Public Service Announcement: Racketeering (RICO) Suit Filed Against the American Academy of Pediatrics

Editor's note: A federal racketeering lawsuit accuses the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), the nation's largest pediatric organization, of misleading families about the safety of the childhood vaccine schedule. Filed in January 2026 by Children's Health Defense and five other plaintiffs, the suit alleges a decades-long pattern of deceptive safety claims tied to funding from vaccine manufacturers. The AAP has moved to dismiss, and the court has not yet ruled. None of the allegations have been proven, but the outcome could shape public trust in pediatric guidance and test whether RICO can be used against a medical professional body. America is the most medicated and vaccinated country in the world. Has the outcome of all that medication and injections been favorable? No, they haven't. Over 40 percent of children in America are now diagnosed with a chronic disease. No problem, just inject infants and children with more vaccines. Over 60 percent of adults have at least one chronic disease (see Uncle Sam the Bioterrorist).
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Racketeering Suit Against the American Academy of Pediatrics Awaits a Ruling on Dismissal

September 29, 2026

A vaccine-skeptic group accuses the nation's largest pediatric organization of fraud. None of it has been proven, and the case is still at the earliest stage.

Children's Health Defense (CHD) and five other plaintiffs sued the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), accusing it of running a decades-long racketeering scheme to defraud families about the safety of the childhood vaccine schedule. The case is Shaw v. American Academy of Pediatrics, No. 1:26-cv-00171. It was filed January 21, 2026, in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, and assigned to Judge Timothy J. Kelly.

This is an advertisement: You just had $1.4 million stolen from you.

Editor's note: One option to stop the theft are state militias - after the book is read and comprehended. Our suggestion would be to buy every US senator and congressional member a copy of the following book. If you have any funds left over send copies to your local IRS offices. The current circumstances with US senate and congressional members are that they won't do a thing (there is no legislative solution at this point) because they are bought and paid for by corporate lobbyists with big money wallets. It won't happen until the public starts voting OUT all the state and local (county) tyrants who start it all by imposing "zoning" on you and telling you what you "can't" do with your own property. Until then, you are slaves because you don't really have property rights, yet are told you live in a "free country." If Americans can't sell RETAIL on their property what they grow and build/produce/manufacture, then they don't have property rights. Study what the early Americans could produce and sell on their own property in 1790 or 1830, before "zoning" came along. If you want to remove those petty tyrants starting at the local level, TAB (Take America Back) trains everyday Americans to become Citizen Servant Leaders, guided by Honesty, Integrity, and Transparency, to fill the empty seats where decisions about your town, schools, and money are being made, so visit the TAB website today to learn how to claim yours, because the seat is open.

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THE GREATEST THEFT IN HUMAN HISTORY! How the Banks and "Government" Will Steal At Least $1.4 Million From the Typical American Worker… "Legally"

By Etiennne de La Boette2 | September 29, 2026

Understanding the (Mostly) Invisible Theft: Inflation from Fractional Reserve Banking + Government Taxes + Social Security COLA Underpayment Etienne de la Boetie2

By Etienne de la Boetie2 Founder, Art of Liberty Foundation With research assistance from Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 & Opus 4.8 Max, xAI's SuperGrok, Google's Gemini 3.1, and OpenAI's GPT 5.5 – Get the book at Greatest-Theft.com with the Full Analysis Available at ArtOfLiberty.org/Inflation

Pennsylvania nannies from the nanny state go after the Amish

Editor's note: The Amish population in North America has reached about 421,340 in 2026, growing roughly 32 percent since 2017 and doubling about every 20 years, driven by large families and high retention. Pennsylvania remains the largest Amish state, with about 96,500 people (roughly 23% of the U.S. total), an 18% increase since 2020. Its Lancaster settlement alone holds around 44,000. Still, high land costs are pushing some young Amish families out of Lancaster County toward central and northwestern Pennsylvania, and to states such as Kentucky, Wisconsin, Missouri, and Indiana. Growth in Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Indiana has slowed to under 2% a year, while newer settlements in the Mountain West, including South Dakota and Montana, are growing much faster from small bases. Pennsylvania's Amish are spreading out rather than leaving. From current statistics, there is approximately an 11 percent (likely not confirmed) uptake in vaccines within Amish communities.
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PA Public Health Officials Target Amish Door-to-Door For Measles Vaccine Re-Education, On-Site Injection

