Part II – Covering Up the Biggest Political Scandal in U.S. History

October 6, 2025 | Sundance1/2

Friend of the Treehouse John Spiropoulos hasput together a series of videos explaining how President Obama, FBI Director James Comey and CIA Director John Brennan constructed a coverup to hide their political surveillance operation. Today there are two video segments that deserve focus.

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From the perspective of Obama, Comey and Brennan, expanding Hillary Clinton’s Trump-Russia collusion narrative was the key element to hide the activity of the administration prior to the November 2016 election.That’s the motive for the FBI and CIA to collaborate on the agenda after the shocking outcome of the 2016 election result; but pay close attention to the activity of the primary “at risk” official, James Comey.

The December ’16 Joint Analysis Report (JAR), and the January ’17 Intelligence Community Assessment (ICA), were fabricated to enhance a spying coverup. Spiropoulos has taken the time to put the deconstruction of the ICA into a simple to follow video format. Two parts below:

Obama's Spies & Lies: The Junk Intel Scandal DECLASSIFIED_Episode #2

The next segment is below. Pay particular attention to the person who actually triggered the cancellation of the December 9, 2016, Presidential Daily Brief. It wasn’t Obama, it was James Comey.

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From a risk management perspective, initially the surveillance and spying operation was a low-risk endeavor. Obama held power and was going to hand off operations to Hillary. The Clinton administration would retain the officials who were doing the surveillance/spying, and no one would ever know.

Donald Trump was not expected to win the election. When he did, all of the participants were suddenly at risk. President Obama and every member of his cabinet involved in the spying operations, then used Clinton’s “Russiagate” smear to cover up Obama’s “Spygate” activity.

The IRS was used to identify targets 2010 through 2012, until discovered in April ’12. Suddenly, President Obama has a problem. President Obama then sends his Chief of Staff, Jack Lew, to run the IRS and block discoveries around the IRS weaponization.

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From 2012 through April 2016, the Obama administration was spying on their political opposition using the FBI to conduct surveillance through their access to the NSA database.

In April 2016, NSA Admiral Mike Rogers was alerted by the NSA compliance officer who noted the uptick in database access activity by the FBI searching the Republican primary candidate field.

Post April 2016, the Obama administration had a problem. Enter FBI operation “Crossfire Hurricane,” July 2016, in an effort to remove the political risk.

October 2016, the FBI rushes a FISA application through the FISC, circumventing the missing ‘Woods File’, with the Chris Steele dossier as evidence.

October 2016, NSA Director Rogers sends the first official notification of the FBI using the NSA database to the oversight body, the FISA Court.

December 2016, worried about Trump now discovering the NSA database spying, the Obama administration wraps the Clinton smear into official policy, blaming the Russians and validating Crossfire Hurricane. That’s where the Intelligence Community Assessment becomes critical.

May 2017, needing to extend the coverup of the FBI activity, special counsel Robert Mueller then takes over Crossfire Hurricane. All FBI evidence and personnel transfers to Mueller.

April 2019, Robert Mueller operation wraps up, prior activity coverup shifts to Impeachment process.

July 2019, John Durham kicks in extending DOJ/FBI control through 2020 election.

Fall 2020, mail-in ballots triggered to facilitate 2020 election outcome.

January 2021, FBI triggers Operation Arctic Frost, targeting Trump supporters and 2020 election researchers. FBI again using NSA database search queries to identify targeting.

March 2021, FBI Arctic Frost results fed to J6 Committee and DHS. TSA trigger “Quiet Skies” targeting via results from Arctic Frost.

It’s one long continuum of coverup activity within Main Justice and the FBI, supported by all other various agencies who operate in support. What are they covering up? The 2012 through 2016 political spying operation within the Obama administration, as carried out by the same Main Justice and FBI operations.

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Second Amendment Victory: Federal Court Overturns Post Office Gun Ban Dealing Massive Blow to Liberal Agenda

By Johnathan Jones, The Western Journal Oct. 6, 2025 7:00 am302

A federal court has delivered a major win for gun rights and a devastating blow to anti-gun radicals.

The U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas ruled that prohibitions on carrying firearms in post offices are unconstitutional, Bearing Arms reported.

Chief U.S. District Judge Reed O’Connor delivered the opinion in Firearms Policy Coalition Inc, et al. v. Bondi on Tuesday of this week.

The case was brought by the Firearms Policy Coalition, the Second Amendment Foundation, and two citizens.

O’Connor found that the law “is unconstitutional under the Second Amendment with respect to Plaintiffs’ (and their members) possession and carrying of firearms inside of an ordinary United States Post Office or the surrounding Post Office property.”

The complaint, originally submitted in June 2024, challenged the law on the grounds thatthe government had no historical basis for the restriction.

The court agreed, explaining that the government must prove any firearm restriction is “sufficiently analogous to a ‘well-established and representative historical analogue.’”

This ruling follows the Department of Justice dropping an appeal in a similar case out of Florida.

There, a judge found that the government failed to meet its burden to justify a firearms ban on post office property.

Second Amendment Foundation Executive Director Adam Kraut said millions visit post offices daily and should not be forced to choose between basic services and their rights.

Alan Gottlieb, who started the Second Amendment Foundation, added that there is “no historical analogue” for a postal firearms ban.

