Posted by Tyler Durden, Authored by John Walter via John Walter,

We publish this piece in the August of 2026, as the machinery of global commerce groans and sputters, as hollow men in expensive suits speak of "corrections" and "adjustments" while families count pennies in dimly lit kitchens. The photograph you see above - those gaunt men hunched over bowls of thin soup, their eyes fixed on some middle distance between hunger and dignity - was snapped nearly a century ago, yet it could have been taken yesterday in any tent city stretching like a scar across the American landscape. We do not traffic in false nostalgia here, nor in the cheap comfort of historical distance. The Great Depression was not a sepia-toned folktale; it was a meat-grinder that chewed through 25 percent of the working population, that evicted grandmothers into snowbanks, that turned proud men into beggars and children into scavengers. The bones of that era still jut through the soil of our present moment - visible to anyone brave enough to look. What follows is not a curiosity shop of antiquated customs, but a field manual written in blood and hunger, a record of how ordinary human beings refused to break when the world snapped in half. Read it. Memorize it. The wolves are already at the door.

Can’t wait to hear all the excuses you guys will come up with 🥴 pic.twitter.com/xDL05grxoU

— ⚡️Puddin⚡️ (@puddin88124) August 28, 2026

A mother kidnapped her 11-month-old son and shot him in the face because she didn’t want the boy’s father to have custody over him — chillingly telling investigators she thought the killing was “worth it.”

Madeline Veronique Daly, 36, was convicted this week of killing baby Basil Stoner inside of an RV in rural New Mexico, as cops closed in on her, prosecutors said.

Authorities had responded to the RV after the mom snatched the boy and took him across state lines in violation of a court order.

Posted by Tyler Durden:  Authored by Kimberly Hayek via The Epoch Times,

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has awarded a $16.7 million contract to purchase 6,000 pairs of gloves that can deliver electric shocks. Officers would use them to control resisting detainees and protesters, according to a federal notice published Thursday.

The no-bid deal went to Compliant Technologies LLC, a Kentucky firm that manufactures the devices, and covers the gloves plus support equipment and services over the next six months.

ICE moved forward with the purchase despite ongoing objections from civil rights advocates and Democratic senators. They said the agency already draws criticism for use of force with unclear oversight.

Hours before the notice appeared, a group of senators led by Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.) wrote to ICE's acting director, urging the agency to abandon the plan. Fifteen colleagues from the Democratic caucus signed on.

"The blatant and tragic misuse of force in Los Angeles, Chicago, Minneapolis, Houston, Maine, and other locations around the country raises significant skepticism about the agency's professional capability to safely deploy a new tool that could be used to harm Americans without cause," the letter said.

ICE's notice listed several scenarios for the devices, including high-tension environments during arrests, transport of combative detainees, and civil disturbances outside detention facilities.

"It will be used when a subject is actively or passively resisting and an officer needs to gain control quickly to prevent injuries to both parties," the document said.

Officials said the shocks would help maintain control over inmates, stop aggression or escape attempts, let officers handcuff people who hide their hands, and aid crowd control efforts. The aim is to avoid the deployment of greater force, including firearms. The notice mentioned approved policy, training, and accountability standards but no further details.

ICE initially intended to spend up to $20 million on the devices, known as CTG-5 G.L.O.V.E., or Generated Low Output Voltage Emitter, with delivery expected by March 31, 2027. The gloves were earmarked for Homeland Security Investigations and Enforcement and Removal Operations officers and agents.

Compliant Technologies said the gloves should not be deployed in the face of verbal defiance or belligerence, serve as punishment, or be used for torture. The company also warned against deploying them on children, the elderly, pregnant women, or people with disabilities.

Claire's Observations:  This company can palaver as much as they want in print, or other media, as to when NOT to use these gloves.  

However, there is an enormous amount of harm, constituting torture, which can still be done, while observing the "guide rules" for their use.

