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Mon, 31 Aug 2026 23:15:00 +0000 Universities Could Lose Foreign-Student Certification Over Internship Rule Violations, Trump Admin Says
Universities Could Lose Foreign-Student Certification Over Internship Rule Violations, Trump Admin Says
Universities Could Lose Foreign-Student Certification Over Internship Rule Violations, Trump Admin Says
Authored by Kimberly Hayek via The Epoch Times ,
President Donald Trump's administration has issued a memo to universities aimed at restricting certain internship work authorizations for international students. Officials cautioned that schools failing to comply could have their certification to enroll foreign students revoked.
A student walks toward Royce Hall on the campus of University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) on March 11, 2020. Robyn Beck/AFP via Getty Images
The memo , which is dated Aug. 24 and issued by the Student and Exchange Visitor Program under U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), said the agency "has observed a rise in Curricular Practical Training (CPT) authorizations that appear to violate regulatory requirements which permit CPT only where the training is an integral part of an established curriculum."
"Failure to comply with SEVP regulations may result in an institution losing certification to enroll foreign students," the memo said.
Some schools have already stopped processing applications. The University of California, Los Angeles ceased issuing certain CPT authorizations while it reviewed the guidance.
"UCLA has paused certain Curricular Practical Training authorizations while it reviews recent federal guidance and determines next steps," a UCLA spokesperson said.
At the University of California, Berkeley, the international office described the Aug. 24 memo as "more narrow in focus, more direct, and includes content that is more restrictive in nature."
An earlier memo had been issued in mid-August. Berkeley said it is unlikely to process certain work authorization applications "in the near future" and told international students to plan accordingly.
The university will keep handling "degree-requirement" CPT as usual and plans to resume "Doctoral Dissertation and Master's Thesis Research CPT."
University officials said they would consult legal experts to align processes with the new federal requirements.
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS), ICE's parent agency, said the underlying regulations have not changed.
"However, schools and employers should consider themselves on notice: under President Trump, abuse of this generous system will no longer be tolerated."
CPT allows eligible international students to participate in internships or training when the work forms an integral part of their academic curriculum. The memo stresses that the training must connect to an established academic program.
This step fits into an overarching set of changes for foreign students. In July, DHS completed a rule ending the long-standing "duration of status" policy. That system had permitted many F, J, and I visa holders to remain in the country without a fixed departure date.
The new rule, published in the Federal Register on July 17 and effective Sept. 15, limits most stays to four years unless students apply for extensions through the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. Extensions will require screening, background checks, and fraud reviews. The grace period after the conclusion of studies is reduced from 60 days to 30 days.
"For nearly half a century, the outdated 'duration of status' system has compromised national security and created an environment ripe for immigration fraud," DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin said at the time.
"By implementing clear, finite limits on these visas, the United States is reclaiming its ability to properly screen, vet, and monitor individuals within our borders."
The rule is being challenged in court by a coalition of unions and advocacy groups that say the new rule makes the United States less competitive as a destination for international talent.
Earlier this year, ICE published the findings of an investigation into Optional Practical Training, a separate post-graduation work program.
Acting ICE Director Todd Lyons said investigators "have identified over 10,000 foreign students who claim to be working for highly suspect employers."
Visits turned up empty buildings, locked doors, and addresses associated with hundreds of students who were not involved in the activity they claimed, he said. Officials also found "phantom employees" who never reported to the listed sites, as well as complex international financial transactions, according to Lyons.
Reuters contributed to this report.
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Mon, 31 Aug 2026 22:50:00 +0000 Take-Two Tumbles Most In Months As BofA Calls Grand Theft Auto Reveal "Impressive, But Unlikely To Surprise"
Take-Two Tumbles Most In Months As BofA Calls Grand Theft Auto Reveal "Impressive, But Unlikely To Surprise"
Take-Two Interactive shares plunged the most in nearly seven months on Monday as investors weighed a series of "Gr
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Take-Two Tumbles Most In Months As BofA Calls Grand Theft Auto Reveal "Impressive, But Unlikely To Surprise"
Take-Two Interactive shares plunged the most in nearly seven months on Monday as investors weighed a series of "Grand Theft Auto VI " leaks in recent weeks ahead of the Nov. 19 release.
