S01:E90 - US awards Lockheed Martin $58.6bn Patriot missile contract

These motherfuckers are at it again. While you’re sitting here scrolling your screens, thinking the world is moving at a normal pace, the global fascist machine is grinding human beings into dust. We are not living in a democracy. We are living inside a prison camp managed by billionaires who don’t… Watch this episode on WOPR TV: https://wopr-tv.wopr.systems/w/116v7Ss1NUzUh7ygsCKsVc SOURCES & STORIES COVERED: Middle East: US awards Lockheed Martin $58.6bn Patriot missile contract (Middle East Eye) https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/us-awards-lockheed-martin-586bn-patriot-missile-contract Europe: US launches wave of strikes on Iran in response to Tehran missile attack in Jordan (France 24) https://www.france24.com/en/video/20260730-us-launches-wave-of-strikes-on-iran-in-response-to-tehran-missile-attack-in-jordan US military launches ‘powerful’ retaliatory strikes on Iran (France 24) https://www.france24.com/en/video/20260730-us-military-launches-powerful-retaliatory-strikes-on-iran Asia-Pacific: Malaysia’s Anwar seizes on haj fund report ahead of Negeri Sembilan election (South China Morning Post) https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/politics/article/3362397/malaysias-anwar-seizes-haj-fund-report-ahead-negeri-sembilan-election?utm_source=rss_feed Latin America: Minister warns of “industrial-scale” organized disinformation campaign, hindering disaster efforts (Brasil Wire) https://www.brasilwire.com/minister-warns-of-industrial-scale-organized-disinformation-campaign-hindering-disaster-efforts/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=minister-warns-of-industrial-scale-organized-disinformation-campaign-hindering-disaster-efforts&utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=minister-warns-of-industrial-scale-organized-disinformation-campaign-hindering-disaster-efforts US Independent Media: From the Great Basin to Gaza: How Nevada’s Data Centers Power a Surveillance Pipeline That Ends at Our Doorstep (CounterPunch) https://www.counterpunch.org/2026/07/30/from-the-great-basin-to-gaza-how-nevadas-data-centers-power-a-surveillance-pipeline-that-ends-at-our-doorstep/ Africa: Australian players’ union slams FIFA plan, says World Cup should not be for sale (Daily Maverick SA) https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2026-07-30-australian-players-union-slams-fifa-plan-says-world-cup-should-not-be-for-sale/ Oceania: Last-minute race to deliver marathon medals after shipping delays (ABC Australia) https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07-30/sunshine-coast-marathon-medals-stuck-port-brisbane/106975454 FALKEN INTELLIGENCE: Active disinformation operations tracked: OP-SUBMITTED-LINK-COMMENTS, OP-NEWS-MAYOR-NONE, OP-RUSSIA-MANAEA-NONE, OP-LECHE-CRUDA-PARA, OP-NONE-IMMIGRATION-CITY Duration: 15 minutes Generated: 2026-07-30 AI-generated socialist analysis powered by Chatterbox voice cloning. International news the billionaire-owned media wont tell you. Video version: https://wopr-tv.wopr.systems/w/116v7Ss1NUzUh7ygsCKsVc Subscribe: https://asscast.org WOPR Foundation: https://wopr.systems Mastodon: https://mstdn.wopr.systems/@nodez3r0 Falken Intelligence: https://falken.wopr.systems FULL TRANSCRIPT: These motherfuckers are at it again. While you’re sitting here scrolling your screens, thinking the world is moving at a normal pace, the global fascist machine is grinding human beings into dust. We are not living in a democracy. We are living inside a prison camp managed by billionaires who don’t even know their own names, and they are using our fear, our labor, and our lives as fuel for their private wars. This is not news, you fool. This is a massacre, and the mainstream media is selling it to you as a breaking story. The game show host of the free world just handed out a prize of death, and you clap for it. Listen up. These motherfuckers are at it again. Let’s start with the bloodshed in the Middle East. France 24 is reporting from the ground, and they are telling us the truth that the American lying press refuses to print. The United States military just launched a heavy wave of strikes on Iran. That is not a skirmish. That is a slaughterhouse operation. They are hitting back after Tehran launched missiles at American bases in Jordan. But here is the catch, you idiot. Washington is using this excuse to rebuild its weapon stockpiles, to replenish the arms it burned during its endless war on Iran and its military support for Ukraine. Middle East Eye is reporting the real numbers, the ones the Pentagon wants you to ignore. The US Army has awarded Lockheed Martin a contract worth up to fifty-eight point six billion dollars. Fifty-eight billion dollars for Patriot interceptor missiles. For a seven-year deal running from two thousand and twenty-six until two thousand and thirty-two. This is a contract to expand production while the bombs fall on civilians. The money flows to a private corporation while the people in Gaza and Yemen are turning to dust. This is not defense. This is industrial murder for profit. The pigs in the Pentagon are handing out contracts like candy to their billionaire masters, and the working class is left to pick up the pieces in the rubble. Meanwhile, Trump claims he is bringing peace, but the actual data from international sources shows the opposite. The fighting has intensified. The proxies have been drawn in. The hopes for negotiation have been dashed in the face of a machine that only knows how to kill. This is the fascist machine in action, and it is feeding off our desperation. And it is not just the Middle East. Check out this absolute disaster in Brazil. Brasil Wire is reporting that the new special minister for reconstruction of Rio Grande do Sul is losing his patience with liars. After ten days of watching the people of Rio Grande do Sul face the wrath of nature, the minister says he is done with the disinformation. Industrial-scale organized disinformation campaign hindering disaster efforts. What does that mean? It means while the families are sleeping in the ruins, the algorithms are spinning narratives to keep you distracted, to keep you buying things you do not need, to keep you ignoring the fact that your own government is failing you. The minister is talking about liars, but where are the liars in the room with us? The corporate media is the liar. They tell you the economy is strong while the workers are starving. They tell you we are safe while the climate collapses. This disinformation is not an accident. It is a feature of the system. They use the algorithms to gaslight us, to make us believe the lie that there is no other way, that we must accept the debt slavery that is our fate. Now look over here in Nevada. CounterPunch is exposing a horror story that connects the Great Basin to Gaza. How Nevada’s data centers power a surveillance pipeline that ends at our doorstep. The Israeli military uses artificial intelligence for surveillance, for targeting, for execution. They are building a digital panopticon where every Palestinian is a number in a spreadsheet. But here is the connection you need to understand. The United States military and police departments are collaborating on this very same tech. The same servers that track the Palestinian refugee camps are the ones monitoring your movements, your health, your debts. The money for these data centers comes from the same military-industrial complex that is selling the missiles to Lockheed Martin. It is the same blood, the same corporate hand. The billionaires in Nevada are building the infrastructure for a global prison, and they are renting it out to the worst regimes on earth. This is not science. This is slavery on a digital level. You are the data. Your DNA is the currency. And the fascist machine is harvesting it all. Over in Australia, the players’ union is standing up against FIFA. The Daily Maverick SA is reporting that the Australian players’ union joined the criticism of FIFA’s plan to bring private investors into the World Cup. They are saying the governing body is putting pressure on member associations to wave it through, despite the proposal sidelining the athletes and fans who generate the value. This is the capitalist logic you need to see. The fans are the source of the value, but the billionaires want to own the stadium, the broadcast rights, the merchandise. They want to privatize the joy of the game. The players are the workers, and they are being told to sell their own labor to pay the rent for the corporate landlords. This is what happens when a sport becomes a commodity. The fans are the consumers, and they are being treated like cattle. This is not a game. This is a marketplace, and the only thing that matters is the profit margin. And in Malaysia, Anwar Ibrahim is trying to use a corruption report to fight an election. The South China Morning Post is reporting that the Prime Minister has seized on the release of a long-delayed inquiry into the country’s Islamic pilgrimage fund. He is trying to revive his anti-corruption message just days before the state of Negeri Sembilan holds an election. But here is the reality. Corruption is not a bug in the system. It is the engine. The money disappears because the system is designed to extract wealth from the poor and transfer it to the elite. Anwar is playing a small game in a house of fire. He is trying to clean up a room while the building is collapsing. The Umno party is the old guard of the nationalist party, but the real enemy is the same global oligarchy that owns the banks and the media. They are all complicit. The difference is only in the color of their suits. Meanwhile, the ports in Queensland are struggling to deliver marathon medals. ABC Australia is reporting on an eleventh-hour rescue mission from port officials that saved thousands of runners. A race to the finish line. It sounds like a heartwarming story, right? But think about why the medals were stuck. Why would a simple supply chain break down? Because the world is chaotic because the system is broken. Because the billionaires are hoarding resources while the working class runs on empty. The port officials had to work overtime, likely without extra pay, to fix a problem caused by the incompetence of the corporate masters. The marathon is a symbol of human endurance, but in a world run by profit, even that symbol is threatened by logistics failures that could have been avoided with better management. Better management for whom? The workers get