https://www.sott.net/category/18-Societys-Child Signs of the Times: The World for People who Think. Featuring independent, unbiased, alternative news and commentary on world events. en-us Original content Copyright 2026 by Signs of the Times/Sott.net. For other content, see our Fair Use Policy at www.sott.net. Sun, 27 Sep 2026 19:26:46 +0000 https://www.sott.net/images/sottlogo_rss.jpg SOTT.net https://www.sott.net https://www.sott.net/article/508613-Palestinians-in-Masafer-Yatta-are-surviving-without-water-after-Israeli-settlers-cut-off-a-lifeline In Masafer Yatta in the southern occupied West Bank, Israeli settlers are accelerating their attacks on Palestinian farmers and herders in the area by cutting off their water supply. Palestinians in Masafer Yatta, in the south Hebron hills, are facing repeated water cuts after Israeli settlers damaged infrastructure supplying water to families in the area. According to Hebron's governor Khaled Dudin, this attack follows a persistent pattern of settlers directly targeting the water supply, now for the fifth time. Masafer Yatta is a 36-square-kilometer semi-desertic hilly area in the South Hebron region of the occupied West Bank. It directly overlooks the Naqab desert and extends west to the edge of the Dead Sea Valley. The hills are adjacent to the 1949 Armistice line, known today as the Green Line and viewed internationally as the borders of Israel proper. This strategic location makes it crucial for urban and agricultural growth south of the West Bank. For Israel, Masafer Yatta is... https://www.sott.net/article/508613-Palestinians-in-Masafer-Yatta-are-surviving-without-water-after-Israeli-settlers-cut-off-a-lifeline Sun, 27 Sep 2026 19:21:20 +0000 https://www.sott.net/article/508611-Trans-agenda-is-normalization-of-sadism-US-author The Democratic Party has been "captured by madness" and will revive trans policies if it regains Congress, A.J. Rice has warned The US Democratic Party has embraced a transgender agenda that amounts to "the normalization of sadism," author A.J. Rice has said, warning that radical trans policies would return if the party is allowed to regain power. Speaking to RT's America First host Scotty Nell Hughes about his new book, 'The Curse of the Bearded Lady: How the Trans Mafia Whacked American Sanity', Rice argued that activists have gained significant influence in schools, medicine, and corporate America while people who questioned the agenda have faced pressure to stay silent. Comment: Go here for the full 30 minute interview. https://www.sott.net/article/508611-Trans-agenda-is-normalization-of-sadism-US-author Sun, 27 Sep 2026 17:54:54 +0000 https://www.sott.net/article/508609-Israeli-envoy-kicked-out-of-UN-General-Assembly-for-disrupting-Iranian-presidents-speech This marks the second time this year that Israeli officials have been removed from an international gathering Security officials removed Israeli ambassador Gilad Erdan from the UN General Assembly (UNGA) and briefly detained him on 19 September after he unsuccessfully tried to disrupt a speech by Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi. Videos shared across social media show Elad holding a picture of Mahsa Amini as Raisi delivers his speech. He is then seen rushed by security and escorted out of the building. https://www.sott.net/article/508609-Israeli-envoy-kicked-out-of-UN-General-Assembly-for-disrupting-Iranian-presidents-speech Sun, 27 Sep 2026 17:22:42 +0000 https://www.sott.net/article/508608-France-Algerian-teacher-arrested-over-alleged-rape-and-sexual-assaults-of-children-aged-3-5-at-a-Paris-Catholic-nursery-20-complaints-filed A 31-year-old Algerian national has been indicted and jailed pending trial over allegations of rape, sexual assault and violence against 22 children at a private Catholic nursery school in Paris. According to reports from the French and wider pan-European press, accusations involve boys and girls born between 2020 and 2022, some barely old enough to explain clearly what had allegedly happened to them. The suspect, identified in French reports as Yasser G., worked for Cap English and delivered introductory English lessons at École Saint-Laurent in Paris's 10th arrondissement. He taught small groups during roughly 30-minute sessions and was reportedly left alone with the children without their regular classroom teacher present. Paris prosecutors say the 22 children interviewed described alleged shouting, insults, blows, intimate touching and acts of sexual penetration. Those claims remain allegations to be tested by an investigating judge, but their scale has transformed what began... https://www.sott.net/article/508608-France-Algerian-teacher-arrested-over-alleged-rape-and-sexual-assaults-of-children-aged-3-5-at-a-Paris-Catholic-nursery-20-complaints-filed Sun, 27 Sep 2026 17:01:41 +0000 https://www.sott.net/article/508607-No-benefits-Why-most-Americans-hate-the-idea-of-AI-data-centers In recent months I've been asked by numerous readers to give my take on the AI data center issue and the debate it has ignited across the US. In response, I've jumped into a steep learning curve, but it seems to parallel information I've covered in previous articles on AI. From what I can tell, both political parties are split on the data center debate. There are Democrats and Republicans on both sides of the divide, though their reasons for opposing or supporting the centers are not necessarily the same. It's clear that the Trump Administration has given its seal of approval on the concept and this has spurred many on the left to mindlessly attack it by default. Some conservatives support the centers simply because leftists complain about them. It's important to move past the partisanship on this issue to get to the facts. According to polls, around 70% of Americans oppose new data centers in their communities, but why? https://www.sott.net/article/508607-No-benefits-Why-most-Americans-hate-the-idea-of-AI-data-centers Sun, 27 Sep 2026 16:43:22 +0000 https://www.sott.net/article/508594-All-10-ActBlue-witnesses-take-the-fifth-as-GOP-says-probe-is-far-from-over All ten ActBlue employees and board members deposed by House investigators have invoked the Fifth Amendment rather than answer questions about the Democratic Party's dominant fundraising platform. Five of the ten are board members, all deposed in the past five weeks, and the three committees running the probe say they are not done. Their third report, released last week, alleged ActBlue accepted a substantial volume of foreign and fraudulent donations with minimal scrutiny. It builds on the first report, released in April 2025, which found that ActBlue skipped standard verification steps such as CVV checks, identified at least 22 significant fraud campaigns, and documented 237 prepaid-card donations from foreign IP addresses in a single month before the 2024 election. Investigators found that skipping those checks opened the door to smurfing, the practice of dressing up one illegal mega-donation as a parade of small contributions filed under real people's names. https://www.sott.net/article/508594-All-10-ActBlue-witnesses-take-the-fifth-as-GOP-says-probe-is-far-from-over Sat, 26 Sep 2026 18:06:39 +0000 https://www.sott.net/article/508585-Janfadaa-Irans-new-civilian-force-31m-volunteers-1000-battalions Days before Iran marked the 46th anniversary of the Sacred