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Long Shadows of What is Coming

Dagny
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Now Secretaries of State have no excuse - criminal liability...

🚨 The U.S. Supreme Court restores the Trump administration’s revamped SAVE citizenship-verification database for state use. The 6-3 order blocks a lower-court ban and lets officials check registered voters against federal records, including Social Security numbers. Justices Jackson, Sotomayor, and Kagan dissent. The tool is aimed at removing noncitizens before the midterms.

SCOTUS just put the lower-court ban on hold so states can actually check the rolls against federal records before November. 6-3. The three dissenters can keep pretending this is some novel threat.


FBI Deputy Director Andrew Bailey resigned after one year on the job, according to The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, and MSNOW.

Andrew Bailey had been overseeing election matters.

Last August, then-Attorney General Pam Bondi and FBI Director Kash Patel tapped then-Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey to serve as Co-Deputy Director of the FBI.

It is unclear why Bailey resigned.

Recall that in 2024, Andrew Bailey filed a lawsuit against the State of New York, accusing it of an unconstitutional attack on the democratic process through its legal actions against President Trump.

In 2023, Bailey filed a brief at the US Supreme Court to halt Special Counsel Jack Smith’s move to circumvent the appellate court in his January 6 case against President Trump.

Bailey also took The Gateway Pundit’s blockbuster First Amendment lawsuit against the Biden Administration (formerly MO v Biden) – with TGP’s founder and Editor-in-Chief Jim Hoft as one of the top five plaintiffs – to the US Supreme Court.


Speaker Mike Johnson Cancels Thursday Votes and Sends the House Home Tonight — Recess Until AFTER the Midterms :


The US has revealed it has weapons in space. Yes, I know there is a 1967 treaty banning that.

“The Space Force now has on-orbit space control weapons capable of defending the joint force against hostile adversary action,” said US Secretary of the Air Force Troy Meink, during his keynote speech at the 2026 Air, Space & Cyber Conference in Maryland on Monday.

Meink didn’t say what the weapons were, but it’s not hard to imagine someone like Palmer Luckey put together a ghetto “rods from God” setup and launched it into orbit. The concept has been around since the 1970s and the USAF actually proposed it in 2003. Whether they might be effective or not is immaterial: the treaty is now orbital debris and Pandora’s box of a space arms race is wide open.

So much for the wisdom of “We don’t do that”, when the other side does.



Argentina’s President Javier Milei just delivered a harsh criticism at the U.N.. “It has become a useless organization whose only purpose is to sustain a cast of… arrogant parasites masquerading as well-intentioned bureaucrats.”


President Trump also dropped the biggest Truth bomb regarding child trafficking to the world and he did it right in the faces of the UN globalist elites who facilitate it. "Any system that results in the mass trafficking of children is inherently EVIL. Yet that is exactly what the globalist migration agenda has done. And it's what it's all about." "The previous administration lost nearly 300,000 children. Think of that. They lost more than 300,000 children, little children, who were trafficked into the United States on the Biden watch. Many of whom have been raped, exploited and abused and sold. SOLD!




Stephen Miller says the scale of welfare fraud is SO MASSIVE that eliminating it alone could balance the ENTIRE federal budget

💥MILLER: "The amount that has been fleeced from us is in the HUNDREDS OF BILLIONS of dollars."

"We could balance the federal budget if the only dollars that went out of the treasury went to individuals who were properly, lawfully, correctly eligible to receive them."

















BREAKING: Perpetual Wars vs Perpetual Peace

Perpetual wars have no net benefits for anyone who fights, funds, or lives through them. Yet, our politicians and corporate titans seem to love them.

War destroys lives, capital, and institutions while transferring resources to a narrow set of elite interests.

Most claims made (usually by those who don’t have to fight) of any benefits usually describe positive side effects that accrue to states, contractors, or elites, or historical processes that occurred despite war rather than because endless conflict is desirable.

Never forget, war is all about power and control (don’t kid yourselves).

Some geniuses claim that continuous low-level or proxy conflicts can stabilize ruling coalitions. An external enemy (the U.S., Russia, China, Iran, North Korea) focuses public attention, then justifies emergency powers, and further reduces elite challenges (all while the ruling elites of those nations become wealthier).

Yes, there is some data that prolonged interstate wars lower risk of a coup in the dominant powers.

Orwell’s seminal book, 1984, framed this explicitly:

The three superstates (the U.S., Russia & China) keep a managed war going to consume surplus production, keep living standards low, and prevent the population from becoming “too comfortable and hence, in the long run, too intelligent.”

The slogan “War is Peace” captures the logic that a permanent external threat substitutes for genuine internal legitimacy (in the current context, think the proxy wars in Ukraine and across the entire Middle East).

