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Israel moves closer to Austria’s Freedom Party, founded by former SS members and Nazi Party affiliates

Since the October 7, 2023 attacks and the subsequent Israeli offensive in Gaza, Israel has stepped up contacts with various far-right parties in Europe and Latin America, including Spain’s Vox. However, last Thursday, the Israeli government took that policy a step further when its foreign minister, Gideon Saar, said the country seeks “a substantive, open and sincere dialogue” to establish ties with Austria’s far-right Freedom Party (FPÖ), the Israeli daily Haaretz reported.

The FPÖ, created in 1956, not only counted former SS members among its founders, but — according to leaders of Austria’s Jewish community — still includes numerous supporters of the ideology behind the extermination of six million Jews between 1933 and 1945.

Saar spoke after a meeting at the European Parliament headquarters in the French city of Strasbourg, organized by the Austrian far-right party and hosted by the extremist parliamentary group Patriots for Europe, which brings together parties such as Vox, Matteo Salvini’s Lega, the formation of former Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orbán, and France’s National Rally (RN), led by Marine Le Pen, among other populist far-right parties. In February 2025, Likud, the party of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, joined the group as an observer member at Vox’s request.

In his speech, FPÖ leader and former Austrian interior minister Herbert Kickl condemned the Hamas attacks of October 7 as “a crime against humanity.” He also adopted the controversial International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) definition of antisemitism, Saar noted. That definition is disputed because it equates most criticism of the State of Israel with antisemitism.

The FPÖ leader later acknowledged “the historical connection of the Jewish people with Judea and Samaria” — the biblical name for the Palestinian territory of the West Bank, occupied by Israel since 1967 — and expressed “his declared intention to move Austria’s embassy to Jerusalem” if the FPÖ enters government, as well as “his commitment to deepen practical cooperation and build a new partnership with Israel,” a move praised by Saar, as cited by Haaretz. Such a move would amount to recognizing Israel’s occupation of East Jerusalem, which it has also held illegally since 1967. That is why most Western countries, with the exception of the United States, keep their diplomatic missions in Tel Aviv.

Until now, Israel had maintained a formal boycott of the Freedom Party because of its Nazi past and the history of its leaders who have expressed antisemitic views. Those relations have softened in recent years alongside Israel’s rapprochement with other European far-right parties. Saar’s remarks now point to a likely normalization with the FPÖ, despite Austria’s Jewish community’s outright rejection of the party.

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Six Days After Ukraine Agrees to Halt Attacks on Russian Refineries – They Strike Kapotnya Refinery in Moscow, to Screw Russia Global Energy Markets, AND Trump!

America’s enemies are working against President Donald Trump. They want him gravely damaged before the midterm elections in five weeks.

On September 14, 2026, President Donald Trump posted on Truth Social that Ukraine had agreed to halt attacks on Russian energy targets:

Ukraine has agreed not to hit Russian Energy targets.
Russia has agreed to do, likewise!
The World’s Diesel price rise is mostly caused by the Russia/Ukraine War, not Iran.
President DJT

This post on TRUTH Social followed Trump’s comments the day before in Ireland, where he publicly urged Ukraine to stop striking Russian diesel refineries, saying those attacks were contributing to a global diesel shortage.

But Ukraine lied.
Ukrainian leader Zelensky always lies.

On Sunday morning Ukraine bombed the the Kapotnya Oil Refinery in Moscow.

The refinery is in Moscow’s southeastern Kapotnya district, about 12–15 km from the Kremlin. It is one of Russia’s 10 largest refineries and the primary fuel source for the capital region.

Of course, not only did they lie but the Ukrainians ordered this strike just weeks before the midterm election.
What great friends!

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Democrat Gov. Ned Lamont’s Former Budget Boss Flees America by Boat and Plane Hours Before Corruption Sentencing — Accuses Biden’s DOJ of Weaponization

Former Connecticut deputy budget director and Democratic state representative Konstantinos “Kosta” Diamantis reportedly fled the United States for Greece before appearing in federal court for sentencing on corruption convictions.

