Russia and China expand trade via Arctic sea route

Beijing has pledged to deepen shipping cooperation with Moscow as part of its “Ice Silk Road” initiative

Russia and China have expanded trade links through the Arctic, with the first Chinese container ship arriving at Russia’s northern port of Murmansk via the Northern Sea Route (NSR), Rosatom announced on Monday. Beijing has described the growing cooperation with Moscow as part of its “Ice Silk Road” initiative.

The NSR runs through Russia’s Arctic waters and exclusive economic zone, relying on Russian ports and icebreakers. State atomic energy corporation Rosatom oversees the route’s development, navigation, infrastructure and maritime safety.

NewNew Shipping Line’s Xin Xin Hai 1 arrived in Murmansk on Wednesday carrying 500 containers of automotive components, Rosatom said.

“This was the first container ship from China to arrive at the Murmansk Commercial Sea Port,” the corporation said.

NewNew Shipping Line has operated along the NSR since 2023, although its vessels have previously generally carried cargo to ports in Russia’s Far East or the Baltic.

China is ready to continue “playing the role of a bridge” to support cooperation between Chinese companies and the Murmansk Region and further develop the “Ice Silk Road,” Chinese Consul General in St. Petersburg Luo Zhanhui said on Thursday.

https://www.rt.com/business/644605-russia-china-arctic-trade/

The Great Walkback: Sam Altman Admits He Was Wrong On AI's Economic Timeline

For three years, Sam Altman has pitched the imminent, wholesale disruption of the global economy. This week, staring down the barrel of an IPO - based on a business model that's actively being 'wholesale disrupted' by China - the OpenAI chief executive quietly admitted he got the timing wrong. Appearing on David Senra's Founders podcast, Altman conceded that the economic upheaval he forecast following GPT-4 simply hasn't materialized - and that society is adapting far more sluggishly than he anticipated.

In an interview with @davidsenra, @sama conceded what few technologists ever will. He believed GPT-4 meant every software business was immediately up for grabs. Three years later the customers are still renewing with the same vendors.

The lesson is not that the technology disappointed. It is that disruption was never a technology problem. Enterprises do not buy software. They buy habits. And habits compound like capital.

Anyone underwriting incumbent SaaS as a melting ice cube is long the technology and short human nature. That has historically been a losing trade.

We published 120 pages on this gap between capability and adoption in May. 58% of small and mid-cap companies claim an AI strategy. Fewer than 1% describe their implementation as mature. Altman just described Pilot Purgatory in fifty seconds.

The mispriced variable is not the model. It is the rate at which organizations change what they do.

https://twitter.com/i/status/2091978213551640904

Israeli propaganda threatening Barron!

Iran Airs Video Claiming Barron Trump Being Spied On: Report

Update(1750ET): As we wrote below, US media is widely picking up on the alleged 'Barron Trump assassination threat' video. However, an important note on sourcing: as of yet the purported clip's sole origin point is Israel's Ch.14 - which is closely linked with the Netanyahu government. Reports are currently claiming it was aired via Iran's IRIB network (Ch.3), but it is not locatable in any external-facing Iran state social media (including IRIB's pages). Here's what NY Post wrote earlier:

"The sickening video of the president’s youngest son was distributed in media linked to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), according to Middle East news outlet Al Bawaba."

This claim is misleading as Al Bawaba itself solely sources (via link/embed) to Israel's Ch.14. The same NYP report also references EuroNews - the latter which also simply echoes the original Ch.14 report, but withing providing any links or direct sourcing.

As the alleged clip spreads, some mainstream conservative voices are pushing it, while also trying to get Trump's ear, arguing for renewed military attacks on Iran. An important question remains: is there any evidence the below clip actually originated or aired in Iranian state media?

Also, the NY Post issued the following admission:

In addition to the disturbing video, multiple reports indicated that the regime placed a $10 million bounty on Barron Trump’s head. The Post could not independently verify the alleged bounty, the claims about his movements or the statements about his classmates.

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/iran-airs-distributing-video-claiming-barron-trump-being-spied-offers-10-million

Federal Appeals Court Rules In Favor Of James O'Keefe Over Undercover Reporting

A U.S. appeals court has entered a judgment in favor of James O'Keefe, founder of Project Veritas, and a Project Veritas reporter.

A split panel of U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit judges said on Aug. 21 that a district court judge had erroneously kept in place $130,000 in damages against O'Keefe over an undercover operation that targeted Democratic strategists.

