Report: Iran Has Nukes - Vox Popoli

 81 years of global fear, and 40+ years of neocon warnings, threats, and hissy fits may have just gone up in smoke during a single telephone call:

I have not been given access to NSA Sigint, but I have confirmed that the phone call last week between Iranian President Pezeshkian and Pakistani Prime Minister Shariff was over a non-secure line. I am reliably informed that this was done deliberately by the Iranians and Pakistanis — i.e., the Iranians and Pakistanis were counting on the Americans and the Israelis to be listening in. The key part of the conversation between Pezeshkian and Shariff was this:

President Masoud Pezeshkian communicated a formally structured, three-step strategic ultimatum if US strikes continued:

1. Immediate Withdrawal from the ongoing nuclear peace talks.
2. Total Abandonment of the prospective Nuclear Treaty framework.
3. The Detonation of a Nuclear Device on Iranian soil—executed not as a weapon of war, but as an undeniable demonstration of sovereign capability and ultimate control over the escalation ladder.....

https://voxday.net/2026/06/04/report-iran-has-nukes/ 

..Now we know why there has been a dramatic change in Trump’s rhetoric towards Iran… Hell, he downplayed yesterday’s missile dust up in the Persian Gulf, which left Kuwait’s International Airport on fire from an errant PAC3 Patriot missile.

I am very skeptical that nuclear weapons exist in the form we have been told that they do. Whether they don’t exist at all, which is what I think is the most probable state, or whether they simply aren’t stable to keep ready for more than a week or two, I don’t know. But I’m entirely confident that the whole concept of a “nuclear arsenal” that involves weapons being preserved in a metal shell and ready at the push of a button for decades is a fictional one.

So what Iran “possessing a nuclear weapon” actually signifies could mean that Iran is now willing to end the nuclear charade that ensured US military dominance for the last 70 years, and that it has the permission of China and Russia to do so.

This might explain the need for “alien disclosure” once the threat of nukes and global holocaust is gone.

Are We Done With Foreigners In The US Yet? - Denninger

 For tourism, fine.

For work of any sort except under temporary permission with verified departures -- along with, when anything dangerous is involved, with serious oversight and vetting?  No.

DETROIT - Vincent Munster and Claude Kwe, both researchers with the National Institutes of Health (NIH) at the Rocky Mountain Laboratory were charged today in a criminal complaint with conspiracy to smuggle monkeypox into the United States and giving false statements to federal law enforcement, United States Attorney Jerome F. Gorgon Jr. announced. 

...

Munster and Kwe were inspected and interviewed by Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officials upon their arrival. CBP officers observed Kwe and Munster traveling with a large black plastic case. Munster and Kwe falsely told CBP officers that the black case contained diagnostics and testing equipment. But subsequent investigation by CBP and FBI agents revealed that the case actually contained 113 vials in Styrofoam coolers. As of the date of the complaint, the FBI has tested 20 of the 113 vials. Seventeen of them contained deactivated monkeypox virus, one contained the Chickenpox virus, and two contained only human DNA. 

“These NIH experts apparently broke our laws by smuggling viral pathogens on a packed commercial airplane from an outbreak in the Republic of Congo. Let that sink in,” United States Attorney Gorgon stated.

....(continues)....

https://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=255520 

The Problem is Vaccination - Vox Popoli

 Dr. Robert Malone clearly doesn’t know his history of epidemiology.

President Trump just signed a new executive order to align the pediatric vaccine schedule with best practices from other developed countries......

https://voxday.net/2026/06/04/the-problem-is-vaccination/ 

....Malone here is committing the same fallacy as Daniel Dennett, Immanuel Kant, David Ricardo, and a whole host of others who fail to understand that X is not, and can never be, Not-X.

In fact, the more we see these fallacious appeals to “smallpox eradication” the more dubious I become that the smallpox vaccine ever actually worked; one wonders if the whole story about Dr. Jenner and the cowpox will hold up if one looks at other changes in technology, and hand-washing practices, and sewage systems that are responsible for the huge decline in deaths from previous causes of mortality.

But we know that vaccines didn’t even put a dent in the reduction of the harm caused by “polio, measles, diphtheria, tetanus, and other diseases” because the order of historical events absolutely precludes that. The massive decline in deaths in the USA, in England and Wales, and everywhere else that historically kept track took place before the first vaccine was even invented. It’s not just a lie, it’s a retarded and obviously false one.

