Barry Kissane

ISRAEL'S ARROW MISSILE ENGINE FACTORY JUST EXPLODED. WHAT HAPPENS NOW THAT THE "CONTROLLED TEST" STORY DOESN'T ADD UP? Here's what comes next, step by step: 🔴 Step 1 — The official story collapses under three facts Tomer Company called it a pre-planned test "carried out according to plan." But controlled detonations require advance public notification. There was none. Emergency services scrambled immediately. You don't do that for something planned. And the blast scale matches one thing: solid rocket propellant igniting unexpectedly. 🔴 Step 2 — Understand what Tomer actually is This is not a warehouse. This is not a factory making spare parts. Tomer is the state-owned firm that builds the rocket engines for Arrow 2 and Arrow 3 — Israel's primary shield against Iranian ballistic missiles. No Tomer engines. No Arrow interceptors. No missile defense. 🔴 Step 3 — Understand what Arrow 2 and Arrow 3 actually do Arrow 3 intercepts ballistic missiles above the atmosphere. Arrow 2 handles mid-altitude threats inside the atmosphere. Together they form the top two layers of Israel's defense against exactly the kind of missiles Iran has been firing. Tomer builds the propulsion that makes both of them fly. 🔴 Step 4 — Consider the timing Iran just escalated on its own terms for the first time — not in response to U.S. action, but initiating. A more emboldened Iran than the one that entered the ceasefire. And at this exact moment, a massive explosion hits the facility that manufactures Israel's defense against Iranian missiles. 🔴 Step 5 — If this was an accident A production or testing mishap during propellant handling is the most probable explanation. A similar blast at the same Tomer site happened in 2021 — also called a controlled test afterward. Industrial accidents at rocket propellant facilities are rare but catastrophic when they occur. The damage to production timelines could be significant at a moment when Israel needs interceptors most. 🔴 Step 6 — If this was NOT an accident Sabotage at exactly this target, at exactly this moment, cannot be fully ruled out. Iran has demonstrated the capability and the motive to reach inside Israel's defense infrastructure. Disrupting Arrow engine production doesn't require a missile strike — it requires one person in the right place. Israel's missile defense capacity would degrade quietly, invisibly, before the next war begins. 🔴 Step 7 — Either answer is a serious problem Accident: Israel's most critical missile defense supply chain just took a hit during active conflict. Sabotage: Iran may have just struck Israel's shield without firing a single missile. Both outcomes serve the same strategic objective — leaving Israel less capable of defending against the next ballistic missile barrage. The question is not whether this matters. The question is which answer is worse. Are you positioned for what comes next? I'll keep you updated. Turn on notifications. 🚨