"The principal question in this appeal is whether the jury's damages award violated the First Amendment by punishing the defendants for publishing a news story," Circuit Judge Karen LeCraft Henderson, writing for the majority, said. "We conclude that it did."

The case was brought after Project Veritas released a video showing conversations with strategist Robert Creamer and other Democratic operatives, including discussions secretly recorded by Allison Maass, a Project Veritas reporter, while she spent eight days as an unpaid intern at the Democracy Partners firm in 2016.

Creamer, who owned a consulting organization that was part of the firm, said two other groups canceled contracts with his organization because of footage Maass illegally obtained inside Democracy Partners. The contracts were primarily canceled because of footage of conversations with another Democratic strategist that was recorded by other Project Veritas personnel in public places, the appeals court majority said. That footage is protected under the First Amendment, Henderson said.

"The First Amendment required Creamer to show that the defendants' unlawful conduct, rather than protected speech, was the prevailing cause of his damages," the majority said. "But the record proved the opposite. Because the protected content of the Rigging the Election video was the principal cause of Creamer's lost contracts, the resulting damages award impinges on the First Amendment."

A district court judge had in 2025 upheld a jury ruling in favor of Democracy Partners, finding that Supreme Court precedent meant he had to be deferential to the jury because the case did not involve speech protected by the U.S. Constitution's First Amendment.

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/federal-appeals-court-rules-favor-james-okeefe-over-undercover-reporting

Documents Reveal Trail of Unreported Millions From Israeli Military to U.S. Universities

Research funding by Israel’s Ministry of Defense and arms manufacturers often fails to appear in national databases intended to track foreign funding.

The Israeli Ministry of Defense and Israeli defense companies have directed millions in unreported funding to U.S. university research programs for weapons development, sponsoring research directly or serving as the pass-through entity for the funding, a Drop Site investigation has found.

A sample of state and university audits, foreign-funding disclosures, and other institutional records identified millions of dollars in financial ties over the last two decades between the Israeli Ministry of Defense (MOD), Israeli weapons manufacturers, and American universities, much of which does not appear consistently in national databases intended to track foreign funding into U.S. universities.

An analysis of audit records, building on findings compiled by the Antiwar Initiative, an academic research group that documents the connections between universities and the global arms industry, found more than $15 million of unreported or inconsistently reported entries for funding tied to the Israeli MOD or defense manufacturers.

The true scale of Israeli support is difficult to determine because entries for such funding were often not reported in public filings mandating disclosure of foreign gifts, but were discovered by manually cross-referencing public and internal databases, audit records, and acknowledgments in academic papers. Some projects listed in university materials as being sponsored by the Israeli MOD or defense companies also did not include the amounts of funding provided, or contained inconsistent or contradictory records in audit databases.

Drop Site reviewed and verified public records that showed research grants, tuition payments, and receipts of gifts totalling millions of dollars to dozens of colleges and universities around the country. The data shows examples of financial support and sponsorship for American researchers from the Israeli Ministry of Defense as well as Israeli weapons manufacturers like Elbit Systems.

Records dating from 2004 to 2025 point to a large number of schools that have had financial relationships with the Israeli MOD or Israeli weapons manufacturers, including Columbia, Cornell, Princeton, Harvard, Northwestern, Georgia Tech, Texas Tech, the University of Connecticut, the University of Tennessee, the University of Maryland, the University of Florida, the University of California at Berkeley, the University of Rhode Island, the University of New Mexico, the Washington University in St. Louis, and the State University of New York.

The recorded financial relationships include time-bound research contracts and do not indicate whether relationships with the MOD are still ongoing. Previous reporting has documented MOD funding of programs at MIT and student protests there over the relationship.

In addition to financial support from the MOD and Elbit, records also showed sponsorship of individual research projects related to military technologies by Israeli defense manufacturers Rafael and Israel Aerospace Industries.

Taken together, the records reveal an opaque defense-research pipeline spread across some of the country’s most prominent universities.

In one example that illustrates the typical nature of these ties, an Israeli MOD-sponsored project at the University of Connecticut was listed in public audit records with the title, “Impact Point Prediction Research for Short & Medium Range Thrusting Projectiles.”

Connecticut’s annual federal-award schedules record $668,456 in funding under that title across nine fiscal years between 2013 and 2023 with the funder listed as Israel’s Ministry of Defense. Another Israeli MOD-linked research project at the school titled, “High Sensitivity SQUIDs for Magnetic Field Detection,” received $251,336 in funding across the same time period.

