This story originally appeared in Common Dreams on Aug. 26, 2026. It is shared here under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0) license.

A growing number of establishment Democrats are facing backlash from progressives for their escalating attacks on leftist streamer Hasan Piker, with critics accusing the party’s corporatist wing of obsessing over an online influencer while ignoring the economic and foreign policy grievances driving millions of voters away on the eve of the critical midterm elections.

The latest controversy erupted after Piker argued during an online broadcast that Jewish Americans’ public support for Israel could contribute to antisemitism. Piker’s comments drew swift condemnation from prominent Democrats, including House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (NY), who, without naming Piker, called them “dangerous and antisemitic.”

Other Democrats piled on, prompting rebuke from progressives, who accused the centrists of caring more about an online personality than winning back control of Congress in November.

Former progressive Michigan congressional candidate Kyle Blomquist called it an “absolute mass psychosis event.”

“Too many demotivated Democrats stayed home in 2016 and 2024. We can’t repeat past mistakes,” Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) said on social media.

Khanna implored Democrats to stop calling Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.)—who is Jewish—an antisemite and “stop wasting time attacking Hasan Piker instead of [President Donald] Trump’s robber-baron corruption.”

“Don’t put Israel hawks out of touch with our voters in charge of our Middle East policy,” he added. “It is time for a reckoning: Are we a party that represents corporate interests and super PACs, or will we represent the American people?”

According to Track AIPAC, pro-Israel Democrats have taken tens of millions of dollars in campaign contributions from pro-Israel lobby groups, including the American Israel Public Affairs Committee’s United Democracy Project.

Khanna’s comments came a day after Rep. Gregory Meeks (D-NY), the leading Democrat on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, announced the appointment of Rep. Jared Moskowitz (D-Fla.) as ranking member of the Middle East and North Africa Subcommittee. Moskowitz, who said earlier this year that he is “to the right” of Vice President JD Vance in his support of Trump’s illegal US-Israeli war of choice on Iran, is one of the strongest supporters of Israel in Congress.

This, at a time when three-quarters of Democratic voters oppose US aid to Israel—up from just 45% three years ago—and after the issue was a factor in former Vice President Kamala Harris’ loss to Trump in the 2024 presidential election.

A majority of Democratic voters also believe that Israel’s US-backed war on Gaza is a genocide, a position also held by United Nations experts, around 20 countries that joined South Africa’s ongoing genocide case at the International Court of Justice, human rights groups, and scholars around the world—including in Israel.

Jasper Nathaniel, a US journalist known for his coverage of Israel’s illegal occupation, settler colonization, and ethnic cleansing of the West Bank, posted on X: “The entire bipartisan political establishment has coalesced around a willful misreading of what Hasan Piker said in order to silence criticism of Israel. They’re doing the same thing to Mark Ruffalo in Hollywood. It’s all fucking gaslighting. Don’t give an inch.”

“What Hasan said is completely intuitive. Everyone knows that Israel’s genocide of Palestinians—and the Jewish institutions’ blanket support for it—has created more hostility towards Jews,” he added. “There is no good-faith argument against this.”

Jacobin staff writer Branko Marcetic asserted Wednesday that “centrists despise Hasan Piker more than they want to win.”

“It’s an extreme stretch to describe Piker’s remarks as an incitement of or justification for violence and bigotry against Jews,” he continued. “The basic point he’s making—that the tendency by pro-Israel voices to conflate Jewishness with lockstep support for Israel makes Jews less safe—has been made by a number of Jewish voices, including Ezra Klein at The New York Times, David Klion at The Nation, Norman Solomon at The Guardian, union organizer Molly Kraft, and Hannah Arendt nearly 80 years ago.”

The dispute has now ensnared Michigan US Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed, who campaigned alongside Piker during his successful Democratic primary bid. El-Sayed has somewhat distanced himself from Piker’s comments, emphasizing that the campaign represents his own views and condemning antisemitism. It hasn’t placated establishment Democrats.

Some Democrats have implored their party to keep its eyes on the proverbial prize—winning back Congress—instead of engaging in senseless internecine battles.

“Billionaires are draining our resources to develop a technology they want to replace us, millions will lose Medicaid in the new year to pay for tax cuts for the rich, and we’re spending billions on genocidal wars the voters oppose,” said Melat Kiros, the progressive Democratic nominee for Colorado’s 1st Congressional District. “But sure, let’s keep talking about Hasan Piker.”

It’s not just Democratic Socialists of America-type progressives who get it. Rep. Debbie Dingell (D-Mich.) admonished reporters during a Wednesday campaign rally for El-Sayed at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.

“Don’t any reporter ask me again about Hasan Piker,” she said angrily. “It’s not what November is about.”

“Republicans are… trying to divide us,” she continued. “And we’ve got to stop letting them try to divide us.”

Weighing in on corporate Democrats’ attacks on Piker from across the Atlantic, British writer and activist Owen Jones said Wednesday that “the Democratic establishment know they’ve lost their base. These smears are driven by panic.”

“The bottom line about what’s happening here is this: The American people have turned against Israel in revulsion at the genocide and want to stop facilitating its crimes. That opposition is overwhelming among the Democratic rank-and-file,” he continued.

“But the Democratic Party establishment remains invested in the alliance with Israel—and they fear being swept aside by pro-Palestinian left-wing candidates in upcoming primaries,” Jones asserted, adding that centrists “would prefer to lose to the Republicans than win with the left. They would prefer to keep facilitating Israel’s genocide and heinous crimes rather than win.”

“That’s what we are dealing with here,” he added. “And if it means destroying US democracy to defend Israel—that’s a price they’re willing to pay.”

Matt Duss, executive vice president at the Center for International Policy and a former foreign policy adviser to Sanders, expressed a similar sentiment on social media.

“You’ve never seen corporate Democrats fighting as hard and as on message against Trump as they are against Hasan right now,” he said. “It’s insane.”

By Gordon Duff for TID Iceland and the Russian Academy of Sciences

All links to previous Gospa News invetigation have been added in the aftermath

How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Realize the Missile Defense System Doesn’t Work

Let’s start with a simple question: What happens when you spend a trillion dollars building a shield, and the other guy builds a spear that goes right through it?

This isn’t a hypothetical. It’s 2026. And the answer is: you panic. Or you pretend it isn’t happening. Or you double down on the same policies that got you here and hope nobody notices.

America has chosen option three.

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The Poseidon Problem Nobody Wants to Talk About

There’s a submarine out there. Actually, there are several. But one in particular — the Belgorod — has been the subject of more nervous whispering in Pentagon hallways than just about anything else. It’s a special-purpose submarine, which is military-speak for “we don’t really know what it does, but we’re pretty sure we don’t like it.”

It carries six Poseidon torpedoes. Each one, according to Russian sources, carries a 200-megaton nuclear warhead. That’s 1.2 gigatons of explosive power sitting on one submarine. For comparison, the entire world’s nuclear arsenal during the Cold War peaked at around 70,000 warheads with a combined yield of roughly 18,000 megatons.

The Belgorod carries six percent of that total destructive power on a single hull. Western analysts have spent years trying to talk this down. “Maybe it’s only 50 megatons.” “Maybe it’s just a test vehicle.” “Maybe the Russians are bluffing.”

Maybe. And maybe the moon is made of cheese.

The Soviet Union built a 100-megaton warhead in 1961 and detonated half of it just to prove they could. They scaled it down to 50 megatons because the bomber couldn’t carry the full version. The technology isn’t the problem. The engineering isn’t the problem. The only question was whether they wanted to build it. They did. They have. End of story.

But here’s where it gets interesting — and by “interesting,” I mean terrifying.

Why 200 Megatons? The Tsunami Question

The Poseidon isn’t designed to destroy a city. It’s designed to destroy a coastline. The 200-megaton warhead isn’t for blast damage. It’s for the wave. A detonation of that size underwater, close to a coastal target, generates a tsunami measured in hundreds of feet. Not tens of feet. Hundreds.

You don’t need to hit New York. You need to hit fifty miles off the coast of New York. The wave does the rest. New York Harbor is gone. The ports are gone. The financial district is underwater. The same applies to Los Angeles, to Miami, to Norfolk — any coastal city with strategic importance.

This isn’t science fiction. It’s the stated purpose of the weapon. Russia has been remarkably straightforward about this. They built it to make coastal defenses irrelevant. And you know what? They’re right.

Six Poseidon torpedoes. Six coastal targets. One submarine.

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The Belgorod reportedly left its base in the White Sea in October 2022. NATO lost track of it. It turned up later in the Barents Sea, surfaced, and waved hello. But in between? Nobody knows. That’s the point. A submarine designed to operate at depths over 1,000 meters, with a nuclear reactor that gives it effectively unlimited range, carrying six weapons that can end life as we know it on a continental scale

And what did America do? The CIA Director flew to Moscow and apparently had a chat. No meeting with Putin. Just a chat with the security services. “Please don’t do anything reckless,” presumably.

The Russians must have nodded politely and thought: “We have six Poseidons. What exactly are you going to do about it?”

The Hypersonic Reality Check

Now let’s talk about speed. Specifically, 13,000 miles per hour.

