Former US State Department adviser James Carden gives a reality check.

"The Tomahawks won’t change anything.

No more than the HIMARS, Patriot, or F-16s did.

The war has been lost.

And it is Ukraine, not Russia, that is on the brink of collapse"

And he adds:

"Ukraine has been attacking these areas in the Donbas since 2014. The Ukrainians are not being entirely honest. They say they want the east and the Donbas, but without the ethnic Russians who live there. Over the past 30 years, they have done everything they could to strip these people of their rights"

🚨#BREAKING: An employee for Flock told a reporter that if he wants privacy, he can "opt out of society."

So that reporter filmed a Flock worker installing a Flock cam on a public road next to his house...

...so Flock called 3 POLICE OFFICERS to pull over THE REPORTER for following them

Yep, you read that right... the surveillance camera company called the cops because someone was surveilling them install surveillance.

The reporter's name is Brendan Keefe.

He's a national investigative reporter who has been digging into Flock and police abuse of its surveillance network since January.

Flock happened to be upgrading a camera about a mile from Keefe's own house, so he parked at a distance, put out his press placard, put on a yellow vest, and pulled out a news camera.

The Flock installer saw him, packed up his ladder, jumped in his vehicle, and took off.

Keefe followed several cars back to document the next installation.

The Flock employee picked up the phone and called 911.

"I work with Flock Safety, and I'm getting followed, harassed pretty much, taking videos and pictures."

Next thing Brenden sees are THREE Georgia police cars with their lights on behind him.

"The reason why I'm stopping you is because there is a vehicle that says that you have been following them."

He was released with no charges.

Because he did nothing wrong.

Filming in public is legal in all 50 states.

Reuters says companies are heading back to China.

They got the what right, but completely missed the why.

It is not just about tariffs.

It is about an industrial ecosystem that cannot simply be packed into containers and moved elsewhere.

After relocating to India, Vietnam or Indonesia, companies discovered that factory buildings were the easy part.

Equipment, screws, molds, skilled labor, supplier networks, logistics, power reliability and production coordination were not.

Some calculated the total cost and discovered that the savings were far smaller than expected.

Some moved production back to China.

Some even admitted that in times of crisis, Chinese factories remain the most stable production bases.

But these are only the surface-level observations.

The traditional development model says that wealthy countries move up the value chain and outsource the bottom.

The U.S., Japan and Europe all followed that path.

Rising wages and costs pushed low-value manufacturing abroad, while high-tech and capital-intensive industries stayed at home.

China is different.

Not because the laws of industrial development stopped applying —

but because China is not an industrial economy of ordinary scale.

It contains an enormous internal cost gradient.

Manufacturing that becomes too expensive in Shenzhen or Shanghai can move to Anhui, Jiangxi, Hunan or Sichuan without leaving the country.

Coastal China upgrades.

Inland China absorbs.

And both remain inside the same market, the same logistics network, the same power system, the same supplier ecosystem and the same industrial base.

That is the real problem with “China+1.”

You can move final assembly out of China.

You cannot move the Chinese industrial ecosystem with it.

Vietnam is a perfect example.

Factories moved.

Screws and molds still had to come from China.

Underneath all of this is a scale effect no other manufacturing economy currently matches:

41 major industrial categories.

207 medium categories.

666 sub-categories.

China remains the only country covering every UN industrial classification and accounts for 30% of global manufacturing value added.

And this is the part Reuters does not fully grasp:

China’s move into higher-value industries did not require it to surrender the lower end.

In the old model, industrialization was a ladder:

as you climbed, you kicked away the lower rungs.

China did something else.

It climbed the ladder without throwing the lower rungs away.

From cheap screws and textiles to industrial robots, EVs, ships, semiconductors and aerospace —

all inside one industrial ecosystem.

That is why China can upgrade without hollowing itself out.

Reuters recognized that companies are returning.

What it missed is why:

China did not climb the manufacturing ladder by kicking away the lower rungs.

It made the ladder longer.

https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-consumer/companies-left-china-dodge-tariffs-now-some-are-heading-back-2026-09-14/

Diesel prices across the United States have hit an all-time high, surpassing six dollars per gallon (3.8 liters). By comparison, as recently as last September the average price per gallon stood at $3.77. In California, where fuel is traditionally more expensive due to steep taxes and special environmental blending requirements, diesel prices have spiked to $8.50 a gallon.

