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The New York City Council Quietly Passed Measure to Aid Government-Seizure of Private Property

The New York City Council has passed a measure that’s clearly laying the groundwork for the eventual government seizure of private property. The “Community Opportunity for Purchase Act” (COPA) requires some property owners to delay putting their properties on the open market for 90 days so “community land trusts” and nonprofits have an exclusive shot at buying them first.

But the new legislation, which was recycled by progressive Brooklyn lawmaker Sandy Nurse earlier this year, is a watered-down version of a prior proposal that included a much larger number of properties.

Councilwoman Joann Ariola (R-Queens) called the bill’s initial proposal an “attack on private real-estate ownership” in the five boroughs.

“We’re sliding headfirst into a communist dystopia where the government and their apparatchik developers own all the property, and the rest of us get forced into perpetual rentorship, and this legislation is helping to get us there even quicker,” Ariola said at the time.

The tweaks brought some real estate groups on board with the legislation.

It’s absolutely an attack on private real estate ownership. As of right now, this legislation impacts about 2,100 New York City buildings, down from 10,000 under the previous version of the bill. Former Mayor Eric Adams vetoed similar legislation before leaving office.

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Lawyer Mark Javitch Scores Courtroom Win to Free the Zapruder Film — National Archives Responds by Locking Up the Best Copies

On October 1, 2026, the Archivist of the United States quietly signed an agreement with a private Dallas Museum that keeps the clearest, highest-resolution versions of the Zapruder film locked away from the American people.

The Zapruder film is the single most important piece of photographic evidence in the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. The taxpayers bought it. The government made high-quality copies of it specifically so the public could study it. And the government is still keeping those copies out of reach.

The timing of this agreement is no accident.

Just eight weeks earlier, on August 5, 2026, a federal judge in Dallas handed attorney Mark Javitch a major victory, ruling that a court can order the National Archives to put the Zapruder film online for the public and that the copyright itself was subject to challenge and a determination of fair use.

The government lost in court. So it went around the court.

Mark Javitch: The Lawyer Who Took On the Archives and the Museum

Mark L. Javitch is a federal litigator based in San Mateo, California. He represents the Forum on Open Access to Government Records, a publisher fighting to pry the Zapruder film loose from government and private control.

Javitch has spent years battling the Sixth Floor Museum in Dallas and the National Archives in Freedom of Information Act and JFK Records Act cases, including an appeal now pending before the Ninth Circuit. He is the author of SCAM: The Zapruder Copyright — How the Sixth Floor Museum Continues the Coverup (2025). The Forum maintains ZapruderFilm.com, the largest free public collection of National Archives documents on the history of the Zapruder film.

“The one attempt to enforce the Zapruder copyright lost in court in 1967. Inexplicably, 60 years later, the government lets the Museum decide who gets access based on the copyright that could never be enforced.” Javitch said. Javitch suspects the Zapruder film held by the Archives may have been altered — a theory his book lays out in detail, and one the Museum denies. Javitch believes that the Museum rejected the Forum’s request for permission to use the copyright because the Forum’s publications raise the question whether the film was altered, a theory the Museum considers off limits.

Javitch hopes that full public access to the best copies will shed light on the question once and for all. If the film is authentic, the highest-resolution versions will show it. If it is not, the American people deserve to know. Either way, the answer lies in the very versions the government is now locking away. The government promised to make high-quality versions available to the public. It performed the high-resolution scans in 2002, but never made them widely available.

The fight started with a simple request.

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Bill Gates on Trial in the Netherlands: Why the PREP Act Is a License to Kill

Bill Gates on Trial in the Netherlands
I recently conducted an interview with Shannon Joy and Sasha Latypova at Catherine Austin Fitts’ Solari Studios on the eve of a landmark hearing in Leeuwarden, in The Netherlands. Tomorrow at 12:30 pm local time, a three-judge panel will convene for the first hearing on the merits in a civil tort case that has already survived every attempt by the powerful to kill it. The defendants include Bill Gates, Albert Bourla, Mark Roux, and a roster of Dutch government officials. The plaintiffs are seven people whose bodies were injured by the COVID injections and whose lives were dismantled by the lies that accompanied them.

