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I need someone to pinch me.
Trump called out the UN General Assembly for their system that has resulted in the mass trafficking of children, and promises to “track down the villains” responsible.
Trump is not pulling punches anymore.
Trump is in war mode. https://t.co/RhF1S389EP
— Clandestine (@WarClandestine) September 23, 2025
President Trump to Europe: "If you don't get away from the green energy scam, your country is going to fail. If you don't stop people that you've never seen before, that you have nothing in common with, your country is going to fail… You are destroying your heritage." pic.twitter.com/6sBvSy0lMy
— Greg Price (@greg_price11) September 23, 2025
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Tucker Carlson – in his first interview since the Charlie Kirk memorial and the intense smear campaign Israel loyalists unleashed for the speech he gave – talked to us on @SystemUpdate_ last night about that passage of the speech and the reaction to it:pic.twitter.com/o6oZrDpn3b
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) September 24, 2025
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Albania, Andorra,….
• Only 36 Countries Back Ukraine In Key UN Vote (RT)
A joint statement by Ukraine and the EU condemning Russia has received the backing of only 36 out of the 193 UN member states. The US notably abstained. Presented by EU foreign affairs chief Kaja Kallas and Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrey Sibiga at the UN Headquarters in New York on Tuesday, the document describes Russia’s actions vis-a-vis Ukraine as a “blatant violation of the UN Charter.” It also calls on the global community to “maximize pressure” on Moscow, and to support Ukraine’s “territorial integrity within its internationally recognized borders.”
The joint statement was endorsed by the 26 EU member states, with the exception of Hungary, and also endorsed by Albania, Andorra, Australia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Canada, Japan, Monaco, New Zealand, Norway, and the UK. Back in February, the UN Security Council rejected a resolution drafted by Kiev and its European backers that contained similar anti-Russian rhetoric. A competing resolution promoted by the US was eventually adopted, with Washington, Moscow, and eight other members voting in favor and five European nations abstaining. That version avoided branding Russia as an aggressor and called for a “swift end” to the Ukraine conflict.
Moscow’s deputy envoy to the UN, Dmitry Polyansky, at the time described the outcome as a victory for common sense, claiming that “more and more people realize the true colors of the Zelensky regime.” Moscow has consistently characterized the Ukraine conflict as a proxy war being waged against it by the West. The Kremlin has repeatedly stated that the hostilities would end were Kiev to renounce its claims to the five regions that have joined Russia through referendums since 2014, reaffirm its neutral status, and guarantee the rights of the Russian-speaking population on its territory.
"Bad news for Zelensky": The Telegraph assessed Trump's statement yesterday
➖ "What may seem like a stunning reversal at first glance could actually be bad news for Vladimir Zelensky… Instead of promising new support for Ukraine or stepping up action against Russia, Trump… pic.twitter.com/BsMO9xMbSK— Olga Bazova (@OlgaBazova) September 24, 2025
Putin’s philosopher on X.
“The worst outcome would have been for us to be drawn in. Now there is nowhere left to be drawn..”
• Trump’s Sudden Betrayal of Russia (Alexander Dugin)
“Trump announced that he now believes Ukraine can retake all territories from Russia by purely military means, that Russia is a ‘paper tiger,’ and that he intends to sell weapons to NATO’s European members so they can flood Ukraine with them. This is a wholly different position than the one he held a minute ago. That, however, is Trump through and through. There is no other. This is nothing like MAGA or Charlie Kirk, who consistently sided with Russia and opposed aid to Kiev. But Kirk was killed. The boldest figures in MAGA are already beginning to suspect that this is not just the act of a lone liberal with a rifle living with a transgender furry.
Trump is faithful to no one and utterly faithful to himself — half MAGA, half neocon, and willing to compromise with the Deep State. That is what he is. At the same time, a pattern emerges: Trump facilitates the construction of a multipolar world even as he attempts to resist it. Consider how his wild tariffs deftly pushed India closer to China. This dynamic repeats itself across the board.
One might have thought a deal with Trump on Ukraine was possible, but in reality it is not. His positions shift by the minute; he never engages with historical or geopolitical details, and any agreement struck by a businessman is immediately overturned if someone offers better terms. That is business. This is an extremely volatile and ruthlessly brutal arena of aggressive, inhuman deception. The worst outcome would have been for us to be drawn in. Now there is nowhere left to be drawn. We have only one path: the sacred patriotic war. It was so and it remains so. Once it begins, it can end only in our victory.”
“The more unrealistic the idea, the more it distracts from weakness.”
• NATO Fires $470,000 Sidewinders At $2,000 Drones (Ryumshin)
Why did a handful of foam plastic drones leave NATO in a panic? And why is Poland now proposing establishing a no-fly zone over Ukraine? It has been a long time since the West entertained ideas as reckless as these. Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski broke what had been a useful tradition of keeping quiet when he suggested NATO should impose a no-fly zone. The last time we heard this nonsense was at the very start of the Russia-Ukraine conflict, when Vladimir Zelensky demanded that NATO shoot down every Russian missile and aircraft over Ukraine. Estonia cheered him on, but NATO leaders dismissed it. They knew then what should be obvious now: a no-fly zone would mean war with Russia. No one in the alliance dared risk it in 2022, and nothing has changed since.
