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President Lee Jae Myung emphasized the need for strong disciplinary action at the level of dismissal..
사진 확대 President Lee Jae Myung speaks at a Cabinet meeting held at Cheong Wa Dae on the…
#EuropeSays #Korea #KR #SouthKorea #hypersonic #LeeJaeMyung #nuclearsubmarines #self-defense #StateCouncil #weaponssystems
https://www.europesays.com/korea/170245/
1. President Lee Jae Myung held a summit with U.S. President Donald Trump in New York on the 22nd an..
사진 확대 President Lee Jae Myung, who visited the U.S. to attend the U.N. General Assembly, is holding…
#EuropeSays #Korea #KR #SouthKorea #andknowledgeoftheworld #investmentsintheUnitedStates #LeeJaeMyung #nuclearsubmarines #projects #Summit #ungeneralassembly #wartimeoperationalcontrol
https://www.europesays.com/korea/165651/
President Lee Jae Myung held a summit with U.S. President Donald Trump in New York on the 22nd (loca..
사진 확대 President Lee Jae Myung, who visited the U.S. to attend the U.N. General Assembly, is holding…
#EuropeSays #Korea #KR #SouthKorea #andpacemaker #Hormuz #LeeJaeMyung #NorthKorea-U.S.talks #nuclearsubmarines #peacefulco-existence #peacemaker #Summit #U.N.GeneralAssembly #U.S.investment #wartimeoperationalcontrol
https://www.europesays.com/korea/165245/
https://www.europesays.com/conflicts/3494/ US Navy eyes 2 Virginia and 1 Columbia submarines yearly by 2031 #ColumbiaClassSubmarine #Defense&Military #DefenseTechnology #Energy&Environment #GeneralDynamicsElectricBoat #NavalShipbuilding #NuclearSubmarines #SubmarineProduction #USNavy #UsNavy #VirginiaClassSubmarine
Australia's Denial Strategy Takes Shape Ahead of Nuclear Submarines
Australia's denial strategy is racing against the clock to be up and running by the 2030s, when the game-changing nuclear attack submarines will be ready to take the helm. A bold new plan, dubbed the Joint Architecture for Forward Denial, aims to revolutionize Australia's defence by combining cutting-edge tech with powerful…
#NuclearSubmarines #Australia #NationalSecurity #Geopolitics #EmergingThreats
North Korea says US-driven nuclear submarine push justifies its own weapons buildup, Asia News
SEOUL — North Korea accused the US on Wednesday (Sept 16) of expanding a “nuclear submarine alliance” that…
#EuropeSays #Korea #KR #NorthKorea #AUKUS #deterrence #nuclearproliferation #nuclearsubmarines
https://www.europesays.com/korea/156065/
Emergency plan for ‘unlikely’ AUKUS nuclear accident mapped out by WA authorities
People could be given iodine tablets, potentially evacuated or told to shelter under a worst-case emergency scenario plan…
#Australia #Perth #aukus #aukusgardenisland #aukusnuclear #GardenIsland #HMASStirling #nuclearleak #nuclearpoweredwarship #nuclearspill #nuclearsubmarines #nuclearwarship #perthnews #wanews
https://www.europesays.com/australia/81389/
That's an exciting new way for the news to be depressing, I saw this and presumed it was here in #Australia then I found out it's actually in the #USA
The error seems like a bad sign? But I'm not sure what's exactly its a sign of?
Part of why I jumped to the wrong conclusion is that I strongly suspect one of the goals of #AUKUS is that #Australia ends up the dumping ground for our "ally's" spent reactors, we get second hand submarines but I have not heard anything about USA plans to accept returns of the waste?
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/aug/25/to-use-a-mountain-documentary-interview ‘Environmental violence’: inside the fight to save indigenous land from becoming a nuclear dumping ground #DocumentaryFilms #TheGuardian
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#SecondHandSubmarines #NuclearSubmarines #NuclearWaste #EnvironmentalViolence #Indigenous #IndigenousLand
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Hanwha Bids Up to $1.2 Billion for U.S. Navy Shipbuilder Austal USA
A vessel under construction at the Austal USA shipyard in Mobile, Alabama. /Austal USA Hanwha Group is moving…
#EuropeSays #Korea #KR #Hanwha #AustalUSA #CFIUS #HanwhaGroup #MASGA #nuclearsubmarines #PhillyShipyard #U.S.Navyshipbuilding
https://www.europesays.com/korea/116056/
Russia Deploys Nets to Shield Nuclear Submarines from Drone Threats
Russia is taking a dramatic step to protect its nuclear submarines from drone threats, as seen in recent satellite images showing multiple subs at a key base on the Kamchatka Peninsula completely covered in netting. This unusual move suggests a growing concern about the vulnerability of its underwater fleet.
#Russia #NuclearSubmarines #DroneThreats #EmergingThreats #NavalSecurity
North Korea’s naval buildup will stretch allied forces across the Indo-Pacific
North Korea’s naval modernisation is still in its early stages. Much of its surface and submarine fleet remains…
#EuropeSays #Korea #KR #NorthKorea #defence #maritimestrategy #NortheastAsia #nuclearsubmarines #SouthKorea
https://www.europesays.com/korea/107429/
North Korea’s naval buildup will stretch allied forces across the Indo-Pacific
North Korea’s naval modernisation is still in its early stages. Much of its surface and submarine fleet remains…
#Conflict #Conflicts #War #defence #maritimestrategy #northkorea #NortheastAsia #Nuclearsubmarines #southkorea
https://www.europesays.com/3171036/
https://www.europesays.com/3171036/ North Korea’s naval buildup will stretch allied forces across the Indo-Pacific #Conflicts #defence #MaritimeStrategy #NorthKorea #NortheastAsia #NuclearSubmarines #SouthKorea
https://www.europesays.com/videos/69745/ Burnham promises higher defence spending and more nuclear subs #AndyBurnham #army #BurnhamNews #Channel4 #Channel4News #Channel4 #Defence #DefenceSpending #InternationalNews #LatestNews #NATO #navy #NuclearSubmarines #PmBurnham #PmDefence #PrimeMinister #trident #UkNato #UKNews #UKPolitics #WorldNews
“Between 1955 and 1990, the #Soviet Union conducted 224 #nuclear #detonations there, releasing a total of around 265 megatons of explosive energy, and scuttled more than 100 decommissioned #nuclearsubmarines in the surrounding #Barents and #Kara seas.” thebulletin.org/2026/07/clim...