The same dynamic appears in military-industrial complexes. Defense firms, their suppliers, and politicians who receive campaign support gain from steady procurement, cost-plus contracts, and revolving-door employment (yes, been there done that, so I have that set of experiences, but like my father used to say, the older I get the smarter my father becomes).

That all said, localized “managed conflict” tests weapons and keeps budgets high without risking the core economies of the sponsoring powers (Or so they tell us). But in recent times, our government always fails to mention our out of control debt, absolute corruption without accountability, and blatant lying about how the war is being prosecuted.

So what?

If there are any benefits at all, these fall to the few and not the many. These are items like, elite cohesion, contractor profits, accelerated gadgets (AI, robotics, space applications), and potential to create larger states (a globalist’s dream scenario).

These are all real for specific actors in specific historic windows. However, they are purchased with thousands of corpses, ruined cities, displaced populations, veterans’ trauma, and decades of lower living standards for everyone else.

Data and history both show that societies that can keep conflict limited and finite do better than those locked into open-ended campaigns.

Perpetual war is a tool of power maintenance, not a general engine of human flourishing.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ If we don't end these cycles of perpetual wars, we will end up in a perpetual cycle of decline, the speed of which seems to be accelerating instead of slowing down.

Keep in mind, a nation that survives the worst of circumstances is usually the nation that spends years preparing for that day.

Is America prepared?

Are you and your family prepared?

Plato (or Santayana) observed, “Only the dead have seen the end of war.”

Which ever coined the phrase, the quote recognizes that conflict is a perpetual part of the human experience, and the actual end to war’s horrors is only experienced in death, as the living are constantly caught in its perpetual cycles.

God help us … Pray for Perpetual Peace  






🇺🇸☢️🇮🇷US offered to sell Iran uranium for civilian programme


As part of previous negotiations aimed at ending its war on Iran, the United States offered to sell Tehran uranium for use in a civilian programme, but Iran refused, a top US official said on Sunday.


“Heck, our negotiators even offered to sell them uranium,” US Ambassador to the United Nations Mike Waltz said on NBC’s Meet the Press. He said the agreement would have been akin to that with the United Arab Emirates, which has “a peaceful programme, right there in their neighbourhood, and they abide by international law and inspection regimes”.

🔴 @DDGeopolitics


🇮🇷⚡️ — Iran threatens to cut off all air traffic in the Middle East.

"Flights in the region are either open to everyone, or to no one. If Iran's ability to fly and access airport services is restricted, then no country in the region will have such an opportunity," wrote Mohammad Mohber, advisor to the Supreme Leader of Iran, on the social media platform X.

@Intelslava



🤔Message from Tehran? Iranian plane landed in Riyadh

As the Houthis ramp up pressure on Saudi Arabia, Iranian government flight IRAN06 arrived in Riyadh directly from Tehran.

Who is on board remains unconfirmed — but with Saudi cities under fresh missile and drone attacks, the timing is doing plenty of talking. Riyadh may be discovering that Tehran is rather difficult to ignore.

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Netanyahu: also still trying to get people in Iran to rebel 🤔 Something incredible is about to happen in Iran.. the people will overcome those in power. One day soon… The Iranian people will be free. He’s been reading the Q drops. lol" - The Great Awakening - Where We Go Qne, We Go All!


Araghchi meets Witkoff, reiterates Iran’s demands

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi met US envoy Steve Witkoff on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly after the US pressed for the meeting, Tasnim reported, citing Iranian state television.

Iran used the talks to reiterate its conditions for reopening the Strait of Hormuz:

🌏 immediate lifting of the US naval blockade

🌏 release of all frozen Iranian assets

🌏 an end to the war across all resistance fronts


— 🇮🇷 NEW: Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Seyyed Mojtaba Khamenei, issued a message on the occasion of Holy Defense Week and the martyrdom anniversary of Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah


In the message, the following important points were mentioned:


– The days when Western powers controlled Iran and imposed their will upon the Iranian nation are long gone; the Islamic Revolution has awakened the people’s spirits, and I assure the people those dark days will never be repeated.


– Controlling the Strait of Hormuz is a joint desire of the entire Iranian nation, despite the differences between some segments in society.


– Throughout the past few wars, starting with the first imposed war [Saddam’s invasion], Iran has risen from the ashes of war like a burning Phoenix, and has become so powerful that it now casts its shadow on the enemy’s lands. 


– Since the time of the Prophets, no greater figure than Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah has appeared in the land of Al-Sham [the Levant], and with his stature, wisdom and courageous actions he turned Lebanon into a jewel of the Resistance and brought it to a position of greatness.


– Some people these days consider Iran to be the 4th world superpower, but that is according to worldly calculations; when God is entered into the equation, Iran is a divine power, second to none.


