29 Sep, 2025 10:41

UK spent $1mn studying Russia sanctions effectiveness – documents

The move suggests London is unsure whether the restrictions have achieved their intended goal or just hindered British business, experts say

The UK has spent around $1 million analyzing the effectiveness of its sanctions against Russia, RT has found. Experts suggest the move is a sign that London is beginning to doubt the restrictions’ success and is looking to justify the measures.

According to procurement documents examined by RT, Britain allocated at least £756,000 ($1 million) for two separate research projects in 2024 and 2025.The aim was to assess the extent of the damage caused by sanctions to both the Russian and British economies, as well as to examine ways the restrictions are being bypassed.

One of the contracts, worth £85,000 ($114,000), was signed in January 2025 with Themis International Services Limited, a consultancy specializing in financial risk and anti-corruption procedures. Commissioned by the Department for Business and Trade,the study was completed in March 2025 but its findings have not been publicized. The firm was tasked with assessing the impact of British sanctions on Russian business services, including law firms, advertising agencies, consultancies, and IT providers.

The contract included a series of confidential interviews and roundtables with British business leaders linked to Russia. The discussions examined the withdrawal of UK companies from Russia, obstacles to that process, and whether new subsidiaries had been created in response to sanctions.

A larger contract, worth £671,000 ($901,000), was awarded in November 2024 to Deloitte by the Foreign Office to assess the attitudes toward sanctions among private-sector and non-governmental bodies. Completed in July 2025, the project involved two rounds of surveys of at least 3,000 organizations per round.The results have likewise not been disclosed.

Britain has been among the most active nations in sanctioning Russia, steadily expanding restrictions since 2022.Former MI5 chief Eliza Manningham-Buller recently suggested the UK may already be at war with Russia, pointing to alleged cyberoperations and sabotage.

Economist Dmitry Alekseev has said the research provides evaluation and political justification by showing lawmakers and partners that consequences are being tracked.Analyst Alexander Razuvayev also noted frustration among British funds over frozen investments in Russia. According to the Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation, the UK has frozen Russian assets worth £25 billion.

Russian MP Vitaly Milonov has suggested the research shows London has doubts about the effectiveness of sanctions and is trying to persuade European partners that its course is justified.

https://www.rt.com/russia/625575-uk-russia-sanctions-research/

28 Sep, 2025 17:20

UK journalist blows holes in Western myths about Russia

Invited to Moscow by an archbishop, James Delingpole shares his startling revelations in his “Believe it or not, Russia is great” essay

British journalist and commentator James Delingpole has shared a provocative account of his recent visit to Moscow, painting a picture of Russia that sharply contrasts with the prevailing negative tone in the Western media.

In an essay subtitled “Believe it or not, Russia is great,” published in the UK political and cultural weekly The Spectator earlier this week, Delingpole describes how an invitation from a Russian Orthodox archbishop, an avid listener of his podcast, set the stage for his journey.

The columnist admits that many friends and family members considered the trip reckless, some even warning he might be trailed by Russian intelligence or struck by a drone. But instead of a hostile or oppressive environment, he encountered a country that defied many of his expectations.

Delingpole praisesMoscow’s clean and safe streets, efficient public transport, and the warmth and dignity of its inhabitants. The award-winning journalistalso reflects on the deep spirituality and traditions upheld by the Russian Orthodox Church, drawing a sharp contrast with what he views as the West’s drift into secularism and aggressive progressivism.

One part of theessay focuses on Moldova, where he claims the Orthodox Church is facing persecution by pro-EU authorities. Delingpole argues that Western support for such governments often leads to the suppression of conservative religious voices, particularly those opposing gay marriage, LGBT parades or abortion.

The writer recounts small but meaningful moments from his trip, such as a local woman teaching him the proper way to cross himself, and the honor of venerating a saint’s relics offered as a gesture of hospitality.

“Though I’m not planning on abandoning my Anglican parish in Northamptonshire, with its six or seven picturesque medieval churches and its Book of Common Prayer communion services,I do find the mysteries of Orthodoxy awfully seductive,” Delingpole noted.

The essay does not touch upon any aspects of Russian politics, but does challenge readers to reconsider blanket narratives concerning the country.The author suggests that in condemning everything associated with Russia, the West may “be in danger of throwing the baby out with the bathwater.”

https://www.rt.com/russia/625499-uk-journalist-western-russia-myths/

Harvard’s “They/Them” Professor Teams With House Dems To Spend Your Taxes On Research Promoting Trans Youth Violence

Mapping the network of political violence

NATALIE WINTERS

SEP 29,

The assassination of Charlie Kirk by a radical transgender activist has once again spotlighted the growing militancy inside the LGBTQ+ protest movement. What the mainstream media won’t tell you is that this rising wave of aggressive activism isn’t happening in a vacuum.

It’s being carefully studied, organized, and in some cases directly subsidized by U.S. taxpayer dollars.

At the center of this network sits Erica Chenoweth, a Harvard professor who identifies as nonbinary and uses “they/them” pronouns.

Chenoweth has built a career researching how youth and LGBTQ+ activists can be mobilized in protest movements, focusing less on morality or safety and more on which tactics are “effective.”

==Chenoweth leads Harvard’s Nonviolent Action Lab.

This USAID-funded project is hardwired into the Democrat party apparatus. They partnered with Rep. Pramila Jayapal to run a series of “Resistance Labs” designed to train far-left activists for confrontation and disruption.==

Jayapal herself told activists she wanted them to be “strike ready,”even suggesting violence may be “coming.” She further promised to share the trainings with the rest of her Democrat congressional colleagues.

The Harvard lab is housed inside the Ash Center for Democratic Governance, which deleted webpages confirm has taken major funding from both USAID and the State Department. Translation— your tax dollars.

Erica Chenoweth’s Role

Chenoweth personally joined Jayapal’s “Resistance Labs.” Identifying as a “nonbinary,” Chenoweth uses “they/them” pronouns.

According to their CV, they have lectured at USAID’s Democracy, Human Rights, and Governance Center for several years, including 2015, 2016, and 2022.

They have also authored several USAID-funded memos under five-figure grants, including Youth and LGBTQ+ Participation in Nonviolent Action, Struggles from Below: Human Rights Struggles by Domestic Actors, and Civil Resistance and Corporate Behavior: Mapping Trends and Assessing Impact.

Researching Violence, Not Peace

Despite the “nonviolent” branding, Chenoweth’s work focuses heavily on terrorism, violent protest, and the conditions under which they succeed.

A small selection of publications reveal this darker, underlying them:

How to Topple a Dictator

The Role of Violence in Nonviolent Resistance

Resilient Republics: Why Terrorism Does Not Destroy Democracy

To Bribe or to Bomb: Do Corruption and Terrorism Go Together?

Youth & LGBTQ+ Activism as a Strategic Roadmap

In a Harvard Ash Center article titled “As youth and LGBTQ+ protestors increasingly take to the streets, are their voices being heard?”, Chenoweth and co-researcher Zoe Marks argue that young and LGBTQ+ activists are emerging as a global force in protest movements, though often sidelined in formal negotiations. The thrust of the research is clear: these groups are not merely cultural actors, but political tools to be harnessed strategically in struggles for power.

That framing aligns directly with the mission of the “Resistance Labs,” where identity politics are treated less as questions of justice and more as assets for mobilization in disruptive campaigns.

Training the Next Wave of Activists

Chenoweth’s influence extends well beyond Harvard. They have spoken at Yale on the question “Is Terrorism Ever Legitimate?”, organized Harvard’s “Paths to Violence Workshop,” and hosted a “Workshop on Nonviolent Strategies in Violent Settings.”

Taken together, the speaking tours, USAID grants, and direct partnerships with Democrat lawmakers reveal a sobering picture: federal dollars and elite universities are actively cultivating networks of activists not for peaceful dissent but for escalation, disruption, and, when deemed strategically effective, violence.

https://nataliegwinters.substack.com/p/harvards-theythem-professor-teams

Bill Melugin

@BillMelugin_

NEW: An anti-ICE protester in Massachusetts forgot to put her car in park while yelling at agents making an arrest of an illegal alien in Upton, MA, and her vehicle went into a lake and sunk, an ICE source tells me.

A silver SUV partially submerged in a lake, tilted to one side with water reaching the windows. A person wearing a red top and holding papers stands on the grassy shore near the water's edge. Trees and greenery surround the lake, with a paved path visible along the shore.

