EU to propose new plan to leverage €170bn of frozen Russian money

Brussels is pressing ahead with a plan to use €170 billion of Russia’s frozen sovereign assets to back “reparation loans” for Ukraine, the Financial Times has reported. The EU faces growing pressure to find additional funding for Kiev as US cuts back its support.

Moscow has condemned the asset freeze and warned that any seizure of its money would amount to “theft.” 

Western nations froze an estimated $300 billion in Russian funds after the escalation of the Ukraine conflict in 2022 – some €200 billion of which is held by Brussels-based clearinghouse Euroclear. The funds have accrued billions in interest, and the West has explored ways to use this revenue to finance Ukraine. While refraining from outright seizure, the G7 last year backed a plan to provide Kiev with $50 billion in loans to be repaid using the profits generated by the funds. The EU pledged $21 billion.

European Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen has proposed going further by creating a ‘reparation loans’ mechanism, which she described as urgently needed to finance Kiev.

People familiar with discussions said the plan involves channeling cash balances from Russia’s immobilized assets into EU-issued bonds, with the proceeds transferred to Ukraine in tranches. Brussels argues the system would provide Kiev with immediate support while sidestepping a formal seizure.

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Ukraine expects $3.5 billion fund for US weapons to sustain fight against Russia, Zelenskyy says

Ukraine expects there will be around $3.5 billion by next month in a fund to buy weapons from the United States and help sustain its more than three-year fight against Russia’s all-out invasion, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Wednesday.

The financial arrangement known as the Prioritized Ukraine Requirements List, or PURL, pools contributions from NATO members, except the United States, to purchase American weapons, munitions and equipment.

“We received more than $2 billion from our partners specifically for the PURL program,” Zelenskyy said at a joint news conference in Kyiv with visiting European Parliament President Roberta Metsola. “We will receive additional money in October. I think we will have somewhere around $3.5-3.6 billion.”

Zelenskyy declined to provide details of what weapons the first shipments would include, but said that they would definitely contain missiles for Patriot air defense missile systems and munitions for the High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems, or HIMARS.

An end to the war appears no closer, despite months of U.S.-led peace efforts.

The Patriot systems are vital to defend against Russian missile attacks. The HIMARS systems have significantly bolstered the Ukrainian military’s precision-strike capability.

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov reaffirmed Russia’s readiness for peace talks, telling reporters on Wednesday that “we remain open for negotiations and prefer to settle the Ukrainian crisis by political and diplomatic means.”

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ABC Reporter ‘Apologises’ For Calling Suspected Kirk Assassin’s Messages “Touching”

As we highlighted yesterday, ABC News reporter Matt Gutman single handedly sunk the legacy media to a new low by turning Tyler Robinson’s cold messages confessing to the murder of Charlie Kirk into some sort of demented love drama.

Gutman described the messages, in which the suspected assassin confessed to Kirk’s assassination to his transgender lover and debated how he would retrieve the weapon he used, as “touching.”

Eveyone who saw it was completely disgusted.

But not surprised.

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Unraveling the web of deception: Charlie Kirk’s assassin and the FBI’s false flag

  • Official Narrative Collapses: Authorities arrested Tyler as the alleged shooter, but the story lacks visual evidence, bullet recovery, and credible logistics—raising suspicions of a cover-up or staged event.
  • False Flag Indicators: The assassination bears hallmarks of a false flag, including FBI deception history, decoy operatives, a vanished private jet, and inexplicable security failures similar to Trump’s attempted assassination.
  • Motives and Beneficiaries: Israel, the CIA, domestic extremists, or globalists may be behind Kirk’s killing due to his anti-globalist stance, with potential aims to incite violence or justify authoritarian policies.
  • Orchestrated Chaos: The event fits a pattern of destabilization—media manipulation, eroding public trust, and AI-driven job loss—to pave the way for draconian “solutions” like martial law or digital ID mandates.
  • Demand Transparency: The inconsistencies demand independent investigation. Americans must reject official narratives, prepare for deeper conspiracies, and resist complacency in the face of escalating tyranny.

The Official Narrative Crumbles Under Scrutiny

The assassination of conservative commentator Charlie Kirk has sent shockwaves through America, raising urgent questions about who was truly behind the attack. While authorities swiftly arrested an alleged shooter—identified as Tyler—the official narrative is riddled with inconsistencies, contradictions, and outright absurdities that suggest a deeper conspiracy at play.

A Patsy or the Real Shooter?