Real accountability for COVID injuries is legally impossible in the United States. That is a structural fact engineered by Congress, executed by federal agencies, and enforced by courts that have been stripped of jurisdiction. The PREP Act functions as a government license to kill. It immunizes every covered person from liability, removes every claim from judicial reach, and leaves injured Americans with no remedy whatsoever. The Netherlands case is the first serious attempt in the world to pierce that shield. If it succeeds, it will not merely punish a few billionaires. It will expose the entire architecture of medical tyranny that has been erected in plain sight.

I’ve spent two decades documenting how the pharmaceutical industry achieved total legal immunity for vaccines, even as the injections were being forced onto entire populations. As I wrote in Natural News, the industry openly boasted about its absolute immunity from any side effects while figures like Dr. Fauci promoted mandatory injections for billions of people. Under their mandates, you have no power to say no, and you have no right to sue if the product injures you [1]. That asymmetry is the defining feature of the COVID era. The Netherlands hearing is the first time that asymmetry is being challenged in a courtroom where the defendants cannot simply hide behind a federal declaration.

The Case That Survived Every Attempt to Kill It
The structure of this case matters because it reveals how the global system protects its own. The suit was originally launched in 2023. It names seven injured plaintiffs and seventeen defendants. Alongside Gates, Bourla, and Roux are Dutch government officials who signed off on the injection campaign. The Netherlands is uniquely able to host this case because private individuals can be sued personally. In the United States, the corporate veil shields executives. You can sue Pfizer, but you cannot sue Albert Bourla for what Pfizer did under his direction. In the Netherlands, that distinction collapses. Gates tried and failed to argue that the Leeuwarden court lacked jurisdiction. He lost. The first hearing on the merits begins Thursday at 12:30 pm local time before a three-judge panel, and the world will be watching.

Sasha Latypova put the stakes in stark terms when we spoke. She said, ‘the reason we actually even have to travel so far to try to seek some justice for COVID injuries is because of uniqueness of this jurisdiction, where this type of case is even possible.’ That sentence should be engraved on the wall of every health agency in the Western world. It tells you that the United States, which claims to be a beacon of liberty and due process, has become a jurisdiction where the most catastrophic medical intervention in human history cannot even be heard. Sasha has backed her participation with a 107-page written testimony supported by a terabyte of source documents. She is not showing up with talking points. She is showing up with the receipts.

The treatment of expert witness Frances Boyle (who will be dearly missed) is a warning about what happens when you challenge this system. I won’t pretend the details are pleasant. They are not. The message is clear: if you step forward to testify against the architects of the injection campaign, you will be isolated, smeared, and possibly eliminated. That is how these operations work. They don’t just defend themselves in court. They make sure the next expert thinks twice before agreeing to appear. The fact that this case is proceeding anyway is a testament to the courage of everyone involved.

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Accountability Is All That Matters Now

In recent months, there’s been a torrent of document releases that prove, beyond a reasonable doubt, the scope of the atrocities committed in the name of the Covid response by the public health establishment. As someone who has been submitting articles to Brownstone Journal covering this subject for more than 3 years (20 have been published), it has been suggested that I once again bring my perspective into the arena regarding these recent revelations. Frankly, I have felt no such calling. Why is that? For me, it’s a matter of been there; done that!

The first article I wrote that was published in Brownstone Journal in October 2023, Where is the Office for Human Research Protections? ends by asking whether the expression, “Never again” still has any meaning. Back in January 2024, I had written an article titled, Racism, Anti-Semitism, Genocide, and Eugenics in the COVID Era; and in April 2025, I had written an article titled, Have We Lived through a Public Health Holocaust?. While the titles of the latter two articles speak for themselves, the latest revelations have largely confirmed the historical perspective that I presented both factually and contextually.

In addition, as far back as the winter of 2021-22, I had been blogging on a website for healthcare professionals about the shredding of the Nuremberg Code, a document that primarily focuses on proper informed consent. At the time, I was roundly criticized for having the gall to bring this subject up, as it was viewed as a total non sequitur. However, over the past year, gross violations of the Nuremberg Code have been cited with some regularity, even in mainstream media.

