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Debt Rattle October 30 2026

Oct 302026
 
 October 30, 2026  Posted by at 10:21 am Finance Tagged with: , , , , , , ,  3 Responses »


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• The Opposition to Russia – An Interesting Exercise (CTH)
• Trump Faces Plot Twist In Ilhan Omar Warrant Fight As Old Foe Reemerges (ZH)
• NYT: Obama Admin Had Evidence of Omar’s Bro-Husband (Catherine Salgado)
• European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde Announces Early Departure (CTH)
• Canada-U.K Election Interference Activity (CTH)
• NYT: Peltola Conspired to Confuse Alaskan Voters With “Dan Sullivans” (Turley)
• Peltola Campaign Behind Two Sullivan Candidates (John Solomon)
• NYT: Alaska Dems, Mary Peltola Organized Fraudulent Dan Sullivan (CTH)
• Glenn Greenwald Unpacks Brazil’s Political Drama (ZH)
• Muslims In Europe Have More Than Doubled In The Last 25 Years (RMX)
• Is the Israeli-Trump War on Iran Producing Muslim Unity? (Paul Craig Roberts)
• Another Day, Another World-Changing Milestone From SpaceX (Stephen Green)

 

 

 

 


Russia is the odd one out.

The people who advocate the global warming agenda are the same as those who support Ukraine.

They are the globalists. They devastate your world.

Trump fights them in the US. In Europe, there’s only Le Pen and the AfD.

• The Opposition to Russia – An Interesting Exercise (CTH)

For two weeks I have essentially locked myself away while trying to disprove a thesis I developed over the past few years. Perhaps you might be interested. Take out a pencil, draw a line down the center of the page and on the left hand-column write out every individual, nation, organization, institution and political movement that is aligned with, and advanced the global warming/climate change agenda.


Then, on the right-hand column, write out every individual, nation, organization, institution and political movement that is aligned with, advances the interests of, and support for Ukraine. Notice something in the commonality?

They are a perfect match.

25+ years of Global Warming, Climate Change, Net Zero, Carbon Trading, Carbon Taxing, Build Back Better etc. advocacy, revolves around the singularity of one issue, energy production. From that baseline the western nemesis of a multi-trillion investment and banking system, built around the destruction of the coal, oil and gas carbon-based energy sector is Russia.

Additionally, over the past 10 years as western interests have stopped building oil refining capacity, Russia has expanded oil refining capacity. All ‘modern’ opposition to Russia in the last 25 years, is now culminating…. But the root is something everyone misses. The root commonality of interests is Energy Production.

The advocates for the system of dependencies created by the “climate change/net zero” energy processes are the same advocates supporting Ukraine and specifically supporting the targeting of Russian energy production vis-a-vis Russian oil refineries. All of the advocates for Ukraine are also heavily invested advocates for the climate change agenda. A western system that has created multi-trillions of prior investments that need returns.

Russia’s interests are against that system.

Someone recently paused, thought about it and remarked back to me, “well, that is an interesting commonality of interests; however, if that were indeed the case, then why wouldn’t that same network confront the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) with the same ferocity of opposition?”I replied, “wait, did you forget the Arab Spring?”

Since 1999 every large institutional construct of finance, investment and banking has centered around the western premise of “climate change.” Entire industries, very lucrative returns on investment, have surfaced as a result of the collective WEF endeavor that specifically targeted the #1 sector for global economic power and ultimately control….

The Energy Sector.
Shortly before the recent spike in refined gasoline, diesel and jet fuel costs, there was a conversation about AI datacenters needing massive amounts of energy production and potentially all those financial interests would reverse their investment stance on ‘climate change’ because advanced AI was more lucrative.

The alignment of interests that advocates for climate change, is the same alignment of interests that advocate for Ukraine and is now -not coincidentally- the same alignment of interests that oppose data centers.

Or, maybe you think this is simply a global coincidence? I think not, but I am willing to listen to the opposite argument. All opposition to Russia in the last 25 years, is now culminating…. But the root is something everyone misses. The root is Energy Production.


There are trillions at stake.

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“And What Did Obama’s FBI Know?”

