Young Female Dance instructor accused of sexually abusing teens at studio; authorities fear there could be more victims

Another Me Too event!

Welcome to the age of gender equality! Men/boys watch out!

"Delaware dance instructor was arrested for allegedly sexually abusing teenagers who attended classes at the studio where she worked, according to authorities. Law enforcement warned there could be more sexual abuse victims.

Delaware State Police said in a statement that 23-year-old Emily Pryor Albino of Seaford was arrested and charged with four felony counts of first-degree sexual abuse of a child by a person of trust and one felony count of sexual solicitation of a child using a computer/cell phone/other electronic device ..."

Dance instructor accused of sexually abusing teens at studio; authorities fear there could be more victims | Blaze Media "The Delaware dance teacher may face life in prison."

"Image source: Delaware State Police"

Bomb Hidden in Trash Bin Kills Russian/Ukrainian Officer Who Defected From Ukraine in Russian-occupied Sevastopol, Crimea

Is the Ukraine copying from the Israeli Mossad playbook?

I blogged here earlier about a recent bomb attack on Russian military officers in a restaurant in Moscow.

"... A Russian military officer was killed on Thursday when an explosive device detonated near a residential area in Russian-occupied Sevastopol. ..."

 

Bomb Hidden in Trash Bin Kills Russian Officer Who Defected From Ukraine "In brief: Russian reports identified the victim as Robert Shageev, a former Ukrainian naval officer who joined Russia after its 2014 occupation of Crimea."

Russia's Amazon (Wildberries) lost a third of its warehouse capacity and $5.7 billion worth of goods since mid-July due to Ukrainian attacks

Good news! Hit Putin the Terrible where it hurts most, bankrupt the Russian government!

When will the lethargic, apathetic Russian Slav(e)s/Serfs finally get rid of their last tsar, the megalomaniac, warmonger and war criminal Putin the Terrible! He is an ugly remnant of the Cold War and a former KGB agent. He is a wannabe Stalin. Please Russian people make the world a better, more peaceful place again! How many more young Russian men will be killed or maimed before you act!

"... According to The New York Times, Ukraine has targeted at least 23 Wildberries facilities since mid-July, with nine company workers reportedly killed in the attacks. ...

Reuters separately reported that at least 1.18 million square meters (292 acres) of Wildberries warehouse space – more than one-fifth of its total capacity – had been damaged or destroyed. ...

A Kremlin-linked source told Reuters that the Russian budget does not have the hundreds of billions of rubles needed to fully support affected sellers and warned that the disruption could trigger a wave of bankruptcies. ...

Ukraine has increasingly targeted Wildberries as part of a campaign aimed at bringing the economic consequences of the war to ordinary Russians. Kyiv has argued that Wildberries is a legitimate military target because the marketplace sells goods used by the Russian military. ..."

Wildberries Loses Goods Worth a Major Russian Region’s Annual Budget "In brief: Ukrainian strikes have severely disrupted Wildberries, destroying or damaging more than 20 warehouses and goods worth an estimated Hr.480 billion, while Russian sellers and pickup-point operators face mounting losses."

As Ukraine Strikes Wildberries, Russia’s Richest Businesswoman Faces Her Biggest Test Yet

Will this good looking Russian lady take down Putin the Terrible? Hope and pray!

Tatyana Vladimirovna Kim, a Russian entrepreneur, founder and CEO of Wildberries (Source)

Wildberries warehouse in Krasnodar on fire after a Ukrainian strike on July 22, 2026

What Happens When Producers Are Responsible for Recycling Their Products and Packaging? Really!

Authoritarian socialism coming from Yale University!

Recycling of waste is not solely the responsibility of businesses/producers! Government, society as a whole as well as individual consumers are responsible as well!

"... That question sits at the center of Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR), a policy strategy that shifts recycling costs onto manufacturers to reduce waste and promote more ecofriendly design.

Used in more than 100 countries [???] for packaging, electronics, mattresses, and batteries, EPR is gaining traction in the U.S. Seven states have passed legislation requiring producers to cover the costs of recycling their packaging. ..."

What Happens When Producers Are Responsible for Recycling Their Products and Packaging? "YSE research scholar Reid Lifset, who has tracked a policy designed to flip product waste responsibilities from consumers to manufacturers, has built an open reference database to help policymakers and companies understand its costs and benefits. "

Reid J. Lifset, a authoritarian socialist on the faculty of Yale University

The permafrost link between methane emissions and climate change. Really!

More of the horrible climate demagoguery and indoctrination by the AAAS! Again junk science and junk journalism?

Remember CO2 and methane are trace gases in the atmosphere measured in few hundred (CO2) or even few (methane) parts per million!

I bet there also arsonists in Siberia! Or is Putin the Terrible doing some deforestation in Siberia so the megalomaniac can finally conquer the rest of the world? 😊

"Northern hemispheric permafrost stores twice as much carbon as is found in the atmosphere. As permafrost thaws due to climate warming, it becomes a potential source of methane emissions caused by microbial decomposition of soil organic carbon in wetlands, which could cause further warming. Zhu et al. report that methane emissions in Siberia have increased at a rate of around 5% per year since 2010 due to a combination of fires and permafrost melting. This source of methane is projected to become more important as climate continues to warm."

From abstract:

"The northern permafrost region, which stores double the amount of carbon in the atmosphere, is vulnerable to accelerated warming.

Methane emissions from thawing permafrost may eventually result in a climate-carbon feedback.

