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Trump effect: Conservative nationalist Sanae Takaichi set to be Japan's first female prime minister


NY Post
Sat, 04 Oct 2025 20:06 UTC
Sanae Takaichi
© Bloomberg via Getty ImagesSanae Takaichi
Japan's ruling party picked conservative nationalist Sanae Takaichi as its head on Saturday, putting her on course to become the country's first female prime minister in a move set to jolt investors and neighbors.

The Liberal Democratic Party, which has ruled Japan for almost all of the postwar era, elected Takaichi, 64, to regain trust from a public angered by rising prices and drawn to opposition groups promising stimulus and clampdowns on migrants.

A vote in parliament to choose a replacement for outgoing Shigeru Ishiba is expected to be held on October 15. Takaichi is favored as the ruling coalition has the largest number of seats.

Takaichi, the only woman among the five LDP candidates, beat a challenge from the more moderate Shinjiro Koizumi, 44, who was bidding to become the youngest modern leader.

Comment: Takaichi was close to assassinated Prime Minister Abe. In many ways, this bodes well for Japan.

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Attention

iacta alea est

William Schryver
imetatronink
Sat, 04 Oct 2025 18:25 UTC
Die is Cast
© imetatronink
As I have long dreaded, it appears the weight of the #EmpireAtAllCosts cult is bearing sway.

They have both hands on one side of the tiller.

On the other side is Team Peace Prize, patting each other on the back with one hand, and eating a cheeseburger with the other.

Not that there is even a choice at this juncture on the question of: War or Not War?

When you are an enfeebled former superpower teetering on the brink of international and domestic collapse, war inevitably becomes the only mirage your hubris can envision.

Here are some of the salient considerations:

The fate of the global dollar system and its great towers of imaginary collateral hang in the balance. And those towers will not fall neatly into their own footprint. The collateral damage will be unprecedented.

The Sino-Russian Dragonbear alliance has solidified the foundations of the rapidly emerging multipolar reorganization of world power.

While the perpetual fence-straddlers in India and Turkey (and other lesser Asian powers) dance the vacillation jig they know so well, the formidable rising powers in North Korea and Iran have cast their lot where they must in order to survive.

This then is the order of battle.

The only question is WHO, WHERE, and WHEN.
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Putin

The hidden frontline: Putin's Valdai speech was actually a 'cultural manifesto'


RT
Sat, 04 Oct 2025 17:56 UTC
trans rights protest scotland
© Jeff J Mitchell/Getty ImagesTrans rights demonstrators gather outside the Equalities and Human Rights Commission on May 02, 2025 in Glasgow, Scotland.
The Russian president's Valdai address shifted the focus from war and geopolitics to values, identity, and the collapse of Western liberalism

Russian president Vladimir Putin used his address at the Valdai forum on Thursday to issue a challenge: Western liberal societies are crumbling, convulsing in moral chaos, and Russia is emerging as a sanctuary of tradition. He warned of "gender terrorism" driving Europeans toward Russia, and spotlighted the televised killing of conservative American voice Charlie Kirk as evidence of the West's internal collapse.

The Valdai stage has long been where Moscow sketches the future as it sees it. In this explainer, we break down how Putin shifted the debate from geopolitics to a values battle that he says is already reshaping the world.
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Star of David

Charlie Kirk's death has ignited a war over Israel on the right, and the Israel lobby is worried

Philip Weiss
Mondoweiss
Fri, 03 Oct 2025 00:00 UTC
Kirk Carlson
© Gage SkidmoreCharlie Kirk and Tucker Carlson • 2018 Student Action Summit hosted by Turning Point USA • December 19, 2018
The battle over Charlie Kirk's legacy continues with conservatives' changing views on Israel at the heart of it. The Israel lobby is shaken, and polls suggest a political "earthquake" may be taking place.