So why bring it up again? Not because Warsaw has suddenly gone mad or discovered a taste for apocalypse. It is political theater, closer to the instincts of a porcupine fish puffing itself up than of a serious power. Poland – and much of Western Europe with it – is desperately trying to appear larger and scarier than it really is. The trigger was an incident in which a group of UAVs entered Polish airspace. Western European politicians seized on the episode, trying to extract maximum political mileage. But decisive action is the last thing on their minds. The incident revealed just how unprepared NATO is for modern warfare. Nineteen unarmed, camera-less decoy drones crossed Polish skies. Their sole purpose was to commit “suicide” against air defenses before any real strike. NATO managed to shoot down only four. The rest wandered across Poland unhindered, some travelling nearly 500km before running out of fuel and falling from the sky.
In their panic, NATO scrambled F-35 fighters armed with AIM-9 Sidewinder missiles – each one costing $470,000. The price of a single decoy drone? No more than $3,000. To bring down a handful of foam contraptions worth $8,000-$12,000, NATO spent close to $1.9 million. The alliance failed at every level. Intelligence failed because it did not detect the drones in time and then lost track of most of them. The military failed because it had no plan for such an obvious scenario. And political leaders failed because in almost four years of conflict they have done nothing to adapt NATO to the realities of 21st-century warfare. If this is how Poland and its partners cope with nineteen decoys, how do they plan to defend Ukraine from the drone swarms of a real battle?
The no-fly zone talk is also pointless without the United States. Washington commands the only truly powerful air force in NATO, yet it shows no interest in such schemes. The alliance is deeply divided. Its European members are demanding that America stop “flirting” with Moscow and impose harsher sanctions. Donald Trump, however, is digging in his heels, telling Brussels to impose measures themselves – and add tariffs against India and China while they are at it. Even Trump, who rarely avoids hyperbole, did not join the hysteria. He limited himself to a post on social media and then suggested the drones may have strayed accidentally. That directly contradicted Warsaw’s alarmist claims. The US also quietly declined to participate in Operation Eastern Sentry, a mission designed to protect NATO’s eastern flank. Forced to rely only on European resources, the operation ended up looking feeble and unconvincing.
So what can Western Europe do in this situation? Only what it always does: raise the alarm and toss out outlandish proposals. The more unrealistic the idea, the more it distracts from weakness. The main audience for this show is Russia – NATO wants to puff up its chest and project menace. But the second audience is closer to home.Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk admitted the real goal is to curb pro-Russian and anti-Ukrainian sentiment inside Western Europe. In 2022, Western leaders briefly managed to suppress their contradictions and present a united front. They want to revive that atmosphere now, even if it takes hysteria about drones and fantasies about no-fly zones. Will it work? Probably not. Opinion campaigns are under way, but there are no serious polls yet to show whether Western Europeans are buying the story. My belief is that they will not. The mood of 2022 cannot be recreated. The talk of no-fly zones will end the same way as earlier attempts to whip up panic – with nothing.
“Zelensky was more democratic at the start, but all the applause sent him to space,” another government insider told the magazine. “He began to believe in destiny.”
• West’s Elevation Of ‘Cult Hero’ Zelensky Fueled His Hubris –The Economist (RT)
Western praise of Ukraine’s Vladimir Zelensky encouraged overconfidence and increasingly authoritarian behavior in Kiev, The Economist argued in a piece published on Tuesday. In a “report card” assessing Ukraine’s deepening problems as its conflict with Russia drags on, the British magazine highlighted manpower shortages, a mounting budget deficit, and what it described as a growing loss of government legitimacy. Kiev’s attempted crackdown on anti-corruption agencies in July, which sparked mass protests, marked a breaking point, according to a senior Ukrainian official, who said “trust has broken down between government and society.”
“[Zelensky’s] rise as a cult hero in the West has encouraged hubris,” the outlet wrote. The Ukrainian leader was lionized by foreign officials and media, some of whom compared him to Winston Churchill. “Zelensky was more democratic at the start, but all the applause sent him to space,” another government insider told the magazine. “He began to believe in destiny.” The analysis echoed a November 2023 Time magazine story that described Zelensky’s belief in eventual victory as “immovable, verging on the messianic,” with sources saying his inner circle was unwilling to challenge the “delusion.” According to The Economist, Ukraine is now governed by “a shrinking circle of confidants,” particularly Zelensky’s chief of staff Andrey Yermak.
The latter was described as “a bruiser whose power does not seem warranted by his experience or his mandate as an unelected official,” and a person seen by some as a de facto co-president. The magazine said Zelensky’s administration “has sunk into some of Ukraine’s old vices,” citing attacks on opposition media, the use of lawfare against political rivals, and “shakedowns by the domestic-security service.” One industrialist alleged a colleague paid $2 million to avoid charges of having ties to Russia. The Economist concluded that Zelensky “will have to find something other than his role as Ukraine’s chief warrior to renew his legitimacy,” warning that he “seems to be running out of road.”
A real bear, no less.
• Russia Is A Bear, Not A ‘Paper Tiger’ – Kremlin to Trump (RT)
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has rejected US President Donald Trump’s description of Russia as “a paper tiger,” joking that the country is more commonly compared to a bear. On Tuesday, following his meeting with Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky, Trump said he believes that Kiev is “in a position to fight and win all of Ukraine back,” if the EU and NATO continue to support it. He compared Russia to a “paper tiger,” claiming that the country is in “BIG Economic trouble” and that “this is the time for Ukraine to act.”
