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That oh-so-honest public speaker Karoline Leavitt has a new place to release her propaganda. “Karoline Leavitt Joining Fox News as Contributor: NY Times” LINK Best of luck, Karoline.

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IRAN-US-ISRAEL-YEMEN-SAUDI

The Charmer - Levin

YEMEN-SAUDI

“Riyadh-Based Yemeni Leader Announces Offensive Against Ansar Allah as Saudi Arabia Escalates Airstrikes - News From Antiwar.com” LINK

GAZA

LEBANON

“After Weekend of Casualties, Israel Steps Up Strikes on Southern Lebanon - News From Antiwar.com” LINK

UKRAINE/US/EU/NATO v RUSSIA

In retaliation for Ukrainian attacks against civilians during the Duma vote and a second attack on a Russian college, Russian drones Saturday, Sunday and today struck Dnieper River bridges in Kyiv, including the Southern (Pivdennyi) and Northern crossings. Russia’s Defense Ministry, cited by RT, said the bridges facilitated troop movements and military cargo to Donbas units; Ukrainian reports relayed by the same outlet noted damage to supports, roadways, and guardrails, with traffic suspended. Antiwar.com, drawing on TASS, reported that Moscow vowed to intensify strikes on military sites and related infrastructure after Zelensky stated Ukraine would double down on attacks against Russian oil facilities and claimed Russia plans to drive civilians from major cities. German Chancellor Merz displayed his towering hypocrisy by standing beside Zelinsky and expressing outrage that Russia might now be hitting (though not lethally, it seems, but just to make unusable Ukrainian civilian infrastructure, which, as we have noted on LCL, is a blurry thing to define, since govt usually builds it and govt uses a bridge at the same time civilians might use it.) Daniel Davis and Andrei Martyanov offer the Merz clip and salient observations

Sources describe logistical disruption and harder-to-intercept jet-powered drones, but they do not establish that Russian forces are close to victory; the fighting continues as an attrition campaign. LINK LINK

THE EU ANGLE: “Don’t know? Blame Russia: Finnish president takes page from NATO chief’s playbook — RT World News” LINK And, as one might expect, Daniel and Andrei have great thoughts about that man’s statements, as well!

-AND… Estonia is in on the “Russian Bogeyman” game - “NATO state preparing to strike St. Petersburg – FT — RT Russia & Former Soviet Union” LINK

THE BRAZIL PRES ELECTION AND BAZIL’S FUTURE IN BRICS v. LEANING TOWARDS US MANIPULATORS…

Two days before Brazil’s October 4 first round, the CIA already knew Flávio Bolsonaro was ahead, geopolitical analyst Pepe Escobar told RT on October 5, even while Brazilian opinion polls still showed incumbent Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva leading. Escobar, speaking after Bolsonaro finished ahead of Lula and both fell short of an outright majority, called the discrepancy part of longer U.S. involvement. He said the CIA had spent “decades” funding efforts to cultivate Brazil’s evangelical churches, now about 27 percent of the population, up from 15 percent in 2000, and that this was “paying off.” He added that “the Americans put a lot of money in this election” and urged a federal investigation. Antiwar.com has previously reported CIA contact with Bolsonaro governments, including a 2022 warning from Director William Burns against casting doubt on the voting system and Bolsonaro’s 2019 visit to CIA headquarters. Escobar said a Bolsonaro win would reverse Brazil toward Washington. This is something Washington wants, and will try to link to the new US control over VZ, as the US creates its own problems with China on trade and China threatens to stop sales of rare earth minerals to the US. Here is some background on the Brazilian political movement of the young Bolsonaro, which, Pepe mentions a bit earlier, also is linked to a major movement to push out Catholicism and replace it with evangelical Christianity (which can be leveraged in favor of Israel). Here, Pepe supplies us with awareness of the virtual tie between Lula and Bolsonaro, and why it could go either way in the run-off

THE BRAZIL-CHINA-US RARE EARTH SITUATION

Brazil’s rare-earth reserves—about 21 million metric tons, or 23.1 percent of the world total and second only to China—have become a central issue in the 2026 race between Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and Flávio Bolsonaro, RT reported. A March 2026 document titled “Prosperity Partnership,” carrying Flávio Bolsonaro’s seal and drafted by ally André Marinho, describes an alliance with the United States to exploit critical minerals if he wins. It calls for faster mining legislation, Western (especially American) capital, and a role for Brazil as a leading non-Chinese supplier and Western Hemisphere processing hub tied to U.S. defense, energy, and artificial-intelligence chains. At CPAC, Flávio said Brazil is Washington’s answer to dependence on China for rare earths. Democracy Now, covering the October 4 first round in which Flávio led 47 percent to Lula’s 45 percent ahead of an October 25 runoff, quoted an analyst saying Bolsonaro has stated openly that victory would dedicate Brazil’s rare earths and other resources to U.S. interests. Lula has answered, RT noted, that Flávio is “Trump’s candidate” prepared to hand national wealth to the United States. TASS and RT also reported Lula’s attack on the $2.8 billion sale of Serra Verde to USA Rare Earth and a U.S. Development Finance Corporation loan of about $465 million for the Pela Ema project—already channeling American money into Brazilian heavy rare earths. Democracy Now in 2022 recorded that BlackRock, Vanguard, and Capital Group had provided nearly $15 billion to mining firms active in the Brazilian Amazon that rights groups linked to Indigenous-rights problems. None of these outlets reports that BlackRock has locked in, or is contracted for, equity in Brazilian rare-earth deposits if Bolsonaro wins. The policy course they describe—accelerated rules and preferential entry for Western capital—nonetheless sets out the opening through which large U.S. asset managers already financing Brazilian mining could widen their exposure.
Donald Trump repeatedly has tied tariff threats to Chinese rare-earth controls. RT reported that China, which accounts for over 90 percent of global rare-earth refining and 98 percent of magnet output, imposed export controls in April on elements used in military applications and later tightened licensing and extraterritorial rules affecting U.S. defense and semiconductor supply. Trump called the relationship “effectively in a trade war” and threatened an additional 100 percent tariff on Chinese goods starting in November, while officials worked on a framework that might avert the hike before a meeting with Xi Jinping. China vowed to “fight to the end.”
TASS recorded that after Beijing published its coming tighter rare-earth export rules, Trump said that the United States would impose an extra 100 percent tariff plus software export controls from November 1, and warned of limits on other goods, chiefly aircraft parts. He later wrote that China had agreed to continue the flow of rare earths, critical minerals, and magnets “openly and freely.” Sputnik quoted Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent saying Washington secured a one-year pause on controls that would have covered products containing even 0.01 percent Chinese rare earths. RT separately noted a June understanding under which China would resume shipments and the United States would lift countermeasures, after earlier tariff spikes had reached 145 percent on the U.S. side.