Climate change exacerbates nuc...
https://www.europesays.com/people/171506/ Burnham says nuclear sub investment will protect UK and boost jobs #AndyBurnham #apprenticeships #BarrowInFurness #Britain #DefenceSecretary #DefenceSpending #JohnHealey #KeirStarmer #NuclearDeterrent #NuclearSubmarines #ReformUK
BAE Systems: major contract funds new nuclear deterrent submarines
The [UK] Government has awarded a new £5.9bn contract to BAE Systems funding critical work to progress the…
#EuropeSays #Britain #Europe #EU #BAESystems #BAE #DefenceNuclearEnterprise #Dreadnought #nuclearsubmarines
https://www.europesays.com/britain/93349/
https://www.europesays.com/britain/93349/ BAE Systems: major contract funds new nuclear deterrent submarines #BAE #BAESystems #DefenceNuclearEnterprise #Dreadnought #NuclearSubmarines
AUKUS Spending Lacks Transparency at Osborne
The Osborne construction yard, set to become Australia's nuclear submarine hub, has received a hefty A$8.5 billion funding injection, yet its spending remains shrouded in secrecy, raising questions about transparency.
#Aukus #Osborne #NuclearSubmarines #AustralianNavalInfrastructure #DefenseSpending
Australia will soon host a US SSN force. We need to discuss war planning https://www.byteseu.com/2226227/ #AUKUS #Australia #NuclearSubmarines #Submarines
Germany to take part in French nuclear exercise
Germany is to take part in a French nuclear exercise later this year in the latest sign Emmanuel…
#Germany #DE #Europe #EU #Europa #deterrence #EmmanuelMacron #France #Frenchmilitary #Frenchpoliticians #Frenchpresident #FriedrichMerz #GermanChancellor #GermanyFirst #nuclearsubmarines
https://www.europesays.com/germany/56913/
Seoul, Canberra Cooperate on Nuclear Submarine Plans
Australia is charting a bold new course with its nuclear submarine plans, partnering with the US and UK to acquire cutting-edge vessels - but this AUKUS-driven pathway also brings risks and controversy. The deal's interdependence with its allies gives Canberra leverage, but also makes it vulnerable to blame-shifting and criticism.
#Aukus #NuclearSubmarines #Australia #UnitedStates #UnitedKingdom
Canberra and Seoul can learn from each other’s nuclear submarine plans
Australia and South Korea are both acquiring nuclear-powered attack submarines, a parallel step-change in their conventional deterrent capability.…
#EuropeSays #Korea #KR #Seoul #AUKUS #Australia #nuclearsubmarines #SouthKorea
https://www.europesays.com/korea/57493/
Ice Fishing in Finland: A Guide to Winter AnglingMonocle https://www.byteseu.com/2091443/ #ClimateChange #cybersecurity #defence #Finland #Geopolitics #NationalSecurity #NuclearSubmarines
Ice Fishing in Finland: A Guide to Winter AnglingMonocle https://www.byteseu.com/2091443/ #ClimateChange #cybersecurity #defence #Finland #Geopolitics #NationalSecurity #NuclearSubmarines
I cannot help but sigh deeply whenever politicians get involved in strategic military discussions. This is in no way to disparage, in this case, Senator #Shoebridge as he rightly points out that a handful of submarines will not guarantee open sea lanes to Australia in the event of war. For what it’s worth, Sen Shoebridge is only targeting the Govt’s goto spiel about #AUKUS, that is a simple message which the public can understand and focus on.
While the govt messaging about protecting sealanes being the reason for SSN acquisition is not entirely wrong, it is not entirely correct either. Submarines platforms are primarily intelligence, insertion, and deterence platforms, #Stealth is something SSN currently have in spades. Their stealth characteristics make these SNNs a force projection multiplier in any theater of sea warfare and likely to make an aggressor think twice before they commit to offensive actions. This comment is not a defence of #AUKUS since that is simply a defence acquisition project. But it is in defence of the need for undersea platforms that are stealthy, highly survivable, can transport personel, equipment and stores, carry offensive and defensive elements and traverse transoceanic distances at speed without refueling. Those needs are dictated to the ADF by the govt of the day in terms of assigned strategic missions and outcomes. In short, our ADF (men adn women pledging their lives to defend us all) deserves the very best materiel and platforms we can provide in order to carry out those missions and responsibilites entrusted to our them.
Everything else is plainly just politics, played by, I dare say, less than genuine and knowledgeable individuals.