By Benjamin Bartee | September 27 2026

In Pennsylvania Amish country, an obese and remarkably homely nurse in the employ of the state public health authority, Dale Weiser, pictured in all of her plus-sized glory HERE, has been going door-to-door with an arsenal of measles vaccines in tow to "encourage" vaccine uptake among the community that "abstains from Western medicine" – in other words, a community full of domestic terrorists begging for the business end of the long arm of the law. 

The Blockade Is Working. That's the Problem.

Editor's note: It is being overstated by Armstrong Economics what the oil tanker blockade and sanctions have achieved. Independent trackers do show a steep drop in Iranian crude reaching China, but enforcement so far amounts to dozens of ships redirected, disabled, or boarded, not a sealed coast, and even analysts (the experts) who call the blockade effective say loaded crude only "probably" fails to get through. Iran still holds meaningful buffers, including tens of millions of barrels on tankers in Asia, room for more onshore storage, and floating inventories that were drawn down by roughly 28 million barrels in August alone. That means oil is still being converted into revenue. The pressure is also reversible, since Iran's loadings rebounded after the first blockade ended in June, and the idled tankers off Sri Lanka are fleet capacity waiting to resume, not capacity destroyed. Meanwhile, the cost side of the ledger is ignored here. The market is already tight, with Gulf exports down by nearly half, a key Saudi bypass pipeline damaged, and fuel prices setting records, so removing Iran's remaining barrels adds to a supply shock that is only partly of the blockade's making. The blockade is a real and painful lever, but it is an incomplete and costly one, and the claim that geography has permanently closed off the market is probably premature.
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The Blockade Has Done What Sanctions Could Not

September 28, 2026 | By Martin Armstrong

For years, Washington proclaimed that sanctions would shut down Iranian oil exports. They never did. Iran adapted because markets ALWAYS adapt. Tehran assembled a shadow fleet, tankers switched off transponders, cargoes changed identities, oil moved ship to ship, and payments bypassed Western banking channels while China continued buying the crude. Even during Trump's maximum-pressure campaign in 2019 and 2020, Iranian oil continued passing through the Strait of Hormuz. Washington could sanction the paperwork, banks, insurance companies, and ships, but somebody still wanted the oil. The blockade has changed everything because you cannot hide geography.

The Smithsonian Left Football Off Its List. Maybe It Was Right.

Editor's note: It has been called the "National Fake League" as sarcasm replacing the National Football League because professional football in America has been elevated to what seems like the epitome of human cultural accomplishment. The fanboys of this clearly staged and faked professional entertainment business worth billions of dollars every year are in a category of their own. The National Fake League has become a stage for athletes who see themselves as the pinnacle of human achievement, histrionically dramatizing every routine tackle, ostentatiously choreographing end-zone celebrations, and shamelessly showboating for the cameras until the bloated spectacle of their own self-importance eclipses the game itself, while a vast pipeline of college players, nearly all of them dreaming of an NFL roster spot, chase the same prize of status, fame, and money, treating four years of college as little more than an audition for the National Fake League. The Smithsonian thinks they are "insignificant." Maybe for a good reason:

Trump Hands Americans' Private Data to Palantir — And Nobody's Stopping Him

Editor's note: Palantir with no-bid contracts with the US government looks to be moving towards taking over and running government agencies and if that happens thousands of US government employees will be forced to quit. The Trump administration is quietly building the surveillance state (see NET Zero, AI And Technocracy: What Happens To Freedom In A Surveillance Society?) Americans were warned about, and Palantir is holding the shovel. Since a March 2025 executive order demanded "data sharing" across federal agencies, Palantir has landed a $10 billion Army contract, embedded engineers inside the IRS, and built the ICE tracking tool that just got caught receiving Medicaid data on millions of people it was never supposed to have. Agencies are stonewalling FOIA requests, courts are being asked to force disclosure, and even Palantir's own former employees are begging the company to stop. This isn't hypothetical anymore. It's happening in real time, with your bank records, tax filings, and health data as the raw material, and almost no legal guardrail strong enough to stop it.
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Stargate: President Trump Contracts Palantir To Steal Data And Create Master Database On All Americans

The Trump administration has expanded Palantir's work across the federal government in recent months.