In an interview with Russian business daily RBK on Wednesday, Peskov disagreed with the US leader. “Russia is not a tiger. Russia is more often associated with a bear. There are no such things as ‘paper bears,’ and Russia is a real bear,” he quipped. Peskov added that the Russian economy has adapted to the ongoing conflict and has been able to provide its military with all the necessary equipment while acknowledging that it is facing certain “problems”, which are aggravated by unprecedented Western sanctions.Trump is a “businessman,” he said, suggesting that he is trying to force the world to buy American oil and gas at a higher price.
Still, Peskov stressed that Russian President Vladimir Putin “highly values” Trump’s efforts to mediate the Ukraine conflict while describing their relationship as “warm.” Talks between Russia and the US are moving slowly, he noted, explaining that Washington links the issue of restoring bilateral ties to the settlement of the Ukraine conflict. Moscow remains open to seeking a peaceful resolution to the hostilities, Peskov said while Ukraine’s battlefield situation is deteriorating. “The dynamics show that for those who do not want to negotiate today, their position will be much worse tomorrow or the day after tomorrow,” the Kremlin spokesman said.
“..Trump’s statement might be read not as a promise but as a test: can the EU demonstrate that it is not itself a “paper tiger”?
• The EU Will Crack Under The Burden Of Ukraine (Romaenko)
US President Donald Trump has called Russia a “paper tiger,” supposedly “in BIG economic trouble” – so big, he believes, that Kiev “is in a position to fight and WIN all of Ukraine back in its original form.” There’s one key caveat, though – according to Trump, that victory is possible “with the support of the European Union.” Support from the US is not included in the pep talk. This means that Trump is, for the moment, distancing himself from directly trying to end the war, at least in the short term. This also means that, unlike during the Biden years, when Washington was all but writing Zelensky a blank check, as well as supporting Kiev with intelligence and training, Trump appears to be drawing a line: responsibility should fall primarily on the EU and NATO.
The question is, do they actually have the resources, political unity, and stamina to propel Kiev to this supposed victory? EU economies are groaning under the strain of inflation and energy costs – self-inflicted wounds resulting in a large part from the cut-off of cheap Russian energy. Domestic political divisions are boiling up both between and within EU member states – again, the result of populations upset by their governments throwing cash into a bottomless pit with a “for Ukraine” sign next to it. This is where the “paper tiger” label begins to cut both ways, if not entirely backfire. Calling Russia a “paper tiger” is, above all, a psychological tactic. For decades, critics of Moscow have used similar language to argue that Russia’s military power is overstated, its economy brittle, and its system fragile.
Trump is not the first to say this, and he will not be the last. But such claims have been proven wrong as often as they have been vindicated – and since the beginning of Russia’s military operation and the ensuing sanctions, they have been proven nothing but wrong. The Russian economy, despite sanctions, has not collapsed. Predictions of its imminent demise have been made repeatedly since 2022, only to be walked back as Moscow adapted, re-routed trade, and leveraged its vast natural resources. That does not mean Russia is just shrugging off the West’s pressure: severe challenges and serious problems do arise and they are being openly discussed and overcome. Yet, the collapse thesis has become increasingly difficult to sustain after years of “imminent collapse” forecasts that never materialized.
This illustrates that narratives of inevitable collapse often serve political purposes more than analytical clarity. Trump’s framing fits neatly into this tradition: the “paper tiger” line does not come from sound economic analysis. It’s simply an attempt to undermine Russia’s psychological standing. For Ukraine, Trump’s affirmation that it can defeat Russia may have been meant as a morale boost. Except it probably doesn’t sound all that encouraging when Kiev realizes it will have to rely on its own nonexistent economy and the backing of European regimes that are struggling both politically and economically – struggles that come from blind support for Kiev to begin with. As EU leaders continue to try to drum up support with tired calls for “unity for Ukraine,” they keep bleeding voters. Defense spending is rising, but weapons and resources are being funneled to Kiev.
In several countries, support for the centrist establishment is in the gutter, and parties that promise to refocus on domestic problems are rapidly gaining popularity. If the burden of carrying Kiev falls entirely to EU nations, this will not only accelerate Ukraine’s own defeat, but also the demise of many of the EU’s own struggling governments. In this sense, Trump’s statement might be read not as a promise but as a test: can the EU demonstrate that it is not itself a “paper tiger”? Trump would love to go down in history as a great peace-maker, but what he wants even more – what he promised the voters who followed his “America First” banner – is to end Washington’s entanglement in losing battles.
Putin wants new treaties. Trump should, too.
• Putin Declares It’s War Or Peace In Space (Helmer)
Yesterday afternoon at the Kremlin meeting of the Security Council, President Vladimir Putin proposed to extend the current strategic nuclear weapons limitations of the New START Treaty expiring in February 2026, for one more year into 2027. This is the time Putin is giving President Donald Trump to choose between his Golden Dome escalation in space or new terms of nuclear deescalation by treaty with Russia. “Particular attention,” Putin declared, “must be directed towards US plans to expand strategic components of its missile defence system, including preparations for the deployment of interceptors in outer space. We believe that the practical implementation of such destabilising measures could nullify our efforts to maintain the status quo in the field of strategic offensive arms. We will respond appropriately in this case.”
