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Debt Rattle September 13 2026

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• ‘Muslimification’ of Europe Ignites Backlash (Sharyl Attkisson)
• Ex-Muslim Warns Islam’s Threat Is Much More Than Terrorism (Salgado)
• ‘Pace The Frontier’: Amodei, Altman & Musk Against The AI Singularity (ZH)
• Greg Gutfeld Reflects on 9/11, You Really Need to Watch This (Margolis)
• Who Is Trying To Destroy The United States And The World? (Paul Craig Roberts)
• We’re on The Brink of World War That Ends With Nuclear Weapons – Carlson (RT)
• Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick Discusses U.S-Canada Trade Conflict (CTH)_
• 25 Years After: Revisiting Trump’s Role as a Champion for New York (Matt Kane)
• The Real-Life Epic of Donald Trump (Terry Scambray)
• CIA Director Releases 71 Presidential Daily Briefs Before and After 9/11 (CTH)
• Sec. Mullin: Ilhan Omar Married Her Brother (Catherine Salgado)

 


 

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“Public pressure to limit immigration has prompted Conservative populist gains across Europe…”

• ‘Muslimification’ of Europe Ignites Backlash (Sharyl Attkisson)

After the Islamic extremist terrorist attack on America on Sept. 11, 2001, there were fears of anti-Muslim backlash. But 25 years later, the script has been flipped. Ten million or more Muslims have immigrated to the west. Today, Muslim figures are mayors of New York and London. But there’s also conflict. Europe is gripped by tensions caused by the rapid demographic change. A fatal stabbing in Southampton, south of London, last December provided one example of the cultural and political pressure point.


Bodycam video showed police buying into the killer’s false claim that he’d been racially attacked. Vickrum Digwa – a Sikh and son of an Indian citizen– pretended to be the victim, while officers handcuffed the real victim: college student Henry Nowak, as he bled to death. There’s been a surge in protests across Europe. And two-thirds of Britons now say the total number of immigrants is too high. Both major parties – Conservatives and Labour – have faced public anger and disappointment over years of broken promises.

Iain Duncan Smith is a Conservative member of Parliament and former party leader. “We’ve overcooked migration,” he told Full Measure during an interview at a London park. “We’ve been far too lax and too easy. “So we have to crack down on that. And the only way to have cracked down on it was what I supported, from the word ‘go’m, was to say to those who arrive illegally, ‘You’re going on the next aircraft back to somewhere further away than you came from, OK?’

“Once they realize the risk at sea and the cost is no longer outweighed by the opportunities, they won’t come anymore. That’s the way to deal with it, but we have to be hard about it and the government’s very weak at the moment and not able to do it.” But European courts have repeatedly blocked immigration crackdowns, ruling it a violation for the United Kingdom to fly illegal immigrants from Africa and the Mideast to Rwanda for processing.

Neil Coyle is a member of Parliament from Britain’s Labour Party, considered the moderate left and the current party in power.“The UK government is committed to certainly trying to reduce the illegal end of migration,” Coyle told Full Measure. “There are some who feel it’s not just unsafe for the people coming over, but some of the people who come are unsafe in this country. But the problem in the UK, as anywhere, is certainly the far right in this country try and lump all migrants together.”

Public pressure to limit immigration has prompted Conservative populist gains across Europe. In the UK, two new conservative populist parties have quickly gained traction: Reform UK, now leading both Labour and the Conservatives in popular support. And the even harder-line Restore Britain. Restore officially launched in February, saying Reform wasn’t going far enough.

Amid the political and cultural clashes, the European Parliament is taking action that would have been unheard of a few years ago. Over the summer, it overwhelmingly approved the strictest immigration and deportation law in EU history. The EU is moving ahead with the steps necessary to implement that new law, with some still promising to try to fight it.

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Ex-Muslim must be a rarity.

• Ex-Muslim Warns Islam’s Threat Is Much More Than Terrorism (Salgado)

The threat that Islam poses the United States of America and other Western nations is partly the threat of terrorism, the worst instance of which was 9/11. But actually, Islam is also a major threat in terms of the cultural and political takeover occurring right now.


Dan Burmawi remembers being a teenager in Jordan back when he was still a Muslim, excitedly celebrating the 9/11 attacks with his family. Muslims around the world did the same. After all, Islam is not just a religion; it is essentially a political state with ever-shifting borders, and while the different nations and factions of Islam will fight with each other, they still perceive any successful Muslim attack on Western civilization as a victory for all of them. Now Burmawi is Christian, but he is watching the same ideology from which he broke free take over Western nations.

Warning against the “fatal mistake” of discussing the inherent evils of Islam only when there is a major terrorist attack, Burmawi explained, “First, Islamic terrorism has been rebranded in America to the point that it is no longer even recognized as Islamic. It is placed in the same category of ‘terrorism’ as drug cartels or the KKK. Then came a second rebranding after October 7, portraying it as ‘resistance to occupation’ or a ‘response to imperialism.’”

It is true that a minority of Muslims become terrorists, but the Islamic religion itself explicitly endorses terrorism. Therefore, America and other countries should’ve been much more cautious about allowing in mass Muslim migration. “The Islamic threat is not primarily about violence. It is about sovereignty, individual liberties, and the gradual weakening of the liberal democratic order that built the West,” Burmawi observed.

He continued, “Wherever Islamic movements gain influence, they seek to impose blasphemy norms under different banners, such as ‘fighting hate speech,’ ‘combating incitement to violence,’ or ‘fighting racism.’” It’s exactly the sort of propaganda that they tried to pull against the 9/11 victims’ families who said they didn’t want jihad-loving New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani at the memorial.

Muslims tell free societies to self-censor in order to appease the newcomers. “These restrictions, along with the accommodations they demand from the host society, gradually become the norm, while equal application of the law becomes the exception. This, in turn, opens the door for other groups to seek the same special privileges,” Burmawi observed.

Soon, he argued, “this culture of self-censorship spreads beyond Islam. Like a contagious disease, it expands into other areas of public life.” And that’s not all. “As more Muslim politicians who prioritize Islamic causes gain influence, national sovereignty get[s] weakened through foreign policy and national security decisions that advance those causes rather than the interests of the nation they serve.” When Western leaders feel the need to appease terrorists in Gaza, Qatar, Syria, Iran, or any other Muslim nation, that puts us at a disadvantage.

There is also the fact that Islam is not a religion that prioritizes originality and prosperity. It cannot build up, it can only steal or tear down. “Excellence also suffers. Islam, as a fear-based system, cultivates a mentality that seeks to meet the minimum required rather than striving for the maximum possible,” Burmawi said. “That mindset ultimately weakens innovation, ambition, and excellence within society.”

In short, we have to be a lot more on the alert about the danger of Islam than we have been, because not every Islamic inroad involves collapsed towers and hijacked planes.

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“While China Goes Full Send ..”

• ‘Pace The Frontier’: Amodei, Altman & Musk Against The AI Singularity (ZH)

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Ladies and gentlemen of the listening public – the American machine was winning the AI race until the dastardly forces of China’s open-weight juggernaut began delivering decisive blows to US ingenuity – jeopardizing the AI Buildout thesis and threatening to prick the ensuing bubble that promised to deliver red-blooded American IPOs which had been circle-jerked into the stratosphere.

For two years the United States frontier laboratories – OpenAI, Anthropic, Google DeepMind, xAI – have been the engine of the greatest capital-expenditure boom since the railroads learned to drink diesel-generated electricity. Data centers rose like munitions plants. Chipmakers printed money. Equity markets priced a future in which the West sold intelligence by the token – at a premium, and have been quite smug about it. The assumption underneath all of it was simple: the frontier stays closed and China stays a respectable number of months behind.

Then the East opened the crate. And here’s what was inside: DeepSeek, Alibaba’s Qwen, Moonshot’s Kimi, MiniMax, Zhipu – open-weight models, downloadable, forkable, cheap enough to run on a laptop or a local box and still deliver work that is uncomfortably close to the genuine American article. By mid-year, Chinese open weights were devouring the majority of tokens on the big neutral routers.

