Not my usual fare, but interesting nonetheless. The forum is called Dread and it is apparently the dark web's version of Reddit. Anyway, not something you would have come across in the MSM.
VIDEO: "The Dark Webs Most Popular Forum Got Hacked"
Mental Outlaw (19 min.)
In 1999, Ove Hoegh-Guldberg published a highly influential paper which predicted the loss of coral reefs by 2050--50 years in the future at that time--due to global warming (although there were some dissenting voices that said it was due to killing wildlife or pollution, which had been ongoing for centuries in some parts of the world).
In 2017, the British Independent newspaper continued to report that "More than 90 percent of world's coral reefs will die by 2050," and that there was, at that point, no way to stop it.
Today we are being told that "Almost all coral reef ecosystems face risk of collapse in 50 years, study warns." In other words, after 26 years, we are still 50 years from when the coral reefs will collapse. Or, as the Los Angeles Times put it last month: "The Great Barrier Reef refuses to die on schedule."
The author of the latter article, Bjorn Lomborg, begins by noting (bold added):
Australia’s marine scientists released their annual audit of the Great Barrier Reef last month, and it contains news you almost certainly haven’t heard: Coral cover held steady or increased across most of the reef. The scientists measure the percentage of living hard coral cover, and in the 40 years of systematic study, the five best years on record are the five most recent. That is the sound of a catastrophe not happening.
You haven’t heard the good news because the reef has an entire public relations industry built around predicting its imminent demise as a result of global warming. In 2012, researchers from the Australian Institute of Marine Science reported that the reef had lost about half its coral cover since the mid-1980s — falling from 28% to just 13.9% — and projected that cover could halve yet again by 2022. In 2014, the Guardian published an interactive obituary for the reef. In 2016, Outside magazine agreed, declaring the reef dead at age 25 million.
The patient, it turned out, hadn’t read the notices. By 2021, coral cover was higher than at any point since measurements began in 1986. It stayed at unprecedented levels through 2022 and 2023 and climbed to a new all-time high in 2024. The reef answered two decades of death sentences with more coral than anyone had ever measured.
The scientists even stopped publishing the reefwide statistic — making it harder for the layperson to easily see that the reef was defying long-held predictions. But researchers from AIMS continued publishing regional averages, making it possible to effectively re-create their reefwide average — which clearly kept increasing.
In the case of the Great Barrier Reef, Australia then reverted to Plan B:
When catastrophe fails to arrive, a second story stands ready: Take a bow and send the bill. Australia’s federal and Queensland governments have spent more than 5 billion Australian dollars on reef programs since 2014, and when UNESCO declined in July to put the reef on its “in danger” list, Australia’s ministers hailed the decision as recognition of the country’s world-leading reef management. It takes nerve to spend decades forecasting an ecosystem’s death and then claim credit for its historically high coral cover and remarkable resilience.
But Lomborg's article must have caused a stir because we are now back to Plan A, just with the doomsday of coral reefs pushed out a bit longer.
The New York Post reports on "Feds bust $2B medical fraud rings secretly operating in California — as agents seen scaling rich doctor’s mega mansion." Two of those arrested are Dr. Hany Malek, a chiropractor, and Dr. Harold Tabaie, a cardiothoracic surgeon. They are accused of working together to convince patients they needed unneeded, invasive (and expensive) heart procedures called atherectomies. But even this was small change compared to others being rounded up:
Others defendants sought Thursday included Nathan Young, 39, and his father David Young, 71, who allegedly operated a $1.6 billion substance abuse scam to traffic addicts from around the country to dozens of Los Angeles rehab centers.
Some more tips and pointers for cut shells. The host makes clear that cut shells are not intended for use when you have slugs available to you, but are an improvised substitute.
VIDEO: "Cutshell Classroom: Cutshell Myths Laid to Rest"
Iraqveteran8888 (10 min.)
Hot Air's new article, "Destination: Color Revolution" by David Strom reminds us that even before Trump entered office, Democrats and their Deep State allies in the FBI and CIA were planning on going after Trump. And they are planning to do it again should they win back Congress at the mid-terms. Strom writes:
DataRepublican has been doing a very deep dive into the current Deep State project to take Donald Trump out after the Midterm elections, dropping chunks of her investigation, including receipts from an insider who leaked video, audio, and documents from a wide-ranging, shall we call it a "plot," to amp up resistance to Trump and to create a Constitutional crisis that would, they hope, reshape the entire political landscape.
