Gardner Goldsmith by Gardner Goldsmith

July 07, 2026 The Liberty Conspiracy Audio Pod, for 7-6-26!

Immense thanks to Jacob Hornberger, founder and president of the Future of Freedom Foundation, for joining us to discuss his excellent piece on the striking contrast between the principles expressed and respected in the Declaration of Independence and the current immigration police state in the US. We had a great conversation, and got to discuss excellent work by journalists.- I hope plenty of folks are following them here, and I hope folks will join us, m-f at 6 pm for Liberty Conspiracy LIVE, on Rumble or on X! - The audio pod always follows each show, via Substack and Spotify! Here is the link to tonight’s video: Liberty Conspiracy Live 7-6-26 Iran, Trump Blindness, EU Bloodlust, Hornberger! https://rumble.com/v7ccvi0-liberty-conspiracy-live-7-6-26-iran-trump-blindness-eu-bloodlust-hornberger.html

And here are some of the major issues we got to cover, tonight!

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WARIRAN

The FUNERAL: Massive “Khamenei’s funeral reflects ‘a real sense of unity’ – analyst (VIDEO) — RT World News” LINK

Donald Trump recently commented on the massive crowds at the funeral of Iran’s late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei (killed in the Feb. 28, 2026, US airstrike that also murdered Boshra Khamenei (Khamenei’s daughter), Zahra Mohammadi Golpayegani (Khamenei’s granddaughter, Boshra’s daughter who was 14 months old), Mesbah Bagheri Kani (Khamenei’s son-in-law, and husband of Boshra), Zahra Haddad-Adel (Khamenei’s daughter-in-law). Not only did Trump react to the massive turnout (nearly 10 million, estimated, in numerous cities — the largest funereal gathering in human history) in such a flip manner that Flip Wilson (who became a pastor after his work as a comedian) would likely change his name, Trump appeared to have forgotten that HE and his military who carried out his orders were responsible for the murders…

Trump expressed shock at the scale of turnout and mourning:

-“I thought people hated him.” / “I thought they hated Khamenei!” (referring to the massive crowds and people crying at the funeral).
-He suggested the tears might be “fake.”
-On the concentration of Iranian leadership at the events: “They are all there. One shot [and we can take them all out], but we are not going to do that because then we would have nobody to negotiate with.”
-He described giving Iran “a week off for a funeral because we’re nice.”
-Negotiations were paused until after the funeral, with an agreement that “neither side will shoot the other during the funeral proceedings.”

These remarks appear in multiple news reports. The combination of downplaying genuine mourning/support for Khamenei while highlighting a hypothetical military opportunity strongly suggest Trump is an immoral sociopath — in the same vein as Mark Levin:

Meanwhile, their friend, and recipient of our tax money, Benjamin Netanyahu, claims that world sentiment that opposes Israeli aggression is concocted by bot farms and influence campaigns, kinda like the bot farms and influence campaigns numerous reporters have discovered to be under the control of, or financially supported by, Israel.

These efforts are part of the Israeli “hasbara” (“public diplomacy”) or information operations. The most prominent recent example is the “Esther Project” (revealed via US Foreign Agents Registration Act/FARA filings in 2025):

Israel’s Foreign Ministry (via the Israel Government Advertising Agency) hired Bridges Partners LLC (a US firm set up in Delaware in June 2025 by Israeli consultants Uri Steinberg and Yair Levi) to recruit and manage 14–18 US-based social media influencers.
Influencers were reportedly paid around $6,000–$7,000 per post (with total campaign billings up to ~$900,000) to create pro-Israel content on Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, and X. The campaign ran roughly July–November 2025, with influencers expected to post 25–30 times per month.
The activity was registered under FARA as foreign agent work. Some payments also went to consultants (e.g., Nadav Shtrauchler, linked to Netanyahu circles).
Netanyahu met with pro-Israel influencers in New York (some denied direct payment from Israel).