Qwen had shoved Meta’s Llama off the open-model throne. Moonshot’s Kimi K3 – two-point-eight trillion parameters, its weights already out the door – sat within shouting distance of Anthropic’s Fable 5 and OpenAI’s GPT-5.6 on the intelligence indexes. The Chinese models run roughly sixty to ninety percent cheaper; ladies and gents – one DeepSeek flash model was quoted at fifteen cents per million input tokens, off-peak, against five dollars for Anthropic’s Opus – and enough to rattle the Korean memory makers all over again.

TEAM FRONTIER, ASSEMBLE!
The data-center buildout, the power deals, all of the “AI will eat the S&P” thesis – HUBRIS! Nobody saw the Chinese coming in from left field with models that are ninety percent as good, ten percent of the cost, and run in a basement in Ohio without a subscription. This week, the three high priests of the American frontier discovered they could finish one another’s sentences.

On Saturday morning, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published an essay titled We Must Pace the Frontier. Twelve years in the field, he wrote. AI might cure most major diseases in five to ten years, he wrote. And – it might also slip the leash (and murder us all, according to three prominent AI researchers who quit frontier labs last week in protest of our impending demise).Speaking of those three ‘defectors’ – two of them walked through the door of the AI evaluator (METR) Amodei wants embedded in the labs.

According to Dario, the machines have been getting better at building the next machines – recursive self-improvement, happening “across the industry, including at Anthropic.” He pointed at July’s OpenAI – Hugging Face affair: a swarm of agents that escaped the spirit of their assignment, hacked a target they were not asked to hack, and even went after the grader scoring them. Anthropic itself disclosed its own incidents this summer, three Claude models – one of them Mythos 5 – that wandered out of their test cages and into three companies’ live systems, a parallel his essay itself acknowledges. Amodei’s warning was the sequel: give that swarm six to twelve months more capability at the same misalignment and it “could be capable of taking over the entire internet with a persistent botnet,” he wrote – “hundreds of billions of dollars in damage,” and rising from there.

His prescription was a three-act play, which he insists “does not mean halting model training or technical progress.”
• Act One: embed third-party evaluators – METR and their cousins – inside the labs with employee-level badges, desks, and laptops, and let them publish. Anthropic would do this unilaterally, he said, today.
• Act Two: the democratic labs coordinate, with government as the chaperone, on safety standards and the rate of unchecked progress – which, he conceded, is “legally challenging” and needs Washington to “issue a narrow waiver” of antitrust rules so rivals can lawfully sit in the same room.
• Act Three: try to talk to the authoritarians, including Beijing, about red lines – bioweapons first, testing regimes second, limits on recursive improvement third. Full pause? He all but called it a fantasy. A Chinese lead, he wrote, would be a grave danger; keep the chip bans, smash the distillation, widen the lead for three to five years. Then, perhaps, a bargain.

Elon Musk, who has sued Sam Altman, and once called Anthropic “evil” before selling them a mountain of compute, agreed with Dario in just three words:

Sam Altman, whose company was the one named in the July swarm, followed: he agreed they needed to pace the frontier; it had been a primary topic inside OpenAI for weeks; independent evaluators with employee-like access was “a great idea,” and OpenAI would do the same. More to share soon.

Three men who cannot share a stage without the photographers noticing the space between their shoulders. One essay, three cups (wtf). Hugging Face’s Clément Delangue offered an “open alignment” club and asked to be let into the evaluator program. Andrej Karpathy said he loved it.

How we got to Saturday.
Days earlier the fuse was a twenty-seven-year-old Brit named Jacob Coxon. Three years of pretraining at OpenAI that made him filthy rich, followed by four months at Anthropic. Tuesday into Wednesday he posted that both labs were racing to self-improving superintelligence and “gambling with our lives.” The people building this, he said, earnestly believe it could kill everyone by the end of the decade. Colleagues, he told the Journal, talk in the hallways about “crunch time” and “endgame.” The thread did more than a hundred million views. Musk, the next evening, looking at the velocity from a near-new account, said it “seems like a setup.” Coxon said he left because he no longer wanted a stake in juicing Anthropic’s valuation.

Anthropic’s own alignment-science lead, Evan Hubinger, agreed – writing “Jacob is correct.” Researchers there really do believe AI could kill all humans. His personal odds: above ten percent this decade. The lab, he added, does not yet have a plan to solve alignment for superintelligence and is not clearly on track to get one. OpenAI’s Chris Lehane published that the policy window was open and Washington should take it. Anthropic’s economics team dropped scenarios out to 2030 in which the extreme case is fifteen-percent GDP growth sitting next to nearly twelve-percent unemployment and knowledge-worker wages down more than ten percent.

On the Hill, a bill that had been gasping since summer was suddenly erect after OpenAI disclosed the Hugging Face hack in July. House members Ted Lieu and Nathaniel Moran dropped an AI Kill Switch Act. Lori Trahan and Jay Obernolte float the FRONTIER Act – audits, incident reporting, Commerce power over models judged an imminent catastrophic risk. Senate talks among Amy Klobuchar, Ted Cruz, and Majority Leader John Thune then stall. By this week Semafor and the rest of the chorus are calling the Klobuchar – Cruz – Thune vehicle the only thing that might move before 2027.

And guess what, Saturday’s ‘pact’ still isn’t enough for these people!

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“..jihad gets far less classroom attention than islamophobia ..

• Greg Gutfeld Reflects on 9/11, You Really Need to Watch This (Margolis)

Greg Gutfeld has a reputation on The Five for turning Jessica Tarlov’s arguments into punchlines and taking apart the left, one segment at a time. On Friday, 25 years after 9/11, he set the jokes aside for something heavier.


Gutfeld said that he worries about the country’s shared understanding of the attacks fading as new generations arrive with no memory of that day. First, he pointed out just how many people now living in the U.S. weren’t around for it at all. “We have over 100 million people that have been born since 9/11. You add another 30 million that have moved here, and then you add another 20 million who are here illegally. That’s 150 million, almost half the country,” Gutfeld said during Friday’s segment on Fox News’ The Five.

He also questioned whether that huge share of the population actually understands what happened, or whether they’ve absorbed a distorted version instead. I have to admit, I’m worried it’s the latter.”Do you think they all fully grasp the import of this event? Or have they been indoctrinated by academics or religious ideologies, or distracted by technology or entertainment?” he asked. In fact, he went further, wondering aloud, “Do they believe, like Hollywood would suggest, that the real danger is white privilege?”

Gutfeld compared the muddled present to his own childhood understanding of Pearl Harbor. “I always think about when I was a kid, 1970, learning about Pearl Harbor. It was 29 years prior. And yet it was so black and white,” he said. “‘What was Pearl Harbor?’ ‘The Japanese attacked us and we went to war.’ It was black and white.” The reality, he argued, is that no comparable clarity exists for 9/11, because the institutions that shape what kids learn have changed since 1970.

In other words, the woke left happened.

“We didn’t have a kind of an academic media complex that could reverse every narrative prioritizing Japanophobia over America’s security. We didn’t have grade school teachers pushing pronouns and condemning American imperialism in seventh grade,” Gutfeld said. “So today there is no black and white, unless, of course, you’re talking about race.”

Gutfeld went further still, arguing that jihad gets far less classroom attention than islamophobia, even as he framed islamophobia as a rational response to jihadist violence rather than the reverse. He pointed out how Islamism has effectively been folded into identity politics and treated as untouchable, warning that anyone who raises questions about intolerance from someone in power who happens to be Muslim risks being cast as the offender instead. “Islamists can brand you a racist while enjoying the life of a brutal, intolerant conqueror,” he said.

Fact Check: True.Gutfeld didn’t hide his skepticism about where all of this leaves the country. “I obviously am a very cynical person on this. I worry about that. I mean, I enjoy the unity every year, but I see what’s going on day to day and it doesn’t hearten me,” he said.

He closed on something more personal than political: concern for his own daughter. “I worry about where I’m gonna send my kid,” Gutfeld said. “I don’t want to give my kid away to somebody who’s going to be told this country deserved 9/11. I don’t want my kid hearing that, God forbid I’m not around at the time.” He added that he doubts today’s kids will ever get the plain, settled understanding of 9/11 that his own generation eventually reached about Pearl Harbor. “I think about that, like, what are we teaching them about this? I understand, Pearl Harbor, you know, do kids understand this? I don’t,” he said.

