AP: Trump says US has carried out strike against drug-carrying vessel that departed from Venezuela

Trump says the U.S. has carried out a strike in the southern Caribbean against a drug-carrying vessel that departed from Venezuela.

The president on Tuesday offered scant details on the operation.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on X that the vessel was being operated by a “designated narco-terrorist organization.”

The press office of Venezuela’s government did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the announcement.

Rudy Giuliani to receive Presidential Medal of Freedom, Trump says

Stocks are soaring following a bad jobs report - because everyone believes this forces the Fed to cut interest rates. Tesla is especially doing well on news that the Tesla BoD proposes to offer a huge 10-year bonus deal to Elon Musk, dilute the Tesla shareholders and offers to invest in Elon Musk's xAI (because xAI is burning cash fast). So good news all around, I guess?

Full-time jobs: -357K

Part-time jobs: +597K

Every tweet from Westerners shitting on the SCO summit is filled with Indians shitting on the West:
https://xcancel.com/WarMonitor3/status/1962435315202772993

https://archive.ph/SUfBy

New U.S. Anti-Ballistic Interceptor Must Cost Under $750,000 — Is It Even Possible?

The Pentagon is seeking new ways to cheapen the missile defense against modern threats like Iskander or Zircon with a new competition announced the other day. The U.S. Missile Defense Agency (MDA) has announced a competition to develop a low-cost interceptor for cruise, ballistic, and hypersonic missiles, with a target unit price not exceeding $750,000. The goal is highly ambitious, but potentially very helpful, considering that a single Patriot PAC-3 MSE interceptor costs an average of $4.97 million — and typically two are fired per target. To cut costs, the MDA intends to rely on existing commercial and military components, along with cheap manufacturing practices.

The interceptor must also be designed with modularity and open architecture in mind, enabling easier modernization and sensor integration in the future. The minimum technical requirements include exo- and endoatmospheric interception of ballistic and hypersonic threats — such as russia's Kalibr, Iskander, and Kinzhal missiles. The interceptor should reach speeds of at least Mach 5, have a range of 200 km, and use a high-explosive fragmentation warhead with terminal homing guidance. The interceptor also must support in-flight target updates and trajectory corrections to engage maneuvering hypersonic gliders. At the same time, the system has to fit inside both Patriot launchers and naval vertical launch systems (VLS).

To summarize, the program seeks a unified, budget-friendly interceptor designed to counter the kind of massive mixed salvos of missiles seen in Ukraine — one that doesn't cost all the money in the world. This reflects an adequate understanding of today's priorities, especially against the known shortage of interceptors in NATO countries. However, achieving 200 km range and ballistic missile interception for under $750,000 per unit seems highly optimistic. Perhaps, some innovative design or its manufacturing technique could make it possible, but meeting both performance and cost requirements is surely a difficult task. Submissions to the competition are accepted by the end of September. After that, there will be a six-month preparation phase, followed by a year of prototype development and testing. For now, the objective is limited to "prototype demonstrations," with the full program expected to take two to five years.

Well, I guess finally a tacit admission by the Americans that their air defense equipment costs way too fucking much - note that this is coming on the heels of a whole lot of such munitions being expended defending Israel, plus all the stuff that's been eaten up over several years in Ukraine, so replacement of all that is likely on people's minds. But somehow going down from nearly 5 million to 750k doesn't seem particularly likely. Even eliminating the MIC graft factor, there's just a degree of inherent complexity to such a missile, it's going to end up costing a decent bit even if you are very efficient.

Everyone on the central committee looks fucking miserable to be out in the sun without shade.

Yemen struck Ramon Airport with a drone, injuring several settlers. Will update with upcoming statement in 30 min.

https://t.me/SABAYEen/81252

Triumphing for the oppressed Palestinian people and their dear Mujahideen, and in response to the crimes of genocide and starvation perpetrated by the Zionist enemy against our people in the Gaza Strip, and to affirm Yemen's steadfast position in the battle of the promised conquest and holy jihad.

