Pierre Dumonstier II The right hand of Artemisia Gentileschi holding a brush 1625
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Crime
Did you know that 1 in every 22 black men in America will commit murder in their lifetime?
Black men, who make up only 6% of the population, commit 51% of the murders in America.
Black men are nine times more likely to commit a violent crime than the general population in the… pic.twitter.com/Zup1sZtcMX
— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) September 8, 2025
Scott
Scott Adams calls out Democrats’ “word thinking” of framing Trump’s National Guard use as “war” when it could also be “rescuing” cities.@ScottAdamsSays “They’re trying to win debates by getting you to agree with the words they used.
They’re not winning the debates because… pic.twitter.com/ozaGFGPWIJ
— jay plemons (@jayplemons) September 9, 2025
Von Greyerz
25X: GOLD’S 1971–1980 SURGE IS COMING BACK
Exclusive Views. Sharp Takes. No Noise. Join the list:https://t.co/a2HsQHggWd pic.twitter.com/GEJodSGMQV— Egon von Greyerz (@GoldSwitzerland) September 9, 2025
Custody
Fascinating how divorce rates in KY plummeted after 50-50 shared custody was set as the standard. pic.twitter.com/lvuX5mvGWa
— Virgil Davis Hunt (@vrgldh) September 8, 2025
Cruz
If Joe Biden did not make determinations for pardons on a person-by-person basis, his pardons are legally null and void. pic.twitter.com/IzQaS1Bxwa
— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) September 9, 2025
Elon Hamas
Elon Musk: This is strictly my opinion. The goal of Hamas was to provoke an overreaction from Israel. They obviously did not expect to have a military victory, but they really wanted to commit the worst atrocities that they could in order to provoke the most aggressive response… pic.twitter.com/m09O7n4CpD
— Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) September 8, 2025
Some random things while reading:
1) Qatar is/was perhaps the no. 1 peace mediator in the area. Will now be Russia?!
2) The Hamas people are in Doha because the US and others told them to go there (away from Gaza).
3) So many Americans are in Qatar (huge military base) that Israel must have given the US a heads up well in advance. Can’t risk killing Americans.
4) Qatar promised to invest $1 trillion in US.
5) Neighbors, Saudi, Egypt, UAE, Turkiye etc. fear they could be next.
6) The ‘precision’ strikes didn’t hit their targets. Decision makers are still alive.
• Israel Conducts Strike On ‘Hamas Leadership’ In Qatar (RT)
Israel has conducted a “precise strike” against the “senior leadership of Hamas,” the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) announced on Tuesday, shortly after multiple blasts rocked the headquarters of the Palestinian militant group in Doha, Qatar. The Israeli military said it carried out the operation in coordination with the Shin Bet security agency (ISA). The IDF did not name the exact location targeted in the strike. “The IDF and ISA conducted a precise strike targeting the senior leadership of the Hamas terrorist organization,” the IDF said in a statement. “Prior to the strike, measures were taken in order to mitigate harm to civilians, including the use of precise munitions and additional intelligence.” The announcement came after at least ten blasts reportedly rocked the Hamas headquarters in Doha.
Footage circulating online shows the building was badly damaged. According to multiple media reports citing Hamas sources, the strike targeted the group’s negotiating team, which has been discussing the latest US proposal on the cessation of the hostilities with Israel. Qatar has condemned the “cowardly Israeli attack,” describing the location affected by the strike as “residential buildings housing several members of the political bureau of the Hamas movement.” It is not immediately clear whether the attack reached its intended target, conflicting media reports citing sources within the group indicate. While some suggest that several high-profile Hamas figures were killed in the attack, others claim that the group’s leadership escaped the strike unharmed.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office insisted that the attack on Hamas in Qatar was a unilateral action and no other countries were involved in the operation. ”Today’s action against the top terrorist chieftains of Hamas was a wholly independent Israeli operation. Israel initiated it, Israel conducted it, and Israel takes full responsibility,” it said in a statement. UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres condemned the Israeli attack as a “flagrant violation of the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Qatar.” “All parties must work towards achieving a permanent ceasefire, not destroying it,” he told reporters.
Real condemnation, or just going through the motions? How innocent is the US?
• Trump Condemns IDF Attack On Qatar (RT)
President Donald Trump has criticized Israel’s airstrike on a Hamas compound in Doha, stressing that the decision to carry out the operation inside Qatar was made unilaterally by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and not by Washington. Around 15 Israeli warplanes fired at least ten munitions during the operation on Tuesday, reportedly killing several Hamas members, including the son of senior official Khalil al-Hayya. Hamas said its top leadership survived the attack, which it described as an attempt to assassinate negotiators working on a potential settlement. In a statement posted Tuesday on Truth Social, Trump said the Israeli bombing inside “a Sovereign Nation and close Ally of the United States” did not “advance Israel or America’s goals.”
“I view Qatar as a strong Ally and friend of the U.S., and feel very badly about the location of the attack,” he wrote, emphasizing that the strike was “a decision made by Prime Minister Netanyahu, it was not a decision made by me.” Trump said that as soon as he was informed about the operation, he directed US Special Envoy Steve Witkoff to warn Qatari officials, but noted the alert came “too late to stop the attack.” The president claimed that eliminating Hamas was a “worthy goal,” but expressed hope that “this unfortunate incident could serve as an opportunity for PEACE.” Trump has since spoken with Netanyahu, who told him he wanted to make peace, and with Qatari leaders, whom he thanked for their support and assured that “such a thing will not happen again on their soil.”
Qatar’s prime minister, Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman al-Thani, denounced the strike as an act of “state terrorism” and warned that the emirate “reserves the right to respond.” He accused Netanyahu of undermining regional stability for personal gain and said the incident had derailed ongoing US-brokered mediation efforts aimed at securing a ceasefire in Gaza and the release of Israeli hostages. The White House called the strike an “unfortunate” incident. Trump said he has directed Secretary of State Marco Rubio to finalize a Defense Cooperation Agreement with Qatar, which is designated a “major non-NATO ally.”
As black holes are wont to do, this one too sucks in all the matter around it.