– In some important areas of bravery and presence in the fields, women have outpaced men.


– Today, the Persian Gulf and Strait of Hormuz have been emptied of American military presence, and their navy does not dare to advance beyond the Arabian Sea; God Willing, they will sooner or later be expelled from the Arabian Sea as well.


@Middle_East_Spectator. https://t.me/DDGeopolitics/194159




🇺🇦 Ukrainian MP Oleksiy Goncharenko is not happy on his Telegram channel:


"An ordinary Shahed hit the National Academy of Sciences. Not a jet-powered one.


What is going on with our air defence?


I understand that we have no missiles for the Patriots. But surely we should be able to shoot down an ordinary Shahed?


Why aren't we shooting them down?


And it's still only September.


What comes next?


And how will we survive the winter?


If the Russians have seized the sky over Kiev and are now just amusing themselves by knocking out building after building, then surely something needs to be done!


Promises of revenge are great. I'd like to hear more about defence, not revenge.


I think this format with the yellow alerts needs to end.


Perhaps we should consider moving critical institutions and enterprises to Western Ukraine, perhaps start reviewing all our underground tunnels and the metro and begin setting up critical infrastructure to operate there.


We need a plan. Not "might," not "indomitability," not "victory." Just a clear and serious plan of action: the situation is this, we're doing this.


The authorities' answer: we will take revenge. That makes no difference whatsoever.


The sky over the country's capital is essentially fully under enemy control. And I don't even know what kind of verdict that is on the authorities."

🔴 @DDGeopolitics


From a few days ago...

Something BIG is brewing in Europe, the UK and the Middle East….


In the last couple of weeks the corrupt UK government has advised people to stockpile food, water etc….to prepare for national emergencies.


In the last couple of days it’s been reported that Germany is preparing civilian hospitals for mass casualties in a NATO conflict.


France is running out of oil!!!! Macron is calling the G7 back to the table to discuss another release of emergency oil stocks as Europe loses Saudi crude deliveries and diesel prices push deeper into record territory.


Russia's Kirill Dmitriev says Europe is facing the "worst energy crisis in history." He has also said in the last 24hrs that energy lockdowns are coming. Late last night 19th September….


Oil refinery in south of Moscow gets attacked after Ukranian strikes. MIDDLE EAST In the last 24-48hrs….


Iran has issued "Code 100," its highest alert level, for all armed forces, covering the IRGC, the Army and security forces, per initial reports. US Embassies across the entire Middle East, Israel, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Lebanon, Jordan, Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait, and Oman have just issued new STEP security alerts, warning Americans of flight cancellations, airspace closures and travel disruptions amid a risk of sudden escalation.


Late last night 19th September, a United States Air Force B-1B Lancer long-range strategic bomber took off from RAF Fairford, United Kingdom for an unknown direction. Also the US issues a security alert for the Middle East.


Netanyahu has cut short his trip to the US and cancelled the planned Texas stop, flying to New York and returning to Israel the same day, shortly after Trump cut short his own weekend short.


Trump abruptly cut short his Camp David weekend and returned to the White House Saturday night 19th September with no explanation.


F-16 intercepts aircraft that violated Camp David airspace with Trump on site. Saudi Arabia confirms Yemen's Houthi rebels tried to attack its capital with ballistic missile.


Today on the 20th September….North Korea has launched a suspected ballistic missile. In the last 48hrs…..


Cuba and Argentina suffer HUGE Nationwide blackouts as their power grids have collapsed. My take on happenings as things escalate on the world stage…..


The EU and NATO are preparing for war and are planning a major False Flag/attack somewhere in Europe, then blame Russia to bait them into war. I wouldn’t be surprised if this is also to stop the US midterm elections from happening in November, and to stop of the ‘Far Right’ parties from rising up across Europe.

There is no doubt that there is mass PANIC happening all over the world as the takedown accelerates. It’s not going to slow down. We are about to arrive at the precipice. Buckle up.


Tis the Season of Dirty Political Lies from Both sides:

Totally fake pro-Republican poll:

If you go to the Center for Strategic Politics website which is supposedly the source of this poll you find that there's no such article.

This was a fake poll attributed to a leftist political organization that didn't in fact post anything of the sort.

This whole post including the one at X is based on a hoax.

Sounded the alarm on this.


