🇬🇧🇪🇺🇦🇺 Things you've missed.

>UK talks about Banning VPNS
>Russia Talks about Banning VPNS
>Cloudflare asked to ban VPNS in UK
>Kids bypassed the age verification with AI generated pictures or fortnite characters making me believe that in the future facial scan will be removed in favor for ID verification only.
>Itch io removed thousands of games.
>Horror games are now banned. You've mentioned Mouth wash but fear and hunger also got banned
>collective shout claims innocence they never wanted this, asks people stop engaging with them
>EU is passing a digital safety act next year which is the reason the sites are restricted
>Australia is passing an act too which is just as draconic if not more so than the one in UK
>Protests and anti imigration topics including a speech in the UK parlament by a politician is labled as "not safe for kids, despite kids at the age of 16 will be able to vote in UK"

🔗 Vee

🇺🇸🇪🇺 EU admits it can’t fulfill $600 billion investment promise to the U.S. — just hours after making it

During trade talks, the EU pledged to invest $600 billion into the American economy. But as Politico reports, just a few hours later, Brussels admitted it doesn’t have the authority to make such a commitment.

Ironically, Hungary’s Viktor Orbán pointed this out earlier today. Even a broken clock is right twice a day.

🔗 NEXTA

🇲🇽🇺🇸 Seth Harp on X: Mexico is not the only country where the military and police are the real power behind the illegal drug trade. This exclusive excerpt from my book for Rolling Stone shows how cops and soldiers ran the whole cocaine trade in the Carolinas – until they started killing each other

https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/fort-bragg-cartel-murders-1235394302/

https://archive.is/51qX1

🔗 Seth Harp

🇺🇸 Politico writes that the U.S. could withdraw 20 000 of the 60 000 soldiers it has based in Europe.

The official announcement is expected in a couple of weeks

🔗 Visegrad24

🇸🇾/🇺🇸 The SDF rejected U.S. envoy Tom Barrack’s request to withdraw from Raqqa, Deir ez-Zor, Hasakah, and Tabqa, and refused to disarm.

SDF representative Sihanouk Dibo said they turned down the proposal, which included handing over natural resources and border crossings to the Damascus government.

🔗 Clash Report

🇺🇸🇹🇷🇸🇾 US Ambassador to Turkey and Special Envoy for Syria held a meeting with Turkish Defense Minister. According to several activists, the discussion reportedly included the potential for a US green light on a Turkish military operation.

The operation would target the SDF if it continues to reject aligning with the Damascus government. Neither the US nor Turkey has officially confirmed those details of the meeting.

🔗 Levant24

🇺🇸🇨🇴 Marco Rubio: Trial Against Colombia’s Uribe ‘Sets a Worrisome Precedent’

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio commented on the verdict in the ongoing trial in Colombia against former President Alvaro Uribe, who was found guilty today on two of the three charges he faced: bribery in criminal proceedings and procedural fraud.

Rubio wrote on his official account on the social media platform X that the trial “sets a worrisome precedent” in Colombia, claiming the criminal proceedings reflect a “weaponization of Colombia’s judicial branch” carried out by “radical judges.”

https://colombiaone.com/2025/07/28/colombia-marco-rubio-trial-ex-president-alvaro-uribe/

🇬🇧 The UK's Online Safety Act which was marketed as a tool to protect children and teenagers from "harmful" content labels "criticism of mass immigration" as "harmful" as well as "racist posts".

📝: This bill, which will be certainly used as a source of inspiration by other countries like the US, EU, Australia, New Zealand and Canada, was meant to hide popular discontent mass migration.

@CIG_telegram

🇺🇸 Let check in on the post grad job market

🔗 Financial Physics

🇺🇸 25% of older Gen X and young boomer workers who have been laid off in the past decade haven’t been able to find a new job since, per FORTUNE

https://unusualwhales.com/news/25-of-older-gen-x-and-young-boomer-workers-who-have-been-laid-off-in-the-past-decade-havent-been-able-to-find-a-new-job-since

🇷🇺🇺🇦 Last three months on the Pokrovsk-Myrnograd front mapped.

🔗 WarMaps78

🇷🇺🇺🇦 June 1st to July 25th on the Konstantinovka front mapped.

🔗 WarMaps78

🇺🇸🇪🇺 Harsh Reality of US Trade Deal Stirs EU Angst

European Union leaders are working through the consequences of their new trading arrangement with the US, and confronting the reality of just how far they have fallen.

The terms of the framework deal agreed on Sunday will mean a significant hit to European companies — the EU accepted a tripling of tariffs to 15% on most exports to the US and will keep its own levies on American goods to 1% or less once the pact goes into effect.

