Daily News Digest - Summary for August 22 2025

It's a Big, Beautiful Club, and You Ain't in It. – 3 Minute Video Analyzing Trump & Sham Bondi's Scripted Epstein Statement at Cabinet Meeting

Daily News Digest - Summary for August 22 2025

It's a Big, Beautiful Club, and You Ain't in It. – 3 Minute Video Analyzing Trump & Sham Bondi's Scripted Epstein Statement at Cabinet Meeting

We’re pleased to bring you a guest post from Margaret Anna Alice.

by Margaret Anna Alice

“It’s a Big, Beautiful Club, and You Ain’t in It” is the first episode of Plato’s Propaganda Cave, a new video series1 dedicated to exposing the logical fallacies; cognitive biases; namecalling; smearing; dehumanization; linguistic contortions; and psychological, societal, and emotional manipulation techniques used to craft narratives, propagandize, deceive, coerce, menticide, social-engineer, and mold the public mind and our perception of reality…


Illinois Mandates “Mental Health” Testing of ALL Children

Children’s minds are now officially in the crosshairs of one of the most out-of-control state governments in America...

By Alex Newman

Children’s minds are now officially in the crosshairs of one of the most out-of-control state governments in America. Under a controversial new measure just signed into law by far-left Governor J.B. Pritzker, government schools in Illinois will begin mandatory “mental health” testing of all students each year, starting in 3rd grade…


DEVELOPING: FBI Raids John Bolton’s House

In a dawn operation, FBI agents descended on the home of Trump’s former national security advisor.

by Jonathan V. Last

Shortly before 7:00 a.m. Friday morning, the FBI and Montgomery County police were seen at the Bethesda home of John Bolton, who served as national security advisor for part of Donald Trump’s first term. Montgomery County police sealed off the street on which Bolton lives while an unmarked black SUV parked in front of Bolton’s house. Montgomery County police confirmed that they were on site in support of the FBI…


80th Anniversary of the Death of John Birch Who Was Murdered by Chinese Communist ‘Allies’ Days After WW2 Ended

John Birch was a devoted Christian missionary, and was born in India to missionary parents before moving to the US when he was 2 years old

by John Birch Society, History.com and the Warfare History Network

John Birch was a devoted Christian missionary, and was born in India to missionary parents before moving to the US when he was 2 years old. He became a US military intelligence officer and heroically served in World War II. He was killed by Chinese Communists, who were supposedly US allies, on August 25, 1945, just 10 days after the end of WWII. Captain Birch was only 27 when he embarked on a peaceful Army mission and was shot and stabbed to death; there was a massive coverup by forces within the US government who did not want the American people to know the truth–the communists under Mao Tse-tung were not simply “agrarian reformers,” and they were not our allies…


Trump Provokes War with Venezuela, Sends Warships and Marines Under Pretext of Stopping Drug Trafficking

US Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt claimed that Venezuelan President Maduro is not a legitimate president and is exporting drugs.

by Jimmy Dore

US Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt claimed that Venezuelan President Maduro is not a legitimate president and is exporting drugs. She said that the US is prepared to use every element of American power to halt drug flows. Trump has mobilized three destroyers and 4,000 Marines going towards Venezuela right now. However, Venezuela is not a threat to the US…

Loudoun County Schools Suspend Boys Who Didn’t Want Girl in Locker Room

Virginia’s Loudoun County Public Schools (LCPS) is suspending two high-school boys after a “transgender” student secretly videorecorded them in the boys’ locker room ques...

By Michael Tennant

Virginia’s Loudoun County Public Schools (LCPS) is suspending two high-school boys after a “transgender” student secretly videorecorded them in the boys’ locker room questioning why she was there…


High-Ranking Israeli Arrested in Las Vegas Child Sex Sting is Released & Allowed to Go Home

That damn 'anti-semitism' at work again....

by Anthony Colpo

In a major online child-predator sting near Las Vegas in US state of Nevada, Israeli government cybersecurity official Tom Artiom Alexandrovich, was arrested, charged with “luring a child with a computer for a sex act”.

Despite the nature of the charges, Alexandrovich was released on $10,000 bail and allowed to fly home to Israel, where he is now on leave 'by mutual decision', according to Israeli media and US police records…


Have You Seen James Corbett’s Interview of Etienne? How to Leave the Cage?

Etienne recently appeared on The Corbett Report with James Corbett to discuss his new book: To See the Cage is to Leave It – 25 Techniques the Few Use to Control the Many.

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