Andrew Kolvet on X: "Reading through the notice of claim filed by the Kirk family against UVU that details one lapse of security after the next has been one of the hardest parts of the last few days. Campus events can be, and are, mostly very safe, but campus PD just has to do the basics.TPUSA texted, “Hello Chief Long – we received this message today from the student group…. ‘there is student roof access pretty close to where [Charlie Kirk] will be set up at Utah Valley.’” The TPUSA official had even added “it would be nice to either have it controlled access or allow one of my guys to be there as well. If Possible.” Chief Long replied “I got you covered.” The rooftop was a well known hangout for local students. Beer bottles and other garbage was often spotted up there — they knew this vulnerability well. This was also just over a year post Butler, so this should’ve been top of mind. 

But that wasn’t the only failure. Only six campus PD officers were on site that day. There was no security briefing before the event. There was no written plan. Charlie’s security was larger than the campus police. No drones were deployed or available by UVU campus PD, and TPUSA was not authorized to run their own. Nearby Orem PD has a sophisticated drone program but were never called to assist. CCTV cameras on campus were not monitored in realtime. Chief Long requested additional resources, but the request was not granted by the university president. 
Only UVU had legal authority to secure, surveil, block, and manage access on campus. Charlie’s security could only maintain safety inside his “bubble” a space of 20-30 feet around him. Charlie deserved the best, and he didn’t get it. But nothing novel or extraordinary was required to keep CK and the crowd safe. The basics were not even close to being covered."

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Reading through the notice of claim filed bythe Kirk family against UVU that details one lapse of security after the next has been one of the hardest parts of the last few days. Campus events can be, and are, mostly very safe, but campus PD just has to do the basics.

TPUSA texted, “Hello Chief Long – we received this message today from the student group…. ‘there is student roof access pretty close to where [Charlie Kirk] will be set up at Utah Valley.’” The TPUSA official had even added “it would be nice to either have it controlled access or allow one of my guys to be there as well. If Possible.” Chief Long replied “I got you covered.”

The rooftop was a well known hangout for local students. Beer bottles and other garbage was often spotted up there — they knew this vulnerability well. This was also just over a year post Butler, so this should’ve been top of mind.

But that wasn’t the only failure.

Only six campus PD officers were on site that day. There was no security briefing before the event. There was no written plan. Charlie’s security was larger than the campus police.

No drones were deployed or available by UVU campus PD, and TPUSA was not authorized to run their own. Nearby Orem PD has a sophisticated drone program but were never called to assist.

CCTV cameras on campus were not monitored in realtime.

Chief Long requested additional resources, but the request was not granted by the university president.

Only UVU had legal authority to secure, surveil, block, and manage access on campus. Charlie’s security could only maintain safety inside his “bubble” a space of 20-30 feet around him.

Charlie deserved the best, and he didn’t get it. But nothing novel or extraordinary was required to keep CK and the crowd safe. The basics were not even close to being covered.

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🔥🚨 JUST IN — Turning Point’s Andrew Kolvet just said Utah Valley University KNEW students would use the rooftops to "people watch" all the time, yet failed to secure them.

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It had nothing to do with the university. It had to do with Charlie’s own security team.

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Why did his main security guy go to the Sorensen Center right before the shot? Why did Erika lie about the texts Charlie sent? Why did everyone change into scrubs? Why did Terryl Farnsworth take the sd card and immediately put it into a laptop?

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His security got him killed, but hey, they kept Ben Shapiro IDF security abreast of his condition.

Literally as he was bleeding out.

Lawsuit directed at wrong people 🤷

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I guess that makes sense guys. I can see it now. Sorry I doubted you Ben Shapiro

https://x.com/AndrewKolvet/status/2100192038595821686

TECH

Musk urges top AI labs, Chinese companies to test each other’s models amid calls for slowdown.

PUBLISHED TUE, SEP 15 20267:25 PM EDT

KEY POINTS

• Elon Musk addressed the debate over AI regulation, saying the leading labs and Chinese companies should peer-review each other’s models to evaluate their safety.

• The debate around how to regulate AI has intensified after the leaders of Anthropic, OpenAI and other AI companies spent the weekend warning about the technology’s harms.

• President Donald Trump has rejected calls for greater regulation and characterized concerns around the technology as a “hoax.”

Elon Musk called for the top artificial intelligence companies to work together and test each other’s models before they’re released to the public, as some of the industry’s leaders warn of the technology’s dangers and push for greater government regulation.

Speaking at the All-In Summit in Los Angeles on Monday, the SpaceX

CEO said SpaceX’s xAI business, OpenAI

, Anthropic

, Google

, Meta

and “three or four of the leading Chinese companies” should let rivals run a “test harness” on their models to evaluate their safety.

“So, you know, instead of grading your own homework, you would at least have competitors grading your homework and raising the alarm if they see concerns,” Musk said.

The debate around how to regulate AI has intensified after the leaders of Anthropic, OpenAI and other AI companies spent the weekend warning about the technology’s harms and called for a slowdown in model development. Musk and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman were among the tech leaders who backed Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei’s proposal for a slowdown, marking a rare show of unity.

The push from top AI leaders came amid a broader warning about the fate of humanity as AI researchers sounded the alarm last week, sparked by a post from Jacob Coxon, who announced that he quit his job at Anthropic.

Coxon, who also worked at OpenAI, wrote that the leading AI labs are “gambling with our lives.” Researchers quickly chimed in, with Evan Hubinger, an alignment lead at Anthropic, also backing Coxon’s statements.

“Jacob is correct here — we really do earnestly believe AI could kill all humans! I personally think it is >10% within the next decade,” Hubinger wrote.

The Trump administration has pushed back on tech leaders’ calls for greater limits on AI. President Donald Trumppushed out a flurry of posts on Truth Social on Monday, referring to fears over AI as a “hoax” and a “scam.”

National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett told CNBC on Tuesday that the private sector is the “right place” to address concerns with AI. He said the government continues to monitor the industry and will use “law enforcement when necessary to make sure that the firms are acting responsibly.”

Musk said Monday that his peer-review method may not be a perfect solution, but he added, “The odds that you will find issues are dramatically greater.”

SpaceX acquired Musk’s AI business xAI in February, then completed an acquisition of AI code-generation startup Cursor for $60 billion in August. The merged entity is working to make SpaceXAI’s Grok models and tools more relevant to developers, in line with competing products from OpenAI, Anthropic and Google.

Musk acknowledged that rival AI labs that compete with SpaceX

haven’t agreed to his proposal. Amodei, in his essay, suggested that AI labs could agree to third-party technology assessments from “embedded evaluators” who would verify safety practices.

Trump has suggested that any attempts to pace the development of AI would give China the upper hand in developing the technology. Amodei echoed those concerns over the weekend, calling it the “toughest dilemma.”

While Musk is arguing for industry self-regulation, his companies have sought to block states’ laws governing AI. For example, xAI sued the state of California, trying to negate its AI Training Data Transparency Act (AB 2013), and sued Minnesota over a law that bans so-called nudify apps in the state.

SpaceX’s AI unit is facing myriad probes and lawsuits after its Grok image generators were used to create and distribute so-called deepfake porn, depicting child sexual abuse or intimate images based on photos or videos of real adults who did not consent.