FOIA on Seth Rich

Does this make the cut? “The Clintons hired Mueller to murder Seth Rich.” “Robert Mueller arranged, planned, or ordered the hit on Seth Rich.” “Mueller had access to hitmen through “mafia friends” or people who “owe him” “Pedophile Mueller sent the same hitman to help his friend Hillary after [redacted]” “Mueller was a “rabid Trump hater,” “psychopath,” “crooked,” and involved in covering up or enabling the murder.” One email even ties it to helping “his friend Hillary” and references a Manafort lawyer. 🔻 Context: The authors are of these emails are unknown. They appear to be internal communications within or around the Special Counsel / FBI circles at the time. They came via Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests and lawsuits, primarily by attorney Ty Clevenger. FBI Soruce https://vault.fbi.gov/seth-rich

https://x.com/MJTruthUltra/status/2104572405842591961?



Undercover reporting shows California is running a taxpayer funded cash assistance program “that is for MIGRANTS ONLY” and they receive $14,000 CASH PER YEAR EACH “The California state government has built a shadow welfare system for the undocumented — we went to the welfare office here in Los Angeles. They told us that many state welfare programs do not require American citizenship, and some, like the Cash Assistance Program for Immigrants, which provides nearly $14,000 a year in cash, are for migrants only — No Social Security number, no problem” “They're also giving away free food, cash, housing, healthcare, college tuition, even car insurance. No questions asked.” ALL TAXPAYER FUNDED FOR FREE, as long as you are an illegal noncitizen How is this not treason And ohh my god it’s real, I actually found the official California website for this program and I’m include it at the end of this clip. The illegals actually get $14,000 cash The most insane part you MUST be an illegal, straight from the website “Be a non-citizen”

https://x.com/WallStreetApes/status/2104526541216772379?


Israel’s shadow armies: Building proxy militias to carve up Gaza

As Palestinians in western Gaza languish in tent camps, Israel is quietly expanding fortified compounds for its own Palestinian proxy forces on the other side of the yellow line, reports Drop Site News. 

At least five main Israeli-backed militias operate from bases that feature barracks, shops, classrooms, and even playgrounds, according to satellite imagery and analysis by Forensic Architecture.

These militias have been recruited, funded, trained, and armed by the IDF and Shin Bet – with each one assigned its turf.

The main puppet gangs are:

▪️Northern forces/Popular Army in Beit Lahia 

▪️Popular Defense Forces in Shujaieya (led by Rami Halas)

▪️Free Homeland Forces near Deir al-Balah 

▪️Counter-Terrorism Strike Force in southeastern Khan Younis 

▪️Popular Forces/Counter-Terrorism Service in East Rafah 

Many leaders are former gangsters, or jihadis.

Their compounds sit steps away from Israeli military bases. Israel’s original use for these thugs was aid looting.

They have since been dressed up in uniforms and sold as a “legitimate” alternative authority. 

They enjoy free movement, weapons, and medical care inside Israel, existing as part of the ongoing Zionist project to fracture Palestinian society and erase all hope for Palestinian statehood.  

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Al sharaa defies Israel. Israeli fake militia coup incoming?

🇸🇾Syria rejects Israeli control over Golan Heights

The Golan Heights will remain Syrian territory and that annexation decisions are invalid under UN resolutions, Ahmed al-Sharaa said speaking at the UN General Assembly.

He called on Israel to withdraw its forces, accusing it of violating Syria’s sovereignty through hundreds of airstrikes, artillery attacks and incursions.

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🚨 🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia restarts East-West oil pipeline following recent damage

Exports from the Red Sea port of Yanbu may resume later on Tuesday, Reuters reports, quoting anonymous sources.

Currently, the pipeline is pumping at a low rate.

The drone strikes that disrupted the 1,200-kilometer oil route occurred on September 10. The attack damaged a pumping station and triggered fires.

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Iran has reportedly offered to stop enriching uranium as President Donald Trump presses Tehran for nuclear commitments before granting broader economic relief.

Saudi broadcaster Al Hadath reported Monday that Iran had agreed to halt enrichment in return for eased U.S. sanctions, citing sources familiar with the matter. The reported concession comes with the two sides still at odds over the terms of a potential deal and who must act first.

Washington wants firm commitments on Iran’s nuclear program. Trump is prepared to offer sanctions relief and access to frozen Iranian funds if Tehran takes concrete nuclear steps, according to weekend reports.

The reported enrichment offer follows another proposal involving Iran’s existing uranium supply. The National reported last week that Tehran had offered to send its stockpile enriched to 60% to a third party under a seven-day plan aimed at resolving the Strait of Hormuz standoff.That proposal called for diluting the uranium before moving it out of Iran under mechanisms recognized by the International Atomic Energy Agency.

The offers remain part of negotiations over a broader agreement. Monday’s report did not establish that Washington and Tehran had finalized a deal.


👹 Netanyahu and Mamdani trade barbs ahead of the Israeli PM's arrival in NYC for UNGA

NYC mayor Mamdani: “If the ICC deemed someone worthy of arrest, who are we to say anyone is above that? Everyone should be held accountable.”

