Posted originally on Jul 6, 2026 by Martin Armstrong |
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A ton of emails have come in about the Israeli leaked video and the timing. Footage has surfaced from Israel, which has been long rumored to have existed. Channel 12 has aired the leaked video in time for the NATO conference confirming Israel ordered the Hannibal Directive in the early hours of October 7th, 2023. This takes place at the Israel police command center. The video shows what they said:
“(Strike) Gaza. Break it all apart. Along with the soldiers who got abducted.”
In the first hours of Operation Al-Aqsa Flood, while conversing with Israel’s Police Chief Kobi Shabtai, another senior officer calls to implement the HANNIBAL DIRECTIVE, and destroy Gaza along with the Israeli captives. Minister Itamar Ben Gvir later arrives and orders to stop filming the meeting. This video has been leaked to discredit Trump at the NATO meeting.
The HANNIBAL DIRECTIVE is a highly controversial Israeli military policy. The most widely accepted explanation for its name is that it is named after the Carthaginian general Hannibal Barca, who chose to take his own life by poison around 181BC rather than be captured by his Roman enemies. The name is seen as a chillingly apt reference to a policy that emphasizes preventing capture at almost any cost.
Its primary intent was to prevent the capture of Israeli soldiers by enemy forces, even if it meant TERMINATING the soldier’s life, by authorizing the use of massive force to stop a kidnapping in progress. The Israeli perspective was to ensure that enemy forces could NOT take an Israeli soldier hostage. The underlying concern was that captured soldiers could be used as bargaining chips to secure the release of Palestinian prisoners held in Israeli jails.
In essence, while it was supposed to be officially a “last resort,” the directive allowed for the use of overwhelming firepower, potentially including artillery or airstrikes, on a vehicle carrying a captured soldier, even if that meant the soldier might be killed in the process. The instruction was to prevent the escape of the captors “at any cost,” which critics argue effectively prioritized preventing the kidnapping over the soldier’s personal safety.
In 2016, the Israeli claimed to have military revised the directive to emphasize the soldier’s life as paramount. However, a 2022 report indicated that the Israeli military had officially rescinded the HANNIBAL DIRECTIVE, replacing it with updated, more refined protocols for hostage and missing persons situations.
In the context of the October 7 Hamas Attacks, the policy has drawn significant attention since the Hamas-led attacks on Israel. While the directive was officially rescinded before the attacks, its legacy and application have been debated. Multiple investigations and news reports had alleged that the HANNIBAL DIRECTIVE was activated during the chaos of the October 7 attacks. For instance, some reports indicate that the IDF ordered that “no vehicle can leave” the attack area, which allegedly led to a policy of “shoot to kill and leave no one behind.”
The October 7 attacks were a complex and mass casualty event involving around 5,000 militants and the seizure of over 250 hostages. The chaotic environment involved different militant groups, making it difficult to distinguish between soldiers and civilians or to prevent kidnappings using standard operational protocols.
In the broader context and controversy, critics argue that the HANNIBAL DIRECTIVE was used to justify the deaths of kidnapped Israelis to avoid prisoner swaps. Since October 7th, survivors and families of victims have alleged that the IDF engaged in actions consistent with the HANNIBAL DIRECTIVE, such as shelling vehicles and buildings where hostages were held, potentially killing them to prevent their capture. The Israeli military denies any deliberate killing of its own citizens on October 7th and maintains it acted to neutralize threats, though some testimonies from survivors and soldiers have fueled the ongoing controversy.
Of the 251 hostages taken, 168 have been returned and 83 have died in captivity.
Posted originally on Jul 6, 2026 by Martin Armstrong |
COMMENT: Marty, despite being repeatedly advised to disregard your work, I distinctly remember your 2020 call that we were entering the most hated bull market in history. No other analyst I know can match your predictive track record—which, I suspect, is precisely why you face so much opposition. Any media outlet that refuses to host you only reinforces its own lack of credibility. I’ve attached an AI-generated comparison between you and Jim Cramer. What stands out most is that your analysis is never rooted in personal opinion; it remains strictly objective. In that regard, you captured the very essence of Socratic wisdom. Every forecast article you read is about the crash. Nobody but nobody has been long-term bullish.
