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No full shutdown here yet, but we do have some medical things to take care of the next few days.
Davis: "Year after year, the Russians tirelessly and monotonously voice their demands. Do you think their words will ever reach the West?"
John Mearsheimer, Professor at the University of Chicago: "I think the answer is no. I liked how you said: year after year. Not week after… pic.twitter.com/Vz90ZKb90w— Sprinter Press News (@SprinterPress) September 29, 2025
'The war in Ukraine will be decided on the battlefield because Rubio is not ready to accept Russia's demands' — American political scientist Mearsheimer.
'The possibility of Ukraine becoming a NATO member is absolutely unacceptable for Russia. It is an existential threat. And… pic.twitter.com/Kd15vPOyig
— Zlatti71 (@Zlatti_71) September 30, 2025
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— General Mike Flynn (@GenFlynn) September 30, 2025
Kash Patel has released a few more documents to John Solomon which pertain to the J6 pipe bombs.
The FBI official story says that the pipe bombs were outside of the RNC & DNC headquarters for 16 hours, but the documents Solomon obtained tell a different story.
1. The pipe… pic.twitter.com/qZUmbQ3S8N
— TheStormHasArrived (@TheStormRedux) September 29, 2025
YouTube just agreed to pay President Trump $24.5 million for suspending his account in 2021.
Facebook agreed to pay Trump $25 million for suspending him.
Twitter agreed to pay Trump $10 million for suspending him.
ABC News agreed to pay Trump $15 million to settle a defamation…
— Danielle D'Souza Gill (@danielledsouzag) September 30, 2025
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“If something happens to me, I ask you to find out which foreign government or powerful people would go to such lengths to keep this information from coming out,” she added. “The People understand what I’m saying..”
• MTG ‘Warns Of ‘Powerful People’ Trying To Silence Her Over Epstein (RT)
US Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene has claimed that “powerful people” are trying to silence her over her renewed efforts to have the Epstein files released. She further added that she is “not suicidal,” and that if she is harmed in any way it would not be self-inflicted. Greene is backing a House resolution introduced by Republican Rep. Thomas Massie that seeks to force a full House vote that would compel the Justice Department to release all remaining files related to Jeffrey Epstein – the financier and convicted sex offender who allegedly died by suicide in a Manhattan jail in 2019 while awaiting trial on sex-trafficking charges. Greene, a Republican from Georgia, took to X on Saturday with a stark warning, telling followers to “find out” what really happened if she were ever found dead.
“I am not suicidal and one of the happiest, healthiest people you will meet,” she wrote, dismissing any suggestion she might take her own life after backing a petition to unseal the records. The petition requires 218 signatures to bypass committee leadership and bring the resolution directly to the floor – a step Greene says is crucial to exposing what she calls the “Epstein rape and pedophile network.” “If something happens to me, I ask you to find out which foreign government or powerful people would go to such lengths to keep this information from coming out,” she added. “The People understand what I’m saying.” According to media reports, the White House has been pressing lawmakers privately to abandon the petition, but Greene said she has no intention of backing down.
“I stand with girls and women who are sexually abused and raped. Period. Every time. At all times,” Greene wrote earlier. “This isn’t about a pissing contest between political parties or rivals. The Epstein rape and pedophile network must be exposed – and my name will remain on the discharge petition.” Earlier this month, the House Oversight Committee released 33,295 pages of Justice Department records on Epstein, including redacted court files, surveillance footage and other evidence. On Friday, House Democrats released another batch – calendars, flight logs and financial ledgers naming Elon Musk, Peter Thiel and Steve Bannon – prompting Republicans to accuse them of “cherry-picking” to spotlight conservatives while withholding material that could implicate Democrats.
Repeat it often enough and….
• Survival of Western Civilization Depends on Ukraine – Polish PM (RT)
The survival of Western civilization is at stake in the Ukraine conflict, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk has claimed. Russia has stated that the Ukraine conflict was provoked by NATO countries and that it is only defending itself, accusing the West of using Kiev to wage a “proxy war.” Speaking at the Warsaw Security Forum in the Polish capital on Monday, Tusk called for more support for Ukraine, arguing that “this is not only a matter of solidarity with the country that was attacked. It is a matter of security and the survival of Western civilization.” The Polish people should understand that “it is our war, because the war in Ukraine is part of a terrible project that surfaces from time to time: a political program aimed at subjugating peoples, depriving individuals of freedom, and introducing authoritarianism, despotism, cruelty, and the absence of human rights,” he claimed.