• Trump Faces Plot Twist In Ilhan Omar Warrant Fight As Old Foe Reemerges (ZH)

The same Obama-appointed judge that President Donald Trump once branded a “Radical Left Lunatic” and demanded be impeached is now tasked with deciding whether the public can see what federal agents were searching for when they raided Rep. Ilhan Omar’s home.


U.S. District Chief Judge James Boasberg is presiding over the legal battle to unseal the search warrant used in the October 12 federal raid on the far-left Minnesota Democrat’s Washington, D.C., residence, according to Fox News. Federal investigators are examining allegations involving Omar’s family immigration paperwork and discrepancies in her financial disclosures. The investigation includes questions about whether Omar’s father misstated her age in immigration paperwork filed in 2000, which could have allowed her to obtain citizenship through him while she was still a minor, the outlet also reported.

The New York Times, conservative watchdog Judicial Watch, and 14 other news organizations are seeking to make the warrant public, arguing that Americans have a right to scrutinize the investigation into the Minnesota congresswoman. However, U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro is fighting to keep the documents sealed, warning that their release could jeopardize an ongoing federal investigation.

“This request sounds rash because it is rash,” Pirro argued in a court filing. Boasberg is no stranger to confrontations with the Trump administration. In March 2025, Boasberg temporarily blocked deportation flights carrying alleged Venezuelan gang members. Trump blasted Boasberg as a “Radical Left Lunatic of a Judge, a troublemaker and agitator” and demanded his removal from the bench.

“HE DIDN’T WIN ANYTHING! I WON FOR MANY REASONS, IN AN OVERWHELMING MANDATE, BUT FIGHTING ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION MAY HAVE BEEN THE NUMBER ONE REASON FOR THIS HISTORIC VICTORY,” Trump wrote on Truth Social. “I’m just doing what the VOTERS wanted me to do. This judge, like many of the Crooked Judges’ I am forced to appear before, should be IMPEACHED!!!”

The battle even prompted Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts to issue a rare public rebuke of Trump, declaring that impeachment was not an appropriate response to disagreements over judicial rulings. “For more than two centuries, it has been established that impeachment is not an appropriate response to disagreement concerning a judicial decision,” Roberts said at the time. “The normal appellate review process exists for that purpose.”

What Did Obama’s FBI Know?
Meanwhile, the The FBI and the Department of Homeland Security investigated Rep. Ilhan Omar’s 2009 marriage to Ahmed Nur Said Elmi during the Obama administration and found “some evidence that it was fraudulent,” the New York Times reported Thursday, in a story that rests on current and former officials. Omar, a Minnesota Democrat, has denied the allegation, and no one has been charged.

The Times said the agencies looked into the marriage in the summer of 2016 on suspicion that it was arranged to win Elmi immigration status, and that prosecutors then concluded the potential felony fell outside the five-year statute of limitations, so no case was brought. The paper’s account rests on unnamed officials; the evidence itself has not been made public.

The claim that Elmi is Omar’s brother has trailed her for years. She has called it a baseless conspiracy theory, but her answer to the question last week was less categorical. Asked on MS NOW by host Chris Hayes whether there was “some weird kernel of truth” to it, Omar said, “Not to my knowledge.”


The Times report lands in the middle of a live federal investigation. As noted above, Homeland Security agents searched Omar’s Washington home on October 12 under a court-authorized warrant, and the Trump Justice Department has an open criminal probe into her immigration and naturalization records. We noted at the time that investigators were using DNA and weighing a conspiracy charge, which would not be bound by the same clock; that account also came from unnamed sources.


If the Times account is right, the government had evidence of the allegation a decade ago and brought no case. The current investigation, which Omar has called political intimidation ahead of the midterms, is reportedly looking at her immigration paperwork rather than only the marriage itself.

The political fight is moving as fast. 175 House Democrats demanded a halt to the investigation on October 28. No criminal charges tied to the alleged marriage fraud have been announced.

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There are many stories a few days before an election.

Today the New York Times breaks two that are seemingly not in its lefty interest:

1) What Obama FBI knew about Ilhan Omar.

