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2026-08-29 22:36:32 UTC

🗞️ Ars Technica
I asked 100 companies for my data. Some deleted it instead.
📅 2026-08-29 — Reece Rodgers, wired.com
Testing 100 companies found privacy requests often led to confusion and dead ends.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/08/i-asked-100-companies-for-my-data-some-deleted-it-instead/

2026-08-29 22:35:54 UTC

🗞️ Ron Paul Institute
DANIEL McADAMS : 6 Months of illegal War – Hormuz is Closed – The Dollar Under Attack Within!
📅 2026-08-28 — RPI Staff
https://ronpaulinstitute.org/daniel-mcadams-6-months-of-illegal-war-hormuz-is-closed-the-dollar-under-attack-within/

2026-08-29 22:04:29 UTC

🗞️ Reason Magazine
Milo Yiannopoulos Wanted Millions Deported. He Didn't Mean Himself.
📅 2026-08-28 — Billy Binion
"I mean bad immigrants," Yiannopoulos said in a 2016 interview with Joe Rogan. "I don't mean handsome, charming, successful, blonde-haired British immigrants."
https://reason.com/2026/08/28/milo-yiannopoulos-wanted-more-ice-raids-now-hes-in-ice-detention/

2026-08-29 22:03:21 UTC

🗞️ Moon of Alabama
Budanov – Ukraine Is Losing 30,000 Soldiers Per Month
📅 2026-08-29 — b
https://www.moonofalabama.org/2026/08/budanov-ukraine-is-losing-30000-soldiers-per-month.html

2026-08-29 22:02:45 UTC

🗞️ The Cradle
US takes control of 65bn barrels of Venezuelan oil under Trump's 'biggest oil deal in history'
📅 2026-08-29 — News Desk
The US has said 'almost nothing' about the fate of $13 billion in Venezuelan oil reserves it has seized since the January kidnapping of President Nicolas Maduro
https://thecradle.co/articles-id/39652

2026-08-29 22:02:08 UTC

🗞️ The Cradle
Israeli settlers ‘directly responsible’ for 90 percent of West Bank arson attacks since 2023
📅 2026-08-29 — News Desk
Occupation troops are responsible for the remaining fires that devastated the Palestinian territories, displacing thousands of families from their lands
https://thecradle.co/articles-id/39653

2026-08-29 18:37:42 UTC

Oh my... 😆
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2026-08-29 17:40:46 UTC

The lengths Americans will go (pun intended) to not use the metric system.
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2026-08-28 21:49:48 UTC

🗞️ The Cradle
Ghalibaf declares Persian Gulf oil flows for ‘all or none’
📅 2026-08-28 — News Desk
The top Iranian official added that the region's security hinges on the withdrawal of US forces
https://thecradle.co/articles-id/39650

2026-08-28 21:48:45 UTC

🗞️ The Cradle
White House blocks Egyptian bank from accessing USD over 'Iran ties'
📅 2026-08-28 — News Desk
Washington says it is imposing crippling sanctions on all entities transacting with Iran, but no sanctions on China, Tehran's largest trade partner, have been announced
https://thecradle.co/articles-id/39649

2026-08-28 21:48:08 UTC

🗞️ The Cradle
Israeli war chief threatens to ‘empty’ Gaza neighborhoods over children's kites
📅 2026-08-28 — News Desk
Hamas says the Israeli threats rest on fabricated pretexts to justify the continued ethnic cleansing of the strip
https://thecradle.co/articles-id/39646

2026-08-28 21:47:03 UTC

🗞️ The Cradle
WHO charges Israel with barring thousands of Palestinian in Gaza from life-saving care
📅 2026-08-28 — News Desk
Israeli border closures leave specialized care unattainable inside the besieged enclave
https://thecradle.co/articles-id/39642

2026-08-28 21:46:35 UTC

🗞️ The Cradle
US interceptor stocks sink to 'beyond critical' levels in Europe following war on Iran
📅 2026-08-28 — News Desk
The US has exhausted its missile stocks in large part to defend Israel, making Europe vulnerable in the case of a future war with Russia
https://thecradle.co/articles-id/39640

2026-08-28 21:45:56 UTC

2026-08-28 21:45:14 UTC

🗞️ The Cradle
Ben Gvir rejects Netanyahu’s call to merge Jewish supremacist bloc ahead of ballots
📅 2026-08-28 — News Desk
The Jewish Power leader fears Netanyahu plans to form a coalition with opposition leader Gadi Eisenkot ahead of the Knesset elections slated for October
https://thecradle.co/articles-id/39637

2026-08-28 21:44:21 UTC

🗞️ The Cradle
Israeli commander that ordered strike on WCK convoy defends killing of aid workers
📅 2026-08-28 — News Desk
Israeli prosecutors cleared all suspects in the 2024 massacre of all charges
https://thecradle.co/articles-id/39638

