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Best of the Web: Investigation finds Swiss official tied to Israel ordered journalist Ali Abunimah's arrest

Asa Winstanley
Th Electronic Intifada
Sun, 16 Nov 2025 21:27 UTC
Swiss police Nicoletta della Valle
© FedpolFormer Swiss federal police director Nicoletta della Valle.
A Swiss parliamentary investigation into the detention and expulsion of journalist Ali Abunimah in January has concluded there was a series of irregularities and evidence of political interference.

The new federal report indicates abuse of power by a senior Swiss official with financial ties to Israel.

The ban "deviated from standard practice" and was "unsatisfactory" the report concludes.

In a statement posted to X this week, Abunimah called the report a major new development.

"These grave violations of democratic and human rights were carried out to prevent me from speaking at lawful public events — organized by Swiss citizens and residents — calling for an end to Israel's genocide in Gaza," he wrote.
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Snakes in Suits

Thought control: BBC apologises for editing Donald Trump speech, calling it an 'error of judgement'

Asher McShane
LBC
Mon, 10 Nov 2025 20:43 UTC
Samir Shah
© AlamyBBC Chair Samir Shah apologised after Donald Trump's speech was edited, calling it an 'error of judgement'
Altering the speech "did give the impression of a direct call for violent action," BBC chair Samir Shah admits.

Mr Shah said there have been more than 500 complaints since the publication of the memo that raised concerns about the editing of the speech by Donald Trump, adding: "We accept that the way the speech was edited did give the impression of a direct call for violent action."

Mr Shah continued: "I am absolutely clear that the BBC must champion impartiality. It is more necessary now than ever before. "

He said the corporation would need to "hold the highest standards in all our content - video, audio and online." Nigel Farage told LBC this morning that the BBC had "deeply offended the leader of the free world."

Mr Farage went on to say the BBC "has been institutionally biased for decades."
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Bad Guys

Christine Pelosi announces she won't run for mom Nancy's House seat

Ryan King
NY Post
Mon, 10 Nov 2025 20:36 UTC
Nancy Pelosi with her daughter Christine
© CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty ImagesNancy Pelosi with her daughter Christine
Christine Pelosi won't run to succeed her mother Nancy in Congress, ending the Pelosi dynasty in the House of Representatives.

The younger Pelosi, 59, announced on Monday that she'd run for California state Senate instead, opening the field for a competitive Democratic primary to rep Nancy Pelosi's San Francisco district in 2026.

"In courtrooms, campaigns and corridors of power, I've fought to build power for the people. And that's why I'm running for California Senate," Christine Pelosi said in her Monday announcement.

Nancy Pelosi, 85, revealed Thursday that she would not vie for a 20th full term in the lower chamber, fueling speculation that she was setting her daughter up to take her place.

Christine, one of Pelosi's five children with husband Paul, had kept her plans quiet until Monday.

"I'm running to represent San Francisco in Sacramento, fighting for consumer rights, women's rights, gun violence survivors, immigrants and our most vulnerable communities, against the threat we face," she declared in her 42-second campaign launch video.
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Dollars

The Real Affordability Agenda

Ron Paul
Mises Institute
Tue, 18 Nov 2025 00:00 UTC
Trump Headlines
© quartegtcf.org/Lucas Jackson/Reuters/KJNUS President Donald Trump • News headlines money crisis
Donald Trump's victory in the 2024 presidential election was due in large part to his promises to pursue an America First foreign policy and rein in inflation. One year later, prices remain high, and President Trump is more focused on overseas meddling than on the American people. This has helped enable Democrats to win governor races in Virginia and New Jersey, and self-described Democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani to win the New York City mayor race by running on "affordability."

Since the election, President Trump has made a number of proposals to ease the burden of high prices. One of the president's proposals is changing federal housing regulations to encourage lenders to offer 50-year mortgages. Though a 50-year mortgage in comparison to a 30-year mortgage could reduce monthly mortgage payments by over a hundred dollars for a median price home, it could also roughly double interest payments made over the life of the mortgage. So, while the longer mortgage may provide a short-term benefit, in the long run it is a losing proposition for potential homeowners.
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Gavel

New hurdle in Comey case: Trump's Justice Department faces questions about grand jury process

Eric Tucker and Michael Kunzelman
The Luftkin Daily News
Wed, 19 Nov 2025 19:52 UTC
Former FBI Director James Comey
© J. Scott Applewhite/APFormer FBI Director James Comey
The prosecution of former FBI Director James Comey hit another hurdle Wednesday as the Justice Department acknowledged a possible lapse in how the case was presented to a federal grand jury for indictment.

The concession risked further imperiling a politically charged prosecution already subject to multiple challenges and demands for its dismissal. It came during a hearing in which Comey's lawyers asked U.S. District Judge Michael Nachmanoff to throw out the case on grounds that the government was being vindictive. A separate challenge to Lindsey Halligan, the hastily appointed and inexperienced prosecutor who secured the indictment, is pending.

The revelation that the full grand jury did not review a copy of the final indictment in the case is the latest indication of the Justice Department's seemingly disjointed pursuit of criminal charges against Comey. He was fired by President Donald Trump in May 2017 while overseeing an FBI investigation into potential ties between Russia and Trump's 2016 campaign. The two have been publicly at odds ever since, with Trump deriding Comey as "a weak and untruthful slime ball" and calling for his prosecution.

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Explosion

Ukrainians blew up Polish rail line - Tusk


RT
Tue, 18 Nov 2025 12:49 UTC
Poland PM train
© KPRM/XAccount/Anadolu/Getty ImagesPoland's PM Donald Tusk and Interior Minister Marcin Kierwinski inspect damaged railway tracks
Warsaw-Lublin route • November 17, 2025
The goal of the suspects was to cause a train crash, the Polish prime minister has said.

Two Ukrainians have been identified as the suspected perpetrators behind two acts of sabotage targeting a railway line between Warsaw and Lublin on Monday, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk told the parliament on Tuesday. According to him, the suspects sought to provoke a train crash.

The prime minister accused the suspects of working "with the Russian intelligence for a long time." According to Tusk, both alleged perpetrators fled to Belarus after the incidents.

A military-grade C4 explosive charge was used in a least one of the incidents, Tusk said, adding that a 300-meter-long cable was used to detonate it. The National Prosecutor's Office also confirmed that a cable "that was most likely used to set off the explosive" was discovered.

Another incident involved a steel clamp on a track to cause a derailment, Tusk said. The alleged perpetrators also left a smartphone with a power bank at the scene to record a potential incident, he added.

The prime minister called the two incidents "the most serious" security situation over the past years. "A certain line has been crossed," he said.
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MIB

Best of the Web: The intel scandal behind Prince Andrew's twisted Epstein exploits

Kit Klarenberg
The Gray Zone
Sun, 16 Nov 2025 11:10 UTC
Prince Andrew’s relationship with Jeffrey Epstein
In an interview with The Grayzone, author Andrew Lownie details shocking findings of his research into Prince Andrew's relationship with Jeffrey Epstein. Describing Andrew as his "Super Bowl trophy," Epstein used the prince for intel, which he passed to foreign spy agencies. Lownie says further revelations threaten to "bury" the Royal Family.

Prince Andrew's decades-long relationship with Jeffrey Epstein was "earlier, longer, and far more intimate than anyone has previously admitted," historian Andrew Lownie told The Grayzone. Their friendship was so depraved that even Epstein, the self-proclaimed "king of kink," was shocked by the Prince's sexual appetites, according to Lownie's new book, Entitled: The Rise and Fall of the House of York.