The Firearms Policy Coalitionnoted Judge O’Connor’s clear explanation that the founders themselves never banned firearms in post offices.

Brandon Combs of the Firearms Policy Coalition stressed that governments cannot “invent new so-called ‘gun-free zones’ whenever they please.”

He declared the ruling ends threats of prosecution for “peaceable people” simply mailing a package or buying stamps.

The truth is simple: gun-free zones do not stop killers.

A sign that says “no firearms allowed” might as well say “potential victims here.”

The only reasonable exceptions might be places with armed security or controlled checkpoints at events such as political rallies, where attendance is voluntary and violence can be likely.

Criminals bent on harming others will not obey signs, as they’ve already, in most cases, decided to commit murder.

Law-abiding citizens are the ones disarmed, and thus left defenseless, by such provisions.

This article appeared originally on The Western Journal.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/10/second-amendment-victory-federal-court-overturns-post-office/

Chicago Attorney and Retired Police Lieutenant Suggests Local Police May Have VIOLATED STATE LAW by Issuing “Stand Down” Order While a Uniformed Federal Officer Was in Distress 1/2

By Jim Hᴏft Oct. 6, 2025 8:45 am

Chicago attorney andretired police lieutenant John Garrido has raised serious legal and ethical concernsafter it was revealed that Chicago Police Department officers were ordered to “stand down” while federal agents were under attack in the city’s Brighton Park neighborhood on Saturday morning.

The Gateway Pundit reportedthat federal officers from U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) were ambushed by a convoy of roughly ten vehicles in what officials described as a “coordinated assault” by domestic extremists protesting President Trump’s ongoing deportation operations in Chicago.

The confrontation began when a vehicle driven by Marimar Martinez, a known agitator with a history of doxxing ICE agents online, allegedly rammed an ICE patrol unit while brandishing a semi-automatic weapon.

Trapped and outnumbered, agents were forced to exit their vehicles and fire defensive shots, striking Martinez in the shoulder.

She fled the scene and later checked into Mount Sinai Hospital before being taken into FBI custody. Another suspect, Anthony Ian Santos Ruiz, was arrested and remains in federal detention.

No federal officers sustained life-threatening injuries, though several CBP agents were treated for minor wounds following the assault.

Despite 911 calls made by the agents, Chicago officers did not respond, following a direct “no response” order from command.

An audio recording captured the moment units en route to the scene were waved off, with the dispatcher noting, “I’m waving off all of the cars heading to 39th Place in Kedzie. Another person states, “Those are the orders we’re giving.”

Chicago attorney and former police lieutenant John Garrido, of Garrido & Stoppa, P.C., weighed in on social media,calling the stand-down directive “deeply disturbing and possibly illegal.”

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/10/chicago-attorney-suggests-local-police-may-have-violated/

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CHICAGO MAYOR BRANDON JOHNSON ORDERS CHICAGO POLICE TO STAND DOWN WHEN ICE CALLED FOR HELP!!

What happened today should disturb every law enforcement professional.

An ICE vehicle was reportedly forced off the road on the South Side of Chicago and crashed. The offender fled on foot. ICE called for assistance. The 9th District’s Captain (beat 999) did exactly what any good supervisor should do, he ordered cars to respond, check for injuries, document the crash, and render aid.

Moments later, about a block away, an ICE agent called out that they were being surrounded and boxed in by a mob, a clear “officers need assistance” situation. Again, the 9th District Captain ordered units to respond.

But before they could arrive, that same Captain came back over the radio andsaid that per the Chief of Patrol, officers were to stand down and not respond to assist the ICE agents.

Let’s be clear:

The Illinois TRUST Act (5 ILCS 805) and Chicago’s Welcoming City Ordinance (Chapter 2-173) prohibit local officers from assisting in civil immigration enforcement, such as detaining someone solely for immigration status.

ABSOLUTELY NOTHING in those laws prohibits officers from responding to an emergency, rendering medical aid, or protecting life and property.

In fact, under Illinois law (720 ILCS 5/7-15 and 5/7-16),every peace officer has a duty to render aid and a duty to intervene to prevent harm or injury when it is safe to do so.

To order officers to ignore a call for help from fellow law enforcement, any law enforcement, isn’t just a violation of basic ethics.It could be gross negligence, dereliction of duty, and possibly even criminal if harm resulted.

In my 32 years of service with the Chicago Police Department, I have never heard anything this egregious. No badge should ever be told to turn their back on another officer in distress. Period.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/10/chicago-attorney-suggests-local-police-may-have-violated/

Trump-Appointed Judge Karin Immergut Blocks Trump for SECOND TIME from Sending Troops to Lawless Portland

By Jim Hoft Oct. 6, 2025 8:25

Trump-appointed Judge Karin Immergut for the second time on Monday blocked President Trump from sending troops to quell the violence in lawless Portland, Oregon.

Immergut believes she is the Commander in Chief.

Judge Karin Immergut ruled the action to move troops into antifa-ravaged Portland was unlawful and unconstitutional.

Her order blocks troops from California to enter Portland or any other state from entering Portland to rid the streets of Antifa terrorists.

According to FOX News: Immergut’s ruling says that the Trump administration’s action violates federal statute 10 U.S.C. §12406 and the Tenth Amendment.

