Source: BBC News [UK State Media]
“A white South African farm worker accused of killing two black women says he was forced to feed their bodies to pigs, according to lawyers. Adrian de Wet is one of three men facing murder charges after Maria Makgato, 45, and Lucia Ndlovu, 34, were killed while allegedly looking for food on a farm near Polokwane in South Africa’s northern Limpopo province last year. Their bodies were then alleged to have been given to pigs in an apparent attempt to dispose of the evidence. Mr De Wet, 20, turned state witness when the trial started on Monday and says farm owner Zachariah Johannes Olivier shot and killed the two women. Ms Makgato and Ms Ndlovu were searching for soon-to-expire dairy products which had been left for pigs when they were killed.” (08/04/25)
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4gemjql1r5o
Source: Karl Dickey’s Freedom Vanguard
by Karl Dickey
“For years, we were told of a Trump-Russia plot. Now, declassified memos show the real conspiracy was waged by the Clinton campaign and the CIA to subvert a democracy they claimed to be saving.” (08/03/25)
https://palmbeachexaminer.substack.com/p/what-if-the-colluders-were-the-accusers
Source: France 24 [French state media]
“Boeing workers who build fighter jets went on strike Monday at midnight Central Daylight Time. About 3,200 workers at Boeing facilities in St. Louis; St. Charles, Missouri; and Mascoutah, Illinois, voted to reject a modified four-year labor agreement with Boeing, the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers union said Sunday. … The vote followed members’ rejection last week of an earlier proposal from the troubled aerospace giant, which had included a 20% wage increase over four years.” (08/04/25)
https://www.france24.com/en/americas/20250804-enough-is-enough-thousands-boeing-workers-strike-pay-work-conditions
Source: The Bulwark
“Fight Everywhere or Lose Everything! (w/ David Pepper).” (08/03/25)
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/fight-everywhere-or-lose-everything-w-david-pepper/id1772157676?i=1000720476287
Source: exile in happy valley
by Nicky Reid
“Western culture is defined by violent conquest and towering social hierarchies. So, it really isn’t all that shocking that nearly every western social hierarchy seems to become a den of rampant child abuse. Where I live, in central Pennsylvania, this hideous truth exists all around me. While the Catholic Church turned nearly every diocese in the state into a glorified hunting ground for pedophile priests, Penn State University afforded this exact same luxury to assistant coach Jerry Sandusky in exchange for a few winning football seasons. In both of these cases, the actual predators were relatively few in number …. an immense amount of power in a small number of hands affords a select few the ability to destroy lives recreationally while an obedient society enables them to do so.” (08/03/25)
https://exileinhappyvalley.blogspot.com/2025/08/jeffrey-epstein-is-mirror-of-american.html
Source: SFGate
“Tennessee is set to execute an inmate Tuesday without deactivating his implanted defibrillator, as uncertainty lingers about whether the device will shock his heart when a lethal drug takes effect. Barring a late reprieve requested from the governor or the courts, Byron Black’s execution will go forward after a legal back-and-forth over whether the state would need to turn off his implantable cardioverter-defibrillator, or ICD. The nonprofit Death Penalty Information Center said it’s unaware of any other cases in which an inmate was making similar claims to Black’s about ICDs or pacemakers. Black’s attorneys said they haven’t found a comparable case, either. The execution would be Tennessee’s second since May, after a pause for five years, first because of COVID-19 and then because of missteps by the Tennessee Department of Correction.” (08/04/25)
https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/tennessee-set-to-execute-inmate-without-turning-20801495.php
Source: The UnPopulist
by Shikha Dalmia
“The first step toward a new liberal international order is calling it not a rules-based — but a principles-based — liberal order. The semantic difference matters when trying to forge a coalition whose members could have different interests at any given moment. A rules-based order connotes that they must accept limits on advancing their interests based on pre-set rules. These rules might be agreed upon mutually, but they nevertheless signify restrictions. Principles, on the other hand, refer to one’s own independently chosen normative commitments. Entering arrangements that advance them therefore represents not a loss of autonomy but staying true to one’s own values. Interests can diverge based on time and circumstances—principles don’t.” (08/03/25)
https://www.theunpopulist.net/p/never-again-should-a-sole-superpower
Source: The American Prospect
by Suzanne Gordon
“At his confirmation hearing in January of 2025, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Doug Collins, a former congressman from Georgia, assured the Senate Veterans’ Affairs Committee of his commitment to provide specialized, high-quality medical care for the roughly nine million veterans enrolled in the nation’s largest and only truly integrated public health care system, the Veterans Health Administration (VHA). But Collins, a chaplain in the Air Force Reserve, also explained that his mandate from President Trump is to make it ‘easier for veterans to get their health care when and where it’s most convenient for them,’ by giving them greater choice between in-house and outsourced care. To do this, he planned to lean on the network of 1.7 million private-sector providers who are part of the Veterans Community Care Program (VCCP), created by the VA MISSION Act of 2018.” (08/04/25)
https://prospect.org/health/2025-08-04-illusion-of-choice-va-health-care/
Source: Al Jazeera [Qatari state media]
“India and the Philippines have staged their first joint sail and naval exercises in the disputed South China Sea. The two-day joint military deployment that kicked off on Sunday is likely to anger China, which claims nearly the entire key waterway and has separate territorial disputes with the two Asian countries. Philippine Chief of Staff Romeo Brawner Jr said on Monday that the joint sail took place inside his country’s exclusive economic zone. ‘We did not experience any untoward incidents, but there are still those shadowing us – as we had already expected,’ Brawner told reporters, without naming China. In past joint patrols with other foreign navies, Chinese navy and coastguard ships have kept watch from a distance, according to the Philippine military.” (08/04/25)
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/8/4/philippines-india-hold-first-joint-naval-drill-in-disputed-south-china-sea
Source: Lions of Liberty
“The $11 Million Lesson Ryan Trahan Just Taught the World.” (08/03/25)
https://www.lionsofliberty.com/episodes/the-brian-nichols-show-the-11-million-lesson-ryan-trahan-just-taught-the-world