The UAV force of the Yemeni Armed Forces carried out a military operation with a large number of drones targeting numerous targets in the Negev, Umm al-Rashrash, Ashkelon, Ashdod, and Yaffa regions.

The attacks were distributed as follows:

A drone targeted Ramon Airport, which, by Allah's grace, directly hit the airport and caused the airport to shut down and halt air traffic.

Three drones targeted two sensitive military targets in the Negev.

A drone targeted a vital target in Ashkelon.

A drone targeted Lod Airport.

And two drones targeted a vital target in the Ashdod area.

The operation successfully achieved its objectives, thanks to Allah, while Israeli and American interception systems failed to detect and intercept a number of the drones.

The Yemeni Armed Forces affirm that they will escalate their military operations and will not back down from their support for Gaza, regardless of the consequences. They also affirm that Yemen, by Allah's grace, is developing its weapons to be more effective and efficient.

The Yemeni Armed Forces assure all air navigation companies that the airports inside occupied Palestine are unsafe and will be continuously targeted. The Armed Forces bear no responsibility for this, they must quickly leave occupied Palestine and refrain from returning to these airports, as they have become unsafe.

To the Zionist herds, we say: Our armed forces will prove to you that your foolish leadership is merely fooling you with its assurances. We have the means to strike at security systems and sensitive targets, and the coming days, Allah's willing, will reveal that to you.

"Those who do wrong will soon know by what [unforeseen] reversal they will be overturned." Allah Almighty has spoken the truth.

Sana'a, Rabi' al-Awwal 15, 1447 AH September 7, 2025 AD

Issued by the Yemeni Armed Forces

http://t.me/army21ye

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Ikik it's honest etc etc. But why tf does the Prez have the power to rename entire departments at will?

Apparently it's still DoD legally. But still why is it allowed?

First batch of Moses’ Staff/Staff of Moses Operations has dropped including a Yassin 105 and guerilla action devices with a fighter trying to open up the hatch of an armored vehicle

https://tankie.tube/w/m7JkcY99s1THs3pVDxVh3U

brian berletic's vid on indonesia confirms the presence of USAID / ford foundation backed groups in the protests.

it's pretty obvious to anybody who has been following color revolutions for a while that there are definite imperialist forces moving in the protests. especially in recent years, SEA has been a hot-bed of color revolution forces that the US has been building to destabilize the region in a new arab spring.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqgOn94c23M

video link

an interesting thread about how focus on special forces causes the regular infantry to decline in quality https://xcancel.com/ArmchairW/status/1964131097899393419

Reform of the US Army: The Infantry Brain Drain

The US Army's "line" infantry units are in practice fourth-rate formations that have been systematically stripped of talented personnel. How is this? Well, it's quite simple - there are multiple "tiers" (literally called that) of elite infantry or special forces units in the US Army that draw their personnel from the same pool of personnel that populates the Army's infantry line. Getting into one of these units - the Rangers, the Green Berets, the constellation of spooky black ops units "above" normal SF - is a massive prestige boost and career enhancer for soldiers. Even a Ranger scroll - let alone a green beret - opens doors for Army and post-service civilian careers that a blue cord simply does not. Ambitious and talented soldiers - predominantly infantrymen - are thus aggressively sucked into a small, concentrated pool of elite troops and out of the line units that provide the foundation of the US Army's combat power.