The government’s version of events strains credulity:

  • No Visual Evidence: Despite ubiquitous surveillance cameras, there is no footage of Tyler carrying a rifle, assembling it on a rooftop, or fleeing the scene.
  • Impossible Logistics: Officials claim Tyler disassembled and reassembled a precision rifle multiple times—a process requiring specialized tools—while simultaneously changing clothes mid-operation.
  • No Recovered Bullet: Despite claims of a sniper shot, no bullet has been recovered, making forensic verification impossible. Ballistics matching, often touted as definitive proof, is itself a Hollywood myth—bullets cannot be conclusively linked to a specific firearm.
  • Destroyed Crime Scene: Kirk’s security team hastily dismantled the scene, removing cameras and banners that could have provided critical evidence.

False Flag Hallmarks

The suspicious circumstances surrounding Kirk’s assassination bear the hallmarks of a false flag operation:

  1. Government Deception: The FBI and other agencies have a documented history of staging or enabling attacks to justify crackdowns on civil liberties (e.g., Oklahoma City, 9/11).
  2. Decoys and Misdirection: Reports indicate multiple “decoy” individuals were present, suggesting a coordinated effort to mislead investigators.
  3. Private Jet Anomalies: A private jet linked to the event mysteriously disappeared from public tracking systems, raising questions about elite involvement.
  4. Security Failures: Despite heightened tensions, Kirk’s security detail failed to detect or neutralize the threat, reminiscent of the Secret Service’s inexplicable lapses during the Trump assassination attempt.

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Founder of NYC Pro-Democracy Group Pleads Guilty to Spying for China

A Chinese man living in New York City has pleaded guilty to spying on his fellow activists on behalf of the Chinese regime’s intelligence agency, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York announced on Sept. 16.

Tang Yuanjun, 68, a naturalized U.S. citizen, was a prominent figure in New York City’s Chinese dissident community, having participated in protests outside the Chinese Consulate in the New York City borough of Manhattan and founded a pro-democracy group, the Chinese Democracy Party Eastern U.S. Headquarters Inc., based in the Flushing neighborhood of the borough of Queens.

Despite his public advocacy against Beijing, Tang was secretly working under the direction of the Chinese intelligence service to collect information on his fellow Chinese American dissidents, according to a guilty plea entered on Sept. 16.

As part of the plea, Tang admitted to one count of conspiring to act as an agent of a foreign government without notifying the attorney general, which is punishable by up to five years in prison.

“For years, Yuanjun Tang abused the trust he had gained among pro-democracy activists in New York City and around the United States by secretly accepting tasks from Chinese intelligence officers and reporting on persons of interest to the [People’s Republic of China] and events conducted in support of democracy,” U.S. Attorney Jay Clayton said in a statement.

“Tang’s covert operations violated our nation’s sovereignty and threatened the security of New Yorkers exercising their fundamental rights to free speech and free association. Tang’s plea … illustrates our profound commitment to protecting American ideals from malign foreign influence.”

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Rand Paul Dismantles Ex-CDC Chief in Brutal Senate Showdown

Ex-CDC Director Dr. Susan Monarez testified today before the Senate HELP Committee in a desperate attempt to smear RFK Jr.’s name and build pressure for him to resign.

But things didn’t go according to plan. Senator Rand Paul wasn’t about to let that happen. After Monarez got a few softball questions from Bernie Sanders and others, Paul stepped in with the tough ones.

He started with the basics—asking if the COVID vaccines actually stop transmission.

PAUL: “Does the COVID vaccine prevent transmission?”

MONAREZ: “The COVID vaccine can reduce viral load in individuals who are—”

PAUL: “Does it prevent transmission?”

MONAREZ: “When you have reduced viral load… you will have reduced transmission.”

PAUL: “But in other words, it DOESN’T prevent transmission. You can still transmit the virus if you’ve had the vaccine.”

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It’s Not the Technology

By the standards of a dispassionate observer, the American political left has undergone a transformation over the past few decades that is as alarming as it is undeniable. Once it was a coalition of pragmatic reformers, undercover communists, labor advocates, and young idealists. This ensemble can be sold as reality to only the most out of touch American. The Democratic Party and its broader ecosystem have drifted into a fever swamp of ideological radicalism, fueled by a toxic brew of conspiracy theorizing, moral panic, and a deliberate cultivation of fear. Gay race communism and rioting replaced liberation of the individual and mass GOTV drives. This is not a phenomenon driven by the machinations of technology. Tech is the current pitch to explain away what lies at the heart of the assassination of Charlie Kirk. Social media and digital platforms are mere tools of coordination, amplifying what is already afoot. The root of this radicalization lies in the left’s intellectual and moral decay, a decades-long indulgence in unhinged narratives and unchecked hysteria, encouraged by a party and its media allies who thrive on a perpetually anxious voter base. The consequences of this trajectory are profound and will be with us for years, threatening not only the Democratic Party’s electoral prospects but the broader health of American political life.