Shares of SpaceX closed down 3.15% on Tuesday amid the national conversation about AI risks and regulation.

A spokesperson for China’s Foreign Ministry on Monday called AI companies’ push for a slowdown “fear mongering,” according to an English translation of their remarks published by Reuters.

“What I’m suggesting here is it’s a step in the right direction and it’s something that we do quickly,” Musk said. “I think it’s probably something that China would agree to.”

(https://www.cnbc.com/2026/09/15/elon-musk-ai-safety-testing.html

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Trump envoy vows to help unfreeze assets of close Russia ally

John Coale said Washington has approached Citibank about returning tens of millions of dollars to Belarus

Published 15 Sep, 2026 23:34 |

US presidential envoy John Coale has vowed to work with American banks to release tens of millions of dollars in frozen assets belonging to Belarus, Russia’s close ally in Europe.

President Donald Trump’s envoy made the remarks in Minsk on Tuesday while meeting with Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenkoas part of broader talks on normalizing economic ties and prisoner releases.

Lukashenko called for the release of around $43–44 million that he said was “stuck” in Citibank.“Pay back what you owe us,” he said.

“You are absolutely right. This money must be unfrozen and returned. We have approached the bank with a request to unfreeze these funds,” Coale said, adding that Washington was working on a concrete mechanism to facilitate the transfer.

Many Western countries imposed sanctions on Belarus in 2020 in response to a crackdown on protests following that year’s presidential election and expanded them in 2022, accusing the country of aiding Russia in its conflict with Ukraine.Lukashenko has denied helping Russia militarily and accused NATO of plotting to overthrow him.He has also claimed that the 2020 protests and riots in Minsk were incited from abroad.

Coale’s trips to Minsk last year ended with the release of dozens of opposition politicians and activists. During Tuesday’s talks, Lukashenko denied that the prosecution of opposition figures was politically motivated.

“If any Belarusian citizens – or foreign nationals present in the country – violate Belarusian law, we will certainly respond in accordance with the law,” he said.

Last week, the Belarusian president said he was prepared to discuss further agreements with the US only after the return of the assets frozen at Citibank. He made the statement while discussing the resumption of Belarusian fertilizer exports to the US.

The Trump administration has held several rounds of negotiations with Minsk that have facilitated the release of hundreds of prisoners and the easing of economic restrictions on Belarus. Washington has also lifted some restrictions, including sanctions on Belarusian state flag carrier Belavia.

https://www.rt.com/russia/645779-belarus-us-envoy-frozen-funds/

Russia cannot be shut out of global energy trade – minister

Sergey Tsivilev has said Russia will push for unrestricted energy flows at the G20

Published 15 Sep, 2026 20:26

Russia will remain a guarantor for international energy security and cannot be excluded from global supply chains, Russian Energy Minister Sergey Tsivilev told TASS on Tuesday.

This interview preceded a three-day G20 energy ministers meeting in Houston, Texas, set to run Monday to Wednesday.

“The objective reality is that our country cannot be excluded from global supply chains. Russia has been, is, and will undoubtedly remain a reliable supplier of energy resources and a guarantor of energy security,” Tsivilev told TASS.

The country possesses the world’s largest oil and gas reserves and ranks fifth globally in coal reserves and fourth in LNG production, he added.

“Furthermore, Russia is the undisputed leader in nuclear technologies, commanding approximately 90% of the global market for nuclear power plant construction,” Tsivilev said.

At the G20 summit, Russia is proposing that “global energy security and economic stability” be ensured via open energy trade without sanctions or other restrictions, he added. This would guarantee “the unhindered flow of energy resources to where they are most needed, thereby reducing the risk of supply disruptions,” the minister said.

He emphasized that the world is currently facing “the most serious energy logistics crisis in modern history” stemming from disruptions to energy supplies through the Strait of Hormuz. The key waterway once facilitated approximately a quarter of the global oil trade, but has been severely obstructed due to the ongoing US conflict with Iran.

The crisis has also been linked to the war in Ukraine. US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Ukrainian attacks on Russian energy facilities had contributed to a global “energy shock” and higher prices, including for Americans. US diesel prices hit a record national average of $6.27 per gallon on Tuesday, according to the American Automobile Association.

On Monday, President Donald Trump claimed that he had brokered an agreement for Russia and Ukraine to halt strikes on each other’s energy infrastructure.

The Kremlin called the proposal “a very good idea” but did not confirm whether Russia had agreed to such a deal. “We are in contact with the Americans. We are always on the side of peaceful solutions,”Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said at a briefing on Tuesday.

https://www.rt.com/russia/645778-russia-global-energy-trade-tsivilev/

‘I feel more free’ reporting in Russia – Rick Sanchez(VIDEO)

Sanchez has told aspiring journalists at the World Youth Festival that he lacked the freedom to control his own narrative working in the West

Published 15 Sep, 2026 17:36 |

RT’s Rick Sanchez has said that he feels more free to control his own narrative reporting from Russia compared to his time working in Western mainstream media.

Sanchez told aspiring journalists of his decades of professional experience in a wide-ranging lecture at the World Youth Festival (WYF) in Yekaterinburg, Russia on Tuesday. The talk touched on the freedom of the press, the psychology of a good journalist, andthe art of conducting a good interview.

“The freedoms that I lacked working at CNN, the freedoms that I lacked working in NBC, working in Western media, I now find working in Russia. I feel more free. I feel like I have more control of my own narrative,” he said.

Messaging is all about empowerment, and that means you can’t be afraid to ask the question because the question is the power.

Sanchez stressed that journalism and the right to ask questions and gather ideas from different people serve as “a democratizing force in the world.”

“You have to empower yourself. You cannot be afraid,” he said, adding that aspiring journalists should be prepared to interview international leaders such as Russian President Vladimir Putin, Chinese President Xi Jinping, or Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

The lecture by the veteran news anchor was organized as part of RT’s educational outreach project, the RT Academy.

The week-long WYF opened in Yekaterinburg last Friday, bringing together thousands of participants from 191 countries. The festival is scheduled to run until September 17, hosting assorted international lectures, competitions, exhibitions, panel discussions, and other events.

https://www.rt.com/russia/645763-sanchez-free-press-russia-youth-festival/

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Disgruntled troops leak PHOTOS of extensive damage to US bases from Iranian strikes

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The vast amount of destruction at American facilities in the Middle East isn’t being communicated to the public, the soldiers told CBS

Published 16 Sep, 2026 07:20

US troops have leaked new images to CBS News capturing widespread destruction at American military bases across the Middle East from Iran’s missile and drone attacks.

The servicemen who provided the photos chose to stay anonymous because of harsh media restrictions in the US military, the outlet said in an article on Tuesday.

“This is major damage to our bases that hasn’t been communicated to the American public,” one of the soldiers stationed in the region said.

The service member complained about insufficient air defenses at the US facilities, saying “we’re standing there with our eyes closed getting punched in the face.”

The Iranian munitions that are getting through are “not ‘squirters’” as US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth called them after six American troops were killed in a strike on a US military tactical operations center at the Port of Shuaiba in Kuwait in early March, the soldier stressed. “We’re not defending these bases. We’re just watching them get destroyed.”

