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Aug 10

❗️Highlights from the Russian Defense Ministry Press Briefing, August 10:

▪️Russian forces struck the Ukrainian army’s energy and transport infrastructure facilities, logistics centers, as well as UAV assembly and storage workshops

▪️Russian air defense forces shot down over 1,100 fixed-wing drones in the past 24 hours

▪️Ukraine lost about 1,300 troops in the special military operation zone in the past day

And the drone strikes (From TASS)

❗️What we know about the aftermath of the overnight Ukrainian drone attacks on Russia:

▪️Air defense systems intercepted and destroyed 456 Ukrainian fixed-wing UAVs over Russian regions overnight, the Defense Ministry said

▪️The drones were downed over the Bryansk, Kursk, Kaluga, Tula, Belgorod, Oryol, Voronezh, Rostov, Penza, Ulyanovsk, Saratov, Orenburg, Samara, Moscow, Krasnodar, and Tatarstan Regions, as well as over Crimea

▪️More than 70 UAVs were destroyed overnight over Kamensk-Shakhtinsky and the Chertkovsky, Millerovsky, Kamensky, Sholokhovsky, Verkhnedonskoy, Belokalitvinsky and Tarasovsky districts of the Rostov Region, Governor Yury Slyusar said

▪️Air defenses destroyed nine Ukrainian UAVs over the Tula Region overnight, Governor Dmitry Milyaev said

▪️Air defenses destroyed 16 Ukrainian UAVs over the Kaluga Region overnight, Governor Vladislav Shapsha said

▪️Air defenses downed 11 Ukrainian UAVs in the Voronezh Region, Governor Alexander Gusev said

▪️Industrial and civilian facilities in Nizhnekamsk came under a massive drone attack, causing fatalities, the press service of Tatarstan’s head said, adding that the region had declared mourning

▪️In the Voronezh Region, debris from a UAV ignited an outbuilding in one district, shattered windows in a private house and damaged heating pipes and a fence, Gusev said

▪️Fences and windows were damaged at two other private properties, while a facade was hit by shrapnel, with no injuries reported

▪️Windows were damaged at nine private houses in one municipality, two of which will require repairs to gas pipelines, while three cars and a tractor were also damaged

▪️In another district, a UAV impact blew out windows on two floors of a residential building

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Will Schryver@imetatronink
This is what I believe best explains Russia’s approach to the great ongoing war against the US, NATO, and their sacrificial Ukrainian proxies.

Because when you’re dealing with an empire in existential crisis, you must administer death by a thousand cuts in order to not evoke a trapped animal reflex in a beast who, at the very least, could destroy a city in a fit of fury.

Aug 9

Trump is reportedly prepared to drop the demand for a separate Iranian nuclear deal if Tehran fully reopens the Strait of Hormuz to shipping, the Wall Street Journal reports, citing US officials.

According to the outlet, the US president has spent recent weeks discussing with advisors the possibility of ending the conflict without a standalone nuclear agreement — Washington’s assessment is that after the destruction of three key nuclear facilities, Iran is unlikely to be able to rebuild the program during Trump’s presidency, and any renewed attempt would be detected by American intelligence.

Talks on reopening the strait have grown more complicated, however, after Iran introduced new demands — Tehran is seeking a definitive end to the war, the lifting of the US naval blockade, withdrawal of American forces from the region, sanctions relief, the unfreezing of Iranian assets, and billions of dollars in war reparations.

Trump has previously said American taxpayer money will not be paid out to Iran. Still, per WSJ, any agreement could include unfreezing a portion of Iranian assets and lifting the port blockade if Tehran fully reopens the strait.

Eurasia Group’s Gregory Brew said the Iranians are fully convinced Trump wants out of the war and is focused on reopening the strait — which is why they’re driving a hard bargain.

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Just a day or two ago, Bessent said that the Strait of Hormuz will become irrelevant and all oil will be transported through pipelines. He did not say anything about Bab Al Mandeb or any other goods transported through Hormuz.

I would not take Bessent and his pipelines seriously. He is hiding the inability so far to wrest the Strait of Hormuz out of Iranian hands. We are still waiting for the final details of the Iranian talks with Oman. Formally all that is known is that they will announce it when it is done and the shipping routes through the Strait of Hormuz will change and there are no negotiations with the US although the mediators are trying. There is no Iranian support for these hapless mediators trying especially not after the announcement of the Mecca Defense Pact. Mediators are still trying to create conditions for talks, but Tehran sees no basis for negotiations while US violations and attacks against Iran continue, Abbas Araghchi told reporters.

