Author: HP McLovincraft

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Zero Sanctions on Foreign Campaign Cash: The Unused Presidential Power to Put ODNI and OFAC on the Money Trail

Question: What Executive Order and statutory mechanisms are available to the President of the United States (POTUS) to task the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), trigger formal foreign-interference assessments, and activate interagency asset-blocking and enforcement remedies based on illicit foreign campaign finance contributions and straw-donor conduits, notwithstanding the Federal Election Commission’s loss of a four-commissioner quorum since May 1, 2025?

Short Answer: POTUS possesses five independent, immediately executable mechanisms that require neither new legislation nor action by the quorumless Federal Election Commission (FEC Notice of Lack of Quorum; SMP v. FEC, No. 26-336):


  1. Direct Activation of Executive Order 13848 (Extended Through September 12, 2027): Under Section 8(f)-(h) of EO 13848, unlawful or covert campaign contributions made by a foreign government, foreign political party, or agent acting on its behalf already constitute actionable “foreign interference.” POTUS can direct agencies to transmit campaign-finance evidence to the DNI for mandatory 45-day post-election reporting (Section 1(a)), out-of-cycle amended assessments (Section 1(c)), independent State and local election reports (Section 1(e)), or immediate Cabinet submissions (Section 1(d)).

  2. Amendatory or Supplemental IEEPA Executive Order (50 U.S.C. §§ 1701, 1702): Where foreign corporate nationals, offshore shell entities, or cross-border straw-donor networks violate 52 U.S.C. §§ 30121 and 30122 without proven state sponsorship, POTUS can issue a targeted amendatory Executive Order expanding EO 13848 Sections 1(a), 2(a), and 8(f) to reach non-state foreign nationals and illicit payment conduits directly.

  3. National Security Act Tasking of ODNI and NIC (50 U.S.C. §§ 3024(f)(8), 3027, 3371(b)-(c)): POTUS can issue a National Security Presidential Memorandum (NSPM) directing the DNI to elevate illicit foreign campaign finance to a top National Intelligence Priorities Framework requirement, produce a dedicated National Intelligence Estimate, brief political parties and campaigns pre-election, and release unclassified findings within 60 days post-election.

  4. Bridging the April 24, 2025 Straw-Donor Directive into ODNI via Treasury OIA and FinCEN (EO 12333 / EO 13470; 31 U.S.C. §§ 311, 312, 5311, 5318A): The April 24, 2025 Presidential Memorandum tasked only the Attorney General and Treasury Secretary, omitting ODNI. POTUS can close that gap by directing Treasury’s Office of Intelligence and Analysis (an Intelligence Community element under 50 U.S.C. § 3003(4)) and FinCEN to fuse foreign-nexus Bank Secrecy Act reports and USA PATRIOT Act Section 311 special-measure intelligence directly with ODNI.

  5. Immediate IEEPA Pending-Investigation Freezes, SDN Designations, and Criminal Forfeiture (50 U.S.C. § 1702(a)(1)(B); 31 C.F.R. Part 579; EO 14248 § 8): Informed by ODNI intelligence, Treasury can block foreign-agent assets at any time, freeze suspect property during the pendency of an investigation, trigger automatic 50-percent subsidiary blocking (31 C.F.R. § 579.406), and coordinate parallel DOJ criminal FARA, FECA, and money-laundering prosecutions (52 U.S.C. § 30109(d); 22 U.S.C. §§ 611, 613(h); 18 U.S.C. §§ 1956, 1957).

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The “Black Sky” Plan & The “Be Ready” Campaign… What Kind Of Disaster Is The UK Urgently Preparing For?

Is there something that they aren’t telling us? All of a sudden, governments all over the globe are instructing their citizens to stockpile food, water and other essential supplies. Why is there such a sense of urgency to do this in late 2026? What has changed? Without a doubt, conditions are far different than they were 12 months ago. It appears that the war with Iran will soon greatly escalate, the war in Ukraine just continues to intensify, a Super El Niño is causing global weather patterns to go nuts, European cities are being ravaged by seemingly endless riots, and we are simultaneously facing a global energy crisis, a global fertilizer crisis and a global food crisis. Chaos is erupting all around us, and the months ahead are almost certainly going to be even more chaotic.

