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🇺🇸❌🇮🇷 — US Vice President JD Vance on Iran:
We've been able to get a lot of oil and gas out of the Strait of Hormuz through the great work of our military and some of our folks on the commercial side. We gotta get more out, but that's been a very successful thing because that is the Iranian leverage point."
🇺🇸❌🇮🇷 — US Vice-President JD Vance on Iran:
"We're kind of now in a new phase where the most effective tool that we have is the economic pressure... We're going to keep that going because we think that's the best way to ultimately accomplish the final objective."
🇷🇸 🇲🇪 It has been revealed that Milonjko Spajic, the Prime Minister of Montenegro, was a reserve officer in the Serbian Army.
🌍 — BREAKING: Not everything is breaking.
Is Hormuz open today? Closed? At this point, Hormuz has entered its Schrödinger phase: simultaneously open, closed, and BREAKING.
Sound familiar?
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Is Hormuz open today? Closed? At this point, Hormuz has entered its Schrödinger phase: simultaneously open, closed, and BREAKING.
Sound familiar?
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🇺🇸❌🌹🛠 — POTUS on the communists that have taken over the Democrat Party:
"In 1,000 years, that stuff has never worked, and it's not going to work now. They're not even smart people. You watch some of them — half of them can't even speak properly."
🇺🇸🚫🇨🇺 — U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced new sanctions against Cuba, some of them targeting what he described as a network that radicalizes people in the United States.
“For a long time, the Cuban regime has sponsored a vast subversive network in the United States with the goal of identifying, cultivating, and radicalizing subversives, operating largely under the guise of educational or cultural exchange. The [Donald] Trump administration will not stand idly by while a hostile foreign power seeks to exploit our freedoms — freedoms its own people do not enjoy — by deceiving and corrupting American citizens with lies, espionage tactics, and other unlawful actions, as part of the regime's raison d’être of exporting Marxism, racial resentment, and communist violence throughout the world.”
🤡 The U.S. Secretary of State cited the recent centennial of the birth of the late dictator Fidel Castro, for which Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva sent a message praising the Castro regime, as a pretext “to revitalize this subversive network, [with the dictatorship] bringing a new brigade of international sympathizers to Havana to establish contacts with regime officials.”
➡️ Three leaders of the Cuban Institute of Friendship with the Peoples (Icap), which had previously been targeted by U.S. measures, were sanctioned: the organization's president, Fernando González Llort, who served 15 years in prison in the United States for his role in the Wasp Network espionage network (which operated in Florida during the 1990s) and who, according to Rubio, “continued his efforts to destabilize the United States after returning to Cuba through his involvement with Icap”; Noemi Ramona Rabaza Fernandez, the group's first vice president; and Leima Martinez Freire, Icap's director for North America.
💥 The sanctions, which include the blocking of assets in the United States and a ban on financial and commercial transactions with U.S. citizens and companies, also cover nine entities, including Cuba's Ministry of Construction and state-owned mining companies, which “sustain the regime's repressive apparatus through control of strategic economic sectors.”
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“For a long time, the Cuban regime has sponsored a vast subversive network in the United States with the goal of identifying, cultivating, and radicalizing subversives, operating largely under the guise of educational or cultural exchange. The [Donald] Trump administration will not stand idly by while a hostile foreign power seeks to exploit our freedoms — freedoms its own people do not enjoy — by deceiving and corrupting American citizens with lies, espionage tactics, and other unlawful actions, as part of the regime's raison d’être of exporting Marxism, racial resentment, and communist violence throughout the world.”
🤡 The U.S. Secretary of State cited the recent centennial of the birth of the late dictator Fidel Castro, for which Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva sent a message praising the Castro regime, as a pretext “to revitalize this subversive network, [with the dictatorship] bringing a new brigade of international sympathizers to Havana to establish contacts with regime officials.”
➡️ Three leaders of the Cuban Institute of Friendship with the Peoples (Icap), which had previously been targeted by U.S. measures, were sanctioned: the organization's president, Fernando González Llort, who served 15 years in prison in the United States for his role in the Wasp Network espionage network (which operated in Florida during the 1990s) and who, according to Rubio, “continued his efforts to destabilize the United States after returning to Cuba through his involvement with Icap”; Noemi Ramona Rabaza Fernandez, the group's first vice president; and Leima Martinez Freire, Icap's director for North America.
💥 The sanctions, which include the blocking of assets in the United States and a ban on financial and commercial transactions with U.S. citizens and companies, also cover nine entities, including Cuba's Ministry of Construction and state-owned mining companies, which “sustain the regime's repressive apparatus through control of strategic economic sectors.”