The leaked clips reportedly expose plot details, character scenes, and gameplay mechanics, prompting Rockstar Games (a studio owned by TTWO) to call the leaks "gut-wrenching" and warn that some of the game's surprises may have been spoiled.
What X users are saying:
Omar Dessouky, an equity research analyst at Bank of America focused on gaming, digital advertising, and consumer internet companies, penned a note on Monday titled "GTA 6: Impressive Gameplay Reveal, but Unlikely to Surprise."
Dessouky pointed out that the trailer released by Take-Two Interactive last week reduced the risk of another launch delay by showing GTA VI is already playable.
"Some details in the footage are consistent with access to a genuine playable build. Were a distributable copy to circulate, it could weigh on sales (particularly the PC version); at this stage, however, there is no clear evidence one exists," the analyst said.
Dessouky added that the footage delivered few surprises. Many of the mechanics had already been disclosed, while clips released by an anonymous account called CyberLeek stripped away some of the mystery ahead of the mid-November release.
He forecasts that GTA VI will sell 45 million units during fiscal 2027, generate $3.44 billion in combined bookings with GTA Online, and deliver $898 million in incremental net income. Take-Two's total bookings are forecasted to jump 36% to $9.16 billion.
Dessouky maintained his Buy rating and $368 price target. The stock dropped 6.3% late in Monday's cash session, marking its largest decline since Feb. 12, when it fell 6.6%.
Gamers have waited 13 years for this point.
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Mon, 31 Aug 2026 22:25:00 +0000 FDA Authorizes Generic Ivermectin Shot To Prevent Screwworm
FDA Authorizes Generic Ivermectin Shot To Prevent Screwworm
FDA Authorizes Generic Ivermectin Shot To Prevent Screwworm
Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times ,
Federal regulators have authorized a generic ivermectin injection for the prevention of New World screwworm in cattle.
The Food and Drug Administration on Aug. 27 granted emergency use authorization for Bimectin, the injection, for use within 24 hours of birth.
The drug can also be used when castration is performed, or when a wound appears. It cannot be used in lactating dairy cows or in calves destined for veal.
Bimectin is a generic version of Ivomec, which the FDA authorized in February. The FDA previously approved Bimectin for treating and controlling parasites in cattle. The application for Bimectin came from Bimeda Animal Health, an Ireland-based company.
Based on available evidence, FDA officials concluded that the injection may prevent screwworm in cattle, and that the known and potential benefits outweigh known and potential risks. That information includes studies carried out in Brazil and Argentina in the 1990s, and a 2019 study conducted in Brazil, which found ivermectin injection prevented screwworm infestations in cattle, according to an FDA fact sheet.
"The animal safety profile for cattle, including male and female reproducing cattle, is well-characterized, and the information provided support that the food products obtained from the treated animals are safe for human consumption when used under the conditions described in the authorization," the fact sheet stated.
"This authorization reflects the FDA's commitment to expanding generic drug options against New World screwworm," Timothy Schell, director of the FDA's Center for Veterinary Medicine, said in a statement. "By authorizing both generic and pioneer products, the Agency is ensuring producers aren't dependent on a single manufacturer or product to protect their herds."
Ivermectin is an antiparasitic medication widely used in animals. The drug is also available for humans, primarily to prevent worm infections.
Screwworm, a flesh-eating pest, entered the United States from Mexico earlier in 2026 for the first time in years.
The Trump administration has since approved or authorized more than a dozen drugs for screwworm prevention and/or treatment, including an ivermectin oral solution for horses, a medication for dogs and puppies, and a generic treatment for dogs, puppies, cats, and kittens.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture, in its latest update, with data current through Aug. 25, said that there have been three screwworm cases in August, all in Texas. Two of the cases were among sheep, and one was in a goat.
There were 14 cases in July and 30 in June.
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Mon, 31 Aug 2026 21:40:00 +0000 Fauci Told Aide To Delete Email About Risky Research
Fauci Told Aide To Delete Email About Risky Research
Fauci Told Aide To Delete Email About Risky Research
Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times ,
Dr. Anthony Fauci said an aide should delete an email about risky research his agency was funding , according to documents released on Aug. 29 by Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.).