Konstantinos “Kosta” Diamantis, former deputy budget director under Gov. Ned Lamont, former director of the state’s school-construction grant office, and a former Democrat state representative, skipped Thursday’s federal sentencing in Bridgeport after slipping out of the country on a route prosecutors described as Florida to the Bahamas by boat, then a flight to London, then Greece, CT Insider reported.

Diamantis faced more than a decade in prison. Federal prosecutors asked U.S. District Judge Stefan Underhill for 10 to 12 years after a jury convicted him last October on 21 counts of extortion, bribery, conspiracy, and lying to the FBI. The new sentencing date is September 30, with or without him in the room.

His own lawyer told the court he is not coming back.

The escape the court was warned about.

Diamantis had been free on a $500,000 bond. Prosecutors had already flagged the obvious flight risk: he obtained Greek citizenship and a Greek passport while the case was pending, and he had repeatedly asked the court for permission to travel to Greece, WFSB reported.

The judge still left him out. Lamont later said he was “shocked” the man was not wearing an ankle bracelet. Too late.

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UK Government’s Apple iCloud Backdoor Secrecy Called “Farcical” in Court

The British government’s policy of neither confirming nor denying that it had ordered Apple to put a backdoor into iCloud has been described as “farcical” during a court hearing.

The London-based Royal Courts of Justice is the venue of the Investigatory Powers Tribunal, which on Thursday heard that the “neither confirm nor deny” (NCND) stance was “logically unsustainable” given that everybody already knows the fact.

Ben Jaffey KC, who represents the campaign groups Privacy International and Liberty, told the court that the government was defending a secret that no longer exists.

The tribunal is hearing Apple’s complaint alongside the complaint from Privacy International and Liberty, challenging the home secretary’s power to issue secret orders, known as technical capability notices (TCNs).

The January 2025 leak to the Washington Post revealed that the Home Office had issued a TCN to Apple, requiring access to end-to-end encrypted messages and data stored by Apple customers worldwide in iCloud. Apple did not comply with the order and instead pulled its Advanced Data Protection service from UK users.

But within hours of the Washington Post story, Home Office sources confirmed the report to the Times. In October 2025, the Home Office issued a new TCN, reportedly narrower in scope and aimed at UK users.

As the tribunal was told, this was not the only confirmation of the original order. A post on X by former US director of national intelligence Tulsi Gabbard in August 2025 was seen by more than three million people, while in December 2025, the investigatory powers commissioner, Brian Leveson, said that “lawful access can be achieved in a way that strikes a balance between maintaining strong encryption and ensuring law enforcement and the government can protect the public from terrorism, serious crime, and hostile state activity.”

Gabbard had reported that the UK had agreed to “drop its mandate” for Apple to provide a “backdoor” that would have enabled access to the protected encrypted data of American citizens.

Jaffey told the court that it was unlikely that Home Office sources would have confirmed the TCN without “tacit approval” from the government. “But here, within hours of reporting by the Washington Post, multiple sources were confirming to the Times the existence of the orders,” he said.

Leveson’s statement, Jaffey continued, “gives the game away.” The commissioner’s report would have been “clearly prejudicial to issues that might come in front of him in the future” had there been no TCN issued at all.

And while the Home Office is sticking to its NCND policy, WhatsApp and Google have confirmed in witness statements that they have not received any such orders – something they are free to say because there is no legal bar on disclosing that you have NOT received a TCN.

Apple, on the other hand, is in a different position because it did receive the order, and is now in court trying to force the government to confirm this, and by extension, admit that the TCN is still in force.

Another argument made by Jaffey is that Apple had to ask for permission before it could discuss the order with the US government, and that permission was granted. “The fact that Apple even needed to ask permission confirms there is a TCN,” he said.