But does this explain why governments throughout the world have suddenly decided that now is the time for everyone to go out and buy emergency supplies?

In the UK, the BBC just published a very long article that reveals details about their “Black Sky” doomsday plan…

In a major emergency, we are being told to hunker down and turn on an FM radio, as thousands did in Lancaster. This is why the BBC has its own Black Sky plan.

Only a small number of staff know the full details, but from what I have gleaned, about 100 people in the BBC will run a special emergency radio studio.

It will have secure lines of communication not dependent on the internet, and fuel, water and food to ensure it can operate without resupply for at least three days.

What kind of scenario are they anticipating that would make this “Black Sky” doomsday plan necessary?

Apparently it would include a loss of power and Internet, because they are planning to use radio transmission towers to keep the British public informed over FM radio…

The BBC’s broadcasts will be sent via radio transmission towers, isolated from the internet and equipped with tanks of between five and 40,000 litres (8,800 gallons) of diesel to keep their generators going for three days – FM radio is power hungry. The teams will be using satellite phones to keep in touch and if these stop working there are pre-agreed protocols and meet-up points.

Why FM? Because it works almost everywhere, even in a blackout or a crippling cyber-attack.

This “Black Sky” doomsday plan was revealed less than a month after the UK government’s “Be Ready” campaign was launched.

Starting on October 22nd, the UK government began instructing citizens to stockpile food, water and other emergency supplies…

The government’s new Be Ready campaign is advising the public to stock up on three day’s worth of supplies for use during severe weather or cyber-attacks, so help can be directed to the most vulnerable first.

In a concise, two-page document, it suggests people stock bottled water and non-perishable food for three days, a torch with spare batteries, a wind-up FM radio, a first aid kit and a copy of their passport. To stave off panic buying, it advises people to check their cupboards first and build up items gradually on regular shopping trips.

Apparently the “Be Ready” campaign has been very successful.

A co-owner of a prepping store in the UK was absolutely astounded by the number of orders that started coming in…

While there is no evidence the advice has triggered mass panic, the public is clearly responding. Jack Brown, who co-owns Sgt Prepper Shop, which stocks emergency food and survival tools, said he received a month’s worth of orders in the first 24 hours of the Be Ready campaign.

“I thought my phone was glitching or being hacked with the number of orders coming in,” he said.

I think that this is wonderful.

But what has prompted this dramatic change of tone by officials in the UK?

Are they concerned that cyberattacks could take down the power grid or the financial system?

In France, hackers just broke into a prominent bank and successfully got away with 133 million dollars…

French cooperative bank Crédit Mutuel Arkéa was targeted in a cyberattack that enabled fraudulent transactions of up to $133 million, forcing it to respond by suspending certain systems.

The bank says that the attacker used its own account to initiate transactions to other banking organizations, but customer assets remain unaffected.

Crédit Mutuel Arkéa is a major French banking group with more than 5.8 million members and 211.5 billion euros in assets.

Our financial institutions are under constant attack, and artificial intelligence is giving hackers more powerful tools that we have ever seen before.

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House of Representatives blocks effort to impeach Hegseth

The U.S. House of Representatives voted on Tuesday to block an effort to impeach Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, effectively killing the resolution by referring it to the House Judiciary Committee.

In a 211-to-204 procedural vote, House Republicans successfully rallied to table the impeachment push introduced by outgoing Representative Thomas Massie (R-Ky.). Massie was the sole member of his party to vote alongside all voting Democrats against referring the measure to the committee.

The move sidestepped what would have been a historic full House floor vote on individual articles of impeachment against a sitting Cabinet member. The impeachment resolution leveled serious allegations against Secretary Hegseth, accusing him of committing high crimes and misdemeanors while serving as the head of the Pentagon.