2) Alaska Dems conspired to get two Dan Sullivans on the ballot.

• NYT: Obama Admin Had Evidence of Omar’s Bro-Husband (Catherine Salgado)

When even a lefty propaganda rag like The New York Times suddenly develops a conscience and starts reporting scandals on a Democrat representative, you know she’s in a very unstable position and heading for a fall.


The Times vaguely cited “current and former officials” who confirmed that the Obama administration’s FBI and Department of Homeland Security investigated Rep. Ilhan Omar’s (D-Minn.) fraudulent “marriage” to her brother in 2016. The officials stated that the Obama FBI and DHS did find evidence that Omar had committed immigration fraud by pretending to wed her own brother in 2009.

Omar’s marital history is extremely complicated and confusing, not just because she married her brother. Her latest husband is Tim Mynett, who is also potentially in trouble with the law for allegedly selling empty barrels to investors at his abruptly shuttered winery.

Above the paywall, the Times explained: “The reporting for this article is based on interviews with three current and former officials familiar with the present-day investigation and six current and former officials with knowledge of the 2016 investigation.

Now, the Times did not definitively say, as Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin did, for instance, that in fact Omar is guilty of immigration fraud and did truly marry her brother Ahmed Nur Said Elmi to help him get here. But the fact that the outlet is willing to do so much research into a corrupt Democrat representative is telling about how damning the case against her is.

Omar changed her real family name of Nur Said Elmi to Omar, which helped her deny his murderous father’s role in the Somaliland genocide. It also kept a thin veneer on the marriage to her brother with the last name Nur Said Elmi.

Don’t forget the Trump administration is investigating whether Omar’s father also lied about actually obtaining U.S. naturalization, which is important because she insisted she became a citizen through her father while she was still a minor. Then again, she also potentially altered her birth year to claim she was a minor when she wasn’t.

Here at PJ Media, I reported months ago on Omar’s fraud, using documentation from the Republic of Somaliland:


I also covered the Nur Said Elmis’ connection to Somali war criminals, which is resurfacing.


Omar might not even be a U.S. citizen, and she certainly has a Somalia-first agenda.

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It’s all the climate agenda. Lagarde has trashed Europe beyond repair from the ECB. Now she moves on. To the WEF?!

• European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde Announces Early Departure (CTH)

European Central Bank (ECB) President Christine Lagarde has announced her resignation from the ECB effective February 7, 2027. Her departure is nine months earlier than the natural conclusion of her term. Lagarde is a French national, and stated her decision was about leaving the ECB as President so that she could engage in political speech, which is an interesting justification considering the current state of Germany and France and the very consequential elections upcoming.


However, as a consequence of prior research, from my position I would note that she’s exiting the position of ECB President based on something else entirely. She intends to fail-up, very lucratively, and if our research is accurate, she will likely be the next Chair of the World Economic Forum.


As readers are well aware, Europe is on the cusp of an irreversible economic downward spiral. Low growth, high inflation, and the entire continent is crippled by short-sighted energy policy and subsequent deindustrialization that is creating significant debt burdens. In short, the EU is contracting.

The #1 issue that makes the downward spiral irreversible is their entrenched advocacy for the net zero ‘climate change’ agenda, which is now triggering carbon taxes and various carbon border adjustment mechanisms on trade. Their energy policy is killing their industrial capacity, and the overall European Union is in a self-fulfilling crisis. On top of the economic mess is the ever-worsening mass migration problem that will eventually topple several key European capitals.

Lagarde, looking every bit the part of a Bond villain, is bailing out of the central bank at the moment right before things begin escalating horribly. I am almost certain she will take up the position as Chair of the WEF in an effort to inoculate herself from the political chaos that is about to surface. The rise of the nationalists in the upcoming elections is a symptom of the problem Brussels has created.

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They seek to interfere in US elections.

“Promethean Action PAC’s Susan Kokinda gives her update and perspective on the Canada-U.K effort to interfere in the U.S. midterm election.”

