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-- Stephen Hawking

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Mike Huckabee Is A Deranged Armageddon Cultist

President Trump has shared a text message that was sent to him by Mike Huckabee, the deranged Christian Zionist who serves as the current US ambassador to Israel, and it is one of the creepiest things I have ever seen in my life.

The text reads as follows:

“Mr President,

God spared you in Butler, PA to be the most consequential President in a century — maybe ever. The decisions on your shoulders I would not want to be made by anyone else.

You have many voices speaking to you Sir, but there is only ONE voice that matters. HIS voice.

I am your appointed servant in this land and am available for you but I do not try to get in your presence often because I trust your instincts.

No President in my lifetime has been in a position like yours. Not since Truman in 1945. I don’t reach out to persuade you. Only to encourage you.

I believe you will hear from heaven and that voice is far more important than mine or ANYONE else’s.

You sent me to Israel to be your eyes, ears and voice and to make sure our flag flies above our embassy. My job is to be the last one to leave.

I will not abandon this post. Our flag will NOT come down! You did not seek this moment. This moment sought YOU!

It is my honor to serve you!

Mike Huckabee”

There are so many weird, creepy things about this message. The intensity. The religious fanaticism. The groveling, self-debasing obsequiousness, clearly designed to appeal to Trump’s enormous ego. But by far the most disturbing part was the reference to Truman in 1945 — a nod to the last and only time a national leader used nuclear weapons against an enemy state.

Trump claims to have experienced a religious transformation after surviving an assassination attempt last year. Nuclear weapons and doomsday cultism are poor bedfellows. I really hope this is just some bizarre madman diplomacy and not an accurate reflection of something that is actually occurring inside the president’s mind as he pushes toward direct confrontation with Iran.

The US and Israel don’t oppose Iran getting nukes because they fear a nuclear attack by irrational tyrants, nor because they worry about Iran giving nukes to terrorist factions. They oppose Iran getting nukes because then all their regime change agendas go right out the window.

This isn’t actually about nukes. It’s about toppling Tehran so that the US and Israel can dominate the middle east. It’s about regional hegemony and geostrategic control, and nothing else.

They’d be pushing for regime change in Iran whether they believed Iran was seeking a nuke or not.

A new Economist/YouGov poll found that only 16 percent of Americans currently support a US war with Iran. Most Americans oppose such a war, including a majority of Trump supporters.

People advocating regime change interventionism in Iran are arguing that the US needs to ignore the will of its own electorate in the name of spreading democracy.

Israel CENSORS Damage Reports As Interceptors Run Low

Trump undecided on joining war on Iran as Khamenei warns him not to attack

Donald Trump said he had not decided whether or not to take his country into Israel’s new war, as Iran’s supreme leader said the US would face “irreparable damage” if it deployed its military to attack.

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said Israel had made a “huge mistake” by launching the war, in his first comments since Friday. “The Americans should know that any US military intervention will undoubtedly be accompanied by irreparable damage,” he said in a statement read out by a presenter on state TV. Tehran was preparing missiles and other equipment to strike US bases in the region if Washington joined the war, the New York Times reported, citing US intelligence officials.

Hours later, Trump said Iranian officials had made contact to request a meeting and proposed a visit to the White House. He told reporters on the White House lawn that he felt “it’s very late to be talking” but he had not yet made a final decision about entering the war. “I may do it, I may not do it. I mean, nobody knows what I’m going to do,” he said. ...

Trump’s claim that Iranians had offered to come to the White House for talks prompted an enraged response from Iran’s mission to the UN. “No Iranian official has ever asked to grovel at the gates of the White House,” the mission posted on a social media account.

COL. Douglas Macgregor : Trump Crazy to Attack Iran!

Iran’s Khamenei Rejects Trump’s Demand for Surrender, Warns US Against Entering War

Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Wednesday rejected President Trump’s demand for an “unconditional surrender” and warned the US against entering the war by launching strikes on Iran, saying the US would suffer “irreparable harm.”

Trump has also threatened Khamenei, claiming the US was aware of his location but wasn’t going to kill him for the time being. “[Trump] has threatened us. Not only does he make threats, but he also uses absurd, unacceptable rhetoric to openly demand that the Iranian people surrender to him. When a person hears such things, it’s truly surprising,” Khamenei said in a televised address.