Note: not long ago, investors could buy only AAA. Today, it’s apparently AA. And France can’t even hold on to that.
• France Headed For ‘Black Hole’ – Financial Expert (RT)
The French government’s failure to put a lid on the country’s growing sovereign debt together with protracted political infighting could plunge the nation into a “black hole,” a financial expert has warned. France has one of the highest debts levels in the European Union, currently standing at about 113% of GDP, a ratio that is expected to climb to 125% by 2030. Its budget deficit is projected at 5.4-5.8% of GDP this year, well above the bloc’s 3% limit. Appearing on the Tocsin podcast on Monday, financier Charles Gave said that should the Fitch credit rating agency downgrade France’s rating from AA to A, it would prompt institutional investors to sell off its government bonds.
“There are a number of institutions, [such as] central banks and insurance companies, that cannot invest in something that is below AA,” he clarified. “I know that something huge is coming,” the expert warned, predicting a “black hole” caused by the “illogical” policies pursued by successive French government over the past twenty years. “We have a real collapse in the quality of our elites” reflected in the current “lamentable political state,” Gave claimed. On Monday, Prime Minister Francois Bayrou lost a confidence vote in the National Assembly, which he had called himself to secure backing for a drastic austerity plan. The measures, which included slashing public sector jobs, curbing welfare spending, as well as axing two public holidays, were vehemently opposed by the right-wing National Rally, the Socialists, and the leftist France Unbowed.
On Tuesday, President Emmanuel Macron appointed outgoing Defense Minister Sebastien Lecornu as France’s new prime minister. Despite the growing budget deficit, Paris plans to increase its military spending to €64 billion in 2027, double what it spent in 2017. Macron has repeatedly invoked a supposed Russian threat as the reason for the spending hike. Russian officials have consistently dismissed such claims as “nonsense,” accusing Western leaders of fear-mongering to justify inflated military budgets and to cover up their economic failures.
“..they have a $35 trillion currency debt, they’ll move it into the crypto cloud, devalue it, and start from scratch. That’s the reality for those who are so enthusiastic about crypto.”
As expected, the French government collapsed yesterday, leaving the country in political chaos just as it needs to deal with massive economic and national security challenges. President Macron has ruled out a snap election. As is the way of markets –albeit helped by directionality from the US– French bond yields were lower on the day. However, markets and realpolitik have not communicated in recent years: is the second largest economy in Europe, and the only one with a nuclear trifecta, looking unable to deal with its fiscal deficit, and perhaps ungovernable, something that can be easily shrugged off?
Le Figaro English recently noted: ‘“Prices Have Literally Exploded”: Have French Restaurateurs Been Too Gluttonous for Their Own Good?”, noting “Empty terraces, silent dining rooms… Despite the heatwave, this summer has been a cold shower for restaurateurs. While the tourist season is in full swing, cafés, bistros and traditional inns are being shunned by the French.” Is this not perhaps tiptoeing towards ‘Let them eat cake’ territory? mNow ex-French PM Bayrou warned just before losing the vote, “Don’t become the UK”, and there the mood remains febrile regardless of Labour’s huge parliamentary majority. The anti-Labour Daily Mail notes ‘Desperate Starmer accused of the ‘mother of all stitch-ups’ and trying to ‘fix’ Labour’s deputy leadership contest by giving hopefuls just THREE DAYS to get the backing of 80 MPs’.
The pro-Labour Guardian says: ‘Revealed: how Boris Johnson traded PM contacts for global business deals’ (Guardian), including being paid £240,000 just after meeting Venezuelan President Maduro last year. Perhaps unsurprisingly, the anti-establishment Reform Party continues to sit at the top of all opinion polls. In the US, the Wall Street Journal reports that the ‘White House Prepares Report Critical of Statistics Agency’ and ‘The Renewed Bid to End Quarterly Earnings Reports’. What, no data and no quarterly higher/lower-than games? What is a capitalist to do?! Innovate and invest in physical capital? But who wants to do that when there are assets to speculate on?
Moreover, US Treasury Secretary Bessent threatened to punch FHFA Director Pulte in the face, with additional expletives. That likely burgeoned his reputation in some circles: the man who as a young trader broke the Bank of England for Soros in 1992 arguably now wants to break the international financial architecture, and in the US’ favour. While many in DM who don’t see it, those in EM do – albeit in exaggerated form.
Putin advisor Kobyakov just stated: “The US is now trying to rewrite the rules of the gold and cryptocurrency markets. Remember the size of their debt – $35 trillion. These two sectors –crypto and gold– are essentially alternatives to the traditional global currency system. Washington’s actions in this area clearly highlight one of its main goals: to urgently address the declining trust in the dollar. As in the 1930s and the 1970s, the US plans to solve its financial problems at the world’s expense, this time by pushing everyone into the “crypto cloud.” Over time, once part of the US national debt is placed into stablecoins, Washington will devalue that debt. Put simply: they have a $35 trillion currency debt, they’ll move it into the crypto cloud, devalue it, and start from scratch. That’s the reality for those who are so enthusiastic about crypto.”
Is Navarro seem old, or is that jut me?
• BRICS Unlikely To Last – Trump Trade Adviser Navarro (RT)
White House Trade Adviser Peter Navarro has claimed that the BRICS group is unlikely to last because the members have “long hated each other.” In an interview with US President Donald Trump’s former strategist, Steve Bannon, on Monday, Navarro said none of the BRICS members could survive without selling products to the US. ”India has been at war with China for decades… and I just remembered, it was China that gave Pakistan the nuclear bomb,” Navarro told Bannon. “They have ships flying around the Indian Ocean with Chinese flags. [Indian Prime Minister Narendra] Modi, see how you kind of work that out.” He added that China is sending illegal immigrants to Russia and has claimed territory within Russia.
“China claims they own Vladivostok, the Russian port, and they are already through massive illegal immigration into Siberia, basically colonizing Siberia, which is the biggest landmass of the Russian semi-empire.” China, however, does not claim any Russian territory, and the two countries signed the Complementary Agreement on the Eastern Section of the China-Russia Boundary in 2004 as a final resolution of their border dispute. ”I don’t see how [BRICS] stays together since historically they hate each other and kill each other,” the trade adviser added. Navarro claimed that BRICS countries are dependent on the US for trade.
