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Fire Breaks Out in United Nations ‘Climate Change’ Conference COP30 in Brazil’s Amazon
⚠️ Important
A large fire is currently burning at the BlueZone in Belém.
The space is hosting negotiators from the countries participating in COP-30. Preliminary information indicates that the fire started due to a short circuit, and firefighters have already arrived
https://twitter.com/i/status/1991558956918141160
Elissa Slotkin and Her Fellow Democrat Conspirators Respond to President Trump Suggesting the Death Penalty for Sedition
Slotkin and a group of Democrat former military and intelligence community Congressmen and Senators released a video on Tuesday addressed to current military and intelligence community members, falsely telling them that President Trump is “pitting” them against American citizens and that they have a duty to disobey his “illegal” orders.
A joint statement from myself
@SenMarkKelly
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@RepJasonCrow
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@RepDeluzio
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@RepGoodlander
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@RepHoulahan
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“We are veterans and national security professionals who love this country and swore an oath to protect and defend the Constitution of the United States. That oath lasts a lifetime, and we intend to keep it. No threat, intimidation, or call for violence will deter us from that sacred obligation.
“What’s most telling is that the President considers it punishable by death for us to restate the law. Our servicemembers should know that we have their backs as they fulfill their oath to the Constitution and obligation to follow only lawful orders. It is not only the right thing to do, but also our duty.
“But this isn’t about any one of us. This isn’t about politics. This is about who we are as Americans. Every American must unite and condemn the President’s calls for our murder and political violence. This is a time for moral clarity.
“In these moments, fear is contagious, but so is courage. We will continue to lead and will not be intimidated.
“Don’t Give Up the Ship!”
https://x.com/SenatorSlotkin/status/1991568438804763103
Congressional Cash Machine: The Biggest Insider Trading Scheme in America Exposed!
DOJ’s Salacious Distraction: The REAL Epstein Intel Is Locked in Langley!
Jeffrey Epstein wasn’t just some rogue pervert with a private island — he was paid hundreds of millions of dollars as a foreign agent working for the United States government. His mission?
A two-pronged operation:
• Blackmail high-profile individuals across business, academia, and politics
• Gather intelligence on wealthy foreign leaders, especially throughout the Middle East
It was a covert influence network so valuable that the deepest parts of our intel community will do anything to keep it sealed. Epstein wasn’t just connected — he was useful, and that’s why the truth remains hidden behind layers of classified protection.
https://rumble.com/embed/v6zt8wg/?pub=4
CIA ‘boasted’ about tricking Congress in JFK probe – Axios
The US spy agency misled congressional investigators about John F. Kennedy’s alleged assassin, according to a whistleblower cited by the outlet
CIA officials misled the US Congress about the movements of the man accused of killing President John F. Kennedy shortly before the assassination and boasted about doing so, Axios has reported, citing former CIA-State Department historian turned whistleblower Thomas Pearcy.
For decades, activists and researchers have demanded full disclosure of all records related to Kennedy’s killing on November 22, 1963. Many have questioned whether Lee Harvey Oswald, the man charged with the murder, acted alone or was even responsible.
The still-classified document described by Pearcy – in a CIA inspector general’s report – allegedly shows how intelligence officials “routinely have covered up facts and records” about Kennedy’s assassination.
According to the whistleblower, the report functioned as a CIA damage assessment examining how the agency’s reputation had been affected by the House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA), which reopened the JFK investigation in the late 1970s.
Pearcy said the file included a 1978 memo in which a CIA officer bragged that he and two colleagues misled HSCA chief counsel Robert Blakey by presenting him with sanitized versions of the Mexico City Station files connected to Oswald. The investigation eventually ruled that JFK was “probably assassinated as a result of a conspiracy” though it could not identify who else might have been involved.
Oswald allegedly visited Mexico City in late September 1963, seeking visas from the Cuban Consulate and the Soviet Embassy that would allow him to travel to Cuba and potentially on to the USSR. He was monitored by US intelligence because both missions were under routine CIA surveillance.
The historian said that he found the report by accident in 2009 while working in a secure CIA room. He also recalled seeing references to photos, cameras, and possibly film labeled “Oswald in Mexico,” despite the CIA’s longstanding denial that such material exists.
https://www.rt.com/news/628079-cia-tricked-congress-jfk-investigation/
RFK Jr. Says Government Going To Figure Out What's Causing Food Allergies
…vaccinated children were more likely to have allergies than unvaccinated children.
