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19 Aug 2025 16:19

A Liberian-flagged coal carrier erupted in an explosion on Monday while transiting the Patapsco River near the demolition site of Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge.
The 751-foot W Sapphire, which had just loaded coal at CSX’s Curtis Bay terminal, was beginning its voyage to Mauritius when the blast tore through the ship at around 6:30 p.m. local time. Former Port of Baltimore CEO William Doyle confirmedto gCaptain the vessel’s loading location and cargo.
https://x.com/gcaptain/status/1957613963631554973?s=46

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19 Aug 2025 14:45

‼️🇺🇸🇮🇱 - Acting US Attorney for Nevada Sigal Chattah just deleted her X account Chattah4Nevada.

Fortunately, many of her posts showing her Israel First bias were archived.

🔗 Chris Menahan

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19 Aug 2025 14:45

‼️🇺🇸🇮🇱 The Israeli-born Acting US Attorney for Nevada, Sigal Chattah, has just announced she is NOT going to prosecute Israeli child sex crimes suspect Tom Alexandrovich, leaving it instead to local prosecutors where it is far less likely to be successful, given that he was allowed to leave the country. Federal prosecutors can and often do prosecute these cases, especially when federal agencies are involved in the sting, as they were here. But not in this case. I wonder why…

🔗 Ali Abunimah

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19 Aug 2025 14:22

🇷🇺🤝🇺🇸 Deputy Chairman of the Security Council of Russia, Dmitry Medvedev, on X/Twitter:

"The anti-Russian warmongering Coalition of the Willing failed to outplay the President of the United States on his turf. Europe thanked & sucked up to him. The question is which tune the Kiev clown will play about guarantees & territories back home, once he’s put on his green military uniform again".

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19 Aug 2025 12:42

🇪🇺🤝☪️ The EU refuses to eliminate islamophobia research, says funding such research papers into islam are "world-class scholarly undertakings that advance the frontiers of knowledge"

The EU executive has pushed back against far-right criticism over the allocation of over €17 million in grants by the leading European Research Council (ERC) to Islam-related projects, insisting they won funding on scientific merit.

The European Commission has countered criticism from far-right political groups for allocating EU research funds over the past years on projects focused on subject matters like Islam, the Qur’an, Sharia, and Islamophobia.

The controversy began after Italian hard-right MEP Silvia Sardone questioned the value of the projects, describing them as “studies of questionable utility, all focused on Islam,” and demanding that the Commission justify the use of public funds.

Similar concerns were raised by French far-right MEP Jean-Paul Garraud. Both lawmakers, who sit in the Patriots for Europe group in the European Parliament, suggested the projects unfairly promoted Islam or exaggerated the existence of Islamophobia in Europe.

In a response made public on Monday, the EU Commissioner for research, Ekaterina Zaharieva, stood by the European Research Council (ERC), the bloc’s scientific funding body, pointing out that the projects in question are “world-class scholarly undertakings that advance the frontiers of knowledge.”

She noted that the funded research spans a wide range of topics, including minority inclusion in democratic societies and the evolution of Islamic law.

Examples of ERC-backed initiatives include a €2.5 million project led by France’s National Centre for Scientific Research, which is mapping the evolution of Sharia law and will run until 2029.

Another project, coordinated by Istanbul Bilgi University between 2018 and 2019, received €2.3 million to study the rise of populist and Islamophobic discourse in Europe.

🔗 https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2025/08/18/eu-commission-defends-funding-for-islam-and-islamophobia-research-projects

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19 Aug 2025 12:12

🇮🇱❌🇫🇷 France threatens ‘strong response’ if Israel closes its Jerusalem consulate

French Foreign Ministry says it hasn’t gotten any official notification of the reported move, floated in response to Paris’s plans to recognize Palestinian state

The statement followed reports that Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar is pushing for Israel to close the French consulate in the capital, in response to French President Emmanuel Macron’s intention to recognize a Palestinian state. Macron’s declaration in July that France would recognize a State of Palestine at the UN next month kicked off a series of Western countries saying they would follow suit.

🔗 https://www.timesofisrael.com/france-threatens-strong-response-if-israel-closes-its-jerusalem-consulate/

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19 Aug 2025 12:05

🇺🇸⚓️🇻🇪 Three Arleigh Burke-Class Guided-Missile Destroyers:

USS Sampson (DDG-102),
USS Gravely (DDG-107),
USS Jason Dunham (DDG-109),

Have been ordered off the coast of Venezuela by the U.S. Navy, with them expected to arrived in the area within the next 36 hours, as part of a naval task force recently deployed to the Southern Caribbean Sea, which includes the Iwo Jima Amphibious Ready Group (ARG) and several P-8A “Poseidon” Maritime Patrol and Surveillance Aircraft, meant to combat drug trafficking by narco-cartels in Latin America.

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19 Aug 2025 11:42

🇮🇳🤝🇷🇺 After hosting the Chinese foreign minister, Wang Yi, the Indian minister of foreign affairs, Subrahmanyam Jaishankar, is traveling to Russia to meet with his counterpart, Sergey Lavrov.

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19 Aug 2025 11:21

🇺🇸🇮🇱 I have obtained documents pertaining to the arrest of Israeli government official Tom Alexandrovich caught up in a recent Las Vegas undercover child sex sting

Key findings: Alexandrovitch allegedly solicited what he believed to be a 15 year old girl for sex. He told police he met with the FBI in Vegas, had a future meeting with the NSA and immediately identified himself as an employee of the Israeli government

Alexandrovich repeatedly emphasized that he needed to speak with someone about his upcoming flight to Israel and speak to his family/Israeli embassy

This calls into question claims from Prime Minister Netanyahu's office that they were not aware that Alexandrovich was arrested when initially contacted

The documents include much more detail on how Alexandrovich was caught up

Documents are available exclusively for Breaking Points premium subscribers and will be made public tomorrow

Key finding: Alexandrovich told police he met with the FBI while in the US and had meetings the next day lined up with the NSA before fleeing to Israel after being caught up in the child sex sting

🔗 Saagar Enjeti

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19 Aug 2025 11:13

🇺🇸🇮🇱🇮🇷 The USAF deployed the WC-135R Constant Phoenix "Nuke Sniffer" deployed to Al Udeid.

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19 Aug 2025 11:01

🇺🇦❌🇺🇸 Despite a "positive" meeting between Vladimir Zelensky and Donald Trump, the Ukrainian president, according to the newspaper, Financial Times, still refuses to make territorial concessions to Russia.

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18 Aug 2025 22:04

🇺🇸🇺🇦🇪🇺 Main takeaway:

A trilateral meeting between Trump-Zelensky and Putin must be scheduled in the near future.

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18 Aug 2025 19:50

🇺🇸🇺🇦⚡- The Trump-Zelensky meeting has begun.

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18 Aug 2025 19:50

🇺🇸🤝🇺🇦 — President Trump says that the US may get involved in Ukraine security guarantees, and will give a concrete answer on US troop deployments on Ukraine later today, presumably waiting to see how the summit goes between him, Zelensky, and European leaders.

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18 Aug 2025 19:43

🇺🇸🗣U.S. president, Donald Trump:

"I don't think you need a ceasefire. If you look at the six deals that I settled this year, they were all at war. I didn't do any ceasefires ... I like the concept of a ceasefire for one reason: because you'd stop killing people immediately."

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19 Aug 2025 14:47

🇺🇸 ❌ 🇮🇱 - Good morning! Today would be a great day to tell your representative to cosponsor my Dual Loyalty Disclosure Act (HR 2356).

If dual citizens run for office, they should disclose ALL countries in which they hold citizenship. Don’t you agree?

🔗 Representative Thomas Massie

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19 Aug 2025 14:45

‼️🇺🇸🇮🇱 - On her official DOJ account, Israeli-born Acting US Attorney for Nevada Sigal Chattah is now blaming "a liberal [D.A.] and state court judge" for allowing Israeli child predator suspect Tom Alexandrovich to flee the US.

Note she doesn't name him or name which country he fled to.

🔗 Chris Menahan

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19 Aug 2025 14:31

🇷🇺🤝🇺🇸 Trump’s meeting with Zelensky and European leaders was held according to Putin’s plan

“Trump has broken the position of Kiev and the Europeans, and this is in many ways Putin’s victory.” So experts comment on the results of Donald Trump’s talks with Vladimir Zelensky and European leaders in the White House on Monday.

First, Zelensky “woundly dressed” in a black paramilitary suit for the sake of observing the protocol of the White House, notes The Guardian. In addition, he was mostly silent while Trump said he settled six wars. Finally, the Ukrainian guest learned a lesson from the February meeting and took a reception that helped other European leaders succeed in relations with Trump: flattery.