The government’s argument against abandoning the NCND policy is that it would damage national security and hinder the investigation and prosecution of “serious crime,” including terrorism and online child abuse. But Jaffey said that “the horse has long bolted” as far as secrecy around the TCN is concerned, and that the government’s stance is “ridiculous” and “understates the principle of open justice.”

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Anthrax Attacks Paved Way for COVID-Era ‘Junk Drugs and Vaccines’

The anthrax attacks that followed 9/11 did more than frighten Americans — they helped create the legal, regulatory and biosecurity framework that later enabled the government’s response to COVID-19, according to Dr. Meryl Nass.

Speaking at the Turning the Tide: 9/11 25 Years Later conference last week in New York City, Nass drew a direct line between the anthrax letters of 2001 and the coronavirus pandemic.

“It’s worth thinking about the similarities between the COVID experience and the anthrax letters because it seems that both were inside jobs planned by the same cabal for the same purpose,” Nass said.

Nass, an internal medicine physician who has conducted extensive research on biological warfare and anthrax, outlined what she sees as striking parallels between the two events.

“Each had an uncanny, scripted simulation preceding it,” she said, pointing to the Dark Winter tabletop exercise in 2001 and Event 201, a pandemic simulation, in 2019.

“Each was blamed on countries the U.S. government had already targeted,” Nass said. The anthrax attacks were initially blamed on Iraq while COVID-19 was blamed on China.

“A huge, expensive biodefense gravy train resulted after each of them,” she said.

Both events were also accompanied by “a massive amount of false narrative construction and control of the media to project the false narratives.” And neither received a serious investigation into who perpetrated the event, according to Nass.

In addition, both crises “led to a mushrooming of the surveillance state,” Nass said.

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Trump Announces Permanent U.S. Security Agreement Over Greenland — “Infinite Life” Deal With Denmark Gives America Full Control Forever

Donald Trump announced late on Wednesday a “game-changer” for the US in which it has secured “infinite life” control of Greenland’s security at no cost to taxpayers in what is a “generational achievement.”

Under the terms of the agreement dubbed by Trump as the “Infinite Life” Agreement, the United States has secured a 100 year plus lease of Greenland’s security under the control of the US in a deal brokered by Trump with the Kingdom of Denmark and Greenland. The deal effectively bars adversaries including China and Russia from ever establishing a military base in Greenland or even maintaining a military presence in the island. Nor will any adversary be able to make sensitive investments in Greenland without the written approval of the US.

The island of Greenland is of strategic importance to the United States because it is located at the northernmost tip of North America and is situated astride the critical North Atlantic shipping lanes. Additionally, Greenland provides the United States with a radar horizon that extends deep into Russian and Chinese airspace and it is home to the U.S. Pituffik Space Base, (previously known as Thule Air Base) which serves as an early warning system for ballistic missile attacks. As Arctic experts and defense analysts have noted for years, whoever controls Greenland will control the High North.

Reuters previously reported that Denmark had told the United States it would not consider selling Greenland and was opposed to the country establishing a military base there. The agreement is a security compact and not a purchase of Greenland by the United States, thus sidestepping the previous rejection by the Danish government.

Trump confirmed that the U.S. will immediately start to develop a large military base in Greenland, in partnership with the people of Greenland. The agreement is designed to be permanent — an “Infinite Life” Agreement with no expiration.

This deal immediately caps Chinese and Russian aggression in the region, since they can never establish a military base, have a military presence, or make sensitive investments in Greenland without Washington’s written approval. This deal also finally puts an end to China’s aggressive attempts to expand Arctic shipping routes and to Russia’s attempts to reconstitute its Cold War Arctic military infrastructure.

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Another Act of Betrayal, Another Act of Air Force Inspector General Complicity

A federal court has ruled that the Air Force inappropriately diverted thousands of service members from the Integrated Disability Evaluation System (IDES), which is a congressionally mandated process for evaluating disabilities.