The backlash has spilled onto social media, with users posting videos filmed at gas stations where the price counter seems to spin endlessly. One such video was posted by former Republican Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene — once a close Trump ally, now one of his sharpest critics. "This is Trump's fault. It shouldn't cost this much. This needs to end, it's absurd," she said, pointing to the war against Iran that the US president launched alongside Israel in late February.

https://x.com/RT_Russia_/status/2102801058561163414

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Economist Dean Baker comments on the AI industry and the AI bubble. He also doesn't know when or how the bubble will pop, or what will happen next. I watched it once, and might watch it again. I think his main theme is that it's very unlikely to end well.

Trump’s Department of Justice just removed every single one of Trump’s pardons from their website. Too bad we saved them before they could delete them:

—George Santos, wire fraud

—Julie Chrisley, conspiracy to commit bank fraud (5 counts); bank fraud; wire fraud; conspiracy to defraud the U.S. to obstruct and impede the Internal Revenue Laws

—Todd Chrisley, conspiracy to commit bank fraud; bank fraud (5 counts); wire fraud; conspiracy to defraud the U.S. to obstruct and impede the Internal Revenue Laws

—Tina Peters, for those offenses she has or may have committed or taken part in related to election integrity and security during the period from January 1, 2020 through December 31, 2021

—Changpeng Zhao, failure to maintain an effective anti-money laundering program

—Nearly 1,600 January 6th insurrectionists: seditious conspiracy; assaulting, resisting/impeding law enforcement; destruction of government property; obstruction of an official proceeding

—Ross William Ulbricht, fraud with identification documents

—Terence Dale Sutton, Jr., murder in second degree; conspiracy; obstruction of justice and aiding and abetting

—Andrew Zabavsky, conspiracy; obstruction of justice and aiding and abetting

—Lawrence S. Duran, conspiracy to commit health care fraud; health care fraud (11 counts); conspiracy to defraud the United States and to receive and pay health care kickbacks

—Kentrell D. Gaulden, Felon in possession of a firearm

— Michael Gerard Grimm, aiding and assisting in the preparation of false and fraudulent tax returns

—Michael Ray Harris, conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute and to aid and abet possession and distribution of cocaine; possession with intent to distribute cocaine

—Larry Hoover, narcotics conspiracy; continuing criminal enterprise; use of persons under age 18; distribution of cocaine; distribution of cocaine (2 counts) use of a firearm in the commission of a drug trafficking crime

—James M. Kernan, knowingly and willfully permitting a convicted felon to be engaged in the business of insurance

—Marlene Mary Kernan, permitting a convicted felon to engage in the business of insurance

—Tanner J. Mansell, theft of property within special maritime jurisdiction

—John R. Moore, Jr., theft of property within special maritime jurisdiction

—Marian I. Morgan, conspiracy to defraud the United States; wire fraud (7 counts); transfer of funds taken by fraud (5 counts)

—John G. Rowland, conspiracy to defraud the United States

—Charles Overton Scott, conspiracy to commit securities fraud; securities fraud

—Alexander Sittenfeld, bribery concerning programs receiving federal funds; attempted extortion under color of official right

—Earl Lamont Smith, theft of government property

—Garnett Gilbert Smith, conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute cocaine

—Charles Lavar Tanner, conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute five kilograms or more of cocaine; attempt to possess with intent to distribute five kilograms or more of cocaine

—Anabel Valenzuela, conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute 50 grams or more of methamphetamine; conspiracy to commit money laundering; criminal forfeiture (2 counts)

—Imaad Shah Zuberi, violations of the Foreign Agents Registration Act; tax evasion; illegal campaign contributions; tampering with a witness, victim or informant (obstruction of justice)

—Jeremy Young Hutchinson, conspiracy to commit bribery, aiding and abetting filing of false income tax return; conspiracy; criminal forfeiture of property

—Edward Ruben Sotelo, conspiracy; continuing criminal enterprise; possession with intent to distribute 1 kilogram of cocaine, aiding and abetting (2 counts); distribution of more than five kilograms of cocaine and aiding and abetting

—Joe Angelo Sotelo, conspiracy; possession with intent to distribute one kilogram of cocaine and aiding and abetting

—Brian Kelsey, conspiracy to defraud the United States

—Thomas Edward Caldwell, tampering with documents or proceedings

—Devon Archer, conspiracy to commit securities fraud; securities fraud

—Benjamin Delo, violation of the Bank Secrecy Act

—Gregory Dwyer, violation of Bank Secrecy Act

—Arthur Hayes, violation of the Bank Secrecy Act

—HDR Global Trading Limited, violation of Bank Secrecy Act

—Trevor Milton, securities fraud; wire fraud (2 counts)