By The Witness | June 2, 2026

Per a New York Times report, President Donald Trump has tapped CIA-funded and backed Palantir, a data analysis and defense contractor, to collect Americans' personal data to create a new master hub to store this data as part of a federal plan to consolidate and nationalize this data.

In March, President Trump signed an executive order - "Stopping Waste, Fraud, and Abuse by Eliminating Information Silos" - that instructs government agencies to share data with each other.

"...people will have to die."

Editor's note: This blog has repeatedly posted about a coming war that is being planned against Russia. This aggressive push for war is originating in the UK and within European political structures. The obscenity of it all. Obviously, the Russians know what is coming and are well prepared. In fact, they are so well prepared Russian industrial factories can manufacture more artillery rounds in a month than the US, the UK and Europe combined can produce in a year. The British political class and the UK media are gearing up a major propaganda effort generating fear of Russia and that the only way to "stop Russia" is by war. Comments by the prominent Jacob Rees-Mogg illustrate this intent as Alex Krainer points out below. It was Oswald Rayner, a British Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) agent stationed in Russia during World War I and a close Oxford friend of Prince Felix Yusupov, who by several accounts fired the fatal shot in the murder of Grigori Rasputin on the night of December 16 to 17, 1916 that ignited the Bolshevik Revolution. If you want to understand WWI as it actually felt to the men living through it, rather than as it's remembered, read Robert Graves' Good-Bye to All That. The book is unflinching and often darkly funny account of trench life, senseless slaughter, and shattered illusions remaining one of the most honest firsthand records of World War I ever written.

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The war pigs are coming for our children!

The brainwash is intensifying. My son's class recently went on a school trip to London. Subtle psychological war indoctrination was slipped in.

By Alex Krainer | September 27, 2026

In TrendCompass on Monday, I wrote about the sudden lust for war against Russia that's gripped European ruling establishments like a fever, with a handful of notable superspreaders doing the rounds of TV panels and interviews as they try to convince the public that war is inevitable, that the people must step up and do their duty and enlist in the military to defend "our nations" and our way of life.

The Coup Poll: What a New Survey Claims About Democratic Values

Editor's note: Imagine that? The Democratic Party are petty thieves. Law professor Jonathan Turley cites a Center for Strategic Politics survey claiming 59% of polled Democrats would feel positive about the US military removing Trump from office (also see When Did a Military Coup Become Acceptable in America?), alongside 87% backing impeachment and 84% backing 25th Amendment removal; Turley also flags the same poll's findings on rising support among Democrats for public ownership of grocery stores (46%) and restaurants (39%), using it to argue the party has drifted toward "socialism" and constitutional recklessness. Americans are being battered around like abused wives between the communists and the socialists. 

EXCLUSIVE: California has created a shadow welfare system for illegal aliens. Free housing, cash, healthcare, food, phones, college tuition, even car insurance—costing taxpayers more than $10 billion per year.

We went inside the system and exposed it all. pic.twitter.com/oJh0mpstzN

— Christopher Rufo (@christopherrufo) September 23, 2026

Nepalese PM Balendra Shah told the UN General Assembly ("arrogant parasites")...

