[RobHendersonSubstack] It’s an image, so if someone could copy it for us, that would be lovely. Paraphrasing, it’s about the Stasi creeping into the homes of enemies of the state at night “to spray radiation on them as they slept” to be able to track them. To be honest, that sounds nuts — how did none of their targets wake up and kill them on the assumption of burglars or murderers? Rob Henderson is the bestselling author of "Troubled: A Memoir of Family, Foster Care, and Social Class." He has a PhD in psychology from the University of Cambridge and is a Senior Fellow at the Manhattan Institute. The same could likely be done today from an "Amazon" delivery drone or from space. The purveyors of persistent surveillance, why do they hate us ?
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(Russian/NKVD) Responsibility
The Invasion: On September 17, 1939, the Soviet Union invaded eastern Poland pursuant to the secret protocols of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact signed with Nazi Germany.
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The Katyn Massacre: In the spring of 1940, the Soviet secret police (NKVD) executed nearly 22,000 Polish military officers, police, and intellectuals.
Soviet Cover-up: When German forces discovered the mass graves at the Katyn Forest in 1943 and publicized them for propaganda, the Soviet Union aggressively denied responsibility and falsely blamed the Nazi regime for decades.
Acknowledgment: The Soviet leadership officially admitted to the NKVD's guilt in 1990 under Mikhail Gorbachev, and subsequent Russian leadership has confirmed Soviet culpability.
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#1 Russian side of the story. Camps for Russian prisoners and internees in Poland that existed during 1919–1924 housed two main categories of detainees: the personnel of the Imperial Russian Army and civilians, captured by Germany during World War I and left on Polish territory after the end of the war; and the Soviet military personnel captured during the Polish–Soviet War, the vast majority of them captured as a result of the battles of 1920. Locations of the camps included Strzałkowo, Pikulice, Wadowice, and Tuchola.
Due to epidemics raging at the time, made worse by the very bad sanitary conditions in which the prisoners were held, largely due to overcrowding, between 16,000 and 20,000 Soviet soldiers held in the Polish POW camps died, out of the total of 80,000 to 85,000 prisoners.
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It's all socialist totalitarianism. Neither the Nazis nor the communists believe in individual liberty or private property. You wouldn't want to live in either system.
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[Regnum] A cargo ship with a Chinese crew of 24 sank in the Bay of Bengal in the eastern Indian state of Odisha, PTI reported on August 22.
The vessel was en route to Singapore with a cargo of iron ore. The ship sank approximately 240 nautical miles (445 km) off the coast of Paradip.
"The Indian Coast Guard and the Indian Navy have launched a rescue operation. Two people have been rescued from the water so far," the report stated.
This isn't the first major vessel accident in recent weeks. At least 72 people died when a vessel capsized on Lake Kariba in Zimbabwe. A Rural Infrastructure Development Agency vessel carrying more than 100 people capsized on August 11 near Long Island after being caught in strong waves.
[FOX] At least 30 people were killed in a massive landslide in Guinea on Sunday when a mountainous open-air landfill collapsed and buried nearby shacks, trapping numerous victims beneath a mass of garbage.
The incident happened at Dar Es Salam, the largest waste dump in the West African country's capital, Conakry, according to a report from The Associated Press (AP).
Guinea News reported that the weight of the waste caused a three-story building beneath it to cave in.
Authorities said heavy rainfall also washed over the refuse overnight, creating hazardous conditions at the landfill, according to the AP.
[AI] Meta maintains its **international headquarters** in Ireland, operating across three primary locations: a campus in **Ballsbridge, Dublin**, a data center in **County Meath**, and **Reality Labs** facilities in **Cork**. The company’s Irish subsidiary, **Meta Platforms Ireland Ltd**, was established in 2008, and as of 2026, it employs approximately **1,800 people**, a significant reduction from its post-pandemic peak of around 3,000.
Recent major developments include **significant job cuts**, with reports in May 2026 indicating that up to **350 roles** in Ireland are under threat as part of a global restructuring aimed at offsetting heavy investments in **Artificial Intelligence**. Concurrently, **Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg** and his wife Priscilla Chan acquired **Strancally Castle** in County Waterford in August 2026, a historic estate valued between €20 million and €30 million, which they intend to use as a base during visits to Ireland.