The battle for the legacy of Charlie Kirk continued this week with the publication of a long letter from the late evangelical activist to Benjamin Netanyahu last May. Kirk professes love for Israel and the Jewish people, then warns Netanyahu that Israel is getting "CRUSHED" on social media in the United States over charges of "apartheid" and "genocide" but suggests how an active p.r. campaign can undo those losses.

Israel advocates, including the financier Bill Ackman, pointed to the letter as evidence of the charismatic leader's devotion to Israel. And not — as commentator Candace Owens and others have said- that Kirk was turning on Israel in recent months.

The controversy is important because Kirk, who at 33 was killed during a speech in Utah September 10, led a youthful movement to help get Trump elected. If Israel loses Kirk's base, it really is in crisis in the U.S. discourse.

Or as Kirk himself said in July:
"I've been trying to tell them [Israel supporters], There's an earthquake coming in this country on this issue and in the country, and they don't believe me."
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USA

Trump's National Guard deployments centralize power and undermine federalism

Ryan McMaken
Mises Institute
Wed, 01 Oct 2025 00:00 UTC
military marchers
© Adobe StockMarchers in lockstep
In recent weeks, the Trump administration has deployed — or threatened to deploy — National Guard troops in at least five American cities, including Chicago, Portland, Los Angeles, and New Orleans. Many of Trump's supporters have cheered this, claiming that it is the responsibility of the president to send federal troops wherever he determines they are needed.

In some cases, deployments have occurred over the objections of the governments in the states where the troops are deployed. This has led to a complex legal situation, with the governments of California and Oregon suing the administration over the deployments. Judges, pundits, and lawyers will surely continue to argue for some time over the current legality of these deployments — as interpreted by federal judges — in federal court.

The fact that this is a matter of debate at all, however, illustrates how far the United States has come from the American Revolutionaries' original vision of a federal republic with a greatly limited and decentralized military force. In the founding era, Americans feared the existence of a standing army that could be deployed at the will of federal officials. Moreover, Americans demanded that the states maintain their own, independent militias that could not be subjected to federal control without the cooperation of state officials.

That attitude is now long gone.
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Hungary's Orbán claims 'EU has decided to go to war' and calls for petition against Brussels

Sandor Zsiros
euronews.
Fri, 03 Oct 2025 21:51 UTC
Orban
© APHungary Prime Minister Viktor Orban
At the European Political Community meeting in Copenhagen, Hungary's leader accused the EU of preparing "war plans" and rejected calls for Ukraine's EU membership, saying that a strategic partnership is needed instead.

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán launched a new scathing attack against the majority of EU leaders over the plans to counter Russian incursions into member states' airspaces, as discussed at the EU summit in Copenhagen on Wednesday.

On his arrival at the European Political Community gathering in Copenhagen on Thursday, Orbán announced that "the EU has decided to go to war" and that at Wednesday's informal EU summit, they presented their war strategy on how to defeat the Russians, which he labelled as "horrifying".

He referred to the EU leaders' decision to give "broad support" to proposals to ramp up the development of drone and anti-drone technology and to use immobilised Russian assets to loan money to Ukraine.

"Leaders broadly supported initial priority flagship projects that will strengthen Europe's security, including the European drone wall and the Eastern Flank Watch." European Council President Antonio Costa told reporters at the end of the informal gathering in the Danish capital.

Comment: Expect the opposition tide to swell against Orban as his term of leadership approaches its end.

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Helm

The Muslim Brotherhood, the CIA and MI6 behind the "Sumud" flotilla


Voltairenet.org
Fri, 03 Oct 2025 00:00 UTC
Boats
© UnknownBoats near Gaza coast
Since Israel's naval blockade of the Gaza Strip in 2007, numerous attempts have been made to deliver humanitarian aid by boat. While the first attempt may have been improvised, all subsequent attempts have been organized by the Muslim Brotherhood and its Palestinian branch, Hamas.

Fundamentally, this blockade is illegal under international law, and the Muslim Brotherhood is right to break it, as Israel has joined the United Nations and committed to respecting its decisions, which it has not done. The Security Council has described it as "collective punishment."