Keep in mind that the Biden Admin almost prosecuted “influencers” such as Dave Rubin who were willing to do work to explain that Russia was not influencing the 2016 election (the funds purportedly came from two employees at RT), and the Biden Admin BANNED RT, forcing many American workers to move to Russia in order to continue doing their work.

Israel has used multiple U.S. firms in parallel influence efforts around the same period. Some of those other contractors do have Trump-world ties:

Brad Parscale (Trump’s 2016 digital director and former campaign manager) runs Clock Tower X LLC, which received a separate multimillion-dollar contract from Israel for AI/content work.
Other elements in Israel’s broader network involve evangelical/Christian PR firms or media outlets (e.g., Salem Media Group) with indirect Trump-family connections.

This, also, from Netanyahu, re Lebanon, is amazingly absurd. It is not Hezbollah that is attacking Christian communities and sites. The Israeli Offense Force has done so in Lebanon, Gaza, Jerusalem, and the West Bank.

Oh, and there’s this…

AND… this. It must be fascinating to be so desperate for the job, or so lacking of self-esteem, or so immoral, that a reporter/host can roll along with this absurd nonsense.

MORE on the MASSIVE Funeral for Ali Khemeini - This, from Laith Marouf, of Palestine Action, is very valuable

And, if you can watch all of this fantastic conversation between Max Blumenthal and Seyed Mirandi, you’ll be well rewarded. Max is in Tehran, reporting for The GrayZone

LEBANON

Yeah. The “Ceasefire” continues… Right, Zionists?

GAZA

Just a reminder of the history of Israel, the Irgun bombing the King David Hotel in the 1940s

SPECIAL REPORT - Multiple News Outlets Confirm that Microsoft Officials KNEW Israel was using corporation software/tech to surveil, monitor, exterminate Palestinians…

Multiple investigations provide evidence that certain people at Microsoft had significant knowledge of the collaboration with Israel’s Unit 8200 and the scale/nature of the data involved, though Microsoft maintains that top leadership and the company as a whole were not aware it involved mass storage and processing of intercepted civilian Palestinian phone calls for surveillance purposes. LINK

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Key Details:

The primary sources are the August 2025 joint investigation by The Guardian, +972 Magazine, and Local Call, based on leaked internal Microsoft documents and interviews with 11 sources (from Microsoft and Israeli military intelligence). These reports detail how Unit 8200 used Microsoft’s Azure cloud (with a customized, segregated setup) starting around 2022 to store massive volumes of data, including audio files of millions of daily Palestinian phone calls from Gaza and the West Bank.

2021 meeting with Satya Nadella:
Unit 8200’s then-commander Yossi Sariel met Nadella at Microsoft headquarters in Seattle. Sariel discussed moving large amounts of “sensitive workloads” and secret/top-secret data to the cloud (up to 70% of Unit 8200’s data). Nadella expressed support, described the partnership as “critical” for Microsoft, and offered resources to help migrate workloads gradually. Internal Microsoft records of the meeting exist. Microsoft states Nadella was present for only about 10 minutes, that the specific content of the data (e.g., civilian phone calls) was not discussed, and that he was unaware of plans to store such data.
Internal Microsoft documents and operational involvement:
These show Microsoft engineers (including some Israel-based staff and Unit 8200 alumni) worked closely and daily with Unit 8200 on security features and implementation. Documents reference raw intelligence data, audio files, enormous storage needs (“a million calls an hour”), and projected revenue in the hundreds of millions of dollars. By mid-2025, around 11,500 terabytes of Israeli military data (roughly equivalent to 200 million hours of audio) were reportedly stored on Azure servers in the Netherlands and elsewhere. Sources indicated that Israel-based Microsoft personnel were given indications it involved audio files on a massive scale, with one noting it was “pretty clear what it is.” LINK!
Microsoft’s official position:
The company has stated that it was not aware Unit 8200 was using Azure for “the surveillance of civilians or collection of their cellphone conversations.” It framed the engagement as cybersecurity support. An earlier external review (before the full revelations) found “no evidence” of use to target or harm people in Gaza. After the August 2025 reporting, Microsoft launched another review, found evidence supporting elements of the reporting (e.g., Azure storage consumption in the Netherlands and AI services use), and in September 2025 terminated Unit 8200’s access to specific cloud storage and AI services, citing a violation of its terms prohibiting facilitation of mass civilian surveillance.