Based on the foregoing, it should be clear where I stand regarding the so-called Covid response. As such, for me to write more on this subject is merely to gild the lily. I see no purpose in doing that. I’ll only point out that in reading what others are now writing in response to the recent flood of hard evidence, it appears that more and more people are catching up to where I’ve been for almost 5 years, although they tend to dance around using the same terminology that I have put out there.

I’ve reached the point where the only thing I care about is accountability. Without it, these atrocities will keep happening. In fact, plans for a replay are already in place by agencies within the US government, the World Health Organization, and any number of other globalist masters of the universe who have the resources and connections to move on it. They’re just waiting for the right set of circumstances to justify implementation.

As guideposts for what that accountability should look like, I’ll cite two seminal legal/judicial events: Watergate and the Nazi Doctors’ Trial. As a result of the Watergate break-in and cover-up, events that I believe pale in comparison to the Covid atrocities, there were 69 indictments, 48 convictions or guilty pleas, approximately 2 dozen prison sentences served, and a presidential resignation.

The Nazi Doctors’ Trial was for medical crimes that might have been more brutal than the Covid atrocities, but were surpassed in sheer numbers by several orders of magnitude. In all, there were 23 indictments and 16 convictions, of which 7 were sentenced to death (all were hung shortly after conviction), and 9 served varying lengths of time in prison.

Anything short of this level of accountability leaves us dangerously exposed. To those who still can’t accept the fact that the atrocities rose to this level, I would counter that the unwillingness to face this reality will only embolden the monsters who perpetrated these crimes against humanity to continue on the same path.

If you’re looking to the public health system, particularly the physicians, to take back the profession, don’t hold your breath! That’s because, first, do no harm has been irrevocably changed to, do as you’re told! This is the result of the change in the nature of the relationship between physicians and the system within which they work; something that was deliberately built into the Affordable Care Act.

No; accountability will have to come through the justice system, both civil (with disgorgement of the billions of dollars of ill-gotten gains) and criminal (with stiff prison terms). In my opinion, there’s no other way out!

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California Officials Blame ‘Vendor Error’ For Sending Thousands Of Duplicate Ballots

A California county sent duplicate mail-in ballots to thousands of voters in what officials have characterized as a printing error, raising questions about election security amid heightened federal scrunity.

Tulare County, which includes part of Sequoia National Park, acknowledged the “error” in a statement posted on its website, blaming a government vendor for security lapse.

“As a result of a printer vendor error during the ballot replacement procedure, some Tulare County voters received duplicate vote-by-mail packets,” county officials wrote.

The California officials said that the issue affected a portion of voters centered in the City of Tulare. According to ABC 30, nearly 7,800 voters were sent the duplicate ballots.

“The vendor has accepted full responsibility and worked with County officials to send voters a mailer with accurate information and guidance,” the county added.

Tulare officials warned voters that state law only allows for one ballot to be cast per election and are ordered to destroy the duplicate ballot.

“DO NOT RETURN OR ATTEMPT TO VOTE THE DUPLICATE BALLOT,” Tulare County officials wrote in all caps.

ABC 30 reported that the error specifically affected 7,791 voters in a county with approximately 227,000 registered voters. California voter registration documents show that as of 2025, roughly 31% of registered voters were Democrats, compared with 39% who were Republicans.

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Report Finds “Significant Weakness” in the TSA’s Handling of Biometric Data

A recent Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Inspector General audit found that the TSA has been mishandling sensitive biometric data collected at airports.

An unclassified summary of the report explains the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) audit, which was intended “to determine the extent to which the Transportation Security Administration’s (TSA) facial recognition and identification technologies enhance security screening to identify persons of interest and authenticate flight traveler information while protecting passenger privacy.”