CBS News said that the photos it had received showed a $300 million US E-3 Sentry radar plane destroyed by a direct hit at Prince Sultan Air Force Base in Saudi Arabia as well as damaged buildings and burnt-out vehicles at Camp Buehring and Camp Arifjan in Kuwait.

Earlier this week, the US War Department’sinspector general issued a report, saying that the American forces have suffered $3.7 billion in equipment losses, including almost 60 aircraft, during the war against Iran, which started in late February with a US-Israeli attack on the Islamic Republic.

American bases in Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, UAE, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Oman and Jordan were hit, with hundreds of buildings and structures being damaged or destroyed, according to the inspector.

Last week, the acting secretary of the US Navy, Hung Cao, told the Epoch Times that Iran “blew the hell out of Bahrain,” referring to the attacks on the American military facilities in the Gulf country.

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi responded to the acknowledgment in a post on X, saying that “our powerful Armed Forces did indeed ‘blow the hell out of the 5th Fleet HQ in Bahrain,’ as well as other bases supporting US aggression.”

In early September, Iranian Parliament speaker and top negotiator Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf warned that further aggressive actions by the US will be met with “faster, heavier and more painful”retaliation by Tehran.

“The Americans have surely understood that the era of proportionate responses has come to an end and our recent strikes against aggressor bases were only a start,”Ghalibaf said.

(https://www.rt.com/news/645794-us-bases-damage-iran/

Mario Nawfal on X: "🚨🇺🇸 🇮🇷 BREAKING: Troops leaked photos of their wrecked bases to CBS, saying they're "standing there with our eyes closed getting punched in the face" Active service members sent the images anonymously. One soldier's words: "We're not defending these bases. We're just watching them get destroyed." What the photos reportedly show: -Prince Sultan Air Base, Saudi Arabia: an E-3 Sentry with its tail severed from a charred fuselage -Prince Sultan Air Base: hollowed-out buildings and barracks standing beside untouched concrete T-walls, fortifications built for mortars and grenades in a war fought from 300 miles up -Camp Buehring, Kuwait: rows of trailers destroyed at the main staging area for Army ground troops and armor -Camp Buehring: vehicles burned out in the open -Camp Arifjan, Kuwait: structural damage to a building at the largest American logistics hub in the region -The IG counted nearly 60 aircraft lost and $3.7 billion in equipment across eight countries. Hegseth called the missiles that killed six at Shuaiba "squirters," a word for the odd one that slips past a working defense. These photos say the defense isn't working, and the people inside the wire know it. Source: CBS News / Writer: Daniel"

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Mario Nawfal on X: "🚨🇺🇸 🇮🇷 BREAKING: Troops leaked photos of their wrecked bases to CBS, saying they're "standing there with our eyes closed getting punched in the face" Active service members sent the images anonymously. One soldier's words: "We're not defending these bases. We're just watching them get destroyed." What the photos reportedly show: -Prince Sultan Air Base, Saudi Arabia: an E-3 Sentry with its tail severed from a charred fuselage -Prince Sultan Air Base: hollowed-out buildings and barracks standing beside untouched concrete T-walls, fortifications built for mortars and grenades in a war fought from 300 miles up -Camp Buehring, Kuwait: rows of trailers destroyed at the main staging area for Army ground troops and armor -Camp Buehring: vehicles burned out in the open -Camp Arifjan, Kuwait: structural damage to a building at the largest American logistics hub in the region -The IG counted nearly 60 aircraft lost and $3.7 billion in equipment across eight countries. Hegseth called the missiles that killed six at Shuaiba "squirters," a word for the odd one that slips past a working defense. These photos say the defense isn't working, and the people inside the wire know it. Source: CBS News / Writer: Daniel"

@MarioNawfal

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🚨🇺🇸 🇮🇷 BREAKING: Troops leaked photos of their wrecked bases to CBS, saying they're "standing there with our eyes closed getting punched in the face"

Active service members sent the images anonymously.

One soldier's words: "We're not defending these bases. We're just watching them get destroyed."

What the photos reportedly show:

-Prince Sultan Air Base, Saudi Arabia: an E-3 Sentry with its tail severed from a charred fuselage

-Prince Sultan Air Base: hollowed-out buildings and barracks standing beside untouched concrete T-walls, fortifications built for mortars and grenades in a war fought from 300 miles up

-Camp Buehring, Kuwait: rows of trailers destroyed at the main staging area for Army ground troops and armor

-Camp Buehring: vehicles burned out in the open

-Camp Arifjan, Kuwait: structural damage to a building at the largest American logistics hub in the region

-The IG counted nearly 60 aircraft lost and $3.7 billion in equipment across eight countries.

Hegseth called the missiles that killed six at Shuaiba "squirters," a word for the odd one that slips past a working defense.

These photos say the defense isn't working, and the people inside the wire know it.

Source: CBS News / Writer: Daniel

https://www.rt.com/news/645794-us-bases-damage-iran/

Stealth Startup Kepler Computing Says It Cracked the AI Memory Shortage

KEPLER COMPUTING, A STEALTH STARTUP LED BY CEO DEBO OLAOSEBIKAN AND CTO SASI MANIPATRUNI, SAYS IT DEVELOPED A FERROELECTRIC COMPOSITE MATERIAL THAT BOOSTS MEMORY DENSITY WHILE CUTTING POWER NEEDS, AND IT'S ALREADY WORKING WITH GLOBALFOUNDRIES TO MANUFACTURE IT. THE CLAIM LANDS AS AI DATA CENTERS HAVE DOUBLED SSD AND HARD DRIVE PRICES OVER THE PAST YEAR AND THE US GOVERNMENT HAS COMMITTED UP TO $245 MILLION TOWARD KEPLER'S TECHNOLOGY THROUGH THE CHIPS ACT. RON PATEL

SEP 9, 2026 · 9:32 AM.1/2

5 min read Stealth Startup Kepler Computing Says It Cracked the AI Memory Shortage

Kepler Computing, a stealth startup led by CEO Debo Olaosebikan and CTO Sasi Manipatruni, says it developed a ferroelectric composite material that boosts memory density while cutting power needs, and it's already working with GlobalFoundries to manufacture it. The claim lands as AI data centers have doubled SSD and hard drive prices over the past year and the US government has committed up to $245 million toward Kepler's technology through the CHIPS Act.

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Kepler Computing says it has found a way around one of AI's nastiest hardware bottlenecks: memory. The hard part now is proving that a clever material can survive the factory floor.

Kepler Computing has come out of stealth with the kind of claim the AI industry badly wants to believe. The San Jose startup says its ferroelectric memory approach can raise SRAM density, lower operating voltage and make high-bandwidth memory easier to build with existing semiconductor equipment. If it works, you get relief in a market where AI server demand is already pulling memory and storage supply away from almost everyone else.

That's a large if.

According to Wired's report on Kepler, the company was founded in 2018 by CEO Debo Olaosebikan and CTO Sasi Manipatruni, and the team went through 35 versions of its composite material before settling on the class it now plans to take into production. Manipatruni told Wired, "We came up with a material innovation that helps with the amount of memory you can have between chips." The line is technical, but the business point is plain enough: Kepler is trying to put more memory closer to compute without asking the industry to build an entirely new kind of fab.