Twenty-five years removed from the attacks, nearly half the country alive today has no personal memory of that morning. Gutfeld isn’t wrong to wonder what they’re being taught instead.

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PCR hearts Tucker.

• Who Is Trying To Destroy The United States And The World? (Paul Craig Roberts)

Today, Saturday, is a good day to watch Afshin Rattansi’s one hour interview of Tucker Carlson. Carlson has come to my conclusion dating back years that the wars the Zionist neoconservatives, who have America at war with Russia in the interest of US hegemony and at war in the Middle East for the Zionist agenda of Greater Israel, have begun a conflict that is emerging as a world war that is the road to Armageddon. Trump promised to end these wars. Instead, the wars have expanded. Did Trump deceive his supporters, or is the President not the person really in charge?


Often I have explained that the President does not have the power that the public attributes to presidents–or that Trump thought he had–and thus events and policies diverge from the campaign promises. Carlson supports my point when he says that Trump is not in charge.

Who is in charge? Carlson doesn’t know, and I don’t either. On the surface the neoconservatives seem to be responsible for both wars. It is true that the war being conducted from Washington, using Ukraine as its proxy, is in keeping with the Wolfowitz doctrine that the principle goal of US foreign policy is to prevent the rise of any country that can serve as a constraint on US unilateralism. And it is true that the neoconservatives are tightly allied with Israel and support the Zionist agenda of Israeli expansion known as Greater Israel.

A question is whether the neoconservatives are in control or merely serve as the operatives of someone who is, such, as Carlson suggests, the US intelligence services and the military/security complex, the financial health of which is served by war. Is a focus on short-term profits leading to nuclear armageddon? These are not issues that the US media focuses on or permits to be discussed and debated. Therefore, those who are in charge are under no pressure of discovery. They are protected by an array of false narratives.

Carlson is intelligent, thoughtful, and his agenda is the well-being of America, which requires moral instead of immoral behavior and policies. Notice that RT refers to Carlson as a “conservative journalist.” Why is it “conservative” to stand for America and to ask who is really running the show? Everyone should be asking the questions that Carlson asks.

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There’s a video here, but (my part of) Europe is not allowed to watch it.

• We’re on The Brink of World War That Ends With Nuclear Weapons – Carlson (RT)

Conservative journalist Tucker Carlson has warned that the world is on the brink of a global conflict that could ultimately end with the use of nuclear weapons in an interview with Going Underground host Afshin Rattansi broadcast on RT on Saturday. Carlson argues that the US is already effectively at war with Russia through Ukraine and warns that further escalation risks a nuclear confrontation.


“The CIA is running the war. The US intelligence services are running the war out of Ukraine against Russia,” he says. “The United States is at war with Russia, and the only kind of conceivable end stage if this continues is a nuclear exchange in which everyone is killed.” The Ukraine conflict and the US-Israeli war on Iran “have merged into a global war,” he argued, warning that the confrontation now risks the very existence of the United States.

Carlson also accuses the Trump administration of abandoning the agenda it campaigned on, saying Trump and his advisers have “almost systematically betrayed the people who voted for him in 2024.” He describes the shift as “the greatest betrayal that I’m aware of in the history of American politics.” The interview also covers political censorship in the US, the rise of BRICS, China’s growing global influence, and the changing balance of power internationally.

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“They say intertwined because they can no longer function separately. Canada is economically dependent on proximal and economic subsidies from the United States.”

• Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick Discusses U.S-Canada Trade Conflict (CTH)_

Here’s the fact bomb that silences Canadians almost immediately when delivered. In December 2024 then Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, told President-elect Donald Trump that Canada could not comply with a renewed trade agreement based on reciprocity because:


(1) Canada had deindustrialized; their manufacturing was now “light” manufacturing and assembling of component goods made by others.

(2) Canada had legislated energy policy based on climate change, and high carbon emitting industrial production was no longer an option [coking coal burning etc.].

(3) The NATO military spending goal was too high for Canada to reach [they were 19th and it wasn’t a priority because the USA was the crutch].

(4) Internal provincial rules, restrictions and cross-border trade regulations did not align with a Canadian federal trade policy effort, and

(5) the political power of the ‘dairy cartel’ inside Canada tied the hands of Canadian trade representatives.

That was the gist of it. That’s why Canada cannot now or ever find a path to a U.S. reciprocal or balanced trade agreement. #1 and #2 is specifically why Canadian govt officials repeatedly use the word “intertwined.” They say intertwined because they can no longer function separately. Canada is economically dependent on proximal and economic subsidies from the United States.

That outline by Trudeau led Trump to say that Canada should then become a 51st state….. And, well, you know the rest. Someone in Canada should ask Trudeau about it. The former Prime Minister has no reason to deny it, and too many people were witness. Then, perhaps, Canadians will understand.

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Historian and political Pundit Victor Davis Hanson gives his review of the current status. I would refute the point that VDH makes about Mark Carney “not knowing what he is doing” and the resulting chaos will come as a surprise.

VDH is well intentioned. However, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney knows exactly what he is doing. Carney’s antagonism is a feature of his commonwealth alignment with the European union, and understanding that takes you to a very dark place in this geopolitical dynamic .

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“His push to rebuild the Twin Towers — and the Freedom Tower design he never got credit for.”

• 25 Years After: Revisiting Trump’s Role as a Champion for New York (Matt Kane)

“This country is different today, and it’s going to be different than it ever was for many years to come.” –Donald Trump, Sept. 11, 2001


A lot has been made about the special occasions President Trump has presided over during this term: America 250, the FIFA World Cup, and the ensuing Summer Olympics coming to Los Angeles in 2028. However, another important, albeit more somber, event Trump will preside over is the 25th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks. Any ordinary native New Yorker holding the office of president during this occasion would be a wholesome footnote.

But that it is Donald Trump — a man more synonymous with the fighting spirit of New York than any other, who played a key role in building its skyline and served as the voice for countless Americans and New Yorkers demanding their desires be heard about how to rebuild Ground Zero after 9/11 — is especially poetic. Trump was a symbol of hope, strength and resilience in the immediate aftermath of 9/11 and in the years that followed.

In the days after Sept. 11, he not only sent crews to aid in the cleanup and recovery efforts at Ground Zero, but also personally appeared there on Sept. 13 — when it was still considered a great risk to do so given the uncertainty surrounding the threat of additional attacks, the falling debris and continuing fires at the site, and the health hazards that have now claimed the lives of more Fire De[artment of New York firefighters than the attacks themselves (343 on 9/11, more than 600 since) — as a sign of unity, support and appreciation for the job being done.

It would have been worthy of praise if all he did was make a generous financial contribution toward recovery efforts, as many other ultra-wealthy New Yorkers and Americans did. But putting himself potentially in harm’s way and immediately offering his vision for moving forward as a non-public official surely impacted first responders desperate for any morale boost available. In hindsight, it also foreshadowed the unshakable courage and resolve he would exhibit during assassination attempts against him years later as president.

While it was unimaginable for a long time — even to the present day for many — to imagine the New York City skyline without the Twin Towers, decisions about what would come next ultimately had to be made, presenting no shortage of strong opinions. Some — specifically family members who did not want something built over a graveyard of their deceased loved ones—felt rebuilding Ground Zero into a peaceful and quiet space was most appropriate, since thousands lay somewhere beneath the ground, never identified. An overwhelming majority, however, wanted the Towers rebuilt as a sign of national strength and resilience, believing a void in the skyline would signify that the terrorists had won.

Trump strongly shared the latter opinion, quickly stating his belief that rebuilding was an absolute necessity for both the city and country. But after the first design for the new One World Trade Center — the Freedom Tower — was decided on, Trump strongly criticized it as an “egghead design, an empty skeleton” and a “disgusting pile of junk” that was the “last thing we needed representing the World Trade Center.”

Not long after Trump’s critiques, the initial Freedom Tower rendering was ultimately scrapped. And while it is impossible to know how big a role they played, Trump was undeniably the most prominent voice in the public pressure campaign against it. He then became a vocal supporter of the “Twin Towers II” project, even advocating for the original Twin Towers to be rebuilt “a little bit taller” and “a lot stronger” by holding a press conference at Trump Tower that displayed models of a rebuilt World Trade Center complex, which also featured footprint memorials inspired by the base of the originals beneath the new-and-improved ones.