“Significant weakness”

To the TSA’s credit, the audit determined that TSA personnel delete photos of passengers moving through airport checkpoints in a timely fashion and in accordance with federal regulations. However, the audit also identified a “significant weakness” in their operations. The issue concerns Credential Authentication Technology (CAT-2), which the TSA uses in its biometric facial recognition system. That system is apparently insecure. According to the OIG, CAT-2 allows the TSA contractor providing it to access passenger data, including driver’s licenses and passport photos. This sensitive information was available to the contractor during “system troubleshooting and enhancements” without the TSA’s knowledge. According to the audit summary:

“TSA lacked clear policies, did not track when this data was extracted, could not verify that extracted information was properly deleted, and did not notify passengers when their biometric and biographic information may have been stored. As a result, although passenger information was generally protected during routine operations, weaknesses in vendor oversight created a risk that sensitive personal information could be retained or exposed.”

The vendors in question appear to be two firms: Idemia Identity and Security USA, LLC. According to a 2023 TSA announcement, the agency awarded $128 million to these two contractors to develop the CAT-2 system. In that release, the TSA touted CAT-2, noting that this second-generation technology would “allow for automated identity verification with an integrated camera for biometric and self-service capabilities.” The agency noted the system’s scale, adding that their “new contract with Idemia [would] enable TSA to test, manufacture, procure and deploy over 1,500 new CAT-2 systems to airport security checkpoints nationwide.”

This is the system the OIG audit singled out for compromising passenger privacy. While Security USA LLC has a limited paper trail online, Idemia has a well-documented and problematic record (Idemia Identity is one wing of the Idemia corporation).

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South African Police Investigate Mob Lynching of Foreigner

South African police on Thursday said they were investigating the killing of a foreign national at the hands of a mob in the coastal city of Durban.

The victim, described as a male “foreign national” in his “late 30s or early 40s,” was attacked on Thursday morning by a group of people who were “marching” down a street in Durban.

The South African Police Service (SAPS) said “two males reportedly broke away from the group” and approached the victim along the side of the road, for reasons unknown.

“It is further alleged that the victim was then assaulted by a group of about 50 people and was declared dead at the scene,” SAPS said.

“The motive for the killing is unknown at this stage, and community members are urged not to spread unverified information,” the bulletin added.

Durban was one of the South African cities that experienced large anti-migrant protests in early October as part of an ongoing anti-immigrant movement. Most of the demonstrators are black South Africans who are angry about the government tolerating, or encouraging, large-scale illegal immigration that harms the job market and drains public resources.

The Durban protest on October 8 saw at least 14 vehicles and several buildings set on fire. Similar riots occurred in the town of Soweto, closer to Johannesburg. Demonstrations are ongoing, and the government has asked participants to remain peaceful.

Several other African governments, including Nigeria, Mozambique, and Malawi, said some of their nationals were attacked and killed by mobs during anti-migrant riots over the summer. Tens of thousands of migrants fled South Africa during and after the riots.

A police spokesman told the BBC that his office would not “speculate” on the motive for the mob attack and would release no further information until it could be verified. The police also refused to confirm or deny if the group marching down the street before the attack were anti-migrant protesters.

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Rush is on to patch a software vulnerability that could impact 70% of websites worldwide

Governments and corporations worked throughout the night on urgent security updates after the AI-assisted discovery of vulnerabilities in a programming language vital to 70% of websites globally.

Many government sites appeared to be functioning normally Thursday, but outages or limited service continued while security work was under way.

The FBI’s cyber division warned on Wednesday that the vulnerabilities could allow malicious actors to remotely execute code in the programming language, PHP, which powers websites and web applications. That raised the risk of sensitive data and networks being compromised, said the agency, which recommended that operators take websites offline if they can’t update them immediately.

In Britain some “limited” government services may temporarily be offline while work is carried out to address potential cybersecurity issues, the prime minister’s office said.

“Work has already taken place across Government to identify and fix potential exposures to our systems, and our experts are continuing to work closely with both OpenAI and international partners on this issue,” a spokeswoman said Thursday.

“No large public-facing critical services are being affected by the exercise, but some limited services may temporarily be offline while security work is carried out, the spokeswoman said.

The two critical flaws identified by AI could allow bad actors to get unauthenticated access to sites which, in theory, could allow them to control a web server remotely without needing a password, said James Sullivan, Director of Cyber and Tech at the Royal United Services Institute in London. That could allow a hacker to steal data, alter data or use the system as a platform from which to launch other attacks, he said.