That’s the reported speed of Russia’s hypersonic weapons. The Avangard glide vehicle. The Zircon cruise missile. The Kinzhal air-launched system. All of them travel at speeds that make interception functionally impossible.

Here’s why. Missile defense systems work on a very simple principle: detect, track, predict, intercept. You detect the missile. You track its trajectory. You calculate where it’s going to be. You launch an interceptor to meet it there.

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This requires the target to follow a predictable path. A ballistic missile does that. It goes up, it goes down, and the math is straightforward. Hypersonic glide vehicles do not do that. They maneuver. They change direction. They change altitude. They zig. They zag. And they do all of this at 13,000 miles per hour.

Let me put that in perspective. A bullet from a high-powered rifle travels at around 2,000 miles per hour. A hypersonic weapon travels at six times that speed. By the time your radar detects it, tracks it, and computes an intercept trajectory, the weapon has already changed course three times. The intercept solution you computed is worthless. And there’s no time to compute a new one.

The math simply doesn’t work. You cannot intercept a maneuvering target at 13,000 miles per hour with current technology. You can’t do it with future technology, either, unless you invent something that breaks the laws of physics.

Now, the Pentagon has issued confident statements about being “on track” to develop anti-hypersonic defenses. They’ve awarded billions in contracts. They’ve held press conferences. They’ve assured Congress that the problem is being addressed.

This is what we call in the journalism trade: a comforting lie.

The people who run these programs know the truth. The physics is the physics. You can’t cheat it. You can throw money at it, and you can promise results, but at the end of the day, you’re trying to hit a bullet with a faster bullet, except the first bullet is actively dodging. Good luck with that.

Iran, North Korea, and the Spread of Unstoppable Systems

And here’s the part that keeps strategic planners awake at night. Russia isn’t the only country developing these systems. China has them. North Korea has them. Iran has demonstrated hypersonic capabilities that Western analysts initially dismissed — until they saw the footage. Then they stopped dismissing it.

The Chinese AJX002 underwater drone is essentially a Poseidon clone. North Korea’s “Haeil” system does exactly what the Poseidon does, on a smaller scale. Iran’s hypersonic missile test in 2024 reportedly achieved speeds of over Mach 15 with terminal maneuvering.

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The old rules of missile defense are dead. They just haven’t been buried yet.

Every country that develops these systems is making a simple calculation: we can’t match the United States in conventional military power. But we don’t need to. We just need one or two of these weapons. One is enough. One gets through, and the game changes.

And the United States cannot stop them. It cannot intercept them. It cannot defend against them. All it can do is promise retaliation. But retaliation against whom? The submarine that launched the Poseidon is already gone. The hypersonic missile came from a truck on a highway somewhere in a country the size of Iran. Good luck finding it. Good luck bombing it.

This is the new strategic reality. America’s missile defense shield — the one that cost a trillion dollars, the one that was supposed to make the nation safe — is effectively useless. It works against old technology. It does not work against new technology. It’s like building a castle wall to defend against arrows, while the enemy shows up with cannons.

The Ukrainian Factor: Arming a Proxy Against a Nuclear Power

Now we get to the part that nobody in Washington wants to discuss honestly.

Since 2022, the United States has provided tens of billions of dollars in military aid to Ukraine. Tanks. Artillery. Air defense systems. Missiles. Intelligence. Training. Logistics. All of it aimed at one goal: weakening Russia.

This is not an unreasonable policy. From America’s perspective, it makes perfect sense. Weaken a strategic rival without putting American boots on the ground. It’s cheap. It’s effective. It’s the kind of warfare the United States has been practicing for decades.

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Here’s the problem: Russia is a nuclear power. And Russia is not Afghanistan. It’s not Iraq. It’s not Syria. It’s a country with 5,000 nuclear warheads, hypersonic weapons, Poseidon torpedoes, and a military doctrine that explicitly allows nuclear first-use in response to existential threats.

Ukraine has been conducting strikes inside Russian territory. Long-range drones hitting air bases. Missiles hitting infrastructure. Sabotage operations. Attacks on Russian border regions. These are not incidental. They are part of the Ukrainian war plan. And the United States has provided the intelligence and the weapons to make them possible.

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From Russia’s perspective, this is not “helping Ukraine defend itself.” This is the United States arming a proxy to conduct attacks on Russian soil. This is an existential threat. And Russia has stated, repeatedly, that they will respond to existential threats with nuclear weapons.

This is not a bluff. This is not a negotiation tactic. This is Russian doctrine.

What Happens When the Conventional War Goes Badly

America’s conventional military forces are struggling. It’s an open secret that the Pentagon doesn’t discuss publicly, but the numbers don’t lie.

The defense industrial base in the United States is atrophied. The factories that produced tanks, artillery shells, and missiles in vast quantities during the Cold War are largely gone. Defense contractors prioritize high-tech, high-profit systems like fighter jets and stealth bombers. They don’t make conventional artillery shells in sufficient quantity.

They don’t make armored vehicles quickly. They don’t have the surge capacity for a major war.

The Army is struggling to meet recruitment goals. The Navy’s shipbuilding capacity is at a historic low. The Air Force is trying to field a new generation of fighters while maintaining an aging fleet. The logistics tail is enormous.

The cost of doing business is astronomical.

Meanwhile, Russia has put its economy on a war footing. Production of artillery shells is three times what it was before the war. Tank production has been restarted. Missile production continues around the clock. The Russian military is in the process of learning from its mistakes in Ukraine and rebuilding accordingly. And Russian air defenses — despite the criticism they’ve received from Western analysts — are actually quite effective. Russian sources claim their air defense systems are 25 times more effective than anything the United States fields. That’s probably an exaggeration. But not by as much as you’d hope.

Now imagine a conventional conflict between the United States and Russia. Not a nuclear exchange. Just a conventional war. Where is America going to get the ammunition? The spare parts? The replacement vehicles? The surge capacity? The answer is: it won’t. The supply chains are gone. The factories are gone. The workforce is gone.
And Russia knows this. Russia also knows that America’s only credible response to a conventional defeat would be nuclear escalation. And Russia has the systems to survive that escalation and retaliate. The Poseidon. The Avangard.

The Zircon. The Sarmat. The air defenses. This is not a fair fight. This is not a contest that America can win.

The Trump Factor: Bull in a China Shop

Now we come to the current American president. Donald Trump. A man who has built his political career on negotiating from what he calls “strength.” A man who threatens, cajoles, blusters, and insists he can make deals that nobody else can make. A man who genuinely believes that his personal relationships with foreign leaders can overcome strategic realities.

The problem is, strategic reality doesn’t care about relationships. It doesn’t care about deal-making. It doesn’t care about bluster.

Trump has threatened Russia with military force. He has said he would “destroy” the Russian economy. He has suggested that America’s missile defenses are so effective that Russia should be intimidated. He has mocked Putin publicly. He has talked about the strength of the American military as if it were 1990 instead of 2026.

And the Russians are watching. They’re watching the American military struggle with recruitment. They’re watching the defense industrial base struggle to produce shells. They’re watching the missile defense system fail again and again in tests. They’re watching the hypersonic weapons that America has been promising for years remain stubbornly in development, while Russia’s systems are already deployed.

From Moscow’s perspective, Trump’s bluster is empty. It’s noise. It’s the sound of a man who doesn’t understand the strategic reality he’s confronting. And the Russians are patient. They’ve been patient for decades. They can wait out another American presidency. They can wait out the political cycle. They’ve been playing this game a long time.

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But here’s the danger: Trump is not rational. Or rather, he’s rational in a way that’s unpredictable. He might actually believe his own threats. He might actually think he can bluff his way to victory. And bluffing against a country with a 200-megaton Poseidon torpedo is not a winning strategy.

What America Doesn’t Understand About the Russian Mindset

Americans, by and large, don’t understand how Russians think. They assume that Russians want what Americans want. Peace. Prosperity. Freedom. Democracy. They assume that trade and engagement will eventually win the day.

They assume that economic pressure will force Russia to change its behavior.

This is all wrong. Russians have a fundamentally different worldview. They have been invaded three times in the last two hundred years by European armies. They have suffered tens of millions of casualties. They have starved. They have been betrayed by allies. They have been encircled, threatened, and pushed to the brink. And they have survived.

The Russian mindset is survivalist. It’s existential. Russians don’t think in terms of “winning.” They think in terms of “not losing.” They don’t care about prosperity if it comes at the cost of security. They will endure hardship, poverty, and sacrifice, because they have done it before. And when they are threatened, they respond with overwhelming force.

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This is what America doesn’t understand. When Russia says “this is an existential threat,” they mean it. When they say “we have red lines,” they mean it. When they say “we will use nuclear weapons if necessary,” they mean it. It’s not a game. It’s not a negotiation tactic. It’s survival.

And America keeps pushing. Every shipment of weapons to Ukraine. Every intelligence assist. Every drone strike on Russian soil. Every threat from Donald Trump. It’s pushing the Russians closer to the edge. And the Russians have weapons that America cannot stop.