THE COURTS - AI RECREATIONS OF VICTIMS, DEATH PENALTY

This is amazing. The judge actually said that the AI video brought to him something “sincere”. By DEFINITION, it’s NOT REAL. “Court throws out killer’s sentence after judge said he ‘loved’ AI video of slain man” LINK
AND - the TN death penalty of Pike. The question of all state-based “justice” emerges, because, as we know, many opponents of the death penalty oppose it because they don’t want the state to mistakenly take an innocent life. But armed police can and do kill more innocent people each year, without trial before peers. If one opposes the death penalty on principled grounds, the same opposition should be posed against the govt-police system. More fundamentally, it is not moral to force someone to pay for anything, and forcing someone to pay for the taking of a life, even after a “court process” is vile. The word “justice” and the word “state” never can go together. “Tennessee corrections chief resigns after botched Christa Pike execution” LINK

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HASSETT Can’t stop lying.

Let’s get some things straight. Kevin Hassett’s second claim in that clip refers to the initial August 2026 nonfarm payrolls report, released September 4, not the later revised figures. The Bureau of Labor Statistics first reported a gain of 162,000 jobs. Contemporary surveys put the consensus forecast in the mid-50,000s to mid-60,000s range (Bloomberg survey median around 55,000; Reuters around 56,000; FactSet median 65,000). The actual print was therefore roughly 2.5–3 times the typical forecast, consistent with descriptions of it as “more than double” or nearly triple expectations. Bloomberg’s own coverage stated that the 162,000 figure topped all estimates in its survey of economists. Hassett, speaking the same day, said 77 forecasters on Bloomberg had submitted estimates, that the result was above every one of them, and that it was four standard deviations above their average. Reuters reported the range of estimates it collected ran from a loss of 25,000 to a gain of 121,000, so 162,000 also cleared the high end of that survey. Multiple outlets (CNN, Reuters, CNBC) described the initial reading as a clear upside surprise and a rebound from July’s weak print. The September report, released October 2, revised August downward from 162,000 to 133,000 (and July from +21,000 to –10,000), for a combined downward revision of 60,000. Hassett’s statements about beating the Bloomberg survey and substantially exceeding the consensus therefore tracked the initial data and contemporaneous reporting; the later revision reduced the margin.

And let’s be sure here to bring back the news from last week that on October 1, the Supreme Court agreed to review the Trump administration’s policy of mandatory detention without bond for noncitizens who entered years earlier and built lives here. The Trump Department of Homeland Security’s July 2025 reinterpretation of a 1996 statute treats long-settled residents as “applicants for admission,” denying the bond hearings that prior administrations allowed when people posed no flight risk or danger. Solicitor General D. John Sauer has urged the Court to uphold the practice so that detention “prevents those aliens from evading hearings and helps ensure their removal.” More than 500 district judges have already rejected the rule. Indefinite civil confinement without an individualized hearing collides with the Fifth Amendment’s due-process protection of liberty, especially for parents of U.S.-citizen children. Here is the NYT story on it: LINK

That same day, U.S. District Judge P. Kevin Castel entered final judgment striking down Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s policy of arresting people at or near immigration courthouses nationwide. In African Communities Together v. Lyons, the court held the practice arbitrary and capricious under the Administrative Procedure Act after the government offered no reasoned justification and appeared to leave agents with “unfettered discretion.” The order restores earlier limits that confined such arrests to narrow circumstances and takes effect immediately. Courthouse arrests punish the very act of appearing to defend one’s case, chilling access to the immigration courts the Constitution’s due-process clause requires the government to keep open. People complying with summonses should not be seized in hallways for civil violations. LINK

Separately, advocates reported this week that the administration has choked off funding for counsel for unaccompanied migrant children, allowing the Acacia Center for Justice contract to lapse in July 2026 after providers refused demands for confidential client data. Despite a prior court order preserving services required by the 2008 Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act, payments stopped and a smaller, less experienced substitute was left to cover hearings. Reports describe children, including very young ones, facing removal proceedings with no lawyer. The Fifth Amendment’s due-process guarantee and basic fairness under the Constitution demand that vulnerable minors not be forced to navigate complex removal law alone against a trained government prosecutor. LINK
AND LOOK! “Kristi Noem seethes after NY Times exposé on a plum contract DHS gave to a political donor on her last day as secretary” LINK
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AND, this… “Daily Wire’s ICE agent thriller ordered to suspend filming as city reviews ‘disruptive’ production” LINK
AND “Analysis finds immigrants detained in Maryland can be transported over 1,000 miles” LINK
AND, lest the ICE goons and cops forget, their glorious 4th Amendment requires a JUDGE to ISSUE A WARRANT UPON THE JUDGE’S DETERMINATION OF PROBABLE CAUSE, and the item to be sought and the person to be searched have to be publicly announced in the warrant. It is not up to the local cops to just claim they have “probable cause”

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“Judge rules Flock cameras violate the Fourth Amendment” LINK They Clearly DO.

The SCOTUS is the scene of the action… “Supreme Court wrestles with energy companies’ bid to block major climate suit” LINK

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October, the tenth month, the month that sound like it should be the eighth month, is here, and so are the easy-to-expect downward revisions to the “Official” jobs/employment reports from the past few months (after AN EARLIER DOWNWARD REVISION of the months and nearly the entire year before that). We have that covered, and much more, all the way to Russia, like Matt Monro’s classic song!

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The New York Times Saturday reported that U.S.-Russia talks on ending the war in Ukraine have expanded to include a multibillion-dollar sale of Lukoil’s international assets, and that key figures in the leading bid (SHOCKER!!) have business ties to people close to President Trump, including his family and his envoys. WHAT?!
Lukoil, one of Russia’s largest energy companies, was hit with unconstitutional U.S. “sanctions” (around October 2025) that effectively forced a sale of its overseas holdings. Those assets—oil and gas fields, European refineries (including in Bulgaria and Romania), and gas stations (including in the U.S.)—have been valued in the roughly $20–22 billion range and are described as available at distressed prices because sanctions made them impossible for Russian-linked owners to hold. In January 2026 Lukoil reached a non-exclusive agreement to sell most of them to the U.S. private-equity firm Carlyle; that deal has been stalled pending U.S. Treasury/OFAC approval, and Lukoil has continued talking to other buyers.
A competing consortium is led by Todd Boehly (billionaire asset manager and Los Angeles Dodgers co-owner). It includes the U.S. International Development Finance Corporation (a government development-finance arm expected to take a significant equity stake) plus Gulf investors. Boehly has donated about $2 million to Trump-aligned political causes (including $1 million to MAGA Inc. in December 2025 as discussions intensified, per the Times).According to the Times (citing people familiar with the talks), Russian President Vladimir Putin raised the sale during a September 5, 2026 Kremlin meeting with Trump’s envoys Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff. Putin framed completing a deal as a way to show Russians that business with the United States was possible again. The envoys indicated they would work on it, viewing it as potentially helpful for relations and for energy prices. The transaction still needs “sign-off” as the NYT puts it from both the U.S. government and the Kremlin. Remember that part in the US Constitution? International business sales must go through the US govt, and not necessarily the Congress, which would be unconstitutional enough, but it’s the Trump Admin’s claim that they can just “approve” it if they want to.
Wanna know one of the main reasons why?
Because “parties” tied to Trump will make oodles, AND the US govt is (as it has with 34 other corporations) taking a STAKE of LUKOIL…
The Times reports that Trump, his sons, Kushner, Ivanka Trump, and the Witkoff family have financial ties to partners in the Boehly group, even though the paper says the Trump family and the president’s advisers do not have a direct stake in the Lukoil transaction itself and there is no indication Kushner or Witkoff would personally profit from it. Specific links described include:

• Qatari investors Moutaz and Ramez Al-Khayyat (who attended Trump’s 2025 inauguration) are partners with Kushner and Ivanka Trump on a multibillion-dollar luxury resort project in Albania; their conglomerate would hold a stake in the Lukoil bid.

• Sheikh Tahnoon bin Zayed Al Nahyan (a senior Abu Dhabi royal and UAE national-security adviser) oversees entities involved in the bid. Separate vehicles linked to him own a large stake in World Liberty Financial, the cryptocurrency firm co-founded by Witkoff (and involving Donald Trump Jr., Barron Trump, and others as stakeholders or co-founders). A fund he helps oversee (Lunate) is also a major investor in Kushner’s private-equity firm Affinity Partners.

The NYT piece, drawn from multiple anonymous sources, frames the overlap as raising conflict-of-interest questions in an administration that has generally dismissed such concerns. Reuters and others noted that the White House, Treasury, and Lukoil had not commented in response to inquiries around the time of the Times story. Earlier Financial Times reporting (late September) had already described Boehly’s consortium, including the DFC and the same Gulf partners with Trump-family business links, as challenging the Carlyle agreement.
I got curious about Todd Boehly, so decided to dig into his biz background to see what ties he might have to Israel or international corporate activity tied to Israel… I could find no donations by him to groups such as AIPAC or Friends of the IDF, and no statements from him on Israel, Gaza, or related issues. His documented philanthropy centers on education (notably the College of William & Mary), medical causes such as epilepsy and prostate cancer research, and similar areas. His political giving has gone to U.S. candidates and committees of both parties over the years, with large recent contributions to Trump-aligned PACs such as MAGA Inc. The nearest connection is indirect and from 2022. When Boehly led the consortium that bought Chelsea F.C. from Roman Abramovich (a Russian-Israeli-Portuguese citizen who was under UK “sanctions”), one of the co-investors was Jonathan Goldstein, a British Jewish businessman and former head of the UK’s Jewish Leadership Council. Contemporary coverage, including in The Times of Israel, noted Goldstein’s role in the bid; it did not attribute any Israel-related stance or activity to Boehly himself. SO, make of it what you will, but Boehly seems very aware of the “sales” of “sanctioned” corporations…

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Trump continues to shovel his horse manure about the purported (and nonexistent) Iranian Nuke “Weapons” plan…

And…

AntiWar covers this well. “New IDF Website Frames Slain Gaza Journalists as Terrorists - News From Antiwar.com” LINK
More death…

A reminder… Not that we need it, but…

AND, in case “Mr. Christian” Mike Huckabee only pays attention to Christians (he doesn’t pay attention to any of the war crimes) being killed in Gaza…

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“Ukrainian regional head pays tribute to Nazi SS veteran — RT Russia & Former Soviet Union” - LINK

“American Soul-Searching after the Iraq Withdrawal – The Future of Freedom Foundation” LINK

TRUMP KEEPS PRETENDING

BONDS

A message for Mr. Hassett:

The 10-year U.S. Treasury yield stood near 5.25–5.28 percent and the 30-year near 5.61–5.63 percent, according to Federal Reserve and Treasury data. These levels are well above those of two years earlier. Around October 4, 2024, the 10-year yield ended the day at 3.98 percent and the 30-year at 4.26 percent; by mid-month both had edged higher, to roughly 4.08 percent and 4.38 percent respectively.Free-market economists note that longer-term Treasury yields form the benchmark for most private borrowing costs. Mortgage rates typically track the 10-year yield plus a spread for credit and prepayment risk. When that benchmark rises, monthly payments on new home loans increase, pricing some buyers out of the market and slowing sales volume even if nominal incomes are growing. Existing homeowners locked into lower rates also become less willing to sell and move, further constraining inventory turnover.On the public side, the same higher yields raise the cost of rolling over and issuing new federal debt. Net interest outlays reached an estimated $1.1 trillion in fiscal year 2026—roughly 3.4 percent of GDP and more than spending on defense or Medicare in recent comparisons—driven by both a larger stock of debt and the elevated rates at which maturing securities are refinanced. As older, lower-coupon debt is replaced, the aggregate interest bill continues to climb regardless of any short-term budget decisions.

Merz exhibits a mindset similar to “leaders” in other EU nations. It’s not “the fault” of the predatory govts… Blame the people.

Benny - not good behavior, it appears… “ICE protesters just sued one of Trump’s biggest cheerleaders” LINK
FREE SPEECH v ICE “How Minneapolis activists used group chats to foil ICE's Operation Metro Surge” LINK
-And… “Officials, residents criticize toll of ICE arrests; mayor threatens legal action” LINK
AND JD MAKES IT WORSE FOR HIMSELF AND HIS GOP “Vance says Senate candidate Angie Nixon doesn't belong in America | Watch” LINK
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MIGRANTS AND VOTING: As you know if you watch LCL, the US Constitution claims power over us without our consent, but even THAT spells out rules for the govts on each level… As a result, we can READ IN IT that the “chusing” of electors to attend the Electoral College is supposed to be set up by the states. Thus, immigrants actually COULD vote for Prez if some state legislatures passed statutes allowing it. The votes for Congress, according to the Constitution, can see the US House and Senate pass statutes that set state voting rules, but those cannot apply to the votes for Prez. “‘Activist judge’ rules Congress cannot bar noncitizens from voting in federal elections” LINK

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FLOCK CAMS: “Judge rules Flock cameras violate the Fourth Amendment” LINK

CANADIAN DEATH CULTURE “'Relentless' Canadian Doctors Try to Railroad Cancer Patient Into 'Assisted Suicide' - Slay News” LINK

UNO!