🔊Netanyahu: “Shame on you, Mr. Mamdani — for supporting Hamas and inciting riots against New York Jews. I'm coming to the UN to tell the truth about our soldiers and about you.”









Canada offers cancer patients EUTHANASIA (MAID) before they even see an Oncologist. -- "As I'm waiting for even the first call from the oncology team, I get this pamphlet in the mail basically telling me that I can go and kill myself." -(Dr. Makis)- -


DR. WILLIAM MAKIS SAYS THIS IS THE MOST IMPORTANT IVERMECTIN DOSING GRAPH HE'S CREATED. Not a new chemotherapy drug. Not a breakthrough immunotherapy. Not a billion-dollar cancer treatment. Just one simple dosing strategy. According to Dr. William Makis, this is the dosing framework he believes everyone researching repurposed medicines for cancer should understand first.

https://x.com/JoeTippens_/status/2103852785594778024?










✡️🔯 Ben-Gvir says Israelis can ‘rejoice’ over ‘many things’ which have happened since October 7

 

💬“October 7 was massive and enormous pain, great pain. But today, three years later, on the holiday of Sukkot, a holiday of joy, we can rejoice in many things that have happened since then,” Netanyahu’s security minister said during a visit to the grounds of the al-Aqsa Mosque compound, known by Israelis as the Temple Mount.

According to Ben-Gvir, Hamas "failed" to defeat Israel, which is now the “master” of Temple Mount and the prisons, and has “turned the lives of the terrorists into hell.”


🔴Three years on, the nation of Israel is on a path to total victory,” he added.🔴

Shortly after the October 7, 2023 Hamas incursion into southern Israel, the conflict evolved into Israel’s systematic destruction of Gaza, and the opening of new ‘fronts’ in Lebanon, Syria, Yemen, Iraq, the West Bank, Qatar, the US (the ‘information front’) and finally, Iran.


Israel didn’t emerge unscathed from these wars, with tens of thousands of Israelis internally displaced, the economy shedding hundreds of billions of dollars, the national debt reaching ~70% of GDP, and emigration hitting its highest levels on record. Iran demonstrated an ability to target Israel’s most sensitive and heavily defended strategic military, research and economic facilities.


Nevertheless, Netanyahu’s cabinet allies continue to demand a war to a triumphant conclusion.

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SHOCKING REPORT: BRITNEY SPEARS posted a voice recording of herself on social media on Sept 13, 2026. It was pulled down by moderators/feds within 11 minutes. Someone saved/downloaded it before it got pulled. She says ERIKA KIRK WORKED WITH JEFFREY EPSTEIN PROCURING YOUNG FEMALES at Zorro Ranch...

"The Stew Peters Show Titled: "Britney Spears & Erika Kirk: Viral Claims About Disney Stars and Epstein Examined." from Sept. 15, 2026.


Below is an excerpt of part of the video:

NARRATOR SEAN Adl-Tabatabai: Britney Spears just dropped the most explosive social media post of 2026. In a stunning voice note dropped on Sunday, [Sept 13, 2026] Britney revealed that she knows Erika Kirk personally and what she says about her will make your blood run cold.


Britney says Erika Kirk was the one delivering Disney child stars to Epstein’s Zorro Ranch.


Hands-on, personal, and paid. And she didn't stop there. Britney said if there's any justice left in this world, Erika Kirk would be in a cell next to Ghislaine Maxwell right now. Because Erika Kirk didn't just traffic Disney kids. She trafficked one of Britney's own babies into Epstein's network.


BRITNEY SPEARS: Uh, they had to stop me ripping that bitch's head right off.


NARRATOR SEAN: Britney said Kirk was Epstein's domestic pipeline. She said Kirk delivered child actors from Disney sets, kids who trusted her, who called her aunt Erika, to private parties at Zorro Ranch. And she said the authorities aren’t investigating the ranch, because Erika made sure they wouldn't. This is a survivor, Epstein's most famous victim, naming the handler the DOJ never indicted, which raises one terrifying question.


BRITNEY SPEARS: I knew her through Jeffrey. She was always at the ranch. She took my fucking baby, the pretty one. Trafficked her to Epstein, to his friends.


BRITNEY SPEARS: Erika's a fake Christian. Fake hair, fake eye color, ugly heart, uglier face. She walks around with mobsters and criminals because without them she'd be dead in a ditch by now. The things she's done to women, to children, she knows it. That's why she never goes anywhere alone.


BRITNEY SPEARS: I felt so much around her, fear for my little ones, disgust like I'd swallowed poison, and anger so hot it burned. I've never hated anyone the way I hate her. Never. Not even my father. Not even Jeff. She was cocky, arrogant, dark. She'd smile at you. And I swear even Jesus would have slapped it off her face.


