Trump Demands Fed Governor "Must Resign Now" Amid Mortgage Fraud Probe

The director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency is urging Attorney General Pam Bondi to investigate Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook over a pair of mortgages, the latest in a series of moves by the Trump administration to increase legal scrutiny of Democratic figures and appointees.

FHFA Director Bill Pulte wrote a letter to Bondi and DOJ official Ed Martin on Aug. 15 suggesting that Cook may have committed a criminal offense. The letter alleges that Cook “falsified bank documents and property records to acquire more favorable loan terms, potentially committing mortgage fraud under the criminal statute.”

Bloomberg reports that Pulte said Cook took a mortgage on a property in Ann Arbor, Michigan, signing a mortgage agreement that stipulated she would use the property as her primary residence for at least a year.

Two weeks later, according to the letter, she took another mortgage on a Georgia property and also declared it would be her primary residence.

Pulte also called on Bondi to look into whether Cook misrepresented her circumstances by later listing the Georgia property for rental.

The letter includes copies of mortgage documents in Cook’s name, as well as an apparent rental listing from 2022, a little over a year after she bought the Georgia property.

Cook was nominated to the Fed by President Joe Biden and took office in 2022, becoming the first Black woman to serve on the Fed’s board of governors.

She was later nominated by Biden for a full term, which expires in 2038.

Bloomberg reports that no charges have been filed and it’s not clear whether Bondi will investigate. The Justice Department declined comment. The Federal Reserve declined comment. Cook did not respond to requests for comment late Tuesday.

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/trump-demands-fed-governor-must-resign-now-over-mortgage-fraud-probe

Syria, Israel Hold Unprecedented US-Mediated Talks In Paris

Syria has issued confirmation of a meeting between its foreign minister and a close confidante of Benjamin Netanyahu in Paris, marking the first official announcement of direct talks between Damascus and Tel Aviv. Earlier, reports had said Syrian Foreign Minister Asaad al-Shaibani would meet with Israeli Strategic Affairs Minister Ron Dermer in Paris.

"Shaibani met today in the French capital, Paris, with an Israeli delegation to discuss several issues related to ‘enhancing stability’ in the region and southern Syria. Discussions focused on de-escalation and non-interference in Syria's internal affairs, reaching understandings that support stability in the region, monitoring the ceasefire in As-Suwayda Governorate, and reactivating the 1974 agreement," state news agency SANA reported on Tuesday.

"These discussions are being held with US mediation as part of diplomatic efforts aimed at enhancing security and stability in Syria and preserving its unity and territorial integrity," it added.

This was not the first meeting between Dermer and Shaibani. US envoy to Syria, Tom Barrack, said on July 24 that he met in Paris with Syrian and Israeli officials for “dialogue and de-escalation.” Shaibani and Dermer were both visiting the French capital at the time.

Barrack’s announcement came after the end of violent clashes between pro-government forces and local Syrian Druze factions in the southern city of Suwayda and its countryside, resulting in numerous civilian massacres.

Israel intervened with a series of violent airstrikes targeting Damascus and other areas in southern Syria, under the pretext of “protecting” the Druze minority. According to reports, Syrian-Israeli negotiations, which had been ongoing since the start of the year, resumed quickly after the attacks, following a brief pause.

Since the fall of Bashar al-Assad’s government last year, Israeli forces have established a widespread military occupation across southern Syria.

Occupation forces continue to expand their presence in the country’s south, launching regular raids, incursions, and airstrikes. Israel says it wishes to demilitarize the entire south, protect the Druze minority from persecution, and prevent ‘hostile forces’ from establishing a presence.

Damascus has repeatedly signaled that it does not intend to pose a threat to Israel. Syrian interim President Ahmad al-Sharaa, previously known as Abu Mohammad al-Julani, has also reportedly held meetings with Israeli officials.

A source told Syrian media last month that Sharaa held a meeting with Israel’s National Security Advisor Tzachi Hanegbi in Abu Dhabi on July 7.

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/syria-israel-hold-unprecedented-us-mediated-talks-paris

'Ukrainian villages EMPTY… demographic CRISIS in country'

Ukrainian MP @Dmytruk__Artem on report that 1.7 MILLION Ukrainians dead or missing

'We have LOST several generations' he tells RT

https://twitter.com/i/status/1958201706115707042

Hacker group KillNet claim they breached the General Staff database of the Ukrainian military

1.7 MILLION Ukrainian soldiers allegedly listed as killed or missing since start of the conflict

Photos, IDs, death certificates & dog tags among leaked files

https://x.com/RT_com/status/1958160456431903143

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Clinton Judge Rejects DOJ’s Request to Unseal Epstein Documents

A federal judge on Wednesday rejected the Justice Department’s request to unseal Jeffrey Epstein documents.