I am the Director of Summit Outcomes for the Presidential Advance Team. My job is to land in a foreign capital and leave with a word the President can say on the tarmac. We landed in Beijing 6 days after rolling back the tariffs we spent 4 years imposing. 145% to 30%. The average rate before the trade war was approximately 3%. In Geneva, we called this "creating the conditions for productive dialogue." The conditions were that we had already conceded. I want to be clear: Beijing was a success. We went in with 7 objectives. We left with 3 photo categories, a tentative agreement China has not confirmed, and a bag of burner phones we threw off Air Force One on the tarmac. Diplomacy. My team prepared the deliverables matrix in March. 241 line items organized by urgency, feasibility, and what we call "headline potential." The President reviewed it for 4 minutes. He circled "big deal" and "historic" and wrote "MORE" next to the Boeing section. That became the strategy. Boeing was the centerpiece. 500 aircraft was the White House number we briefed to reporters before departure. 300 was the floor. The Chinese offered 200. Their commerce ministry released the number before we could brief the press. Boeing stock dropped 4.73% that afternoon. Boeing referred questions about the order to the White House. The company receiving the aircraft could not confirm it was receiving aircraft. We called it "fantastic." In Washington, "fantastic" means the other side named the number and the market already priced in your failure. I should note: in 2017, the President announced $250 billion in deals during his first China trip. 300 aircraft. An $84 billion shale gas investment in West Virginia from China Energy Investment Corporation. I can tell you the exact amount of that investment that materialized. Zero. The shale facility was never built. The 2017 Boeing order was renegotiated twice and partially canceled during the trade war the President started 8 months later. There is a binder in my office labeled "2017 OUTCOMES: DO NOT REFERENCE." It is 3 inches thick. It has not been opened in 4 years. We do not reference it because the outcomes are the reference. The agricultural package was what we call a "scaffolding commitment." Billions in purchases over 3 years, structured so the announcement is front-loaded and the verification is someone else's administration. U.S. Trade Representative Greer said "double-digit billions." Beijing's Commerce Ministry issued a statement about "deepening cooperation in agricultural trade." Those are not the same sentence. By design. My deputy maintains a glossary of every term we have invented for agreements that are not agreements. It is 41 pages. He updates it after each summit. Last quarter he added "scaffolding commitment," "streamlined licensing framework," and "mutual recognition of shared concerns." He is in line for a promotion. NVIDIA was the quiet win. H200 chips approved for approximately 10 Chinese companies. We don't say "approved." We say "under a streamlined licensing framework." The chips ship. The export controls remain "in effect." The framework is the loophole wearing a lanyard. The controls exist because these chips in Chinese hands threaten American national security. The chips are shipping to Chinese hands. The controls remain in effect. Both of these are true. Fentanyl was discussed for 9 minutes. Both sides agreed it was a problem. Both sides agreed to continue discussing it. We added it to the deliverables matrix under "ongoing mutual engagement." The previous version of the matrix also listed it under "ongoing mutual engagement." That was in 2023. I copied the line item from the 2023 matrix into the 2026 version. Changed the date. The language was identical. But Taiwan. Taiwan was the deliverable we didn't put on the matrix. I watched the Taiwan exchange from the overflow room on a 12-second delay. I had the contingency statement drafted in 3 versions: "productive exchange," "frank discussion," and "both sides reaffirmed their respective positions." I used none of them. There was no contingency for silence. Chairman Xi released his remarks before the meeting was over. While the President was still seated across the table, Chinese state media published the transcript. "Clashes and even conflicts." His bluntest language on Taiwan in the history of the relationship, released to 1.4 billion people while we were still pouring tea. We called this "sequencing." The President was asked whether he would defend Taiwan if China attacked. He chose not to answer. We wrote that down as "a strong listen." The $14 billion arms sale. Already approved by Congress. The largest in the history of the Taiwan Relations Act. Taiwan's parliament spent months appropriating the $25 billion to proceed with this package and the $11 billion tranche approved last year. They finally secured the funding this month. The President told Fox News it was "a very good negotiating chip." He used the word "chip." Referring to the defense of 24 million people. Taiwan's Ministry of National Defense sent our office a letter requesting clarity on the delivery timeline. 3 pages. It referenced specific weapons systems by name: F-16V Block 70 fighters, HIMARS launchers, Harpoon coastal defense missiles. The letter was addressed to me. I filed it under "pending." On Air Force One, a reporter asked about the 1982 Six Assurances, the framework in which the United States committed not to consult with Beijing before selling arms to Taiwan. The President said: "What am I going to do, say I don't want to talk to you about it because I have an agreement wrote in 1982? No, we discussed arms sales." 44 years of bipartisan Taiwan policy, dismissed in 2 sentences at 38,000 feet. We are calling this "a modernized approach to alliance management." Our readout mentioned trade, agriculture, energy, and regional stability. It did not mention Taiwan. I wrote it. Their readout opened with Taiwan. I have staffed 7 summits across 2 administrations. This is the first where I could not draft a single deliverable as a success without a qualifier. In my office there is a laminated card that lists every synonym for "undecided" that polls above 40% approval. "Active review" is 3rd. "Determination" is 7th. Both tested well with independents in the Midwest. He also said: "Taiwan would be very smart to cool it a little bit. China would be very smart to cool it a little bit." He was eating a cheeseburger. He said this while eating a cheeseburger. Secretary Rubio told NBC that Taiwan arms sales "did not feature prominently." This is accurate in the same way that the iceberg did not feature prominently in the Titanic's itinerary. Representative McCaul, Republican of Texas, former chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, said the United States must "arm Taiwan so they can defend themselves." He said Xi was "very aggressive" regarding Taiwan during the summit and that "most of what Xi talked about was Taiwan." Representative Meeks, Democrat of New York, ranking member of the same committee, said Xi has "leverage over the president" but not "over the United States Congress and the American people." He noted that Congress already approved the package. "The president is the one that's holding it up." Representative Fitzpatrick, Republican of Pennsylvania, compared Taiwan to Ukraine. He called both "fortresses of democracy on the front lines." Speaker Johnson said Taiwan needs to "stay independent and secure." The bipartisan consensus was that something had gone wrong. The bipartisan action was press quotes. No vote. No resolution. No hearing scheduled. 