#AusPol #ADF #Submarines #SSN #AUKUS #NuclearSubmarines #DefenceProcurement #Acquisition #VirginiaBoats #USN #NavalShipyards #DefenceBudget #RichardMarlesMP #Greens #Labor #BiPartisanShip #DoD #RAN
Watched in disbelief
There is no reason whatsoever why the #US coastline should need any kind of underwater monitoring system or anomaly detection of any kind, particularly not the US #Navy , #CoastGuard,
#MaritimeNavigation , #DomesticShipping, offshore resource surveys or US fisheries. While we’re at it toilets on #NuclearSubmarines appear to be a complete waste of space
Trump Administration to sink key Ocean Monitoring System | The World ABC NEWS
https://youtu.be/PJczkQZDQhM?si=OY3HFz_48F8E20HQ
https://www.europesays.com/3032575/ The impact of Australia only buying second-hand US submarines under AUKUS #aukus #australia #JenniferParker #MarcusHellyer #NewPlanForAukusSubs #NuclearSubmarines #RichardMarles #submarines #VirginiaClass
My fellow Australians! Ever have the feeling you're being conned??? #australia #ausgov #usa #aukus #nuclearsubmarines
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/may/31/aukus-australia-to-buy-only-secondhand-virginia-class-submarines-from-us-significant-cost-savings-richard-marles
Can South Korea really afford nuclear submarines? https://www.byteseu.com/2059563/ #AUKUS #Block1 #HanwhaOcean #HDHyundaiHeavy #IAEA #JangbogoNProject #NorthKoreaNukeSubs #Nuclear #NuclearSubmarines #SouthKorea #SouthKoreaNuclearSubs #USSouthKoreaDefense
Can South Korea really afford nuclear submarines?
South Korea’s push for nuclear-powered submarines could transform it from a US security client into an undersea strategic…
#Nuclear #aukus #Block1 #HanwhaOcean #HDHyundaiHeavy #iaea #Jangbogo-NProject #NorthKoreaNukeSubs #nuclear #Nuclearsubmarines #southkorea #SouthKoreaNuclearSubs #US-SouthKoreaDefense
https://www.europesays.com/3022330/
Russia starts nuclear drill with submarines, 7,800 types of weapons
The Russian defense ministry has revealed that the country’s nuclear forces are conducting a significant military drill. Nuclear…
#Nuclear #nuclear #nucleardrill #Nuclearsubmarines #submarines #troops
https://www.europesays.com/3004927/
https://www.europesays.com/3004927/ Russia starts nuclear drill with submarines, 7,800 types of weapons #nuclear #NuclearDrill #NuclearSubmarines #submarines #troops
Russia Elevates Pacific Threat with Advanced Nuclear Submarines
Russia is rapidly bolstering its Pacific presence with a modern fleet of advanced nuclear submarines, having added eight nuclear-powered vessels to its Pacific Fleet since 2013. This strategic expansion has resulted in a formidable force that rivals China's in size and sophistication.
#Russia #PacificTheater #NuclearSubmarines #NavalModernization #NationalSecurity
Experts Criticize Australia's $4.2 Billion Investment in US Nuclear Submarines
📰 Original title: ‘Worst investment ever’: Expert fumes as first $4.2billion taxpayer-funded payment for nuclear subs paid to US
🤖 IA: It's clickbait ⚠️
👥 Usuarios: It's clickbait ⚠️
View full AI summary: https://killbait.com/en/experts-criticize-australias-4-2-billion-investment-in-us-nuclear-submarines/?redirpost=31e4eb81-6dbe-464e-aa8f-5c2ad5098745
#geopolitics #nuclearsubmarines #aukus #australiausrelations
Experts Criticize Australia's $4.2 Billion Investment in US Nuclear Submarines
📰 Original title: ‘Worst investment ever’: Expert fumes as first $4.2billion taxpayer-funded payment for nuclear subs paid to US
🤖 IA: It's clickbait ⚠️
👥 Usuarios: It's clickbait ⚠️
View full AI summary: https://killbait.com/en/experts-criticize-australias-4-2-billion-investment-in-us-nuclear-submarines/?redirpost=31e4eb81-6dbe-464e-aa8f-5c2ad5098745
#geopolitics #nuclearsubmarines #aukus #australiausrelations
#Tschernobyl #Harrisburgh #Sellafield #Hiroshima #Fukushima
Stop #radioactivity
Is in the air for you and me
- Kraftwerk
New US Navy contract speeds up stealth nuclear submarine program https://www.byteseu.com/1884538/ #ColumbiaClassSubmarine #GeneralDynamics #Nuclear #NuclearSubmarines #Submarines #USNavy
Asked about a report, which contemplates the #US not selling any #nuclearsubmarines to #Australia – as promised under #AUKUS, #Marles says there will be “a whole lot of commentary” on AUKUS.
Marles said:
“We’re working with the #TrumpRegime, & we’ve heard #Trump make clear the position of the #UnitedStates in respect of this question, & he has said that we are full steam ahead in respect of this & it includes the transfer of the Virginia [class submarines].”
NOT delivering any #AUKUS #nuclearsubmarines to #Australia explored as option in US congressional report.
Report offers alternative of the #USnavy retaining boats and operating them out of #Australian bases. #auspol
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/feb/05/not-delivering-any-aukus-nuclear-submarines-to-australia-explored-as-option-in-us-congressional-report
As a follow-up to the #murder of #AlexPretti wouldn’t it be about time that we Australians broke off the AUKUS deal and wound back what ties we have to the #dysfunctional #crazy #racist #UnitedStates?
If we really need human crewed #NuclearSubmarines, and I suspect we don’t, it would be a good move to try and get back on side with the French who could build our subs for us.
Of course we would need to build a #nuclear #reactor to produce the fuel needed, or failing that we should arrange for the #French or even the #British to refuel our subs for us when the fuel rods need replacing.
Or maybe we should concentrate on #unmanned nuclear power #drone submarines capable of working at ridiculous depths and loitering on the bottom for years, ready to kill any threatening ship or submarine when needed.
The technology is available; perhaps we could lead the world in producing our own version of such a monstrous machine. Again, we could rely on our friendly allies to refuel them for us for a price.