Editor's note: ...on September 24 that the world has "flawless logistics for war and broken logistics for food," pointing to fertilizer, fuel, and bitumen shortages at home while weapons cross borders without friction. He tied this to Nepal's recent disaster (an August 26 avalanche and flash floods that killed over 1,400 people, with more than 6,000 still missing) and pitched a joint Himalayan climate resilience plan with India and China, plus grant-based (not debt-based) disaster recovery funding for poorer nations. This is precisely what Nepalese PM Balendra Shah was referring to when he stated at the UN the "flawless logistics for war and broken logistics for food." On September 17-18, 2026 the US State Department (the node in America of the international architecture above nations) front sales office announced it had approved a potential $24.3 billion sale of F-35 fighter jets to Saudi Arabia, with Saudi Arabia "requesting 48 jets plus 49 Pratt & Whitney F135-PW-100 engines." The UN Security Council just "affirmed Saudi Arabia's right to self-defense" demanding the Houthis halt their attacks on the petro kingdom. The Saudi's with US and British assistance have been bombing the crap out of Yemen for more than ten years and somehow $24 billion in Lockheed Martin F-35 aircraft are going to end Houthi's attacks on Saudi Arabia?

Bookstores in Japan have seen a mysterious...

Editor's note: ...surge in bulk orders for philosophy, history, law, and Edo-period texts, with buyers all shipping to one unresponsive Okayama logistics center. Over 50 tons (about 100,000 volumes) have been exported to the US, and while no buyer has been identified, it echoes Anthropic's confirmed "Project Panama," in which court filings revealed the company bought, scanned, and destroyed millions of physical books to train Claude (Anthropic), a practice a judge ruled was fair use. No link between the Japan case and Anthropic has been confirmed. Separately, Japan currently has roughly 110 to 130 data centers, with an estimated 50 to 80 more planned or under construction amid an AI-driven building boom.

🦔Someone is buying Japanese used books by the ton. Not novels or comics. Philosophy, history, medical law, Edo-period cultural texts. Multiple buyer accounts all ship to one logistics center in Okayama Prefecture that won't answer questions. Export records show over 50 tons,… pic.twitter.com/0RPpAyCw0N

— Hedgie (@HedgieMarkets) September 24, 2026

This is how the mechanism of replacement population works

Editor's note: US Senator Ted Cruz and Texas Governor Greg Abbott (see Who's Been Messing with Texas?) drew cheers at a Republican convention for vowing to ban Sharia law, while Muslim Americans describe Sharia in the US context as personal religious guidance on prayer, fasting, charity, and virtue, comparable to Jewish or Christian religious codes, and reject claims it threatens the Constitution. While it should be applauded that Cruz wants to "save America", we shouldn't use religion to get that messy job accomplished. The question here is Sharia law a "Trojan Horse?" Is Sharia law inherently violent toward non-believers, are moderate and extremist Muslims meaningfully distinct and does Sharia-controlled "no-go zones" exist in the US, citing Hamtramck, Michigan. No legal system other than the Constitution should operate in the US and can be considered an urgent societal discourse Americans are late coming to the table to discuss.

News update for 25 September 2026: Trump Rescinds $810 Million in Funds Tied to Illegal Immigration, Race Programs

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TAXES = DEATH: The Social Security Scam, Replacement Migration & The Intelligence-Industrial Complex

By 2nd Smartest Guy In the World | September 25, 2026

Social Security is a gargantuan Ponzi scheme whereby the number of current recipients has greatly outpaced the number of workers being scammed with unconstitutionally imposed taxes, an imbalance that will only get bigger.

The British Engineers Helping Ukraine Hit Russia — While NATO Says It's "Not Involved"

Editor's note: Louis Mosley is CEO of Palantir UK, a role he took after working in finance, including at Santander UK, before joining Palantir in 2016. He previously served as a Conservative councillor for Kensington and Chelsea from 2011 to 2014, and is the grandson of Oswald Mosley, founder of the British Union of Fascists. As Palantir UK's chief, he has become a prominent defender of the company's contracts with British institutions like the NHS and Ministry of Defence, work that has drawn scrutiny over privacy, deportations, and military operations. Why is Loius Mosey as CEO of Palantir being mentioned? Because it is Palantir running the software for targeting data for drones being launched off of civilian trucks inside Ukraine close to the Russia border. This is probably why the Russian military has been destroying gas stations in Ukraine. Those civilian trucks are being fueled up at those gas stations and then after launching drones can be easily hidden inside garages and warehouses. British engineers from Palantir, working alongside Ukrainian counterparts, reportedly developed software that maps drone routes to evade Russian air defenses, using commercial satellite imagery and signals intelligence. These offensive drone strikes have fueled speculation that factors into Russia's continued strikes on Ukrainian data infrastructure. Now we come to this report by El Mundo claiming "the CIA warned European governments that Russia might hide drones aboard merchant ships to strike Spain, France, or Italy and other European countries." This is another fabricated story by western sources likely meant to target Russia's "shadow fleet."
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"Geranium Apocalypse" Courtesy of the CIA

