Increasingly Unsettled,
Moon of Alabama comments on a Politico article (shrinking beats collapsing): When The Pentagon Shifts Its Priorities Will U.S. Strategy Follow?
Is this a sign of a shift in the global U.S. strategy? Pentagon officials are proposing the department prioritize protecting the homeland and Western Hemisphere, a striking reversal from the military’s yearslong mandate to focus on the threat from China.
A draft of the newest National Defense Strategy, which landed on Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s desk last week, places domestic and regional missions above countering adversaries such as Beijing and Moscow, according to three people briefed on early versions of the report.
The move would mark a major shift from recent Democrat and Republican administrations, including President Donald Trump’s first term in office, when he referred to Beijing as America’s greatest rival. And it would likely inflame China hawks in both parties who view the country’s leadership as a danger to U.S. security.
“This is going to be a major shift for the U.S. and its allies on multiple continents,” said one of the people briefed on the draft document. “The old, trusted U.S. promises are being questioned.”
The National Defense Strategy (NDS) is written by the office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy which currently is held by arch-Realist Elbridge Colby.
The draft of the new NDS seems to be a contradiction of his previous beliefs:
Identifying as a realist, Colby believes China is the principal threat faced by the United States. He believes the US should shift its military resources to Asia to prevent a Chinese takeover of Taiwan. Colby supports reducing military aid to Ukraine. During the AUKUS review in 2025, Elbridge pressured Australia to confirm what role it would play in a war with China over Taiwan.
Colby wants to change U.S. defense policy from concentrating on China, as he had previously argued, to the Western Hemisphere. He may have seen new facts that have moved his opinion.
The failed attempt by the U.S. Navy to secure shipping through the Red Sea against attacks by Houthi in Yemen may have caused such rethink. As may have the loss of the US/NATO's proxy war against Russia in Ukraine.A draft of the newest National Defense Strategy, which landed on Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s desk last week, places domestic and regional missions above countering adversaries such as Beijing and Moscow, according to three people briefed on early versions of the report.
The move would mark a major shift from recent Democrat and Republican administrations, including President Donald Trump’s first term in office, when he referred to Beijing as America’s greatest rival. And it would likely inflame China hawks in both parties who view the country’s leadership as a danger to U.S. security.
“This is going to be a major shift for the U.S. and its allies on multiple continents,” said one of the people briefed on the draft document. “The old, trusted U.S. promises are being questioned.”
The National Defense Strategy (NDS) is written by the office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy which currently is held by arch-Realist Elbridge Colby.
The draft of the new NDS seems to be a contradiction of his previous beliefs:
Identifying as a realist, Colby believes China is the principal threat faced by the United States. He believes the US should shift its military resources to Asia to prevent a Chinese takeover of Taiwan. Colby supports reducing military aid to Ukraine. During the AUKUS review in 2025, Elbridge pressured Australia to confirm what role it would play in a war with China over Taiwan.
Colby wants to change U.S. defense policy from concentrating on China, as he had previously argued, to the Western Hemisphere. He may have seen new facts that have moved his opinion.
Or did he compare videos of the 'woke' U.S. military parade in Washington DC (vid) earlier this year with the recent flawless one in China (vid)? The difference was indeed glaring. It demonstrated that the U.S. has no chance of winning in a war against China.
Trump seems to concede that China is winning: Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump - Sep 04, 2025, 22:14 UTC
"Looks like we’ve lost India and Russia to deepest, darkest, China. May they have a long and prosperous future together!" President Donald J. Trump
It is difficult to believe though that the Trump administration will be able to change U.S. grand strategy. Any change will typically happen only at a snail's pace. It would need all party support over multiple administrations. The pivot to Asia was launched by the Obama administration in 2010 and has since has been followed by all later ones.
More from Politico:
Elbridge Colby, the Pentagon’s policy chief, is leading the strategy. He played a key role in writing the 2018 version during Trump’s first term and has been a staunch supporter of a more isolationist American policy. Despite his long track record as a China hawk, Colby aligns with Vice President JD Vance on the desire to disentangle the U.S. from foreign commitments.
Colby’s policy team is also responsible for a forthcoming global posture review, which outlines where U.S. forces are stationed around the globe, and a theater air and missile defense review, which takes stock of U.S. and allies’ air defenses and makes recommendations for where to locate American systems. The Pentagon is expected to release both reviews as soon as next month.
It is expected that the new global posture review will move U.S. military resources from Europe, and probably also from Asia, back to the States. https://www.moonofalabama.
But none of the big cartels go there: Trump considering strikes in Venezuela – CNN
The US president is reportedly weighing options to hit drug cartels in the country https://swentr.site/news/
Alex Krainer, Of empires and famines
British Empire used famine as a weapon of war dozens of times. It will continue to do so until it is defeated and quarantined from the rest of humanity. The unbearable, yet persisting blight on humanity today is the deliberate starvation of the two million Palestinian people in Gaza, or however many are still left alive. The figure is probably closer to 1.5 million. It may seem like the worst thing humanity has witnessed since who knows when except that, unfortunately, it’s only the most recent and most widely reported example of the empire’s monstrous misdeeds.....The true nature of the Western empire has been carefully concealed from us behind the glossy façade of the Western “civilization.” Today’s empire is a reincarnation of the undead British Empire, whose DNA it still carries. The more we learn about this empire, the uglier it looks. As an example, it seems that many, if not most of the famines recorded in history weren’t natural disasters nor consequences of wars but results of deliberate policy aimed at subjugating populations and forcing them to accept colonial control and slavery.
This may seem like an exaggeration, but British statesman and Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli explicitly said as much himself. He explained that the objective of the British Empire was to
“Gain and hold territories that possess the largest supplies of the basic raw materials. Establish naval bases around the world to control the sea and commerce lanes. Blockade and starve into submission any nation or group of nations that opposes this empire control program.” (Knuth, E.C. “Empire of the City,” 1946, p. 57) ...