The Poseidon Deployment Question: Have They Already Done It?

Now we come to the question that nobody in Washington wants to ask: Has Russia already deployed Poseidon torpedoes off America’s coasts?

There’s no way to know. That’s the whole point of the system. It operates at depths of over 1,000 meters. It’s virtually silent. It has unlimited endurance. It could sit off the coast of New York or Los Angeles or Miami for months, waiting. It could move into position and wait for the order. And nobody would know.

The Belgorod has been out of sight. NATO has lost track of it multiple times. Russian naval exercises have been conducted in unpredictable patterns. The United States claims to know where Russia’s submarines are. The United States has claimed this for decades. And Russia’s submarines have managed to show up in surprising places — including the Atlantic coast — on multiple occasions.

If a Poseidon is already off the coast of the United States, there is no defense against it. There is no way to detect it. There is no way to intercept it. There is no way to stop it. The only thing that stops it is a Russian decision not to detonate it.

And that’s the point. That’s the strategic reality. The United States cannot defend against a Poseidon. It cannot threaten Russia into disarming the Poseidon. It cannot negotiate away the Poseidon. It can only hope that Russia doesn’t use it.

And Russia is watching American behavior. They are watching the threats. They are watching the arming of Ukraine. They are watching the attacks on Russian territory. They are watching Donald Trump. And they are asking themselves: How long can we tolerate this before we need to prove our capability?

What the United States Should Do

I am a policy advisor, not a journalist. But the truth is the truth, and the truth needs to be told.

The United States should stop threatening Russia. It should stop arming Ukraine with weapons that can strike Russian territory. It should stop pretending that its missile defense system actually works. It should stop talking about “winning” a confrontation with a country that has weapons America cannot stop.

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Instead, the United States should talk. Seriously. Quietly. Without cameras. Without bluster. Without threats. It should acknowledge that Russia has legitimate security concerns. It should acknowledge that Russia’s red lines are real. It should acknowledge that America’s conventional military power is less formidable than it appears.

And it should negotiate. A deal. A settlement. A strategic pause. Something that gives Russia an off-ramp and gives America a chance to rebuild its military capacity without pushing the world to the brink.

Because right now, the United States is doing the opposite. It’s threatening. It’s provoking. It’s pretending. And Russia is watching, quietly, with six Poseidon torpedoes, hypersonic glide vehicles, nuclear cruise missiles, and the patience of a people who have survived everything history has thrown at them.

A Final Word

This is not a column about Russia being virtuous. Russia is not a nice country. It’s authoritarian. It’s aggressive. It has done terrible things in Ukraine and elsewhere. The United States has plenty of legitimate grievances.

But grievances don’t matter when a 200-megaton torpedo is sitting off your coast. Right and wrong don’t matter.

What matters is survival. And survival requires a clear-eyed understanding of reality.

The reality is this: the United States cannot defend against Russia’s newest weapons. It cannot stop a Poseidon. It cannot intercept an Avangard. It cannot track a Zircon. It has bankrupted itself on a missile defense system that doesn’t work against the threats that actually exist. And it has provoked a nuclear power to the point where that nuclear power is starting to ask very hard questions about its own survival.

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This is not a lecture. This is not a threat. This is a warning. Written by a journalist. For average readers. Because someone needs to say it clearly, without jargon, without political bias, without comforting lies.

The United States is pushing toward a confrontation it cannot win. The clock is ticking. And the only thing worse than admitting that reality is pretending it isn’t true until it’s too late.

By Gordon Duff for TID Iceland and the Russian Academy of Sciences

This story originally appeared in Common Dreams on Aug. 27, 2026. It is shared here under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0) license.

Scientists and climate action campaigners on Thursday pointed to the collapse of a glacier as a likely cause of disastrous flash flooding in Tibet and Nepal’s Rasuwa district, where emergency workers are searching for more than 1,300 missing people after water and mud poured into the Trishuli River valley, crashing through villages where thousands of people live and sweeping away bridges, homes, and miles of roads.

An initial assessment by geologists and glaciologists found that in satellite imagery taken before the flooding, a glacier was seen about 4,000 feet above the valley where at least 353 people were later killed Wednesday by the rushing waters and mudslide.

The glacier appeared about 2 million square feet smaller after the flooding, while the valley was “strewn with ice and mud” and the nearby river was “swollen beyond its banks, submerging the surrounding vegetation beneath murky brown floodwaters.

The scientists said an “ice avalanche”—a massive chunk of ice that fell off a glacier in the mountainous region and into the valley below, was likely at least partially to blame for the flash flooding, but noted that it was too early to rule out other or additional causes.

The satellite imagery appeared to show that “a glacier in the area basically snapped off in a clean break, allowing it to fall just over a vertical kilometer to the valley bottom,” Daniel Shugar, a geologist at the University of Calgary in Canada, told The New York Times. “The bottom looks like a bomb exploded—it’s just deposits from the broken-up glacier.”

The chunk of ice was likely about 2,000 feet wide, Shugar told the Times, and fell nearly 4,000 feet—a fall that would have “pulverized” the ice into water.

Aakriti Dotel, national network coordinator for the climate action group Nepalese Youth for Climate Action said the floods were “another painful reminder of the growing climate crisis facing Nepal and the Himalayas.”

“As our glaciers melt and extreme weather events become increasingly unpredictable, communities living downstream are bearing the devastating consequences,” said Dotel. “We mourn the lives lost and the livelihoods affected and call for urgent global climate action. There must be stronger support for vulnerable mountain communities, and accountability from those most responsible for the climate crisis.”

The disaster stunned officials in the area, where there had been no rainfall before the floodwaters and mudslide overtook the region.

Intense videos circulating on social media Wednesday showed people attempting to run away as water and mud crashed into villages in the region.

Tom Fletcher, the United Nations humanitarian chief, said he had mobilized $2 million from the UN Global Emergency Fund “to save lives with emergency medical care, shelter, water.”

The secretary-general of the Nepal Red Cross told CNN that about 20,000 houses have been “swept away” in the region.

“These people do not have anything,” said Rishi Khanal. “To feed them for some time, some days is a very serious thing to us… The shelter problem is there. The drinking water problem is there.”

A police officer in the village of Syabrubesi told the Times that waves of water crashed into his police station Wednesday morning, right after he got off the phone with a friend who had warned him a flood was headed toward the town.

“One of my senior officers and I were together when the wave struck. I was thrown out, but he was unlucky and was buried or swept away,” he told the newspaper. “I cannot explain how big the waves were. They engulfed several-meters-high buildings in a fraction of seconds… It wasn’t just water. It was a combination of boulders, sand, and thick sludge.”

Seven people were working at the station when the flood hit, and the officer is one of three who have been found alive. He said he was concerned that the other four are among the missing.

Homes, schools, government buildings, and the office of a hydropower project are among the infrastructure destroyed in Syabrubesi.

More than 160 glaciers in Nepal have entirely melted in recent decades, as scientists have warned that continued fossil fuel extraction is heating the planet and causing dangerous extreme weather. The area of the country’s glaciers also shrank by about one-quarter between 1970-2010.

At The Conversation, Levan Tielidze, a research fellow in glacial geomorphology at Monash University, wrote that “it’s too early to say this was the exact cause. But we know that the great ice stores of the Himalayas—known as the world’s ‘third pole’ because it contains the largest amount of snow and ice after the Arctic and Antarctic—are no longer safe.”

Tielidze continued:

What happened in Nepal is likely due to an enormous ice-and-rock landslide sweeping down a mountain pass and gathering up ice, water, rock, trees and dirt.
The landslide was so large it was originally thought to be an earthquake, as the seismic energy registered as a 4.4 magnitude quake on seismographs.
By the time it reached Gyirong Port—a China-Nepal border crossing—the wall of debris resembled a tsunami of dirt. Early estimates suggest the wave may have been 30 meters high.

Rising global temperatures have been linked to previous collapses of glaciers, including in Switzerland last year when the Birch Glacier wiped out nearly an entire town of 300 residents, who had evacuated before the disaster. Eleven mountain climbers were also killed by a glacier collapse in Italy in 2022.

“Every destabilized glacier in a warming Himalaya is a ticking time bomb that can go off unannounced, and when it does, those least responsible for the climate crisis pay with their lives,” said Savio Carvalho, head of campaigns and networks for 350.org. “This moment of grief has a clear message for world leaders: Delay is deadly. Rich countries must finally deliver the finance and protection they owe frontline communities. Without a rapid transition away from fossil fuels, the planet will continue to heat up and lives can be lost in a flash.”

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A young German woman from the feminist group Lukreta has posted a video decrying yet another gang rape by foreigners in her country, this time involving three Afghan suspects who are accused of gang raping a 17-year-old girl in Dortmund, filming the rape, and then laughing as they traumatized the victim.

The three men – 20-year-old Quais W., 19-year-old Burhanulla N., and 25-year-old Kambiz H. – are currently on trial in Dortmund Regional Court involving a range of serious charges, including rape and the filming of a pornographic video of a minor.

"Three Afghan men raped a 17-year-old girl in Dortmund, filmed the act, and even laughed while doing so."