Our analysis of atmospheric methane data shows that Siberian growing-season methane emissions have increased by 12.0 ± 1.9 teragrams of methane (TgCH4) (5% per year) over the period 2010–2023.

We reveal contrasting Siberian hydrological trends linked to high-pressure systems and distinct air-sea-land interactions.

Warmer, drier conditions over eastern Siberia enhance fire-related emissions (0.7 ± 0.1 TgCH4 year−2), and wetter conditions over western Siberia promote wetland-related emissions (0.4 ± 0.1 TgCH4 year−2).

Weakly nonlinear relationships between temperature maxima and emissions suggest that by 2050 [???], higher Siberian emissions could offset about 20% of the global methane reduction required for climate targets [???], with eastern Siberia dominating the projected increase."

In Science Journals | Science

Decadal doubling of Siberian methane emissions due to warming-induced fires and methanogenesis (no public access)

US National Academy Of Sciences Pulls Key Climate Science Chapter From Website

Good news! What took so long! Shame on the NAS to promote such ideology and indoctrination!

"... NAS pulled the climate science section, which appeared in the fourth edition of the “Reference Manual on Scientific Evidence,” while it reviews the process used to develop the guidance, following scrutiny over the chapter’s contents and the involvement of a lawyer connected to climate litigation against energy companies.

The chapter, which critics liken to “left-wing plaintiff propaganda,” claims climate attribution — “climate change” linked to human activity and specific companies — is established science. ...

The manual is produced by the National Academies in partnership with the Federal Judicial Center (FJC), and assists federal judges in evaluating scientific and technical evidence that arises in litigation.

Although the exact amount of judges who use the reference manuals isn’t known , the fourth edition is publicly available online. Reuters reported since 1994 that the reference guide has been cited by over 1,300 judges. ...

President Donald Trump had also criticized the climate science section before its removal, arguing that the material contained faulty information and should not be supported by taxpayers. ..."

National Academy Of Sciences Pulls Key Climate Science Chapter From Website Amid Massive Backlash |

What a joke! NAS logo (source)

Network of complex microbes discovered at mysterious Blood Falls in Antarctica

Amazing stuff!

Notice that this research perhaps confirms there were other warm climatic periods on Earth (different from the Medieval Warm Period) perhaps predating human civilization. Global Warming is a hoax and Climate Change is a religion! Perhaps the sun and its solar activity and cycles not greenhouse (trace) gases mostly determine warmer and colder periods on Earth!

"Now, a Nature Geoscience study suggests Blood Falls also preserves biological clues to Antarctica’s past. Researchers found molecular evidence of an active, marine-derived community of microscopic eukaryotes — organisms whose cells have a nucleus — near the Taylor Glacier terminus, pointing to ancient seawater that may have entered the valley during warmer periods before becoming sealed beneath ice. ..."

From the abstract:

"The McMurdo Dry Valleys contain a mosaic of specialized microbial habitats structured by strong physical and chemical gradients.

Blood Falls, located at the terminus of the Taylor Glacier, is a red, iron-rich outflow of deep Antarctic subglacial brine with geochemical and isotopic evidence supporting a potential ancient marine origin.

Previous studies suggest the brine formed when seawater inundated the Taylor Valley over warm climatic intervals before becoming isolated beneath the advancing glacier.

Here, across 167 aquatic, sediment and aeolian samples from the McMurdo Dry Valleys and marine reference sites, we identified a distinct marine micro-eukaryotic assemblage restricted to red-hued ice, mud and sediment at the Taylor Glacier terminus.

Marine indicator species were identified across several phylogenetic groups including diatoms, haptophytes, dinoflagellates and ciliates.

Metatranscriptomic profiles revealed transcriptionally active phototrophs with enriched pathways for photosynthesis, osmotic stress responses and cellular repair. Haplotype networks showed lineage-specific divergence between Taylor Glacier terminus and McMurdo Sound diatoms, supporting geographic isolation.

These findings indicate that the subglacial brine-fed system at the Taylor Glacier terminus retains marine-derived biological signatures long after physical separation from the ocean, linking contemporary Antarctic microbial assemblages to past climatic transitions."

Red marks the spot: Network of complex microbes discovered at mysterious Blood Falls | Yale News "A research team co-led by a Yale scientist has identified complex organisms near the Blood Falls area of the Taylor Glacier in Antarctica — a discovery that offers new implications for how microbial life adapts to harsh environmental conditions."

Ancient marine life may be hiding in Antarctica’s Blood Falls (original news release) "Blood Falls has long been one of Antarctica’s strangest landmarks: a red-stained outflow that spills from the face of Taylor Glacier into the cold, dry landscape of the McMurdo Dry Valleys. The color comes from iron-rich brine that has been trapped beneath the glacier, isolated from the outside world and periodically released into the polar desert."

Molecular evidence for a relict marine community in an Antarctic Dry Valleys subglacial brine-fed system (open access)

The research team collects samples at Blood Falls in 2023.

Größter deutscher Windpark geht aus der Nordsee ans Netz. Wirklich!

Schlechte Nachrichten aus der Bananenrepublik D! Klimawahn gepaart mit Größenwahn!

Welch eine Naturverschandelung für eine unzuverlässige Energieversorgung! Das nennt man dann Windpark, welch ein schrecklicher Euphemismus! Wieviele Vögel werden getötet? Welcher Lärm entsteht?

Wird nicht sogar das lokale Klima und Wetter durch solche gigantischen wind farms beeinflusst/verzerrt?