The court determined that an unauthorized prescreening process, known as Initial Review-in-Lieu-of (IRILO), violated the Administrative Procedure Act. IRILO effectively prevented wounded, injured, or sick service members from receiving the medical evaluations and protections they are entitled to.

The decision, made by the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, highlighted that the Air Force lacked the authority to create such a process.

The lawsuit, filed in July 2025 by former Air Force personnel, including Kathleen L. Watts and Robert Newman, argued that this prescreening mechanism denied them consideration for medical retirement benefits due to their medical conditions incurred in the line of duty.

Although the case illustrates a significant issue where service members were stripped of their rights and protections under federal law, the prescreening process remains in place for now, as the court has yet to finalize a remedy for the matter. Meanwhile, as this could potentially impact tens of thousands of service members, the possibility of a larger class action hangs in the balance.

The Gateway Pundit interviewed retired Air Force pilot and advocate for injured service members, Jeremy Sorenson, who stated, “The US Air Force has long known that the IRILO is a completely illegal process. But, because it ‘saves’ the Air Force money, senior leaders have refused to correct it.” In August 2023, Sorenson informed Lt. Gen. Stephen Davis (SAF/IG) that the Air Force was using the IRILO to improperly deny Airmen entrance into the congressionally-mandated Disability Evaluation System processing (IDES).

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UN moves forward with plans to take control of AI globally

Nobody panic. The UN and its vast globalist elite bureaucracy is ready to claim central oversight, control, and administration of future artificial intelligence (“AI”) development to ease worries about the fast-developing science.

Secretary-General Antonio Guterres made the declaration Wednesday, warning world leaders AI poses ‌risks – known and unknown – that cannot be ignored.

The former Portuguese Socialist Prime Minister spoke after pushback from President Donald Trump, who called threats that AI might destroy humanity “a HOAX” and claimed efforts to limit the technology are part of a “SICK conspiracy.”

He and Mark Zuckerberg both argue market pressure, not government mandates and centrally administered bureaucracy, will keep AI developers in line.

Guterres disagrees, embracing political and industry AI controls rather than trusting the marketplace.

Cautioning that “the world cannot afford a race to the bottom on AI safety,” the chief bureaucrat said concerns raised by those on the front lines of AI technology that its development “is racing ahead of our understanding of the risks” can’t be ignored, the Associated Press (“AP”) reports.

Governments must assume their first responsibility to protect civilians from AI threats, which means “national action is essential,” Guterres told UN reporters. “But global coordination is also indispensable.”

“We need guardrails to build trust – and that make AI safe, transparent, accountable, with human dignity at the centre.”

That’s where the UN and its strictures come in, Guterres outlined.

He said AI will be a major topic in his discussions with world leaders at their annual gathering next week for the high-level session of the UN General Assembly.

“The United Nations will continue to explore practical ideas and approaches in the immediate days ahead,” Guterres said, per the AP report.

“We need a shared understanding of how to advance the safe, secure and responsible development of AI – while identifying when increasingly powerful systems may require stronger safeguards, or additional measures to manage potential risks.”

Expect a global UN summit sooner rather than later on AI controls, Guterres said in response to a question asking whether next week’s meeting of top officials from the UN’s 193 member nations wouldn’t be the perfect opportunity for talks on curbing the excesses of AI.

The career bureaucrat said, “I think it makes full sense at the right moment to have a serious international summit on artificial intelligence.” And at a summit, he said, “it is absolutely essential to have everybody on board” – governments, companies, scientists and civil society – “and I hope that this will be possible.”

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Another One: Mexican Alien Granted Legal Status Under Obama Arrested in Texas for Illegally Voting

Another alien has been arrested for illegally voting, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) confirmed on Thursday.

This follows the arrest of several illegal voters this week alone. In Texas, Attorney General Ken Paxton announced the arrest of seven foreign nationals who had already been indicted for illegal activity tied to the 2024 general election on Tuesday.