This is interesting. Jimmy’s own personal recollections/experience offer added room to question the Netanyahu narrative.

DOS

Brandon was on fire today. This will be the first of two we offer that feature his thoughts and knowledge.

THREE!

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WAR

This terrible, disturbing evidence of mass-murder by Trump, his Admin, and the military members who carried out the attack is starting to make headlines. The ship was unarmed and was returning from Indian waters, where the crew had participated in ceremonial movements with other ships from India.

Remember, just trust the “plan” - whatever that is on any given day.

Ya know what she won’t see? Economic recovery, peace, and abundant fuel.

Oh, and… “Pentagon Announces Plan To Launch ‘Autonomous Warfare Command’ To Leverage ‘Super Intelligence’ In Warfare - News From Antiwar.com” LINK

ANTIWAR w the Latest “Trump Sending Third Aircraft Carrier Strike Group to Middle East - News From Antiwar.com” LINK
-AND this

And let’s keep in mind Trump’s genocidal venom.

AND HE SPOUTS MORE FUEL NONSENSE

The EUROPEANS - European nations today agreed to draw down emergency diesel stocks after U.S. pressure tied to record fuel prices. President Donald Trump announced on Truth Social that Europe would release “a massive amount of their heavily stocked Diesel Oil,” with the process beginning immediately. By “releasing,” Trump means governments selling fuel held in strategic emergency reserves—stocks kept for supply shocks—into commercial markets so more diesel reaches refiners, distributors, and consumers, easing scarcity and prices. Those prices have surged amid the US attacks on Iran, the Ansarallah response to Saudi aggession, and related disruptions to refined-product flows. The United States, a major diesel exporter to Europe, had threatened an export ban to protect domestic truckers and farmers ahead of November midterms. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Energy Secretary Chris Wright pressed allies, including France and Germany, to tap reserves instead; reports indicated a U.S. request for roughly 120 million barrels of European diesel over six months. G7 leaders, after a videoconference chaired by France, said they will implement a coordinated International Energy Agency release of 100 million barrels of diesel and crude over four months, starting at once and including a front-loaded substantial diesel release within the first 20 days by members and partners. They also pledged to coordinate refinery maintenance to avoid simultaneous outages, raise utilization where feasible, and refrain from energy-export restrictions among themselves. - But their rhetoric is meaningless…
G7 refiners have little idle capacity to add diesel or gasoline. Europe closed more than 370,000 barrels a day of refining in 2025 alone, including Shell’s Wesseling plant in Germany and Grangemouth in Scotland, and European refineries already cover only about 70 percent of continental diesel use. Japan, Germany, Italy, the United Kingdom, France, and Canada rank well behind the United States and China, which together hold more than a third of global capacity. The G7 statement itself only promises to coordinate maintenance so shutdowns do not coincide and to raise utilization “where feasible,” while asking countries outside the group that still have spare refining capacity to lift diesel output. That is an admission that G7 plants are already near their practical ceiling. (Here are two of those handsome blowhards…)

France is cushioning fuel users with subsidies and stock releases, not by substantially raising oil production or refining. Chairing the G&, President Emmanuel Macron, today said members would release up to 100 million barrels of diesel and crude over four months, coordinated by the International Energy Agency, and would not restrict energy trade among themselves. That draws on emergency inventories. It does not add a barrel of refining capacity.
Domestically, Paris has chosen the same path. The government is not expanding refining capacity after slamming it. Nope. The Macron socialist mindset sees him extending targeted “fuel aid” through December, about €450 million more on top of a scheme expected to cost roughly €1.4 billion this year. The package includes about €0.15 a liter on non-road diesel for farmers, €0.20 a liter for construction trucks, and a higher subsidy, up to €0.40 a liter, for low-income workers who must drive. A second €100 payment for eligible drivers is also being rolled out.
Separately, the French regulated gas reference price rose 6.3 percent on October 1, so households on flexible contracts pay more even as diesel aid continues for those mentioned above, inspiring not conservation, but relative over-demand (this within a sphere in which the availability and prices are, in the first case, pushed DOWN by govt enviro edicts, and, in the latter, pushed up by the government diktats.
Ministers have preferred these targeted transfers to a broad fuel-tax cut, citing the fiscal cost. The refining limit explains the choice. Energy Institute figures put French crude-refining capacity at 1.133 million barrels a day in 2025, down from 1.145 million a year earlier and far below the roughly 1.7 million of 2010. That ceiling is about 7.9 million barrels a week, roughly 34.5 million a month, and about 414 million a year if plants ran every day at nameplate rates. Industry data describe a metropolitan system of about 58 million tonnes a year—near 1.15 million barrels a day—across six plants, plus a small unit in Martinique. Actual runs in 2025 were closer to 47 million tonnes. The system covers most gasoline demand but only about half of diesel use, so France imports the rest. No new refinery has been built in decades, and operators say even optimization at the largest plant can lift diesel and kerosene output by no more than about 5 percent. Subsidies and stock draws can soften pump prices for a season; they cannot close that structural gap. BTW, the Macron-announced “G-7 100 mil barrel” (stetched over 4 months) release is one-day’s worth of EU demand. Here is more, from Nima Alkorshid and Prof Michael Hudson.

Now, let’s dissect Chris Wright’s lie-truth mix. He is correct that the Biden Admin celebrated the closure of coal plants (many of which were closed by Obama and not allowed to restart under Trump One), but he lies when he claims that Trump is increasing oil refining capacity. The only new refinery that will open before 2028 is one that Biden’s Admin allowed in 2024, and Trump earlier this year tried to take credit for it.

NOW, let’s look at US coal-fire electricity plants being forced out of operation due to govt EPA rules (as Obama had threatened he would do, and did, and then Trump did nothing to rectify the injury to that sector)…
Domestic coal generating capacity peaked around 2011 (~314–317 GW) and then declined. Reuters reported in late 2016 that more than 400 coal-fired units had closed since January 2009. Capacity figures from EIA-based reviews put retirements at roughly 48 GW over Obama’s full eight years (about 4.5 GW early, then a larger wave, with nearly 33 GW in the second term in one E&E News tally of EIA data). Other compilations (e.g., Statista) show higher second-term numbers depending on exact year cutoffs and whether announced versus completed retirements are counted. MCTV produced a documentary on this mass-closure in PA and WV, and estimated that the total was higher, near 50 GW by 2016 lost. Coal-industry analyses specifically linked a substantial portion to Obama-era EPA policies:

• The American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity (ACCCE, later America’s Power) reported in 2012 that 204 units (~31 GW) were scheduled to close at least in part because of EPA rules—roughly triple what EPA modeling had projected.

• A 2014 ACCCE compilation listed 338 units representing over 51 GW of retirements or conversions (about 6 GW of the total converting to gas or biomass) attributed to EPA policies, including regulations and New Source Review settlements. Later updates through 2017–2018 cited EPA rules for on the order of 54 GW of already-retired capacity (out of ~65 GW retired by then) and roughly 76 GW / 456 units when including announced future retirements.

The main rules cited were the Mercury and Air Toxics Standards (MATS, finalized 2012, with compliance deadlines in 2015–2016), the Cross-State Air Pollution Rule, and related air, water, and ash rules, plus the proposed Clean Power Plan. Early Institute for Energy Research tallies similarly projected >33 GW of closures tied to MATS and cross-state rules. The generation capacity was not replaced, despite the shale-gas boom sharply lowering natural-gas prices. Instead, the feds funneled billions of $ into windfarms and other inefficient, anti-market “renewables”.
DID TRUMP INCREASE COAL-USE ELECTRICITY PLANTS? Nope…
No new utility-scale coal plants were started or brought into service under either Trump Admin.
The last significant U.S. coal capacity additions occurred around 2011–2013; by the late 2010s, reporting (AP and others) stated that no energy company was building a new coal plant. The Navajo Generating Station in Arizona and the Paradise plant in Kentucky both closed. Retirements continued and, on a capacity basis, were comparable to or higher than late-Obama levels in several tallies. Reuters/EIA data showed more than 23 GW retired in 2017–2018 alone (versus ~15 GW in Obama’s entire first term), with full first-term figures in the roughly 40–54 GW range depending on the source and endpoint. The administration circa 2019 rolled back or replaced elements of the Clean Power Plan (with the Affordable Clean Energy rule) and other rules and explored resilience-based support for coal and nuclear, but these steps left costs high to block new market entry, and have not reversed the trend.

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Following the close look we offered to the subject of US/NATO expansion into the former Iron Curtain nations and the CIA (USAID, ETC) ties to Nazis in Ukraine (and the establishment of US-funded biolabs there in 2005), I wanted to delve more into the topic of the US/Trump pushing missile launchers right to Russia’s border, contrary to the Intermediate Nuclear Forces Treaty (that Trump ended) and the US/NATO threats that kept growing, signaling to Russia, “Danger.” Jeff Sachs NAILS a lot of this

A little more of the charm of the killer and torturer who wants to some day run the Israeli defense forces and take over the PM office after that.

I spotted this just prior to Liberty Conspiracy going live last night, and I want to be sure to supply you with this today.

More, via Patrick Henningsen

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Juuuuuuust, trust JD

Yep, just as we noted all summer…

This chart says a lot, and we know that consumers will not buy US debt unless the US promises to pay back at higher interest rates (b/c the US dollar supply is being inflated like mad), but if the govt only can sell debt at higher rates, that will increase its debt-interest costs, which worsens the problem.

And…

And… “Supplier issue paused Ford F-150 production, hitting wholesale deliveries” LINK

In the UK:

And this means that the UK central bank will be in a tight spot, just like the US Fed, because the politicians will have to issue bonds at higher rates while they implore the central bank to LOWER rates, to allow for easier govt borrowing and less interest costs, but if the central bank lowers rates, that will expand the money supply even faster, worsening price increases for citizens, causing a recession (now) to deepen into a depression (soon), which will destroy DGP even more and wipe out tax revenue, increasing govt debt and political calls for bailouts and more govt debt-pusher spending…

-Veronique e Rugy offers coverage of the fundamental dilemma this US debt presents. “’When Will Markets React to Debt?’ Is the Wrong Question, by Veronique de Rugy | Creators Syndicate” LINK

“Trump just banned Canadian booze — but there’s a big catch” LINK

GOVT EDICTS - MORE EXPENSIVE HEALTH CARE

This is a valuable piece on a new unconstitutional “regulation” bill in DC that will push up insurance costs. “Making Healthcare More Expensive: “Bipartisanship” Strikes Again | The William Lloyd Garrison Center for Libertarian Advocacy Journalism” LINK

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The guy who was delivering food before the ICE goons SHOT HIM TWICE IN THE BACK? The govt is holding him without bail, and charging HIM with assault. “Judge denies bond for delivery driver shot by ICE agent” LINK
-AND “ICE is planning to turn vans into ‘mobile detention facilities’“ LINK

AND, finally, this exchange between FFF Founder and President, Jacob Hornberger and Prof Richard Ebeling is a great reminder of the problems tied to US “make the world safe for democracy” ideology.

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Immense and multiple thanks to all the nice people who joined us tonight to explore the fake "official" inflation numbers (the govt made them look better than they really are), the Chinese decision on Diesel, and our big in-depth look at the Valdai conference in Moscow, the US-CIA-NATO-EU manipulation post WWII in Ukraine, and more, and big thanks to all the fine journalists we got to mention - I hope many more folks get to follow their work! - Jin us, m-f 6 pm on Rumble or on X, find breakout segs at YT and get the audio pod shortly after the show, via Spotify or here at Substack! - Here is the link to the whole video stream, housed at Rumble! Liberty Conspiracy Live 10126 Chinese Diesel To Stop? Inflation Disaster, Ukraine History And here are some of the key matters we got to discuss tonight… We also included a special report on Western Meddling in Ukraine, and the text version is in the Paid Sub section, but we discussed a great deal of the report I’ve been writing for the past week or so…

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Chinese refiners have suspended refined-fuel exports, including diesel, for October, sources told Reuters in reports widely shared on X. Beijing withheld approvals beyond Hong Kong and Macau as Golden Week began, aiming to rebuild domestic stocks. Kpler estimates commercial diesel inventories sit about 20 million barrels below pre-war levels. PetroChina cancelled planned cargoes. Whether shipments resume after October 7 is unclear and depends on inventories. The pause further tightens global diesel markets already constrained by Middle East disruptions, with traders on X citing higher prices and margins. LINK

“NATO chief advocates war of aggression — RT World News” LINK

“San Francisco nurses protest ICE connection with Palantir” LINK
AND “Border Report live: ICE raids near schools causing ‘state of terror’“ LINK

(While the US has tried to keep its “Federal Reserve Note” afloat)

“Putin’s Valdai keynote: Russian president addresses renowned forum — RT Russia & Former Soviet Union” LINK