Am deutschen Unwesen wird die Welt nicht genesen!

"Rund 110 Kilometer westlich der Insel Helgoland hat der Energiekonzern EnBW das größte Offshore-Windprojekt Deutschlands bauen lassen. 64 Windräder mit einer Nabenhöhe von 142 Metern stehen jetzt in der Nordsee. Rund 2,4 Milliarden Euro wurden in den Windpark „He Dreiht“ (Niederdeutsch für „Er dreht“) investiert, wie der Karlsruher Konzern mitteilte. ..."

"... Der Windpark „Hohe See“ ist bereits seit Oktober 2019 komplett in Betrieb, jetzt produziert auch sein kleiner Nachbar „Albatros“ Strom. Zusammen verfügen die insgesamt 87 Windkraftanlagen über eine Gesamtleistung von 609 Megawatt und können so viel Energie produzieren wie ein modernes Gaskraftwerk. ..."

Mitten im Meer: EnBW bringt größten deutschen Windpark ans Netz | FAZ "Ein einziger Rotor nutzt eine Fläche von sechs Fußballfeldern. Die Stromtrasse führt quer durchs Meer. Wie hat EnBW das größte Offshore-Projekt vor der deutschen Küste umgesetzt?"

EnBW bringt größtes Windkraftwerk Deutschlands ans Netz (original Pressemitteilung)

Gigantisch haesslich! (Quelle)

Bundeskanzler Merz zappelt in der SED Kanzlerin Merkel-Falle von Roland Tichy

Sehr empfehlenswert! Kein Wunder! Eine sehr beißende Kritik von Roland Tichy!

Wie konnte sich Helmut Kohl so irren in Angela Merkel?

"... Eher unbeobachtet blieb, dass die Parteien unter Merkel die Demokratie zugunsten eines autokratischen Zentralismus beseitigt haben. Das ist die Merkel-Falle.

In der sitzen wir alle wie gefangene Rebhühner, weil die Grundfehler der Politik nicht korrigiert werden können. Und wie ein Hampelmann hängt Friedrich Merz an den Fäden von Angela Merkel, weil er sich aus den Fängen seiner größten Feindin nicht befreien kann. ...

Die Entmachtung des Parteiensystems

Unter Merkel wurden der bis dahin geltende Wettbewerb der Parteien beendet. Sie nannte es asymmetrische Demobilisierung – dem Gegner die Themen wegnehmen, also die CDU nach rotgrün zu drehen. So sorgte sie dafür, dass CDU, SPD und Grüne sich inhaltlich überlappten wie ausgewrungene Putzlumpen – konturlos, ideenlos, planlos. Da war kein Wahlkampf mehr gegeneinander zu führen – alle wollen dasselbe Unheil: Energiewende, Massenmigrationssturm auf Deutschland, die totale Regulierung und Bürokratisierung zur Abschaffung der Marktwirtschaft. Unter der Hand entstand so eine Quasi-Einheitspartei. ...

Bundestagsabgeordnete, dem Grundgesetz nach nur ihrem Gewissen verantwortlich, wurden zu abhängig Beschäftigten der Bundesregierung. Denn die Entscheidungen der Regierung sind grundsätzlich „alternativlos“. ...

Jede noch so perverse und abartige Gruppe aus dem Rotgrünen wird bedient und damit eingebunden, wenn sie nur den großen Kurs alternativlos mitmacht und gegen Abweichler mithetzt – gegen Steuergeld. Das peinlichste Schauspiel geben die beiden christlichen Kirchen ab, die im Regenbogen-Ornat antreten und das Lied derer singen, die die Kirchensteuer für sie eintreiben und künftig auch noch Kinderschänderei im Grundgesetz schützen wollen. ...

die faktisch Ein-Parteienregierung ...

Das Bundesverfassungsgericht hat seine Rolle als Hüter des Grundgesetzes und Schutzmacht der Bürger gegen willkürliche Politik einfach aufgegeben. Es wurde zum Partei-Gericht, so Staatsrechtler Ulrich Vosgerau über die Roten Roben ohne Würde. ...

Merz, Merkels Vollzugsgehilfe

Und jetzt also Friedrich Merz. Er ist in seiner aufgeblasenen Unwichtigkeit idealer Repräsentant des Systems der 80-Prozenter. Und hat doch einen großen Fehler gemacht.

Merkel hat ihre Pläne nie offenbart. Programmlosigkeit war ihr Programm; „Sie kennen mich“ ihr einziges Wahlversprechen. Sie blieb vage und diffus, aus dem Nebel ihrer vermeintlichen Unbestimmtheit kamen dann Zerstörung der Infrastruktur und Öffnung der Grenzen wie der Blitz aus heiterem Himmel. ..."

Merz zappelt in der Merkel-Falle "Fehler sind unvermeidlich. Entscheidend ist: wie korrigiert man sie? Friedrich Merz wiederholt Merkels Ur-Fehler. Warum? Nicht allein wegen der SPD, was erwartet man von der noch? Sondern wegen der Merkel-Falle: Dem Gefängnis der Neuen Deutschen Einheitspartei."

Milliardendefizit in der Arbeitslosenversicherung bei 3 Millionen Arbeitslosen

Neues aus der Bananenrepublik D!

"Wichtige Phasen der Arbeitslosigkeit von 1990-2026

1990–1997: Anstieg nach der Wiedervereinigung von unter 2 auf rund 4,38 Millionen Arbeitslose im Jahr 1997.