..Are things any better today? Perpetrating a genocide may be a matter of necessity, reserved only for the unruly, uppity subjects, but as we can see, it is still practiced, even in full light of day. Indeed, the empire’s DNA and its mindset never changed, and this is who rules over us to this day.
In April 1974, Henry Kissinger, then Nixon's Secretary of State and National Security Adviser sent out a classified memo to select cabinet officials. The title of the memo was, "Implications of Worldwide Population Growth for US Security and Overseas Interests," and it was commissioned on the recommendation of John D. Rockefeller III and came to be called, more famously, NSSM 200, for National Security Study Memorandum 200.
In it, Kissinger addressed the difficulty of controlling resource rich areas of the world against the social pressures borne of growing world populations and went on to suggest the kinds of coercive measures the US should consider. He bluntly stated that food aid should be considered as "an instrument of national power," and that the US should ration food aid to "help people who can't or won't control their population growth."
The NSSM 200 made depopulation in foreign developing countries an explicit, if secret, national security priority of the United States for the first time. In that, the policy of the British Empire was simply grafted onto the US foreign policy...
..In July of 2022, the UN published an article titled, “The Benefits of World Hunger,” by one George Kent. Kent is a university professor, of course. He argued that, “hunger has great positive value to many people,” which might be correct. In particular, it would have great positive value to people like John D. Rockefeller III and whoever pays Mr. Kent’s tenure at the University of Hawaii.In it, Kissinger addressed the difficulty of controlling resource rich areas of the world against the social pressures borne of growing world populations and went on to suggest the kinds of coercive measures the US should consider. He bluntly stated that food aid should be considered as "an instrument of national power," and that the US should ration food aid to "help people who can't or won't control their population growth."
The NSSM 200 made depopulation in foreign developing countries an explicit, if secret, national security priority of the United States for the first time. In that, the policy of the British Empire was simply grafted onto the US foreign policy...
Kent explained why hunger is so very beneficial: “… it is fundamental to the working of the world’s economy. Hungry people are the most productive people, especially where there’s need for manual labour.”...
..What the Israelis are doing in Gaza (and in the West Bank and south Lebanon) today, may really seem unique and unprecedented in its unhinged savagery, but sadly, it isn’t. The collective punishment of an entire people, indiscriminate killing of tens of thousands and forced starvation of all others is the Empire’s long established modus operandi. Israel, which is the creation of that Empire, is implementing it faithfully. https://alexkrainer.substack.Trump reiterated calls for Hamas to release all of the remaining hostages in a bed to end the carnage.
“We said let them all out right now. Let them all out, and much better things will happen for them. But if you don’t let them all out, it’s going to be a tough situation. It’s going to be nasty. That’s my opinion. Israel’s choice, but that’s my opinion,” the president said during a White House press briefing. https://www.zerohedge.com/
“We said let them all out right now. Let them all out, and much better things will happen for them. But if you don’t let them all out, it’s going to be a tough situation. It’s going to be nasty. That’s my opinion. Israel’s choice, but that’s my opinion,” the president said during a White House press briefing. https://www.zerohedge.com/
Hamas has claimed in an official statement that Israel failed in its attempt to assassinate the group's negotiations team; however, it acknowledged that five of its members were killed in the Tuesday Israeli aerial attack on Doha, including the son of the group's chief negotiator Khalil Al-Hayya.
There's been some back-and-forth on whether the US greenlighted the operation ahead of time, but reports say the White House was informed once the operation had already been ordered by Netanyahu. Trump officials then quickly informed Qatar. https://www.zerohedge.
There's been some back-and-forth on whether the US greenlighted the operation ahead of time, but reports say the White House was informed once the operation had already been ordered by Netanyahu. Trump officials then quickly informed Qatar. https://www.zerohedge.
Middle East Eye is purportedly CIA-linked, so CIA discredits Trump even more?: Trump 'blessed' Israeli strikes on Qatar, sources say
US ambassador's official residence is in the same vicinity as the area targeted by Israel during strikes on Doha"I think that the Trump administration is the best administration I've ever seen," Hazony told attendees at during his plenary address at his event in Washington, DC. "I get up in the mornings and I'm happy, and my wife knows, like, I'm never happy."
"We're just ... 10 years after the Trump movement, 10 years after Brexit, and we're in power," he boasted. https://www.
INTERVIEW: ‘Most barbaric atrocities’: Palestinian journalist, British surgeon testify to Israel’s genocide in Gaza https://www.yenisafak.com/en/
‘Leave or die’ warnings trigger new Gaza City displacement https://www.
Netanyahu boasts Israel bombed 50 Gaza high-rises in 2 days, vows more
Israeli PM says demolitions are a "prelude" to a major ground operation in Gaza City; Hamas condemns remarks as "criminal sadism". https://trt.global/world/
Police arrest RAF veteran protesting genocide as UK prepares state visit for Israeli war criminal
Israeli PM says demolitions are a "prelude" to a major ground operation in Gaza City; Hamas condemns remarks as "criminal sadism". https://trt.global/world/
Attacks against Palestinians by Israeli forces, illegal settlers up 39% in West Bank: UN https://www.yenisafak.com/en/
Israel turning prisons into ‘torture grounds’ with new weapons: Palestinian group https://www.yenisafak.com/en/
Israel’s top court says government is not giving Palestinian prisoners enough food
Justices rule state is legally obliged to ensure ‘basic level of existence’ and orders authorities to improve nutrition https://www.theguardian.com/
Justices rule state is legally obliged to ensure ‘basic level of existence’ and orders authorities to improve nutrition https://www.theguardian.com/
UNICEF: Near-total collapse of Gaza’s health sector
UNICEF announced that Gaza’s health sector is facing a near-total collapse, with only 18 out of 36 hospitals operational and a severe shortage of medicines and supplies. https://hawarnews.com/en/
UNICEF announced that Gaza’s health sector is facing a near-total collapse, with only 18 out of 36 hospitals operational and a severe shortage of medicines and supplies. https://hawarnews.com/en/
Israel’s Smotrich Says West Bank Villages Should Be Destroyed Like Cities in Gaza After Jerusalem Shooting
Smotrich also said the PA must 'disappear from the map' even though the PA condemned the attack, which killed six Israelis https://news.antiwar.com/
890 arrested at London protest in support of Palestine Action, say police https://www.aa.com.tr/en/
Smotrich also said the PA must 'disappear from the map' even though the PA condemned the attack, which killed six Israelis https://news.antiwar.com/
Global Day of Action: Over 300,000 march in London to demand justice for Gaza https://www.
