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Virtually all vessels are owned by U.S. allies and transited the Strait of Hormuz in the past 3+ months using the Southern/Omani lane. Some of them have been struck by the IRGC Navy.
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🇩🇪 AfD leader Alice Weidel:
“We will close Germany’s borders. If crises like the one in Ceuta continue, we will withdraw from the Schengen Area.”
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“We will close Germany’s borders. If crises like the one in Ceuta continue, we will withdraw from the Schengen Area.”
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One Nation MP David Farley has admitted his party's migration target is about the same as Labor's, and possibly higher.
Pauline Hanson attempted to clarify his comments, but confirmed One Nation's target of 130,000 did not include temporary workers.
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Pauline Hanson attempted to clarify his comments, but confirmed One Nation's target of 130,000 did not include temporary workers.
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⚓️ 🇨🇳 🏗 China’s Type 004 aircraft carrier is rapidly taking shape at Dalian, with new satellite imagery showing a more complete bow and a hull already around 320 meters long.
The strongest open-source assessment is that it will be China’s first nuclear-powered carrier, with imagery reportedly showing two reactor containment structures.
Expected features include EMALS catapults, a 90–100+ aircraft air wing, and a displacement potentially above 110,000 tons.
The carrier is expected to be substantially larger and more capable than Fujian, likely around 110,000–120,000 tons, with a final length approaching or exceeding the U.S. Gerald R. Ford-class.
Current estimates suggest four catapults, compared with three on Fujian, and an air wing potentially exceeding 90 aircraft, including J-35 stealth fighters, J-15T carrier fighters, KJ-600 airborne early-warning aircraft, helicopters, and eventually combat drones.
A launch could come as early as 2027, followed by several years of fitting-out and sea trials, with entry into service around 2030.
https://www.twz.com/sea/chinas-next-aircraft-carrier-is-taking-shape
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The strongest open-source assessment is that it will be China’s first nuclear-powered carrier, with imagery reportedly showing two reactor containment structures.
Expected features include EMALS catapults, a 90–100+ aircraft air wing, and a displacement potentially above 110,000 tons.
The carrier is expected to be substantially larger and more capable than Fujian, likely around 110,000–120,000 tons, with a final length approaching or exceeding the U.S. Gerald R. Ford-class.
Current estimates suggest four catapults, compared with three on Fujian, and an air wing potentially exceeding 90 aircraft, including J-35 stealth fighters, J-15T carrier fighters, KJ-600 airborne early-warning aircraft, helicopters, and eventually combat drones.
A launch could come as early as 2027, followed by several years of fitting-out and sea trials, with entry into service around 2030.
https://www.twz.com/sea/chinas-next-aircraft-carrier-is-taking-shape
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📝 Martin Skold: "He’s actually not wrong (the belt-tightening probably -creates- debt at this point by causing revenue shortfalls and bank failures); it’s just that overly indebted countries don’t grow.
The way out is a default - either a literal one (which is basically unconstitutional and would end the US government as we know it) or through inflation.
The latter, of course, would work better if we didn’t also owe a multiple (!) of the current debt to our seniors in the form of entitlements we can’t pay for (that will themselves have to be “defaulted” on, and in a way that is the right word).
But it’s not free in either case, anymore than personal bankruptcy is free - it sucks. It’s just a question of whether it’s possible to get through the pain to the other side where we can start growing again."
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📝 🇺🇸 💸 Financial Times:
“Scott Bessent’s running battle with the bond market is starting to look like his boss’s war in Iran — started by his own hand with a tangled set of objectives, an underestimated opponent and an implausible path to victory. And like the conflict in the Middle East, we are all going to suffer its effects.
Three weeks ago, of course, he inserted himself in the market for the Japanese yen, of all things, buying the currency to prop it up in what was painted as a friendly act of solidarity with an ally in need.
The link back to Treasury bonds may not be immediately obvious, but bond market insiders are not buying the friends-helping-friends explanation, and instead see it as an effort to stop Japan from fixing its yen problem by selling down its gigantic stash of US debt.
