Russia and China now settle close to 90 percent...

Editor's note: ...of their bilateral trade in rubles and yuan, a shift accelerated by US sanctions since 2022, and central banks worldwide bought roughly 863 tonnes of gold in 2025 with about 755 tonnes projected for 2026 as countries hedge against dollar dependence. On September 20, 2026, Trump signed the Graham-Blumenthal sanctions law, dubbed sanctions "from hell" by RT, authorizing tariffs up to 100 percent on countries buying Russian energy and up to 500 percent on direct Russian imports. Taken together, the sanctions law (see Sanctions Have Become Economic Warfare), the Russia-China de-dollarization trend, and the AfD's push for renewed Russian gas ties can reasonably be read as facets of the same broader contest: Washington trying to keep sanctions pressure and dollar-based leverage intact while Moscow works to erode both through alternative currencies and cracks in Western political unity. And so we have global war continuing given to us by our mafia bosses who are setting us up for WWIII as they do another Drang nach Osten. 

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Trump signs off on Russia sanctions 'from hell': Who could get hit?

The new law authorizes the US president to impose secondary tariffs for key buyers of Russian energy 

September 21, 2026 | By RT

US President Donald Trump has signed into law a sweeping expansion of sanctions against Russia, giving Washington new powers to target Moscow as well as major buyers of Russian energy. The legislation authorizes tariffs of up to 100% on goods from certain countries purchasing Russian oil and gas, while imports from Russia could face duties of up to 500%.

In reference to the...

Editor's note: ...facial recognition wrongful arrest post a couple of days ago: it warned that AI matches were being treated as proof instead of investigative leads, and the following republished news report shows that same warning has now played out with the US military after a Chinese vessel was wrongly flagged over suspected cargo. Earlier this year during the continuing US-Iran shooting match, a US special operations analyst used an AI chatbot to help draft an intelligence report claiming a Chinese ship in the Middle East was carrying nuclear weapons components. The military began preparing to intercept and board the vessel, with armed personnel and aircraft in motion, before officials discovered the report was AI-generated and the cargo identification was inaccurate. The report, which had fused open-source and classified intelligence, was later confirmed "entirely false."
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Obviously The AI Fad...

September 21, 2026 | By Reminiscence of the Future...

...is what Pentagon and CIA will use increasingly often because somebody told them that a garbage collector, aka Neural Networks, are somehow "intelligent".

The intelligence report, circulated across the US military this spring in the midst of the war with Iran, immediately set off alarm bells: A Chinese ship in the Middle East was transporting components of a nuclear weapons program. The US military swung into action with plans to intercept the vessel, according to four sources familiar with the episode. According to two of the sources, armed members of the US military were preparing to board the ship. Military planes were in the air, one of those sources and another source familiar with the incident said. It was only just before the planned operation that officials dug deeper into the report put together by a special operations command analyst and found it had been generated with the help of artificial intelligence (AI) — and that a chatbot the analyst had used inaccurately identified the material the ship was carrying. CNN was not able to learn what the misidentified cargo was. The report, according to one of the sources, was “entirely false."

No New Fees, No New Caps: Trump's Latest H-1B Order Bets on Federal Coordination Instead

Editor's note: The most recent Executive Order (number hasn't been issued yet) directs federal agencies to tighten oversight of the H-1B visa program, which allows companies to hire foreign workers for specialty jobs, because the administration says the program has been widely misused by employers and outsourcing firms to replace American workers with cheaper foreign labor (like trucking companies) rather than filling genuine skills gaps. It requires the State Department, Labor Department, and Homeland Security Department to coordinate with the Commerce Department, Education Department, and Small Business Administration when reviewing H-1B applications, sharing wage, employment, and industry data to catch violations of existing visa laws. It instructs officials to factor in whether a sponsoring company has recently laid off American workers or plans to do so when deciding whether to approve that company's H-1B petitions and visas. It also orders the Labor Department to begin reviewing past wage applications within 30 days to determine whether enforcement action is warranted against employers who may have violated pay requirements. The order does not create a new fee, cap, or outright ban; it focuses on stricter interagency review and enforcement of rules already on the books, and it takes effect immediately under existing law and available funding.
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ENHANCING PROGRAM INTEGRITY AND INTERAGENCY

COORDINATION IN THE ADMINISTRATION OF THE H-1B

NONIMMIGRANT VISA PROGRAM

Executive Orders

September 18, 2026

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered:

Have a listen to the pompous UK...

Editor's note: ...politician Jacob Rees-Mogg suggesting Britain "may need to go to war," hypocritically calling on working class Brits to "sacrifice their lives" for a war effort tied to Ukraine and NATO. Never mind the mass immigration under Boris Johnson's government and King Charles III supporting Islam with the Ukraine conflict as a proxy war driven by EU institutions rather than a matter of legitimate self-defense under Just War Theory. Rees-Mogg needs to send himself or his family to fight Russian assault troops in the Dunbass if the cause is as just as this pompous clown claims. "Some of you may die but it is a sacrifice" goes the sloganeering. Come on, really?