The UK government is preparing to host Israeli President Isaac Herzog later this month, rolling out the red carpet for the head of state of a country formally accused of genocide by the International Court of Justice. https://www.
Israel paid Google $45m to help cover up Gaza starvation
Israel reportedly paid Google $45 million for a six-month advertising campaign to convince people that UN reports of famine in Gaza were 'lies'. https://www.newarab.com/news/
Israel reportedly paid Google $45 million for a six-month advertising campaign to convince people that UN reports of famine in Gaza were 'lies'. https://www.newarab.com/news/
Israeli Attacks and Starvation Kill 71 More Palestinians in Gaza Over 24 Hours - At least six Palestinian, including two children, died of malnutrition due to the Israeli siege https://news.antiwar.com/
UAE, Jordan, Arab Parliament condemn Israeli calls for displacement of Palestinians https://www.arabnews.com/
Trump threatens UN visa ban for Brazil amid anger over Pro-Palestine diplomacy https://www.
Report: Congress moves to block Turkey’s F-35 purchase over support for Palestinian resistance https://www.
Tens of thousands of protesters draw the Red Line for Gaza in Brussels https://www.euronews.com/
44 Nations in the Global Sumud Flotilla: The Largest Civilian Mission to Break Gaza’s Siege in Over a Decade https://www.telesurenglish.
‘This is a sign of awakening’: Italian MP Arturo Scotto to join Global Sumud Flotilla https://www.yenisafak.com/en/
Italy vows to protect citizens on Gaza flotilla as Mandela's grandson joins aid mission
Italian PM Giorgia Meloni pledged protection for Italians on the Gaza flotilla as Nelson Mandela’s grandson Mandla joined the mission to break Israel's siege. https://www.newarab.com/news/
Italian PM Giorgia Meloni pledged protection for Italians on the Gaza flotilla as Nelson Mandela’s grandson Mandla joined the mission to break Israel's siege. https://www.newarab.com/news/
Aid flotilla activists say determined to reach Gaza despite ‘drone attack’ https://www.arabnews.com/
One year on, family of US citizen killed by Israel still seeking justice
Aysenur Ezgi Eygi’s loved ones say they will continue to pursue accountability for her 2024 killing in the occupied West Bank. https://www.aljazeera.com/
Aysenur Ezgi Eygi’s loved ones say they will continue to pursue accountability for her 2024 killing in the occupied West Bank. https://www.aljazeera.com/
Israel just gets another warning from everybody... Trump condemns IDF attack on Qatar
The strike on a close US ally was Israel’s “unilateral” decision, the president has insisted https://swentr.site/news/624391-trump-israeli-attack-qatar/ After Israel’s strike on Doha, is Moscow the last mediator?
A Russian expert explains how Moscow and Beijing can help solve the unresolvable war between Israel and Hamas
A Russian expert explains how Moscow and Beijing can help solve the unresolvable war between Israel and Hamas
On Tuesday evening, Israel conducted a “precision strike” against the “senior leadership of Hamas” in Doha, Qatar. Along with the US and Egypt, Qatar has led several attempts to end the Israel-Hamas war, while also serving as Hamas' headquarters outside of Gaza for years. Despite Qatar being regarded as an important US ally and hosting the huge Al Udeid airbase used by the US Air Force, West Jerusalem still claimed the strike to be an action against terrorists and nobody else. https://www.rt.com/news/624381-after-israels-strike-on-doha/
Escape Key traces the history: A Marshall Plan for Ukraine - From conditional aid to conditional governance
This system now operates through six enforcement rails: accreditation, finance, credentials, audit, data, and procurement. Ukraine demonstrates all six rails operating simultaneously under emergency conditions, serving as a live prototype for planetary governance.
The 2025 convergence of the WHO Pandemic Agreement and UN Emergency Platform creates a standing switchboard to activate these mechanisms globally during future declared ‘complex shocks’...
..Sovereignty itself is not technically abolished — it is routed through dashboards packed with arbitrary metric frameworks such as the SDG indicators, WHO Health Indicators, and Aichi biodiversity targets. States retain symbolic sovereignty while decisive authority migrates to expert networks managing global indicators and controlling financial penalties for non-compliance...
..Michel Crozier (2007/2008) — ‘Recursive Governance: Contemporary Political Communication and Public Policy‘ provides a foundational analysis of how modern policy systems have evolved from linear command structures into multi-loop communication systems that continuously rewrite their own rules.....Computational ethics research explores how normative constraints can be formalised into algorithmic decision-making systems. This work provides the conceptual bridge from 'standards and audits' to algorithmic enforcement of compliance requirements, showing how ethics frameworks can be converted into machine-readable protocols that operate automatically within procurement, finance, and access control systems. This research shows how the enforcement rails can operate as 'moral machines' that embed value judgements into technical infrastructure...
..A common response is that rather than opposing this system entirely, we could propose procedural checks that preserve its coordination benefits while preventing authoritarian drift — because ‘the system really does address genuine issues’.....Granted, these steps would progress us towards making the system democratically accountable. However, they wouldn’t technically stop adaptive management. Yet, none of these will be up for debate for the very same reason it has never been debated in the first place: You’re not supposed to know...