“If we lose this war… the consequences will touch not only our generation but also future generations in Poland, in Europe, in the US, everywhere. Let there be no illusions,” the Polish prime minster, who has taken an increasingly hardline stance on the Ukraine conflict since returning to office in late 2023, warned. In an address at the UN General Assembly last week, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said, “threats to use force against Russia are becoming more frequent, prompted by unproven accusations that Russia is planning to attack NATO and the EU.”
Russian President Vladimir Putin “has repeatedly debunked such provocations. Russia has not had and does not have any such intentions. However, any aggression against my country will receive a decisive response,” he said. Lavrov added that Moscow has “called on NATO capitals to… agree on legally binding security guarantees,” including those made before the escalation of the Ukraine conflict in February 2022, but its proposals “continue to be ignored.”
10 years of madness.
• Eric Trump Releases New Book, “Under Siege” (CTH)
This is one book that I absolutely want to read. In a great interview, the Executive Vice-President of Trump Inc, Eric Trump, describes what it was like to be targeted by a fully weaponized U.S. government. Eric Trump speaks highly of the intents and purposes of Kash Patel and Dan Bongino in addition to several other members of the MAGA alliance who have assisted the family of Donald Trump in defending themselves. Eric notes the background conversations with his dad and family as Lawfare mounted their assault.
Rules are meant to be broken.
• EU To Bend Rules For Ukraine And Moldova Admission Process – FT (RT)
The EU plans to adjust its rules in order to push ahead with technical steps for admitting Ukraine and Moldova, thereby bypassing the Hungarian veto that has stalled formal accession talks with Kiev, the Financial Times reported on Tuesday. No negotiation cluster has been opened for Ukraine as Hungary has repeatedly vetoed the procedural steps required to launch the first one. Budapest has consistently opposed Ukraine’s EU membership bid, citing Kiev’s treatment of ethnic Hungarians and the potential economic strain Ukrainian accession would entail for the bloc. According to the FT, however, the European Commission has proposed adjusting its own rules to sidestep the veto by launching technical work in several clusters even without a formal decision to open negotiations in those areas.
A negotiation cluster is a group of related policy areas that a candidate country must negotiate as part of the accession process. Brussels on Monday backed European Council President Antonio Costa’s plan to bypass Budapest’s veto by allowing a qualified majority of member states to open negotiating clusters for Ukraine and Moldova instead of requiring unanimous approval at each stage as is the case now, Politico reported. The issue is set to be discussed at an informal European Council meeting in Copenhagen later this week. Ukraine applied for EU membership in February 2022, while Moldova submitted its application the following month. The two bids have long been informally treated as a package, though some in the bloc argue they should be considered separately.
Zelensky has claimed that splitting them would signal a rift in the EU over security guarantees for Kiev – a stance critics see as an attempt to keep Moldova tied to Ukraine’s slower-moving accession bid. Last month, Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto warned that Ukraine’s accession “would be the coup de grace to the European Union,” arguing that the bloc would have to divert “practically all” its financial resources to support Kiev, while cheaper Ukrainian farm products would “destroy European agriculture.” Unlike most EU member states, Hungary has refused to supply weapons to Ukraine and has repeatedly criticized EU sanctions on Russia. Moscow says it has no objection to Ukraine joining the EU but considers Kiev’s proposed accession to NATO an unacceptable security threat.
” The Palestinian Authority, which governs the West Bank, said in a statement on Tuesday that it has confidence in Trump’s ability to find a path toward peace in Gaza. Partnership with the US is essential in bringing stability to the region, it added.”
• Palestinian Authority Backs Trump Peace Plan (RT)
The Palestinian Authority (PA) has said it welcomes US President Donald Trump’s “sincere and determined efforts” to achieve peace in Gaza, after Trump unveiled his roadmap to stop the fighting between Israel and Hamas.The 20-point plan, released by the White House during Trump’s meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday, calls for an immediate ceasefire and the exchange of all hostages held by Hamas for Palestinian prisoners in Israel. It envisions turning Gaza into a “deradicalized, terror-free zone” after the withdrawal of Israeli forces, with Hamas excluded from governing the enclave. The Palestinian Authority, which governs the West Bank, said in a statement on Tuesday that it has confidence in Trump’s ability to find a path toward peace in Gaza. Partnership with the US is essential in bringing stability to the region, it added.