“The bottom line is none of these countries can survive if they don’t sell to the United States, and when they sell to the United States, their exports, they’re like vampires sucking our blood dry with their unfair trade practices.” X posts made by the trade adviser that are critical of India have been fact-checked and have received Community Notes, for which he has accused Indian “special interests” of “trying to interfere with domestic dialogues with lies about India buying Russian oil.” A day after he called Community Notes from India “crap,” Navarro added: “India has [the] largest population in the world and all it can do is manage [a] few hundred thousand X propagandists to jerk around a poll?”
“Talking to such partners in such a tone of voice is unacceptable.”
• Trump Wants EU To Slap India and China With 100% Tariffs – FT (RT)
President Donald Trump has urged the European Union to impose tariffs of up to 100% on imports from China and India, as part of a joint effort to pressure Moscow, the Financial Times reported on Tuesday. According to the newspaper, Trump made the demand during a recent call-in to a meeting between senior US and EU officials in Washington, where strategies for raising the economic costs of the Ukraine conflict for Russia were being discussed. One US official said Washington was “ready to go, ready to go right now, but we’re only going to do this if our European partners step up with us.” “The president came on this morning and his view is that the obvious approach here is, let’s all put on dramatic tariffs and keep the tariffs on until the Chinese agree to stop buying the oil,” the source was quoted as saying. A second official added that the US was prepared to “mirror” any tariffs imposed by Brussels on Beijing and New Delhi.
EU officials had already begun debating potential secondary sanctions against China for its energy imports from Moscow, though they stressed the talks were still at an “early stage” and dependent on US support, according to an earlier FT report. India has pushed back against external demands to reduce its reliance on Russian crude. Last month, Trump doubled tariffs on Indian goods to 50%, citing its energy ties with Moscow. Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman responded by calling the move “unfair, unjustified, and unreasonable,” stressing that Indian oil policy is driven by domestic economic needs.
Beijing has also rejected Western pressure over its energy purchases, insisting it will “ensure its energy supply” in line with its national interests. Chinese officials have warned that “tariff wars have no winners.” Russia remains one of the largest suppliers of oil to both China and India since the escalation of the Ukraine conflict in 2022. President Vladimir Putin has cautioned the West against using a “colonial tone” toward Beijing and New Delhi, saying last week that efforts to punish them are aimed at slowing their economic rise. “Countries like India – almost 1.5 billion people, and China – 1.3 billion people, boast powerful economies and live by their own domestic political laws,” Putin said. “Talking to such partners in such a tone of voice is unacceptable.”
“China does not intend to replace Pax Americana, which always relied on the – now aptly renamed – Department of War’s gunboat “diplomacy”.
• The Eurasia High-Speed Train Keeps-a-Rollin’ (Pepe Escobar)
History will register that the first week of September 2025 propelled the advent of the Eurasia Century to a whole new level. That was the expectation ahead of three crucial intertwined dates: the SCO annual summit in Tianjin; the Victory Day parade in Beijing; and the Eastern Economic Forum in Vladivostok. Yet expectations were even surpassed considering the breath and scope of what just happened. The SCO in Tianjin solidified the Chinese push for the establishment of true Global Governance – which in practice means the unceremonious burying of the “rules-based international order” that under the new US administration has metastasized into a no-rules based international chaos: essentially an ethos of “we’ll blow up the world if we are not able to control it.”
Tianjin had not only the 10 SCO full members but also 2 observers and 15 partners – with a heavy Southeast Asian presence – discussing the finer points to be observed for peaceful development. The pic of the week, if not the year or decade, was the Putin, Xi and Modi trilateral handshake: the return of the original, Primakov-coined RIC (Russia-India-China) in full force. As Professor Zhang Weiwei of Fudan University remarked in Vladivostok, the SCO is now expanding steadily in three platforms: energy; clean industries; and AI. In parallel, Central Asia is finally being seen as a “geographical blessing”, and not “a curse”. Immediately after Tianjin, the Russia-China strategic partnership also shot up to a whole new level, as President Putin was received by President Xi at the Zhongnanhai, the official residence of the Chinese head of state, for an across-the-spectrum state of the planet recap.
The next day Beijing was resplendent under blue skies overseeing the stunning military parade celebrating the 80th anniversary of the Chinese victory over Japanese invasion and the Asian chapter of Nazi-fascism. That was a confident geoeconomic superpower showing off its military progress. On the same day the Eastern Economic Forum started in Vladivostok: an unrivalled platform for discussing the surge of pan-Eurasia business. What China has proposed, actually reiterated in Tianjin, goes way beyond the concept of wangdao, referring to an enlightened, benign power, but not a Hegemon. What could be described as the trademark motto of a Pax Sinica under Xi could be summed up as Make Trade, Not War – and for the common good, or community of a shared future”, in Beijing terminology.
SCO partners, as well as BRICS partners, fully understand that China does not intend to replace Pax Americana, which always relied on the – now aptly renamed – Department of War’s gunboat “diplomacy”. Whatever hysteria fits the West may throw – manipulating Tibet, Hong Kong, Xinjiang, South China Sea, Taiwan – won’t deviate Beijing from its civilizational inclusive path.
“The West was absent – the “naked emperor” as well as his European puppets..”
• A Tectonic Shift Away from the West (Peter Koenig)
“No mountain or ocean can distance people who have shared aspirations,” China’s President Xi Jinping said in July 2024, addressing leaders from fellow Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) member states and a few other nations in Astana, Kazakhstan. It is not reaching too far, saying that this year’s 25th SCO Summit (SCO) in Tianjin, China, from 31 August to 1 September 2025, fulfilled – and more – President Xi’s vision of 2024. The summit caused a tectonic shift in the conventional world order. China’s Assistant Foreign Minister Liu Bin told a news conference in Beijing, shortly before the SCO summit, that the 2025 SCO event be “One of China’s most important head-of-state and home-court diplomatic events this year”. As the Economist says, “A New Reality is Taking hold.”