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If the Trump DOJ can indict Comey, then no one is safe from political prosecution

A criminal case against Comey could be a nightmare for any prosecutor on both vindictive and selective prosecution grounds and on the merits.

Sept. 28, 2025, 6:00 AM EDT

By Norman Eisen, co-founder and a board member of Democracy Defenders Action, Richard W. Painter, law professor at the University of Minnesota and Virginia Canter, chief counsel for ethics and anti-corruption of Democracy Defenders Fund

In the United States, a president should never order prosecutions of his enemies. As the former ethics counsels for Presidents George W. Bush, Barack Obama and Bill Clinton, we never once saw them or anyone working for them suggest that the Department of Justice should prosecute a specific person, much less a political adversary. Under all three presidents, the White House policy was not to comment on a Department of Justice indictment; the president in particular did not comment either — before or after. The Justice Department made prosecutorial decisions independent of the White House.

Political prosecutions happen in dictatorships such as Vladimir Putin’s Russia, but not here. And prosecutors should never be forced out for refusing to bring unfounded charges, even if the president orders them to do so. Yet all that changed last week with the indictment of former FBI Director James Comey.

The retaliatory nature of an indictment is evident from the eight-year crusade by Trump against Comey.

We have written the chairs and ranking members of the Senate and House Judiciary committees, as well as the DOJ’s inspector general and counsel for the office of professional responsibility. In those letters (on which this essay is based) we urgently request an investigation into possible prosecutorial abuses and ethics violations by Lindsey Halligan, the newly appointed interim U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, in connection with her having improperly brought charges against Comey.

While all the facts are not yet known, if it is the case that Halligan pursued this indictment to fulfill President Donald Trump’s long-standing personal vendetta against Comey and against the recommendations of prosecutors who failed to find sufficient evidence to support a conviction, it will be one of the most egregious examples of vindictive and meritless prosecution that we will have ever seen. (In a statement, Comey said, “My heart is broken for the Department of Justice, but I have great confidence in the federal judicial system. And I’m innocent. So let’s have a trial.”)

Trump sought to fire longtime prosecutors who refused to proceed against his political enemies after the same prosecutors apparently concluded criminal charges were unfounded. And the president then installed a handpicked replacement in the federal prosecutor’s office in Virginia who immediately sought an indictment of Comey — despite reports that she also was told the case is unfounded.

If the Trump administration can do this, then no American is safe from political prosecution.

Eisen is the leader of all things plots and sabotage leading to destroy Trump, he’s afraid and he should be very, very afraidYou are next you hideous liar!

https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/james-comey-indictment-fbi-trump-halligan-rcna233910

Citizen Free Press

@CitizenFreePres

Charlie Kirk mural appears in Belgrade.

Charlie played basketball for all Serbian team in Chicago after high school, and he was the only American so they called him Kirkovich.

https://x.com/CitizenFreePres/status/1972259637593608703

American AF 🇺🇸

@iAnonPatriot

Antifa member got LIT UP by pepper balls outside of the ICE facility in Chicago..

👀

8:58 AM · Sep 27, 2025

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Kim "Katie" USA

@KimKatieUSA

Several "indigenous" people conjure Montezuma's Revenge on federal agents at the Broadview ICE facility. This technique was extremely effective among the Aztecs and their enemies.

10:20 AM · Sep 27, 2025

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Ford Fischer

@FordFischer

Just now: Border Patrol agents chase a man outside Broadview ICE facility.

The man ends up on top of a car and is tackled onto the ground after he jumps off.

Reason for the arrest wasn’t immediately clear, but agents fired sting balls at crowd that rapidly formed around scene.

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https://x.com/FordFischer/status/1972070649465393589

>>23670478 do these people have a brain, don’t harass ICE, they are fed up

Benny Johnson

@bennyjohnson

BREAKING: 5,000 Charlie Kirk shirts GONE in one hour. The energy at the @TPUSA Tailgate is insane.

We have also registered hundreds of young enthusiastic voters.

Tonight there will be Charlie Kirk ‘FREEDOM’ Shirts all over Penn State vs. Oregon. I just wish we had 5K more…

https://x.com/bennyjohnson/status/1972024460695032253

Benny Johnson

@bennyjohnson

Thank you to Fox News for having me on to cover this important event.

Charlie Kirk may not be here, but his legacy is alive at Penn State’s Beaver Stadium. Thousands showed up, five thousand “FREEDOM” shirts were gone within hours, and students are registering to vote in his honor. Attempts to silence him only strengthened his message.

This is more than a game, it’s a movement. We honor Charlie’s legacy, and America is rising.

Thanks again @FoxNews and

@kayleighmcenany

https://x.com/bennyjohnson/status/1971961684018471005

Ireland to offer up to €10k to migrant families if they drop asylum claims

Taoiseach Micheál Martin says it ‘makes sense’ to give people a helping hand to return

James Crisp

Europe Editor

29 September 2025 12:24pm

Ireland will offer asylum seeking families up to €10,000 to drop their claims and return home.

The government plans to increase the amount given per person from €1,200 (£1,046) to €2,500 (£2,179) and to a maximum of €10,000 (£8,722) per family.

The British version of the scheme offers up to £3,000 to migrants without permission to stay in the UK.

Opponents accused Taoiseach Micheál Martin’s change to the voluntary returns scheme as a “Right-wing dog whistle dressed up as efficiency”.

But he dismissed the criticism from the Social Democrats as “excessive, extreme language” and “misplaced”.

The Taoiseach said it “made sense” to set up a system for people to be sent home if their asylum claim was going to be unsuccessful.

Mr Martin said: “If people are seeking asylum, and in their heart of hearts know that they are not going to receive it, it could be economic migrants or whatever, the idea of giving people a helping hand to return or to be integrated to where they return to, makes sense to me.

“Both for the individuals concerned, but also for the broader system here in terms of the cost.”

Easing pressure on asylum system

An order has been signed increasing the grant, which will be available for people in the asylum system waiting for a decision on their claim before September 28.

It is aimed at easing pressure on the asylum system and cutting costs. The Irish Times reported that processing an asylum claim costs the government about €122,000 per person, including accommodation and other costs.

Latest figures show 1,159 people have dropped their claim and left Ireland by the middle of September under the old less generous return scheme this year, a 129 per cent increase on the same period in 2024.

Ireland, which is experiencing a chronic housing crisis, is struggling to adapt to its transformation from a country of emigration to a country of immigration.

https://archive.ph/rfSs0

Tents housing asylum seekers near to the Office of International Protection in Dublin

The country will offer asylum seeking families up to €10,000 to drop their claims and return home Credit

>>23670538 now they are going to get a ton more of them because they are paying them. When the people get home they’ll spread a new scam

The Gordie Howe Bridge Was a Giant Mistake

The state could have just allowed the expansion of the Ambassador Bridge at no cost to taxpayers, but that would’ve been too simple

Detroit — Someone suddenly flipped on the lights at the still unfinished Gordie Howe International Bridge last week, and the town went berserk!

And why not? We’ve been kept in the dark about almost everything else on the multi-billion-dollar boondoggle.

The bridge is a joint-venture between the state of Michigan and the Canadian government. Canada fronted all the money to build it and will collect all the tolls until it recoups its investment. Only then will Michigan share in the proceeds.

When the deal was first announced back in 2012, the estimated cost was $2 billion. Then it was $4 billion. Then it was $4.8 billion. Then it was $5.7 billion. It was supposed to be completed last year at a cost of $6.4 billion.

It’s still not done, and the smart money puts the final costs north of $7 billion. (This does not include the unspecified millions the U.S. will shell out for customs and border inspections each year.)

Traffic across the Ambassador Bridge and the Detroit-Windsor Tunnel has fallen by nearly 60% since the year 2000 as auto manufacturing has shifted to the Southern U.S. and Mexico. At that rate, according to an independent study from 2018, the Gordie Howe Bridge will never pay for itself.

Never.

That means Canada’s grandchildren will get all the debt, and Michigan’s grandchildren will get all the smog.

Oh, Canada!

To date, no one has clearly explained how the bidding process worked. How could a consortium of companies win the design, construction, and maintenance contracts when it includes a Spanish firm that has paid more than $100 million in fines for fraud and bid-rigging?

Canada is our neighbor. Spain isn’t. Doesn’t that present a security risk?

And where did the steel for the bridge come from? Was it made in the U.S.? Canada? China? A mix of Canada and China? Again, we haven’t been told. Isn’t that what the tariff war is all about?

And how did Justin Trudeau’s infrastructure minister get his job overseeing construction of the 1.5-mile, six-lane span across the Detroit River? The man—a former bus driver—had no college degree, no construction experience, and spent nearly two years in an Indian prison for suspected ties to terrorism.

Why wasn’t the Moroun family, who owns the Ambassador Bridge, allowed to build a new span with private money as they had offered?

Taxpayers wouldn’t have paid a nickel. Americans would have had jobs.

It’s all so absolutely Michigan. When will government learn to get out of the way? Whitmer tried throwing billions at multinational corporations, and all we got were parking lots.

The bright side here? At least we get some tasteful LED lighting twinkling on the Detroit River.

https://enjoyer.com/gordie-howe-bridge-biggest-boondoggle/

Swimming Between Two Bridges in the Detroit River

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Trump calls for the firing of Lisa Monaco, Microsoft president of global affairs

PUBLISHED FRI, SEP 26 20255:37 PM EDTUPDATED FRI, SEP 26 20257:21 PM EDT

Jordan Novet

KEY POINTS

• President Donald Trump said Microsoft should immediately fire Lisa Monaco, an executive who spent four years as deputy attorney general under former President Joe Biden.

• Fox Business anchor Maria Bartiromo published an X post about Monaco joining Microsoft earlier.

• It comes one day after former FBI Director James Comey was indicted.

President Donald Trump on Friday demanded that Microsoft

fire Lisa Monaco, an executive who served as deputy attorney general during the Biden administration.

The request appeared on Trump’s Truth Social account, which has 10 million followers. It comes one day after former FBI Director James Comey was indicted, days after Trump pushed to prosecute him.

“She is a menace to U.S. National Security, especially given the major contracts that Microsoft has with the United States Government,” Trump wrote in the post. “Because of Monaco’s many wrongful acts, the U.S. Government recently stripped her of all Security Clearances, took away all of her access to National Security Intelligence, and banned her from all Federal Properties.”

Microsoft declined to comment.

Parts of the U.S. government use Microsoft’s cloud infrastructure and productivity software. Earlier this month, Microsoft agreed to offer $3.1 billion in savings in one year on cloud services for agencies to use.

Earlier on Friday, Fox Business anchor Maria Bartiromo published an X post about Monaco joining Microsoft.The appointment happened in July, according to Monaco’s LinkedIn profile. The post contained a link to a July article on the University of Chicago law school’s website.

On Thursday, Microsoft said it would cut offcloud-based storage and artificial intelligencesubscriptions to a unit of the Israeli military, after investigating a claim that the division had built a system to track Palestinians’ phone calls.

On Monday, Trump is set to meet with Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel’s prime minister, NBC News reported.

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella attended a dinner alongside other technology executives at the White House earlier this month.

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/09/26/trump-calls-for-the-firing-of-lisa-monaco-microsoft-president-of-global-affairs.html

Derrick Evans

@DerrickEvans4WV

The left is mad because our Secretary of War is a normal dude.

Imagine being a random fan sitting next to your Secretary of War🔥

https://x.com/DerrickEvans4WV/status/1971757952869769427

Matt Van Swol

@matt_vanswol

🚨#BREAKING: The Amish have confirmed they have completed their very last tiny home for Western North Carolina victims of Hurricane Helene.

This final tiny home is being delivered today to David Hostetter, a Vietnam veteran who lost his home in the storm.

GOD BLESS THE AMISH!!!

11:15 AM · Sep 27, 2025

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For some reason X was blocking this

Gymnast, Who Was Projected to Compete in the 2028 Olympics, Dies at 19 After ‘Training Accident’

Naufal Takdir Al Bari was remembered as "the nation's best" after his Sept. 25 death

By Escher Walcott Published on September 27, 2025 08:48AM EDT

• A gymnast who was projected to qualify for the 2028 Olympic Games has died at age 19

• Naufal Takdir Al Bari died on Thursday, Sept. 25, almost two weeks after a "training accident"

• The Indonesian athlete was remembered as "the nation's best" after his death

Naufal Takdir Al Bari, a gymnast who was projected to qualify for the 2028 Olympic Games, has died following a training accident. He was 19.

Bari died in Penza, Russia, on Thursday, Sept. 25, after he spent 12 days in intensive care for his injuries, the Indonesian Gymnastics Federation announced on Instagram.

The Indonesian Gymnastics Federation is in mourning, male athlete Naufal Takdir Al Bari has passed away,” the organization wrote. “The 19-year-old gymnast breathed his last after undergoing intensive care for 12 days at GA Zakharyin Hospital.”

Bari reportedly suffered a “severe” neck injury after falling “awkwardly” into a foam pit while training on a high bar, the Russian Gymnastics Federation said on social media.

The teenager was preparing to compete in the 2025 Artistic Gymnastics World Championships in Indonesia in October, and he was projected to make it to the next Summer Olympics, which are taking place in Los Angeles.

https://people.com/gymnast-and-olympic-hopeful-naufal-takdir-al-bari-dies-at-19-after-training-accident-11820041

Justice Dept. Official Pushes Prosecutors to Investigate George Soros’s Foundation

The directive suggests department leaders are following orders from the president, a major break from decades of past practice meant to insulate the agency from political interference.

The move is the latest instance of the Justice Department, led by Attorney General Pam Bondi, moving against President Trump’s perceived enemies.Credit…Pete Marovich for The New York Times

Devlin Barrett

Sept. 25, 2025

A senior Justice Department official has instructed more than a half dozen U.S. attorney’s offices to draft plans to investigate a group funded by George Soros, the billionaire Democratic donor whom President Trump has demanded be thrown in jail.

The official’s directive, a copy of which was viewed by The New York Times, goes as far as to list possible charges prosecutors could file, ranging from arson to material support of terrorism. The memo suggests department leaders are following orders from the president that specific people or groups be subject to criminal investigation — a major break from decades of past practice meant to insulate the Justice Department from political interference.

The step came in an accelerated push by the Justice Department against Mr. Trump’s perceived enemies in recent days and weeks.

Over the weekend, the president urged Attorney General Pam Bondi to act quickly in seeking criminal charges against his longtime nemesis, the former F.B.I. director James B. Comey, and the New York attorney general, Letitia James, who has sued Mr. Trump and his businesses for hundreds of millions of dollars. Federal prosecutors in the Eastern District of Virginia secured an indictment against Mr. Comey on Thursday, and they are separately investigating Ms. James.

Mr. Trump has recently revisited his grievances against Mr. Soros, long a boogeyman for the right, in part because he has backed progressive causes. After the killing of the right-wing activist Charlie Kirk in Utah this month, the president threatened to use the levers of government to silence liberal protesters and donors to progressive groups, including Mr. Soros.

Mr. Soros began his global grant network, now known as the Open Society Foundations, decades ago to fund democratic initiatives around the world, particularly in communist and formerly communist countries. In the 1990s, the organization expanded its work to the United States. It provides grants to groups that work for human rights, democracy and equity, but Mr. Trump and some Republicans contend, without providing evidence, that it is a shadowy network promoting civil unrest, violent protests and property destruction. Liberals say the assertions are falsehoods aimed at stifling dissent.

On Monday, a lawyer in the office of the deputy attorney general, Todd Blanche, issued the directive to U.S. attorney’s offices in California, New York, Washington, D.C., Chicago, Detroit and Maryland, among others.

The lawyer, Aakash Singh, who is responsible for communicating with federal prosecutors around the country, suggested a wide range of charges for prosecutors to consider against the Open Society Foundations. Possible charges included racketeering, arson, wire fraud and material support for terrorism, according to a copy of the directive.

As evidence for such investigations, Mr. Singh pointed to a recent report by a conservative watchdog group known as the Capital Research Center, which monitors liberal money in politics. He asked the prosecutors to determine if the allegations were enough to justify opening criminal cases, adding that they should be prepared to submit their investigative plans soon.

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The report broached a contentious claim, stating that the group “has poured over $80 million into groups tied to terrorism or extremist violence.” It cited as one example al-Haq, a Palestinian human rights group critical of Israel. The report noted that the Israeli government declared in 2022 that al-Haq was a front for terrorist activity…..

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Putin Ally Fires Nuclear Warning at Trump’s US

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SEP 25, 2025 AT 06:58 AM EDT

Top Kremlin official Dmitry Medvedev issued a fiery nuclear warning to the U.S. after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said officials in Moscow should learn where their nearest bomb shelter is if they don't end Russia's war.

Zelensky, in an interview with Axios, said U.S. President Donald Trump had given his explicit backing to Ukrainian strikes on Russian targets such as energy infrastructure and arms factories, and that if Kyiv receives more long-range American weaponry, then "we will use it".

"The Kiev drug addict said the Kremlin should know where a bomb shelter is so its occupants can hide when he uses long-range American weapons," Medvedev, who is deputy chairman to Russian President Vladimir Putin on the Kremlin's Security Council, and is himself a former president and prime minister of Russia, in a post on X.

"What the freak needs to know is that Russia can use weapons a bomb shelter won't protect against. Americans should also keep this in mind."

Tensions between Russia and U.S.-led NATO—both sides armed with devastating arsenals of nuclear weapons—have escalated sharply in recent weeks as Moscow's invasion of Ukraine thunders on, despite Trump's efforts to broker a peace deal. The potential for a direct NATO-Russia clash is increasing.

NATO allies have accused Russia of a series of serious violations of their airspace, allegations Moscow says lack evidence. In one such incident, Poland says it had to shoot down a dozen Russian drones that violated its airspace and threatened its security during an attack on neighboring western Ukraine.

Trump, speaking at a press conference alongside Zelensky during the United Nations General Assembly meeting in New York, said he thought NATO countries should shoot down Russian aircraft entering their airspace.

Trump: Ukraine Could Recapture All Land

He also posted to his Truth Social platform that, with NATO's support, Ukraine could win back all of the territory seized by Russia over the course of its full-scale invasion, launched in February 2022.

"Why not?" Trump wrote. "Russia has been fighting aimlessly for three and a half years a War that should have taken a Real Military Power less than a week to win. This is not distinguishing Russia. In fact, it is very much making them look like 'a paper tiger.'"

Trump continued: "When the people living in Moscow, and all of the Great Cities, Towns, and Districts all throughout Russia, find out what is really going on with this War, the fact that it’s almost impossible for them to get Gasoline through the long lines that are being formed, and all of the other things that are taking place in their War Economy, where most of their money is being spent on fighting Ukraine, which has Great Spirit, and only getting better, Ukraine would be able to take back their Country in its original form and, who knows, maybe even go further than that!"

https://www.newsweek.com/putin-medvedev-trump-nuclear-zelensky-russia-ukraine-war-10715309

This is freakin weird, why is Trump doing this?

HARNWELL: US peace at risk as Zelensky rubs President Trump’s Ukraine U-turn in Putin’s face

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When “the Green Goblin” gloats that POTUS authorisedKiev’s striking of targets deep inside Russia — including potentially, in Zelensky’s own words, the Kremlin — he’s actively trying to drag the US into the war. That is clear.

From his perspective, this is a smart(though cynical) move — he has no path to victory without Uncle Sugar. The mystery is why POTUS would acquiesce to Zelensky’s machinations, because while this goal is in Ukraine’s national interests — it’s certainly not in America’s.

https://rumble.com/embed/v6xcwju/?pub=4

>>23670751This is not good, at all, why is PDJT allowing it?

Phillip Patrick: 73% Of Banks Said In The Next 5 Years They Want To Increase Gold Holdings And Reduce US Dollar Holdings

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Dave Walsh Breaks Down How Energy Prices Will End Up Affecting The Midterm Elections

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Sophia Georges On How Housing Prices And Affordability Could Flip Blue States Red

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Posobiec: If You Don't Go After The Networks Right Now It Sends A Message That It's Open Season On ICE, Trump, And Every Trump Supporter

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Bradley Thayer On Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang: What He's Trying To Do Is Justify The Theft Of Technology To Aid The Most Evil Regime On Earth

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Josh Pettit On President Trump’s Visit To The Ryder Cup At Bethpage Black

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COL. DEREK HARVEY: Antifa Is Organized, Funded, And Traceable. Follow The Money. Treat This Like Organized Crime

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