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Retired child and adolescent psychiatrist and American expatriate in New Zealand. In 2002, I made the difficult decision to close my 25-year Seattle practice after 15 years of covert FBI harassment. I describe the unrelenting phone harassment, illegal break-ins and six attempts on my life in my 2010 book The Most Revolutionary Act: Memoir of an American Refugee.

Did We Erase a Century of Medical Evidence on Vaccine-Induced Brain Damage

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A Midwestern Doctor

Story at-a-glance

  • Neurological injuries from vaccination have been documented since the smallpox vaccine over two centuries ago, with severe injuries reported throughout medical literature
  • The medical profession concealed these injuries, believing public vaccination benefits justified hiding information that might create vaccine hesitancy
  • Historical injuries like spreading paralysis mirror current “one in a million” vaccine injuries, but toxicity documentation was erased to preserve the “safe and effective” narrative
  • In the past, these injuries were widely reported, but now research into them is widely censored
  • Many of these forgotten reports are critical for understanding modern “inexplicable” conditions like autism

From birth, we are taught that vaccines were one of the most remarkable discoveries in history, and were so safe and effective that many now unimaginable plagues vanished with few to no side effects occurring in the process. In truth, give or take, every part of that mythology is false, and remarkably similar vaccine disasters occur every few decades.

Much of this results from the fact that it is very difficult to produce safe vaccines due to both their mode of action and the methods used in their production. As such, the best “solution” which could be found to this problem was to insist in lockstep that vaccines were safe and erase any memory that vaccine disasters had in fact occurred, thereby making it possible to gaslight anyone who was severely injured by a vaccine and claim their injury was just anecdotal or a product of anti-vaccine hysteria.

For example, recently I discussed how vaccines cause autism, and focused on a central argument used to debunk the link between the two — that the only reason people believe vaccines cause autism is because a disgraced British doctor published a fraudulent 1998 study claiming they did and then made everyone start hallucinating that vaccine injuries were occurring.

This mythology however, ignores that brain injuries were a longstanding problem of vaccination. For example, a 1982 NBC news program (which can be viewed here) revealed that many parents were having children develop “post-pertussis encephalopathy” after taking the DPT vaccine, that most doctors refused to report this, and that:

“Medical knowledge about severe reactions to the whooping cough vaccine goes back to the early 1930s. Report after report has been published in medical journals since then. In 1948,1 two American doctors reported on case histories of many children who had been brain damaged or died from DPT vaccines in Boston. The following year,2 another doctor surveyed pediatricians across the country and found still more. Those studies have been forgotten.”

Likewise, in 1985, one of the most popular talk shows in America (the Donahue show) hosted a segment where doctors from both sides (and neurologically injured members of the audience) debated the risks and benefits of vaccination and the ethics of mandates (which can be viewed here). To the best of my knowledge, this was the last time an open debate of vaccination aired on mainstream television.

Diagnostic Obfuscation

In both of these 1980s TV programs and many of the earlier studies on vaccine injuries, the brain damaged children were described as becoming “mentally retarded” or “severely retarded.” However, in the 1990s, “retarded” began to be phased out due to it being deemed too stigmatizing, with Obama, in 2010 signing a law3 that replaced all instances in Federal statutes of “mentally retarded” and “mental retardation” with “intellectual disability.”

This is important as it is commonly argued that the increase in autism is not due to an environmental toxin (e.g., vaccines) but rather more and more “normal” things being reclassified as autism. One of the primary studies that supported the reclassification argument, is a 2009 study4 from California that actually showed 26.4% of children who had previously been diagnosed as “mentally retarded” became “autistic” (as did another commonly cited study).5

Since autism is deliberately undefined, it encapsulates both profound (severe) autism (25% to 30% of cases) and autistic traits (e.g., having manageable neurological deficits or “being on the spectrum”). This wordplay hence blends them together, making it possible to slander statements on severe autism6 while simultaneously tricking people into believing the increase is actually just in autistic quirks.

However, as the CDC shows, roughly 26.7% of children7 have “profound autism,” and is continually increasing:

Likewise, when the 1986 Vaccine Injury Act8 was passed, it acknowledged a few specific neurological injuries9 that were frequently seen from vaccines, one of which was encephalopathy from MMR (which is now labeled as “autism” and “not caused by vaccines”).

vaccine injuries

Remarkably, despite twelve new vaccines and decades of science since 1986, almost no additional neurological injuries have been added to the table10 (as there is a massive conflict of interest in acknowledging the injury and thus the government having to pay for it).

In tandem, research into vaccine neurological injuries was systematically prevented. Placebo-controlled trials were deemed “unethical,” while research showing harms was dismissed as “junk science” for lacking placebo controls. When researchers conducted studies anyway, data was blocked from publication and researchers faced retaliation (e.g., an Oregon pediatrician lost his license11). These studies (summarized here) showed massive increases in chronic illness. Our society did too:

childhood vaccine chronic illness

Likewise, large databases containing vaccinated and unvaccinated data were withheld from researchers and remarkably when RFK’s team gained access, HHS employees illegally deleted the database.12

The Hazards of Immunization

In 1966, an eminent bacteriologist wrote “The Hazards of Immunization”13 which disclosed a large number of forgotten vaccine disasters he’d collected (both through his team surveying the medical literature and insiders sharing their private files with him) in the hope it could lead to safer vaccines as the same disasters kept on repeating and would likely continue to do so unless his profession acknowledged those risks.

In his compilation of vaccine injuries (which he felt represented less than 1% of them) he highlighted many devastating injuries (many of which happened to soldiers) that we continue to see today. Some of the key themes he covered included:

• How many vaccines have been shown to cause immune suppression and makes latent infections become severe and hence suddenly appear.

• How the mentality behind manufacturing vaccines makes hot lots almost unavoidable and has led to many vaccine disasters throughout history — a problem which was sadly “solved” by simply giving vaccine manufacturers immunity from injury lawsuits.

• That a wide range of autoimmune and neurological injuries were caused by each vaccine and antiserum.