A young German woman says the case was "covered neither by public broadcasters nor by the political Left."

Why? Because the suspects were Afghan.

The suspects are… pic.twitter.com/7rOIcag13I

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The three men reportedly lured the girl to their apartment in September 2024 in the city of Dortmund under a false pretext. However, once in the apartment, the suspects got the girl so intoxicated with alcohol that she lost consciousness.

“During the night, the witness lost consciousness as a result of alcohol consumption. The accused then took advantage of this situation,” said prosecutor Fabian Weishaupt.

The three men then systematically raped the girl and filmed themselves laughing. One of them even opened the unconscious girl’s eyes with his finger.

According to Bild, the three suspects all have extensive criminal records, including robbery, attacks against law enforcement, drug trafficking, assault, and other offenses.

As for the Lukreta feminist group, one of their members stated that the case was “covered neither by public broadcasters nor by the political Left even though it can hardly be surpassed in terms of abnormality and misogyny.”

“The reason, of course, is that the three perpetrators are all of Afghan origin and known to the police,” she said.

In other words, the media and left-wing feminist groups are very careful when perpetrators of such attacks are foreigners, but only because such cases are rapidly fueling the rise of the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party. The data is also clear. Remix News reported that last year, a record-high number of suspects involved in gang rape were foreigners, reaching 53 percent for the first time.

The young woman from Lukreta also has little faith in the German justice system and questions whether the Afghan men will be deported if convicted, stating: “Whether the three Afghans will even be justly convicted is questionable. What is certain, however, is that in the event of deportation, far-left Antifa activists will be at the airport to prevent the flight of the rapists.”

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...instead of delivering on his campaign promises, instead of working on accountability, reform, justice for the covid scamdemic crime victims, or anything even remotely related, Bobby keeps showering bioweapons manufacturers with money .., approving new mRNA poison shots, not removing the PREP Act liability shield for the crime cartel..

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Who Owns Bobby Part 1 is here. [on Truth11.com here] In it I addressed the major donors to Kennedy’s MAHA Alliance campaign (~$8M). Just to close the loop on the political campaign financing, the Federal Election Commission’s Kennedy campaign filings show the total campaign raised about $67.3M during the 2023–2024 cycle. Nicole Shanahan contributed $20M, and the rest of the financing came from ~180K individual small donations. One might say, surely, Nicole owns Bobby now, right? Not so. Let’s not confuse Political Charity with Political Enterprise. Nicole’s wealth is the former: she has a lot of money, true, but it’s all from the divorce settlement with Sergey Brin. There is no coalition of corporations that will profit from government connections and military-intelligence contracts, and therefore, nothing to build a lasting “public-private” empire or a winnable political campaign upon. In US politics, it’s not the candidate who is running for office. It is the corporate-intelligence-military alliance which invests in their political puppet candidate and expects returns when they are placed in power.

As Catherine Austin Fitts stated - it’s not the cash per se that funds the political campaigns, it’s the capital gains that do so. For a political run to be winnable, the funding must come from ideally several major industries that will profit from government handouts, favorable regulations, military and “science” grants and contracts - i.e. the financial “returns” on “investment” that the corporations made backing a politician that will deliver for them. At the same time, major intelligence agency alliances will ensure similar profiteering scheme for the intelligence contractors running a variety of money laundering, regime changes, weapons, drugs and human trafficking schemes globally. These elements of corporate-deep state -military marriage were absent from Kennedy 2024 run, thus, his campaign was a-priory unwinnable. The play was simple - take Nicole’s money and deliver the energized health freedom base to Trump. It worked.

Nicole herself seems too idealistic to attempt such an enterprise. She was relieved of her charitable $20M and unlikely to have another $20M stuck between the sofa cushions for the next season. Thus, she was a useful stepping stone but was immediately dumped by the roadside (and literally bleeding from a 20+ week miscarriage, likely from the mRNA shot) once Kennedy officially negotiated a deal with Trump. IMO, that deal had been pre-negotiated way earlier than that.

While this post centers around RFK Jr’s daughter-in-law and Kennedy 2024 campaign manger: Amaryllis Fox Kennedy, who is married to RFK Jr’s oldest son RFK III, I would like to point out that it is not because Amaryllis is a CIA agent. That’s just her pedigree. A much more important aspect to answering the question “Who Owns Bobby?” is Amaryllis’s stepfather, Stephen Rales, as discussed below. I am including a few links from the Internet Archive, as it seems that the data about Amaryllis and her family has been substantially scrubbed from the internet. Many of these source articles were assembled for me by a reader, and I thank them for this contribution.

Amaryllis is a “former” CIA agent and spy. She joined the CIA at age 22 (but IMO was in the “CIA youth” grooming program since her teens) and served between 2002 and 2010, working on counterterrorism. The official narrative claims she departed the CIA in 2010, however, there is no such thing as “ex-CIA”.

In 2014 Amaryllis was introduced to RFK Jr’s oldest son via a mutual friend at the Burning Man - a very popular annual party in Nevada desert, attended by financial, tech and government elites, and swarming with intelligence assets. Prostitution is legal in Nevada, and practically everything else is legal in the Nevada desert. The festival is awash with drugs and sex and overtly Satanic themes. Here is a good article about it by Nicole Shanahan, who, likewise, met her billionaire ex-husband Sergei Brin at the Burning Man. It will give you an idea on the circumstances under which “former” CIA hotties mate with high value targets like RFK III. Amaryllis is older than the 3rd, and has been around many blocks. She had been previously married (twice, according to some sources). I cannot find the information about the 1st marriage, but her second one was to Dean Fox, from whom she has a daughter, Zoë Victoria, born in 2009, and whose name she retained after marrying for the 3rd time to the 3rd. No public information about Dean Fox is available. It is known that he met Amaryllis Fox while both were serving undercover for the CIA in Shanghai. The dates of marriage or divorce are not available.

Amaryllis and RFK III got married in 2018 and have 2 kids. I am not implying in any way that the relationship is not genuine. All people can fall in love.

Amaryllis’s bio (and here) is quite breathtaking:

While many of her contemporaries were worrying about prom and spring break, Fox was volunteering in a Mai Laa refugee camp on the border of Thailand and Burma. As she recalled in a Paper Mag interview (note, link has been scrubbed), though she was only 17, she knew one thing for certain when she arrived at the airport to go home: she didn’t want to.

Instead, she spent two more years there working in health clinics and helping to raise funds for them. She also entered the journalism arena, recording a rare interview with Aung San Suu Kyi for the BBC, which would land her in a Burmese prison for a short time (!!!)

Here is Amaryllis herself retelling that horror imprisonment (mmm, more like a brief detention at the airport as far as I can tell) to the authors of “Freakonomics” books. I read both the Freakonomics and the SuperFreakonomics, and they are very interesting works.

However, holy shirt! Conducting an interview with a globo-deep state puppet Aung San Suu Kyi (CIA asset, anyone?) for a globo-deep state propaganda outlet (BBC) and earning street cred in a Burmese prison at age 17? Or maybe 19? (Depending on who is retelling the story). Check! I am wondering why BBC had a shortage of credentialed journalists that day to assign such a high profile the interview to a random teenager… but ok. Here is an on-point and a very entertaining discussion about Amarylis obviously being a Young Pioneer groomed by the CIA/British intelligence, starting at the tender age of around 8 yo (at 17 min):

I recommend listening to the entire podcast. Amaryllis is a liar and quite a mediocre, lazy one at that. That’s true to character - “woke AF” Marxists tend to be lazy-mediocre types after all.

As to the high profile Burmese interviewee, Aung San Suu Kyi, whom possibly underage Amaryllis was interviewing for BBC and then smuggling the film out in her um…[redacted]… because reasons - the notorious Aung San Suu Kyi drew criticism from several countries, organizations and figures over Myanmar's inaction in response to the Rohingya genocide in Rakhine State and refusal to acknowledge that the Tatmadaw (armed forces) had committed massacres.^{[13][14][15][16]} Under her leadership, Myanmar also drew criticism for prosecutions of journalists.^[17] In 2019, Aung San Suu Kyi appeared in the International Court of Justice where she defended the Myanmar military against allegations of genocide against the Rohingya people.^[18]

Given that she was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, we can safely assume the genocide accusations were very valid.

After being imprisoned (again!) following Myanmar's military coup in February 2021, Aung San Suu Kyi was serving a lengthy prison sentence at an undisclosed location in Naypyidaw. In April 2026, Myanmar's military government announced that it had reduced her sentence as part of a broader amnesty and transferred her from prison to house arrest (or a designated residence). Again.

Back to Amaryllis’s incredible adventures. By 2002 she returned home from hot climates: she went to Oxford for an undergraduate degree, and then returned to the US to attend a master’s program at Georgetown:

While at Georgetown she developed a remarkable algorithm for predicting terrorist activity and was asked by the university’s CIA Officer in Residence Dallas Jones to share it with Langley.

Per Fox’s bio for Big Think, she “began work as a political and terrorism analyst for SE Asia, commuting between Langley and Georgetown to finish her degree with honors.”