"Please delete this e-mail and then delete from the deleted file," Fauci told Dr. Clifford Lane, a senior official at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), in a missive on March 4, 2012.
Fauci, NIAID's director at the time, was commenting on an op-ed that criticized risky research that created a more transmissible H5N1 influenza virus . The research, led by European scientist Ron Fouchier, was funded by the NIAID.
The op-ed said the virus appeared to spread easily and would be lethal to humans if it escaped confinement or was stolen by terrorists . It highlighted the government's funding of the research.
It also noted that the National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity had recommended that papers prepared by researchers such as Fouchier omit key details that might help terrorists make their own versions of risky viruses.
Fauci told Lane that "people are getting to" Phil Boffey, the writer of the op-ed, "and he is swallowing it." He said that the board's decision was wrong. And he wrote that if the board maintained its stance, "the field of research on influenza transmissibility and host adaptability has a very serious problem."
Fauci and Lane did not respond to requests for comment by publication time.
Boffey could not be reached.
Fouchier had told Science magazine that his team created "probably one of the most dangerous studies you can make."
Several weeks later, Fauci coauthored an op-ed in the Washington Post that said work by Fouchier and another group funded by the NIAID involved careful work in isolated laboratories and advanced understanding of how mutations of H5N1, sometimes known as avian influenza, worked.
"This research has allowed identification of genetic pathways by which such a virus could better adapt to transmission among people," the op-ed, titled A flu virus risk worth taking, stated.
Fauci's agency later funded research in China that made a modified coronavirus more pathogenic than the original version, among other gain-of-function experiments.
Fauci's directive to Lane was one of five times he told aides to delete emails , according to documents obtained and released by Paul. The other instances took place in 2009, 2011, and 2020. Fauci left the government in late 2022.
Paul said in a statement that the documents "show years of 'delete this email' orders." He has referred Fauci to the Department of Justice for prosecution after Fauci, during an appearance before the Senate panel Paul chairs, declined to answer questions. Fauci has not been charged.
Prior to leaving office, President Joe Biden gave Fauci a preemptive pardon covering conduct from Jan. 1, 2014, to Jan. 19, 2025.
It is a federal crime to destroy or attempt to destroy federal records. Dr. David Morens, one of Fauci's former aides, recently pleaded guilty to violating that law.
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Mon, 31 Aug 2026 21:20:00 +0000 SCOTUS Rules Trump Can Build White House Ballroom, Roberts Joins Dissenting Liberals
SCOTUS Rules Trump Can Build White House Ballroom, Roberts Joins Dissenting Liberals
The U.S. Supreme Court just issued an order allowing construction of President Trump’s White House ballroom project to continue wh
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The U.S. Supreme Court just issued an order allowing construction of President Trump’s White House ballroom project to continue while the administration contests a lower court order that would block much of the development.
The justices voted 5–4 (with Chief Justice Roberts joining the three 'liberal' judges in dissent) to grant the federal government’s request to stay a lower court’s order halting above-ground construction of the ballroom while a lawsuit against the project by a historic preservation group plays out.
“We do not pass upon the legality” of the project, the court said in an unsigned eight-page decision from five of the court’s six Republican-appointed justices.
As The Wall Street Journal reports , two lower courts had declared the ballroom project illegal and said construction must be halted.
But a judge’s stop-work order was put on hold while the administration pursued appeals.
The Supreme Court’s ruling keeps that order on hold indefinitely, effectively giving a green light to one of Trump’s most visibly audacious projects, which critics see as the latest instance of the president ignoring Congress and flouting norms.
Writing for the dissenters, Roberts said the project is “likely unlawful.”
“The White House is an iconic American building whose symbolism and history are wrapped up in its architecture,” Roberts wrote, adding that it is critical to “ensure that those responsible follow the rules in deciding what to tear down and what to build up at the People’s House.”
Roberts had already blocked the stop-work order from kicking in on Aug. 22 with a temporary measure that gave the justices more time to deliberate.
In his emergency appeal to the high court, the solicitor general warned that stopping work now would leave the half-built project “susceptible to strong winds during extreme weather, and vulnerable to erosion, water, foundation damage, and other setbacks that will fundamentally compromise the integrity of everything currently built.”
The green light means the project could largely be completed before a final ruling on its legality.