What follows is a small sampling of the forgotten neurologic vaccine injuries Wilson shared:

• Typhoid vaccine — In the pre-antibiotic era, the typhoid vaccine was essential for militaries and tolerated despite its frequent complications. Many of these were of the conditions (i.e., Landry’s paralysis) we now refer to as Guillain-Barré syndrome (e.g., one of Guillain and Barré’s first GBS cases came from a typhoid vaccine).14 Reports included:

◦ Polyneuritis with15 shoulder pain spreading to knees, leading to disturbed sensation, balance problems, and ongoing pain (1916).

◦ A soldier becoming blind16 for 10 days, and another developing convulsions (1919).

◦ 10 cases with severe17 headaches, seizures, paralysis, and one fatal GBS-like case (1920).

◦ Over 50 neurological18 injuries including nerve inflammation and widespread nerve damage (1954).

◦ Numerous other cases of paralysis or GBS, sometimes diagnosed as polio,19,20,21 including one where autopsy showed widespread brain destruction.22

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• Yellow fever — Hot yellow fever vaccines neurologic injuries were reported throughout the literature:

◦ A fatal 1934 case25 began with neurological symptoms, progressing to paralysis and death 14 months later. Autopsy showed extensive myelin degeneration and brain cell changes. Many similar cases were also reported.

◦ A 1936 case26 where vaccination caused acute meningitis, seizures, and mental confusion, with another paper revealing27 the lot caused nervous disturbance in at least three others.

◦ A 1936 report28 found that a third of 5,699 recipients had reactions, including severe neurologic or visceral ones.

◦ A 1943 report29 showed one lot caused 1.65% of recipients to develop encephalitis, while another caused 0.06% along with a 1953 paper30 that found 0.3% to 0.4% did (of whom 40% then died).

◦ A 1953 WHO report31 documented 12 encephalitis cases with 3 deaths in Costa Rica, 83 cases with 32 deaths in Nigeria, and 254 cases in Brazil.

• Rabies — It was not long after the Pasteurian method was taken into routine use that attention was drawn to cases of neuroparalysis. Among the directors of the Pasteur Institutes there was a conspiracy of silence, caused by fear of bringing Pasteur’s method into disrepute.

It was difficult to find a vaccine dose strong enough to prevent rabies but weak enough not to cause paralysis. Rabies vaccine injuries averaged a 10% to 16.85% fatality rate and were one of four types:32

◦ Dorsolumbar myelitis (most common, 5% fatality rate)

◦ Encephalomyelitis (second most common, 5% fatality rate)

◦ GBS (30% fatality rate)

◦ Peripheral neuritis affecting cranial nerves

As these injuries were often underreported, their incidence widely varied between studies:

• Measles — A 1966 case33 occurred in a 14-month-old who developed encephalitis 11 days after vaccination, first showing facial twitching, then fever, stopped eating, and became semi-conscious. By day 15, the child had weakness on the left side and frequent severe seizures. After four months, the child still had left-sided weakness and possible mental impairment.

• Vaccine caused “polio” — Multiple papers from 1950 to 1956 found vaccination significantly increased polio risk. These included a 1950 paper34 (82 cases), another 1950 paper35 (14 cases), a 1952 paper36 (53 cases), and a 1956 report37 (355 cases).

◦ A 1950 statistical analysis38 by the epidemiologist39 who created standards for establishing causality found vaccination links. A 1952 paper40 found vaccination doubled polio risk.

◦ In 1956,41 a committee concluded 13% of paralysis in young children were causally related to vaccines:

paralytic polio

• Diphtheria — Most reported diphtheria vaccine injuries came from hot vaccine lots:

◦ A 1919 Dallas incident42 involving several hundred doses where 8.33% died, with third-week paralysis throughout the body

◦ A 1924 Massachusetts incident43 severely injured 43 of 54 recipients

◦ A 1927 U.S.S.R incident44 where 12 of 14 children died from progressive paralytic disorder

• Pertussis — There is no doubt that [the] pertussis vaccine is one of the most toxic vaccines in current general use. In trials45 about 70% suffered reactions. Between 1958 to 1965, seven fatal cases of encephalitis from DPT were recorded. Other key findings include:

◦ The 1933 case46 of an infant seized by convulsions thirty minutes after injection and dying within two minutes

◦ A 1948 report47 detailed 15 cases with convulsions — two died, five had paralysis, two had severe brain damage

◦ A 1949 report48 documented 38 severe reactions, mostly convulsions, with at least two fatal

◦ A 1953 article49 contained 84 brain-related issues with 11 deaths and 24 permanent complications

◦ A 1958 report50 found 1 in 3,000 DPT recipients developed convulsions

◦ A 1958 review51 of 107 cases found 15% died, 30% had long-term complications

◦ A 1961 study52 of 1,700 successive infants where 40 rapidly developed reactions such as severe local/general reactions, generalized eczema (delayed onset), macular rash, persistent vomiting, persistent uncontrollable screaming, or collapse

• Smallpox — Wilson considered smallpox vaccines to have the highest complication rate. Post-vaccinal encephalomyelitis had a 35% mortality rate, with over 50% of infants under two dying on the first day.

Wilson pooled studies from 8 million people finding 0.0015% to 0.0754% developed encephalomyelitis, while 0.0063% of 18 million developed encephalitis. He reviewed 2,398 cases with 34% fatality rates. Notable reports include:

◦ A 1926 report53 of pathology findings from seven deaths

◦ A 1948 report54 documented 222 severe cases including 110 deaths

◦ A 1956 German report55 found animal production methods increased post-vaccine encephalitis 4 to 6 times

◦ A 1961 report56 of 265 autopsy-proven cases found symptoms emerged 4 to 18 days later

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Vaccine Induced Microstrokes

The following qualities stand out in all of Wilson’s reports:

• In many cases, the damage in the brain occurred without a virus being present, yet many of the observed pathological changes mirrored what was seen in certain severe viral infections.

• Frequently edema, and sometimes blood cell congestion were observed.

• Cranial nerve deficits were often observed.

• Congestion was often seen in other parts of the body.60

• Some cell death in the brain appeared to come from a lack of blood flow to the surrounding tissue.

• Small hemorrhages were observed from leaking blood vessels.

Each of these can be explained through vaccine induced microstrokes (triggered by zeta potential changes which cause blood cells to electrically clump together).

