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25 Aug 2025 23:42

🇺🇸🇮🇳 Indian manager at Walmart fired 1200 employees and replaced them with Indian subcontractors earning over 120k USD daily (!!) from this scheme.

The subcontractors were hired through the H1-B visa system.

Walmart didn't disclose the name of the manager but it did mention this incident happened in the company's Global Tech Division which happens to be led by Suresh Kumar, an Indian citizen.

🔗 https://www.ctol.digital/news/walmart-fires-vp-kickbacks-terminates-1200-contractors/

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25 Aug 2025 11:33

🇺🇸 Trump threatened to "send in the troops" to Baltimore on Sunday after Maryland's Democratic governor, Wes Moore, invited the President to take part in a safety walk in the city.

https://time.com/7311892/trump-baltimore-troops-wes-moore/

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25 Aug 2025 10:47

🇭🇺❌🇺🇦 Hungarian foreign minister, Péter Szijjártó on X/Twitter:

Vladimir Zelensky used Ukraine’s national holiday to threaten Hungary. We firmly reject the Ukrainian President’s intimidation.

We regard sovereignty and territorial integrity as fundamental values of international politics. That is why we respect every country’s sovereignty and territorial integrity and expect the same in return.

In recent days Ukraine has carried out serious attacks against our energy supply. An attack on energy security is an attack on sovereignty.

A war to which Hungary has nothing to do with can never justify violating our sovereignty.

We call on Vladimir Zelensky to stop threatening Hungary and to end the reckless attacks on our energy security!

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25 Aug 2025 09:49

💻⚙️🆕🧠🤝🇨🇳 — 📰 Reuters | Exclusive: Nvidia working on new AI chip for China that outperforms the H20, sources say:

"BEIJING/SINGAPORE, Aug 19 (Reuters) - Nvidia is developing a new artificial intelligence chip for China based on its latest Blackwell architecture that will be more powerful than the H20 model it is currently allowed to sell there, two people briefed on the matter said.

U.S. President Donald Trump last week opened the door to the possibility of more advanced Nvidia chips being sold in China. But the sources noted U.S. regulatory approval is far from guaranteed amid deep-seated fears in Washington about giving China too much access to U.S. AI technology.

The new chip, tentatively known as the B30A, will use a single-die design likely to deliver half the raw computing power of the more sophisticated dual-die configuration in Nvidia's flagship B300 accelerator card, the sources said."

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25 Aug 2025 08:33

🇺🇸🇻🇪 After being forced to return to Naval Station Norfolk in Virginia to wait out Hurricane Erin, the Iwo Jima Amphibious Ready Group (ARG), consisting of the USS Iwo Jima (LHD-7), USS Fort Lauderdale (LPD-28) and USS San Antonio (LPD-17), have finally departed for their deployment to the Southern Caribbean Sea off the coast of Venezuela.

There they will join by the Arleigh Burke-Class Guided-Missile Destroyers: USS Sampson (DDG-102), USS Gravely (DDG-107), and USS Jason Dunham (DDG-109), who have already arrived in the U.S. Southern Command’s Area-of-Responsibility.

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25 Aug 2025 07:08

🇮🇱🤝🇸🇾 — According to Hebrew Channel 12, the security coordination agreement to be signed between Israel and the Syrian regime includes:

➡️Preventing the rebuilding of the Syrian army.

➡️Establishing a humanitarian corridor to Sweida.

➡️Disarming the Syrian part of the Golan.

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24 Aug 2025 23:15

♀️ Armies have had to greatly reduce training requirements after inducting women, because marching too much breaks their pelvises.

11.2% of a 1991 Australian Army female cohort broke their pelvises on the previous standards.

🔗 https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/10332180/

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24 Aug 2025 22:29

🇺🇸🇻🇪 Is the Trump Administration Building Up to a Military Confrontation With Venezuela?

These warships are Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyers, equipped with more than 90 missiles, including surface-to-air missiles. They can conduct antiaircraft and anti-submarine warfare, and shoot down ballistic missiles.

Deploying them against drug cartels would be like “bringing a howitzer to a knife fight,” one defense official said on Thursday.

The U.S. Navy has long intercepted and boarded ships suspected of smuggling drugs in international waters, typically with a Coast Guard officer temporarily in charge to invoke law enforcement authority. But the scale of the forces the Pentagon is moving into place, coupled with Mr. Trump’s order, suggests that the administration is contemplating actions that go significantly beyond law-enforcement-style maritime interdictions.

“By sending three Arleigh Burke destroyers off the coast of Venezuela, President Trump is bringing serious land attack capability via Tomahawk missiles,” said Adm. James Stavridis, a former head of U.S. Southern Command, now retired. “Also sophisticated intelligence gathering, six advanced helicopters, a thousand sailors and sophisticated command control to run counter narcotic operations at sea.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/22/us/politics/trump-venezuela-drug-war.html

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24 Aug 2025 21:23

🇰🇵 Kim Jong Un honored fallen North Korean soldiers for their role in the “liberation” of Russia’s Kursk region from Ukrainian forces.

🔗 Clash Report

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24 Aug 2025 21:17

🇮🇱 Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu said there is “work to be done” in countering Gen-Z’s growing anti-Israel sentiment, pointing to one of the generation’s “most prominent spokesman” who argues he is pushing to drag the US into a war with Iran.

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24 Aug 2025 19:19

⚡️ Rybar recently reported that Russia is preparing to export Geran long-range drones to Latin America, potentially shifting regional power balances.

Meanwhile, our sources confirm Russia is recruiting about 100 foreign specialists to operate Geran drones within the Interbrigade project, targeting countries like France, Germany, Serbia, Spain, Peru, and Hungary. Salaries and support packages are reportedly competitive.

If this recruitment succeeds, these operators could return home with combat experience—similar to Colombian fighters returning from Ukraine—potentially influencing other conflict zones and altering global power dynamics.

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24 Aug 2025 16:00

🇷🇺🛢 Anton Gerashchenko on X: I've decided to translate for you a post from the Russian Telegram channel "Nezygar" about the current state of Russian refineries and fuel market:

"Tensions in Russia's fuel market are rising: in Primorye, there are kilometer-long queues at gas stations, and wholesale prices for gasoline and diesel have hit record highs. Officially, the reasons are no longer hidden - refineries are shutting down after Ukrainian strikes. During peak summer days, up to 14% of processing capacity was idle.

In 2025, the tactics of Ukrainian strikes have changed. Previously, they were one-time: a unit would be damaged, the plant would reduce output, but recover within a few weeks. Now, attacks are carried out in series and repeated on the same facilities - Ryazan, Novokuibyshevsk, Syzran, Volgograd, Afipsky refineries. This prevents the restoration of primary processing and hydrocracking and catalytic cracking units. For example, after a series of attacks, Ryazan Refinery (5% of Russia's capacity) has half its processing halted, while Novokuibyshevsk Refinery (3%) has its primary processing damaged. The largest refinery in southern Russia, Volgograd's Lukoil, as well as the Samara and Syzran refineries, have stopped receiving crude.

Ukraine is widely using drones with a range of 1,000-1,500 km (such as the AQ-400 produced by FirePoint), capable of reaching the Volga region. Simultaneously, drones and maritime drones are targeting export terminals - attacks on Ust-Luga and Novorossiysk have temporarily halted oil product shipments. 'Madyar' reported hitting the Druzhba pipeline, which supplies oil from Russia to its historical homeland.

...

The choice of refineries as targets is explained by their technological vulnerability. Modern Russian refineries were built using equipment from Shell, Axens, UOP, and Haldor Topsoe - hydrocracking, catalytic reforming, isomerization, and Euro-5 component production. After 2022, deliveries of equipment, software, and catalysts ceased. Catalysts are consumables, replaced every 1-3 years; without Western supplies, Russia relies on old stock or Chinese analogs with inferior performance. Hydroprocessing reactors and compressors are manufactured in only a few countries, with delivery times up to a year.

China can cover only part of the deficit: pumps, heat exchangers, and simple catalysts. However, for complex processes, its technology lags, and replacing Western components with Chinese ones requires restructuring the entire refinery unit. As a result, every Ukrainian strike on a hydrocracking or reforming unit leads to months of downtime.

The map of Russian refineries reveals a key strategic problem: the main processing capacities are concentrated in the European part of the country, while fuel consumption is rising in the Far East. Fuel logistics chains to eastern regions span thousands of kilometers, creating additional costs and risks. Kilometer-long queues in Primorye are a direct consequence of this imbalance between western production and eastern consumption. Large refineries - from Kirishi to Volgograd - are within reach of Ukrainian drones. The Flamingo missile, if its specifications are confirmed, can reach Russia's largest refinery in Omsk.

As the range increases, facilities previously considered out of reach are now threatened, creating a scale problem for air defense - protecting all refineries across the territory, from Kaliningrad to the Far East, is practically impossible.

Consequently, Russia's oil and gas industry, once a source of economic strength, has become a vulnerable spot."

🔗 Anton Gerashchenko

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24 Aug 2025 12:32

🇸🇪 A major power outage has struck the Swedish island of Gotland after its primary connection to the mainland was disrupted. The cause remains undetermined.

The development raises concern given last year’s disruption of Baltic undersea cables, incidents widely discussed in the context of potential “hybrid warfare.”

Gotland remains a strategically critical point in the Baltic, which makes this situation notable, and situations like this should always be watched.

🔗 GMI

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23 Aug 2025 19:32

🇺🇸 In latest purge, Hegseth removes head of Pentagon intelligence agency, other senior officials

U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth fired the head of the Pentagon's intelligence agency and two other senior military commanders, three U.S. officials told Reuters on Friday, the latest move by President Donald Trump's administration to purge officials at the Pentagon.

In April, Trump fired General Timothy Haugh as director of the National Security Agency, in a purge that included more than a dozen staff at the White House national security council.

Hegseth has also gone after uniformed military officials at the Pentagon. In February, he fired Air Force General C.Q. Brown, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, who was dismissed along with five other admirals and generals in an unprecedented shake-up of U.S. military leadership.

The chief of the U.S. Air Force made a surprise announcement on Monday that he planned to retire only halfway through his tenure.

While it was not clear exactly why Kruse was fired, it comes after a preliminary DIA assessment leaked to the news media that said the June 22 U.S. airstrikes on three Iranian nuclear facilities had set Tehran’s program back only a few months, a finding contradicting Trump’s claim that the targets were "obliterated."

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/latest-purge-hegseth-removes-head-pentagon-intelligence-agency-other-senior-2025-08-22/

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23 Aug 2025 13:38

@PatriotFrontNews » Activists climbed to the summit of Mount Baldy in Eagle River Alaska. PF is now active and organizing in the Last Frontier State.

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25 Aug 2025 15:41

🇮🇱🇵🇸🫒 IDF uproots thousands of West Bank olive trees after Palestinian shooting attack

The Israeli army uprooted thousands of olive trees in the West Bank village of al-Mughayyir — an area of ​​about 300 dunams (74 acres) — over the past three days, following a shooting attack in the area last week carried out by a resident, according to Sunday reports in Palestinian media.

The Israel Defense Forces later on Sunday confirmed the reports, but denied that the moves were intended as collective punishment for the village.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/idf-said-to-uproot-thousands-of-west-bank-olive-trees-after-palestinian-shooting-attack/

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25 Aug 2025 10:54

🇺🇦❌🇭🇺 Ukrainian foreign minister, Andrey Sybiga, on X/Twitter:

“I will reply in a Hungarian manner.

You don’t need to tell the Ukrainian President what to do or say, and when. He is the President of Ukraine, not Hungary.

Hungary’s energy security is in your own hands. Diversify and become independent from Russia, like the rest of Europe”

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25 Aug 2025 09:49

🇨🇳©🤝💻🧠 — 🇯🇵 Nikkei Asia | Nvidia's China prospects undimmed by Beijing's H20 worries | Many big tech players still prefer US giant's chips over Huawei offerings | August 19, 2025:

"HONG KONG/PALO ALTO/TAIPEI -- Chinese tech giants' demand for Nvidia's H20 chips remains strong, paving the way for the American AI king to recover market share in the world's second-biggest economy, despite Beijing's recent warnings over "security" concerns, industry sources say.

In exchange for permission to sell its H20 chips to China, Nvidia has agreed to pay the U.S. government 15% of revenue generated by those sales, and Chinese tech executives say there are hopes that the chipmaker may even be allowed to sell its more advanced Blackwell products there soon.

A potential wrinkle in those plans arose when the Chinese government recently summoned domestic tech giants including ByteDance, Alibaba, Tencent and Baidu to discuss their use of Nvidia chips and encourage them to use more home-grown options, such as Huawei, Biren and Cambricon Technologies, people familiar with the situation told Nikkei Asia."

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25 Aug 2025 09:43

🇨🇳 China’s new FK-3000 VSHORAD carries a 30mm Gatling gun, phased-array radar, and two pods holding 96 quad-packed micro missiles with a 300m–12km range, giving it huge volume firepower against drone swarms.

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25 Aug 2025 07:36

🇲🇽 Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG) members attacking their rivals by using rifles, machine guns and drones.

🇺🇸 Seemingly the cartel members are armed with DJI Matrice Drones, FN SCAR 17s, and AK-47 platform rifles (mostly from the USA).

🔗 War Noir

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24 Aug 2025 23:36

🇬🇧📉📝 - The UK’s fiscal picture is an underrated risk to the Global economy

Back in 2022, during the short lived Truss administration, the deteriorating fiscal picture of the UK nearly triggered a total meltdown in their Gilts (i.e. Bonds) market. Senior bankers interviewed by the Financial Times described the leveraged unwind in Gilts as coming close to triggering a "Lehman moment".

Three years later the situation appears unchanged as stopgap measures have failed to fully fix the situation. This and the AI bubble in the U.S. warrant close attention as future origin points of a financial crisis.

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24 Aug 2025 23:13

🇺🇸❌🇫🇷 U.S. ambassador to France, Charles Kushner, condemns Emmanuel Macron for "not taking sufficient measures to combat antisemitism" in France.

The American ambassador expressed his displeasure with Macron's pledge to recognise the State of Palestine, claiming it only emboldens antisemites and endangers French Jews.

In a letter addressed to the French president, Kushner said: "Tolerating antisemitism is betraying the French Republic".

Kushner is the father-in-law of Ivanka Trump and the father of Trump's son-in-law, Jared Kushner. Charles Kushner directed much of Trump's foreign policy during his first term (2017-2021).

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24 Aug 2025 21:35

📉 Rich economies will need foreign workers to fuel growth, bankers warn

Central bankers say low birth rates in world’s largest economies pose threat to productivity and prices

Speaking at an annual gathering of leading policymakers in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, the heads of the Bank of Japan, European Central Bank and Bank of England all sought to highlight the challenge to economic growth posed by ageing populations.

Kazuo Ueda, BoJ governor, told the Kansas City Federal Reserve’s annual symposium that his country’s rapidly ageing society had made labour shortages one of the country’s “most pressing” economic issues.

While foreign workers accounted for just 3 per cent of the labour force in Japan, Ueda said, they had been responsible for half of the recent rise in labour force growth. “Further increases will surely require a broader discussion,” he said.

Across rich economies birth rates are at historically low levels, while people are living much longer. That has raised so-called dependency ratios, meaning that a far higher share of the population is no longer of working age.

ECB president Christine Lagarde said an influx of foreign workers would play a “crucial role” in countering the negative impact of demographic trends on economic growth.

Lagarde noted that without an influx of foreign workers, the euro area would by 2040 have 3.4mn fewer people of working age.

BoE governor Andrew Bailey said that the “acute” challenge that demographics and declining productivity posed to the UK economy had not been emphasised enough.

Attracting workers to fill labour shortages will be essential in keeping growth on track in the coming decades, economists believe — despite the rising pressures of populism and public sentiment souring on immigration.

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24 Aug 2025 21:19

🇰🇵🇷🇺🇺🇦 North Korean TV showed footage for the first time of its military participating in the battle for Kursk!

Fighters from the DPRK are seen wearing Russian uniforms and armed with brand new AK-12s.