The “new reality” is not anti-US or anti-West; it is just separating the western unipolar aspirations from the newly created multi-polar, or perhaps better, multi-block, world, where countries aim at a peaceful cooperation towards a joint future with shared benefits. The SCO was established in 2001 by China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. Today the SCO consists of ten member-states with headquarters in Beijing. In addition to the founding members, SCO members have increased by India, Iran, Belarus, and Pakistan. SCO members account for 23% of the world’s GDP and for 43% of the world’s population. Further attendance included high-level government officials from Myanmar, Egypt, Cambodia, Nepal, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Maldives, Turkey, as well as the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Secretary-General Kao Kim Hourn, and UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres.
This year’s summit made clearly the SCO the guiding light for the Global South which includes the 11 BRICS countries, plus the 10 BRICS partners, added at the 16th BRICS Summit in Kazan, Russia, in October 2024. While even the UNSG, Mr. Guterres, was invited – while the UN was or still is (?) considered by the US and the West in general as the World Organization in the western camp – President Trump felt snubbed by China, “left out” from the world shifting SCO event in Tianjin. So, Trump invented a last-minute opportunity to leave his mark on the meeting by requesting President Xi literally on the eve of the SCO summit for “military talks,” a phone call between the two defense ministers (in the US now called War Minister, as the Ministry of Defense has been re-christened by Trump as War Ministry).
The Chinese Foreign Ministry said that Beijing rejected the proposal, reasoning “a lack of mutual understanding between the two countries”, asking a pertinent question: “Is there any sincerity in and significance of any communication like this?” Of course not. Trump just wanted to interfere in the SCO summit, showing his self-styled emperor head. But to no avail. The West was absent – the “naked emperor” as well as his European puppets, the (almost) defunct European Union, and especially the non-elected and every time more rejected European Commission (EC).
“This was the database into which former NSA employee Edward Snowden was creating the search engine software..”
• Behind the J6 Committee Motive to Delete all Investigative Material (CTH)
There’s a reason why the J6 Committee deleted the records of their activity, an angle missed by most. When you understand what they hid and why they did it, you then understand why current Speaker of The House Mike Johnson will not go near the subject. The J6 Committee used interfaces with the NSA database and pre-existing portals with aligned DHS Social Media databases (including Twitter, see prior “Twitter Files”), as research and evidence gathering mechanisms for their investigations. The J6 targets were identified through a collaboration between the legislative research group and the FBI. [That’s unlawful by the way – but that’s another matter]. The FBI contracted Palantir to identify the targets using facial recognition software and private sector databases.
Once identified, the targets were then searched in the NSA database for a fulsome context of identity. All subsequent electronic metadata of the targets was retrieved and utilized in prosecution; however, no one ever discovered this was the collaborative method. That has not come out yet. Ultimately, the J6 Committee hiding and deleting their files and operational techniques was due to several issues. They really didn’t have a choice given the unknowns of an incoming republican majority. First, the collaboration with the FBI is unconstitutional. Legislative officers are not law enforcement officers. There is a separation of powers issue. Second, ultimately – and most consequentially – all of the participants did not want the American public aware of the mass surveillance techniques that were carried out as part of the ’round up.’
https://twitter.com/TRUMP_ARMY_/status/1965058356647002444
Wait to see what the next NSA compliance audit looks like. Remember, these reports are more than a year behind the activity they highlight. This is where a complete mental reset is needed. The modern application of the fifty-year-old concept around FISA as a constitutional mechanism to search the private papers (data) of American citizens, is a fraud, a complete ruse. The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, FISA, represents the method used by the intelligence apparatus of the FBI to conduct surveillance. It was purposefully designed, as a method to avoid the problems with 4th amendment protections. However, the modern application of the FISA justification has no lawful basis.
CONTEXT – Beginning in/around 2012, after the Dept of Justice National Security Division was created by President Barack Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder, the use of FISA warrants were extended to include electronic searches of captured information held within the National Security Agency (NSA). This was the database into which former NSA employee Edward Snowden was creating the search engine software. The capturing of information was relatively new; technology was still being developed. Rapid scale-ups of archives and data processing was underway. Various iterations of the search tools and processes were being tested and deployed. Prior to 2010/2012 we were mostly talking about emails, phone calls and text messages. However, as more and more technology was deployed, the interfaces expanded.
Today, almost every electronic interface is captured/stored within either the NSA database, or a private sector database with connections to the NSA search portals. Arguably, all of the underlying data captures were unconstitutional, and when the captures were originally discovered there was some intense conversations about fourth amendment protections and Americans privacy. To set aside the concerns and justify the existence of electronic search measures, the American government justified existence via the FISA court process, which extended to cover the new capabilities. Currently, almost every American interfaces electronically with some system that captures their data. In the private sector that data is then assembled, attributed and used for consumer product micro-targeting, i.e., all data is commercially monetized.
Local and state governments also interface with the federal government database. As a consequence, all data eventually flows to the NSA capture points where searches of the total assembly are possible. As noted in various explanations of government collaboration with social media, DHS has access to the various databases which house information inside the private sector. The lines between govt and private sector data captures are nonexistent as both public information and private information databases can be searched through the same network. This is the baseline to understand the scope of data collection.
Summary: The justification of FISA or FISA (702) as a mechanism to protect the American people from illegal searches of the NSA database IS A FRAUD. The searching of the NSA database not only continues but has factually expanded through today. There are no established limits on search use, only false claims that are fed to the public for popular consumption. The DOJ and FBI are aware of this. The OIG is aware of this. The Intelligence Community is aware of this. The NSA is aware of this. The FISA Court is aware of this. The Supreme Court, which oversees the FISA Court, is aware of this. The Legislative Branch is aware of this. We have the evidence and receipts. More soon…
“Reducing government jobs is essential for economic recovery, and in 2025, we experienced a cut of 97,000 jobs, while the period from 2021 to 2024 saw monthly increases of 50,000 government jobs.”