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https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2025/06/20/forgotten-history-neurological-vaccine-injuries.aspx

Israel’s Attack on Iran Has Failed

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By Dmitry Orlov

There are lots of journalists attempting to offer play-by-play coverage of the Israel-Iran war. There is also no shortage of commentators willing to offer opinions on the Israeli attack on Iran and on Iran’s response and some even venture to predict its outcome. I, for one, am willing to step back and let events unfold. Meanwhile, here are some similarities and differences to consider, just in case you decide to choose sides in this conflict based on hard data rather than propaganda or whim.

Iran and Israel are the last two theocracies left on the planet. (Vatican is a theocracy but is not a nation and so doesn’t count.) Iran is an Islamic Republic presided over by an ayatollah and as such is a throwback to an era a few centuries back. Israel is an ethno-religious state that defines itself as a “Jewish state,” jewishness being simultaneously an ethnicity and a religion. As such, it is a throwback to an era a few millennia back when tribal gods, like the Jewish god Jehova, were all the rage. This makes the Israeli-Iranian war something like a dinosaur fight: two anachronistic relicts going at each other, but not with fangs and claws (or spears and swords) but with high-tech drones and rockets (it is, after all,the 21st century). The vast majority of the world’s population, who believe in secular rule, freedom of religion (even for Jews) and the separation of church and state should be forgiven if they decide to just hang back and have these two political living fossils mutually annihilate.

But that’s where the similarities end. The differences, on the other hand, are quite stark. Iran does not possess nuclear weapons. It is a party to the NPT (Non-Proliferation Treaty). It allows IAEA inspections of its nuclear facilities. It reports on the movement of enriched uranium. And for all of that, it is under constant international pressure and sanctions and declared a threat just for the purely theoretical potential ability to create nuclear weapons. Meanwhile, Iranian nuclear engineers are working under a “fatwa” (a religious pronouncement having the force of law) that makes nuclear weapons “haram” — forbidden.

Turning now to Israel: it possesses a nuclear arsenal estimated between 80 and 200 warheads. These are some decades old and may no longer be effective due to the effects of radioactive decay. Israel has not signed the NPT, does not allow international inspectors and keeps its nuclear program completely secret. But instead of constant international pressure and sanctions it receives support and military assistance from the West. Moreover, Western leaders facetiously declare it to be a “stronghold of democracy” and allegedly a victim.

Let’s not be silly and run around with our hair on fire at any mention of “nuclear weapons.” These weapons are extremely useful for keeping the peace — provided they remain under strictest control and (here’s the key proviso) are never-ever-ever used. Having nuclear weapons is one thing, and quite acceptable given a reasonable set of conditions; using nuclear weapons is strictly forbidden and automatically makes you a war criminal and subject to destruction — with nuclear weapons if need be. The US committed the grand faux pas when it dropped nuclear bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, earning Harry Truman a spot on frying pan number one in a whole new Circle of Hell (if all goes well, he will remain its only resident for all of eternity).

As far as keeping the peace, nukes are most effective. Just get yourself a few nukes, and everyone will be afraid to touch you. The worst position to be in is to have a nuclear program and allow yourself to be convinced not to develop a nuke. Muammar Qaddafy opted to give up his nuclear program and ended up killed and his Libya destroyed. Kim Jong Il made no such error, developed and tested some nukes, his son Kim Jong Un built some rockets that can fly them to California, and now he can afford to return Donald Trump’s rose-scented love letters unopened and suffer no consequences.

Iran did the stupidest thing possible, which is to have a nuclear program with uranium enrichment centrifuges that have been coming tantalizingly close to achieving U235 concentrations high enough to make a bomb but being coy and declining to actually pull out of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty and make a few nukes. The reason is the aforementioned “fatwa”. It may seem highly moral to the faithful followers of an ayatollah, but it looks highly suspicious from the point of view of anyone else actually involved in nuclear politics. It is doubly suspicious behavior in a country whose leaders continue to repeat the mantra “Death to Israel” — Israel, which, quite incidentally, does have nuclear weapons.

Israel developed its first nuclear weapons in 1966-67 in collaboration with South Africa: these two Apartheid states working together was a match made in hell. South Africa had the uranium ore while Israel had the brains. South Africa gave up on its nuclear weapons program in 1989, making it the only nation to develop nuclear weapons and then give them up while Israel never confessed to having nuclear weapons but has escaped international scrutiny because that would be “antisemitism”.

And so a danger remains that as Israel becomes sufficiently degraded by Iranian rocket strikes, it opts out to strike out using its nuclear weapons like a cornered rat. However, the plutonium cores in its plutonium-based bombs (plutonium having been produced at the Negev Nuclear Research Center near Dimona by irradiating natural South African uranium in a heavy-water-moderated reactor) are now close to 60 years old and plutonium has a tendency to go bad over time, accumulating isotopes that make the weapon both dangerous and unreliable. The rockets for delivering these bombs are also somewhat uncertain. That’s all the good news.

But back to what has been happening since Friday the 13th a week ago. At this point, the IAEA and its hysterically blind leader Rafael Grossi, along with 18 US intelligence agencies, have conceded that Iran does not have nuclear weapons or an active nuclear weapon development program. However, that is not stopping Donald Trump from thinking that it does, nor is that likely to deter permanent Israeli leader Benjamin Netanyahoo from claiming that Iran is days or weeks away from developing a nuclear weapon, as he has been saying for the past four decades. Clearly, these two need a good, solid reason to attack Iran, facts be damned. Why?

To simplify, let’s not consider that Israel has any prerogatives separately from the US. It is simply a Middle Eastern colonial outpost, similar to the The Kingdom of Jerusalem, a.k.a. the Crusader Kingdom — a Crusader state established in the Levant after the First Crusade. It held together for close to two centuries, lasting from 1099 to 1291. It seems unlikely that the current Kingdom of Jerusalem will last as long. It is already the longest military occupation in modern history, and military occupations are notoriously expensive and unsustainable over the long run. Specifically, the Israeli project is unsustainable without US support, and the US is running out of money to support itself, never mind useless hangers-on like Israel or Ukraine.