How much of an effect does this have on the Army's line infantry? Let's run the numbers: The US Army currently has 32 active-duty brigade combat teams, where the large majority of the Army's infantry force resides. Between them (and assuming they're at full strength with thousand-strong, going-to-Afghanistan light and Stryker infantry battalions, which is a huge stretch these days) the force has approximately 74,000 infantrymen on strength in line units. The US Army also maintains the 75th Ranger Regiment, 1st Special Forces Command, and feeds into a number of black ops units. This amounts to something on the order of:

• 2,000 "scrolled" Ranger infantry in the Ranger Regiment
• 4,000 Green Berets in the five active-duty Groups and elsewhere in SOCOM
• 1,000 operators in spooky units

This is a total of 7,000 personnel - representing the best 10% of the US Army's total dismounted combat force - concentrated into elite units. The effect that removing such a large number of high-performing personnel from line units will have on the residual effectiveness of those line units is obvious. It's tantamount to the removal of a badass, aggressive, high-performing leader from every line infantry squad in the Army. Anyone with even a little familiarity with the military will know immediately what kind of effect that has. The utility that the Army gets out of this vast SOF enterprise does not compensate for the damage that's done to line units to create it. Ranger missions are duplicative of the regular light infantry. The Green Berets have a track record of 60 years of consistent failure to accomplish their core mission of training effective local irregular forces. And the spooky guys were infamous for rampaging into line unit AOs during the late war and undoing months or years of careful counterinsurgency work to get random mid-level bad guy scalps.

So what's to be done about this? Easy - prune SOCOM with a chainsaw and watch the regular infantry rise to the challenge.

Venezuela's Minister of Communication and Information, Freddy Ñáñez, claims that a video presented by the United States to report an attack on a boat off the Venezuelan coast was created by artificial intelligence. The US government said it carried out the attack on criminals.

The destruction of the boat was announced yesterday evening (September 2) in the Oval Office by US President Donald Trump and Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who posted a video on social media as “proof” of the offensive. “In the last few minutes, we have literally just destroyed a boat loaded with drugs. There were a lot of drugs on that boat. That boat left Venezuela, a lot of stuff is leaving Venezuela. So we destroyed it, and you'll see that as soon as this meeting is over,” Trump said.

According to Ñáñez, when the video images were submitted to Gemini, the AI pointed to strong evidence that it had been generated by artificial intelligence (AI). “It seems that Marco Rubio continues to lie to his president: after putting him in a dead end, he now gives him as ‘proof’ a video with AI (as proven). What does Gemini say about this video?” said the Venezuelan minister.

A report by state-owned VTV presents Gemini's full response, which was also published on social media by the minister. According to AI, the material contains several signs of digital manipulation. Among them, an explosion considered simplified and unrealistic, water and motion effects that reveal artificial textures, as well as the presence of overlapping elements, such as the text “UNCLASSIFIED” and a watermark with no identified origin.

“These elements, along with the lack of detail, are common in AI-generated content,” says Gemini, pointing out that the video could be a deepfake or synthetic content, which is increasingly used in disinformation campaigns, entertainment, and even artistic expressions. “Marco Rubio is encouraging war and trying to stain President Donald Trump's hands with blood,” said the Venezuelan minister, condemning the use of such resources to justify narratives of war.

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Fake propaganda underway? Lil Marco claims the US military conducted a "lethal strike" against a drug vessel. How did they know it had drugs before striking? Also, brand awareness is key, but cartels don't really carry big logos on shipments. Imaginary ones even less so

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New decision made to disarm Hezbollah and Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon

“The Cabinet reviewed the army’s plan and welcomed it.

The Cabinet decided to keep the army command’s disarmament plan and its deliberations confidential.

The army command will submit a monthly report to the Cabinet on the disarmament plan.”

Information Minister Paul Morcos

https://t.me/alakhbar_english/29313

The Lebanese government has made their decision, now let them enforce it

Yves engler doing a citations needed article about Jewish exceptionalism in Canadian media

No news in the above, but relevant to the way the Israeli genocide is discussed in the newsmega

US deploying 10 fighter jets (F-35) to Puerto Rico for drug cartel fight - Reuters

WASHINGTON, Sept 5 (Reuters) - The U.S. has ordered the deployment of 10 F-35 fighter jets to a Puerto Rico airfield to conduct operations against drug cartels, two sources briefed on the matter said, in a move likely to further inflame tensions in the region.

