YEMEN - Israel has launched air strikes on the Houthi-controlled Red Sea port of Hodeidah in Yemen, a day after a drone launched by the group hit Tel Aviv. Defence Minister Yoav Gallant said his country aimed to send a message to the Houthi movement. "The fire that is currently burning in Hodeidah, is seen across the Middle East and the significance is clear," he said. Houthi official Mohammed Abdulsalam reported a "brutal Israel aggression against Yemen". He said the strikes were aimed at pressuring the Houthis to stop supporting the Palestinians in Gaza, something he said would not happen.

USA - Ford has decided to repurpose an Ontario production plant it had originally intended to use solely for electric vehicles. Instead, the automaker's Oakville assembly complex will pivot to produce large, gas-guzzling Super Duty trucks, which, depending on the model, weigh between 13,800 and 22,000 pounds. The move will also see the company invest some $2.3 billion into the Super Duty truck production, while welcoming 1,800 workers to plant a year earlier than expected. It will also add 400 new jobs there specifically, along with 150 at the nearby Ford Motor Co Windsor Engine Plant. Once finished in 2026, the facility will become Ford's third assembly plant in the Americas reserved for this sort of production, officials said - adding that the decision simply is due to increased consumer demand. The $58 billion car manufacturer's previous plans to invest $1.3 billion into the Oakville plant for EV production have now been put on pause, the release said - left in limbo until at least 2027.

USA - What in the world has been happening in Rancho Palos Verdes? When I heard that the land was “moving” there, it immediately got my attention, because I have been warning about geological instability along the California coast for more than a decade. What is taking place has been described as an ongoing “landslide”, but that term simply does not do it justice. Others are calling what we are witnessing “land movement” on a massive scale, and I think that is much more accurate. According to FOX 11 in southern California, this “land movement” is breaking gas lines, cracking roads and causing homes to sink…

UK - The 'most serious IT outage the world has ever seen' sparked global chaos today - with planes and trains halted, the NHS disrupted, shops closed, football teams unable to sell tickets and banks and TV channels knocked offline. Officials have held an emergency COBRA meeting after a devastating technical fault caused Microsoft's Windows software to suddenly shut down, prompting departure boards to immediately turn off at airports including Heathrow, Gatwick and Edinburgh on the busiest day for British airports since Covid.

ISRAEL - Exchanges of fire between the IDF and Hezbollah have increased along the border. Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant has threatened Hezbollah with a potential ground invasion of Lebanon that would be “quick, surprising, and sharp,” as Israel’s military and the Lebanese armed group continue to trade fire across the border, media reported on Wednesday. Speaking to servicemen during a visit to Israel’s northern border, Gallant said the country is “approaching a decision-making crossroad,” and the outcome would largely depend on Hezbollah’s actions. “If Hezbollah wants to reach an agreement with us and reach a situation where it withdraws from the border line to areas beyond the Litani River as stipulated by the UN resolution, then we will reach an agreement with it,” Gallant said.

USA - Was the attempt on Donald Trump’s life prophesied in advance? Right now, so many people are talking about a podcast that was posted by Steve Cioccolanti on YouTube on March 14th, 2024. Biggs told Cioccolanti that there would be an attempt on Trump’s life and that a bullet would fly by his ear… “I saw Trump rising up, and then I saw an attempt on his life,” Biggs says. It is definitely true that there was an attempt on Trump’s life. And a bullet did fly right by his ear. In fact, it is being reported that images show “the bullet vapor trail just glancing off of Trump’s head”…

USA - Ever since the moment that Donald Trump was shot during a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, the left has been pushing wild conspiracy theories all over the Internet. Unfortunately for the left, their conspiracy theories are so ridiculous that most rational people immediately see right through them. Yes, there are legitimate questions that need to be asked about what really happened at that rally... But to suggest that the assassination attempt was staged or that Trump was never hit by a bullet is just nuts. The stuff that the left has been coming up with is straight out of crazy town.

USA - Austin Private Wealth, LLC, a Texas-based financial planning company, is being scrutinized after a social media post went viral that claimed they had put options on as many as 12 million shares of DJT shares just one day before the assassination attempt on Donald Trump. The investment firm denied the allegations and has now blamed a filing error for this controversial action. If Trump did die in the assassination attempt, his company would have become worthless. It’s stock would have become Zero in a day. The people who bought Put Options would have made billions in profits.