European ambassadors meeting in Brussels yesterday recognized that European Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen had no choice but to agree to the unbalanced terms. But politicians have begun expressing concern about the the bloc’s loss of clout. The euro, meanwhile, dropped to a five-week low of $1.1527 today, having fallen about 1.8% since the accord’s announcement.

So while the deal lowers the risk of a trade war that would deal a severe blow to the global economy, there’s more horse trading yet to come and it’s unclear that it will bring stability to transatlantic relations.

🔗 https://archive.ph/rRVXv

🇺🇸🇪🇺 Trump’s $750 Billion Deal for U.S. Energy Collides With Market Reality

EU has pledged to increase purchases of American oil, natural gas and nuclear fuels, but exporters might struggle to meet demand

The energy deal is a centerpiece of the trade agreement reached between Washington and Brussels on Sunday, which sets baseline U.S. tariffs at 15% for most European goods. The EU has agreed to buy $250 billion worth of U.S. oil, natural gas and nuclear fuels per year for three years, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said.

To fulfill the pledge, the EU would have to purchase more than double the amount of American energy it did last year—while the U.S. would need to significantly ramp up its energy exports.

The commitment appears more aspirational than realistic, analysts said. Purchases of the agreed-upon magnitude would require a major rearrangement of energy flows, and it isn’t clear whether U.S. companies could even export that much. Private companies, which constitute the majority of Europe’s energy importers, would also need to be persuaded to give priority to a political directive over market trends.

“It’s a nice number but it’s just not realistic,” said Warren Patterson, head of commodities strategy at ING Bank. “You’d essentially have to divert all energy trade. That’s just not possible.”

“Even if the EU were to buy the entirety of U.S. crude and LNG exports, the annual value of its purchases would total only $141 billion,” according to research firm Gavekal. It based its figures on current prices and the U.S.’s estimated year-end LNG export capacity.

Another fundamental obstacle is that private companies, not governments, handle most energy procurement in the EU. Their decisions are typically guided by market prices and consumer demand.

Brussels can’t dictate to private companies where they buy energy, said Marc-Antoine Eyl-Mazzega, director of the energy and climate program at French think tank Ifri. “This is a private industry in Europe as much as in the U.S.,” he said.

There are also questions about whether the U.S. could deliver enough energy to hit the target. American LNG terminals, where natural gas is supercooled and loaded onto tankers, are already operating at near-full capacity. While companies are expanding facilities in Louisiana and Texas, this process will take several years.

On the European side, U.S. energy would encounter significant infrastructure bottlenecks. Europe’s re-gasification and pipeline networks, which receive and process LNG, are stretched to their limits, and expansion would require huge investment. The region’s refineries would also likely struggle to process extra volumes of light U.S. crude to produce diesel.

There could be environmental pushback too. Large additional imports of U.S. energy might clash with the EU’s goal of reducing fossil fuel consumption.

🔗 https://archive.ph/9spoQ

🇺🇸🏘 Eric Aarvoll Explains His "Whites Only" Land Movement - Fight Back Ep. 93

While at the new Patriot Front gym in Texas, Jake interviewed Eric Aarvoll, founder of the controversial “Return to the Land” Movement in Arkansas, which is Whites only. They discuss Eric’s plans with his movement, his motivations for forming a Whites only community, other examples of racially based movements in the U.S., what is needed to rebuild our society, the religious and philosophical traditions of Europe, America’s role overseas, and much more.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIP_6vBq-sA

🇩🇪 German courts gave 10 months of probation to a 24 year old Lebanese man who beat to a pulp a German female police officer on New Year's Eve 2023/2024.

The trial started after two years of delays from the Lebanese man who remained unnamed, only being identified as part of the Remmo Clan, a Lebanese-Arab Clan which is tied to several museum heists where millions of EURs in treasures and artifacts were stolen to be sold on the black market or melted for their metal.

The Lebanese man beat up the policewoman after she had accidentally hit with her car the man's sister which sent him into a rage. This state of rage was considered excusable enough by judge, Judith Anders, to let the man go with 10 months probation and a 4000 euro fine.

The policewoman spent two months in hospital and recovery, had to move to an office, not going on patrols anymore and stills suffers with psychological trauma from the incident.

🔗 https://www.freilich-magazin.com/gesellschaft/wegen-reifeverzoegerung-keine-haft-fuer-clan-mitglied-nach-pruegelattacke-auf-polizistin

🇺🇸 — President Trump tells Alaskans, Hawaiians, and residents of the West Coast to stay safe and visit tsunami.gov for updates regarding the tsunami waves potentially arriving in a few hours.