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https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/israel-military-funding-universities

Justice Desmond Fagan confirms Israel’s genocide in Gaza and exposes the Antisemitism Royal Commission’s big lie

NSW Supreme Court judge Desmond Fagan has published a judgment that exposes some of the biggest lies being tendered as evidence and submissions by Zionist Jews at the Antisemitism Royal Commission and confirms Israel’s genocide in Gaza.

Two of the biggest lies are that the IHRA definition of antisemitism is a legitimate definition and that there is no genocide being committed by Israel in Gaza.

A key gaol for Israel supporting Zionist Jews at the Royal Commission is to have Commissioner Virginia Bell make findings that will help silence criticism of Israel, and one way to help silence criticism is if the Royal Commission recommends wide spread adoption of the IHRA definition of antisemitism.

The big problem for the Zionists Jews is that there was already a judgment last year, Wertheim v Haddad [2025] FCA 720 (1 July 2025), where Justice Stewart found criticism if Israel is not antisemitic and Justice Fagan has reinforced that finding in his own judgment.

Justice Fagan’s judgment concerns a defendant who defaced parked motor vehicles and the walls of buildings in Woollahra by spray-painting slogans that included “PKK”, “PKK coming” and “Fuk Israel”. He also set alight one vehicle, which was destroyed. The defendant pleaded guilty and was sentenced in the Local Court.

That is where it would have ended, but the NSW government decided to apply for an extended supervision order pursuant to the Terrorism (High Risk Offenders) Act 2017 (NSW), which would have meant the defendant would have been closely monitored for 12 months and been placed under certain restrictions.

Justice Fagan dismissed the application for the extended supervision order, but as part of the proceedings, the prosecution argued that the defendant’s conduct was antisemitic because he wrote ““Fuk Israel” which the prosecution claimed breached the IHRA definition of antisemitism.

That was an own goal by the prosecution because it forced Justice Fagan to look at 2 key issues. One: What is antisemitism? And two: Is the IHRA definition of antisemitism valid?

The NSW Attorney-General is considering an appeal. But I doubt that will happen given there is no basis for an appeal and also because there was evidence of police misconduct exposed during the trial.

Justice Fagan’s judgment in State of New South Wales v Farhat (final) [2026] NSWSC 985 is a must-read for anyone following this issue. It has set a precedent and is guaranteed to be referenced by the lawyers representing the 22 people facing charges under Queensland’s new hate speech laws.

Below I quote key paragraphs of Justice Fagan’s judgment.

Justice Fagan’s finding on what is antisemitism

Justice Fagan deals with what “antisemitism” is and its ordinary usage in Australia at paragraphs 84 to 88. At paragraph 85 and 86 he says:

85 The Oxford English Dictionary shows that the word “antisemitic” has been part of the language since the mid-19th century and that its usual sense is as follows:

Characterized by prejudice, hostility, or discrimination against Jewish people; anti-Jewish.

86 The Macquarie Dictionary definition is simpler: Prejudiced against Jewish people.

At paragraph 87 he says:

87 Those definitions accord with how the term has ordinarily been used and understood in Australia in living memory. An antisemitic statement, according to the established and accepted meaning, is one that would reasonably be taken, by an ordinary member of the public, to express hostility to or prejudice against all Jewish people and/or against one or more individual Jews by reason of their Jewishness.

At paragraphs 93, 94 and 95 Justice Fagan says under the heading:

https://kangaroocourtofaustralia.com/2026/08/23/justice-desmond-fagan-confirms-israels-genocide-in-gaza-and-exposes-the-antisemitism-royal-commissions-big-lie/

kill it

Independence, Missouri Elementary Substitute Teacher Charged with Child Pornography Offenses

An elementary school substitute teacher for the Independence, Mo. School District has been charged by criminal complaint with distributing and possessing child pornography.

Caleb J. Eyde, 21, appeared in federal court today on a five-count criminal complaint.

According to court documents, multiple cyber tips reports were made after Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM) was uploaded to Discord, a group communication platform. The results of the investigation led local law enforcement and federal agents to Eyde. Investigators believe Discord records indicate Eyde was distributing, trading, and purchasing CSAM from other users. A forensic examination of Eyde’s electronic devices uncovered images and videos depicting CSAM saved to Eyde’s devices.

The charges contained in this complaint are simply accusations, and not evidence of guilt. Evidence supporting the charges must be presented to a federal trial jury, whose duty is to determine guilt or innocence.

