“…The lawsuits expose Israel’s so-called ‘eighth front,’ a digital effort to influence global opinion in support of Israel and vilify those opposing the genocide in Gaza

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The payment disputes unfolding inside Israel’s propaganda apparatus are emerging alongside broader revelations about the scale of Tel Aviv’s global messaging campaign during the war on Gaza.

Investigations and public filings have shown that Israeli-linked public relations firms paid US social media influencers thousands of dollars per post to promote pro-Israel narratives online.

Documents submitted under the US Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) revealed payments averaging up to $7,000 per post as part of the so-called “Esther Project,” a propaganda campaign aimed at shaping public opinion on platforms such as TikTok and Instagram in favor of Israel, and demonizing its opposition.

Israel has previously organized carefully managed influencer tours inside Gaza, inviting social media figures to visit aid distribution sites run by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), a deadly US-Israeli aid scheme, in an effort to counter international reporting on famine in the enclave.

The visits were presented as proof that Israel was facilitating humanitarian assistance, despite extensive documentation by numerous organizations, including the UN, showing that the famine in Gaza was a direct result of Israel’s systematic restrictions on humanitarian aid and its obstruction of relief deliveries.

These initiatives form part of what Israeli officials themselves have described as the “eighth front” of the war – a parallel battle over narrative and perception fought across social media platforms, advertising networks, and AI-driven digital campaigns designed to shape global opinion about the war in Gaza…”

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“…The thesis is simple. Industrial civilization is running up against its biophysical limits and its own complexity, and the people who benefit most from the current order are not preparing a just transition or a new social contract. They are building cloud‑castles and data‑fiefs on top of a crumbling base, locking in forms of extraction and control that will keep them comfortable for as long as possible while the rest of the structure buckles. Collapse, but with VIP seating.

From Capitalism to Digital Lordship, or a Very Persuasive Cosplay

Yanis Varoufakis gave the current version of this story its most popular label when he argued that capitalism has already died and been replaced by something worse, a system in which “cloudalists” like Amazon, Meta, Apple and Alphabet no longer behave like firms in competitive markets but like lords who own the terrain itself. We are not their customers so much as their tenants and serfs, forever posting, scrolling and buying on platforms whose rules can be changed overnight. The core of the argument is that these firms do not primarily profit from exploiting labor in production, in the classical capitalist sense, but from charging rent on access to digital space. They sit astride the chokepoints through which attention, communication and commerce must flow, and they tax every crossing.
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Meanwhile, collapse research points out that in prior civilizations, elites often responded to emerging stresses by doubling down on extraction and repression rather than sharing power or resources. It worked, for a while. Then it didn’t. Our elites are repeating the pattern, but with better gadgets. Surveillance systems that would have made twentieth century dictators swoon are now quietly integrated into smartphones, city cameras and data brokers’ servers. AI tools can filter, flag and predict dissent. Autonomous systems are being developed for border control and policing. The apparatus of a digital autocracy is being built in peacetime, under the logo of consumer convenience.
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Collapse theory has a dark sense of humor about all this. Its more sardonic voices like to point out that every ruling class in history thought its particular arrangements were the culmination of rational progress, right up until the moment they were not. The Roman aristocracy did not plan for a world in which their villas were ruins picked over by peasants. The coal barons of the nineteenth century did not imagine a world where burning their product would destabilize the jet stream. The technofeudal elite does not plan seriously for a world without high bandwidth, cheap chips, predictable seasons and functioning grids, even though those things rest on ecological and material conditions that are now visibly eroding. They are very good at modeling other people’s risk and very bad at relinquishing the power and wealth that would have to be given up to reduce it. That, more than any abstract limit, is what makes the future feel narrow…”

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“…A handful of American Big Tech corps and their owners are extracting trillions of dollars from the manufacture of AI chips, development of AI data centers, and operation of so-called ‘frontier’ AI models. Regardless of which side pulls ahead in each arms race scenario, the house always wins. Corporate AI giants profit from the race dynamic itself.

As formidable as the near-monopoly positions of today’s Big Tech giants may seem, people and governments have substantial capability to fight back. Various democracies are resisting this concentration of wealth and power with tools of anti-trust regulation, protections for human rights, and public alternatives to corporate AI. All of us worried about the AI arms race and committed to preserving the interests of our communities and our democracies should think in both these terms: how to use the tech to our own advantage, and how to resist the concentration of power AI is being exploited to create…”

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“…Bombs, Missiles, and the Epstein/Trump/Maxwell Files

A president who controls the DOJ can bury files. A president who controls the military can bury the news cycle. A president facing evidence that he raped a child has reason to do both.

In November 2025, Congress passed the Epstein Files Transparency Act with a clear mandate: release the investigative materials related to Jeffrey Epstein’s criminal network. It is now the law of the United States. The Department of Justice is defying it.

Rather than comply, the DOJ has released heavily redacted documents, in an unclassified file, with redactions that lawmakers from both parties say far exceed anything the Act permits. This is not a disagreement over process. It is the executive branch refusing to obey a law passed by Congress. Attorney General Pam Bondi is reportedly sitting on millions of unreleased pages. She has not explained why.