4 members of Congress from both parties said the right words to reporters and then went to lunch. That's how the system processes alarm. I monitor 14 accounts we classify as "aligned messaging amplifiers." Within 4 hours of the Taiwan exchange, 9 went silent. 2 pivoted to fentanyl. 1 posted 3 words: "Not like this." It received 280,000 impressions in 90 minutes. He deleted it and posted about the border instead. The President patted Chairman Xi on the back 7 times during the Zhongnanhai garden walk. We counted. He called him "my friend" in 4 languages, 2 of which he does not speak. He asked if other world leaders had been invited to the compound. They had. Putin was there last year. The President asked if his tour was longer. 15 CEOs flew with us to Beijing. Their combined net worth approaches $1 trillion. Cook. Musk. Jensen Huang. Larry Fink from BlackRock. Jane Fraser from Citigroup. David Solomon from Goldman Sachs. Stephen Schwarzman from Blackstone. Kelly Ortberg from Boeing. The CEO of Visa. The CEO of Mastercard. The CEO of Qualcomm. Illumina. Micron. Cargill. GE Aerospace. Musk and Huang rode on Air Force One. The others flew commercial. Tesla's Shanghai factory produces approximately half of the company's vehicles worldwide. Musk's presence on Air Force One was noted by my counterintelligence liaison. No further action was taken. We organized the state banquet seating chart by net worth. I am told this was the President's suggestion. They came for market access. Xi told them China would "open further to American business." That was the deliverable. Those 5 words. No specifics. No timeline. No sectors named. 15 chief executives flew to Beijing and received a sentence. Chairman Xi has delivered this sentence at every summit I have staffed. It has not once been followed by a named sector, a timeline, or a specific commitment. It is received as news each time. 43 lobby badges in a Ziploc bag. That's what my team collected from the CEOs after the garden tour. Standard protocol. The badges were embossed with the Great Hall of the People seal. Several executives asked if they could keep them. We said no. One asked twice. 15 executives with combined access to American financial, defense, and technology infrastructure had spent 3 hours inside the Great Hall of the People. We secured the lobby badges. The S&P 500 futures dropped 1% on the morning after the summit. The KOSPI fell 6.12%. China's CSI 300 fell 1.12%. UBS told clients that "much increasingly scarce jet fuel has been burned to produce nothing of real substance." Fortune's headline was "Wall Street sees nothing of real substance." The markets liked the anticipation. The markets did not like the deliverables matrix. Iran was the item we listed as "mutual recognition of shared concerns." The President told reporters they "feel very similar." Xi sat in silence. China's Foreign Ministry did not comment on any commitment regarding the Strait of Hormuz. The President then told reporters the United States "doesn't need the Strait of Hormuz open at all." Oil hit $109 per barrel. Deutsche Bank flagged it as a market-killing statement within the hour. The President described Iran as "a little bit crazy." This was during a toast. Over Peking duck. Rare earths. I prepared a 40-page brief on critical mineral dependency. Supply chain maps for 14 minerals. $1.2 trillion in dependent U.S. industries. Roughly 4% of GDP. The President circled the GDP figure and wrote "big." In the meeting, he asked Chairman Xi if rare earths were "the things in magnets." They are. They are also in every F-35, every Patriot missile battery, and every MRI machine in the country. The discussion lasted 11 minutes. 3 of them were about magnets. No agreement on export licenses. China exposed our dependency last year and has not let us forget it. The Supreme Court struck down our tariffs separately, which was helpful context for the discussions. Fentanyl received 9 minutes. Magnets received 3. We are calling the rare earth outcome "a foundation for continued engagement." There is a poster in the Advance Team office that says "A foundation is not a building." It has been there since my first summit. No one has removed it. On the flight home, my team collected every item the Chinese government had distributed. The credentials. The pins. The keepsakes. The rose seeds Chairman Xi offered for the White House Rose Garden. Standard counterintelligence protocol. All of it went into a bag and off the plane before wheels-up. We threw away the roses. We kept the talking points. The Boeing order grew on the flight home. 500 before departure. 200 in Beijing. 750 somewhere over the Pacific. Boeing had not confirmed 200. The President told reporters on Air Force One it was "a pretty historic couple days." I wrote the line that preceded it: "Tonal reset with significant forward momentum." He used "fantastic" instead. In previous administrations, a tonal reset preceded the deliverables. In this administration, the tonal reset is the deliverable. He has used "fantastic" for every summit since 2017. I have not checked whether the word still polls well. I am told it does. Beijing has not confirmed any of the agreements announced by U.S. officials. This is consistent with the 2017 visit, where $250 billion in deals were announced and an estimated $10 billion materialized. It is consistent with the October summit, where pledges were also made and also not fulfilled. We have a term for this in the Advance Team. We call it "precedent." I have already labeled the binder for 2026. We go back in September. Same matrix. New line items. The verification will be someone else's administration. The President has already asked for the word "monumental." I am told it polls well.