At the Valdai Discussion Club’s plenary session today outside Moscow, President Vladimir Putin used the annual question-and-answer format to restate a case Moscow has made since the start of the Ukraine conflict: that the fighting is the product of a Western proxy campaign, not an unprovoked Russian choice, and that a negotiated end remains preferable to further escalation.
Speaking under the theme “Responsibility for the Future: Limits of the Possible, or Limitless Possibilities?,” Putin reiterated the fact that Russia did not start the Ukraine war—war was started against Russia over a long expansion of NATO and by the Western-implanted Kieve regime launching deadly attacks against Russians in the Donbass.
As RT Notes, Mr. Putin explained that events in Ukraine clearly and provably are driven by Western aggression, carried out by the hands of the Kiev regime, and said Russia had been forced to defend itself with arms in hand.
He argued that the West should never have turned Russophobia, the oppression of Russian people, and their killing into a state ideology aimed at Russia’s strategic defeat.
Kudos to TASS for also today noting that Western, particularly European, sponsors are using pressure on the church and the seizure of temples to complete Ukraine’s rupture from Russia and to make future peaceful coexistence impossible.
Putin amplified on the proxy character of the conflict and the need he and others finally saw in responding: when someone wants to fight Russia through proxy means—in this case the Ukrainian regime, which he said is throwing its own people under fire—that is a threat that must be assessed and answered. At the same time he repeated that Moscow threatens no one and has no intention of attacking anyone in 2029, 2030, or 2050, but will respond if faced with aggression. RT noted his assessment that Ukrainian strikes on Russian refineries have cost about 1 percent of GDP, while Russia, he said, has struck military vessels in the Black Sea and almost never erred. He dismissed as pointless proposals to halt Russian strikes in exchange for an end to attacks on refineries, and he described the seizure of Gazprom, Rosneft, and now Lukoil assets in Europe as a crude violation of every international rule.
The session also returned to broken promises by the West and the wider collapse of restraints.
Putin warned that the Western systematic failure to fulfill obligations, Western deceit, and the reduction of communication to become propaganda destroy the foundation of international life, and that the logic of escalating reciprocal measures can reach a fatal point of no return quickly and unexpectedly. He treated Western talk of preparing for war with Russia by 2029–2030, Baltic drills, and attempts to detain Russian ships as escalation originating that is becoming very dangerous and is extracting wealth from European GDPs.
Putin said that, for example, any new direct attack by Ukraine on Kaliningrad would place the use of all weapons at Russia’s disposal on the agenda immediately—not as a threat, but as a response to attempts to intimidate Moscow. He added that Russia has no desire to tear down the European Union and only wants to build and cooperate, and that it sets no preconditions for restoring dialogue.
On the Middle East questions put to him (some by Prof Mirandi, who was in the audience and warmly welcomed), Putin said the whole world admires the resilience of the Iranian people, and that Moscow hopes the Strait of Hormuz will be opened and sanctions on Iran lifted. The Q&A also took up Gaza; consistent with the line he set out on the region, he framed Russia as opposed to aggression and in favor of settling such questions by peaceful agreement rather than by force. He likewise called for a fairer UN in which Asia, Africa, Latin America, and the Middle East carry greater weight.
The Russian President also noted that the world has reached a decisive turning point and that a multipolar order is inevitable. Russia, he said, is charting its own course and is ready to do that work with other countries.
He also was asked about AI, and warned against delegating final national decisions to artificial intelligence and called digital totalitarianism an inhumane dead end, urging timely rules for AI in the interest of all humanity.
RT reported his closing preference on Ukraine itself: Russia would like to end the fighting as soon as possible through negotiations. In the framing offered at Valdai, that remains the pro-peace exit from a conflict imposed Russia after years of broken Western assurances and the conversion of Ukraine into an instrument against Russia.
Here is a key recap, from Rick Sanchez, who asked one of the best questions of the day (about how much freer the press is in Russia than in Washington and the White House)

And here is Rick’s exchange with Putin, plus a very valuable encapsulation from Putin on what the West negotiated with him and repeatedly broke.

And here is more, on the interest Putin has in seeing peace for Iran and more world trade and prosperity.

Plus, I want to provide again this, which I consider to be is ESSENTIAL to understand Russia, its economy, and Putin’s role over the years. Big kudos to Neutrality Studies’ Pascal Lottaz and to Alex Krainer…

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The collapse of the Berlin Wall in November 1989 and the Soviet Union’s dissolution two years later did not produce a settled European security order. In the account developed by Scott Horton in Provoked and related Libertarian Institute writing, by Dan Kovalik in his work on U.S. election interference and coups, by Antiwar.com contributors, by TASS reporting on declassified Western and Ukrainian documents, and by Chay Bowes’s commentary on nationalist violence and Western patronage, Washington, NATO, the CIA, and British intelligence treated the opening as a chance to push the alliance east, to fund successive rounds of political change in Ukraine, and to cultivate Ukrainian nationalist organizations whose lineage ran back to wartime collaboration and postwar CIA programs. Verbal assurances given to Mikhail Gorbachev in 1990 were not written into a treaty covering the whole former Warsaw Pact or the Soviet republics. NATO expanded anyway.
In Ukraine the same pattern produced the Orange Revolution of 2004, a Pentagon-linked biological laboratory program announced by Senators Barack Obama and Richard Lugar in August 2005, the Euromaidan overthrow of Viktor Yanukovych in February 2014, and a CIA intelligence architecture built along the Russian border in the years that followed.
Far-right parties such as Svoboda were not an accidental presence on the Maidan; they were the organized force that U.S. diplomats discussed by name while the CIA moved, within days of Yanukovych’s flight, to rebuild Ukrainian services that had just participated in his removal. Ethnic Russians and Russian-speakers in the east and south were the population against whom the new order’s language laws, decommunization campaign, and security operations were directed.

The argument that NATO expansion violated a political bargain begins in Moscow on February 9, 1990. U.S. Secretary of State James Baker met Gorbachev and Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze as German unification became inevitable. Declassified American, Soviet, German, British, and French records assembled by the National Security Archive show Baker repeating language first used by West German Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher: if a united Germany stayed in NATO, there would be “no extension of NATO’s jurisdiction for forces of NATO one inch to the east.” Baker offered the formula three times. When Gorbachev said a broadening of the NATO zone was unacceptable, Baker replied, “We agree with that.” The same day he spoke to Shevardnadze of “iron-clad guarantees that NATO’s jurisdiction or forces would not move eastward.” He wrote Helmut Kohl that he had asked Gorbachev whether he preferred a neutral Germany or a Germany in NATO “with assurances that NATO’s jurisdiction would not shift one inch eastward from its present position.” Gorbachev answered that any extension of NATO’s zone would be unacceptable. Baker added for Kohl that, by implication, NATO in its current zone might be acceptable.

