Daily News 08/05

Daily News 08/05

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Most Decisions The Trump has Made were Profitable for Trump and his Family!
Video: Forbes Breaking News:  This Is The Most Corrupt Administration In American History’: Chris Van Hollen Unloads On Trump

Like the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, world imperialism spreads War, Famine, Pestilence, and Death, throughout the world. Author Gore Vidal describes this era as “Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace’. One perpetual war which is not openly publicized is the war for profits. It takes place every single day at the point of production, and is killing increasing numbers of workers every year. Today, workers are used as “cannon fodder” both in the war in Iran and in the war for profits at home. Workplaces have become perpetual “killing fields.

Capital One says it closed Trump Organization accounts over money-laundering concerns

Any One of These Would Have Ended a Presidency Days ago, Capital One told a federal court in Miami why it closed more than three hundred accounts tied to Trump, his family, and his businesses in March 2021. Its financial-crimes unit reviewed them for months and found patterns regulators instruct banks to flag. Spending months on Trump’s accounts, that same desk exists to catch cartel money and sanctions evasion. Reuters broke the story on Saturday, August 1, and NPR, Bloomberg, and Al Jazeera followed within the day, noting that the bank (mostly known for its free checking accounts) had said nothing for five years. It has only spoken now because Trump sued for punitive damages, claiming he was debanked for his politics.     Having dropped a $10 billion lawsuit against the IRS, Trump received from acting Attorney General Todd Blanche, once his own defense lawyer, a single page dated May 19, 2026, declaring the government “FOREVER BARRED and PRECLUDED” from pursuing tax claims against him, his family, and his businesses.Thirty-five former federal judges called the deal “a fraud on the court.” Judge Kathleen Williams reopened the case. John Koskinen, who ran the IRS under two presidents, called it “breathtakingly improper.”

Recently a new factor has been added to the equation — “The Drug Trade”. In the 2001 article: War on Drugs Dirty Money Foundation of US Growth and Empire Size and Scope of Money Laundering by US Banks by James Petras, Professor of Sociology, Binghamton University, he explains that 500 Billion to a Trillion dollars gets added to world capitalist economy through “illegal means.” he concludes the article with the following:     The increasing polarization of the world is embedded in this organized system of criminal and corrupt financial transactions. While speculation and foreign debt payments play a role in undermining living standards in the crisis regions, the multi-trillion dollar money laundering and bank servicing of corrupt officials is a much more significant factor, sustaining Western prosperity, U.S. empire building and financial stability. The scale, scope and time frame of transfers and money laundering, the centrality of the biggest banking enterprises and the complicity of the governments, strongly suggests that the dynamics of growth and stagnation, empire and re-colonization are intimately related to a new form of capitalism built around pillage, criminality, corruption and complicity.  ‘This Goes Straight to the Top.’

O’Rourke is more than happy to play the part, regularly invoking the president’s name—she refers to him as “the boss”—while pushing prospective donors to sign larger checks.    “This is very important to the president. He’s asked me to call you and ask you for this donation,” O’Rourke has been known to say, according to the Journal. Or she might drop that “the boss wants this money.”     Among the donations that O’Rourke has recently secured are $50 million from Softbank for Trump’s presidential library, $25 million from Apple for his White House ballroom project, $10 million from Meta to a Trump-aligned super PAC, $10 million from Microsoft, and $5 million from Amazon.    Trump has been in office for 18 months. Within that same timeframe, he has also raised more than $800 million, in no small part due to O’Rourke’s resolve. She has worked with Trump since 2016 and “absolutely has the president’s 100 percent trust and respect,” according to Brian Ballard, a top Washington lobbyist and former colleague of O’Rourke’s who spoke with the Journal. — “The Boss Wants This Money”: Trump Is Demanding More Cash Than Ever Donald Trump wants more money for his vanity projects.

Changes at Lake Mead: 1982 vs 2026 Water Levels

Climate Crisis Is Not ‘Some Faraway Threat’: Spokane Inferno Forces Mass Evacuations as Oil Profits Surge“ The fossil fuel industry may not have struck the match, but the climate crisis they drove has loaded our landscapes with tinder,” said an environmental activist. Over 60,000 people were ordered to evacuate the Spokane area over the weekend as it was devastated by what Democratic Washington Sen. Maria Cantwell called the “top fire” in a nation currently being scorched by climate-fueled blazes.     Illustrating how the climate crisis is already impacting lives and communities across the country and the globe, three raging fires reportedly consumed over 600 structures as of Sunday, including homes and businesses, and reduced entire streets to their foundations.