Government agencies are going to pinpoint causes of food allergies, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said on Nov. 17 at an event held by an organization that funds and promotes research aimed at preventing and treating food allergies.
Kennedy said that while there have been lots of animal studies on food allergies, there has been a dearth of human studies, including research that looks at whether allergies are caused by aluminum-containing vaccines.
“It’s pretty easy to figure this out, and we will figure it out,” Kennedy said at the Washington event held by the Food Allergy Fund.
A number of vaccines contain aluminum salts as adjuvants, or ingredients that help trigger a stronger immune response.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says on its website that aluminum salts “have been used safely in vaccines for more than 70 years,” although it notes that a study from CDC researchers and other scientists in 2022 found a possible link between exposure to aluminum from vaccines and the development of asthma.
A study based on surveys from mothers of homeschooled children, published in 2017, found that vaccinated children were more likely to have allergies than unvaccinated children.
President Donald Trump said in September that the government was removing aluminum from vaccines. No official steps have been taken, but the panel that advises the CDC on vaccines recently said it would analyze the safety of vaccine ingredients such as aluminum, and plans to discuss in a December meeting “adjuvants and contaminants.”
Some experts believe the rise in allergies to peanuts and other substances over the years stems from avoidance of those substances. The American Academy of Pediatrics in 2000 said parents should not expose children to peanuts until they turn 3 years old. Peanut allergies have dropped since those recommendations were reversed, a recent study found.
Kennedy said he does not think the spike in food allergies is due to avoidance, citing that his own home was filled with peanut products, yet five of his children still developed allergies, and that countries where peanut butter was introduced did not see large increases in peanut allergies.
https://www.zerohedge.com/medical/rfk-jr-says-government-going-figure-out-whats-causing-food-allergies
Market is seeing right through all of these garbage AI deals. The six-month rising channel has been breached.
https://twitter.com/StealthQE4/status/1990834767407849670
The $300 billion agreement between Oracle and OpenAI, first revealed on September 10, has gone deep into the red; negative $74 billion to be exact.
The market wiped out $315 billion from Oracle’s value since the announcement, a loss that not only erased the entire worth of the deal but also torched the equivalent of General Motors plus two Kraft Heinz.
While major tech benchmarks like the Nasdaq Composite, Microsoft, and the Dow Jones US Software Index stayed mostly unchanged, Oracle got smoked.
The brutal fall wasn’t because of overall market pressure, it was all about Larry Ellison’s bet. Oracle threw billions into a deal built on credit, hoping it could become OpenAI’s main infrastructure partner. Investors didn’t like that. Not when the entire business model is now tied to one customer and one moonshot mission: artificial general intelligence.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/savingandinvesting/oracle-has-lost-315-billion-in-market-value-since-announcing-its-300-billion-deal-with-openai/ar-AA1QH6et
https://twitter.com/great_martis/status/1990896621832581492
https://twitter.com/unusual_whales/status/1990889768838660353
https://twitter.com/amitisinvesting/status/1990801482833105212
https://twitter.com/his_eminence_j/status/1990799279255069035
https://citizenwatchreport.com/market-is-seeing-right-through-all-of-these-garbage-ai-deals-the-six-month-rising-channel-has-been-breached/
@elonmusk
Can you stop trying to destroy civilization for like 5 mins? That would be great 👍
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1991218075656475053
California Faces $18 Billion Deficit Next Year, Deepening Multiyear Budget Crisis
California is staring at another major budget shortfall, as the state’s nonpartisan Legislative Analyst’s Office (LAO) has projected that next year’s deficit will hit nearly $18 billion and described the state’s budget position as “relatively weak.”
The forecast points to a widening imbalance between the state’s spending commitments and the revenue needed to support them, even as a surge in personal-income tax collections from the artificial intelligence (AI) boom has lifted California’s finances in the short term.
“The budget condition right now has become relatively weak,” legislative analyst Gabriel Petek told reporters during a Nov. 19 briefing, noting that although tax receipts remain strong, virtually every other indicator reflects a slowing state economy.
AI Windfall Comes With Big Risks
One reason revenues look better than expected is the extraordinary strength of the stock market, driven largely by investor enthusiasm in AI and massive spending by tech companies on data centers and specialized talent. Income-tax collections have grown at double-digit percentages, and compensation for workers in AI-related fields has sharply increased taxable income.
But the LAO warns the surge may not last. The report highlights several signs that the market could be overheating—high valuations, rising investor leverage, and historically elevated household exposure to equities—all of which echo past periods of unsustainable growth.
Analysts at LAO cautioned that assuming continued gains would be risky, especially given the potential for a stock-market correction that could sharply reduce tax revenues.
“In the past, these patterns have been a sign that a stock market downturn will occur in the next couple of years,” the report states.
“There certainly is some chance that this time is different and such a downturn is not forthcoming. Nonetheless, the risk appears strong enough—and the potential consequences for the state budget dire enough—that we think it should be incorporated in the state’s revenue outlook.”
Even if income-tax receipts continue to outperform expectations, the state cannot use most of the additional money to plug next year’s deficit. Under the California Constitution, stronger revenues automatically drive higher spending for public schools and community colleges through Proposition 98.
The LAO estimates that more than 60 percent of new revenue—about $7 billion—must be directed to education funding formulas, including mandatory adjustments for prior-year underfunding.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5091#Comments
$1.2 Billion Suspicious Epstein Transactions? Wyden Demands Investigation After JP Morgan Failed To Report For Years
Now that we're making progress on Epstein - after President Trump and Mike Johnson were forced to cave under overwhelming pressure for DOJ disclosure - a logical next step is to look into who was funding the notorious sex-trafficker.
On Thursday morning, Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR) called for an investigation into whether JPMorgan Chase deliberately concealed suspicious transactions by Epstein.
You really just need to look at Exhibit A in Wyden's memo (dated Wednesday) based on unsealed court records: the number of transactions flagged as suspicious between 2002 - 2016, vs. a flurry of almost $1.3 billion in suspicious transactions that the bank scrambled to file right after Epstein died in jail awaiting trial.
Wyden writes:
The unsealed court records include copies of SARs that JPMC filed on Epstein’s accounts between 2002 and 2019. Between 2002 and 2016, JPMC filed 7 SARs flagging only $4.3 million in suspicious transactions from Epstein’s accounts.¹ Only after Epstein was arrested on federal sex trafficking charges did JPMC report the full extent of Epstein’s suspicious financial activity. In August and September of 2019, JPMC filed two SARs flagging more than 5,000 suspicious wire transfers moving approximately $1.3 billion in and out of Epstein’s accounts.² This is the strongest evidence yet that JPMC should face an investigation for failure to appropriately monitor and report Epstein’s financial activity.
According to internal bank emails, JPMorgan may have held off on filing the SARs (suspicious activity reports) because it wanted "to continue working with Epstein," who was a great source of referrals despite firing him as a client in 2013, the report found.
The bank said in late October that "it was flagging about 4,700 transactions, totaling more than $1 billion, because they were potentially related to reports of human trafficking involving Mr. Epstein. It also mentioned Mr. Epstein’s wire transfers to Russian banks and sensitivities around “his relationships with two U.S. presidents.” Mr. Epstein at times was close with President Trump and former President Bill Clinton," according to the NYT.
Wyden said in a statement that it was "clear that JPMorgan Chase ought to face criminal investigation for the way it enabled Epstein’s horrific crimes," and that both Congress and the DOJ should investigate the bank - which has repeatedly issued statements of regret for working with Epstein, and claims it did all it could with the information it had at the time.
"The second the government finally made public the sex trafficking details in 2019 — information they clearly had for years — we identified for law enforcement a range of Epstein’s past transactions intended to assist with the investigation," said bank spokeswoman Patricia Wexler on Thursday.
Will Wyden actually follow the money?
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/12-billion-suspicious-epstein-transactions-all-eyes-jpmorgan-bank-scrambled-report-after
Texas busts 31 illegal immigrant truckers in one-day operation, most held California CDLs
"When illegal immigrants break the law and illegally drive on our roads, they endanger the lives of countless Texans and Americans.
Texas Governor Greg Abbott announced that state and federal authorities apprehended 31 illegal immigrant commercial truck drivers during a one-day enforcement sweep along Interstate 40, escalating concerns about unvetted and improperly licensed commercial drivers operating nationwide.
The joint “commercial vehicle enforcement” operation took place on November 11 in Wheeler County and involved the Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS), Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), and the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA).
During 105 commercial vehicle inspections, DPS troopers were unable to verify the lawful presence of 31 truck drivers, even though each presented a state-issued commercial driver’s license. All 31 were referred to ICE, which later confirmed that every one of them was in the United States illegally. According to DPS, most of the CDLs were issued in California, a state that allows driver’s licenses for illegal immigrants and has faced repeated scrutiny over its commercial licensing practices. None of the licenses came from Texas.
Governor Greg Abbott blasted California’s policies in his statement announcing the operation.