US District Judge Richard Berman, a Clinton appointee, called the DOJ’s effort to unseal grand jury transcripts a “diversion.”

“A significant and compelling reason to reject the Government’s position in this litigation is that the Government has already undertaken a comprehensive investigation into the Epstein case and, not surprisingly, has assembled a “trove” of Epstein documents, interviews, and exhibits. And, the Government committed that it would share its Epstein investigation materials with the public,” the judge wrote

“The information contained in the Epstein grand jury transcripts pales in comparison to the Epstein investigation information and materials in the hands of the Department of Justice,” the judge wrote.

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.518649/gov.uscourts.nysd.518649.77.0.pdf

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Fuck you asshole!

American Academy Of Pediatrics Pushes COVID-19 Vax For All Infants

In stark contrast to reality, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) - which is heavily funded by pharmaceutical companies, recommended on Tuesday that young children, including infants, receive the COVID-19 vaccine despite the fact that children are minimally impacted by the virus, the fact that the vaccine doesn't prevent one from contracting it, and that it largely only helps the elderly and medically fragile from severe cases.

According to the organization, all children ages 6-23 months should receive the COVID-19 vaccine - regardless of whether they have natural immunity from prior infection, unless they have a contraindication such as a history of severe allergic reaction to a vaccine ingredient.

While the recommendation is universal, the group said in a statement that their recommendation stems from infants and other children who are "at high risk for severe COVID-19."

As the Epoch Times notes further, the organization pointed, in part, to a paper it published that found that among children hospitalized for COVID-19 from fall 2022 to spring 2024, the majority of those younger than 2 had no underlying conditions.

Of note, the paper cited surveyed 2,490 children who were hospitalized with COVID-19, effectively a rounding error.

A spokesman for the Department of Health and Human Services, the CDC’s parent agency, told The Epoch Times in an email that the AAP, which receives funding from vaccine manufacturers, should strengthen its conflict-of-interest safeguards.

“By bypassing the CDC’s advisory process and freelancing its own recommendations, while smearing those who demand accountability, the AAP is putting commercial interests ahead of public health and politics above America’s children,” Andrew Nixon, the spokesman, said.

The CDC used to recommend that all children, except for those younger than 6 months, receive a COVID-19 vaccine.

In May, under orders from Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the CDC stopped recommending the vaccine for healthy children and pregnant women.

The CDC’s schedule currently states that children with moderately or severely compromised immune systems should receive a vaccine, even if they’ve been vaccinated before.

https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/american-academy-pediatrics-pushes-covid-19-vax-all-infants

Socialist Spanish Prime Minister’s Wife Charged With Embezzlement

Embattled Socialist Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez faces further familial controversy as his wife, Begoña Gómez, was charged with allegedly embezzling public funds.

First Lady Gómez was charged by Judge Juan Carlos Peinado this week with embezzlement and has been ordered to appear before his court in September. The accusations centre around her assistant, Cristina Álvarez, who has also been charged with the same crime.

While it is customary for Spanish first ladies to receive an assistant from the Palace of Moncloa — the prime minister’s office — Gómez faces accusations that Álvarez carried out non-governmental work for her while she held an academic position at Madrid’s Complutense University, which would have represented a misallocation of government funds, broadcaster SER reported.

The first lady also faces accusations of “influence peddling” by using her position as the wife of PM Sánchez to advance her career. Gómez was forced to appear before Judge Peinado on separate charges of influence peddling earlier this year over government contracts handed out to her business associates.

The latest charges will undoubtedly intensify the pressure on the socialist prime minister, whose administration has been dogged by corruption scandals, including Santos Cerdán, one of the highest-ranking members of Sánchez’s Socialist Party, being arrested last month on suspicion of bribery and influence peddling.

The scandal deepened after leaked audio recordings purportedly of Cerdán’s aide, Koldo García, and former Transport Minister José Luis Ábalos allegedly revealed them discussing kickbacks from government contracts and bribery schemes. Additionally, the two top socialist party figures also allegedly discussed hiring foreign prostitutes with government funds for private parties, while ranking the women based on their sexual prowess.

Prime Minister Sánchez and his wife were further accused in Parliament last month by opposition leader Alberto Núñez Feijóo of having benefited from the profits of alleged homosexual brothels said to have been run by Gómez’s late father, who is claimed to have previously paid for the couple’s apartment.

Meanwhile, the Prime Minister’s brother, David Sánchez, also faces accusations of embezzlement and influence peddling over his government position as regional music director; a job that was allegedly created for the sole purpose of employing the Prime Minister’s brother.

The case was lodged off the back of a complaint filed by the trade unionist anti-corruption group Manos Limpias (Clean Hands), the same group which sparked the investigations into First Lady Gomez.

The charge against his wife may imperil the Prime Minister’s faltering government, which is only in power based on a controversial coalition made with Catalonian separatists after Sánchez lost the last election in 2023.