Material science breakthroughs are common in slide decks. They are rarer in fabs.

Kepler's pitch is stronger than the usual lab-result story because GlobalFoundries is already involved. Wired reported that Kepler and GlobalFoundries converted a fab line to next-generation status in eight months, compared with about 24 months for a typical conversion. That is not a small operational claim. GlobalFoundries executive Kaste also told Wired that iron, which is part of Kepler's composite, is "a tough contaminant to introduce into a production facility," so the process needs dedicated equipment or tight encapsulation.

That sentence is the real story hiding under the breakthrough language. A memory chip doesn't win because it works once. It wins when it works over and over, on wafers that move through a production line without poisoning everything around them.

Kepler has only run its process on about 2,000 wafers so far, according to Wired. The company plans to ship first HBM chip samples later this year, ramp production in Singapore in 2027 and start US chip production in 2028. Those dates matter, but you should treat them like semiconductor dates: useful as a map, dangerous as a promise.

The money is real

Kepler may have the right answer, or it may have another promising material that stalls on scale. Both outcomes are normal in semiconductors.The difference is that this shortage has made the experiment too important to ignore.

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The US government is not treating Kepler as a science project. On July 29, 2026, the Commerce Department announced letters of intent for up to $874 million in CHIPS Act incentives across seven companies working on compute supply chain problems. Kepler was listed for up to $245 million to develop high-performance AI memory in the US using 3D and ferroelectric technologies. GlobalFoundries was listed separately for up to $300 million for co-packaged optics.

That is serious backing. It is also not a blank check.

The Commerce Department said the letters of intent still require further diligence before final awards, and each company would give the government a minority, non-controlling equity stake as a condition of funding. Wired reported that Kepler has secured $468 million from investors including Intel Capital, AMD Ventures and Gates Frontier. You don't get that group around the table on a vague promise. You get it because memory has become one of the ugliest constraints in AI infrastructure.

The shortage is already reaching buyers

TrendForce said in March that conventional DRAM contract prices were expected to rise 58% to 63% quarter over quarter in the second quarter of 2026, while NAND flash contract prices were expected to rise 70% to 75%. The firm tied the move to AI server demand, cloud providers locking up supply through long-term agreements and suppliers shifting more capacity toward HBM and server-related products.

Hard drives are feeling it too. Western Digital CEO Tiang Yew Tan said on the company's 2026 earnings call that Western Digital was "pretty much" sold out for calendar 2026, with firm purchase orders from its top seven customers and longer agreements extending into 2027 and 2028 for some of them. That's what scarcity looks like before it reaches the shelf.

Frankly, this is why Kepler's claim lands now. AI companies don't only need faster chips. They need enough memory and storage to feed those chips without turning every hardware cycle into an allocation fight. Phones and PCs used to set much of the rhythm for memory supply. AI servers are now taking the room.

POLITICS & POLICY

Iran war has cost on average $246 million per day in its first five months, CBO finds

PUBLISHED TUE, SEP 15 20262:36 PM1/2

KEY POINTS

• The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office estimates the Iran war has cost the Pentagon $38.1 billion through Aug. 1 and could cost another $2 billion to $3 billion for each additional month of fighting.

• The U.S. has used as much as two-thirds of its missile-defense interceptors since June 2025; replenishing them could take at least five years.

• The war is projected to keep weighing on inflation, adding 0.5 percentage points to inflation metrics by early 2027 as energy costs spread through the economy, the CBO said.

The U.S. war with Iran cost the Pentagon an estimated $38.1 billion through Aug. 1and could cost another $2 billion to $3 billion for each additional month of fighting, according to a report released Tuesday by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office.

More than half of the cost has come from replacing missiles and other munitionsused during the conflict. Increased flying hours cost another $10.4 billion, while higher fuel prices added $2.7 billion, CBO estimated. The war has led fuel prices around the world to rise since President Donald Trump launched it Feb. 28.

The war has also consumed as much as two-thirds of the nation’s missile-defense interceptors since June 2025, largely as a result of the U.S. helping defend Israelagainst Iranian attacks, leaving the U.S. with reduced inventories for several years, CBO warned.

“Rebuilding DoD’s inventory of interceptors would probably take at least five years — even if production was increased,” CBO said in the report, which Rep. Brendan Boyle, D-Pa., requested. He is the top Democrat on the House Budget Committee.

The CBO estimates follow the first comprehensive accounting of the war’s cost and military toll, released late Monday by the Defense Department’s inspector general. The two accountings came to similar conclusions.

The release of the new calculations could fuel debate over whether the cost of the war, which Trump initially said would last only weeks, is worth it. Democrats are campaigning against the war ahead of the Nov. 3 U.S. election and pointing to higher costs for fuel, food and other things linked with the conflict, which Trump has framed as preventing Iran from developing nuclear weapons.

Risks of missile shortages

The shortage of missiles could become “especially problematic” in a conflict with an adversary possessing large numbers of ballistic and cruise missiles, CBO said, specifically citing China and a potential conflict over Taiwan.

The war has also raised consumer prices by reducing oil and natural gas shipmentsthrough the Strait of Hormuz and disrupting Red Sea shipping.

CBO estimated that by the first quarter of 2027, the war will have raised year-over-year inflation, as measured by the personal consumption expenditures price index — which is the Federal Reserve’s preferred inflation measure — by 0.5 percentage points. Core PCE inflation is expected to be 0.3 points higher as energy costs ripple through supply chains, CBO said.

“The price of almost every product reflects shipping costs,” CBO said.

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/09/15/cbo-iran-war-cost-pentagon-weapons.html

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By early 2027, gasoline and other fuels will account for about 40% of the war’s effect on consumer prices, CBO said.

U.S. crude topped $106 Tuesday and Brent rose above $109 after Saudi Arabia reportedly canceled shipments following the closure of a major pipeline that bypasses the Strait of Hormuz. Meanwhile, regular gasoline averaged about $4.33 per gallon nationally, up almost 18 cents from a week earlier and $1.15 from a year ago, according to AAA.

CBO and Pentagon calculate war’s costs

The Pentagon estimated that the war had cost $33.4 billion as of June 29: $7.4 billion in incremental operating costs, $22.3 billion to replace expended munitions and $3.7 billion in equipment losses.

The pace of weapons use created “strategic inventory shortfalls,” the Defense Department watchdog said. Shortages of solid rocket motors, explosives, propellants and skilled workers have complicated efforts to replenish U.S. stockpiles.

Iranian strikes also damaged or destroyed“hundreds of buildings and structures” at bases across eight Middle Eastern countries, according to Monday’s DOD IG report. Dozens of aircraft have been damaged or destroyed, including four F-15E fighter jets, an F-35A, seven KC-135 refueling aircraft, seven helicopters and more than 30 drones.

The F-35A costs as much as $92 million per plane, while the F-15E, which is no longer produced, cost $31.1 million in 1998, according to the U.S. Air Force.

The Pentagon report noted State Department costs of $79.2 million for evacuations and other contingencies for people from the region when the war began. And it calculated $184 million in diplomatic site damage across Iraq, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. The Defense Department did not provide estimates for rebuilding plans and funding sources for damaged military bases.