What scares the stuffing out of me, is "the normalization of torture and pain for non-compliance".  I mean, even though the company says NOT to use it on people who are verbally abusive (or are thought to be by law enforcement),  what's going to hold them back, if they are wearing these gloves?!?  

In the heat of the moment,  the hard, bitter truth is, absolutely nothing.

Will someone please tell me,  just how far do you think this will "trickle down"?!? 

 Potentially, to day care facilities with toddlers and pre-schoolers, particularly those working with developmentally disabled students in their care, who tend to "act out"?!?  

The possibilities for misuse.... are endless.  And trust me, this will happen, and will happen badly for some poor sod who, in the heat of the moment, got angry themselves, even perhaps if they have done... absolutely nothing wrong.

As AI–powered cameras become an increasingly common sight on streets, in shops and at transport hubs, it seems the days of anonymity are numbered.

But one artist claims to have found an unlikely solution – a psychedelic shirt designed to confuse artificial intelligence into thinking you're not there at all.

Berlin–based artist Simon Weckert has created a 'Digital Camouflage' top covered in a swirling explosion of colours, gradients and abstract shapes.

He says the garment is so outlandish it can 'trick' computer–vision systems, confusing them so much that they cannot detect the person wearing it.

According to its creator, the shirt exploits a technique known as an 'adversarial attack', in which images are deliberately manipulated to fool AI.

While human observers can clearly see the wearer, the software may fail to recognise them as a person at all.

Webmaster Addition: I want one!

Did you see the lions? Authorities launched a search involving drones and multiple law enforcement agencies following reports Aug. 27, 2026, of a possible lioness and cub sighting in Madison and Hancock counties in Indiana.

the way everybody has been trying to say this ITS ON THEIR FUCKING UNIFORM https://t.co/hugm4TVIJO pic.twitter.com/MPcvWUUUq2

— zari 𝜗ৎ maeve’s wife (@drvgondreamer) August 27, 2026

A Kentucky police officer was arrested after authorities said he used the Flock Safety license plate reader camera system to track his ex-girlfriend over 2,000 times, marking the latest in a string of recent law enforcement officer resignations or arrests for alleged abuses of the controversial technology.

Shively Police Department Officer Asad Zahir’s alleged activity was flagged by the new AI-powered auditing tool implemented by Flock Safety after growing concerns around security and misuse by police, authorities said, in many cases involving officers accused of using the system to stalk exes or romantic interests.

The audit assistance tool, now a requirement by Flock Safety, flags abnormal use by officers.

President Donald Trump announced last week that the United States would temporarily open the door to a massive new influx of foreign beef. He promised it would lower prices and be of “the highest quality.”

There was one problem: He would not say where the beef was coming from.

On Tuesday, Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins has added another complication. Apparently, the concluded deal Trump announced may not actually be finalized just yet. She also suggested that she was not directly involved in the negotiations behind the announcement. Finally, Rollins, much like her boss, refused to name the countries and foreign producers involved.

That secrecy has fueled understandable unease among Americans, along with growing speculation about what exactly may be entering the food supply.

Whatever the answer, the developments fit neatly, and disturbingly, into the broader globalist push to reduce meat consumption.

During testimony before the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, Dr. Fauci invoked his Fifth Amendment right not to incriminate himself 111 times when asked questions about his role in COVID lockdowns, mask mandates, vaccine development, and potentially funding the virus’s creation. 

Fauci pleading the Fifth led to ridiculous scenes, such as refusing to answer questions from Senator Josh Hawley (R-MO) about what color tie he was wearing.

Hawley then tore into Fauci, pointing out that Fauci didn’t have the right to plead the Fifth since Joe Biden pre-emptively pardoned Fauci, an act that the Supreme Court ruled carries an imputation of a confession of guilt for all crimes committed going back to 2014.

“Let’s just get one thing straight: You don’t have any rights under the Fifth Amendment because you’ve been pardoned, as you very well know, as the Supreme Court has been clear for a century and more,” Hawley stated.

