CBO Ponders BBGN — The Navy's New Nuclear-Powered Battleship: Costs And Implications

The CBO just dropped its full cost analysis of BBGN-1. $275B over 30 years. $18B per follow-on ship. Larger than any surface combatant built since WWII. CDR Salamander breaks down the numbers — and the hard questions the Navy still hasn't answered.

https://armedforces.press/navy/2026/08/11/cbo-ponders-bbgn/?utm_source=telegram&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=cbo-bbgn&utm_content=20260811_cbo-bbgn

U.S. Military Fires On Panama-Flagged Ship Trying To Run Iran Blockade — Iran Reshuffles Command With Hardliners As Hormuz Talks Collapse

A Panama-registered vessel ignored multiple warnings before dawn Tuesday and attempted to breach the U.S. naval blockade — U.S. forces fired on its rudder. No casualties. Iran's new IRGC hardliners are demanding war reparations, full military withdrawal, and all sanctions lifted before Hormuz reopens. Trump fired back: Iran owes the U.S. compensation for American casualties. Only 18% chance on Polymarket that Hormuz shipping normalizes by September 30.

https://cdm.press/news/middle-east/2026/08/11/u-s-military-fires-on-panama-flagged-ship-trying-to-run-iran-blockade-iran-reshuffles-command-with-hardliners-as-hormuz-talks-collapse/

Pakistan Says US And Iran Are Close To Some Sort Of Arrangement On Hormuz — But Both Sides Keep Hardening

Pakistan's Defense Minister Khawaja Asif says the US and Iran are close to a deal on the Strait of Hormuz. Iran demands sanctions relief, asset unfreezing, and wartime compensation. Trump: "They should be paying us." A US helicopter fired on a tanker running the naval blockade. Brent crude at $89.05/barrel — up 35% year over year.

https://cdm.press/news/middle-east/2026/08/12/pakistan-us-iran-hormuz-close-arrangement-both-sides-hardening/?utm_source=telegram&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=hormuz-pakistan-deal&utm_content=20260812_hormuz-pakistan-deal

Vance Asked Zelensky To Stop Ukraine Drone Strikes On Tankers At Novorossiysk — US Feared Damage To Chevron And Exxon Interests

Vance called Zelensky on July 31 and asked Ukraine to halt drone strikes on oil tankers at Russia's Novorossiysk port. The strikes had knocked out 20% of CPC oil loadings in July and dropped Kazakhstan's production 14%. Washington's concern: Chevron and ExxonMobil hold major stakes in the Caspian Pipeline Consortium export route.

https://tsarizm.com/news/eastern-europe/2026/08/12/vance-asked-zelensky-to-stop-ukraine-drone-strikes-on-tankers-at-novorossiysk-us-feared-damage-to-chevron-and-exxon-interests/?utm_source=telegram&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=vance-zelensky-novorossiysk&utm_content=20260812_vance-zelensky-novorossiysk

Zambia Votes Thursday In High-Stakes Election — Copper Billions, IMF Reforms, And Household Hardship All On The Ballot

Zambia votes Thursday. President Hichilema restructured $12 billion in sovereign debt and pledged to triple copper output to 3M metric tons/year by 2031. But 60% of Zambians still live below the poverty line. Western nations and China are both watching — Zambia holds some of the world's largest copper deposits.

https://cdm.press/news/africa/2026/08/12/zambia-election-hichilema-copper-imf-reforms-household-hardship/?utm_source=telegram&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=zambia-election-copper&utm_content=20260812_zambia-election-copper

British Police Unit Flags Over 100 Social Media Posts For Arrest Amid Immigration Backlash

Britain's new police unit flagged 106 social media posts for potential arrest — 50 in June alone. The task force grew from the Southport riot crackdown, where 1,876 were arrested, some for nothing more than a social media post. Police already made 33 online speech arrests per day in 2023. And the unit is still in its early stages.