1998–2005: Erneuter starker Anstieg bis zum historischen Höchststand von 4,86 Millionen Arbeitslosen (und einer Quote von 11,7 %) im Jahr 2005.

2006–2019: Kontinuierlicher Rückgang der Arbeitslosenzahlen durch gute Konjunkturphasen auf den Tiefstand von 2,27 Millionen im Jahr 2019.

2020–2026: Pandemiebedingter Anstieg 2020 (ca. 2,7 Millionen), gefolgt von einer stabilen Phase und einem leichten Anstieg auf rund 2,95 Millionen bis Mitte 2026." (Google Search)

"... Die Bundesregierung befeuert dieses strukturelle Defizit in der Arbeitslosenversicherung zusätzlich. Wie bekannt wurde, wird es doch keine harten Sanktionen gegenüber Terminschwänzern geben.

Fehlzeiten sollen zudem gelöscht werden.

Während man künftig im Steuerrecht gegenüber Steuerzahlern und vermeintlichen Steuersündern mit harter Hand vorgeht, wird die deutsche Sozialversicherung zum Paradies für Faulenzer, Arbeitsverweigerer und Sozialtouristen umgebaut. Dieser linke Utopismus geht ins Geld, soviel ist klar. ..."

Milliardendefizit in der Arbeitslosenversicherung "Die steigende Arbeitslosigkeit erzeugt enormen Druck auf die Arbeitslosenversicherung. Das Milliardendefizit wird wohl zwangsläufig zu einer Anhebung der Beitragssätze führen. Es bleibt dabei: Die Bundesregierung versucht alles, um eine Reform des Staatswesens zu vermeiden, und verschiebt die Lasten der Krise auf die Beitragszahler."

Quelle

U.S. Army troops were defeated by Ukrainian drone operators at a military exercise in Germany earlier this year.

Bad news! Maybe like the knights in shining armor, the time for human army soldiers is over too in the very near future.

It is only a matter of time unitil terrorists will use drones for their attacks.

"During the exercise, Ukrainian drone units easily spotted and took down U.S. troops and armored vehicles on rotation from Fort Hood in Texas, according to people familiar with the events. The exercise, coupled with U.S. casualties in Iran, shows American vulnerabilities to uncrewed systems—years after the U.S. made them an essential part of warfare."

The Wall Street Journal What's news

U.S. and Ukrainian Forces Went Head-to-Head in an Exercise. Ukraine’s Drones Won. (behind paywall) "Battlefield drill shows Pentagon hasn’t fully absorbed lessons of Russia’s war"

Inside North Korea’s Operation to Conquer the U.S. Job Market

Serious stuff! Seems to be an interesting video, but it was too long for me!

There are probably thousands of North Koreans working illegally in the US.

(7) Inside North Korea’s Operation to Conquer the U.S. Job Market | WSJ Documentary - YouTube

These North Korean workers transfer this sum back to North Korea.

Faced with ageing population, Vietnam seeks to curb falling birthrate

So the communists governing this country since 1976 had a two-child policy and not a one-child policy like China?

(3) Faced with ageing population, Vietnam seeks to curb falling birthrate • FRANCE 24 English - YouTube

How the Russia-Ukraine War is Spilling Over into other countries

Recommendable! A nice, short summary!

(2) How the Russia-Ukraine War is Spilling Over - YouTube

Russia Turns To India For Gasoline imports As Ukraine Hits Russian Refineries

What! Incredible!

(1) Russia Turns To India For Gasoline As Ukraine Hits Refineries | Firstpost Live - YouTube

Why the Indian Ocean is India's Most Vital Frontier with Palki Sharma

Very recommendable! India, a rising superpower!

Ep 12: Why the Indian Ocean is India's Most Vital Frontier | Bharat Bioscope with Palki Sharma | IGR - YouTube

US Army launches search for counter-drone missile priced under $150K. Really!

Headline of the day! What a bad joke! What do drones cost or a drone swarm?

Please go back to the drawing board and start over!

Maybe President Trump needs to fire another general!

Army launches search for counter-drone missile priced under $150K - Breaking Defense "The interceptor, dubbed the Next Generation C-sUAS Missile, must be compatible with Raytheon's Coyote launcher, per the RFI."

An armored vehicle fires a Raytheon Coyote counter-drone missile. (Raytheon)

Lebanon Breaks With the Region on the Death Penalty

Good news!

"... On August 11, the Lebanese parliament voted to abolish the death penalty, replacing it with a life sentence and “aggravated hard labor.” Once the law is signed by the president and published in The Official Gazette, it goes into effect; however, acquiring such a signature is just a formality in the Lebanese parliamentary system.

This is a historic decision for the Arab world and the Middle East. ... 

Djibouti, a member of the Arab League, abolished the death penalty in 1995.

Turkey did the same in 2004.

This makes Lebanon the second Middle Eastern country and the second Arab League member to take the step. ..."

Lebanon Breaks With the Region on the Death Penalty "The historic vote follows decades of advocacy and removes an irreversible punishment from a flawed justice system plagued by political interference and lengthy trials."

The tree of life? 😊

China’s Escalating Cyberattacks Threaten Taiwan’s National Security

Serious stuff! China is a bully! 

Hong Kong was already invaded/taken over illegally by the Communist Party of China after the Basic Law became effective in 1997!

Why does Taiwan not offer reunification under the condition that China becomes  like a Western democracy?