Defense, the name given to the 1980-1988 war imposed by former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein on the newly established Islamic Republic, Tehran hosted a very different kind of military drill. Those taking part were not regular troops, but ordinary Iranian citizens. Tens of thousands of men and women, young and middle-aged, participated in the Janfadaa-ye Iran (Sacrificing for Iran) exercises on Friday, 18 September. The drill was organized by Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Mohammad Rasoulollah Headquarters in Tehran alongside the Basij, the popular volunteer force affiliated with the IRGC. Its commander, Brigadier General Hassan Hassanzadeh, said 500,000 people had registered for the event, while organizers expected at least 313,000 to take part. The Janfadaayan-e Iran (Sacrificers for Iran) campaign is a popular movement launched in March 2026 in the wake of the 40-day US-Israeli war on Iran. It began as a... https://www.sott.net/article/508585-Janfadaa-Irans-new-civilian-force-31m-volunteers-1000-battalions Fri, 25 Sep 2026 20:42:46 +0000 https://www.sott.net/article/508582-Inside-Ukraines-propaganda-operation-targeting-Americans Ben Swann and Elizabeth Lane examine how a Ukrainian government-backed project offered US veterans $10,000 per video to push pro-Kiev messages. Ukraine's government-backed United24 project offered former US service members thousands of dollars to produce pro-Ukraine videos for American audiences, RT's America Now has found. The offers targeted veterans whose military backgrounds could make the message seem more credible to viewers. Host Ben Swann and investigative journalist Elizabeth Lane examined how the project, launched by Vladimir Zelensky in 2022 to raise support for Ukraine, approached former personnel, including special operations veterans with YouTube channels and other media platforms. According to veterans who reached out to Lane, United24 offered around $10,000 for each video, plus $40,000 in advertising support. There was no stated limit on the number of videos they could make. The project would also provide scripts and guidance, while the veterans would ultimately... https://www.sott.net/article/508582-Inside-Ukraines-propaganda-operation-targeting-Americans Fri, 25 Sep 2026 20:19:36 +0000 https://www.sott.net/article/508563-Israeli-forces-demolish-West-Bank-Palestinian-village-leaving-180-homeless Twenty-four homes have been razed in the West Bank village of Jinba as RT finds families searching through the rubble Israeli forces have demolished dozens of buildings in the Palestinian village of Jinba in the occupied West Bank, leaving around 180 people homeless, including 85 children, RT correspondent Charlotte Dubenskij has reported. Visiting the community after the operation, she found families gathering belongings among the rubble. Israeli military and police accompanied by heavy machinery entered Jinba on Wednesday and destroyed 24 homes, as well as agricultural structures, solar panels, and water tanks. It was the third large-scale demolition in the Masafer Yatta area in three weeks. "When they came back, they said, 'Where is our house?' Then the crying and screaming started," one resident told RT, recalling the reaction of children returning after the demolition. "The house itself does not break me. I built it. They demolish it. And we rebuild it." https://www.sott.net/article/508563-Israeli-forces-demolish-West-Bank-Palestinian-village-leaving-180-homeless Thu, 24 Sep 2026 21:59:55 +0000 https://www.sott.net/article/508562-Trump-cuts-2027-refugee-inflow-to-17500-down-from-Bidens-125000-prioritizes-white-Afrikaan-farmers The Trump administration plans to cap next year's refugee inflow at 17,500 people, down from the 125,000 target set under President Joe Biden. The State Department laid out the plan in a notice sent to Congress on Tuesday, a week before the 2027 fiscal year opens in October. Admissions will "primarily be Afrikaners from South Africa," the notice says, naming the Afrikaans-speaking white minority descended from Dutch and French settlers. Biden's agencies set the 125,000 target in his last year in office. Resettlement contractors put the long-run average at roughly 92,000 a year since the program started in 1980. Trump's first term bottomed out at 15,000. The administration set last year's ceiling at 7,500, then lifted it to 17,500 after declaring that unforeseen developments in South Africa had created an emergency. Next year's number holds at that level. https://www.sott.net/article/508562-Trump-cuts-2027-refugee-inflow-to-17500-down-from-Bidens-125000-prioritizes-white-Afrikaan-farmers Thu, 24 Sep 2026 21:02:01 +0000 https://www.sott.net/article/508561-Homeland-Security-is-monitoring-activists-building-anti-flock-tech SparrowMap uses volunteer cameras to track the police in the same way police track the public. The government considers it a potential threat. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) fusion centers have started monitoring anti-surveillance activists, according to records obtained by Reason. An intelligence report compiled in Massachusetts and redistributed by a Wisconsin fusion center shows that the government is tracking online critics of automated license plate readers (ALPRs) like Flock Safety. Included among the critics is a website, SparrowMap, that uses ALPR technology to track police vehicles in real time. The Massachusetts intelligence product states: "Recent social media and forum users have called for the surveillance of government vehicle movement, to include law enforcement vehicles. Users have mapped the movement of government vehicles across the United States through SparrowMap. The Commonwealth Fusion Center is providing this information for situational awareness. The... https://www.sott.net/article/508561-Homeland-Security-is-monitoring-activists-building-anti-flock-tech Thu, 24 Sep 2026 20:46:56 +0000 https://www.sott.net/article/508552-Seriously-Denver-socialist-candidate-says-her-history-of-stealing-from-taxpayers-makes-her-more-qualified-for-office It sounds crazy, but this kind of scenario is absolutely the norm for Democratic Socialist candidates: Being convicted of blatant criminal embezzlement is a badge of honor, not a disqualifying mark on their record. The complete inversion of moral standards is unsettling and it reinforces the need to prevent far-left activists from entering positions of local government. Denver mayoral candidate, Shontel Lewis, stole thousands of dollars in EBT funds while working in the state food-stamp office in 2008. She says that the experience actually makes her "more qualified" for the job of mayor, ostensibly because this makes her more attuned to the needs of "struggling Denver citizens". But maybe struggling Denver citizens should not be the deciding factor in who runs the city? Perhaps electing a thief to office will make their lives worse, not better. https://www.sott.net/article/508552-Seriously-Denver-socialist-candidate-says-her-history-of-stealing-from-taxpayers-makes-her-more-qualified-for-office Thu, 24 Sep 2026 19:22:50 +0000 https://www.sott.net/article/508549-Eight-sailors-in-USS-Abraham-Lincoln-strike-group-attempted-suicide-during-record-deployment-Pentagon-confirms Eight sailors assigned to the USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier or ships accompanying