par 2nd Smartest Guy in the World
Dolly Parton est décédée d'un cancer fulminant le 25 août 2026. Surnommée la "Reine de la Country", elle était l'artiste country la plus célèbre de l'histoire, récompensée par onze Grammy Awards, trois Emmy Awards, deux nominations aux Oscars, six Golden Globes et un Tony Award.
Parton a vendu plus de cent millions de disques, a classé 25 singles numéro un au palmarès country et figure parmi les artistes ayant vendu le plus de disques de tous les temps.
par Laurent Brayard
La campagne de bombardements stratégiques des forces russes se poursuit, les images de cette série montre l'attaque de ponts, la chasse aux stations services, la destruction de la logistique ukrainienne, tant militaire que civile, surtout depuis les provocations ukrainiennes sur la logistique civile russe depuis un moment.
Les images montrent aussi la destruction méthodique du réseau de la Poste ukrainienne, utilisée par les forces de Kiev, en 2022, ils se vantaient publiquement d'utiliser les structures civiles de ce genre pour leurs besoins militaires.
By Ryan McMaken
Mises.org
August 28, 2026
From even the earliest days of written commentary on the French Revolution, it has been common for pundits and social critics and commentators to compare the American Revolution with the French Revolution. The reasons given for the difference vary significantly. Among conservatives-those who follow the Burkean line on the French Revolution-place most of the blame on ideological and religious difference between Americans the French.
By Kevin Villani
August 28, 2026
California's political leaders often celebrate the state as a global engine of innovation, diversity, and progressive governance. Yet its public schools-despite record spending and one of the most liberal electorates in the nation-remain among America's worst. The contrast with Massachusetts is instructive. Boston Latin School, a public institution founded in 1635, still produces some of the strongest academic outcomes in the country.
By Mike Whitney
The Unz Review
August 28, 2026
Winston Churchill, for all his triumphs and successes, was probably the man most responsible for the early and rapid collapse of the British empire....What brought the British empire down as rapidly and terribly as it did was world War 2. In my opinion, WW2 was exactly what Churchill called it "The Unnecessary War". And the fatal blunder was the decision in panic of the British government after Czechoslovakia fell apart in March, 1939, was to give an unsolicited war guarantee to a collection of Polish colonels who had a romantic view of their own warlike capacities, who participated in the breakup of Czechoslovakia, and Britain gave them this guarantee to back them in a cause -control of Danzig- where they thought the Germans were fundamentally right.
A Fourth Wave Reflection on The Use of Knowledge in Society and the Federal Government's Attempt to Govern Frontier Artificial Intelligence
By Carl L. McWilliams
August 28, 2026
Friedrich August von Hayek would likely recognize immediately that artificial intelligence presents a legitimate public-policy challenge unlike any encountered during his lifetime. Autonomous AI systems possess capabilities that can influence national security, financial systems, critical infrastructure, scientific discovery, and military planning.
By John & Nisha Whitehead
The Rutherford Institute
August 28, 2026
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By Drago Bosnic
Infobrics
August 28, 2026
For drone operators, screens, controllers, video feed, enemy troops or even civilians are all "lifeless" data that will appear again tomorrow, just like it does in video games. All this tricks them into thinking that actual warfare is much closer to the simulated environments they became so accustomed to as gamers. In other words, for them, the very act of killing fellow human beings might not seem real.
Moon of Alabama
August 28, 2026
I have previously written some bits about the AI-bubble:
'Artificial Intelligence' Is (Mostly) Glorified Pattern Recognition - June 2 2023
Is The AI Bubble Ready To Pop? - Oct 3 2025
Those 'Scary' AI Models Are Still Only Slop - Apr 24 2026
It's The Math - How China Is Avoiding The AI Bubble - Aug 4 2026
I lamented that the much hyped Large Language Models (LLMs), as proffered by OpenAI and Anthropic, are mostly unreliable search engines.
By Charles Hugh Smith
OfTwoMinds.com
August 28, 2026
In many cases, we're actually only "renting" the functional / monetary value of what we "own," and that makes the value of "ownership" far less certain than we might imagine.
What we "own" seems straightforward, but it's actually slippery. Yes, we own what we have a deed or copyright for, but we only "rent" the valuation the market assigns to what we own.
By Martin Armstrong
Armstrong Economics
August 28, 2026
War and sovereign debt are merging into a vicious spiral that will determine which nations survive the coming monetary crisis. Governments entered the conflicts in Ukraine and Iran, along with the escalating confrontation between the United States and China, already buried beneath debt accumulated through decades of fiscal incompetence. Now they are increasing military spending, subsidizing domestic industries, restructuring supply chains, and borrowing even more money to prepare for conflicts their own foreign policies helped create.