It is incredible how the balance of power in the region has changed and is changing. Nowadays, AnsarAllah almost casually flies a missile or a drone or two into Saudi Arabia and strikes Aramco. If anyone says anything, they say cease the blockade on Yemen and if not, blockade for blockade, strike for strike. While updating this Daily, I was watching the last strike and the results came in just minutes ago:

“The Yemeni Armed Forces: With the help of God Almighty, we carried out a large-scale and qualitative military operation targeting the Saudi enemy’s troop concentrations and weapons depots in the Mokha area. The strike was precise, by the grace of God, and resulted in widespread destruction of those equipment and weapons, and dozens were killed and wounded, including Saudis, using a large number of ballistic missiles and drones”. This area is important – Al-Mukha is the staging area for the National Resistance Forces led by Tariq Saleh, nephew of former Yemeni ruler Ali Abdullah Saleh. The Yemeni army’s strikes on this location are significant both for destroying equipment sent by the UAE and Saudi Arabia and for asserting control over the Red Sea coast.

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There is continually mentioned deep suspicion about the ‘Mecca’ defense pact. Egypt could be NEXT to join ‘Mecca’ defense pact. Turkish FM Hakan Fidan says Egypt could enter the alliance once technical issues are resolved

The Turkey-Saudi-Pakistan agreement is technically equivalent to NATO’s Article 5, he says.

But, this is how people see this:

Aug 8

Israeli far-right Minister Ben Gvir’s horrific post about Lebanon violates X (formerly Twitter) community guidelines.

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Russia, again .. The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue to launch attacks on the port infrastructure and vessels of Ukraine used in the interests of the AFU.

During the day, high-precision air-based weapons and unmanned aerial vehicles hit:

▪️military depots with communications and electronic warfare equipment in the port of Odessa;

▪️a dry cargo ship with military hardware, as well as a depot with weapons and military equipment in the port on Nikolayev;

▪️a dry cargo ship, which carried out the delivery of military equipment for the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Black Sea waters.

For the rest of the Russian fighting day, the MoD’s evening report says:  “Smoke on the water, fire in the sky”,

Aug 7

For this day, we start with Russia.  Three dry cargo ships in the Black Sea have been struck, they were carrying cargo of military purpose for the Ukrainian Armed Forces, according to the Russian Ministry of Defense.

There was a comical cry from the Ukrainian press, asking their handlers to arrange a safe ocean passage to Odessa – the wheat you know .. but we’ve seen this movie before. In the early days of the SMO Ukraine (and handlers) cried bitterly that Ukraine must export their wheat because Africa is hungry – they wanted to feed the world! There was agreement and if one followed the story, all the wheat went to Europe and not a kernel reached Africa.  This is besides the fact that the wheat on the bulk carriers were only skin deep, and the weapons were underneath.

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Russia is demolishing everything – everything that makes sense, that is.  Since the start of July, Russia has destroyed over 400,000 sq. m of Ukrainian business warehouses, Forbes reports.  Strikes hit facilities of major companies, including Fozzy Group (Silpo, Fora, Thrash!), Novus, Rozetka, Epicentr, Nova Poshta, and Toyota Ukraine.

During Kiev’s “40-day plan,” aimed at creating the appearance of military successes and securing additional support from Western allies, Kiev lost approximately 40 populated areas. This was stated by Leonid Ivlev, a State Duma deputy and retired major general, in an interview with TASS.

The Russian MoD regular Friday summary update for the preceding week: From 1 to 7 August, the Russian Armed Forces carried out two massive and 12 group strikes using precision weapons and drones to hit;

▫️ defence industry enterprises,
▫️ logistics centres, fuel, energy and transport infrastructure facilities used by the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU),
▫️ production and storage facilities for unmanned aerial vehicles and their accessories,
▫️ temporary deployment areas of Ukrainian armed groups and foreign mercenaries.

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To my knowledge there have not been any formal reports on the North Korean Rocket Launchers in Russia and we will probably not see this formally at least for now.  Besides the detail that may be wrong and given the previous North Korean military assistance to Russia in Kursk, this has a high probability to be accurate.  I feel inclined to believe that there is something here and maybe that the North Korean weaponry is getting a workout under real war conditions. We cannot read the Ukrainian press and it is very seldom that this is to be trusted in any way.  It is reported that the Ukrainian side is actively assessing the potential range of these ballistic missiles. According to their estimates, the missiles could reach targets from 200 to 700 kilometers deep into Ukrainian territory. So, we wait for confirmation on this one.

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“Mecca Agreement”

The last time we saw this imaging was when Donald Trump caressed the golden ball.

This Mecca Agreement is supposed to replicate Article 5 of the NATO treaty, meaning an attack on any member would be considered an attack on all, according to officials.  Take a look at the war thread regarding Yemen.