Just a follow up to this mornings post. One of Fauci’s co-conspirators was Australia’s very own Edward Holmes who has received millions of taxpayers dollars to engage in Gain of Function research. 🔬 Edward Holmes co-authored the notorious Origins of Covid paper in Lancet that dismissed the theory that Covid was created in a laboratory and instead insisted that the virus came from nature. When I asked the National Health and Research Council about Holmes involvement in the coverup and why they continue to award this guy millions dollars, the bureaucrat was allowed to give his opinion which was a violation of the Senate standing orders. Instead of being told to retract his statement, the Chair allowed it to stand and instead shut me down. It’s criminal what the Australian government did to the Australian people and it’s criminal that Edward Holmes isn’t behind bars. The fact that Fauci turned to Holmes to cover up the origins of Covid, a scientist on the other side of the world, so soon after the outbreak can only mean one thing - Edward Holmes was an intelligence asset who colluded not just with Fauci, but our Intelligence Agencies to cover up the origins of Covid. This tells us that rather than seek out the truth and defend Australians, our own Intelligence Agencies are working against the Australian people.

If the US was serious about reducing threats it would stop funding Israel.

@MarioNawfal The unsettling part about modern geopolitics isn’t just the conflicts anymore. It’s how many people scroll past headlines involving cyberattacks, terror plots, possible wars and global instability like it’s just normal background noise now.