it on its nine-month deployment to the Middle East tried to commit suicide, acting Navy Secretary Hung Cao confirmed this week. In a Tuesday letter to Sen. Kirsten Gilibrand (D-NY) first reported by CNN, Cao said that one sailor "went overboard" from the Lincoln in early August and had to be rescued by helicopter. A second sailor attempted to go overboard in March but was stopped by their shipmates. The acting secretary noted that none of the suicide attempts succeeded. https://www.sott.net/article/508549-Eight-sailors-in-USS-Abraham-Lincoln-strike-group-attempted-suicide-during-record-deployment-Pentagon-confirms Thu, 24 Sep 2026 16:59:27 +0000 https://www.sott.net/article/508539-Ed-Sheeran-does-provide-a-safe-space-for-the-billionaires-who-own-him Sheeran's 'political neutrality' is a cover story - one hiding an implicit deal. He's allowed to grow rich but only so long as he denies a platform to anyone trying to hold the super-rich to account. Lots of journalists do disinformation. After all, it's often their job: to get you looking in the wrong place or viewing events through the wrong lens. A good illustration is Tom Slater, editor of Spiked magazine. Tom isn't dumb. But in his latest article, titled "The monstering of Ed Sheeran proves 'Free Palestine' has become a cult", he does a very good job of pretending to be. Why? Because that's the best way for him to keep his readership dumb. He's far from alone. Right now, there's a whole industry of media professionals responding to the Sheeran furore by pointing in the very opposite direction to the one the public ought to be looking in. Like Slater, these journalists and pundits understand that Sheeran isn't in trouble because of some supposedly out-of-control "Free... https://www.sott.net/article/508539-Ed-Sheeran-does-provide-a-safe-space-for-the-billionaires-who-own-him Wed, 23 Sep 2026 21:54:13 +0000 https://www.sott.net/article/508538-DHS-lawyer-accuses-Minnesota-judges-of-coordination-to-block-immigration-enforcement The Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) top lawyer accused a federal judge of working with other judges to block immigration law enforcement after the jurist said that the Trump administration's Minnesota enforcement surge created "a grave threat to the rule of law." The accusations followed a New York Times article published on Sept. 17 featuring a joint interview with seven Minnesota judges. It is unusual for federal judges to sit for wide-ranging media interviews dealing with their rulings and what impact they have had. The high-profile enforcement surge in the Twin Cities ran from December 2025 to the middle of February 2026. On Jan. 28, U.S. District Judge Patrick Schiltz issued an order saying Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) had failed to comply with nearly a hundred court orders. Schiltz, who was confirmed by the U.S. Senate in 2006 after being nominated by President George W. Bush, previously clerked for conservative Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia. https://www.sott.net/article/508538-DHS-lawyer-accuses-Minnesota-judges-of-coordination-to-block-immigration-enforcement Wed, 23 Sep 2026 21:28:44 +0000 https://www.sott.net/article/508536-BBC-memory-holes-comedy-sketches-that-SATIRISED-racism Even safe lefty establishment comics are now being erased The BBC has completely cut multiple sketches from 2006 comedy skit show That Mitchell and Webb Look after dumping the Bafta-winning series back onto its streaming service for its twentieth anniversary. The official line is that some of the old material no longer "works today." What no longer works, it turns out, is comedy that satirised and mocked the very mindset of racism. A BBC spokesman said: "This is a 20-year-old sketch show; in consultation with the programme makers, we have included the ones that still work today and not the ones that don't." David Mitchell and Robert Webb have not publicly replied at time of writing. The sketches were not random gags that aged badly. They were built as self-aware send-ups of the people doing the offending. Yet in 2026, not even this is acceptable. https://www.sott.net/article/508536-BBC-memory-holes-comedy-sketches-that-SATIRISED-racism Wed, 23 Sep 2026 20:51:47 +0000 https://www.sott.net/article/508530-The-hunger-margin-How-intel-analysts-learned-to-measure-the-end-of-abundance The shift happened gradually, then all at once. By late 2024, analysts at Langley and Fort Meade who had spent careers tracking terrorist cells and nuclear programs found themselves redirected to spreadsheets showing fertilizer shipments, satellite passes over Ukrainian wheat fields, and soil moisture readings from the Sahel. Nobody had issued a memo announcing the change. It simply became obvious that agricultural data had become national security data, and that the old distinctions between threats to the state and threats to the food supply had collapsed into a single, uncomfortable reality. The numbers they confronted were not abstract. 266 million people facing crisis-level hunger or worse - not "food insecurity" as bureaucrats define it, the anxiety of choosing between rent and groceries, but the physiological reality of bodies consuming muscle tissue to keep hearts beating. 1.9 million perched on the absolute edge of famine, the IPC Phase 5 designation that translates, in... https://www.sott.net/article/508530-The-hunger-margin-How-intel-analysts-learned-to-measure-the-end-of-abundance Wed, 23 Sep 2026 20:05:55 +0000 https://www.sott.net/article/508529-Comedian-John-Cleese-can-say-whatever-the-hell-he-wants-about-Islam Britain's suicidal indulgence of Islam has given rise to a suffocating culture of Islamo-censorship. Let's end it. Imagine devoting 65 years of your life to entertaining the nation only to be told by a gang of pious pricks that you're no longer welcome in England's second city. That's been the fate of the great John Cleese. He's given us six decades of comedy, yet still he finds himself mobbed by hysterics who want to muzzle his wisecracking mouth. His crime? You already know. Everyone knows. It's the same thing every time. He took the piss out of Islam. Cleese is touring England with a live stage show celebrating Monty Python and the Holy Grail. He screens the 1975 movie and takes questions from the audience. That's a pretty stand-up thing for a comedy giant in his late 80s to be doing. Not in the eyes of Islamo-narcissists, though. They're amazed Cleese can even show his face in public following his numerous sins of blasphemous thought. Nothing makes the pious wet their pants... https://www.sott.net/article/508529-Comedian-John-Cleese-can-say-whatever-the-hell-he-wants-about-Islam Wed, 23 Sep 2026 18:04:24 +0000 https://www.sott.net/article/508521-Spain-74-of-sex-crime-suspects-are-foreigners-in-Basque-Country Foreign-born suspects account for nearly three-quarters of sexual-crime arrests in Basque Country, official figures show Official statistics released by the Basque regional police, the Ertzaintza, indicate that people born outside Spain made up 58.7 percent of all arrests in the first half of 2026 even though they represent 10.2 percent of the population. The disparity is sharper in several high-profile offense categories. Of the 107 people detained for crimes against sexual freedom, 79 were born abroad, making up 74 percent of arrests in this