2026-08-28 21:40:38 UTC

🗞️ Ron Paul Institute
The Bunker State: The Government Will Survive, but Will the Constitution?
📅 2026-08-28 — John W. And Nisha Whitehead
What began publicly as Donald Trump’s lavish, taxpayer-funded vision of a gilded White House ballroom is now being justified by the administration—in and out of court—as a matter of national security. To President Trump, it seems, a ballroom by any other name is a bunker. And wha
https://ronpaulinstitute.org/the-bunker-state-the-government-will-survive-but-will-the-constitution/

2026-08-27 23:16:38 UTC

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2026-08-27 23:06:31 UTC

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2026-08-27 22:49:56 UTC

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In the 80s I used to drive a decommissioned 1968 440 cu in. (7.2 liter) 375 HP Dodge Polara CHP Police Interceptor. We've been falling for decades.
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2026-08-27 21:08:31 UTC

🗞️ The Cradle
Israeli court exonerates Jewish settler caught on video assaulting Jerusalem nun
📅 2026-08-27 — News Desk
The court agreed to exonerate the settler on the grounds that he had ‘a psychotic episode’ and ‘was not responsible’ for violently shoving the nun
https://thecradle.co/articles-id/39609

2026-08-27 21:08:09 UTC

🗞️ The Cradle
Ballots under siege: Can Palestine's first election in two decades survive occupation?
📅 2026-08-27 — Mohammad al-Ayoubi
As Palestinians prepare for their first legislative vote in two decades, PA-imposed conditions threaten to exclude resistance factions from a contest that may shape Gaza’s post-war political order.
https://thecradle.co/articles-id/39614

2026-08-27 21:07:23 UTC

🗞️ The Cradle
China's imports of Iranian oil 'largely untouched' by US siege: Report
📅 2026-08-27 — News Desk
Beijing has announced its readiness to retaliate over the declaration of a US economic war against Iran
https://thecradle.co/articles-id/39618

2026-08-27 21:07:03 UTC

🗞️ The Cradle
Russia warns British military sites could become targets over Ukrainian strikes
📅 2026-08-27 — News Desk
The UK is engaged in a long-term project seeking to inflict a 'strategic defeat' on Russia, Moscow's spokesperson has warned
https://thecradle.co/articles-id/39619

2026-08-27 21:06:36 UTC

🗞️ The Cradle
Iran restores 40 percent capacity at damaged South Pars gas field
📅 2026-08-27 — News Desk
US-Israeli strikes cut off gas to Iranian homes, businesses, and industry as part of the push to ignite a color revolution
https://thecradle.co/articles-id/39623

2026-08-27 21:06:14 UTC

🗞️ The Cradle
Israel continues to arm, train ISIS-linked gangs to serve as 'operational arm' in Gaza: Report
📅 2026-08-27 — News Desk
The criminals were given artillery and drone cover by the Israeli military during their operations
https://thecradle.co/articles-id/39624

2026-08-27 21:02:05 UTC

🗞️ Reason Magazine
The National Debt Has Crossed $40 Trillion. Both Parties Are Responsible.
📅 2026-08-27 — Veronique de Rugy
Democrats say Republican tax cuts are the culprit. Republicans say Democratic spending is the root cause. But both parties are responsible.
https://reason.com/2026/08/27/the-national-debt-has-crossed-40-trillion-both-parties-are-responsible/

2026-08-27 21:01:44 UTC

🗞️ Reason Magazine
Rubio Uses Terrorism Law To Ban Secure Email Service
📅 2026-08-27 — Matthew Petti
The State Department doesn’t accuse Autistici/Inventati of doing anything more than providing surveillance-free email accounts. But that’s enough to declare it a terrorist organization.
https://reason.com/2026/08/27/rubio-uses-terrorism-law-to-ban-secure-email-service/

2026-08-27 21:00:49 UTC

🗞️ Reason Magazine
A 90-Day Waiver on Beef Tariffs Won't Rescue America's Cattle Industry
📅 2026-08-27 — Tosin Akintola
By cutting tariffs to lower the price of beef, the Trump administration is ultimately conceding that tariffs do, in fact, raise prices.
https://reason.com/2026/08/27/a-90-day-waiver-on-beef-tariffs-wont-rescue-americas-cattle-industry/

2026-08-27 21:00:21 UTC

🗞️ Reason Magazine
Court Rejects Harassment Lawsuit Over Anti-Israel Speech at CUNY, Largely on First Amendment Grounds
📅 2026-08-27 — Eugene Volokh
In Goldstein v. CUNY, a Jewish Israeli professor at the Borough of Manhattan Community College—part of the City University of...
https://reason.com/volokh/2026/08/27/court-rejects-harassment-lawsuit-over-anti-israel-speech-at-cuny-largely-on-first-amendment-grounds/