“Millions of Texans drive on our highways every day,” Abbott said. “When illegal immigrants break the law and illegally drive on our roads, they endanger the lives of countless Texans and Americans."
"While liberal states like California issue licenses to illegal immigrants and risk the lives of Americans, Texas will work with our federal partners to maintain safe roads and apprehend illegal immigrants to protect our communities.”
The discovery in Wheeler County comes amid a growing list of deadly incidents involving illegal immigrant truck drivers who obtained CDLs in states with weak or improperly enforced licensing standards. One of the most high-profile cases involved Harjinder Singh, an illegal immigrant who crossed the southern border in 2018. Despite failing English-language and road-sign tests, he obtained a California and Washington commercial driver’s license. In August, he was charged in Fort Pierce, Florida, for a catastrophic crash that killed three people. Federal investigators later determined that several states, including California and Washington, were issuing CDLs to individuals who did not meet federal requirements.
Another recent case involved Jashanpreet Singh, a 21-year-old illegal immigrant from India who entered the United States in 2022 and was released by the Biden administration under its “alternatives to detention” policy. In November, Singh was arrested on suspicion of gross vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated after allegedly plowing his semi-truck into congested traffic on Interstate 10 in San Bernardino County, California. The fiery crash killed at least three people and injured several others. Toxicology tests confirmed he was impaired, and ICE has since placed a detainer on him.
https://thepostmillennial.com/texas-busts-31-illegal-immigrant-truckers-in-one-day-operation-most-held-california-cdls
$3 trillion gone in 6 hours, Australia smashed
Australia is getting well and truly hammered today as tidal wave of fear grips the global economy, following an apparant false dawn in the US.
Australia is copping a hammering as the ASX dropped to a six-month low after $US2 trillion ($3.1 trillion) was wiped off Wall Street in just six hours overnight.
It was not going the way everybody expected after Nvidia, the world’s biggest company, posted massive profits on Thursday — supposedly allaying fears of an AI bubble.
Overnight, the S&P 500 quickly gave back all the gains - and more - that followed the chip titan’s bumper earnings in a stunning backflip on Friday morning (AEDT).
At one point it was shedding $15 billion per minute as Wall Street completely came off the boil following a strong open.
BREAKING: The S&P 500 has now erased -$1.5 trillion in market cap between 10:40 AM ET and 12:20 PM ET.
That's -$15 billion PER MINUTE for 100 minutes straight.
https://www.news.com.au/finance/markets/stock-market-gains-after-nvidia-earnings-erased-15-billion-a-minute/news-story/1eb879d98302b4f2b4cc4522e7663809
Former Shelby County Division of Corrections Investigator Pleads Guilty to Accepting a Bribe as a Public Official
https://www.justice.gov/usao-wdtn/pr/former-shelby-county-division-corrections-investigator-pleads-guilty-accepting-bribe
U.S. Attorney: 73 Defendants Sentenced During Government Shutdown
During the 43-day lapse in government appropriations, the U.S. Attorney’s Office facilitated more than 70 sentences, secured dozens of guilty pleas, indicted 17 matters, and successfully litigated a trial.
Notable sentences involving drug trafficking include:
Desmond Davis, 35, of Martinsburg, West Virginia, was sentenced to 327 months in federal prison.
Lenin Erasmo Luna Mota, 53, of Hagerstown, Maryland, was sentenced to 280 months.
Malik Summers, 51, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, was sentenced to 240 months.
Odell Epps, 48, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, was sentenced to 130 months in prison.
Frank Brown, 36, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, was sentenced to 120 months in prison.
Gary Duane Cool, 41, of Monterville, West Virginia, was sentenced to 188 months.
Emmanuel Gibson, 34, of Fairmont, West Virginia, was sentenced to 151 months in prison.
Theresa Lipkey, 44, of Petersburg, West Virginia, was sentenced to 84 months in prison.
Corey Coffman Kneeland, 35, of Wardensville, West Virginia, was sentenced to 121 months.
Jennifer Ann Howell, 46, of Moorefield, West Virginia, was sentenced to 90 months.
Matthew David Viands, 33, of Summit Point, West Virginia, was sentenced to 78 months.
Mauricio Alvarado-Flores, 39, of El Salvador, was sentenced to 71 months in prison.
Alexis Alvarado, 38, of Ranson, West Virginia, was sentenced to 60 months.
Rahim Duncan, 31, of Cleveland, Ohio, was sentenced to 63 months in federal prison.
Crystal Lynn Blakenship, 40, of Buckhannon, West Virginia, was sentenced to 97 months.