"Amid intensifying cross-Strait tensions, Taiwan is among the world’s most frequent targets of cyberattacks, predominantly attributed to Chinese state-backed hackers. Taiwan’s National Security Bureau (NSB)  has assessed that infrastructure on the island experienced a daily average of 2.63 million cyberattacks in 2025, more than double that of 2023. Energy, emergency rescue, hospitals, and communications infrastructure were the sectors that faced the most significant increases in the number of attacks in 2025, as compared to the previous year.  ..."

China’s Escalating Cyberattacks Threaten Taiwan’s National Security | Global Taiwan Institute

New study may change how we think about GLP-1

Good news! However, the study is only about female mice! That is a little weird!

"... How does Ozempic actually  work?

In a new study, Yale researchers uncovered a previously unrecognized mechanism that challenged the classic idea of how Ozempic works. Rather than only suppressing appetite, they found that chronic GLP-1 treatment also recruits hunger neurons, triggering metabolic adaptations that contributes to fat loss, similar to what normally happens when the organism is under calorie deficiency. ..."

From the abstract:

"Significance

Glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists (GLP-1RAs), including semaglutide, are highly effective antiobesity drugs, yet how the brain sustains their weight-lowering effects remains unclear.

Agouti-related peptide (AgRP) neurons are viewed as hunger-promoting cells opposing weight loss and are expected to be suppressed or bypassed by GLP-1RA therapy.

In female mice, AgRP neurons are recruited by GLP-1RA treatment and are required for its full weight-lowering effect. Disrupting AgRP function reduces the drug-induced body weight-lowering response, despite continued suppression of food intake. We identify glucocorticoid signaling as an important pathway linking GLP-1RA treatment to AgRP neuron recruitment. These findings suggest that hypothalamic AgRP neurons may not simply sustain hunger and oppose weight loss but can also support adaptive metabolic responses during GLP-1RA therapy.

Abstract

Glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists (GLP-1RAs), including semaglutide, produce robust and sustained weight loss, yet the central mechanisms supporting their long-term efficacy remain incompletely understood.

Agouti-related peptide (AgRP) neurons of the arcuate nucleus are classically activated by negative energy balance and promote feeding and energy conservation. Based on this framework, GLP-1RAs have generally been expected to suppress or bypass AgRP neuron activity.

Here, we report that AgRP neuron activation is required for the full weight-lowering effects of GLP-1RAs in female mice.

Across complementary AgRP loss-of-function models, disruption of AgRP circuit integrity reduced the full weight-lowering effects of GLP-1RAs. This requirement varies with sex, diet, and mode of AgRP disruption.

We found that GLP-1RA treatment is associated with increased markers of neuronal activation, mitochondrial engagement, and synaptic remodeling in AgRP neurons.

We further identify a glucocorticoid-to-AgRP signaling axis as an important pathway mediating this functional recruitment of AgRP neurons.

Together, these findings reveal that contrary to prevailing assumptions, GLP-1RA engages AgRP neurons to sustain weight loss, highlighting an unexpected role for these neurons in coordinating adaptive metabolic responses to pharmacologically induced negative energy balance."

New study may change how we think about GLP-1s | Yale News "In a new study, Yale researchers identified an unexpected mechanism that challenges a long-held assumption about the brain’s hunger circuitry."

AgRP neurons are required for the weight-lowering effects of GLP-1 receptor agonists in female mice (no public access)

Diet context gates AgRP neuron involvement in Semaglutide-induced weight loss (preprint, open access)

Fig. 1 Female mice under Standard Diet require AgRP neurons for sustained weight loss and hypoglycemic effects.

Fig. 2 Sustained treatment with Semaglutide increases the activity of AgRP neurons.

Report Exposes vast Foreign Funds Behind Climate Activism in the US

Same old story since at least the 1970s when environmental and anti nuclear power activism became popular in Western countries.

It is amazing that Western countries are so naive and lenient about these foreign influence/interference campaigns by rogue countries! Why is there e.g. not more transparency regarding financing required etc.

But this article is more about foreign Western organizations and wealthy donors trying to influence US policy! Who is behind those foreign Western organizations? Rogue countries like Russia, China, Iran etc.?

"... Foreign nationals are exploiting loopholes to funnel foreign dark money into the U.S. through the non-profit sector. ..."

"Foreign donors have poured over $130 million into U.S.-based climate activist nonprofits, according to a new database tracking over $5 billion in foreign funding.

“Our database makes it clear foreign cash is bankrolling much of the extremist climate activist movement in America,”  ... “Radical activist groups dedicated to undermining American energy dominance, like Energy Foundation China, Sierra Club, and League of Conservation Voters, are recipients of vast sums of foreign money.” ..."

New Report Exposes the Foreign Cash Behind ‘Extremist Climate Activist Movement’

Report Exposes Foreign Funds Behind Climate Activism

Follow foreign money database

Exposed How several US States unlawfully Gave Foreign Truck Drivers a License to Kill instead of a commercial driver's license

Bad news! Hopefully, some individuals involved will be held accountable!

More horror/nightmare stories out of California!

"In 2025 alone, investigators found 17 fatal crashes involving illegal immigrants who had been unlawfully granted CDLs and allowed to drive massive 18-wheelers. ..."