In a post on X, Ebrahim Rezaei, a member of the Iranian Parliament’s National Security and Foreign Policy Commission, commented on the newly announced defense deal between Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and Pakistan, warning that Saudi must realize that a paper agreement with Turkey and Pakistan will not bring it security, just as years of one-sided reliance on the United States failed to do so.

Rezaei further urged Riyadh to reform its policies rather than begging for security from external powers.

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African challenge of US dollar’s dominance bears first fruits – Sputnik Africa

African nations are incrementally abandoning the greenback for the yuan and local currencies, the Economist reports.

🟠 Zambia now accepts mining royalties in yuan and has mandated local currency for domestic transactions (offenders face fines or prison)

🟠 Egypt, Nigeria & South Africa signed new yuan swaps; Kenya converted dollar loans to yuan, saving ~$215M annually in interest

🟠 Standard Bank — Africa’s largest lender by assets — cleared first transactions via China’s Cross-Border Interbank Payment System; yuan cross-border transactions in Africa rose 4x from 2020–2024

🟠 The Pan-African Payment System (PAPSS) now connects 160+ banks to settle intra-African trade in local currencies, potentially saving $5B/year.

The transition is not painless: companies must rewrite dollar contracts, exporters face conversion fees, and some industries lack the dollars needed for imports.

Despite that and the fact the dollar still rules 70% of external debt, with the Zambian kwacha up 15% this year, Africa is betting on a multipolar currency future.

Comment: I read these bubbly and positive comments on the African struggle to change over to alternative currencies, and each time a comment that came to me from my favorite economist plays in my mind. This was a four word sentence. What About The Debt?

Besides currencies, there is a move just starting in Africa, spurred from the success of Burkina Faso kicking the French out and taking back their gold manufacturing. Zimbabwe and the Democratic Republic of the Congo has passed legislation that the raw rare earth and critical mineral material mined stock cannot be exported, but it must be processed inside the countries and completed products must be exported.

And, we have this:  Ugandan parliament votes to join the International Stabilization Force of the Epsteinite coalition to further suppress the Palestinian struggle for freedom.

➡️In a transparent effort to appease Washington, Uganda’s parliament voted on Thursday to dispatch troops to Gaza, aligning the country with the controversial “Board of Peace” framework engineered by US President Donald Trump. The decision marks Kampala’s official entry into the US-led International Stabilization Force (ISF), positioning the Ugandan military to enforce a post-war order in the wake of Israel’s devastating campaign in the territory.

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The channels are in an uproar on Donald Trump’s new wig.  Nice release of tension but all of the profane images (this is a clean one) tell a story.    Donny may be hauled out of his military ballroom by the existing hair.   The ‘Spirit’ of the imaging is not your normal joke, but expresses and exposes a deep hatred for the chief clown and mini-moos of the now clearly visible empire regime.  The ‘man behind the curtain’ is not so clearly delineated as yet.

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I have mentioned a few times that I see signs of Latin American resistance, even in the satrapies and pro-empire countries where we saw a slew of deep right-wing presidents elected with much meddling, during the past two years. The divisions are becoming startk.

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The Trump Ballroom is now a military center: Trump:

Two Obama and Biden Appellate Court Judges just voted against the desperately needed Military Center, required for the National Security of Washington, D.C., and our Country, itself.

We will be immediately appealing to the United States Supreme Court.

This unjust decision must be overturned by the Supreme Court in its entirety.

Aug 6

Violence in Lebanon, the Gaza Strip and the West Bank is increasing.  It is very easy to see.  There is a channel that auto-reports only the events.  When I have no time to look at the detail, this channel gives me the number of IDF attacks on the three areas.  If you keep a watching brief on this channel over a few days, you will soon see that the attacks over some 24 hour periods reach the number of 200, reported by area and in a few categories:  invasion alerts, bombing alerts – naval bombing alerts – artillery, clashes, drone alerts, settler attacks, demolitions and a few more.         https://t.me/RNN_Alerts/51475 

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Gaza Board of Peace announces the start of the first construction sites which will house Moroccan troops as part of the International Stabilization Forces, ISF.

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Iran and Oman have reached preliminary understandings on almost all issues surrounding the Strait of Hormuz, according to Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Kazem Gharibabadi, under a new model for managing navigation through the strategic waterway.

Gharibabadi stressed that the understanding “does not mean reopening the Strait of Hormuz,” saying any reopening would depend on specific conditions.

Under the emerging arrangement, the temporary northern and southern routes would be closed and replaced by a new route in which a significant portion of inbound and outbound shipping would pass through Iranian territorial waters, with the remainder in Omani waters.