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🇦🇷🐍❌🛠 — Argentine President Milei's statement at the Council of the Americas:
"If we want to be great, we have to be tough, and those corrupt leftist parasites have to go bankrupt!"
#BREAKING | 🇵🇦 — Panama Canal Authority imposing new transit caps and tighter draft limits as El Niño-driven drought reduces water levels in Gatun Lake.
Daily vessel transits will be limited to 34 starting September 4 and 32 from September 15 (from a recent average of about 35). Neopanamax slots will be held at nine per day, with Panamax capacity cut further in the second phase.
Additional draft reductions will force large ships to carry less cargo so they sit higher in the water. Rainfall from May–August was 34% below the historical average and inflows 44% below normal.
Carriers have responded with Panama Canal surcharges ranging from a few hundred dollars up to $1,000 per 40-foot container. The canal handles roughly 5% of global maritime trade.
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Daily vessel transits will be limited to 34 starting September 4 and 32 from September 15 (from a recent average of about 35). Neopanamax slots will be held at nine per day, with Panamax capacity cut further in the second phase.
Additional draft reductions will force large ships to carry less cargo so they sit higher in the water. Rainfall from May–August was 34% below the historical average and inflows 44% below normal.
Carriers have responded with Panama Canal surcharges ranging from a few hundred dollars up to $1,000 per 40-foot container. The canal handles roughly 5% of global maritime trade.
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🇺🇸🇦🇫🌹✔️ — URGENT: Radical leftist, Afghan refugee, Aisha Wahab has won the special election for California’s 14th Congressional District, defeating fellow Democrat Melissa Hernandez and becoming the first Afghan American elected to the U.S. Congress.
🇮🇷❌🇺🇸 — Iran is systematically preparing to damage Trump's presidency through economic warfare, aimed at making him lose the November midterms, per a senior Iranian official in Tehran familiar with the matter.
➡️ The plans include strikes on Gulf oil terminals to surge global energy prices by destroying the remaining Hormuz bypasses (Saudi Yanbu and Emirati Fujairah, total ~5.5M barrels a day), and targeting the support network behind the US-backed "shadow fleet" in the Strait to fully shut it down to zero from the current ~5M barrels a day.
➡️ The official says the direct operational chain is: Crude → pump prices (2-4 week lag) → CPI → voter mood, and the economy being voters' top issue with under 3 months to go until the midterms.
➡️ Majid Shakeri, the advisor to Iran's Parliament Speaker Ghalibaf, adds "Iran must raise the tension level, focused on oil, before the midterms, and fortunately America handed over the necessary pretext. Obviously, Iran will not wait for America's economic attack in a preemptive defense."
➡️ The plans include strikes on Gulf oil terminals to surge global energy prices by destroying the remaining Hormuz bypasses (Saudi Yanbu and Emirati Fujairah, total ~5.5M barrels a day), and targeting the support network behind the US-backed "shadow fleet" in the Strait to fully shut it down to zero from the current ~5M barrels a day.
➡️ The official says the direct operational chain is: Crude → pump prices (2-4 week lag) → CPI → voter mood, and the economy being voters' top issue with under 3 months to go until the midterms.
➡️ Majid Shakeri, the advisor to Iran's Parliament Speaker Ghalibaf, adds "Iran must raise the tension level, focused on oil, before the midterms, and fortunately America handed over the necessary pretext. Obviously, Iran will not wait for America's economic attack in a preemptive defense."
🇮🇳 At least 8 people in Western India are dead after they tried to drink fake alcohol. 40+ are hospitalized.
🇷🇺🤝🇷🇸❌🇽🇰 — Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said Serbs in Kosovo* are oppressed before the eyes of NATO, the EU and UN and forcibly driven from their homes.
She called for comprehensive international measures to prevent a humanitarian catastrophe in Kosovo*.
She called for comprehensive international measures to prevent a humanitarian catastrophe in Kosovo*.
🇦🇫❌🇦🇫 — Afghanistan Republican Rebels claim new attack against the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan's positions:
3 Taliban Killed and Wounded in Banuy Andarab - Baghlan
Fighters of the Freedom Front of Afghanistan last night, on 29 Asad 1405 solar calendar, attacked Taliban terrorist patrol (gazma) individuals in the village of Mirwa, Banuy district - Andarab province, Baghlan
As a result of this attack, 2 Taliban terrorists were killed and 1 other Taliban was injured.
In this attack, no harm was done to the guerrillas of the Freedom Front.