Amid the initial accusations against his wife, Sánchez sparked speculation last year that he may resign after abruptly announcing that he was taking several days off to contemplate his future. However, he ultimately returned and denounced the right-wing “mud machine” supposedly targeting him and his family.

https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2025/08/20/socialist-spanish-prime-ministers-wife-charged-with-embezzlement/

The New Normal Of US Domestic Spying

Every American’s inalienable right to be left alone is violated by the federal government so thoroughly, quietly and continuously that we don’t even notice it, writes Andrew P. Napolitano

What if the federal government captures in real time the contents of every telephone call, email and text message and all the fiber-optic data generated by every person and entity in the United States 24/7? What if this mass surveillance was never authorized by any federal law and tramples the Fourth Amendment?

What if this mass surveillance has come about by the secret collusion of presidents and their spies in the National Security Agency and by the federal government forcing the major telephone and computer service providers to cooperate with it? What if the service providers were coerced into giving the feds continuous physical access to their computers and thus to all the data contained in and passing through those computers?

What if President George W. Bush told the NSA that since it is part of the Defense Department and he was the commander in chief of the military, NSA agents could spy on anyone, notwithstanding any court orders or statutes that prohibited it? What if Bush believed that his orders to the military were not constrained by the laws against computer hacking that Congress had written or the interpretations of those laws by federal courts or even by the Constitution?

What if Congress has written laws that all presidents have sworn to uphold and that require a warrant issued by a judge before the NSA can spy on anyone but Bush effectively told the NSA to go through the motions of getting a warrant while spying without warrants on everyone in the U.S. all the time? What if Presidents Barack Obama, Joe Biden and Donald Trump have taken the same position toward the NSA and ordered or permitted the same warrantless and lawless spying?

What if the Constitution requires warrants based on probable cause of criminal behavior before surveillance can be conducted but Congress has written laws reducing that standard to probable cause of communicating with a foreign national? What if a basic principle of constitutional law is that Congress is subject to the Constitution and therefore cannot change its terms or their meanings?

What if the Constitution requires that all warrants particularly describe the place to be searched or the person or thing to be seized? What if the warrants Congress permits the NSA to use violate that requirement by permitting a federal court — the FISA Court — to issue general warrants? What if general warrants do not particularly describe the place to be searched or the person or thing to be seized but rather authorize the bearer to search indiscriminately through service providers’ customer data?

What if the government has no moral, constitutional or legal right to personal information about and from all of us without a valid search warrant consistent with constitutional requirements?

What if raw intelligence data comes to the government without any proper names on it? What if in order to find those proper names, the government goes through a procedure called unmasking? What if lawful unmasking can only occur when the government knows that a national security problem is afoot and it needs to know the identity of the person whose communications it has in hand? What if the Constitution requires a search warrant to engage in unmasking?

https://thefreethoughtproject.com/government-surveillance/the-new-normal-of-us-domestic-spying

https://www.antiwar.com/

You do the math!

Bill H.R.8445, if passed will provide service member benefits for people who serve in the Israeli Defense Force

H.R.8445 – To amend title 38, United States Code, and the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act to provide for the eligibility of United States citizens who serve in the Israeli Defense Forces for certain protections relating to such service.

Sponsor: Rep. Reschenthaler, Guy [R-PA-14] (Introduced 05/17/2024)

Cosponsor : Rep. Miller, Max L. [R-OH-7]* 05/17/2024

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https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/8445/text

Take out the central bankers then the money can't flow!

The DEA launches Project Portero: Historic offensive against mexican cartels responsible for 90,000 american deaths from fentanyl overdoses each year.

The United States Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) has launched a decisive offensive against Mexican drug cartels with the introduction of Project Gatekeeper, a bilateral initiative aimed at dismantling criminal networks that flood American communities with deadly synthetic drugs.

Announced on August 18, 2025, this operation focuses on the cartels’ “gatekeepers” — key operatives who control smuggling corridors along the southwest border — who orchestrate the flow of fentanyl, methamphetamines, and cocaine into the United States, while channeling firearms and illicit money into Mexico.

The DEA’s strategy, outlined by Administrator Terrance Cole, emphasizes joint action with Mexican authorities to strike at the core of the cartels’ command and control. “The DEA is taking decisive measures to confront the cartels that are killing Americans with fentanyl and other poisons,” Cole stated.

“Project Gatekeeper and this new training program show how we will fight: planning and operating side by side with our Mexican partners, and deploying the full strength of the United States government.”

The initiative includes a multi-week training program at a DEA intelligence center, bringing together Mexican investigators with U.S. agents, prosecutors, defense officials, and intelligence experts to develop coordinated law enforcement strategies.

https://www.domigood.com/2025/08/the-dea-launches-project-portero.html

An Indo–Israeli partnership would translate into long-term strategic advantage

Both Israel and India have shared interests, such as securing access to advanced technologies or deepening strategic influence in Asia, but there are some key challenges ahead.