This case is being prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Kelly Collins. It was investigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation – Child Exploitation Task Force and the Independence, Missouri Police Department.

https://www.justice.gov/usao-wdmo/pr/independence-missouri-elementary-substitute-teacher-charged-child-pornography-offenses

>>24969840

sounds like you been smoking stems and seeds

After giving everyone cancer Moderna is now selling a vax for cancer - You can't make this shit up!

The mRNA Gold Rush: Why Moderna’s “Cancer Vaccine” Hype Will Get Challenged

Mega-dose weekly mRNA part of toxic chemotherapy, however with rapid FDA approval, Intismeran poised to saddle patients with massive costs, tumor resistance, and accumulating long term safety concerns

After five years of being bashed on unsafe, ineffective, uncontrollable Spike protein-producing (Spikevax, mNEXSPIKE) vaccines, Moderna is solidly back home in the cancer business and their stock performance couldn’t be any better.

The mRNA Cancer Long Game: Moderna’s Pivot from Pandemic to Personalized Chemotherapy

There’s a narrative that’s taken hold in the financial press and biotech cheerleading circles: Moderna, having saved humanity from COVID, is now developing “cancer vaccines” that will do for oncology what Operation Warp Speed did for respiratory viruses.

This is marketing, not medicine.

What Moderna is actually doing is using synthetic messenger RNA as a delivery mechanism for personalized neoantigens as a part of toxic combination chemotherapy. Calling these “vaccines” is a linguistic sleight of hand designed to borrow the halo from childhood immunization while obscuring the reality of what’s being injected into patients’ bodies week after week.

https://www.thefocalpoints.com/p/the-mrna-gold-rush-why-modernas-cancer

>>24969893

YAWN

>>24969919

>The AUS courts are far moar corrupt than US courts.

Robodebt encore? Palantir lurks as MPs shirk vote, NDIS Bill passes

Politicians went AWOL from Parliament by the dozen on the NDIS vote amid denials about automation and Palantir’s role. Is this Robobdebt II?

On 18 August 2026, the Senate passed the NDIS Amendment Bill. On 19 August, it passed the Lower House. The Royal Assent was granted on 20 August 2026.

A Bill that strips 240,000 disabled Australians from a scheme they depend on, gives automated decision-making powers to a computer program, and removes the right of appeal passed both houses of Parliament last week.

Nobody was prosecuted the last time the government did something like this. The Robodebt architects faced no consequences. Here is how it happened. And what was never asked. Twenty-eight senators made it happen.

Of the 76 senators, 28 voted yes. 12 voted no. 36 did not vote. Every one of those 36 is paid by Australian taxpayers. Every Australian citizen is legally required to vote at elections. But there is no law requiring senators to vote on legislation. On the most significant disability legislation in a decade,

more senators chose not to vote than voted yes.

The Bill passed anyway.

How they voted

Labor voted 24 to nil. Two Liberals voted yes. Neither spoke. Three One Nation senators voted yes. The Greens voted 11 to nil against. Three cross-bench senators voted no.

Eighteen Liberals were absent. Three LNP. Three Nationals. The Coalition would not vote against the Bill. Most would not vote for it.

They simply were not there.

One senator was in the building. They voted on an earlier division. When the final vote came, they did not vote. According to disability advocate Samantha Connor AM, “Seven of WA’s Senators didn’t show up. They did not support us, but neither did they vote for a Bill that they all knew would cause harm.”

What was said

Senator Jordon Steele-John spoke for more than an hour before the vote. The disabled senator put on the record what the government did not: 4,500 submissions opposing the Bill. 94 million hours of unpaid care transferring to Australian families. More than 51,600 full-time equivalent support-worker jobs at risk, stating, “Disabled people are not a burden. Let me say that again. Disabled people are not a burden. We should never, ever be made to feel as though we are a burden by our government or by the society that we live in.”

Rather than taking on and taxing the gas exporters

“— rather than take those people on — you’ve decided to cut the supports of disabled people and stick your metaphorical fingers in your ears, as expert after expert warned you what this bill could do and is likely to do.”

And he put the warning to the Chamber, “You won’t always be there, folks. These people over there — they’ll be there again at some point. What will they do with these powers, I wonder? … Who pays the price of that concession? We do. Disabled people do. We pay with our lives and with our liberties.”

Senator David Pocock raised the Robodebt Royal Commission directly. The Commission recommended that when algorithms make decisions about people’s lives, independent experts must be able to check the algorithm’s work. He asked the Minister: will that happen here?

https://michaelwest.com.au/robodebt-encore-palantir-lurks-as-mps-shirk-vote-ndis-bill-passes/