So, why would Immergut want Antifa to rule the streets of Portland?

Who recommended this loon to President Trump? There should be a public apology.

Democrat shock troops have been protesting in Portland and destroying property for years now.

(I think the judge is intimidated by Portland leaders, they’ll sick the antifa dogs on her.)

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/10/trump-appointed-judge-karin-immergut-blocks-trump-second/

Netflix Stocks Take Biggest Weekly Drop Since April as Trans Content Aimed at Children Drives Users Away

Oct. 6, 2025

Netflix shares slumped again Friday as they ended the week with their biggest decline since April 4. The slide comes on the back of subscriber desertion driven by revulsion at trans content aimed at children.

The stock dropped nearly five percent over the five-day trading period ending before the weekend as billionaire Tesla CEO Elon Musk continued to urge consumers to boycott the streaming giant.

As Breitbart News reported, Netflix has been struggling as it chooses to stream animated programs thatexpose small children to homosexuality, gay kisses, and a little boy in a dress prancing around for his gay dads.

Yahoo Finance notes Musk has been behind calls for a boycott, urging his 227 million followers on X to drop their Netflix subscriptions and accusing the streamer of pushing alleged transgender messaging in kids’ shows.

Over the past several days, Musk has posted or reposted a series of messages criticizing Netflix’s programming: “Cancel Netflix for the health of your kids,” Musk wrote last Tuesday.

Netflix membership first started to slide last monthafter the streaming giant’s children’s cartoon showcreator Hamish Steele smeared slain conservative icon Charlie Kirk as a “Nazi.”

Steele, an animator credited with creating the Netflix cartoon series Dead End: Paranormal Park,took to BlueSky after Kirk was assassinated and defamed the conservative firebrand in a vile tirade.

“Why the fuck are you even commenting on this, dickhead?” Steele said on the social media platform on September 11. “You sympathy for any of the families being slaughtered by your weapons. but a random nazi gets shot and its a public statement. You’re such a fucking evil shit.”

The embrace of such archly woke issues has previously flagged trouble for Netflix with it closing out 2022 as its worst year in more than a decade, with its stock plunging more than 50 percent and wiping out a staggering $136 billion in market value.

Netflix canceled Dead End: Paranormal Park in 2023 after two seasons.

Musk previously said “Same” in response to a tweet in which former Department of Energy staffer Matt Van Swol said “Just cancelled my Netflix subscription.”

https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2025/10/06/netflix-stocks-take-biggest-weekly-drop-since-april-as-trans-content-aimed-at-children-drive-users-away/

Hundreds of Activists Train in Oakland to ‘Resist’ Trump Agenda

Joel B. Pollak6 Oct 2025

Hundreds of activists trained Sunday in Oakland in tactics to “resist” President Donald Trump’s agenda, including opposing federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to detain illegal aliens.

The San Francisco Chronicle reported:

Bay Resistance, a social justice nonprofit created during the first Trump administration, organized the Sunday event, which included a series of training sessions to teach people how to protect one another amid the threat of mass deportations and a possible National Guard deployment in San Francisco or Oakland.

During a morning session, organizers discussed the rise of authoritarianism, strategies used by successful antiauthoritarian movementsaround the globe, and noncooperation tactics, such as economic and corporate boycotts, labor strikes and transportation blockades.

Bay Resistance organizers said they have already launched several campaigns, including a Tesla Takedown, a push to prevent ICE from opening a detention facility at the former federal women’s prison in Dublin, and a volunteer effort to protect day laborers at spots where they congregate for work.

Organizers claimed that 2,000 people had signed up for the event.

California Gov. GavinNewsom (D) and Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker appear to be encouraging such radical tactics, with Pritzker even holding news conferences instructing Illinois residents how to oppose ICE officers.

During the first Trump administration, then-California Gov. Jerry Brown opposed the use of the term “resistance”: “‘Resistance’ conjures up World War II – underground, danger, death. That was some serious shit. This other thing is serious too. But it’s not the same,” he told Rolling Stone magazine in an interview.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/10/06/hundreds-of-activists-train-in-oakland-to-resist-trump-agenda/

VIDEO: Florida WWII Veteran Who Is ‘Full of Wisdom’ Celebrates 106th Birthday

Amy Furr5 Oct 2025

A World War II veteran in Tallahassee, Florida, recently celebrated a big birthday surrounded by his loved ones.

Joseph Williams, who is one of the state’s oldest World War II heroes, is now 106 years old, KGW reported Wednesday.

Images show the American hero now and as a young man:

The veteran was born in September of 1919 and later joined the U.S. Navy. When the war broke out, he served his country in the Pacific theater during intense fighting.

According to History.com, World War II was the largest and deadliest conflict in history:

The war began when Nazi Germany invaded Poland in 1939 and raged across the globe until 1945, when Japan surrendered to the United States after atomic bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. By the end of World War II, an estimated 60 to 80 million people had died, including up to 55 million civilians, and numerous cities in Europe and Asia were reduced to rubble.

When Williams returned home after the war, he earned a certification in interior decoration from a Tallahassee school and eventually worked as a house painter for many years. In addition, he served his community in Wakulla County as a volunteer firefighter and is known as a man with a generous and service-oriented heart.