“It isn’t wise to tell the Iranian nation to surrender. Wise people who know Iran, the Iranian people, and Iran’s history would never utter such words. What should the Iranian nation surrender to? The Iranian nation isn’t a nation that surrenders. We haven’t attacked anyone, and we definitely won’t tolerate anyone attacking us, and we will never surrender in response to the attacks of anyone,” Khamenei said.

Trump APPROVES Iran ATTACK, REGIME CHANGE PLANS

America is sleepwalking into another unnecessary war

As the United States inches closer to direct military confrontation with Iran, it is critical to recognize how avoidable this escalation has been. “We knew everything [about Israel’s plans to strike Iran], and I tried to save Iran humiliation and death,” said Donald Trump on Friday. “I tried to save them very hard because I would have loved to have seen a deal worked out.” As two of the last analysts from an American thinktank to visit Iran, just three weeks ago, we can report that Iran’s own foreign ministry and members of the nuclear negotiating team were eager to work out a deal with Steve Witkoff, the US special envoy to the Middle East, and showed no indication they were interested in slow-walking talks. ...

Iran’s foreign minister, Abbas Araghchi, emphasized flexibility on nearly every issue outside Iran’s red line on low-level uranium enrichment. That was echoed in private conversations we held with foreign ministry staff and members of the nuclear negotiating team. Domestic enrichment is non-negotiable for Iran but they believed they had front-loaded their concessions to Witkoff, offering up a 3.67% limit on their enrichment with whatever monitoring and surveillance mechanisms were necessary for the US to feel confident the deal was being honored.

Enrichment, even at a low level, is a matter of national pride, a symbol of scientific achievement and a defiant response to decades of sanctions, the red line consistently stated in our conversations and one which they thought was agreeable to Witkoff. Iran claimed to be completely blindsided by Witkoff’s 18 May statement that zero enrichment was the only acceptable terms for a nuclear deal but was open to returning to talks to discuss ways forward. After weathering immense economic pain to develop this capability, no Iranian government – reformist or hardline – could feasibly surrender to the zero enrichment demand. The idea that Tehran would dismantle its enrichment program in 60 days, as the Trump administration demanded, was never realistic. ...

Yet here we are, on the brink of another Middle East conflict – one that was entirely preventable. Instead of seizing this rare moment of Iranian flexibility, the US chose escalation. The consequences may be catastrophic: a wider regional war, soaring oil prices and the total collapse of diplomacy with Iran for years to come. ... The US is sleepwalking into another Middle East quagmire, an open-ended war with unclear goals, loose talk of regime change and the potential for a regional conflagration if Iran attacks US military installations in the Persian Gulf. And this war comes after Iran extended a real offer for compromise. If Washington chooses bombs over diplomacy, history will record this as a war not of necessity, but of tragic, reckless choice.

COL. Lawrence Wilkerson : Consequences of US War with Iran

The "Israel first" movement in congress stands up on their hind legs and bark for their masters:

House Democrat Under Fire for 'Reckless and Repugnant' Resolution Backing War on Iran

Democratic Rep. Brad Sherman of California faced backlash Wednesday for leading a resolution expressing support for Israel's unprovoked and illegal assault on Iran, which risks plunging the region into a full-blown war as the Trump administration weighs military attacks of its own.

Sherman introduced the resolution Tuesday alongside Rep. Claudia Tenney (R-N.Y.) and 14 cosponsors, including Democratic Reps. Josh Gottheimer (D-N.J.) and Shri Thanedar (D-Mich.).

The resolution praises Israel's attacks on Iran, characterizing them as "preemptive and proportional strikes" that "advance the vital United States national security interest in a nuclear-free Iran."

The measure also "mourns the 24 Israelis killed and 590 Israelis wounded" by Iran's retaliatory attacks, but does not mention the more than 580 Iranians killed during the first five days of Israel's assault.

In a scathing statement released Wednesday, National Iranian American Council (NIAC) Action condemned the Sherman-Tenney resolution as "absolutely reckless and repugnant" and argued that "no congressperson should be supportive of this one-sided resolution that provides U.S. endorsement of a destructive war of aggression that has undermined American interests, including U.S. diplomatic efforts on Iran's nuclear program."

NIAC Action refuted the resolution's claim that Israel's strikes have been narrowly targeted, noting that they "have leveled apartment buildings in Iran that have killed dozens of civilians, have led to car bombs in Tehran, and killed women and children—including some who have demonstrated against the Iranian government."