@MarioNawfal There is no Iranian regime, it is a democratically elected government, and x.com/Tasnimnews_EN/…

@Whiplash437 Conspiracy theory much 🙄...... You'll have to point to me where in the files there is anything to note about DeGeneres. I searched her name in the DOJ site and all you get are articles from websites where she was named. An example is below

You have every right to know what your government is doing, and they have no right to know what you are doing. That is why they are called public servants and we are called private citizens. Instead, the relationship has been inverted. The state hides behind secrecy, classified files, and redactions while demanding total visibility into your finances, communications, movement, and behavior. A society where the rulers live in privacy while the population lives under surveillance is the very definition of tyranny.

@RositaDaz48 @bluewavedream

“Wow, another heartfelt note from the PM on fancy letterhead – how very authentic. Tax cuts for ‘working Australians’ while the poor, disabled, elderly, carers and sick get told to suck it up? Classic Groundhog Day. @ScoMo30 Scott Morrison’s ghost just whispered ‘best form of welfare is a job’ and Albo nodded along like a good little echo. Gough Whitlam would be vomiting in his grave at this fake Labor PM – all sharpie vibes, zero substance, pure Trump energy with the props. Keep writing those performative notes, mate. The peasants are busy dying of neglect while you ‘care’ with $250 off their tax bill. Legend.” #nswpol #auspol #auslaw #budget26 #budget2026 #budget #SmashTheDuopoly Vote @Greens #7News #9News #9Today #9ACA #60Mins #RNBreakfast #abc730 #insiders #afternoonbriefing #4Corners #insiders

But retirees, finished working, get no relief??

Presumably it would have been decreed as anti-Semitic to criticise Eurovision because of Israel’s involvement? Somehow different from banning Russia from Olympics?

Good luck at the Eurovision Grand Final, Delta 🇦🇺 You’ve already made Australia proud. We’ll all be cheering you on.

After 3 years, Labor decided to release their response to the Murphy Review into gambling harm - which unanimously called for a complete ban of gambling ads - on the one day of the year when most journalists in Parliament House are in budget lock up. Labor have dismissed almost all the recommendations and put vested interests ahead of Australians. As one Labor insider told @crikey_news, “That the life’s work of someone who was so loved and respected by everyone who knew her could get pissed up against the wall like that is devastating.” I chatted to @7ampodcast about gambling reform and the Albanese Government putting gambling companies and vested interests ahead of the Australian people. open.spotify.com/episode/2wMm3Q…

Google is making $62 billion a quarter destroying the websites it NEEDS to survive. This is literally a death spiral that ends with Google killing itself. Let me explain what's going on... Google added AI summaries to the top of every search result in 2024. When you Google something now, the answer sits right there on Google's page. You never have to click anywhere. Google took the information from someone else's website, summarized it, and kept you inside Google's ecosystem. The result: 60% of all Google searches now end without a single click to any website. Small publishers lost 60% of their traffic in one year. Medium publishers lost 47%. Even the biggest names in media, the New York Times, the Washington Post, Business Insider, all saw traffic fall between 22% and 55%. The Axios CEO called it "a referral extinction event for the ad-supported web." Google's response to all of this was to tell publishers they can "opt out" of having their content summarized. But opting out also REMOVES your description from normal search results. So the choice Google gives you is let us steal your content for free, or become invisible on the internet. That's extortion. The Washington Post laid off another round of journalists this year because of it. Stereogum, one of the most respected music publications on the internet, had to BEG readers for donations. Business Insider cut 21% of its staff. Dozens of smaller publishers have shut down entirely. The people who actually CREATE the information Google summarizes are going bankrupt while Google posts record revenue. But here's where this gets interesting and where everyone stops thinking: Google's AI summaries are only as good as the content they summarize. If the publishers who write the original articles, run the original investigations, and create the original data go out of business, there is nothing left for Google to summarize. The AI starts recycling old information, the answers get stale, the quality drops, and users start noticing that Google's summaries are increasingly wrong, outdated, or useless. Google is essentially strip-mining the internet for short-term revenue. They are extracting all the value from content creators without paying for it, driving those creators out of business, and then wondering why the quality of their own product is declining. This is exactly what Napster did to the music industry in the early 2000s: Made content free, creators went broke, and quality collapsed. It took a decade to rebuild. Google is doing the same thing to the entire internet at 100x the scale. Rolling Stone, Variety, Deadline, The Hollywood Reporter, and Billboard are now suing Google for antitrust violations. Chegg, the education platform, lost 49% of its traffic and is suing too. The UK's competition authority just ordered Google to let publishers opt out without being punished. The DOJ already ruled Google is an illegal monopoly. And Google's defense in court is genuinely unbelievable. They argue that publishers CHOOSE to let Google index their content and can leave anytime they want. That's like saying you choose to pay protection money to the mob because technically you could close your business and move to another city. Google controls 90% of search. Leaving Google means leaving the internet. Meanwhile Google is investing billions in custom AI chips to make these summaries cheaper at scale. Every quarter the problem gets worse. The internet as we've known it for 25 years ran on a simple deal: Publishers make content. Google sends traffic. Advertisers pay for the traffic. Everyone wins. But Google just BROKE that deal and kept all the money.

Mix 3 milliliters in a glass of Orange juice and down it. About twice a month but do y all REMEMBER WHEN the Media laughed and said ivermectin was ONLY for horses and cows? THEY KNEW it was made for people since 1987. Here’s what they didn’t tell you 👇 1 – It prevents the damage caused by drugs created using mRNA technology, blocks the entry of Spike Protein into cells and, if the person was vaccinated, they can treat themselves for damage already done through Ivermectin. 2 – It only has beneficial effects and no harmful effects in the treatment of the C virus. In fact, even before entering the cell, it has already destroyed the virus in the blood. 3 – It has a very powerful anti-inflammatory action against and has a powerful impact on traumatic and orthopedic injuries, it strengthens muscles and has no side effects like corticosteroids. 4 –It treats autoimmune ailments such as: rheumatoid arthritis, ankylosing spondylitis, fibromyalgia, psoriasis, Crohn's disease, allergic rhinitis. 5 – It improves the immunity levels in cancer patients and treats Herpes Simplex and Herpes Zoster, plus reduces the frequency of sinusitis and diverticulitis. 6 – It protects the heart in cardiac overload. In an embolism for example, it prevents cardiac hypoxia because it stimulates the production of basic energy so that the tissue is not destroyed and thus improves cardiac function. 7 – It is anti-parasitic, anti-neoplastic (anti-cancer). Allegedly, it suppresses the proliferation and metastasis of cancer cells, preserving healthy cells and improving the effectiveness of chemotherapy treatment. 8 - It can kills cancer cells resistant to chemotherapy, defeating the resistance to multiple chemo-therapeutics that tumors develop, and combined with chemotherapy and/or anti-cancer agents, it provides an increase in the effectiveness of these treatments. 9 – It is antimicrobial (bacteria and viruses) and increases immunity. 10 – It reaches the Central Nervous System and regenerates the nerves. 11 – It helps to regulates glucose, insulin metabolism, cholesterol levels and reduces liver fat in steatose. 12 - It can be used as a prophylactic agent and has been associated with a significant reduction in infection, hospitalization and mortality rates due to C-19.

@FranceskAlbs @hasanthehun This is what Zionists will succeeded doing in the future if Americans don’t rise to the occasion

Great news @FranceskAlbs and congratulations! We need to protect freedom of speech in the USA 🇺🇸 and that includes being honest about any country committing genocide. @ABCWorldNews @NewsHour @SenAlexPadilla @AOC @RepAdamSmith @SenSanders @CA_Dem @AsmStefani @OUSDNews @BrandonHarami @CAIRSFBA @KQEDnews

@FranceskAlbs I am absolutely delighted for you, Francesca. The actions of the US government, sanctioning those who stand for justice, have turned the world on its head. The vast majority of the people of the world support you wholeheartedly. Love and best wishes from Ireland.