With the looming end of the U.S. government shutdown amid a deal in the Senate, the House will soon be swearing in Adelita Grijalva to her rightful seat from Arizona, after a historic delay at the hands of Speaker Mike Johnson, taking direction from President Donald Trump, all aimed at blocking her from becoming the final signature needed to force a vote on releasing the Epstein files.

In mid-October, the House Oversight Committee released an interview with former U.S. prosecutor Alex Acosta, who told the panel that — contrary to widespread public reporting — he had never told Steve Bannon that Epstein "belonged to intelligence." Acosta denied ever discussing Epstein with Bannon, and claimed to have "no knowledge as to whether he was or was not a member of the intelligence community."

Yet, along with Acosta's interview, the House panel also released a new cache of documents from Epstein's estate containing direct evidence of Epstein's links to Israeli intelligence: Epstein's personal calendars reveal that a senior Israeli intelligence officer, with personal ties to former CIA Director Leon Panetta, lived at Epstein's Manhattan apartment for multiple stretches between 2013 and 2016. When cross-referenced with emails leaked from the inbox of former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak, a portrait emerges of Epstein at the nexus of high-ranking intelligence officials in both the U.S. and Israel.

This is the fourth piece in Drop Site's ongoing series on Jeffrey Epstein's role in brokering intelligence deals for Israel.

In the first, we exposed Epstein's role in brokering a security agreement between Israel and Mongolia. In the second, we identified Epstein's effort to set up a backchannel between Israel and Russia during the Syria civil war. In the third, we showed Epstein's role as a key facilitator of a security agreement between Israel and the West African nation of Côte d'Ivoire.

Meanwhile, we're left wondering why the rest of the media, which has demonstrated no lack of excitement when it comes to the saga of Jeffrey Epstein, has all of a sudden lost its reporting capacity, in the face of reams of publicly available newsworthy documents. A question for editors reading this newsletter: What are you doing?

From a place of competition, we're glad the media are sitting on their collective hands and we're proud to have broken this series of stories, which give us a glimpse of a world that is often hidden from public view. But it's also a topic that would benefit from the collective attention of our national media. Here's hoping some will join in.

Either way, we'll continue the work, and are grateful for the support of readers who make it possible. If you haven't yet upgraded your subscription, please consider doing so.

Last week, we let you know that an investigation we published on the BBC is now the subject of a lawsuit we intend to fully contest — the article can be read here — and that we needed help raising money to cover legal costs that had already approached $40,000. In just a few days, readers donated nearly $200,000. An enormous thank you from all of us at Drop Site. Having the resources to fight back in court is a game changer.

A computer program that compared the bomb suspect's gait to that of Shauni Kerkhoff produced a 94% match.

A forensic analysis of a female former U.S. Capitol Police officer's gait is a 94%-98% match to the unique stride of the long-sought Jan. 6 pipe-bomb suspect, according to a Blaze News investigation confirmed by several intelligence sources.

A source close to a congressional investigation of Jan. 6 additionally told Blaze News evidence has emerged recently that pointed toward law enforcement possibly being involved in the planting of the pipe bombs.

A software algorithm that analyzes walking parameters including flexion (knee bend), hip extension, speed, step length, cadence, and variance rated Shauni Rae Kerkhoff, 31, of Alexandria, Va., as a 94% match to the bomb suspect shown on video from Jan. 5, 2021. The veteran analyst who ran the analysis for Blaze News said that based on visual observations the program can struggle with, he personally pegged the match at closer to 98%.

Kerkhoff, who was a Capitol Police officer for four and a half years, left the department in mid-2021 for a security detail at the Central Intelligence Agency, sources told Blaze News.

In a development that should surprise no one, a Blaze investigation has discovered the (probable) identity of the person placing the pipe-bombs around the US Capitol building on the eve of the January 6th "insurrection" - a female United States Capitol Police officer (who subsequently joined the CIA). The mainstream media will ignore this, as will the Feds will, but at least we're clear on one thing: the terrorists are those in government.

Meanwhile, a year on since Trump's re-election, how's the 'golden era' going? A record-long US government shutdown, record-high grocery prices, far-left candidates winning local elections, and sabre-rattling against the US' Caribbean neighbors. Everybody's feeling it. MAGA? Meh!


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AI-powered quadcopter drones used by the IDF to commit genocide in Gaza are flying over American cities, surveilling protestors and automatically uploading millions of images to an evidence database.

The drones are made by a company called Skydio which in the last few years has gone from relative obscurity to quietly become a multi-billion dollar company and the largest drone manufacturer in the US.

The extent of Skydio drone usage across the US, and the extent to which their usage has grown in just a few years, is extraordinary. The company has contracts with more than 800 law enforcement and security agencies across the country, up from 320 in March last year, and their drones are being launched hundreds of times a day to monitor people in towns and cities across the country.

Skydio has extensive links with Israel. In the first weeks of the genocide the California-based company sent more than one hundred drones to the IDF with promises of more to come. How many more were delivered since that admission is unknown. Skydio has an office in Israel and partners with DefenceSync, a local military drone contractor operating as the middle man between drone manufacturers and the IDF. Skydio has also raised hundreds of millions of dollars from Israeli-American venture capitalists and from venture capital funds with extensive investments in Israel, including from Marc Andreessen's firm Andreessen Horowitz, or a16z.