Including the Constitution.
The core groups involved are military alumni, various intelligence agencies, and, of course, the USAID folks. You may recall that as Trump closed down USAID, a bureaucrat walking out the door darkly insinuated that it was the biggest mistake Trump ever made.
[snip]
All these alums from the IC and related agencies are now part of a massive NGO complex designing plans and wargaming ways to take Trump down, not in any namby-pamby way like using the courts or prosecutions, though they are intended to be part of the plan.
They want a full-blown confrontation between Blue States and the Trump administration, up to and including what could be low-level armed conflicts, more along the lines of an escalation from what we saw in Minnesota last winter.
You may recall Governor Walz's language kept returning to the word "war." "War with the federal government." The references to the Minnesotans at Gettysburg during the Civil War. The fact that Democrats from the governor's office on down to city and county officials helped coordinate the physical resistance to ICE officers, leading to two deaths and the injury of multiple federal officers.
Think along those lines, but amped up to 11, with all the troops mobilized on the left, and all the Democrats in governors' offices and in Congress making a full-court press to take Trump out using any means necessary.
[snip]
I can't go through all the data in one post, and DataRepublican is still putting what she has out in digestible chunks, but the bottom line is very clear: those USAID folks, along with the IC officials who have "six ways from Sunday" to get you are now organized, plotting, working with politicians and even the Democratic Socialists of America to create a crisis and the next best thing to a coup.
T.L. Davis has some thoughts on how things will go down if the Democrats win the mid-terms:
What I expect to happen, and I am not engaging in forecasting here, because I have no talent in that area, but just looking at it logically, is that the Democrats will win control of the House and Senate and begin the long dark path toward opening the borders and flooding the US with more jihadists and fraudsters. The idea being to drain the treasury and restrict funds that would be used to counter the coup, or to fight a war.
Then, with power, the communist Red-Green coalition will begin to implement the plan exposed in the linked article above. Why now? The election of Mamdani in New York, the symbolic target of radical Islamists for decades, has fueled life into the communist dreams of conquest. They might pretend that riots and church burnings won’t take place if the Democrats win the 2026 election, but it doesn’t matter. Losing would only provide more shade for their revolutionary actions.
[snip]
The question is, will the real war start in November when they attempt to engage in a revolution? I hope so, it’s what American patriots, militia groups and just well-prepared citizens have been waiting for, preparing for, arming for, because the first order of business is to impeach and imprison Trump. The Second order of business will be to, once and for all, confiscate guns. That might require them to first arrest and imprison, or just outright attack the conservative justices on the Supreme Court. By conservative justices, I mean only Thomas and Alito, the others will fold under threat of Antifa attack, just like they already have on other cases.
It will very quickly devolve into an open civil war. They are supremely emboldened by their fake confrontations with faithless cops and believe they will win any kinetic confrontation with bubba. We’ll see.
More: Cynical Publius has an article on X covering the information gathered by DataRepublican about the Leftist plans this fall, as well as giving some history on other color revolutions backed by USAID and the intelligence community. And DataRepublican adds in the comments:
Yes - and I realize I'd been making a mistake to focus on the Insurrection Act. Although the goal certainly is to get structural reforms in the national conversation by 2028, they outlined several scenarios beyond the Insurrection Act. By and far their biggest focus has been an "election meltdown." I didn't emphasize that as much because obvi, Trump isn't going to send military to the polls or anything of the sort.
But I forgot momentarily that elections ARE the actual precursor to what becomes an actual coup (transition of power, whatever euphemism you'd like). Everything takes on a much darker turn if you start wondering if they're trying to manifest that.
"Anthropic books colossal $81B loss, warns of data center backlash as Amodei siblings draw modest salaries"--New York Post. From the lede:
Artificial intelligence giant Anthropic booked a staggering $80.7 billion net loss in the first half of 2026 — mostly from accounting charges — as it warned that growing opposition to data centers could threaten its business.
The San Francisco-based company, which is preparing for a blockbuster IPO that could value it at as much as $2 trillion, voiced caution about the growing movement of anti-data center and anti-AI voters.
