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Colombia says 17 minors rescued from Jewish cult Lev Tahor amid abuse allegations

Colombian authorities said Sunday they had rescued 17 minors from Lev Tahor, an extremist ultra-Orthodox Jewish sect under investigation for alleged child sex abuse.

“We have rescued 17 boys, girls and teens,” the country’s immigration service said on X, posting pictures of some of the children with their faces blurred or shielded from view.

Five of the minors rescued were identified as missing persons whom Interpol had issued “yellow notices” to find, authorities said.

Founded in Jerusalem in the 1980s, Lev Tahor — literally, “pure heart” in Hebrew — has been dogged by allegations of child abuse for years, and Israel and others have called it a cult. Its leader is in prison for kidnapping children.

A group called Lev Tahor Survivors has estimated the sect’s membership at several hundred people and says it is led by a core cohort, with the rest being held mostly against their will.

The group adheres to an extreme, idiosyncratic interpretation of Judaism and kosher dietary laws that largely shields members from the outside world.

Women and girls above the age of 3 are required to dress in black robes that completely cover their bodies, leading some to call the group the “Jewish Taliban.” The men spend most of their days in prayer and studying specific portions of the Torah.

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Federal Uniformity Sounds Good – Until Big Tech Writes the Rules

Big Tech is jamming preemption of state AI laws into the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) at the last minute, but it is unclear if they are fully aware of what it would actually mean. If Congress prohibits states from implementing AI policies that would protect their citizens, it would have far-reaching consequences. True conservatives in Congress must uphold their pro-American values and refuse to support any preemption effort that would ultimately be a coronation of Big Tech as our country’s new rulers.

The United States is the dominant leader in AI on the global stage, and we are in a high-stakes race with adversaries – especially China – to maintain that advantage. We cannot afford to cut corners on oversight and safety while Big Tech develops AI systems at a rapid pace. States are best positioned to test thoughtful safeguards that address the most pressing concerns – from public safety to protecting children. The federal government, by contrast, is lagging behind.

States have been laboratories of democracy on every pressing issue of our time. The issue of AI should not be any different. The federal government is behind the states in terms of simply thinking about the ramifications of AI, and Congress should allow the states to try to find effective policy solutions that cater to our most imminent concerns.

Preemption is a clear violation of the principle of federalism inherent in the 10th Amendment to the Constitution.

Additionally, this provision is a blatant cover for Big Tech. It allows Big Tech to continue to exploit kids, creators, and conservatives. This provision will not empower small businesses and entrepreneurs in AI because they simply don’t have $40 billion in funding to put toward artificial general intelligence (AGI) development and $100 million bonuses to hand out to potential employees.

They are already shut out of the industry by people like OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, who popularized the “patchwork” characterization of state policies that is now being used in smaller circles in support of preemption.

If we intend to outpace China on AI, we must abandon misguided proposals that undermine federalism. The federal government should focus on enacting strong, strategic measures that protect our national security and prevent U.S. technologies and advanced chips from ending up in the wrong hands.

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Politico Accused of Deceptively Altering Polling Data After Hungary’s Ruling Party Took the Lead

The establishment, globalist press outlet Politico is once again facing backlash after its Hungarian “poll of polls” mysteriously shifted overnight—conveniently placing a Brussels-subservient opposition party ahead of Viktor Orbán’s Fidesz-KDNP.

For a brief window, Politico’s own aggregated numbers appeared to show the ruling conservative alliance comfortably ahead heading into much-anticipated, upcoming 2026 parliamentary election, set to be held in April.

The moment these numbers gained public attention, they vanished. And that timing is, unsurprisingly, raising eyebrows, and rightfully so.

The controversy erupted after Balázs Orbán—Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s top political strategist—posted a detailed breakdown of the poll on November 23.

His review highlighted what many conservatives in Hungary already sensed: the patriotic, sovereignist Fidesz-KDNP bloc was still outperforming Péter Magyar’s EU-aligned, globalist Tisza Party.

Orbán (no relation to the PM) credited the governing coalition’s gains to diplomatic wins abroad, extensive grassroots mobilization at home, and persistent disarray within the liberal opposition.