Formula developed by long-dead British polymath shows one side nearing defeat in Ukraine - (Simply fascinating read! - CL)

 Frederick Lanchester was born in London in 1868. He did not distinguish himself at school, despite the gift of a private education. He more than made up for this in later life, developing Britain’s first four-wheeled motorcar, several innovations in internal combustion engines, an epicyclic gearbox, cantilever suspension, worm-drive transmission, disc brakes, wire wheels, pressure-fed lubrication, and even early ideas toward power steering and four-wheel drive. Mr Lanchester was also a pioneer in aviation, developing a circulation theory of lift and a vortex theory explaining how wings generate lift and drag.

Yet he is perhaps best known for the mathematical laws he developed in 1916 to determine the relative strengths of armies. Mr Lanchester’s crucial insight was related to the nature of modern, mechanised warfare. He realised that while in pre-industrial warfare a single soldier could only engage one enemy combatant at a time (with his sword, spear or bow), a modern soldier (with a machine gun or aeroplane) could engage many.

Mr Lanchester was the first to understand that this meant, in pre-modern war, the relation between the size of an army and the combat power of that army followed a linear law. In other words, if you doubled the army, you got twice the combat strength: 3+3=6.

In modern combat, however, a superior force would not only would kill more of the enemy, but would lose fewer men than the enemy. Over time, this process would multiply the initial superiority, making the kills and losses even more lopsided, further accentuating the superiority. The increase in combat power would therefore have a multiplying effect (kills and losses), not a linear effect. In turn, this meant that increasing the size of an army would follow a square law: 3x3=9.

Mr Lanchester developed mathematical equations to show how this square law applied to war. Modified versions are still used by military operational planners today. They are especially useful for applying to attritional wars, because, as aforementioned, in attritional wars, the degradation of combat power is the aim in and of itself, rather than victory in a decisive battle or the capture of land or specific key points, like cities. Therefore, as one side loses power, the terrible logic of the square law takes hold: it doesn’t lose a linear amount of relative power, but the square root.....

https://multipolaritypod.substack.com/p/the-formula-developed-by-a-long-dead 

...Based on his integrated projections from an updated model (as of 15 May), Dr Powell estimates window for this tipping point is 3-6 months from now (July-September 2026), followed by a 3-4 month cascade to functional exhaustion. Overall, this yields a 6-9 month horizon to “floodgates opening,” where advances accelerate from the current 0.3-1 km/day to 5-10 km/day, as seen in historical breakthroughs like the 2022 Kherson retreat. This non-linear result is the manifestation of the pitiless square law which Frederick Lanchester first codified into a usable model for military operations in 1916. But it boils down to this: Dr Powell’s model estimates Ukrainian collapse by early Spring next year (nine months from mid-May 2026) at the outside.

The AI Layoff Trap - Vox Popoli

 Neither this paper nor the underlying idea are particularly new, but since non-economists are now starting to discuss it, I should probably take a look at it:

Two economists just published a mathematical proof that AI will destroy the economy.

Not might. Not could. Will — if nothing changes.

The paper is called “The AI Layoff Trap.” Published March 2, 2026. Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. Boston University. Peer reviewed. Mathematically modeled.The conclusion is one sentence.

“At the limit, firms automate their way to boundless productivity and zero demand.”....

https://voxday.net/2026/06/03/the-ai-layoff-trap/ 

....The loop has no natural exit. The researchers tested every proposed solution. Universal basic income. Capital income taxes. Worker equity participation. Upskilling programs. Corporate coordination agreements. Every single one failed in the model. The only intervention that worked: a Pigouvian automation tax — a per-task levy charged every time a company replaces a human with AI, forcing them to price in the demand they are destroying before they pull the trigger.

No government has implemented this. No major economy is seriously discussing it. Meanwhile the numbers are already tracking the curve. 100,000 tech workers laid off in 2025. 92,000 more in the first months of 2026. Jack Dorsey fired half of Block’s workforce and said publicly: “Within the next year, the majority of companies will reach the same conclusion.” Nobody is doing anything wrong. Companies are following their incentives perfectly. That is exactly the problem.