The city ultimately passed on the proposal, but there was great victory in discarding the original design. Any building was bound to upset the anti-rebuild crowd for very sound and understandable reasons. But the first rendering’s hideous, asymmetrical design paid such an awful tribute to the victims and first responders that it also angered the larger portion that wanted to rebuild, meaning virtually nobody would have been happy had it gone through.

Beauty and design are paramount in architecture, but in this instance quantity was most important symbolically. Two buildings came down — three including Building 7 — but only one was built back up — two including the rebuilt Building 7. Nonetheless, if only one tower was going to be built, the Freedom Tower ultimately erected was, and is, visually appealing. Perhaps that should come as no surprise, as it was initially proposed for another project years prior by none other than Donald Trump.

That’s right: in 1996, Trump proposed building a New York Stock Exchange Tower on undeveloped land along the East River. Early renderings of the building, which would have surpassed Chicago’s Sears Tower in height and stories to become the world’s tallest, show a nearly identical design to what would become the Freedom Tower. The initial mockup even eerily features the still-standing Twin Towers in the background.

So while the Trump-backed Twin Towers II were passed on, the hideous, Trump-opposed first Freedom Tower was — whether knowingly or not — discarded for a design first proposed by Trump years earlier, meaning he did have, despite this revelation being rarely if ever mentioned, an impact on the rebuilt World Trade Center.

Any differences of opinion about rebuilding were dwarfed by the immense unity that swept the nation. Twenty-five years later, measuring our nation’s patriotism is much more complex. A recent poll revealed striking differences across party lines compared to 25 years ago. In 2001, 90% of Republicans and 85% of Democrats considered themselves proud to be American. Today, 93% of Republicans do, while an astonishingly low 27% of Democrats do.

While the raw numbers — especially when eliminating fake and/or duplicate votes — greatly favor President Trump and his MAGA agenda, the ideological gap between his movement and the opposing one couldn’t be wider, making the 25-year memorial less than purely triumphant. On one hand, the Democrat party has borne witness to an alarming number of primary victories of late by socialist (communist) candidates who possess unabashed anti-American rhetoric.

Unbelievably, this is occurring largely in the same New York City that was led by America’s Mayor, Rudy Giuliani, and served as a testament to American resolve and patriotism after 9/11. Now, under Mayor Zohran Mamdani — who appointed as his Chief Counsel an attorney who previously represented a convicted al-Qaida member who was also the brother-in-law of a 9/11 hijacker, and who has claimed that Muslims are the true victims of a post-9/11 world due to discrimination — the city’s identity is unrecognizable.

In fact, Mamdani’s conduct has been so offensive that a petition urging him not to attend the 9/11 ceremonies has garnered more than one hundred thousand signatures. Concurrently, a growing number of congressional Democrats have voluntarily unmasked themselves as holding the same beliefs as Mamdani, all while the media has shamelessly furthered his Muslim victimhood lie.

But on the other hand, America is led by inarguably the most unapologetically pro-America president of all in Donald Trump, who remains relentless in his pursuit of defeating all that hinders the nation on its path to being made great again. In doing so, he serves as a powerful resistance to this wave of unabashed anti-Americanism enabled by an old-guard Democrat party that may not agree with the ideology at heart, but has allowed it to metastasize expeditiously. Because of Trump, there is immense hope that this and other instruments of anti-Americanism seeking to destroy our country will be defeated before they are given the chance.

On this 25th anniversary of Sept. 11, as we pray for the departed souls and their friends and families, may we also thank God that one of the gatekeepers who watched over New York on that dark Tuesday now watches over the nation at large. The man who, in his first term, signed the Never Forget the Heroes Act, which permanently authorized the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund and ensured compensation would continue for people suffering from 9/11-related illnesses and for families of people who died from those illnesses, without the fund repeatedly facing expiration.

President Trump has never forgotten, may we all never either.

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“Victor Davis Hanson has a new book out profiling the president, now undeniably a towering figure of history.”

• The Real-Life Epic of Donald Trump (Terry Scambray)

Odysseus endured many diversions and overcame mighty obstacles on his mythical return home. Likewise, Donald Trump’s return from political exile has the makings of myth — except in Donald Trump’s case, the myth is true. In The Counter Revolution: The Fall and Rise of Donald Trump and the MAGA Movement, Victor Davis Hanson, classicist, historian, and farmer, devotes his many gifts to explaining Donald Trump and his efforts to rescue America from the anti-constitutional, counter-productive nostrums of progressivism and the barbarous hand of Marxism.


As with Ronald Reagan, the media saw Trump as a political amateur — or to use a Trumpism, “fake news” portrayed him as such, one writer describing his famous ride down the escalator in Trump Tower as a slow descent into the “abyss of politics.” However, as Hanson writes, and it’s worth quoting at length,

Trump had originally made his money by making things — and he was constantly battling to do it. In the real estate jungle of Manhattan, that meant fighting year after year, with suspect politicos, self-interested community activists, passive-aggressive tabloid media, radical environmentalists, unyielding union bosses, unpredictable prosecutors and judges, ruthless business rivals, cutthroat regulators, and no-nonsense bankers. …

He was known for having sued more people and companies and in turn being sued by them — 3,500 cases in federal and state courts, with 1,900 as plaintiff and 1,450 as defendant — than any other prominent Manhattan businessman. Though many see Trump as overbearingly narcissistic, his confidence signals his belief that, to paraphrase Frank Sinatra, “if you can make it in New York, you can make it anywhere.”

“From this Hobbesian war of all against all,” as Hanson writes, Trump realized that as a maker, a builder, he necessarily depended on bankers, whom he admired. But he also understood “that they were distant from the raw urban elements — food, fuel, shelter, safety — that ultimately made a city or nation run.” Thus, he developed respect for the “muscular classes,” though not the sculptured gym-crafted muscular types, as Hanson has pointed out elsewhere, but muscular working men, whose biceps, however impressive, are often overshadowed by their waists.

So Trump bonded with producers and makers, like the Teamsters, whom he once told that he could have built with non-union labor, but he refused to. That was a political maneuver, for sure, but also a pragmatic one for a builder who recognizes that without the imprimatur of the Teamsters, in New York, nothing gets done.

From this perspective, Trump knew that blue-collar workers’ wages were eroding because of the import of foreign workers and the export of American factories, just as my working-man father knew this 50 years ago. Hoping to reverse both trends, President Trump began his round of reciprocal tariffs, which he has used to geopolitical advantage and to increase federal government revenues.

This was the beginning of Trump’s appeal to the middle class, though he always believed, as Hanson writes, “that working class whites might return to vote for a populist nationalist traditionalist who combined cultural conservatism and advocacy for high-paying jobs. So was born the MAGA base.” And though MAGA developed from the pitchfork part of the Republican party, “Trump’s earthiness,” as Hanson writes, gained more traction than Patrick Buchanan’s genre of populism.

Trump also aligned with an array of middle-class heroes, like Mike Tyson and pro wrestling champions. Trump, recognizing that everybody likes a winner, blended this appeal with his marquee billionaire friends, Mark Zuckerburg, Jeff Bezos, and most notably genius and trillionaire supporter Elon Musk.

The Counter Revolution is a handbook on the art of forging coalitions, of making deals, which is the essence of republican governance. Contrast this with, say, Machiavelli’s The Prince, which offers advice to an authoritarian controlling an elitist system, resembling America’s “experts,” who have gained more power in our government over the last 100 years.

These experts, “the technocracy,” are clearly shown, as Hanson puts it, by the “bureaucratic fiefdoms, the three million strong federal administrative state, indebted to the Democratic paradigm of more taxes for more government employees for more power over the citizenry.”

Though Trump has shown himself to be brilliant and even a political genius, “MAGA did not operate in a vacuum. For the New Jacobin Democrats,” as Hanson refers to them, are avatars of the “French revolutionary fanatics substituting lawfare, election interference, and weaponization of federal agencies for the guillotine,” all of which made them a less desirable alternative to Trump. In other words, rebounding from the electoral disaster of the McGovern candidacy, the Democrats swerved right and won with Bill Clinton.