"This was not a 'preemptive strike,'" the group said. "Israel did not preempt any imminent threat, but did preempt another round of nuclear negotiations aimed at resolving the nuclear crisis peacefully."

"We urge lawmakers to call on the leads of this irresponsible resolution to retract it and instead debate the critical issue that matters—whether the U.S. is going to enter this reckless war of aggression, or whether it will play a productive role and help bring this war to an end," NIAC Action added.

Sherman's resolution in support of Israel's assault on Iran came amid bipartisan efforts in the House and Senate to prevent U.S. President Donald Trump from wading into the war without congressional approval.

Those efforts have gained the support of dozens of lawmakers in both chambers, but they are running up against an increasingly fierce lobbying push by the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, which—according to new reporting—has been pressuring Democratic lawmakers to publicly back Israel's war on Iran.

Drop Site and The American Prospectjointly reported Thursday that one lawmaker "relayed that a colleague had received literally 100 phone calls from members of AIPAC and its allied pressure groups" calling for a statement declaring that they "stand with Israel" in its war on Iran.

"According to a review of member statements at their congressional websites and on social media, 28 House Democrats have issued messages saying explicitly that they 'stand with Israel,' or some close variation thereof," the outlets reported. "Another 35 express unequivocal support for Israel without using the magic words 'stand with Israel' precisely, but they leave no doubt as to the member's support. And 16 others express 'soft' support for Israel, without quite the same inflammatory language."

The outlets noted that "three statements have been held up by AIPAC in particular, according to sources familiar with the situation, as models for others to follow. Those are from Reps. Greg Landsman (D-Ohio), Mike Levin (D-Calif.), and George Whitesides (D-Calif.). All are 'frontline' members who had relatively close elections in 2024."

Sherman, a co-chair of the Congressional Israel Allies Caucus, is another Democratic House member who issued a statement supporting Israel's strikes on Iran, claiming that "Iran was extremely close to several nuclear bombs"—an assertion contradicted by U.S. intelligence agencies and the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency.

Activist David Hogg, who briefly served as a vice chair of the Democratic National Committee, and others are calling for primary challenges against any Democrats who support war with Iran.

"Democrats must be united against Trump and his war," Hogg wrote on social media earlier this week. "We can't fuck this up."

Iran Steps Up Strikes Israel AD Depletes; US/Israel Mull Fordow Khamenei Attack; Putin Xi Coordinate

Israeli forces kill 11 Palestinians awaiting food trucks

Eleven Palestinians were killed early on Wednesday morning after Israeli forces opened fire on a crowd waiting for food trucks in central Gaza, civil defence officials in the devastated territory have said. More than a hundred Palestinians have died in recent days after being targeted by the Israeli military in Gaza as they gathered near food distribution centres or on routes along which trucks were expected to travel.

Mahmoud Bassal, a civil defence spokesperson, said Israeli forces had “opened fire and launched several shells … at thousands of citizens” who had gathered to queue for food in central Gaza, near the strategic Netzarim corridor which crosses the territory and is partially held by Israeli forces.

In a statement, the Israeli military said its forces operating in central Gaza identified “a group of suspicious individuals” approaching “in a manner that posed a potential threat to the forces”. It said its troops then fired “warning shots”, but it was “unaware of injuries”.

Khalil Al-Daqran, spokesperson for al-Aqsa hospital in Deir al-Balah, said 11 dead and 72 wounded victims had been brought there, as well as the al-Awda hospital in Nuseirat. Medical facilities were completely overwhelmed with wounded, he said.

Nasser Abu Samra, the head of the emergency department at al-Awda hospital, said: “This has become an almost daily routine – we deal with these cases every single day, and on average, we receive no less than 70 to 80 cases per day, just from the aid distribution point in Netzarim.”

Trump’s Yemen bombings killed nearly as many civilians as 23 previous years of US attacks, analysis shows

The US bombing campaign of Yemen under Donald Trump led to the deaths of almost as many civilians in two months as in the previous 23 years of US attacks on Islamists and militants in the country. An analysis of Operation Rough Rider by the monitoring group Airwars has concluded that 224 civilians were killed between March and the end of the campaign in May, compared with 258 between 2002 and 2024.