Randy Jones, 42, of Clarksburg, West Virginia, was sentenced to 136 months in prison.
Kimberly Goins, 44, of Clarksburg, West Virginia, was sentenced to 78 months.
Rebecca Keiper, 38, of Clarksburg, West Virginia, was sentenced to 78 months in prison.
Prison sentences were secured for those violating firearms laws, to include:
Bryan Davis, 39, of Williamsport, Maryland, was sentenced to 188 months in prison.
Alexander Dignazio, 23, of Martinsburg, West Virginia, was sentenced to 120 months in federal prison.
Garrett Deberry, 28, of Morgantown, West Virginia, was sentenced to 160 months in prison.
The office also secured sentences for those who violated child pornography laws:
Oliver Matheny, age 51, of Maidsville, West Virginia, was sentenced to 300 months in prison.
David Cicalese, 44, of Buckhannon, West Virginia, was sentenced to 120 months.
Joshua Michael Humphrey, 43, of Buckhannon, West Virginia, was sentenced to 88 months in prison.
Elliot Stache, 37, of Fairmont, West Virginia, was sentenced to 180 months in federal prison.
https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndwv/pr/us-attorney-73-defendants-sentenced-during-government-shutdown
Israeli press going after POTUS AGAIN!
Trump doesn't just want to work with bin Salman, he wants to be like him
Trump has always dreamed of being a king, so it’s no accident that he’s obsessive about the British monarchy and is tearing up the White House to build himself a golden State Ballroom; but in his version he's much more Mohammed bin Salman than King Charles
Sitting in the Oval Office at the White House — which he has turned from a stirring, elegant place where the free world conducts business into a gilded room like the bathrooms in his penthouse — this week Donald Trump looked more excited than he has in a long time. Beside him sat the most important man in his world today: Mohammed bin Salman (MBS), the Saudi Crown Prince whose private dealings with Trump’s family are bringing the Trump clan billions of dollars. Trump smiled and chuckled, held MBS’s hand, greeted him with a red carpet and an Air Force fly‑by, promised him advanced fighter jets, said they “agree on everything,” and hosted him at a lavish dinner with high‑tech and crypto oligarchs, and Cristiano Ronaldo as the decorative empty shell.
The Jeffrey Epstein files, which are gnawing at Trump’s support even among his staunchest loyalists, stopped bothering him for a day; suddenly, unlike the case with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, there was no trouble with the visitor not wearing a suit in the Oval Office; suddenly the man whom U.S. intelligence concluded directly ordered the killing of a U.S.‑resident journalist is “doing an incredible job on human rights.” Even MBS looked slightly embarrassed.
And speaking of Jamal Khashoggi, who was murdered by Saudi agents and whose body was dismembered at the behest of the revered guest, well — if you ask Trump, it’s sort of what he deserved because he was “very controversial and many people didn’t like him.” And anyway, “things happen,” and MBS told us “nothing” about it. And journalist Mary Bruce, who had the gall to ask about it and about Epstein, should be fired for being “insubordinate,” and ABC News should just be shut down because of her.
Trump also told Bloomberg reporter Catherine Lucey this week to “shut up, piggy,” after she asked him about the Epstein files. Because in what was once a country admired for its free press, you are no longer allowed to ask questions the president doesn’t like. Especially not when the questioner is a woman.
Of course, the U.S. government often advances its interests by cooperating with unsavory people. Realpolitik is a necessity. That’s one thing - to reluctantly work with such actors because you have no choice, but Donald Trump doesn’t just want to work with MBS, nor is he just making a lot of money from their relationship: he admires him and wants to be like him.
Trump has always dreamed of being a king. It’s no accident that he’s obsessive about the British monarchy and is tearing up the White House to build himself a golden State Ballroom — but in his version he is much more Mohammed bin Salman than King Charles.
The entire concept of American democracy seems odd and foreign to him. In his view, he is the state and the state is him, and his interests are equal to those of the U.S., so the massive real‑estate deal the Trump family is about to seal with the Saudi royal family is, of course, a good deal for America. Likewise, the $20 billion aid to Argentina, because the failed President Javier Milei is a friend of Trump, while millions of Americans are losing their health insurance.
https://www.ynetnews.com/opinions-analysis/article/skitnq6lze
is the site getting hit?
last few mins?
getting serious lag
This guy will get his life ruined for exposing this, like all other whistleblowers in Aus
The shocking scam desperate foreigners are using to get Australian residency: 'I'm ashamed of my industry'
A veteran migration agent has declared he is 'ashamed' of his own industry, claiming sham relationships are still flooding Australia's partner visa system - and accused the Department of Home Affairs of turning a blind eye.