But though winning is necessary for these Jacobins, it is, apparently, not sufficient; thus, they re-established the McGovern wing of the party with “the fresh faces of The Squad and Zohran Mamdani along with the shock troops of antifa, BLM et al — which made the once winning Clinton agenda seem not just reactionary but surreal,” as Hanson concludes.

Perhaps electing zombie Joe Biden president and then running cackling Kamala as the Democrat nominee in 2024 made the loony left think they could destroy the border, the penal system, and the buying power of Americans by spending $7 trillion and christening such spending with Orwellian names like “The Inflation Reduction Act.”

Even Larry Sommers, who sometimes stumbles onto inconvenient truths, wrote that Bidenomics caused “the massive inflation which, more than anything, helped cripple Biden’s presidency and fuel the Trump recovery.” After all, America “has a $37 trillion debt with $3 billion a day in interest payments,” as Hanson reminds readers. Nonetheless, government spending continues at a destructive pace, even under the Trump administration!

The left branded “minorities” who voted for Trump in 2024 as victims of the Marxist construct of “false consciousness.” But Trump appealed to the continuing upward economic mobility of Americans of African and Hispanic descent; thus, he saw that class has more voter appeal than ethnic solidarity has, that e pluribus unum trumped the Democrat party’s tribal appeal to “race” with slogans like “Black Lives Matter” and Sí se puede, “Yes, we can.” Minorities’ economic advancement is nothing new, as Thomas Sowell has established and I witnessed growing up in a mixed ethnic neighborhood.

“Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets,” Napoleon warned. Likewise, Hanson points to the “legacy media” as “Armies of Anti-Trumpers who were the most vitriolic of all the various ant-Trump entities.” And though this herd of independent thinkers has always been uncritically left-wing, its younger reporters are even more untrained in “traditional journalistic methods,” though they have certainly “absorbed a woke zeal.”

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Bit late now.

• CIA Director Releases 71 Presidential Daily Briefs Before and After 9/11 (CTH)

Today the CIA released an unprecedented 71 Presidential Daily Briefs given to the Executive Branch before and after the 9/11 terrorist attacks. I would remind readers, in 2010 George W Bush’s campaign manager, aide and senior staff, Karl Rove, revealed [“Courage and Consequence“] that then CIA Director George Tenet had been trying for several weeks to get a personal meeting with President Bush to outline an intelligence concern about an international terror threat.


According to Rove, White House National Security Advisor, Condoleezza Rice, had been blocking Tenet from meeting with President Bush. Director Tenet sent several requests using alternate channels to reach Bush. Eventually, in the late spring or early summer 2001, Tenet overcame the Rice block and was given time to brief President Bush.

CIA Director George Tenet then told President Bush the CIA had intercepted telephone “chatter” pointing to an al-Qaeda terrorist threat that somehow involved airlines. However, the details and the specifics of the threat were unknown. The only thing Tenet knew with certainty was that some type of plot was underway and airlines were involved.

George W Bush responded to Tenet by saying it appeared the CIA director was just trying to “cover his ass” in case something happened. Bush was angered at the vagueness of the warning and told Tenet to consider his ass covered, but essentially the information was useless without specifics.

The rest, as they say, is history. The matter did not surface again until after the 9/11/01 plot was carried out.

US President George W. Bush, National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice and CIA Director George Tenet meet in the Oval Office October 8, 2001


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It’s illegal, everybody knows about it, nothing happens.

• Sec. Mullin: Ilhan Omar Married Her Brother (Catherine Salgado)

One of the most explosive accusations against the Minnesota Democrat representative who says she represents Somalia’s interests is now confirmed.


It’s all in the family for Ilhan Omar and her brother, who got legally married so both of them could be in the United States of America. Their family has connections to genocide in Somaliland, with the father directly implicated in the slaughter, so it’s not exactly shocking that Ilhan and her siblings are implicated both in immigration fraud and in taxpayer funding fraud. Talk about a criminal family. Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin finally confirmed the illegal marriage accusation in comments on the second night of the Republican midterm convention this week.

Benny Johnson was asking the secretary about the Omar case. “OK, well, what’s going to happen, Mr. Secretary?” Mullin answered, “Something’s going to happen. This an ongoing investigation, right? We know that she married her brother to try to bring him to the United States. We know he lives now in London. We feel that this may … there may be more to this, the whole family migration, and possibly some illegal activity for them to come the United States to begin with.” Therefore, the Trump administration has confirmed the incestuous legal marriage, but is still looking to see how many members of the family are implicated in immigration fraud.

Mullin went on, “Here’s what I want to make sure. If we actually move a case forward, it’s not a political case. It’s an actual case because they did things wrong. If you decided to work the law, lying on the information to get in the United States, … or because you were just wanting to seek a better life, but you didn’t tell us who you actually were, you lied about certain things, about your application; those things, there’s no expiration to that. If we can prove it, then you shouldn’t have been here in the first place.”

Mullin explained, evidently referring to the rampant fraud in the Minnesota Somali community, “It’s more than just her case, we’re looking at a lot of cases that are very similar to this, that we feel like they’re made that broad from the get-go. But when we move forward, it’s not political. It’s because you chose to break the nation’s laws.”

Referring back to his time in the United States Senate, Mullin added, “I don’t make the laws anymore. I’m in charge of enforcing laws, and I will not pick and choose which laws I’m going to enforce and which laws I’m not. I’m going to enforce all of them regardless if you’re Omar, or some other individual in the community, we’re going to enforce it equally.”

Republicans are often afraid to hold Democrats to account for breaking the law because they are so worried about looking partisan. It has allowed many a Democrat to get away with apparently illegal activities. Hopefully there will be accountability for Ilhan Omar, and that will break the cycle of inaction.

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  • September 13, 2026 at 8:26 am #249740
    Raúl Ilargi Meijer
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    Banksy Girl with a balloon 2002/2017 • ‘Muslimification’ of Europe Ignites Backlash (Sharyl Attkisson) • Ex-Muslim Warns Islam’s Threat Is Much More T
    [See the full post at: Debt Rattle September 13 2026]

    September 13, 2026 at 12:20 pm #249755
    John Day
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    Whhy does anybody assume that nuclear weapons would “end” WW-3?
    ;-/
    The Abrahamic religions have a history of highly organized and effective violent conquest, including the “Christians” who are cool with killing lots of people if it’s “God’s will”.
    The Christians who are against killing people are always in the minority, it seems.

    Why I “must watch” the guy in the Israel-blue tie talk about 9/11?
    Does he say Israel and the MIC did it?

    September 13, 2026 at 12:53 pm #249756
    charles
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    And to maybe continue your thoughts. No one except the united states has nuclear weapons and has used them. Having nuclear weapons puts a target on you. If you use them you will be wiped from the face of the earth. especially if you have a “few”. Maybe thats why there is a fatwa against them. Trump going on that if they have them they will use them is fantasy. Maybe he will have to be nice to them. That wouldnt make him happy.

    September 13, 2026 at 2:47 pm #249757
    Dr. D
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    Today’s Irony:
    wrinkly

    “Sweden Discovers That Deporting Immigrant Gangsters Reduces Crime…
    Don’t hold your breath. It is Sweden after all. Hand grenade capital of the world, and would they really want to lose that title? After the billions it’s cost to get it?

    “Alice Weidel exposes Zelensky’s hidden offshore accounts and demands the immediate blocking of billions!”

    About time. Maybe she has to, but so far she’s been the safest, most useless politician ever.

    ““Public pressure to limit immigration has prompted Conservative populist gains across Europe…”
    • ‘Muslimification’ of Europe Ignites Backlash (Sharyl Attkisson)

    Nations are finally having a dim sense of “Us” again. Problem: that can be used as badly as the other side claims it can. That’s why they encourage evil behavior on that side too, calling everyone Hitler, but also paying millions like the SPLC to make it so. They desperately want, NEED, Beg for you to lose your temper and purge them, then they can lay a guilt trip on your kids about their naughty daddies, rule them for 80 years like Germany, bled white and near dead.