..Bailey’s tradition identified 2025 as the year of ‘externalisation of the hierarchy’ — when esoteric principles would surface through world institutions. The convergence of the WHO Pandemic Agreement and UN Emergency Platform can be read as the institutional materialisation of that forecast: what Bailey framed as enlightened world government appears, in practice, as adaptive governance systems that continually adjust themselves through expert oversight and algorithmic feedback...
..This framework clarifies why technocratic governance feels constitutional rather than merely bureaucratic. Each enforcement rail operationalises a fundamental archetype of legitimate authority — power, wisdom, intelligence, harmony, knowledge, devotion, and order. The system’s effectiveness lies in its ability to invoke these deep patterns of legitimacy while at the same time inverting their expression into control mechanisms that operate beyond democratic oversight. https://escapekey.substack.Home Office lawyers told the Court of Appeal that Yvette Cooper had a duty as Home Secretary to prevent asylum seekers from being made destitute under the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) and so they should continue to live at the Bell Hotel.
They claimed this responsibility trumped the council’s powers to close the hotel, which has been at the centre of protests in recent weeks after an asylum seeker living there was accused of sexually assaulting a 14-year-old schoolgirl. https://www.zerohedge.com/
They claimed this responsibility trumped the council’s powers to close the hotel, which has been at the centre of protests in recent weeks after an asylum seeker living there was accused of sexually assaulting a 14-year-old schoolgirl. https://www.zerohedge.com/
Anybody but the US Navy: Elite UK divers likely behind Nord Stream sabotage – Putin aide
Ukraine lacked the expertise to bomb the Baltic Sea pipelines, Nikolay Patrushev has said https://swentr.site/russia/624259-elite-uk-divers-likely-behind/ At least mentions Sy Hersch: Why is Germany covering for the terrorists that attacked it?
The worst act of eco-terrorism in recent history has become a surreal exercise in convenient blame-shifting Fed with that nonsense, we are also asked to believe that the US had nothing to do with the attack. Never mind the revelations of Seymour Hersh, star US investigative journalist, and the fact that America had a perfect motive, as had Germany’s friendly neighbor Poland (in both cases a combination of clear and brutal financial interests and cold-blooded geopolitics). https://www.rt.com/news/624234-germany-nord-stream-terrorism/
American funds should not be used for “foreign wars” while the country faces $37 trillion in debt, Marjorie Taylor Greene has claimed https://swentr.site/news/624332-us-ukraine-funding-cut/
That might be close enough... Zelensky claims ‘victory’ is avoiding total loss of Ukraine
Moscow has repeatedly stressed it has no intention of seizing the neighboring country https://swentr.site/russia/624264-ukraine-winning-putin-occupation/Maybe Turkey or Hungary? Zelenskyy rejects Putin's proposal to meet in Moscow and offers to talk in Kyiv https://www.euronews.com/2025/09/06/zelensky-putin-may-come-to-kiev
But not the ones who armed Ukraine: Russia has no desire for revenge – Lavrov
Moscow is open to welcoming Western businesses back, with certain conditions, the foreign minister has said “When our former Western partners come to their senses… we will not push them away. But we… will take into account that, having fled at the order of their political leaders, they have shown themselves to be unreliable,” the minister said. https://swentr.site/russia/624293-russia-no-desire-revenge-west/
I think he is writing himself out of the script as ordered, to survive and go away: Zelensky has insulted Trump. Is he suicidal?
The Ukrainian leader risks alienating the only power besides Moscow with a realistic approach to ending the war https://swentr.site/news/624279-zelensky-insults-trump-suicidal/ UK, France and Poland still want Ukrainian resources & territory: Orban outlines EU security ‘guarantee’ plan
The Hungarian prime minister says Ukraine should be split into areas controlled by Russia and the West, separated by a buffer zone https://swentr.site/news/624278-orban-eu-guarantee-ukraine/ De-dollarizing "threat": 'Blackmail', 'trade war' — Brazil, China, India denounce US tariffs in emergency BRICS summit
BRICS members Brazil and India are among the countries hardest hit by US President Trump's tariffs, while new sanctions against Russia over Ukraine war are expected.
The virtual meeting, which lasted 1-1/2 hours, brought together leaders from Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa, Egypt, Indonesia, Iran, the United Arab Emirates, and Ethiopia, Brazil's government said in a separate statement.BRICS members Brazil and India are among the countries hardest hit by US President Trump's tariffs, while new sanctions against Russia over Ukraine war are expected.
The group discussed the risks posed by the resurgence of unilateral measures, particularly in international trade, and explored ways to strengthen mechanisms for solidarity, coordination, and trade among BRICS nations, the statement said. https://trt.global/world/article/066530b364a2
Slaughter of a Ukrainian girl on a Charlotte, NC light rail train shows what a shabby horror show U.S. cities have become. https://www.thefocalpoints.com/p/a-murder-that-says-so-much-about
It's now widely known that Decarlos Brown Jr., 34, Zarutska's killer, had been previously arrested 14 times in North Carolina for crimes ranging from assault to firearms possession, and whose own mother admitted he was schizophrenic and should never have been allowed back on the streets, was recently released on cashless bail (before he killed Zarutska) by a progressive magistrate judge despite a two-decade violent crime spree. https://www.zerohedge.com/political/woke-kills-ngo-machine-pushed-jail-cuts-north-carolina-county-monster-stabbed-ukrainian
The US president has accused the Democrats of letting “a mentally deranged lunatic” roam the streets https://swentr.site/news/624310-trump-ukrainian-woman-stabbing/
Alex Berenson, On black violence, woke lies, and right-wing rage
A man stands behind a woman, his arms raised in a frenzy. She sits, focused on her phone, oblivious to the danger behind her. He is about to slash her neck and leave her to bleed to death.
The man is black. The woman is white.
And their races are no coincidence.
Black men commit a huge amount of violent crime in the United States.
Every statistic confirms this fact. Black people made up almost 47,000 of the 81,000 murder suspects whose race was known to police in the last five years, according to the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Most of those killers are men.