https://cdm.press/news/europe/2026/08/12/british-police-unit-flags-over-100-social-media-posts-for-arrest-amid-immigration-backlash/?utm_source=telegram&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=british-police-social-media-arrests&utm_content=20260812_british-police-social-media-arrests

Bluesky Is Bleeding Users — The Anti-Musk Protest Platform Has Lost More Than Half Its Active Base

Bluesky has lost more than half its active users since its post-election peak. Monthly active users down 27% to 10.4M. Daily active users down 26% to just 3M. Meanwhile Threads is up 21% to 147M DAU. X still commands 302 million monthly active users. Bluesky was never the competition.

https://themanhattan.press/business/2026/08/12/bluesky-is-bleeding-users-the-anti-musk-protest-platform-has-lost-more-than-half-its-active-base/?utm_source=telegram&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=bluesky-bleeding-users&utm_content=20260812_bluesky-bleeding-users

Wisconsin Democrats Barely Stop Socialist Takeover — Crowley Squeaks By Hong By 3,211 Votes

Milwaukee County Executive David Crowley beat democratic socialist Francesca Hong by just 3,211 votes in the Wisconsin Democratic gubernatorial primary. The polls said he had no business winning. The socialist wing nearly took Wisconsin — the Democrat civil war didn't end Tuesday night. It just went underground.

https://cdm.press/news/politics/2026/08/12/wisconsin-democrats-barely-stop-socialist-takeover-crowley-hong-primary/?utm_source=telegram&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=wisconsin-crowley-hong-primary&utm_content=20260812_wisconsin-crowley-hong-primary

Atlanta Company Pitched Georgia AG On Turning 350,000 Rideshare Cars Into Roaming Surveillance Network

Atlanta-based Flock Safety pitched Georgia's Attorney General on converting 350,000 Uber, Lyft, and delivery vehicles into roaming license plate readers feeding police databases — without telling drivers or passengers. A Dunwoody, Georgia resident uncovered it through a public records request. The plan was never executed — but the pitch itself raises serious questions about who is reviewing surveillance proposals before they go live in Georgia.

https://www.georgiarecord.com/business-ga/2026/08/12/atlanta-company-pitched-georgia-ag-on-turning-350000-rideshare-cars-into-roaming-surveillance-network/?utm_source=telegram&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=flock-rideshare-surveillance&utm_content=20260812_flock-rideshare-surveillance

WATCH: Drone Warfare In The Donbass — Shoot It Down!

A Russian machine gunner opens fire on a Ukrainian drone weaving over a military convoy deep in the Donbass. Raw front-line footage captures the new face of ground warfare — cheap unmanned systems hunting armored columns while soldiers scramble to find an angle of fire.

🎥 https://armedforces.press/the-ukraine-war/2026/08/12/watch-wild-wild-donbass-drone-warfare-on-the-front-lines-shoot-it-down/

SPLC Director Who Built The Hate List Arrested — Federal Charges Say She Funneled Donor Money To Her Neo-Nazi Lover

The woman who personally ran the SPLC's "hate group" blacklist was arrested Wednesday on federal fraud charges. Prosecutors say Heidi Beirich shared a home and a bank account with a neo-Nazi informant she helped pay $1.2 million in donor money. The same SPLC funded KKK robes, cross burnings, and helped organize the 2017 Charlottesville rally.

🔗 https://cdm.press/news/national/2026/08/12/splc-director-hate-list-arrested-beirich-neo-nazi-lover-donor-money/

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We Were Right On Venezuela's Ongoing Interference In US Elections.

Georgia voters deserve to know who is messing with their ballot.

🔗 https://www.georgiarecord.com/georgia-show/2026/08/12/live-7pm-edt-we-were-right-on-vene-ongoing-interference-in-us-elections-the-georgia-show/

Anthony Fauci And The Collapse Of Scientific Authority

His diaries reveal a bureaucratic celebrity obsessed with status and his place in history — not science. The pandemic didn't create the dysfunction inside biomedical institutions. It placed a magnifying glass over it.