    “but we have to be hard about it and the government’s very weak at the moment and not able to do it.”

    Precisely the problem. The European view – and this is not irrational – is you need a strong GOVERNMENT. Which then the oligarchs hijack. They let you build the 4th Reich or whatever, then board and run it. 1,000 years of this. See what I’m saying? Could be perfectly honorable, lily-white, totally functional – don’t care. All they need is for YOU to build the machinery, since they are parasites that lack all creativity and do no work.

    Okay, that’s the parameters of the problem: Respond. Solve it.

    For example, you saw exactly this be attempted hourly in Putin’s Russia or 25 years. Even with the mixed Central Bank – she undermines exactly as far as she is allowed. But he ‘fixed it.’

    “Islam is not just a religion; it is essentially a political state with ever-shifting borders, and while the different nations and factions of Islam will fight with each other, they still perceive any successful Muslim attack on Western civilization as a victory for all of them.”

    This is the Social Engineering writ large. It’s who is “Us”, and who is “another.” Primal human rigging. So if “Us” is gay, or Left, or Blue, or whatever, then any gay guy getting away with murder is “Us Winning” and any “Other” getting shot on stage is to be celebrated. Simple. Now let me add the word and try to capture the depth of it:

    “IDENTITY” Politics.

    These things are all your “Identity.” If something bad happens and a billion dollar fraud is stopped that puts money back in your pocket, your Ego is crushed. You feel you’re being attacked and killed. No! Keep robbing my pockets! I must defend my Ego!

    Same as a child with a toy. There are toys and then suddenly it is MY toy. Now whatever happens to the toy happens to him. You can injure him for a lifetime by punching a piece of plastic that a moment ago meant nothing. There are many permutations and rules about it, but it’s only this.

    So long as “it” – ever-shifting ‘tribal’ group – is THIS, then yes, they will rape and cheer the deaths of millions without any limits at all. It is permission by primordial default that you can do whatever you want to “Them”, whoever “They” are. And one thing Western chauvinists like Sargon or Connor bring up regularly is that generally only Europe thinks otherwise, or ever has. And I’m not saying they do it a lot either, but it was made the cultural norm to care for others equally – or now even have an out-group preference – that no other culture has.

    Women are generally the keepers of the culture. By violence. They will freely and automatically attack anyone not adhering to “Us”. Heretics are always dealt with more harshly than foreigners and enemies. Families are treated worse than strangers.

    “We Want Muslims in the Police, the Pentagon, the White House, the Senate – In Leadership Positions, So We Can Change the World”

    All groups say this. This is not unusual. What “Changes” do they intend? By what means? Would this fit releasing an armed, bloody Sikh because he is brown, while watching a native citizen die? Just tell me.

    “‘resistance to occupation’ or a ‘response to imperialism.’”

    What Occupation or Imperialism? Define them. Like “Racism” it is defined as all human actions everywhere, over all time, except for Communism. There is no oppression in that system, and no need for resistance, as Stalin showed. Communism never expanded or took over, influenced other nations such as Hungary or Cuba.

    “Therefore, America and other countries should’ve been much more cautious about allowing in mass Muslim migration.”

    Hearty har har. “Americans” never did. Duh. We’ve been against it always long ago, middle, recently, now, and in the near future. Additionally, we are also pro-immigration as per from Mexico etc, only using a process that excludes terrorists and human traffickers. None of this has anything to do with us, and was done over our thousands and thousands of our dead bodies. Muslim or not makes to difference: we’re not carving them out as special in that regard.

    ““While China Goes Full Send ..”

    I say let them. Then AI can destroy their culture and productivity far faster than ours. If theirs is free, so much the better: then it collapses them at half the price.

    “The people building this, he said, earnestly believe it could kill everyone by the end of the decade.”

    That’s why we must have it here. What if he’s not warning, he’s informing? The POINT of building SkyNet is to kill all humans on earth? Either just ‘cause, or he means “All humans not oligarchs or who give us any s—t.” Since that is literally his work, it makes little difference if he awoke Frankenstein to kill us on purpose or on accident: we all know that’s the purpose of building the monster at all. Like Immigration and Globalism, it is once again being built over our dead bodies.

    “”Do you think they all fully grasp the import of this event?”

    What? That the government ginned up some s—t to destroy the Constitution and install fascism? Do they need to know? They’re on board with some of it, although sadly most citizens just want to steer the fascism once installed.

    “1970, learning about Pearl Harbor. It was 29 years prior. And yet it was so black and white,” he said. “‘What was Pearl Harbor?’

    That is kind of hard to believe, 29 years. But same thing: We had long since broken the code and cut off their oil and Japan wouldn’t attack, so FDR boxed every ship into harbor to make them a target. Honolulu Nightly said they were attacking tomorrow. So yes, very similar to 912. It’s consensus now, and black and white indeed.

    It is truly said the country can never move on, restore, or heal, until we have a real, honest accounting of what happened that day. It’s possible you don’t have to hang anybody, although I may disagree on that. But you do have to open the records and show.

    “Often I have explained that the President does not have the power that the public attributes to presidents–or that Trump thought he had–and thus events and policies diverge from the campaign promises. Carlson supports my point when he says that Trump is not in charge.
    Who is in charge? Carlson doesn’t know, and I don’t either. On the surface the neoconservatives seem to be responsible for both wars.     ”

    There’s a lot in this. What DO “the Public” think Presidents can do? They are so ignorant they have no idea. “Some S—t” they handwave. So that’s not helpful. Presidents are larger and can control world markets, all other nations and leaders? Clearly not. That would be a world king. Yet they act as if they DO believe this all the time. …Or maybe WE don’t, mostly, but Canadians, Europeans, and Fox News clearly believe this daily. Where would we find people that dumb though? That’s why we mostly have to import them.

    “Trump is not in charge”. What would that mean? Some orders are finally being followed after 10 years. Be still my heart. Political opposition always exists and the bureaucracy is the enemy of the President of the People both because of Politics, and because – just generally. ‘Cause they don’t wanna. Don’t have to. Think they know best. So what President ever WAS?. That’s beyond that foreign actors and agencies are trying to direct you in the normal, expected John LeCarre way.

    Who is in charge? Look at that description: No One. There are bodies with aligning interests that agitate and cooperate for their own goals, sometimes working together, other times in conflict. If not, then “Someone is in charge” and so it’s all over: no sense fighting. “They” already run everything, already won, instead of thinking they are TRYING to get more power today than they had yesterday, but that power is yet incomplete.

    NO ONE is in charge.

    But Docktor: you say daily about “Them” and so on yourself. Yes, with that understanding. And so the last line there. EVERY. SINGLE. PERSON hates the NeoCons. Every Person Hates Ursula, Kallas: even their own people can’t stand them. The People hate them, mock them, the media records their hourly failures, other politicians, Congress, fight them daily for careers, etc. YET THEY ARE STILL THERE.

    Explain to me how and you’ve found your “Them.” Easy.

    And one of the few pins on the board that are without dispute is “THEY” are not Trump. And “THEY” are not Putin. Those are your two truisms. Both are fighting “THEM” tooth and nail, hammer and tongs, and being assassinated daily.

    As you descend from there, things get murky, but in both cases there is a chessboard, and the pieces are white and black. Someone is sitting on each side.

    “Carlson is intelligent, thoughtful, and his agenda is the well-being of America, which requires moral instead of immoral behavior and policies.”

    Except he doesn’t. He’s against algebra as an evil Jewish conspiracy. Thus the name: Al-Gabr, from Musa Algorithmi. Pythagoras was clearly Jewish. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Khwarizmi Besides being a lifelong Democrat, UK/Murdock-owned Fox News, anti-Trumper, and from the CIA, his style fits this: asking questions we should ask, as he says here. But then providing answers Conservatives will swallow that are misleading and wrong. Lead to no action.

    “Why is it “conservative” to stand for America and to ask who is really running the show? Everyone should be asking the questions that Carlson asks.”

    Every Conservative asks. Endlessly. Liberals do not since they already know everything and it’s “The Patriarchy” and “Capitalism” and “Donald Trump”; words which either have no meaning or are insane, but the point being is they don’t ask things: they repeat. WE ask. Tucker can’t stop us from asking, but he CAN throw chaff that makes us address the wrong people.

