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ALERT 8/10/26
JUST IN - Dr. Fauci privately warned of miscarriage risk linked to the injections against COVID back in 2021 while publicly claiming no issues — NY Post
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MORE - Biden-era U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy responded to Fauci he had “been hearing concern about the mRNA causing mutations in the developing fetus as well.”
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NEW - Irish government to deploy new national strategy for women and girls, warning about the “manosphere,” where male influencers “propagate misogynistic views,” “hate speech,” and “tradwife” influencers “promote restrictive, stereotypical roles for women and girls.”
Read here: https://www.disclose.tv/id/tqcfx00ruy/
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JUST IN - An Iranian assassination threat against President Trump prompted an extraordinary operation last month in which he flew secretly from Turkey on an alternate military aircraft while the White House said he was aboard Air Force One, Washington Post reports
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🇯🇵 Japan’s 4 biggest life insurers incurred $96 billion worth of losses on Japanese govt bonds
On their own, the losses are largely an accounting issue. However, they also highlight a broader challenge facing the Bank of Japan (BOJ). Every additional rate hike helps stabilize the yen and curb inflation, yet it also pushes bond prices lower, deepening losses across insurers, banks, and pension funds.
Japan’s four largest life insurers, Nippon Life, Dai-ichi Life, Sumitomo Life, and Meiji Yasuda, reported combined unrealized losses of ¥15.13 trillion ($96 billion) on domestic government bonds as of the end of June 2026, up roughly 7% from the previous quarter.
Bond prices move inversely to yields. As rates rise, the market value of older bonds paying lower coupons falls. Much of the insurers’ portfolios were accumulated during the BOJ’s years of aggressive monetary easing, leaving them exposed to today’s higher-rate environment.
Despite the eye-catching figure, the losses remain largely unrealized because insurers generally intend to hold these bonds until maturity to match long-term policy obligations.
📝 For context, when Silicon Valley Bank collapsed in 2023, they had $15 billion worth of losses on US treasuries.
🔗 https://finance.yahoo.com/economy/policy/articles/96-billion-japan-bond-losses-190236239.html
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🇯🇵🇺🇸 Despite a massive intervention by the Bank of Japan and the U.S. Treasury, the Yen continues to weaken and is close to surpassing, again, the 159 Yen for 1 USD exchange rate.
The intervention by the BOJ and the U.S. Treasury reportedly cost $87 billion, with somewhere between $5-10 billion being spent by the U.S. strengthening the yen from the 163-164 range to the 155-157 range.
At the rate the Yen is weakening, the U.S. Treasury and BOJ will have to intervene once 1-2 months to keep the currency stable.
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🇸🇦🛢 Saudi Aramco has postponed the restart of its 400,000-barrel-per-day Jazan refinery to August 30 following a second Houthi attack. The facility has been shut down since July 27, when it was initially hit by the Iranian-backed militia. - Reuters
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🛢 US SPR crude inventories fell by ~6.1mb w/w to a multi year low of 298.7mb last week
Sour down ~2.0mb to 193.4mb
Sweet down ~4.1mb to 105.3mb
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🪽 🇺🇸 ✒️ Joint Base Charleston has been officially renamed Joint Base Lindsey Graham.
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⚡️🇺🇸 The US Army has opened a prototype facility in Idaho to process antimony sulfide, a critical ammunition material previously sourced from China.
The service, Perpetua Resources, and Idaho National Laboratory marked the opening with demonstrations of antimony sulfide refining at the facility.
Antimony sulfide is used in ammunition primers, helping them function across a wide range of temperatures. The US stopped receiving Chinese supplies of the material in 2021, creating a vulnerability in the domestic ammunition supply chain.
INL’s prototype facility will continue demonstrations until Perpetua can begin producing raw antimony sulfide at Stibnite, which the army says is scheduled for late 2028.
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🇱🇾⚡️ — Libya’s National Oil Corporation (NOC) says the Zawiya refinery plant was struck by a drone on Monday. No casualties have been reported.
This marks the third drone attack on the plant and critical infrastructure in Zawiya in recent days, with no group claiming responsibility.
The NOC warned that continued attacks could force operations at the Zawiya refinery to shut down completely and potentially lead to a declaration of force majeure.
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📝 🇺🇸 📖 The Washington Post editorial board issues a stern warning:
The 2030’s could be worse than the 1930’s.
The problem:
- Seniors collect too much $$ from government.
- Too few births = too few workers, taxed to support too many seniors.
- Debt -> WWII levels.
“The budget of the federal government is the largest of any organization in human history. It’s larger than the entire economy of every foreign country except China. And it mostly grows automatically, without regular input from elected officials.”
“According to the Congressional Budget Office, 2030 is the year when federal debt held by the public as a share of the economy will exceed the record set by World War II. Unlike in the ’40s, this debt shows no signs of ever declining.”
“The year 2030 is also roughly when the ratio of seniors to the total population will reach 1 in 5. As recently as 2008, the ratio was around 1 in 8. Seniors’ rising share of the population mechanically raises Social Security and Medicare costs and pushes them onto a proportionally smaller working population.”
“Social Security used to take in more money than it gave out, but that money was spent on other things. The program has run annual deficits since 2010. It is projected to go insolvent in 2032, at which point seniors would receive a roughly one-quarter cut in benefits across the board.”
“Medicare’s budget-busting makes Social Security’s look modest by comparison. Of the projected $138 trillion budget shortfall over the next 30 years, $109 trillion is from Medicare.”
“The fiscal challenges scheduled to arrive in the 2030s are actually based on optimistic assumptions. They are from the CBO’s baseline estimates, which assume no wars, no recessions, low and stable inflation and no new government programs or tax changes.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/interactive/2026/08/10/when-americas-budget-will-break-disastrously/
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⚡️🇸🇾 After issuing a curfew order, Internal Security Forces are mobilizing in all their departments before entering the city of Ain al-Arab to hold SDF militias accountable and end the state of security breakdown.
Arab tribes have also declared themselves ready for combat if needed against the SDF.
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📝 🇺🇸 👨💻 People don’t like the idea of AI companies destructively-scanning warehouses filled with books for the same reason they don’t like Flock’s vision of having everyone live under an AI-powered surveillance network: There is a growing fear that AI accelerationists are recklessly scaling what is arguably the most world’s most powerful force at breakneck speed with little regard for the human things that are torn asunder in the wake, whether that’s physical books, art, privacy, or the environment.
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BREAKING: New Orleans has become the first U.S. city to use AI to answer 911 calls, with the technology deciding which emergencies are handled by human dispatchers and which are handled by the AI itself, raising concerns that mistakes could put lives at risk.
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BREAKING: President Trump is now demanding compensation from Iran for Americans killed or wounded in Iran-backed attacks, as well as for victims of the Iranian regime.
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🇾🇪⚡- Ansarullah drones enter the airspace of Aden, capital of the Presidential Leadership Council controlled Yemen.
🇾🇪⚡- Presidential Leadership Council forces attack Ansarullah positions around western Ma’rib, central Yemen, with rockets and artillery.
🇾🇪⚡- Air defenses are active over Aden, Presidential Leadership Council controlled Yemen.
🇾🇪⚡- For the second time in three days, Ansarullah is attacking the port city of Mocha, Presidential Leadership Council controlled southwest Yemen.
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🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡- “Also, with respect to the Iran negotiations, Iran should be responsible for the damages and death caused to the people of Lebanon, Syria, Yemen, and Gaza!” - President Trump on Truth Social.
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🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- “Trump will not reach an agreement, we will accompany him until his term ends.” - Majid Shakeri, advisor to Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammed Bagher Ghalibaf.
Iran has effectively stated that it will not reach an agreement to reopen the Strait of Hormuz until 2029 unless the United States unconditionally surrenders to its demands.
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GOLD PRICE COULD TEST AND MOVE BEYOND RECENT HIGHS - WSJ ...
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Saudi Arabia’s crude export flows are facing renewed uncertainty:
Saudi Arabia’s crude exports fell -460,000 barrels per day in July, to 4.19 million barrels per day.
The 746-mile pipeline carrying crude from Saudi Arabia’s eastern oil fields to the Red Sea coast has been a key factor in bypassing the Strait of Hormuz, making Yanbu Saudi’s primary alternative export route.
However, Yanbu has faced fresh threats after Yemen’s Houthis pledged to blockade Saudi ports and claimed attacks on Saudi vessels and energy facilities last month.
Meanwhile, Yanbu shipments have become harder to track as more vessels switch off their transponders, though satellite images showed 6 very large crude carriers loading at the port over the weekend, a possible sign exports are picking back up.
Saudi Arabia’s crude exports remain highly volatile.
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BREAKING: US oil prices surge over +5% to $82/barrel after President Trump says the US is now demanding compensation from Iran. https://t.co/9NWTzGXnG5
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— 🇮🇷/🇦🇪 NEW: The United Arab Emirates says it thwarted a major cyberattack against its civilian and industrial sectors, including energy and aviation infrastructure
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— 🇮🇷 President Pezeshkian: ‘I had a very good meeting with the Supreme Leader which lasted more than 7 hours, and many important issues facing the country were discussed’
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— 🇮🇷 Full list of appointments by Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei:
– Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces: Major General Ali Abdollahi
– Deputy Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces: Brigadier General Amir Kioumars Heydari
– Commander of the IRGC: Major General Ahmad Vahidi
– Deputy of the IRGC: Major General Mustafa Izadi
– IRGC Navy Commander: Brigadier General Ali Azmaei
– Head of the Basij: Hojjat Al-Islam Hossein Taeb
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—❗️🇺🇸/🇮🇷 NEW: Initial reports that Iran targeted a vessel in the Strait of Hormuz
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🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️ — Reporter: When will the Strait of Hormuz be opened?
Trump: It’s open now. The only one that has control of the Strait of Hormuz is the U.S. Navy. We have a blockade that’s been infallible — it’s a steel wall. We let people that we wanna let in.
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US housing affordability is deteriorating:
The average 30Y fixed mortgage rate rose +3 basis points last week, to 6.69%, the highest since July 2025.
This marks the 5th consecutive weekly increase, with rates up +71 basis points since the Iran War began in late-February.
This comes as the 10Y Treasury yield, which mortgage lenders use to price 30Y loans, has surged +70 basis points over the same period, driven by inflation concerns.
On a $500,000 mortgage, this increase translates to more than +$200 in additional monthly principal and interest payments compared to late February, when rates briefly fell below 6% for the first time since 2022.
The 30Y fixed mortgage rate could rise to 7% for the first time since January 2025 before year-end if current inflationary pressures persist.
The US housing affordability crisis is worsening.
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This billboard was spotted in New York City today.
22.7% of New Yorkers speak Spanish, followed by Chinese at about 5.4%, Russian at 2.5%, Bengali at 2.1%, Yiddish at 1.1%, Hebrew at approximately 0.6%, Haitian at about 0.5%, Korean at 0.5% and Arabic at 0.4%.