“In order to prevent the emergence of a new strategic arms race and to preserve an acceptable degree of predictability and restraint, we consider it reasonable to maintain at this turbulent time the status quo established under New START. Accordingly, Russia is prepared to continue observing the treaty’s central quantitative restrictions for one year after February 5, 2026.” This isn’t Putin’s first offer of a timeout for Trump. On October 16, 2020, Putin had announced “to extend the [START] Treaty now in effect unconditionally for at least a year in order to have a chance to hold substantive talks on all the parameters of problems that are regulated by treaties of this kind, lest we leave our countries and all nations of the world with a vested interest in maintaining strategic stability without such a fundamental document as the Strategic Offensive Arms Limitation Treaty.”
Trump rejected that offer before he lost the election the following month. President Joseph Biden then accepted it and on February 3, 2021, the State Department and Foreign Ministry exchanged papers extending the New START terms for five years until 2026. Putin’s statement of yesterday is his explicit reply to Trump’s announcement of Golden Dome four months ago, on May 20. “There’s never been anything like this,” Trump said. “This is something that’s going to be very protective. I think you can rest assured there’ll be nothing like this. Nobody else is capable of building it either.”
According to Trump, the new Golden Dome system – to be part-paid by Canada, he added – “will integrate with our existing defence capabilities and should be fully operational before the end of my term. So we’ll have it done in about three years [2028]. Once fully constructed, the Golden Dome will be capable of intercepting missiles even if they are launched from other sides of the world and even if they are launched from space, and we will have the best system ever built. As you know, we helped Israel with theirs and it was very successful and now we have technology that’s even far advanced from that, but including hypersonic missiles, ballistic missiles and advanced cruise missiles, all of them will be knocked out of the air.”
“We will truly be completing the job that President Reagan started 40 years ago, forever ending the missile threat to the American homeland and the success rate is very close to 100 percent, which is incredible when you think of it, you’re shooting bullets out of the air. I’m also pleased to report that the One Big, Beautiful Bill will include $25 billion for the Golden Dome to help construction get underway”. Trump was asked by a reporter: “Have you addressed Russia’s ventures in space with a space based nuclear weapon and told Putin to stop in your conversations with him?” Trump replied: “We haven’t discussed it. But at the right time we will.” Putin has just called time. Trump has seventeen months.
“..an obvious hoax. But it served for the neoconservatives to elicit from Trump that if “Russia keeps escalating” the US will defend Poland and the Baltic States from Russia.”
• Zionist Trump Is No ‘Peace President’ (Paul Craig Roberts)
Robert Kagan, the Jewish Zionist Neoconservative Husband of another Jewish Zionist Neoconservative, Victoria Nuland, has written an article in the Jewish Publication, formerly the WASP magazine, The Atlantic, that blames Washington for assisting Ukraine in Washington’s war against Russia while avoiding direct confrontation with Russia when the real target was Russia. Kagan says that insufficient Russian forces made it possible for America to dispense with the alleged Russian threat.
Do you remember Kagan’s “Project for a New American Century?” It wasn’t a project for America. It was a project for Israel. All American neoconservatives serve Israel, not America. It is a reasonable conclusion that the attack on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon on September 11, 2021 was an inside job arranged by the highly placed neoconservatives in the US government led by vice president Dick Cheney. The purpose of the attack was to produce the “New Pearl Harbor” that the Zionist neoconservatives said was necessary to deceive the American people into a quarter century of war destroying the Arab countries in the way of Greater Israel.
The Americans fell for the orchestrated deceit of “the war on terror,” and sacrificed their money and their soldiers for the sake of Israel. Five of the “seven countries in five years” whose destruction the neconservatives called for have been destroyed. Norman Podhoretz proposed the project in the Jewish magazine, Commentary. Whether or not Podhoretz used the specific quote, “seven countries in five years,” he called for the overthrow of seven countries ending with Saudi Arabia. I read the article and most likely wrote about it. General Wesley Clark, Supreme Allied Commander Europe, told us about it in a speech to the Commonwealth Club of California in 2007. Neoconservatives talked about it openly. 9/11 created America’s “war on terror,” which was used to destroy Muslin countries opposed to Greater Israel.
In 2014 the neoconservatives used their high positions in the US government to overthrow the Ukraine government in the “Maidan Revolution,” appointed an anti-Russian president, and began the Ukrainian neo-nazi campaign against the Russian residents in Donbas, formerly part of Russia. This forced Russia’s intervention. Russia’s forced intervention was called “the Russian invasion of Ukraine.” The escalations of the conflict in Ukraine have been caused by the US which has supplied ever longer range weapons to Ukraine and the targeting information that permits their use. Recently the whore media reported a nonexistent “drone attack” by Russia on Poland and the Baltics, an obvious hoax. But it served for the neoconservatives to elicit from Trump that if “Russia keeps escalating” the US will defend Poland and the Baltic States from Russia.
In other words, the neoconservatives’ agenda is to expand the war from Ukraine to Poland and the Baltic States. By expanding the conflict, the neoconservatives hope to gradually wear down Russia. Putin handed this opportunity to the Russophobic neoconservatives with his never-ending, ever-widening war in Donbas. Putin’s failure to quickly win the conflict is proving to be a strategic blunder. Putin was too afraid of alarming the West to tend to Russia’s interest. In the meantime, the US military/security complex and the neoconservatives have wrested foreign and military policy out of Trump’s hands and catapulted the nuclear arms race into space with the Golden Dome escalation of deploying nuclear weapons in space, a project that will produce never-ending profits and cost overruns.