Fracking During Colorado Drought 2009—2026:Big Oil has No Shame! Oil Protfits First Life Last!

Recipe for Catastrophe’: Trump Moves to Weaken Arctic Drilling Safeguards

Drastic Water Supply Cuts Looming in US Along Colorado River  Federal officials are considering whether to order states in the Colorado River basin to cut water consumption by millions of gallons – a drastic cut that could threaten food production in an area that produces a major chunk of the U.S. food supply.     Arizona, California, and Nevada could be forced to reduce their water use by up to 3 million acre-feet annually through 2036 under a proposal from the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation. Under the proposal, the states would divide half the cuts based on a plan they already developed, while the other half would be determined by water rights, the AP reported.

DR Congo Official Confirms Oil Pollution Findings Hydrocarbons Ministry Expects Full Audit of Oil Company by Late September A representative of the Congolese Ministry of Hydrocarbons, during an on-the-record interview with Human Rights Watch on July 31, discussed the findings of the government’s official environmental audit into the activities of Perenco, the French-British oil and gas company operating in western Democratic Republic of Congo.     The audit identified “negative impacts on soil and air quality” linked to oil operations, the ministry official said, adding that “all aspects of pollution will be addressed” in the final report.

DR Congo: Oil Company Operations Pose Grave Pollution Threat

A Fleet Idled by Conflict Is Now Spinning an ‘Ecological Roulette’ Across the World’s Ports Vessels stalled for months in the Strait of Hormuz are fouled with marine life. Scientists agree some will seed species invasions as the ships disperse. What they can’t say is whether anyone would notice.

The Gulf’s Escalation: From Regional War to Systemic Crisis Thanks to US/Israeli wars, the Gulf region and the Middle East are no longer experiencing isolated crises but an interconnected conflict system.

US Gulag: Family Members Demand Investigation of Michigan Prison After Deaths of 5 Women  As severe medical issues and deaths increase, advocates and families are pressing Gov. Gretchen Whitmer to take action.

ICE agents descended on a cannabis farm. The lives of an army vet, a farm worker and professor changed for everRaids on Glass House Farms in California became a ‘litmus test’ for how much violence agents could inflict during Trump’s deportation campaign

Wall Street’s Two Wings The 2026 US midterms may expose a broken party system as Trump, corporate Democrats and grassroots socialists prepare for a deeper class conflict. Michael Hudson: Well, Radhika, I wish you had the chart that needs to go with what you showed. The public’s disapproval of the Democrats is just about as strong as it is of Trump. No matter how much I dislike Trump and his policies — and of course he’s destroying the US economy and the politics too — so are the Democrats. That’s why you and I were advisors to Jill Stein on the Green Party ticket. The reason Trump won was largely that Jill went to Michigan, Minnesota, and Wisconsin, places with large Muslim populations who voted against the war. They knew the Democrats were the pro-war party, and they were not going to let the pro-war candidate win — either they stayed home or they voted for Jill Stein if they could. I was in New York City, where Jill Stein wasn’t even on the ballot. We’ll get to the election problems.

How a Manufactured War Scare Could Produce a $50 Million Insider Windfall Advance knowledge of both a military threat and its cancellation could allow politically connected traders to profit from the oil market twice—first from the panic, then from its disappearance.

Vicious Cycles: Autocracy, Inequality and the Funding of Government  As democracies around the world face mounting challenges and pressures, discussions about autocracy often focus on personalities and ideologies or tend to link governance practices to differences among specific cultural traditions. Yet a growing body of comparative historical research has provided evidence that a more fundamental question deserves attention: How was and how are governments funded?    Across thousands of years of human history, one of the strongest predictors of whether governance becomes concentrated in the hands of a few is not population size, technological development, cultural affiliation, or even geography. It is the degree to which governing institutions depend on revenues drawn from their citizens versus resources that rulers can control independently.

Trump’s Attack on International Law Will Take Us All Down With It The effort to sideline the International Criminal Court may prove more costly than it looks.