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/09/15/cbo-iran-war-cost-pentagon-weapons.html

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The Federal Reserve is expected to hike rates for the first time in three years: Live updates

Jeff Cox

While it may have taken a while, Wall Street finally has warmed to the idea that the Federal Reserve likely will raise its benchmark interest rate as it seeks to slay a maddeningly persistent inflation problem.

Traders have assigned a better than 90% probability that the central bank’s Federal Open Market Committee will vote to raise the overnight funds rate a quarter percentage point, putting the target range at 3.75%-4%, according to the CME Group’s FedWatch gauge of futures prices.

A month ago, the odds were just 36%, as the market expected soft inflation readings and Chairman Kevin Warsh’s reluctance to commit the Fed to a hawkish policy path to keep the appetite in check for tighter monetary policy.

However, Warsh’s remarks during the Fed’s annual symposium in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, started to turn the tide. Another raft of discouraging inflation data along with a firming labor market helped seal the deal.A resurgence in crude oil prices back above $100 a barrel because of the Iran conflict adds to pressures on the central bank to act.

Morgan Stanley economists reflected the broader Street sentiment.In a note Monday, the firm said it had switched its forecast from no hikes this year to two, based in part on Warsh’s public statements as well as the leg higher in oil prices, inflationary expansion in artificial intelligence and a broader shift toward expectations for hikes. The firm expects one this week, followed by another in December.

“Not doing so would risk loss of credibility and a potential rise in longer-term risk premia similar to the reaction after the July FOMC meeting,” wrote Michael Gapen, chief U.S. economist for Morgan Stanley.

If approved, the hike would be the first since July 2023. Since then, the FOMC has lowered rates six times for a total of 175 basis points, or 1.75 percentage points.

Investors also will be watching a slew of other indicators Wednesday, as the committee updates its Summary of Economic Projections. The document includes updated outlooks for unemployment, inflation and gross domestic product, as well as the dot-plot of individual participants’ expectations for interest rates. This update of the grid for the first time will include expectations for 2029.

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/09/16/fed-meeting-today-live-updates.html

UPDATED WED, SEP 16 202610:08 AM EDT

S&P 500 edges higher ahead of pivotal Fed rate decision: Live updates

The S&P 500 moved higher on Wednesday ahead of a pivotal interest rate decision from the Federal Reserve that could mark the beginning of a new hiking cycle over the next few months.

The broad market index was up 0.3%, while the Nasdaq Composite added 0.6%. The Dow Jones Industrial Average

shed 106 points, or 0.2%.

Futures markets were pricing in a quarter-point hike for Wednesday with 92.9% odds, according to the CME FedWatch tool. Odds of an additional quarter-point hike were 39.1% for the Fed’s October meeting and 26.4% for the Fed’s December meeting.

Brent Wilsey, chief investment officer of San Diego-based Wilsey Asset Management, said in a note on Wednesday that the Fed holding rates steady could have damaging ramifications.

“That could surprise stocks, and surprises are rarely received well in markets, and it could also damage the Fed’s credibility, and reignite concerns that the central bank is caving to political pressure to keep rates steady,” he said.

The central bank’s decision on Wednesday comes amid pressure from the White House to leave rates where they are.

“One of the biggest sticking points with inflation is the rise in diesel prices, which has the potential to increase costs for so many areas of the economy from transportation, farming, and shipping,” Wilsey said. “While an interest rate hike won’t cause diesel prices to fall, higher rates could help to calm inflation in other parts of the economy, helping to offset the inflation from higher energy prices.”

U.S. diesel prices hit $6 per gallon on Friday for the first time, amid ongoing supply constraints caused by the Ukraine and Iran wars.

Crude oil prices are holding above $100 a barrel, despite cooling from recent highs. Globalbenchmark Brent crude oil futures fell more than 1% to around $107 per barrel, while

U.S. West Texas Intermediate futures were down 2% to roughly $103 a barrel.

Treasury yields have been spiking on the expectation of higher prices in the economy, with the 10-year last slightly below 5% and the 30-year

at 5.348%.

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/09/15/stock-market-today-live-updates.html

World War Reddit – Zelenskyy Tells CBS Russia Drones Tried to Take Down His Airplane – Story Previously Debunked

September 16, 2026 | sundance |

What would make Volodymyr Zelenskyy appear on CBS News to tell a debunked story about his airplane being targeted by Russian drones in Moldova?

Answer the question honestly.

Appearing on CBS News, Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy claimed that Russian drones tried to attack his airplane in Moldova.This claim, originally attributed to Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre was entirely fabricated and soon debunked. However, that didn’t stop Zelenskyy from making the claim to the American audience of CBS, yesterday. WATCH:

The reality isthe drone in question was detected inside Ukraine over 160km from where Zelenskyy was in Chisinau International Airport. Zelenskyy and/or Moldova itself was never under any threat.

“After 5:20 p.m. (local time, 4:20 p.m. Paris time), authorities confirmed that the drone had fallen and exploded about 160 km from Chisinau International Airport. Flight restrictions were then lifted and the Ukrainian president’s plane took off later than planned,” he added.A source in the Ukrainian presidency told AFP that Zelensky was at the slightest risk was “exaggerated”. {SOURCE}

In the BIG PICTURE, it is fake stories like this, false and fictitious narratives, that give us appropriate context for the latest leftist/political effort to control information via a new regulatory process under the guise of AI regulation.This latest AI panic is “digital covid.”

Frontier Labs = Wuhan Labs

Anthropic = NIH

Rogue AI = SARS-CoV-2

Regulation = Vaccination

COVID panic = Election/Control

AI panic = Election/Control

The only thing we are waiting now is patient zero, the AI ‘false flag’ (cyberattack).

Remember the air raid sirens when Biden walked across the square in Kiev?

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2026/09/16/world-war-reddit-zelenskyy-tells-cbs-russia-drones-tried-to-take-down-his-airplane-story-previously-debunked/

Zelensky says Russia recently targeted his plane twice with drones

In an exclusive interview with CBS News' Aidan Stretch, Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky said Russia had targeted his plane with drones twice in recent weeks, part of what he called a strategy to intimidate himself and other European leaders.

2:23

https://youtu.be/pQyjvkE2dQo

Very Interesting – Saudi Arabia Cancels Oil Shipments to Europe

September 15, 2026 | sundance |

The Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen reportedly hit Saudi Arabia’s east/west pipeline with drones.President Trump did not strike the Houthi’s.Despite knowing oil prices would jump, PresidentTrump told Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salmon to approach the issue carefully.

• Reuters, citing an Axios reportbased on two US officials, said Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman called Trump twice on Thursday and pressed for military action. Trump rejected the request, according to the report.

Why would President Trump ‘not’ strike back against the Iran-backed Houthi rebels, knowing the drone attack on the Saudi pipeline would only worsen the oil issue?Well, you won’t read this anywhere else…. However, if Saudi Arabia shut down the east/west pipeline for a while (they just did), then the oil flowing to the Red Sea that ends up in Europe would be halted (it just was).

Think about it. All of a sudden Europe cannot get oil from Mohammed bin Salmon. So, how does that change the dynamicof President Trump’s desired leverage toward Europe in his approach to bringing Russian oil back into the market.

I hope everyone can see the dynamic.All of a sudden that Russian oil Europe hates so much, turns into dependency leverageagainst EU antagonisms against solving the Ukraine-Russia conflict.This is not happening accidentally.

Oil Price News – Saudi Aramco has canceled or delayed crude deliveries to European refiners after the shutdown of the kingdom’s East-West pipeline cut into one of its remaining routes around the Strait of Hormuz.

At least three European refiners have had late-September cargoes canceled or pushed as far out as November, according to market sources cited by Argus. Two more expect notices covering September supplies.

The 7-million-bpd East-West pipeline has been offline since a September 10 attack. The pipeline carries crude from eastern Saudi oil fields to the Red Sea port of Yanbu, bypassing Hormuz.

One market source told Argus that every Saudi cargo scheduled for the final 10 days of September could be at risk. The same source estimated that Yanbu had roughly five days of crude inventories remaining. Argus could not independently confirm that estimate, and Aramco declined to comment.

In August, Bloomberg had reported that Aramco would supply full contractual crude volumes to at least three European refiners for September.

But no Saudi crude has departed Yanbu since September 11, according to Vortexa data cited by Argus. (read more)

Essentially, the Houthi “attack” on the Saudi pipeline just shut down oil going to Europe.

Europe needs oil. This is not an optional dynamic.

Russia has the oil that Europe now desperately needs.

Suddenly,the geopolitical dynamic has shifted, as an outcome of the economic/energy dynamic shifting, at a very opportune time forPresident Trump to hold optimal leverage to get Europe to reconsider their opposition to a Russia-Ukraine ceasefire.

Are you sure it was the Houthi’s who hit the pipeline?

(https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2026/09/15/very-interesting-saudi-arabia-cancels-oil-shipments-to-europe/

Prime Minister Who Said, “Canada is Not for Sale” Just Announced He’s “Selling the Airports”

September 15, 2026 | sundance |

You can’t make this stuff up folks.

Just days before making his next trip to lead the ‘middle-powers-summit’ in Europewhere he will deliver his grandiose speech to announce ‘sovereign’ Canada is now a European subsidiary, the former central Banker turned appointed Prime Minister of Canada has announced he’s selling the Canadian airports.

Because in the banker’s world, sovereignty comes with a price, or something.

CANADA –Prime Minister Mark Carney says his government will open up Canada’s four largest airports to private investment, but that Ottawa will maintain ownership of airport land.

The prime minister said the private money will be sought through “long-term concessions” to operate these airports, which would include Toronto Pearson International Airport, Vancouver International Airport, Trudeau International Airport in Montreal and Calgary International Airport.

“The government of Canada will retain ownership of the underlying land and assets, but we will unlock their true value by bringing in new capital and expertise to their operations and growth,” Carney said during an address at the Canada Investment Summit in Toronto on Tuesday morning. (read more)

Carney opens up Canada's 4 biggest airports to foreign investors

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CBC News: The National

Prime Minister Mark Carney announced plans to open Canada's four largest airports to operation by private investors. Carney says the billions generated would be used to fund infrastructure projects including building more regional and remote airports.

https://youtu.be/oPuc0Ptrpg0

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2026/09/15/prime-minister-who-said-canada-is-not-for-sale-just-announced-hes-selling-the-airports/

It sounds like Canada is totally bankrupt except for one province!

DOJ Flips Maduro Bagman – Feds Generate Plea Deal with Alex Saab

September 15, 2026 | sundance |

Maduro’s bagman, Alex Saab, has reached a plea deal with the Dept of Justice paving the way for a cooperating key witness to provide evidence against the former Venezuela dictator.

Former Venezuela President Nicholas Maduro’s case just got a lot more complicated for his defense lawyers. Saab will cooperate with U.S. federal investigations, potentially aiding cases against four unnamed co-defendants, with prosecutors recommending a reduced sentence.

Alex Saab, left, and Nicholas Maduro, right

• MIAMI (AP) — A close ally of former Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro long described by U.S. officials as the ousted leader’s frontman pleaded guilty Tuesday to a single count of money laundering tied to an alleged bribery conspiracy to win lucrative government contracts in the South American country.

As part of the plea deal, Alex Saab agreed to cooperate in continuing federal investigations, paving the way for his eventual cooperation against his former protector. He also agreed to forfeit $195 million in criminal proceeds from the corruption scheme.

Saab, 54, was deported in May by Venezuela’s acting President Delcy Rodriguez to the U.S., which has been targeting the Colombian-born businessman for more than a decade.

The money laundering offense carries a maximum 20-year penalty but prosecutors agreed to recommend a sentence at the low end of the recommended rangeand seek additional reductions should his cooperation prove substantial.

Saab was previously charged during the first Trump administration in 2019 and then arrested during a refueling stop in Cape Verde on what the Venezuelan government described as a high-level humanitarian mission to Iran.

But President Joe Biden pardoned Saab in 2023 in exchange for the release of several imprisoned Americans in Venezuela. The deal, part of a failed effort by the Biden White House to lure Maduro into holding a free presidential election, was harshly criticized by Republicans and federal law enforcement officials, who immediately began investigating Saab for other alleged crimes not covered by the narrowly tailored pardon.

“This case sends a clear message: Political connections, wealth and proximity to a corrupt regime will not put anyone beyond the reach of American justice,” said Jason A. Reding Quiñones, U.S. attorney for the Southern District of Florida, who attended Tuesday’s proceedings along with more than a dozen federal agents.

The new indictment centers on contracts for the so-called CLAP program set up by Maduro to provide staples — rice, corn flour, cooking oil — to poor Venezuelans at a time of rampant hyperinflation and a crumbling currency.

High-level protection offered in exchange for bribes – In an eight-page statement of factssubmitted as part of the plea deal, Saab admitted to skimming at least $195 million from at least six contracts awarded to companies he controlled to import food and medicine.

The scheme “had the approval, participation and protection of some of the Venezuelan government’s highest ranking public authorities,” including from anindividual described only as “Government Official 1A,” who designated a surrogate — one of four unnamed co-defendants — to receive bribe payments on their behalf. (read more)

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2026/09/15/doj-flips-maduro-bagman-feds-generate-plea-deal-with-alex-sabb/

Secretary of State Rubio Announces New Visa Restrictions

September 15, 2026 | sundance |

Following the previous discussion with leaders from South Africa, President Trump and Secretary of State Rubio have now announced visa restrictions for the nation of South Africa.

Section 212(a)(3)(C) of theImmigration and Nationality Act,authorizes the Secretary of State to render inadmissible any alien whose entry into the Unites States“would have potentially serious adverse foreign policy consequences for the United States.”

• STATE DEPT – As stated in President Trump’s Executive Order (EO) 14204, “Addressing Egregious Actions of the Republic of South Africa,” the United States remains gravely concerned about racially motivated crime and government-sponsored discrimination occurring against the Afrikaners and other minority populations in South Africa, including race-based discriminatory legislation, threats of land expropriation without compensation, and incitement of racial violence through dehumanizing chants and slogans.

• The South African government has not adequately addressed the previously laid out concerns and so today, I am announcing a new visa restriction policy under Section 212(a)(3)(C) of the Immigration and Nationality Acttargeting foreign nationals who are responsible for, or complicit in, the enactment or implementation of lawsor policies that enable uncompensated land seizures, race-based discrimination, and/or the incitement of imminent violence against members of minority ethnic or racial groups in South Africa. The United States will not allow such behavior to go unchecked. These actions directly undermine peace, economic stability, and the rule of law, and they are incompatible with the pillars of America’s foreign policy.

•We once again strongly urge the South African government to quickly address these egregious actions. {Source}

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2026/09/15/secretary-of-state-rubio-announces-new-visa-restrictions/

Homeowner Allegedly Refuses to Pay Latino Fence Crew— Workers Return and Tear the Fence Down Piece by Piece: “Maybe He Thought He Could Call ICE on Us”

by Jim Hᴏft Sep. 16, 2026 8:3

A fencing contractor in Will County, Illinois, just outside Joliet,posted video of his crew dismantling a wooden fence they had just installed after the homeowner allegedly refused to pay.

The homeowner, whose face is blurred in the clip, can be heard screaming at the men to get off his property and threatening to call the police.

The video, posted by César Diaz of Diaz Fence Company on Instagram under the handle @el.compa.cesar, racked up over 17 million views.

Diaz narrates at the start: “We’re about to take away a fence because somebody didn’t want to pay. So this is going to be fun.”

His crew then knocks panels off the posts with hammers and a chainsaw while the property owner curses them out.

One worker can be heard giving instructions in Spanish.Diaz later claimed the homeowner also walked off with the crew’s chainsaw.

Left-wing accounts immediately labeled the unnamed man a “MAGA homeowner” who tried to stiff Hispanic workers and call ICE so he wouldn’t have to pay. Diaz himself speculated, stating, “Maybe he thought he could call ICE on us or we’re immigrants.”

There is no independent confirmation that ICE was ever contacted. What is on tape is a threat to call the police after the crew returned to the property and started destroying the work they had just completed.

Newsweek reported that Joliet officials said the house sits outside city limits in unincorporated Will County. The homeowner has not been publicly identified and has not given his side of the payment dispute.

This is not the first time a payment fight with a Hispanic work crew has gone viral with an immigration overlay.

As The Gateway Pundit previously reported in March, a Maryland homeowner went viral after hiring a roofing crew that employed illegal aliens,then calling ICE as the job was nearly finished.

Six Guatemalan workers were detained on her roof.A legal coworker livestreamed the arrests and accused her of waiting until the labor was done before dialing immigration.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/09/homeowner-allegedly-refuses-pay-latino-fence-crew-workers/

Here’s How President Trump Bypasses Congress and the Courts to Prevent Democrats from Stealing the 2026 Midterm Elections

by Jim Hoft Sep. 16, 2026 8:00 am1/4/

Guest post by Attorney Peter Tiktinand Jerome R. Corsi, Ph.D. President Trump and America are facing the wrath of the radical left in this year’s midterm election. Our country and our freedoms are in danger like never before.

The 2026 midterm elections are shaping up to be one of the most important elections in American history. The Democratic Party appears increasingly dominated by openly radical left politicians who only temper their disdain for the United States while campaigning. The party controlling the White House typically loses seats in the House and Senate in midterm elections. There is a reason why President Trump said, in his speech at the Republican Midterm Convention, that we should consider him to be a candidate in this election, and then as a seeming ‘aside’ suggested that he actually is. Trump knows that if the Democrats take the House and Senate, his years as an effective president are likely done.

Donald Trump realizes that with unrestrained mail-in balloting and with the voting machines in full use, nothing is in place to stop the radical left from stealing the election. The 2006 midterm elections are the radical left’s chance to get the majority of the House and enough seats in the Senate so that our president can not only be impeached but also removed. In fact, the Democrat plan is most likely to not only impeach and remove Donald Trump, but to remove J.D. Vance with him, so that the next Speaker of the House of Representatives, probably Hakeem Jeffries, will be our next President. If that were to happen, we would lose more than Congress. We would lose the whole country to China, Canada, and the World Economic Forum.

There is no question that the Globalists are desperate. They cannot delay their 2030 Agenda, and Donald Trump is making progress to eliminate the cheating in our voting system, to eliminate their crooked cash flow (such as in USAID), and to restore our military. Two more years of Donald Trump, and the radical left will be cooked.

Those who rigged the election in 2020 had the courage to steal our country right before our eyes. We knew the night of that Presidential Election that it was fixed. Yet, Donald Trump was powerless to do anything other than relinquish his office, hoping he could come back in 2024. However, if we endure such an onslaught, this time, there will be no coming back.

Every effort President Trump has made to secure the midterm elections has been blocked. Judges continue to issue injunctions blocking President Trump’s executive order which instructed the U.S. Post Office to establish tight rules on delivering mail-in ballots only to qualified voters. Majority Leader John Thune refused to press the SAVE Act to passage. Thirty states still refuse to turn over their voter rolls to the Department of Justice for examination. Now, the Supreme Court has denied the Trump administration’s request to implement an executive order designed to have the U.S. Post Office restrain the mailing of ballots to those who are ineligible to vote, including non-citizens.

With the Democratic Party running so many Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), we have no reason to doubt that the cheating will continue. These candidates who want to undo our Constitution are poised to manipulate the election machinery to their advantage, which put President Trump at the point where an election steal is inevitable unless he issues a national emergency declaration. President Trump has already set the stage for issuing a national emergency declaration by specifying in his speech to the nation on July 16, 2026, that Communist China has “carried out what is believed to be the largest compromise of election data in history—resulting in China’s illicit acquisition of 220 million U.S. voter files.”

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/09/heres-how-president-trump-bypasses-congress-courts-prevent/

(This is real and is happening, many say it may be take 2-3 years))

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President Trump has not shied away from using his national security emergency powers under the National Emergencies Act (NEA, 1976) to bypass Congress and the courts in his efforts to build a wall to secure our southern border. In that regard, on February 15, 2019, President Trump first declared a national emergency concerning the United States under the auspices of the NEA. As noted in the Federal Registry, President Trump’s authority in so doing extended to his authority as Commander-in-Chief to involve the U.S. military if necessary to enforce the declaration:

NOW, THEREFORE, I, DONALD J. TRUMP, by the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including sections 201 and 301 of the National Emergencies Act (50 U.S.C. 1601 et seq.), hereby declare that a national emergency exists at the southern border of the United States, and that section 12302 of title 10, United States Code, is invoked and made available, according to its terms, to the Secretaries of the military departments concerned, subject to the direction of the Secretary of Defense in the case of the Secretaries of the Army, Navy, and Air Force. To provide additional authority to the Department of Defense to support the Federal Government’s response to the emergency at the southern border, I hereby declare that this emergency requires use of the Armed Forces and, in accordance with section 301 of the National Emergencies Act (50 U.S.C. 1631), that the construction authority provided in section 2808 of title 10, United States Code, is invoked and made available, according to its terms, to the Secretary of Defense and, at the discretion of the Secretary of Defense, to the Secretaries of the military departments.