He argued that the data undercut the narrative being pushed by Brussels and its bought-off media allies that Hungary was on the verge of “turning pro-EU.”

But funnily enough, within 24 hours of Balázs Orbán publicizing those numbers, Politico’s tracker suddenly told a very different story.

The same site that had shown Fidesz ahead abruptly updated its methodology, removed certain polls, and elevated the Tisza Party to first place.

Balázs Orbán immediately called attention to the change, accusing Politico of adjusting the scoreboard after his analysis gained traction.

In his follow-up post today, he argued that the German-owned media outlet closely aligned with the EU’s corrupt, increasingly unpopular establishment had quietly erased polls that didn’t match its preferred storyline.

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Chemtrails: Conspiracy Fact

“The greatest, most damaging form of human activity on the planet at this moment in time must be considered these operations: climate engineering.”

If you caught Tucker Carlson’s November 10 show, you heard Dane Wigington issue this warning without hyperbole.

Wigington is a solar energy contractor who founded GeoEngineering Watch after noticing a significant decline in solar energy uptake of photovoltaic cells near his home in California. Having researched the phenomenon for nearly three decades, he believes it stems from “solar obscuration” caused by large-scale weather manipulation by our government.

Popularly known as “chemtrails” or “contrails,” these white streaks across the sky, left by aircraft, are familiar to most Americans these days. Fact-checkers are quick to dismiss chemtrails as conspiracy theory and label Wigington and his ilk as charlatans scamming people with fear and misinformation. After all, who would ever believe mankind could manipulate weather?

Documented History

Such naysayers obviously never heard of Operation Popeye, a U.S. military weather-modification program that used cloud seeding to increase rainfall during the Vietnam War between 1967 and 1972.

U.S. President Lyndon Johnson had bragged about government’s geoengineering plans in a 1962 address at Southwest Texas State University. Speaking first of satellite telecommunication technology, he revealed that “it lays the predicate and foundation for the development of a weather satellite that will permit man to determine the world’s cloud layer and ultimately to control the weather.” The purpose of this invention he revealed in his next breath: “He who controls weather will control the world.”

Fast-forward 50 years to 2011, when then-Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad accused Western governments of stealing rain. “European countries are using special equipment to force clouds to dump” water on them, with little left for drought-plagued nations like his own. Western media scoffed, and they ridiculed and trashed the story.

They’ve treated U.S. Air Force whistleblower Kristen Meghan with equal disdain. She served as a bioenvironmental engineer for nine years and made it a personal mission to debunk “chemtrails.” What she found was that the technology was “actually coming right out of my office.” Last year she told a reporter with kla.tv: “There are multiple forms of weather modification…. They’re saying it’s combating climate change. Well, the climate change we need to be worried about is man-made climate engineering, also known as geoengineering.”

U.S. Government Confirmation

Indeed, visit the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) website, and you’ll read that the Weather Modification Reporting Act of 1972 mandates that “all persons intending to engage in weather modification activities in the United States are required to provide a report to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) at least 10 days prior to undertaking the activity.”

NOAA, in turn, claims that “cloud seeding is the only common weather modification activity currently practiced in the United States.”

The only common activity? So, it’s not the only one.

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GrapheneOS Quits France, Citing Unsafe Climate for Open Source Tech

GrapheneOS, the privacy-focused Android operating system, has ended all operations in France, saying the country is no longer a safe place for open source privacy projects.

Although French users will still be able to install and use the software, the project is moving every related service, including its website, forums, and discussion servers, outside French territory.

Until now, GrapheneOS used OVH Bearharnois, a hosting provider based in France, for some of its infrastructure. That setup is being dismantled.

The Mastodon, Discourse, and Matrix servers will operate from Toronto on a mix of local and shared systems. These changes are designed to remove any dependency on French service providers.

The developers said their systems do not collect or retain confidential user data and that no critical security infrastructure was ever stored in France. Because of that, the migration will not affect features such as update verification, digital signature checks, or downgrade protection.

The decision also applies to travel and work policies. Team members have been told not to enter France, citing both personal safety concerns and the government’s endorsement of the European Union’s Chat Control proposal.

That measure would allow authorities to scan private communications for illegal material, something privacy developers see as incompatible with secure digital design.