And so Trump ordered Israel to attack Iran. Why? And why now? The reason Trump saw this attack as attractive is that the Israelis convinced him that the plan stood a good chance of victory. They had it all arranged, they thought. They worked on this plan for years: they recruited, they infiltrated, they brought in and assembled attack drones, they spotted all the locations where Iran’s government and military officials could be found sleeping in their beds and they had jets and air tankers ready to swarm in and knock out (or so they thought) Iranian air defenses and ballistic rockets. They even had the son of Shah Reza Pahlavi, the old American Iranian puppet leader, pop out of a hole in the ground and, like a good hereditary puppet, standing by to have Uncle Sam’s firm hand inserted from behind.

And the reason Trump thought that this plan was necessary was that he needed a military victory to balance out the military defeat in the Ukraine. He performed a rather theatrical pivot at the G7 (G6?) meeting in Canada, which he left early to pointedly avoid encountering the Ukrainian no-longer-president Zelensky (whom he detests) and to attend an urgent meeting in the White House Situation Room on the subject of the Israel-Iran war. As he boarded Air Force One, perhaps he was humming to himself Queen’s “We are the champions”: “No time for losers ‘Cause we are the champions of the world.”

Trump did what he could to soften up the Iranians prior to the attack. He beguiled them by pretending to be negotiating one of his famous “deals” with them, giving them no reason to think that a sudden sneak attack was coming. As a result, the Iranian military was not in their command bunkers and battle stations but sleeping in their beds with their wives, making easy targets for the Israeli drones. Nevertheless, the Iranian military and government structures proved resilient enough to be up and running some hours after their top commanders were taken out. The Israelis did knock out some air defense systems (Iran had quite a lot of them but they weren’t quite up to date) and lots of dummy jets, rocket launchers and other supposed military junk hammered together out of sticks and plywood.<

And then the real action started. Iran has many kilometers of tunnels hidden deep underground and stocked with thousands of rockets that can reach Israel. There are some old, simpler rockets that are intended to deplete Israel’s air defense systems. Already the US is struggling to resupply Israel with whatever air defense rockets they can scrounge but they are clearly in very short supply already. There are also some modern hypersound rockets that no air defense system can stop. Iran launches two rocket attacks a day and doesn’t seem at all eager to stop.

And now let’s consider the two opponents. Israel is a postage stamp-sized country of just 3920km2 (after subtracting occupied West Bank, Gaza and Negev Desert) and hosting around 10 million inhabitants. Iran is a huge country of 1,600,000 km2 and over 90 million inhabitants. Iran is not a country that can be conquered using aerial bombardment and neither Israel nor the US, nor all of NATO has the ability, or the willingness, to mount a ground invasion. Israel, on the other hand, can be made unlivable quite readily using some finite number of rocket strikes.

First, Israel is not self-sufficient in anything except rocks and sand and is dependent on a constant flow of imports through its one major airport (Ben Gurion) and three major seaports (Haifa, Ashdod, and Eilat). Eilat, on the Red Sea, has been all but shut down for Israel-bound traffic by those frisky Houthis of Yemen. Haifa has been shut down by Iranian rockets. Ashdod remains in operation, but for how long? Second, Israel is so small that it has just one or two of each: one oil refinery, just four power plants over one megawatt, and so on down the target list. Iran has many times more rockets than it would take to make Israel completely unlivable: no electricity, no sewage treatment, no pumped water, no gas, no gasoline or diesel.

It is to early to call the outcome, which depends on what happens first: will Iran run out of rockets or will Israel run out of important targets for Iran to destroy. But it is already safe to say that Israel’s Blitzkrieg attack on Iran has failed. US military’s entry into the conflict remains the wild card, but given its unpopularity among Americans, illegality (without congressional approval) and slim chances of success, it does not appear likely.

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A Short History of Nearly Everything

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A short history of nearly everything by Bryson, Bill (9780552997041 ...

A Short History of Nearly Everything

By Bill Bryson (2004)

A Black Book

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PDF: A Short History of Nearly Everything

This book takes on the mammoth task of summarizing all the significant discoveries in all significant areas of modern science.

Bryon begins with the creation of the universe, which based on calculations from a 1994 satellite probe, occurred 137 billion years ago. In 2003, when this book was published, cosmologists had already discarded the Big Bang Theory. As of 20 years ago, according to Bryson, the universe came into being when an infinitesimally small speck of matter/energy suddenly expanded massively in all directions (an expansion which continues to the present day).

The sun formed 4.6 billion years ago, the earth 4.5 billion million years ago and the moon 4.4 billion years ago, when a flying object the size of Mars crashed into the Earth.

In 1769, British explorer Captain James Cook made it possible to calculate the Earth’s distance from the sun during his sea voyage to Tahiti to observe the Transit of Venus (in front of the sun). This enabled him to calculate the earth-sun distance via triangulation (150 million kilometers).

Bryson describes in detail the 18th century chemistry revolution, which led ultimately to the industrial revolution; the discovery of the Earth’s radioactive elements (enabling  calculation of the Earth’s age via radioactive decay); and the discovery of relativity, quantum mechanics, quarks, neutrinos and other subatomic particles.

He then devotes several chapters to important discoveries in geology and climatology. He includes a discussion of magnetism (which doesn’t occur in bodies lacking a liquid core, ie the moon and Mars) and its role in protecting life from the devastating effect of cosmic rays that would otherwise bombard the Earth. He also discusses the important role of the moon in helping the earth to continue spinning at the appropriate angle to support life.

According to Bryson the first hominid species (Australopithicus) appeared seven million years ago. He asserts they began walking upright with the loss of their jungle habitat after continental drift filled in Panama’s isthmus, disrupting ocean currents that previous warmed the Arctic. The resulting cooling caused northern Africa to transition from jungle to savanna and desert.

Two million years ago the hominid brain started to expand and Homo erectus (with a 50% larger brain) appeared. Their descendant subsequently migrating out of Africa to inhabit territory extending from the Atlantic coast of Europe to the Pacific cost of China.

100 to 250 thousand years ago, Homo sapiens appeared in Africa and undertook a similar global migration. The oldest Homo sapiens remains were discovered in modern day Israel and date from 100,000 years ago.

Cannabis extract proves to be highly effective at killing disease carrying mosquitoes

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Every year, mosquito-borne diseases cut short more than a million lives across the globe, outpacing every other animal threat to humanity. The rising toll has public-health teams scrambling for fresh combat tools, especially as traditional chemical sprays lose their edge.