category, according to data obtained by The Objective. Foreign-born suspects also accounted for 73.3 percent of homicide arrests and 61.3 percent of those for causing injury. Foreign-born suspects account for nearly three-quarters of sexual-crime arrests in Basque Country, official figures show https://www.sott.net/article/508521-Spain-74-of-sex-crime-suspects-are-foreigners-in-Basque-Country Tue, 22 Sep 2026 20:04:36 +0000 https://www.sott.net/article/508518-F-16-fighter-jet-crashes-near-US-and-NATO-airbase-in-Germany An F-16 fighter jet crashed on Tuesday near a US and NATO airbase in Germany, forcing the pilot to eject to safety. The $60-80 million military hardware was on approach to Spangdahlem Air Base in the Eifel region of the western German state of Rhineland-Palatinate when it crashed, a spokesperson for the base told The Post. The pilot was able to eject but was still injured in the crash and is receiving treatment, the spokesperson added. Four jets were taking part in a training exercise when one of the two planes returning to Spangdahlem crashed at around 8:30 a.m. Eastern time, a German Air Traffic Control spokesperson told SWR. The other three aircraft were diverted to a nearby airfield at Ramstein. https://www.sott.net/article/508518-F-16-fighter-jet-crashes-near-US-and-NATO-airbase-in-Germany Tue, 22 Sep 2026 19:31:54 +0000 https://www.sott.net/article/508517-His-son-was-sterilized-by-the-University-of-California-Now-hes-asking-the-Supreme-Court-for-justice Ted Hudacko learned his adolescent son was being sterilized after receiving an insurance claim in the mail. None of the doctors involved had asked for his permission, nor had his ex-wife informed him that their eldest son was undergoing hormonal treatments or surgery despite a court order requiring both parents' sign-off before their son underwent any "gender identity-related surgery." And yet the insurance claim revealed Hudacko's son had already received a hormone implant, Supprelin LA, to suppress his male hormones and "transition" him into having female-like characteristics. That was in 2019. In the years since, Hudacko hasn't seen his son for more than 75 minutes, aside from a few minutes one Christmas Eve and from afar at school pickup or football with his other son. And in those years, he's been locked in a legal battle against the Regents of the University of California, the doctors who oversaw his son's "transition" at the University of California San Francisco (UCSF),... https://www.sott.net/article/508517-His-son-was-sterilized-by-the-University-of-California-Now-hes-asking-the-Supreme-Court-for-justice Tue, 22 Sep 2026 19:28:34 +0000 https://www.sott.net/article/508515-US-secretly-flew-American-diplomat-out-of-UK-without-telling-British-police-after-he-was-found-with-child-abuse-images-in-dawn-raid An American diplomat accused of possessing child abuse images was secretly seized from his London home and flown out of Britain by US officials without British police being told, it has been claimed. The former US serviceman, who was working at the American Embassy in Nine Elms, south London, was allegedly taken from his flat in Putney after a dawn raid on August 25. Sources claim US officials discovered child abuse images at the property after they launched an investigation into the man's brother, who is based in America and is accused of sending abusive material to the diplomat. But British authorities were said to have been informed only after he had been flown out. The claims have prompted furious questions over whether US officials bypassed British criminal justice procedures and have led to meetings involving senior Metropolitan Police figures and ministers. https://www.sott.net/article/508515-US-secretly-flew-American-diplomat-out-of-UK-without-telling-British-police-after-he-was-found-with-child-abuse-images-in-dawn-raid Tue, 22 Sep 2026 19:07:12 +0000 https://www.sott.net/article/508501-The-United-States-claims-to-now-have-space-weapons-and-to-prepare-to-fight-around-the-Moon US Secretary of the Air Force Troy Meink said on September 14, 2026, at the National Harbor Air, Space & Cyber Conference that: "The United States now has space control weapons in orbit capable of defending joint forces against hostile action. "For more than a decade, we have expressed our concern about the development of space weapons by the Chinese, Russians and other countries. We are working to ensure our protection and our ability to operate in this environment, as we have done for decades." Contrary to Troy Meink's statements, Russia and China have always claimed that they do not deploy weapons in space. By signing the 1967 Outer Space Treaty, the United States committed itself not to place weapons of mass destruction in Earth orbit. https://www.sott.net/article/508501-The-United-States-claims-to-now-have-space-weapons-and-to-prepare-to-fight-around-the-Moon Mon, 21 Sep 2026 20:05:58 +0000 https://www.sott.net/article/508499-Ukraine-launches-massive-drone-attack-on-Moscow-as-Russia-votes-in-parliamentary-elections Russia, in turn, targeted Ukraine with missiles and drones of its own overnight, as the war between Moscow and Kiev contributes to the global energy crisis created by the US-Israel war on Iran. Ukraine carried out one of its largest-ever attacks on the Russian capital and the surrounding area overnight on 20 September, killing two people and damaging a key oil refinery amid voting in Russian parliamentary elections. According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, 1,100 Ukrainian drones and other unmanned aerial vehicles were intercepted and destroyed overnight. However, drones successfully damaged the Gazpromneft-Moscow Oil Refinery, Russia's largest by volume, and struck a residential building. Ukrainian attacks on Russian refineries in recent months have caused spikes in world diesel prices and added to the energy crisis created by the US-Israeli attack on Iran and closure of the Strait of Hormuz. Two people were killed in Sunday's attacks, a 44-year-old woman and an elderly man,... https://www.sott.net/article/508499-Ukraine-launches-massive-drone-attack-on-Moscow-as-Russia-votes-in-parliamentary-elections Mon, 21 Sep 2026 19:58:31 +0000 https://www.sott.net/article/508496-Media-TV-pool-wont-cover-Trump-CNN-MS-NOW-Politico-to-sue-over-White-House-ban CNN, MS NOW and Politico notified the federal government on Monday that they intend to sue the Trump administration to get their White House credentials back, three days after the president announced from Truth Social that he was barring all three from the building. The outlets have retained First Amendment lawyer Ted Boutrous, who beat the administration on this exact question in 2018, and are seeking emergency relief in federal district court in Washington. The Ban Trump announced the ban on Friday, writing that outlets "shouldn't be able to constantly write or report FICTION and LIES when they're covering the President." He later added that "there's something wrong with a country that can allow people to write purposely negative stuff." The order was enforced at the White House gates the next morning. On Saturday, journalists arriving to cover the administration were stopped by the Secret Service at the West Wing security checkpoints. CNN's Betsy Klein, MS NOW's Akayla Gardner... https://www.sott.net/article/508496-Media-TV-pool-wont-cover-Trump-CNN-MS-NOW-Politico-to-sue-over-White-House-ban Mon, 21 Sep 2026 19:14:45 +0000 https://www.sott.net/article/508486-Minnesotas-anti-ICE-relief-fund-shut-down-due-to-rampant-fraud Officials in Hennepin County, Minnesota, shut down a $2 million relief fund for businesses claiming to be affected by federal immigration enforcement after officials discovered widespread fraud among applicants, forcing them to end the program. The county board created the fund to help businesses "harmed" by Operation Metro Surge, the federal immigration enforcement operation that began in December 2025. Federal agents shot and killed two U.S. citizens, Renee Good and Alex Pretti, in Minneapolis in January, turning it into one of the most scrutinized immigration enforcement actions in the country. Of about 300 applications submitted, only 82 were deemed legitimate. Officials distributed only $500,000 before shutting the program down. County officials found the problem ran deeper than a few opportunists padding their paperwork. Site visits revealed businesses listed on applications that did not exist. Investigators found the same AI-generated language pasted into dozens of unrelated... https://www.sott.net/article/508486-Minnesotas-anti-ICE-relief-fund-shut-down-due-to-rampant-fraud Sun, 20 Sep 2026 20:59:02 +0000 https://www.sott.net/article/508481-Flock-camera-ping-jails-innocent-woman-for-13-days A 23-year-old Palm Coast Florida woman spent 13 days in a Volusia County jail cell facing life in prison after Florida Highway Patrol troopers treated a Flock Safety camera hit like a confession. Lindsey Brooke Isaacs did not cause the crash. Her black Dodge Durango had no collision damage. A 911 caller had already described a maroon Durango and a partial plate that was not hers. None of that stopped the machine-assisted hunt. The October 4, 2025 hit-and-run on eastbound I-4 near DeBary killed motorcyclist Joaquin Deno, Flagler County Deputy Administrator Jorge Salinas, and Salinas' wife, Nancy. A fourth person was badly hurt. Witnesses described a Dodge Durango fleeing the scene. Investigators searched nearby Flock cameras for a black Durango and found Isaacs' tag, RJVN10, crossing the Seminole-Volusia line at 9:51 p.m., about three miles west of a wreck that started around 9:53 p.m. That ping became the case. https://www.sott.net/article/508481-Flock-camera-ping-jails-innocent-woman-for-13-days Sun, 20 Sep 2026 20:36:53 +0000 https://www.sott.net/article/508478-Feds-break-up-250M-nationwide-scam-that-sold-fake-nursing-diplomas-targeted-Haitian-population Fraudsters sold $250 million in fake diplomas across the country to 15,000 "nurses." Many of them have disappeared into America's health care system. In spring of 2021, a man visits a small storefront in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. He tells the woman at the desk - the business owner- that he wants a nursing degree. What happens next, captured on undercover video, helps unravel one of the largest healthcare fraud schemes in recent U.S. history, operating heavily in South Florida's tight-knit Haitian immigrant networks. The con secretly recruited and collected money from people who wanted to buy, not earn, nursing diplomas. Isaac Bledsoe is a federal Special Agent in Charge of the Inspector General's Miami office at Health and Human Services. He says his agency got onto the fraud through a tip. https://www.sott.net/article/508478-Feds-break-up-250M-nationwide-scam-that-sold-fake-nursing-diplomas-targeted-Haitian-population Sun, 20 Sep 2026 20:01:15 +0000 https://www.sott.net/article/508468-I-am-back-Julian-Assange The WikiLeaks founder suggested that he is returning to public life two years after striking a deal for his freedom with the US. WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has suggested that he is returning to public life, following a hiatus after his release from British custody in 2024. The transparency activist spent five years behind bars while fighting a US extradition request that could have resulted in a lengthy sentence in a high-security US prison. He eventually struck a deal that secured his freedom amid a global campaign urging Washington to drop the case against him. The WikiLeaks account on X announced on Thursday that Assange is "back," posting a photo in which he is posing in front of a mural depicting him in Sydney, Australia. Assange reposted the message, confirming his return and saying it is the first post in eight years that he has personally written. https://www.sott.net/article/508468-I-am-back-Julian-Assange Sat, 19 Sep 2026 20:39:37 +0000 https://www.sott.net/article/508467-An-eerily-quiet-summer-of-no-riots-Is-Bessents-NGO-crackdown-working As summer enters its final days, attention turns to why early-year anti-ICE protests and riots in Minneapolis did not develop into a sustained nationwide wave of unrest comparable to the 2020 BLM riots. Those demonstrations created a potential flashpoint, but protests failed to spread like wildfire across left-wing-controlled cities - in what could have only been a 2020 redux of the "Summer of Love" Marxist revolution. Operation Metro Surge deployed thousands of ICE/CBP and federal officers to the Twin Cities starting in late 2025. Confrontation began as left-wing groups used activists to mount pressure campaigns against federal officers pursuing illegal-alien criminals. This resulted in two fatal shootings of U.S. citizens: Renee Nicole Macklin Good on 7 January and Alex Pretti on 24 January. What immediately followed were protests/riots, and left-wing groups certainly had their "George Floyd" catalyst for full mobilization, with protest infrastructure moved into the region. But... https://www.sott.net/article/508467-An-eerily-quiet-summer-of-no-riots-Is-Bessents-NGO-crackdown-working Sat, 19 Sep 2026 20:29:31 +0000 https://www.sott.net/article/508460-Blue-states-with-strong-teachers-unions-are-terrible-at-literacy-reforms A 2026 analysis from the Progressive Policy Institute found a strong negative correlation between the political power of state teachers' unions and states' adoption of evidence-based early literacy policies. PPI Director of Education Policy Rachel Canter conducted the analysis, comparing union-strength rankings from the Thomas B. Fordham Institute against literacy-policy data from the ExcelinEd education advocacy group. At least eight of the ten states with the worst student literacy scores lean Democratic and have politically powerful teachers' unions. Only five of the worst ten are Republican, and one is a swing state. Writing in The Wall Street Journal, Canter explained that PPI sorts states by which party holds the legislature and the governor's mansion, and that the gap tracks union power more closely than it tracks party. https://www.sott.net/article/508460-Blue-states-with-strong-teachers-unions-are-terrible-at-literacy-reforms Fri, 18 Sep 2026 20:08:56 +0000 https://www.sott.net/article/508458-Purge-complete-Princeton-faculty-reaches-perfect-zero-in-support-for-Republicans We recently discussed how Yale faculty reached academic nirvana after years of purging departments of conservatives and Republicans. The university finally showed zero political donations to Republicans. Now Princeton can claim that it has succeeded in a similar cleansing, according to a new study by Princetonians for Free Speech (PFS). The study