The Source Seeker

Iran built the most comprehensive civilian surveillance network in the Middle East. Cameras on every street. Facial recognition at universities. License plate readers that automatically fined women for removing their hijab in their own cars. A mobile app called Nazer that let citizens report uncovered women. Drones at beaches. The infrastructure that killed Mahsa Amini in September 2022 and crushed the Woman, Life, Freedom uprising that followed. Israel hacked nearly all of it. According to the Financial Times, citing two people familiar with the matter, nearly all of Tehran’s traffic cameras had been compromised for years. The footage was encrypted and transmitted to servers in Tel Aviv and southern Israel. One camera near Pasteur Street proved especially valuable. It was angled in such a way that Israeli analysts could see where members of Khamenei’s security detail parked their personal cars. Through that single camera angle, Israeli intelligence built files on the bodyguards’ home addresses, work schedules, commuting routes, and which senior officials they were assigned to protect. Unit 8200 used algorithms to process billions of data points into what intelligence officers call a “pattern of life.” A person familiar with the process described it as “an assembly line with a single product: targets.” “We knew Tehran like we know Jerusalem,” an Israeli intelligence official told the Financial Times. “And when you know a place as well as you know the street you grew up on, you notice a single thing that’s out of place.” On February 28, when intelligence confirmed Khamenei would attend a morning meeting at his compound near Pasteur Street, the operation entered its final phase. Israel disrupted approximately 12 cellular antennas in the area, causing phones to appear “busy” when dialed. Khamenei’s security detail could not receive warnings. Israeli aircraft fired 30 precision munitions. The strike was carried out in daylight for tactical surprise. Former Mossad official Sima Shine told the Financial Times that Israel’s strategic focus on Iran dates to a 2001 directive from Prime Minister Ariel Sharon. Twenty-five years of patient intelligence collection culminated in a single Saturday morning. Here is the part that should stay with you. The cameras Israel hacked were not military installations. They were the regime’s domestic surveillance apparatus. The same cameras that tracked women who removed their hijab. The same system that sent automated text messages to women in Isfahan accusing them of “improper veiling.” The same infrastructure the Guidance Patrol used to build digital dossiers on Iranian women and girls for the crime of showing their hair. Israel turned the tools of the morality police into the tools of the regime’s destruction. There is a viral claim that after the assassination, Mossad wiped the morality police’s databases on Iranian women. No Tier 1, 2, or 3 source confirms this. It traces to a single unverified social media post. I will not present it as fact. But the verified reality is extraordinary enough. The regime built a surveillance state to control its own women. A foreign intelligence service co-opted that state to kill the man who ordered it built. The cameras that watched women became the cameras that watched Khamenei die. That is poetic justice written in code. open.substack.com/pub/shanakaans…

Bill Clinton: “Palestinians were offered a state on the entire West Bank and east Jerusalem as its capital. Israel accepted, but Palestinians refused. They did not care about a homeland for the Palestinians. All they wanted was to kill Israelis" This must be shared every day.

For those wondering if the war is still going on... This morning, FOUR HUNDRED and twenty drones and thirty nine missiles, yet it won't be covered in mainstream media.

TRUMP: People are asking me, “Please, please, please Mr President, we're winning too much! We can't take it anymore! We're not used to winning in our country! Until you came along we were just always losing.” It’s official. Trump is certifiably insane.

The Financial Times has published a commentary arguing that Donald Trump’s state of mind represents a global risk. The headline frames his personal judgment and decision making as factors with potential consequences beyond the United States, suggesting that his leadership style and unpredictability could affect international stability, financial markets, and geopolitical relations. The article is presented as a serious political and economic assessment rather than a campaign statement, signaling concern within parts of the global financial and policy community about how US executive decisions influence allies, adversaries, trade flows, and security structures worldwide.

How is that even possible?

All good questions @KMooreGilbert

Very succinct overview. The only reason is to pander to Russia

"The LNP were effectively giving QLD's coal to Adani for free." After the LNP abandoned a court case against Adani over unpaid coal royalties, it looks pretty dodgy that the data shows they received $500,000+ in donations from Adani. 📺Research Manager Rod Campbell #auspol

Finally, after over two years, Doctors Without Borders acknowledges that Hamas has been using Nasser Hospital as a terror base. But shame on them for not admitting this during the preceding two years, when we were all documenting the proof in real time

How quickly people forget the story of 1948. The UN proposed a peaceful resolution. The Jews accepted it and celebrated. The Arabs violently rejected it and waged jihad to overturn it. The rest is history.

The Epstein saga is starting to look less like a scandal and more like a classic KGB asset play. Coincidence? Please. When there’s this much smoke, you usually find the Kremlin holding the matches. This goes way deeper than we thought. Andrew Marr: "Let me begin tonight with something that I think is even more important, even more extraordinary: growing suspicions of a Russian connection. Epstein had apparently limitless supplies of money. Where did it come from? He procured many young Russian girls. Why was that so easy for him? The files released show more than a thousand documents which referred to Vladimir Putin, and 9,000 referring to Moscow. The FBI says that he was Putin’s wealth manager. Epstein filed all of his messages. He filmed and taped powerful Western leaders in deeply compromising situations. Why? Doesn’t it make you wonder, at least, about the possibility of a KGB operation big enough to ensnare former Presidents and Prime Ministers, and the leaders of some of the world's most powerful companies? I know, I know, this all sounds impossibly sensational, conspiratorial, a James Bond villain plot in real life. But there is so much smoke billowing out of one of the most extraordinary establishment crises in my lifetime, that it is well worth exploring whether there might be, also, a genuinely ominous backstory."

This explains a lot

Hard to believe. Trump clearly unstable. Lawless. Erratic. Huge danger to the US.

When politicians claim to speak for battlers while flying private with billionaires, Australians deserve to see the truth. Together, let's call out the gap between Pauline Hanson’s “battler” image and billionaire reality. getup.to/lmlYrugCeZzTE

Can I just put on the public record My profound and sincere thanks of @HonTonyAbbott and Peta Credlin Who have arguably done more than anyone else I know to destroy the electoral prospects of @LiberalAus

BREAKING: Massive anti-U.S., pro-Greenland protests have erupted in Copenhagen. Let that sink in, one of America’s closest allies is publicly protesting out of fear we might invade their territory. So much for the claim that “the world respects the U.S. under Trump.” The reality? It’s the opposite.

Absolutely

The biggest fear among Trump’s allies is that the EU will begin regulating American tech giants and restrict the free transfer of data to the United States. And that is exactly what the EU should do. There is no reason to hand over this valuable resource to the U.S. for free.