Put another way, black men, who make up about one-fourteenth of the American population, commit over half of the homicides.
In some cities, the disparities are so stunning as to nearly defy belief. St. Louis has about the same number of black and white people, about 130,000, along with 40,000 Asians and Latinos. So far this year, St. Louis police have identified 83 murder suspects. None are Asian or Latino. Three are white. The other 80 are black, 73 men and seven women. https://alexberenson.substack.com/p/on-black-violence-woke-lies-and-right
Every statistic confirms this fact. Black people made up almost 47,000 of the 81,000 murder suspects whose race was known to police in the last five years, according to the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Most of those killers are men.
Put another way, black men, who make up about one-fourteenth of the American population, commit over half of the homicides.
In some cities, the disparities are so stunning as to nearly defy belief. St. Louis has about the same number of black and white people, about 130,000, along with 40,000 Asians and Latinos. So far this year, St. Louis police have identified 83 murder suspects. None are Asian or Latino. Three are white. The other 80 are black, 73 men and seven women. https://alexberenson.substack.com/p/on-black-violence-woke-lies-and-right
Did Joe Biden's border policies enable exploitation on a scale that makes Epstein look like a small-time operator? ...
..Now, thanks to President Trump's commitment to cleaning up this mess, we're getting our first real look at the carnage Biden left behind. According to an exclusive report from Fox News Digital, the Trump administration has assembled a dedicated team to track down these missing children, and what they've found should haunt every American parent. So far, they've located over 22,000 children and arrested more than 400 sponsors. Authorities sadly found that 27 children died from murder, suicide, or drug overdoses.
But the living children may have suffered even worse fates. "We found children who have been raped," says John Fabbricatore, senior advisor at the HHS Office of Refugee Resettlement. The team has uncovered cases of debt bondage, where children work as virtual slaves to pay off trafficking debts. They've found minors "treated like sexual slaves," and discovered children in homes where sponsors are heroin dealers, leading to overdose deaths. https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2025/09/06/was-joe-biden-worse-than-jeffrey-epstein-n4943413
Time is money. They bring construction teams they can rely upon: South Korean Companies Have Been Playing Fast And Loose With Visas, Won't Hire American Workers For US Factory Construction https://www.zerohedge.com/political/south-korean-companies-have-been-playing-fast-and-loose-visas-wont-hire-american-workers
The Supreme Court handed President Donald Trump a major victory on Monday, greenlighting his push for tougher immigration enforcement in Los Angeles. In a 6-3 ruling, the Court lifted a lower-court injunction that had barred federal agents from conducting raids without what the judge had called “reasonable suspicion.” https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2025/09/08/another-tremendous-supreme-court-victory-for-trump-n4943454#google_vignette
Political chaos in Berlin, including early elections and failed budget negotiations, delayed the adoption of the federal budget this year. On Friday, the Union parties reached agreement with the SPD in the Budget Committee on the final budget. Germany will spend €502.55 billion over the course of the year, continuing its fiscal record chase – year after year, the political circus demands ever-increasing allocations.
There is no talk of austerity or structural consolidation of state finances, despite the deep economic depression in the private sector. Still, on Friday, the term “gamechanger” circulated in coalition circles with regard to the budget. https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/gamechanger-merz-plunges-germany-debt-crisis
There is no talk of austerity or structural consolidation of state finances, despite the deep economic depression in the private sector. Still, on Friday, the term “gamechanger” circulated in coalition circles with regard to the budget. https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/gamechanger-merz-plunges-germany-debt-crisis
Nuclear-armed, like Israel: French government collapses
Prime Minister Francois Bayrou has been ousted by the National Assembly in a no-confidence vote https://swentr.site/news/624286-french-government-collapse-bayrou/PM Francois Bayrou’s government lost a no-confidence vote in parliament amid attempts to rein in the country’s ballooning sovereign debt
Financier Charles Gave said that should the Fitch credit rating agency downgrade France’s rating from AA to A, it would prompt institutional investors to sell off its government bonds. “There are a number of institutions, [such as] central banks and insurance companies, that cannot invest in something that is below AA,” he clarified. https://swentr.site/business/624380-france-financial-black-hole/
How soon? French debt a danger to Eurozone – DW
Paris has little chance of reining in its finances amid ongoing “political destabilization,” the German state media network has reported France has one of the highest national debts in the EU, currently standing at €3.35 trillion ($3.9 trillion) — about 113% of GDP. The ratio is expected to climb to 125% by 2030. Its budget deficit is projected at 5.4–5.8% this year, well above the bloc’s 3% limit.
Friedrich Heinemann of the ZEW Leibniz Center for European Economic Research in Mannheim, Germany, told the outlet in an article published on Saturday “we should be worried. The eurozone is not stable at this point.” https://swentr.site/news/624294-dw-france-debt-poses-threat-euro-zone/
Friedrich Heinemann of the ZEW Leibniz Center for European Economic Research in Mannheim, Germany, told the outlet in an article published on Saturday “we should be worried. The eurozone is not stable at this point.” https://swentr.site/news/624294-dw-france-debt-poses-threat-euro-zone/
A Shove Off the Cliff: Trump wants EU to slap India and China with 100% tariffs – FT
Washington would “mirror” any penalties imposed by Brussels, a US official has claimed https://swentr.site/news/624387-trump-eu-india-china-tariffs/As expected, the French government collapsed yesterday, leaving the country in political chaos just as it needs to deal with massive economic and national security challenges. President Macron has ruled out a snap election...
..Moreover, US Treasury Secretary Bessent threatened to punch FHFA Director Pulte in the face, with additional expletives. That likely burgeoned his reputation in some circles: the man who as a young trader broke the Bank of England for Soros in 1992 arguably now wants to break the international financial architecture, and in the US’ favour. While many in DM who don’t see it, those in EM do – albeit in exaggerated form.