Putin has offered to extend the expiring START treaty one year, if Trump will agree, in order to avoid an even less predictable and more destabilizing nuclear situation. Trump, totally failing to comprehend the increased danger that accompanies Golden Dome, describes it as completing President Reagan’s work to “end the missile threat to the American homeland.” No, President Trump. Reagan worked to end, not escalate, the cold war that the Zionist neoconservatives have restarted and to normalize relations with Russia. Reagan’s “Star Wars” was a threat intended to bring the Soviet Union to the negotiating table, like your tariff threats are used to bring foreign investment to the US.
“No politician trolls quite like Donald Trump does.”
• Presidential Walk of Fame Features Autopen, Not Biden (Salgado)
Donald Trump‘s new White House Presidential Walk of Fame features a picture of the infamous autopen instead of the face of Joe Biden for the 46th president. Margo Martin, special assistant to the president and communications advisor, posted a video of the new Presidential Walk of Fame at the White House. “Wait for it…” she joked with a pen emoji. The White House followed up with an image of Trump looking at the autopen between the photos of himself on the walk.Trump had previously indicated that he would use a picture of the autopen in his new Walk of Fame and joked about not using a portrait with a smile. “This is going to be very controversial,” Trump predicted with satisfaction.
Judging from the ranting and raving already on X from leftists, he was absolutely right in that prediction. His administration is currently investigating the autopen scandal to assess who was actually running the country, since clearly Joe Biden was not. There are quite a few evil, anti-American, and/or insidious men on the Presidential Walk of Fame, including Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, Lyndon Johnson, Andrew Johnson, Woodrow Wilson, Andrew Jackson, and Franklin D. Roosevelt. But the face of the man who is arguably our worst president ever does not appear on the walk, with a classic Trump dig at his dementia-incapacitated predecessor’s lack of control in his own administration.
Trump has commented on the autopen scandal and ridiculed Biden and his advisers for it numerous times. Just a couple of weeks ago, Trump posted on Truth Social, “THE BIDEN AUTOPEN SCANDAL IS BIG, NOT AS BIG AS THE RUSSIA, RUSSIA, RUSSIA HOAX, OR THE RIGGED 2020 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION, BUT, NEVERTHELESS, ONE OF THE BIGGEST, EVER!!!” The autopen scandal revolves around revelations that numerous pardons and other executive actions, including for felon Hunter Biden and COVID tyrant Dr. Anthony Fauci, were signed not by Joe Biden himself, in a continually deteriorating state of mind as he was, but by autopen. Recipients of the pardons included violent criminals, a child porn offender with CCP ties, Liz Cheney, and various members of the Biden family.
While presidents have been able to access an autopen for decades, the fact that it may be unconstitutional has meant it is usually not used for important documents. Obama raised controversy by authorizing the use of the autopen when he was not in Washington, D.C., but the Biden administration went further, in many cases seemingly using it for documents about which Joe Biden was not even aware. Therefore, it is quite likely that pardons signed by autopen are, in fact, invalid. No politician trolls quite like Donald Trump does. Every person who visits the Presidential Walk of Fame will be reminded that Dementia Joe Biden and his advisors presided over one of the most shameful scandals in modern American history.
They’ve run out of time. That may doom the case.
• Can We Expect a James Comey Indictment ‘In the Coming Days’? (Margolis)
Brace yourselves, folks, because Washington is rumbling again. Former FBI director James Comey, once the darling of the anti-Trump press, now finds himself staring down the barrel of an indictment, according to the progressive stronghold MSNBC and insiders familiar with the probe. That’s right: for all the years Democrats lionized Comey as the fierce guardian of the “Russia collusion” narrative, the tables may be turning in spectacular fashion. MSNBC broke the news on Wednesday afternoon that Comey is on the verge of facing criminal charges. Anchor Katy Tur told viewers, “Three sources familiar tell MSNBC former FBI director James Comey is expected to be indicted in the coming days.”
Tur added, “The full extent of the charges being prepared against Comey is unclear,” before bringing in MSNBC justice and intelligence correspondent Ken Dilanian and senior investigative correspondent Carol Leonnig for analysis. Leonnig explained, “We have some sources who say that for several weeks now, the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the Eastern District of Virginia, and actually in offices that are potentially much further south than Alexandria, have been eyeing ways to indict Comey, and they are getting very much closer.” She continued, “They are arguing that Comey — there is evidence to suggest Comey lied to Congress in his testimony on The Hill in September of 2020.”
Leonnig pointed out that the clock is running out for prosecutors. “For viewers out in the audience who may not be legally as nerdy as me and Ken, I’ll just say that there’s a statute of limitations to charge people with the crime of lying to Congress, or perjury, and that’s five years. The five-year statute runs this month.” According to CNN, prosecutors haven’t made a decision yet.
Federal prosecutors are nearing a decision whether to bring possible perjury charges against former FBI Director James Comey, with a legal deadline expiring on Tuesday, according to people familiar with the investigation. The probe, run by federal prosecutors at the US Attorney’s Office for Virginia’s eastern district, is examining whether Comey made false statements during his September, 30, 2020, testimony to Congress on his handling of the investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 US presidential election, people familiar with the matter said. Prosecutors, under criminal law, generally would only have five years to the day to bring a charge.