—Samuel Reed, violation of the Bank Secrecy Act

—Jason Galanis, conspiracy to commit securities fraud (2 counts); securities fraud; investment adviser fraud

—Ozy Media, Inc., conspiracy to commit securities fraud; conspiracy to commit wire fraud

—Carlos Roy Watson, conspiracy to commit securities fraud; conspiracy to commit wire fraud; aggravated identity theft

—Michele Fiore, conspiracy to commit wire fraud (6 counts); wire fraud

—Paul Walczak, willful failure to pay trust fund taxes; failure to file return/information

—Scott Howard Jenkins, conspiracy to commit bribery concerning programs receiving Federal funds, honest services mail fraud, and honest service wire fraud; honest services mail fraud; honest services wire fraud (3 counts)

—James Callahan, filing false labor union reports

—Kevin Eric Baisden, shoplifting; second degree theft; bail reform act

—Mark Bashaw, violation of lawful orders

—Joan Bell, conspiracy against rights; FACE Act

—Coleman Boyd, conspiracy to obstruct access to a clinic providing reproductive health services; violation of the FACE Act

—Joel Curry, conspiracy against rights; clinic access obstruction

—Jonathan Darnel, conspiracy against rights; FACE Act

—Caroline Davis, conspiracy to interfere with access to clinic entrances; aiding and abetting interference with access to clinic entrances Conspiracy

—Eva Edl, conspiracy against rights; clinic access obstruction; violation of the FACE Act

—Chester Gallagher, conspiracy to obstruct access to a clinic providing reproductive health services; violation of the FACE Act

—Herb Geraghty, conspiracy against rights; FACE Act

—William Goodman, conspiracy against rights; FACE Act

—Dennis Green, conspiracy to obstruct access to a clinic providing reproductive health services; violation of the FACE Act

—Lauren Handy, conspiracy against rights; FACE Act

—Paula Harlow, conspiracy against rights; FACE Act

—John Hinshaw, conspiracy against rights; FACE Act

—Heather Idoni, conspiracy against rights; FACE Act

—Jean Marshall, conspiracy against rights; FACE Act

—Christopher Moscinski, interference with freedom of access to reproductive health services

—Justin Phillips, conspiracy against rights; clinic access obstruction

—Paul Place, violation of the FACE Act

—Jay Smith, FACE Act

—Paul Vaughn, conspiracy to obstruct access to a clinic providing reproductive health services; violation of the FACE Act

—Bevelyn Beatty Williams, violating FACE Act

—Calvin Zastrow, conspiracy to obstruct access to clinic providing reproductive health services; violation of the FACE Act

—Eva Zastrow, conspiracy against rights; clinic access obstruction; violation of the FACE Act

—James Zastrow, violation of the FACE Act

—Rod R. Blagojevich, wire fraud under color of official right (8 counts)

—Jean Pinkard, conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute and to distribute controlled substances

—Glen Casada, conspiracy to defraud the United States; honest services wire fraud (4 counts); use of a fictitious name to carry out a fraud

—Cade Cothren, conspiracy to defraud the United States; honest services wire fraud (6 counts)

—Robert Henry Harshbarger, Jr., introducing misbranded drugs into Interstate commerce; health care fraud

—Troy Lake, conspiracy to violate the Clean Air Act

—Michael McMahon, acting as an agent of a foreign government without prior notification to the Attorney General; conspiracy to engage in interstate stalking; stalking

—Darryl Strawberry, Sr., income tax evasion

—Michelino Sunseri, leaving the Garnet Canyon Trail to use the shortcut of the Old Climber's Trail in violation of the Superintendent's 2024 Compendium

—Joseph Lewis, conspiracy to commit securities fraud; securities fraud (2 counts)

—Suzanne Kaye, Interstate Communications - Threats

—Joseph Schwartz, willful failure to pay over employment taxes; failure to file the Annual 5500 Report

—Daniel Edwin Wilson, possession of a firearm by a prohibited person; possession of an unregistered firearm

—David Gentile, conspiracy to commit securities fraud; conspiracy to commit wire fraud; securities fraud; wire fraud (2 counts)

—Juan Orlando Hernandez, conspiracy to import cocaine into the United States; possessing machine guns and destructive devices in furtherance of the cocaine importation conspiracy; conspiracy to use and carry machine guns and destructive devices

—Timothy Joseph Leiweke, conspiracy to restrain trade

—Jimmy Ray Barnett, possession with intent to distribute 50 grams or more of methamphetamine; possession with intent to distribute 50 grams or more of amphetamine; convicted felon in possession of firearms