News🇬🇧🔥🇷🇺: "Over the next few years we may have to go to war, some of you may die? but this is about doing your DUTY".

Watch as Jacob_Rees_Mogg goes into new levels of pomposity rarely seen in British politics, since Lord Kitchener pointed at British men and cried "Your… pic.twitter.com/RTFpJHncpq

— HIN News🇬🇧🇺🇸 (@HerdImmunity12) September 20, 2026

All the right circumstances are...

Editor's note: ...in place for theft and fraud to continue in America. Federal investigators broke up a $250 million scheme that sold fake nursing diplomas to about 15,000 people nationwide, targeting Haitian immigrant communities in South Florida. Brokers worked with accredited nursing school owners to issue bogus diplomas, often for $16,000 each. Forty three people have been convicted, serving four to six years and forfeiting millions in proceeds. Since buying a fake degree isn't a federal crime, authorities haven't pursued the fraudulent "nurses" themselves, though about two dozen Florida nursing schools tied to the scheme have been shut down. If you check into a nursing home check the nurse's credentials. Might end up with the wrong saline solution in your intravenous feed, or worse, you might get injected with a Pfizer injection with undisclosed mRNA DNA in the syringe.
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Minnesota's Anti-ICE Relief Fund Shut Down Due To Rampant Fraud

By Zero Hedge | September 19, 2026

Officials in Hennepin County, Minnesota, shut down a $2 million relief fund for businesses claiming to be affected by federal immigration enforcement after officials discovered widespread fraud among applicants, forcing them to end the program. The county board created the fund to help businesses "harmed" by Operation Metro Surge, the federal immigration enforcement operation that began in December 2025. Federal agents shot and killed two U.S. citizens, Renee Good and Alex Pretti, in Minneapolis in January, turning it into one of the most scrutinized immigration enforcement actions in the country.

Of about 300 applications submitted, only 82 were deemed legitimate. Officials distributed only $500,000 before shutting the program down.

The United States of Lockheed Martin through its...

Editor's note: ...front sales office at the US State Department does a deal with the Saudi petro kingdom for $24 billion in F-35 sales. There are a very strange set of business circumstances here because war is business. The Lockheed Martin sale of F-35 aircraft to the Saudi petro kingdom flush with cash, yet the US won't assist the Saudi kingdom in pushing back Houthie gains against the Saudi kingdom in Yemen. Then there is the Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf who said, "the era of US F-35 and F-15 jets being hunted down has already begun", pointing to mounting pressure and damage on the US military roughly seven months into the war with Iran (much of it is media-driven). Ghalibaf's remarks followed comments by US Joint Chiefs Chairman General Dan Caine, who acknowledged American forces now face a battlefield where they can be hunted by autonomous systems, jammed, and tracked in real time. Ghalibaf framed this as "a new reality the US must accept." Again, we are seeing everyone threatening each other with annihilation while the Pakistanis move to support the Saudi kingdom understanding of course the "government backed Saudi forces" fighting the Houthies are mostly mercenaries from Pakistan. It looks like the Saudi kingdom can use $100 million advanced F-35 fighters to attack Houthie machine-gun mounted Toyota trucks racing across the deserts of Yemen.
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State Department Approves Massive $24 Billion F-35 Sale to Saudi Arabia

The kingdom is also requesting additional air defenses from its allies amid the war with Ansar Allah

by Kyle Anzalone | September 17, 2026

The State Department approved a $24.3 billion sale of F-35s to Saudi Arabia. The announcement comes as the Gulf kingdom is requesting military assistance from its allies as it fights a war against Ansar Allah in Yemen.

A Tennessee grandmother was wrongly...

Editor's note: ...identified by facial recognition software in a Fargo bank fraud case, arrested at gunpoint, and jailed for nearly six months even though she had never been to North Dakota. She lost her home, car, and possessions before the charges were dismissed, and she is now suing the city for $10 million. There have been similar wrongful arrests, with law enforcement treating AI matches as proof of guilt instead of just investigative leads, undermining due process and expanding surveillance risks for innocent people. That's it? $10 million? Angela Lipps needs to update her lawsuit and include the US Marshals Service for another $5 million. This isn't isolated to law enforcement either. Wait until the military starts making catastrophic targeting mistakes with AI.

News update for 22 September 2026: Flock Is Discovering That Americans Do Not Want to Live in a Surveillance State

News update for 19 September 2026: Flock Camera Ping Jails Innocent Woman For 13 Days

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Tennessee grandma jailed for 5 months after AI flagged her for bank fraud in state she never visited

By Caitlin McCormack | March 29, 2026

A Tennessee grandmother was jailed for a whopping five months after a facial recognition program erroneously flagged her for bank fraud in a state she’d never visited.