Hawley then cited the 1896 Supreme Court case which held that someone who received a pardon couldn’t invoke the Fifth Amendment to avoid answering questions under oath.

CIA Director John Ratcliffe warned Russian officials in Moscow this week not to escalate conflict with America’s NATO allies, in particular Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, in response to Moscow’s stalemated invasion of Ukraine, according to two people familiar with the matter.

The U.S. spy chief also used the rare, unannounced trip to the Russian capital on Tuesday to press Russia to reduce military and economic support for Iran, according to one of those two people and a U.K. official with knowledge of the trip.

Webmaster Addition: Latest word is that Putin refused to even meet with Ratcliffe.

An Israeli judge concluded on Wednesday that while Yona Simcha Schreiber was apparently the man behind the savage attack on a French Catholic nun in Jerusalem on April 28, he just couldn't help himself.

Footage released by police appears to show Schreiber, a 36-year-old settler from the West Bank wearing a kippah and ritual tassels, run up behind an unsuspecting habited nun nearby King David’s Tomb and shove her to the ground.

'We understand the difficult feelings of the complainant.'

His victim — a researcher at the French School of Biblical and Archaeological Research in Jerusalem as well as a nun — writhes in pain on the ground, having struck her head against the stones, and the attacker begins to walk away, the footage shows.

However, he abruptly turns and resumes his attack, kicking the woman until a passerby intervenes, according to the video.

Maxine Waters has been receiving specialized care at an Alzheimer’s facility 

Her “vote” should NOT count.

There needs to be a competency clause in place for elected officials. 

That Biden was allowed to serve in in his condition was beyond ridiculous. pic.twitter.com/xLm4BeELRM

— 🇺🇸𝕄𝔸𝔾𝔸 𝑵𝒂𝒏𝒄𝒚 ن ♱ (@45LVNancy) August 27, 2026

On July 30, the FBI released its annual report on active-shooter incidents, and the coverage went where you would expect: 34 attacks in 2025, a 42% increase over the year before, with 51 people killed and 115 wounded. All true. All worth knowing. Less noticed: 34 attacks were 21% below the five-year average of 43, and the five-year trend is downward.

Then there was the statistic almost nobody saw. Civilians intervened in seven attacks last year. In more than one in five incidents, people in the line of fire confronted the shooter. In 2024, civilians intervened in one out of 24 incidents. In a single year, the intervention rate rose roughly fivefold.

Beef prices keep climbing, but small ranchers aren’t seeing the profits. So where is the money going?

Blaze Media co-founder Glenn Beck believes the answer lies in an industry dominated by a small number of meat-processing companies and a regulatory system that makes it nearly impossible for smaller competitors to enter the market.

And during a conversation with President Donald Trump, he let him know.

“Please when it comes to beef, please look at the cartel that is the meat-processing cartel,” Glenn tells Trump.

“I run a ranch, so I know what it’s like. And I’m telling you, it is the processing plants.”

The school shooter was our signature American nightmare: the alienated young man who converts private despair into public spectacle.

This is the Sacred Masculine archetype of the Warrior inverted.

The Lyndsay Clancy archetype threatens the creation an even darker inversion.

The school shooter turns on the tribe the warrior is meant to protect.

The murderous mom turns on the children she birthed and is meant to protect and nourish.

The school becomes a battlefield. The nursery a deathtrap.

Webmaster Addition: It's not like Kamala would have been any better!

It begins by describing how Netanyahu reassured Trump Iran was at its “weakest point in decades”, while Trump’s own intel analysts via Gabbard’s DNI warned him that killing Khamenei would merely install much more hardline figures who would rush to close the Strait of Hormuz, amongst many other things which predicted the eventualities that ensued almost perfectly:

Then-Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard outlined assessments from America’s intelligence apparatus. According to people familiar with the meeting, she told Trump that killing Iran’s supreme leader would likely usher in a more hard-line regime open to acquiring nuclear weapons. Tehran would rush to close the Strait of Hormuz, destabilizing the global energy market. And it would strike U.S. forces and partners in the Middle East, prompting questions about American resolve and reliability with allies.