#ScottMorrison was a lying idiot.
https://www.europesays.com/2700122/ China now operates world’s 2nd-largest nuclear submarine fleet #aukus #China #GlobalMilitaryTrends #IndoPacificSecurity #JinClassSSBN #MaritimeDefense #MilitaryBalance #NavalPower #nuclear #NuclearSubmarines #PLANavy #Russia #RussianNavy #ShangClassSubmarines #ShipbuildingCapacity #StrategicDeterrence #SubmarineFleet #SubmarineProduction #UnderseaWarfare #UnitedStatesNavy #VirginiaClassSubmarines
Does Europe need more nuclear-powered submarines?
A nuclear submarine is a sensitive technology that is currently used by only six countries: France, the United Kingdom, the United States, Russia, China, and India.
A defence expert weighs in on whether Europe needs more nuclear-powered submarines amid growing tensions with Russia.
#Defence #Submarines #Navy #NATO #UnderseaCables #NuclearSubmarines #Europe #France #UK
Little, rat-faced fucker #ToplessVlad #Putin is escalating his attacks on Europe: first the drone incursion into #Ireland when #Zelensky arrived, now #French #NuclearSubmarines.
And what is the #PutinPuppet #PedoPresident doing...
https://www.politico.eu/article/drones-france-nuclear-submarine-base-reports/
South Korea's nuclear submarine gamble raises prospect of underwater arms race in Asia
South Korea's pursuit of nuclear-powered submarines is gaining traction following President Donald Trump's endorsement, ending decades of U.S. resistance in a move that could reshape Asia's security landscape and escalate an underwater arms race.
El gobierno de Corea del Sur ha anunciado un acuerdo con Estados Unidos para construir submarinos nucleares "ataque" en colaboración. El US aprobó los submarinos y acordó cooperar en la fuente de combustible, según el Departamento de Estado.
USA Gives South Korea Green Light to Build Nuclear Submarines
#HackerNews #USA #SouthKorea #NuclearSubmarines #Defense #News #MilitaryTech
The effect of #ClimateChange on sources of #radionuclides to the #MarineEnvironment
Published: 16 March 2024
Justin P. Gwynn, Vanessa Hatje, Núria Casacuberta, Manmohan Sarin & Iolanda Osvath
Abstract:
"Climate change interacts with the sources and cycling of contaminants, such as radionuclides, in the environment. In this review, we discuss the implications of climate change impacts on existing and potential future sources of radionuclides associated with human activities to the marine environment. The overall effect on operational releases of radionuclides from the nuclear and non-nuclear sectors will likely be increased interference or prevention of normal operations due to weather-related events. For certain #RadioactiveWaste dumped at sea and sunken #NuclearSubmarines, the impact of climate change and ocean #acidification on the release of radionuclides and their subsequent fate in the marine environment should be considered further. Fluxes from secondary sources of radionuclides in the marine and terrestrial environment and cryosphere will change in response to climate change impacts such as sea level rise, warming and changes in precipitation patterns. In addition, climate change impacts may increase the risk of releases of radionuclides from operational and legacy wastes on land to the marine environment. Overall, our synthesis highlights that there is a need to understand and assess climate change impacts on sources of radionuclides to the marine environment to meet environmental and management challenges under future climate scenarios."
Full paper:
https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-024-01241-w
#NoNukes #NoNuclearWeapons #NoNuclearDumping #ToxicLegacy #LegacyWastes #RethinkNotRestart #NuclearWaste #NuclearWasteStorage #IllegalDumping
Mỹ “bật đèn xanh” cho Hàn Quốc đóng tàu ngầm hạt nhân: tăng răn đe Bắc Hàn, củng cố liên minh Mỹ–Hàn, thúc đẩy chuyển giao công nghệ lõi; nhiều nước lo ngại leo thang vũ trang ở Đông Á. #TàuNgầmHạtNhan #USKoreaAlliance #NuclearSubmarines #EastAsiaSecurity #RănĐe #ChuyểnGiaoCôngNghệ #VũTrang
Monday, August 4, 2025
Russia, China conduct joint drills in Sea of Japan — Ukrainian drones target Shahed storage site, industrial facilities in Russia; Strikes hit oil depot in Sochi — [vlog] Trump runs out of patience with Russia — General Staff: Russia has lost 1,056,130 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022 … and more
https://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2025/08/monday-august-4-2025/
Putin SMASHES Trump's Nuclear Sub Bluff, US War on China Looms w/ Brian Berletic & KJ Noh!
https://tankie.tube/videos/watch/876fac01-60ac-4161-a5dd-0f7017b59d88
Sunday, August 3, 2025
Russian troops resort to ‘total infiltration’ tactics in front-line Pokrovsk — Inside the Battle of Kostiantynivka, as Ukrainian forces brace for three-sided Russian assault — Ukrainian drones target Shahed storage site, industrial facilities in Russia — Ukraine’s drone strike reportedly sparks fire at oil depot in Russia’s Sochi … and more
https://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2025/08/sunday-august-3-2025/
Lazy Caturday Reads
Good Day!!
Michael Cox, in the style of Amadeo Modigliani
The top stories today focus on Trump’s failing economy and his firing of Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner Erika McEntarfer after she released weak job numbers yesterday. Dakinikat provided a deep dive into the economy yesterday and addressed the firing in the comments to her post, so I hope you’ll forgive me if I don’t spend much time on economic issues, which are not my area of expertise, to put it mildly.
I’m still laser focused on the Epstein/Maxwell story. I’m currently reading Julie Brown’s book on the case, Perversion of Justice: The Jeffrey Epstein Story, and it is fascinating and enlightening. Brown is was responsible for keeping the case alive–after Epstein received a only slap on the wrist for his crimes–with her investigative stories in the Miami Herald
I’m also concerned about the news that Trump has moved nuclear submarines closer to Russia, perhaps as a threat to Putin and as another attempt at distraction from Epstein/Maxwell news.