Jeb
PS: As you know, I am a lawyer. I read your sentencing TR and everything they say about you is a lie. They dropped the whole Ponzi allegation, the bank plead guilty, and the judge ruled people were not entitled to be paid twice and ordered you had full credit for the bank’s restitution so you had none. The fact that they put a gag order on you to prevent you from helping your clients says it all.
REPLY: The entire reason I am doing this conference on July 25th trying to keep the cost to a minimum is because of what you are saying. The reasons offered are always domestic. I have witnessed international capital flows. I taught Socrates how to analyze the world from that perspective, not classical economic theories that were all forged during the Gold Standard so they NEVER considered currency as a variable. You can invest internationally all based on the currency at times even alone. This is why these theories crumble to dust and need to be swept away. Things change. War was fought with stones, then clubs, then swords, bullet with the discover of gunpowder, followed by nukes, and now war has become drone-warfare with a kid who is great at video games.
Another reader sent this in:
A Taste of Armageddon” (Star Trek: The Original Series, Season 1, Episode 23). In this episode (aired February 23, 1967), Captain Kirk and the Enterprise crew visit the planet Eminiar VII on a diplomatic mission. They discover that Eminiar has been in a 500-year computerized “war” with its neighbor, Vendikar. The conflict is entirely simulated by computers that calculate attacks and casualties—no actual weapons are fired—but the designated “casualties” (including, at one point, the entire Enterprise crew) must voluntarily report to disintegration chambers to be killed for real, keeping the war “civilized” and bloodless on the surface. Kirk and his landing party get caught up in the system when the Enterprise is declared “destroyed” in a simulated attack, and they’re ordered to report for disintegration. The episode explores themes of war, dehumanization, and the illusion of sanitized conflict, ending with Kirk forcing the societies to confront the reality of their choices.
Is this the next wave of creative destruction?
I have been calling this the “most hated bull market in history” because, it has been a powerful rally that most investors don’t trust, don’t participate in, and constantly expect to collapse. Based on data from the Federal Reserve’s Survey of Consumer Finances, only about 21% of American families directly own individual stocks. The 21% figure for direct stock ownership is from the Federal Reserve’s 2022 Survey of Consumer Finances and is NOT a record high. In fact, it is less than the direct ownership rates seen in both 1929 and 2000. So where is the Bubble?
The Wall Street Journal accused Jesse Livermore of trying to influence the election by putting out a bullish forecast in 1923. They were wrong, and Time Magazine wrote that those who were “bearish to begin with” refused to allow the market to guide their analysis. They were bent upon having a depression and chose to slander Livermore by suggesting that he might gain some personal favors from the President if he could make the market go up. The excuses were, quite frankly, defamatory and uncalled for. The Wall Street Journal falsely accused Jesse of turning bullish for the election and refused thereafter to ever quote him again because they were wrong. The same applies to me. No mainstream press will ever report the truth because they get their marching orders from behind the curtain as we saw with COVID.
Amazing, on one had they tried to discredit the model claiming I stole it from a 1998 movie to go back in time since I first published it in 1979. Yet the movie the Forecaster they made on me had to be insured by Lloyds of London to even make the film. Everything had to be proven to them that the government lied at every stage of the case. The government even put it in writing that they demanded I turn over the source code or they would fire all 240 employees worldwide.
The government will NEVER tell the truth and mainstream press is used to push disinformation. The UK government is now seizing YouTube and they will now censor everything in Britain no different than the Communists. Even Castro’s daughter has warned that government always seizes the press. We saw what they did with COVID. That was a tiny taste. NEVER expect to get real forecasts from mainstream media.
Despite the market’s long-term strength, the prevailing sentiment has been persistently bearish. All we need do is just look at the fact that many analysts and investors are constantly predicting a crash, rather than celebrating the rally. This contrasts with the Roaring ’20s, where market participation was widespread, noting that retail investor involvement during this current bull market has remained near historic lows. There is no euphoria.