Gharibabadi said the model could initially remain in place for two to four months or longer, while stressing that moving to the second phase would require a new decision.

As for talks with the United States, Gharibabadi denied holding them, despite “receiving messages from Washington indicating its willingness to return to uphold its commitments.” Al Mayadeen

Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmaeil Baghaei has announced that the geographical coordinates of the route proposed by Iran and Oman in the Strait of Hormuz have been agreed upon.

However, Baghaei stressed that “if some third parties do not obstruct this process, a joint statement between the two countries is in the final review and drafting stage.”

He also pointed out that the “understanding between Iran and Oman, in itself, cannot guarantee the safety of the Strait for passing ships.”

Baghaei explained that the “factors that create insecurity in the Strait of Hormuz, particularly those stemming from the United States, such as the naval blockade and other aggressive and threatening actions against Iran and its interests, still exist.” Al Mayadeen

Aug 5

Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz on Gaza:

We established a security zone in Gaza covering more than 50–60% of the Gaza Strip.  Everything in that area has been destroyed. That’s our policy.  There are no houses, and there are no threats.

Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz on Lebanon:

We destroyed 24 Lebanese villages. We destroyed every house.  They won’t return. Do you know why? Because they have nowhere to return to. Everything is destroyed.

Netanyahu (bloody bibi) describes the next step.”There is still a radical Shia axis, and also a radical Sunni axis is emerging.  We must form an alliance with Arab countries.  And I will tell you with whom else: with Muslims who want neither this nor that.  You will be amazed at how many of them are turning to us. They are turning to Israel. They are turning to me.”

This is what we are up against:

Google pockets $45m to fuel Netanyahu’s propaganda denying Gaza famine:

Google has signed a six-month, $45m contract with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office to run propaganda campaigns denying famine in Gaza and promoting Tel Aviv’s war narrative. The deal, revealed in government disclosures, places Google and its YouTube platform as “key entities” in Netanyahu’s messaging drive, managed through Israel’s state advertising bureau Lapam. Ads paid for under the contract insist “there is food in Gaza” despite the UN declaring famine and warning of mass starvation, with at least 367 Palestinians—131 of them children—already dead from hunger and malnutrition. Alongside YouTube, Israel is spending millions more on platforms like X and Outbrain/Teads, funding videos that accuse the UN of “sabotage,” discredit the Hind Rajab Foundation, and push debunked claims against Hamas. The campaigns were launched in June not only to counter reports of famine but also to justify Israel’s bombing of Iran during Operation Rising Lion, which killed more than 400 civilians.

This is why Israel’s war continues:

Prof. Patrick Bond:  This is an older report but nothing much has changed:  https://www.globalresearch.ca/genocide-brics-regimes-nurture-israel-economically/5870849

Beyond the obvious neighbours and India fingered by Netanyahu, there are other BRICS+ ‘blessors’ (as end-times allies of Netanyahu self-describe) witnessed in this ten-point (partial) catalogue of how war and profits make for unfortunate bedfellows:

Russia is the number 1 coal supplier to the genocide and South Africa #2 now that Colombia and Turkey [fake] have declared Boycott Divestment Sanctions BDS against Israel;

Brazil supplies 9% of Israel’s oil while Russia operates the main shipping export terminal for one of the largest oil suppliers (Kazakhstan), and as Michael Karadjis points out, “Israel imports a small but regular amount of oil from its BRICS neighbour Egypt, via Sidi Kerir, near Alexandria, the terminus of the SUMED pipeline.

Oil from BRICS members United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia, as well as Iraq, also feeds into this pipeline”;in both South Africa and Brazil, leading officials have openly bragged in recent weeks that they will not impose coal and oil sanctions on Israel, with the latter’s defense minister also opposing potential cancellation of military cooperation with Tel Aviv-based Elbit Systems (currently ‘paused’);

India supplies vital military equipment for use in Gaza, the West Bank and now Lebanon, including Adani-Elbit’s deadly medium-altitude, long-endurance (‘male’)drones;

the two main parts of Israel’s main port – at Haifa – were privatised in recent years by Shanghai International Port Group and Adani, facilitating more efficient supply of weapons and ammo to the IDF;

Chinese-Israeli trade hit a recent record of $20 bn/annum, including $14.4 billion of exports to Israel (number 1 in the world in 2022) – in spite of December 2023 claims that Chinese Cosco ships would avoid Israeli ports (a stance reversed in February);

India is the number 5 trader with Israel at nearly $5 billion;

the normalisation of Arab-Israeli trade continues, e.g. a recent wartime 5% increase in UAE-Israeli commerce – thanks to increasingly crucial transshipment services following Houthi disruptions to Red Sea shipping – featuring co-U.S. sub-imperial powers Egypt, UAE and Saudi Arabia, as Netanyahu himself bragged when applauding the new land route;