By Veronika Kyrylenko
The New American
August 28, 2026
Washington has a disastrous debt problem. And yet, President Donald Trump wants more room to borrow.
According to The Hill, Trump is pushing to extend the federal debt ceiling through the end of his presidency. That would require roughly another $5 trillion in borrowing authority.
The contrast with his old promises is striking.
When running for president in 2016, Trump said he could wipe out the entire $19 trillion national debt within eight years.
To be "written is blood," meant (and still means) to make binding. God himself called the New Testament, written in His blood, an everlasting testament.
By Fr. John A. Perricone
Crisis Magazine
August 28, 2026
Martyrs are now passé-for the Synodalist Church, that is.
Martyrs spilled their blood for Truth come down from Heaven. For the Synodalist, there is no truth, only transactional process.
Le secrétaire du Conseil suprême de sécurité nationale iranien, le général de division Mohsen Rezaï, a déclaré que la République islamique d'Iran enverrait le Premier ministre israélien Benjamin Netanyahu "en enfer" et prouverait que ses "graves erreurs" ont précipité la chute du régime sioniste.
Dans une interview accordée jeudi soir à la chaîne de télévision libanaise Al Manar, le général Rezaï a affirmé que Téhéran suivait avec la plus grande vigilance les événements à Beyrouth et dans sa banlieue sud.
L'Iran lance un avertissement sans équivoque aux États-Unis : toute nouvelle agression militaire contre la République islamique d'Iran fera l'objet d'une riposte vigoureuse contre les intérêts militaires et économiques américains.
La mise en garde a été lancée par le général de division Mohsen Rezaï, secrétaire du Conseil suprême de sécurité nationale iranien (CSSN), lors d'une rencontre avec le Premier ministre qatari, Cheikh Mohammed ben Abdulrahman Al Thani, à Téhéran, jeudi 27 août.
Stefano Vernole
In un contesto di tensioni crescenti con la Turchia, la Grecia sta aumentando la spesa militare per modernizzare il proprio esercito (circa il 3,5% del PIL) e nei mesi scorsi ha acquistato un sistema difensivo multistrato
In un contesto di tensioni crescenti con la Turchia http://newsnet.fr/1, la Grecia sta aumentando la spesa militare per modernizzare il proprio esercito (circa il 3,5% del PIL) e nei mesi scorsi ha acquistato un sistema difensivo multistrato, cioè anti-missile, anti-aereo e anti-drone da Israele, denominato "Scudo di Achille", per 3 miliardi di dollari (l'agenzia "Reuters" ha stimato un costo complessivo pari a 4 miliardi di dollari), oltre a diversi tipi di droni e di aerei da trasporto militare Embraer C-390.
Par Ramona Wadi pour Middle East Monitor, le 27 août 2026
La lutte acharnée contre les cerfs-volants est l'une des dernières prétendues préoccupations sécuritaires d'Israël en date.
"La directive que j'ai transmise aux forces armées israéliennes prévoit de tout mettre en œuvre contre les cerfs-volants, une arme particulièrement redoutable : nous devons les détruire, ainsi que ceux qui les utilisent, et frapper les lieux d'où ils sont lancés.
Par Nour Joudah, Dena Qaddumi
Suite à la récente annonce du Hamas où il déclare céder le pouvoir à Gaza au Comité national pour l'administration de Gaza (NCAG), des questions urgentes ont refait surface : qui façonnera l'avenir de Gaza et selon quelles conditions ?
Ces questions sont d'autant plus pertinentes que le cadre général du NCAG reflète la même logique technocratique et imposée de l'extérieur qui caractérise désormais la proposition internationale dominante pour la reconstruction de Gaza : une approche qui la traite comme un simple exercice technique de gestion de catastrophe, reléguant au second plan la souveraineté palestinienne, le retour des réfugiés et l'autodétermination.
Athena Rayburn, directrice exécutive de l'Association des agences de développement international (AIDA), qui représente plus de 100 ONG humanitaires et de développement dans le territoire palestinien occupé, a dénoncé auprès du Conseil de sécurité de l'ONU les restrictions à l'aide humanitaire entrant à Gaza.
Elle a indiqué que des articles tels que des ciseaux, des béquilles, des fauteuils roulants et des prothèses étaient refusés car considérés comme "à double usage", tandis que les médecins spécialistes étaient soumis à des restrictions d'entrée.