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Whitney Webb | How the Epstein Network is Privatizing Govt & Building the Surveillance State | Aug. 6, 2026

Source: Chris Hedges YouTube



Description:
Whitney Webb explains how Leslie Wexner privatized Ohio’s state government, and is using his position between the markets and the state to build out the ‘Silicon Heartland’. 

Read Whitney's article here: Technate, Ohio: How Leslie Wexner and Jeffrey Epstein Built The Silicon Heartland

Timeline:
(00:00) Intro
(03:10) Who is Leslie Wexner?
(07:09) What is the agenda behind the data centers?
(14:46) What is the vision of Big Tech?
(17:18) Privatizing state funds
(20:02) Mike DeWine’s connections to Leslie Wexner
(21:08) What are public-private-partnerships?
(25:08) Israeli ties to the tech companies
(28:49) Anduril and the Thiel network
(32:11) Smart Columbus
(34:59) Totalitarian capitalism
(41:03) Outro

The New Atlas | US Shell Factory Exposed: Why US For-Profit Industry Can't Compete with Russian/Chinese Production | Aug. 13, 2026

Source: The New Atlas youtube



The US had set the target of manufacturing 100,000 155 mm artillery shells every month by the end of 2025.

Instead, it has failed to reach even half this target.

This is in part due to an entire General Dynamics factory that failed to make a single usable shell component in 2 years and after receiving hundreds of millions of dollars to do so.

Far from just an issue with artillery shells, US military industrial production is being held back by systemic flaws rooted in the for-profit nature of the US government and economy itself - siphoning off billions (if not trillions) of tax dollars and not only returning nothing of value for the American public - but diverting funding abroad on wars of aggression at the expense of funding healthcare, education, and infrastructure at home.

This reveals US for-profit industry as the very threat in reality to the American people, industry and the politicians they own, claim Russia, China, and Iran are in fiction.

Paranormal Research Paul Stonehill | Mysterious Headless Viking and His Woman: New Russian Archaeological Discovery | Aug. 13, 2026

Source: Paranormal Research Paul Stonehill youtube



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Paul Stonehill covers a new Russian find: large Viking-age graves holding a man and a woman, dubbed a headless Viking and his companion. He places the burial in the Varangian story — Swedish warriors, traders, and settlers who moved into today's Belarus, Russia, and Ukraine in the 8th–9th centuries and helped form Kievan Rus.

Larry Johnson & Pepe Escobar | Breaking: Exposes Bessent's Dumbest Claim Yet Trump Says “Total Control” Iran Says No | Aug. 12, 2026

Source: Transition Protocol youtube



Description:
Strait of Hormuz irrelevant in two years? Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said so on Aug. 8, claiming pipelines will replace most Gulf oil flow — but existing bypass capacity covers less than a quarter of what actually crosses Hormuz.

The same week, President Trump claimed “total control” of the Strait, and Iran's newly confirmed Supreme National Security Council chief, Mohsen Rezaei, said it stays shut until the US ends the war and returns frozen assets. Pepe Escobar, Larry Johnson, and Zulfiqar Ali break down all three claims against the actual numbers, plus the new Mecca Joint Defence Agreement and a US Strategic Petroleum Reserve that just hit its lowest level since 1983.

Beyond the headlines: what a stalled Hormuz reopening means for global diesel and jet fuel supply, why the US emergency oil reserve matters for every driver and airline, and what Pakistan's active back-channel diplomacy with Tehran could mean for the weeks ahead. Verification note: claims in this episode are labeled Confirmed, Developing, or Assessment/Unverified throughout. Source-based intelligence is clearly flagged and should be weighed accordingly — we'd rather be right than first.

Alex Christoforou | Putin Shadow Fleet Red Line, Frees ex-US Marine as Air Force One Switcheroo Unravels | Aug. 12, 2026

Source: Alex Christoforou youtube



Description: 
Putin Shadow Fleet Red Line, Frees ex-US Marine as Air Force One Switcheroo Unravels. 

Timeline:
00:00 Trump on Air Force One switch
00:26 Wednesday update begins
00:38 Putin warns on shadow fleet seizures
02:48 Massive drone strike on Novorossiysk and Crimea
05:06 AP report: Ukraine strikes only 5 to 9% effective
09:07 Romania drone evidence turns out to be styrofoam
10:42 South Korea refuses air defense to Zelensky
12:22 Putin releases US Marine Robert Gilman
16:27 Assad sentenced to death in absentia
17:48 Trump questioned on Iran and Hormuz
20:17 USS Lincoln sailors stranded since November
23:25 Air Force One switcheroo explained
27:00 Fallout from the plane switch story
30:09 Rubio talks Cuba and UFOs
32:50 Latvia migrant tunnel from Belarus

THIRD EYE DROPS | The UFO Psyop & the Consciousness Control System | Chris Ramsay | Aug. 12, 2026

Source: THIRD EYE DROPS with Michael Phillip youtube



Description: 
Are we currently living the age of the UFO psyop?

Chris Ramsay of Area52I nvestigations returns. The conversation leaves the "nuts and bolts" UFO debate and turns to the esoteric, philosophical and psychological — including how algorithmic manipulation and digital noise might function as a counter-intel control system. 

Topics include Donald Hoffman's theory of conscious agents, precognition and psi research associated with Dr. Julia Mossbridge, plus claims from Ramsay's sit-down with counter-intelligence officer Richard Doty about agencies thwarting abductions and infiltrating civilian UFO groups such as MUFON.

Dr. Warwick Powel | America Is Losing Its Grip on Asia — Japan Rearms, China Rises | Aug. 12, 2026

Source: Carl Zha youtube



Description: 
Is the United States losing its ability to dominate Asia?

In this episode of the Silk and Steel Podcast, Carl Zha is joined by Australian economist and geopolitical analyst Dr. Warwick Powell for a wide-ranging discussion about the changing balance of power from the Persian Gulf to East Asia.

The conversation begins with the continuing war involving Iran and the strategic consequences of the Strait of Hormuz. Dr. Powell argues that the conflict could have consequences far beyond the battlefield, particularly through disruptions to oil, diesel and other petroleum-derived products.

The discussion then turns to a much bigger question: what happens when America’s allies begin preparing for a world in which the U.S. can no longer guarantee their security?

The Duran | Ray Zucaro | Yen Is Sinking Again. Oil Reserves Near Empty | Aug. 12, 2026

Source: The Duran youtube



Timeline:
00:00 Introduction with Ray Zucaro
00:51 The yen situation and carry trade
02:20 US Treasury sells euros to prop up the yen
06:08 What this means for NATO and Europe relations
07:19 Why the yen is weakening now
09:38 Risk of another Asian financial crisis
10:05 Oil markets and the Strait of Hormuz disruption
12:19 Other oil producers stepping up supply
16:53 New Russia sanctions bill in Congress
18:31 Europe's recession risk and Germany's debt

Pepe Escobar | Khamenei Pivots After Secret Six-Hour Meeting with Pezeshkian; Pakistan Mecca Pact Shakes Eurasia | August 12, 2026

Source: Transition Protocol youtube



Description:
On Transition Protocol, Pepe Escobar walks through a tightly packed Iran–Pakistan–Eurasia brief: a reported secret six-hour meeting between Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and President Masoud Pezeshkian, and what a “pivot” in Tehran’s internal and regional posture could signal.

Escobar also flags Pakistan’s Mecca-linked diplomacy as a potential shock to wider Eurasian alignments—how religious, security, and trade vectors can move together when great-power pressure is high.

The conversation ties these moves to the broader multipolar map: Iranian decision-making under stress, Islamabad’s balancing act, and why opaque elite meetings matter more than the daily headline cycle.

Larry Johnson | US 10x Surge in THAAD & PAC-3 Ammo; Yemeni Rockets Hit Saudi Command | Aug. 11, 2026

Source: Dialogue Works youtube, Sonar21.com



Description:
On Dialogue Works, Larry Johnson digs into a reported US push to massively expand THAAD and PAC-3 interceptor stocks—what a roughly tenfold ammo surge says about expected threat volume, production bottlenecks, and how thin Western air-defense magazines already are.

He pairs that industrial signal with battlefield news from the Arabian Peninsula: Yemeni rockets striking Saudi command infrastructure, and what that implies for Riyadh’s security perimeter and for any coalition still treating missile defense as a clean technological fix.

Johnson’s frame is practical rather than theatrical: interceptor economics, salvo math, and the gap between stockpiles on paper and sustained high-intensity conflict. Escalation risk sits in the logistics, not only in the headlines.

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