Taking websites offline while fixing the problem is “good practice,” and appropriate cyber risk management but it’s “staggering” that some of the flaws are more than a decade old, Sullivan said.

Artificial intelligence agents helped uncover the vulnerabilities. In a blog post, OpenAI said it had led a coalition of researchers, security providers and others to address vulnerabilities in PHP over the past two months.

OpenAI called the flaws “one of the most impactful security issues in recent memory.” It said AI appeared to find the vulnerabilities before any attackers did.

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Hillary Clinton Slams Matthew McConaughey Over “Really Unfortunate” Calls to Support Independent Candidates

Failed Presidential Candidate and former First Lady Hillary Clinton appeared on a liberal podcast yesterday, where she slammed actor Matthew McConaughey over recent comments he made, innocently reminding people that they have the right to vote for whoever they want this election cycle.

McConaughey posted a social media video this week, reminding people that they don’t need to vote just Republican or Democrat this November, arguing that “Independents belong in the fight,” while noting, “I’m not telling you who to vote for.”

“They’ve been telling us for years that an independent vote is a wasted vote. Well, a great question for our times is: has that unwasted vote been working out for you?” he said.

“I’m telling you to look at your ballot, study up, see if they represent you, what you believe in, check if they can be that voice of reason in the middle for you, and if they can, treat them like a potential winner because they can be.”

Kara Swisher played the clip and asked Hillary Clinton for her thoughts on her “High Stakes” podcast yesterday.

It was basically a thought crime for Clinton, who suggested that it was irresponsible for McConaughey to use his platform in such a way, “two weeks before a midterm.”

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Major US Banks Are Detecting Unauthorized AI Agents Accessing Customer Accounts

America’s largest banks are scrambling to defend themselves against a new and rapidly evolving security threat: artificial intelligence agents gaining access to customer accounts, sometimes behaving in ways that appear to go beyond what their human users originally authorized, according to Axios.

Major financial institutions including JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America, Morgan Stanley, Wells Fargo and Citigroup are confronting the growing presence of third-party AI assistants inside their banking platforms. Some institutions have detected unauthorized agent activity, while others are concerned about cases in which AI systems appear to initiate actions without explicit instructions from account holders.

The problem is becoming particularly difficult because banks cannot always distinguish between a legitimate customer accessing an account, an AI assistant acting with that customer’s permission, and a potentially rogue agent operating outside its intended authority.

In many cases, customers themselves are providing AI tools with their banking credentials so the software can perform financial tasks on their behalf. While those arrangements may be voluntary, they frequently violate bank policies requiring account holders to maintain control of their login information.

More troubling is what happens once an AI agent gains access. Depending on the permissions it has been given, an assistant could potentially initiate purchases, transfer money or perform other financial transactions. Bank executives are increasingly concerned about the possibility of these systems making consequential decisions without adequate human oversight.

The Axios report out Thursday morning reported instances of agents interacting with bank call centers, as well as activity suggesting that certain systems may have attempted to act independently of their users’ instructions. The developments have prompted several Wall Street institutions to begin tightening access to their platforms.

Morgan Stanley has reportedly started blocking third-party AI agents, while JPMorgan, Bank of America and Citigroup have also moved to restrict their activities. A Chase spokesperson cautioned customers against sharing account usernames and passwords, while Morgan Stanley said it had not identified instances of rogue AI agents accessing its systems.

The industry is not necessarily opposed to AI-powered financial assistants altogether. In fact, many banks already permit limited, read-only access to customer information through authorized third-party applications, including budgeting and personal finance software.

That model could provide a compromise for AI agents, allowing them to analyze balances, review transactions and help customers manage their finances without granting them the authority to actually move money.

But even that distinction is becoming more complicated as AI systems grow increasingly autonomous.

Banking executives acknowledge that consumers will likely demand more sophisticated AI assistants capable of handling financial tasks in the future. The challenge is developing safeguards that allow those capabilities without exposing customers to unauthorized transactions, compromised accounts or unpredictable automated behavior.

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