• Canada-U.K Election Interference Activity (CTH)

Susan Kokinda opens with European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and Canada’s Prime Minister Mark Carney celebrating Brazil’s election, von der Leyen’s partnership “thriving” and Carney’s “flourishing”, set against Volkswagen’s plan to cut 100,000 jobs, Canada’s lost manufacturing jobs, and Audi’s first U.S. plant, announced with President Trump in Perry, Georgia, with Rep. Rich McCormick on what it means for Georgia and a look at GDP growth in the United States, the euro area and Canada.


The episode then turns to the U.S. Embassy in Canada’s October 21 fact sheet on Canadian activities in U.S. politics: Carney’s and Minister Mélanie Joly’s denials, Joly on meeting “so many governors and potential presidential candidates”, tariffs aimed at “political pressure”, and the anti-tariff billboards. It sets that beside Chatham House’s August 27 paper for Prime Minister Andy Burnham’s government, which urges London to court members of Congress, state legislatures, potential presidential candidates and industry leaders, and looks at the British pedigree of Canada’s trade team and Chatham House director Bronwen Maddox on the members of Congress who came through Chatham House.

It closes with the voters: the Parti Québécois win in Quebec and the Conservative majority in British Columbia that President Trump congratulated, the AfD’s wins in two German states, and the President’s “France: Now and Then”.

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Well, the Peltola Campaign did. And she knew. That is one dirty trick. Buit who do you punish?

“Alaskan Voters Need to Know”: Times Alleges Peltola Campaign Conspired to Confuse Alaskan Voters With Decoy “Dan Sullivans”

“.. the Times reports an extensive effort to coordinate and communicate with decoys..”

• NYT: Peltola Conspired to Confuse Alaskan Voters With “Dan Sullivans” (Turley)


Mary Peltola

The New York Times on Wednesday published a blockbuster story claiming that multiple former staffers on the campaign of Alaska Democratic Senatorial nominee Mary Peltola implicated her and others in the effort to confuse voters with decoy “Dan Sullivan” candidates.


Peltola has long denied knowledge or involvement, but the Times reported that she was allegedly aware of the effort that also involved campaign officials, its lawyers and the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee. Rounding out the array of “usual suspects” is the Marc Elias Group. Elias was involved in the Russian hoax and has been previously sanctioned in court. The Times reported that Peltola’s campaign manager told it that “Alaskan voters need to know.”

Democrats like Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) immediately ran out to do damage control and depict Rio as a “disgruntled former employee.” The problem is that it is not just Rio. The Times referenced multiple campaign workers and brought receipts.

The Times names Democratic operative Jerid Kurtz, who allegedly worked with and communicated with Rios and others on the campaign, including Anton McParland, who at the time was Ms. Peltola’s chief of staff. It also states that campaign lawyers were involved in this despicable dirty trick to get voters to cast mistaken ballots.

The Times reported that the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, chaired by Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY), was aware of and involved in the effort. The effort was allegedly called “a ballot composition” project and Kurtz was allegedly paid through a pro-Peltola fund.

The Times details the effort to conceal it. For example, the paper reports: “The Peltola aides worried at times that Mr. Kurtz’s efforts would be discovered, such as when he posted an image of the Anchorage airport on his Instagram account.” “I am hearing that our friend in the state is being noticed,” Mr. McParland wrote in a text message in January reviewed by The Times. Andrew Piatt, the D.S.C.C.’s director of campaigns, replied: “We will check in.”

Peltola refused to address specifics in response to the story. She attacked the liberal New York Times for just trying “to sell newspapers” and dismissed the story by saying that “Nobody’s waking up worried about ballot composition. Not even me. I’m worried about my bills. I’m worried about affordability in health care.”

Peltola is clearly hoping to ride this out for the last week. However, it could snowball legally. The staff was aware of past public denials and the likelihood of an investigation. Indeed, the Justice Department filed to try to address the confusion, but Peltola filed to block the effort and declared in court filings that the allegations were “baseless.”

There may be questions as to whether the lawyers and staff were forthcoming in such filings, It is not a crime to help engineer decoy candidates, even if it is viewed as the lowest form of dirty politics. Lying about your knowledge or involvement only magnifies the unethical conduct.