I approach things from a global perspective. Many analysts are misreading the market’s health by looking at it through a narrow, modern Domestic lens. Using my own proprietary models, it was clear that we were in a long-term historical bull market. The market is not as dangerously “overbought” position as it appears. Looking at data going back hundreds of years, the current bull market appears more sustainable than conventional indicators suggest. Both 1929 in the USA and Japan in 1989, were capital concentrations globally, which was also pushing the respective currencies higher. Foreign investors made more money than domestic investors in both cases.
Pervasive bearishness remains a positive signal for as I have also repeatedly said, the MAJORITY MUST ALWAYS BE WRONG! The widespread negativity and lack of speculative frenzy are the very reasons the long-term bullishness remains optimistic. This broad skepticism acts as a protective “wall of worry” that can continue to fuel the bull market, as it prevents the kind of euphoric, overleveraged peak that typically ends a rally.
All I hear is that the inflation is rising so the Fed will raise rates and that will kill the bull market. While 99.9% of analysts seem to focus on interest rates as the major factor, they assume the bull market is over simply because of price. NOBODY can forecast the future from a personal opinion. My computer beats me all the time. I have learned over the last 50 years when it is contrary to everything out there, it is correct. Irving Fisher was the most famous forecaster during the Roaring ’20s. He did not understand the international implications of the capital inflows as money was hiding out in the US during WWI and WWII had begun in the financial markets.
If we look at Goldman Sachs (GS), which by no means is a favorite company of mine, its book value is $366.15 with a stock price at $1,050. That is 34%, well below even the 1982 rally no less 1937 or 1929. That is not historically over the top. The trailing P/E Ratio of the Dow is about 25.49. During 1972, the PE Ration on the Dow hit 50. That was a flight of capital into the Dow because of the collapse of the gold standard on August 15th, 1971. I have stated countless times, when you lose confidence in the government, many times you run to equities.
As most know, I was blamed for the whole 1980s takover boom because I was running around showing these charts back then and advised many of the takover tycoons. I am explaining some of that in the next textbook on Understanding the World Economy. The average cost of college textbooks and supplies for a full-time student is about $1,370 per year. A textbook will often run $400-$600. I promised to try to keep the costs down and this textbook will be $250 fully illustrated in color.
Dr. Dan Diker, president of the Jerusalem Center for Security and Foreign Affairs, told Newsmax on Sunday that the only way to defeat Iran’s ruling regime “is to defeat it militarily.”
If anyone thinks for one second that peace is in the wind, I really do not know what you are smelling. I have laid out the timing for a correction on the Private Blog. But this is not the end of the bull market. It still qualifies as the most hated bull market in history.
We will be offerring the textbook after the conference for $250.
Posted originally on CTH on July 6, 2026 | sundance
Both Toyota and Honda had previously warned the Canadian government that without the USMCA they would shift production from Canada to the U.S. to avoid tariffs and secure long-term manufacturing stability. We presume a similar message was conveyed to Mexico.
Earlier today Toyota announced they were moving half of their Tacoma Truck production from Mexico to an expanded facility in Texas that will now encompass 5 million square feet in San Antonio.
(Bloomberg) — Toyota Motor Corp. is moving production of its popular Tacoma midsize truck from a plant in Mexico to San Antonio as part of a $3.6 billion investment in the Texas facility.
The Japanese carmaker will build a second production line in San Antonio, where it currently makes full-size pickups and SUVs, and add some 2,000 new jobs by 2030, it said Monday.
The shift, following Toyota’s pledge last year to spend $10 billion on its US manufacturing operations over the next decade, comes as talks between the US and Mexico to renew a North American free trade agreement have stalled. President Donald Trump, who has pressed Toyota to invest more in the US, let a July 1 deadline pass without a trade pact extension.
[…] By moving some production of its best-selling truck to Texas, Toyota will shield itself from the impact of tariffs on Mexican imports. Autos shipped from Mexico are subject to US duties as high as 25%, which has hit Toyota and other automakers’ bottom lines and upended decades of cross-border production planning.
The expansion in San Antonio, which is nearly twice as large as had been anticipated, will double the size of the plant to about 5 million square feet. And it will bring Toyota’s total spending at the site to $8.3 billion since it broke ground there 23 years ago. (read more)
Posted originally on CTH on July 6, 2026 | sundance
You can’t watch the lumbering nemesis of promoted cultural marxism succeed in sportball and not laugh. I watch this video with a smile; in part because I have watched hundreds of videos of European regulars saying they cannot believe how wonderful their experience in America has been.