Resistance to data centers has “become more organized and coordinated across jurisdictions,” Anthropic said in the filing viewed by the Wall Street Journal.
In 1996, a Mel Gibson movie called Ransom was released. Gibson played a wealthy businessman whose son is kidnapped for ransom. But rather than pay the ransom, Gibson's character goes on live television and offers the ransom as a bounty on the heads of the kidnappers who, as you would guess, ultimately turn on each other.
Trump seems to be doing something similar. Mediaite reports: "Trump Promises to Pay ‘Reporters’ a Commission For Finding Fraud: ‘Trillions’ Have Been ‘Stolen’." From the article:
President Donald Trump pledged to pay a “1% commission” Tuesday to anyone who turns in fraudsters — even “reporters.”
Speaking Tuesday during an Oval Office event in which he recognized right-leaning independent journalist Nick Shirley, Trump claimed the new Fraud Whistleblower Incentive Program would pay out so well journalists might want to ditch their jobs.
“If you turn somebody in and you let’s say a report and you find a billion dollars, we are giving a commission to that person of 1%. It’s a lot of money. And if it’s 10 billion, 200 billion, 400 billion, we are giving a 1% commission to that person,” he claimed.
Related:
Omar’s husband, Tim Mynett — the one to whom she is currently married, not her brother, whom she pretended to marry for immigration fraud purposes — used to run a winery. Because, you know, she’s a super devout Muslim and all that. The winery abruptly closed earlier this year amid official scrutiny. Turns out part of the problem might’ve been that Omar's husband was selling investors empty barrels of wine. It’s absolutely incredible how these people seem incapable of running a business or holding a job that is not a front for crime.
From PJ Media: "A Pollster Just Admitted Faking Its Numbers, and The Fallout Is Huge!" The polling firm is Wedgewood Polls, which claims that it merely conducting a social experiment to see if major polling aggregators like the New York Times, FiftyPlusOne, or VoteHub would vet the polling firms they use. According to Wedgewood, the answer is no. But the head of HonestPoll says that is bunk, noting that his firm had checked into Wedgewood to see if it was legitimate. In any event, the damage has been done:
El-Sayed leaned heavily on Wedgewood's polling to sell Democrat voters on his electability. Mallory McMorrow, who ran against him in the Michigan primary, took to X to describe what the stunt cost her campaign. She pointed to a late-June Wedgewood poll that showed her sinking into single digits, numbers she said contradicted her campaign’s internal polling. In the aftermath, her donations dried up, her volunteers were left devastated and begging for direction, and reporters bombarded her with calls to get out of the race.
Without a doubt, a fake poll can affect an election. It can stop a candidate from raising money, boost another candidate, or cause a party to invest in a place it otherwise wouldn’t. And it can lead voters to think the result is already decided before any ballot has been cast.
Seems to me that Wedgewood served the purpose of providing plausible deniability to the polling aggregators in thrall to the Democrat party should it ever be discovered that the poll results were fake. It is notable that Wedgewood only came clean about it faking results just as FiftyPlusOne was about to publish an investigation showing that Wedgewood was fake.
In his article, "Iran, China, and Cuba are directing protests inside America," Mike Gonzalez explains:
Evidence is growing that the tyrannical regimes of China, Iran, and Cuba are not only financing protests in American streets, but actively directing them.
The Network Contagion Research Institute, whose work in these areas has been indispensable for years, recently published another groundbreaking study that blows the lid off how this foreign network operates.
The report indicates that an Iranian influence node that takes orders from the Islamic Republic regime, the House of Latin America, conducts what NCRI calls “high-impact domestic U.S. influence operations.”
“For nearly two decades,” NCRI says, HOLA “has functioned as a primary bridge between the Iranian regime, Latin American socialist governments, and U.S. anti-war coalitions, with its American-based operatives acting as undeclared agents of a foreign government on U.S. soil.”
It gets much worse. HOLA, it says, “has now formally merged with Neville Roy Singham’s Chinese Communist Party-linked Tricontinental network to form a unified Iran-China operation targeting the United States from the south.”
Not my usual fare, but interesting nonetheless. The forum is called Dread and it is apparently the dark web's version of Reddit. Anyway,...