2026-08-27 20:58:34 UTC

🗞️ ScheerPost
Big Oil Is Seeing Windfall Profits as Trump’s War on Iran Drives Up Prices
📅 2026-08-26 — ScheerPost
By Derek Seidman This article was originally published by Truthout Amid the destabilization and devastation caused by the US-Israeli war on Iran, oil executives are raking in billions. While the U.…
https://scheerpost.com/2026/08/26/big-oil-is-seeing-windfall-profits-as-trumps-war-on-iran-drives-up-prices/

2026-08-27 20:57:19 UTC

🗞️ ScheerPost
Documenting the U.S. Media’s Complicity in the Genocide of Gaza (w/ Robin Andersen) | TCHR
📅 2026-08-27 — ScheerPost
Chris Hedges Substack In Robin Andersen’s new book, she chronicles how the U.S. media utilized their massive reach to help shield Israel from scrutiny as it perpetrated a genocide in Gaza. Chris He…
https://scheerpost.com/2026/08/27/documenting-the-u-s-medias-complicity-in-the-genocide-of-gaza-w-robin-andersen-tchr/

2026-08-27 20:56:44 UTC

🗞️ ScheerPost
Hakeem Jeffries and Jared Kushner Meeting Reveals Ugly Truths About U.S. Politics
📅 2026-08-27 — ScheerPost
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist If the Democratic Party prevails in the midterm elections, Hakeem Jeffries will become the Speaker of the House of Representatives. But…
https://scheerpost.com/2026/08/27/hakeem-jeffries-and-jared-kushner-meeting-reveals-ugly-truths-about-u-s-politics/

2026-08-27 20:56:19 UTC

🗞️ ScheerPost
The Forgotten US-Backed Genocide Of East Timor
📅 2026-08-27 — ScheerPost
Nate Bear Do Not Panic From 1975 to 1999, Indonesia, with the deep and enthusiastic support of the US and the west, committed the worst genocide since the second world war, wiping out forty percent…
https://scheerpost.com/2026/08/27/the-forgotten-us-backed-genocide-of-east-timor/

2026-08-27 20:55:12 UTC

🗞️ Mises Institute
Nationality: You Belong to the State
📅 2026-08-27 — Ulrich Fromy
There are two types of nationality. The first, as defined by Ludwig von Mises, involves people united by common languages and customs. The second is defined by
https://mises.org/mises-wire/nationality-you-belong-state

2026-08-27 20:53:17 UTC

🗞️ Consortium News
Vijay Prashad: The Roots of Capitalism
📅 2026-08-27 — Vijay Prashad
Steam power, modern banking, and industrial capitalism were not born of peaceful innovation but paid for with the blood of enslaved people.
https://consortiumnews.com/2026/08/27/vijay-prashad-the-roots-of-capitalism/

2026-08-27 20:52:13 UTC

🗞️ Consortium News
WATCH: CN Live! — ‘A Victory Over Zionism’
📅 2026-08-27 — Consortiumnews.com
This month four English court cases have struck blows at Zionism. We speak to David Miller whose right to criticize Zionism was upheld by a tribunal in London. 8 pm Tonite!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U316acLoA7g
Guest: Dr. David Miller. Host: Joe Lauria. Producer: Cathy Vo
https://consortiumnews.com/2026/08/27/watch-cn-live-a-victory-over-zionism/

2026-08-27 20:51:08 UTC

🗞️ CoinTelegraph Bitcoin
Core Lightning confirms multiple vulnerabilities, prepares security update
📅 2026-08-27 — Ezra Reguerra
Core Lightning said several AI-generated vulnerability reports were valid and told node operators to upgrade promptly once the fix arrives.
https://cointelegraph.com/news/core-lightning-vulnerabilities-node-security-update?utm_source=rss_feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=rss_partner_inbound

2026-08-27 20:49:08 UTC

🗞️ CoinTelegraph Bitcoin
UK government reports 240 crypto millionaires in 2025
📅 2026-08-27 — Turner Wright
According to a report from the UK’s tax agency, 240 people in the country reported $975 million combined from gains tied to crypto from 2024 to 2025.
https://cointelegraph.com/news/uk-government-crypto-millionaires-2025?utm_source=rss_feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=rss_partner_inbound

2026-08-27 20:48:15 UTC

🗞️ CoinTelegraph Bitcoin
Charles Schwab adda Solana, Avalanche and Chainlink to nascent crypto platform
📅 2026-08-27 — Nate Kostar
Charles Schwab plans to add Solana, Avalanche and Chainlink to its crypto platform, expanding direct trading beyond Bitcoin and Ether.
https://cointelegraph.com/news/charles-schwab-to-add-solana-avalanche-and-chainlink-to-crypto-platform?utm_source=rss_feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=rss_partner_inbound