The larger sense, the biggest picture, is how each of these voices are declaring themselves free from the proximity of EU propaganda, and when that moment is reached these realities can never be unseen.
At the same time, I think of the EU bureaucrats standing jaw-agape wondering if things will ever be the same again….. a 6-foot-5 Viking warrior who has absolutely no time for anything fancy
My friends, the need for control is a reaction to fear. The control mechanisms have weakened with every Viking cheer and drumbeat. It is a good day for freedom.
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I suspect we are only a few days away from watching the professional leftists claim that support for Norway is akin to a global rise of white nationalism; aka, cheering for the Norsemen is racism.
Posted originally on CTH on July 6, 2026 | sundance
FACT: It has been over 60-years since Canada purchased a submarine. FACT: Canada has never built one. FACT: Currently the Canadian military have ONE operable submarine out of a fleet of four used ones previously purchased. FACT: Canada recently proclaimed themselves as the North American defender of the Arctic.
Now, put all those facts in the overlay of the December 2024 meeting in Mar-a-Lago between President Trump and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. President Trump was demanding that Trudeau increase their NATO spending and develop a working Canadian military.
Someone recently asked in the comments section why I have an issue with Canada, specifically why a new level of distain for our Northern neighbors. Quite simply, there is a level of lying that exceeds my tongue bite capacity; that level of deceit comes when fabricating lies is accompanied by pretending. The Canadian government is the worst type of political abuser. They willfully pretend and simultaneously lie to the Canadian people. That’s the answer.
Today, the government of Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney announce that German industrial shipbuilder TKMS will be awarded a contract for “up to 12 submarines” valued between $20 and $30 billion {source link}. Now, let’s not pretend.
First, the submarine contract is intended to get Canada back into reasonable position on their NATO obligations.
In reality, it is quite remarkable to think about the Canadian nation with only one currently functional submarine. “Canada hasn’t purchased unused submarines since the 1960s, during the Cold War, and has never ordered anywhere near 12 at once. Canada currently owns four subs, all of which were purchased second-hand, and only one of which is typically operational.” {citation} Now, think about that Mar-a-Lago conversation again.
Second, Canada can’t build their own submarines?
Wait, I’ve been told my statements about the absence of Canadian industrial capacity were mistaken. I’ve been told that Canada can produce heavy industrial equipment, and my statements about their heavy industry as functionally obsolescent were overstated. I’ve been criticized for saying that Canada has deindustrialized their economy in the past 30+ years because they have worshipped the altar of “global warming” or “climate change.”
Those two points above are directly connected, and those are the exact points that President Trump was talking to Justin Trudeau about very strongly.
Trudeau said there was no possibility of correcting this industrial lack of ability, and the U.S would just have to accept Canada’s high-horse pontificating position. That’s the core of the 51st state counterpoint.
[NOTE: You cannot have an industrial economy without the ability to create iron, steel, aluminum and various compounds of molten metal. You cannot make metal with windmills, solar or nuclear energy. You must generate massive amounts of heat. That heat is measured in joules because joules are the measurable unit for energy, and they provide a universal, precise way to quantify the energy transferred as heat. Industrial manufacturing takes joules, which creates carbon emission in the process.]
Keep in mind, the USMCA (CUSMA) is going to get terminated. As a consequence, it is easy to see the U.K and EU trying to provide the financial backstop to protect Canada (a commonwealth action). What Carney is doing with this submarine contract is offshoring $30 billion CAD to Germany at current rates, so that Germany can (a) offset their own industrial economic implosion; and (b) position to return a financial favor in the near future.
GERMANY – […] As panic spreads among German manufacturers, layoffs are rolling through formerly prosperous towns and villages with no living memory of a downturn. The moment could become a political turning point for a country whose wealth was largely created by the Mittelstand, or “middle-class”—shorthand for the inner core of Europe’s largest economy.