Fauci is not the entire problem. He is its clearest illustration.

🔗 https://coloradofreepress.com/analysis-opinion/2026/08/12/anthony-fauci-and-the-collapse-of-scientific-authority/

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Iran Cuts Consumer Imports, Restricts Currency, And Shifts Economic Pain Onto Households As US Blockade Holds

Six months into the US-Israeli air campaign, Iran's economy is under severe strain. Tehran has curtailed imports, restricted foreign currency, slashed investment, and pushed financial pain onto ordinary households — while continuing to fund its military and state apparatus. Iranian commanders claim "victory" — unsubstantiated by any evidence. Trump says the US has "total control" of the Strait of Hormuz and intends to keep it.

https://cdm.press/news/middle-east/2026/08/13/iran-is-now-a-survival-economy-and-that-means-the-blockade-strategy-is-failing/?utm_source=telegram&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=iran-survival-economy&utm_content=20260813_iran-survival-economy

Ukraine Hits Four Russian Warships At Novorossiysk — Kalibr Frigates Damaged, Grain And Oil Terminals Hit

Ukraine struck Russia's Black Sea Fleet at Novorossiysk overnight using 15+ weapons systems — Neptune missiles, jet drones, and sea drones in a coordinated mass attack. Four warships confirmed hit including two Kalibr-capable frigates. Grain silos and oil export infrastructure also struck. Ukrainian claims of damage unsubstantiated.

https://tsarizm.com/news/eastern-europe/2026/08/13/ukraine-hits-four-russian-warships-at-novorossiysk-in-largest-black-sea-strike-since-sevastopol-kalibr-frigates-damaged-grain-and-oil-terminals-hit/?utm_source=telegram&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=ukraine-novorossiysk-black-sea-strike&utm_content=20260813_ukraine-novorossiysk-black-sea-strike

Another Day In Europe, Another Mass Murder - Euro Bytes 7/26/26

The Euro Bytes team breaks down the Berlin Pride attack. Europe's open borders experiment keeps producing the same results — and the legacy media keeps looking away.

https://cdm.press/video/2026/08/13/another-day-in-europe-another-mass-murder-euro-bytes-7-26-26/?utm_source=telegram&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=euro-bytes-mass-murder&utm_content=20260813_euro-bytes-mass-murder

Zelensky Warns Russia Plans Massive Mobilization Wave After September Duma Vote — Up To 500,000 New Troops By Year's End Because He Can't Match It

Ukraine's intelligence chief briefed Zelensky: Moscow is using September's staged parliamentary vote as political cover to mobilize up to half a million new troops — another wave planned for 2027. Russia can replace losses at a scale Ukraine simply cannot.

https://tsarizm.com/news/eastern-europe/2026/08/13/zelensky-warns-russia-plans-massive-mobilization-wave-after-september-duma-vote-up-to-500000-new-troops-by-years-end-because-he-cant-match-it/?utm_source=telegram&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=zelensky-russia-mobilization&utm_content=20260813_zelensky-russia-mobilization

LIVE 10am EST: The SCIF - Is LATAM Next?

L. Todd Wood talks with CDM Español head Willie Lora on war moves in LATAM, plus Bill Quinn drops more shocking election integrity news.

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Declassified CIA And White House Documents Confirm Martin Rodil Broadcast On Venezuelan Ability To Manipulate Elections

Documents released by the White House and CIA confirm information shared by Martin Rodil on July 7th — the Venezuelan Cartel De Las Solas built software for SMARTMATIC, transferred through Sequoia and Dominion and ultimately to Liberty Voting.

https://www.georgiarecord.com/election-integrity/2026/08/13/declassified-cia-and-white-house-documents-confirm-martin-rodil-broadcast-on-venezuelan-ability-to-manipulate-elections/?utm_source=telegram&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=cia-venezuela-election-rodil&utm_content=20260813_cia-venezuela-election-rodil