The sources, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the 10 fighter jets are being sent to conduct operations against designated narco-terrorist organizations operating in the southern Caribbean. The planes should arrive in the area by late next week, they said.

Deploying suspected bombers, and now F-35s to fight the cartels? Sure...

If these are the F-35B variant, they are capable of short take off and landings, and can operate from the USS Iwo Jima assault ship, which currently has AV-8B Harrier Plus aircraft.

Xi Jinping meets Masoud Pezeshkian in Beijing ahead of the 80th Anniversary of victory in the Chinese People’s War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression and the World Anti-Fascist War

Hopefully the Iranian reformists have learned their lesson this year and will never take the Americans for their word again. Even if a future Democrat President tries wooing them again, a “25-year Comprehensive Cooperation Plan” cited by Pezeshkian sounds very hard to break away from.

From last year, but relevant. BRICS isn’t saving anybody, we have to save ourselves. All Xi’s talk about international law and global governance is unfortunately made moot by the blind eye turned to the genocide

https://www.globalresearch.ca/genocide-brics-regimes-nurture-israel-economically/5870849

Missing Canadian soldier found dead in Latvia

Why do NATO troops keep getting themselves killed in the Baltics?

A pair of T-62M tanks of the Russian Federation with uh... some heavy anti-drone modifications, stored somewhere in Ukraine, 2025.

Field modifications are basically just "toss whatever you can find on the tank, weld it all together and call it a day". I'm not entirely sure these tanks are meant for frontline combat, first because they're old unless we're talking about "T-62M Obr. 2022" (They have some upgrades to their FCS and thermals), which doesn't make them as useful as, say, a T-72B3, but you can use it on secondary fronts or whatever. Either way, most of the T-55s and T-62s in service with the Russian Army are used as makeshift artillery, as the Russians have a shitton of 100mm and 115mm shells in storage and the main guns of said vehicles can be used for indirect fire so, why not use them?

A number of those were used as VBIED drones too, heavily protected to sustain a number of drone attacks and also filled with explosives so that it may drive to an Ukrainian position and blow itself up. A bunch of older generation of T-72s were also used this way.

Lukashenko is just happy to be there. Every other leader is walking in the parade pokerfaced. He was giddy af

gold is climbing higher to 3600 and british/japanese yields are at record highs (5.7/3.2 for 30). however t-bills (30y) still below 5%. Please mister market makers, explode commodity market to devalue the dollar.

(if one operating on the theory of three existing financial markets (stocks/bonds/commodities), in the absence of stable currency evaluation, commodities represent (kind of) universal value, which doesn't apply to stocks during downturn, cause they'll get discounted/inflated away. But as stock market continues to insist there is no downturn, maybe bond markets will just buy nvidia and delay inflationary shock to cash out via retirement)

(although if commodities shock happens, i must make a meme of apology form to gold bugs hall of famers)

p.s. the real markets ( futures) stays losing, aside from coffee, which rose 25% over august. #beanwatch

p.p.s there is real estate as kinda comparable money sink lately, but it seems even more nuts than stock market to invest in

Reuters: Trump says India and Russia appear "lost" to "deepest, darkest China"

What's the play here? I refuse to believe that JDPON Don is giving up India unilaterally and the US foreign policy blob is powerless.

FUCK! HE'S ALIVE

continuing on with the F-35 that's being produced too slow, it's also getting upgraded too slow! https://archive.ph/y60Ii

Pentagon cuts back F-35 upgrades to slow schedule slips: Auditors

The F-35 Joint Strike Fighter program is scaling back its ambitions for a slate of upgrades called Block 4, the Government Accountability Office said Wednesday, as the aircraft struggles with production delays, cost overruns and supply chain snarls. The downgrading of plans for F-35 upgrades, revealed in GAO’s report “F-35 Program: Actions Needed to Address Late Deliveries and Improve Future Development,” is the latest challenge for the vital — as well as troubled and expensive — program. “The F-35 remains critical to our national defense, as well as that of our partners and allies, and is expected to retain critical roles for decades to come,” the report said. “After nearly 20 years of aircraft production, however, the F-35 program continues to overpromise and underdeliver.” Block 4 is meant to boost the Lockheed Martin-made jet’s weapons capabilities, sensors and sensor fusion, and comes on the heels of another upgrade known as Technology Refresh 3, or TR-3. However, Block 4 is now at least $6 billion over budget and years behind schedule, in part due to delays with TR-3.

This fucking rocks. Good band, good singers, soviet vibes on the choreography.

Some photos of dudes hanging out being fellas. Honestly did not know Xi mogged them in height

As we're waiting for China's parade to commemorate the defeat of Japanese fascists, here's the 80th anniversary of Vietnam's National Day:
https://xcancel.com/AnnQuann/status/1962747263001993701

Yeah the nukes scared me, thank god I’m not an imperialist

China parade link

https://www.youtube.com/live/hsYpf7_E1KY

Since the start of the trial of Jair Bolsonaro and seven other defendants accused of leading the 2022/2023 coup plot on Tuesday, allies of the former president have been using an English hashtag in posts to defend the captain on social media: #BolsonaroFree.

The slogan, used by Flávio Bolsonaro, Congressman Nikolas Ferreira, Senator Rogério Marinho, and several other politicians, reached the top of the trending topics on X. “Free” is translated into Portuguese as “livre.” Logically, therefore, they are calling for the former president's freedom.

However, English grammar dictates that “free” after a noun means “free from.” The desired effect for Bolsonaro supporters would be achieved if the hashtag were #FreeBolsonaro.

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Pro-Palestine demo in Estonia...

Members of the Neo-Nazi EKRE party gave their thoughts

^05/09/25^

More photos. Photographer: Siim Lõvi /ERR

"By having and even strengthening political and economic relations with Israel at this time, instead of taking steps against the state that is committing genocide, Estonia has become an accomplice in these crimes against humanity,"

said Maria Shevtchuk, one of the protests organisers, referring to the visits to Estonia this summer by Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa'ar and President Isaac Herzog, the Estonian-Israeli business seminar organized by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and the plan to open an Israeli embassy in Tallinn.

The protestors marched from Tammsaare Park through the Old Town then finally reaching the Riigikogu (Parliament) where the protestors chanted at the building. Several MPs exited the building, including two Neo-Nazi MPs of the EKRE party (Estonian People's Conservative Party), Martin Helme the leader of the party, not to be confused with his father, Mart Helme, who also lead the party prior to his ascendancy and Rain Epler, a somewhat well-known Nazi abroad and at home for his ridiculous haircut. Epler showed the protestors his middle finger before exiting his car in some attempt to argue with the protestors , then deciding he'd prefer to just drive off. Helme only gave a disappointed look, maybe being a bit smarter than his counterpart in not getting himself in a mess.

There was also an MP who drove off while, crossing herself three times in the process. Perhaps because she assumed this was some sign of the Muslim "invasion". Couldn't identify her, perhaps she was another member of the Helme dynasty, Eeva Helme.

Photo: Rain Epler (on the left) and Martin Helme (on the right) celebrating Trumps "third" presidential victory.

Idk if this is a right place to ask this but where can I watch Chinas 2025 Victory Day military parade ?

Venezuela buzzed the USS Jason Dunham (DDG-109), an AEGIS equipped guided missile destroyer of the US Navy, in international waters with 2x F-16A/B aircraft armed with munitions earlier today.

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The United States is now forward deploying bomber aircraft (unknown if B-2, B-1 or B-52) to the US Virgin Islands. Three KC-46A Pegasus mid air refueling aircraft with "HIFI" call signs were tracked flying to the US Virgin Islands a few hours ago. An unknown amount of bombers likely in tow.

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What is likely to happen if Maduro ends up being as naive or makes the same stupid mistakes others have and the US succeeds with their decapitation strike?