Gosh! Straight out of many Hollywood scripts: youth, beauty AND brains of a white-hat terrorist-hunting hacker… when did she gain that technology expertise? The algorithm itself is a no-brainer though: the CIA does not need any special algorithms to predict their own operations. They just needed to give extra oomph to Amaryllis’s bio by advertising this amazing “code” that she allegedly made.

Speaking of super-freaking coincidences. Another story about terrorism-predicting computer code appears in the book SuperFreakonomics (see above link to Amaryllis’s talk on the authors’ podcast). It describes an experimental project by a British bank fraud investigator, Ian Horsley (identified by name in Freakonomics blog posts), working with economist Steven Levitt to explore whether retail banking data could identify “potential terrorists”. Translation: install mass warrantless surveillance of the citizen’s financial transactions under pretenses of “fighting terror”.

The project began after the 2005 London bombings (7/7). But of course, right around installation of the Patriot Act, the PREP Act, and related pillars of the global totalitarian regime, we have a London focused problem-reaction-solution incident. Let’s see who the main perpetrators were:

Mohammad Sidique Khan, aged 30. The ringleader of the four bombers, he also lived in Beeston, Leeds, with his wife and young child. He worked as a learning mentor at a primary school. Khan was the second to detonate a bomb, on the number 216 train, killing seven people, including himself.

Readers, the compounding of coincidences overwhelms me! Perhaps, the public awareness of the terrorists ringleader’s name, as well as the train number are the deciding factors that got the Mayor of London Sadiq Khan elected to his office in 2016? Isn’t that how the democratic democracy works?

In re the banking surveillance algorithm, Ian Horsley proposed using the same statistical techniques banks use to detect fraud, but instead of identifying fraudulent customers, the algorithm would identify individuals whose “banking behavior resembled that of known terrorists”. The proposed process was:

1. Collect banking data on individuals already identified as terrorists or terrorism suspects. (Was that with or without a warrant, I wonder?)
2. Compare their financial behavior with that of millions of ordinary customers. (Again, was it with or without a warrant that the data for these “millions of ordinary customers” were collected?)
3. Build a statistical model that identifies combinations of characteristics that distinguish the two groups.
4. Apply the model to the bank’s customer database to generate a ranked list of individuals for further investigation—not to establish guilt. (Gosh, we are thankful that the banking AI is not given conviction or execution authorities, yet! That’s coming in the next version releases…)

The SuperFreakonomics book deliberately disclosed only a few surveillance variables. According to the Freakonomics material, some characteristics associated with known suspects included:

• Having a Muslim name - ah, the good old racial profiling! Genius. On a personal note, my last name is Arabic-derived, as my grandfather was a Tatar.
• Living in particular geographic areas - same as above, the good-old racial profiling!
• Other undisclosed behavioral features… I can guess some of these: attending religious services, schools, shopping in certain shops (halal), buying particular items of clothing or decor, timing of the transactions around days of the week and religious holiday schedules, travel patterns, etc.

Another personal note: my husband discovered a clever Muslim technology - hijab magnets - on Amazon. He uses them to secure the mountain biking elbow guards so they don’t slide down on rough descends… Combined with my anti-Pandemic-Crime career and name, we must be on soooo many terrorist watch lists, I can only imagine! My children got me a this sticker:

I think it is very clear what these super-amazing code algorithms are - nothing other than age-old profiling tactics. The only thing that’s different post 2005 is the technocratic totalitarians in power have justified what used to be illegal warrantless surveillance and racial profiling under the slogans of “the war on terror”. The CIA and their international collaborators provided the acts of terrorism required for the illegal laws, including the Patriot Act, the PREP Act similar legislation to be passed in the UK.

Ok, enough digressions, back to Amaryllis.

Amaryllis became the campaign manager for RFK Jr’s 2024 presidential campaign after Denis Kucinich was pushed out by the same donor class who demanded Kennedy run as an independent. Kennedy simply replaced Kucinich with his own British spook of a daughter-in-law who had zero political experience. Consequently, RFK Jr negotiated Amaryllis position for CIA deputy director in the Trump administration. In 2024 Amaryllis was installed by Trump as Deputy Director of National Intelligence for Policy and Capabilities and Associate Director for Intelligence and International Affairs at the Office of Management and Budget. She is also a member of Trump’s Intelligence Advisory Board. That’s quite a lot of CIA titles for someone claimed to be “ex-CIA”!

Amaryllis resigned in 2026, together with Tulsi Gabbard. Amaryllis became a partner at Ballard Partners, where she will co-Chair the firm’s Emerging Technology and AI Practice Group. According to published news articles, Ballard Partners are overjoyed to have her on board (who wouldn’t be?):

“We are thrilled to welcome Amaryllis to Ballard Partners and to our Emerging Technology and AI Practice Group,” said firm founder and President Brian Ballard.

“She has operated at the very highest levels of the intelligence community and the federal budget process, and few people in the country understand as well as she does how government funds, oversees, and adopts advanced technology. As artificial intelligence transforms every industry and every corner of government, her judgment and experience will be invaluable to our clients.”

The firm represents dozens of companies in all major sectors, as well as numerous local governments and academic institutions. Client list includes Palantir, Meta, Bayer pharma, Blackstone, NYSE, LA28 Olympic Games, MLB, NBA, NY Yankees, NFL, PGA Tour, Amazon, Anthropic and many more!

Danaher Corp will likely be a juicy addition to the client list, and that might be the real reason behind Brian Ballard’s excitement over his new partner. Now, we are getting to the real answer on who owns Bobby. Let’s look into the business of mRNA bioweapons.

Meet Amaryllis’s Family - Professional Looters and Merchants of Bioweapons

Amaryllis’s parents are part of several prestigious clubs: the Billionaires, the Looters and the Bioweapons. Amaryllis’s father is the American economist Hodson Thornber, who was heavily involved in the plunder of the USSR post its collapse. Thornber has been part of the highest levels of British finance and intelligence operations over the last forty years. He helped loot energy and transportation logistics in the U.S. and Great Britain in the 1980s on behalf of global finance, and then went to work for Renaissance Capital of London and Moscow in privatization looting operations in the former Soviet states of Russia, Kazakhstan, and Ukraine in the 1990s. Renaissance partnered repeatedly with George Soros in these schemes. Here is his bio including ties to Russia, Ukraine, etc.

Amaryllis’s mother is a “British actress” Lalage Damerell. Note that numerous sources refer to her as a “British actress”, as if she is well-known, but there is no information about her alleged acting career, and no major film or theater credits. Also note that in at least some of Amaryllis’s own interviews, she refers to intelligence agency jobs as “method acting”. In 2012, after divorcing Thornber, Lalage married billionaire Steven Rales (who became Amaryllis’s step-father, and RFK Jr’s in-law).

Rales is the co-founder and chairman of Danaher Corporation, a global scientific and biomanufacturing/biotech behemoth, with approximately $25B annual revenues, generating $3.6B net profit, but a lot more in free cash flow. In 2020 Danaher was contracted by the FDA to produce Covid tests.

“On Monday, March 2, 2020, Dr. Stephen Hahn the FDA’s commissioner, said that the agency had taken actions to allow private labs and companies to begin making their own coronavirus tests in order to greatly expand the U.S. capacity to test for the virus. Hahn went on to note, “There will be—the estimates we’re getting from industry right now, by the end of this week, close to a million tests will be able to be performed.” The following morning, a spokeswoman for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services noted that Dr. Hahn was referring to tests being produced by an outside manufacturer, Integrated DNA Technologies. IDT is a division of Danaher which was acquired in early 2019.

Danaher’s main business lines are in the biotechnology sector. This segment supplies equipment, consumables, and software used to develop and manufacture biologic drugs such as monoclonal antibodies, vaccines, gene therapies, and cell therapies. Major brands include Cytiva and Pall Corporation. Danaher products include bioreactors, cell culture media, chromatography systems, filtration systems, single-use manufacturing equipment [note: this is favored by mRNA and other injectable bioweapons manufacturers, due to un-auditable manufacturing - the production line is assembled with bags full of unidentifiable junk and literally disappears after the product is made], process development instruments and manufacturing software. In other words, Danaher is the proverbial ‘buckets & shovels’ supplier to the Gold Rush, i.e. the party who is the most likely to profit off the futile, deadly and guaranteed to fail casino of the “genetic editing revolution” that so far cranked out a ton of poison but not much else… However, the contractors who build a chain of guaranteed-to-fail casinos, provide construction materials, furniture and gaming equipment are guaranteed to succeed no matter what ultimately happens with the casino.

Danaher was in 2020, and remains to date a major supplier of biomanufacturing equipment, including disappearing manufacturing lines (single use) for Pfizer and Moderna mRNA vaccines. Clearly, the future of mRNA poison is tightly linked to Kennedy clan now, and at a minimum, will ensure wealth and happiness of RFK Jr’s grandchildren, children of RFK III. In addition to superior wealth, these lucky kids are also highly likely to be unvaccinated, while the government will be forcing yours to be poisoned with bioweapons at gun point. Rales is a long term political donor to the Democrats, RFK Jr is a life-long Democrat, and so is Trump. Both are committed to looting, AI surveillance and centralizing the government power while squeezing the mom and pop harder. Is the mRNA bioweapon wealth likely to be a major source of finance of RFK Jr’s anticipated presidential run in 2028?