USA - On the day before a gunman tried to assassinate President Donald Trump on Saturday, trade volume in stock for his company spiked dramatically. In the days leading up to the attempt on the 45th president’s life, financial records show that short positions on Trump Media & Technology Group’s stock (NASDAQ: DJT) doubled. Short positions against Trump Media stock curiously spiked from 7 million to 15 million shares between July 1 and July 12.

SWITZERLAND - A senior advisor to the World Economic Forum (WEF) and its founder Klaus Schwab has warned that the re-election of President Donald Trump in November will destroy the so-called “global order.” Yuval Noah Harari, one of the masterminds behind the WEF’s agenda, has issued a warning about the “very likely” possibility that Trump will win re-election this year. According to Harari, allowing Trump to take back the White House will be “the death blow” to “the global order.” Harari, who is also listed as an “agenda contributor” of the WEF, issued the warning during a recent interview. The interview was recorded before the recent assassination attempt against Trump last weekend.

RUSSIA - Russia’s development of a space-based nuclear weapons system poses a threat to “the entire modern way of life,” according to a top US general. “It’s a completely indiscriminate weapon,” General Stephen Whiting, the commander of US Space Command, told the Aspen Security Forum on Wednesday. “It would affect the United States satellites, Chinese satellites, Russian satellites, European satellites, Indian satellites, Japanese satellites. And so, it’s really holding at risk the entire modern way of life. And it’s just an incredibly reckless decision.”

FRANCE - A growing migrant crisis, sewage-filled Seine, a bedbug infestation, alienated residents... and comparisons to a 'warzone'. Minister for sport must be one of the most ­unenviable jobs in France right now. At the ­weekend, Amelie Oudea-Castera plunged into the murky waters of the Seine in an effort to ­persuade ­competitors that it would be safe to take part in the triathlon and open-water swimming events in the fast-approaching Paris Olympics. Despite a £1.1 billion clean-up operation, unsafe levels of E.coli were recently found in the river three weeks running, from late June and into July. For the time being, Seine waters are — just — within safe levels, but little else in the French capital augurs well for the Games, due to start in just over a week.

GERMANY - German Interior Minister Nancy Faeser (Social Democrats) ordered police to shut down the leading right-wing monthly magazine “Compact” and sent 200 armed officers to raid the home of publisher Jürgen Elsaesser Monday. Now the crackdown on free speech seems to be backfiring, however, as more and more call for Faeser’s resignation and Elon Musk chimes in. Renowned conservative legal scholar Rupert Scholz and free-speech lawyer Jürgen Steinhöfel both called the shutdown “obviously unconstitutional.” Constitutional lawyer Professor Volker Boehme-Nesler said the raid shows “methods of authoritarian states against freedom of the press” by the Antifa minister. Elon Musk chimed in, accusing the German government of “crushing freedom of speech under a jackboot”.

USA - Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has indicated he would be less willing to defend Taiwan from mainland China than his Democratic rival and incumbent US President Joe Biden. It is “stupid” for Washington to offer protection to Taipei for free, Trump insisted in an interview with Bloomberg recorded on June 25 but published in full on Tuesday. “I know the people very well, respect them greatly. They did take about 100% of our chip business. I think Taiwan should pay us for defense,” he said. The self-governed island of Taiwan, which China views as part of its territory, produces an estimated 90% of the world’s super-advanced semiconductor chips. “I don’t think we are any different from an insurance policy,” the former president stressed. “Taiwan doesn’t give us anything” despite being “immensely wealthy,” he added. Beijing vigorously opposes contacts between Washington and Taipei, repeatedly calling the Taiwanese issue its “red line.”

CHINA - Responsibility for the breakdown “lies fully with the US,” a spokesman for the Chinese Foreign Ministry has said. China has frozen arms control talks with the US in response to Washington’s continued weapons sales to Taiwan, the Chinese Foreign Ministry has said. The US and China held a long-awaited round of nuclear non-proliferation talks in November, the first such meeting since 2018. While the talks produced no concrete results, they were seen as a crucial step in defusing tensions between the two superpowers, after Beijing severed almost all military communication with Washington a year earlier, over then US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan.