One of former President Donald Trump's attorneys has revealed new details regarding the raid on his Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Fla., early last week.

Lawyer Christina Bobb said that the former president and many family members watched the FBI during "the whole" raid, meaning that they likely would have been able to see if agents planted any evidence, as Trump suggested last week.

According to the New York Post, Bobb told the streaming network, Real America's Voice:

"It's kind of funny. I think the folks in New York, President Trump and his family, probably had a better view than I did because they had the CCTV, they were able to watch. I was, you know, I was stuck in the parking lot there to you know, collect paper and answer questions. But they were actually able to see the whole thing. So they actually have a better idea of what took place inside."

Bobb said that the FBI had initially instructed Trump's staff and his attorneys to shut off the closed circuit TV security system, but they refused to do so and allowed it to remain in operation the entire raid.

Due to the fact that the composite war of the West against Russia through the use of Ukraine as a springboard and tool is clearly failing, the puppet government of "independent Ukraine" has made a criminal deal with the Polish authorities, and sells to Warsaw for a penny what is still left in Kiev's zone of influence.

The Russian Foreign Intelligence Service reported that Poland, in addition to preparing a provocation with the introduction of an occupation contingent into the western territories of Ukraine under the guise of "Polish peacekeeping forces," is already trying to organise control over the most promising sectors of the neighbouring state's economy.

With the obvious consent of the Ukrainian authorities, Polish companies organised the purchase of products of Ukrainian agricultural producers at low prices, condemning Ukrainian entrepreneurs to bankruptcy. The main goal is the purchase of assets and land from bankrupt enterprises for a penny.

As an example, the Russian intelligence agencies cite the fact of purchasing barley of a new crop at $30 per ton, which is almost 5 times cheaper than the real cost of this product. Recall that grain is exported from the territory of Ukraine under the cover of a powerful propaganda campaign, allegedly in order to "save the world from hunger" and "liberate it from Putin".

Dear western politicians!

Leaving aside the usual sycophantic nonsense, which applauds your continuing efforts to bring freedom and democracy to the Middle East with missile attacks, trying to change the earth's climate using beliefs, promising an unknown source of 'green' energy whilst promoting vaccines to save us from certain death from a dose of flu, here's an alternative open letter.

As a UK citizen now retired, having recently returned to the UK after over a decade of living and working in Asia and the Far East I'm stunned by the stupification around me. Have I inadvertently fallen down an alternative universe Alice in Wonderland rabbit hole, or is there a hidden factory somewhere mass-producing stupid politicians?

As yet another British Prime Minister resigns following the resignations of two others before him producing a failing economy, soaring inflation, sky-high taxes, an energy crisis and a falling pound ... The indoctrinated cheer on men with beards wearing dresses and it's left to a dwindling minority to explain why carrots don't grow on trees in a socially engineered ideological dystopia! The consequences of which you blame on the Russians, or the Chinese depending on who the US has currently fallen out with.

As you sit in your elitist tax payer funded ivory towers, let's briefly detail the chaos and mayhem you've produced.

Did you think the outside world believed you were trying to bring freedom and democracy to the Middle East and not trying to control the world's major oil producers who just all happened to have abandoned the petrodollar? How many millions lost their lives in that failed adventure?

How many of you swooned over a 16-year-old autistic Swedish school drop out with Asperger's syndrome, OCD and selective mutism whose mother said she had "special eyes" that could see carbon rising from a dying planet? As a self-inflicted energy crisis looms and both Britain and Germany re-open coal-fired power stations, are you still cheering for mentally ill Greta and her windmills?

Professor Jordan Peterson has written a fantastic essay for the Telegraph attacking the global political and business elite and their court astrologers for promoting a completely unworkable net zero agenda that will have to be paid for by the poor and the vulnerable, thereby fuelling civil unrest. The essay articulates so clearly my own point of view, and I suspect the view of most other Daily Sceptic contributors, it reads almost like an in-house editorial. His central point is that this corporate environmental activism is underpinned by the same strain of misguided utopianism that has been responsible for so much human misery. Here's how it begins:

Warsaw is currently developing a draft proposal that would allow the EU refuse visas to Russian travelers, Polish Deputy Foreign Minister Piotr Wawrzyk told the nation's PAP news agency on Sunday. A decision on the matter can be expected within the coming weeks, he added.

The deputy minister did not elaborate on the exact details of the proposal, which is still in the works, but said that its purpose is to head off the potential resistance of some key EU members that are likely to oppose a blanket visa ban on all Russians.

Poland is in favor of suspending the 2007 agreement between Brussels and Moscow on "the facilitation of the issuance of visas" altogether. This treaty regulates the issuance of visas "for an intended stay of no more than 90 days per period of 180 days" for the citizens of Russia and the EU.