Putin advisor Kobyakov just stated: “The US is now trying to rewrite the rules of the gold and cryptocurrency markets. Remember the size of their debt - $35 trillion. These two sectors --crypto and gold-- are essentially alternatives to the traditional global currency system. Washington’s actions in this area clearly highlight one of its main goals: to urgently address the declining trust in the dollar. As in the 1930s and the 1970s, the US plans to solve its financial problems at the world’s expense, this time by pushing everyone into the “crypto cloud.” Over time, once part of the US national debt is placed into stablecoins, Washington will devalue that debt. Put simply: they have a $35 trillion currency debt, they’ll move it into the crypto cloud, devalue it, and start from scratch. That’s the reality for those who are so enthusiastic about crypto.” https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/sacre-bleu-monday
Omeed Malik, co-owner of the club, reportedly intervened to prevent further escalation. Malik separated the two men after Bessent told him, “It’s either me or him. You tell me who’s getting the f* out of here. Or we could go outside.” When Pulte asked, “To talk?” Bessent responded, “No, I’m going to f*ing beat your ass.” The two were then seated at opposite ends of the dinner table, the outlets said. https://swentr.site/news/624355-bessent-pulte-wild-tirade/
Putin advisor Kobyakov just stated: “The US is now trying to rewrite the rules of the gold and cryptocurrency markets. Remember the size of their debt - $35 trillion. These two sectors --crypto and gold-- are essentially alternatives to the traditional global currency system. Washington’s actions in this area clearly highlight one of its main goals: to urgently address the declining trust in the dollar. As in the 1930s and the 1970s, the US plans to solve its financial problems at the world’s expense, this time by pushing everyone into the “crypto cloud.” Over time, once part of the US national debt is placed into stablecoins, Washington will devalue that debt. Put simply: they have a $35 trillion currency debt, they’ll move it into the crypto cloud, devalue it, and start from scratch. That’s the reality for those who are so enthusiastic about crypto.” https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/sacre-bleu-monday
Treasury needs the Fannie & Freddy Mortgage numbers to collateralize the $US, PRONTO: US Treasury secretary threatened to punch official in his ‘f***ing face’ – media
Scott Bessent reportedly had a heated clash with housing regulator Bill Pulte at a private Trump-aligned dinnerThis banking system of ours is a Ponzi scheme on epic proportions. Any interest rate above 0.0% guarantees that loans (and therefore the money supply) will eventually spiral out of control — except for a debt jubilee, or at least discovering another habitable planet chuck full of resources every once in a while.
Other than these two options, debt levels will eventually run out of control — and this is a mathematical certainty, not an opinion.
So to answer the questions posed by the departure of energy prices from already too high debt levels: another surge in the debt to GDP ratio seems highly unlikely. If it were to happen, the resulting (hyper-)inflation would kill the economy and “force” central banks to raise interest rates significantly (and thereby kill raw material and energy supply).
If debt levels remain the same despite growing energy prices, on the other hand, households and businesses alike will become unable to pay for energy and other critical material inputs, leading to a crash in consumption and quite possibly a combination of deflation and economic decline. Well, damned if you do; damned if you don’t. Honestly, what did we expect? Infinite growth to last forever? https://thehonestsorcerer.substack.com/p/the-debt-surge-ahead
He Protesteth: "Not A Jobs Recession": Bessent Doubles Down On Tariffs, Predicts Economic Surge, Slams Goldman & Moody's https://www.zerohedge.com/political/not-jobs-recession-bessent-doubles-down-tariffs-predicts-economic-surge
Financial elites see the crash coming and are tightening every police-state screw on public speech in anticipation: Britain’s Spirit of Freedom Is Dying https://pjmedia.com/chris-queen/2025/09/08/britain-the-land-that-taught-the-world-liberty-now-punishes-free-speech-n4943458
Unraveling the "Biden "legacy: BREAKING BIG: Marjorie Taylor Green Sends Formal Request to DOJ and FBI to Investigate Georgia’s 2020 Election https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/09/breaking-marjorie-taylor-green-sends-formal-request-doj/
US Justice Department opposes release of names of Epstein associates who received large payments
Agency asks judge to keep secret names of 2 associates paid $100K, $250K in 2018 https://www.aa.com.tr/en/americas/us-justice-department-opposes-release-of-names-of-epstein-associates-who-received-large-payments/3680295
BREAKING: FBI Official FIRED, Escorted Out of Building After Leaked Audio Released of Him Claiming “There’s Something Being Covered Up” in Epstein Case – “A Lot of Powerful Democrats” Are on Epstein List
The J6 targets were identified through a collaboration between the legislative research group and the FBI. [That’s unlawful by the way – but that’s another matter]. The FBI contracted Palantir to identify the targets using facial recognition software and private sector databases.
Once identified, the targets were then searched in the NSA database for a fulsome context of identity. All subsequent electronic metadata of the targets was retrieved and utilized in prosecution; however, no one ever discovered this was the collaborative method. That has not come out yet.
Ultimately, the J6 Committee hiding and deleting their files and operational techniques was due to several issues. They really didn’t have a choice given the unknowns of an incoming republican majority.
The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, FISA, represents the method used by the intelligence apparatus of the FBI to conduct surveillance. It was purposefully designed, as a method to avoid the problems with 4th amendment protections. However, the modern application of the FISA justification has no lawful basis.
CONTEXT – Beginning in/around 2012, after the Dept of Justice National Security Division was created by President Barack Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder, the use of FISA warrants were extended to include electronic searches of captured information held within the National Security Agency (NSA). This was the database into which former NSA employee Edward Snowden was creating the search engine software...
Lisa Cook Can't Be Fired - For Now: Judge
Global Mail Disruption Deepens As U.S. Tariffs Trigger International Postal Shutdowns https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/global-mail-disruption-deepens-us-tariffs-trigger-international-postal-shutdowns
Agency asks judge to keep secret names of 2 associates paid $100K, $250K in 2018 https://www.aa.com.tr/en/americas/us-justice-department-opposes-release-of-names-of-epstein-associates-who-received-large-payments/3680295
The O’Keefe Media Group on Monday released leaked audio of Mitch Rosas, an FBI Senior Paralegal Specialist, confessing there is “something” being covered up in the Epstein case.