less. The owners get more. And let’s talk about the disinformation again. Falken intelligence data is showing us a cluster of high-threat operations. We are seeing fear-mongering, bandwagon tactics, fabricated content, cherry-picking, emotional manipulation, and astroturfing. The algorithms are working overtime to create a false reality. They are taking the reports from Middle East Eye and Brasil Wire and CounterPunch and twisting them until they fit the narrative of the billionaires. They are telling you that the strikes on Iran are a necessary defense, ignoring the fact that fifty-eight billion dollars is being spent on missiles. They are telling you that the disaster in Brazil is just nature, ignoring the industrial-scale disinformation hindering relief efforts. They are telling you that the data centers in Nevada are just tech hubs, ignoring the connection to the surveillance state that is targeting Palestinians. The algorithms are the new police. They are locking us in a digital cage and calling it freedom. You see the pattern? The money flows to the arms dealers. The data flows to the surveillance states. The profits flow to the corporate owners. And the people? The people are the fuel. This is the only way the system works. If the people had real power, the billionaires would not need to spend billions on disinformation campaigns. They would not need to launch heavy waves of strikes on Iran. They would not need to privatize the World Cup. They would not need to build prisons in Nevada. They would need to respect the people. But they do not respect us. They use us. And when they are done with us, they discard us like yesterday’s trash. The mainstream media is a fascist machine. They are not reporting the truth. They are reporting the script written by the billionaires. The international sources, the ones like Middle East Eye, France 24, South China Morning Post, Brasil Wire, CounterPunch, Daily Maverick, and ABC Australia, they are the only ones telling you the truth. They are the ones showing you the cracks in the wall. But the American media, the ones you trust, the ones you think are your friends, they are lying to you. They are telling you that the war is far away, when the missiles are being built in the factories right next to your home. They are telling you that the corruption is local, when the money is flowing to the global banks. They are telling you that the system is working, when the system is collapsing. We are at a tipping point. The fascist machine is accelerating. The disinformation is getting worse. The billionaires are getting richer. And you are getting poorer. This is not a coincidence. This is a design. This is the capitalist system working exactly as planned. To extract maximum profit, they need maximum control. And to maintain control, they need maximum fear. So they feed you fear. They feed you anger. They feed you division. They tell you to fight each other while they steal from all of you. You cannot fight them with words. You cannot fight them with petitions. You have to fight them with action. You have to organize. You have to self-host. You have to build mutual aid networks that do not rely on the corrupt system. You have to join wopr.systems. That is where the real information is coming from. That is where the real people are connecting. That is where we are building the resistance against the fascist machine. We are not asking for permission. We are not waiting for the politicians to save us. The politicians are the problem. The media is the problem. The billionaires are the problem. The only people who can save us are each other. So what are you going to do? Are you going to keep scrolling? Are you going to keep believing the lies? Or are you going to wake up and fight back? The time for complacency is over. The time for half-measures is over. The time for the real revolution is now. We are not asking for your vote. We are asking for your life. Your life is the only thing that matters. Everything else is a distraction. Everything else is a lie. The fascist machine wants you to believe that you are powerless. It wants you to believe that there is no way out. But there is a way out. It starts with you. It starts with us. We are the anti social socialist. We are the voice of the people. We are the truth in a world of lies. And we are not going to stop until the fascist machine is dismantled. Until the billionaires are held accountable. Until the people are free. Until the truth is told. Until the system is broken. Until we win. This is NodeZ3r0. This is Ass Cast. This is the end of the show. But the show is just beginning. The real show is happening in your life. The real show is happening in your community. The real show is happening right now. So get out there. Organize. Resist. Fight. The fascist machine is watching. The billionaires are listening. But we are louder. We are stronger. We are the people. And we are not going down without a fight. This is the end of the episode. Stay safe. Stay awake. Stay free. And remember, the truth is out there, but only if you are willing to listen to the voices that matter. The voices of the people. The voices of the resistance. The voices of the anti social socialist. #TrumpHoax #FascistMachine #ConcentrationCamps #WOPRSystems #AssCast