10/7/26: 100 Aircraft Destroyed By Iran, Pope Rejects AI Consciousness, Fox Ridicules Dr Oz On Inflation

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A Epstein whistleblower in the UK who alleged to have information on our Commerce Secretary, Howard Lutnick, has committed suicide or has been said to have committed suicide. You are going to take us through everything that he revealed, some of the details and some immediate calls for investigation in the United Kingdom. And finally, we are going to be joined by Rana Farrour, one of our favorite authors. She has a new book out. She's a Financial Times column. She really is an incredible kind of observer of the world. She has a new book out actually on the Arctic and specifically how the Iran War and changing ice, you know, like ice, what is it, ice patterns in the Arctic as a result of rising global temperature are actually changing the way that global sea routes work and a projection of global power with China specifically, creating something called a new ice silk road. So absolutely fascinating to be able to get to talk to her. So thank you. We already did the pitch. So I don't have to do that. If you're watching this on YouTube, hit subscribe to our YouTube channel. If you're listening to the podcast, please share an episode with a friend. But let's go ahead and start as we said, with that new congressional research service report, our team did an amazing job of highlighting this. So this was, I was reading through it a little bit yesterday, listed here in this new report are 81 fixed wing or rotary wing aircraft, including uncrewed aircraft systems like drones, reportedly lost or damaged in US operations against Iran since February 20, 28th, according to news reports, statements by the DOD, US. Central Command and the DOD Inspector General. So obviously this is an official now US government report from the congressional research service. Congressional research service is an independent research service from the administration. So it reports directly to Congress. I think the reason why that this is so important is that they list some of the official costs of the war in September 20, 26 of the cost of equipment losses already as of just August 1st, between 1.9 and 3.3 billion, depending on DOD plans for replacement. So nearly two to three billion dollars in aircraft that have been or in equipment that has been lost or damaged, in addition to 81 different aircraft that have been lost or damaged. And Emily, I just don't think that the American people, we have showed them these images of the bases and we've showed various one-offs, but to actually see the full number is absolutely shocking because it highlights both they're being able to be shot out of the sky, in the case of many of these drone systems, I believe what 10% or something in the entire fleet has been down.