There is literally no act so vile that the UK, US and Germany will not support if perpetrated by the terrorist state of Israel.

Yesterday Israel:

• deliberately attacked UN peacekeepers in three separate bases;
• bombed residential central Beirut killing and maiming hundreds;
• abducted, beat up and held an American journalist;
• slaughtered 30 Palestinian refugees in an UNRWA school;
• was found by an official UN Commission Report to be guilty of the crime against humanity of "extermination" in Gaza.

Any single one of these outrages would be roundly condemned if committed by any country at all except Israel, and would lead to repercussions.

But Israel can commit them all in a single day and suffer not one word of obloquy from the leading Western powers (although it does appear that the attack on UN peacekeepers may have snapped Macron's subservience - whether it's just a blip remains to be seen).

The reinstatement comes after X agreed to block certain political accounts from X, pay outstanding fines, and name a legal representative for X in Brazil.

Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes on Tuesday approved the reinstatement of social media platform X´s service in the South American country, after it complied with the court's demands.

Elon Musk's social media company X was banned in August after it failed to name a new legal representative by the Brazilian court's deadline, and after months of clashes over free speech and misinformation.

A sprawling investigation into the online fundraising platform ActBlue has expanded into 19 states, as attorneys general across the country press the company on its security practices and whether Democrats might be using the platform to cheat on election donations.

An investigation that began with a few states and a House committee has now spread across nearly half the country as chief state investigators are endeavoring to determine whether Democrats have used the ActBlue to launder foreign money or craft donations in people's names without their permission, a practice known as "straw donations."

In a letter sent last week to ActBlue CEO and President Regina Wallace-Jones, the state attorneys general highlighted potential security issues with the online fundraising platform that could be allowing donations made in people's names who didn't donate.

Former CBS News staffers are demanding an independent investigation into 60 Minutes over the brewing Kamala Harris interview scandal — even as the network digs in its heels and refuses to release the full, unedited transcript, The Post has learned.

The long-running news show has come under fire after allegedly cleaning up the Democratic presidential candidate's answer to a question from 60 Minutes correspondent Bill Whitaker about Israel that aired during a special episode on Monday.

Her reply was starkly different from the "word salad" the vice president served up in a clip to promote the interview shown by Face the Nation the day before.

The ancient Greek historian Thucydides, the "father of realism," in his History of the Peloponnesian War remarked:

"The Athenian allies were making judgments based more on dim desire than on firm forethought, since humans are accustomed to hand over to unreflecting hope, what they long for, yet to thrust aside with autocratic reasoning, what they do not wish for."

This human weakness of one-sided wishful thinking can partly explain the startling historical pattern that many powerful countries have been defeated by a seemingly weaker enemy despite their material superiority. Indeed, single battles and entire wars are often lost inside the heads of politicians, generals and their troops. As regards the "inner theater" of people, where they play an inner game, there is much scientific evidence that a combination of biases and fallacies tends to distort the thinking of actors in various walks of life, prompting them to make fatally wrong decisions. The above case of blind wishful thinking coupled with the rigorous rejection of counterarguments - a counterproductive task for which reason paradoxically is given the full power of an absolute sovereign - serves as one example of such distorted thinking.

The state of Israel, in its determined geopolitical bid to permanently reorder the Middle East in its favor by sheer force, risks falling into several such treacherous mind traps and ultimately failing despite the odds, at least on the surface, being stacked in its favor. At the same time, these distortions prompt the US-led "collective West" to adopt a rather lenient attitude to Israel's crossing of an increasing number of red lines with a sense of perpetual impunity and immunity. The presence of biases and fallacies is particularly pernicious in times of war, when the judgment of many powerful decision makers, due to emotional overload and the pressures of what is perceived as "necessity," anyway tends to be more clouded than in times of peace.

The second assassination attempt on the life of Donald Trump in the past two months is already being memory-holed by the mainstream media. Who's to blame for the second attempt? Beyond the obvious implications for society as a whole, the latest attempt will have major ramifications for markets and investors. That's because the economic and regulatory policies of the two candidates — Trump and Harris — could not be more different.

• Trump wants lower taxes, less regulation, high tariffs to create high-paying U.S. jobs (a policy first advocated by Alexander Hamilton and later expanded by Henry Clay and Abraham Lincoln), an end to wars in Ukraine and the Middle East, a strong national defense and reforms to the FBI and the intelligence community (IC).
• Harris wants higher taxes (including much higher capital gains taxes on stock profits), more regulations, open borders (which lowers average wages), a depleted defense posture, permanent wars in Ukraine and the Middle East, censorship of dissenting views (under the false label of "misinformation") and a continuation of the weaponized FBI and IC to wage war on domestic political opponents.