Airwars argues that the higher death rate after 33 strikes signals a change in policy on the part of the US and is a potential sign for what could happen in Iran, if Trump decides to join the Israeli bombing campaign against the country. “This campaign sets the tone for Trump at war, and for what allies can do. With the US poised for escalation, we have to understand the Yemen campaign to understand what the future holds,” said Emily Tripp, the director of Airwars.

Deliberately targeting civilians in a manner that is considered not proportional to any military advantage gained is considered a war crime according to the Geneva conventions, though the doctrine has been stretched in recent conflicts, most notably Israel’s assault on Gaza, where there have been individual incidents of more than 100 civilians killed.

In the past, the US president has set a limit for the maximum number of civilian casualties that would be tolerated without special approval being granted, according to The War Lawyers, a book by the academic Craig Jones of Newcastle University.

Federal Reserve holds interest rates, defying Trump’s demand to lower them

The US Federal Reserve kept interest rates on hold, but signaled it might make two cuts this year, as Donald Trump continues to break with precedent and demand lower rates. Policymakers at the American central bank lifted their projections for inflation this year, as the US president stands by his controversial tariff plans, and downgraded their estimates for economic growth.

Uncertainty has faded, they said, but remains significant. The Fed chair, Jerome Powell, cautioned that officials expect tariffs imposed by Trump to increase prices over the course of the summer. “Increases in tariffs this year are likely to push up prices and weigh on economic activity,” Powell told reporters. “The effects on inflation could be short-lived, reflecting a one-time shift in the price level. It’s also possible that the inflationary effects could be more persistent.”

Avoiding persistent inflation “will depend on the size of the tariff effects” and how long it takes them to affect prices, Powell added.

Hours before the central bank announced its latest decision, Trump called Powell “stupid” and accurately predicted rates would be maintained on Wednesday.

Pete Hegseth suggests he would disobey court ruling against deploying military in LA

The US defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, suggested on Wednesday that he would not obey a federal court ruling against the deployments of national guard troops and US marines to Los Angeles, the latest example of the Trump administration’s willingness to ignore judges it disagrees with.

The comments before the Senate armed services committee come as Donald Trump faces dozen of lawsuits over his policies, which his administration has responded to by avoiding compliance with orders it dislikes. In response, Democrats have claimed that Trump is sending the country into a constitutional crisis.

California has sued over Trump’s deployment of national guard troops to Los Angeles, and, last week, a federal judge ruled that control of soldiers should return to California’s Democratic governor, Gavin Newsom. An appeals court stayed that ruling and, in arguments on Tuesday, sounded ready to keep the soldiers under Donald Trump’s authority.

“I don’t believe district courts should be determining national security policy. When it goes to the supreme court, we’ll see,” Hegseth told the Democratic senator Mazie Hirono. Facing similar questions from another Democrat, Elizabeth Warren, he said: “If the supreme court rules on a topic, we will abide by that.”

‘Abducted by Ice’: the haunting missing-person posters plastered across LA

“Missing son.” “Missing father.” “Missing grandmother.” The words are written in bright red letters at the top of posters hanging on lampposts and storefronts around Los Angeles. At first glance, they appear to be from worried relatives seeking help from neighbors.

But a closer look reveals that the missing people are immigrants to the US who have been disappeared by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice). Some of the faces are familiar to anyone who has been following the news – that missing father, for instance, is Kilmar Ábrego García, the Maryland man who was deported to El Salvador in March without a hearing, in what the Trump administration admitted was an error. “Abducted by Ice,” the poster reads, under a picture of Ábrego García with his small son. “Did not receive constitutional protections. Currently being held in detention.”

The missing grandmother is Gladis Yolanda Chávez Pineda, a Chicago woman who was taken by Ice when she showed up for a check-in with immigration officials this month. She had arrived in the US seeking a better life for her daughter and was in the midst of applying for asylum. “Lived in the US for 10 years,” the poster states. “No criminal history.”

The missing son is Andry Hernández Romero, a makeup artist who fled persecution in Venezuela. On arrival in the US, he was detained, with US authorities claiming his tattoos indicated gang membership. His family and friends say that’s ridiculous. He was among hundreds of people deported to the El Salvador mega-prison known as Cecot in March. “Currently being held in a concentration camp,” the poster says.