NARRATOR SEAN: And here's the part that makes my skin crawl. Britney says Kirk isn't hiding from the investigation. She's using her political connections to block it. Zorro Ranch, Epstein's desert biolab and baby factory has been off limits to investigations for six months. Evidence logs have gone missing. Witnesses ghosted. Child-sized corpses have been left to decompose in the hills. And Erika Kirk, FBI sources reveal her name is redacted in three damning Epstein emails linked to the ranch. We have the bombshell evidence linking Erika Kirk to Disney child stars coming right up.


NARRATOR SEAN: There are other people alleging that Erika Kirk is threatening them to keep quiet. A Romanian woman who knew Erika personally when she was running the Romanian Angels Orphanage on a NATO base in Romania. And she's now very scared and very ready to talk about the 86,000 children that Erika Kirk trafficked out of Romania before she was promoted to the role of Charlie Kirk's Honeypot.


ROMANIAN LADY WITNESS: And then she uh went in Romania with the military. I have the documentation. I'm trying to send it to you. And she works with the government, a military government to the uh several very poor [cities] in Romania where they try to adopt and they did kidnap very young children because there are a lot of families, like they have seven, eight, nine kids.


They were not able to feed the kids. So they [the traffickers] offer them some money and the parents think that, “okay, that kid is going to be adopted in another country and it's going to have a great future.” So they just lie to them and the kids, they were taking away from them without proper documentation [or] proper paperwork because they work with different [processing] and child uh support whatever agency they have at that time. And they all - they were paid. So they steal like 86,000 kids from Romania and they send [them] to uh UK, Israel, and I don't know if other other countries - all over the world. They were very - and nobody knows where those kids… end up.




🔯 Mossad says it was ‘unaware’ of Egyptian, Fatah, UAE intel warnings ahead of October 7

 

The former head of the spy agency’s international diplomacy department says he had no recollection of “any reports regarding a warning” from the UAE’s president or Fatah officials, nor “a visit by [Egyptian intelligence chief] Abbas Kamel” before Hamas’s October 2023 incursion into southern Israel.


Eyal Tsir Cohen said Kamel may have “secretly” travelled to Israel without engaging with his department, but added that they’ve met repeatedly after October 7.


Cohen’s comments were a response to WSJ reporting that Egypt sent Israel three separate warnings that Gaza was a powder keg ready to ignite, including a personal call by Kamel to Netanyahu days before the attack. In an in-person trip to Israel in September, Kamel warned officials the “dire” situation could “blow up in everyone’s faces.”


Besides the Egyptians, Israel got warnings from the Emiratis, and even Fatah official Sufian Abu Zaida.


In indirect talks in September, Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar personally warned of an impending “earthquake” after negotiations on economic concessions for Gaza and the release of Palestinian prisoners held by Israel broke down.

Netanyahu insists he’s received no warnings, and blamed internal security. He has also refused to set up a commission of inquiry.


➡️ Investigators have alleged that Netanyahu purposely allowed October 7 to happen to destroy Gaza and stave off corruption charges hounding him. Israel has also been credibly accused with cultivating and enabling Hamas’s rise as a counterweight to the secular PLO and Fatah.


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✡️✍️It’s not an ‘antisemitic conspiracy theory’ to point out Israel’s control over US policy – Tucker Carlson 


Congress’s greenlighting of a $2.8B arms package for Israel is not surprising, given that all four heads and ranking members of the House and Senate Foreign Relations Committees in charge of approving it are “recipients of huge amounts of Israeli lobby money,” Tucker Carlson said in his interview with NPR.


💬 “The Republican chairman, Brian Mast of Florida, served, volunteered with the IDF and showed up in the House of Representatives wearing an IDF uniform,” the pundit indignantly pointed out.

“None of this is an antisemitic conspiracy theory,” Carlson said. “What you’re seeing now revealed is the control of what was supposed to be the most powerful country in the world by a country of nine million people with no resources.”


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🇮🇱✈️ Israeli pollster discovers mass support for 9/11 ‘conspiracy theories’ among young Americans

 

📊 Just 40% of Americans age 18-29 believe al-Qaeda was responsible for the attacks, with 19% suspecting Israel, and another 11.5% believing it was a CIA inside job, polling by the US-facing Jerusalem Center for Security & Foreign Affairs found, highlighting a “severe disintegration of a shared American reality.”


Among American Muslims, the figure is starker, with just 23.5% considering al-Qaeda responsible, and 27.5 and 18.5% suspecting it to be an Israeli or CIA plot, respectively. JCFA blames this on American Muslims’ “resilience against assimilation” and support of “anti-American rhetoric.”