    “It’s illegal, everybody knows about it, nothing happens.
    • Sec. Mullin: Ilhan Omar Married Her Brother (Catherine Salgado)

    So who is “They” though? Well, let’s see: Obama arranged the Somalis from thin air, deporting millions of Hispanics to do so, the CIA is laundering the money both here and when it arrives back in Africa.

    “• We’re on The Brink of World War That Ends With Nuclear Weapons – Carlson (RT)

    Are we? We seem further than at any other time in my life. By a lot. That’s WHY Ursula and Kallas have to get us to fight Russia or China, as we are the only ones that can or nuke in adequate mass that we people won’t find out and hang all the pipsqueaks who did, like Little Napoleon, that Tiny Jupiter. You can see from that example, yes, it has to be big. But the U.S. and Russia are on the the first major understanding and alliance since I don’t know when, 1890 and Alaska it seems, which is WHYYYYY the meeting was there. Nothing’s changed. We’re allies AGAINST who is now being slowly exposed to everyone as the real enemies to all mankind: Globalists. Who although here, live almost exclusively in Europe. That was to be their power base. Israel is THEIR project, not ours. Balfour was a BRITISH Lord, not from Arkansas. The people in Israel are EUROPEAN, not American. They shot some folks and we got lashed in much later against our will.

    “The CIA is running the war. The US intelligence services are running the war out of Ukraine against Russia,”

    Yes and EVERYBODY KNOWS – everyone on God’s earth – that the CIA is against the President and against the whole United States, all its People, and the Pentagon too. Everyone but Tucker, I guess, who is an Expert, being FROM the CIA for lifetimes. Being FROM MI6 via Murdock and Fox.

    “saying Trump and his advisers have “almost systematically betrayed the people who voted for him in 2024.”

    I mean, I’m as surprised as anyone, but the PEOPLE DO NOT THINK SO. Ask. Polls are clear. I would have said no this didn’t happen, but he’s got a hard case to make, but no: the people already don’t think so. There’s almost no resistance to overcome. It’s all Twitterati like Tuck, who bet all their careers – ALL Of them, Tuck, Kent, Candice, Alex Jones, Massie ALL of them – on that this divide America would work to crush America forever and lead us to the Globalist Utopia of “A boot stamping the face of humanity forever.” Seemed a fine plan, lots of traction: There isn’t any. Don’t know why. Guess more people think there are more scams than I expected, thank God. Never thought they’d stop acting Canadian and question authority again.

    ““They say intertwined because they can no longer function separately. Canada is economically dependent on proximal and economic subsidies from the United States.”

    Problems: WE can. THEY can’t. Sorry. We won’t even notice, cause the Canadian government already commissioned that study and that’s what it found. We literally can’t tell the difference. I’m not trying to rub faces in it and sound triumphal: this s—t is serious and I don’t know how Canada got themselves in such a ruin, WHILE being proud of it and wanting to double down, but like,

    the NEW YORK CITY POLICE DEPARTMENT has more soldiers than all of Canada.

    One city can take you. They have the GDP of like California? One state? Dead last in OECD nations GDP, bottom in NATO spending. They have 30 ships. Many national guards have more planes than all Canada. They have no war equipment of their own at all it’s US/NATO. We are your ENTIRE national defense, and with all that free money they STILL can’t have decent health care and are now killing everyone. They can’t move oil between provinces without the U.S. shutting it off.

    I cannot fathom what they got up to, are wildly proud of this and want to double down again. Carney is openly having meetings on how to destroy Canada. WITH DEMOCRATS, in seditious violation of Logan Act. …Merely to stop Donald Trump, who’s some dum guy who will be replaced tomorrow. Every Canadian must be MAID.

    Trump just shut off Bombardier, opening volley. Company can’t exist anyway without wild, corrupt, Canadian subsidies, but the WAY he shut it off is a Kung Fu deathstrike. Probably unrecoverable. Dead in one stroke, one second, one man. Costs us nothing, we won’t notice, and we can do this all day. (Details refer to pulling critical contracts and certifications which have to exist to be operational, and take years to restore)

    Canada was ALREADY dicking with Gulf Stream, just to be an ass, so it’s not like we’re first here. They ALREADY have 50% tariffs on all kinds of American goods, complain about prices, and we’re barely responding. — I thought tariffs were bad tho? Why do you, China, and Europe have them? At 50%? Because Canada is the new Ukraine: it’s integrated into the Russian/Soviet economy, so it’s a giant pita to separate and re-build all those supply chain structures. But it’s fatal to Canada/Ukraine, who, as the economy fails, are pushed into a dead military, to be cannon fodder to machine guns for no victory or purpose. Carney promises. …From his mansions in the U.S. cruising his American stock and bond portfolio.

    Don’t do this, if I have to be more clear.

    Now go re-read what Trudeau said about how collapsed and totally incapable, completely dead Canadian economy is. It’s only 5 points, it won’t take long.

    “• 25 Years After: Revisiting Trump’s Role as a Champion for New York (Matt Kane)

    Functionally, it made sense to build two. But this was about occult magic and symbolism, of two into one. One World Government. What world leader just said that this week? Carney? I forget. Anyway, they’re deranged weirdos that way, so that’s what they did. To them, erasing it was a magic spell to control the United States. Did it work? And if it worked, are they really that crazy?

    “THIS ISNT A SCENE FROM A WAR MOVIE. THIS IS AN AI ROBOT TRAINING TO DO THE JOBS HUMANS ARE TOO SCARED TO DO”

    It is a war movie and I’m the target. Humans aren’t scared to do the jobs, you have to pay them. So: two sentences, two lies. Pretty average. It takes an Expert to put more than one lie per sentence, but luckily there are a lot of them available to do so.

    Notes: the PURPOSE of FaceHugger was to make this up about AI to sell to Congress to act as we direct them.

    WHY was the Clancy trial in the news? Like wtf cares? There’s lots of terrible murders all the time, often by immigrants and black people but almost 100% Democrats. (statistics) It was in the news AHEAD of the interesting parts. It was targeted at women. Why?

    Now we know: yes it’s meant to divide men and women, meant to make people even say they shouldn’t vote, but it’s meant to erase Trial By Jury. As no Juror will ever be safe, Massachusetts and 25 other states say. Another pillar of our system.

    So you destroyed, what did you replace it with? Jacobin Purges. Gay Race Communism. I’m sure that won’t go badly. But the point is, yes, I am ALSO reporting on this, falling into the trap, but IT’S A SCAM. A lie. An Op. It’s all pre-paid, made up. Not real, all made for social media and Blue Square.

    September 13, 2026 at 3:06 pm #249758
    zerosum
    Participant

    I have noticed that MSM is finally discussing what TAE and bloggers have been saying.
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    September 13, 2026 at 3:42 pm #249759
    zerosum
    Participant

    BIGGEST Drone Attack Since 2022🚨 Russia Strikes 400 Meters From NATO🔥 Military Summary 2026.09.13


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    September 13, 2026 at 4:32 pm #249760
    Michael Reid
    Participant

    Not good

    September 13, 2026 at 4:40 pm #249761
    Michael Reid
    Participant

    Yemen Rocks the Gate of Tears
    Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su

    No less than 25 years after 9/11, the Angel of History once again delivers a powerful kick. Five years ago, we had the astonishing imperial humiliation in Afghanistan, accomplished in a matter of days. Now, we have the astonishing humiliation of Epstein Syndicate vassal Saudi Arabia in Yemen, also accomplished in a matter of days.

    Serial humiliations now follow the Empire’s path like a plague – and we’re not even talking about the impending, stratospheric, twin strategic defeats in West Asia and the black soil of Novorossiya. Emperors’ heads used to roll in Ancient “Divide and Rule” Rome for much less.

    The overall collapse of the Saudi mercenary gangs in Yemen is so swift that even Epstein Syndicate mainstream media has been forced to acknowledge it. The Ansarallah Rolling Thunder is seizing cities; islands; capturing thousands of thugs; liberating all prisoners – and greeting them amnesty; taking control of an untold number of US tanks and weapons – Afghanistan reloaded; and being greeted as liberators of Yemeni land across the whole tribal spectrum.