South African arms dealer Ivor Ichikowitz (the ruling party’s leading campaign contributor a year ago, and a tireless pro-Israel propagandist this year) operates a military joint venture with Elbit Systems, has a Tel Aviv office and runs an “Ichikowitz Family International Tefillin Bank” supplying the Israel Defense Forces;thousands of migrants from Ethiopia, and hundreds from India, now serve as IDF-employed draftees or mercenaries, alongside an unknown number of South African citizens, and what may be as many as tens of thousands of Russians, because there are “one million plus Russian passport holders or double passport holders who live in Israel. This is a very very complicated affair because according to the Russian Constitution, Russia has to protect them. The fact that many of these are hardcore Zionist and with a genocidal mentality makes the problem even more unsolvable…”.

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Japan formally enters the re-militarization chat.  We’ve heard comments, speeches, plans for placing weapons and troubles on the seas, but now they are formally there with Russia and China the named enemy, although the language is creative.

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Russian forces are now just kilometers away from the last two fortified cities, Slavyansk and Kramatorsk, the final “Fortress cities” will soon be encircled, ground into submission, and with them the last plausible defense in Donbass will end.

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🇨🇴 Colombia President Petro: “Foreigners used foreign money to commit the electoral fraud imposing a president who did not win the election… and so we are a colony, starting Friday at 3 in the afternoon. A colony.” pic.twitter.com/HrPKi4y0gS

— COMBATE |🇵🇷 (@upholdreality) August 4, 2026

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Pentagon drafting a new U.S. nuclear strategy in case of regional war with China or Russia, per NBC News

The Pentagon’s policy chief is drafting a new U.S. nuclear strategy that would place greater emphasis on the potential use of shorter-range tactical nuclear weapons in the event of a regional conflict with China or Russia.

The classified strategy informs nuclear options for the commander in chief during crises.

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Russian forces have launched another large-scale ballistic missile attack against Kiev, with multiple reports indicating repeated waves of Iskander-M ballistic missiles and Zircon hypersonic missiles striking the Ukrainian capital. Russia sustains the pressure and with the strikes on Wildberries, Russia is paying back in spades, targeting similar Ukrainian commercial, logistical and distribution infrastructure. Footage is streaming in of Ukrainian warehouses of various kinds in rack and ruin.  But what is most interesting about this last strike, is that no interceptor missiles were launched – not even one. Reports say about 30 Russian Iskanders and Zircon missiles flew. Is the Ukraine now completely out of interceptors or has the staff that handle interceptor strikes ‘gone to the ground’? In any event, not long now for this SMO.

Aug 4

The US is truly trying to create their usual circus around the Iranian- Omani talks on the Strait of Hormuz.   Iran had to make a further announcement:  Foreign Ministry says Iran-Oman talks on Strait of Hormuz management are bilateral, not involving the US. 

I guess the US, whoever is there, are banging on the doors of the meeting room.  There is the CIA, in the potplant container just outside, disguised as flycatcher potplants.  Pakistan turned up disguised as casual cricketers walking up and down casually swinging their bats and Qatar is hanging around the pool with girls in bikinis with the most modern spy listening headphones.

That was enough for Explosive Media, the Lego movie guys:

“This is between Iran and Oman. “Your controller isn’t even plugged in!

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Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesperson:  Negotiations between Iran and the Sultanate of Oman to regulate safe passage through the Strait of Hormuz are ongoing.  Our negotiations with Oman focus on establishing safe routes for ships to and from the Strait of Hormuz.  We are conducting these negotiations with the Sultanate of Oman as the two littoral states of the Strait of Hormuz.

The talks with the Sultanate of Oman at both the technical and political levels are positive.   We are working with Oman to establish the necessary mechanisms for future arrangements regarding navigation in the Strait of Hormuz.

The final results of our negotiations with Oman will be announced upon their completion.

US SecState Rubio: Progress made in Iran talks, but no final deal yet.  Rubio said ‘there’s a conversation and negotiation that we are involved in between Oman and Iran’ on reopening the Strait of Hormuz to commercial shipping, adding ‘we’re hoping that will happen very shortly’.  Iran says they are not involved at all, but are trying very hard to crash the party.  An Iranian official:  Reaching an understanding with the Sultanate of Oman regarding the Strait of Hormuz is within reach if America stops its interference.

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A little soft rock to start this day with – from times before Cat Stevens became Yusuf.  Its a wild world.

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Millions of Muslims across the world are commemorating Arba’een, which marks the 40th day after the martyrdom anniversary of Imam Hussein (AS), the third Shia Imam and the grandson of Prophet Mohammad (PBUH).