3 Taliban Killed and Wounded in Banuy Andarab - Baghlan
Fighters of the Freedom Front of Afghanistan last night, on 29 Asad 1405 solar calendar, attacked Taliban terrorist patrol (gazma) individuals in the village of Mirwa, Banuy district - Andarab province, Baghlan
As a result of this attack, 2 Taliban terrorists were killed and 1 other Taliban was injured.
In this attack, no harm was done to the guerrillas of the Freedom Front.
🇺🇦❌🇷🇺 — ✍️ ARKHANGEL SPETSNAZA:
"Attack on Perm
✍️ After several days with over 1000 drones in each attack, the Ukrainian side used a smaller number of drones tonight.
According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, air defense units shot down and destroyed at least 325 drones. If we include the daytime figures, the total number is 389.
▪️ The geography of the attacks remains extensive. The Ukrainian Armed Forces are sending groups of drones in different directions to strain air defense units.
One group was detected overnight over the Republic of Udmurtia and the Perm Region (likely the ones that were sent during the day).
❗️ Ukrainian sources are now circulating videos of an attack on the Perm Oil Refinery, which is over 1600 km away.
Attacks on the oil and gas sector have once again become a priority for the enemy, which has led to a new wave of fuel shortages in Russia."
🔗 Source:
"Attack on Perm
✍️ After several days with over 1000 drones in each attack, the Ukrainian side used a smaller number of drones tonight.
According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, air defense units shot down and destroyed at least 325 drones. If we include the daytime figures, the total number is 389.
▪️ The geography of the attacks remains extensive. The Ukrainian Armed Forces are sending groups of drones in different directions to strain air defense units.
One group was detected overnight over the Republic of Udmurtia and the Perm Region (likely the ones that were sent during the day).
❗️ Ukrainian sources are now circulating videos of an attack on the Perm Oil Refinery, which is over 1600 km away.
Attacks on the oil and gas sector have once again become a priority for the enemy, which has led to a new wave of fuel shortages in Russia."
🔗 Source:
The Long 1960s and the Roots of Modern Liberalism
Part 1: The social and political transformations of the 1960s and early 1970s were not a single revolution, but a chain of developments that steadily dismantled the postwar settlement that had taken shape after 1945. For roughly the first two to three decades after the war, ruling elites and legal frameworks across much of the Western world remained socially conservative, ideologically pragmatic, and unapologetic in foreign policy. Hierarchy, national continuity, traditional moral regulation, and a relatively hard conception of sovereignty and national interest were still the default assumptions. In their place emerged the socially liberal frameworks—centered on individual rights, cultural openness, and a more universalist, rules-based language—that still define much of modern Western politics.
This distinction matters because the common retrospective image of the West as having moved directly from the Second World War into the liberal society of the present is historically misleading. The decades immediately after 1945 were not simply the first stage of today's social order. They represented a distinct postwar settlement: democratic and increasingly welfare-oriented, but still socially conservative, nationally bounded, restrictive on immigration, deferential toward established institutions, and confident in traditional conceptions of family, religion, morality, sovereignty, and national continuity. The West was politically democratic and, in many countries, economically more egalitarian than before the war, but it was not yet socially liberal in the sense that would become dominant several decades later.
In the United States, the sequence began with the Civil Rights Movement, which broke the legal structure of racial hierarchy and established a new moral language of individual rights. The Immigration Act of 1965 abolished the old European-preference system and opened the way toward a fundamentally different conception of American national identity. Anti-war protest and the counterculture then accelerated the broader transformation. The sexual revolution and the rise of second-wave feminism translated cultural change into durable legal reforms: greater female autonomy, abortion rights, a reworking of family law, and a fundamental shift in expectations surrounding gender and personal freedom.
The Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962 added another dimension to this transformation. It brought the possibility of nuclear war into the consciousness of ordinary people on an unprecedented scale, creating a widespread sense that a Third World War could become a reality within days. Coming at the beginning of the decade's wider cultural upheaval, the crisis contributed to a growing rejection among some younger people of conventional restraint, delayed gratification, and established social expectations, reinforcing the turn toward more unconventional, individualistic, and hedonistic lifestyles.
The same currents swept through Europe and the wider Western world. In France, the upheaval of 1968 exposed the exhaustion of Gaullism's synthesis of national grandeur, hierarchical leadership, and managed modernization. De Gaulle's defeat in the 1969 referendum and subsequent resignation marked the end of that postwar sovereign style.