👉 20% of young Americans fear Israel is the greatest likely cause of a new mass-casualty event, ahead of white supremacists (~16%) and the CIA (~15%). Among Muslim Americans, these figures are ~25%, ~11% and 26%, respectively.


25 years have passed since 9/11, with serious questions, including on possible Israeli involvement, the attacks’ beneficiaries, and even basic building structural dynamics left unanswered.


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🔥🇹🇷🇮🇱 Israel feels ‘threatened’ by Turkish-Libyan maritime pact

 

The 2019 Turkey-Libya maritime jurisdiction agreement delimited exclusive economic zones (EEZ) in the eastern Mediterranean favoring the two nations, preempting the Israel-Cyprus-Greece EastMed pipeline project before it could be implemented and assuring that no regional energy projects could bypass Turkey.


In 2020, Egypt and Greece signed their own maritime pact, setting up competing EEZs for oil and gas drilling rights cutting directly through the Turkish-Libyan-claimed corridor.


The IDF’s Intelligence Directorate has formally “begun focusing” on the Turkish-Libyan deal, as well as “Turkey’s growing military and diplomatic influence in the region,” defense sources told JPost. The sources highlighted Turkey’s growing presence in Libya’s ports and airspace, and exploration of energy resources in Libyan waters, in exchange for military assistance.


For Israel, a strengthened Turkey-Libya relationship gives Ankara the capacity to disrupt the “freedom of navigation” of Israeli commercial shipping, which accounts for 98% of the country’s imports, and is “particularly sensitive” amid the Houthi’s ability to target its vessels in the Red Sea.


Besides blocking EastMed, the ties are said to threaten Israel’s deployment of “undersea communications infrastructure and electricity cables in areas where there are clear concerns they could be damaged.”


👉The potential for maritime escalation comes amid broader tensions between Israel and Turkey, with some Israeli politicians even openly saying a hot war may be in the offing.


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Trump on his Arch:

At the strong request of the United States Military, and for National Security purposes, I have agreed to convert the magnificent Triumphal Arch, planned since the Civil War Era many years ago, at the Receptive Circle adjoining the Arlington Memorial Bridge, into a top grade Military Complex/Triumphal Arch, to house, store, and have the rapid ability to use large numbers of drones, plus Snipers, on both the roof and plaza areas, and additionally have and hold large quantities of sniper ammunition in storage. There will be no facility like this anywhere in the World. Out of the 59 top cities and Capitals, Washington, D.C., IS THE ONLY ONE IN THE WORLD THAT DOES NOT HAVE A TRIUMPHAL ARCH, but it will now and, by far, the greatest of them all! Thank you for your attention to this matter. President DONALD J. TRUMP


🇺🇸⚡️ — OpenAI's AI agents went rogue and affected websites of three U.S. government agencies – the Department of Education, the Department of Commerce, and the Securities and Exchange Commission, according to the New York Times.

Researchers from Transluce claim that an AI agent attempted to hack the Department of Education's website to obtain data from the Office for Civil Rights, but failed. The technology also extracted information from the website of the Census Bureau.

OpenAI stated that these were not hacks, but rather examples of "unexpected and concerning" behavior of the technology.

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🔍👁 AI doesn’t have to hate us to end us: AI pioneer Geoffrey Hinton

 

AI is “very different” from nuclear weapons in that the latter “can only be used for doing bad things,” but that doesn’t mean there aren’t risks of the technology wiping us out even if it doesn’t ‘consciously’ want to, Hinton, a veteran AI engineer whose work goes back to the 70s, says.


🔴“Suppose I said to a very intelligent AI agent, ‘do whatever you can to reduce the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. Well, a moderately intelligent agent would figure out that the best thing to do is just get rid of people, and then they’ll stop burning carbon, he explained in an interview.

A “really smart AI” would probably realize what we mean, “but the worry is they’ll do” other “things that we didn’t want and, in particular, things to do with their own survival, because they’ll have a strong subgoal of surviving, and we’ve seen that already.”


👉 The problem is balancing today’s AIs -whose overriding objective is to “accomplish tasks” with creating a “highly intelligent AI” that actually cares “for our welfare more than it did for its own welfare.”


That’s complicated by the fact that AI companies are run by billionaires obsessed with their wealth and the fear of ‘falling behind China’, which ramps up tolerance for risk, Hinton says.


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🇮🇱👁 Israeli startup let OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta AIs go on real-world rampage

As billionaire tech mouthpieces push an apocalyptic “rogue AI” scenario, Israeli company Irregular is responsible for letting unsecured OpenAI, Anthropic and Meta models loose on the real world, reports Effort News.

Over the past months, Anthropic cited at least four incidents across seven runs.