I don’t have an opinion yet, since I haven’t read the paper, but I expect that I will find two things:

1. Overrating the productivity of AI. I’m already using older AI models because they work better than the newer ones.
2. An erroneous demand model.

But that may not be the case. Regardless, I will read it, Red Team it, and share my conclusions when they are ready.

Is it time for Russia to escalate?, by Hua Bin - The Unz Review

 https://www.unz.com/bhua/is-it-time-for-russia-to-escalate/ 

Why Russia Should Reconsider its Restraint

From a purely Machiavellian perspective, the current Russian approach of “calibrated escalation” may be a strategic error in a world where Israel and the West have proven that no red lines exist.

Russia has frequently threatened “unpredictable consequences” for Western missile or jet deliveries, only for the West to cross those lines with impunity.

Though no one has given Putin the “TACO” moniker, Russian inaction towards open NATO provocations is certainly observed as a sign of weakness.

This ensures a vicious cycle of salami-slicing of its “red lines” by the West.

On the Ukraine battlefield, Russia’s slow pace has granted the West years to refine Ukraine’s defenses. The West has successfully sucked Russia into a war of attrition that depletes its resources and personnel.

On the other hand, Israel has shown that by simply ignoring international “red lines,” a state can achieve its objectives before the global community can organize a response.

If Russia adopted the Israeli “total war” model—targeting all high-level political, military, and critical civilian nodes with the same “abandon” seen in Gaza or Lebanon—it might achieve the “decisive break” that its current attrition model has failed to deliver.

As the world is turning out to be truly an “animalistic jungle,” as the Israeli precedent suggests, then Russia’s attempt to maintain the “veneer of legitimacy” is a handicap.

By refusing to engage in total “scorched earth,” Russia is fighting a 20th-century war of honor against an opponent backed by a West that is increasingly operating under a 21st-century “total erasure” framework.

The world of 2026 is a study in hypocrisy. Israel has demonstrated that with enough military “abandon” and Western enablement, one can rewrite the map through fire.

Russia, meanwhile, remains trapped in a grinding attrition that satisfies neither its political goals nor its military potential.

If the “rules-based order” is dead, Russia’s continued “restraint” may be the very thing that leads to its eventual exhaustion and defeat.

War and the Failure of Economics - Vox Popoli - (And DaFolks won't be convinced until the facts on the ground will slap them to attention.....but they still won't know why. - CL)

 Steve Keen points out how the economic models that Western military strategists are using are outdated and incorrect Neoclassical economic models that are going to make the ramifications of the war in the Middle East considerably worse regardless of the outcome for the US military:

https://voxday.net/2026/06/02/war-and-the-failure-of-economics/ 

Things Fall Apart - by Steve Keen

 I’ll cut to the chase. The Trump-Epstein-Netanyahu War could cause more deaths than any war in history, including World War II. This will not be via its direct casualties, but via deaths caused by its economic and agricultural consequences across the planet. For someone who exalts in superlatives, Trump may be responsible for causing more deaths than any previous tyrant in human history.

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This is because the world economic system resembles Trump himself: its self-image is one of robust power, but its inner nature is one of incredible fragility. One month ago, many people would not even have heard of the Strait of Hormuz—which Trump, in his bravado, has just referred to as “the Strait of Trump”. Now everyone knows where it is—if not precisely why it matters. We are about to learn the hard way, via the consequences of cutting off this vital artery in the global economy’s circulatory system.

This should have been common knowledge. But, just like Trump himself, our understanding of the global economy is based on an elaborate set of delusions. I am looking forward to the howls from mainstream “Neoclassical” economists when they hear that I blame most of those delusions on them.....

https://profstevekeen.substack.com/p/things-fall-apart 

You Have Answered Me - by bionic mosquito

 Matthew 27: 46 And about the ninth hour Jesus cried out with a loud voice, saying, “Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani?” that is, “My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me?”

This taken from Psalm 22:

Psalm 22: 1 My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me? Why are You so far from helping Me, And from the words of My groaning?

Psalm 22 offers much of what we find in the events of Christ’s crucifixion. I want to spend some time with this, looking at the crucifixion and then looking back to Psalm 22 and some other Old Testament passages that are also seen in Christ’s death.