So now, no fewer than three times in three weeks, Bessent has given the message to investors to please stop selling his bonds. But they are selling his bonds anyway.”
https://archive.ph/oFdxU
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“Scott Bessent’s running battle with the bond market is starting to look like his boss’s war in Iran — started by his own hand with a tangled set of objectives, an underestimated opponent and an implausible path to victory. And like the conflict in the Middle East, we are all going to suffer its effects.
Three weeks ago, of course, he inserted himself in the market for the Japanese yen, of all things, buying the currency to prop it up in what was painted as a friendly act of solidarity with an ally in need.
The link back to Treasury bonds may not be immediately obvious, but bond market insiders are not buying the friends-helping-friends explanation, and instead see it as an effort to stop Japan from fixing its yen problem by selling down its gigantic stash of US debt.
So now, no fewer than three times in three weeks, Bessent has given the message to investors to please stop selling his bonds. But they are selling his bonds anyway.”
https://archive.ph/oFdxU
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📝 🇺🇸 💵 Inflation creates its own debt issues.
Can the US grow its way out of $40T debt? Yes, if *real* GDP grows more than 5.5%. That growth was last hit . . . never?
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Can the US grow its way out of $40T debt? Yes, if *real* GDP grows more than 5.5%. That growth was last hit . . . never?
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🇨🇳 🇻🇳 🇹🇼 China has completed the first phase of construction on Antelope Reef in the disputed Paracel Islands, creating a nearly six-kilometer-long artificial island in the South China Sea, Reuters reports. Satellite imagery shows a helicopter pad, buildings…
🇨🇳 🇻🇳 🇹🇼 According to PRC state media, Antelope will be used for commercial and civilian purposes – a similar tale told during construction of the other military outposts. It’s worth noting that in 2015, Xi Jinping stood in the Rose Garden next to then-President Obama and said, “China does not intend to pursue militarization” in the South China Sea. “Relevant construction activity that China is undertaking in the Nansha Islands does not target or impact any country and there is no intention to militarize,” he claimed.
Since Xi’s head fake, which epitomizes the notorious Chinese “say-do” gap, Beijing has built up multiple artificial islands as military bases, and has used them to press its territorial claims and confront its neighbors across the nine-dash line, in strict defiance of the U.N. Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS).
This time last year, Antelope Reef was mostly submerged underwater and barely visible unless you were steaming past at low tide.
New satellite imagery showcases what China can construct after 10 months of nonstop dredging: a nearly 1,500-acre artificial island with a deep-water port, 2,000-plus-foot quay capable of berthing warships, and the beginnings of a 10,000-foot-long military-grade runway.
Hardly recognizable today, Antelope Reef has become the latest, and one of the largest, man-made outposts in Beijing’s aggressive campaign to militarize and dominate the South China Sea.
https://www.twz.com/news-features/chinas-massive-new-artificial-island-in-the-south-china-sea-emerges-primed-for-militarization
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Since Xi’s head fake, which epitomizes the notorious Chinese “say-do” gap, Beijing has built up multiple artificial islands as military bases, and has used them to press its territorial claims and confront its neighbors across the nine-dash line, in strict defiance of the U.N. Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS).
This time last year, Antelope Reef was mostly submerged underwater and barely visible unless you were steaming past at low tide.
New satellite imagery showcases what China can construct after 10 months of nonstop dredging: a nearly 1,500-acre artificial island with a deep-water port, 2,000-plus-foot quay capable of berthing warships, and the beginnings of a 10,000-foot-long military-grade runway.
Hardly recognizable today, Antelope Reef has become the latest, and one of the largest, man-made outposts in Beijing’s aggressive campaign to militarize and dominate the South China Sea.
https://www.twz.com/news-features/chinas-massive-new-artificial-island-in-the-south-china-sea-emerges-primed-for-militarization
📎 Ian Ellis
🇨🇳 🇵🇭 🇹🇼 PRC South China Sea Construction: The PRC will likely use environmental monitoring as a pretext to enhance and automate maritime domain awareness and enforcement of PRC territorial claims in the South China Sea. The South China Sea Institute of Oceanology (SCSIO), an institute of the PRC state-run Chinese Academy of Science (CAS), announced on August 18 that the PRC approved plans for a marine environmental observation station in the South China Sea that would monitor the “Zhongsha Islands.”