Again we see a remarkable ceremony of unity, beauty, tears, devotion, and gratitude. The underlying call for revenge remains.

🔴 Hezbollah Secretary-General Naim Qassem speech commemorating Arbaeen – Highlights:

🔺 We face US-Israeli aggression against Lebanon, Yemen, Iran, Gaza, entire West Asia

🔺US, Israel seek to extinguish flame of Resistance, recolonize West Asia region

🔺 Iran put Israeli withdrawal in first clause of MoU while direct talks with Israel brought only shame

🔺 Leadership of Ayatollah Sayyed Mojtaba Khamenei will be reason for further victories

🔺 Martyrdom of Ayatollah Khamenei became symbol of dignity, Revolution, sacrifice

🔺 Ashura is founded upon fulfilling one’s religious duty even if it leads to sacrifice

🔺 Iran has undoubtedly triumphed in war with US, Israel

🔺 Sheikh Naim salutes all ‘honorable’ pilgrims who participate in millions-strong processions in Karbala

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A total of four medical evacuation flights were carried out from the Polish city of Rzeszów (MEDEVAC HUB Jasionka) on August 3rd:

– A Learjet 60 operated by the FAI Air Ambulance, registration number D-CPMU, call sign IFA1285, flew to Stuttgart (EDDS);
– A Cessna 550B Citation Bravo operated by the Austrian company Tyrol Air Ambulance, registration number D-CHZF, call sign TYW212F, flew to Vienna (LOWW) and Graz (LOWG);
– A special A321-251NX aircraft of the German Air Force, registration number 15+10, call sign GAF732, flew to Berlin (EDDB).

➡️ The sharp increase in medical evacuations is widely believed to be related to the increased intensity and effectiveness of Russian strikes in Ukraine and implied that foreigners are among the casualties

Nobody says it openly so far, but it must be that NATO personnel are in the cross hairs.

In addition last night Geran-4 Seeker teams hit seven dry cargo ships delivering cargo to the AFU.

There is more but for today, those two delicious pieces will suffice.  Russia is speeding to get this war over.

Russian troops are now less than 5km from Slavyansk and Kramatorsk

The final “Fortess cities” will soon be encircled, ground into submission, and with them the last plausible defense in Donbass will end.

Just like Konstantinovka, western media will ignore it as instructed…

— Chay Bowes (@BowesChay) August 2, 2026

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The drone warfare continues. TASS has a summary. It is reported over the summer Ukraine has drone attacked over 30 civilian busses. MFA (https://tass.com/politics/2168689.

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There is another Ukrainian drone war raging and that is in Mali, one of the Sahel States.

Russia’s Africa Corps takes out Ukrainian drone operators in Mali — military officer (https://tass.com/politics/2168719). According to the helicopter pilot, the nationality of drone operators was identified through radio intercepts and statements from captured militants.

In addition, Latin American cartels ship mercenaries to Ukraine to gain battlefield experience – Russian special ops soldier

Latin American mercenaries – mainly Colombians and Mexicans – represent “an endless source of cannon fodder” for the Ukrainian military, a commander of the “Akhmat” special forces battalion tells Sputnik.

👉 Cartels are sending their fighters to Ukraine for combat training, where they replace other foreign mercenaries in the ranks of Ukrainian army.

According to him, large numbers of Latin American mercenaries arrived in Ukraine’s Sumy region this past winter, with some of them almost immediately eliminated at a command post.

💬 “Given that the Ukraine regime has built relations with the cartels, these gunmen effectively sign contracts, get combat experience in the ranks of the Ukrainian forces and then return home already battle-hardened to create havoc,” the commander adds.

As far as I am concerned Ukraine must be taken out completely as a state.  I am sorry for the reasonable Ukrainian people that remain.  Shooting at an Iranian cargo ship and continuing drone warfare in Africa is enough.  Recruiting the cartels may be a good thing but they are savvy and will not die so easily.  Israel must cease being a state.  It is actually quite easy in terms of Israel because their statehood at the UN had specific riders attached, of which they have not executed even one.  I do not know why Russia and China are quiet on this issue.

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In Gaza, it looks like this:

July marks highest Palestinian death toll in Gaza this year. Israeli forces killed at least 152 people, including 21 children, 14 women, and four elderly people in the Gaza Strip in July, the territory’s Health Ministry reports.

Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza:
2 martyrs and 10 injuries have arrived at Gaza Strip hospitals in the past 24 hours. A number of victims are still under the rubble and on the roads, as ambulance and civil defense crews are unable to reach them until now. Since the ceasefire (October 11): Total martyrs: 1,252, Total injuries: 4,120, Total retrievals: 804

The toll of the “israeli” aggression has risen to 73,377 martyrs and 174,230 injuries since October 7, 2023. Gaza Ministry of Health

The structure of the Gaza Board of Peace is not effective and the negotiators, Qatar, Egypt and Turkey are appealing to the international community to ‘do something’. Israel refuses to withdraw from Gaza as the process requires and as they habitually do, willy-nilly changes what the agreement requires and contains. This is exactly why Russia and China refused to vote and even to take part when this whole unworkable mess came before the security council. And this is exactly why the gulfies begged Russia and China not to stand in the way of the complete so-called peace agreement and not to veto it at the Security Council. The Gulf Arab States have no intention of ‘doing anything’ as they have done ‘nothing’ so far.

In the meantime in Gaza, Israel is in with big machinery shaving off the first layers of topsoil, to make sure there is limited human remains left that can be used as evidence.

There is a big mopup going on to hide evidence.

Israel is spending millions together with former Trump campaign manager to flood the internet with pro-Israel fake news about the genocide in Gaza, per Drop Site News. Israel is funding a $46.5 million campaign, led by former Trump campaign manager Brad Parscale, to influence how AI chatbots discuss Israel by publishing hundreds of pro-Israel articles across a network of websites designed largely for AI systems, not human readers, according to Drop Site News. The campaign explicitly targets “GPT conversations,” with AI tools already citing these sites, including Perplexity, Copilot, Gemini, and sometimes ChatGPT and Claude, in responses about Gaza and U.S.-Israel relations.

In addition, the movies are coming to ‘en-vague’, obscure and shadow the memories.

Brad Pitt joins Joaquin Phoenix as exec producers on film about Palestinian girl killed in Gaza. The film focuses on 6yo Hind Rajab’s death and efforts to save her. Already it is vague. The car she was in and a later ambulance were hit by Israeli fire in 2024.

Let’s rewrite with the Hind Rajab Foundation:

Last year on this day, January 29, 2024, five-year-old Hind Rajab was murdered, alongside her family, in a brutal act of genocidal violence by the Israeli Defense Forces. Hind survived the initial attack but was left trapped in the wreckage, surrounded by the dead bodies of her family members. Her cries for help, captured during a live call to emergency services, were broadcast worldwide. The inhumanity of this calculated act reverberated globally, showing Israel’s systematic and indiscriminate targeting of civilians in Gaza.

Its hot out there:

Aug 3

Note from Brian Berletic: The US has cultivated Kurds along Iran’s western borders in Iraq, Baluch terrorists on its southeast borders with Pakistan, a US presence throughout the Persian Gulf, and of course has recently captured and is transforming Armenia/Azerbaijan into a springboard against both Russia and Iran.  Keep an eye on all of these vectors for continued US pressure and possible incursions.  This is the equivalent of the US “Extending Russia” strategy for Iran.

Do understand Brian correctly.  He does not say X or Y will happen, he simply shows the strategy and planning.

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Be very aware of this:

The Sirius Report
@thesiriusreport
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The mainstream media puts out narratives which the masses believe. The so-called alt-media does exactly the same thing and which is too often utter nonsense too.

When you try to point this out you get the same response you get from the masses that still believe the mainstream narratives. They refuse to believe that any alternative is possible because this alt-media collective must be correct.

What people also fail to grasp is that narratives are created by co-opted sources in the alt-media to ensure that the same MO which works in the mainstream media also works in the alt-media.

People have learnt nothing. They have swapped one illusion for another.

The mainstream media puts out narratives which the masses believe. The so-called alt-media does exactly the same thing and which is too often utter nonsense too.

When you try to point this out you get the same response you get from the masses that still believe the mainstream…

— The Sirius Report (@thesiriusreport) August 3, 2026

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Russian MoD
❗️ During the night, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continued to launch strikes against the transport infrastructure of Ukraine used in the interests of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

💥 Unmanned aerial vehicles hit the following targets:
▫️ three dry cargo ships carrying military cargo in the Black Sea waters;
▫️a dry cargo ship at the port of Nikolayev delivering cargo to the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

The drone war continues: MOSCOW, August 3. /TASS/. Air defense forces shot down and neutralized 131 Ukrainian drones over Russian regions overnight, Russia’s Defense Ministry reported.

A drone attack triggered a fire at a Wildberries logistics facility in Russia’s central Vladimir Region. According to the latest data, three people were injured.

Moreover, three people died, another two were injured in an overnight Ukrainian attack on the Republic of Crimea.