Construction on the project, which calls for building a 90,000-square-foot ballroom, began in September 2025.
Building it required demolishing the East Wing, which Trump said was too small and in poor shape.
The facility is now expected to accommodate 1,000 guests, up from the initial 650 people projected, and its original $200 million price tag has doubled, though the true cost of the project is unknown.
Trump has pledged the project will be paid for entirely with private donations, but taxpayers could help fund security-related upgrades if a GOP-led Congress approves it.
Developing...
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Mon, 31 Aug 2026 21:00:00 +0000 The Fallacy Of Stable Prices
The Fallacy Of Stable Prices
The Fallacy Of Stable Prices
Authored by George Ford Smith via Mises Institute ,
Though Herbert Hoover was a pioneer among presidents in getting the government to "do something" about a depression, he was no maverick. He had the support of distinguished court economists who promoted the idea that stable prices were the key to lasting prosperity.
Common sense tells us that if we walk into a store and find prices consistently lower than they had been, we are better off, other things equal, because our money buys more. As Rothbard wrote , "Increased productivity tends to lower prices (and costs) and thereby distribute the fruits of free enterprise to all the public, raising the standard of living of all consumers. Forcible propping up of the price level prevents this spread of higher living standards."
While the concept "stable price level" may not sound menacing, the mechanism for achieving it was. The theory's proponents, which included such economics luminaries as Irving Fisher and John Maynard Keynes, weren't too concerned with price stability when prices tended to rise during a boom, especially if prices were rising on the stock market where they were heavily invested. The price stability priests were mostly concerned with falling prices during a bust, and for that they relied on government's creature, the central bank. Falling prices, in fact, were regarded as the cause of depressions . Using enlightened "monetary policy," central banks needed to keep prices from falling to keep economies from collapsing.
Yale and Harvard Go Boom and Bust
Yale professor Irving Fisher helped popularize the view that the "new era" economy of the 1920s would last indefinitely . With the exception of stocks and real estate, prices were fairly level, and since the mainstream definition of inflation was and still is "a general and progressive increase in prices," the 1920s were and still are said to be a period of inconsequential inflation. Rothbard tells us that ,
Fisher was particularly critical of the minority of skeptical economists who warned of over-expansion in the stock and real estate markets due to cheap money, and even after the stock market crash, Fisher continued to insist that prosperity, particularly in the stock market, was just around the corner.
Beginning in 1923, Fisher wrote a syndicated column, carried by leading newspapers, in which he discussed relevant economic issues of the day. Fisher's column was Yale's answer to the Harvard Economic Service . A 1986 paper issued by the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) says that,
Fisher's predictions in the period before and after the crash, were no closer to the mark than those of his Harvard brethren.
"In two months I expect to see the stock market much higher than today," Fisher said on October 15, 1929. Economist Hernán Cortés Douglas tells us that,
Days after the crash [on October 29], the Harvard Economic [Service] informed its subscribers: "A severe depression such as 1920-21 is outside the range of probability. We are not facing a protracted liquidation."
After repeated forecasts of optimism, the Harvard Economic Service folded in 1932. Fisher's professional reputation gradually collapsed. Fisher's son estimates his father lost $10 million during the Depression (roughly $241 million in 2026 dollars). Yale had to buy Fisher's house and rent it back to him to keep him from being evicted . When he died in 1947 he left an estate so small it wasn't taxed.
Interestingly, the authors of the NBER paper applied "modern statistical techniques" to analyze the data Fisher and the Harvard service used in their forecasts. The result: "The statistical findings mirror the verbal pronouncements' systematic over-prediction of economic activity." In other words, both Fisher and Harvard were sound methodologically; it was just unfortunate that reality led them astray.
(NBER, it should be mentioned, runs a dating service - it dates when recessions begin and end. For example, its Business Cycle Dating Committee announced in December, 2008 that the US economy was in a severe recession that began a year earlier, in December, 2007. In September, 2010 they announced that the recession had ended 15 months earlier, in June, 2009. As top-tier economic scientists they avoid rushing to conclusions, so we can be sure of their results. Given that the last one has officially ended, there will be no continuity between it and the one to follow.)