Rosas also said the FBI won’t release all Epstein files until “this Administration is over.” He also suggested a lot of powerful Democrats are on the Epstein client list. “None of the people that are in a position to answer the questions are willing to do it because it’s clear that they’re covering something and protecting someone or some people,” Rosas said. https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/09/leaked-audio-fbi-senior-paralegal-specialist-theres-something/
Rosas also said the FBI won’t release all Epstein files until “this Administration is over.” He also suggested a lot of powerful Democrats are on the Epstein client list. “None of the people that are in a position to answer the questions are willing to do it because it’s clear that they’re covering something and protecting someone or some people,” Rosas said. https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/09/leaked-audio-fbi-senior-paralegal-specialist-theres-something/
O'Keefe recording: FBI LEAKED AUDIO: FBI Senior Paralegal Specialist Confesses “There’s Something Being Covered Up” in Jeffrey Epstein Case, Claims FBI Won’t Release All Epstein Files Until “This Administration Is Over,” Speculates “A Lot of Powerful Democrats” Are on Epstein Client List https://okeefemediagroup.com/fbi-epstein-coverup-mitchell-rosas/
You Will Forget Reading This: Full Spectrum Surveillance Lies Behind the J6 Committee Motive to Delete all Investigative Material
The J6 Committee used interfaces with the NSA database and pre-existing portals with aligned DHS Social Media databases (including Twitter, see prior “Twitter Files”), as research and evidence gathering mechanisms for their investigations. The J6 targets were identified through a collaboration between the legislative research group and the FBI. [That’s unlawful by the way – but that’s another matter]. The FBI contracted Palantir to identify the targets using facial recognition software and private sector databases.
Once identified, the targets were then searched in the NSA database for a fulsome context of identity. All subsequent electronic metadata of the targets was retrieved and utilized in prosecution; however, no one ever discovered this was the collaborative method. That has not come out yet.
Ultimately, the J6 Committee hiding and deleting their files and operational techniques was due to several issues. They really didn’t have a choice given the unknowns of an incoming republican majority.
First, the collaboration with the FBI is unconstitutional. Legislative officers are not law enforcement officers. There is a separation of powers issue.
Second, ultimately – and most consequentially – all of the participants did not want the American public aware of the mass surveillance techniques that were carried out as part of the ’round up.’...
..The modern application of the fifty-year-old concept around FISA as a constitutional mechanism to search the private papers (data) of American citizens, is a fraud, a complete ruse.Second, ultimately – and most consequentially – all of the participants did not want the American public aware of the mass surveillance techniques that were carried out as part of the ’round up.’...
The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, FISA, represents the method used by the intelligence apparatus of the FBI to conduct surveillance. It was purposefully designed, as a method to avoid the problems with 4th amendment protections. However, the modern application of the FISA justification has no lawful basis.
CONTEXT – Beginning in/around 2012, after the Dept of Justice National Security Division was created by President Barack Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder, the use of FISA warrants were extended to include electronic searches of captured information held within the National Security Agency (NSA). This was the database into which former NSA employee Edward Snowden was creating the search engine software...
..Currently, almost every American interfaces electronically with some system that captures their data. In the private sector that data is then assembled, attributed and used for consumer product micro-targeting, i.e., all data is commercially monetized.
Local and state governments also interface with the federal government database. As a consequence, all data eventually flows to the NSA capture points where searches of the total assembly are possible. https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2025/09/09/full-spectrum-surveillance-lies-behind-the-j6-committee-motive-to-delete-all-investigative-material/#more-275818
Local and state governments also interface with the federal government database. As a consequence, all data eventually flows to the NSA capture points where searches of the total assembly are possible. https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2025/09/09/full-spectrum-surveillance-lies-behind-the-j6-committee-motive-to-delete-all-investigative-material/#more-275818
Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook has been granted a reprieve after her sorority-sister judge, Jia Cobb, temporarily blocked President Donald Trump from firing her - allowing Cook to remain on the job amid allegations of mortgage fraud. https://www.zerohedge.com/political/lisa-cook-cant-be-fired-now-judge
Meryl Nass MD, Monopolization of agriculture: A handful of corporations control the inputs and outputs of American farmers
The Expose wrote up my really important discussion with Joe Maxwell on the monopolization of essentially all food and agriculture industries. Gives me a chance to feature my slides with USDA data. https://merylnass.substack.com/p/monopolization-of-agriculture-a-handful Jim Kunstler, Days of Thunder
"If we hadn’t won this election we would have all been vaxxed to death and censored so no one could hear our dying screams" — Mike Benz on "X"
Looks like it will start this week with Robert F Kennedy, Jr., announcing the suspected culprits in the great autism question. That will rock the pharma industry to the very hairs on its roots. They have been trying since the 1980s to bury that idea that autism comes from anything they do. Next, the nation will have to ask: why did it take Mr. Kennedy only seven months to arrive at a plausible answer to the decades’ long autism mystery? Maybe because it was not such a difficult mystery to solve. Just that nobody wanted to collate and assemble the information. The answer was too ugly. So, they buried it on-purpose.
