August 16
BTC is $63,089 | 13:57 Sunday
BTC was $62,900 on Friday when oil was trading at $82.30
RusTruth
Russian Strikes Devastate Ukraine. Faced with the collapse of domestic air defense coverage, the defeat of elite Azov formations in Dobropillya, and an impending winter energy failure, European capitals (London, Paris, and Berlin) have executed a 180-degree diplomatic reversal: urgently pressing the White House to restart direct negotiations with Moscow before winter freezes battlefield positions.
Zero
'Delusional': Iran Fires Back At Trump's Make 'Hormuz Strait A Territory Of The US' Ambitions
Ukrainian Drone Swarm Attack Obliterates Wildberries' Largest Warehouse Near Moscow
Second Ceuta Border Invasion Attempt Underway As Military-Aged Migrants Mass Near Spanish Enclave
What To Expect From El Niño And La Niña?
Peak
Today’s Digest covers Harvard China funds, secret college classes, Islamic school field trips, AI judges, data-center power shortfalls, Ukraine-Russia strikes, food crisis risks, digital-ID lobbying, lab-leak media edits, and vaccine schedule refusals.
Iran
Iran’s top negotiator declares victory in war as army chief offers bounty for US troops
Any Iranian who captures or kills a US service member will receive a $30,000 reward.
AlJz
Iran-Oman talks on Hormuz continue; UN delivers aid to West Bank families
NYP
Acting Navy secretary salutes USS Abraham Lincoln crew — claims vessel will ‘return home soon’
John
How the US Navy Ran Its Own Sailors Short on Food and Soap
A carrier holding station in the North Arabian Sea operates at the far end of a very long supply chain, often without the easy, friendly, high-capacity port access that a deployment in, say, the Mediterranean enjoys. Everything the crew eats and uses either came aboard before the deployment or has to be carried out to the ship by the very replenishment fleet that is stretched thin.
Sail
The AI Adventuress. The English language needs
more use of the fine old word “adventuress.”
Even Jeffrey Epstein found the wife of Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei to be a little forward.
Seventy-Two Hours from Desolation
How Just-in-Time Distribution Created a Seventy-Two Hour House of Cards. American grocery establishments operate upon principles that would have seemed insane to previous generations. Inventory turns over every three to five days. Warehouses hold minimal stock. The entire edifice depends upon continuous resupply—trucks arriving daily, sometimes multiple times daily, to restock
Colorado River Water is running out.
The question isn’t whether we must change, but whether we change by choice or by catastrophe. Time for pretending ends. Time for difficult decisions is here. And the fate of forty million people, of a trillion-dollar economy, of a civilization built on a disappearing river—this fate hangs in the balance, waiting to see if we’re capable of facing truth before it’s too late.
Zero
We’re out of time. The future is now. Your Grandfather's Military Is Dead
The Factory Is the Front. You don’t win a drone war with a boutique defense-industrial base. You win it with production, and not by the dozens, hundreds or thousands, but by the hundreds of thousands, if not millions.
Doug Noland CBB Weekly
Expect Trouble. Beyond inflation issues, fragile bond markets face unrelenting massive supply.
Debt Rattle
We need to remind people regularly what exactly the Debt Rattle model is.
The revenue model is shaped by Google refusing to place ads on our pages, and Google having a de facto monopoly on ads. Just yesterday I received another “AdSense Publisher Policy Violation Report”, which don’t even specify which policy is being violated. But I haven’t shown any of their ads for years! It’s a pathetic little bunch, that Google, if you ask me.
Insta
Did you notice? Summer is typically riot season. However, since USAID was defunded, SPLC indicted, and ActBIue being investigated, things have been pretty calm this summer. Just saying…
The DIY M.B.A.: How Four Dropouts Built Companies Without a Degree | WSJ
KR: Like Dow Jones, most companies do not have degrees --especially in English.
Mkts 2Y 10Y 30Y
Market expectations may not be impacted much by the upcoming US data that features July industrial output and preliminary August PMI
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