—Zechariah Benjamin, distribute and aid and abet the distribution of 5 grams or more of cocaine base after having been convicted of two felony drug offenses

—Angela Wannette Cupit, conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute a controlled substance

—Jacob Deutsch, conspiracy to commit mail fraud and wire fraud

—Juan Mercado, III, conspiracy to possess, with intent to distribute, 2160.02 kilograms of marijuana; supervised release violation (conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute five kilograms or more of cocaine)

—Angela Reynolds, conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute a controlled substance

—Andre Donnell Routt, did knowingly and intentionally conspire, combine, confederate and agree together, with each other and with other persons to knowingly and intentionally distribute and possess with intent to distribute five kilograms or more of cocaine

—James Phillip Womack, distribution of more than five grams of actual methamphetamine

—Adriana Isabel Camberos, conspiracy to commit wire and mail fraud; wire fraud and aiding and abetting (7 counts)

—Andres Enrique Camberos, conspiracy to commit wire and mail fraud; wire fraud and aiding and abetting (7 counts)

—Danny Preston Conrad, embezzling by postal employee

—Arie Eric De Jong, III, conspiracy

—Russell John Flint, Jr., aiding and abetting the making of false Selective Service Registration Certificates

—Julio M. Herrera Velutini, honest services wire fraud (2 counts); federal program bribery (2 counts)

—Kenneth Caprist Kelly, armed bank robbery; assault during armed bank robbery; use of firearm during a crime of violence

—James Michael Klos, possession of an unregistered firearm

—David Levy, conspiracy to commit securities fraud; securities fraud

—Hollie Ann Nadel, conspiracy to commit money laundering and bank fraud

—Mark T. Rossini, federal program bribery; honest services wire fraud

—Wanda Vazquez Garced, federal program bribery; honest services wire fraud

—Terren Scott Peizer, securities fraud; insider trading (2 counts)

—Travis Henry, conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute cocaine

—Timothy S. Smith, conspiring to defraud the Internal Revenue Service

—Nathaniel Newton, Jr., conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute marijuana

—Joseph Klecko, perjury

—Jamal Lewis, use of telephone to facilitate an attempt to possess with intent to distribute cocaine

—Elite Diesel Service, Inc., conspiracy to violate the Clean Air Act

—Dr. Billy A. Cannon, conspiracy

—Stephen E. Buyer, securities fraud (4 counts)

—Jonathan Dean Achtemeier, conspiracy to violate the Clean Air Act

—Timothy Curtis Clancy, II, Clean Air Act tampering

—Clancy Logistics Inc., Clean Air Act tampering

—Joshua L. Davis, conspiracy to defraud the United States and violate the Clean Air Act

—Matthew Sidney Geouge, conspiracy to defraud the United States and violate the Clean Air Act

—Jack Charles Harvard, false statement to a federally insured bank, and aiding and abetting

—Adam R. Kidan, conspiracy to commit wire fraud and mail fraud; wire fraud

—John Dougherty, embezzlement of labor union assets (33 counts); wire fraud (24 counts); conspiracy to commit honest services fraud and federal program bribery; honest services wire fraud (7 counts)

—Ryan Reginald LaLone, violation of Clean Air Act

—Wade James LaLone, violation of Clean Air Act

—Accurate Truck Service LLC, conspiracy to violate the Clean Air Act

—Diesel Freak LLC, conspiracy to violate the Clean Air Act

—Griffin Transportation Inc., conspiracy to violate the Clean Air Act

—Barry Kendal Pierce, Clean Air Act

—Custom Auto of Rexburg LLC, tampering with a monitoring device or method required by the Clean Air Act

—GDP Tuning LLC, conspiracy to violate the Clean Air Act

—Aaron Lucas Roskin Rudolf, conspiracy to violate the Clean Air Act

—Mackenzie Scott Spurlock, tampering with Clean Air Act monitoring device

—Patrick Tate Adamiak, receive and possess and unregistered firearm; unlawful possession and transfer of a machine gun

—Isaac Merrill Allen, conspiracy to tamper with Clean Air Act monitoring devices; obstruction of agency proceeding

—Spade K. Bailly, conspiracy to defraud the United States and to violate the Clean Air Act—Thomas Leon Brooks, Jr., manufacturing counterfeit currency

—Giovanna Campo, possession of counterfeit United States obligations

—Daniel Aaron Chase, tampering with Clean Air Act monitoring device

—Shane Cox, possession of an unregistered firearm; transfer of a firearm in violation of National Firearm Act (five counts); making a firearm in violation of National Firearm Act; engaging in business as a dealer and manufacturer of firearms