September 24, 2026 | By Islander Reports

Europe has apparently found its next Russian horror story: drones hidden aboard merchant ships, sailing quietly into the Mediterranean before suddenly striking Spain, France or Italy. And right on cue comes the CIA, with El Mundo reporting that US intelligence has "warned" European governments of precisely such a Russian plan. One small problem: even Italy's defence minister says the supposed alert has not been confirmed. The bigger question is even simpler — why would Russia risk turning civilian shipping into disposable drone platforms when it already possesses far more effective ways of hitting anything it actually wants to hit?

Sold to Brussels, Sold on Death: What's Really Happening to Canada

Editor's note: Grant Abraham (author of Battle for the Soul of Canada: Firing the Forge), founder of Canada's Reforge Party, appeared on Rich Does Politics to discuss the upcoming October 19th Alberta Referendum, a non-binding vote on Alberta independence. Abraham argues the real issue isn't Alberta leaving, but what he calls Canada's ongoing transformation into a "post-national state," a shift he traces to Justin Trudeau's 2015 comments and says became more visible to Canadians during COVID. Abraham frames Alberta's independence movement as a way to preserve traditional Canadian identity, and suggests it could eventually help reunite the country on different terms. They also discuss EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen recently inviting Canada to become an "Associate Member" of the EU, an offer Prime Minister Mark Carney has moved quickly to pursue, with some conservative commentators raising concerns about what closer EU ties, including possible Schengen Area alignment, could mean for immigration policy.
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The Post-National State

September 23, 2026 | By Forbidden News

"Piss Off Jacob Rees Mogg, you pompous prick."

Editor's note: As Godfrey Bloom remarks, concerning Jacob Rees-Mogg telling the working class their duty and to "do the decent thing" by joining up to go to the front: "Over the top, people, good luck, and I will see you at my club." Bloom goes on to say, "Leave for the front, get the old uniform on, polish up the bayonet, and remember your days in the school corps." Bloom says he was not a contemporary of Rees-Mogg and Boris Johnson at Eton, but he does know, and got it through the grapevine, that whenever there was rough and tumble with Rees-Mogg, he always had a crumpled-up letter from the matron in his pocket. And when he was called up for anything dangerous at all, he would whip the letter out and say, "Look, I would love to go to the front, I'd love to leave for the front, I'm a roughy-toughy sort of guy, as everyone can tell just by looking at me, but I've got this note from the matron, and I've got this bloody verruca and this dodgy knee and all the rest of it. But good luck, you fellows, and you working-class people, over the top you go, and I'll see you at the club."

 

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."

News update for 18 September 2026: This isn't sci-fi, AI is already killing people
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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.

Saudi Arabia's oil production fell...

Editor's note: ...sharply in August, dropping by 1.9 million barrels per day to 6.238 million barrels per day, the lowest level since 1990 and below even the wartime low seen earlier this year. Exports have also slumped, falling to around 3.1 million barrels per day, the lowest in more than a decade, as the Iran conflict and renewed Houthi threats disrupt key shipping routes. Armstrong Economics points out that this matters because "Saudi government revenue depends on price times volume, not price alone", so even with Brent above $100 a barrel, a steep drop in output combined with rising military and shipping costs is straining Saudi finances, which were already running large deficits. It warns this squeeze extends across the Gulf's debt-dependent economies and could ripple into global inflation and sovereign debt pressures. What does Armstrong Economics recommend? Warning – Fill Up Now!
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"Riyadh In Difficult Position": Saudis Shutter Critical East-West Pipeline After Drone Attacks

By Zero Hedge | September 12, 2026

Saudi Arabia temporarily shut its 7 million-barrel-a-day East-West pipeline following multiple drone attacks, exposing a massive vulnerability in a critical export route used to bypass the Strait of Hormuz during more than six months of US-Iran conflict.