If a federal grand jury were to approve the case by next week, it would mark one of the highest-profile indictments of a political figure during President Donald Trump’s second term in office – and against one of the longtime figures whom Trump and his political allies detest the most from what they call the “deep state” of the federal government. If the Justice Department truly brings charges, it will represent a seismic test of accountability inside the federal bureaucracy. For years, the media have shielded Comey as a noble martyr of the “resistance,” but if prosecutors finally hold him to the same laws that every American faces, there’s no going back. The public must demand transparency because, without it, this indictment risks becoming just another D.C. power play buried under the weight of spin.
Bolton was a secrets supermarket for ages.
• Here’s What the FBI Found in John Bolton’s Office (Margolis)
The FBI raided John Bolton’s office and home last month and exposed yet another former government official who mishandled classified documents. Democrats and their media allies spent years screaming about Donald Trump’s document handling, stayed completely silent when Joe Biden had classified files in his garage, and now, predictably, aren’t losing any sleep over authorities catching one of their favorite anti-Trump Republicans with classified materials.
On August 22, federal agents raided Bolton’s Washington office and his Bethesda residence, walking away with a treasure trove of classified documents marked “secret,” “confidential,” and other sensitive designations. According to court filings, the materials reportedly span Bolton’s lengthy government career, including his time during the Bill Clinton and George W. Bush administrations from 1998 to 2006, covering everything from weapons of mass destruction intelligence to strategic communications and United Nations mission documents.
What makes this particularly rich is the timing and the player involved. Bolton, who made a career out of positioning himself as the principled conservative willing to stand up to Trump, now finds himself facing potential Espionage Act violations. The same man who positioned himself as a paragon of national security virtue apparently kept classified materials in his office decades after leaving government service. The FBI’s investigation goes beyond simple document retention. Court filings reveal that agents are hunting for evidence of conspiracy to gather, transmit, or lose national defense information without proper authorization. That’s serious business, the kind that can land someone in federal prison for years. The seriousness of the situation is huge considering that, according to federal investigators, a “foreign entity” successfully hacked Bolton’s AOL email account.
Bolton’s attorney, Abbe Lowell, who previously represented Hunter Biden, is doing what defense lawyers do: claiming that everything was above board and that many documents had been cleared through pre-publication review processes. However, that defense rings hollow when considering the scope of what investigators found. These weren’t just a few memos that slipped through the cracks; this was an extensive collection of sensitive materials spanning multiple administrations and covering some of our nation’s most closely guarded secrets. This case also highlights the broader problem of Washington’s revolving door culture, where former officials routinely walk away with materials they claim are necessary for their post-government careers. Joe Biden, for example, had classified documents in his garage dating back to his days as a U.S. senator.
The fact that some of these documents in Bolton’s possession date back to the Clinton and Bush eras demonstrates just how long this problem has been festering. While Bolton built his reputation as a hawk who understood the importance of protecting American secrets, his alleged actions suggest a different reality, one where personal convenience trumped national security protocols. As this investigation continues, Americans deserve answers about how a former national security advisor could allegedly retain classified materials for decades while using compromised email systems that foreign adversaries could access. The Justice Department must pursue this case with the same intensity it has shown in other high-profile document cases, regardless of Bolton’s political positioning or media relationships.
“..it wasn’t particularly smart for Alex Jones to post the letter on his Twitter account. Without much doubt the Ed Martin retraction was due to this knuckleheaded move.”
• DOJ Investigator Ed Martin Questions FBI Agent in Alex Jones Lawsuit (CTH)
UPDATE: According to CNN, “in a new letter addressed to attorney Christopher Mattei on Wednesday, Martin withdrew his initial letter entirely. In a brief note, according to a person familiar with the letter, Martin wrote that there is no investigation of Aldenberg and “because of this, I hereby withdraw my request for information from you or your former client.”
As noted in the original outline below, it wasn’t particularly smart for Alex Jones to post the letter on his Twitter account. Without much doubt the Ed Martin retraction was due to this knuckleheaded move.
— Original Outline Below —
William “Bill” Aldenberg was the lead investigator for John Durham in 2020. Bill Aldenberg was also a plaintiff in the case against Alex Jones in the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting 2012, lawsuit and civil trial 2022. According to a U.S. News and World Report article, “Aldenberg was among the law enforcement officers who responded to the school and found the dead children. That then led to years of abuse from people who believed the shooting was a hoax, he has said. His share of the judgment totaled around $120 million.” Bill Aldenberg was the first witness in the 2022 case against InfoWars. Alex Jones and InfoWars lost the lawsuit and were punished by a $1.4 billion damage award to the plaintiffs. InfoWars filed bankruptcy and the arguments over liquidation of assets is underway in Texas.Here’s where things get weird. We know the FBI was conducting an operation called “Arctic Frost,” essentially the targeting of Donald Trump and key figures who aligned with Trump in the aftermath of the 2020 election. It is widely suspected, the massive amount of evidence captured in the Arctic Frost operation, was eventually fed to the January 6th Committee for use in their expanded investigation. That evidence then underpinned the case against President Trump that was being assembled by Jack Smith. Essentially, operation Arctic Frost was the evidence gathering operation, then the J6 Committee and special counsel Jack Smith used the FBI evidence to frame their cases. [Readers will note, this process is similar to the FBI “Crossfire Hurricane” operation, which fed evidence to special counsel Robert Mueller, to frame their cases.]