Regulatory and operational challenges also persist, with Ireland’s media regulator opening probes in May 2026 into **Facebook** and **Instagram** over concerns regarding **algorithmic content controls** and user manipulation. The company’s financial footprint remains substantial, having paid **€366 million** in corporation tax in 2024 on profits of **€2.9 billion**, underscoring Ireland’s continued role as a critical hub for Meta’s global operations.
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Yes.
[AI] **Ireland** maintains one of the world's most robust yet volatile economies, characterized by exceptionally high GDP figures driven by multinational corporations, particularly in pharmaceuticals and technology. In **2025**, the country recorded a massive **12.3% real GDP growth**, largely due to front-loaded pharmaceutical exports ahead of US tariffs, while its **GDP per capita** reached approximately **$131,592**, ranking it among the wealthiest nations globally.
**Domestic economic indicators** remain strong, with **modified domestic demand** growing by nearly **5%** in 2025, supported by a tight labor market with unemployment below **5%** and rising private consumption. However, the economy is expected to face a **contraction in 2026** (projected between -1% and -1.2%) as the base effect of export front-loading unwinds, though **domestically-driven activity** is forecast to expand by **2.8% to 3.0%**.
* **GDP Growth:** Surged **12.3%** in 2025; projected to contract by **~1%** in 2026 before stabilizing.
* **GDP Per Capita:** Approximately **$130,000 - $131,592** (nominal), significantly above the global average.
* **Unemployment:** Remained low at **4.3% - 4.7%** in 2025, with employment hitting record highs.
* **Inflation:** Expected to rise to **2.1% - 3.1%** in 2025/2026 due to energy price shocks.
* **Public Debt:** Low and manageable, projected at **32.9%** of GDP in 2025, decreasing to **31.6%** by 2026.
* **Primary Drivers:** High-value foreign direct investment (FDI), a low corporate tax regime, and a skilled, English-speaking workforce within the EU Single Market.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] China's space race suffered a setback today after the country said it would delay its moon mission after a launch failure less than two weeks ago.
The country's manned space agency said its mission to the moon 'does not meet launch conditions and cannot take place during the planned window this year'.
It is part of Beijing's efforts to land a crew on the moon by 2030.
The mission – meant to search for water on the moon's south pole – was scheduled to depart either over the weekend or Monday, according to media reports.
The Monday before last, a Chinese Long March 7A rocket that was carrying a ChinaSat-4B communications satellite exploded less than a minute and a half after take-off.
The failed mission had lifted off from the Wenchang Space Launch Site, state news agency Xinhua said at the time.
An 'anomaly' occurred when the rocket carrying the Zhongxing-4B communications satellite was in flight, Xinhua added.
Crowds watching the launch gasped as the rocket diverted and turned into a fireball after 85 seconds.
The wreckage crashed into the South China Sea.
The cancelled mission involved sending the Chang'e-7 lunar probe on a Long March 5 carrier rocket.
As of Wednesday, the takeoff site and equipment were in good condition, with inspections to take place and a launch 'scheduled for the coming period'.
China has ploughed billions of pounds into its space programme in recent years to achieve what President Xi Jinping calls the country's 'space dream'.
Its space programme has overtaken Russia's to be the second-largest in the world after the United States.
China wants to set up a permanent station on the moon by 2040. It already has an operational space station to match America’s.
China successfully landed a reusable rocket for the first time in July, according to its space agency, marking a major step in its space ambitions and in reducing launch costs.
But a litany of failed launches by private organisations that were bought by the Chinese government has raised questions on whether China has overloaded the programme in the past 12 months as it tries to compete with America's Artemis programme.
Face stuff. How is China to conquer America and become world hegemon if they can’t even beat America into space?
[CBSnews] Like so many in Gary, Indiana, Shatiya Hardin has been waiting for the minute her power finally turns back on.
"It's been absolutely horrible," Hardin told CBS News. "At night we're sweating, we're irritable, we have children to look out for, elderly people who need electricity for oxygen tanks."
Beginning Aug. 11, several days of powerful storms walloped northwest Indiana, killing at least seven people and displacing about 1,000. The storms brought record rainfall that flooded several communities.
In Gary, the storm knocked out electricity for more than half of the city's residents, where about one in three people lives in poverty, according to U.S. Census data.