Another important story breaking today is about Trump’s plans to further involve the military in his deportation efforts and build more concentration camps to detain migrants.
Two economic stories of possible interest
The Wall Street Journal Editorial Board: The Trump Economy Stumbles.
President Trump has now imposed his new tariff regime on the world, and the triumphalism is palpable in MAGA land. But maybe hold the euphoria, as this week’s reports on jobs and the economy suggest the new golden age may take a while to appear.
Friday’s labor report arrived with a particular jolt, with a mere 73,000 net new jobs in July. Even more bearish were the downward revisions of 258,000 jobs in May and June. Job gains over the last three months are barely more than 100,000.
The details in the report provide little solace. The jobless rate ticked up only to 4.25% from 4.1%, but that was in part because the labor force continued to shrink. The labor participation rate fell again to 62.2% and is now down half a percentage point in a year.
Employers aren’t laying off workers, but they have all but stopped new hiring. Notably, most of the new jobs are in healthcare and social assistance, which rely heavily on government spending. This continues the Biden-era trend that Trumponomics was supposed to change. Not so far.
The much-advertised rebirth of U.S. manufacturing also hasn’t arrived. The economy shed 11,000 manufacturing jobs in July, following a loss of 26,000 in May and June. The ISM Manufacturing Index fell again in July to 48, the fifth straight month below 50.
A bit more:
One labor market problem may be the crackdown on migrant workers. The foreign-born workforce has fallen by about a million since Mr. Trump took office. The National Foundation for American Policy, a nonpartisan think tank, says immigrants accounted for over half of the labor force increase in each of the last three decades. Fewer workers means fewer new jobs as employers conclude they can’t fill them.
How much of this jobs and growth slowdown owes to Mr. Trump’s tariffs? It’s hard to say for sure. But it has occurred in the wake of Mr. Trump’s April 2 tariff shock, his rapid backtrack from the highest rates, and then his willy-nilly threats and deal-making with the world. The policy uncertainty has surely affected business hiring and investment. How can you hire or invest if you don’t know what your cost of goods will be, or from which supplier you will be able to buy at a competitive price?
On that score, Mr. Trump’s latest tariff blast this week hasn’t put an end to the uncertainty. Much of the world will now pay 15%, if Mr. Trump sticks to his deals. But some of the biggest U.S. trading partners—Mexico, Canada, China and India—remain in tariff limbo. Brazil will pay 50%, though it has a trade surplus with the U.S. And what did Switzerland ever do to Mr. Trump to deserve 39%? Charge too much for a watch?
Don Moynihan at Can We Still Govern?: Trump Shoots the Messenger. Firing the BLS Commissioner moves us into banana republic territory.
One basic character of the politicization necessary to create an authoritarian regime is that public employees are reluctant to share information that displeases their political bosses. When those bosses can fire them, the incentives to suppress uncongenial information, or provide false information, become overwhelming.
Modigliani’s Cat by Eve Riser Roberts
Over time, life in these countries become bifurcated. Statistics become propaganda. There is an official reality, which many proclaim but few believe, and actual reality. And at some point actual reality catches up with the fantasy.
We have seen examples of this dynamic already play out in the Trump administration. Career civil servants have been reluctant to contradict, for example, Musk’s false claims about fraud in government, or Kennedy’s nonsensical claims about vaccines, knowing that doing so would probably cost them their jobs. In certain areas, such as environmental policy, the people that produce factual information that the administration dislikes are being fired.
Trump just took his attack on reality to a different level, by firing the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Why? Because he did not like the job numbers her agency produced.
In related news, we just saw the last credible BLS data for the rest of the Trump administration….
Trump’s claim is that the head of the BLS is somehow “rigged” the data “to make the Republicans, and ME, look bad.” “We need accurate Jobs Numbers” that reflect Trump’s opinion that “The Economy is BOOMING.”
As Trump fires an official because he does not like the job numbers, he proclaims that says that such numbers “can’t be manipulated for political purposes.” But revisions to job numbers are routine, and there is no reason to assume that an official would willingly publish false data knowing the ire that would follow from the White House.
Trump has no evidence for what he claims. He simply does not like reality, and will do what he can to deny it. And as tariffs kick in, and Trump’s layoffs of public employees becomes incorporated into jobs data, that reality will look worse and worse.
Read the rest at the Substack link.
Epstein/Maxwell News
Anna Betts at The Guardian: Epstein confidante Ghislaine Maxwell transferred to lower-security prison in Texas.
Ghislaine Maxwell, the associate of Jeffrey Epstein who is currently serving a 20-year prison sentence for sex-trafficking crimes, has been transferred from a federal prison in Florida, to a lower-security facility in Texas, the US Bureau of Prisons said on Friday.
“We can confirm, Ghislaine Maxwell is in the custody of the Bureau of Prisons (BOP) at the Federal Prison Camp (FPC) Bryan in Bryan, Texas,” a spokesperson for the Bureau of Prisons said in a statement.
Maxwell’s attorney, David Oscar Markus, also confirmed the transfer but declined further comment. FPC Bryan is described as a “minimum security federal prison camp” that houses 635 female inmates.
According to the Bureau of Prisons’ inmate locator, the Texas facility is also home to Elizabeth Holmes, the disgraced former CEO of the California-based blood-testing company Theranos, who is serving a lengthy sentence for fraud. Real Housewives of Salt Lake City TV star Jen Shah is also serving time there for fraud.
Oh good. Maybe they can all hang out.