Back to FBI Investigative Agent William Aldenberg, who was lead for John Durham. DOJ attorney Ed Martin is looking at the connective tissue around all of the FBI targeting operations. He now asks the lawyers for William Aldenberg about details of their client’s involvement in the case against Alex Jones.
Alex Jones posted a copy of the letter on his Twitter [X] feed, along with a picture of him and Ed Martin. A rather knuckleheaded move by Jones considering how Ed Martin says in the letter he would prefer not to litigate the issue in the media. Then again, wisdom and sound judgement have never been Jones’ strong points. Really, it’s a convoluted mess making the serious issues around Arctic Frost get lost in the weeds. Then again, perhaps that is a feature not a flaw. Many people, CTH included, view Alex Jones through the prism of compromise ever since the $1.4 billion sword of Damocles was established over his head.
(USN&WR) – “[…] Ed Martin Jr., who leads the Justice Department’s “weaponization working group,” asked in the letter whether retired agent William Aldenberg received any financial benefits from helping to organize the lawsuit, in which he was a plaintiff along with victims’ family members. Aldenberg, like the parents and other relatives of the 20 children and six educators killed in the 2012 school shooting in Newtown, Connecticut, has been the subject of false conspiracy theories spread by Jones on his “Infowars” broadcasts. Aldenberg was among the law enforcement officers who responded to the school and found the dead children. That then led to years of abuse from people who believed the shooting was a hoax, he has said. His share of the judgment totaled around $120 million.
In a Sept. 15 letter to Christopher Mattei, a lawyer who represents Sandy Hook families, Martin suggested he was scrutinizing Aldenberg’s role in the lawsuit. Mattei responded to the letter in a text message to The Associated Press. “Thanks to the courage of the Sandy Hook families, Infowars will soon be finished,” he said, referring to the families’ efforts in court to liquidate Jones’ assets to help pay the judgment. “In his last gasps, Jones is once again harassing them, only now with the corrupt complicity of at least one DOJ official. It’s as disgusting as it is pathetic, and we will not stand for it.”
Trump and Melania were stuck in a glass elevator. Ready for shooting practice.
• Secret Service Are Investigating Trump Escalator, Teleprompter ‘Mishaps’ (MN)
President Trump’s Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt has stated that the Secret Service are looking into incidents prior to and during President Trump’s speech to the UN where an escalator was seemingly purposefully stopped the moment he stepped onto it, and a teleprompter malfunctioned just as he was about to speak. Appearing on Jesse Watters’ show, Leavitt noted “There was some concerning reporting over the weekend from the London Times, as you pointed out, that U.N. globalist staffers were basically plotting to set up the president of the United States.” She continued, “And first it was the escalator, then it was the teleprompter, and then Katie Pavlich from Townhall, who we offered a seat in the press pool to cover the president’s historic speech today, noticed that the audio inside of the room was much lower and different for the president of the United States than the previous speaker.”
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“So when you put all of this together, it doesn’t look like a coincidence to me,” the Press Secretary further asserted, adding “I know that we have people, including the United States Secret Service, who are looking into this to try to get to the bottom of it.” Leavitt further remarked that “if we find that these were U.N. staffers who were purposefully trying to trip up, literally trip up the president and the first lady of the United States, well, there better be accountability for those people. And I will personally see to it.” In addition to lambasting the UN for its “empty words” on global conflicts, Trump quipped “These are the two things I got from the United Nations: a bad escalator and a bad teleprompter.”
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While the teleprompter glitch was an embarrassing tech hiccup, it’s the escalator stoppage that demands scrutiny as a glaring security lapse. UN officials quickly attributed it to a safety mechanism triggered accidentally by Trump’s videographer backing up the stairs, and the White House has demanded an investigation into potential sabotage. But even if unintentional, the incident exposes deep vulnerabilities in protecting a leader with a massive target on his back. Trump has survived two assassination attempts in 2024 alone, and the recent murder of conservative firebrand Charlie Kirk, a brazen campus shooting by a lone gunman with leftist derangements, has only amplified the threats. Kirk’s killing, amid a surge in politically motivated violence on the left, underscores a rising tide of leftist aggression: from arson attacks on officials’ homes to targeted hits on high-profile voices challenging progressive orthodoxy.
Imagine the escalator halting not by glitch, but by design—or worse, exploiting a momentary freeze in Secret Service protocols. Trump, frozen in place on a confined, elevated platform, surrounded by international delegates and staff in a building teeming with potential bad actors. No quick exit, no buffer zone; just seconds of vulnerability where a concealed assailant could strike. This a near-miss that could have echoed the chaos of Butler, Pennsylvania, or the golf course attempt last year. The Secret Service, still reeling from those failures, must up their game: pre-clear every mechanism in high-threat venues, deploy redundant transport like private elevators, and drill for “stuck” scenarios that turn routine movements into kill zones. Anything less invites disaster, especially as Trump’s unfiltered rhetoric continues to provoke extremists on the left.
She warned from the very start.
• It’s Official: CV19 Vax Not Safe & Effective – Karen Kingston (USAW)
Karen Kingston is a biotech analyst and former Pfizer employee that told everyone not to get the CV19 vax because of all the health problems it would cause. She did this repeatedly after the CV19 vaccine rollout to wake up the public up to the dangers of the injections. She listed heart disease, auto immune problems, blood clotting and turbo cancers popping up everywhere, including the brain. These are just a few of the many problems caused by the CV19 vax that led to disability and death for millions of people around the world. The things Kingston revealed about why nobody should get the CV19 vax have now been officially acknowledged by the top doctors and researchers in the world at the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) this past week.