That set of revelations will segue soon enough into the reveal of facts, data, studies retrieved from the thought-to-be hidden files of the CDC, FDA, and NIH as to just how damaging the Covid-19 vaccinations really were. . . which will lead to answers as to how the various agencies under HHS (and likely the Pentagon, too) conspired to materialize the Covid virus in the first place, and that means the names and titles of actual persons who did it: the deputy secretaries of this and that, higher-ups, folks in dark NGOs. . . and all that will combine with new information about the supremely messed-up election of 2020, and so on down the long line of the many related, serial coup operations. https://www.kunstler.com/p/days-of-thunder
That set of revelations will segue soon enough into the reveal of facts, data, studies retrieved from the thought-to-be hidden files of the CDC, FDA, and NIH as to just how damaging the Covid-19 vaccinations really were. . . which will lead to answers as to how the various agencies under HHS (and likely the Pentagon, too) conspired to materialize the Covid virus in the first place, and that means the names and titles of actual persons who did it: the deputy secretaries of this and that, higher-ups, folks in dark NGOs. . . and all that will combine with new information about the supremely messed-up election of 2020, and so on down the long line of the many related, serial coup operations. https://www.kunstler.com/p/days-of-thunder
Peter McCullough MD, US Senate Hearing Announcement: How the Corruption of Science has Impacted Public Perception and Policies Regarding Vaccines, Tues Sept 9, 2025 Senate Hart Building, SH-216, 2 PM ET, HSGA PSI https://www.thefocalpoints.com/p/us-senate-hearing-announcement-how
The largest vaccinated vs. unvaccinated birth cohort study in U.S. history (n=18,468) tracked children for 10 years — and revealed staggering increases in chronic disease among the vaccinated.
In his sworn testimony, Siri revealed the results of a long-hidden study from the Henry Ford Health System in Detroit, MI.
This is the largest vaccinated vs. unvaccinated birth cohort study ever conducted in the United States (n=18,468). Children were tracked from birth over a 10-year period. The data were drawn directly from electronic medical records — the gold standard for real-world health outcomes.
The study’s official title: “Impact of Childhood Vaccination on Short- and Long-Term Chronic Health Outcomes in Children: A Birth Cohort Study.”...
This is the largest vaccinated vs. unvaccinated birth cohort study ever conducted in the United States (n=18,468). Children were tracked from birth over a 10-year period. The data were drawn directly from electronic medical records — the gold standard for real-world health outcomes.
The study’s official title: “Impact of Childhood Vaccination on Short- and Long-Term Chronic Health Outcomes in Children: A Birth Cohort Study.”...
..Compared to unvaccinated children, those who received one or more vaccines had dramatically higher rates of chronic illness:
329% more asthma
203% more atopic disease
496% more autoimmune disease
453% more neurodevelopmental disorders
• including 228% more developmental delays
• and 347% more speech disorders
Siri testified that all of these findings were statistically significant.
Even more striking: in conditions where unvaccinated children had zero cases (brain dysfunction, ADHD, learning disabilities, intellectual disabilities, and tics), there were hundreds of cases among the vaccinated group.
329% more asthma
203% more atopic disease
496% more autoimmune disease
453% more neurodevelopmental disorders
• including 228% more developmental delays
• and 347% more speech disorders
Siri testified that all of these findings were statistically significant.
Even more striking: in conditions where unvaccinated children had zero cases (brain dysfunction, ADHD, learning disabilities, intellectual disabilities, and tics), there were hundreds of cases among the vaccinated group.
After 10 years, the bottom-line numbers were devastating:
57% of vaccinated children had at least one chronic health condition (often multiple).
Only 17% of unvaccinated children had any chronic illness. https://www.thefocalpoints.com/p/breaking-henry-ford-vaxxed-vs-unvaxxed
57% of vaccinated children had at least one chronic health condition (often multiple).
Only 17% of unvaccinated children had any chronic illness. https://www.thefocalpoints.com/p/breaking-henry-ford-vaxxed-vs-unvaxxed
Celia Farber: Donald Trump Posts Video On Truth Social Of An NIH Geneticist Saying Thimerisol Is An Extremely Dangerous Toxin And Used At Every Stage Of Vaccine Production: "They're All Poison. Every. Single. One." https://celiafarber.substack.com/p/donald-trump-posts-video-on-truth
Attacking the funding for pharma and propaganda: Trump Announces Crackdown On Drug Ads On TV, Potentially Disrupting Billions In Ad Spending https://www.zerohedge.com/medical/trump-announces-crackdown-drug-ads-tv-potentially-disrupting-billions-ad-spending
Meryl Nass MD, protecting the "control group": 22 State Attorneys General Urge U.S. Supreme Court to Uphold Religious Exemptions in Amish Schools
Over 20 state attorneys general submitted briefs in support of Amish parents and schools who appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court after lower courts rejected their lawsuit. https://merylnass.substack.com/p/22-state-attorneys-general-urge-us A Midwestern Doctor, Why Do Vaccines Cause the Illnesses They Prevent - Revealing The Forgotten Science of Vaccine Disease Provocation
•While this association is frequently ridiculed by medical profession, over a century of evidence exists that demonstrates it occurred for a variety of diseases (e.g., there is extensive literature on it for typhoid fever, tuberculosis, and polio), to the point it was previously termed “disease provocation.”
•Unfortunately, since the knowledge of disease provocation would decrease vaccine sales, it tends to “vanish” from the medical profession’s memory, leading to almost identical debacles happening a few decades later that doctors at the time were “baffled by” (e.g., we discuss how this happened with polio).
•Disease provocation appears to be due to the immune system being diverted to targeting the vaccine’s antigen rather than doing it’s natural job. Since we frequently depend upon the immune system to control latent infections or recent ones currently in the incubation stage, that immunological diversion can lead to an existing infection spiraling out of control.
•In this article we review many examples of how this happened with infections in the past and highlight how this same process can cause vaccination to increase one’s risk of a severe flu infection, a severe COVID infection, a Lyme disease reactivation or a HPV infection progressing to cervical cancer. https://www.midwesterndoctor.com/p/why-do-vaccines-cause-the-illnesses
Better late than never: Doctor uses Reform conference speech to link king’s cancer to Covid vaccine
Aseem Malhotra claimed ‘eminent oncologist’ said jab was ‘significant factor in the cancer of members of royal family’ https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/sep/06/doctor-aseem-malhotra-reform-conference-speech-royal-family-cancer-covid-vaccineGeneticlly Unmodified (pictured with daughter,grandkids,okra and sweet potatoes)