The Mavi Marmara affair in 2010-2011-2012 should have opened everyone's eyes to the political instrumentalization of these flotillas' humanitarian operations. When the flotilla was boarded by Israeli Special Forces and the passengers arrested, several of them were hospitalized in Turkey, including the Irish-Turk El-Mehdi El-Hamid, who had himself photographed kissing Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on the forehead.

It later emerged that El-Mehdi El-Hamid was both a Muslim Brotherhood member and a CIA agent. In 2011, he was put in power in Tripoli by NATO during the overthrow of Muammar Gaddafi, then in 2012 became the number 2 of the Free Syrian Army, that is to say of the so-called "Syrian rebels", he who had never before set foot in Syria.

Comment: See also:

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Bad Guys

New MI6 Chief's Dark History Revealed

Simplicius
Simplicius the Thinker
Sat, 04 Oct 2025 14:36 UTC
New MI6 chief Blaise Metreweli
New MI6 chief Blaise Metreweli.
The Times reports that MI6's new chief, the youngest in its history — and first female to boot — has begun her tenure over the cryptic ziggurat housing the world's most malign machinations.

But take a look at her face — notice anything suspicious? Well, we'll get to that.
Blaise Metreweli, 48, became the first woman to lead Britain's intelligence agency and the youngest ever "C" on Wednesday after taking over from Sir Richard Moore, a highly regarded career diplomat and spymaster with deep ties to Turkey.
The article covers the Middle Eastern angle, claiming that the UK has become 'marginalized' in Gaza, in favor of a US buoyed by the thunderous weight of Trump's inertia; but that's for another time.

Comment: Along with the current Russophobia sweeping the West, there is a curious number of family connections to nazis in the Western elite:
See also:

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After "Greater Israel," Netanyahu calls for a "Super-Sparta" and "finishing the job in Gaza"

Thierry Meyssan
Voltaire Network
Fri, 03 Oct 2025 10:43 UTC
Benjamin Netanyahu
© UN Photo/Loey FelipeOn September 26, Benjamin Netanyahu declared at the United Nations that "Israel must finish the job" in Gaza, that is, the ongoing genocide.
Benyamin Netanyahu's drift from avowed conservatism to Nazism is increasingly evident. After claiming the "historical and spiritual" mission of achieving a "Greater Israel," that is, conquering the territories of its seven neighbors, he has just called for transforming Israel into a "super-Sparta," that is, militarizing the state and ceasing all trade with its allies.

If words have any meaning, he constantly makes us understand that his references are the fascists Vladimir Jabotinsky and Leo Strauss. From one drift to another, he engaged in a shameless act of lying before the United Nations General Assembly, attributing dark thoughts to his adversaries and claiming the right to continue massacring.

Comment: See also:

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Bad Guys

FBI had THREE informants reporting Biden corruption in Ukraine: Records show no real investigation

Steven Richards
Just the News
Fri, 03 Oct 2025 21:32 UTC
biden brag fired shokin ukraine corruption
© C-SPAN/GODventures/YouTubeOut of office in 2018, Biden regales a think tank event with a salty account of getting Shokin fired.
More whistleblowers than previously known came forward alleging Biden family corruption in Ukraine. Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley wants to get to the bottom of why the FBI failed to fully investigate the allegations.

The FBI had three separate confidential sources who reported the Biden family was engaged in corruption in Ukraine. However, FBI Director Kash Patel says that there is no record that the bureau sought to thoroughly investigate those claims.

Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, and Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., released two new FBI FD-1023s — records of reporting from the bureau's confidential human sources — that focus on allegations of Biden family corruption.

These records match closely to a previous memo Grassley released in 2023 containing similar claims. The senator wants to get to the bottom of why the FBI apparently failed to fully investigate those claims.

"To date, the FBI has never answered Congress whether they investigated the text messages, audio files and financial records referenced in that 1023," Grassley said in a hearing with Patel in September.
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