Last year, local leaders honored the veteran for his dedication to America and his neighbors,and he also enjoyed an Honor Flight to Washington, DC, where he viewed the World War II Memorial.

His granddaughter, Angela Hilliard, toldreportershe still attends church and reads the Bible every day.

“It’s just amazing to have him around still, and he’s still full of wisdom, full of life, and energy, and always has a word of wisdom to share with someone,” she said.

Social media users shared their good wishes for the veteran, one person writing, “Happy Birthday! Thank you for your service,” while someone else said, “Much respect.”

https://www.breitbart.com/local/2025/10/05/video-florida-wwii-veteran-who-is-full-of-wisdom-celebrates-106th-birthday/

Something Good: Local WWII veteran celebrates 106th birthday

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World War II veteran Joseph Williams turned 106 on Tuesday. A huge crowd of family and friends celebrated with him at Mission Barbecue.

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‘Beyond Disqualifying’: VA Gov. Glenn Youngkin Wants Democrat AG Hopeful Jay Jones to Drop out After ‘Disgusting’ Texts

Amy Furr5 Oct 2025

Virginia Democrat attorney general hopeful Jay Jones is being pressured to drop out of the raceafter text messages revealed he apparently fantasized about a Republican lawmaker being fatally shot.

In a social media post on Saturday, Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R) called out Jones for the text messageshe is accused of sending in 2022 that showed him wishing a now former state House Speaker Todd Gilbert and his children would be killed, the New York Post reported.

“This violent, disgusting rhetoric targeted at an elected official and his children is beyond disqualifying. Jay Jones said that ‘Gilbert gets two bullets to the head’ and then hoped his children would die,” Youngkin wrote.

“Read those words again. There is no ‘gosh, I’m sorry’ here. Jones doesn’t have the morality or character to drop out of this race, and his running mates Abigail Spanberger, Ghazala Hashmi, andevery elected Democrat in Virginia don’t have the courage to call on him to step away from this campaign in disgrace,” the governor added:

After the texts were revealed,the Republican Attorneys General Association (RAGA) called on Jones to immediately withdraw his candidacy, according to Breitbart News.

In addition, Vice President JD Vance and House Speaker Mike Johnson are also calling on Jones to step out of the race, the outlet reported on Saturday.

Johnson stated, “There is no conceivable justification for wishing violence against a political opponent and their children.”

In her comments on the Jones issue, Virginia’s Republican Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears, who is running against Democrat Abigail Spanberger for governor, said, “The calls for hate and violence are coming from the mouths of the Democrat Party’s leaders, and Jay Jones is just the most recent, and his wish for violent acts the most clear.”

“So if you can’t solve a problem, you can’t name it. But I will. And here and now, the leadership of the Democrat Party has become consumed with hate,” she added:

Jones has since claimed he was “deeply” sorry for what he said and wished he could take back his words.

The news about Jones comes after President Donald Trump was the target of two failed assassination attempts while runningfor the White House against then Vice President Kamala Harris (D) in 2024.The violence did not end, however, because Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk, who was a devout Christian and champion of free speech, was assassinated on September 10 while speaking at Utah Valley University.

Kirk’s violent death shocked the world and millions have mourned his loss.

https://www.breitbart.com/pre-viral/2025/10/05/beyond-disqualifying-va-gov-glenn-youngkin-wants-democrat-ag-hopeful-jay-jones-to-drop-out-after-disgusting-texts/

Spanberger the CIA plant is fine with what he saidshe should drop him if she wants to get elected.

With Trump’s Gaza Plan on the Line, Negotiators Gather in Egypt for Talks

Though significant issues remain to be hashed out between Israel and Hamas, some are saying that after two years of death and destruction, a breakthrough may be near. NYTs1/2

By Ephrat Livni

Oct. 6, 2025

Updated 11:12 a.m. ET

Under pressure to end the war in Gaza after two brutal years of combat,negotiators for Israel and Hamas will meet on Monday with mediators in Egypt to discuss a sweeping peace planpresented by President Trump last week.

Much still remains unresolved.

The indirect talks between Israel and Hamas, mediated by the United States, Qatar and Egypt, are likely to focus on two aspects of the 20-point proposal that Mr. Trump unveiled:exchanging Israeli-held Palestinians for captives taken in the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas-led attack that set off the war, and an Israeli pullback from parts of Gaza.

Israel believes that about 20 hostagesare still alive in Gaza, and alsoseeks the remains of about 25 others. Secretary of State Marco Rubio told Fox News on Sunday that Hamas had “agreed to the president’s hostage release framework.”

Under that plan, the hostages will be exchanged for 250 Palestinians prisoners serving life sentences and 1,700 Gazans jailed by Israel during the war. For every hostage whose remains are released, Israel will also release the remains of 15 Gazans.

While the plan calls for the release of the hostages within 72 hours of Israel agreeing to it, that would be logistically difficult, experts say.And the two sides have yet to agree on which Palestinian prisoners will be released.

Those are just some of the issues that remained to be hashed out.

On Friday, Hamas said it was willing to release the hostages. But Hamas has not addressed major points in the American peace plan,among them demands that it has objected to in the past. The proposal, for example, calls on the group to disarm and for it to have no role in the governance of Gaza — both key Israeli positions that Hamas has long rejected.

Questions also remain about the withdrawal of Israeli forces from positions in Gaza.

In a social media post on Saturday,Mr. Trump said that Israel had already agreed to an initial withdrawal line within Gaza for the first phase of the deal.

“When Hamas confirms, the Ceasefire will be IMMEDIATELY effective, the Hostages and Prisoner Exchange will begin, and we will create the conditions for the next phase of withdrawal,” he pledged.

But Hamas may still seek to negotiate those lines.

In previous talks on ending the conflict, Hamas agreed to Israeli troops withdrawing into a buffer zone near Gaza’s border with Israel. But Mr. Trump’s plan would leave Israeli forces deeper in Gaza, and Hamas has signaled that it may object to elements of the plan.

In a speech to Israelis over the weekend,Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu tried to cast the Trump plan as a victory. He said the stage for a possible deal to end to the warhad been set by his decision to keep up the pressure on Hamas with a devastating military campaign, which drew condemnation from much of the world. He also cited diplomatic efforts.

Members of Mr. Netanyahu’s far-right coalition have long objected to a deal and have threatened to dissolve his government if he agrees to one. The prime minister has sought to appease them, but he is also under pressure from many Israelis who want a hostage deal and an end to the conflict, as well as from the international community, not least Mr. Trump.

On Saturday, Mr. Trumpposted images of Israelis rallying in Tel Aviv for a hostage deal. He added no comments, but the images appeared to speak for themselves.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/world/middleeast/israel-gaza-hamas-peace-talks.html

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Defying Mr. Trump does not appear to be an option, even for Mr. Netanyahu. By Saturday, the Israeli military was limiting its actions to what Israeli officials called defensive operations and responses to immediate threats.

Hamas, too, is under pressure to end the war.

Many Palestinians in Gaza see the Trump proposal as their best hope after nearly two years of extreme privation and repeated displacement. Much of Gaza has been destroyed, tens of thousands of Palestinians have been killed, including thousands of children, and Mr. Trump has said that Israel will have a green light to destroy Hamas if the group does not agree to a deal.

Mr. Trump demanded on social media that Israel stop bombing Gaza to allow the agreement with Hamas to move forward. The Israeli military instructed its forces to focus on defense, curbing military operations in the Gaza Strip, according to Israeli officials.

The fighting on the ground has nonetheless continued. The Israeli military said that it launched multiple attacks on Sunday against what it described as militants threatening troops. Emergency workers in Gaza said that they had been unable to reach some of those killed because they were in combat zones.

Israel and Hamas have held indirect talks off and on throughout the war, with negotiations generally falling apart. Mr. Rubio conceded on Sunday that the war was not yet over and that there was work to be done, but he said this time could be different.

“What gives you hope here is that at least there is now a framework for how all this can come to an end,” he said.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/world/middleeast/israel-gaza-hamas-peace-talks.html

Paul Tudor Jones says ingredients are in place for massive rally before a ‘blow off’ top to bull market

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• Paul Tudor Jones said today’s market is reminiscent of the setup leading up to the burst of the dot-com bubble in late 1999.

• The difference between now and 1999 is the U.S. fiscal and monetary policy, Jones noted.

• He believes the bull market still has room to run before it reaches its final phase.

Billionaire hedge fund manager Paul Tudor Jones believes the conditions are set for a powerful surge in stock prices before the bull market tops out.

“My guess is that I think all the ingredients are in place for some kind of a blow off,” Jones said Monday on CNBC’s “Squawk Box.” “History rhymes a lot, so I would think some version of it is going to happen again. If anything, now is so much more potentially explosive than 1999.”

The founder and chief investment officer of Tudor Investment said today’s market is reminiscent of the setup leading up to the burst of the dot-com bubble in late 1999, with dramatic rallies in technology shares and heightened speculative behavior. Jones said the circular deals or vendor financing happening in the artificial intelligence space today also made him “nervous.”

The tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite has bounced 55% from its April bottom to consecutive record highs. The rally has been driven by megacap tech giants, which have invested billions in AI and are being valued richly on the potential of this emerging era.

The difference between now and 1999 is the U.S. fiscal and monetary policy, Jones noted. The Federal Reserve had just begun a new easing cycle, whereas rate hikes were on the way before the market top in 2000. The U.S. is now running a 6% budget deficit, while in 1999, there was a budget surplus of $99,000, Jones said.

“That fiscal monetary combination is a brew that we haven’t seen since, I guess, the postwar period, early ’50s,” he said.

The longtime investor highlighted the tension at the heart of every late-stage bull market — the eagerness to capture outsized gains and the inevitability of a painful correction.

“You have to get on and off the train pretty quick. If you just think about bull markets,the greatest price appreciations always [occurs] the 12 months preceding the top,” Jones said. “It kind of doubles whatever the annual averages, and before then, if you don’t play it, you’re missing out on the juice; if you do play it, you have to have really happy feet, because there will be a really, really bad end to it.”

To be sure, Jones isn’t predicting an immediate downturn. He believes the bull market still has room to run before it reaches its final phase.

“It will take a speculative frenzy for us to elevate those prices. It will take more retail buying. It’ll take more recruitment from a variety of others from long short hedge funds, from real money, etc.,” he said.

He said he would own a combination of gold, cryptocurrencies and Nasdaq tech stocks between now and the end of the year to take advantage of the rally fueled by the fear of missing out.

Jones shot to fame after he predicted and profited from the 1987 stock market crash. He is also the co-founder of nonprofit Just Capital, which ranks public U.S. companies based on social and environmental metrics.

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/06/paul-tudor-jones-says-ingredients-are-in-place-for-massive-rally-before-a-blow-off-top-to-bull-market.html

BREAKING: Pritzker takes legal action against Trump admin over federal troops

Fox News senior correspondent Mike Tobin reports on Illinois suing to block the Trump administration from its National Guard deployment in Chicago. Fox News contributor Gianno Caldwell also provides analysis

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White House FURIOUS after Trump-appointed judge's ruling

Fox News' Jacqui Heinrich reports the latest on the fallout from the judge's ruling

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Hamas is 'out of lifelines' as urgent peace talks underway in Egypt

Fox News' Steve Harrigan reports the latest from Tel Aviv. Dr. Qanta Ahmed, an IWF senior fellow, joined 'Fox & Friends First' to discuss her take on peace negotiations in Egypt as the pressure continues to mount against Hamas (does anyone else think Bibi planned this block? Hamas is ruled by Qatar, Qatar is a 100% on board with Trump’s plan. Who is interfering in this?)

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https://youtu.be/XAVkLE_bjmo

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UK ‘furious’ over failed Russia strategy – spy agency

Britain has neither defeated nor isolated the country and is planning a new provocation, Moscow’s intelligence service has said

Britain is “furious” over its failure to bring about the “strategic defeat” of Russia and is preparing a new “provocation” in response to battlefield gains in the Ukraine conflict, Moscow's Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) has warned.

In a statement on Monday, the SVR claimed that UK secret services have resorted to preparing a group of Russian nationals who fight for Ukraine to sabotage a Ukrainian navy shipor a foreign civilian vessel in a European port, after which London would accuse Moscow of orchestrating the attack.

The service also claimed that the group would leave behind them Chinese-made underwater equipment, which would later be presented as “proof” of Beijing’s support for Russia.

London expects Europe’s “Russophobic” elites to use the “fake” narrative to justify further military aid to Ukraine and greater militarization against Russia, the spy agency said.

Russia's leadership considers the UK one of the most hostile Western states; relations between the two countries have only worsened since the escalation of the Ukraine conflict in 2022.

London has imposed multiple rounds of sanctions on Russian banks, energy exports, and individuals, while expanding military aid to include long-range Storm Shadow missiles and training for Ukrainian forces.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov last monthaccused NATO and EU countries of declaring a “real war” on Russia and directly participating in the Ukraine conflict. British Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper has fired back, dismissing Lavrov’s statement as “false fantasy world distortions.”

Moscow expelled two British diplomats in March, accusing them of espionage and “subversive activities,” a move that London subsequently denounced as baseless. The UK responded by revoking the accreditation of a Russian diplomat and accusing the Kremlin of deliberately trying to force the closure of the British embassy in Moscow.

The UK discouraged early peace negotiations between Moscow and Kiev in 2022, according to David Arakhamia, head of Vladimir Zelensky’s parliamentary blocand former chief negotiator, who said then-Prime Minister Boris Johnson urged Kiev to abandon the talks, a claim Johnson has denied.

https://www.rt.com/news/625982-uk-furious-failed-russia-strategy/

Everything the UK has thrown at Russia is being revealed as bullshit, that’s why they are so angry.

6 Oct, 2025 15:35

Former NATO chief claims Trump threatened to pull US out

Jens Stoltenberg said the bloc was on the verge of dissolving during the American president’s first term

US President Donald Trump threatened to withdraw from the North Atlantic Treaty Organization,which would have brought the bloc to the brink of collapse, former NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg has claimed.

In excerpts from his upcoming memoir On My Watch, Stoltenberg recalls that ahead of a 2018 NATO summit in Brussels, Trump, then in his first term, complained that the US was paying 80-90% of the bloc’s expenses and wasn’t going to do so anymore, threatening to leave.

“Look, if we leave, we leave. You need NATO, desperately. We don’t need NATO,” Stoltenberg quoted Trump as saying, noting that if the US had withdrawn from the bloc, “the alliance would be dead.”

Trump later reportedly made similar remarks during the summit, saying the US “doesn’t need NATO” and would “do our own thing”unless European members increased military spending to 2% of GDP. He also reportedly threatened to walk out, saying, “There’s no reason for me to be here anymore.”

Trump’s attitude reportedly prompted fears that the bloc could fall apart. Stoltenberg says Germany’s then-Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Emmanuel Macron tried to calm tensions, while former Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte, who now leads NATO,helped persuade Trump to stay by noting that bloc members had increased spending by $33 billion.

Stoltenberg says Trump agreed to remain after being publicly credited for that spending rise. (Trump should have gotten the credit!)

The former NATO chief wrote that if Trump had walked out,it would’ve made the bloc’s treaty and security guarantees worthless. He also noted that the episode highlighted how dependent it was on US participation.

Moscow has consistently expressed concern over NATO’s increasing militarization in recent years and has repeatedly described the bloc’s eastward expansion as one of the root causes of the Ukraine conflict.

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskovhas recently stated that NATO is “de facto at war” with Russia.

Meanwhile,American economist Jeffrey Sachs has claimed that NATO outlived its purpose long ago, and should have been dissolved decades ago, calling its post-1990 expansion “unjustified.”

https://www.rt.com/news/625995-stoltenberg-trump-quit-nato/

There’s Victor Orban behind Trump I’m that picture. What a patriot, now he has an ally with the Georgian win.

6 Oct, 2025 15:29

Baltic states can’t afford to attend UN summit – Reuters

Latvia and Lithuania are reportedly considering remote participation in the Climate Change Conference in Brazil due to high hotel prices

Latvia and Lithuania may skip this year’s United Nations Climate Change Conference in Brazildue to high accommodation costs, Reuters has reported. The cost of lodging in the host city of Belem is reportedly forcing the Baltic states to participate remotely.

The summit, known as COP30, will be held November 10-21. It is expected to gather leaders, climate negotiators and experts to discuss progress on emissions targets and adaptation, with a focus on protecting the rainforest.

Lithuania said its delegation may stay away after beingquoted prices for accommodation exceeding $500 per person per night.

Latvia’s climate minister, Kaspars Melnis, told the news agency that his country had asked conference organizers if its negotiators could join by video.

”We already basically have a decision that it's too expensive for us,” he said. “We have a responsibility to our country's budget.”

The two EU countries are facing widening budget deficits as defense and social costs surge.Latvia’s 2025 deficit is projected at 3% of GDP, while Lithuania’s shortfall is forecast at 2.3% of GDP, according to the IMF.

Reuters noted that some of the world’s smallest and most at-risk countries are also being forced to consider sending fewer representatives. Ilana Seid, chair of the Alliance of Small Island States, said the lack of affordable options places them at “a severe disadvantage.” She emphasized that smaller delegations would miss key experts at talks that directly affect their survival.

Evans Njewa, who leads the group representing the world’s poorest nations in the talks, said many countries are still deciding whether they can afford to attend.

”We're receiving a high volume of concerns … and numerous requests for support,” he told Reuters. “Regrettably, our capacity is limited, which may affect the size of delegations.”

With the summit less than six weeks away,81 countries are still negotiating for accommodation, while 87 have secured lodging, according to Brazil’s COP30 Presidency.

Brazil has pledged to provide hotel rooms for developing countries at rates under $220, and rooms under $600 for wealthy nations. The UN has also increased financial support for low-income countries.

(It’s a big waste of money and similar to last year’s summit in a South American country, where China was headlined the biggest polluting country in the world. They never understand their hypocrisy and lack of an helpful action. Kick the UN out of the U.S., they are just thieves and liars that hate America.)

https://www.rt.com/news/625987-baltic-cannot-afford-un-summit/

6 Oct, 2025 13:18

Poland not interested in European security – Moscow

Warsaw annulled the visas of Russian experts right before an OSCE conference in the Polish capital

Poland decision to prevent Moscow’s delegation from attending aconference by the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) proves that Warsaw is not interested in security or cooperationon the continent, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova has said.

The Russian Public Institute of Electoral Law (ROIIP) said on Sunday thatPoland annulled the visas of its experts, who had been invited by the OSCE to take partin the Warsaw Human Dimension Conference, on the eve of the event. The Polish authorities did not provide any explanation for the decision, it said.

Zakharova reacted to the snub on Monday, telling Tass news agency that “the authorities in Warsaw have long been engaged in destructive activities aimed at undermining and decimating the very essence of the OSCE.”

The OSCE had been established more than five decades ago to “promote security and cooperation” on the European continent, but it seems that the Polish government simply cannot accept such goals, she claimed.

"They apparently do not need this organization. They do not need the spirit and letter of the agreements laying its foundation,” she stressed.

Instead of engaging in “endless manipulative actions” that have “already become the hallmark of the Polish authorities,” Warsaw should openly admit its stance and “understand where this is going to lead,” she said.

"Thanks to the efforts of NATO members, there is little left of security and cooperation” in Europe, Zakharova argued.

Late last month, Polish Prime Minister DonaldTusk told the country’s public to accept that the conflict between Moscow and Kiev is “our war.”He also urged the West to increase support for Ukraine, claiming that if Russia wins “the consequences will affect not only our generation, but also future generations – in Poland, throughout Europe, in the US, everywhere in the world.”

Tensions between Moscow and Warsaw spiked earlier in September,after the Polish authorities accused Russia of drone incursions into their territory. The Russian Defense Ministry denied having any plans of targeting the NATO country and offered hold consultations with the Polish military on the matter. Poland has not responded to the invitation.

(Poland planned on taking back their land in Ukraine after this is over, but they don’t want Russia to get their land from Ukraine. Poland is a bunch of cryers that think they were the only people harmed by WWII, they can’t stop asking for reparations, which they’ve already received.)

https://www.rt.com/news/625980-poland-osce-nato-zakharova/

6 Oct, 2025 12:50

US sanctions on Balkan nation’s oil imminent – president

Serbia is facing a fuel crisis as a new last-minute waiver on Russian ownership of the NIS company is unlikely, Aleksandar Vucic has said

Serbia is unlikely to receive another US waiver from sanctions targeting its oil sector due to its partial Russian ownership, Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said on Sunday, adding that the nation could soon face a fuel crisis.