• The Fed Caused High Inflation and The Current Jobs Slump (Lacalle)
Both the recent spike in inflation and the current decline in US jobs are, in a very significant way, the fault of the Federal Reserve. The Fed’s policies since 2021 reveal a nightmare “pendulum” effect: first, easy money and historic liquidity expansion fueled runaway inflation; then, rapid rate hikes hurt businesses and families as well as job creation, especially for small and medium-sized businesses and families. In 2021, the largest monetary expansion in decades caused an inflationary burst that was particularly negative for wage earners and small businesses. A massive rate hike exacerbated this negative impact.
The August jobs report exposes the Fed’s failure to balance its mandate. The Federal Reserve did not seem to read their own beige book that warned of a widespread job market weakness for months. The Federal Reserve’s Beige Book first alerted of a weak job market in April 2025 and continued to highlight the labor market challenges in May and June. The April Beige Book signalled flat economic activity and slow labor demand and highlighted weakness for new entrants such as graduates, with some regions noting slight declines in employment and business activity. However, despite the evident negative impact of high rates, the Fed decided to keep interest rates unchanged even when inflationary pressures proved to be nonexistent. Between April and July, CPI inflation and core CPI monthly figures showed no inflationary pressures from tariffs.
Only 22,000 jobs were created in August. Although the headline shows the weakest number since the pandemic recovery began, we must also consider that the figure includes a reduction in government jobs of 15,000. Reducing government jobs is essential for economic recovery, and in 2025, we experienced a cut of 97,000 jobs, while the period from 2021 to 2024 saw monthly increases of 50,000 government jobs. The unemployment rate increased to 4.3%, which is a small rise compared to Canada’s 6.9% and the euro area’s 6.2%, but it is concerning because this increase was unnecessary. The private sector—the real engine of growth—is bearing the brunt of high interest rates.
Claudio Borio of the BIS, as well as Congdon and Castaneda, have proven that the explosion of inflation from 2021 to 2023 was clearly tied to unprecedented monetary growth driven by government spending and Fed easing. The Fed’s loose policy, with ultra-low rates and trillions in asset purchases, led to a surge in the money supply far outpacing real economic activity. As Borio has shown, in high-inflation environments, there is a clear link between rapid money supply growth and price spikes. The key driver of the inflation burst came not from supply chain issues but from massive, coordinated monetary expansion and deficit monetisation.
Once inflation took hold, the Fed responded with rapid and significant rate hikes, pushing interest rates well above the estimated “neutral” rate. Studies show that for every 100-basis-point increase above the neutral rate, job growth among small and medium enterprises (SMEs) falls by 0.5 to 1.5 percentage points. SMEs, which lack the market power of large firms, are especially vulnerable: higher borrowing costs force many to freeze hiring, lay off workers, or even shut down. High rates have resulted in the loss of tens of thousands of SME jobs over the past year. The government remained unaffected by inflation and rate hikes. The Biden administration continued to increase government spending, the deficit, and public sector jobs while small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) were experiencing the dual negative effects of inflation and interest rate hikes. This was a clear case of crowding out of the private sector.
Lonely voice.
• MTG Moves To Block Ukraine Aid (RT)
US Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene has proposed removing $600 million in Ukraine support from the draft Pentagon spending bill, arguing that Americans’ “hard-earned tax dollars” should not go to foreign aid. The Georgia Republican proposed cancelling the allocation of these funds in the 2026 and 2027 fiscal years to shift priorities toward the US. With Donald Trump back in the White House, the US has dramatically cut military aid to Kiev, pausing more than $1 billion in planned funds. In a video post on X on Tuesday, Greene said that her amendment would strike $600 million from the defense bill, money that she noted “goes to Ukraine.” She argued that the US had already sent “over $175 billion to this war” and that it was “enough of your hard-earned tax dollars.”
She described the measure as part of the America First agenda, saying US funds should not be used for “foreign wars” while the country faces a $37 trillion debt. The congresswoman stated that the US usually allocates $300 million annually but that “Speaker Johnson and Republicans are feeling so generous they’re wanting to give them 600 million this time. My amendment will take it out.” Greene said, adding she has “never voted to fund this war.” Greene introduced another amendment after learning that “another $100 million” had been earmarked for Kiev and said she wanted to remove all funding in case others in Congress felt “so giving.” Greene also put forward measures to cut aid for Israel, Syria, and Iraq adding that the money should be “kept back here at home.”
While previous President Joe Biden’s administration approved large-scale aid packages to Kiev, Trump has cut assistance but allowed some deliveries, such as Patriot air-defense systems. He has repeatedly expressed concern about possible misuse of US aid to Kiev, claiming that billions allocated under Biden may have been embezzled. In July, Trump said that any additional weapons delivered to Ukraine would have to be paid for by Europe’s NATO members. Ukraine’s European backers are pressing for more weapons as part of security guarantees, while Russia insists Western military aid is an obstacle to reaching a peace deal.
It will be a battle.
• EU Censors Post Describing A Dystopian Germany in 2050 (RMX)
What will Germany look like in 2050? The outspoken deputy head of the German police union (DPolG), Manuel Ostermann, published an excerpt from his book on X about what he sees as the perils of mass immigration. His post described Arab clans dominating big cities in 2050, Sharia law, child marriage, grooming gangs, and a host of other ills. Now, the European Union has censored his post from being seen across the entire continent in a major escalation against a public official, one who is considered one of the leading voices of tens of thousands of German police officers, and a voice frequently appearing in major German news outlets, including Welt and Bild.
[..] Arab clans dominate the big cities “Imagine Germany in 2050. Arab clans dominate the big cities. Gangs fight each other in the fight for sovereignty in organized crime. People who don’t belong to the “right side” are murdered on the street. Even the police hardly dare to go to certain areas known as no-go areas anymore. Drug deaths hit an all-time high,” wrote Ostermann.
What exactly is the issue with the censors here? Clan crime is a major problem within German cities, and it is almost entirely derived from Muslim countries, including Lebanon, Turkey, and even Syria. There are similar problems in neighboring countries, including Moroccans and Chechens operating in France and the Netherlands, and warring over the country’s drug trade. Germany’s only public media networks routinely run articles and documentaries on the country’s growing clans and their power. In fact, a recent slickly produced ZDF documentary details how these clans have infiltrated the government and police forces to the point that fellow police officers cannot even trust each other.
“Kriminelle Clans in Deutschland” shows that criminal networks not only exercise control in some areas of large cities, but have also established their influence nationwide, right up to state institutions. Accumulating huge wealth illegally, they have built a tight network that includes law enforcement professionals. “It is a murderous and extremely criminal milieu that goes on there. And now on so many levels that we no longer know whether we can really stop it at all. Were raids betrayed, investigations manipulated and employees bought off by the authorities? There is even despair in certain police stations,” states the narrator.
As Germany’s foreign population grows, so does clan crime, or at least the potential for such crime. Just this year, 100 Lebanese clan members battled on the streets. Here is what Remix News wrote: “There was a bloodbath on the streets of Germany after two extended Lebanese family groups fought in a battle that reportedly involved 100 people in the city of Heiligenhaus. The two groups battled using machetes, knives, and other weapons, leading to a mass police operation that resulted in at least five serious injuries, including one that is life-threatening. Police made several arrests.”
Incredible violence, attacks on police, and corruption at the highest levels are already the case to a large degree in a number of European cities. In Marseilles, killings have hit a record high and foreign gangs dominate the city’s drug trade..In the Netherlands, even the royal family has been threatened by the power wielded by foreign criminals. Regarding the potential for drug overdose deaths, the situation could go many different ways, but drug overdose deaths in the EU are hovering near a peak. With the flood of synthetic opioids coming into Europe, the situation could worsen. Is there any guarantee that Germany can escape such developments? Certainly not. Osterman presents a valid prediction based on trend lines, and certainly, there are no grounds to censor his prediction.
Sharia law and women’s rights “In some districts, only Sharia law is recognized as valid law.“ Already, Austrian courts are recognizing Sharia law as valid so long as it does not contradict fundamental rights and higher state laws. However, this may be only a stepping-stone ruling. In Germany itself, there is a small but vocal minority of Muslims who are openly protesting in favor of a German caliphate in cities like Hamburg. However, this is not the most concerning development. Instead, in a major study conducted by the Criminological Research Institute (KFN), it showed that nearly half of young Muslims in Germany believe a theocracy is the best form of government.
In the same study, 67.9 percent of young Muslims said that the rules of the Quran were more important than the laws in Germany. This was also all reported by the state-run news network WDR. This also means there are hundreds of thousands of Muslims who do not hold these beliefs, but the sheer numbers are also extremely worrying. Nearly every single Muslim country on Earth is either ruled by classic Sharia law or has many elements of Sharia law incorporated into its legal system. Not every country is ruled by a strict standard, but many feature extremely harsh versions of such laws, including laws that openly target homosexuals and women. Within Germany itself, the situation is potentially explosive, with an alarming number of Muslims feeling alienated living in a Western democratic society. Many of them harbor ideas that can be considered more radical, including a willingness to turn to violence.
“..Democrats need to win by 2.8 points. If Florida also redistricts, that margin jumps to 3.4 points. For context, Donald Trump won the 2024 popular vote by 1.5 points.
• Democrats Messed up Their Redistricting Gamble (Margolis)
The 2026 House elections are shaping up to be a nightmare for Democrats, and frankly, they have no one to blame but themselves for escalating a redistricting war they cannot win. While the left continues to whine about gerrymandering when it works against them, they conveniently forget their own history of creative map-drawing when it suits their purposes. Let’s start with Texas, where Republicans are poised to add up to five additional seats through redistricting. That’s five more reliable conservative votes in a chamber where control often comes down to a handful of seats. Meanwhile, California Democrats are scrambling to squeeze more seats from an already gerrymandered state. They’ve already maximized their redistricting potential in the Golden State, leaving little room for meaningful gains even if they pursue further changes.
The real story here isn’t just Texas, though. Red states across the map are flexing their redistricting muscles thanks to Gov. Gavin Newsom’s flex. Indiana, Ohio, and Missouri are all redrawing their congressional boundaries in ways that will favor Republicans. While Democrats clutch their pearls about the unfairness of it all, Republican strategists are doing exactly what they should be doing by fighting back against years of Democrats rigging maps in their favor. Here’s where the math gets brutal for Democrats. Even if California somehow manages to eke out additional seats through redistricting, Democrats would still need to win the national popular vote by at least 2.3 percentage points just to have a fighting chance at retaking the House majority. If California’s redistricting effort fails — and it could — but Ohio, Indiana, and Missouri move ahead with redistricting anyway, Democrats need to win by 2.8 points. If Florida also redistricts, that margin jumps to 3.4 points.
For context, Donald Trump won the 2024 popular vote by 1.5 points. Yes, midterm elections are extremely different from presidential elections, but that’s still a significant swing. So now we have a situation where the structural advantage Republicans are building through redistricting means Democrats need to consistently win the popular vote by two to three points nationally to be favored for House control, and that makes things tough. However, it’s not impossible. “A two-to-three-point structural advantage for the G.O.P. is meaningful, but pretty modest,” notes Nate Cohn at the New York Times. “With Democrats leading by four points in the national generic ballot polls today, the party would still be favored to win next year’s midterm election. The Republicans wouldn’t stand much of any chance at all of surviving a so-called ‘wave’ election, like in 2018, when Democrats won the House popular vote by seven points.”
But here’s the catch: They have virtually no margin for error. A few weak candidates, poorly timed retirements, or shifting demographics in key districts could easily hand control back to Republicans. And if the Democrats’ popular vote advantage turns out to be much less than four points, the new maps could give the Republicans the advantage. Democrats, for instance, might not be able to get away with their own version of the G.O.P.’s disappointing “red ripple” election in 2022 and still win. They might not win if 2026 is like the narrow Democratic victory from 2020, either. Indeed, each of the last three congressional elections was decided by three points or less in the national popular vote, with the winner prevailing by less than seven seats.
