Lincoln’s career include
1834 – elected to Illinois legislature for eight years, where he champions legislation (the construction of the Illinois and Michigan canal and a rail link-up to Philadelphia and Columbia Railroad). After Presidents Jackson’s and Van Buren’s anti-tariff policies triggered the Panic of 1837, Illinois was forced to sell the railroad to private interests. Completed in the 1850s, the canal would ultimately make Chicago the center of the world’s greatest industrial complex.1840 – successfully campaigns for Whig (pro-industrialist) President William Henry Harrison, who dies mysteriously after a month in office.1846 – elected to House of Representatives as a Whig candidate. I1847-49 – Lincoln’s first motion after taking his seat is to declare President James Polk’s (1845-1849) war against Mexico unconstitutional, on the basis Polk deliberately lied to the public about the reasons for the war.*1854 – participates in formation of Republican Party, dedicated to preventing the spread of slavery to the West.1858 – narrowly defeated by incumbent Senator Stephen Douglas as a Republican candidate for Senate.1860 – elected 16th president of US.1861-65** – A strong supporter of the “American system” of protective tariffs, Czar Alexander II frees 23 million Russian serfs one day prior to Lincoln’s inauguration. As seven Southern states had already seceded, Republicans gain control of the Senate and speedily passes Lincoln’s protective tariff legislation. The later enabled Philadelphia’s industrialists to build the country’s first steel and oil** industries as well as the Pennsylvania-New York railroad loop. The latter would prove vital to transporting and supplying Union troops.Lincoln and his economic advisor Henry Carey (son of Matthew Carey – see History of the Long US Battle to Industrialize) also pushed through legislation to:
address Southern soil depletion (the main driver behind the push to expand slavery westward) by creating a U Department of Agriculture and enacting the Morill Land Grant College Act (donating federal land for colleges)pass the Pacific Railway Act to build a transcontinental railroadindustrialize the Southissue $450 million dollars of government currency known as Greenbacks after Wall Street collaborates with British banks to stymie funding of the Union war effort*The Southern slave owners instrumental in Polk’s election had a desperate need to expand slavery westward as bad farming practices had badly depleted Southern soil. Mexico declared war on the US after they illegally annexed the Mexican territory of Texas. Many officers serving in the war against Mexico subsequently joined private armies organized by Southern plantation owners to conquer Latin American and Caribbean countries in an effort to expand slavery there. Ten years later these private mercenaries would assume leadership of the Confederate army. Because the Union had no military leaders to train recruits, it lost most battles in the early years of the Civil War. Another disadvantage was that Britain was primarily responsible for funding and arming the Confederate Army (while the British Navy served as the Confederate Navy – sinking US merchant marine ships).
**Chaitkin includes a fascinating appendix documenting how Teddy Roosevelt’s Anglophile uncle financed the Lincoln assassination via British intelligence in Montreal.
***The Pennsylvania Railroad organized and developed the US petroleum industry in the 1850s, with many Civil War veterans joining in oil prospecting at the end of the war. In part by deliberately shrinking the money supply to trigger a global depression (1873-79), J P Morgan and John D Rockefeller, with the support of of British financiers, essentially bankrupted the Philadelphia railroads, enabling Morgan to gain total control of most railroads and Rockefeller of oil mining and distribution.
June 30, 2015
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