"Investigation reveals 30+ dead, 128,000 risky CDLs in one state, and tests in foreign languages 

WASHINGTON—The Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) today released a new Investigative Report, License to Kill: Uncovering the Anti-Borders Takeover of the National CDL Program. The report exposes how anti-borders politicians and bureaucrats in multiple states have systematically undermined federal commercial driver’s license (CDL) standards. They have converted this critical public-safety credential into a permission slip for foreign nationals (who frequently lack English proficiency, valid immigration status, and basic driving competence) to get behind the wheel—often with deadly consequences. ...

investigation documents the scale of the problem:

• In 2025 alone, at least 17 fatal crashes involving foreign national CDL-holders claimed more than 30 American lives. ...
• California issued more than 128,000 non-domiciled CDLs between 2022 and 2025 (more than doubling annual output), and permitted applicants to take knowledge tests in Arabic, Chinese, Punjabi, Russian, and Spanish. First-attempt pass rates were as low as 22% for Arabic speakers and 26% for Punjabi speakers, compared with 63% for English.
• Multiple states issued multi-year credentials that extended far beyond the expiration of applicants’ lawful presence documents, granted non-domiciled CDLs to ineligible Mexican and Canadian nationals, created “temporary” licenses never reported to the national CDLIS database, and even produced credentials listing “No Given Name.”
• The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) sanctioned California and New York for their noncompliance with federal CDL standards, and withheld hundreds of millions of dollars in federal highway funds from those states. In total, FMCSA scrutinized 25 jurisdictions for noncompliance, and required substantial corrective action.

..."

FAIR Exposes How States Gave Foreign Truck Drivers a License to Kill | FAIRUS.org

Texas Public Policy Foundation Cannon

Source

After nearly 50 years of research, a complete chain of evidence describes the glueball

Amazing stuff!

"... Now, using a particle collider in Beijing, researchers say they have effectively proved the existence of such a “glueball.” [subatomic particle made up of gluons]  

the researchers argue that a particle called X(2370), which they produced by smashing electrons into positrons at high energies, has the properties expected of a glueball. ..."

"At the International Conference on High Energy Physics held in Brazil, the BESIII Collaboration at the Beijing Electron Positron Collider announced in a special plenary report that after fifteen years of sustained research, the BESIII Collaboration identified that the dominant constituent of the X(2370) is a pseudoscalar glueball with spin-parity quantum numbers of 0⁻⁺.

The strong interaction force tightly binds the quarks inside protons and neutrons. Its mediator is called the gluon, just as the photon mediates the electromagnetic interaction. Notably, however, gluons can attract each other and form an entirely new particle ¾ a bound state called glueball. The glueball is an important prediction of quantum chromodynamics, the theory that describes the strong interaction, and is also the only type of particle in nature composed entirely of force mediators; no particle of this kind has ever been observed experimentally, and its existence constitutes a crucial test of quantum chromodynamics. ...

The BESIII Collaboration discovered a new particle in J/ψ decays, called the X(2370), in 2011.

Following another 13 years of work, the Collaboration used a much larger sample of 10 billion J/ψ particles in 2024 to determine for the first time its spin and parity quantum numbers to be 0⁻⁺.  Its mass and quantum numbers are in complete agreement with lattice-quantum-chromodynamics prediction for a pseudoscalar glueball (whose spin and parity is 0⁻⁺), marking a crucial step toward establishing its true identity.

Recently, the ... discovered several new decay modes of the X(2370) and, in particular, determined for the first time its “flavor-singlet” nature, which is the most important characteristic of a glueball.

This series of BESIII studies established a complete chain of experimental evidence: a pseudoscalar-glueball component must dominate the X(2370).

This is the clearest experimental result from nearly fifty years of searches for glueballs, verifying the major theoretical prediction that gluons can bind together to form a new type of matter. This result demonstrated unique advantages of the Beijing Electron Positron Collider in studies of strong interactions. ..."

Abstract (This a short 10 pages paper, oddly using the last four pages to list all names of involved researchers and their affiliation)

Behold the “glueball,” a strange new form of matter | Science | AAAS

BESIII experiment identifies X(2370) as a glueball dominated particle

BESIII Experiment Identifies X(2370) as a Glueball Dominated Particle (original news release)

Lightest 0−+ Glueball as Dominant Constituent of X(2370) (preprint, open access)

Figure: BESIII 

Chinese economic reformer Zhu Rongji has died

R.I.P.

I am not very familiar with his biography, but he was perhaps one of the reformers that modernized China and contributed to its economic success.

"... Born in Changsha, Hunan, Zhu became a member of the CCP in 1949, the same year the People's Republic of China was established. He worked in the State Planning Commission between 1952 and 1958, and criticized CCP leader Mao Zedong's economic policies during the Hundred Flowers Campaign in 1957, causing him to being labeled as a "rightist" in the subsequent Anti-Rightist Campaign, leading Zhu to be demoted and expelled from the CCP.

He was sent to work at a remote cadre school afterwards. He was pardoned, though not politically rehabilitated in 1962, after the famine caused by the Great Leap Forward, being again assigned at the State Planning Commission. He was purged again during the Cultural Revolution, where he was sent for re-education to a May Seventh Cadre School.

After Mao's death in 1976 and the rise of Deng Xiaoping afterwards, Zhu was politically rehabilitated and allowed to rejoin the CCP.

He worked in the Ministry of Petroleum from 1976 to 1979, and joined the State Economic Commission, successor of the State Planning Commission, in 1979;

he served as the vice minister of the commission from 1983 to 1987.

In 1988, he became the mayor of Shanghai, where he pursued economic reforms.

He worked with Shanghai CCP secretary Jiang Zemin, who he succeeded as Shanghai CCP secretary in 1989, when Jiang was promoted to CCP general secretary. ..."

