Direct hit on US drone manufacturer Terminal Autonomy

Investigative Report: Russia's Strike on the Terminal Autonomy Drone Factory in Kyiv

August 2, 2026 | AD News Network

In the early hours of 30 July 2026, Russia launched a ballistic missile strike against a drone manufacturing facility operated by Terminal Autonomy, a U.S.-owned defense technology company headquartered in California. The factory, located in Kyiv, Ukraine, produced AI-guided loitering munitions and long-range strike drones that have been supplied to Ukrainian forces during the war. The attack is believed to be the first publicly reported Russian strike on a manufacturing facility owned by an American defense company operating inside Ukraine.

According to reporting, the building was struck by a Russian ballistic missile, which destroyed the production facility. Russian state media acknowledged that the target was a drone factory operated by a "Ukrainian-American company," although it did not emphasize that the company itself was American-owned. While the exact missile variant has not been officially confirmed by either side, reporting identified it only as a Russian ballistic missile, consistent with the types of missiles Russia has routinely employed against military-industrial targets in Kyiv.

Another American national tradition

Editor's note: If baseball, hot dogs, and apple pie were once the clichés of American life, mass shootings have become the country's darkest and most enduring addition to the list.

The City of London Faces Warnings of Potential Financial Turmoil (the fiat era is nearing its implosion)

Editor's note: A warning circulating from financial commentator Lord Belgrave claims that the City of London is preparing for a major market disruption, citing a sequence of events involving oil market instability, a potential unwinding of the yen carry trade, a liquidity crisis, and broader systemic stress. The recent currency market interventions involving the U.S. dollar, euro, and Japanese yen is evidence that authorities are attempting to manage growing financial pressures. This could cause trillions of dollars in yen-funded investment losses if borrowing costs rise and the carry trade reverses. Critics, however, note that predictions of imminent financial collapse have frequently appeared during periods of market volatility and require further evidence. The debate highlights growing concerns over global debt levels, currency instability, and the vulnerability of the current financial system.

The Bank of Japan's (BoJ) decision to delay further interest rate hikes has fueled speculation that global financial pressures, including U.S. concerns over markets and the yen carry trade, are influencing Japan's monetary policy. Keeping rates low risks prolonging economic distortions and increasing the eventual cost of adjustment, while Japan explores alternatives such as digital assets as part of its evolving financial strategy. The broader concern is that unresolved global debt and currency imbalances are going to trigger a major market disruption. This spells the end of the yen carry trade. The war in Iran is all about the survival of the petrodollar. The end of the petrodollar would likely weaken America’s financial privilege in the short term, raising borrowing costs and reducing geopolitical leverage, but it could also force a healthier economic adjustment by encouraging domestic production, savings, and fiscal responsibility.

Is eBay Facing a New Marketplace Rival? Meta's AI-Powered Seller App Signals a Shift in Online Commerce

Editor's more: Meta's expansion of Facebook Marketplace with new AI-powered selling tools could mark a turning point in online commerce and provide a serious alternative to eBay. The new Seller app is designed to make listing products faster, simplify inventory management, and help users find buyers more efficiently. While eBay still has a large global marketplace, many sellers are frustrated with fees, competition, and platform restrictions. As Meta combines AI technology with its massive user base, more consumers and sellers will begin looking elsewhere, raising the question of whether eBay's era of dominance and its ruthless tactics are coming to an end. In today’s marketplace, users are increasingly looking for a better deal, easier tools, and platforms that better serve their interests.
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eBay to pay $56 MILLION to elderly couple after staff sent live cockroaches, fetal pig to their home in retaliation against critical newsletter coverage

The Steiners ran an e-commerce industry newsletter called EcommerceBytes that had run negative coverage of eBay.

By Thomas Stevenson | July 31, 2026

E-commerce giant eBay has settled a lawsuit and agreed to shell out $56 million to a couple that its staff targeted with live cockroaches, a fetal pig, death threats, as well as in-person surveillance.

The shop and selling platform and several of its top executives have agreed to pay $56 million in compensation to David and Ina Steiner, an elderly couple in Massachusetts that were targeted by staff at the company in 2019 with anonymous deliveries that included a fetal pig, live cockroaches, live spiders, a bloody pig Halloween mask, a funeral wreath, and a book about surviving the death of a spouse.

President Trump's Board of Peace was formally established...

Editor's note: ...on January 22, 2026, more than a month before the US launched military operations against Iran on February 28, 2026. The sequence of events indicates that the administration put the institutional framework in place before hostilities began rather than creating it in response to the conflict. Establishing such a governing body in advance is consistent with long term strategic planning, suggesting that post conflict administration and political objectives were considered before military operations commenced. The timing demonstrates that planning extended beyond the battlefield and included preparations for what would follow if military action achieved its objectives. Furthermore, Hamas and, reportedly, Hezbollah have agreed to lay down their weapons (this is a linked ZeroHedge article) under the proposed peace framework, a development that would be unprecedented if fully implemented. For organizations that have long defined themselves through Iran and armed resistance, voluntarily disarming would represent a historic shift with significant implications for regional security and the prospects for a lasting political settlement. Does this mean that funding for Hamas and Hezbollah is being squeezed? Independent verification of any disarmament and the long term durability of such agreements will ultimately determine their significance. Why would Israel's Netanyahu "kill Trump's Board of Peace" (see The Shadow Government Steering America's Iran War).

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Israel's Ghoulish Settlers Eye Up Gaza, As Netanyahu Kills Trump's Board of Peace

by Andy Worthington | July 29, 2026 

Reprinted from Andy Worthington's website.

On Sunday evening (July 19), a group of some of the most repulsive, ghoulish people on the face of the earth marched towards the perimeter fence separating the Gaza Strip from the rest of the world to declare their intention to re-colonize Gaza, to re-establish three Israeli settlements that were dismantled in 2005 when, under Ariel Sharon, 21 settlements in total were abandoned, occupied, at the time, by 8,000 Israeli settlers.

A deeper and far more European crisis...

Editor's note: ...is marked by continued social fragmentation, political paralysis, and the erosion of traditional Western institutions in Spain. Spain will likely be the first European country to fall with Spain, like much of Europe, facing a civilizational decline driven by uncontrolled social pressures, weakened incompetent leadership, and the inability of governments to confront growing instability. Spain is now a symbol of a broader Western crisis in which national identity, security, and political authority are increasingly under strain and are being emasculated. At the NATO summit in Ankara, President Trump instructed Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent to cut off trade with Spain over defense spending, calling Madrid a "wasted cause" over its NATO contributions. It's not about "defense spending." It's political related to Israel. The Spaniards who know that their country is overwhelmed with Muslim migrants, advocated for the destruction of Israel and now Spain is going to pay.

Un'operazione organizzata da 🇺🇸Washington e 🇮🇱Tel Aviv e coordinata con le 🇲🇦autorità marocchine per destabilizzare la 🇪🇸#Spagna, fare un regalo all'estrema destra europea, e punire il Paese che ha osato sfidare l'Impero americano e i suoi sgherri armati israeliani. #Ceuta pic.twitter.com/5vyeudXYgi

— Michele Gamba 🇮🇹🇪🇺🇵🇸🇨🇺✯PD✯ (@MicGamba) July 31, 2026

Are today's Silicon Valley elites following...

Editor's note: ...Karl Marx's political playbook while calling it technological progress? It appears powerful tech billionaires are concentrating wealth, data, and political influence in ways that resemble Marxist collectivism, even as they talk out of the sides of their mouths about "innovation and free enterprise." It also likens these technology oligarchs to pirates who seize digital territory and private assets, raising concerns about the future of individual liberty, private property, and economic freedom in the age of AI. Call them what they are: hyperscaler pirates. If you think about it, these digital Bolsheviks are nothing more than petty thieves. AI is a powerful technology alright, but much of the current AI revolution is driven by marketing bullshit, unapologetic hype and inflated promises, with some tech companies acting less like visionary innovators and more like petty thieves stealing wealth, data, art, music and control while selling a future that will never match their exaggerated claims. And the dark irony is that these digital Bolsheviks are bitching and moaning that China is "stealing LLMs from US frontier AI models" through a process known as distillation, which involves leveraging existing US AI models to develop competing systems.