Among the charges were claims that Hegseth bypassed Congress by executing military operations in Iran without authorization, failed to minimize civilian casualties, ordered extrajudicial strikes in the Caribbean and eastern Pacific, directed operations involved in the capture of former Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro and retaliated against Senator Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.).

Rep. Massie claimed that Hegseth carried out unlawful orders and compromised constitutional standards, seeking a formal trial in the U.S. Senate. In response to the resolution, Hegseth and administration officials forcefully pushed back against the charges ahead of the vote.

Speaking at a press conference on Tuesday morning, Hegseth described the impeachment push as a partisan “farce” and “political spectacle,” asserting that policy disagreements over military campaigns should not be twisted into impeachable offenses.

President Donald Trump also rallied behind his defense chief in social media posts and public statements, defending Hegseth’s actions and urging congressional Republicans to reject the resolution. Following the vote, Pentagon officials declared total victory, stating that referring the articles to committee put an end to a political distraction.

Although the procedural maneuver halts the current effort during the outgoing Congress, the battle over Hegseth’s tenure may reemerge. House Democrat leaders, including Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.), supported the impeachment push, and other Democrat lawmakers have signaled that they could revive investigations or file new impeachment articles when the new Congress convenes in January with a shifted Democrat majority.

Nonetheless, for now, the procedural vote ensures Hegseth remains in his post as the administration continues to uphold its foreign policy and military directives.

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Federal Judge REFUSES to Toss $10 BILLION Lawsuit Against Fake News BBC Over Deceptively Edited January 6 Speech

President Donald Trump scored a major legal victory Tuesday after a federal judge in Florida refused to dismiss his multibillion-dollar defamation lawsuit against the BBC over its deceptively edited coverage of his January 6, 2021, speech.

The ruling delivers another embarrassing setback for the British taxpayer-funded broadcaster, which previously admitted that its editing created a misleading impression of Trump’s remarks.

Judge Kuntz, a Trump appointee confirmed by the Senate in July 2026, wrote in his order: “Here, the news entity created the story. BBC admitted as much by confirming it had edited a video to make it appear as though President Trump made a statement he never made.”

The court found that Trump had plausibly alleged the broadcaster damaged his reputation and knew, or should have known, the clip was misleading. The BBC must now file an answer to the surviving defamation count by December 1, 2026. The judge dismissed a separate claim under Florida’s Deceptive and Unfair Trade Practices Act.

President Trump celebrated the decision on Truth Social:

“A Huge Victory against Fake News BBC, a terrible abuser of the truth… We will continue fighting against, and defeating, all of those who try to deceive the American People!”

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Prison inmate wins $150K in unanimous verdict after being housed with trans cellmate who allegedly sexually assaulted her

A former prison inmate has won a federal civil rights case against the Washington State Department of Corrections (DOC), which she accused of forcing her to room with a biological male who assaulted her, according to her lawyer.

Mozzy Clark said in a lawsuit initially filed in U.S. District Court in Tacoma in December 2024 that corrections officers did not take her seriously when she complained that a transgender-identifying inmate who had been transferred from a men’s prison had been harassing her. Her lawyer, David Pivtorak, announced that a jury unanimously awarded her $150,000 in the case.

“A unanimous federal jury in deep-blue Tacoma just awarded my client $150,000 for violation of her constitutional rights in this case,” the lawyer wrote.

“We are also scheduled to go to trial in February against the Department of Corrections in state court on her negligence claims,” he added.

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DEMOCRAT CIVIL WAR EXPLODES! Newly Elected Ohio Democrat Says Senior Party Members Threatened to Make His Life a “LIVING HELL” If He Refuses to Back Hakeem Jeffries for Speaker

The Democrat Party’s internal power struggle is getting uglier by the day.

Fresh off their victories in the 2026 midterm elections, Democrats are already turning on one another as House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries attempts to consolidate his grip on the speakership.

Now, a newly elected Democrat from Ohio is publicly accusing senior members of his own party of threatening political retaliation if he refuses to fall in line behind Jeffries.