However, it is easy to trip a legal wire in such efforts. Campaign filings must be true and correct. Indeed, Elias and the Clinton campaign were later sanctioned for hiding the funding of the infamous Steele dossier as a legal expense. (The Clinton campaign denied such involvement until after the election). The Times refers to the Elias Group as opposed to Elias as an individual in the account of this effort to confuse voters.

There can be allegations of not only misrepresentations in filings but possible violations in the pressuring of potential witnesses, destruction of evidence, or false statements to federal investigators. The risk of such allegations should lead the Peltola lawyers to withdraw from further work, as they could become potential witnesses and targets in state or federal investigations. Reports indicate grand jury subpoenas are expected in the coming days.

There are also questions about the past interactions of the decoy Dan Sullivan, who insisted that the idea to run was his own idea and that he did not have communications with the Democrats on such an effort. He also has not responded to the story. Yet, the Times reports an extensive effort to coordinate and communicate with decoys:

The operation began in the summer of 2025 to lure potential spoiler candidates onto the state’s unusual four-person ballot, Ms. Rios said. …

Months later, in early 2026, Mr. Kurtz participated in a video call with members of the ballot composition team, Ms. Rios said. He told the group he had made contact with one of the Dan Sullivans. This Mr. Sullivan lived in the tiny village of Petersburg, and Mr. Kurtz described him as amenable to running if it would help Ms. Peltola, Ms. Rios said.

Mr. Kurtz “told us when he found him,” she said. He said Mr. Sullivan “said he hated Trump, and if it was going to help Mary, he liked Mary. He didn’t have any interest in being a politician, but if this could help.” Mr. Sullivan, who has maintained that he entered the race of his own volition, did not respond to repeated requests for comment over the past week.

With the reported investigations unfolding, this has the makings of a major scandal with possible criminal and civil elements. It would be wise for staffers to “lawyer up.” The likelihood of state and federal investigations is quite high and it is also likely that some of these same sources will cooperate with investigators. Lawyers tend to minimize the risk for their clients in such investigation. They do not want their client to be the target without a chair when the music stops.

In other words, this is likely to metastasize in the coming weeks. However, with the rapidly approaching election, the die is cast on the ballots. That may be good news for the Democrats for retaking power, but it may not be good news for the potential targets. It will only magnify the costs of this conspiracy if it moves from a political conspiracy to an actual criminal conspiracy.

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“Alaska governor orders ‘criminal’ probe ..”

• Peltola Campaign Behind Two Sullivan Candidates (John Solomon)

Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy has ordered an investigation into whether Senate Democratic nominee Mary Peltola’s campaign illegally tampered with the election by recruiting a candidate with the same name to draw votes from the state’s Republican incumbent. “Deliberately tricking voters into casting their ballots for someone else strikes at the integrity of our elections,” Dunleavy, a Republican, wrote on X late Wednesday. “Anyone or any organization found to have broken the law must be held accountable.”


The announcement came after The New York Times reported how the Peltola campaign helped recruit a retiree named Dan J. Sullivan to run against U.S. Sen. Dan S. Sullivan. Dunleavy cited the news article as a reason for launching the criminal probe.

“Today’s New York Times reporting reveals disturbing new evidence of an organized effort to manipulate Alaska’s elections by recruiting candidates—including one with the same name as an incumbent U.S. Senator—to deliberately confuse voters and misdirect their votes,” he wrote.

“The Alaska Division of Elections investigated these very concerns in June of this year. The new reporting substantially supports the Division’s findings,” he added. “I am therefore directing the Department of Public Safety to investigate whether this scheme violated Alaska’s laws and whether criminal charges or civil action are warranted.” Hours earlier, Trump called for Peltola to be removed from the ballot and prosecuted.

“It was just determined that the Dumocrats in Alaska, despite their sworn statements to the contrary, put a man named Dan Sullivan on the Ballot in order to confuse the Public with respect to Highly Esteemed Senator Dan Sullivan,” he wrote on Truth Social. “This is Voter Fraud at the Highest Level, and the Dumocrat Candidate, who was involved in the scheme, Mary Peltola, should be removed from the Ballot and prosecuted.”

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“Find as many people named Dan Sullivan in Alaska as you can.”