Genscher had already said the pledge applied “not only for the GDR” but “in general,” and that if Poland left the Warsaw Pact it should not join NATO the next day. Similar assurances came from Kohl, Robert Gates, François Mitterrand, Margaret Thatcher, Douglas Hurd, John Major, and NATO Secretary General Manfred Wörner through 1990 and into 1991. Scott Horton, in “Provoked”, and Antiwar.com correctly treat this as a cascade, not a single slip of the tongue. The Two-Plus-Four Treaty signed on September 12, 1990 limited non-German NATO forces on the territory of the former East Germany. It did not contain a written ban on later membership for Poland, the Baltic states, or Ukraine. Baker later called his February wording a hypothetical that President George H.W. Bush rejected. Gorbachev gave contradictory later interviews. Thanks to Horton’s work, and in documents Antiwar.com and the Libertarian Institute cite, we know that Soviet leaders were led to believe at the moment they accepted unification and the withdrawal of their troops. Gates later criticized “pressing ahead with expansion of NATO eastward when Gorbachev and others were led to believe that wouldn’t happen.” That “led to believe” standard is the one these sources apply.
NATO then enlarged: the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Poland in 1999; Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia, and Slovenia in 2004; later Croatia, Albania, Montenegro, and North Macedonia. At Bucharest in April 2008 the alliance declared that Ukraine and Georgia “will become members.” TASS has reported declassified U.S. records of Putin telling George W. Bush that Ukrainian membership would split the country. Ukraine’s 1990 Declaration of State Sovereignty had pledged permanent neutrality and non-participation in military blocs. That language entered the constitution and was later amended toward NATO. Horton and Ted Snider at Antiwar.com correctly have presented the sequence as the destruction of the political understanding that had ended the Cold War without a shot.

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Biiiiiig thanks to all the nice folks who joined us tonight to explore big news stories from great journalists! Plz follow them if you haven't had the chance, and join the Conspiracy for freedom, m-f 6 pm on Rumble or X - Be Seeing You! Here is the link to tonight’s entire video stream, now housed at Rumble: Liberty Conspiracy Live 93026 US Out of Iraq? Trump Threats v Iran, Ukraine EU

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IRAQ “WITHRAWL” -

That was BEFORE the US attack and occupation.

After 23 (officially) years, the US military claims that its final forces are leaving Iraq (most are crossing into Jordan). But the US likely will try to retain some kind of influence there by paying CIA-paid mercenaries and proxies, while the US continues to claim control over all oil sales Iraq, which will become more problematic as Iraqis begin to realign more with Iran’s Shia population. Iraq once was part of the Persian Empire, but with the instability of the Ottoman Turks and the British Empire, much of Persia was broken, and much of the Middle East was split into small, Western-created vassal states. One thing is certain, the US govt is incentivized to vacate many of those clearly vulnerable bases, because they are easy targets, but the US has invested a lot in them… What will they do? They likely will “rent” the spaces to Iraqi lackeys. But, over time, both the US control of Iraqi oil earnings and the remaining influence on the ground will be thinned to near nothing, one can imagine, because there is a large incentive for the Iraqis to come close to reuniting with their Iranian neighbors. Here is RT on the events of the past 36 hours.

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And here are Matt Bracken and Nima Alkorshid discussing the long US occupation and how, similar to the US involvement in Syria, American forces cozied up to the very “bad guys” they claimed for domestic consumption that they were fighting (i.e. al Nusra, ISIS, HTS/Jolani in Idlib, Syria).

AntiWar on the US activity. “US Completing Its Withdrawal From Remaining Military Bases in Iraq - News From Antiwar.com” LINK

FOR ISRAEL, of course…

Trump

As Dave DeCamp reports, many observers and some who are close to Trump suspect, Trump likely will resume attacks on Iran after the election

This, after Trump won last year by immorally and unconstitutionally attacking Iran, then doing it again on Feb 28, then again a few months ago to: A. Stop a nuke weapon Iran wasn’t pursuing, B. Free the people who were, on the whole, not interested in overthrowing the Iranian gubment, C. Stop the nuke that Trump claimed he stopped. D. Open the Strait that was open before Trump attacked… to stop the nuke to open the strait to…

Patrick Henningsen offers the spot-on truth

DROP SITE HAS A NEW EXPOSE OF WHAT THE US DID TO THOSE KIDS AND TEACHERS IN MINAB

THE WEST BANK - US SENATE VOTE ON…

“Senate Defeats Effort To Require Report on Israeli Killings of US Citizens in the West Bank - News From Antiwar.com” LINK

GAZA

Steve Hanke nails it

This is important.

ATTEMPTED (?) TERRORIST ATTACK TO DOWN JET HEADED TO TEL AVIV, THWARTED, NO EVIDENCE IT’S TIED TO IRAN, SUSPICIOUS OBSERVERS CALL POSSIBLE FALSE FLAG

• Flydubai flight FZ1073 from Dubai to Tel Aviv experienced a cockpit altercation on September 30, 2026, where the co-pilot allegedly stabbed the pilot and attempted to crash the plane; passengers and crew intervened, leading to an emergency landing in Tabuk, Saudi Arabia.

• Israeli officials including Netanyahu and Defense Minister Katz described the incident as an attempted “jihadist terror attack,” with preliminary probes examining possible Iran ties, coinciding with Trump’s statement that events related to Iran would “unfold very quickly soon.”

RT on it

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US/ISRAEL v GAZA/FREE-SPEECH

In January 2026, Miami Beach police visited U.S. Army National Guard veteran Raquel Pacheco at home following her online criticism of Mayor Steven Meiner’s rhetoric toward Palestinians and his opposition to screening the documentary ‘No Other Land.’ Officers refused her request for a lawyer, suggested her post could incite violence, and urged her to stop similar posts, after Meiner forwarded it to Police Chief Wayne Jones. U.S. District Judge Cecilia M. Altonaga ruled these allegations support a First Amendment viewpoint discrimination claim, allowing the lawsuit by the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee to proceed against the city and officials.

And… Video of the actual harassment by the cops

YEMEN V SAUDI

AGAIN, Matt B nails it

US/UKRAINE/NATO/EU V RUSSIA

The Ukrainians attacked another college in Russia “Ukrainian drone strike injures 12, mostly students, in Russia – governor — RT Russia & Former Soviet Union” LINK
THE EU STILL pushes for more spending for its military contractor friends, fooooor Ukraine, of course…

AND… “Moscow issues warning to NATO over Russian exclave — RT Russia & Former Soviet Union” LINK

AND - Lavrov openly stated that the Russian govt will continue to retaliate against NATO expansionist aggression via Ukraine until the job sees the NATO threat via Ukraine ended.