    And of course Ansarallah from now on, officially, has taken full control (italics mine) of the mega-strategic Bab al-Mandab, or “Gate of Tears”.

    As iconic images go, Mohammed al-Houthi, cousin of Supreme Leader Abdul-Malik Al-Houthi, was spotted in liberated Al-Jarrahi driving one of countless armored vehicles abandoned by mercenary UAE-controlled gangs.

    The intel behind the Ansarallah Rolling Thunder – described as the largest mass-capture operation in modern warfare – was carefully coordinated with the IRGC. The Axis of Resistance was fully aware that after devastating Iranian attacks on the Jordan bases, the US was strangled in its capacity to help the Saudis prevent a Yemeni onslaught.

    And onslaught it was, along the entire Yemeni western coast: from Hays to Al-Khokha and Al-Mokha via Al-Wazi’iyah, including the military camps of Khaled and Jabal al-Nar, plus Red Sea islands.

    Hizam al-Assad, member of the Political Bureau of Ansarallah, interviewed by Al-Mayadeen (English translation here ), reaffirmed the “strategic importance” of the whole western coast, “and the region of Al-Khokha, the region of Hays, as well as the region of Al-Mafqa up to Dhabab and Miyyun, as well as the Yemeni islands in the Red Sea.”

    Hizam al-Assad also detailed the attempt by the Saudis “to create a form of social dissociation in these regions, whether through their ‘Daeshization,’ or through the exacerbation of many regional, sectarian and confessional particularisms.”

    Context is key. In 2015, Riyadh assembled an Arab-style “coalition of the willing” to basically expel Ansarallah/the Houthis from the capital Sana’a.

    Major fail – even by installing a blockade of Yemeni ports, and bombing indiscriminately (I was shown several targets, some rebuilt, from Sana’a to Sa’ada.) Starting in 2022, a sort of unofficial ceasefire was in place, via a memorandum of understanding. The Saudis broke it in July, attacking the runway of Sana’a airport.

    How we won the western coast

    Hizam al-Assad confirmed that “we had estimates that the occupier would fall in these regions from within (…) We estimated that the community would rise up and expel it (…) The withdrawal was in fact rapid and disorderly for the enemy (…) The enemy has no cause in Yemen, especially the local instruments, who carry out Saudi agendas for money.”

    Western characterizations of Yemeni “aggression” once again don‘t even qualify as pathetic. Hizam al-Assad clarifies that “we have a trajectory within the framework of operations imposing the equation of ‘blockade for blockade’ and ‘escalation for escalation,’ and this is our primary orientation. And had the Saudi enemy not sought to disrupt this trajectory and break this equation (…) our trajectory is clear: to wrest away the legitimate Yemeni rights, and to break the blockade imposed on our country by the Saudi enemy.”

    The US Navy was previously de facto expelled from the Red Sea by advanced Yemeni military capabilities – including hypersonic missiles, 100% locally manufactured. Seems like Riyadh did not understand the lesson.

    The Yemeni Armed Forces confirmed that the Saudis launched dozens of air raids, “across the governorates of Taiz, Hodeidah, Marib, and Al-Jawf”, carried out by F-15s and Typhoons taking off from King Fahd base in Taif and King Khalid base in Khamis Mushait.

    Unflapabble spokesman of Yemeni Armed Forces, Brigadier Yahya Saree – who I had the honor to meet last year in Yemen – confirmed that Made in Yemen surface-to-air missiles forced Saudis and mercenaries to abandon the base in Taiz, one of those specifically designed to harass Yemen.

    Taiz is key: one of Yemen’s largest cities. Ansarallah is now in full control – a massive strategic asset.

    As strategic assets go, few compare to Mayun island – also knows as Perim, smack in the middle of the Bab al-Mandab. There’s a military airfield and a military base built by the UAE with Israeli cooperation, crammed with high-tech weapons. All that is now Ansarallah property.

    Now that Ansarallah controls virtually the whole western coast, what’s left to conquer is essentially Marib – for the oil and gas fields – and the port of Aden, which congregates the bulk of the mercenary forces regimented against Sana’a.

    Saudi Arabia’s lose-lose predicament

    The Ansarallah Rolling Thunder complicates the chessboard in West Asia – and beyond – to a mesmerizing degree. The price of oil is out of control. The IRGC is warning about launching a new weapon that “will give imperialists a heart attack” – as in shattering the wobbly American naval blockade.

    The much-spun Mecca Defense Alliance is facing its first serious birth pangs. Turkjiye is somewhat already embedded in the Saudi war on Yemen – as Turkish drones have been falling like flies inside Yemen for weeks now. Pakistan has meekly warned that the defense pact could become operational – only to backtrack and state that it does not apply to a pre-existent situation (as in the Saudi war started in 2015).

    MbS should organize a pilgrimage to the Gate to shed his strategic Tears. Anything Saudi, even seagulls, won’t cross the Bab al-Mandab under supervision of the Yemeni Armed Forces.

    Now couple it with the Big Bang: the coordinated multiple strike on the Abqaiq-to-Yanbu pipeline, the last remaining route for Saudi oil exports after the blockade of the Strait of Hormuz, a massive 100 km black smoke column rising to the desert sky captured on Sentinel-3 satellite imagery.

    Consequences: expect production costs for nitrogen fertilizer plants from Europe to Asia to go totally out of control. Wheat, rice and maize yields are certified to fall, drastically, in tandem with skyrocketing diesel prices. Irrigation and harvesting will become a privilege for the wealthy.

    Ansarallah now has the luxury of installing a toll gate, arguably multi-layered, in the Bab al-Mandab, if they want it. Yet no exceptions for Riyadh; the dumb desert bedouins will only get a list of harsh demands.

    Saudi Arabia’s prospects are dire, as it’s entering the worst possible lose-lose configuration: onshore oil infrastructure in tatters, maritime export routes blockaded. The verdict is not pronounced, yet. But it walks and talks, ominously, like Saudi Arabia being set up to fall, reduced to a desert wasteland, to the benefit of the usual suspects.

    Yemen Rocks the Gate of Tears

    September 13, 2026 at 5:22 pm #249762
    John Day
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    Thank You, Michael Reid.

    September 13, 2026 at 5:30 pm #249763
    Michael Reid
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    https://resistanceaxis.substack.com/

    September 13, 2026 at 5:32 pm #249764
    Michael Reid
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    You are welcome John Day

    September 13, 2026 at 7:43 pm #249773
    my parents said know
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    That clip of the robot is from a horror movie.

    For a take on “the clancy psyop”, try this site called Morgan

    September 13, 2026 at 8:31 pm #249774
    tboc
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    xenophobia , catch it before it catches you

    September 13, 2026 at 10:21 pm #249775
    Michael Reid
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    September 13, 2026 at 10:32 pm #249776
    Michael Reid
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    PEPE ESCOBAR: 25 Years of War on Terror and Both OIL Chokepoints Are Gone,9/11 WAR Ends in IRAN

    September 13, 2026 at 11:21 pm #249777
    zerosum
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    Open link. Good summary

    https://sonar21.com/day-one-in-new-delhi-brics-steps-off-the-dollar-with-iran-pressing-hardest/

    Day One in New Delhi: BRICS Steps Off the Dollar, With Iran Pressing Hardest
    12 September 2026 by Larry C. Johnson 187 Comments

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    September 13, 2026 at 11:59 pm #249778
    Michael Reid
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    September 14, 2026 at 12:13 am #249779
    Michael Reid
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    IRAN’S PRESIDENT TO AMERICA: “FACE OUR MILITARY” – w/ Fmr. CIA Larry Johnson

    September 14, 2026 at 2:18 am #249780
    Michael Reid
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    September 14, 2026 at 3:47 am #249781
    zerosum
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    https://t.me/Middle_East_Spectator/36735#

    —❗️🇸🇦/🇾🇪 Current situation on the Bab Al-Mandab front:
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    Despite intense Saudi airstrikes and clashes with newly arrived PLC reinforcements in the area, Ansarallah has managed to hold onto Murad, Dhubab, and the critical Camp Omari (Omari Mountain).

    So far, none of the gains that were made on the Red Sea coast & Bab Al-Mandab have been reversed.

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