Melbourne-based agent Mark Pelley said 'vulnerable' Australian women - often struggling with addiction, housing insecurity or financial distress, are being groomed and exploited in scams run by rogue migration agents and organised networks.
He claims the practice, once exposed through high-profile cases more than a decade ago, is now worse than ever, as mass migration puts even more strain on Australia's housing market.
'I'm so ashamed of my industry and want it's become over the past 10 years,' he said.
'There have been more instances of people or organisations approaching me to help participate in scams than those with legitimate claims for visas.
'They offer me large sums of money if I help them source vulnerable Australian women to participate in the partner visa fraud scheme.'
Mr Pelley said he has repeatedly reported alleged scams, including names of participants, but claims the Department of Home Affairs has failed to act.
'I've reported more scams that I can recall and have never received a single follow up from the Department,' he said.
'Unfortunately as the Department is so far behind the scams, the agents make a lot of money in the meanwhile and it's worth it for the scammers because by the time they're caught, they're rich.'
According to Mr Pelley, a common scheme begins when a foreign-born migrant, often from the Indian subcontinent or parts of Asia, moves to Australia, gains citizenship, and then launches a migration agency.
'They set up their agency and focus on partner visas where they use their connections within their migrant community both locally and abroad to facilitate fake partner visa applications,' he said.
He claims many of these operators then establish satellite offices in their home countries, complete with social media accounts, to funnel overseas clients into the scam pipeline.
'They find local members of their community from Australia who want to make fast cash,' he said.
'Setting up a database, they find one person from overseas who is desperate to pay to come to Australia, and one person from Australia who shares in the profits.
'The Australian "partner" is paid anywhere around $50,000 and the migration agent charges their usual fees plus an additional fee for the match making. I've heard of migration agents earning $20,000 plus for this.'
Mr Pelley said rogue migration agents actively coach both parties in sham relationships, instructing them on what to say in interviews and how to fabricate evidence to secure a visa.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15304399/Migration-agent-lifts-lid-shocking-scam-desperate-foreigners-using-Australian-residency.html
Jessica Buckley fourth person charged over alleged $71m Defence contracts fraud
A fourth person has been charged with fraud over an alleged $71 million Department of Defence contracts scandal.
The Australian Federal Police (AFP) on Thursday confirmed that 45-year-old Jessica Buckley had been charged with one count of dishonestly gaining a benefit from a Commonwealth entity.
She joins three other people also facing charges over the alleged scheme, who the AFP alleges have been "involved in a conspiracy to influence the awarding of tenders to their company, with the intention of dishonestly gaining a benefit from the Commonwealth, namely the Department of Defence".
The three co-accused — Michael Buckley, Natalie Wynne and Dallas Wynne — faced court in Darwin on Monday, in a case Judge Jonathon Bortoli said was "likely to end up in the Supreme Court".
The AFP said Ms Buckley was another director of well-known Darwin building company M + J Builders, as is her co-accused Mr Buckley.
She is expected to appear in the Darwin Local Court today.
An AFP spokesperson said in a statement that it would be "alleged in court that the woman conspired with the above-mentioned Commonwealth employee, his spouse and the fellow building company director in the above offending".
"Operation Panton Hill remains an active investigation with inquiries continuing," they said.
The AFP has said that the operation was launched following a report from the Department of Defence concerning "irregularities identified through an internal investigation in relation to the awarding of contracts by Defence with a value of almost $71 million to a Northern Territory business".
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11-21/fourth-person-arrested-in-alleged-defence-contract-fraud-scheme/106034670
Netanyahu: ‘There will not be a Palestinian state,’ even at cost of ties with Saudis
In interview with Telegram channel, PM says border deal with Syria ‘preferable’ but won’t budge on security demands; Israel to boost arms industry to ease reliance on US
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu insisted that there will not be a Palestinian state, even at the cost of normalization with Saudi Arabia, during an interview aired on Thursday evening.
“There will not be a Palestinian state. It’s very simple: it will not be established,” the premier said in the wide-ranging interview with Abu Ali Express, a popular local Telegram channel.
Asked by the interviewer if his opposition holds even if it jeopardizes normalization with Riyadh — which insists on a credible pathway to Palestinian statehood in exchange for such ties – Netanyahu said: “The answer is: a Palestinian state will not be established. It is an existential threat to Israel.”