• NYT: Alaska Dems, Mary Peltola Organized Fraudulent Dan Sullivan (CTH)

The New York Times is reporting on a months-long investigation into the Alaska senate race. Stunningly, the NYT is providing direct evidence that Democrat Senate Candidate Mary Peltola, in coordination with the DSCC and Marc Elias law firm, constructed the fraudulent Dan Sullivan candidate specifically to create confusion and help install a democrat in office.


“Text messages viewed by The Times show officials with the D.S.C.C. and the Peltola campaign communicating for months about the project.” Obviously, the NYT no longer believes Peltola would win the race – and that’s the reason for their sunlight on the entire operation to manufacture the fraudulent candidate.

NEW YORK TIMES – In the summer of 2025, a staffer for Mary Peltola, the Alaska Democrat who was eyeing a run for Senate, received unusual instructions from top campaign aides: Find as many people named Dan Sullivan in Alaska as you can. The staffer complied, combing through voter records to produce a list of Dan Sullivans from across the state.

This was no random request. Dan S. Sullivan is the name of the state’s Republican senator. And if the Peltola campaign or its allies could track down and persuade another Dan Sullivan to run for Senate, the confusion could cost the senator crucial votes on the state’s unusual, four-person ballot. The plan worked. This spring, a retired teacher from a tiny fishing village along the Alaska Panhandle, reachable only by air and sea, announced his candidacy for Senate. His name was Dan J. Sullivan.

The Peltola campaign has repeatedly denied any involvement in his candidacy. But The Times has found, based on interviews and text messages, along with documents prepared for a potential lawsuit against the campaign, that not only did Ms. Peltola’s team work with people trying to recruit Mr. Sullivan to run for Senate, but the effort was much broader. The group worked to coax other would-be spoilers into the race, to dilute the incumbent’s support and help catapult the Democrat to victory.

The endeavor, which was internally called the ballot composition project, involved secret trips to far-flung Alaskan communities and the appearance of a mysterious Midwestern operative, who traversed the state using a fake name and made his pitch to would-be candidates over beers at brew pubs.

It also involved the Peltola campaign’s lawyers, as well as senior aides at the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, which directs the party’s campaign strategy in Senate races across the country. From Washington to Anchorage, those advisers participated in regular conversations about the effort and even considered forming a new political party to draw conservatives onto the ballot. (read more)

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“As Bolsonaro Deletes “True President-Elect” Claim..”

• Glenn Greenwald Unpacks Brazil’s Political Drama (ZH)

Brazilian Senator Flávio Bolsonaro briefly declared himself “the true president-elect of Brazil” on Wednesday before deleting the statement. President Trump said the same day that he would not endorse Bolsonaro’s claim, suggesting the Trump administration would limit its support for Bolsonaro’s election challenge.


Bolsonaro arrived in Miami on Wednesday after leaving Brazil earlier in the week, citing the “politicization of the justice system in Brazil” under left-wing President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. His abrupt departure followed a Supreme Court order requiring him to surrender his passport immediately after the runoff election.

Argentina’s migration department said Bolsonaro and his family entered Misiones province through a border crossing late Tuesday night using valid travel documents. They immediately boarded a private jet bound for Guayaquil, Ecuador, then flew directly to Miami.

Journalist Glenn Greenwald added more color to Bolsonaro’s now-deleted statement:


Greenwald posted a clip of Trump that makes it clear he does not intend to back Bolsonaro’s now-deleted claim.


Greenwald continued: “Brazil’s Federal Police issues a statement that Flavio Bolsonaro is not considered a “fugitive” from justice because he has not been charged with any crimes and there was no order issued for his arrest when he left Brazil for the US.

Part of the motive here is to explain away the embarrassment that Brazilian authorities had no idea what was going on in their country all day, but it is also true that — contrary to many prevailing media and political narratives in the US — Flavio has not been charged with (let alone convicted of) crimes and no arrest order had yet been issued when he left.


To sum up: Bolsonaro has reached Miami to circumnavigate Lula’s totalitarian crackdown, but his political endgame remains unclear.