2026-08-27 20:46:15 UTC

🗞️ CoinTelegraph Bitcoin
Trump cost investors $4.7B through crypto ‘schemes’: Public Citizen
📅 2026-08-27 — Turner Wright
Amid more crypto ventures “potentially on the way” from Donald Trump, Public Citizen called for ethics provisions in a major crypto bill under consideration in the US Senate.
https://cointelegraph.com/news/donald-trump-crypto-investors-losses-public-citizen?utm_source=rss_feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=rss_partner_inbound

2026-08-27 20:45:24 UTC

🗞️ Ars Technica
How much of a problem is AI’s water use?
📅 2026-08-27 — Katarina Zimmer, Knowable Magazine
AI’s water footprint is growing, but location and cooling technology make a difference.
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/08/how-much-of-a-problem-is-ais-water-use/

2026-08-27 20:43:46 UTC

🗞️ Ars Technica
Traders brought Central American cacao to Georgia 1,000 years ago
📅 2026-08-27 — Kiona N. Smith
We built this city on good cacao" does have a nice ring to it.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/08/traders-brought-central-american-cacao-to-georgia-1000-years-ago/

2026-08-27 14:55:24 UTC

We Are Livestock. It Was All a Lie.
This is something I need to hear. It explores our experience of reality, identity and how we're manipulated. A symbolic layer over base reality.
I hope you find it as useful as I did.
https://youtu.be/e6g40CYvcb0?si=LmKTSMaiER8QjKqY

2026-08-27 11:26:53 UTC

🗞️ Ars Technica
RIP, Tim Curry: Ars remembers his top 10 iconic performances
📅 2026-08-26 — Jennifer Ouellette
A dashing pirate, a butler, a killer clown, an alien mad scientist in drag—the man had range.
https://arstechnica.com/culture/2026/08/rip-tim-curry-ars-remembers-his-top-10-iconic-performances/

2026-08-27 11:21:23 UTC

🗞️ CoinTelegraph Bitcoin
Bitcoin ETF inflows slow to $232M as BTC holds under $80K
📅 2026-08-27 — Helen Partz
Bitcoin ETF inflows fell 26% to $232 million on Wednesday as XRP ETFs attracted $28 million, their strongest daily inflow since Jan. 5.
https://cointelegraph.com/markets/bitcoin-etf-inflows-slow-232-million-btc-under-80k?utm_source=rss_feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=rss_partner_inbound

2026-08-27 11:20:07 UTC

🗞️ CoinTelegraph Bitcoin
StarkWare tests quantum-resistant Bitcoin transaction on mainnet
📅 2026-08-27 — Ezra Reguerra
Avihu Levy’s QSB scheme moved from an April proposal to an onchain demonstration operating under Bitcoin’s existing consensus rules.
https://cointelegraph.com/news/starkware-quantum-resistant-bitcoin-transaction-mainnet?utm_source=rss_feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=rss_partner_inbound

2026-08-27 11:19:40 UTC

🗞️ CoinTelegraph Bitcoin
SHRINCS BIP published: Quantum-secure Bitcoin comes with a catch
📅 2026-08-27 — Andrew Fenton
The newly published SHRINCS Bitcoin Improvement Proposal reduces the size of hash based post quantum signatures by 13X, but it adds complexity and has significant trade-offs.
https://cointelegraph.com/magazine/shrincs-bip-is-published-quantum-secure-bitcoin-comes-with-a-catch?utm_source=rss_feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=rss_partner_inbound

2026-08-27 11:18:21 UTC

🗞️ CoinTelegraph Bitcoin
Better launches Bitcoin-backed mortgages powered by Coinbase
📅 2026-08-26 — Nate Kostar
Better and Coinbase are expanding crypto’s role in US housing with a conforming mortgage product designed under Fannie Mae guidelines.
https://cointelegraph.com/news/better-launches-bitcoin-backed-mortgages-powered-by-coinbase?utm_source=rss_feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=rss_partner_inbound

2026-08-27 11:15:10 UTC

🗞️ Mises Institute
Florida police used a fake Flock camera in a sting, then charged a man with three felonies for destroying it
📅 2026-08-26
The "perp" was charged with causing $1,000 in damage, but what he actually destroyed was a 3D-printed decoy that was likely far cheaper.
https://mises.org/notes-margin/florida-police-used-fake-flock-camera-sting-then-charged-man-three-felonies-destroying-it

2026-08-27 11:14:37 UTC

🗞️ Antiwar.com
Bessent Suggests Economic Warfare Against Iran Could ‘Blow Up the Global Financial System’
📅 2026-08-27 — Brett Wilkins
With the United States unable to militarily defeat Iran in President Donald Trump’s illegal US-Israeli war of choice, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Monday escalated the administration’s economic attacks on Tehran, warning countries and companies around the world that contin
https://original.antiwar.com/brett_wilkins/2026/08/26/bessent-suggests-economic-warfare-against-iran-could-blow-up-the-global-financial-system/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=bessent-suggests-economic-warfare-against-iran-could-blow-up-the-global-financial-system