For the first time in decades, Germany now imports more advanced capital goods from China than it exports there. Manufacturers are suddenly on the defensive, not just in China and elsewhere, but also at home. (more)
Remember the “coalition of the willing” that Mark Carney injected himself into? The U.K, Germany, France and now Canada. They swim together or sink alone.
Oh, things are going to get really ugly. We underestimate when we say, “there are trillions at stake.”
GERMANY – According to Reuters, Volkswagen’s supervisory board is expected to discuss a sweeping restructuring proposal at a July 9 meeting. People familiar with the matter say the plan could eliminate up to 100,000 jobs and close four factories in Germany, adding to roughly 50,000 workforce reductions already planned. If approved, it would become the largest restructuring in Volkswagen’s history and one of the biggest workforce overhauls the global auto industry has ever seen. (more)
Now, is the Mark Carney contract to Friedrich Merz making more sense?
Canada claims they are going to lead the protection of the Arctic and defend Greenland from horrible Trump’s entreaties.
Canada has one submarine, a carbon exchange system to block industrial production/capacity, and a functionally obsolescent military severely behind in meeting NATO obligations.
But President Trump’s expressed frustration and anger at their sanctimonious pontificating have hurt the feelings of Canadians, or something equally pretentious.
A woman has just come forward to Politico with a direct accusation that Platner raped her.
(Via Politico) – A woman who dated Maine U.S. Senate candidate Graham Platner says he forced her to have sex with him nearly five years ago despite her repeated objections, an allegation Platner denies.
The woman, a 41-year-old Maine resident named Jenny Racicot, detailed the alleged incident to POLITICO in three interviews over the past two weeks. POLITICO also spoke with a man Racicot dated and confided in the years after the alleged incident, and reviewed documents, including emails between Racicot and her therapist and messages between Racicot and an acquaintance whom she warned against getting involved with Platner years before he ran for office.
[…] he entered her rural Maine home uninvited one night in late 2021, deeply intoxicated, and forced himself on her while she repeatedly told him to stop. She said she cut off contact with him after telling him the encounter was not consensual.
“I remember him grabbing my pelvis and being really forceful of me,” she said. “I remember the specific moment where I thought to myself, like, ‘This is no longer my choice.’”
[…] Racicot said she was torn over coming forward in part because she agrees with Platner politically. (read more)
Posted originally on CTH on July 6, 2026 | sundance
As noted by Secretary Rubio tongue-in-cheek, all the FIFA “drama” is turning into an “international incident” that might even be discussed at the NATO assembly in Turkey. WATCH:
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Meanwhile, ‘Suspicious Eddie‘, is practicing his sportball dramatic fainting skills….
Posted originally on CTH on July 6, 2026 | sundance
During an event to launch the official beginning of the ‘Trump Accounts’ for kids, savings accounts specifically created for American children at no cost to the family, President Trump took questions from the media. WATCH:
Posted originally on CTH on July 6, 2026 | sundance
Casual sports observers often wonder why the sport of Soccer has never been successful in the United States. This story is a big picture example of exactly why.
The country of Belgium is filing an appeal with FIFA World Cup organizers to stop the United States from playing the game of soccer with their best players. You just cannot make this stuff up, folks.
Only in the sport of EU soccer can a bureaucratic agency file a parliamentary objection with the intent to force the official bureaucratic agents of the soccer administration, FIFA, to block a team from fielding their best players – because the business of the bureaucracy is more important than sportsmanship.
SEATTLE (AP) — The Belgian soccer federation is demanding explanation from FIFA about a decision to let U.S forward Folarin Balogun play at the World Cup despite getting a red card in his previous game.
Belgium takes on the United States later Monday for a spot in the quarterfinals.
The Belgian federation said it has still not received either “FIFA’s decision or any explanation regarding this matter. In these circumstances, it has no choice but to challenge the player’s eligibility for the upcoming match.” {LINK}
Here comes the really funny part. All the soccer nations continue to be befuddled why soccer has never made progress within the American sport psyche. Think about it.
Soccer is a ‘sport system’ bureaucratically designed to fail when contrast to a brutally honest American perspective on sport.
Soccer succeeding in America is the inverse to Liberty succeeding worldwide.
Soccer is the United Nations of sports.
If soccer is ever to succeed in America, the United States is lost forever!
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