The “Zhongsha Islands” is the PRC name for the grouping of the Scarborough Shoal, which the PRC seized from the Philippines in 2012, and the underwater Macclesfield Bank. The SCSIO said that the new station will establish a “three-dimensional marine observation network” covering the entirety of the “Zhongsha Islands” and collaborating with existing monitoring stations in the PRC-occupied Paracel and Spratly Islands. The SCSIO did not disclose the location of the new monitoring station but said it would include a “sea-based dual-core” and “land-based overall support.”
The PRC may construct the land-based portion of the monitoring station on the nearby Paracel Islands because constructing directly on Scarborough Shoal — the only above-water feature in the “Zhongsha Islands” — would be unprecedented and potentially provoke a response from the Philippines.
https://understandingwar.org/research/china-taiwan/china-taiwan-update-august-21-2026/
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The “Zhongsha Islands” is the PRC name for the grouping of the Scarborough Shoal, which the PRC seized from the Philippines in 2012, and the underwater Macclesfield Bank. The SCSIO said that the new station will establish a “three-dimensional marine observation network” covering the entirety of the “Zhongsha Islands” and collaborating with existing monitoring stations in the PRC-occupied Paracel and Spratly Islands. The SCSIO did not disclose the location of the new monitoring station but said it would include a “sea-based dual-core” and “land-based overall support.”
The PRC may construct the land-based portion of the monitoring station on the nearby Paracel Islands because constructing directly on Scarborough Shoal — the only above-water feature in the “Zhongsha Islands” — would be unprecedented and potentially provoke a response from the Philippines.
https://understandingwar.org/research/china-taiwan/china-taiwan-update-august-21-2026/
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⛽️ While everyone is distracted by the manipulated oil price... diesel is trading at $183 per barrel. - WTI: $87 - Diesel: $183 People say oil is the lifeblood of our economy...But it's actually diesel. Diesel powers: - Most farming operations - Most mining…
⛽️🇮🇹 Italy Extends Diesel Tax Cut as Meloni Grapples With Fuel Prices
The ministries of finance and energy extended the tax cut by a day through a decree signed last Thursday, according to a document seen by Bloomberg News. In July, the government cut the diesel price at the pump by €0.17 cents ($0.20) per liter and on Aug. 4 extended it to next Tuesday.
Meloni has faced political pressure to shield consumers from soaring fuel prices as she prepares to contest a general election expected next year. Government figures released Sunday showed diesel and unleaded fuel prices on Italy’s highway network at €2.203 and €2.087 per liter, respectively.
Over the weekend, the opposition called for more substantial help and a windfall tax on energy companies.
🔗 https://unwall.app/www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-08-23/italy-extends-diesel-tax-cut-as-meloni-grapples-with-fuel-prices?srnd=homepage-europe
The ministries of finance and energy extended the tax cut by a day through a decree signed last Thursday, according to a document seen by Bloomberg News. In July, the government cut the diesel price at the pump by €0.17 cents ($0.20) per liter and on Aug. 4 extended it to next Tuesday.
Meloni has faced political pressure to shield consumers from soaring fuel prices as she prepares to contest a general election expected next year. Government figures released Sunday showed diesel and unleaded fuel prices on Italy’s highway network at €2.203 and €2.087 per liter, respectively.
Over the weekend, the opposition called for more substantial help and a windfall tax on energy companies.
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An Ilyushin Il-76TD cargo aircraft was spotted at Asosa Airport in Ethiopia’s Benishangul region, near the border with Sudan, in satellite imagery captured on 18 August.
The aircraft is likely one of Batot Air’s Il-76s that departed the UAE for Africa last week.
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📢 🇮🇱 🇵🇸 Israel’s Sephardi Chief Rabbi David Yosef declared that Gaza, Nablus and Jenin belong to Israel, while denying that Palestinians are a people or have any rights.
He added that God should “destroy all of Gaza” so Israelis can return and rebuild its synagogues.
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He added that God should “destroy all of Gaza” so Israelis can return and rebuild its synagogues.
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Treasury Secretary, Scott Bessent, promised a new sanctions package aiming to hit Iran's trade partners as a last ditch effort by the Trump Admin to force an Iranian surrender
China's Ministry of Commerce has already said they will not recognise the new sanctions package on Iran and will continue to trade with Iran.
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