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Tech Bros Run the Marxist Playbook

By James Rickards | July 29, 2026

Can Marxism offer a framework for understanding artificial intelligence (AI) and the tech bros behind it?

This is not to suggest that Marxism is a viable economic system or a practical alternative to capitalism. It’s not. But Karl Marx was a heterodox economist before he became an ideologue, and some of his ideas are powerful tools for understanding economics, even if his overall program was a failure.

Fauci pleaded the 5th Amendment 111 times...

Editor's note: ...under the US Constitution. Why now is the US Constitution upheld with such reverence when it has literally been trashed in all other aspects of American life? If you were pulled over for some traffic infraction in the US and pleaded the 4th Amendment, law enforcement would smash through your car window, likely taser you and drag you out of your vehicle. If anyone else "pleaded the 5th" in any hearing or court you would be thrown in jail for contempt. Welcome to the "Fauci Show." If "the virus wasn't found in nature" neither was Fauci. Fauci is some sort of freakish corporate construct not found in nature.

Dr. Fauci Senate Hearing Postmortem: Accused Rand Paul Of "UNHINGED OBSESSION WITH ME," Lawyer Ejected For Unruly Conduct & Unlawfully Pleaded The Fifth 111 Times
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GOP senators see path for Fauci prosecution through IRS official's similar Fifth Amendment flub

Lois Lerner gave opening statement, then clammed up in 2013 hearing on IRS discrimination against conservative applications for tax-exempt status, and it didn't work, Sen. Lankford notes at Fauci's inquisition.

By Greg Piper | July 29, 2026

The San Francisco 49ers trounced the Denver Broncos 55-10 in Super Bowl XXIV, the biggest blowout in the game's history. The Seattle Seahawks snatched defeat from the jaws of victory in Super Bowl XLIX through the most notorious goal-line decision in history, delaying the Emerald City's second Vince Lombardi Trophy for 11 years.

Get your two minutes of hate in...

Editor's note: ...with Fauci back before the US Vaudeville Senate under Rand Paul taking the Fifth in as usual more consummate political theater (see The Fake 'Fauci Diary' & Circus Senate Hearing). Biden's last-day "pardon" is legally void because no one can be pardoned before conviction, and it was signed by autopen with a forged signature that Trump himself has acknowledged. Trump's promise to honor it only proves the vaudeville with this ridiculous hearing with Fauci continues. Real accountability would mean DOJ indictment for mass murder and crimes against humanity or an international tribunal, not another staged hearing in a senate and congress that serve as fronts for the DoD and CIA and Federal Reserve and Goldman Sachs. Fauci is the perfect elderly scapegoat, paid to absorb the public's two-minute hate while presidents, governors, Congress, the CDC, FDA, NIH, WHO, mayors, and Big Pharma executives skate free. Nothing real will change. At the end of all this we shouldn't have had to gone through "6 foot social distancing" but instead, six foot deep graves for the perpetrators. This is content creation for your entertainment...a humiliation ritual ceremony kind of entertainment...

Here's an interesting article worth...

Editor's note: ...republishing, and worth thinking about what it means when powerful financial and political figures make consequential decisions behind closed doors that have a direct impact on your lives. As the American novelist Ishmael Reed wrote in his 1972 satirical novel Mumbo Jumbo, "history is the story of warfare between secret societies." Peter Andreas Thiel himself, was born in what some consider the most occulted city in the world: Frankfurt, Germany. Frankfurt is Germany's financial capital and home to both the European Central Bank and the Deutsche Bundesbank, making it a genuine center of concentrated monetary power in Europe. According to an opinion newsletter (not an investigative report), Deutsche Bank's CEO attended a recent Bilderberg conference that Peter Thiel has reportedly funded and helped steer since around 2008. The Deutsche Bundesbank and European Central Bank, both based in Frankfurt, are closely linked to the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) in Basel through standard central bank coordination, while Deutsche Bank, a private commercial bank, has no ownership or governance role in the BIS at all. According to Wired, the exposed registry for its upcoming August 2026 retreat lists 222 individuals. The "leaked" materials detail an unorthodox agenda for the upcoming retreat near Dublin, Ireland (possibly being held at the elite K Club resort in County Kildare, the adjacent golf-course hosted the 2006 Ryder Cup).

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Bessent, Cruz, Musk, Kushner Among Leaked Member List of Secret Society

A massive data leak has exposed Dialog, a secretive society for over 200 global elites. The breach revealed an exclusive matchmaking app, as well as off-the-record retreat agendas covering global conflict, artificial intelligence, and controversial political strategies.

June 17, 2026 | By Ahmet Koçak

A massive data breach has exposed the internal operations of Dialog, a secretive, invitation-only society for more than 200 global political, financial, and technology elites.

Good morning, fellow taxpayers: This is a public service report for...

Editor's note: ...every American taxpayer who has ever wondered where their money (it's actually not your money) actually goes. Lockheed Martin (the epitome of the deep state), the largest defense contractor in the US, which is not America, received billions of dollars in new federal contracts in July 2026 alone, part of a defense budget that crossed $1 trillion dollars (if you stacked $1 trillion in $100 bills into a cube, it would only be about the size of a seven-story building, practically pocket change) for the first time even as the Pentagon failed its financial audit for an eighth consecutive year. Few of the American people funding this system, through payroll taxes withheld from every paycheck, ever see how the money moves: which offices approve it, why the contracts keep growing even when programs run late and over budget, and why the benefits rarely reach anyone outside the company's shareholders, executives, and workforce. This report lays out that process in plain terms, using the government's own contract announcements, its own watchdog's findings, and its own disclosure records, so taxpayers can judge for themselves whether "the system serves the public that pays for it." Don't expect any US senate or congressional member to seriously reflect on this public service report.
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The Money Machine: How Lockheed Martin Draws Billions From the Federal Treasury, and Why Ordinary Taxpayers Rarely See It

July 30, 2026 | AD News Network 

A System Built on Public Money, Not Private Capital

Every dollar Lockheed Martin receives through a Department of War contract begins as money appropriated by Congress and drawn from the U.S. Treasury. The company does not access a line of credit or borrow against future earnings to build F-35 fighters or THAAD interceptors. It receives obligated federal funds, authorized first through the National Defense Authorization Act and then through annual appropriations bills, and disbursed contract by contract as work is performed.

Social media influencers often come across...

Editor's note: ...as obnoxious because their content often prioritizes self-promotion and performative lifestyles over genuine meaningful substance, which breeds several specific irritations: constant humble-bragging and manufactured "relatability," aggressive product plugs disguised as personal recommendations, engagement-bait tactics (clickbait titles, manufactured drama, or fake controversies), a tendency to speak with unearned authority on topics outside their expertise, and an overall sense that every moment of their life has been staged for an audience rather than lived authentically. In Japan, a foreign influencer traveling in Japan wearing a large hat and colorful clothing was filming himself on a train when an elderly Japanese man asked him to stop recording. The influencer responded rudely, telling the man to get away from him. He then stood up from his seat and shoved the elderly man from behind. Although Japan has no specific criminal law banning filming strangers in public, its well-established legal concept of "portrait rights" (along with strong cultural norms around personal privacy) meant the influencer's disregard for the elderly Japanese man's request reflected a clear ignorance of, and disrespect for, the customs and legal sensitivities of Japan where he was visiting. 
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ASU Just Made INFLUENCING A College Major

By Steve Watson | July 25, 2026

As universities churn out debt-loaded leftists who hate America

Arizona State University has decided the path to success runs straight through TikTok dances, personal branding, and “strategic storytelling."

The U.S. Department of Defense is the largest institutional...

Editor's note: ...consumer of petroleum on Earth, and the numbers back that up in almost any direction you look. Estimates place annual military fuel consumption somewhere between 80 and 100 million barrels a year, translating to roughly 4.6 billion gallons and over $20 billion in annual fuel spending, according to Air and Space Forces Magazine. Since 2021, the Pentagon has burned through about 227 million gallons of diesel and 2.2 billion gallons of jet fuel annually. The Air Force alone accounts for roughly half of that total, largely due to fighter jets, bombers, and transport aircraft. Individual assets illustrate the scale involved: an aircraft carrier can burn about 100,000 gallons of fuel a day at full speed, and an armored division on the move can consume 600,000 gallons in a single day. Beyond fuel, the military's electricity footprint is just as significant. The DoD uses more than 30 terawatt hours of electricity annually to power over 500 installations worldwide, from forward operating bases to domestic facilities. Costs have also been climbing sharply. The average price the Pentagon paid per barrel of fuel rose from about $154 in October to nearly $196 in April, a jump of almost 27 percent in six months, driven largely by fuel market volatility tied to the conflict with Iran. That price surge alone could add more than a billion dollars in unplanned costs this year. Taken together, these figures underscore why the DoD is often described as consuming more energy than most individual countries, even before accounting for the broader logistics network that supports its global operations.
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America's Strategic Petroleum Reserve – More Fragile Than Headlines Suggest!

By Henry Kamens | July 25, 2026

America’s Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) is more fragile than headlines suggest: aging salt-cavern infrastructure, questionable actual deliverability versus reported inventories, and a growing gap between official figures and physical reality.

Technology has gone too far when companies...

Editor's note: ...like Flock Safety, Axon, and Cognyte supply local police with automated license plate networks, streetlight-mounted cameras, and mobile cell-tower simulators that record the movements and device data of ordinary people under the permanent pretext of "public safety." Let's get real: the pretext of "public safety" is bullshit. Somebody is putting the contracts together and somebody is profitting at our expense. The companies selling the sensors are the same ones writing the reports that prove the sensors are working, so the technology's failures become invisible by design. These systems are sold as "solutions to crime", yet they expand in lockstep with government bureaucracies (Franz Kafka's nightmare) that manufacture ever more justifications for spending more money (bonds) and for collecting data on citizens who have committed no offense. A free people cannot accept continuous, warrantless monitoring of streets and vehicles as the price of order, and history shows that surveillance infrastructures built on such premises eventually collapse under their own weight of distrust and resistance. Governments chase surveillance technology as a substitute for the harder, slower work of building trust and addressing root causes, mistaking the illusion of control, more cameras, more microphones, more data, for the substance of safety, while quietly normalizing a level of scrutiny that no elected body ever explicitly approved.

"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and [nanny-state techno-twinks]." - Thomas Jefferson 

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The Surveillance Grid: How Flock, Axon, and Cognyte Are Turning American Streets Into a Permanent Watchlist

July 28, 2026 | By AD News Network

The expanding network of automated surveillance systems sold by companies such as Flock Safety, Axon, and Cognyte represents a fundamental shift in American policing. These firms market their products as tools for public safety. In practice they are creating persistent, warrantless records of ordinary movement and communication. Americans have begun to reject them, and history suggests that any society built on continuous monitoring of its own citizens eventually undermines the legitimacy it claims to protect. Flock Safety has blanketed thousands of communities with automatic license plate readers. These cameras capture every vehicle that passes, store the data in searchable databases, and share it across agencies.

Local police have no business buying...

Editor's note: ...intelligence-grade spy vans. Texas just spent $4.5 million on four Chevy Tahoes loaded with Israeli Cognyte FalcoNet technology that impersonates cell towers, forces nearby phones to connect, and harvests location and device data from anyone in range, including people never accused of a crime. This is not crime-fighting equipment; it is the quiet conversion of neighborhood policing into a mobile surveillance apparatus. Once departments sink millions into these systems, the pressure to use them constantly is inevitable. The line between intelligence agencies and local cops is collapsing one contract at a time, and it must be stopped. A free society does not normalize the idea that local police can deploy foreign-developed intelligence platforms to monitor the communications infrastructure of ordinary people. This is not progress. It is the steady dismantling of the line that once protected ordinary Americans from being treated as permanent subjects of intelligence collection. It is wrong, and it must not stand.
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America's Local Police Are Becoming Intelligence Agencies

July 27, 2026 | By Martin Armstrong

One of the most revealing investigations this week did not come from Washington. It came from Forbes, which uncovered how an Israeli surveillance company is quietly marketing intelligence-grade technology directly to American police departments. The story is not about another patrol vehicle or upgraded communications equipment. It is about bringing tools originally developed for intelligence and national security operations onto the streets of the United States.