Maxwell’s move from FCI Tallahassee, a low-security prison, to the federal prison camp in Bryan comes roughly a week after she was interviewed in Florida over two days about the Epstein case by the deputy US attorney general, Todd Blanche, who is also one of Donald Trump’s former lawyers.
Amadeo Modigliani, by Nancy Alari
Blanche had said that he wanted to speak with Maxwell – who was sentenced in 2022 for sex trafficking and other related crimes – to see if she might have “information about anyone who has committed crimes against victims”.
Details of that meeting have not been made public but Maxwell’s lawyer described it as “very productive”, adding that Maxwell answered the questions “honestly, truthfully, to the best of her ability”.
The interview took place amid growing political and public pressure on the Trump administration to release additional federal documents related to the Epstein case – a case which has, for years, been the subject of countless conspiracy theories.
Earlier in July, the justice department drew bipartisan criticism and backlash after announcing that it would not be releasing any more documents from the investigation into the late Epstein, who died in prison in New York in 2019 while awaiting federal trial. This was despite earlier pledges to release more files, by the US president and the US attorney general, Pam Bondi.
Allison Gill notes that this transfer was highly irregular:
The reason for the move is listed as a “lesser security transfer” (code 308) according to a transfer document I reviewed, which is completely inappropriate of for inmates who are in the early stages of serving their sentences, according to another source. “This is such obvious corruption. I have never seen this before,” said another person at BOP familiar with the situation.
The unit that approves waivers for sex offenders to be moved to minimum security camps is the Designation and Sentence Computation Center near Dallas. Currently, the senior deputy assistant director is Rick Stover, a career BOP employee who speaks frequently with White House officials.
I can’t help but wonder whether this is part of a deal struck between Maxwell and Blanche in exchange for her testimony.
It sure looks like it.
CNBC: Jeffrey Epstein victims and family blast Trump for Ghislaine Maxwell prison transfer.
Two sexual abuse victims of Jeffrey Epstein and the family of late Epstein victim Virginia Giuffre on Friday blasted President Donald Trump after learning that Epstein’s accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell had been transferred to a less restrictive prison in Texas from Florida….
“President Trump has sent a clear message today: Pedophiles deserve preferential treatment and their victims do not matter,” the statement said, noting that the two women and Giuffre’s family had not been notified of Maxwell’s transfer before media reports of it….
“It is with horror and outrage that we object to the preferential treatment convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell has received,” the statement said.
“Ghislaine Maxwell is a sexual predator who physically assaulted minor children on multiple occasions, and she should never be shown any leniency,” the statement said.
“Yet, without any notification to the Maxwell victims, the government overnight has moved Maxwell to a minimum security luxury prison in Texas,” the statement said.
“This is the justice system failing victims right before our eyes. The American public should be enraged by the preferential treatment being given to a pedophile and a criminally charged child sex offender. The Trump administration should not credit a word Maxwell says, as the government itself sought charges against Maxwell for being a serial liar,” the statement said.
“This move smacks of a cover up. The victims deserve better,” the statement said.
No kidding. And as we all know, the coverup is usually worse than the crime.
This is interesting, from Alison Detzel at MSNBC: Legal expert breaks down the ‘curious’ timeline of Ghislaine Maxwell’s DOJ meeting.
Before Maxwell’s arrival in Texas was reported, MSNBC legal correspondent Lisa Rubin was asked about the interactions between Maxwell and the Trump administration on Thursday’s “Deadline: White House,” and called the timeline “curious.”
Rubin recounted that before that late July meeting between Blanche and Maxwell, the Trump administration, through Solicitor General D. John Sauer, submitted a brief to the Supreme Court arguing Maxwell’s conviction should stand. (Maxwell was sentenced to 20 years in prison in 2022 after being convicted of sex-trafficking-related crimes.) In that July 14 filing, Sauer shot down Maxwell’s claim that she was protected from prosecution due to Epstein’s 2007 plea agreement in Florida.
But the following day, Rubin recalled, on July 15, Trump was contacted by reporters from The Wall Street Journal about an alleged birthday card he had written to Epstein in 2003. Trump has denied the Journal’s reporting, but the president was inundated with questions about the details of his relationship with Epstein.
One week later, Blanche posted to social media that the Justice Department would reach out to Maxwell for an interview, and later that week, he met with her in Florida.
Rubin noted that the government had “two days of conversations with her, not in the federal prison where she’s serving time, but in a U.S. Attorney’s Office, so she theoretically could be more comfortable during those conversations.”
While we know that the meeting took place, Rubin stressed that many of the details are still unknown: “We still don’t know who else from the Department of Justice was there. We don’t know how that conversation was recorded, if at all. And yet, we still don’t know what the resolution is.”
So what changed? Was it just about the birthday note/drawing? Or did Trump learn something else about how he was portrayed in the FBI files?
Cat in a Hat, inspired by Amadeo Modigliani painting, by Olga Koval
One more Epstein story from Newsweek: Donald Trump’s Name in Jeffrey Epstein Files Redacted by FBI: Report.
The FBI redacted Donald Trump‘s name, along with the names of other prominent public figures, from references in the Jeffrey Epstein files, three people familiar with the matter told Bloomberg‘s Jason Leopold.
Internal directives instructed about 1,000 FBI agents to flag any mention of Trump during a March review of roughly 100,000 pages of records, people familiar with the process told Bloomberg.
The Justice Department said the review turned up no “client list” or evidence linking Trump to criminal activity, despite his name appearing in Epstein’s contact book and flight logs….
The president and senior White House officials have repeatedly said in recent weeks that there was no reason to release the remaining Epstein files, and they have sought to move on from the saga despite calls from Trump’s base to release all documents as promised.