Zhu Rongji, China’s chief engineer of economic reform and former premier, dies aged 97 "Zhu, who rose to become premier, spearheaded China’s entry into the World Trade Organization"

Zhu Rongji - Wikipedia

India commits $8.8bn to deep-sea oil & gas exploration to cut Mideast reliance

Good news!

"... The initiative is designed to attract international corporations by providing financial subsidies for drilling operations. By opening up three offshore marine regions that were previously restricted from such activities, New Delhi hopes to significantly bolster its domestic hydrocarbon resource base and secure its energy future. ..."

India commits $8.8bn to deep-sea oil exploration to cut Mideast reliance - Nikkei Asia (behind paywall) "Government aims to attract foreign companies with subsidies for drilling"

India Pledges $8.8 Billion for Deep-Water Oil Drilling to Reduce Foreign Energy Reliance

What’s Gone Wrong With Australia’s Economy?

Recommendable, but the video ends abruptly!

(628) What’s Gone Wrong With Australia’s Economy? - YouTube

Life During the Apocalypse (mass extinction)

Recommendable!

(624) Life During the Apocalypse - YouTube

North Korea expands its role in Russia's war against Ukraine

Hopefully, 10 thousands of North Korean soldiers fighting for Russia will destabilize North Korea to make a reunification of the Korean peninsula more likely and sooner!

(621) North Korea expands its role in Russia's war against Ukraine | DW News - YouTube

China's Arctic Shortcut To Europe: Arctic Route Could Cut Shipping Time In Half

Good news! Thanks to climate change!

(621) China's Arctic Shortcut To Europe: Arctic Route Could Cut Shipping Time In Half | WION World DNA - YouTube

Forgotten Kingdoms That Ruled Ancient India with Palki Sharma

Recommendable!

(618) Forgotten Kingdoms That Ruled Ancient India | Bharat Bioscope with Palki Sharma |India Global Review - YouTube

Russia has been systematically using drones to probe air defenses in Europe, looking for weaknesses to exploit, Germany’s top military officer said.

Serious stuff! Are we heading into World War III? Pray and hope we do not!

When will the lethargic, apathetic Russian Slav(e)s/Serfs finally get rid of their last tsar, the megalomaniac, warmonger and war criminal Putin the Terrible! He is an ugly remnant of the Cold War and a former KGB agent. He is a wannabe Stalin. Please Russian people make the world a better, more peaceful place again! How many more young Russian men will be killed or maimed before you act!

"In an interview with WSJ, Gen. Carsten Breuer said this assessment of the threat posed by Russia is the starting point for Germany’s new military strategy—the first the country has produced since the end of World War II.

Last week, German police disarmed an explosive-laden drone discovered near a Ukrainian cargo plane at an airport in the country’s east. Authorities have said they’re investigating the drone’s origin, which Germany’s interior minister said represented “a new level of danger.”"

The Wall Street Journal What's news

From 18 to 11: President Trump slashes childhood vaccine recommendations

Good news! Bravo President Trump! 

Probably, the number of childhood vaccinations went too far beyond what is necessary and defensible! Business was too good for pharma and doctors!

Time to step back, review and reevaluate the vaccination protocol/program for children!

"President Trump signed an executive order Monday scaling back the federal government’s childhood vaccine recommendations, giving parents greater control over which immunizations their children receive and directing health agencies to adopt what the White House calls the “Gold Standard Childhood Vaccine Recommendations.”

The new framework reduces the number of diseases covered by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s routine childhood recommendations from 18 in 2024 to 11. ..."

MxM News: 18 to 11: Trump slashes childhood vaccine recommendations

Fast 10.000 Biogasanlagen kämpfen ums Überleben

Biogasanlagen? War das noch so eine Schnapsidee in der  vom Klimawahn heimgesuchten Bananenrepublik D?

Wieviel staatliche Subventionen sind geflossen?

Fast 10.000 Biogasanlagen kämpfen ums Überleben "Mit der EEG-Novelle 2027 entscheidet sich auch, wie viele Biogasanlagen weiterlaufen. Die Regierung verspricht ihnen eine Zukunft, die Branche sieht die Anlagen auf einem „Sterbepfad“. Wer hat recht?"

Biogasanlage und Windrad im selben Landschaftsbild: Wenn Wind und Sonne ausfallen, sollen Biogasanlagen einspringen [???]. Ob sie das können, entscheidet das EEG 2027.

WaiT for the Signal: Simple Frequency-Aware Flow-Matching

This could be an interesting, new paper by Luke Zettlemoyer, Stephane Mallat and their team!

From the abstract:

"As image generation models scale to ever higher resolutions, global coherence, local detail, and texture fidelity become critical axes for generation quality. However, standard flow matching treats all spatial frequencies uniformly, ignoring the natural frequency hierarchy where high-frequency bands become indistinguishable from pure noise far earlier than coarse structures.

We introduce WaiT, a Wavelet-aware image Transformer that decomposes generation into coarse and fine bands via lossless wavelets.

True to its name, the high-frequency bands wait for the signal: staying pure noise until coarse structure has emerged, then joining the flow for joint refinement.

Since standard FID discards fine-grained detail through aggressive downsampling, we introduce a more stringent three-axis evaluation protocol to assess quality at native resolution.

On ImageNet 512x512, WaiT achieves a pixel-space FID of 1.43 and is Pareto-optimal across all three axes, reducing sampling compute by up to 50%.

With our largest 2B model, we set a new state-of-the-art FID of 1.3 for pixel-space models on ImageNet 512 resolution.