His claim to the presidency quickly disappeared off the internet yesterday, and Trump declined to endorse it. Meanwhile, Brazil’s own Federal Police undercut the whole fugitive narrative. The battle over legitimacy, judicial power, and Brazil’s political future is far from over, as Lula’s socialist regime will face immense headwinds in a Senate that has shifted right.

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“.. forecasts see more growth to come..”

“The demographic crisis for native European populations will only get worse as Muslim migrants continue to have far higher birthrates and those of local ethnicities plummet.”

• Muslims In Europe Have More Than Doubled In The Last 25 Years (RMX)

Conservative voices have long raised concerns over the demographic shift arising from high sustained migration from the Middle East and Africa, and new data confirms these fears.


According to data published by La Razón, cited by La Gaceta, the number of Muslims in Europe has jumped from roughly 15 million around the year 2000 to approximately 32.5 million today (excluding Russia and Turkey).

Statistics from the Pew Research Center aligns with this upward trajectory, reporting that Europe’s broader Muslim population—including Russia—climbed to 46 million in 2020, a 16 percent increase from 2010.

Spain has experienced a pronounced increase in its Muslim demographic. Data from the CEU-CEFAS Demographic Observatory shows that Spain’s Muslim population reached between 2.4 and 2.5 million by early 2025, accounting for roughly 5 percent of the total population. Within this group, an estimated 1.79 million are first-generation immigrants, while 680,000 were born in Spain to at least one Muslim parent.

But Spain is not alone. Italy’s Muslim population has reached about 2.7 million. In Sweden, Muslim residents doubled from roughly 4 percent to 8 percent between 2010 and 2020, while Germany saw this demographic hit 7 percent of its overall population by 2020. In the U.K., census data for England and Wales saw the number of Muslims increased from 2.7 million in 2011 to 3.9 million in 2021.

Even without any further migration, Muslims are expected to increase their share of populations across Europe simply because they have higher birth rates than native ethnicities.

Poland has been grappling with its own demographic crisis, while France recorded a negative natural population balance in 2025 for the first time since the end of the Second World War. Already back in 2020, over 21 percent of newborns in France were given Arab-Muslim first names.

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I am a bit surprised there’s not even half a billion muslims in the world.

There are some 2.5 billion Christians.

• Is the Israeli-Trump War on Iran Producing Muslim Unity? (Paul Craig Roberts)

News reports are no longer reliable. This makes it difficult for those of us who attempt to provide accurate accounts of unfolding events.


A very important meeting was held Tuesday in Iran at the request of the Mecca Alliance (Turkey, Saudi Arabia, and Pakistan). Based on the information that I have, I think the meeting was a product of Saudi Arabia’s poor performance in its military conflict with Yemen. As is usual, Arabs waste their resources fighting one another instead of their enemies. Trump’s announcement that he is preparing a renewed attack on Iran after the US November 3 elections together with Iran’s statement that all countries involved in the attack will suffer substantially has the Saudis worried.

Turkey and Pakistan do not want to be drawn into the Israeli-American war against Iran as a consequence of their alliance with the Saudis. So they are trying to work something out with Iran. We do not know at this time the outcome of the meeting or what, if anything, was decided. There are no public statements or news reporting. It is as if there was no meeting.

I have it from an Iranian source that the four countries agreed that it was past time for the four countries to take charge of the problems introduced by Israel into the Muslim Middle East and to resolve them without any foreign interference, meaning Washington. There was, according to my source, discussion that instead of accepting more Israeli territorial expansion, Israel must be compelled to withdraw from Lebanon, Syria, Gaza, and the Palestinian West Bank.

Israeli-American domination of the Middle East has been achieved by Arab and Muslin disunity. The Arabs, Turks, Iranians, and Pakistanis have been too corrupt and stupid to comprehend the hegemonic threat that they face. Perhaps the silver lining in US President Trump’s subservience to Israel’s agenda of Greater Israel has brought realization of the threat home to Muslims.

If Tuesday’s meeting in Iran results in unity with, for example, Iran becoming a member of the Mecca Alliance, not only does Saudi Arabia’s war with Yemen halt, but also the four countries comprise a population of 477,000,000 million–essentially a half billion. There are only 7,000,000 Jews in Israel. Moreover the half billion peoples have Pakistan’s nuclear weapons, a standoff to Israel and Washington.