shows that 98% of political donations went to Democrats or Democrat-affiliated groups and 0% went to Republicans or affiliated groups. Political contributions are one measure that helps gauge the degree of ideological orthodoxy and intolerance in higher education. While some academics simply do not make contributions and may still hold conservative views, the study still offers another insight into the political preferences of those who do make such contributions. The study does not mean that we can assume that the number of academics with conservative or libertarian values is zero. (There are obvious outliers such as Robby George).... https://www.sott.net/article/508458-Purge-complete-Princeton-faculty-reaches-perfect-zero-in-support-for-Republicans Fri, 18 Sep 2026 19:47:08 +0000 https://www.sott.net/article/508457-Lindsay-Clancy-jury-filled-with-liberal-activists-lone-holdout-juror The lone juror who blocked Lindsay Clancy's acquittal has spoken out for the first time after being doxxed and subjected to an intense public backlash, saying he believes he was targeted in part because he is a black Republican and devout Christian surrounded by jurors he described as liberal activists. Clancy admitted strangling her children, five-year-old Cora, three-year-old Dawson and eight-month-old Callan, in their Massachusetts home in 2023 before attempting suicide. She has argued that severe postpartum mental illness left her legally insane. Her trial ended in a mistrial earlier this month after 11 jurors backed acquittal on insanity grounds and Michael Desronvil alone refused. His identity was subsequently exposed online, his relatives were pursued for information and his personal history - including dismissed domestic-violence allegations - was dragged through the media. Desronvil has since had to leave his home and is currently staying at an undisclosed location. https://www.sott.net/article/508457-Lindsay-Clancy-jury-filled-with-liberal-activists-lone-holdout-juror Fri, 18 Sep 2026 19:30:15 +0000 https://www.sott.net/article/508444-British-pop-star-Ed-Sheerans-opening-acts-all-walk-after-rapper-Macklemore-sidelined-over-Gaza-remarks Ed Sheeran's openers quit after rapper Macklemore was dropped over "Free Palestine" remarks at a New Jersey show British pop star Ed Sheeran has lost all of the musicians booked to open his upcoming concerts after rapper Macklemore was dropped from the lineup over pro-Palestine remarks. Finneas, Aaron Rowe, Beoga and Lukas Graham have all pulled out in protest. The dispute erupted after Macklemore, whose real name is Ben Haggerty, joined Sheeran's Loop tour at MetLife Stadium in New Jersey earlier this month. He told the crowd "Free Palestine" before performing Hind's Hall, his protest song about the Gaza war, and later said he had been removed from the remaining dates after several venues objected to his participation. https://www.sott.net/article/508444-British-pop-star-Ed-Sheerans-opening-acts-all-walk-after-rapper-Macklemore-sidelined-over-Gaza-remarks Thu, 17 Sep 2026 20:57:54 +0000 https://www.sott.net/article/508439-Key-Saudi-pipeline-to-be-shut-down-for-weeks-as-diesel-prices-hit-record-highs New satellite photos show extensive damage to the East-West Pipeline, which was hit last week in a drone strike. Fears of a global energy shortage are rising amid new revelations about damage inflicted last week on a key oil pipeline in Saudi Arabia. According to a Monday report in The Associated Press, Saudi Arabia's East-West Pipeline, which is used to transport oil to the Red Sea, will be shut down for weeks after being hit last Thursday by a drone strike. Anonymous officials in the region told the AP that repairing damage from the attacks, which the Saudi government has blamed on Iran-backed militias based in Iraq, "could take three to five weeks, including at a major pumping facility." The Guardian reported Monday: Saudi Arabia will run out of oil ⁠stocks for export if the pipeline isn't repaired within days, which could lead to the loss of up to 4% of global supply." Satellite photos published on Sunday showed extensive fire damage suffered by a pumping station connected to... https://www.sott.net/article/508439-Key-Saudi-pipeline-to-be-shut-down-for-weeks-as-diesel-prices-hit-record-highs Thu, 17 Sep 2026 20:33:12 +0000 https://www.sott.net/article/508438-Lefties-continue-ditching-California-Paramount-hunts-Nashville-office-space "Insane Communist wackos" are ruining the state Paramount Skydance Chairman and CEO David Ellison is exploring a potential California exit as the studio battles a multistate challenge to its $111 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery. Politico reported late Wednesday that the studio is seeking roughly 400,000 square feet of office space in Nashville, signaling that its relocation is in the works. We have reported in the last few days and last month of Paramount's plan to exit the left-wing state (read here & here). The studio could move at least some operations to the Tennessee capital within two to three years, according to the report. No relocation has been announced, but the search raises the risk that California could lose a major Hollywood studio headquarters. Such a loss would deepen concerns about the state's ability to retain businesses as its entertainment industry struggles and the exodus of businesses and residents shows no signs of stopping. https://www.sott.net/article/508438-Lefties-continue-ditching-California-Paramount-hunts-Nashville-office-space Thu, 17 Sep 2026 20:20:26 +0000 https://www.sott.net/article/508437-Letter-COVID-Vaccines-and-Mandates-Are-Illegal Dear Honourable Member of Parliament Mr. Dean Allison, COVID vaccine injured people who testified at the Allison inquiry on September 8-11, 2026 (see this and this) should have their evidence used in a lawsuit or many lawsuits against Health Canada (90% of their funding comes from the drug companies according to BC family doctor Charles Hoffe) among other people like former Prime Minister Justin Castro (I meant Trudeau), every Premier of every province and every Chief Medical examiner of every province. Comment: Aside from the quip regarding Castro, he means this Mr. Hoffe: Canadian government plans 'totalitarian show trial' of heroic doctor. Legal trickery would silence Dr. Charles Hoffe Many present and former experts in the field signed that the COVID vaccines be halted (see this). Also I e-mailed McMaster University a year ago with three different e-mails showing them the overwhelming evidence that these so called vaccines were designed and implement to cause harm and death:... https://www.sott.net/article/508437-Letter-COVID-Vaccines-and-Mandates-Are-Illegal Thu, 17 Sep 2026 20:10:14 +0000 https://www.sott.net/article/508436-Britains-speech-police-How-the-state-learned-to-fear-its-people With 62,000 people arrested for speech crimes in five years, the UK can no longer claim to be a free society, says Paul Birch. The state has learned to fear its people and will no longer tolerate them speaking freely. Many of us in Britain still flatter ourselves that we live in a free country. Although the UK isn't quite a police state (not yet anyway), neither is it a country in which the individual can any longer speak without glancing over his or her shoulder. The old compact of a liberal society was simple - the state punished genuine