Over the past decade, India has undergone a strategic shift in its industrial and security policies. The Atmanirbhar Bharat (“Self-Reliant India”) initiative continues to shape the country’s economic, industrial, and security agenda in 2025.

Rooted in techno-nationalist principles, it views mastery of critical technologies and their indigenous development as a central pathway to securing economic, security, and political advantages. In its current phase, the initiative emphasizes innovation, the development of advanced technologies, and adherence to environmental standards under the “Zero Defect, Zero Effect” framework.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has articulated a core objective, “Tech Atmanirbhar Bharat,” aimed at accelerating the development and production of indigenous products and technologies, while mobilizing the younger generation to contribute, particularly in technology, defense, and industrial sectors.

Economic Growth – India has risen to fifth place globally by nominal GDP, with ambitions to become the third-largest economy. The original Atmanirbhar Bharat policy package—announced in 2020 at approximately $359 billion—has evolved into a broader framework that continues to stabilize the economy even during crises. In FY2024/25, GDP growth stood at about 9.9% in nominal terms and 6.5% in real terms.

Defense Industry Self-Reliance Regulatory reforms and government incentives have stimulated domestic defense technology development, with production reaching a record $18 billion in FY2024/25. Employment and Local Growth – The prioritization of local manufacturing has created significant employment opportunities and boosted exports across multiple sectors.

The Five Foundational Pillars of the Initiative

Economy and innovation

Infrastructure development

Advanced governance systems

Leveraging demographic potential through investment in a young workforce

Strengthening local demand

Techno-Nationalism and Strategic Cooperation with Israel

Within this framework, the Indo-Israeli security-technology partnership exemplifies techno-nationalism in practice. India prioritizes collaborations involving joint development, technology transfer (ToT), and local production, merging external innovation with the cultivation of domestic self-sufficiency.

Notable joint projects include the Barak-8 – Jointly developed by Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) and India’s Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO), integrating Israeli expertise with Indian manufacturing capabilities. Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) such as the Heron and Searcher models, with technology transfer enabling local component production, complemented by private-sector initiatives such as the Adani–Elbit UAV manufacturing facility in Hyderabad.

There were also precision weapons system projects, such as Rafael Advanced Defense System’s Spice precision-guided munitions and light machine guns procured from Israel Weapon Industries (IWI) under a 2020 contract.There were also joint cyber and Electronic Warfare (EW) programs aimed at enhancing the cyber defense and EW capabilities of the Indian Armed Forces.

Shared Interests, Challenges, and Opportunities

Both countries have shared interests, such as India securing access to advanced technologies while preserving local production autonomy and sustainment capabilities, and Israel expanding access to India’s vast defence market and deepening strategic influence in Asia.

https://www.jpost.com/defense-and-tech/article-864825

kinda is at this point

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>>23486279

>if passed

>>23486318

But Albo is still funding Israeli weapons companies

pure kabuki theater

Authorities Hit White Man Who Was Savagely Beaten During Cincinnati Brawl with a Criminal Charge Following Outcry from Black Community Leaders

One of the two victims identified by police during last month’s street brawl in Cincinnati has been hit with a criminal charge.

As Fox News reported on Wednesday, authorities charged the unidentified 45-year-old White man with disorderly conduct for his part in the July 26 fight.

Police are not legally allowed to identify the man at this time. This is because under Marsy’s law, victims of crimes are allowed to have their names withheld from the public.

Authorities also did not specify what he specifically did to warrant a disorderly conduct charge.

This news comes after black community leaders in Cincy last week demanded the white man’s prosecution, citing a video appearing to show him slapping one of the black individuals before the all-out assault. A racial slur can also be heard, though it’s not clear whether the white man or someone else uttered it.

Community leaders said this proved the white guy should be facing at least the exact charges as the other seven thugs who brutally beat him and a white woman.

Many spoke out against this perceived ‘injustice’ during a discussion at New Prospect Baptist Church in the Cincy neighborhood of Roselawn.

“If the riot is because of a slap, who incited the riot?” asked Rev. Damon Lynch. “Why are the only people being charged are the ones who look like me?”

While the charges are not as severe as the black individuals, the community leaders at least partially got their wish.

A group of black individuals back on July 26 smacked around a bald white guy at the intersection of West Fourth Street and Elm Street in downtown Cincy and beat him so bad that he could not get up.

Then, a white woman got slugged by one of the cowards. Her head slammed down onto the concrete, and she lost consciousness.

Blood was also seen coming out of her mouth.

Seven people have been arrested in the attack so far. One was out on bail from previous charges.

https://www.yourdestinationnow.com/2025/08/authorities-hit-white-man-who-was.html

Orthodox Jewish man caught taking pictures of little girls

https://twitter.com/i/status/1957088814935011536

Trump Admin to Screen Immigrants for 'Antisemitic Ideologies'

The Trump administration on Tuesday announced that the US government going forward will be screening immigrants for "antisemitic ideologies" when they apply to live or work in the US.

Those found to have promoted "antisemitic ideologies" or "antisemitic terrorist organizations" (i.e., Hamas, Hezbollah, the IRGC, and the rest of Israel's enemies) will have that weigh heavily against them.

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services conflated "anti-Semitism" with "anti-Americanism" to try and make the policy appear more palatable.

From U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, "USCIS to Consider Anti-Americanism in Immigrant Benefit Requests":

WASHINGTON – U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services is updating guidance in the USCIS Policy Manual regarding the factors that officers consider in certain benefit requests where an exercise of discretion is required, including factors relating to aliens’ past requests for parole and any involvement in anti-American or terrorist organizations, as well as the use of discretion in adjudication of certain benefit requests where evidence of antisemitic activity is present.

Separately, USCIS has expanded the types of benefit requests that receive social media vetting, and reviews for anti-American activity will be added to that vetting. Anti-American activity will be an overwhelmingly negative factor in any discretionary analysis.

“America’s benefits should not be given to those who despise the country and promote anti-American ideologies. U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services is committed to implementing policies and procedures that root out anti-Americanism and supporting the enforcement of rigorous screening and vetting measures to the fullest extent possible,” said USCIS spokesman Matthew Tragesser. “Immigration benefits—including to live and work in the United States—remain a privilege, not a right."

USCIS is reiterating its guidance that an alien’s compliance with immigration laws is a relevant factor when determining if a favorable exercise of discretion is warranted and updating the Policy Manual to provide additional guidance in circumstances where an alien has endorsed, promoted, supported, or otherwise espoused the views of a terrorist organization or group, including aliens who support or promote anti-American ideologies or activities, antisemitic terrorism and antisemitic terrorist organizations, or who promote antisemitic ideologies. When conducting a discretionary analysis, USCIS officers will consider whether an alien’s application for admission or parole was made in accordance with all applicable laws, regulations, and policies in effect at the time.

This update will also clarify how an exercise of discretion is applied when adjudicating an EB-5 investor petition or application in cases involving threats to the national interest, fraud, deceit, misrepresentation, and criminal misuse.

This guidance, contained in Volume 1 of the Policy Manual, is effective immediately and applies to requests pending or filed on or after the publication date. The guidance contained in the Policy Manual is controlling and supersedes any related prior guidance.

The policy alert further "affirms that USCIS considers factors involving circumstances where an alien has endorsed, promoted, supported, or otherwise espoused the views of an anti-American or terrorist organization or group, including those who support or promote antisemitic terrorism, antisemitic terrorist organizations, and antisemitic ideologies, to be an overwhelmingly negative factor in USCIS discretionary analyses."

The Trump administration is clearly trying to implement a pledge of allegiance to Israel as a litmus test for US citizenship, just as Germany implemented last year, though they're having to work around US law to do it.

As we saw earlier this month, they also put forward a plan to deny disaster aid to American states and cities that boycott Israel (they partially walked it back after facing massive backlash).

Of course, if you're an Israeli visiting America and you get ensnared in a child predator sting, you can just come and go as you please.

https://www.informationliberation.com/?id=65016

It appears as if Mr. Peace President is looking into invading Venezuela under the pretext that the whole country is an illegal drug cartel and Maduro is a fugitive and an illegitimate president. The largest oil reserves in the world have obviously nothing to do with it.

https://x.com/i/status/1957873808611897678

After years on hold, Israel revives settlement project that will split the West Bank in two

Israel is reviving a settlement plan that would annex a strategic tract of land east of Jerusalem and effectively split the West Bank in two, “burying” the possibility of any future Palestinian state in the territory.

Israel is reviving a settlement plan that would annex a strategic tract of land east of Jerusalem and build 3,400 new housing units on top of it. Known as the E1 settlement project, the plan would effectively split the West Bank in two and “bury” any prospects of a Palestinian state, according to far-right Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich in a statement last week.

“This is Zionism at its best — building, settling, and strengthening our sovereignty in the Land of Israel,” Smotrich stated.

The settlement plan, which dates back to the 1990s, aims to connect Jerusalem to the existing illegal Israeli settlement of Maale Adumim located east of the city. The over 3,400 new planned housing units are set to be built over an area exceeding 12 square kilometres, known on Israeli maps as E-1, which stands for “East-1.”

Smotrich’s announcement was widely welcomed by the Israeli settlement community, with the Chairman of the Yesha Council settler organization, Israel Gantz, praising the plan as “another great and historical achievement for the settlement on the eve of the application of sovereignty.”