To understand this shift, one must first trash the notion that technology is the primary culprit. The internet, for all its flaws, is a neutral instrument. It is a medium that can amplify both reason and madness. It is a tool. All sides in all nations deal with this. The left’s radicalization predates Twitter’s character limit, Reddit threads and Facebook’s algo. It is not the medium but the message that has poisoned the increasingly fragile minds of the left’s base. The left’s embrace of apocalyptic rhetoric and conspiratorial thinking began in earnest during the George W. Bush era, when the Iraq War and the Patriot Act provided fertile ground for narratives of government malevolence. Anti-Trump messaging is insane, but liberals were going to group therapy to shout at W dolls two decades ago. Those old concerns were not without some basis (civil libertarians had points about government overreach), but the left’s response was not to critique with precision but to spiral into fantasies of dystopian cabals. Bush was always poised to cancel elections. The Bush administration was not merely wrong. It was evil. It was a shadowy regime orchestrating global domination. Such hyperbole became mainstream fodder, seeded by activists & academics and abetted by a media eager for viewers, clicks and outrage. This is why the rehabilitation of W is such a joke to those on the right old enough to remember the ‘00s.

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Obama Defends His Mass Migration ‘Experiment’ After Charlie Kirk Shooting

Former President Barack Obama is trying to manage and redirect the huge civic conflicts that he fuelled with his “experiment” in nation-changing mass migration.

“[I] insist that in that process of debate, we respect other people’s right to say things that we profoundly disagree with,” Obama told a September 16 public meeting at the Jefferson Educational Society, six days after progressives began celebrating Kirk’s shocking murder.

“I didn’t know Charlie Kirk … I think [his] ideas were wrong,” he said, adding:

I can disagree with some of [Kirk’s] broader suggestions that liberals and Democrats are promoting conspiracy to displace whites and replace them by ushering in illegal immigrants. Those are … topics that we have to be able to discuss honestly and forthrightly.

Krik repeatedly criticized migration as a wealth-shifting, population-changing imposition by the bipartisan establishment.

Yet at the same event, Obama acknowledged that mass migration is an elite-driven “experiment” which has created and fuelled civic conflict.

“There’s never been an experiment [emphasis added] like this, where you have people from every corner of the globe show up in one place,” Obama said, adding:

[We] say, based on these ideals — we hold these truths to be self-evident…all men are created equal … and a constitution and a Bill of Rights and a democracy — that we can somehow figure out how to get along and maintain our private beliefs and pray to god in our own ways, and retain aspects of the cultures that we bring from wherever it is that we’re coming from, and yet still decide that we are all Americans … and try to make it better for each successive generation.

“I think George W. Bush believed that [it is possible] … I know John McCain believed it. I know Mitt Romney believed it,” Obama added at 23 minutes.

The imposed diversity has generated civic conflict, Obama admitted:

The point is, is that bipartisanship worked pretty well in Washington when everybody looked the same. And it was harder to do when people started seeing that, “Hey, those folks are now here, too.”

“The country right now is going through sort of a political crisis of the sort that we haven’t seen before,” he admitted.

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Man who killed 3 officers in York County was camouflaged, shooting from cornfield: report

New developments surrounding the shooter who killed three police officers reveal he allegedly ambushed officers from a nearby cornfield, according to a report from CNN.

Officials state three police officers were shot and killed while serving a warrant at a residence on the 1800 block of Haar Road Wednesday afternoon. Another two law enforcement officers were injured.

The shooter was reportedly the ex-boyfriend of a woman who lived in the farmhouse on the 1800 block of Haar Road, according to multiple law enforcement officials in communication with CNN.

The ex-girlfriend had previously alerted police about the shooter on Tuesday, saying that he was in a nearby cornfield stalking the residence, according to CNN. Northern York Police then got a search warrant and restraining order for him, but were unable to serve him on Tuesday night.

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US government to invest $96 million in Ukraine’s minerals

The US government on Sept 17 pledged US$75 million (S$96 million) to kick-start a landmark deal to invest in Ukraine’s vast mineral reserves, a commitment that will ease fears in Kyiv that the Trump administration is walking away from the war-torn country.

When  an agreement in spring granted the US a stake in Ukraine’s critical minerals, Kyiv cast it as a way to lock in American support through business ties.

President Donald Trump has made it clear that he would no longer give US money to Ukraine for the war effort, leaving Kyiv scrambling to retain whatever American engagement it could.

Many observers doubted that the deal could draw US investment while the fighting continues. But the new American pledge and a matching commitment by the Ukrainian government will bring a fund created under the agreement to US$150 million.

The flow of US government money into Ukraine’s minerals, hydrocarbons and related infrastructure could help reassure private investors and attract badly needed capital to sustain the country’s war economy.

It also shows the new mercantile nature of the US-Ukrainian alliance under Mr Trump.

While the Biden administration spent tens of billions of dollars to aid Kyiv, Washington now focuses on opportunities to profit through investments and sales. It provides weapons to Ukraine only through purchases facilitated by a Nato-backed procurement system that uses European funds.

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