2026-08-27 11:13:18 UTC

🗞️ Stacker News
Don't switch your Core Lightning node off, restart it with --offline instead
📅 2026-08-26
Core Lightning has been triaging a high volume of AI-generated CVE reports over recent weeks. Several are real, and a coordinated fix is underway. What to do now: do not shut your node down. Restart it with --offline. That flag stops peer connections, so no payments route in, out
https://stacker.news/items/1555850

2026-08-26 22:09:11 UTC

🗞️ Ron Paul Institute
All It Takes Is One Crack In The Lie We’ve Been Sold
📅 2026-08-26 — Caitlin Johnstone
I saw a clip going around from the Netflix series “1899” where a woman discovers a crack in the screen of what she had taken to be her world, causing her entire understanding of reality to crumble before her eyes. Someone had captioned the clip, “Every awakening begins with a fra
https://ronpaulinstitute.org/all-it-takes-is-one-crack-in-the-lie-weve-been-sold/

2026-08-26 21:54:15 UTC

🗞️ Consortium News
UK Funded Therapy for Israeli Soldiers
📅 2026-08-26 — Martin Williams
British taxpayers subsidised "therapeutic healing" for IDF soldiers after Israeli charity claimed Gift Aid, Martin Williams reports.
https://consortiumnews.com/2026/08/26/uk-funded-therapy-for-israeli-soldiers/

2026-08-26 21:51:34 UTC

🗞️ CoinTelegraph Bitcoin
77% of Americans see crypto in retirement plans as risky: Survey
📅 2026-08-26 — Nate Kostar
A new survey finds 77% of Americans view crypto in workplace retirement plans as risky, as US policymakers move to broaden access to alternative assets.
https://cointelegraph.com/news/77-of-americans-see-crypto-in-retirement-plans-as-risky-survey?utm_source=rss_feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=rss_partner_inbound

2026-08-26 21:49:56 UTC

🗞️ Libertarian Institute
Trump Says War Games with South Korea ‘Totally Inappropriate and Hostile’
📅 2026-08-25 — Kyle Anzalone
https://libertarianinstitute.org/news/trump-says-war-games-with-south-korea-totally-inappropriate-and-hostile/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=trump-says-war-games-with-south-korea-totally-inappropriate-and-hostile

2026-08-26 21:49:10 UTC

🗞️ Libertarian Institute
US Special Forces Conducting Operations Inside Ecuador
📅 2026-08-26 — Kyle Anzalone
https://libertarianinstitute.org/news/us-special-forces-conducting-operations-inside-ecuador/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=us-special-forces-conducting-operations-inside-ecuador

2026-08-26 21:44:46 UTC

🗞️ Mises Institute
How the State Seized Control of Money
📅 2026-08-15 — Mises Institute
Ryan McMaken shows how seizing control of money was central to building the modern state — a centuries-long project that culminated in World War I destroying
https://mises.org/podcasts/gold-and-silver-prospecting-liberty-mises-circle-new-mexico/how-state-seized-control-money

2026-08-26 21:43:40 UTC

🗞️ Mises Institute
Economic Theory Connects Gold to Money
📅 2026-08-15 — Mises Institute
Mark Thornton uses Austrian theory to explain where money came from — Menger's bottom-up origin of money — and why gold makes for sound money and smaller
https://mises.org/podcasts/gold-and-silver-prospecting-liberty-mises-circle-new-mexico/economic-theory-connects-gold-money

2026-08-26 21:38:48 UTC

🗞️ ScheerPost
The Next Dark Pattern
📅 2026-08-26 — ScheerPost
Lily Minh Wass Project Censored Generative AI is quietly turning everyday user experiences into hyper-personalized surveillance advertising. There’s a saying that goes, “If you’re not paying&nb…
https://scheerpost.com/2026/08/26/the-next-dark-pattern/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-next-dark-pattern

2026-08-26 21:37:25 UTC

2026-08-26 21:33:56 UTC

🗞️ The Cradle
Yemen turns Riyadh's Red Sea lifeline into a front line
📅 2026-08-26 — Mawadda Iskandar
Sanaa's expanding maritime and cross-border campaign is forcing Riyadh to defend the export routes, proxy formations, and southern buffer zones it once took for granted.
https://thecradle.co/articles-id/39600

2026-08-26 21:30:31 UTC

🗞️ Reason Magazine
Surveillance Camera Saboteurs Are Getting Government Officials' Attention
📅 2026-08-26 — J.D. Tuccille
Sometimes direct action is the only way to get politicians to consider civil liberties.
https://reason.com/2026/08/26/surveillance-camera-saboteurs-are-getting-government-officials-attention/

2026-08-26 21:27:11 UTC

🗞️ The Cradle
Iran, Oman agree on 'temporary joint corridor' to restore Hormuz navigation
📅 2026-08-26 — News Desk
Washington is reportedly delaying new strikes on Iran to pursue economic asphyxiation
https://thecradle.co/articles-id/39598