The fighting must end “through a comprehensive agreement that ensures the sufficient delivery of humanitarian aid to Gaza, the release of hostages and prisoners, the establishment of mechanisms to protect the Palestinian people… prevent annexation of land, s top the displacement of Palestinians, end unilateral actions that violate international law, release withheld Palestinian tax revenues, and lead to a full Israeli withdrawal,” it said. “This would… open the path toward a just peace based on the two-state solution, with the independent and sovereign State of Palestine living side by side with the State of Israel in security, peace, and good neighborliness, in accordance with international legitimacy,” according to the PA.
Hamas has said it will study the US proposal “in good faith.” According to NBC’s sources, the group is leaning toward accepting the plan and will present its response to the Egyptian and Qatari mediators on Wednesday. However, the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, which is fighting along Hamas, rejected Trump’s roadmap, calling it “a recipe to blow up the region.”West Jerusalem launched its military operation in Gaza in October 2023 in response to a deadly assault on southern Israel in which Hamas killed around 1,200 people and took more than 250 hostages. Over 66,000 Palestinians have since been killed and more than 168,000 others injured in the enclave, according to the local health authorities.
“The concept of annihilating the enemy, born of the 20th century, looks unlikely to return.”
• The Liberal Order Is Over, and It’s Created This Unexpected Problem (Lukyanov)
The liberal order is over. Propriety has been abandoned, rules have been forgotten, and borders no longer mean what they once did. Force still exists, but peace lives only in the imagination of those who cling to old slogans. What we call the “international situation” is a spectacle without a script. The task is to describe it, and to understand it. Every year, the Valdai International Discussion Club produces a report on the state of the world system. This year’s paper – tellingly titled ‘Dr. Chaos or: How to Stop Worrying and Love the Disorder’ – asks whether the world has entered a revolutionary situation, one that would bring about a wholly new order. The answer is no. The changes are radical and often alarming, but they are not revolutionary. Why? Because the system is not unbearably unjust to any of the key players.
It is decaying, but not so intolerable that it demands overthrow. Institutions are weakening, many survive in name only, but nobody is trying to destroy them outright. Even the most disruptive US administration in recent memory – Donald Trump’s – has never attempted a fundamental overhaul. Washington simply ignores the constraints when it suits its interests. nThis is not because the global powers have grown cautious or responsible. It is because the order has become too complex to dismantle. The “top,” once embodied by the ruling great powers, can no longer exercise true hegemony. The United States is the clearest example: it lacks the money, the domestic drive, and even the will to police the world as before. Yet the “bottom,” the so-called global majority, is not demanding revolution either. Rising states see too much risk in total collapse. They would rather climb the ladder within the old framework than tear it down completely.
Here the Valdai report invokes Lenin’s definition of a revolutionary situation: the ruling class must be unable to rule as before, while the ruled must demand change. Today, the first condition exists but the second does not. Most countries prefer gradual elevation of their status without the gamble of a system-wide rupture. The shift from hegemony to multipolarity is profound, but multipolarity is not yet an order. It is an environment – fluid, confusing, and non-linear. Instability multiplies because the world is more interconnected than ever, yet also more conflict-ridden. For states, internal stability has become more important than external ambition. Governments everywhere, Russia included, now place domestic development and resilience above dreams of global domination. mWhat makes this transition unusual is that it is not driven by ideological revolutionaries.
China, the rising giant, does not try to remake the world in its image. It adapts to circumstances and tries to minimize the costs of being at the center. The transformation is objective – a consequence of economic, social, cultural, and technological shifts that unfold simultaneously but not in sync. Only an artificial intelligence, the Valdai report quips, might one day calculate the vector sum of all these forces. In the meantime, foreign policy is not withering away. On the contrary, international activity has never been greater. But its purpose has changed. States no longer dream of total victory. They seek incremental advantage – small corrections, favorable conditions for the near future, a perpetual negotiation backed by pressure.
The United States, for example, knows it cannot defend its dominance as in the past. Russia, too, will not risk its socio-economic stability for a decisive battlefield triumph. Nuclear deterrence makes full-scale war against major powers unthinkable. Israel may still act as if it can permanently alter the status quo, and Azerbaijan has restored its control over Karabakh. But these are exceptions. For most, international politics is returning to the positional confrontations of the 18th century: bloody contests, yes, but rarely total destruction. The concept of annihilating the enemy, born of the 20th century, looks unlikely to return.
