“…Elites also push the boundaries of sex because when sex is not about connection (or reproduction), the focus turns to either individual pleasure or power exploration. As I’ve mentioned prior, this is why sex and sexual blackmail (ie kompromat) are so commonly used as mechanisms of bribery and control. Elites are aware that trauma and shame are powerful tools. Sex is not only intrinsically vulnerable, but it also evokes primal drives tied to dominance and submission. As sex is a social act, it also inherently involves power dynamics and imbalances, regardless of whether they are spoken or not…”
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Weird alleged Illuminati analysis of current events from Leo Zagami
The Coming Invasion of Iran — The U.S. and Israel are arming Kurdish groups to stage an incursion. What could go wrong?
“…Days after the United States and Israel killed Iran’s leader, the war is set to enter a dramatic new phase. Thousands of Iranian Kurdish militants are gathering in Iraqi Kurdistan, set to receive American and Israeli financial and military support to launch a major attack on Iranian territory, according to several people with close knowledge of the plan. Other armed militants, such as the Mojahedin-e-Khalq (MEK), an exiled opposition group that has long carried out violent operations inside Iran, and Baloch militias that operate on Iran’s southeastern border with Pakistan, are also rumored to be involved.
Last month, five Kurdish Iranian political parties came together to form the Coalition of Political Forces of Iranian Kurdistan, signaling their desire for joint political action. The five parties, all of which have military wings, have gathered thousands of their members in Iraq’s autonomous Kurdistan Region, a leader of an Iranian opposition group who has been privy to the plans told me. (He requested anonymity, like others I spoke with for this story, because of the sensitivity of the operation.)
According to this person, the operation is to be led by the Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan (known by its Kurdish initials PDKI), whose leader, Mustafa Hijri, spoke by phone with Donald Trump yesterday. The PDKI has deep roots among Iran’s Kurds. It’s the oldest Kurdish party and a consultative member of the Socialist International. According to the opposition leader who spoke with me, as well as the leader of one of the Kurdish groups aware of but not included in the plan, the U.S. and Israel have set aside significant funds for arms and logistical support to the five Iranian Kurdish groups…”
‘Smokin something’: Retired general warns Pentagon briefing revealed looming disaster
“…Brig. Gen. Steve Anderson told CNN after the Wednesday morning Pentagon press conference, “somebody’s smokin’ something.”
During his briefing, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth was asked how Iran had nuclear weapons when the administration said last year that they obliterated the weapons in the “12-Day War.”
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The other problem, according to several reports, is that the U.S. is running out of weaponry because the administration has burned through the stockpile so quickly.
It was reported on Tuesday by several outlets that the military lacks the supplies to continue at the current level.
“It’s not panic yet, but the sooner they get here, the better,” a regional source told CNN…”
Game Theory #9: The US-Iran War
In this Tuesday, March 3, 2026 lecture, Professor Jiang analyzes the US-Iran War.
Hegseth Bans AI Safety, Three F-15E Shot Down by Friendly Fire
The Pentagon spent last Friday trying to bully an AI company that had dared to require human oversight of surveillance and autonomous weapons. On Sunday, automated air defense proved exactly why that company was right and oversight matters.
On Friday, February 27, 2026, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth designated Anthropic — the AI company behind Claude — a “supply chain risk,” a classification meant for foreign adversaries. The company’s offense was simply refusing Pete’s unwanted advances. He demanded they strip naked the safeguards requiring human responsibility for lethal autonomous weapons systems, and prohibiting mass domestic surveillance. Hegseth, infamous for arrogance and betrayal, called it “a master class in arrogance and betrayal.”
Emil Michael, the disgraced ex-Uber executive who was fired for acting like he was God and could control women (appointed Pete’s Undersecretary for Research and Engineering), called Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei “a liar” with a “God-complex” who “wants nothing more than to personally control the US Military.”
The demand made was to allow the AI to be used for “all lawful purposes,” with no exceptions. Anthropic said no because, Amodei argued, it is not reliable enough for autonomous lethal decisions under the law.
The Fine Art of Bullshit: Werner Herzog Between Fact and Fiction
The truth that Herzog has in mind is more like the truth of poetry than the mere facts and shared understanding that he mocks as “the truth of accountants.” As he put it in a 1999 manifesto, “There are deeper strata of truth in cinema, and there is such a thing as poetic, ecstatic truth. It is mysterious and elusive, and can be reached only through fabrication and imagination and stylization.”
The idea that an artist, even a documentarian, would mix fact with fiction is not quite so radical today as it might have been at the peak of cinema verité. Yet questions of truth and its relation to reality are more pressing and vexed than ever. Getting at deep truths by means of artful lies may seem less appealing or daring in the era of the deepfake. Herzog’s oft-repeated provocation that only the “conman, the liar who knew what he was talking about, would speak the truth” loses some of its countercultural appeal when the conmen move from the margins of society to the centers of power and bullshit becomes de rigueur.
Saudi Arabia arrested Mossad agents staging false-flag attack, Tucker Carlson claims
The allegations suggest that the operatives were planning false-flag “bombing attacks” intended to destabilize the region, allegedly to turn Gulf countries against Iran during the intense aerial campaign by the U.S. and Israel against Iran.
According to Carlson, intelligence services in Riyadh and Doha coordinated to detain the Israeli agents.
He framed the alleged arrests as a turning point in regional security, saying that Gulf nations are increasingly willing to push back against Israeli intelligence operations.
Mustafa Suleyman — Nature, humans, tools… and now a fourth class
A few days before OpenClaw exploded, I recorded a prescient conversation with Mustafa Suleyman, CEO of Microsoft AI and co-founder of DeepMind. We talked about what happens when AI starts to seem conscious – even if it isn’t. Today, you get to hear our conversation.
Mustafa has been sounding the alarm about what he calls “seemingly conscious AI” and the risk of collective AI psychosis for a long time. We discussed this idea of the “fourth class of being” – neither human, tool, nor nature – that AI is becoming and all it brings with it.
Mapping Fascism — Global networks, power, and the rise of the far right
This report is an investigation by the Reactionary International and the Transnational Institute, and is accompanied by a series of essays on fascism as part of the State of Power report.
The New Authoritarian Wave
Far right and authoritarian forces have capitalised on global economic insecurity and political alienation to win elections. This map traces their electoral success, showing where far-right parties lead governments, shape ruling coalitions or are positioned to take power. It also tracks the main hubs and actors of transnational far right organising, represented here by the locations of transnational conferences and highlighting the key foundations and political networks that circulate funding, ideas and strategy. This has helped transform national movements into a coordinated global current.