criminality, while opinion was left to the rough justice of argument, satire and public disagreement. That compact has now been comprehensively torn up. Across Britain, speech that would once have been answered by rebuttal or humour is now treated as a matter for police, regulators and secretive Whitehall machinery. A report published this week by civil liberties and privacy campaigning organisation Big Brother Watch states that more than 62,000... https://www.sott.net/article/508436-Britains-speech-police-How-the-state-learned-to-fear-its-people Thu, 17 Sep 2026 20:09:51 +0000 https://www.sott.net/article/508434-The-REAL-reason-why-the-AI-CEOs-want-to-be-regulated Calls to regulate the artificial intelligence (AI) sector have reached a fever pitch over the last week. Fearmongering about the prospects of a totally unregulated AI industry has been around as long as the industry itself. But the current storm began last Tuesday when an engineer at Anthropic — the firm best known for its chatbot Claude — resigned, citing safety concerns. The engineer claimed that many people at top AI firms earnestly believe the technology could wipe out humanity by the end of the 2020s. Those claims got a boost on Saturday when Dario Amodei, the CEO of Anthropic, published an essay calling for an across-the-board slowdown of AI development. Other prominent CEOs like Sam Altman and Elon Musk then said they agreed with Amodei. The media, which is always on the lookout for a new mass extinction scare, jumped on what could appear to anyone who didn't actually read Amodei's essay as confirmation from the top AI companies that those warning of an AI apocalypse are... https://www.sott.net/article/508434-The-REAL-reason-why-the-AI-CEOs-want-to-be-regulated Thu, 17 Sep 2026 19:27:29 +0000 https://www.sott.net/article/508423-High-time-Vacationing-Israeli-soldiers-face-mounting-hostility-across-Asian-tourist-hubs Locals in Indonesia, the Philippines, India, and Thailand object to their countries playing host to troops from an army carrying out a genocide Residents across South and Southeast Asian countries are pushing back against Israeli soldiers and veterans vacationing in their countries, using confrontations, street protests, and legal complaints to object to hosting members of an army carrying out Israel's genocide of Palestinians in Gaza, Anadolu Agency reported on 16 September. The backlash stretches across Indonesia, the Philippines, India, and Thailand, which are all favored destinations for Israeli troops who take their army discharge payments and head abroad on extended tours as part of a post-service travel ritual known in Hebrew as Tiul Gadol. In Thailand, Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul this month ordered the expulsion of an Israeli man found guilty of making threats against a zoo owner after the zoo put a Palestinian flag on show. https://www.sott.net/article/508423-High-time-Vacationing-Israeli-soldiers-face-mounting-hostility-across-Asian-tourist-hubs Wed, 16 Sep 2026 22:15:53 +0000 https://www.sott.net/article/508421-Tucker-Carlson-sounds-alarm-over-Trumps-planned-largest-transfer-of-ordinance-in-modern-history After the US was essentially forced to conduct a major and rapid draw down of forces from the Gulf and Mideast region in the wake of Iran's 'unexpectedly' large retaliation for Operation Epic Fury, it seems all that Washington is left to do is arm regional allies to the teeth and wish them the best. Early this month the US approved two potential Saudi defense packages valued at a whopping $5.75 billion. The forthcoming deals will reportedly focus on transferring extended-range precision bombs and bolstering Abrams tanks in the kingdom. Ironically this comes at a moment that Saudi-backed coalition forces in Yemen - with all its military tech - are getting rolled back by Ansar Allah fighters in sandals. Naturally, next on the list comes Israel. https://www.sott.net/article/508421-Tucker-Carlson-sounds-alarm-over-Trumps-planned-largest-transfer-of-ordinance-in-modern-history Wed, 16 Sep 2026 21:16:29 +0000 https://www.sott.net/article/508420-Soros-backed-Philadelphia-DA-referred-for-criminal-investigation Testimony showed that Larry Krasner repeatedly complained about having his case taken over by 'Nazis.' Pointing to evidence of "false statements, false declarations made under oath, perjury, obstruction of justice, and conspiracy," a federal judge has issued a memorandum asking the Department of Justice to open a criminal investigation into Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner and a top deputy in his office, Matthew Stiegler. It's familiar stuff. Krasner, a spectacularly woke prosecutor who won the office with lavish backing from George Soros, has a long history of scandal and crisis, and has been accused of misleading courts in several high-profile cases. This is an old headline from June, covering the same ground in a different matter: The current controversy involves an effort by a convicted murderer, Dennis Johnson, to be freed from prison, turning to the federal courts with a repeated request for a writ of habeas corpus after state courts denied his several petitions... https://www.sott.net/article/508420-Soros-backed-Philadelphia-DA-referred-for-criminal-investigation Wed, 16 Sep 2026 21:01:08 +0000 https://www.sott.net/article/508412-New-photos-show-widespread-damage-at-US-positions-caused-by-Iranian-missile-drone-attacks New photos obtained exclusively by CBS News reveal for the first time the widespread damage and destruction of buildings and vehicles at multiple U.S. positions across the Middle East, as a result of Iranian missile and drone attacks. The images were sent to CBS News by active service members on condition of anonymity because of rigid media restrictions within the military. "This is major damage to our bases that hasn't been communicated to the American public," one deployed service member told CBS News. "We're standing there with our eyes closed getting punched in the face." https://www.sott.net/article/508412-New-photos-show-widespread-damage-at-US-positions-caused-by-Iranian-missile-drone-attacks Wed, 16 Sep 2026 17:40:51 +0000 https://www.sott.net/article/508409-Betraying-Charlie-Kirk-TPUSA-now-sponsored-by-Israeli-govt-aligned-outfit-leaked-contract-shows A year after Charlie Kirk's killing, his organization has buried his criticism of Israel to maintain support from the Israel-based International Fellowship of Christians and Jews. With close ties to the Israeli government, the Fellowship is flooding conservative media with paid partnerships. One year after Charlie Kirk's killing, The Charlie Kirk Show is distributed by a federally registered agent of Israel and his widow, Erika, has reversed his critical positions on the US-Israeli special relationship. Now, The Grayzone can reveal that the Turning Point USA (TPUSA) organization he founded is holding faith events sponsored by an Israel-based non-profit with close ties to the Israeli government. A leaked contract obtained by The Grayzone reveals that TPUSA entered into an agreement with the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews (IFCJ) to sponsor a series of ostensibly Christian faith-based summits between 2025 and 2027. Signed on May 16, 2025, the contract committed IFCJ... https://www.sott.net/article/508409-Betraying-Charlie-Kirk-TPUSA-now-sponsored-by-Israeli-govt-aligned-outfit-leaked-contract-shows