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Documentary Filmmaker Predicts Trump Will Make a Major Announcement About UFOs

Documentary filmmaker Dan Farah recently appeared on the Joe Rogan podcast to promote his new film, The Age of Disclosure.

The movie is about UFOs and what the government knows about them. One of the assertions made in the film is that there is a secret part of the U.S. government that has used upwards of a trillion dollars over the last fifty years reverse-engineering non-human flying crafts that have been discovered over time.

Rogan suggests that the people who work in these secret programs will need some sort of amnesty in order to come forward.

At one point, Farah predicts (in a hopeful way) that President Trump will be the first world leader to level with the public about this and tell the people what the government supposedly knows. The idea that we are not alone in the universe.

From Real Clear Politics:

Farah and Rogan discuss the idea of an “amnesty” for people accused of lying to Congress and hiding billions in black-budget programs: “While it’s hard for anyone to accept letting people off the hook for wrongdoings, it does seem like it’s in the best interest of the bigger picture. These people just have no incentive to come forward with what they’ve learned.”

Secretary of State and National Security Advisor Marco Rubio reportedly says, on camera in the film: “I’m not trying to punish anyone. I need to know what they learned, because taxpayers paid for this and it’s in our interest to know what’s going on.”

Farah argues that stronger whistleblower protections and an official announcement from the president are needed to take “disclosure” to the next level. “I wouldn’t be surprised if it happens soon after the film comes out — the sitting president has to step to the microphone and say: humanity is not alone in the universe. We have recovered technology of non-human origin. So have other nations. There is a high-stakes, secret cold war race to reverse engineer this technology. We need to win this race.”

Rogan jokes: “I think Trump might be the only guy that’s willing to do something that crazy.”

“I know he is aware of what people in his administration say in the film,” Farah said about Trump. “And I know that they are discussing internally how they’re going to react to the film publicly.”

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Now We’ve Got Dem Sen. Ruben Gallego Trying to Threaten Military Members If They Investigate Mark Kelly

Senator Ruben Gallego (D-AZ) is irate over news that his colleague, Sen. Mark Kelly (D-AZ), is the subject of a Department of War investigation for taking part in a video urging military members to defy orders from their superiors.

So much so that he’s seemingly issuing threats to anyone who takes part in that investigation.

A Department of War statement issued Monday stated Kelly had been accused of “serious allegations of misconduct” and that further actions against him are under consideration—including a potential court-martial or other “administrative measures.”

Gallego, in an interview with CNN, warned service members that once President Trump leaves office, “there will be consequences” for participating in any military proceedings related to the investigation.

“Donald Trump is going to be gone in a couple of years,” he said. “And if you’re part of the military that is going after sitting senators, sitting members of Congress, and part of the weaponization of government, there will be consequences, without a doubt.”

Gallego went even further, suggesting military members would need to look over their shoulders once the Commander-in-Chief leaves office.

“I think there’s going to be a lot of officers that’ll be part of this potential tribunal, if they want to call it that, they’re going to be looking over their shoulders,” he said. “Because they know that Donald Trump will be gone and they will not have that protection.”

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Judge throws out Comey and James cases as Trump’s beauty queen prosecutor is humiliated

Donald Trump‘s cases against his political foes James Comey and Letitia James have been thrown out.

Judge Cameron Currie accused the President’s hand-picked attorney, Lindsey Halligan, of ‘prosecutorial misconduct’ after she secured indictments against the former FBI director and the New York Attorney General.

She added that Halligan is ‘a former White House aide with no prior prosecutorial experience’ who was never eligible to serve.

A 120-day deadline on interim appointments expired during the previous prosecutor’s tenure, meaning Pam Bondi did not have the authority to appoint Halligan – this was up to the district’s federal judges.

‘I conclude that all actions flowing from Ms Halligan’s defective appointment, including securing and signing Mr Comey’s indictment, constitute unlawful exercises of executive power and must be set aside,’ wrote Currie, a Bill Clinton-appointed judge.

Both Comey and James asked that their cases be dismissed and that the prosecutor be disqualified because of the manner of her appointment. 

The defendants in the two separate cases asked for the indictments to be dismissed with prejudice, which means the Justice Department would not be able to bring the same charges against them. But the judge dismissed with prejudice. 