Angela Lipps, 50, was first arrested at her rental home in Tennessee in July. Lipps was extradited to Fargo, North Dakota — more than 1,000 miles away from her home — at the end of October, according to a GoFundMe campaign.

There are genuine fears within Finland...

Editor's note: ...by certain political figures that NATO will launch another provocation against Russia and that it will be Finland as the next proxy. The EU and NATO desperately need a major war against Russia and they are doing everything within their sphere of influence to provoke Russia so that NATO can initiate Article 5 of their charter to make that war happen. Finland became a NATO member on April 4, 2023. Germany's Merz is pulling away from Washington while still committing Germany to more defense spending and continued Ukraine funding, essentially picking a fight with President Trump while staying anchored to the transatlantic security bloc. The media supporting that block in the West never misses the chance by referring to "Russia's full scale invasion of Ukraine." The AfD is doing the opposite: courting Moscow directly through gas talks with advisor to Vladimir Putin, Kirill Dmitriev, rejecting Ukraine funding and more weapons for Kiev, and offering voters a clean break from both US reliance and the costs of the largely British commercial proxy war against Russia in Ukraine. The disparity is that Merz's break with the US is rhetorical and grievance driven but keeps Germany's Western alignment intact, while the AfD's outreach to Russia is a substantive policy shift that would realign Germany away from that alignment entirely, and it's gaining traction precisely as Merz's frustration with President Trump makes Merz's own "unconditional friendship" look less stable by comparison.
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NATO member warns bloc seeking pretext for war with Russia

Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico says he does not want his country to be dragged into a conflict

September 18, 2026 | RT

Europe is moving dangerously close to a direct clash between NATO and Russia, Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico has warned, accusing the West of seeking a "pretext" for a major conflict between the two sides.

Three decades and eighty-four strikes into a war...

Editor's note: ...that predates most enlisted service members currently fighting it, the US finds itself locked into a Somali counterterrorism campaign with no visible endpoint, no public accounting of its human cost, and an enemy that keeps multiplying rather than shrinking. Remember the humanitarian mission to protect famine relief in Somalia, but spiraled into the October 1993 Battle of Mogadishu, where a raid meant to capture a warlord turned into a brutal urban firefight that killed 18 American soldiers? That is how long this has been going on with US involvement in Somalia. Somalia sees roughly 8,000-9,000 violent deaths a year in total, about 900-1,100 from ordinary homicide and roughly 7,000+ from armed conflict (al-Shabab attacks, clan violence, and military operations). The place is a Jihad factory.

Then in 2006 as a proxy invasion, when Washington backed Ethiopian forces in toppling the Islamic Courts Union, a coalition that had actually managed to suppress piracy and unify Mogadishu under something resembling order, produced the very insurgency the Pentagon now spends nine figures a year trying to bomb into submission. Al-Shabaab was not an inheritance. It was a creation, spawned out of a militant offshoot of a government the US helped destroy, its first suicide bombing aimed squarely at the foreign troops occupying its capital. That origin story matters, because it suggests a policy pattern that has repeated with grim consistency across the region: intervention produces radicalization, radicalization produces more intervention, and the cycle compounds rather than getting resolved.

A US supplied F15 to Saudi Arabia was...

Editor's note: ...shot down by desert dwelling men in sandals who are fearless. This must mean the Saudi kingdom requires more weapons to continue waging war on Yemen. The stakes are high especially the stock portfolios for anyone holding General Dynamics Ordnance and Tactical Systems (GD) and McAlester Army Ammunition Plant (MCAP) stocks plus dividends. Creating debt based fiat currency out of nothing shouldn't be any problem as the Pentagon "tells" the US congress the "war on Iran" has blown through $42 billion. Suffice it to say, the U.S. Department of State acting as the front sales office for weapon sales deals just approved a big sale. Break open the champagne, let's celebrate. Maybe we're thinking about this the wrong way? Think of the 40,000 Mark 84 and Blu-117 (a thermally stable PBXN-109 explosive) 2,000-pound bombs slated for Israel as "excavating equipment?" After all, the "war on Iran" is part of the taxpayer shakedown of the Global Business Network (GBN).
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Tucker Carlson Sounds Alarm Over Trump's Planned 'Largest Transfer Of Ordinance In Modern History'

By Zero Hedge | September 16, 2026

After the US was essentially forced to conduct a major and rapid draw down of forces from the Gulf and Mideast region in the wake of Iran's 'unexpectedly' large retaliation for Operation Epic Fury, it seems all that Washington is left to do is arm regional allies to the teeth and wish them the best.