That loss stems from two hard truths. First, the very pyrethroid insecticides that once worked wonders now linger in soil and water, nudging delicate ecosystems off balance.

Second, mosquitoes adapt fast. Larvae soaking in tainted puddles and adults drifting through treated neighborhoods increasingly shrug off doses that once killed them.

Controlling the pests at their waterborne stage is vital, yet options that stay potent without harming everything else remain limited.

Cannabis, CBD, and mosquitoes

Recent research published in the journal Insects points to a solution hiding in plain sight: the hemp plant, Cannabis sativa.

After air-drying and grinding ordinary hemp leaves, scientists at The Ohio State University led by Erick Martinez Rodriguez extracted cannabidiol (CBD) and added the concentrate to cups of water teeming with yellow fever mosquito larvae.

Within 48 hours, both a strain that laughs at common insecticides and a non-resistant strain were wiped out.

“Mosquitoes are one of the deadliest animals in the world, mainly because as adults they serve as vectors of disease,” Rodriguez explained.

From resistance to vulnerability

Two important findings jumped out. The first was total mortality: every mosquito larva exposed to sufficient CBD died by the two-day mark, regardless of its genetic armor.

The second was efficiency. While industrial chemicals often push resistance higher with every generation, CBD’s effect cut straight through those defenses. Doses varied, but even modest concentrations proved lethal to all mosquito larvae.

“If you compare the amount of hemp extract needed to kill 50 % of the population to other synthetic conventional insecticides, it is on the high side, but when you compare it side by side to other natural extracts we have tested in our lab, only a relatively low amount is required to produce high mortality values in larvae,” said Martinez Rodriguez.

How CBD kills mosquitoes

Chemical sleuthing showed that CBD dominated the hemp extract, and terpene fractions did little damage on their own.

Larvae were judged dead once they stopped moving under a gentle nudge, confirming the cannabinoid’s direct impact on vital systems.

Insects lack the endocannabinoid receptors that give CBD its wellness reputation among humans, so the compound must strike different molecular targets – possibly ion channels that govern nerve impulses or enzymes tied to muscle control.

Whatever the route, CBD skirts the metabolic tricks that shield many larvae from pyrethroids.

Hemp economics meet public health

Hemp is no niche crop. U.S. farmers planted about 27,680 acres in 2023, and the total value of hemp products topped $291 million.

Leaves, often left as low-value waste after flowers and seeds are harvested, could become raw material for larvicides.

Turning those leaf cast-offs into mosquito-control pellets would give growers an extra revenue stream while trimming refuse piles.

The crop’s adaptability sweetens the deal. Hemp thrives across a wide climate range, grows quickly, and rarely needs harsh pesticides of its own.

Rural communities looking to diversify incomes and urban growers cultivating indoor micro-hemp could both feed a supply chain aimed at vector-control programs from Texas to Tanzania.

Strains and waterway safety

Field trials must still answer hard questions: How long does CBD linger in ponds? Does it bother tadpoles, fish fry, or helpful insects?

Early lab work hints at selectivity, yet natural habitats are complex. Regulators will demand data showing that CBD pellets, briquettes, or slow-release films silence mosquito larvae without tipping aquatic ecosystems.

A second layer of testing will match different hemp strains for efficacy. Plants bred for fiber deliver more stalk than cannabinoid, while floral varieties boast richer CBD profiles.

Selecting cultivars that maximize larvicidal punch and minimize unwanted compounds will keep costs down and environmental margins wide.

Next steps for CBD and mosquito control

Scientists plan to refine dosage, explore formulations that stick to the water’s surface, and probe how CBD interacts with other biocontrol measures like Bacillus thuringiensis israelensis. Combining modes of action could slow resistance even further.

Teams will also map out manufacturing pipelines – picture hemp-leaf extract concentrated at regional facilities, then shipped as shelf-stable granules to mosquito-control districts.

Policy makers, meanwhile, need clear guidelines. Approving a botanical larvicide means balancing urgent disease threats against conservation goals. Transparent monitoring and community engagement will help keep public trust.

Another weapon in the mosquito wars

Hemp-derived CBD will not single-handedly end malaria, dengue, or Zika. Yet the discovery that a familiar wellness compound doubles as a larval assassin widens the playbook.

By uniting agriculture, chemistry, and entomology, researchers have opened a practical path toward safer mosquito control.

If larger-scale tests confirm the promise seen in the lab, those humble hemp leaves could soon guard countless backyard birdbaths, drainage ditches, and rice paddies – one cup of water at a time.

The full study was published in the journal Insects.

Israel Running Low On Missile Interceptors As Iran Proves A Stronger Foe Than Expected

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Interceptor missiles in the sky over Tel Aviv during an early-Wednesday Iranian barrage (Leo Correa via Associated Press)

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Following multiple rounds of Iranian missile barrages that have proven far more effective than many “experts” anticipated, the Israeli Defense Forces are already running low on defensive Arrow interceptor missiles, making Israel all the more desperate for the United States to join the war Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government initiated on Friday the 13th. Meanwhile, as Iran’s retaliation continues, reports of war-fatigue among Israel’s population are already emerging.

Against that backdrop, President Trump has been dialing up the intensity of his rhetoric as he pushes Iran to capitulate to demands that it cease all uranium enrichment — a demand that Iran has long ruled out as a violation of its sovereignty, while insisting its nuclear program isn’t focused on creating a weapon. The US intelligence community assessed that to be true in March. “UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER!” exclaimed Trump in a terse Tuesday social media post. Trump, who spoke with Netanyahu by phone on Tuesday, is considering options that include a US strike on Iran, the Wall Street Journal reports.  As his deliberations continue — while some members of Congress are backing a resolution that would bar a US attack without congressional authorization — the Pentagon continues shifting a variety of assets toward the region. The DOD insists they’re for defensive use, which includes shielding Israel from the consequences of starting a war with Iran.

According to an individual briefed on US and Israeli intelligence, Israel is on pace to run out of defensive missiles in 10 to 12 days. “They will need to select what they want to intercept,” that person told the Washington Post. “The system is already overwhelmed.” Arrow interceptors are manufactured by Israel Aerospace Industries. The United States has been pushing other missile defense assets into Israel over the last week, but the Wall Street Journal reports that practice is already raising concerns about the effect on US military readiness.