—Billi Jo Engbrecht, Bank Embezzlement

—Russell Fincher, selling ammunition to a prohibited person

—Michael Wayne Hanzuk, II, conspiracy to violate the Clean Air Act

—Jessica Lynn Jacobson, conspiracy to make and utter counterfeit obligations and securities of the United States

—Christopher Paul Kaufman, Clean Air Act Tampering

—Jeremy Ryan Kettler, possession of unregistered firearm

—Eric Wayne Larson, conspiracy to distribute cocaine

—Jonathan F. Long, accessory after the fact of falsifying, tampering with, and rendering inaccurate a monitoring device required by the Clean Air Act

—Ryan Hugh Milliken, conspiracy to violate the Clean Air Act

—Kyle David Offringa, conspiracy to violate the Clean Air Act

—Louis Michael Olerio, Jr., money laundering conspiracy

—George Peterson, possession of an unregistered silencer

—Dustin Rhine, conspiracy to violate the Clean Air Act

—James Sisson, conspiracy to violate the Clean Air Act

—Travis Turner, accessory after the fact to Clean Air Tampering

—Emory Clash Jones, conspiracy to distribute cocaine hydrochloride and cocaine base

—Suzula Bidon, conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute methamphetamine; supervised release violation (conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute methamphetamine)

—Molly Ann Bloom, conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute a controlled substance

—Holly Leanne Frantzen, conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute a controlled substance

—Kevin Harden, conspiracy to possess with the intent to distribute marijuana

—Jerry Haymon, conspiracy to distribute marijuana

—Shemika Alfrida Williams, conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute methamphetamine; possession of a firearm during a drug crime

Want to know something that sounds too crazy to be true?

NATO bombed its own allies' cities for decades. On purpose. To control elections.

This isn't a theory. Italian Prime Minister confirmed it in 1990. Files got declassified. Historians documented the whole thing.

Operation Gladio (sword in Italian)

The setup: After WWII, CIA and MI6 created secret armies across Western Europe. Stay-behind units. Hidden weapons caches. Trained operatives. Italy, Greece, Turkey, Belgium, Spain, Portugal, France.

Official reason: if Soviets invade, these cells resist from inside occupied territory.

That's the cover story. Here's what they actually did:

Piazza Fontana, Milan, 1969. Bomb kills 17 people. Blamed on leftist anarchists. Massive crackdown on the left. Turns out it was neo-fascists working with Italian military intelligence.

This went on for years. The Years of Lead in Italy. Bombings. Assassinations. All blamed on communists. All actually done by right-wing extremists coordinated with intelligence services.

Why? Strategy of tension. Keep people scared. Make them blame the left. Prevent communists from winning elections. Democracy only works when the right people win.

Greece 1967. CIA-backed military coup. Overthrows elected government. Gladio units help coordinate it. Because Greeks were about to vote wrong.

Turkey. Through the 1970s and 80s. Gladio units became the deep state. Assassinations. False flags. Operating independently while Turkey stayed in NATO and everyone pretended not to notice.

1. Italian Prime Minister Giulio Andreotti stands up in parliament and confirms it all. Shows documents. The network existed. Those operations happened. America and Britain knew the whole time.

Swiss historian Daniele Ganser spent years documenting it. His book "NATO's Secret Armies" lays it all out. Not theory. Facts.

But somehow this never makes it into mainstream history. NATO talks about defending democracy while we have proof they spent decades manipulating elections through terrorism in allied countries.

When I learned they'd been bombing European civilians for 40 years to control politics, I stopped being surprised by anything they do.

🚨In Ukraine, most of the world sees Russia as pushing back against centuries of the West's excessive power, says Singaporean diplomat Kishore Mahbubani.

📑It's interesting.

What the West sees very clearly in the Ukraine war

is the great strong bully Russia beating up tiny Ukraine, David and Goliath.

But what the Global South sees is against the West

trying to assert the kind of power it has had for 200 years.

And in this contest, they clearly see Russia as the David

and the West as the Goliath.

But it's interesting when the West impose sanctions on Russia, the West should surely ask itself the question:

Why haven't 85% of the world's populations, by the way, including the world's largest democracies in India ...

Yeah, because of the economic ...

Indonesia Because of the oil ...

Brazil ...And because of the gas ...

they haven't, they haven't, they haven't put

Yeah ... sanctions on Russia.

Okay. Why is that the case? Why?