Asked about what has prevented normalization with the Saudis, Netanyahu said the war in Gaza strained progress, but that “the conditions could develop” now that the war is winding down.
“But the conditions must be acceptable to both sides – terms that are good for both sides,” he said. “I know how to stand firm on our essential conditions and not endanger our security. And if this process ripens later on, excellent. And if not, we will safeguard our vital interests.”
Turning to the Gaza Strip, Netanyahu told the channel that Israel will reopen the Rafah border crossing on the Egypt-Gaza border after it receives the three remaining deceased hostages from Hamas, adding that Israel is “very close to completing” the process.
“We agreed that we will open the crossing after we receive all our hostages. We are very close to completing this process — it’s set to happen — and once that is completed, we will open the crossing,” the premier said.
Netanyahu added that, once all the hostages are returned and the crossing is reopened, he “will be very happy to see Egypt allowing any Gazan who wants to leave [through the crossing] to do so — because that has not happened until today.”
“Any Gazan who wants to leave should be able to, and that right has been denied to them,” he continued, adding that Washington’s 20-point plan for Gaza “included that right: it sets out the principle that any Gazan who wants to leave can leave. You’re not expelling anyone, but if a person wants to leave, let them leave. If Egypt accepts that — I think that’s very positive.”
The Palestinian Authority embassy in Egypt has pushed for the reopening of the crossing, which has been largely closed since Israeli forces entered Rafah in May 2024, to allow Palestinians residing in Egypt to return to Gaza. Egypt has repeatedly vowed to block any “displacement” of Gazans from the war-torn Gaza Strip, calling it a “red line” for Cairo.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/netanyahu-there-will-not-be-a-palestinian-state-even-at-cost-of-ties-with-saudis/
Feds: Suspected Global Kingpin Laundered $77 Million Through 100+ Shell Companies
A suspected global drug kingpin was arraigned before a federal court in New York on international drug trafficking charges.
Zhi Dong Zhang, also known as “GG,” “Kun Li Hernandez,” “Chang Li Gong Sun,” “Memo,” “Brother Wang,” “BW,” “Pancho,” “HeHe,” “HaHa,” “Chino,” and “Summor Ownor,” 38, was arraigned before U.S. Magistrate Judge Clay H. Kaminsky for the Eastern District of New York at the federal courthouse in Brooklyn, New York, on a second superseding indictment charging him with international cocaine distribution conspiracy, international cocaine distribution, cocaine importation conspiracy, cocaine and methamphetamine possession and distribution conspiracy, and money laundering crimes.
The defendant, a Chinese citizen, was arrested in Mexico after Mexico issued an arrest warrant based on extradition requests from the Eastern District of New York and the Northern District of Georgia, and was returned to the United States on October 23. The defendant was ordered detained pending trial. On October 24, the defendant had an initial appearance in the Southern District of Texas, where he was arraigned on this Indictment and on the indictment in the Northern District of Georgia.
The defendant has been designated a Consolidated Priority Organization Target by the Department of Justice, a designation given to the most significant narcotics traffickers in the world.
“The defendant stands accused of running a global enterprise that pumped massive quantities of cocaine, fentanyl, and methamphetamine into our communities and laundered millions in narcotics proceeds,” said U.S. Deputy Attorney General Todd W. Blanche. “His return to the United States is a major step in dismantling a network that has fueled addiction, violence, and death. I’m grateful for the outstanding work of our prosecutors, agents, and international partners who refused to let him hide behind aliases, shell companies, or foreign borders. The Department of Justice will continue to target the world’s most dangerous traffickers, wherever they operate, and bring them to justice.”
The Justice Department also expressed appreciation to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Texas, the U.S. Marshals Service, the Department of Justice’s Office of International Affairs, HSI Mexico City, HSI Rio Grande Valley, and the Government of Mexico.
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/scott-mcclallen/2025/11/20/feds-suspected-global-kingpin-laundered-77-million-through-100-shell-companies-n2666783
Jasmine Crockett Shares List Of Republicans Who Took Money From Epstein - Only Problem - It Was A Different Epstein!
Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas) has publicly beclowned herself for the second time in a week by falsely accusing several Republican politicians of taking money from “somebody named Jeffrey Epstein.”
“Folks who also took money from somebody named Jeffrey Epstein, as I had my team dig in very quickly—Mitt Romney, the NRCC, Lee Zeldin, George Bush, McCain-Palin,” Crocket declared on the House floor on Tuesday.