2026-08-26 21:26:18 UTC

🗞️ The Cradle
UK set to impose 'full trade ban' with illegal Israeli settlements in occupied West Bank - Just the settlements and not Israel as a whole.
📅 2026-08-26 — News Desk
Israeli officials declared that the massive expansion of illegal Jewish settlements will 'erase the two-state delusion'
https://thecradle.co/articles-id/39592

2026-08-26 21:23:29 UTC

🗞️ The Cradle
Iran inflicts 'unprecedented damage' on CIA installations across West Asia: Report
📅 2026-08-26 — News Desk
US media highlights that Washington’s intelligence agencies have not come under such attacks throughout all of CIA history
https://thecradle.co/articles-id/39591

2026-08-26 20:51:05 UTC

🗞️ The Cradle
Trump sends Saudi nuclear deal to Congress, ties pact to Israel normalization
📅 2026-08-26 — News Desk
Riyadh has publicly maintained that there will be no normalization with Israel until a pathway to an independent Palestinian state is established
https://thecradle.co/articles-id/39589

2026-08-26 20:50:31 UTC

🗞️ The Cradle
US 'not expected' to launch new attacks on Iran, set to 'focus' on economic warfare: Report
📅 2026-08-26 — News Desk
Tehran declared a suspension of its commitments under the MoU due to US violations, amid reports that Iranian forces are prepping to shift to a 'fully offensive posture'
https://thecradle.co/articles-id/39588

2026-08-26 20:49:06 UTC

🗞️ The Register - Security
More than 100 water systems were hit in July cyberattacks
📅 2026-08-26 - Jessica Lyons
https://www.theregister.com/cyber-crime/2026/08/26/more-than-100-water-systems-were-hit-in-july-cyberattacks/5292685

2026-08-26 20:48:04 UTC

🗞️ The Register - Security
Boston Scientific discloses 'global disruption' in ongoing cyberattack
📅 2026-08-26 - Jessica Lyons
No timeline to restore IT systems as probe remains ongoing
https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/08/26/boston-scientific-discloses-global-disruption-in-ongoing-cyberattack/5292641

2026-08-26 20:46:07 UTC

🗞️ AIER
‘A Deal Written in Pencil’: Tariffs Are Erasing America’s Credibility
📅 2026-08-26 — David Hebert
Canada strengthened its border, removed retaliatory tariffs, and got slapped with tariffs anyway. Global governments are learning that US commitments cannot ...
https://thedailyeconomy.org/article/a-deal-written-in-pencil-tariffs-are-erasing-americas-credibility/

2026-08-26 20:45:32 UTC

🗞️ Ron Paul Institute
More Military Murders on the High Seas
📅 2026-08-26 — Jacob G. Hornberger
The US military has just announced that it has carried out two more murders on the high seas near South America. This now brings the military’s high-seas murders to more than 200 people. Mind you, in its announcement, the military did not use the term “murder.” The announcement s
https://ronpaulinstitute.org/more-military-murders-on-the-high-seas/

2026-08-26 11:28:08 UTC

GM. Taxation is theft. My property taxes are due again. liquidated some bitcoin to make up the difference 😧 and of course it's off to work I go.
Good Morning 🙂 🙃 🙂

2026-08-26 11:23:40 UTC

🗞️ Mises Institute
A Declaratory Judgment
📅 2026-08-25 — David Gordon
Birzer does not grasp the importance of states’ rights in preserving liberty against the leviathan central government. In Randolph’s words, “I love liberty; I
https://mises.org/misesian/declaratory-judgment

2026-08-26 11:20:57 UTC

🗞️ CoinTelegraph Bitcoin
World Liberty Financial launches USD1 natively on Canton Network
📅 2026-08-25 — Nate Kostar
World Liberty Financial launched its $4 billion USD1 stablecoin natively on Canton, enabling settlement for tokenized real-world assets and institutional transactions.
https://cointelegraph.com/news/world-liberty-financial-launches-usd1-natively-on-canton-network?utm_source=rss_feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=rss_partner_inbound

2026-08-26 11:09:28 UTC

🗞️ CoinTelegraph Bitcoin
US banking groups plan nationwide blockchain network for 2027
📅 2026-08-26 — Ezra Reguerra
Thirty-nine US banking associations formed BankChain Alliance to develop a network for tokenized deposits, stablecoins and settlement by 2027.
https://cointelegraph.com/news/us-banking-groups-nationwide-blockchain-network-2027?utm_source=rss_feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=rss_partner_inbound

2026-08-26 11:08:41 UTC

🗞️ Consortium News
PATRICK LAWRENCE: Canada & Creeping US Isolation
📅 2026-08-26 — Patrick Lawrence
Canada is not alone in believing that to resist the Trump regime’s aggressions, lawful or otherwise, on the field of battle or at the mahogany table, is what must be done.
https://consortiumnews.com/2026/08/26/patrick-lawrence-canada-creeping-us-isolation/