Building up a near monopoly in mRNA equipment space

Danaher Corporation established a near monopoly position in biomanufacturing equipment space today. Starting around 2016, Danaher has been strategically acquiring companies (33+ companies) that ended up reaping gigantic profits for them during the covid scamdemic. Did they have a crystal ball, I wonder? Maybe Amaryllis produced another cracking prediction algorithm?

September 2016: Danaher acquired CEPHEID for ~$4B. Cepheid Covid Response (Archive, April 2020)

March 2018: Danaher acquired INTEGRATED DNA TECHNOLOGIES (IDT) for ~ $1.9B.

NYT Article (Archive, March 2020) mentions IDT as a contractor.

IDT’s COVID-19 Response (Fact Sheet - June 2020).

SARS-CoV-2 probes and other COVID-19 research reagents (Archive, June 2020).

June 2021: DANAHER acquired ALDEVRON for ~ $9.6B

Aldevron Covid Response (Archive November 2020).

DANAHER’s profits (Fortune 500)

Archive, Jun 2020 Excerpt: “... the company has benefitted from strong sales of its COVID-19 diagnostic tests.”

DANAHER as recipient of gov contracts

In addition to being a biomanufacturing mogul, Rales is also a major Hollywood investor, having financed several Wes Anderson films (which I enjoy very much).

Prior to the scamdemic Rales’ net worth was $3B and after the scamdemic it grew to approximately $9B (!) That’s a lot of dry powder for financial campaign contributions, and what a great in-law to have for a political royalty clan! Quite a catch.

Is anyone surprised that instead of delivering on his campaign promises, instead of working on accountability, reform, justice for the covid scamdemic crime victims, or anything even remotely related, Bobby keeps showering bioweapons manufacturers with money (that ultimately flows into Stephen Rales pockets), approving new mRNA poison shots, not removing the PREP Act liability shield for the crime cartel, and, in spare time, running a cooking show with celebrity chefs?

Original Article: https://sashalatypova.substack.com/p/who-owns-bobby-part-3-cia-danaher

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Polish prosecutors are now investigating a “White Lives Matter” graffiti as a hate crime in the city of Rzeszów, with the suspects facing up to three years in prison if they are apprehended and convicted.

Painted on a wall in the Polish city of Rzeszów, the graffiti was reportedly created as a memorial to the murdered British youth Henry Nowak. Polish police have reportedly secured surveillance footage and referred the case to Polish prosecutors. However, Polish newspaper toRzeszow claims that cameras are not in the direct area where the wall was painted, making it difficult to identify the suspects.

In Poland, prosecutors are now investigating a "White Lives Matter" graffiti as a hate crime, with the suspects facing up to 3 years in prison if they are apprehended and convicted.

Painted on a wall in the Polish city of Rzeszów, the graffiti was reportedly created as a… pic.twitter.com/FP1HYP0cDZ

— Remix News & Views (@RMXnews) August 25, 2026

Authorities also painted over the entire wall.

Major Polish news outlet wPolsce24 has reacted with outrage to the investigation: “The Rzeszów case is part of a broader trend of suppressing the voices of white people who dare to remind them that their lives also have value. When black people say “Black Lives Matter,” it is a fight for equality. When white people say “White Lives Matter,” it is immediately racist.” The news outlet further writes: “The slogan on the garages in Rzeszów was not an expression of hatred. There was a voice reminding us that white lives matters too. And as long as we treat some lives as ‘more equal’ than others, such slogans will appear on walls.”

Meanwhile, authorities claim the graffiti is illegal under article 257 of the Polish penal code, which concerns the public insult of a group of people or an individual based on national, ethnic, or racial identity.

A group labeled “Narodowy Rzeszów” allegedly posted a video of themselves standing next to the graffiti holding a banner and flares and displaying the logo of the right-wing National-Radical Camp (ONR), however, it remains unclear if they sprayed the graffiti themselves. Their post pointed to violence against Whites in Great Britain and Northern Ireland. Social media platforms took the video down.

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A Romanian man in his forties was sentenced to twelve years of imprisonment after a violent burglary in the French city of Peyrolles-en-Provence left a 65-year-old woman with severe injuries. The Aix-en-Provence criminal court handed down the heavy sentence in an immediate appearance hearing, citing the gravity of the facts and the defendant’s criminal history.

On Aug. 16, 2026, around 3:20 p.m. elderly couple Dominique and Chantal B. were at their home when they discovered an intruder inside. Chantal B., aged 65, surprised the Romanian and immediately alerted French police.

According to Joël Scherer, deputy commander of the Bouches-du-Rhône gendarmerie, the incident escalated quickly.

“A 65-year-old woman surprised the suspect in her home. She immediately calls the gendarmes. The individual then flees. The lady tries to record his license plate. Seeing this, the accused did not hesitate to run her over,” he said.

The woman had positioned herself to record the vehicle’s registration as the man attempted to drive away. While her husband reached for the Romanian suspect’s keys in the ignition, the perpetrator deliberately drove into the woman, running her over.

Chantal B. suffered multiple fractures, including to the pelvis and vertebrae, and was airlifted by helicopter to Hôpital Nord in Marseille, according to local newspaper La Provence.

Instead of fleeing immediately, the Romanian stopped his vehicle a short distance away, returned to the scene, and snatched a gold necklace from the husband’s neck while the husband was administering first aid.

After the suspect fled, police quickly obtained his license plate information and pursued him during a high-speed car chase. The man rammed a roadblock set up by officers, collided with a police service vehicle, and he was then immobilized and arrested in the Saint-Paul-lès-Durance area.

The defendant, already known to authorities for prior offenses involving violent thefts and burglaries, appeared before the Aix-en-Provence tribunal in an expedited procedure. Prosecutors emphasized the deliberate nature of the violence against a vulnerable elderly homeowner and the additional theft committed while the victim lay injured.

The case has drawn attention for the outrageous actions of the Romanian, including returning to the scene solely to steal jewelry from the husband who was trying to save his wife. Local authorities have not publicly released the defendant’s full name.

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Voting rights organizations today supplemented the complaint in their lawsuit challenging President Trump’s executive order restricting mail voting to add claims against the U.S. Postal Service’s (USPS) newly-finalized mail ballot rule. The groups simultaneously asked a federal court to immediately block USPS from implementing that rule for the November midterm elections.

The plaintiffs in this case, League of Women Voters of Massachusetts v. Trump, are the League of Women Voters of Massachusetts, League of Women Voters, Association of Americans Resident Overseas, U.S. Vote Foundation, OCA – Asian Pacific American Advocates, and Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. They are represented by the American Civil Liberties Union, ACLU of Massachusetts, Brennan Center for Justice at NYU Law, Legal Defense Fund, Asian Americans Advancing Justice – AAJC, and LatinoJustice PRLDEF.

“USPS’s decision to rush this blatantly unconstitutional rule into effect just weeks before an election is the latest step in a rollout that has sown confusion at every turn and now threatens to disenfranchise voters who did everything right. This is chaos by design, and voters are the ones who will pay for it,” said Sophia Lin Lakin, director of the ACLU's Voting Rights Project. “No administration should be able to manufacture confusion around how we vote and undermine confidence in our elections in the process. Rather than serving voters, this rule threatens access to the ballot and treats voters as collateral damage. We will continue to use every legal tool available to block this illegal power grab and ensure voters can cast mail ballots with the confidence that their votes will be counted.”

On Aug. 11, 2026, the court issued an order in League of Women Voters of Massachusetts v. Trump, blocking USPS from implementing Section 3 of the executive order for the upcoming Nov. 3 midterm elections.

The Supreme Court later stayed a different court order issued in the separate Trump v. California case blocking implementation of the executive order. Of note, the Supreme Court did not decide whether President Trump has the legal authority to impose these restrictions or whether the USPS rule is lawful; it simply held that it was premature for the California plaintiffs to bring that case.

Earlier this afternoon, the court vacated the Aug. 11 injunction issued in League of Women Voters Massachusetts on the same narrow basis. Acknowledging that “Plaintiff Organizations have substantial arguments that might persuade the Supreme Court to reach a different result if Plaintiff Organizations have an opportunity to present them,” the court found “that in light of the Supreme Court’s decision in Trump v. California, Plaintiff Organizations are not likely to prevail as to ripeness without amending their complaint to reflect the fact that a Final Rule has now issued.” Plaintiffs have now supplemented their complaint to do exactly that, adding challenges to the newly finalized mail ballot rule and seeking emergency relief on those claims immediately.

In their papers, the plaintiff organizations argue that USPS’s newly-finalized mail ballot rule violates the Constitution’s separation of powers, which put the states and Congress in charge of election administration rules, not USPS or the president, as well as a number of the laws that govern how USPS operates.

All of these violations are causing irreparable harm to plaintiff organizations, their members, and the voters they serve. The harm is particularly acute as there are now less than 70 days before the November midterm elections, which is why the plaintiff organizations are asking for emergency relief.