Later reporting (into 2026) noted an internal Microsoft probe that led to the departure of Microsoft Israel’s chief (Alon Haimovich) and some senior managers, amid “concerns about transparency from Israel-based staff.” (In other words, they had to jettison the baggage and hope that the move would give them sufficient PR cover). Microsoft has denied allegations of leadership involvement in knowingly supporting the described project, but these reports indicate that the denials are false. LINK

The 7amleh study on voice surveillance (mentioned in the original post) aligns with and builds upon these revelations, as the stored audio/call data would enable AI processing like voice biometrics.In short: The investigations reveal deep technical and commercial collaboration, with operational-level Microsoft personnel having clear indications of the project’s massive scale and audio/intelligence data characteristics. However, Microsoft denies (and the reporting does not provide definitive proof of) specific prior knowledge at the highest levels that the data consisted of mass-intercepted civilian Palestinian phone calls being used for broad surveillance and targeting. Microsoft ultimately acted by restricting access after the public reporting. These accounts come from journalistic investigations citing documents and sources on both sides.

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RUSSIA-UKRAINE

Russian forces last night blasted multiple locations in and around Kiev. One of those appears to have been an arms-manufacturing facility called Vizar plant, in the Kyiv region, which produces and repairs anti-aircraft systems, Neptune missiles, and related components. LINK LINK (RT) Press Sec for Putin Dmitri Peskov confirms that Russia no longer is engaged in a “special military operation” but now is engaged in War.

The details on that Russian strike, and more information on the US-NATO provision of weapons to Ukraine — something that they cannot sustain

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SPECIAL REPORT: The Mirage of Economic Stimulus from European Rearmament

EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte aggressively have promoted expanded weapons production across Europe. Von der Leyen’s ReArm Europe plan and European “Defence” Industrial Strategy call for joint procurement, hundreds of billions in new spending, and a strengthened European “defence” industrial base to achieve “strategic autonomy.”

Rutte has urged allies to adopt a “wartime mindset” and rapidly scale up output of ammunition, drones, missiles, and other capabilities. LINK Politicians present this as both a security necessity and an economic opportunity—creating jobs, boosting GDP, and revitalizing industry. Yet from the Austrian School perspective, this view rests on a fundamental misunderstanding of how economies function.Military production does not create wealth; it consumes it.

Scarce resources—skilled labor, steel, energy, capital goods, and entrepreneurial talent—are diverted from the production of consumer goods and long-term capital formation toward goods whose primary purpose is destruction or stockpiling. This reallocation occurs through taxation, borrowing, and regulatory pressure, not voluntary exchange. The result is classic crowding-out: private investment falls as resources are bid away by state demand, distorting relative prices and the capital structure.Austrian analysis, rooted in Mises’ calculation problem and Hayek’s knowledge problem, shows why central direction of production fails to replicate market outcomes. Wartime or rearmament “booms” register higher measured output while actual consumer welfare declines through shortages, inflation, and suppressed living standards. Post-war recoveries have repeatedly demonstrated that genuine growth resumes only when resources return to peaceful, consumer-oriented uses.Europe’s push for greater arms manufacturing, however well-intentioned on security grounds, risks precisely the economic weakening its advocates claim to avoid. Sound policy would prioritize removing barriers to voluntary production rather than engineering new ones under the banner of national or continental strength.

Key EU statements:

Ursula von der Leyen, Press statement on the defence package (ReArm Europe): https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/et/statement_25_673
European Defence Industrial Strategy (EDIS): https://defence-industry-space.ec.europa.eu/eu-defence-industry/edis-our-common-defence-industrial-strategy_en
Mark Rutte, “To Prevent War, NATO Must Spend More” (December 2024): https://www.nato.int/en/news-and-events/events/transcripts/2024/12/12/to-prevent-war-nato-must-spend-more

Annnnnd… MORE Terroristic action revealed, driven by Ukraine and Europe/UK “UK orchestrated Ukrainian attack on iconic museum – Moscow (VIDEO) — RT Russia & Former Soviet Union” LINK

US ECONOMY

The battle over what the fiat-currency, cronyist, central banking cartel will do with the money supply continues.