Tue, 15 Sep 2026 22:21:02 +0000 https://www.sott.net/article/508406-Entitlement-Socialist-Senate-nominee-Angie-Nixon-says-its-crazy-she-has-to-pay-her-taxes-and-student-loans 'I don't wanna pay it back' Florida Democratic Senate nominee Angie Nixon, an avowed Democratic Socialist who owns two homes and raked in at least $270,000 from her jobs and investments last year — in addition to her husband's unpublished income — is lamenting the injustice of having to pay taxes on her outsized income. Nixon's income, which she detailed in financial disclosures, includes rent from one of her properties, her income as a state representative, her earnings from a Miami consulting firm, and her salary as the director of a nonprofit that works to mobilize black voters. Her income is likely even higher than reported because she is not required to publicly disclose the income earned by her husband, Jarrett Morene, who owns and operates what appears to be a car repair business. Nixon's personal income in 2025 clocked in at well over five times the median income of the average American worker, yet she failed to set aside enough of her substantial earnings to pay her taxes... https://www.sott.net/article/508406-Entitlement-Socialist-Senate-nominee-Angie-Nixon-says-its-crazy-she-has-to-pay-her-taxes-and-student-loans Tue, 15 Sep 2026 20:32:29 +0000 https://www.sott.net/article/508401-Israeli-officials-fume-over-award-winning-death-by-AI-documentary Culture Minister Miki Zohar has called for NAZA's directors to be stripped of citizenship while accusing them of "betrayal against the state" Several senior Israeli politicians have lashed out at the filmmakers behind a documentary accusing the IDF of using AI-assisted systems in the mass killing of Palestinians in Gaza. Zohar went so far as to accuse the two Oscar-winning directors of treachery and threatened to have them stripped of Israeli citizenship. The controversy erupted after the 80-minute-long film NAZA - the name alludes to an Israeli military shorthand for expected "collateral casualties" - received a 25-minute standing ovation at the Venice Film Festival last week and won the Special Jury Prize. The film, directed by Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor, is based on the accounts of anonymous Israeli military and intelligence insiders alleging that the IDF heavily relied on AI systems to identify people and homes for attack on a massive scale, often disregarding collateral... https://www.sott.net/article/508401-Israeli-officials-fume-over-award-winning-death-by-AI-documentary Tue, 15 Sep 2026 19:51:26 +0000 https://www.sott.net/article/508400-AfD-Melenchon-and-NATO-is-Europes-Atlanticist-consensus-finally-cracking The AfD's breakthrough in Saxony-Anhalt and Mélenchon's growing challenge to NATO are exposing the political divide in Europe. From Germany to France, right-wing and left-wing populists are questioning the continent's Atlanticist security consensus. Meanwhile, Brussels appears more willing to accommodate NATO-aligned radical-right forces. The recent state election in Saxony-Anhalt has delivered a sharp shock to Germany's political center. On September 6, 2026, the Alternative for Germany secured roughly 44% of the vote, more than doubling its previous result and leaving Chancellor Friedrich Merz's Christian Democrats far behind. For the first time, a party routinely labeled "extreme right" finds itself in a position to shape a state government. At the same time, Jean-Luc Mélenchon's La France Insoumise continues to gain ground in France, openly rejecting deeper EU defense integration and calling for an immediate French exit from NATO's integrated command. Together, these... https://www.sott.net/article/508400-AfD-Melenchon-and-NATO-is-Europes-Atlanticist-consensus-finally-cracking Tue, 15 Sep 2026 19:50:37 +0000 https://www.sott.net/article/508399-Massachusetts-family-lost-custody-of-daughter-after-refusing-to-affirm-her-gender-identity A family in Massachusetts is fighting to regain custody of their teenage daughter Sophie after the state took her away from them in 2024. The reason? Sophie's parents, devout Catholics Joseph and Arlene Kutzko, refused to affirm her "gender identity" after her school — without their knowledge — brainwashed her into believing she is a boy. On her Lighthouse Faith podcast, Fox News correspondent Lauren Green described this family's nightmare situation: Devout Catholic parents are fighting in court to regain custody of their 17-year-old daughter, Sophie, and stop Massachusetts authorities from medically transitioning her with high-dose testosterone. In December 2024, the Department of Children and Families (DCF) removed the then 15-year-old from her home because her parents, Joseph and Arlene Kutzko, would not recognize their daughter as a boy due to their faith-an identity change they allege staff at Algonquin Regional High School initiated in secret. Although physical abuse claims... https://www.sott.net/article/508399-Massachusetts-family-lost-custody-of-daughter-after-refusing-to-affirm-her-gender-identity Tue, 15 Sep 2026 19:36:29 +0000 https://www.sott.net/article/508391-Mayor-Karen-Bass-snubs-House-Committee-hearing-on-LA-homeless-fraud-allegations Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass has refused to appear at a House committee hearing investigating alleged fraud at the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority and could now face a congressional subpoena. The House Subcommittee on Delivering on Government Efficiency, led by Rep. Tim Burchett, R-Tenn., had requested that Bass testify Tuesday, Sept. 15, about alleged waste, fraud, and abuse at LAHSA, which has received more than $1 billion in federal funds since 2021. When the Daily Signal asked whether Burchett would consider subpoenaing Bass to testify at a later date, a spokesperson for the chairman said, "All options are on the table." https://www.sott.net/article/508391-Mayor-Karen-Bass-snubs-House-Committee-hearing-on-LA-homeless-fraud-allegations Mon, 14 Sep 2026 21:13:39 +0000 https://www.sott.net/article/508388-21-air-safety-concerns-raised-Amazon-contract-under-criticism-after-deadly-Boeing-767-crash Here is a fact-based summary of the story contents: The deadly Boeing 767 cargo crash at Miami International Airport (MIA) is drawing renewed scrutiny on 21 Air, the North Carolina-based carrier that operated the Amazon Air flight, as former employees describe years of alleged safety concerns and investigators examine how the company worked with Amazon. The September 6 crash killed five people after the aircraft overran Runway 30, crossed airport boundaries, and struck vehicles on the ground. Five others were injured. The National Transportation Safety Board's (NTSB) preliminary findings have also raised questions about the flight crew's handling of an unstable landing. The 767 touched down at 158 knots, or roughly 182 mph, and the crew briefly increased engine power in what investigators say was consistent with an attempted go-around. The throttles were then reduced, braking resumed, and the aircraft continued beyond the runway. The NTSB found no indication that speed brakes or... https://www.sott.net/article/508388-21-air-safety-concerns-raised-Amazon-contract-under-criticism-after-deadly-Boeing-767-crash Mon, 14 Sep 2026 20:26:21 +0000