With margins this razor-thin, every redrawn district carries enormous weight. Republicans aren’t apologizing for playing hardball on redistricting, and why should they? Democrats have been rigging maps for years, and the GOP is finally fighting back. Of course, Republicans gerrymander too, but PJ Media readers already know that Democrats run the most aggressively gerrymandered states in the country.
That leaves Democrats in a bind. To flip the House, they would need a genuine wave like 2018, when they won the popular vote by seven points. Anything less, and they’ll likely remain in the minority. The problem is, Democrats are doubling down on deeply unpopular positions like open borders and soft-on-crime policies that make a wave election highly unlikely. I wouldn’t bet on Democrats pulling it off. When more voters start paying attention, their radical stances on immigration and crime will drag them down even further. The generic ballot will swing against them, and when the dust settles, Democrats will realize they didn’t just lose the redistricting fight; they handed Republicans the advantage for years to come.
Pray tell, what would be cause to fire her? Murder? Or does it have to be murder of a Fed govenor?
• Lisa Cook Can’t Be Fired – For Now: Judge (ZH)
Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook has been granted a reprieve after her sorority-sister judge, Jia Cobb, temporarily blocked President Donald Trump from firing her – allowing Cook to remain on the job amid allegations of mortgage fraud.Cobb granted Cook’s request to continue in her role, finding that the alleged mortgage misconduct likely didn’t amount to “cause” to fire her under the Federal Reserve Act. Cobb also found that the way Cook was fired likely violated her right to due process under the Constitution. “The best reading of the ‘for cause’ provision is that the bases for removal of a member of the Board of Governors are limited to grounds concerning a Governor’s behavior in office and whether they have been faithfully and effectively executing their statutory duties,” Cobb wrote.
The ruling means that Cook will likely be able to attend an anticipated Fed policy meeting Sept. 16-17 to vote on interest rates. The DOJ is expected to quickly appeal the ruling, leaving the final say to the US Supreme Court. Abbe Lowell, Cook’s lawyer, said in a statement that tonight’s ruling “recognizes and reaffirms” the Fed’s independence from political interference. “Allowing the president to unlawfully remove Governor Cook on unsubstantiated and vague allegations would endanger the stability of our financial system and undermine the rule of law,” said Lowell.
Judge Jia Cobb, of the Delta Sigma Theta sorority, ruled that Lisa Cook, of the Delta Sigma Theta sorority, should continue setting US monetary policy even though she doesn't know how to fill out a mortgage application pic.twitter.com/hjnxm7NAYz
— zerohedge (@zerohedge) September 10, 2025
Cook was fired last month after FHFA Director Bill Pulte released evidence that Cook had fraudulently listed two homes as her “primary residence” within weeks of each other in 2021 in order to secure more favorable terms on her loans. Pulte also revealed a third mortgage Cook had listed as a ‘secondary residence’ while actually renting it out. The fired ‘economist’ says that her ouster was politically motivated, while her lawyers claim that if there are any errors, they were accidental, and nobody was harmed – just nobody was harmed when NY AG Letitia James threw the kitchen sink at Trump over similar real estate malarkey.
Color me surprised.
• Boris Johnson Accused of Profiting From Government Contacts (RT)
Former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has profited from contacts and influence he gained while in office, The Guardian alleged on Monday, citing a trove of leaked documents. The outlet said it had obtained about 2GB of files, including emails, letters, invoices, spreadsheets, speeches, and contracts, from the Office of Boris Johnson, the company that manages his post-government business dealings. Most of the material covers September 2022 to July 2024 but the trove also includes earlier records from his premiership.The Guardian highlighted four cases it described as questionable. A month after taking office in 2019, Johnson reportedly held a secret meeting with billionaire Peter Thiel, co-founder of US data giant Palantir Technologies, which was seeking UK contracts at the time.
In 2020, Johnson hosted a party for Conservative peer David Brownlow, who helped finance renovations of the prime minister’s residence – a gathering that may have violated the government’s own Covid-19 restrictions, the report said. After leaving office, Johnson allegedly lobbied Saudi officials he had met while in power, and billed a hedge fund six figures following a visit to Venezuela – money The Guardian claimed may have been payment for meeting the country’s leadership. The newspaper said it was the only UK outlet given access to the leaked files by Distributed Denial of Secrets (DDoS), a US-based nonprofit transparency group that obtained the cache earlier this year.
The report argued disclosure was in the public interest because Johnson’s firm receives a government-funded annual stipend meant to cover his official duties as a former prime minister, not personal enrichment. Johnson resigned as prime minister and Conservative Party leader in September 2022 after a string of scandals, including breaches of Covid-19 lockdown rules and the appointment of an MP accused of sexual misconduct to a deputy whip position. During his tenure, Johnson played a significant role in scuttling early peace talks between Russia and Ukraine, opposing a proposed settlement deal and encouraging Kiev to pursue a military path instead.
Understandably, Ethiopians will be proud. Everyone else will be jittery. Many wars have been fought over water.
• Africa’s Largest Hydropower Dam Launched (RT)
Ethiopia has officially inaugurated Africa’s largest hydroelectric plant, a controversial project expected to generate up to 5.15 gigawatts of power for the landlocked nation, where nearly half the population is estimated to lack access to electricity. The inauguration of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) on the Blue Nile on Tuesday went ahead despite fierce opposition from downstream Egypt and Sudan, which fear the project will disrupt vital water flows.
“To our brothers: Ethiopia built the dam to prosper, to electrify the entire region and to change the history of black people,” Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed said as he addressed a crowd that included the presidents of Djibouti, Kenya, Somalia, and South Sudan. The prime ministers of Eswatini and Barbados, the chairperson of the African Union Commission, and the United Nations under-secretary-general and executive secretary of the Economic Commission for Africa were also in attendance. “It is absolutely not to harm its brothers,” Abiy stated. In a post on X, Ethiopian President Taye Atske Selassie hailed the GERD as “a reward of Ethiopian people’s resilience,” declaring, “Let there be eternal light!”
የታሪካችን እጥፋት ዋዜማ !