The choice is clear. Yet investors and voters won't have that choice if Trump is killed.

Increasingly, it appears that the U.S. government operating through the Secret Service, FBI and CIA is at least complicit in the Trump assassination attempts. They may be actively creating the conditions for an assassination through intentional gross negligence by Trump's security detail and nurturing mentally deranged Trump-haters in a way that leads directly to the sniper's nest.

Let's explore these claims in detail.

Russia has proof of the United States' and the UK's involvement in the Nord Stream gas pipeline sabotage, and publication of said evidence will depend on the situation, Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said.

Answering a question about the data, obtained by the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR), she made this comment:

"This evidence exists. As to whether we will publish it - which will also tell you what kind of evidence it is - that would depend on how the situation around the investigation unfolds. Because we have repeatedly offered cooperation to everyone, we did it both publicly and via the available legal channels between law enforcement agencies, we have contacted them repeatedly. We supported these legal requests, both politically and publicly, and we received zero response.

"Therefore, in my opinion, those who carry out the investigations abroad, in Germany - it has long been clear in Denmark and Sweden, but Germany must be interested in exchanging materials, in obtaining information from us and in provision of corresponding information to us. And we were not simply ready for this - we insisted on this.

"Moreover, we were ready to present everything that we have within the investigation under the UN aegis, initiative on our initiative. But the West has blocked this as well. Therefore, we carry out our own investigation, and, naturally, we have the information that Russian officials talk about - [SVR Director] Sergey Naryshkin in particular. The evidence base also exists. As to how we manage it: in addition to our national investigation, we will proceed from expediency and the developing situation. They [the West] have stripped themselves of an option to obtain the corresponding information from us on their own volition."

The greenback has become an instrument of an "aggressive form of policy," according to the eminent American economist.

The US government has weaponized the dollar rather than having it serve as a medium of exchange or a store of value, award-winning American economist and public-policy analyst Jeffrey Sachs has said.

Sachs made the remark on Thursday in his address via video link to a meeting of BRICS ministers of finance and central bank governors. The officials were meeting in Moscow to discuss the improvement of the international monetary and financial system, ahead of the BRICS 2024 summit in Kazan later this month.

According to the economist, the weaponization of the dollar was obviously happening through the seizure of frozen Russian assets. He also mentioned the freezing by the US government of Iranian, Venezuelan, Afghan and other state funds.

We've been asked why we don't do more coverage of the US (s)election.

The answer is easy, and it goes like this.

1. There is no real choice and no real difference.

Of course there are superficial distinctions. But that's just greasepaint.

Or maybe 'carnival mask' is a better analogy.

Or child catchers in borrowed gaudy

A guise anyhow. Their public images are applied personas with applied values intended to appeal to different demographics, create ready-made and meaningless binaries, and the illusion of debate, democracy in action - real choice.

Trump is the straight talking loudmouth "maverick" designed to appeal to libertarians, old fashioned conservatives and the Bible Belt - those who "want America back."

RFK jr has been added to that deal to get some Covid skeptics on board, who otherwise might be thinking for themselves.

Harris is "woke" in all its self-contradicting, double-talking insanity. She's awful, but the vision of Trump is so much worse that the half-crazed American "Left" embraces her clammy corpse with passion.

But, as anyone with half a brain and the courage to use it can clearly see, under those grotesque little masks, they're just puppets of the same globalism - like pretty much every political figure, commentator, show business personality you can name.

Whatever rear end gets to park itself in that Oval Office chair the results will be the same.

Same as NOW. A mere continuation of the rollout, revealed in all its stark horror back in 2020.

The only slight difference may be in the media narratives employed to get us all there. Which bring us to...

The '60 minutes' program on CBS has broadcast two different answers to the same question from US Vice President and Democratic presidential nominee, Kamala Harris.

During the segment, interviewer Bill Whitaker asked Harris if she believed that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was not listening to the US amid an escalation in the Middle East.

The vice president's reply to that question was not the same in the preview that aired on Sunday as it was in the actual show that was broadcast on Monday.

In the preview, which was shown as part of the 'Face the Nation' program, Harris said:

"Well Bill, the work that we have done has resulted in a number of movements in that region by Israel that were very much prompted by, or a result of, many things, including our advocacy for what needs to happen in the region."

However, when the actual '60 minutes' episode aired the next day, the Democratic presidential nominee's answer was changed to a completely different one, which was shorter and more clear.