Early this month the US approved two potential Saudi defense packages valued at a whopping $5.75 billion. The forthcoming deals will reportedly focus on transferring extended-range precision bombs and bolstering Abrams tanks in the kingdom.

Here is what a falsified...

Editor's note: ...$190 million a day will buy Ukraine: An estimated well over 2 million dead, missing and seriously disfigured Ukrainian soldiers. The City of London's Neocon war provocateur Boris Johnson is back at it again, issuing a statement about confiscating Russian assets held in Belgian banks to "rebuild Ukraine's air defenses." Poland's Prime Minister Donald Tusk seems ready to take on Russia as he announced, "Poland and NATO intend to bring Russia to its knees in 42 days." Poland's Tusk continues with the old and tired out claim Russia is "attacking" NATO countries. What is Boris Johnson's piece of the financial pie and why is he spending so much time in Kiev? Ukraine is a terrorist™ state and that is what the British do ever so well. And no, contrary to British "experts" that Russian drone did not target Johnson. And who launched the drone? Ukrainian terrorists? 

What a travesty against the American people.

Editor's note: The 84 year-old Mitch McConnell really does need to be removed from office. And while Americans are at it, especially the Americans who live in Kentucky, they need to be reimbursed for the $43,500 in government salary for the three months he didn't show up for work. Why wait until 2027? The US senate can expel him with a two-thirds vote. Mitch McConnell's four-decade Senate tenure makes him the longest-serving party leader in U.S. history and shows exactly why term limits are urgently needed: no elected official should be able to entrench themselves in power for generations while the political system built around their incumbency makes real accountability impossible.

🚨 EXCLUSIVE: Mitch McConnell has resurfaced, 3 months after disappearing from public view. https://t.co/WBeMp32VeM 🎥: @hicharliecotton https://t.co/fHVhJ89DFe

— TMZ (@TMZ) September 14, 2026

Federal prosecutors charged three people...

Editor's note: ...for paying Skid Row's homeless cash, cigarettes, and drugs to forge ballot-petition signatures using stolen voter identities, with one operator netting over $41,000, while similar schemes paid the same vulnerable population for fraudulent voter registrations under false addresses. Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass has refused to testify before a House committee investigating alleged fraud and waste at the city's Homeless Services Authority, which received more than $1 billion in federal funds even as homelessness doubled. Californians will be satisfied only when these criminals and Karen Bass too are in handcuffs. Such coordinated, multi-person schemes involving identity theft, forgery, and payments to vulnerable individuals over months can constitute a pattern of racketeering activity under federal RICO laws when tied to an organized enterprise.
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Actually, It Does Happen: Feds Nab Alleged Ringleader of Skid Row Ballot Fraud Ring

By Bob Hoge | September 10, 2026

It never happens, as all of those watching CNN, reading the New York Times or listening to Democrat politicians know full well.

We're talking election fraud —or, in this case, ballot initiative signature fraud —and it never happens... except when it does.

Russia is the world's richest country in terms of natural resources.

Editor's note: Britain and Europe are preparing for a war against Russia. European central banks need Russia's resources to underwrite their sovereign debt crisis. In response, Russia is reviving military academies like the Chelyabinsk Tank School, arguing this proves tanks aren't obsolete. In comparison, Western-style ROTC/generalist officer training is inadequate for modern warfare, unlike Russia's specialized academy model. What the West doesn't seem to undertand is that Russia is a militarized state.

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Putin Makes His Case

September 12, 2026 | By Rana Yashwant

Putin is made of a different mold and clay. Listening to him is like watching him open up. Today, Putin sent his message to the people of Europe from Delhi. Below is the translation of what he said.

Russia has never been your enemy and never will be!

We have no need for Europe's raw materials or its wealth; we have our own sufficient resources. We have absolutely no need for your raw materials. Russia is the world's richest country in terms of natural resources.

This is a global war...

Editor's note: ...and that means YOU need to rethink your relationship to the state, to corporations, to banks and to your neighbors. Earth is undergoing a "birth process" into a new energetic reality, causing perceptual glitches like altered colors, warped time, shifting roads/landscapes, and long-extinct species or lost memories reappearing. The resulting anxiety as resistance to change, advising readers to stay calm, rest, and "align" with the transition instead of fighting it.
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CITIZEN MILITIAS: It's time!

August 30, 2026 | By SOTN

KEY DATA POINT: The United States has 3,144 counties and county equivalents across the 50 states and the District of Columbia (or 3,244 if you include U.S. territories).

SOTN Editor's Note: In the absence of an overwhelming act of direct divine intervention such as a Carrington Event 2.0 on super steroids, there is now very little the American people can do to escape the fate that has been planned by the NWO globalists and their many treasonous Deep State co-conspirators to collapse the Republic. Especially in view of the rapidly unfolding 4th Fourth Turning, the best We the People can do is to take back our power before, during and/or after the wreck and ruin has gone its full course.