2026-08-26 10:59:45 UTC

🗞️ Ars Technica
World humanoid robot games show runners breaking records, bursting into flames
📅 2026-08-25 — <![CDATA[Jeremy Hsu]]>
Record-breaking robot races are less substantial than household chore challenges.
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/08/world-humanoid-robot-games-show-runners-breaking-records-bursting-into-flames/

2026-08-25 21:22:56 UTC

🗞️ Mises Institute
None Dare Call It Conspiracy
📅 2026-08-25 — David Gordon
If you have time to read only one book about the American Revolution, it should be this one. It formed the basis for Rothbard’s conclusion that “in the deepest
https://mises.org/misesian/none-dare-call-it-conspiracy

2026-08-25 21:20:20 UTC

🗞️ Mises Institute
Israel is Funding Ted Cruz's Super PAC. Is that Legal?
📅 2026-08-25
The Israeli government-funded ad revenue appears to operate in a gray area, but it seems Tel Aviv is exploiting loopholes to funnel money to Cruz's political
https://mises.org/notes-margin/israel-funding-ted-cruzs-super-pac-legal

2026-08-25 21:16:21 UTC

🗞️ Mises Institute
Two Japan Bond Auctions Pose Next Threat to US Treasury Yields
📅 2026-08-25
The US and Japanese bond markets have become increasingly intertwined in recent years as investors grapple with rising government debt and greater volatility.
https://mises.org/notes-margin/two-japan-bond-auctions-pose-next-threat-us-treasury-yields

2026-08-25 21:15:05 UTC

🗞️ Mises Institute
Who Knew Genocide Could Be So Expensive?
📅 2026-08-25 — Karen Kwiatkowski
"The debt is real. The murderous destruction of Gaza is real, and the costs to maintain that destruction and rebuild as an Israeli paradise, is unimaginable."
https://mises.org/notes-margin/who-knew-genocide-could-be-so-expensive

2026-08-25 21:13:24 UTC

🗞️ Stacker News
Getting Bitcoin · It’s time to take bitcoin seriously.
📅 2026-08-25
You don’t need to understand the technology to get bitcoin. You just need to see what makes it valuable in our world today.
https://gettingbitcoin.org/

2026-08-25 21:09:51 UTC

🗞️ Stacker News
Can't Connect Zeus Wallet to my LND node with LNC anymore?
📅 2026-08-25
After a recent update I don't seem to be able to connect my LND node to Zeus through LNC anymore. I have been connecting for years using Lightning Terminal. Has anyone else noticed this? [4 comments]
https://stacker.news/items/1554713

2026-08-25 21:09:11 UTC

🗞️ Stacker News
Apple Introduces New Mac Studio with M5 Max and M5 Ultra
📅 2026-08-25
Apple announced the new Mac Studio, featuring M5 Max and the all-new M5 Ultra, delivering a monumental leap in AI performance and even faster graphics.
https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/08/apple-introduces-new-mac-studio-with-m5-max-and-m5-ultra/

2026-08-25 21:03:07 UTC

🗞️ The Cradle
China warns of 'retaliation' to US economic warfare on Iran
📅 2026-08-25 — News Desk
Washington is planning the 'toughest sanctions in history' against Iran and secondary measures against Tehran’s economic partners, including China
https://thecradle.co/articles-id/39570

2026-08-25 20:59:01 UTC

🗞️ The Cradle
Iran’s costly road around Hormuz
📅 2026-08-25 — Omid Souresrafil
Iran’s answer to the blockade is taking shape far from the Persian Gulf, across unfinished railways, Caspian ports, and payment channels built to survive a longer siege.
https://thecradle.co/articles-id/39571

2026-08-25 20:55:33 UTC

🗞️ The Cradle
US officially removes Syria's extremist-led government from 'sponsors of terrorism' list
📅 2026-08-25 — News Desk
President Sharaa, a war criminal and former Al-Qaeda chief who served as deputy to an ISIS leader, said Syria is ‘tearing a page from its painful past’
https://thecradle.co/articles-id/39562

2026-08-25 20:54:12 UTC

🗞️ Ubuntu Blog
Arduino® VENTUNO™ Q is available for pre-order with Ubuntu pre-installed
📅 2026-08-25 — Canonical (Canonical)
Canonical and Arduino launch pre-orders for VENTUNO Q, a dual-brain edge AI board featuring Ubuntu, 40 TOPS NPU compute, and real-time control.
https://ubuntu.com//blog/arduino-ventuno-q-is-available-for-pre-order-with-ubuntu-pre-installed

2026-08-25 20:49:13 UTC

🗞️ Ron Paul Institute
Tulsi Was Right On Iran. Trump Ignored Her.
📅 2026-08-25 — Daniel McAdams
https://ronpaulinstitute.org/tulsi-was-right-on-iran-trump-ignored-her/