“Neither the U.S. nor the Israelis can continue to sit and intercept missiles all day,” Tom Karako of the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) told the Journal. “The Israelis and their friends need to move with all deliberate haste to do whatever needs to be done, because we cannot afford to sit and play catch.” (CSIS is funded in part by the US government and major weapons manufacturers.) According to Israeli financial newspaper The Marker, the ongoing missile defense is costing Israel about $285 million a night, though ZeroHedge readers will reasonably brace for the day that American taxpayers are presented with the bill.

Even ahead of running out of interceptors, Israel is struggling to consistently defend its citizens and assets from Iran’s arsenal, and especially its cutting-edge hypersonic missiles. Videos of the missiles repeatedly hammering Israel have been making jaws drop around the world and across social media since Iran began retaliating for Israel’s unprovoked launch of a war on Iran.

Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) said that strikes over Tuesday night used “a new advanced missile.” According to state media, the first-generation Fattah hypersonic ballistic missile has a two-stage solid-fuel system, a 1,400-kilometer range, a top speed of Mach 13-15, and a maximum time-to-target of just 336 seconds. Claiming it repeatedly and easily penetrated Israel’s defenses, the IRGC boasted that “tonight’s missile strike demonstrated that we have achieved total control over the skies of the occupied territories.”

Of course, there’s also the question of how long Iran’s inventory of offensive missiles can last — but it’s far from clear how much of the arsenal remains after accounting for missiles already launched and others destroyed by Israeli strikes. Iran’s pace of strikes has reportedly eased over the past two nights. “Iran has to make a very, very difficult calculation, because they have a limited amount of missiles, and considering the rate of fire, they cannot replenish in real time,” said International Institute for Strategic Studies analyst Fabian Hinz told the Post.  Working to accelerate the math to Iran’s detriment, Israel said it struck missile factories on Tuesday, along with a centrifuge production center.

As Israel runs low on defensive missiles, the Israeli population is already running low on the psychological wherewithal to carry on in the face of a level of bombardment the country hasn’t seen in a generation. Dozens have been killed and several hundred wounded, alongside startling destruction of government buildings, apartment towers and power plants. In a quote that echoes the desperation of Palestinian and other populations on the receiving end of IDF destruction, Israeli nurse and mother Ella Keren told the Post, “The fact that you don’t know if the missiles are about to fall on you, that we are now living with this feeling of helplessness, it’s insane.” Weary of the nightly blasts and hours spent in bomb shelters, some Israelis are opting to leave Tel Aviv to seek refuge in the relatively safer suburbs and countryside.

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Via https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/israel-running-low-missile-interceptors-iran-proves-stronger-foe-expected

Pakistan breaks ranks, backs Iran in war with Israel

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F.M. Shakil

Pakistan reveals that Israeli drone operators attempted to sabotage Pakistan’s nuclear facilities during the India-Pakistan crisis in May. This is a major reason why Islamabad is throwing its full weight behind Tehran in the Israel-Iran war.

Despite Islamabad’s official denials of providing military or material support to Iran in its confrontation with Israel, recent developments suggest a dramatic shift in regional alignments. Today, Pakistan and China appear to be coordinating closely with Tehran, offering tangible strategic advantages as Tel Aviv escalates its hostilities.

As war clouds gathered, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi held urgent discussions with his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi on 14 June. That same day, Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian spoke with Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, who expressed Islamabad’s “resolute solidarity” with Iran. He also added that the country “stands firmly with the Iranian people in this critical hour.”

China and Pakistan’s role

In the immediate aftermath, reports emerged of Pakistani military delegations arriving in Tehran amid the hostilities. Although swiftly denied by Islamabad, the timing and context fuel speculation of deeper collaboration. Similarly, Beijing reportedly greenlit the transfer of its BeiDou Navigation Satellite System (BDS) technology to Iran, formalized in a new bilateral MoU – an upgrade that dramatically enhanced the precision of Iranian missile strikes.

Though Pakistan continues to reject claims of missile transfers to Iran, its stance in recent days paints a different picture. On 16 June, members of the Iranian parliament chanted “Thank you, thank you Pakistan” following remarks by Pezeshkian, who praised Pakistan for standing by Iran. These developments fly in the face of Pakistan’s non-alignment rhetoric and indicate an ideological and strategic realignment by Islamabad.

It was only early last year that Iran launched missile and drone strikes into Pakistan’s Balochistan region on 16 January, targeting extremist militant group Jaish al-Adl positions. Pakistan retaliated two days later on 18 January, conducting air and missile strikes into Iran’s Sistan and Baluchestan province in an operation dubbed Marg Bar Sarmachar. The tit-for-tat was remarkably friendly in the final analysis, and appears to have settled some critical border cooperation issues between the two states.

The fact that these former adversaries – who had just engaged in direct military exchanges – have now adopted “resolute solidarity” is nothing short of breathtaking.

Beijing’s embrace of Iran is grounded in energy security and strategic depth instead. Its ambitious, multi-trillion dollar Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) aimed at linking the Eurasian landmass hinges on the stability of Tehran and Islamabad, with the Gwadar and Chahbahar ports forming key arteries in China’s westward expansion.

China also supplies J-10 fighter jets and HQ‑9 air‑defense systems to Pakistan, which played key roles in the extraordinary May 2025 skirmish between India and Pakistan – marking major testing ground for Chinese weapons. A parallel circumstance is present in Iran. China must acknowledge Iran because it is a crucial supporter of China’s energy needs and trade operations.

“The enemy of my friend is my enemy” may well define the new tripartite logic binding Iran, Pakistan, and China in resistance to Israeli and western designs.

Colonial ambitions and nuclear red lines

Tel Aviv’s recent strikes on Iranian military and nuclear infrastructure mark a new phase in a decades-long western strategy aimed at dismantling Muslim powers resistant to colonial domination. Iraq, Syria, Libya – all were destabilized under similar pretexts. The 2001 plot, conceived by the US, its European allies, and Israel, has entered its second phase, targeting Iran initially and Pakistan subsequently.
In a 2011 interview with Channel 2, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu laid bare the logic: Iran and Pakistan are the primary targets of this containment strategy, he stated blankly. “These radical regimes … pose a significant threat,” he said, stressing the need to prevent them from acquiring nuclear capability.