Our formulation outperforms even the strongest latent-space models on texture fidelity, and scales seamlessly to high-resolution OpenImages and to video generation, achieving a state-of-the-art FVD of 0.84 on Kinetics-600 with no algorithmic modifications."

[2607.28760] WaiT for the Signal: Simple Frequency-Aware Flow-Matching (preprint, open access)

Russia’s Supreme Court Bars Yabloko, Only Pro-Peace Party, From Upcoming Elections

News from the empire of Putin the Terrible!

When will the lethargic, apathetic Russian Slav(e)s/Serfs finally get rid of their last tsar, the megalomaniac, warmonger and war criminal Putin the Terrible!

"Russia’s Supreme Court has barred the only liberal party, Yabloko, from participating in the State Duma’s upcoming elections in September. The ruling came after Judge Vyacheslav Kirillov granted a lawsuit filed by lawyers for the nationalist Rodina party, which accused Yabloko of promoting “extremism” and receiving foreign funding. “The Yabloko party is full of traitors. These are people who work for the West and hold Western values,” Rodina leader Alexei Zhuravlyov told reporters outside the Supreme Court building on Aug. 7. ..."

Russia’s Supreme Court Bars Yabloko, Only Pro-Peace Party, From Upcoming Elections "In brief: Russia’s Supreme Court removed the only liberal party, Yabloko, from the upcoming State Duma elections in September, after granting a lawsuit filed by the nationalist Rodina party on Monday, Aug. 10. Hundreds of Russian citizens gathered outside the courthouse, protesting the ruling."

Syrian court sentences Bashar al-Assad to death for crimes against humanity

Good news, I suppose! Was the son of the long-time dictator of Syria Hafez al-Assad (in office from 1971-2000) a monster with a medical doctor's degree?

Putin the Terrible and his ilk!

"... Assad fled Damascus in December 2024 and has been living in the Moscow area since.

He was tried in absentia. ...

Atef Najib, a security official under Assad, was also sentenced to death. ..."

Syrian court sentences Bashar al-Assad to death for crimes against humanity | The Jerusalem Post "Former Syrian president Bashar al-Assad was convicted of premeditated murder of multiple people, including children, torture, arbitrary detention, and crimes against humanity."

Criminals in arms

YouTube now requires creators to have twice as many watch hours to start earning money

Bad news?

"YouTube announced on Monday that new creators will have to meet higher thresholds to begin earning money from ads and subscriptions.

Creators who want to start earning on the platform will need at least 8,000 qualified watch hours over the past year or 20 million qualified Shorts views in the last 90 days.

Currently, creators need 1,000 subscribers and 4,000 watch hours over the past year or 1,000 subscribers and 10 million Shorts views over the past 90 days. ..."

YouTube now requires creators to have twice as many watch hours to start earning money | TechCrunch

New opportunities to earn and changes to the YouTube Partner Program (original news release)

Dogs may be better at visually interpreting human emotions than anyone expected

Amazing stuff!

I always believed that dogs do not have a good eyesight. "Dogs have lower visual acuity than humans, averaging around 20/75 vision, meaning a dog must be 20 feet away to see an object as clearly as a human can from 75 feet away. While they lack fine detail and full color spectrums, they excel at detecting motion and seeing in dim light." (Google Search)

"In a new study, researchers trained a group of family dogs to lie still inside an MRI machine while showing them pictures of strangers with either happy or neutral expressions. Images of smiling human faces consistently lit up the temporal cortex and caudate nucleus, which are regions of the brain associated with reward and other functions like learning and emotion.

In a second experiment, the researchers showed dogs pictures of people displaying happiness, fear, anger, and sadness.

Analysis of the animals’ brain activity revealed distinct patterns separating fear from anger and sadness, suggesting that dogs can tell the difference between certain negative facial expressions. “Our results suggest that dogs’ brains can differentiate between some facial expressions as distinct categories, rather than merely detecting that one expression is more positive or negative than another,” ..."

From the highlights and abstract:

"Highlights

• Happy human faces elicit right frontotemporal-caudate responses in dogs

• Dog brain response patterns distinguish happiness from negative facial expressions

• Whole-brain response patterns differentiate some pairs of negative facial expressions

• Dog brains represent human facial expressions beyond positive-negative valence

Summary

Dogs can distinguish human facial expressions, particularly happiness, yet brain processes remain unclear.

Using fMRI, we conducted two experiments in awake pet dogs.

In Experiment 1 (n = 8), happy faces elicited a stronger response than neutral faces in a right temporal cluster extending to the caudate nucleus, including the rostral Sylvian gyrus.

In Experiment 2 (n = 12), dogs viewed faces expressing happiness, anger, fear, or sadness.

Using the Experiment 1 cluster as a region of interest, a machine-learning classifier distinguished happiness from each negative facial expression, but not between negative pairs, showing differential BOLD responsiveness to happy faces.

Whole-brain representational similarity analyses revealed activity patterns differentiating angry vs. fearful faces (right mid ectosylvian and left splenial gyri) and sad vs. fearful faces (right rostral suprasylvian gyrus) but not angry vs. sad faces.

This provides direct evidence that dog brains can distinguish between two negative facial expressions."

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Dogs can tell if you’re angry, scared, or sad "Our canine companions may really understand what we're going through, new study suggests"

Dog brain representations of human facial expressions: Encoding happiness and differentiating specific negative expressions (open access)

Figure 1 Functional localizer for happy human faces > neutral human faces (n = 8)