The left-leaning Brennan Center objected that Trump’s use of the NEA was unconstitutional in that under Article I of the Constitution, only Congress has the right to control federal spending. The Brennan Center argued the following:

On February 15, 2019, President Trump followed through on a threat to declare a national emergency under the National Emergencies Act (NEA) of 1976 and to invoke emergency powers in order to secure additional money for construction of a wall along the southern border. Congress—holding the “power of the purse” granted to it by Article I of the U.S. Constitution―had repeatedly refused to grant Trump the funding he sought to build the wall. At the same time that Trump announced his intention to use emergency powers, he also announced that he would divert funds from other programs that do not require the declaration of a national emergency, such as funds set aside for drug interdiction programs (10 U.S.C. § 284) and funds obtained through asset forfeiture programs (3 U.S.C. § 9705). In total, Trump announced an intention to commandeer approximately $6.5 billion that Congress had not allocated for border wall funding.

The multiple federal lawsuits filed to block President Trump’s 2018 declaration of a national security emergency requiring the building of a wall on our southern border all failed. President Trump twice extended for an additional calendar year the national security emergency declaration on the border, first on February 13, 2020, and again on January 15, 2021. In February 2021, President Joe Biden terminated Trump’s border declaration, halting the redirection of federal funds to build the wall.

In a comprehensive analysis of the president’s power under NEA 1976, Congress.com stressed that under the standard of the Supreme Court’s decision in Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) v. Chadha, 462 U.S. 919 (1983), only a two-thirds vote of both the House and Senate can rescind a presidential national security declaration if issued under NEA 1976. The Congress.gov analysis concludedthe following:

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/09/heres-how-president-trump-bypasses-congress-courts-prevent/

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Emergency declarations were to terminate automatically after one year unless formally continued for another year by the President, but they could be terminated earlier by either the President or Congress. Originally, the prescribed method for congressional termination of a declared national emergency was a concurrent resolution adopted by both houses of Congress. This type of “legislative veto” was effectively invalidated by the Supreme Court in 1983. The National Emergencies Act was amended in 1985 to substitute a joint resolution as the vehicle for rescinding a national emergency declaration.

Now, the time has come for President Trump to use his national security emergency powers under the National Emergencies Act to protect election integrity by establishing voting rules and procedures that will block foreign involvement and the increasingly radical Democrats from stealing the 2026 midterm elections. All President Trump has to do is follow the blueprint he used to declare a national emergency at the border.

In his speech to the Storm Summit held in Las Vegas on September 12, 2026, Wayne Allyn Root repeated his call for a national security emergency declaration under NEA 1976 to protect the 2026 midterm elections from theft by severely limiting mail-in ballots to the traditional absentee ballot system, by requiring proof of citizenship and voter IDs, and by introducing paper ballots to prevent electronic voting machines from secretly switching votes. For being one of the first public figures to champion the use of a national security emergency declaration to secure the 2026 midterm elections, Root has been excoriated by the typical leftist critics, as evidenced by this Soros-funded Media Matters article. Wayne Allyn Root, desperately concerned, as are we, that the 2026 midterm elections will be rigged, has called for President Trump to issue “The NEED Act,” declaring a “National Emergency for Elections Act” under the auspices of the National Emergency Act of 1976.

As previously noted, on August 31, 2026, President Trump signed an Executive Order that extended for one year the 2018 Executive Order: “Continuation of the National Emergency with Respect to Foreign Interference in or Undermining Public Confidence in the United States Elections.” The national emergency declaration issued under the NEA can limit mail-in ballots to the traditional rules for absentee ballots, demand proof of citizenship and voter IDs, and introduce paper ballots to make sure the machines do not switch votes.

Also, as we commented in our previous article, the Constitution conveyed upon the president the powers of commander-in-chief for times such as these [Book of Esther in the Bible]. When the alternative is the loss of the Republic, President Trump has become our last line of defense, if the nation is to experience election integrity ever again.

Think about it. We either need directions to the states to be proclaimed pursuant to the Executive Order of August 31, 2026, or we very well could need martial law to be declared after. In this regard, Donald Trump is the right man, the only man in the world to have experienced being the President of the United States and to have relinquished power to the Cabal, knowing he was being ousted because of a rigged election. After the Left took over, they invented nonsense criminal charges against him. Had he not won the presidency again in 2024, he probably would have spent the rest of his life behind bars.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/09/heres-how-president-trump-bypasses-congress-courts-prevent/

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Since then, President Trump has had time to ruminate. He knows that his discission to capitulate in 2000 came from legal advisors who were advising to step down. This time, President Trump must be urged to follow his own instincts for survival, not just for his presidency, but for the integrity of the Constitution itself.. President Trump knows so much more now about his powers as president than he did in 2020. He realizes that should he be removed from office a second time, his life is over, as will be our freedom, and the lives of those who toil in MAGA. President Trump now has no choice but to issue tight election rules that will ensure a fair election by implementing the type of national security emergency that he did to build the wall.

Finally, each and every one of us has to get out and vote, as well as to encourage others of like mind to vote. No matter what the machines do, the outcome is likely to be determined by voter turnout. Without your vote, we are going to lose America. Believe us, your vote means more now than perhaps at any other time in history.

Donald Trump is never to be counted out of the game. Remarkably, Donald Trump always looks like he’s going to lose until just before he wins. At the Republican Midterm Convention in Dallas, he promised to campaign for GOP candidates for the House and Senate as if this were a presidential election year. Nothing would reassure the American people that our Republic is secure more than for President Trump to issue the NEED Order that Wayne Allyn Root is encouraging, followed by getting aboard his new Air Force One to campaign for MAGA victories as only he can do. In the final analysis, our foreign enemies and our growing number of vocal enemies within cannot withstand the courage of a man like Donald Trump who fights, fights, fights as if there were no tomorrow. At his rallies, President Trump often asks his audience, “Are you tired of winning yet.” The answer is a resounding “No!” We need to keep on winning, defeating both enemies abroad and enemies within who threaten our freedom. Democrat Socialists are certain to lose in a midterm election in which only citizens vote, and the turnout is once again “too big to rig.”

Peter Ticktin, Esq., is a Senior Partner in The Ticktin Law Group in Deerfield Beach, Florida. He is the author of the 2020 book, What Makes Trump Tick: My Years with Donald Trump from New York Military Academy to the Present. GodsFiveStones.com is a tax-deductible 501(c)3 foundation created by Jerome R. Corsi, Ph.D., and Karladine Graves, M.D., managed by Capstone Legacy Foundation. As reported on GodsFiveStones.com, As reported on GodsFiveStones.com,Andrew Paquette, Ph.D., has discovered cryptographic algorithms in the State Board of Elections voter registration databases in New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Georgia, Arizona, Florida, New Jersey, and Oklahoma. Dr. Paquette has argued that the algorithms permit the creation of millions of false voter records in the state boards of election that are yet given legitimate state Voter IDs for to facilitate clandestine mail-in voter fraud.

(Corsi, Tiktin and Juan O Savin has been saying this for 2-3 years, PDJT will put on Commander in Chief to do exactly this!)

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/09/heres-how-president-trump-bypasses-congress-courts-prevent/