Ratko Mladic, the bullish Bosnian Serb general whose forces besieged the Bosnian capital for several years in the 1990s and carried out the worst massacre in Europe since World War II, died Thursday while serving a life sentence for his crimes, U.N. officials said. He was 84.

Mladic died at a hospital in The Hague, Netherlands, U.N. court officials said. A Mladic relative who spoke to The Associated Press on the condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the situation confirmed the reports and said Mladic’s son, Darko Mladic, was on his way to the Dutch city.

The U.N. tribunal for war crimes committed during the wars in the former Yugoslavia in the 1990s sentenced Mladic to life in prison in 2017 in what was considered a key step toward bringing justice to the victims. He had been in custody since 2011 after many years on the run.

Iran Just Did The Unthinkable — And Trump Never Saw It Coming. In this powerful geopolitical and military analysis, Col. Douglas Macgregor examines the latest developments involving Iran and the United States and explains why the situation could have much bigger consequences than expected.

As the U.S.-Iran conflict continues to create major strategic and economic consequences, Iran’s ability to maintain pressure and respond to American military actions has raised serious questions about Washington’s strategy. Macgregor has argued that Iran has demonstrated greater resilience and military capability than many early assessments suggested.

This analysis looks at Iran’s latest move, Trump’s strategy, U.S. military objectives, Iranian military capabilities, the risks of escalation, and the potential consequences for the Middle East and the wider global balance of power.

Could Iran’s latest response change the direction of the conflict? Is Trump facing a much more difficult strategic situation than expected? And what does this mean for the future of U.S. military involvement in the Middle East?

Vladimir Putin has told the UK to reverse its ‘hostile and aggressive stance’ on Ukraine or Russia could attack British military sites.

The chilling warning comes after Prime Minister Andy Burnham was told earlier this week Britain could face Russian retaliation over its ‘unwavering’ support for Ukraine and to be prepared for a ‘direct response’ from Moscow.

A spokeperson for Russia’s Foreign Ministry today clarified that ‘catastrophic consequences’ awaited the UK if they did not abandon their current position with Ukraine and, if not, could target ‘British military installations and equipment’.

On Monday, Burnham swapped blueprints for the long-range Scalp missile with Moscow’s enemy in a visit to Kiev, that would allow Ukraine to build their own weapons, rather than rely on imports.

Israel’s Diaspora Affairs Minister Amichai Chikli (pictured above) has explained his own strategy more candidly than any critic could.

Antisemitism, he told an interviewer, does not much interest the average European or American, whereas fear of “radical Islam” interests them “very, very much”, and Israel therefore needs “to take advantage of that”.

Here is a senior cabinet minister admitting that Islamophobia has become a Trojan Horse for Israel to win over European and American hearts and minds.

And it is the clearest account yet of what his ministry has become under Benjamin Netanyahu; an office that once existed to protect Jewish communities abroad now works to turn European fear of Muslims into political capital for the Israeli government.

Six months into President Donald Trump’s war of aggression against the Islamic Republic of Iran, the United States is confronting a “beyond critical” shortage of Patriot missile interceptors in Europe, according to a US defense official and a NATO official who spoke on condition of anonymity.

The admission lays bare the strategic cost of Washington’s failed war against Iran. American and allied forces have burned through vast quantities of expensive interceptors trying to blunt Iran’s legitimate retaliatory strikes on occupying US bases across West Asia. Stocks once earmarked for Europe were diverted to the Persian Gulf, leaving NATO countries with “very limited” ability to stop even a single ballistic missile, the US official told AP.

In the event of a sustained strike on a headquarters or power plant, the official warned, NATO could be forced “to take punch after punch in the mouth.”