To begin, that Christ cited these opening words from Psalm 22 doesn’t mean He ended it there. Christ has the entire passage (chapter, in our term) in view, when He utters the opening phrase. I will come back to this later......

https://achristianhall.substack.com/p/you-have-answered-me 

Conclusion

Thus far, there is nothing pleasing about any of this story: My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me? It is how the Psalm opens, and it is what Jesus cries out on the cross.

But Christ knew that the story has a wonderful ending:

Psalm 22: 21(b) You have answered Me.

God answered Christ when He ask God about being forsaken, and the answer is in the Psalm – and it is an answer of victory:

22 I will declare Your name to My brethren; In the midst of the assembly I will praise You. … 25(a) My praise shall be of You in the great assembly

27 All the ends of the world shall remember and turn to the Lord, and all the families of the nations shall worship before You. 28 For the kingdom is the Lord’s, and He rules over the nations.

30 A posterity shall serve Him. It will be recounted of the Lord to the next generation, 31 They will come and declare His righteousness to a people who will be born, That He has done this.

Christ saw all of this while on the cross, and He told us so when He got out the first few words of the Psalm.

Cancer, Warburg and Fatty Acid Oxidation: A Clearer Understanding

 The recent two-part series on fatty acid oxidation in cancer generated considerable confusion and many questions. Dr. Thomas Seyfried reached out to me specifically to help clarify this issue. The observation that some cancer cells can use fatty acids to support oxidative phosphorylation does not change the fundamental fact that these cells remain heavily dependent on glucose and glutamine for ATP production. Consequently, the dietary strategies we have discussed—particularly the ketogenic diet—as well as anti-Warburg metabolic therapies, continue to be highly relevant and important in these cancers.

https://paulmarik.substack.com/p/cancer-warburg-and-fatty-acid-oxidation 8th

There are no studies to our knowledge showing that fatty acids can replace glucose or glutamine for ATP production through OxPhos. Studies suggesting that tumor cells use fatty acids for energy are always done in the presence of glucose and glutamine. Indeed, palmitic acid (16:0) stimulates glucose uptake and glycolysis in prostate cancer cells. (1) These findings could suggest to those unfamiliar with cancer energy metabolism that prostate cancer cells use fatty acids for energy through OxPhos. We have reviewed extensive published evidence showing that cancer cells cannot use fatty acids for energy through OxPhos. (2) All major cancers store fatty acids in triglyceride lipid droplets in the cytoplasm.(3) This storage would protect the cancer cell from excessive ROS formation if oxygen were present in the environment. We have reviewed extensive published evidence showing that all major cancers have abnormalities in the number, structure, and function of mitochondria that would compromise the efficiency of OxPhos for maintaining growth. Can you explain how so many people are unable to understand or interpret these findings and continue to believe that some cancer cells have normal OxPhos and can use fatty acids for ATP production in the absence of glucose and glutamine?

Professor Thomas Seyfried.

The other side of the argument

Tumors May Use Both Glycolysis and OXPHOS

Many cancers generate ATP from:

• glycolysis,

• oxidative phosphorylation,

• fatty acid oxidation (FAO),

• glutamine metabolism,

often simultaneously.

Rather than being locked into one pathway, cancer cells are:

metabolically flexible.

However, the point emphasized by Professor Seyfried, is that cancer cells cannot generate ATP by oxidative phosphorylation alone and always require both glucose and glutamine.

PS: I would like to thank Prof. Seyfried for his invaluable input and insight; he is widely regarded as the leading authority on cancer metabolism.

BAMBOOZLED ONCE AGAIN – The Burning Platform

 This tweet from X poster MW4Liberty succinctly and brutally captures this moment in time:

We live in an open air prison called America.
Debt slaves to central bankers who counterfeit our money.
Ruled by Baal worshiping pedos who traffic kids and souls.

Many of you out there?
Perfectly content in your recliner.
TV on. Phone in hand. Brain off. Worshiping a politician.

Mention any of this? Question the war?
You EXPLODE. You rush to defend your chains. That’s the conditioning talking.
The fear. The manufactured consent.
The illusion of choice they programmed into you.

Your “agency” is a f***ing joke.
They own your thoughts, your outrage, your vote. You’re a good little order taker.

History will not remember you well.

Full text:

https://www.theburningplatform.com/2026/06/02/bamboozled-once-again/#more-387640