And now these drones, tested in genocide and refined on Palestinians, are swarming American cities.

His surprise appearance on Tucker Carlson's show is something of a 'marker event' in the meteoric rise of polemic right-wing commentator Nicholas Fuentes to American political prominence. In the end it was a civil conversation fleshing out background to his controversial takes, and general agreement on what's been taking place in the US recently: growing, significant public backlash against Israel's wars and outsized influence in American politics. So, what pretty much everyone's talking about!

But, for some reason, THESE TWO PEOPLE are apparently 'strictly verboten' from being allowed to meet, much less discuss the 'elephant in the room'. The 'guilty flee where none doth pursue', so the extreme - and childishly inane - reactions of mainstream pundits and politicians betray a sense of 'doom' on their part regarding this 'culture war' shift in the USA. How will 'the enforcers' respond? In their customary manner? Or do their regular tactics no longer work?


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Last year on the 4th of July we drove down to the local mall to watch the fireworks display. We bought boxed dinners from Colonel Sanders, and listened to Vivaldi as the evening sky was transformed into a Cosmic Fairyland of Magic and Mystery. Little did we know, it would be the last Fourth of July we would celebrate. Seven months later, we were on a plane, leaving the U.S. - probably forever - and as I took my last look at the country of my birth, my heart was heavy with the awareness of what is very likely in the future for the Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave.

What do I mean?

On May 13, I wrote a bit on the Planet X Hoax: Will the world end on Thursday? As I noted at the end of this commentary: "The dogs are barking, but they are barking up the wrong tree."

For so many years we have heard about "End of the World" hoaxes and panics that it is becoming rather tiresome and tedious. When was the last time you heard about the Photon Belt nonsense? That one was pretty popular for awhile. Kept everybody going like crazy while dozens of folks made lots of bux off books and "ascension" courses to help people survive the "enlightening" of the planet.

Well, the "photon belt" apparently fizzled... and then the Hale Bopp Frenzy cranked up leading to some mass suicides and a general air of paranoia all over. What a lot of people didn't notice was that there were some extremely strange things going on here on the Big Blue Marble while Hale Bopp was decorating our skies - the weather was changing dramatically and Europe experienced what was called "The Flood of the Millennium." One has to wonder if the Hale Bopp affair was not just another form of distraction away from what was really going on - sort of a Cosmic O.J. Simpson trial?

From "500% tariffs against China" and "Tomahawks for Ukraine" to "a comprehensive trade deal" and "imminent peace with Russia," a day is a long time in Trumpian politics. Besides driving us all mad with endlessly contradictory Truth Social posts, can we figure out what the American president really wants to achieve on the world stage? In the end it boils down to maximizing economic advantage for Americans, while minimizing death and destruction for everyone else. Worthy of the title "peacemaker"? Perhaps, but it's a messy business.

Also on this NewsReal, is he serious about going to war against Venezuela? Probably not. And is he serious about not letting Israel "annex" the West Bank? Probably. But ask us again next week!


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September featured significant seismic activity, including a deadly magnitude 6 earthquake in eastern Afghanistan that claimed over 2,200 lives, alongside notable volcanic eruptions and widespread flooding from heavy rains and typhoons. A mid-month geomagnetic storm produced visible auroras in the northern U.S., highlighting ongoing solar influences amid patterns of planetary upheaval.

'It is forbidden to kill: therefore, all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.'

Voltaire

'I don't know of any army that does more than an Israeli army does to avoid civilian casualties. But incidental and unintended casualties accompany every war.'

Benjamin Netanyahu

'The right number of civilian casualties is zero.'

John Kirby, former US National Security Council spokesperson

TRUTH UNDER SIEGE - 'DEBATING' GAZA'S BODY COUNT

In a recent interview with the former Israeli government minister and now ambassador to the United Kingdom, Tzipora 'Tzipi' Hotovely, combative British journalist Piers Morgan asked repeatedly whether she knew the number of children that had been killed in Gaza since 7 October 2023. Morgan pointed out that the ambassador's firm estimate of 30,000 'Hamas terrorists' killed during the conflict contrasted starkly with her apparent ignorance of the number of dead and injured Palestinian children. Clearly frustrated, Morgan kept repeating the same question, but to no avail. Towards the end of what was a protracted and often terse exchange, a clearly discomforted ambassador (at one stage accusing Morgan of 'blood libel'), dismissed the figures of civilian casualties produced by Gaza's Ministry of Health — figures which over many years have been regarded as reliable by numerous media and aid organisations.

Or so he'd like you to believe. Trump's bullsh*t reached unprecedented heights last week with his theatrical 'Mid-East Peace Deal' in Egypt, which was really just a declaration of intent signed by the leaders of parties other than Israel and Hamas, and in which they expressed their desire to see the conflict ended. That's it.

Hamas has released all remaining Israeli hostages, while Israel has released a couple thousands Palestinian ones. But the fundamentally barbaric and illegal occupation and colonization of Palestinian lands continues. In the meantime, Trump's also been publicly bragging in Israel's Knesset (!) about Israeli money buying US foreign policy...

Far from being 'resolved', Israel's 'Palestinian problem' is likely being shifted into the next phase: bloody civil war instigated by 'militias' funded and/or fully supported by the US and Israel.


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