2026-08-25 20:48:46 UTC

🗞️ Ron Paul Institute
Trump Mulls Raising the Stakes to Force Iranian Capitulation
📅 2026-08-25 — Alastair Crooke
The 60-day MoU has expired. The framework of Iranian pre-conditions for any start to negotiations nonetheless lingers on in its comatose state. Instead of the endlessly touted “Iran deal,” the picture is almost the complete opposite of what President Trump sought to create when h
https://ronpaulinstitute.org/trump-mulls-raising-the-stakes-to-force-iranian-capitulation/

2026-08-25 20:43:41 UTC

🗞️ Ron Paul Institute
Sanctioning the Dollar Iran Already Left: Why Bessent’s ‘Economic D-Day’ Is Toothless
📅 2026-08-25 — Larry C. Johnson
There was one sentence in Scott Bessent’s Monday sanctions announcement that gave the whole game away. Anyone who launders money for the Iranian regime, the Treasury Secretary warned, “will be removed from the US dollar system.” He meant it as a threat of annihilation. It is, ins
https://ronpaulinstitute.org/sanctioning-the-dollar-iran-already-left-why-bessents-economic-d-day-is-toothless/

2026-08-25 20:43:10 UTC

🗞️ Libertarian Institute
Trump’s Iran War Is More Dangerous than People Realize
📅 2026-08-25 — Scott Horton
https://libertarianinstitute.org/scotthortonshow/8-19-26-arta-moeini-trumps-iran-war-is-more-dangerous-than-people-realize/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=8-19-26-arta-moeini-trumps-iran-war-is-more-dangerous-than-people-realize

2026-08-25 18:35:45 UTC

Rest in peace dear Dolly.

2026-08-25 13:17:02 UTC

🗞️ Ars Technica
AI is hitting entry-level jobs hardest, Stanford study finds
📅 2026-08-24 — <![CDATA[Kyle Orland]]>
Young employment in AI-impacted fields down 19% compared to more AI-resistant occupations.
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/08/ai-is-hitting-entry-level-jobs-hardest-stanford-study-finds/

2026-08-25 13:16:25 UTC

🗞️ Ars Technica
RFK Jr. may upend how vaccine recommendations are categorized
📅 2026-08-24 — <![CDATA[Beth Mole]]>
There are currently 3 categories. Without reason, RFK Jr. is considering changes.
https://arstechnica.com/health/2026/08/rfk-jr-may-upend-how-vaccine-recommendations-are-categorized/

2026-08-25 13:14:59 UTC

🗞️ CoinTelegraph Bitcoin
US targets Iran’s crypto sector, cites over $100M in oil-linked payments
📅 2026-08-25 — Ezra Reguerra
OFAC can now sanction foreign individuals and companies operating in or supporting Iran’s digital asset sector.
https://cointelegraph.com/news/us-targets-iran-crypto-sector-100m-oil-payments?utm_source=rss_feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=rss_partner_inbound

2026-08-25 13:12:15 UTC

🗞️ Consortium News
Israel’s Global Counter-Offensive
📅 2026-08-25 — corinna barnard
Ramzy Baroud on the dangerous turning point Colombia's new government represents for pro-Palestine and pro-Arab positions worldwide.
By Ramzy Baroud
Z Network
Colombia’s decision to recognize Israeli sovereignty over the occupied Syrian Golan Heights marks a dangerous tu
https://consortiumnews.com/2026/08/25/israels-global-counter-offensive/

2026-08-25 13:11:26 UTC

🗞️ Antiwar.com
No Coming Back from Genocide: Israel’s Global Counter-Offensive Has Begun
📅 2026-08-25 — Ramzy Baroud
Colombia's decision to recognize Israeli sovereignty over the occupied Syrian Golan Heights marks a dangerous turning point. By becoming only the second country in the world – after the United States – to endorse Israel's illegal annexation of Syrian territory, Bogotá has signale
https://original.antiwar.com/ramzy-baroud/2026/08/24/no-coming-back-from-genocide-israels-global-counter-offensive-has-begun/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=no-coming-back-from-genocide-israels-global-counter-offensive-has-begun

2026-08-25 13:10:51 UTC

🗞️ Antiwar.com
An American Soldier in the Persian Gulf Sent Me a Picture. It Went Viral.
📅 2026-08-25 — Trita Parsi
Reprinted with permission from Trita Parsi’s Substack. One of the important characteristics of Israel and Donald Trump’s war on Iran was that it never had the support of the American people. When George Bush launched his illegal invasion of Iraq, support stood strong at 72%. As t
https://original.antiwar.com/trita-parsi/2026/08/24/an-american-soldier-in-the-persian-gulf-sent-me-a-picture-it-went-viral/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=an-american-soldier-in-the-persian-gulf-sent-me-a-picture-it-went-viral