Don Leonard, the progressive former Ohio State University professor who just flipped Ohio’s 15th Congressional District from Republican incumbent Mike Carey, posted a video saying senior House Democrats told him in no uncertain terms what happens if he refuses to support Hakeem Jeffries for Speaker.

According to Leonard, they warned it would mean “making my life a living hell for the next two years here in Washington as well as being sure to lose my election” in 2028. They expect him to “wear the team jersey” and “be a good team player.”

Leonard, a first-time candidate who branded himself a “Do Something Democrat,” defeated Carey in a district Trump carried by roughly 10 points in 2024. Unofficial results showed Leonard winning by about 6–7 points (roughly 52% to 45%).

He has conditioned any support for Jeffries on two demands: a constitutional amendment to overturn Citizens United, and ending “U.S. support for the war in Iran and the country Israel that led us into it.”

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Blackouts Reveal How Fragile Society Really Is

“Long-term blackout” gets used loosely enough that people end up arguing past each other, and the confusion deepens because a week without power is a bad camping trip for somebody in rural Maine with a generator and a wood stove while being an outright catastrophe for a family on the fourteenth floor of a Miami condo with an insulin-dependent nine-year-old. Both readings are accurate, and neither is the subject here.

For the rest of this piece the definition stays blunt and fixed, meaning three months or more of a bulk transmission system being down across a whole region rather than a single neighborhood or one feeder. Three months is roughly the point at which every buffer has been spent, fuel and batteries and goodwill and savings and patience, the diesel in a hospital’s belly tank, the last pallets of bottled water at the back of a supermarket, and it is also long enough for an emergency to harden into a condition, which is what people stop reacting to.

The duration is not theoretical either, because Cuba has been living inside a rolling version of it since late 2024, with daily generation deficits averaging roughly 1,600 megawatts in 2025 on the state utility’s own published figures, which on a grid that size means half of national demand going unmet on the worst days. Havana logged a single blackout longer than twenty hours, the whole island went dark again in December 2025 with ten million people affected and no fuel reserves left, and the obvious question is what the rich version of the same failure looks like once the money and the plant inventory are better and the preparation is no better at all.

The reliability filings answer more of that than most people realize, and almost nobody reads them. In January 2026 the North American Electric Reliability Corporation published a 181-page long-term assessment that put 13 of 23 assessment areas at elevated or high resource adequacy risk inside the next five years, while utilities have announced more than 55,000 megawatts of coal retirements inside the same five-year window the assessment worries about. Demand is climbing for the first time in twenty years, pushed hard by data centers, and the interconnection queue moves at the speed of paperwork. Grid Strategies has argued the danger is overstated because the analysis ignores projects already holding interconnection agreements, and the critique is fair, since the forecast may be pessimistic while the margin is still thinner than it was.

Hardware makes the picture worse, given that standard power transformer lead times in the United States averaged about 128 weeks in 2025 and generator step-up units roughly 144, with some specialized units approaching 36 to 48 months. The Department of Energy described critical grid equipment in August 2026 as facing lead times of two or more years, and Wood Mackenzie models a 30% supply deficit for power transformers across the national fleet, which leaves a two-to-four-year gap between deciding to fix something and holding the replacement in your hands and forces restoration planning to assume that whatever breaks mostly stays broken.

The failure mode is shifting as well. The April 28, 2025 blackout across Spain and Portugal cut power to something on the order of 55 million people and took most of a day to reverse in the bulk and longer in pockets, and ENTSO-E’s final report that October identified it as the first known blackout driven by overvoltage, a cascading chain of generation disconnections fed by plant whose reactive power performance did not match what the system operator expected, made worse by manual voltage control too slow to catch the swing. No lightning strike, no fallen tree, just a control problem in a system running exactly as designed.

That last detail is the one worth carrying forward, because the Spanish grid was modern, well maintained and full of inverter-based renewables with certified voltage capability, and it still went dark in under a minute when a distributed control problem outran a human one. Everything below happens inside that gap.

