An Iranian/Venezuelan "shadow fleet" oil tanker seized by the US military somewhere off the coast of Venezuela. Five oil tankers, "part of the Russian shadow fleet," blown up, sunk, or badly damaged in the Black Sea and off the west African coast. "Ukraine" claims 3 of the latter, but who's behind the other two attacks? And is it mere coincidence that the US government has resorted to 'piracy' at a time when the Kiev regime has begun sinking tankers?

Today, a mass shooting targeted Jews gathered at Bondi Beach in Sydney, Australia, to mark Hanukkah, leaving 15 of them dead and many more injured. The deadliest mass shooting of Jews anywhere since the massacre by a right-winger at a synagogue in Pittsburgh in 2018, the Bondi Beach attack appears to have been carried out by two Australian Muslims of Pakistani origin. Was this spontaneous violence motivated by 'revenge for Gaza'? If so, it comes at the worst possible time for free speech in Australia.

Finally, rare guilty confession from the British government this week: "Yes, we have active-duty soldiers in Ukraine, and yes, we know that 'Covid vaccines' are dangerous, but no, you can't see our data on this!"


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"A pretty big turnaround," the Russian government called it. "Aligned with Russia," is how Atlanticist media is describing it. The updated US National Security Strategy is, on paper, something of a 'clean break' with the the United States' past . No longer seeking 'full-spectrum dominance' and stressing the impossibility of being 'policeman for the entire world', the US outlook on global affairs codifies Trump's vision of refocusing on 'the near-abroad', namely the Americas. It also explicitly calls for ending NATO expansion and seeking 'win-win outcomes' with US peer and near-peer competitors.

Timely then, given the sharp spat last week between US and EU officials over censorship and the crackdown on political dissent in Europe, which erupted when the European Commission decided to fine Elon Musk's X platform for not agreeing to quietly censor European citizens on behalf of the Euro regime. The year 2025 is thus bookended by a second charged 'debate' between JD Vance and Musk and European leaders over the what becomes of the EU without its 'US guarantor'.


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The explosive allegations by a top American media figure raise disturbing questions about the French government and its dangerous clandestine practices.

The idea of a government quietly assembling lists of people to be eliminated might sound like something from a John le Carré spy thriller, but in France, it's actually documented history. In 2017, the French media outlet Le Monde published an excerpt from an investigation conducted by a reputable investigative journalist, Vincent Nouzille, which shocked even seasoned observers of intelligence affairs. The French newspaper revealed some of the findings described in Nouzille's book, titled Erreurs fatales, where he explores the grey areas of the French intelligence services, and asserts that for years, France has compiled lists of individuals marked for assassination — people considered hostile not only because of acts of terrorism or kidnapping, but for operating "against France's interests."

According to the report, these names were submitted directly to the President of the Republic for approval. Former French President François Hollande, in interviews cited in the article, acknowledged that he himself had authorised such killings, giving his personal assent to operations conducted by the French Secret Services (DGSE) or military special forces — far from any courtroom or judicial oversight. Interestingly, French records indicate that Emmanuel Macron was an advisor to then President Hollande at Élysée Palace for two years before becoming Francois Hollande's Minister of the Economy, Industry and Digital Affairs in 2014. Whether he was aware of such a policy is still unclear. Nonetheless, the very existence of the policy should be beyond rebuttal at this point.

When high-profile American podcaster Candace Owens publicly alleged that a state-sanctioned French assassination plot (with at least one Israeli operative involved) was being planned, most would have written it off as a publicity stunt or paranoid rantings. Yet, for anyone who knows the shadowy history of multinational intelligence alliances, her claim shouldn't be dismissed so easily. In 1976, the Safari Club, run from secret rooms in Cairo, staffed by French Foreign Legion veterans, Egyptian Sa'ka commandos, Israeli operatives, CIA operatives and other criminal actors, showed the world that states could collaborate beyond borders, laws, and scrutiny. Unproven as Owens' allegation may seem, the historical record of such clandestine activities makes this story not merely imaginable, but very possible. And that is why Owens' accusation, as wild as it may seem, lands squarely on covert terrain shaped by decades of clandestine activities conducted by a consortium capable of operating across borders and beyond oversight. To understand why her recent claim didn't dissipate on impact, one has to understand the secret architecture of parallel intelligence constructs such as the Safari Club and the long shadow it still casts.

When Candace Owens claimed on X that a "high‑ranking French government insider" warned her of an imminent plot to have her assassinated, alleging that President Emmanuel Macron and his wife Brigitte had "authorized and financed" the operation, assigning it to a small National Gendarmerie Intervention Group (GIGN) team that included an Israeli operative. She also suggested that "Charlie Kirk's assassin trained with the French Legion 13th brigade with multi-state involvement". The claim sounded like it belonged to the realm of conspiracy thrillers, and yet, as the allegation ricocheted across social media, something unusual happened: people did not instinctively laugh it off. Some dismissed it, yes. But many hesitated, paused, or quietly admitted that, given the right circumstances, given the right network of covert actors, such a plot didn't feel entirely impossible.

One of the initial proposed sites for the prison for alleged Al Qaeda terrorists, I was told more than two decades ago by a senior Army general, as the United States went to war against Osama bin Laden and the Taliban in the wake of the September 11, 2001, attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, was a deserted island in the South Pacific that had been used after World War II for testing nuclear weapons. But the islands there were still too hot — too radioactive — and so the prison was set up at a once obscure US Navy base on the eastern tip of Cuba known as Guantánamo Bay.

If it's not really about the drugs, and if it's not really the socialism that bothers him, why is Trump preparing to launch yet another American regime change war against Venezuela? The recent election of 'democratic socialist' Zohran Mamdani as New York City mayor is nowhere near as 'shocking' as right-wing influencers would like you to believe, and Trump demonstrated that by inviting him to the White House for a convivial meeting last week.

The US economy (and certainly its urban social values) is already rather 'socialist' in many respects. So what then is Trump's beef with the 'Chavista' regime of Venezuelan leader Nicholas Maduro? Why is Trump strongly signalling alignment with the CIA - his only real enemy - on this harebrained, and potentially massively destructive, foreign (mis)adventure?


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Trump's 28-point peace plan for Ukraine was announced last week. The Euros say it's "capitulation to Russia," Kiev says it's under pressure from the White House to accept it, "or else," and the Russians say they'll "consider it." Though more realistic than anything proffered by Western leaders thus far, it will likely fail because entrenched money interests want to keep the war going.

Back in the US, Congressman Thomas Massie's Epstein Files Transparency Act has been passed surprisingly quickly. So, a 'win' for MAGA, despite Trump's months-long efforts to kill the bill. And yet, unexpectedly, Trump loyalist Marjorie Taylor Greene has announced her sudden retirement from national politics, stating, "our government is broken beyond repair."

A bad omen for 'Epstein transparency' and thus the remainder of Trump's term. Is MAGA dead in the water?


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They say dead men tell no tales. Not true in this case. Epstein continues looming large over Trump's second term, with The Epstein Files™ - and specifically the demand to publish them, combined with the efforts to selectively 'massage' and 'tailor' them - practically dictating the schedule and tempo of US domestic politics. Left and Right have come together to force their release, squeezing Trump in the middle, who wants everyone to forget all about them.

Most assume that that's because Trump himself is personally implicated in them. More likely, Israel is, so Trump wants to placate Israeli paranoia in order to focus on making 'big beautiful peace deals' and avoiding another smear campaign like Russiagate, and thus the political chaos of his first term. He thinks he's 'doing MAGA' the only way it can be done, but in the meantime his base is 'noticing' an awful lot and wants the US to completely decouple from Israel.

The divergence is becoming extreme. Can the center hold?


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Tucker Carlson has just released a deep dive into Donald Trump's attempted assassin, Thomas Crooks - who both the Biden and the Trump FBI have been very quiet about since the July 13, 2024 shooting in Butler, Pennsylvania.

In late September, Carlson's team received an anonymous tip from someone who said they had gained access to some of Crooks' online accounts, which he found using 'tools commonly used by private investigators' after obtaining Crooks' phone number and gmail address from public documents. He then traced that to two encrypted foreign email accounts (bcook[at]mailfence.com and americangamer[at]gmx.com). He also had a snapchat account, a Venmo, Zelle and PayPal account among several others.

"It turns out that Crooks was hardly an online ghost," Carlson reports. "And yet, federal investigators lied and told us there was no trace of him online."

The source was able to obtain all materials from Crooks' deactivated YouTube account - which includes his search history, watch history, and 737 public comments.

When Carlson's team asked the FBI why they hadn't shared this information with the public, the agency replied by asking if they could verify the authenticity of the shooter's account.

A severe solar storm mid-month, driven by coronal mass ejections, produced auroras visible as far south as the southeastern U.S. and triggered brief radio blackouts. Multiple M- and C-class flares hit Earth from late September into early October, with low to moderate levels by late October and a slight chance for M-class events.

The "X-flare factor" reemerged mid-month, alongside geomagnetic disturbances that may have influenced atmospheric patterns, triggering seismic releases, intensified storm systems like Hurricane Melissa, and unseasonal weather anomalies this month. We can anticipate similar events over the next few months.

The increased seismic and volcanic activity continued to wreak havoc in October: