“Flesh shall rot away while they stand”: A modern outbreak meets an ancient prophecy
A rare and often fatal “flesh-eating” bacteria has killed at least seven people along the Gulf Coast so far this year, with health officials in two states warning residents to stay cautious around warm coastal water through the rest of the summer. Florida’s Department of Health confirmed a second death from Vibrio vulnificus this year in data posted August 6, alongside 14 additional confirmed cases. Louisiana has recorded five deaths and nine total cases in 2026, every one of them a hospitalized patient who contracted the infection through a wound exposed to seawater and who had an underlying health condition. That marks a sharp jump for Louisiana specifically: Once in the bloodstream, it can cause sepsis, blistering skin lesions, and organ failure within hours, …..
Nigerian court rules Islamic police can’t arrest Christian convert
A Nigerian woman was detained and beaten after fleeing abuse and embracing Christianity, but now a top court is protecting her rights and curbing Sharia forces. The ruling came in the case of Sarah*, now 22, who fled her family home in Kano State in 2025 after suffering abuse from her elder siblings, who were also attempting to force her into marriage against her wishes. (Sarah’s parents had died years prior.) Sarah took refuge with a Christian family, the Abaras, and while living with them, converted to Christianity herself.
North Korean ballistic missile kills 7 steelworkers on their way to shelter, shuts down Zaporizhstal plant
A Russian ballistic strike on Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine, killed seven employees of the Zaporizhstal steel plant and injured 21 others, Ukrainian steelmaker Metinvest, the plant’s majority owner, said on 11 August. The workers were on their way to a shelter after an air raid alert was announced when the strike hit the industrial site,
‘Abortion shot’: Senators release doc showing 82% miscarriage rate after COVID jab
A newly released trove of Dr. Anthony Fauci’s communications during the early days of the COVID pandemic shows that the former COVID czar knew that the experimental drug had proved deadly to the unborn, with vaccinated pregnant women miscarrying at a staggering rate of 82%. Yet he and other government health officials continued to promote the deadly jab as “safe and effective” for pregnant moms.
Two Russian refineries burn – Orsk hit by drones 1,500 km out, Komsomolsk ablaze 6,500 km east
Two Russian oil refineries caught fire on 11 August, but the two incidents tell very different stories. In Orsk, in Orenburg Oblast, drones sparked a blaze that Ukrainian monitoring channels quickly linked to Kyiv’s long-range campaign. Meanwhile, thousands of kilometers farther east, a Rosneft plant in Komsomolsk-on-Amur burned for reasons that remain unexplained.
Russia’s Odesa strikes halve Ukraine’s grain export forecast
Ukraine’s Agriculture Ministry has cut its forecast for agricultural exports in 2026–2027 by 54% as Russian attacks disrupt shipping through Odesa’s ports, Bloomberg reported. The ministry now expects 29.6 million tons of agricultural exports, down from 64.4 million. Its wheat export forecast fell by 53%, from 17.6 million tons to 8.3 million tons.
New round of Israel-Lebanon talks set for September in Rome
The US State Department announced on Tuesday that the US will host the talks, which will take place in Rome, Italy, in September. “The talks will continue in Beirut, Jerusalem and Washington in the meantime. We view the development positively,”
US helicopter fires on Panamanian-flagged ship heading to Iranian port
A US military helicopter fired on a Panamanian-flagged ship in the Gulf of Oman early Tuesday, The Wall Street Journal reports. The ship was hit in the rudder, an American source told the newspaper. The information was confirmed by Central Command, Centcom. According to a statement, the helicopter fired two missiles at the engine room of the ship Vela Nova after “the ship’s civilian crew ignored repeated warnings from US forces.”
Seismologist on Colombia earthquake: Unusually large, but not unusual for the region
Now this was a somewhat unusually large earthquake in Colombia, but if you go a little further south towards Ecuador, the earthquakes have been even larger.
Syrian court sentences Bashar al-Assad to death in absentia
A Syrian court on Tuesday sentenced ousted president Bashar al-Assad and his younger brother to death. They were convicted in absentia of crimes against humanity and war crimes during the 14-year civil war in Syria, which claimed the lives of half a million people. al-Assad and his brother Mahir fled to Russia after rebels entered Damascus in December 2024
German nurse convicted of 10 patient murders faces 121 more suspected cases
A former German nurse convicted of ten murders of patients is now being investigated in 121 additional suspected cases. The man, who worked at clinics in Würselen and Cologne, was sentenced to life imprisonment last year. So far, 39 bodies have been examined as part of the new investigation, the Aachen prosecutor’s office told the German news agency DPA. According to the verdict, the nurse gave dangerously large doses of sedatives to seriously ill patients between December 2023 and May 2024. The motive was, among other things, to reduce his workload during night shifts, according to prosecutors.
AI cyber threats give security leaders decision fatigue
Many security leaders at major companies, flush with expanded budgets to fend off AI-powered cyberattacks, are experiencing a level of decision fatigue that’s freezing them in their tracks. Why it matters: Those leaders are still trying to size up how autonomous cyberattacks will affect their businesses at a time when they need to be taking bold action and mobilizing quickly, experts told Axios.
UN’s Green Climate Fund isn’t “Green” or about “Climate”; it’s just a UN Fund
The UN Green Climate Fund (“GCF”) is neither Green nor about climate. They are mostly just doing normal foreign aid that the donor countries would be better off doing themselves. They have received and spent over $20 billion to date, with more billions coming.
Trump cheers Alito staying for another Supreme Court term: ‘One of the greatest of all time’
In a late-night social media post, President Donald Trump celebrated Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito’s decision to remain on the bench for another term. Trump’s celebration of the 76-year-old conservative stalwart’s decision to put off retirement comes as the midterms raise the stakes over how long Republicans will retain the Senate majority needed to confirm any eventual successor. “Great news for our Country! Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito has announced that he is staying for another Term,” Trump wrote Monday night on Truth Social. “He is one of the Greatest of All Time. We are all lucky!”
Iran’s Military Command Reshuffle Digs In For ‘Hardline’ Confrontation: US Must Meet All Demands For Hormuz Opening
Pakistan started the day by floating optimistic reports of the warring sides reverting to ‘moving toward peace efforts’ – however that appears very short-lived, or really was probably never a reality, given soon on the heels of these claims a top Iranian official has reiterated that the Strait of Hormuz will remain closed until the US corrects its ‘behavior’. According to fresh reports out of state media sources:
Not Winning? Just Change The Rules…
What binds the new Democratic Party to the new Democratic Socialists is a set of shared issues and values. That is, the radicalism of the Democrats in the age of Trump Derangement Syndrome – lawfare, de-balloting, the Mar-a-Lago raid, and calls to destroy the Electoral College, the nine-justice Supreme Court, and the filibuster – helped give birth to the socialists. But the overriding commonality among those on the new Left is that if they do not get their way, they blame the “system.” Then they seek to change the rules, no matter how hallowed those laws and conventions may have been or how much they themselves benefited from them in the past.
The Diamond Crash Accelerates
The Diamond Standard Index, tracked on Bloomberg under the ticker DIAMINDX, tumbled to new record lows during the first half of August as a surge in affordable lab-grown stones eroded the scarcity premium underpinning natural diamond prices. “Technological progress in growing diamonds in labs has been amazing. It’s no surprise most engagement rings are now using lab diamonds,”
Amb. Mike Huckabee for president? Why the unlikeliest 2028 candidate suddenly makes a lot of sense
one specific email last week from the American Renewal Project grabbed my attention. It was an op-ed sent to 70,000 pastors by David Lane, the influential evangelical leader who helped organize the largest turnout of evangelical voters in history during Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign. Buried inside was one sentence that immediately caught my attention: “We’ll throw Mike Huckabee’s name in the hat for 2028.”
‘We have no time to waste’: Netanyahu unveils Israel’s national AI program
Netanyahu said Israel has a narrow window of opportunity to establish itself among the world’s leading AI powers and linked success in the field to the country’s future economic prosperity and security. “We stand at the threshold of a new era. AI is not just another technology; it is going to change the world. We are in a historical window of opportunity, but a very short one, because the pace of change is so great that if you do not safeguard and advance yourself in this wave, you will simply be left behind. And we cannot be left behind. We have no time to waste, and we do not just want to avoid being left behind; we want to be in the number one place, a leading place,”
Six dead as Houthi missiles strike commercial vessel in Bab el-Mandeb Strait
Six individuals lost their lives Tuesday during a Houthi missile strike on a commercial vessel transiting the Bab el-Mandeb strait, according to Yemeni officials quoted by The Associated Press. Yemen’s coast guard confirmed that the casualties comprised four civilian crew members and two personnel from the government-aligned National Resistance Forces. Official statements from the Transportation Ministry of Yemen’s internationally recognized government stated that Houthi forces launched three ballistic missiles directly at the Yemeni merchant ship.
The emergence of a new Islamic military bloc
The signing in Mecca of the new Saudi-Turkish-Pakistani Joint Defense Agreement should set off alarm bells throughout Jerusalem-and, frankly, throughout Washington. On August 7, Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Pakistan signed what has been called the Mecca Joint Defense Agreement, pledging that an armed attack against one member will be treated as an attack against all three. Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan has acknowledged that the agreement is, technically, comparable to NATO’s Article 5, although the precise mechanisms for implementing that commitment remain unclear. Turkey brings one of NATO’s largest militaries, a rapidly expanding indigenous defense industry and an increasingly independent foreign policy under President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. Turkey’s ambitions for a greater regional role have led some observers to describe its foreign-policy vision in neo-Ottoman terms.
Iran to become member of BRICS Bank, increasing economic cooperation, trade
Iran is going to become a member of the BRICS Bank, Governor of the Central Bank of Iran Abdolnaser Hemmati said, according to reports from Iranian media on Tuesday evening. BRICS is an organization made up of eleven countries: Brazil, China, Egypt, Ethiopia, India, Indonesia, Iran, Russia, Saudi Arabia, South Africa and the United Arab Emirates. It is an economic and geopolitical bloc that focuses on trade and development.
Devastating ad exposes transgender mutilation of children
A new ad is taking aim at far-left Texas Democrat Senate nominee James Talarico’s record on LGBT issues, using artificial intelligence (AI) to depict the candidate as a gender “transition” surgeon looming over a little girl. The 30-second spot, created by American Principles Project (APP), evokes the famous 1964 “Daisy” ad from President Lyndon B. Johnson’s campaign that depicted a little girl picking flower petals before implicitly being caught in a nuclear explosion. The APP version replaces the looming threat of the Cold War arms race with the transgender industry. “She dreams of growing up, falling in love, becoming a mother,” a similarly voiced narrator says. “The trans industry preys on confused children.
Socialism: A System Where Government Uses Your Money To Solve Everyone Else’s Problems
They’re coming for your money and have a ton of momentum right now. Democratic Socialists are winning elections by promising free stuff, but free stuff is never actually free. Somewhere, someone has to pay for it. Unfortunately, it’s a system that is becoming increasingly popular among our young adults.
There Are Now 10 States (Plus Washington D.C.) That Allow Abortions Up To Birth
There are 8 nations where you can get an abortion up to birth. One is the US where 10 states (plus D.C.) have no gestational limits on abortion. Sadly, it’s likely more states will soon join this list. This is a crime against humanity. If we continue to kill children on an industrial scale in America, there isn’t going to be a future for America.
Judgment Day for Christian influencer who declined to feed politician’s gender fantasy
A prominent influencer has been ordered to prison – a two-year sentence reduced to house arrest – for refusing to feed a politician’s fantasy that he is a woman. Of course, being male or female is embedded in the human body down to the DNA level and does not change, irrespective of feelings, chemicals or surgeries.
Zelensky Claims North Korea Sending Up To 50K Troops To Russia; Presses Seoul To Send Missiles
Ukraine’s President Zelensky warns North Korea against its deepening involvement with Russia in the war against Ukraine. His Monday words alleged that Russia recently received additional ballistic missiles from Pyongyang and is preparing to deploy more North Korean troops, after already sending thousands to fight on the Russian side.
Witchcraft Courses Rapidly Expand Across University Campuses, Outnumbering Christianity 8 to 1 At Arizona State
Arizona State University will offer 8 courses with witchcraft, magic, or occult in the title. Meanwhile, one course will cover the bedrock faith of Western Civilization. “Think about that…At one of the largest public universities, students can choose from a small festival of courses on witchcraft, while Christianity receives [only] a single titled course.”
Israel Was Just Directly Threatened By a Nuclear-Armed Islamic Nation—And It’s Not Iran
Iran’s nuclear weapons program has been mostly obliterated by U.S. and Israeli militaries over the past 14 months. Pakistan, however, currently possesses approximately 170 nuclear warheads. The other day, Pakistani Defense Minister Khawaja Asif demanded all Islamic nations unite militarily against Israel, especially over the ‘Palestinian’ issue.
UN’s Green Climate Fund isn’t “Green” or about “Climate”; it’s just a UN Fund
“The UN Green Climate Fund isn’t “green” nor is it about the climate. It is simply foreign aid under another name. David Wojick explains why and concludes, “It makes no sense for donor countries to run billions of dollars of their limited foreign aid money through the fraudulent and wasteful Green Climate Fund.”
Netanyahu spokesman to JNS: Hamas must disarm before Gaza pullout
Israel will reject any Gaza Strip ceasefire framework that fails to require total Hamas disarmament, PM Netanyahu’s spokesperson said, warning that the terrorist group must be completely stripped of its arsenal before Israel considers withdrawing its troops. The Islamist group is “just as committed to terrorism today” as it was on Oct. 7, 2023.
Typhoon Dolphin floods central China, parts of Beijing
Typhoon Dolphin churned deeper inland to the central Chinese province of Hubei on Tuesday, flooding streets, forcing the closure of tourist areas and halting construction projects, as forecasters warned of extreme rainfall across a broad swathe of the country.
Fauci Privately Flagged Miscarriage Risk Before Telling Pregnant Women There Were ‘No Red Flags’
Newly disclosed text messages show Fauci privately entertained the possibility that the COVID vaccine could trigger first-trimester miscarriages, months before he told the public there was no risk. The messages come from a trove Sen. Rand Paul and Sen. Ron Johnson released, containing over 34,000 texts and 522 voicemails.