But recent Israeli provocations have instead triggered multipolar resistance to those plans. Speaking to The Cradle, Abdullah Khan of the Pakistan Institute for Conflict and Security Studies (PICSS) reveals that Israeli drone operators had recently attempted to sabotage Pakistan’s nuclear facilities during the India–Pakistan crisis:

“Israeli drone operators were stationed in Indian operation rooms during the recent Pakistan–India conflict, trying to target Pakistan’s nuclear facilities. However, prompt action from Pakistan thwarted their efforts, preventing them from causing any damage to the nuclear assets of Pakistan.”

Defensive posturing or new axis?

A source in Pakistan’s Foreign Ministry reveals to The Cradle that Islamabad has quietly warned Washington of a potential nuclear escalation should Israel attack Iran with such weapons.

“If such a situation arises, it will spill beyond Iran. The region will enter a new, unpredictable security phase,” the source states.

The warning was soon echoed in Tehran. On 16 June, Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) General Mohsen Rezaei declared on state television:

“Pakistan has told us that if Israel uses nuclear missiles, we will also attack it with nuclear weapons.”

Meanwhile, Pakistani Defense Minister Khawaja Asif caused a stir with an incendiary post targeting exiled Iranian royal Reza Pahlavi, the son of the ousted shah of Iran. In response to Pahlavi’s BBC interview, Asif wrote on X:

“If Iranian people are energized and motivated, according to you, show some balls and go back and lead them and remove the regime. Put your money where your arse is, bloody parasitical imperial whore.”

Bilal Khan, a Toronto-based defense/security analyst and the co-founder of independent think tank Quwa Defence News & Analysis Group, tells The Cradle that Islamabad perceives itself as under coordinated pressure from the US, India, and Israel.

“The Pakistani security elite perceive that the US and its counter-proliferation regime are imposing penalties on Pakistan, although it was India that brought the nuclear issue to South Asia. “There exists a structural perception in Rawalpindi that the US, along with its allies India and Israel, is targeting Pakistan’s nuclear program. Nonetheless, it remains uncertain how Pakistan will handle the situation. Certainly, increased investment in air defense systems, enhanced domestic intelligence capabilities, and strengthening the air force with next-generation J-35 stealth fighters are all essential to take on any possible Israeli actions.”

From denial to celebration

While Islamabad has offered no formal commitment of military aid to Tehran, Iranian media and parliament are now rallying around Pakistan with chants of “Pakistan Zindabad.”

Diplomatically, Islamabad has backed Tehran’s call for a UN Security Council session on Israeli aggression and explicitly defended Iran’s right to self-defense. Alongside Algeria, China, and Russia, Pakistan played a key role in amplifying Iran’s initiative, marking a coordinated diplomatic front that signals a deeper convergence within the Eurasian bloc. This is no small gesture from a country once considered a possible target of Israel’s preemptive doctrine.

In a move that exposes Washington’s alarm, Pakistan’s army chief, Field Marshal Asim Munir, was quietly summoned to the US Central Command headquarters in Florida. His absence from a key national parade in Islamabad has raised questions at home. While the Pakistani embassy remains tight-lipped, Dawn cited sources anticipating “uncomfortable conversations” in Washington.

Whether Munir’s US visit results in a recalibration or further consolidation of Islamabad’s alignment with Tehran and Beijing remains uncertain. But one thing is clear: Pakistan is no longer sitting on the fence.

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Via https://thecradle.co/articles/pakistan-breaks-ranks-backs-iran-in-war-with-israel

Russian Foreign Ministry: Trump First President in Decades to Tell Americans the Truth

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Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman optimistic US president will restore “normalcy” in his country

America faces a “colossal” number of internal problems, and Donald Trump is the first US president in many decades to openly admit this, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova told RT’s Rick Sanchez on Wednesday.

Moscow remains cautiously optimistic about mending relations with Washington, because Trump has at least openly declared his intention to focus on “saving America” instead of meddling in other countries’ internal affairs, Zakharova told Sanchez in response to a question on whether Trump can resist the forces that seek confrontation with Russia.

“Finally, a man has arrived in the White House who isn’t talking about other parts of the world or dealing with problems of various population groups on other continents. He is the first in decades to tell the American people – and the world – that America needs to solve a colossal number of colossal problems,” she said.

“This man had it all: Money, fame, popularity, comfort, family – everything he wanted. He was even president. He could have said, ‘From now on, I’ll live for myself.’ But instead, he came back and said he’ll run again – not for money, fame, or popularity, but to try to save his country. That gives me additional optimism.”

Zakharova noted that Trump’s stance on gender is a sign that “normalcy” might return to America.

“Everyone can feel how they want to feel. You want to be a table – that’s your right. Want to be three dogs at once? You’re welcome. You can seek treatment or not, it’s up to you… But only a man and a woman were created,” she said.

Trump declared that the US would officially recognize only two genders during his inaugural address in January. He signed several executive orders reversing protections for trans individuals, ending federal support for gender reassignment procedures on minors, and banning trans women from women’s sports while removing “radical gender ideology” from the military.

Trump also promised to end US involvement in endless wars during the 2024 election campaign, but has since alienated some supporters with his vocal support for Israel’s bombing campaign against Iran – amid growing concerns that the US could become entangled in another foreign conflict.

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Via https://www.rt.com/russia/619743-trump-americans-truth-zakharova/

Massive Anti-War Movement Forming in US: Left, Right and Center

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The emergency protest, organised by a coalition of advocacy groups in New York and in several cities across the country, came as rumours swirled of a possible announcement of direct US military intervention in Israel‘s attacks on Iran.

More than 585 Iranians have been killed since Israel launched its aerial strikes on 13 June over claims Iran was on the verge of developing nuclear weapons.

Though Israel said it would exclusively targeting Iran’s nuclear programme and military sites, Israel has struck residential buildings, hospitals, civilian infrastructure and the Iranian state television headquarters, killing hundreds of civilians in what is largely being seen as a operation geared towards regime change in Iran.

Hospitals in Iran are reportedly overwhelmed with the injured and thousands have been searching for ways to evacuate the capital city, Tehran.

Protesters held up Palestinian flags, as well as signs urging for the bombardment to end. Several people waved placards that read: “Money for people’s needs. Not War with Iran”.