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NEW YORK, August 3. /TASS/. The United States Central Command (CENTCOM) has asked military analysts to develop “unconventional” ideas for punishing Iran, CNN reported, citing sources.

“We are looking for new creative and unconventional ways to pressure and punish Iran,” a US Central Command intelligence officer wrote in a message to a group of military analysts, according to the report.

According to CNN, the request highlights the limited and potentially politically unpalatable options available to the Washington administration in dealing with Iran.

Meanwhile, a source told Fox News that CENTCOM was prepared to consider any new proposals. The US military believes the strategy toward Iran requires reassessment.

US President Trump said earlier that the United States and Iran would hold talks on a peace deal on August 3. Trump also wrote on Truth Social that he had agreed to abandon plans for a powerful strike on Iran in order to reach a deal. According to Trump, Iran and other Middle Eastern countries asked Washington to refrain from attacking because the parameters of a deal had been agreed. “This would include the immediate, complete, and total opening of the Hormuz Strait and an end to Iran’s nuclear threat,” Trump added.

In turn, Iran is not negotiating with the US right now — Iran’s FM spox Baghaei
The negotiations are with Oman, focused on a temporary route that would ensure safe shipping through the Strait of Hormuz’

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While a world in travail swirls around us, Ben Gvir wanted to use crocodiles to guard Palestinian prisoners.  A court turned it down not on the basis of human rights, but animal rights activists put in a plea for the crocodiles.  Gvir’s comment:  ‘Once again, in time of war, the legal system sides with TERRORISTS’ — Ben-Gvir

While Israel cannot strike Iran, it is killing people in Gaza and West Bank, in the most cruel manner.  A witness states:  Today, I saw a Palestinian child picking up the brain of another Palestinian child. Yes the actual brain. He used a small rag to pick it up. I also saw an infant ejected from his mother’s womb, due to the sheer power of the explosives Israel used in Gaza last night. But the most inhumane thing was witnessing someone open up a baby’s soft pink onesie – only to discover pieces of bones and diaper inside. Israel evaporated her little body with chemical weapons that are internationally banned. It’s August 2, 2026

Israel killed at least 18 Palestinians on Sunday despite President Trump’s recent announcement of a “breakthrough” in efforts to implement last year’s ceasefire agreement. All parts of Gaza (south, central, and north) were hit in attacks, causing the biggest daily death toll in weeks.

Gaza has just endured its deadliest month of 2026.

It is not very hard to begin to conclude that one of the reasons for the OnAgain/OffAgain war on Iran is to supply time for Israel to conclude their wipe-out of Palestinians.

(Words carefully selected in order not to attract undue attention from the ‘attacking mobs and their spitting women’. There is of course a word for all of this. You may feel free to look at the simplest form of the legal definition of genocide. https://www.ohchr.org/en/instruments-mechanisms/instruments/convention-prevention-and-punishment-crime-genocide).

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A real feelgood story because I love donkeys and we have another long-standing commentator on the site who loves donkeys too.

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Russia’s State Duma elections will take place from September 18th to 20th.

Foreign agents from abroad are preparing provocations for the upcoming parliamentary elections in Russia, according to Russian State Duma Deputy Vasily Piskarev.

The State Duma commission investigating foreign interference has recorded the activity of online courses and training programs aimed at preparing pseudo-observers. The instructors include exiled political scientists, former municipal deputies, and activists from the now-defunct organization “Golos”.

“This technology is intended to be used to create negative news stories aimed at discrediting the electoral process. This includes provoking conflicts at polling stations, submitting “mass complaints and petitions” about fabricated violations, publishing fake news, conducting hashtag campaigns, and more,” the commission’s statement said.

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There is another internet destabilization raging. Israel and their insane armies of internet pseudo warriors have pulled into the X community notes en masse to irritate everyone saying anything about crimes on Palestinians. As they kill the Palestinians, they want to kill everyone’s speech and testimony on their activities as well.

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Cuba goes DARK again as nationwide blackout hits. Entire island loses electricity for the FOURTH time in two months, state power company says.

The empire can only spread darkness. There is no light.

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Meet SMELVIS

Remember the Trump caricature with him slimmed down in a typical Elvis Presley costume? The one that made me think of: You Ain’t nothing but a hound dog? Turns out that image triggered what looks like hundreds of cartoon makers over the world. I’ve seen hundreds of different depictions out there, and they are all titled SMELVIS.

Trump post Ai Elvis Trump Face picture,
“Never bet Against America”
Joe Biden
America responded!
Smelvis is back #Smelvis @TheOnlyEsta2 #USDemocracy https://t.co/Y5sTuozMqg pic.twitter.com/Z4CRYVlQnN

— Ruben Garcia (@goRubenRuben) August 2, 2026