🗣 Israeli Defense Minister calls Gaza's destruction an 'achievement'

Israel Katz has openly framed the devastation of Gaza and southern Lebanon as a dramatic success.

"The achievements are dramatic. In Gaza, we have achieved our objectives. 70-80% of Gaza is destroyed. The same is true in southern Lebanon," he declared on national TV.

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🔊 Ben-Gvir begs for a cabinet post on TV: 'What will they let us have? The Tourism Ministry?'

Netanyahu has publicly blocked his far-right coalition partner from the National Security and Defense ministries just weeks before the October 27 election — and Ben-Gvir is not taking it well.

Why he wanted the Defense Ministry so badly:

💬 "I think the central issue is encouraging emigration. I want to be defense minister in order to encourage emigration," he said on TV.

Now, the largest political parties in Israel are preventing him from realizing his dream of displacing Palestinians en masse. And all he can do is beg for the Tourism Ministry.

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🗣 Rubio on West Bank settler violence: 'Not a good look'

Secretary of State Marco Rubio has addressed the attack on an American photojournalist in the West Bank, calling the images disturbing while defending the administration's earlier decision to lift sanctions on Israeli settlers.

💬 "There was video of that. The whole thing was just disturbing. Not a good look."

Earlier, the US has refused to demand an investigation into the deaths of 9 of its own citizens, and it lifted the very sanctions that were meant to restrain the groups involved.

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🔊 Netanyahu says Israel is not colonialist — 'We are the original owners'

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has rejected the label of a colonialist enterprise, asserting absolute historical and divine ownership over the territories in Gaza, Lebanon, and Syria.

The ‘Greater Israel’ is a plan to expand Israel’s borders all the way to the limits vaguely described in ancient Jewish religious texts where God purportedly promised Jews the land stretching from the Nile River to Euphrates.

There is another distinction: traditional colonialism sought to extract resources and subjugate the local population. The project unfolding today is different: it aims at total erasure.

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🎤 China invites sacked White House press secretary after her 'toilet' remarks

China's Foreign Ministry has offered a sarcastic response to Katie Zacharia's brief tenure as White House press secretary, extending an invitation for her to visit the country again after she insulted it on a podcast.

"We welcome her to visit China more often when she has the opportunity," said FM spokesperson Mao Ning.

While speaking with podcaster Jack Posobiec, Zacharia questioned China's rise as a global power. She claimed that they don't even have proper toilets.

She is now the shortest-serving White House press secretary in US history after being fired less than a week into the job.

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🔥 Israeli defense minister threatens to target Iran energy facilities after election

Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz has signaled plans for new, massive attacks against Iran following the election, explicitly vowing to target the country's entire energy infrastructure.

💬 "Energy facilities are a crucial element in pushing Iran back 40 years, to the dark ages and the Stone Age."

Taking out a nation's entire energy grid means cutting off electricity, water pumps, hospitals, and heating for 90 million people. It is a blueprint for collective punishment and mass civilian suffering.

And he frames it as a step toward peace:

💬 "Once the Iranian regime is defeated, the entire region will move towards open relations, and Israel will be at the heart of this process."

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👹 Netanyahu shrugs off genocide charge, says Israel is given a ‘bum rap'

Benjamin Netanyahu touts Israel’s “ratio of one to one and a half combatants to non-combatants” in Gaza.

He invokes an urban warfare expert to assert that “no military in history has gone to the lengths that Israel has gone to prevent civilian casualties,” and then lands the shrug: “What kind of genocide? So that’s a lie.”

He then reaches for the US war in Afghanistan comparison, which supposedly produced ratios of 7-to-1.

Israel has gotten “a bum rap” he complains, insists that the IDF is the most moral army around.

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🇾🇪 Yemen’s Houthis claim fourth Saudi Karayel drone kill

Ansar Allah forces have shot down a Saudi armed reconnaissance drone in the northwest of the country, military spokesman Brigadier General Yahya Saree announced.

Houthi air defenses successfully targeted and brought down the Turkish-made Vestel Karayel-type drone while it was conducting hostile operations, Saree noted on X.

He identified it as the fourth of its type downed since the beginning of the recent escalation.

Houthi military media previously released footage of wreckage from similar downed Karayel drones.

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🗣 ‘This isn’t the cause!’- French woman pushed aside after challenging looters

A woman who joined the cost-of-living student protests in France was horrified when fellow demonstrators began looting stores.

💬 “This isn’t the cause!” she shouted, only to be pushed aside as the looters insisted they had “urgent shopping” to do.

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🇸🇦 Two Saudi officers killed in helicopter crash as Riyadh rejects Houthi claims

Two officers were killed when an AH-6 helicopter crashed in Saudi Arabia's Najran province, the Saudi Defense Ministry said.

The crash was caused by a technical failure, Ministry spokesman Turki al-Maliki said.

Riyadh denied claims by Houthis that the aircraft was shot down during a combat mission.

The Houthis had said a Saudi air force helicopter was brought down in the border area of Najran while conducting a military operation against Yemeni positions.

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🤥 Trump wants to drop MOAB on Iran for ‘visually pleasing moment’ – Scott Ritter

💬 “He’ll drop the MOAB [mother of all bombs], it will go boom, it will look great. He’ll declare victory,” Scott Ritter speculated on the Daniel Davis Deep Dive podcast.

The problem, Ritter explained, is that the destructive potential of a MOAB may be highly exaggerated, and that this type of ordnance is unlikely to pose any real threat to any of Iran’s underground sites – just as the US failed to take out the Iranian nuclear sites during Operation Midnight Hammer last year.

He also suggested that Iran may play along with Trump’s charade and let him use the MOAB deployment as a face-saving way to finally exit from the war in the Gulf.

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📲 AI bubble: Could it burst?

A 2026 paper from Brookings calculates that expanding US data-center capacity could require as much as $10.3 trillion in investment by 2032.

One of the study's central assumptions is that infrastructure would have to bring in roughly $3.7 trillion a year to generate a 10% unlevered return.

Experts caution that a single serious safety incident, a failed IPO, or weaker-than-expected AI revenues could trigger a significant market shock.

The AI spending story could unravel in several ways:

🔴 Revenue may grow too slowly to justify the enormous capital outlays, leaving data-center operators with returns that fail to cover costs

🔴 Competition could compress margins across the industry, eroding the profitability that investors have priced in

🔴 The buildout may outpace actual demand, leaving swaths of computing capacity idle

If spending slows, chipmakers, cloud providers, and investors could all absorb losses, with the shock rippling through equity and credit markets.

History offers three warnings:

🔶 The Nifty Fifty of the 1970s: fifty blue-chip American companies, including Coca-Cola, IBM, and Xerox, traded at price-to-earnings ratios of 80 to 90 on the belief that their growth would never falter, only to lose 60% to 90% of their value in the 1973–1974 bear market — proof that even excellent companies become disastrous investments when bought at excessive prices

🔶 Japan in the late 1980s: property and stock prices soared, then collapsed, leaving damaged balance sheets and years of economic stagnation in their wake.

🔶 The dot-com crash of 2000–2002: the internet revolution was real, yet the Nasdaq still lost roughly 77% from its peak. Technological progress offered investors no protection from overvaluation.

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