Yet, according to Wawrzyk, not all EU members are on board with such an initiative. "This is opposed by large member states, including Germany, France and the Netherlands," he said. Since it is "impossible to overcome the resistance of these countries to suspend the agreement ... Poland is working on a new solution," he added.

Richards Marles has reaffirmed Australia's commitment to the one-China policy as Canberra moves towards "stabilising" its relationship with Beijing.

Speaking with Sky News Australia's Kieran Gilbert on Sunday, the Defence Minister and acting Prime Minister said Australia's principal motive was to see a "de-escalation of tensions" in the region.

"What we want to see is a return to normal peaceful behaviour what underpins that, from Australia's point of view, is not wanting to see any unilateral change to the status quo across the Taiwan Strait," he said.

President Vladimir Putin of Russia says Moscow is ready to sell advanced weapons to its allies across the world and cooperate in developing military technology, as the war between Russia and Ukraine nears its sixth month.

Addressing the international military-technical forum Army-2022, which takes place at Patriot Congress and Exhibition Center outside Moscow, Putin insisted that Russian weaponry is years ahead of the competition.

Russia cherished its strong ties with Latin America, Asia and Africa, "and is ready to offer partners and allies the most modern types of weapons - from small arms to armored vehicles and artillery, combat aircraft and unmanned aerial vehicles", the Russian leader said on Monday, adding, "Almost all of them have been used more than once in real combat operations."

Soon after Nancy Pelosi's recent descent on Taiwan, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova called out Nicholas Burns, the U.S. ambassador to China, for "keeping an embarrassed silence" regarding Madame Speaker's "brash and insolent stunt." Burns' silence was quite a change from a mere month back at the World Peace Forum in Beijing, where he "demanded that China stop supporting the war in Ukraine or relaying 'Russian propaganda'." Even more brazenly, Burns used that opportunity to flatly accuse the Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson of "telling lies about American bioweapons labs, which do not exist in Ukraine."

But that was then and this is now in the West's "rules-based order," where each occasion requires a new set of rules. Thus, it goes without saying that, for the time being, Burns is also keeping an "embarrassed silence" about another potentially tectonic event - the latest, even more damning evidence of the work of U.S.-run biolabs in Ukraine offered by the Russian Defense Ministry on August 4, including involvement in the Covid-19 pandemic, highly suspicious U.S.-funded research of the monkeypox, West Nile fever and African swine fever pathogens, and even U.S. involvement in the death of ex-Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez.

The reason for Burns' silence is not difficult to discern: since the "free" Western mass media have massively ignored the latest proof that Victoria Nuland's March reluctant admission that the U.S. was indeed running "biological research facilities" in Ukraine was just the tip of the iceberg, neither Burns nor any other U.S. official are going to do anything to force their "free" /media to even broach the subject. And now that Twitter has suspended the Russian Foreign Ministry account for daring to quote key parts of the Russian defense ministry's sensational presentation, Burns and company don't have to say anything at all. If it's memory-holed by the "free" social media, then it must not exist. At least until such time that it can be properly "genetically engineered" and made "safe" for consumption.

That's the modus operandi of the West's holier-than-thou liberal "elites" - it's not the truth that matters but successfully managing the hypocrisy so that it doesn't appear too painfully obvious even to minds numbed by the sheer inanity of Western mainstream narratives. Or to paraphrase former Clinton advisor James Carville's snowclone about the economy - it's the West, stupid. They think they can do whatever they want.

​ Former President Donald Trump on Sunday called for the Justice Department to return the reams of documents FBI agents seized at his Mar-a-Lago resort last week, pointing to a report that said the information was covered by attorney-client or executive privilege.

"Oh great! It has just been learned that the FBI, in its now famous raid of Mar-a-Lago, took boxes of privileged 'attorney-client' material, and also 'executive' privileged material, which they knowingly should not have taken," Trump said on his Truth Social site.

"By copy of this TRUTH, I respectfully request that these documents be immediately returned to the location from which they were taken. Thank you!," the former president said in the posting.

The World Health Organization (WHO) is moving ahead with plans to enact a new or revised international pandemic preparedness treaty, despite encountering setbacks earlier this summer after dozens of countries, primarily outside the Western world, objected to the plan.

A majority of WHO member states on July 21, during a meeting of WHO's Intergovernmental Negotiating Body (INB), agreed to pursue a legally binding pandemic instrument that will contain "both legally binding as well as non-legally binding elements."

STAT News described the agreement, which would create a new global framework for responding to pandemics, as

"the most transformative global health call to action since [the] WHO itself was formed as the first specialized United Nations agency in 1948."

Meanwhile, the World Economic Forum, African Union and World Bank — which created a $1 billion fund for "disease surveillance" and "support against the current as well as future pandemics" — are developing their own pandemic response mechanisms, including new cross-country vaccine passport frameworks.

WHO's 'pandemic treaty': what's been proposed and what would it mean?