Federal campaign finance records show that Epstein donated primarily to Democrats, including two current sitting members of Congress, Delegate Stacy Plaskett (D-V.I) and Senator Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), both of whom have retained the donations, despite scrutiny.
Even worse, newly released documents from Epstein’s estate include text messages between Plaskett and Epstein that show he advised her on what questions to ask President Trump’s former attorney Michael Cohen during a 2019 congressional hearing.
The Republican-led House Oversight Committee also recently released documents revealing that a fundraising firm representing Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries ( D-N.Y.) solicited donations from Epstein in 2013, shortly after Jeffries’ first election to the House and well after Epstein’s 2008 conviction for soliciting prostitution from a minor.
“I just want to be clear, if this is the standard that we gonna make, just know we’re gonna expose it all. And know that the FEC filings, they are available for everyone to review,” Crockett said, hoping to deflect from these Democrat embarrassments.
Public records however indicate that most of the donations highlighted by Crockett came from an entirely different person, a Republican physician named Jeffrey Epstein.
Zeldin, currently Trump’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator, blasted the congresswoman on X: “Yes Crockett, a physician named Dr. Jeffrey Epstein (who is a totally different person than the other Jeffrey Epstein) donated to a prior campaign of mine. NO FREAKIN RELATION YOU GENIUS!!!”
Records also showed that Dr. Epstein made two $250 donations to former Republican Utah Sen. Mitt Romney during his presidential run in 2012,” the Daily Caller reported.
All of the donations mentioned by Crockett reportedly came from other people named Jeffrey Epstein, and came in some cases, came after the convicted sex trafficker had died.
The emails released by the House Oversight Committee on Wednesday show Rep. Hakeem Jeffries’ campaign soliciting money from Epstein in 2013 and inviting him to a Democrat fundraising dinner with then-President Barack Obama.
The fundraising firm Dynamic SRG refers to Jeffries in the email as “Brooklyn’s Barack” and a “progressive voice,” and encourages him to “get involved with the dinner” or “get an opportunity to get to know Hakeem better.”
Jeffries stated he has “no recollection” of the outreach and emphasized he “certainly” never met Epstein or accepted any money from him.
https://amgreatness.com/2025/11/19/jasmine-crockett-shares-list-of-republicans-who-took-money-from-epstein-only-problem-it-was-a-different-epstein/
MAHA And GLP-1s Are About To Deal A Big Blow To The Processed-Foods Industrial Complex
The US processed-food industrial complex, partly controlled by globalist mega-corps, is beginning to reckon with a new reality: Make America Healthy Again and rising weight-loss drug use are reshaping what Americans eat - and what they're walking away from, mostly junk food loaded with toxic seed oils, as well as alcohol.
In the coming weeks, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President Donald Trump's Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary, will be releasing new dietary guidelines to reset America's food supply chain away from toxic seed oils and highly processed foods toward real food. This is part of the MAHA trend.
MAHA, combined with the expected surge in GLP-1 demand (thanks to Trump's deal with Novo Nordisk and Lilly to cut costs), is likely to wipe out tens of billions in food and beverage sales in the coming years.
Bloomberg Intelligence analysts Jibril Lawal and Jennifer Bartashus forecast that the rapid adoption of GLP-1 weight-loss drugs will reduce US and European food and beverage sales by $53 billion by 2035.
Weight-loss drugs are reshaping consumption, and our analysis shows GLP-1s are set to erase $53 billion in food and beverage sales by 2035. Volume losses will be steepest in snacks, baked goods and confectionery – a 4-6% sales drag in the US and 3-5% in Europe. Alcohol also faces a 2-4% drop as consumers shift to healthier options. -Lawal
Here are the key takeaways from the report that only suggest a coming food revolution across the West:
GLP-1s Could Cut Food, Beverage Sales by Billions
The adoption of GLP-1 drugs will significantly reduce US and European food and beverage consumption if uptake reaches 19.5% and 13.1% of the adolescent and adult population (ages 12-65+) by 2035, BI's high-end scenario analysis shows. Our model isolates volume impact only and excludes pricing increases or reformulations that might offset lower consumption. Under these assumptions, baked-goods sales are expected to drop by $11.5 billion and confectionery $8 billion the largest food declines while beer and spirits may fall by $12.5 billion and $9.2 billion, the steepest beverage contractions. Concurrently, we anticipate demand to shift toward healthier alternatives, with bottled water, fruits and vegetables each gaining more than $4 billion over the period.
https://www.zerohedge.com/food/maha-and-glp-1s-are-about-deal-big-blow-processed-food-industrial-complex