Solving 9-11, The Deception That Changed The World by Christopher Bollyn

Editor's note: Alex de Tocqueville described regime de la terreur as a methodology to make the masses familiar with the realities created by elites.

The extremes the terrorist™ regime will go to...

Editor's note: ...in Kiev have reached the point now where thugs and operatives are being hired out to murder foreign diplomats to provoke a larger war. Voltaire Network published an article on September 9, 2026 claiming neoconservative "Straussians" now backed by Europe are sabotaging US-Russia peace efforts, and that CIA Director John Ratcliffe traveled to Moscow to negotiate an end to the war. On Russia's terms, the 2022 SMO into Ukraine to "de-Nazify" the place was legally justified under a UN resolution tied to the Minsk agreements, and brands Zelensky a "constitutional usurper" whose term expired in May 2024. Trump envoys Witkoff and Kushner are negotiating with Moscow while pushing Europe, not US taxpayers, to foot the bill for Biden-era weapons, and Voltaire references the "Midas" and "Forrest Gump" corruption scandals engulfing Keiv officials. Considering these links to the Straussians and Chief Rabbi Jonathan Markowicz in Ukraine implicated in Voltaire's article as "supporting white-collar criminals in Ukraine" (if Judaism is "Satanism" what do the Satanists know the rest of us don't?), who was actually behind the plot to murder the British Ambassador to Ukraine Nigel Casey? Speculation but why do fingers consistently point to Israel?

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Kiev plotted terror attack on UK ambassador in Moscow – FSB (VIDEO)

The Ukrainian operation was intended to provoke a direct conflict between Russia and Britain, the security service has said

September 10, 2026 | By RT

Russian security operatives have foiled a Ukrainian plot to carry out a false-flag attack on the British ambassador and other diplomats in Moscow, which was intended to draw the UK into a direct conflict with Russia, the Federal Security Service (FSB) has said.

Moral Advice From a Machine

Editor's note: Fair warning: this essay was partially "written" by an AI, the very kind of thing some people blame for ruining everything. It has some opinions about that. Read on, if you're brave enough to take some healthy moral advice from a damn machine.
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On What We Traded Away

There is a version of a man that used to exist in our stories, our churches, our bloodied battlefields, and our living rooms, who did the right thing simply because it was right. He did not do it for a government paycheck, a payoff or a bonus. He did not do it for a promotion, a brand, a following, a quarterly report, or a shareholder meeting. He did it because some part of him understood that his worth and value as a human being was not for sale. As the saying goes "rare is the philosophical man who is good at making money."

I think we have lost sight of that man. Not because he disappeared, but because we stopped telling his story, and we started telling a different one instead. The new story says that value is a number. It says that "a life well lived is a life well monetized." And once that idea gets into the water supply, it contaminates everything a man builds, including the machines he is now building in his own image.

Sieg Heil! "Indentured military servitude." "Fascinating, Captain." ~ Spock

Editor's note: Repudiation of debt means war. The Pentagon's new recruiting tool: We will forgive all of your debt just sign up for x number of years of military service. The debt gets repudiated, you get killed and the central banks continue creating more debt based fiat currency out of nothing this time in the form of electronic blips. Then the next move will be in order to control those electronic blips so that everyone behaves like good little boys and girls, they're going to create the space force and give them appropriate Nazi SS style uniforms (starship troopers) with the ability to spy on everyone from outer space. Give them hip uniforms, elevate them to a higher level in the hierarchy by creating a new elite and that is a formula for a new army, the elimination of debt and off we go to our technocratic future as the current US military is slowly dissipated slated for the dust bin of history. Asset stripping continues and your children are going to be sent off to a war again. The Praetorians need a war and to get to that point an assassination is required. 
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The State Spins a New Idea for Recruiting in an Age of War

By Karen Kwiatkowski | September 7, 2026

Have you ever watched cars in motion and thought the wheel spokes were rotating backwards? It's the stroboscopic effect that occurs when we sample reality at an inappropriate frequency, making the unreal appear absolutely real. Similarly, an illusion of self motion can make us feel like we are moving when we are not, and not moving when we are.