After filing, counsel and plaintiffs released the following statement:

“The court has already found that the executive order unconstitutionally usurps the authority of the states and Congress to regulate elections, and the newly-finalized rule eliminates any doubt about the harms stemming from these unlawful acts. Implementing the newly-finalized rule less than 70 days before the general election would dramatically impair plaintiffs’ core voter engagement work and pose a grave risk of disenfranchisement. We are asking the court for emergency relief to prevent this harm and to affirm the public’s confidence in the systems voters rely on to conduct our elections.”

The filings are here:

https://www.aclu.org/cases/league-of-women-voters-of-massachusetts-v-trump?document=Supplemental-Complaint#legal-documents

https://www.aclu.org/cases/league-of-women-voters-of-massachusetts-v-trump?document=Memorandum-in-Support-of-Plaintiffs-Emergency-Motion-for-Temporary-Restraining-Order-and-Preliminary-Injunction

Entre reis, cavaleiros, artesãos, músicos e personagens de outros tempos, Castro Marim vive, até 30 de agosto, mais uma edição dos Dias Medievais. A vila algarvia volta a transformar-se num cenário de outros séculos, numa das maiores recriações históricas da região.

Por estes dias, caminhar pelas ruas de Castro Marim é fazer uma viagem no tempo. As roupas contemporâneas dão lugar a túnicas, capas e armaduras, enquanto o som dos tambores, das músicas medievais e das vozes dos vendedores se mistura com o movimento de milhares de visitantes.

A 27.ª edição dos Dias Medievais de Castro Marim, que decorre entre 26 e 30 de agosto, volta a levar à vila uma atmosfera marcada pela história, pela fantasia e pela recriação de costumes e tradições de outros tempos.

O Castelo de Castro Marim assume, uma vez mais, um papel central nesta viagem ao passado. No interior das muralhas, os visitantes encontram dezenas de representações de artes e ofícios, demonstrações ao vivo, espaços de animação e diferentes recriações que procuram aproximar o público do quotidiano medieval.

Uma vila vestida a rigor

Ao longo dos dias do evento, as ruas e ruelas enchem-se de personagens que parecem ter saído diretamente de um livro de História. Reis e rainhas, nobres, damas, monges, cavaleiros, artesãos, bobos e figuras ligadas ao imaginário medieval cruzam-se com os visitantes.

Um dos momentos mais aguardados são os desfiles medievais, que acontecem no primeiro e no último dia do evento. Centenas de figurantes percorrem as ruas da vila, representando diferentes grupos sociais da época, num cortejo acompanhado por músicos, malabaristas, equilibristas, bobos e outros artistas.

A participação da população ajuda a reforçar o ambiente de autenticidade. Os figurantes são convidados a respeitar determinadas regras de indumentária e a representar diferentes estratos sociais, desde o povo à nobreza, passando pelo clero, homens de armas, cavaleiros e personagens de inspiração árabe.

Cavaleiros, artesãos e sabores de outros tempos

Os combates e torneios a cavalo são também uma das imagens de marca dos Dias Medievais. Entre demonstrações de destreza e momentos de animação, os cavaleiros contribuem para recriar o ambiente dos grandes espetáculos medievais.

A feira dá ainda destaque ao artesanato e às antigas profissões, permitindo aos visitantes observar demonstrações de diferentes artes e ofícios. A par da componente histórica, o evento aposta igualmente na gastronomia, com tabernas, produtos tradicionais e os já conhecidos Banquetes Medievais, realizados no ambiente do castelo e acompanhados por música, dança, acrobacia e falcoaria.

Também as famílias encontram diversas propostas de animação, com atividades infantis, espetáculos de rua, acampamentos temáticos e outras iniciativas pensadas para aproximar os mais novos da história de uma forma lúdica e participativa.

Uma viagem que acontece depois do pôr do sol

É ao final da tarde que Castro Marim ganha uma nova dimensão. Com a abertura do mercado medieval, as ruas começam a encher-se e a animação prolonga-se pela noite dentro.

Nos dias 26 e 27 de agosto, o mercado funciona até às 02h00, enquanto nos dias 28 e 29 encerra às 02h30. No último dia, 30 de agosto, abre mais cedo, às 16h00, e mantém-se até às 02h30. O espaço do castelo funciona, nos primeiros quatro dias, das 18h00 à meia-noite, encerrando à meia-noite também no dia 30, com a última subida prevista para as 23h30.

É neste ambiente noturno, iluminado e povoado por personagens históricas, que muitos visitantes encontram um dos momentos mais marcantes da experiência. A fronteira entre o presente e o passado parece, por algumas horas, desaparecer.

História, cultura e identidade

Mais do que uma feira temática, os Dias Medievais afirmam-se como um acontecimento cultural com forte ligação à identidade de Castro Marim. A recriação histórica permite valorizar o património local, divulgar antigas artes e ofícios e criar um espaço de encontro entre a comunidade, os visitantes e a própria história da vila.

A organização descreve o evento como um dos grandes destaques da agenda cultural algarvia, capaz de atrair visitantes nacionais e estrangeiros e de transformar o centro da localidade num verdadeiro palco vivo da Idade Média.

Durante cinco dias, Castro Marim deixa de ser apenas uma vila do Algarve e transforma-se numa viagem. Uma viagem feita de espadas e armaduras, música e dança, artesanato e gastronomia, história e fantasia.

E, quando a noite cai sobre o castelo, entre tochas, sons medievais e o movimento dos visitantes, a sensação é de que o passado não está assim tão distante.

On Ukraine Independence Day (24 August), the European Commission approved €6.1 billion in new defence procurement for Ukraine. This funding covers air and missile defence systems, missiles, ammunitions and radars, reaffirming Europe's commitment to supporting Ukraine's defence and resilience against Russia's ongoing aggression. 

Ursula von der Leyen, president of the Commission: “On Ukraine's Independence Day, Europe shows our support is unfaltering and concrete. Today, we have approved €6.1 billion for the air and missile defence systems, missiles, ammunition and radars that Ukraine urgently needs. As Russia intensifies its attacks, we are stepping up to help Ukraine protect its people and defend its skies. Europe stands with Ukraine and we will deliver what it needs, when it needs it.” 

The funding, part of the €90 billion Ukraine Support Loan (UASL), comes as Russia escalates attacks with ballistic missiles and drones. With 376 missile strikes recorded in July alone, reinforcing Ukraine's defences has become increasingly urgent.  

The approval adds to €16 billion in already approved procurement plans, of which €8.35 billion has been disbursed, ensuring Ukraine receives critical supplies on time and at the required scale. 

Most procurements will source products from EU defence companies. Given Russia's intensified use of ballistic missiles and jet-engined drones, the Commission emphasises the need for a significant increase in EU deliveries through destocking, reprioritising orders and ramping up the production. 

Ukraine's ability to defend itself depends on the rapid availability of critical defence products. The UASL provides €30 billion for budgetary aid and €60 billion for defence across 2026-2027, including €28.3 billion in 2026 to strengthen Ukraine's defence industrial capacity. 

Next steps 

Ukraine can request payments by submitting contracts signed with defence companies. The Commission will review these contracts before disbursing funds to ensure the financial assistance is used for the procurements agreed with Member States and the Commission. 

Background 

In February 2026, the European Parliament and the Council adopted Regulation (EU) 2026/467, establishing the Ukraine Support Loan, providing up to €90 billion in support to Ukraine. This support has two complementary components: strengthening Ukraine's defence capabilities and defence industrial capacities, and support to maintain essential state functions, public services and economic resilience. 

Following Ukraine's submission of its Financing Strategy in March 2026, the Council adopted an implementing decision on 23 April 2026, allocating up to €45 billion for 2026. This includes €16.7 billion in budget support, split equally between the Ukraine Facility and Macro Financial Assistance, with each amounting to up to €8.35 billion, and €28.3 billion for defence industrial capacities. 

The defence component focuses on reconstructing and modernising Ukraine's defence technological and industrial base, while supporting its gradual integration into the European Defence Technological and Industrial Base. 

All funding decisions respond to Ukraine's evolving needs and are subject to agreed conditions and monitoring. Since 2022, the EU and its Member States have provided €220.2 billion in overall support to Ukraine, including €3.8 billion from the proceeds of immobilised Russian assets. 