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Bronx DA’s Office Told Prosecutors to Omit Child’s Age From Sex-Crime Pleas to Help Noncitizen Defendants Avoid Deportation

The Bronx District Attorney’s Office, led by Democrat Darcel Clark, trained prosecutors to offer plea deals in child sex cases that leave the victim’s age out of the offense, so noncitizen defendants can avoid deportation. The finding comes from an Oct. 26 House Judiciary Committee staff report. The report found that district attorneys in all five New York City boroughs weigh immigration consequences when charging noncitizens and negotiating pleas.

The report quotes a 2019 Bronx guide on “immigration-conscious plea bargaining.” For sexual offenses against minors, the guide tells assistant district attorneys to “[o]ffer something that does not have the child’s age as an element of the crime.”

The same materials tell prosecutors to “[k]eep the firearm out of the record of conviction” in weapons cases and to “[k]eep the domestic relationship out of the record of conviction” in domestic violence cases. In stalking cases, prosecutors were told to offer a charge without “repeated instances or an intent to instill fear.” The committee wrote that Clark’s office trains prosecutors to “conceal facts from the record of conviction.”

Bronx training materials from 2023 tell prosecutors to “strive to ensure that a conviction for certain offenses does not lead to unintended and severe consequences.”

Whether the victim’s age is an element of the offense can affect whether the conviction provides grounds for deportation. Federal immigration law lists “sexual abuse of a minor” as an aggravated felony, which makes a convicted alien removable. In 2017, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled unanimously that for statutory rape offenses, the federal definition “requires the age of the victim to be less than 16.”

Immigration courts assess the elements of the offense to which the defendant pleaded guilty, so a plea that leaves out the victim’s age can fall outside that category. An alien removed after an aggravated felony conviction is “permanently ineligible for a visa,” according to the State Department’s Foreign Affairs Manual, unless the Secretary of Homeland Security consents to a new application.

In Queens, District Attorney Melinda Katz told prosecutors to “exercise extreme caution” with noncitizen defendants and not to “get caught up in the label of [f]elonies, [m]isdemeanors.” Her office employs an immigration specialist who “helps Assistant District Attorneys navigate through plea options.”

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WAR: EU Puts A Military Presence On Ukrainian Soil Through 2028

Brussels just put a European Union military presence on Ukrainian soil through November 15, 2028. Until now, the training camps were located outside of the country, not inside Ukraine. But on November 9, Brussels took a step further than ever before – and that step could have very serious consequences. The Council of the European Union approved an official EU military presence on the territory of a country at war.

The Council of the European Union on November 9 extended the mandate of the European Union Military Assistance Mission in support of Ukraine, EUMAM, for two years until 15 November 2028 with a budget of almost 300 million euros. The same meeting also established a military presence on Ukrainian soil with the purpose of the EU military to directly and effectively coordinate with the respective Ukrainian military authorities. This will be the first time that the EU will have a military presence on Ukrainian soil as the current EUMAM training is conducted outside of Ukraine, ZeroHedge reports.

That is the boots-on-the-ground step Europe has been circling for years. As noted above, the plan of Europe is simple and European leaders make no secret of it. Foreign Minister Lavrov stated in Abu Dhabi on Tuesday that as soon as a ceasefire is reached, they intend to begin to move in the stabilization forces of Europe into territory controlled by the government in Kiev.

The timing is crucial. The Russian and Ukrainian parties are holding talks with US officials in Abu Dhabi on Nov 10-11. These are the first three-way talks since February. Donald Trump has said a deal is close after nearly five years of full-scale war. And it is just at this time that the EU has decided to create a formal military presence on the territory controlled by Kiev and to finance it through 2028.

This is according to Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre in a conversation with Politico, after he, along with Finnish President Alexander Stubb had held a 90-minute call with Russian President Vladimir Putin on October 27. Denmark and Latvia had wanted to keep Putin isolated, Støre now tells the newspaper that he has seen no sign of openness from Putin, and therefore the only voice that reaches Moscow is that of Washington. In the informal EU-summit that is taking place in Dublin this week, the issue will be discussed as to who shall be Europe’s voice in negotiations with the Russian President.

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