The Bloomberg report said that earlier this year, FBI agents were directed to search for all documents associated with the Epstein case and determine which could be released, totaling tens of thousands of pages, following Attorney General Pam Bondi‘s request for them.
During the review, in March, FBI personnel were said to have identified numerous references to Trump and other high-profile people, with the names then redacted by FOIA officers because they were private citizens at the time—a common practice under FOIA case law.
Trump Moves Nuclear Submarines
Brad Lendon at CNN: Trump is moving nuclear submarines following remarks by an ex-Russian president. Here are the subs in the American fleet.
US President Donald Trump said Friday he was ordering two US Navy nuclear submarines to “appropriate regions,” in response to remarks by Dmitry Medvedev, Russia’s former president and current deputy chairman of its Security Council.
In what he called an effort to be “prepared,” Trump said in a Truth Social post that he had “ordered two Nuclear Submarines to be positioned in the appropriate regions, just in case these foolish and inflammatory statements are more than just that.”
The president did not specify what type of submarines were being moved or where to, and the Pentagon usually reveals little about any of its subs’ movements.
The US Navy has three types of submarines, all of which are nuclear-powered, but only one of which carries nuclear weapons.
Ballistic Missile Submarines
The US Navy has 14 Ohio-class ballistic-missile submarines (SSBNs), often referred to as “boomers.”
SSBNs “are designed specifically for stealth and the precise delivery of nuclear warheads,” a Navy fact sheet on them says.
Each can carry 20 Trident ballistic missiles with multiple nuclear warheads. Tridents have a range of up to 4,600 miles (7,400 kilometers), meaning they wouldn’t need to move closer to Russia to hit it – in fact, they could do so from the Atlantic, Pacific, Indian or Arctic oceans….
Olga Koval, Cat is on the chair, inspired by Amadeo Modigliani painting
Guided missile submarines
In the 1990s, the Pentagon determined the Navy didn’t need as many Ohio-class SSBNs in the nuclear deterrent role, converting four of them into guided-missile submarines (SSGNs).
Retaining the same overall specs as the boomers, the SSGNs carry Tomahawk cruise missiles instead of the Trident ballistic missiles.
Each can carry 154 Tomahawks with a high-explosive warhead of up to 1,000 pounds, and a range of about 1,000 miles….
Fast-attack submarines
These form the bulk of the US Navy’s submarine fleet and are designed to hunt and destroy enemy subs and surface ships with torpedoes. They can also strike land-based targets with Tomahawk missiles, though they carry the Tomahawks in much smaller numbers than the SSGNs.
Read more details at CNN.
Tom Nichols at The Atlantic (gift link): Not With a Bang, but With a Truth Social Post. The president is rattling a nuclear saber as a distraction.
Donald Trump, beset by a week of bad news, has decided to rattle the most dangerous saber of all. In a post today on his Truth Social site, the president claimed that in response to recent remarks by former Russian President Dmitri Medvedev, he has “ordered two Nuclear Submarines to be positioned in the appropriate regions.” (All American submarines are nuclear-powered; Trump may mean submarines armed with ballistic nuclear weapons.) “Words are very important,” Trump added, “and can often lead to unintended consequences, I hope this will not be one of those instances.”
And then, of course: “Thank you for your attention to this matter!”
Trump’s words may mean nothing. The submarines that carry America’s sea-based nuclear deterrent routinely move around the world’s oceans. Each carries up to 20 nuclear warheads, on missiles with a range of more than 4,000 miles, and so almost anywhere can be an “appropriate region.” And Trump may not even have issued such orders; normally, the Pentagon and the White House do not discuss the movements of America’s ballistic-missile submarines.
Medvedev is a man with little actual power in Russia, but he has become Russia’s top internet troll, regularly threatening America and its allies. No one takes him seriously, even in his own country. He and Trump have been trading public insults on social media for months, with Trump telling Medvedev to “watch his words” and Medvedev—nicknamed “Little Dima” in Russia due to his diminutive stature—warning Trump to remember Russia’s “Dead Hand,” a supposed doomsday system that could launch all of Russia’s nuclear weapons even if Moscow were destroyed and the Kremlin leadership killed.
The problem is not that Trump is going to spark a nuclear crisis with a post about two submarines—at least not this time. The much more worrisome issue is that the president of the United States thinks it is acceptable to use ballistic-missile submarines like toys, objects to be waved around when he wants to distract the public or deflect from bad news, or merely because some Russian official has annoyed him.
Unfortunately, Trump has never understood “nuclear,” as he calls it. In a 2015 Republican primary debate, Trump said: “We have to be extremely vigilant and extremely careful when it comes to nuclear. Nuclear changes the whole ball game.” When the moderator Hugh Hewitt pressed Trump and asked which part of the U.S. triad (land-based missiles, bombers, and submarines) would be his priority, Trump answered: “For me, nuclear, the power, the devastation, is very important to me.”
That power and devastation, however, is apparently not enough to stop the president from making irresponsible statements in response to a Kremlin troll. One would hope that after nearly five years in office—which must have included multiple briefings on nuclear weapons and how to order their use—Trump might be a bit more hesitant to throw such threats around. But he appears to have no sense of the past or the future; he lives in the now, and winning the moment is always the most important thing.
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Are More Concentration Camps Like Alligator Alcatraz Coming?
Greg Sargent at The New Republic: Trump’s Domestic Use of Military Set to Get Worse, Leaked Memo Shows.
President Donald Trump has already enmeshed the United States military in domestic law enforcement operations involving immigration to an unprecedented degree. He has authorized a major military buildup at the border. He has maximized the use of military planes for deportations, complete with the White House pumping out imagery of migrants getting frog-marched onto souped-up military aircraft. He sent the National Guard into Los Angeles amid large-scale protests there—and then sent in the Marines.