The Central Bank Power Struggle: Rhetoric, Rates, and the Illusion of ControlThe rhetorical battle between the Trump administration and the Federal Reserve over interest rates exposes the core flaw of central banking. President Trump has repeatedly demanded aggressive rate cuts to ease government borrowing costs on trillions in debt, boost housing, and stimulate growth ahead of the November midterms. He has publicly criticized Fed Chair Jerome Powell and pushed for rates as low as 1 percent or below.

Many on the Federal Open Market Committee, however, have resisted, citing persistent inflation risks and a commitment to their 2 percent target. Markets currently assign only a 21 percent chance of any rate cuts in 2026.

From an Austrian perspective, this clash is a distraction. Interest rates are not tools for politicians or bureaucrats to wield; they are market prices reflecting individuals’ time preferences between present and future consumption. When the Fed artificially suppresses them, it distorts capital allocation, fuels malinvestment, and sets the stage for the next boom-bust cycle—the very phenomenon Austrian economists from Mises to Hayek identified as inherent to central banking.The Supreme Court’s June 29, 2026, ruling in Trump v. Cook (5-4) further entrenches this system. The Court blocked President Trump’s attempt to remove Fed Governor Lisa Cook, preserving the Board’s “for cause” removal protection while litigation continues.

This decision reinforces the myth of Fed “independence” from political pressure, even as it limits the administration’s ability to reshape the Board and ease the path to lower rates before the elections.Neither side offers a genuine free-market solution. Political pressure for easy money and bureaucratic resistance to it both rely on the same flawed premise: that a central authority should manipulate the money supply and interest rates at all. The real path to stable prices and sustainable growth lies in ending the Fed’s monopoly and allowing interest rates to emerge freely from voluntary savings and investment. https://www.scotusblog.com/2026/06/court-prevents-trump-from-firing-fed-governor/

Meanwhile, no one is free when the government controls what is so-called “legal tender”. For those of your friends who are “constitutionalists”, please let them know that even in the US Constitution, the “founders” stated that the US govt can coin money, but not the ONLY money. We should be free to hold gold and silver in our own vaults and issue currency based on our reserves, and if the market begins to show that we do not hold in reserve enough to fulfill calls if people with the currency slips want their metal, our institution will fail and more stable and transparent institutions will gain business.

It might be worthwhile to recall that the great early 18th C Irish clergyman, novelist, and satirist, Jonathan Swift, fought fiat currency and debasement, and won! Here is the Mises Institute on that! “Government Money Deserves a “Swift” Abolition | Mises Institute” LINK

US POLITICAL RACES

MAINE - SENATE

THE CLIMATE CULT - CENTRAL PLANNING, ELITISM, LACK OF ELECTRIC-PROVISION COMPETITION.

Headline! “Trump admin appears to delete air conditioner guidance amid right-wing freakout” LINK

IMMIGRATION POLICE STATE

Hannah Dugan’s battle continues “’No one is above the law’: Trump DOJ wants unremorseful judge slapped with ‘serious sentence’ for helping immigrant evade ICE, but she’s not having it” LINK

AND, for the FOURTH and MORE

“Mariachi star plays ‘Star-Spangled Banner’ in ICE detention for July 4” LINK

AND THIS, from tonight’s Mind Meld guest, Jacob Hornberger, Founder and President of the Future of Freedom Foundation “The Declaration of Independence Versus America’s Immigration Police State – The Future of Freedom Foundation” LINK

AND ONE MORE FROM JACOB HORNBERGER!

This, published today, offers more great insights on collectivism versus freedom. “What’s Trump’s Beef with Communism? – The Future of Freedom Foundation” LINK

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