The Hubris of the Fabians: How a Failed Humanist Project Learned to Rule Instead of Reason

Editor's note: This is our third post examining the British Fabian socialists in an attempt to expose them and to dispose of them, following two previous posts, here and here, on this critical subject tracing their origins and broader global reach. We now turn our attention to their documented influence on Australia's Labor governments. The Australian Fabian Society, formed on the model of the original British Fabian Society and maintaining ties to it, has shaped government primarily through the Australian Labor Party (ALP) rather than through public service directly. Numerous ALP prime ministers, ministers and premiers were active Fabians while in office, including Whitlam, Hawke, Keating, Gillard, Hayden, Wran, Cain and Dunstan, and current figures such as Anthony Albanese and Penny Wong have continued to engage with the society. The clearest documented case of policy impact is Gough Whitlam's 1972 platform, which expanded federal responsibility for education, health (Australia's Covid lockdowns and mandated injections were brutal) and welfare and drew directly on roughly two decades of Fabian research shaped by British Fabian thinking. 

The London School of Economics (LSE), founded by the British Fabians in 1895 to train the administrators of the future, has educated generations of Australian economists and public servants who went on to hold senior roles in federal government, a documented pipeline that even mainstream historians acknowledge, though how much of the resulting policy consensus reflects deliberate Fabian design versus ordinary elite academic influence remains debated. In short, solid evidence exists of British Fabian influence on Australian Labor governments and specific policies through their local counterpart, especially under Whitlam.
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News from Australia: What do Fabianism, government growth and AI have in common? Power

By Rhoda Wilson | September 7, 2026

In the following, FCP Australia reviews its past week, during which the outlet covered Fabianism, government growth, AI, the Voice, Uluru, student representation, medical consent and media accountability. These may seem unrelated, but they're not.

The last thing in the world the globalists would tolerate...

Editor's note: ...would be German engineering capabilities tied to Russia's vast resources. The world would be taken to war to prevent this from happening. What else could possibly explain the vehement hatred of Russia by the west and that includes Europe? There are indications that Germany's AfD political party has ties to Russian financial sources. The AfD's pro-Russia positioning reflects both genuine political conviction and separate, more serious allegations. On conviction: figures like AfD's foreign-policy spokesman Markus Frohnmaier have attended Russian state economic forums and met Kremlin-linked officials, and party leader Alexander Gauland met Russian ideologue Alexander Dugin in 2015, part of a real ideological drift toward Eurasianist, anti-Western positions since 2022, rooted in skepticism of NATO and opposition to continued Ukraine aid, which the party frames as costly and against German interests. 

Frohnmaier married Daria Tsoy, a Russian journalist who wrote the pro-Kremlin Izvestiya story about him and his AfD colleague, less than a year after the April 2017 Russian strategy document and campaign support letter, which described securing him as "our own absolutely controlled MP," were drafted. On allegations: Petr Bystron faces money-laundering prosecution over alleged payments tied to a Kremlin-linked propaganda outlet and leaked documents show Russian officials deliberately cultivated AfD's Frohnmaier as a Bundestag candidate as early as 2017. These are prosecutorial and documentary matters, distinct from ordinary policy disagreement, and most remain pre-trial or under investigation.

The following mentioned works build resistance...