The posters are just a few examples of a campaign of quiet resistance on the streets of Los Angeles. On Monday, a walk down Sunset Boulevard in the historic Silver Lake neighborhood meant encountering an array of flyers, artwork and spray-painted messages of support for disappeared immigrants and fury at the administration. The “missing” posters, which have also appeared in other neighborhoods, were particularly effective. Duct-taped to telephone polls amid ads for comedy shows, guitar lessons and yard sales, they reminded passersby of the individual lives derailed by Trump’s immigration crackdown – instead of names in the news, these were families and friends who might have lived just down the road.

Trump’s saber-rattling over Iran threatens to split his Maga base

The prospect of the US joining Israel’s strikes against Iran’s nuclear program risks splitting Donald Trump’s support base asunder, amid sharp divisions on military intervention between the president’s most avid America-first acolytes and traditional Republican foreign policy hawks. Some leading figures in Trump’s “make America great again” (Maga) movement have warned that such a move would amount to a betrayal of past promises to avoid US involvement in long-running overseas wars and could even destroy his presidency.

Among the most vocal critics are the broadcaster and interviewer Tucker Carlson – who hosts a show broadcast on Elon Musk’s X platform – and Steve Bannon, a former White House adviser in Trump’s first term and a standard bearer of his economic and anti-immigration nationalism. Carlson, a former Fox News host, voiced fierce opposition on Bannon’s War Room podcast on Monday. “I think we’re going to see the end of American empire,” Carlson said. “But it’s also going to end, I believe, Trump’s presidency – effectively end it – and so that’s why I’m saying this. ...

Maga confusion over Trump’s current stance was embodied in the comments of Charlie Kirk, founder of Turning Point USA and one of the president’s most loyal activists. “No issue currently divides the right as much as foreign policy,” he posted on X. “Trump voters, especially young people, supported President Trump because he was the first president in my lifetime to not start a new war.” ...

The Washington Post quoted an unnamed former Pentagon official as saying the conflict between Israel and Iran had brought the America First movement to an “inflection point”.

“A lot of people in the Maga movement, ones that have really invested a lot in electing Trump and [vice-president] Vance, will be incredibly disappointed if this turns into a larger war, and it will lead to some fractures,” said the official, adding that many Trump supporters were afraid to express a “bubbling frustration with Israel” for fear of being labeled antisemitic. The ex-official added: “I would argue that Iran is the defining issue on the political right right now. It’s not trade. It’s not spending. It’s not even the culture war stuff. It is foreign policy, and specifically Iran.”

Only two years left of world’s carbon budget to meet 1.5C target, scientists warn

The planet’s remaining carbon budget to meet the international target of 1.5C has just two years left at the current rate of emissions, scientists have warned, showing how deep into the climate crisis the world has fallen.

Breaching the target would ramp up the extreme weather already devastating communities around the world. It would also require carbon dioxide to be sucked from the atmosphere in future to restore the stable climate in which the whole of civilisation developed over the past 10,000 years.

The carbon budget is how much planet-heating CO2 can still be emitted by humanity while leaving a reasonable chance that the temperature target is not blown. The latest assessment by leading climate scientists found that in order to achieve a 66% chance of keeping below the 1.5C target, emissions from 2025 onwards must be limited to 80bn tonnes of CO2. That is 80% lower than it was in 2020.

Emissions reached a new record high in 2024: at that rate the 80bn tonne budget would be exhausted within two years. Lags in the climate system mean the 1.5C limit, which is measured as a multi-year average, would inevitably be passed a few years later, the scientists said.

Scientists have been warning for some time that breaching the 1.5C limit is increasingly unavoidable as emissions from the burning of fossil fuels continue to rise. The latest analysis shows global emissions would have to plummet towards zero within just a few years to have any decent chance of keeping to the target. That appears extremely unlikely, given that emissions in 2024 rose yet again.

Climate crisis could hit yields of key crops even if farmers adapt

Some of our critical staple crops could suffer “substantial” production losses due to climate breakdown, a study has found, even if farmers adapt to worsening weather. Maize, soy, rice, wheat, cassava and sorghum yields are projected to fall by as much as 120 calories per person per day for every 1C the planet heats up, according to new research in Nature, with average daily losses that could add up to the equivalent of not having breakfast.

The study found rising incomes and changes in farming practices could stem the losses by about a quarter by 2050 and by one-third by 2100 – though they would not stop them entirely. “In a high-warming future, we’re still seeing caloric productivity losses in the order of 25% at global scale,” said Andrew Hultgren, an environmental economist at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and lead author of the study. “It’s not as bad as a future where adaptation doesn’t happen at all, but it’s not this rosy ‘agriculture is going to benefit from climate change’ kind of picture.”