Comey was charged with making a false statement and obstruction of a congressional proceeding relating to his 2020 Senate testimony, where he denied authorizing FBI officials to leak information to the press. 

James was indicted on charges including bank fraud and making false statements to a financial institution concerning information on mortgage applications that prosecutors alleged was falsified.

Halligan, a former beauty queen, was named to the job of interim US Attorney for Virginia in September.

Before her appointment, Erik Siebert, a different interim attorney, was forced out amid pressure from Trump to file charges against his political enemies. 

Comey’s lawyers argued that after Siebert was forced out, the judges should have had exclusive say over who would fill the vacancy.

But it was ultimately Trump who moved forward and nominated Halligan as he publicly pressed Attorney General Pam Bondi to take action against Comey and James.

‘JUSTICE MUST BE SERVED, NOW!!!’ the President wrote on Truth Social at the time.

Comey was indicted days later on charges of making a false statement and obstructing Congress, and James was charged soon after that in a mortgage fraud investigation.

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Pentagon Opens Investigation Into Sen. Mark Kelly Over Call for Troops to Disobey Unlawful Orders

The Department of War published a statement saying the agency received serious allegations of misconduct by Senator Mark Kelly and is opening an investigation into the claims against the former Navy captain.

The Department of War posted on X:

“The Department of War has received serious allegations of misconduct against Captain Mark Kelly, USN (Ret.). In accordance with the Uniform Code of Military Justice, 10 U.S.C. § 688, and other applicable regulations, a thorough review of these allegations has been initiated to determine further actions, which may include recall to active duty for court-martial proceedings or administrative measures. This matter will be handled in compliance with military law, ensuring due process and impartiality.”

The investigation follows a video released by several Congressional Democrats who urged US troops not to follow unlawful orders. The video incited a firestorm of inflammatory comments from Republicans and President Donald Trump.

Trump posted on Truth Social, following the publication of the video, that it was “seditious behavior, punishable by death.” He later walked back the remarks, saying he was “not threatening death.”

The statement from the Department of War included a warning to other retired soldiers not to speak out on the issue. The X post continued:

“The Department of War reminds all individuals that military retirees remain subject to the UCMJ for applicable offenses, and federal laws such as 18 U.S.C. § 2387 prohibit actions intended to interfere with the loyalty, morale, or good order and discipline of the armed forces. Any violations will be addressed through appropriate legal channels.

All servicemembers are reminded that they have a legal obligation under the UCMJ to obey lawful orders and that orders are presumed to be lawful. A servicemember’s personal philosophy does not justify or excuse the disobedience of an otherwise lawful order.”

Sen Kelly responded on his personal X account, saying he would not be intimidated by Trump. “I swore an oath to the Constitution in 1986. I’ve upheld it through 25 years of service and every day since I retired.” He added, “If Trump’s trying to intimidate me, it won’t work. I’ve given too much to our country to be silenced by bullies who care more about power than the Constitution.”

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‘Slender Man’ stabber Morgan Geyser captured following nationwide manhunt

The nationwide manhunt for Morgan Geyser, the Wisconsin woman convicted in the 2014 “Slender Man” stabbing, has come to an end, authorities announced Sunday night.

The Madison Police Department confirmed Geyser was taken into custody in Illinois at approximately 10:34 p.m., ending the intense search.

Geyser escaped after she cut off her Department of Corrections monitoring bracelet and fled a Madison group home Saturday night, police said.

Madison police announced her escape in a social media post on Sunday.

“Morgan Geyser was last seen in the area of Kroncke Dr. around 8 p.m. with an adult acquaintance. Her whereabouts are unknown as of Sunday morning,” the department wrote.

“The Madison Police Department was notified of her disappearance Sunday morning.”

“A recent image of Geyser, captured on security video from this past month, is attached below. If you see her, please call 911,” police added.

In 2017, Geyser pleaded guilty to attempted first-degree intentional homicide in the violent stabbing of Payton Leutner, but claimed she was not responsible due to her mental illness.

She told investigators she tried to kill Leutner to please the horror character Slender Man and was ultimately found not guilty by reason of mental defect. 

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