Based on years of research in BBC archives, interviews, and leaked emails, Lownie's investigation provides a chilling portrait of a man shielded by royal privilege, addicted to sex from childhood, and ultimately undone by his alliance with the world's most notorious pedophile. The historian reveals that Epstein not only supplied Andrew with a steady stream of underage girls, but also gathered intelligence from the prince, and dutifully passed it along to Mossad and other spy agencies.
"The Prince was a useful idiot who gave Epstein respectability and access to political leaders and business opportunities," Lownie explained to The Grayzone. "Meanwhile, Epstein offered Andrew an opportunity to join the super rich and enjoy a lifestyle to which he had long aspired, an endless supply of women, a chance to make lots of money, and someone who would bankroll his lavish lifestyle as well as settle Sarah Ferguson's debts."
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Eye 2

Top Jewish biographer Michael Wolff urged Epstein to bash Trump for 'political cover' in newly released emails


Fox News
Wed, 12 Nov 2025 10:41 UTC

Michael Wolff suggested anti-Trump messaging could repair sex trafficker's public image in 2016 exchanges, according to released emails.

Hours after the White House accused congressional Democrats of selectively leaking Jeffrey Epstein emails Wednesday, Republicans on the House Oversight Committee made public tens of thousands of additional pages of documents, including emails between the late sex trafficker and prominent reporters.

Many of the emails included exchanges between Epstein and the magazine writer turned biographer Michael Wolff.

Wolff had reached out to Epstein repeatedly, in some cases discussing Epstein's public image and apparently encouraging him to bash Trump as a way to repair it.
"NYT called me about you and Trump," Wolff wrote to Epstein in February 2016, according to the documents. "Also, Hillary campaign digging deeply. Again, you should consider preempting."
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Broom

New Jersey Jew pardoned by Trump following 24-year prison term for ponzi scheme fraud, convicted anew for 37 years in Ukraine aid fraud


ABC News
Tue, 18 Nov 2025 20:28 UTC
Eliyahu
The oyest of veys
A New Jersey man whose lengthy prison sentence for fraud convictions was commuted by President Donald Trump in 2021 is now headed back to federal prison for another fraud conviction.

U.S. District Judge Michael Shipp, sitting in Trenton, handed down a 37-year sentence on Friday to Eliyahu "Eli" Weinstein, 51, of Lakewood, who is also known as Mike Konig. Shipp also ruled that Weinstein must pay $44,294,803 in restitution, which is due immediately, according to court documents.

Weinstein was convicted in March on charges he helped defraud dozens of investors out of $35 million. Prosecutors have said Weinstein and others falsely promised investors access to deals involving scarce medical supplies, baby formula and first-aid kits supposedly destined for wartime Ukraine.

This marked the third time Weinstein had been convicted in a New Jersey federal court for defrauding investors. The first case involved a real estate Ponzi scheme, and the second stemmed from additional fraud he committed while on pretrial release.

For those latter two cases, which resulted in combined losses to investors of approximately $230 million, Weinstein was sentenced to 24 years in prison. On Jan. 19, 2021, the day before leaving office during his first term, Trump commuted Weinstein's term to time served after less than eight years into his sentence.

Shortly after he was released, Weinstein began orchestrating the scheme for which he was sentenced last week, prosecutors have said.

Comment: Some folks are just born for a life of crime!

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Eye 1

In Busan, China did not just stand firm—it watched America blink

Salman Rafi Sheikh
New Eastern Outlook
Sun, 16 Nov 2025 00:00 UTC
Xi Jinping • Trump
© UnknownChinese President Xi Jinping • US President Donald Trump • Busan Summit • South Korea
Beyond the optics of handshakes and photo-ops at the Busan summit, the much-hyped Trump-Xi meeting laid bare the paradox that defines US-China relations today: deep economic interdependence coupled with unrelenting strategic rivalry.

Washington's fear of Beijing's ascent — and Beijing's determination to rewrite the terms of global power — mean that even when the two leaders talk of "cooperation," they are really negotiating the limits of competition. Far from heralding a new détente, the Busan meeting merely pressed pause on a conflict too entrenched to be resolved by diplomatic theatre.
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