But an internal memo circulated inside the Department of Homeland Security suggests that Trump’s use of the military for domestic law enforcement on immigration could soon get worse. The memo—obtained by The New Republic—provides a glimpse into the thinking of top officials as they seek to involve the Defense Department more deeply in these domestic operations, and it has unnerved experts who believe it portends a frightening escalation.
Woman red dress grey cat, by Theresa Tanner, based on a painting by Modigliani.
The memo lays out the need to persuade top Pentagon officials to get much more serious about using the military to combat illegal immigration—and not just at the border. It suggests that DHS is anticipating many more uses of the military in urban centers, noting that L.A.-style operations may be needed “for years to come.” And it likens the threat posed by transnational gangs and cartels to having “Al Qaeda or ISIS cells and fighters operating freely inside America,” hinting at a ramped-up militarized posture inside the interior.
“The memo is alarming, because it speaks to the intent to use the military within the United States at a level not seen since Japanese internment,” Carrie Lee, senior fellow at the German Marshall Fund, told me. “The military is the most powerful, coercive tool our country has. We don’t want the military doing law enforcement. It absolutely undermines the rule of law.”
The memo was authored by Philip Hegseth—the younger brother of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth—who is a senior adviser to Homeland Security secretary Kristi Noem and DHS liaison officer to the Defense Department. As such it also sheds light on Hegseth the Younger’s role, which has been the subject of media speculation labeling him an obscure but influential figure in his brother’s MAGA orbit.
The memo outlines the itinerary for a July 21 meeting between senior DHS and Pentagon officials, with the goal of better coordinating the agencies’ activities in “defense of the homeland.” It details goals that Philip Hegseth hopes to accomplish in the meeting and outlines points he wants DHS officials to impress on Pentagon attendees.
Participants listed comprise the very top levels of both agencies, including Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and several of his top advisers, Joint Chiefs chairman Dan Caine, and NORTHCOM Commander Gregory Guillot. Staff include Phil Hegseth and acting ICE commissioner Todd Lyons….
Please read the rest if you have time.
Samantha Michaels at Mother Jones: ICE Plans to Build More Tent Jails for Immigrants. What Could Go Wrong?
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), now the best-funded federal lawenforcement agency in the United States, is embarking on a plan to drastically expand its detention infrastructure. But considering the $45 billion it’s been given for the job, the agency’s vision for its new facilities seems startlingly low-tech.
In July, the Wall Street Journal got its hands on internal government documents revealing that ICE wants to incarcerate more immigrants in tents, or “hardened soft-sided facilities.” The administration hopes to erect thousands of these tents “as quickly as possible to expand detention capacity…at US military bases and adjoining bricks-and-mortar ICE jails,” the Journal reported. Officials say they like this approach, at least for now, because they can quickly set up tons of beds in a few new locations rather than finding space at existing facilities here and there.
But tents raise serious humanitarian and safety issues. “There’s a reason no one wants to live in a tent,” says Eunice Cho, an attorney who challenges unconstitutional conditions in immigrant detention centers with the ACLU’s National Prison Project. “There are many, many logistical problems—with sanitation, getting food. They certainly are not weatherproof. They do not have the setup to make sure people’s medical concerns are addressed.”
Prior to 2025, ICE did not use tents for long-term detention, but soft-sided facilities are not completely new in the incarceration realm. Here are some recent examples, each highlighting problems that are almost sure to repeat themselves as the Trump administration rolls out its plan.
Michaels provides a detailed history of tent cities in the U.S. The article is well worth reading in full.
Those are my offerings for today. What do you think? What else is on your mind?
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Saturday, August 2, 2025
HIV rates among Russian soldiers surge 2,000% since start of full-scale invasion of Ukraine — Ukraine is deploying new drones to target Russian armor beyond radio horizon — Russia’s industrial activity falls to lowest level since 2022, Reuters reports — With all eyes on Kyiv, its surrounding villages are unspoken victims of Russian attacks … and more
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"Looks like Trump is taking the Cold War to the next level! 🚢🤔 While some are ordering a side of diplomacy, he’s ordering nuclear subs into position. Just another day in the geopolitical game of chess. #NuclearSubmarines #Trump #Geopolitics" Source: https://theinformer.uk
Trump orders nuclear subs into position after a spat with a Russian official? Sounds like a classic case of 'submarine diplomacy.' Just when you think diplomacy can't get any deeper! Stay tuned for the next episode of "As the Cold War Turns." #Trump #Russia #Diplomacy #NuclearSubmarines Source: https://theinformer.uk
"Looks like the game of chess just got a lot more intense! 🚢💥 With Trump moving nuclear submarines toward Russia, we're all on the edge of our seats. Just hoping this isn't another episode of 'How to Start a Cold War: The Reality Show!' #Geopolitics #NuclearSubmarines #Trump" Source: https://theinformer.uk
Just when we thought 2023 couldn’t get more unpredictable, Trump gives us a plot twist worthy of a blockbuster. Nuclear subs on the move? Let’s hope this isn’t just a game of Twitter diplomacy. Keep your friends close and your subs closer! #NuclearSubmarines #Trump #GlobalPolitics #DefenseStrategy Source: https://theinformer.uk
When job numbers are low and you have a huge scandal hanging over your head, what better time to start a #NuclearWar to distract everyone!
#Trump redeploys #NuclearSubmarines after ex-Russia president’s menacing tweet
Order comes after president’s anger at tweet from Dmitry #Medvedev which called Trump’s threat to sanction Russia over Ukraine a ‘step towards war’
Andrew Roth in Washington
Fri 1 Aug 2025
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It’s still on BBC iPlayer if anyone in the White House area or Kremlin fancies watching it…