Farmers are among those hardest-hit by extreme weather events, but scientists have struggled to quantify what climate breakdown will do to food production. A major source of uncertainty is the extent to which farmers will adapt to hotter temperatures by changing which crops they use, when they plant and harvest them, and how they grow them.

The team of researchers from the US and China used data from 12,658 regions in 54 countries to capture the extent to which food producers have adapted to different changes in the climate. They applied these historical relations to models simulating future crop production as temperatures rise and economies grow, and compared the losses with a hypothetical world in which global heating stopped in the early 2000s.

In an extreme heating scenario, the study found, the relative yield for a crop such as soy would fall by 26% by 2100, even after accounting for adaptation, rising incomes and the effect of plants growing faster due to extra carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. A more realistic heating scenario – closer to the level that current policies will cause – would lead to yield losses of 16% for soy, 7.7% for wheat and 8.3% for corn, the study found. Rice was the only one of the six crops the researchers studied whose yields would rise because of climate change, with an expected gain of 4.9%.

‘Cancer is just everywhere’: could farming be behind Iowa’s unfolding health crisis?

Six months ago, Alex Hammer was diagnosed with colon cancer at the age of 37. Dianne Chambers endured surgery, chemotherapy and dozens of rounds of radiation to fight aggressive breast cancer, and Janan Haugen spends most days helping care for her 16-year-old grandson, who is still being treated for brain cancer he developed at the age of seven. The three were among a group of about two dozen people who came together last week in a small town in central Iowa to share their experiences of cancer. They are part of a new research project investigating potential environmental causes for what the American Cancer Society’s advocacy arm calls a cancer “crisis”.

For the last few years, Iowa has had the second-highest rate of cancer in the nation, and is only one of two US states where cancer is increasing. “People in rural communities are getting sick. Cancer is just everywhere,” said Kerri Johannsen, senior director of policy at the Iowa Environmental Council, a non-profit focused on improving the environment that is helping to lead the project. “Every person I talk to knows somebody that has [recently] had a cancer diagnosis,” she said. “It’s just a constant drumbeat. It’s scary.”

Kentucky, the only state with a higher cancer incidence than Iowa, historically has also ranked first in adult smoking, which is considered to play a major role in the state’s high cancer rates. In Iowa, the cause has been less clear. Last year, a state report cited alcohol consumption as a key factor. Higher-than-average levels of radon, a naturally occurring, colorless gas known to cause cancer, is also a concern.

But many residents blame the insecticides, herbicides and other pesticides widely used on farms as well as the state’s persistent problem with high levels of hazardous nitrates that wash off farm fields into the state’s water supply. As a key US farm state, Iowa has long been known for the leafy green stalks of corn that stretch seemingly endlessly across the horizon. With nearly 87,000 farms, the state ranks first not only for corn production but also for pork and egg production, and is within the top five states for growing soybeans and raising cattle.

Of Iowa’s 35.7m acres of total land, roughly 31m is devoted to farming. Many of the pesticides routinely used are linked to a range of diseases, including the popular herbicide glyphosate, which is classified as a probable human carcinogen by cancer experts at the World Health Organization. Nitrates are also tied to cancer, particularly when consumed in drinking water or other dietary sources. Agricultural fertilizers and manure from large-scale livestock operations are key sources for nitrates, which are known to contaminate surface water and groundwater. In addition to looking at pesticides and nitrates, the research will also look at cancer links to per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAs). Earlier this year, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) warned of elevated cancer risks related to such farm fertilizer contaminated with PFAs.

Also of Interest

Here are some articles of interest, some which defied fair-use abstraction.

Israeli Official Says War With Iran Is ‘Premised’ on the Idea of the US Entering

Germany’s Merz: Israel Is ‘Doing Dirty Work for Us’ In Iran

Israel’s War on Iran Has No Future

Tic-Toc Thread On The War On Iran - 4

The US Continues To Accelerate Its Decline (+Iran)

Israel’s War with Iran Exposes the Fragility of Jewish Supremacy

Rob Urie: As Goes Iran, So Goes Humanity

Tell Congress, No War on Iran!

Craig Murray: The UK’s Genocide Spectre

Iranian Professor FLEES Interview To Avoid Israeli Bombing!

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