Keynes was no less a forecasting bungler. An avid speculator, he saw nothing but good times ahead during the 1920s boom:
He met the Swiss banker, Felix Somary and was begging Somary to give him some great stock picks. When Somary said he couldn't recommend any stocks right now because he was expecting a crash, Keynes responded infamously, "We will not see another crash in our lifetimes." (Somary once said, correctly: "the state alone is responsible for inflation: inflation without government . . . is impossible.")
Keynes lost a fortune but went bargain-hunting in the early 1930s, putting aside his loathing of the barbarous relic and buying up gold stocks and managing money for insurance companies. He recovered handsomely until he was wiped out again when an incipient recovery collapsed in 1937. When he died of a heart attack in April, 1946 he had once more accumulated an impressive fortune.
Austrians Explain the Crisis - and the Cure
Ludwig von Mises and F. A. Hayek were among the few economists to identify the economy of the 1920s as a credit bubble . Their crystal ball was the economic theory they had developed, known today as the Austrian Theory of the Trade Cycle. It says bank credit expansion based on money created out of nothing generates booms that eventually go bust.
Activities that were profitable when money was made cheap are revealed as unsustainable when low-interest loans are no longer available. Economist Roger Garrison explains:
Mises showed that an artificially low rate of interest, maintained by credit expansion, misallocates capital, making the production process too time-consuming in relation to the temporal pattern of consumer demand. As time eventually reveals the discrepancy, markets for both capital goods and consumer goods react to undo the misallocation.
The market reaction is the bust phase of the business cycle, as producers attempt to bring production in alignment with actual consumer demands. Hans Sennholz has written,
Economic booms and busts occur in every case of fiat expansion, whether the expansion is one percent or hundredths of a percent. The magnitude of expansion. . .merely determines the severity of the maladjustment and the necessary readjustment.
Even if most prices should decline while monetary authorities expand credit at a modest rate, the injection of fiat funds falsifies interest rates and thereby causes erroneous investment decisions.
"Credit expansion" is another name for a policy of inflation. Inflation creates "the illusion of profit," as Mises noted in Socialism ; inflation "discourages saving, and thereby prevents the formation of fresh capital." It is this "rottenness" - inflation - that must be extirpated along with all the bad bets, but - since Fisher and Keynes - it is considered the cure.
For further discussion see The Jolly Roger Dollar .
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Mon, 31 Aug 2026 20:40:00 +0000 Feminist New York Governor Sports Hijab While Pandering To Muslim Voters
Feminist New York Governor Sports Hijab While Pandering To Muslim Voters
New York Governor Kathy Hochul, a self described feminist and "social justice Catholic", has raised eyebrows this week after appearing in a hijab at an Islamic
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New York Governor Kathy Hochul, a self described feminist and "social justice Catholic", has raised eyebrows this week after appearing in a hijab at an Islamic Cultural School in the Bronx to make statements against "Islamophobia". The visit is part of a greater Democrat Party effort to strengthen political alliances with world immigrants and Islamic immigrants in particular.
Hochul received immediate backlash and criticism from conservatives, pointing out the hypocrisy of a feminist pandering to migrants who, under Sharia Law, view women as property. Rep. Brandon Gill (R-TX) mocked Hochul, saying liberals like her complain President Donald Trump is “turning America into the Handmaid’s Tale” - only to then cover their heads with a symbol of submission to Muslim "patriarchy."
Hochul's virtue signal is not exactly a new thing among Democrat women, however. Hochul has worn the hijab in the past. Female politicians breaking out the hijab to rub elbows with Muslim advocacy groups are common these days.
Last year Peggy Flanagan (Minnesota Lt. Governor, Catholic), then a U.S. Senate candidate, wore a hijab while visiting the Karmel Somali Market in Minneapolis and speaking on Somali-language television. She used the greeting “As-salamu alaykum” and said the Somali community is “part of the fabric of the state of Minnesota.” Critics called it pandering amid the now infamous Somali-linked welfare fraud investigation.
Mikie Sherrill (New Jersey Governor) posted photos in March of herself wearing a hijab at the Islamic Center of Passaic County in Paterson during a Ramadan event. She took selfies with attendees and the mosque’s imam. The visit drew scrutiny because of the imam’s past deportation case involving alleged Hamas ties.