In West Germany, the generational confrontation with the Nazi past increasingly became a confrontation with the older establishment itself. Much of the postwar political and administrative elite had held positions within the institutions of the Third Reich, even when individuals had not been committed Nazis. Chancellor Kurt Georg Kiesinger, a former Nazi Party member who had worked in the Foreign Ministry under Hitler, became a particularly potent symbol of this continuity. When student activist Beate Klarsfeld slapped him in 1968, the gesture captured a generation's refusal to regard that continuity as politically irrelevant.
Part 1: The social and political transformations of the 1960s and early 1970s were not a single revolution, but a chain of developments that steadily dismantled the postwar settlement that had taken shape after 1945. For roughly the first two to three decades after the war, ruling elites and legal frameworks across much of the Western world remained socially conservative, ideologically pragmatic, and unapologetic in foreign policy. Hierarchy, national continuity, traditional moral regulation, and a relatively hard conception of sovereignty and national interest were still the default assumptions. In their place emerged the socially liberal frameworks—centered on individual rights, cultural openness, and a more universalist, rules-based language—that still define much of modern Western politics.
This distinction matters because the common retrospective image of the West as having moved directly from the Second World War into the liberal society of the present is historically misleading. The decades immediately after 1945 were not simply the first stage of today's social order. They represented a distinct postwar settlement: democratic and increasingly welfare-oriented, but still socially conservative, nationally bounded, restrictive on immigration, deferential toward established institutions, and confident in traditional conceptions of family, religion, morality, sovereignty, and national continuity. The West was politically democratic and, in many countries, economically more egalitarian than before the war, but it was not yet socially liberal in the sense that would become dominant several decades later.
In the United States, the sequence began with the Civil Rights Movement, which broke the legal structure of racial hierarchy and established a new moral language of individual rights. The Immigration Act of 1965 abolished the old European-preference system and opened the way toward a fundamentally different conception of American national identity. Anti-war protest and the counterculture then accelerated the broader transformation. The sexual revolution and the rise of second-wave feminism translated cultural change into durable legal reforms: greater female autonomy, abortion rights, a reworking of family law, and a fundamental shift in expectations surrounding gender and personal freedom.
The Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962 added another dimension to this transformation. It brought the possibility of nuclear war into the consciousness of ordinary people on an unprecedented scale, creating a widespread sense that a Third World War could become a reality within days. Coming at the beginning of the decade's wider cultural upheaval, the crisis contributed to a growing rejection among some younger people of conventional restraint, delayed gratification, and established social expectations, reinforcing the turn toward more unconventional, individualistic, and hedonistic lifestyles.
The same currents swept through Europe and the wider Western world. In France, the upheaval of 1968 exposed the exhaustion of Gaullism's synthesis of national grandeur, hierarchical leadership, and managed modernization. De Gaulle's defeat in the 1969 referendum and subsequent resignation marked the end of that postwar sovereign style.
In West Germany, the generational confrontation with the Nazi past increasingly became a confrontation with the older establishment itself. Much of the postwar political and administrative elite had held positions within the institutions of the Third Reich, even when individuals had not been committed Nazis. Chancellor Kurt Georg Kiesinger, a former Nazi Party member who had worked in the Foreign Ministry under Hitler, became a particularly potent symbol of this continuity. When student activist Beate Klarsfeld slapped him in 1968, the gesture captured a generation's refusal to regard that continuity as politically irrelevant.
🇺🇸🌹🎙 — US Vice President JD Vance on Huey Long:
The great Southern populist—an interesting, kind of a crazy guy—Huey Long once said, “Every man a king” was the goal of his political program.
But no man is a king if their castle is under siege by criminals.
But no man is a king if their castle is under siege by criminals.
🇺🇸🌹🎙 — US Vice President JD Vance on Huey Long:
Politicians who came to Washington with a few thousand dollars, left after decades of public service with millions in stock portfolios.
What did all of you get? What did we get?
What did all of you get? What did we get?
🇺🇸🖥💸 — POTUS Donald Trump on data centers:
"If you pick the right location, what it means for a community is jobs and lots of money and lower taxes. The data centers now are mandated by me that they build their own electricity, so they're not taking it from the grid."
🇺🇸🤝🇨🇦🇲🇽 — POTUS Donald Trump on agricultural market of US:
"We have to take care of our farmers.
Our farmers are very important to me — and the deal with Canada is moving along... We're also starting on a new deal with Mexico. A much better deal for the United States."
Our farmers are very important to me — and the deal with Canada is moving along... We're also starting on a new deal with Mexico. A much better deal for the United States."