Jala bultii jijjiirrama seenaa keenyaa! pic.twitter.com/s1uu7udxsO— Adanech Abiebie (@AdanechAbiebie) September 9, 2025
Addis Ababa announced the completion of the facility, among the 20 biggest in the world, in July after a 14-year construction period. It was initially scheduled to be completed within six years on a $4 billion budget, although Ethiopian authorities now put the final cost at about $5 billion. US President Donald Trump had claimed that Ethiopia built the dam “largely” with American money, but the GERD Coordination Office dismissed the allegation as false and “destructive,” stressing that the project was entirely financed by the government and local contributions. Local media reported jubilation across Africa’s second most populous country following the “historic” opening of the plant, which authorities have long hailed as a milestone for Ethiopia’s renaissance.
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According to the World Bank, only about 55.4% of Ethiopia’s population had access to electricity as of 2023, compared with universal coverage in Egypt at 100%. Egypt, which relies on the Nile for about 97% of its fresh water, has accused Addis Ababa of violating international laws and has taken the dispute to the UN Security Council.
“Corporate media then labeled, isolated, ridiculed and marginalized anyone who dared to point out the obvious.”
• The Truth Has No Agenda (CTH)
Everything that preceded the 2020 federal election was a complex system of control by a network of ideologues, federal agencies, allies in the private sector, financial stakeholders and corrupt interests all working toward a common goal. There’s no need to go through the background of how the election was manipulated and how the government and private sector, specifically social media, worked to influence the 2020 outcome because you have all seen it. Whether it was local election officials working to control outcomes, federal agencies working to support them (CISA, FBI, DHS), financial interests working to fund them (Zuckerberg et al), or social media platforms controlling the visible content and discussion (Twitter Files, Google, Facebook etc.), the objective was all the same. It was a massive one-sided operation against the free will of the American voter.
In the aftermath of the 2020 election, those same system operators, govt officials, corporate media, private sector groups and social media platforms then circled the wagons to scatter the evidence of their conduct. If you questioned anything, you were a threat. That’s the context to the dynamic that unfolded. Lawfare operatives joined forces with Democrat staffers, and allies in social media platforms all worked in concert to target the voices of anyone who would rise in opposition to the corruption that was stunningly clear in the outcome of the election process. Corporate media then labeled, isolated, ridiculed and marginalized anyone who dared to point out the obvious.
When AG Merrick Garland says this of January 6, 2021: […] “the Justice Department has conducted one of the largest, most complex, and most resource-intensive investigations in our history. We have worked to analyze massive amounts of physical and digital data. We have recovered devices, decrypted electronic messages, triangulated phones, and pored through tens of thousands of hours of video. We have also benefited from tens of thousands of tips we received from the public. Following these digital and physical footprints, we were able to identify hundreds of people.” {link} The targeting operation needs context. Do you remember on April 27, 2024, when DOJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz said, “more than 3.4 million search queries into the NSA database took place between Dec. 1st, 2020 and Nov. 30th, 2021, by government officials and/or contractors working on behalf of the federal government.”
The result was “more than 1 million searches of private documents and communication of Americans that were illegal and non-compliant,” and over “10,000 federal employees have access to that database.” {OIG Testimony}. Put the statement from Garland together with the statement from Horowitz, and you get an understanding of what was done. Hundreds of stakeholders in the Lawfare network joined forces with hundreds of people who became staff researchers for a weaponized Congress. Hundreds more social media background agents then poured thousands of hours into feeding private information to the DOJ, FBI, J6 Committee and all of their hired staff working on the project.
How do I know?…
…I was one of their targets.Before telling the rest of the story, some background is needed. I am well versed in the ways of the administrative state and the corrupt systems, institutions and silos that make up our weaponized government. I can (a) see them; (b) predict their activity, and (c) know where their traps and operations are located. Traveling the deep investigative weeds of the administrative state eventually gives you a set of skills. When people ask how the outlines on this website can seem so far ahead of the sunlight that eventually falls upon the outlined corruption, this is essentially why. When you take these skills on the road, you learn to be a free-range scout, and after a long while you learn how to track the activity.
When I was outlining how the Fourth Branch of Government works, and/or Jack’s Magic Coffee Shop and the DHS system operating inside it, I wasn’t shooting from the hip. However, people will always seek to dismiss the uncomfortable truth. Sometimes you just have to wait for the evidence you know exists to surface, or for a situation to unfold that is driven by a self-fulfilling prophecy. The often uncomfy CTH predictions turn out to be the truth of the issue, because they are based on the factual evidence of the issue. That level of how the system works came in very handy when I received this subpoena from Chairman Bennie Thompson and the J6 Committee. [Warning, things could get uncomfortable if you don’t accept the scale of corruption that exists.] Pay attention to the red box on the page shown. This is essentially the probable cause that justifies the subpoena itself. I have redacted a name in the box for reasons you will see that follow.
How did the CIA and Bill Gates know about ‘Covid’ beforehand?
“Bill Gates was hosting a coronavirus pandemic simulation in New York City. His co-host is Avril Haines, the Deputy Director of the CIA. What is the CIA doing at a public health forum…?” pic.twitter.com/uC0bqU5pSz
— Liz Churchill (@liz_churchill10) September 9, 2025
United States Health Secretary calls on the Bill Gates funded World Health Organization to stop injecting babies with mercury.
HHS Sec. Robert F Kennedy Jr accuses the WHO and GAVI, of "injecting mercury into more than [100 million] babies" every year.
"Experts" say the same… pic.twitter.com/5H4rXO5Tbj
— Humanspective (@Humanspective) September 8, 2025
How many kids are there with autism that haven't been vaccinated? pic.twitter.com/LhDcLtGjRD
— Not A Number (@myhiddenvalue) September 9, 2025
THROW FAUCI IN PRISON.
“Fauci knew that Remdesivir would kill you…”
“How?”
“Kidney-heart failure…all-organ collapse. You heard it again and again. We've never seen a virus that attacks the kidneys. It wasn't the virus; it was the Remdemsvir…”
pic.twitter.com/t3G15DOlwI— Liz Churchill (@liz_churchill10) September 9, 2025
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