And of course, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (NY Congresswoman, Catholic) wore a hijab at an Eid al-Adha event in the Bronx alongside Mayor Zohran Mamdani. She spoke onstage and later said head coverings were “the respectful move” at a mosque.
The act of wearing the clothing is not in itself the issue. The issue is the incessant cries about "women's oppression" from feminists when it comes to western culture, all while bowing at the feet of a foreign ideology that actually, factually, treats women as second class citizens.
This is yet more proof that the political left is obsessed with securing a multicultural "Utopia" in the US. So much so that they are willing to look the other way when it comes to their most "sacred" principles and ideals if it means maintaining alliances with third worlders.
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Mon, 31 Aug 2026 20:20:00 +0000 Oh, Canada?
Oh, Canada?
Oh, Canada?
Authored by James Howard Kunstler via Clusterfuck Nation ,
"Carney increasingly reminds me of Fauci . He has that exact same air of technocratic infallibility . . . ."
- Hans Mahncke on X
You go for decades without even thinking of the place. The Great White North. Very polite people, somewhat Scottish, seems like. There's poutine! Une invention Québécoise - an indigestible mélange of French fries, gravy, and cheese curds, like something you'd cook up at 4am after a toga party in a frat house. Ice hockey (of course, but was it necessary?) Polar bears. Puffins on the Labrador cliffs. Tar Sands. Plaid upholstery...
Years ago, we used to go up there from college in the farthest reaches of upstate western New York just to get a half-fake buzz of being in "a foreign country." Niagara Falls was like Times Square without the charm. Bunch of squalid wax museums and ashtray shoppes. Toronto was Rochester on steroids, beyond forgettable.
I once took a choo-choo train from Seattle to Vancouver just to take in the scenery along the Pacific Coast. Bald eagles galore all the way up feeding on stuff out in the Pacific tidal mud-flats. Got to Vancouver. They yanked me out of the customs line and stuffed me in a back office. A female immigration officer swaggered in, said they found a nine-year-old DUI conviction for me on some computer (well. . .. okay. . . a night of fishing with rum). Said she could keep me out of the country if she was in a bad mood. I couldn't help wising off: "Nice to know Canadian immigration policy depends on your mood." Whoops. They detained me for an extra two hours just to make me feel the pain. But I was eventually released into that boring city. Thank God for the Chinese restaurants.
And now. . . Mark Carney! He's a beauty. A refined ectoplasmic manifestation of all the Globalist huggermugger working tirelessly to upend Western Civ. He has a weird glow of semi-transparency - not in the sense of revealing any truths, but more like you can partly see through him . . . he's only half there . . . a ghost in the geopolitical machine.
More to the point, Mark Carney has made himself a pain-in-the-ass for President Donald Trump.
On the surface, this US / Canada rift appears to be all about trade relations.
Naw. It's about Mark Carney being a tool for merry old England attempting to capture the resource base of northern North America to collateralize what little remains of the UK's once-sprawling, now sinking, empire. England is not so merry these days. It has somehow managed to issue a fatwa on itself and entered a gruesome process of assisted economic and cultural suicide. You can't even raise a British flag there anymore without risking weeks in the slammer. The home folks get stabbed and beheaded. It's all blight, rape, kebabs, and hijabs over there. Not a good look if you still want to be that country you dimly remember.
Plus, they want to kick off a big war with Russia. Bwa-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha! Really? Lacking much of a military, Ukraine was Britain's tool for that. Trouble was the huge expense of that project. Thought they could work-around it by turning Ukraine into a money-laundry, washing, rinsing, and disbursing US-sourced funds to Mr. Zelenskyy, with giant kickbacks to the Democratic Party's money apparatus. Worked nicely when the phantom "Joe Biden" haunted the White House. He and his sicko son, Hunter, were already in so deep in Ukraine since JB's felonious veepdom that Mark Carney - then chief of the Bank of England - could hang the Bidens out to dry anytime, if required.
Lo, these many years, then, Britain and NATO have sponsored all that drone-making and missile-launching action from Ukraine deep into Russia - in case you wonder how Zelenskyy carries on this stupid war, considering there are no young men left in Ukraine eligible to reinforce the battle lines in Donbas. Britain and NATO probably also furnish the satellite targeting of Russian assets. You must doubt that the USA is involved in that anymore. Luckily, Mr. Putin has the Christian patience of a true saint.