Still, Democrats say this almost never happens, and the spineless Republicans in the Senate, led by RINO John Thune, caved on the SAVE Act.

The Daily Wire reported on Thursday that federal immigration authorities also arrested Ludwig Uriel Espejo-Carrillo, a Mexican national and green card holder in El Paso, Texas, who lied about his citizenship to vote in American elections.

According to the report, Espejo-Carrillo became a lawful permanent resident under Obama, and he is now awaiting deportation.

Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin described the alien’s actions as a “threat to our republic.”

“We cannot and will not allow the votes of American citizens to be canceled out by non-citizens illegally voting in our elections,” Mullin said.

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Senate Democrat Blocks Immediate Passage Of House-Passed Data Center Utility Rate Bill

A Senate Democrat on Sept. 17 blocked Republicans from moving to immediate passage on the Ratepayer Protection Act, a House-passed law that would encourage states to require data centers to pay for their own energy costs.

The bill previously passed the House in a 417-3 vote on Wednesday evening.

Though progressives in the lower chamber had expressed concerns about the bill’s lack of enforcement mechanisms, the faction ultimately backed the bill. It seemed on track for a painless passage of the Senate under unanimous consent, a procedure that allows uncontroversial bills to pass quickly.

The bill was introduced on the Senate floor Thursday by Sen. Jon Husted (R-Ohio), the bill’s sponsor in the upper chamber, who noted that as many as 1,000 new data center constructions are expected in the United States in the next five years.

“Americans are becoming ever more reliant on computing power from data centers for their daily lives, from medicine to manufacturing, education to agriculture, national defense, and the way we deliver basic services. Data centers are used not just for AI; they support almost every aspect of modern life, including online shopping, streaming video, social media, and the broadcast of this very debate.”

The law would require states to consider the adoption of models to require data centers to fund their own energy within a year, but would set no requirements that states ultimately adopt those models.

Husted moved for unanimous consent to pass the legislation and was blocked by Sen. Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), who said that the bill to address this topic should have more stringent federal enforcement mechanisms.

“It’s not enough for us to tell states to consider making data centers pay for grid updates. Rather than voluntary pledges or suggestions to states, Congress needs to pass real legislation with real teeth,” Heinrich said.

Heinrich noted that for many Americans, utility rates had already increased – and that such Americans wouldn’t gain relief from the state opt-in process of the Ratepayer Protection Act.

Instead, he proposed consideration of his bill, the Grid Savings Act, “to require – not a voluntary agreement – to require large-load customers like data centers to pay for the facilities needed to connect them to the grid. Not to consider it, not to make pledges – to actually do it, to pay for the upgrades they need.”

Data centers are top of mind for many American voters this year.

The data centers used to power artificial intelligence (AI) services such as ChatGPT, Claude.ai, Grok, and others – aside from their extensive land requirements – require massive amounts of energy.

Estimates indicate that currently, data centers use about 4 percent of the U.S. electric grid, according to online energy shopping and consultation platform Electric Choice.

The energy used to power these facilities, which draw roughly 176 terawatt-hours of electricity per year, could otherwise be used to power 16 million homes, according to Electric Choice.

The Energy Department and other analysts have estimated that that share could skyrocket to 12 percent of the national power grid in the coming years.

Despite promises by many data centers to provide their own power, residents in areas where such centers have been built have reported spikes in their energy bills.

Anxiety over the possibility of such utility price jumps has driven many voters to be skeptical or outright hostile to the construction of such facilities in their area.

Likewise, cooling the computers that execute AI queries requires significant amounts of water, raising fears that energy might not be the only utility cost affected by the data centers.

Other residents living near data centers have also reported that the facilities are noisy. According to these residents, the massive fan and cooling system used to keep the servers from overheating is loud enough to travel through walls and disturb sleep.

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