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Spectre of US involvement

Though the US has denied direct involvement in Israel’s strikes on Gaza, several reports indicated that not only has the US assisted Israel, it has also encouraged Israel to continue bombarding Tehran.

On Wednesday, three officials at the Arms Control Association, said American involvement in Israel’s “illegal attacks” on Iran would “set back efforts to reach an effective nuclear agreement to block Iran’s pathways to the Bomb”.

‘There was no imminent threat that Iran was weaponising its nuclear program before Israel’s attack began’

– Arms Control Association

The statement, released on Wednesday, said that a “consensus view among US intelligence agencies before Israel’s bombing campaign was that Iran had not made a decision to move forward on building a bomb, and was several months away, if not longer, from being able to assemble a crude device.

“There was no imminent threat that Iran was weaponising its nuclear program before Israel’s attack began.”

For more than 20 months, hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers have taken to the streets to protest the ongoing war in Gaza.

Many at the protest on Tuesday said the impunity had allowed Israel to expand the war to Iran.

More than 55,000 Palestinians have been killed in Israel’s war on Gaza, which both human rights groups and genocide scholars have labelled a genocide.

On Friday, the UN Security Council will convene for a meeting to discuss the hostilities between Israel and Iran.

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Via https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/us-new-york-protest-israel-attacks-iran

Israel’s Economy on Brink of Structural Collapse

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By Vanessa Beeley

Food and fuel crisis in the occupied territories

🔹 Following Iran’s massive missile attack on the occupied territories, the Israeli economy has faced an unprecedented crisis, from the closure of refineries and ports to the paralysis of airports and infrastructure.

🔹 Experts believe that continuing this trend will push the Israeli economy into a stage of structural collapse.

🔹 The Haifa Refinery, Israel’s largest oil refinery with a capacity of 200,000 barrels, was among the targets and has been taken out of production.

🔹 The destruction of three oil terminals in the ports of Haifa, Ashkelon, and Eilat, along with the shutdown of two major refineries, has effectively disabled Israel’s energy backbone.

🔹 Port activity has reached zero, airports have been closed, and all export and import logistics systems are in lockdown. In this situation, even food and fuel imports are facing a crisis.

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Via https://t.me/VanessaBeeley

Clock Clicking Down to Israeli Capitulation

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Samuel Geddes

Netanyahu has led “Israel” into a war it cannot win; as Iranian missiles continue to rain down, the countdown to “Israel’s” military and economic collapse has begun.

Netanyahu has put “Israel” in an impossible position that it cannot sustain, even with indefinite American re-supply.

It has taken Iran less than three days to fully absorb the blows struck in “Israel’s” surprise offensive against its military and nuclear infrastructure. With its balance restored, it has gone on the offense to reestablish the deterrence that collapsed over the course of the last two years.

Among the Israeli public and political elites, the initial euphoria over their fleeting successes is already giving way to a terrible realization. They are in a direct war, for the first time in 50 years, with a state that can continue the current levels of hostilities for far longer than they can.

Even the regime’s much gloated-over missile defense systems, the Iron Dome, David’s Sling, and Arrow, began to fail with the first barrage of Iranian missiles, which inflicted unprecedented destruction in the heart of Tel Aviv. While still intercepting most of the projectiles fired, at least according to “Israel”, the rate of depletion of interceptor missiles is exponential. At best, Tel-Aviv can sustain acceptable interception levels for a matter of weeks. This while Tehran has yet to unleash the most powerful missiles in its arsenal.

As of day four of this war, the critical power plant in the Haifa Bay area has already been struck, with the effects on operations at its largest port and northern power grid being immediate and only compounding by the hour.

The distinct focus of media coverage on the destruction in urban areas and against economic targets is hiding, but only barely, the true extent of losses inflicted on critical military infrastructure. Army and air-force bases, weapons and fuel depots, and of course “Israel’s” nuclear facilities, remain cloaked by official military censorship.

Given the rate at which the regime is burning through its interceptor munitions, it will very soon face the reality of having to ration them, limiting their use to the defense of vital military targets, and leaving the country’s urban and economic fabric utterly exposed.

Repeated hits on the Haifa plant, or similar facilities like Orot Rabin, Rutenberg, or Eshkol, will bring down the civil power grid entirely, halting everything from weapons manufacturing to water desalination. As the missile shield depletes, airbases will be rendered inoperable (if they aren’t already) and the Israeli regime’s most potent weapon, the air force, will be unable to continue operating.

While Tel-Aviv does have its US patron to replenish its stocks, even this will not restore its capabilities to their initial level. The production of interceptors such as the Tamir and Stunner missiles is limited, even in the US, to the low thousands per year. Resupply is probable, if not inevitable, but it will be of limited use when the regime must expend thousands of such rockets per week simply to prevent nationwide devastation.

Elite opinion has begun to recognize this fact. Netanyahu’s senior security advisor, Tzachi Hanegbi, has publicly noted that Tehran’s inventory of mid-to-long-range ballistic missiles is far deeper than was initially estimated. As the relative cost of successful strikes declines (fewer missiles can be fired at once with more evading interception), this allows the Iranians to sustain the current tempo of operations for months, if not longer.

Under current conditions alone, the countdown to “Israel’s” societal, economic, and military collapse can be measured in weeks, not months. The only variable that would extract Tel Aviv from the trap it laid for itself is active US involvement. Though this remains frighteningly possible, the combination of domestic opposition and the prospect of a ferocious energy-driven inflation shock makes this less appealing with each passing day.

Ultimately, absent a full-scale American war on the Islamic Republic, Netanyahu has set up his regime and himself for a historic humiliation. The ceasefire likely to end this conflict will be imposed on terms dictated by Tehran, which could include everything from the definitive end of the Gaza genocide, UN scrutiny of Israeli nuclear weapons, to large-scale sanctions relief and abolition of the snap-back mechanism expected later in the year.

Iran has undoubtedly suffered serious blows at the outset, but that was the extent of what “Israel” was capable of. The pace of events is now dictated by Ayatollah Khamenei more than anyone else, and he has at last been presented the opportunity to shatter Israeli pretensions of being the region’s “superpower.”

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Via https://english.almayadeen.net/articles/opinion/the-clock-is-ticking-down-to–israel-s–capitulation