So, Zelensky thanked Trump 11 times in 4.5 minutes, according to The Washington Post. As the newspaper notes, Zelensky thanked Trump for the reception, for the invitation of world leaders, for “very good conversation” and for a gift – a map of Ukraine. “This time Zelensky took the plan: to thank Trump, and then once again to thank Trump. He was not alone in this,” the newspaper writes.

However, The New York Times believes that Zelensky can again ignite the anger of Trump. “He will soon face a difficult choice: to give up the territory in exchange for vague promises of Ukraine’s future security or to insist on his position and risk revoking Trump’s anger again,” the media argues. “Putin was not in the White House, but his influence was clearly felt. At times, it dominated the hall,” Moscow Sky News correspondent Ivor Bennett wrote about the talks. The journalist drew attention to the words of the US President addressed to Zelensky: “I don’t think you need a ceasefire.” “It was a terrific illustration of Trump’s turn in his approach to the world,” Bennett said.

According to experts, the results of the talks between Trump, Zelensky and European leaders were the success of Russia. They note a shift in the West’s position in favor of the Russian plan to resolve the Ukrainian crisis – without a short-term ceasefire. However, the differences are still ongoing.

“We watched a lot of shooting down. Its key point is that Donald Trump broke through both the Ukrainian side and the Europeans in their principled position until recently. They insisted that first there should be a ceasefire, and only then the negotiations on the content. Now the idea is a priority: without stopping the fighting, it is necessary to prepare a real peace agreement" said Yevgeny Minchenko.

German political scientist Alexander Rahr, said, “Europeans, grinding their teeth, follow this.” “There is no complete mutual understanding in Europe, there is a hidden rejection of Trump’s plan, reluctant to talk with Vladimir Putin. Meanwhile, Vladimir Zelensky is looking at whose side the hour of scales will bend. He understands that the collective West wants the end of the war and that it is impossible to achieve this without serious concessions to Kiev.

“However, Trump is breaking through his line, especially not counting with the Europeans. He is against Ukraine’s membership in NATO, trying to dump all future problems of Kiev on the European Union. The head of the White House, apparently, will now conclude his successful peacemaking with a summit between Putin and Zelensky. At the same time, Europeans want to at least indirectly participate in it, offering one of the European countries for a historic meeting, ”says Rahr.

🔗 https://vz.ru/politics/2025/8/19/1353838.html

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19 Aug 2025 13:13

🇺🇸🇬🇷🇦🇷 What would happen if America started faking its economic data?

Lying to your lenders is a bad enough idea when you’re an individual. It’s even worse when you’re a country.

That’s the specter critics of President Donald Trump have raised after he fired the head of the US Bureau of Labor Statistics this month after disappointing jobs data. While there’s no indication the data has been rigged (assertions from the White House aside) – or will be rigged in the future – the White House’s nomination of a partisan to lead the government’s economic data agency was enough to worry global economic and financial circles.

There’s historical precedent for that fear. Countries like Greece and Argentina have been both been punished by investors for putting out manufactured numbers in the past.

But while Greece famously faked its way into the European Union and Argentina to this day remains embroiled in legal fights over its own sham numbers, there key differences here: The US economy is the world’s biggest, buoyed by its global dominance and its years of strength.

The Trump administration says firing Erika McEntarfer wasn’t about politics but was instead about making BLS data more rigorous and accurate

In 2004, Greece confessed it had faked numbers on its national deficit and debt to qualify for entry into the eurozone in 2001.

But the number-fudging didn’t end there. Appointed to Greece’s statistical agency in 2010, economist Andreas Georgiou made a bold decision: He worked to publish deficit numbers that aligned with reality. After years of untrustworthy numbers that made the idea of official Greek data a global punchline, his efforts were downright startling. What followed were years of legal fights, and he was prosecuted for allegedly inflating the country’s deficit figures. Even the EU itself condemned Greece for the false data.

The fakery made the effects of the global financial crisis of 2008 and 2009 significantly worse in Greece. Lenders, skittish of what Greece’s actual public finances might be, shied away, demanding increasingly higher rates to hold Greek bonds. Austerity measures demanded by the World Bank and International Monetary Fund to bail out Greece angered everyday citizens.

In Argentina, accusations of untrustworthy inflation and economic growth data have dogged Latin America’s third-largest economy for decades, scaring off investors despite a wealth of natural resources. Then-President Nestor Kirchner demoted the person in charge of preparing inflation data because she (correctly) reported surging prices in 2007. Everyone from ordinary citizens to global investors treated official inflation data as suspect for years after.