Washington has granted Belgrade several temporary exemptions from additional restrictions it imposedin January on the NIS oil company, in which Russia’s Gazprom and Gazprom Neft together hold a majority stake. The most recent waiver, issued on October 1, is valid for just one week.

Vucic said on national television on Sunday he believed that no last-minute reprieve was forthcoming, unless he nationalized NIS – a path he said he was reluctant to take.

“We have been working on it for 10 months, we are trying to find a solution and still there is none,” the Serbian leader said. Should a crisis unfold, he added, the country would face a gasoline price hike, but the situation would not be as dire as in the 1990s, when people had to “pour fuel from bottles or buckets.”

Serbia has resisted Western pressure to fully align its foreign policy with that of the European Union, even as it seeks membership in the bloc. Brussels and Washington have repeatedly nudged Belgrade to sever its energy ties with Moscow, a key historical partner.The Vucic government has also accused Western nations of fueling mass protests in Serbia.

Several EU states, including Hungary and Slovakia, have voiced similar concerns over Brussels’ pressure to reject Russian crude. Tensions escalated earlier this year after Ukrainian forces struck sections of the Druzhba pipeline network that supplies oil to eastern Europe.

In January, Hungary and Serbia announced they would speed up the connection of Serbian consumers to the Druzhba system.

(Serbia deserves all the punishment they can get for the participation in overthrowing the 2020 election. Vucic is the biggest fraud to exist.)

https://www.rt.com/news/625979-vucic-us-sanctions-nis/

6 Oct, 2025 10:03

West’s drone accusations baseless – Kremlin

Many Western European politicians tend to blame Russia for everything without any grounds or justification, spokesman Dmitry Peskov has said

Western European officials should “broaden their horizons” when it comes to drone sightings and stop blaming Russia for everything, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told journalists on Monday.

His comments come as several European countries have reported a string of UAV sightings near airports, military facilities and other critical infrastructure over the past month. Western officials have claimed, without evidence, that the drones belong to Moscow.

However,Peskov has stressed that there are “absolutely no grounds to blame Russia for this,”pointing to a recent report of a local “aviation enthusiast” with “no connection to Russia” being arrested in a European city while testing his drone.

“This is one specific, small, isolated example, but perhaps Europeans need to broaden their horizons,” Peskov said.

The spokesman did not specify which specific incident he was referring to. Bild reported on Saturdaythat a 41-year-old Croatian citizen was detained near Frankfurt am Main Airport for launching a drone.

Last week, the outlet also reported that several German citizens were detained for launching drones near an airport in Norway. A Chinese national was also said to have been deported by Norwegian authorities for flying a UAV near Svolvaer Airport in the north of the country.

“The story with these drones is strange, to say the least, but there’s no point in blaming Russia,” Peskov said. “There are many politicians in Europe who are now inclined to blame Russia for everything without any basis, without any grounds,” he added.

Moscow has consistently rejected any connection to the drone incidents at European airports. Officials havedescribed the accusations as Western fearmongering used to whip up anti-Russian hysteriaand justify inflated military budgets and escalate tensions.

Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) has warned that Kiev could attempt to stage drone provocations as false-flag operations designed to blame Moscow and draw NATO into the ongoing Ukraine conflict.

(==Next the EU will blame Russia for being involved in killing Santa Claus!)

https://www.rt.com/russia/625978-peskov-west-drone-accusations/

6 Oct, 2025 17:08

Man fighting for Russia burns his UK passport (VIDEO)

Aiden Minnis has declared that he is renouncing British citizenship to protest new legislation before Parliament in London

British citizen Aiden Minnis, a decorated soldier in the Russian army, has burned his UK passport on video, declaring support for Moscow.

Minnis posted the clip on X last week, explaining thatLondon is moving towards “new anti-terror legislation” that would allow them to “withdraw and revoke citizenshipfrom anyone that participates in anything they deem as a threat to their country.”

“So consider my passport revoked, consider it rescinded, and consider it… I do not want it anymore. You can kiss my ass. So, f*ck you, Great Britain. And Slava Rossiya,”he said, setting the document ablaze.

The upper chamber ofBritish Parliament is set to review a proposed expansion to the Deprivation of Citizenship Orders Bill next week. The legislation aims to prevent a person deprived of British citizenship from regaining it in an appeal process.

Critics have claimed the bill tilts the balance of power toward the Home Office, weakening judicial oversight and eroding checks on ministers’ ability to strip citizenship.

Earlier this year, Minnis received news from home that seminars were using his image as a warning against “homegrown terrorism,”reportedly due to his support for Russia.

The soldier, who is of Irish descent, received the Suvorov Medal for courage on the battlefield earlier this year.

Minnis enlisted in 2023 and has since been granted Russian citizenship.

Speaking to RT last year, he stated that seeing videos of the 2014 Odessa Trade Unions House massacre, in which pro-Western coup supporters burned 42 anti-Maidan activists alive, marked a turning point in his life.

After this,he began to think that “something is wrong here. I’m complicit in this simply because my tax money is going to the arms that are being given to the Banderists, the fascists,” he said.

Volunteers from a number of Western nations have joined the Russian military since the escalation of the Ukraine conflict in 2022.

https://www.rt.com/russia/625998-british-man-burns-passport-russia/