Our president is sick of Ukraine and the festering geopolitical disease it has been infected with by our increasingly-former allies in Europe. NATO's aim with Russia is exactly the same as Britain's push in Canada - a resource grab for the failing nations of Europe, who are getting choked to death by Ursula von der Leyen and her EU flying monkeys. Germany, France, the Netherlands, Italy, Spain. . . all whirling around the drain. Our president sees all that. (You don't need magic glasses.)
Maybe it's time to just send the 82nd Airborne into Ottawa. Flight time: under two hours from Fort Bragg, NC. Drop them on Parliament Hill. Let them hang around a few hours. Then, declare the whole thing a gag and fly them home. It'd be worth it. Or maybe go in and snatch Mark Carney like we did Maduro. Stuff Carney in an adjoining cell at the MDC in Brooklyn. I'm sure the two could amuse each other, swap satisfying gripes and sob stories.
Really, why stop at just re-naming Lake Ontario. Take the whole darn thing like a pie that has been left on the windowsill too long. The Canadian people would get over it in five minutes. Everything is easier in the USA. Running a company, especially. They could keep their poutine and their hockey, learn to have a little fun once in a while. Quebec could become a theme park (what else have they got going there?). No more tariffs to get hung about. Honk if you like the idea.
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Mon, 08/31/2026 - 16:20 Close
Mon, 31 Aug 2026 19:40:00 +0000 LA County Steals $5M Fire Relief For ICE-Raid Checks
LA County Steals $5M Fire Relief For ICE-Raid Checks
LA County Steals $5M Fire Relief For ICE-Raid Checks
Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity News ,
In bombshell findings, Los Angeles County sliced a wildfire housing fund in half and steered the cash toward households claiming income loss from ICE raids, detentions, and deportations - without requiring anyone to disclose immigration status.
Taxpayers who watched entire neighborhoods burn in January 2025 now watch the same government treat federal immigration enforcement as another "emergency" worthy of six-figure rent wipeouts.
After the Eaton and Palisades fires, supervisors approved $10 million to help tenants and landlords dealing with fire-related rent losses. They then kept $5 million for fire claims and moved the other $5 million into a priority category covering "economic hardship because of federal actions targeting immigrant communities." Another $9.788 million from the Affordable Housing Trust Fund was pointed at the same category unless fire victims still had unmet need.
Households can receive up to six months of housing debt relief, generally capped at $15,000 per rental unit. Eligible costs include unpaid rent, mortgages, and related expenses.
The county's own February 2026 program guide states: "Program eligibility does not require the disclosure of household members' immigration status."
If an applicant claims federal enforcement caused the hardship, officials may ask for detention records. They do not have to produce them. An attestation or other hardship can still qualify the household. The county therefore cannot tell the public how many noncitizens received the money - because it chose not to collect the data.
White House correspondent Natalie Winters first laid out the paper trail: money assembled after neighborhoods burned was reassigned to cushion the consequences of ICE operations, then structured so the public may never know who was paid.
County leaders have not hidden the priority. Fourth District Supervisor Janice Hahn said, "Rent relief is about stability - keeping people safe in their homes and making sure landlords stay whole. This is real help, not a loan, and it does not depend on immigration status."
Third District Supervisor Lindsey Horvath framed the two events as equivalent: "Whether you are fighting to survive the impacts of the fires or of ICE, we are standing with you to keep you housed." She also said, "Parents are choosing between risking detention to earn wages or staying home and watching bills pile up. No one should face such a choice."
Board Chair Hilda L. Solis grouped "emergencies like federal immigration enforcement and the 2025 wildfires" in the same sentence.
The program later reopened so tenants could apply directly. Demand immediately outran supply. Round One drew thousands of applications seeking tens of millions more than the pool available. Officials still treat immigration-enforcement hardship as a qualifying emergency on the same form as fire displacement.
A separate Small Business Resiliency Fund has already sent more than $5.4 million to 1,327 businesses officials say were hit by enforcement actions, curfews, and workforce disruptions. Grants of $2,000 to $5,000 covered rent, payroll, and inventory. That pot came from Care First Community Investment dollars and later supervisor add-ons, not the original fire housing line, but it sits in the same political project: treat ICE activity as a local disaster requiring cash.