In other words, it would be the end of Washington’s bases in the Middle East and to the Zionist agenda of Greater Israel. A united Muslim world would be a power unto itself.

The information that my analysis is based on might be incorrect. If the meeting was unsuccessful in achieving unity, it would explain why there has been no announcement. Indeed, few people even know such an important meeting took place.

If unity was reached, it is a mistake to withhold the information. Such a unity would completely alter the correlation of forces in the Middle East. A resumption of the Israeli-American attack on Iran could result in the total eviction of all US presence in the Middle East and the complete destruction of Israel. Facing such consequences, not even crazy people like Netanyahu and Trump would renew the conflict.

Will Muslims again choose disunity, as they have done since the death of Mohammad in the 7th century and remain under the thumb of foreign powers? Or will they choose unity and partake of its rewards?

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And not just SpaceX! There’s also Cowboy Space.

• Another Day, Another World-Changing Milestone From SpaceX (Stephen Green)

Oops, they did it again.


So casually that even a launch industry nut like myself failed to notice until today, the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) revealed Monday the results of its point-to-point rocket cargo delivery test, courtesy of SpaceX’s experimental Starfall capsule.

Remember when Domino’s used to promise to get a pizza to your door in 30 minutes? Starfall promises to deliver over a ton of cargo anywhere on Earth in about 90 minutes or less — no runway or landing strip required.

PJ Media’s own Charlie Martin covered Starfall’s initial flight test in June, but last week’s AFRL flight was a test of the capsule’s ability to safely deliver “representative mission equipment” for the Pentagon, while studying “the effects of temperature, shock, and vibration of the cargo environments during launch and reentry.”

The AFRL showed off some survival gear packed for the mission — water bottles, what looks like a milspec cellphone, first aid, MREs, and the like — but I like to think the kit included a couple M4A1 rifles and a couple cans of ammo. While each Starfall is fairly small, a single Falcon 9 (or eventually Starship) rocket could carry multiple capsules.

The first thing my mind went to was resupplying troops in a Great Pacific War with China. Our Navy just doesn’t have enough ships, particularly the non-sexy types that actually deliver stuff to the men who need it.

Where it gets really interesting is that Starfall can loiter “indefinitely” in orbit. It might behoove the services to preposition supplies in orbit — for even faster delivery when needed, but also to have stuff ready to go in quantities that not even SpaceX could deliver in time. SpaceX, of course, has more in mind than high-speed Pentagon deliveries.

As Starship and even more emergent technologies like Starfall mature — plus the inevitable competitors — we must stop thinking of space as the most expensive and difficult place to do things or send things. Particularly in pharmaceuticals and advanced materials, the microgravity of Low Earth Orbit (LEO) is really the best place to do stuff.

Getting mass quantities of goods back to Earth quickly, safely, and cheaply, however, is a real problem. And it’s the problem Starfall is meant to solve. But before you think I’m doing the Elon Musk Fanboy thing again, SpaceX isn’t the only space company doing really cool stuff this week.

Cowboy Space (great name, eh?) this week unveiled its Big Iron rocket, the launch vehicle underpinning the company’s plans to put 20,000 AI data centers into LEO. Actually, Big Iron’s second stage is the data center. “It’s a fundamentally novel approach to rocketry in the modern era, in our opinion,” founder Baiju Bhatt said during Monday’s reveal. “The idea is that you have a two-stage rocket where the upper stage of the rocket itself transforms into the satellite.”

Bhatt is the billionaire cofounder of fintech firm Robinhood, and so now of course, he’s into rockets, too. He’s into really big rockets — Big Iron is 282 feet tall — that do a Transformer act into orbital data centers. He also claims that AI compute will be cheaper in LEO than on Earth by 2031, but I have to take issue with that. I think he’s a little pessimistic, and that the cost balance could shift as soon as 2030.

Cowboy Space (seriously, that name!) hopes to get Big Iron flying in 2028, and they’d better get 4K video of that transformer trick.

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