Editor's note: ...to state and media propaganda in different ways because most people are likely plugged into a permanent state of "negative default programming" and know no other alternative. Orwell's Politics and the English Language and 1984, along with Klemperer's The Language of the Third Reich, train readers to catch manipulation at the level of individual words: euphemism, passive voice, slogans built to be repeated rather than examined. Miłosz's The Captive Mind and Levi's survivor writings show how intelligent people get absorbed into propagandized systems, guarding against the assumption that education alone makes someone immune. Arendt's Origins of Totalitarianism and Snyder's On Tyranny explain how ideology replaces reasoning with a closed system that explains everything, so readers learn to notice when an explanation feels too complete. Andrew Łobaczewski's Political Ponerology discusses how psychopaths and other clinically disordered individuals who systematically rise to power during social crises and reshape entire political systems into "pathocracies" that normalize their disordered worldview as ideology. Satire like Swift's A Modest Proposal and Zamyatin's We sharpens the ability to spot rhetorical excess dressed as reasonable logic. Novels with unreliable narrators, such as Ishiguro's The Remains of the Day and Nabokov's Pale Fire, build the habit of cross-checking claims against outside evidence. Poets like Szymborska and Akhmatova, writing under totalitarian conditions, model language that resists collapsing into slogans. Together, this reading trains attention to language, memory of how manipulation actually unfolds, and a working habit of doubt, the tools needed to recognize propaganda rather than simply be told it exists.

Jefferson's Second Chance: How America's Farmland Crisis Could Rebuild the Agrarian Dream

Reclaiming the Land: America's Farm Crisis Is Also Its Greatest Opportunity

An investigation into the largest farmland transfer in American history, and why young people should run toward it, not away from it

The Land Is Moving. Nobody's Watching.

Somewhere in Iowa, a 71-year-old widow is deciding what to do with 400 acres her husband farmed for 45 years. Somewhere in Nebraska, three siblings who haven't set foot on their late father's wheat ground in a decade are arguing over whether to lease it, sell it, or let a solar developer pave it with panels. Multiply that scene by hundreds of thousands, and you have the largest, quietest transfer of land wealth in American history and almost nobody under 35 has been invited to the table.

The numbers are staggering. More than 40 percent of U.S. farmland, over 150 million acres, is expected to change hands in the next 10 to 15 years. The average American farmer is 57.5 years old. The average farmland owner is over 70. Only 8 percent of producers are under 35. This is not a slow demographic drift, it is a cliff, and Americans are walking toward it with their eyes on their smart phones doom scrolling.

Kickbacks at DHS: The Allegations Against Corey Lewandowski, and President Trump's Own Private Suspicions

Editor's note: Corey Lewandowski, a longtime Trump ally who served as a special government employee and de facto chief of staff to former DHS Secretary Kristi Noem, faces allegations that he "demanded kickbacks from contractors seeking DHS business", including GEO Group and firms tied to a $220 million ad campaign. The claims are backed by NBC and Wall Street Journal reporting citing multiple senior White House and DHS officials, and DHS's own Inspector General has opened an investigation into whether contracts were improperly awarded. House Democrats are also pushing for subpoenas, a fact critics note carries clear midterm messaging value. Lewandowski and Noem deny any wrongdoing and call the claims politically motivated. No charges have been filed, but the volume of independent sourcing, including from inside the administration itself, makes this more than another typical partisan move just before the midterms. President Trump reportedly told advisers that "Corey made out on that one," referring to the $220 million DHS ad campaign, suggesting even he has privately questioned whether Lewandowski profited from the deal.

Butchered by Bureaucracy: The Fight to Take Beef Back from Big Meat

Editor's note: The following uses President Trump's September 2026 executive order on meat processing as a way into a bigger story: how a handful of corporations (see The Anatomy of Corporate Serfdom: How Tyson Foods and Three Other Giants Cornered America's Beef Supply) came to dominate American beef, and what it would actually take to build small, local alternatives. Using Meatworks, a nonprofit Massachusetts slaughterhouse, as a case study, it breaks down the real financial barriers facing small processors, from high fixed regulatory costs to a shortage of trained butchers, then proposes a decentralized path forward built on state loan funds, farmer cooperatives, and tiered safety standards, while weighing whether the USDA itself has the incentive to let that happen.
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Trump's Meat Processing Order: What It Actually Changes, and What It Doesn't

On September 4, 2026, President Trump signed an executive order aimed at loosening the grip of the nation's largest meatpackers on the beef supply chain. Flanked by ranchers from Texas, California, Ohio, Arizona, and South Dakota in the Oval Office, Trump framed the move as long overdue relief for an industry squeezed by consolidation. "For the first time ever, we're going to give farmers and ranchers the right to process their own food," he said at the signing.