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24 Aug 2025 21:10

🇬🇧 The United Kingdom is headed for an economic crash and an IMF bailout

Rachel Reeves’ tax-and-spend gamble is driving Britain towards a 1970s-style debt crisis and bailout from the International Monetary Fund, leading economists have warned.

They have said the Chancellor’s handling of the economy risks a return to the years of high inflation and borrowing that ended with Britain being forced to borrow billions from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) 50 years ago.

It came as leading retailers sounded the alarm over the rising cost of taxes and red tape, which is pushing the country into an era of “stagflation”.

On Saturday night, Nigel Farage, the Reform UK leader aid the economic situation was like “the 1970s all over again”, while Kemi Badenoch, the Conservative Party leader, said that the surging cost of government borrowing was “the price” of Labour’s “economic mismanagement”.

Ms Reeves is under huge pressure ahead of the autumn Budget, with forecasts showing rampant borrowing has created a £50bn black hole.

She is widely expected to put up taxes again to cover the shortfall despite warnings that doing so will only further stunt Britain’s anaemic growth.

Prof Jagjit Chadha, who recently stepped down as the head of the National Institute for Economic and Social Research, claimed the economy was at risk of “collapse”.

He said the financial situation was “as perilous the period leading up to the IMF loan of 1976”, when Britain had to be bailed out by the global banking body.

He told the When the Facts Change Substack, written by the Telegraph columnist Liam Halligan: “I’m in a world in which I could imagine it [an IMF bailout] happening, and we’ll be bereft in that case.

“We will not be able to roll over debt, we will not be able to meet pensions payments, benefits will be hard to pay out.”

🔗 https://archive.ph/vYImI

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24 Aug 2025 16:16

🇺🇸🇺🇦 The US is sending Ukraine 3,350 Extended Range Attack Munition (ERAM) air-launched missiles, with deliveries starting in weeks, per the WSJ.

The low-cost cruise missiles reportedly have a range of up to 250 miles, a CEP of less than 10 m, and a warhead of 500 pounds.

📝 Woofers: We are approaching a point in the war where there are certain technologies maturing, certain platforms delivering and certain scaling benchmarks are being reached that put Ukraine in a position where they can seriously threaten the Russian rear.

Though much depends on politics.

🔗 OSINTtechnical

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24 Aug 2025 13:10

🇷🇺 The Scale of Russian Sabotage Operations Against Europe’s Critical Infrastructure

Russia’s military doctrine deeply integrates Critical National Infrastructure (CNI) sabotage within gibridnaya voyna (hybrid warfare). Europe’s critical infrastructure is particularly vulnerable to sabotage because it is in such a poor state following decades of deferred maintenance and a lack of investment from national governments and the private sector. Russia has targeted critical infrastructure to generate direct strategic gain in its war in Ukraine and as part of its broader conflict with the West. While some initiatives, such as the Baltic Sentry NATO maritime operation in the Baltic Sea, have been somewhat effective, the lack of budget and resources has kept NATO and the EU from adopting a long-term and sustained response. Furthermore, it is unclear, faced with competing national security priorities, how committed European capitals are to deterring Russia’s unconventional war on Europe.

https://www.iiss.org/research-paper/2025/08/the-scale-of-russian--sabotage-operations--against-europes-critical--infrastructure/

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23 Aug 2025 22:24

🇺🇸🇻🇪⚡️ Rybar suggests that 2000 Geran-2 drones could be delivered to Venezuela in order to protect the Chavista Regime.

⚡️Also, according to some sources, the Russians are planning to send Gerans to Cuba and Nicaragua.

📎 Rybar

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23 Aug 2025 15:14

🇺🇸⚡️- The US Army Corps of Engineers has awarded a $399.4M contract for the first phase of the Port of Nome deepwater expansion. As the gateway to the Arctic, this is a major step in developing and hardening the Bering Strait, a maritime chokepoint the US has long neglected. The NWP, TSR, and NSR all pass through the Bering Strait.

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23 Aug 2025 13:38

@PatriotFrontNews » Activists assembled in Seward, Alaska for a fishing workshop. Members learned the various tools and skills associated with the task, and built community with local nationalists. The organization is now active and recruiting in Alaska.

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