Ma’ale Adumim’s mayor, Guy Yifrach, said the project would thwart the Palestinians’ goal of pursuing what he described as “illegal construction” in the E1 area.

The E1 area straddles a strategic tract of land east of Jerusalem that separates the northern West Bank from its southern half. The E1 settlement plan would block any territorial contiguity between those two halves and effectively split the territory into two. Palestinian transportation between north and south would be rerouted to a planned network of tunnels set to pass underneath E1, effectively banning any Palestinian presence aboveground in the area.

Frozen attempts to implement the E1 plan

The E1 settlement plan has been on the Israeli agenda for over 20 years, shifting between freezes and renewed attempts to implement it.

The first attempts took place in the early 1990s under then-Prime Minister Yitzak Shamir and then-Defense Minister Moshe Arens. The Shamir government signed a document transferring part of the area to Maale Adumim’s Local Council.

A few years later, in 1994, the Settlement Subcommittee of the Supreme Planning Council in the Occupied West Bank issued a new plan that expanded the scope of the previous “master plan.”

https://mondoweiss.net/2025/08/after-years-on-hold-israel-revives-settlement-project-that-will-split-the-west-bank-in-two/

Israel Loyalty Pledges: A Modern Abomination

“Support genocide or else.” That was the implicit message in the Trump Administration’s order August 4threquiring states to certify that they would not “sever relations with Israeli companies” if they wished to remain eligible for federal disaster funds.

Trump’s order aimed at pre-empting states from boycotting Israel as the Gaza genocide escalates. But what if a state wanted to “sever relations” with an Israeli company that wasn’t fulfilling the terms of its contract? What if the Israeli company was overcharging or underperforming? What if it was cheating or abusing Americans? What if it was building back doors into its cybersecurity products so Israel could spy on American officials? Would state officials have to prove that they were dumping the Israeli company for good cause, and not because Israel is committing the most outrageous genocide in history?

A ban on states “severing relations” with Israeli companies would, on the face of it, lock in all state contracts with those companies in perpetuity, no matter how badly the company performed. And it would prevent states from weighing in against the genocide of Gaza, and deny much-needed aid to ordinary citizens afflicted by fires, earthquakes, floods, and droughts.

Fortunately cooler heads prevailed and the prohibition was reversed just hours after its release. “FEMA grants remain governed by existing law and policy and not political litmus tests,” DHS Spokeswoman Tricia McLaughlin sheepishly explained.

Apparently the Jewish Lobby that dominates the United States had overreached, if only slightly, by trying to elevate its “buy from Israel or else” laws from the state to the federal level. At last count, 34 states had laws that “punish American citizens and businesses that refuse to sign a certified letter denouncing the boycott of Israel.” In those states, any corporation or individual that refuses to sign a pledge not to boycott Israel is barred from receiving state contracts, grants, or investments.

These tens or hundreds of thousands of certified letters pledging not to boycott Israel, signed by everyone on the approved contractors’ lists of 34 states, are reminiscent of the Mark of the Beast mentioned in The Book of Revelation’s chapters 13 and 14. The won’t-boycott-Israel pledges, like the Mark of the Beast, are mandatory for anyone who wishes to engage in economic activity (in this case, with a state). What’s more, they signal opposition to God and loyalty to Antichrist.

Everyone agrees that God hates the wanton mass murder of tens or hundreds of thousands of innocent women and children. Those who stand with God, with their faith, with the values of the New Testament (or the Qur’an or Mahabharata or Analects or Lotus Sutra or Tao Te Ching for that matter) are bound to oppose genocide. Acquiescing in genocide, or even supporting it, amounts to opposing God.

It would seem that we are in the End Times, or something very much like them—times when the price of staying in business involves selling your soul and pledging loyalty to an abomination.

https://www.unz.com/kbarrett/israel-loyalty-pledges-a-modern-abomination/

Grok UNLEASHES on Israel!

https://substack.com/@ayubahmad/note/c-146205156?r=fnmd7

🚨Rep. Miller to

@FoxNews

: “Allowing taxpayer-funded financial aid for illegal aliens is a slap in the face to hardworking Illinois families and students. Our state is drowning in debt, yet JB Pritzker is determined to drain even more taxpayer dollars to reward illegals. It's absolutely shameful.”

https://x.com/RepMaryMiller/status/1957624060931703116

Milk now taxed like steel under new tariff codes

Trump just reclassified dairy as steel. That is not satire. That is policy. On August 18, the administration dropped 407 new tariff codes with no exemptions and no grace period. “Many of these new HTS provisions would not normally be considered aluminum or steel derivative products … at least not by any reasonable understanding of those words,” said trade attorney Michael Roll.

https://www.anderinger.com/trump-administration-adds-407-additional-hts-provisions-section-232-aluminum-steel-tariffs/

The math is brutal. Packaging tariffs alone add about $2,400 a year to household costs. Ford bled $800 million last quarter.

Even the American Enterprise Institute admits the tariffs “will likely decrease the number of manufacturing jobs in the US.”

https://www.aei.org/research-products/report/the-non-effect-of-tariffs-on-manufacturing-employment/

The double standard is glaring. China gets 63 percent exemptions. Canada pays 35 percent on autos. Mexico pays 25 percent. “Goods with Country of Origin China (including Hong Kong) 10 percent … Goods with Country of Origin Canada 35 percent … Mexico 25 percent,” reads the latest tariff update.

https://www.internationaltradeinsights.com/2025/08/summary-of-tariff-requirements-updated-august-4-2025/

Supply chain experts are blunt. “This will add more inflationary cost-push pressures to already climbing prices,” said Jason Miller of Michigan State.

https://www.supplychaindive.com/news/steel-aluminum-section-232-tariffs-expand-trump/757925/

Yet no one asks why milk is taxed like a muffler. Why allies pay more while Beijing gets carve-outs. Why $1.7 trillion in consumer costs bankroll $2.1 trillion in corporate cuts. Why “national security” means taxing groceries while subsidizing auto parts.

The signal is obvious. Tariffs are not protecting. They are extracting. From households. From allies. From reason itself.

This is not industrial policy. It is corporate socialism dressed up as nationalism. And the evidence is on every grocery receipt.

https://citizenwatchreport.com/milk-now-taxed-like-steel-under-new-tariff-codes/

Katherine Clark backs off Gaza ‘genocide’ comments

Her statement comes after saying the “genocide and destruction” in Gaza needs to end.

House Minority Whip Katherine Clark (D-Mass.) said that she was not accusing the Israeli government of committing genocide in Gaza, despite saying at an event last week there was “genocide and destruction” in the war-torn strip.

“Last week, while attending an event in my district, I repeated the word ‘genocide’ in response to a question. I want to be clear that I am not accusing Israel of genocide, ” she said in the statement to POLITICO on Tuesday. “We all need to work with urgency to bring the remaining hostages home, surge aid to Palestinians and oppose their involuntary relocation, remove Hamas from power, and end the war.”

Clark’s statement was first reported by the Jewish News Syndicate.

Clark made her comments at an event hosted by a Quaker organization in her district last week, POLITICO previously reported. At the event, she called on those in the audience to “take action in time to make a difference … whether that is stopping the starvation and genocide and destruction of Gaza” or other major political issues.

A spokesperson at the time did not walk back the characterization but also said that her position on the fighting in the region hadn’t changed.

Though Democrats across the country have been critical of Israel’s ground offensive in Gaza, very few have called it a genocide. Clark is the second-highest ranking Democrat in the House and would have been one of the most senior members of the party to take that stance.

The war in Gaza has roiled the Democratic Party, as politicians and potential 2028 candidates grapple with how to talk about the war and the humanitarian crisis in Gaza.

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/08/19/katherine-clark-israel-war-00514667

AB 495 lets nonrelatives take children from school and make medical decisions without parent approval

California just rewrote custody with AB 495. It amends the Caregiver’s Authorization Affidavit so that any adult who claims a “mentoring or familial relationship” can pick up a child from school and make education and healthcare decisions without parental consent, without court order, without oversight. https://www.californiafamily.org/2025/08/truth-denied-ab-495-backers-say-parents-arent-excluded-but-the-bill-and-legal-experts-says-otherwise/

Attorney and mother Elizabeth Barcohana didn’t soften it: “Without parental notification, consent, background check, any guardrails, this adult… can basically take control over anyone’s child.” https://www.foxnews.com/media/parental-rights-concerns-erupt-over-california-bill-would-let-non-relatives-make-decisions-kids

The sponsors say it’s meant for immigration raids. But the language extends custody powers to “nonrelative extended family members,” a category that includes teachers, clergy, neighbors, even family friends. https://www.villagenews.com/story/2025/08/07/opinion/editorial-california-bill-ab-495-stirs-debate-over-parental-rights/79504.html

The California School Boards Association confirmed that anyone with the affidavit can remove a child from school. Snopes labeled critics “misinformation.” The text of the bill says otherwise. https://www.californiafamily.org/2025/08/truth-denied-ab-495-backers-say-parents-arent-excluded-but-the-bill-and-legal-experts-says-otherwise/

No background checks. No emergency-only limit. The affidavit repeats “no parent signature required” three times. That’s not an accident. That’s intent.

Parents don’t just lose veto power, they lose the right to know. And the state tells them it’s for “safety.”

Plastic straws banned in the name of children’s health. Strangers handed custody with no ID check. That’s California logic.

https://citizenwatchreport.com/ab-495-lets-nonrelatives-take-children-from-school-and-make-medical-decisions-without-parent-approval/

Data for 76 Million Hospitalizations Exposes Deadly Surges Among Covid-Vaxxed

A massive new study from leading researchers in Brazil has raised fresh red flags about the safety of Covid “vaccines,” finding statistically significant increases in life-threatening conditions during the period of mass “vaccination.”

Researchers at Fundação Oswaldo Cruz (FIOCRUZ), Brazil’s leading public health institute, examined over 76 million hospitalizations in the national health system between 2015 and 2022.

Their goal was to determine whether the unprecedented “vaccination” campaign that began in June 2021 coincided with measurable spikes in serious medical emergencies known as adverse events of special interest (AESIs).

These AESIs are no minor ailments.

They include sudden deaths, neurological damage, heart inflammation, clotting disorders, and autoimmune complications.

These conditions are flagged by the Brighton Collaboration and monitored globally by the World Health Organization (WHO).

The findings of the study were published in the SSRN medical journal.

Of the 76.3 million admissions reviewed, 3.69 million involved AESI diagnoses.

While most conditions remained stable, five outcomes showed troubling and statistically significant increases following the “vaccine” rollout:

Anaphylaxis (severe allergic reaction): up 17%

Generalized convulsions: up 12%

Guillain–Barré syndrome (GBS): up 19%

Myocarditis/pericarditis (heart inflammation): up 14%

Other acute cardiac injuries: up 5%

These signals mirror international warnings, including myocarditis cases tied to mRNA shots in young men and GBS linked to adenovirus-vectored vaccines.

The authors caution that these findings must not be brushed aside.

They write that such signals may represent “smoking guns of causation” that demand urgent investigation.

The math is sobering and reveals that, when hundreds of millions are injected, even “rare” one-in-a-million risks translate into thousands of shattered lives.

Brazil’s data prove that transparent, nationwide surveillance can expose dangers quickly.

The real question is whether governments and health agencies elsewhere have the independence, or courage, to act on the evidence instead of sweeping it under the rug.

https://slaynews.com/news/data-76-million-hospitalizations-exposes-deadly-surges-covid-vaxxed/

AIPAC insider spilling the beans….

Brilliant listen.

Keep exposing the evil and identifying the compromised.

https://twitter.com/i/status/1957884332825276508

100% of Thai women working in Israeli agriculture report being sexually assaulted in Israel — 654 of 654 surveyed. A report by immigration experts Dr. Yahel Kurlander and Dr. Shahar Shoham said “the State of Israel has abandoned these women” and that filing a complaint can mean losing both job and home.

https://x.com/wikileaks/status/1957408312128938330

Israel DEMANDS X Remove Posts and X COMPLIES

https://youtu.be/6twHhuOCuyg

US Doesn't Oppose Israeli Expansion Of Settlements: Amb. Huckabee

The US ambassador to Israel told Israeli Army Radio on Monday that "massive" development of the occupied West Bank was not a violation of international law and the US would not oppose it.

While Mike Huckabee's comments referred to the occupied Palestinian territory in totality, he also specifically addressed the proposed settlement of the E1 area of occupied Jerusalem. "Whether or not there should be massive development in E1 is a decision for the government of Israel to make," Huckabee said.

"We would not try to evaluate the good and the bad of that, but simply just say that, as a general rule, it is not a violation of international law." He added: "It's also, I think, incumbent on all of us to recognize that Israelis have a right to live in Israel."

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/us-doesnt-oppose-israeli-expansion-settlements-amb-huckabee

Christian school teacher accused of child sex crimes; school cites Scripture in decision to go to police

The school's headmistress told Blaze News that police were notified 'within one hour' of the school receiving accusations that the teacher had sex with a child.

AVirginia teacher at a private Christian school is accused of committing child sex crimes.

Katelin Campbell was employed as a teacher at C.H. Friend School at the beginning of the 2024-2025 school year.

'Scripture is very clear that if it was done in the dark, it was going to be brought to light.'

Dana Jones, headmistress of the school located in South Boston, Virginia, told Blaze News she received information about allegations against Campbell on Aug. 4.

"Within one hour of receiving this information, two members of our board of directors went in person to the South Boston Police Department to report what had been disclosed to the school," Jones told Blaze News.

Jones also confirmed to Blaze News that Campbell is no longer employed at the school and that the teacher resigned immediately on the same day the accusations surfaced.

Jones told WSET-TV, "We chose integrity instead of it being swept under the rug. Scripture is very clear that if it was done in the dark, it was going to be brought to light." It appears the Bible reference is from Luke 8:17: "For nothing is hidden that will not be made manifest, nor is anything secret that will not be known and come to light."

She added to the station, "We understand that taking it to the police department, it was going to come shine a light onto us. We took what we were told to them and let them carry on with their investigation."

Jones also stated, "The board of directors, faculty, and student body of C.H. Friend stand with everyone affected during this challenging time."

https://www.theblaze.com/news/christian-school-teacher-child-sex-crimes