Kingston, who sat in on the six-hour meeting, says, “What happened during this meeting, the policies that were voted on, the evidence reviewed . . . is now going to become policy. This was not a Senate dog and pony show. This was a regulatory . . . legally binding meeting.” A few of the highlights that came out of this meeting, according to Kingston, “They said we have to be honest about Myocarditis caused by the CV19 vax. They said the CV19 vaccine causes short-term and long-term diseases and injuries, and those need to be addressed. Professor Levi said we must drop the term ‘safe and effective.’ It is propaganda, and it should never be used when describing the Covid 19 vaccine. The term ‘safe and effective’ has got to go away.”
Also, so-called ‘turbo cancers’ came up at the ACIP meeting and the fact they are caused by the CV19 vaccine. For years, pregnant women were told the CDC recommended they get the CV19 shots. That too is no longer the CDC recommendation. Another big change is true informed consent about the huge risks with the CV19 vaccines. The new rule would basically force doctors and pharmacists to tell the public about the possibility of death and disability with the risk of getting cancer, autoimmune disease, blood clotting and infertility, to name a few. Kingston says, “Informed consent was clearly defined throughout the presentations. . .. Informed consent is not just signing off on a piece of paper. It is a shared clinical decision. . .. In a shared clinical decision, you are now sharing responsibility with that patient. The old, informed consent was ‘I signed my form, I got my $20 CVS coupon, and I got my shot.’ That is not informed consent.”
So, they are going to actually have to tell you all the bad things that can happen if you get the CV19 vax. Kingston told everyone NOT to get the CV19 vax right after the rollout in 2021. All the reasons she gave back then have now come out in this recent ACIP regulatory meeting. If there is going to be true informed consent, Kingston says, “Nobody of sound mind would get these shots. . . .If your doctor knows all the evidence and all the serious adverse events, and your doctor still tells you to get the shots, is that malpractice at this point?” Another big lie exposed is that the CV19 vaccine made Covid19 milder. This is yet another total lie exposed at the ACIP meeting. Kingston says, “Professor Levi straight up said, the actual . . . clinical trials did not show decrease in hospitalization or death . . . they, in fact, showed harm.”
Also, at the ACIP meeting, the recent Rasmussen poll came up that showed 56% of Americans now believe the CV19 vax caused deaths. This is another signpost in the public’s perception on these dangerous and debilitating CV19 injections. Kingston contends this ACIP meeting was a turning point and says, “I think this is the beginning of the end of the CV19 shots.” There was even talk of treatment for the CV19 vax injured, but no definite treatments were put forth—yet. Maybe the CDC can talk to Dr. Betsy Eads or Dr. Pierre Kory about how to treat the millions of victims of the CV19 bioweapon vax. They and other doctors have been successfully doing it since the CV19 injections started.
Interesting, but what use is it to look at global population prospects without looking at Africa? They’re the odd one out.
• India, China, Europe, & The US Are On Very Different Population Paths (ZH)
This chart, via Voronoiapp.com, tracks the UN’s latest demographic projections for four large populations: India, China, Europe, and the United States. Together, they account for about half of today’s world population. The curves are shaped by what the UN expects to happen to future fertility, life expectancy, and migration worldwide. India and China are the world’s most populous countries today, and the UN projects that both will remain at the top through the end of the century. Yet their trajectories diverge sharply in these projections. China’s population has already begun to fall and is projected to more than halve to around 630 million by 2100. India, by contrast, is expected to keep growing for nearly four more decades, reaching about 1.7 billion people in 2060 and gradually declining to around 1.5 billion.
In contrast, the United States and Europe are projected to change more gradually. The US is expected to grow slowly and steadily, reaching about 420 million people by the end of the century. Europe’s population, meanwhile, is projected to decline. Based on these figures, its population peaked around 750 million in 2020, and is expected to fall to about 590 million by 2100, not far from China’s projected level. The UN’s model is the most widely used baseline for international population comparisons, but all population projections are sensitive to the underlying assumptions. Other research groups use different demographic assumptions about fertility, life expectancy, and migration to reach different long-term population figures.
The night before Charlie Kirk was murdered, Erika Kirk called a friend to come over to their house to pray for Charlie after feminist website, Jezebel, paid witches on Etsy to curse him, according to Megyn Kelly.
Jezebel bragged just two days before Charlie was assassinated… pic.twitter.com/c5NQqCkyVW
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) September 24, 2025
Please get your facts straight.
This woman explains the link between Tylenol and autism.
Multiple vaccines cause inflammation and the depletion of glutathione from the body…The addition of Tylenol exacerbates the problem by also depleting glutathione, which acts as an… pic.twitter.com/2sOhENXfTE— Bama_Jeans (@bamajayt) September 23, 2025
Israeli soldier testifies to the Knesset committee:
“We received orders from the Golani Brigade commanders on October 7 to cancel all patrols along the Gaza border from 5:20 AM until 9:00 AM.”
Do you see it yet ? pic.twitter.com/bNrXyuhzQ1— John Olooney (@OlooneyJohn) September 23, 2025
https://twitter.com/GenFlynn/status/1970584779054817584
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