The webs we weave.
• The NSA Report No One Has Ever Seen (CTH)
During the period of Nov 2015 to April 2016, the Obama administration, through the FBI under James Comey and Andrew McCabe, was conducting a political spying operation against all Republican presidential primary candidates using the power of their offices. The intent was two-fold. (1) Tracking the candidates to identify activity; and (2) conducting opposition research to be fed to the campaign of Democrat candidate Hillary Clinton. This surveillance activity was happening in concert with Comey, McCabe and a small group inside the FBI, running a defensive operation for the issues surrounding Hillary Clinton’s prior use of private email servers -which included classified information transmission- during her tenure as Secretary of State. Documentary evidence of the Obama spying operation surfaced as an outcome of the NSA compliance officer discovering the FBI activity. The compliance officer reported the activity to National Security Agency Director, Admiral Mike Rogers. The spying operation is not an issue of FISA-702, or any FISA system or process.
However, the availability of FBI access to the NSA database is what triggered the discovery of the spy operation. That FBI access is created under the auspices of FISA, but FISA-702, or any aspect therein, was not the issue. The issue was the spying operation. FISA, and using the NSA database to conduct the electronic surveillance, was simply the tool to exploit the electronic communication (metadata) of the targets. The Obama administration was spying on their political opposition and telling the Clinton team the results of their surveillance. Put another way, the United States government was spying on political candidates for office, in order to control the outcome of the 2016 U.S. presidential election. After Director Mike Rogers was made aware of the operation, and the exploitation of the NSA database, the NSA Director blocked the FBI from access and began an investigation. That investigation culminated in Director Mike Rogers informing the regulatory body in charge of protecting the database from exploitation.
FISC SIDEBAR: With the NSA now collecting the private electronic communication of Americans, the FISA Court was assigned the responsibility of oversight; it was intended to protect the growing metadata library and ensure the 4th Amendment provisions to the constitution were maintained. The FISC oversight was intended to stop the government from reviewing the private records of Americans, the NSA database, without a warrant. Because the NSA database was used by the Obama administration, the FBI, to conduct political spying operations, the only normal compliance venue Director Mike Rogers had to reveal the spying, was to inform the FISA court (FISC). NSA Director Mike Rogers was a cabinet member working for President Obama at the time the Obama administration was exploiting the NSA database. Director Mike Rogers does not appear to have informed congressional oversight. That would have violated the chain-of-command, and the President held absolute power.
Director Rogers could have chosen to inform the congressional Gang-of-Eight of the issue. He did not. This is an issue Director Rogers would later address by moving custodial control of the NSA database to Cyber Command (a DoD agency)]. NSA Director Mike Rogers informed the FISA Court of the issue, by detailing who the people were who were searched within the database, and what the results were over the timeframe of Nov ’15 to April ’16. The compliance officer provided the audit-trail, audit logs showing who was being spied on, who was being searched (queried), how often and how many times. The audit-trail also showed who was logging in to conduct the spy operations, and what FBI authorized workstations they were using. Director Rogers informed the court he had blocked FBI access and removed part of the functionality for how the system could be exploited.
The internal investigation by the NSA compliance officer and Rogers was completed and sent to the FISA Court in October 2016, with additional information sent in March 2017. The FISA Court then responded in April 2017, where Presiding Judge Rosemary Collyer outlined the events in a heavily redacted 99-page opinion. President Obama conducting political spying operations, through a politically weaponized FBI, against the Republican opposition elements is colloquially called “Spygate.” Hillary Clinton manufacturing a political dirty trick against Donald Trump, accusing him of a Trump-Russia collusion conspiracy, is called “Russiagate.” President Obama and every member of his cabinet, that was involved in the spying operations, used Clinton’s “Russiagate” to cover up Obama’s “Spygate.”
The two controversies are distinct and separate. Within the evidence trail, that documents the Obama spying operation exists: (1) the NSA audit-trail, and, more importantly, (2) the specific document where the NSA notified the FISA Court. Those have never been seen. While a redacted 99-page response from the court has been reviewed in granular detail, the missing piece of the puzzle; -the evidence that proves the operation beyond any reasonable doubt – is the NSA investigative outcome, the notification to the FISC given by NSA Director Mike Rogers to the FISA Court. The NSA report to the FISA Court is a specific, actionable, discoverable document. I have been on the hunt for that notification report for 8 years. Now you know why this position is so important.
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