A class-action lawsuit was filed this week against NIPSCO, alleging the company failed to proactively trim back vegetation from power lines. The lawsuit alleges that downed trees and vegetation were the primary causes of the power outages.
NIPSCO disputes the claim, saying its "vegetation management spend has more than doubled since 2016."
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The storm on 11 Aug had winds up to 95 mph. Trees with full foliage are very vulnerable in such cases. However, a lot of the damage was to relay stations and transmission connections with no tree impacts. As of today, about 300k residents have power restored. About 10k still without.
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However, everyone involved is black (government, utilities). So they blame racism.
[IntelliNews] Rosatom is building 28 nuclear power units in nine countries and has signed agreements for 17 more, its chief executive told President Vladimir Putin.
"We are building 28 large, medium and small power units abroad," Alexey Likhachev said. "Projects are progressing steadily in India, China, Turkey, Egypt, Iran, Bangladesh and Hungary." He also singled out Uzbekistan, where construction formally began in June, and Belarus completes the list of nine.
Beyond those under construction, the state corporation holds agreements covering another 17 units in Vietnam, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Myanmar, Kyrgyzstan and Ethiopia, and is negotiating with 15 further states over roughly 50 potential projects, Interfax reported on August 20.
Four years of sanctions have taken Russian gas out of Europe, frozen its central bank reserves and pushed its oil into a discounted shadow fleet. Nuclear has been left almost untouched, and it is the one export where Russia still writes 60-year contracts with Nato members - Hungary and Turkey are both on the construction list. That nuclear exports are booming is not new; what makes them durable is what makes them valuable. A reactor is a 60-year fuel contract with a supplier the buyer cannot change.
Fuel, servicing, waste handling and often the financing all come with the plant, which is why uranium has become the new gas in Russia's dealings with emerging markets. The geography of the 17-unit agreement list - Vietnam, Myanmar, Kyrgyzstan, Ethiopia - shows where the next set of those relationships is being built.
The domestic programme is expanding in parallel. Russia plans to add around 30 GW of nuclear capacity, extending atomic generation into the Urals, Siberia and the Far East, Izvestia reported.
The order book is not evidence of delivery. Rosatom's flagship projects have a record of slipping - Akkuyu in Turkey and El Dabaa in Egypt have both run behind schedule, and leaked papers this month accused the corporation of negligence in Egypt while it builds Hungary's reactors. Signing 50 more agreements is easier than pouring concrete on the 28 already under way.
[FoxNews] Men taking the erectile dysfunction and enlarged prostate drug were 33% more likely to develop primary open-angle glaucoma
A drug used to treat erectile dysfunction and enlarged prostate symptoms may raise the risk of glaucoma, a serious eye condition that can cause gradual vision loss, according to new research.
An international team of researchers analyzed health records from nearly 74,000 men ages 40 and older with lower urinary tract symptoms to examine whether long-term tadalafil
…brand name Cialis…
use was associated with a greater risk of glaucoma.
The study, published in the British Journal of Ophthalmology, compared about 37,000 men prescribed tadalafil with a similar group who did not use phosphodiesterase type 5 inhibitors, the drug class that includes Cialis.
Researchers followed the men for up to five years and looked for new cases of glaucoma and high pressure inside the eye, along with whether patients needed treatment for glaucoma.
Men who used tadalafil were 22% more likely to develop glaucoma than those who did not use the drugs, according to the findings.
They were also 32% more likely to develop high pressure inside the eye and 33% more likely to develop primary open-angle glaucoma, the most common type of the disease.
Dr. Valerie Kattouf, an optometrist at the Illinois Eye Institute who was not involved in the study, told Fox News Digital that glaucoma can be difficult to notice in its early stages.
"Glaucoma is an eye condition that especially in its early stages often does not present with visual symptoms," Kattouf said.
As glaucoma progresses, people may gradually lose their side, or peripheral, vision, she said.
The researchers noted several limitations to the study. The study was observational, meaning it found a link between tadalafil use and glaucoma but could not prove that the medication caused the condition. Researchers also could not account for changes in medication use or other health conditions that developed over time.
The researchers stressed that the findings do not mean people should stop taking tadalafil. Instead, they said, patients who use the medication long term, particularly those with existing glaucoma risk factors, may benefit from regular eye monitoring.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] China's space race suffered a setback today after the country said it would delay its moon mission after a launch failure less than two weeks ago. 