Furthermore, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has refused to produce financial records requested by the Senate Finance Committee. These are records tied to more than $4 billion in suspicious transactions that JPMorgan Chase allegedly failed to report or escalate in connection with Epstein’s accounts. Senator Ron Wyden, the committee’s ranking Democrat, has described Bessent’s stonewalling bluntly: “Scott Bessent is doing his best to make sure [rich pedophiles and Epstein accomplices] won’t face any consequences for their crimes.”

The investigative record goes deeper. Wyden has revealed the existence of a DEA investigation known as “Operation Chain Reaction,” conducted through the Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Forces (OCDETF), a premier federal task force designed to dismantle major transnational criminal operations. The investigation focused on Epstein and fourteen alleged co-conspirators for drug trafficking and cross-border financial crimes. The investigation was opened in December 2010 under the Obama administration. It was abruptly terminated. The documentation is 69 pages long and extensively redacted. No charges were ever brought against anyone. Wyden has formally demanded answers: what triggered the investigation, what evidence it produced, why it was terminated, and why all fourteen names were redacted. He has asked directly whether the first Trump administration killed the investigation to protect pedophiles…”

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Frank Zappa: “Politics is the entertainment division of the military industrial complex.”

South Korea’s National Tax Service seized crypto assets during recent enforcement actions against 124 high-value tax evaders, but now, a large chunk of that crypto cash has been lost. The operation originally resulted in the confiscation of crypto holdings worth about 8.1 billion won, or roughly $5.6 million. However, officials later issued a press release to showcase these efforts in recovering delinquent taxes, and the release included photographs of Ledger hardware wallets taken into custody along with handwritten notes that displayed the wallet seed phrases.

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Last week, Sam Altman confirmed OpenAI’s deal to give the Department of Defense access to its AI models. The agreement came after Anthropic refused to accept government terms that could have allowed its model, Claude, to be deployed for mass domestic surveillance or autonomous lethal weapons.

OpenAI said in a blog post on Saturday that its contract with the Defense Department is “better” and includes more safety guardrails than Anthropic’s original contract.

On Monday evening, following concerns around the deal, Altman said on X that OpenAI is working with the Pentagon to “make some additions in our agreement.”

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Programmable digital currency is the final piece of the global control grid that’s finally snapping into place. Catherine Austin Fitts on how to defeat it.

Catherine Austin Fitts began her career at Dillon Read & Co. in New York and later served as Assistant Secretary of Housing under President George H. W. Bush. Drawing on her experience on Wall Street and in Washington, she warned communities and investors about mortgage fraud and ultimately prevailed in an eleven-year lawsuit with the Department of Justice. She is now the publisher of The Solari Report…

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Catherine Austin Fitts on the Tucker Carlson Show (Audio link)

“…Together they explore the digital control grid — the convergence of programmable money, digital IDs, and local surveillance hardware designed to enable centralized financial and spatial control of populations. Catherine breaks down the difference between monetary and fiscal policy, and how programmable money would allow bankers to bypass legislatures entirely. They discuss the Genius Act, stablecoins, the Clarity Act, and how private digital assets can implement the same social credit controls as a central bank digital currency — just through different channels. Catherine describes Solari’s work with state legislatures on model legislation to prevent programmable money from being misused.

The conversation covers the black budget’s origins from WWII asset seizures through the CIA Act of 1949 and the 1981 executive order enabling classified corporate contracts, FASB 56’s role in making federal financial statements meaningless, the $21 trillion missing from federal accounts, and why auditing the New York Fed’s accounts matters more than “auditing the Fed.” They dig into why Congressman Thomas Massie is being targeted, the role of dual citizenship in secret governance, the Epstein network’s connection to programmable money development, and why Iran and the BRICS nations represent “leakage” in the global control system…”

Tucker and Cathetine Austin Fitts discuss the real reason we bombed Iran, and what the tension in the Middle East is really about.

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Trump controls the Board’s finances as chair, creating what looks to be a slush fund of international proportions. A $1 billion contribution secures permanent membership on the Board instead of a three-year appointment, which requires no payment. Trump said he also exacted promises of more than $7 billion from nine countries, although Board of Peace documents show only eight countries formally signed a pledge of their “intention to contribute funds to the Board of Peace.” For his part, Trump promised to siphon U.S. tax dollars — at least $10 billion — into the Board’s coffers. The Board of Peace, in turn, announced “more than $15 billion in funding commitments” for “humanitarian relief and reconstruction activities” in Gaza.

The Board’s charter states that it can acquire and dispose of “immovable and movable property, institute legal proceedings, open bank accounts, receive and disburse private and public funds, and employ staff.” As chair, Trump has “exclusive authority to create, modify, or dissolve subsidiary entities as necessary or appropriate to fulfill the Board of Peace’s mission.” It remains unclear how all of the Boards’ funds will be spent and if there will be any meaningful supervision of the Board’s finances. The executive board — which Trump chooses and controls — provides “oversight mechanisms with respect to budgets, financial accounts, and disbursements,” according to the charter.

The Board says that the World Bank-administered Gaza Reconstruction and Development Fund “will operate under defined fiduciary controls, aligned with global best practices” and that an “AI-enabled digital infrastructure backbone will support procurement transparency and transform Gaza into a modern economy, reducing corruption risk and ensuring responsible stewardship of reconstruction capital for the benefit of Gaza’s residents.”

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