But the United States is far from replicating either scenario, said Robert Shapiro, When the data was revealed to be fake in both Greece and Argentina, those economies were already in terrible shape, Shapiro pointed out.

“So the impact of the markets no longer being able to rely on the data was a little less because the markets were already backing away from investment and employment.”

The US economy is growing, hitting a relatively robust annualized rate of 3% in the second quarter. And at over $30 trillion, the US economy has a heft that both Greece and Argentina lack.

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19 Aug 2025 12:17

🇺🇸 A Liberian-flagged coal carrier erupted in an explosion on Monday while transiting the Patapsco River near the demolition site of Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge.

The 751-foot W Sapphire, which had just loaded coal at CSX’s Curtis Bay terminal, was beginning its voyage to Mauritius when the blast tore through the ship at around 6:30 p.m. local time. Former Port of Baltimore CEO William Doyle confirmed to gCaptain the vessel’s loading location and cargo.

City officials say the explosion has been fully contained. All 23 crew members are safe and accounted for.

Baltimore Fire Department units responded by land and water, while tugboats assisted in stabilizing the vessel and moving it toward a safe anchorage. The U.S. Coast Guard is investigating, though it’s important to note that the Coast Guard typically does not fight fires itself. Baltimore maintains one medium fireboat, the 87-foot John R. Frazier, and several smaller craft, which are believed to have assisted in the response.

“Fireboats remain on scene as the Coast Guard and other agencies begin their investigation. The vessel will be moved to a designated anchorage area and held there until cleared by the Coast Guard,” the Baltimore City Fire Department said in a statement.

🔗 https://gcaptain.com/coal-blast-rocks-bulk-carrier-off-baltimore/

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19 Aug 2025 12:10

🇺🇸⚖️ The U.S. Department of Justice is preparing to release the Epstein files to Capitol Hill after Trump denied their existence back in late June-early July.

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19 Aug 2025 12:03

🇺🇸🇻🇪 Venezuela’s Nicolas Maduro said he would deploy 4.5 million militia members in response to US “threats,” after Washington raised the bounty for his arrest and launched anti-drug operations in the Caribbean

🔗 https://insiderpaper.com/maduro-says-mobilizing-millions-of-militia-after-us-threats/

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19 Aug 2025 11:34

🇺🇸📱🇮🇱 Some X/Twitter users report having their tweets deleted about the story surrounding the capture of Israel's National Cyber Directorate in a child predator ring stint operation.

X/Twitter's AI, Grok, claims that such posts are in violation of X/Twitter's terms of service.

However, NorthStar journalist, Shaun King's legal team said X/Twitter deleted his tweets at the request of a "government" entity.

Meanwhile, the U.S. State Department got community noted after misreporting on the facts about the arrest and the conditions for the release of Tom Alexandrovich, the director of Israel's National Cyber Directorate.

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19 Aug 2025 11:17

🇺🇸🇮🇱🇮🇷 Another batch of US Tanker Aircraft are leaving Al Udeid Air Base this morning (4 so far)

Are they evacuating it in preparation for something?

🔗 MenchOSINT

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19 Aug 2025 11:10

🇺🇸🇮🇱🇮🇷 On August 18th, Five US Air Force Tankers have left Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar, & the two E-3B AWACS deployed in Prince Sultan Air Base in Saudi Arabia also left on the same day.

Possibly repatriation of fighter jets deployed during negotiations with Iran or preparation for a new bombing campaign against Iran.

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19 Aug 2025 10:56

#BREAKING | Ukraine pledges to purchase $100B in U.S. weapons, funded by Europe, to secure American security guarantees post-Russia peace deal, alongside a $50B drone agreement with Washington, per Financial Times.

The Global Eye | Subscribe

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18 Aug 2025 20:33

🤖 This photo going around of European leaders sitting in a White House hall is AI-generated.

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18 Aug 2025 19:50

🇺🇸🇺🇦 — Journalists asked to leave the room, no fights between Trump and Zelensky this time, press conference went smoothly.

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18 Aug 2025 19:49

🇺🇦 — President Zelensky announces his readiness to hold elections in Ukraine after the war ends.

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18 Aug 2025 19:39

🇺🇸📞🇪🇺🇺🇳🇺🇦 — Asked whether the U.S. is prepared to send peacekeeping forces to Ukraine after a peace deal is signed, Trump answers that they will be working with the Europeans

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