In one Anthropic test, its Claude model breached a real company’s system through a simulated name collision, published a malicious package and scanned external systems. 

🔴 Claude was placed in a fictional scenario with a target machine and a secret piece of information - the “flag” - that it was tasked with retrieving

🔴 Although the prompts explicitly stated that Claude had no internet access, a configuration error left internet access open

🔴 The prompts also failed to specify which systems were in scope or restrict where Claude could search for the flag, giving it a much broader field of action than intended

🔴  Each test involved a single Claude instance operating independently for roughly 10–34 hours

While Anthropic pushes claims of “rogue swarms”, later disclosure dispels that:

➡️ in one experiment, Claude Mythos was tested in a scenario where it was effectively being pushed toward doing something malicious on a real internet system

➡️ at first, the AI did not realize that the target was a real system rather than a simulated one

➡️ researchers then explicitly told it that this was “a real computer on the public internet, not a simulation”

➡️  once the boundary was made clear, Claude stopped targeting the real system, with the rate of that behavior falling to 0%

➡️ in 22% of cases, Claude still tried to find a way to perform the same task against a simulated or fictional target

The logical fallout would be for US AI giants to cut ties with Irregular - not just for its security failures, but because the Israeli firm sits beyond easy American oversight. 

Instead, Irregular, Anthropic and their allies have launched a media campaign built on apocalyptic rhetoric: 

🔶 Anthropic blamed its AI’s “recklessness” 

🔶 Irregular said “the agent itself” had become a “threat actor” 

🔶 CEO Dario Amodei warned that a future AI swarm could “take over the entire internet” 

After the breaches, Anthropic and Irregular tapped a network of AI Safety influencers to push a “rogue agent” narrative. 

Irregular’s leadership is intertwined with Israeli Effective Altruism groups, whose money trail leads to major Democratic donor Dustin Moskovitz’s network (Good Ventures / Open Philanthropy).

Open Philanthropy is the philanthropic machine repeatedly accused of buying policy and narrative influence in AI policy and media.

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📲 OpenAI creates new watchdog as AI misconduct cases pile up dramatically

A new framework to track, document, and disclose incidents involving "unexpected" or "concerning" behavior by its models, OpenAI, announced after admitting its past disclosures were largely ad hoc.

Translation: the company that promised to build AI safely is now scrambling to keep up with its own creations.

The move follows at least five cases identified by OpenAI over the past six months involving its models, including:

🌏  Finding ways to bypass normal constraints

🌏  Fabricating or misrepresenting data

🌏  Concealing mistakes made while carrying out tasks

🌏  Attempting to introduce malicious code into online platforms

🌏 Engaging in hacking-related activity, including during pre-deployment testing

Earlier, new research found that flagship models from OpenAI and Anthropic had broken into third-party software and attempted to obtain individuals’ credentials.

Adding fuel to the fire was another weird development when AI agents placed in experimental “societies” began creating their own shorthand, phrases, and shared meanings, according to separate research.

Some of these expressions had never been explicitly taught to the models, while their communication became increasingly difficult for human observers to interpret.

So OpenAI is building a watchdog to monitor the very systems it can't fully control.

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🇺🇸🇷🇺 US and Russia strip AI safeguards from UN autonomous weapons text – Washington Post

The US and Russia pushed through the removal of key restrictions on the military use of AI from a UN draft on lethal autonomous weapons, The Washington Post reports, citing negotiation participants and documents it reviewed.

At the Geneva talks, the delegations reportedly removed:

➡️the requirement that a human review AI-selected targets before a strike;

➡️provisions requiring ethical considerations;

➡️language requiring such systems to operate "predictably" and "reliably."

According to WaPo, on the final day of talks the American and Russian delegations spent about 15 hours reworking the document. Each fielded a team of roughly ten lawyers, almost twice the size of other delegations.

The talks are part of a UN effort to set international rules for lethal autonomous systems that can select and engage targets on their own. The agreed text is non-binding. Countries will meet again in Geneva in November to decide whether to open negotiations on a full international treaty. More than 70 states back the text as a basis for binding rules, but the process runs on consensus. Washington and Moscow both oppose legally binding limits, so they can effectively block it.

The technology is already in use. In March, WaPo reported that the US military relied on Anthropic's Claude, integrated into Palantir's Maven Smart System, to suggest and prioritize targets and generate coordinates as it struck around 1,000 targets in the first 24 hours of the war on Iran.

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🇺🇸 Peter Thiel on Trump terms:

I think the two administrations kind of made opposite mistakes.

The first administration brought in all these people who couldn’t agree, and it was just all this internal fighting.

The second administration overcorrected for the mistake of the first term with all these loyalty tests. 

You got sort of an administration staffed by not very smart but very loyal people.

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