For more information 

Ukraine Support Loan 

Regulation (EU) 2026/467 - Ukraine Support Loan for 2026 and 2027  

Commission implementing decision validating the use of derogations for drones in Ukraine 

Macro-Financial Assistance 

Macro-Financial Assistance to Ukraine 

Ukraine Facility  

Factsheet - EU solidarity with Ukraine 

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Usa.lancy

Il caso Lindsay C

Roberto Pecchioli
Dagli Stati Uniti arrivano tutte le follie che ci stanno distruggendo. Una tra le più
devastanti è la proliferazione di nuove malattie per alimentare il potere di Big Pharma e
della classe medica, specialmente psicologi, psichiatri e psicoterapeuti, una delle caste più
potenti della postmodernità occidentale. In questo mesi negli Usa si è acuito il dibattito
sulla depressione post parto, un problema reale enfatizzato ad arte non solo per interessi
economici, ma per l’irruzione del femminismo più radicale, che odia la maternità.
Le violentissime polemiche in corso riguardano un episodio terribile, al quale occorrerebbe
accostarsi con il rispetto, l’equilibrio e il silenzio dovuto alla tragicità dei fatti. E’ il caso di
Lindsay Clancy, a processo per avere strangolato e ucciso, nel gennaio 2023, i suoi tre figli,
di cinque e tre anni, mentre l’ultimo aveva solo otto mesi. La sventurata si è poi gettata
dal balcone. Rimasta paraplegica per le conseguenze del gesto autolesionistico, è adesso
davanti ai giudici. La straordinarietà del caso non riguarda solo i drammatici fatti, ma la
sua dichiarazione di non colpevolezza per infermità mentale dovuta alla depressione post
parto, che sarebbe dunque una vera e propria esimente. Lindsay è la vittima, non i suoi
bambini dalle vite spezzate, urlano Erinni sovreccitate: un capovolgimento non nuovo in
questa degradata fase storica . Sembra che la donna avesse consultato vari medici senza
assumere i farmaci prescritti, o forse i suoi disturbi si sono acuiti a seguito dell’assunzione
di uno di essi.
Solo una civiltà agonizzante può seriamente discutere la punibilità di Lindsay Clancy. O la
donna era in grado di intendere e allora la pena che deve scontare è la più pesante, o è
impazzita e va quindi esclusa dalla società. Al contrario, da giorni nel mondo parallelo dei
social media , centinaia di donne americane pubblicano video con le immagini dei figli e la
scritta “ same, Lindsay”, ovvero anch’io ho le tue stesse pulsioni. Sgomenta che la nostra
epoca produca un numero significativo di donne la cui reazione davanti a una madre che
strangola i figli è l’identificazione con l’assassina e con una malattia. Si svolgono
manifestazioni a favore della Lindsay, considerata innocente, anzi vittima . Una giornalista
italiana ha svolto una riflessione non banale: se ai tempi del delitto di Cogne ( l’omicidio
del piccolo Gioele da parte della madre nel 2002 N.d.A.) avessi pubblicato un video mentre
abbracciavo mio figlio con la didascalia “provo lo stesso, Annamaria Franzoni”, sono sicura
che qualcuno avrebbe chiamato la neuro e mi avrebbe fatto internare.
In America è nato un piccolo, combattivo movimento Mom Lives Matter ( le vite delle
mamme contano) che diffonde video di donne col pugno alzato, organizza raduni in divisa
da infermiera ( la professione della Clancy) e pubblica video generati dall’Intelligenza
Artificiale in cui l’assassina è circondata da donne che la proteggono. Da che cosa? Alcune
pubblicano video in cui lanciano ghiaccio nella vasca da bagno “per sublimare la
depressione”. Altre si filmano mentre piangono con un neonato in braccio e lo scuotono
violentemente. Comunque vada il processo, registriamo una nuova tappa dell’odio per la
vita che sta distruggendo dalle fondamenta la decrepita civilizzazione occidentale.

Non riusciamo ad esprimere giudizi: ciò che sgorga dalle labbra non è in sintonia con lo
spirito del tempo. Autocensura per estraneità radicale. Che una madre uccida i propri figli
è una tragedia orribile,ma non è un evento senza precedenti. Straordinario è che, sulla scia
di questo caso, sia emersa un'ondata di opinioni favorevoli all'omicida; una corrente che
giustifica il crimine, considera vittima l'autrice e arriva a presentare l’uccisione dei figli
come segno di potere femminile. Dopo la notizia, i media – in particolare le reti sociali,
dannato sottoprodotto della postmodernità tardiva- sono stati invasi da donne che
difendono Lindsay, da madri che maltrattano i figli e da qualche teorica femminista
allucinata che eleva l'infanticidio a gesto rivoluzionario.
Sono emerse madri che hanno imitato Lindsay Clancy: il potere mimetico della
comunicazione. In Italia non ha avuto il rilievo che meritava il caso della giovane
parmigiana che ha ucciso e occultato i cadaveri dei suoi due figli neonati, una tragedia in
cui la crisi devastante della famiglia e l’evaporazione colpevole dei padri hanno fatto da
tristissima cornice ai delitti. Non è fuori luogo collegare tutto ciò ad altri eventi che
rappresentano lo spirito dei tempi ostile alla vita. Nel Regno Unito è stata promulgata
l'estensione dell' aborto fino al momento della nascita, mentre il Massachusetts –
undicesimo Stato Usa a farlo – ha appena approvato analoga legge. Le immagini della
governatrice Healey ( cattolica !) e di un folto gruppo di donne in posa euforica al
momento della firma sono inquietanti.
Lo fu l’entusiasmo dei deputati francesi che inserivano in costituzione il diritto universale
all’ aborto e lavorano instancabili all’eutanasia di Stato. Il messaggio di fondo è lo stesso di
chi sostiene Lindsay Clancy, il diritto di uccidere e l’indifferenza per la vita. In un celebre
passo di Così parlò Zarathustra, Friedrich Nietzsche introdusse la figura dell'ultimo uomo.
“Prossimo è il tempo in cui l’uomo non potrà più generare nessuna stella! Ahimè! Prossimo
è il tempo del più spregevole tra gli uomini, che non saprà neanche più disprezzare se
stesso. La terra sarà allora divenuta piccina, e su di essa saltellerà l’ultimo uomo che
rimpicciolisce ogni cosa. La sua razza è tenace come quella della pulce; l’ultimo uomo vive
più a lungo di tutti. Noi abbiamo inventato la felicità, dicono, ammiccando, gli ultimi
uomini. “ E ancora: “di quando in quando un po’ di veleno: ciò produce sogni gradevoli. E
molto veleno alla fine, per procurarsi una piacevole morte. “
La caratteristica dell’ultimo uomo occidentale è l'estrema mediocrità del suo spirito che
cerca solo comodità e sicurezza a norma di legge, rifuggendo ogni rischio. Un essere stanco
della storia che ha trasformato il proprio io minimo nella misura universale del mondo;
piccolo e grigio, edonista ed egoista, allergico a tutto ciò che sa di grandezza o di passione,
indifferente alla bellezza e al dolore, che chiama felicità la sua meschinità. L'ultimo uomo
è l'archetipo del nichilismo passivo, che distrugge attraverso l’ indifferenza e la negazione
generalizzate. L’intuizione nietzschiana fu incompresa. Oggi la capiamo perché è sotto i
nostri occhi: viviamo in società plasmate dal nichilismo degli ultimi uomini.
La vicenda di Lindsay Clancy conferma che il presente è non solo l'epoca dell'ultimo uomo,
ma anche dell'ultima donna. L’ uno esprime l'estinzione dei valori classici della virilità,

l’altra incarna la scomparsa dei valori femminili. Il discorso femminista, soddisfatte da
tempo le richieste di uguaglianza materiale e giuridica, si è spostato su temi che celano i
germi dell'annientamento. In primo luogo l'idea che chiunque possa essere donna se si
percepisce come tale (l’impostura queer), che implica la scomparsa della donna reale,
materiale, in carne ed ossa. Poi la nozione secondo cui l'emancipazione consiste nell’odiare
ciò che fonda la specificità femminile, il potere immenso di dare la vita, sino all’
infanticidio.
Se la tua identità consiste nel cancellare i tratti oggettivi che la definiscono; se la tua libertà
risiede nel distruggere ciò che soltanto tu puoi generare, uccidere il frutto del tuo grembo,
allora tu, donna, cessi di esistere. La narrazione femminista estrema ha finito per portare
alla morte della donna, manifestazione suprema di un'ideologia che ha già dissolto
l’universo maschile. L'aspetto positivo di ciò che segna una fine è la speranza di un nuovo
inizio. Nessuna società può sopravvivere con uomini che hanno smesso di essere uomini e
donne che hanno smesso di essere donne. Goethe chiamò Mefistofele “ spirito che sempre
nega”, una definizione magistrale del nichilismo. La vorace sequenza di negazioni del
mondo moderno ci ha condotti al punto in cui non si può più negare nulla perché tutto è
già stato negato. Dobbiamo ricostruire sul vuoto e recuperare le nozioni antropologiche
fondamentali — uomo, donna, bene, male—uniche condizioni per la

L'articolo il caso Lindsay Clancy proviene da Blondet & Friends.

It appears that quite a few people have been killed or brought to justice for having failed to deliver on their promise of turning ordinary metals into gold, in other words, alchemy. One was the English chemist James Price, who took his own life after his deception was exposed. Another was Georg Honauer, whose downfall ended not in disgrace alone but in a spectacular public execution.

Georg Honauer was born in Olomouc, Moravia (now in the Czech Republic), in 1572. In 1596, he entered the service of Friedrich I, Duke of Württemberg, in Stuttgart after persuading the duke that he was both a skilled goldsmith and a successful alchemist.

An etching depicting the execution of the alchemist, Georg Honauer. Credit: Science History Institute