Nearly 600 days after the January 2025 firestorm, large numbers of Palisades and Altadena families remain displaced. Reporting in late July found roughly two-thirds of surveyed survivors still out of their homes, with homeowners facing rebuild gaps around $500,000.
Federal long-term recovery money has moved slowly. Local officials spent months expanding categories and rewriting application rules instead of concentrating every available dollar on people whose houses actually burned.
The pattern is larger than one county line item. Governor Gavin Newsom's $2.5 billion state wildfire package saw roughly $14 million diverted to California Highway Patrol overtime for downtown Los Angeles demonstrations against ICE the summer after the fires.
Investigative reporting showed much of the money that was spent circulated back through state agencies rather than reaching survivors directly. A substantial share of the original allocation was never released.
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California's political class has spent a year and a half telling fire victims that help is coming while writing program language that treats an immigration raid the same as a house reduced to ash.
The result is a rent-relief machine that can cut a $15,000 check to a household that never lost a roof to fire, never has to prove lawful presence, and can decline to produce detention records.
This is a prime example of the Democrats showing Americans who they really are.
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Mon, 31 Aug 2026 19:20:00 +0000 EU Commandos Board 6th Russian 'Shadow Fleet' Tanker After Putin Threatened Reverse Action
EU Commandos Board 6th Russian 'Shadow Fleet' Tanker After Putin Threatened Reverse Action
Another Russian 'shadow fleet' tanker has been boarded by European forces - and this time the provocative action took place in Mediterranean
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EU Commandos Board 6th Russian 'Shadow Fleet' Tanker After Putin Threatened Reverse Action
Another Russian 'shadow fleet' tanker has been boarded by European forces - and this time the provocative action took place in Mediterranean waters. In a Monday post on X, Kaja Kallas announced the action by troops under the EU's Operation Irini . They boarded the MV Sun tanker for "flag verification," following suspicions that the vessel was in violation of international law.
"Illegal oil sales from shadow fleet ships are a critical lifeline for Russia’s war in Ukraine, and we’ll continue to cut them off," Kallas wrote of what marks the sixth shadow fleet ship to be boarded in recent months. Most of these have happened in northern European waters, with Mediterranean incidents being more rare.
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It was specifically the Italian Defense Ministry that carried out the EU action, with Italian navy's Thaon di Revel ship conducting the boarding which occurred to the west of the island of Pantelleria as the targeted vessel was progressing from the port of Cotonou in Benin to Istanbul.
Russian President Vladimir Putin just a little over two weeks ago threatened to do the same in reverse , after the past year saw several examples of EU intercept action, sometimes involving French or Swedish commandos descending onto a tanker's deck from helicopters and arresting crew members. The seized vessels are then typically taken to nearby European ports.
The latest European Union sanctions package passed last month stipulates that EU members can sell the oil or any seized cargo obtained from these 'shadow fleet' vessels.
Putin has reiterated Kremlin outrage at this scheme, condemning it as "piracy and banditry" . This also after Sweden has lately declared its intent to hand seized Russian grain over to Ukraine.
"We will be forced to respond in kind," Putin said in mid-August. Russian forces will act "wherever we ourselves deem necessary and appropriate — anywhere," he added.
According to more of what Putin threatened at the time, as translated and presented in Reuters ...
"We can see that the authorities of certain countries, in violation of international maritime law, are attempting to restrict the movement of our economic operators’ vessels..., and ?have recently gone so far as to consider the possibility of seizing our vessels and selling off ?the ?property they have plundered from ?us ," said Putin.
"Naturally, ?this is nothing less than piracy and robbery. And if this begins to be put into ?practice, we shall be forced ?to respond in kind . And not necessarily in those waters where raids on our ships and vessels are planned, but wherever we ourselves deem it necessary and appropriate."
But so far this has yet to happen, other than major Russian military action in the Black Sea, which has chiefly targeted Ukrainian imports, as well as southern Ukrainian ports.
So while Russia would not likely act in European waters, such a scenario would be more likely to go down in places like the Black Sea or Baltic region, or perhaps the faraway Indian Ocean. Still, Putin's patience is likely wearing very thin.
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