AND THIS CONVERSATION is ESSENTIAL to understand Russia, its economy, and Putin’s role over the years. Big kudos to Neutrality Studies’ Pascal Lottaz and to Alex Krainer

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COLLECTIVISM: FASCISM - TRUMP SEES US CO-OWN 34TH CORP

Hertha Metals is a privately held U.S. startup that develops a single-step pyrometallurgical process (Flex-HERS) to convert iron ore into steel or high-purity iron using natural gas, hydrogen, or electricity. The process aims to cut costs by about 25% and emissions by 50% or more versus traditional blast furnaces while using lower-grade domestic ore. It was founded in March 2022 by Dr. Laureen Meroueh, an MIT-trained mechanical engineer and materials scientist who previously ran the hydrogen electrolysis startup Alchemr. The company is headquartered and operates its pilot plant in Conroe, Texas (near Houston), where it has run a 1-tonne-per-day demonstration facility since late 2024. It is now preparing to break ground on a larger commercial plant (Hertha Chalyx) at the same site to produce magnet-grade iron. No public records or reporting indicate that current members of the Trump Administration previously worked for Hertha Metals itself. The company’s Chief of Government Relations, Mike Bailey, previously held roles at Blue Origin, Trajan Scientific and Medical, and IDEX Corporation; those positions show no documented ties to Trump-era officials. Hertha has used the lobbying firm theGROUP DC and has described itself as “very active” in working with the administration on industrial-base and critical-minerals policy since at least mid-2025, which is consistent with a company seeking Defense Department support.

COLLECTIVISM + UNIONS = EVEN GREATER DAMAGE TO THE TAXPAYER, EVEN GREATER LOSS OF LIBERTY

Jason Sorens has a very good new release at AIER, backed by tons of research! Check it out! “Public Sector Unions Undermine Accountability | The Daily Economy” LINK

FINALLY

Something among billions of nice moments when someone shows care for a stranger. “Tom Cruise goes viral after checking on woman sitting alone” LINK

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LIBERTY CONSPIRACY NEWS NOTES:

Immense thanks to Eric Peters, of EricPetersAutosDotCom (and HERE on X), for joining us in our Mind Meld, and to all the fine folks who joined us tonight to look at reports from excellent journalists and researchers- Catch the show m-f 6 Pm on Rumble or on X! -Here is the link to the entire video of tonight’s stream, stored at Rumble: Liberty Conspiracy Live 92926 Rubio-Levin Evils, Iran, Migrants, ICE Police State, and Housing, Mind Meld Guest Eric Peters on fuel, free markets v central planner hubris! And here are some of the big stories we got to explore, tonight!

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Oh, look! What a shock! “US ‘too late’ to boost missile production – WSJ — RT World News” LINK

Some Rubio fer us… Showing his facility to lie.

The wide picture of US imperialism - thanks to Marco Rubio’s attempt to gaslight numerous foreign governments and populations. By the way, did the US not claim to have CHANGED THE REGIME? - This continued nonsense is unbelievably cynical.

AND the WIDE picture of GAZA - Censored by the Israeli Govt.

The Levin Heresy - First, the polis of Israel it not Judaism. Second, one can acknowledge the word of God in the Ten Commandments while acknowledging that Jesus fulfilled Old Testament prophesy and established a new Covenant for man such that the term “Israel” means the religious followers of Jesus, not descendants of the original Jews by blood.

And, as the mid-term election approaches, someone might want to tell Mr. Johnson that what they have been doing is destructive and contrary to the US Constitution almost every time they pass legislation. And, of course, on a deeper level, the state is an immoral imposition on people, thus negating the implication that what anyone does there to maintain or expand the state is a positive.

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The Netanyahu madness, tied to Trumpola, tied to the UK False-Flaggers, let’s again look at the 10-7 foreknowledge, and the RAF Bomb Plot non-plot… Via Judge N and Karen K! (more on the UK govt re this, below!)

Lawrence Wilkerson offers to Nima Alkorshid a very clear assessment of the deafness of Trump to GOP-ers who want him to end the attacks on Iran. (Note, later, at the 24 min mark, he also reflects on the clear fact that those blasted lives and cars leaving the music fest on Oct 7, 2023 had to have been hit by Israeli forces using rockets launched from US-supplied Apaches.)

I missed this yesterday and did not mention it on LCL: “Report: Ansar Allah Tells EU It Won’t Target European Ships - News From Antiwar.com” LINK

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To follow-up on what we yesterday reported re the US pullout from Iraq due to be finished by the 30th, Prof Mirandi offers some valuable insights. The US forces might leave, but, of course, the US still will control the revenue from Iraqi oil sales and will run many proxy groups there.

The Euro “leaders” want arms made, not bodies fed. “EU states push farm aid cuts to fund military buildup — RT World News” LINK This is not to say that govt handouts to farmers are ethical, but in many cases the farmers have been slammed by policies laid on them by their govts.

Hmmm… “Escalation watch: Burnham speaks after ‘terror plotters’ given bail in UK — RT World News” LINK n… LINK

It looks like Jupiter is dimming… “Strikes paralyze France as Macron’s popularity flatlines (VIDEOS) — RT World News” LINK Even as Macron ramps up the goofy anti-Russian rhetoric. On 18 September he convened party leaders and presidential candidates in the Élysée crisis room for an intelligence briefing, then told reporters that “the Russian hybrid threat against Europeans and against France has intensified.” He ordered a government plan to protect critical infrastructure and defence-industry sites from drones and cyberattacks, stated that such attacks “will not go unanswered,” and warned that “the day we are physically attacked, we will not be warned.” He specifically attributed a failed explosive-drone incident at Leipzig airport to Russia’s GRU. In a 24 September television interview he said hostile acts across Europe had multiplied in recent weeks, that Russia now views Europe as Ukraine’s “strategic rear,” that a Leipzig-style drone attack on French soil was possible, and that a new Russian mobilisation of around 300,000 men was a “credible scenario.”

IN TEXAS: Gove Abbott is lifting some Diesel sales/use restrictions that previously had separated the fuel for use in farm equipment and for use in trucking. “Texas governor declares emergency to bring down fuel prices - The Washington Post” LINK

A follow-up to our report from yesterday. Great writing, from Eric Peters, on Trump “mending” but not ENDING the unconstitutional and immoral CAFE mandates. “Mending - But Not Ending - Again - EPautos - Libertarian Car Talk” LINK

Dr. Bowden chats w Dr. Drew about the continuing Trump mRNA deception…

Mr. Brown is one of the few people I’ve encountered (we follow each other on X and occasionally write to each other) who acknowledges that immigration is a state matter, as laid out in the US Constitution.

-BIG

AND -”Amnesty International calls for ICE to be abolished” LINK
-And… “DHS fires back at MS NOW over ‘ICE watcher’ segment” LINK
-Using this unethical consequentialist approach, they also could remove other people to “lower demand” - “DHS says ICE deportations are pushing down rent. Other factors are at play” LINK

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