"When I asked Wagenknecht if she saw any similarities between herself and Le Pen or other radical-right parties, a hint of shock seemed to break through her cool, composed countenance. Such parties, she told me, do not truly represent the “so-called little people.” Rather, she said, her brand of politics does — a left that focuses on fighting economic inequality while, as she put it, also embracing social policies that foster “traditions, stability and security.”

"That’s territory, she said, the left has mistakenly ceded to the right. “These are quite legitimate human needs, and at some point the left was no longer interested in them,” Wagenknecht told me. She then blamed the rise of the far right on German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and his left-leaning coalition’s “arrogant” approach to governing.

“This is the direct result of an incredible frustration and indignation about wrong policies,” she said. “And the indignation is justified.”

https://www.politico.eu/article/germany-superstar-sahra-wagenknecht-far-left-far-right/

"All true egalitarians know “an indefinite ocean of blood lay between them and their goal of equality; and it is agreed on all hands that this knowledge did not diminish [in Lenin etc.], in the smallest imaginable degree, their enthusiasm for that goal.”"

https://substack.com/home/post/p-148142639

No Carriers in the Pacific

The US Navy has lost control of the Pacific Ocean: The U.S. Navy is facing a shortfall of deployed carriers in the Pacific as the buildup in the Middle East continues. The lack of carriers has left a critical gap in the West Pacific. The departure of USS Abraham Lincoln coincides with the change in […]

https://voxday.net/2024/08/28/no-carriers-in-the-pacific/

Alot of little birdies have been tweeting gossip about RFK and JFK murdering Marilyn Monroe. I deal with that slander here
https://matthewehret.substack.com/p/did-bobby-and-john-kennedy-kill-marilyn

You don't say. https://www.abajournal.com/news/article/magic-spell-hypothesis-may-explain-legalese-researchers-say

Minnesota, North America

Last night the sky lit bright orange in Minnesota

Surprisingly this doesn’t happen in Africa, only in Europe and America

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Everyone who posts about "Ukrainians taking territory in Kursk oblast" or "Russians retaking territory in Kursk oblast" is either really stupid or lying to you for clicks. That is not the kind of fighting that is occurring there. It's mostly small teams trying to spot each other and then hunting each other with drones and artillery, or trying to ambush each other. There is no frontline, and most of the map painting for either side is based on a 5 man team driving through an empty villages and snapping a pic while pursuing the enemy. The truth is that we simply don't know who has fire control over what village at any given moment, and it's not the kind of positional warfare where that matters.

The Ukrainians are trying to find places where they could dig in and establish supply lines; the Russians are consolidating a defensive perimeter and gathering reserves from where they won't weaken the actual strategic battlegrounds. The actually important questions are whether/when the AFU can establish supply and when the RuAF can coordinate the resources for a sweeping purge of the afflicted area.

Russians driving through a village and not seeing the Ukrainian DRG team in the woods nearby does not matter for the overall situation; neither does Ukrainians posting pics from villages they drove through four days ago. Neither of these is newsworthy or has strategic impact.

NEW - EU may shut down X in Europe if Musk defies digital censorship laws, warns Macron ally: "[We] will impose the total dismantling of the platform."

https://www.disclose.tv/id/2jrdrwe4om/

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The New York Times turns on Kamala! As the liberal newspaper runs a string of brutal op-eds slamming Harris as 'weak', 'a phony' and 'ignorant', is her 'Brat summer' finally over?

Read: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13785523/New-York-Times-turns-Kamala-Harris-ignorant-phony.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490

*NEWS INTERRUPTION*

❗️Pavel Durov's brother Nikolai is wanted in France, Politico claims.

It should be noted that Nikolai is an outstanding mathematician with two doctorates. In his youth, he won three silver medals and one gold at the International Olympiad in Informatics.

After Pavel Durov's arrest, Russian TG channels laughed at the naive French police, as it's well known at least in Russia that despite the fact that Pavel is known as the founder of the messenger, it's Nikolai who became a real technical genius behind the scenes.

Nikolai was the leading developer of the VKontakte social network, developed the MTProto protocol and the Telegram architecture, and is also the author of the concept and developer of TON.

Durov Sr. lives in Russia, remaining in the shadow of his brother's media fame. Currently, Nikolai holds the position of senior research fellow at the Laboratory of Algebra and Number Theory at the St. Petersburg branch of the Steklov Mathematical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences.