All it took was an alarming surge in civil terrorism, funded by dark-money NGOs funneling cash into activist nonprofits to fuel endless color-revolution-style operations against “America First”, and the rise of nihilistic accelerantists and far-left militancy has become utterly undeniable this month: from the transgender shooter who stormed a church in Minneapolis, to the furry-obsessed leftist with a transgender boyfriend suspected in the political assassination of Charlie Kirk, to Wednesday’s ICE attack in Texas by another far-left radical. That was enough for the Trump administration to begin a whole-of-government crackdown on domestic political violence, treating it as organized terrorism.

Recapping the Trump administration’s latest moves: 

• Trump Directs Task Force To Counter Rogue NGOs, Leftist Groups Sowing Chaos

• Antifa Designated’ Domestic Terror Group’ As White House Declares War On Radical Leftist Groups

Related: 

• Soros Foundation Fires Back At NYT Report: We “Don’t Fund Terrorism”

• New Report Reveals Soros’ Open Society Funneled $80 Million To Pro-Terror Groups

• Dems’ NGO Empire Cracks: First Gates Foundation Dumps Arabella Network, Then The Atlantic Forced To Admit Left-Wing Terror

With Antifa designated as a domestic terror organization, executive orders targeting rogue NGOs and the radical left being drawn up, and the eventual creation of an intergovernmental NGO-busting task force, the question remains: Does the federal government, in its whole-of-government crackdown on the unregulated NGO world, actually know how to target the proper money networks?

“It is a vast domestic terror movement, and with God as my witness, we are going to use every resource we have… throughout this government to identify, disrupt, dismantle, and destroy these networks… and we will do it in Charlie’s name.”

Steven Miller and JD Vance update the… pic.twitter.com/PhZys5WdEP

— Connor Tomlinson (@Con_Tomlinson) September 15, 2025

Spoiler alert: not all roads lead to the Open Society Foundations, despite what some mainstream narratives suggest.

That’s where civil terrorism expert Jason Curtis Anderson comes in, offering a cheat sheet on dark-money-funded foundations and radical organizations that operate with little regulation, functioning in many ways as a parallel form of government aligned with the Democratic Party to wage endless war against President Trump and his MAGA base, while also pursuing more sinister goals of collapsing the nation and dismantling capitalism.

In other words, many of these groups have openly embraced socialism and Marxism, which is why that anti-American vibe emanates so strongly from the Democratic Party.

Anderson’s cheat sheet to better understand “the orgs who are setting America on fire” that should be investigated first includes: 

Anderson explains: 

Everyone acknowledges the political power held by people like George Soros, but no one understands how it works. It’s pretty simple: 

The revolution against the West has two channels: America’s dark money foundation network and the activist nonprofits that they fund. Think of them as the shock troops. 

The dark money NGO world launders millions in tax-exempt 501c3 donations into the activist groups, which drum up interest in the current popular cause which strengthens the progressive voting bloc, and also organizes mass-scale protests and occasional riots. 

In many ways, this is an unelected parallel form of government, working to subvert our actual government, and these are the people who want to burn America down. It makes sense why George Soros is the self-appointed king of this sector, because there’s much more power there than there is in government with all of their pesky rules. 

He can push dangerous policies like drug legalization, decriminalizing crime, fund an electoral machine that will elect the most far-left politicians who will pass those bills, and then elect DAs like Alvin Bragg who will refuse to prosecute violent crime. You can do it all through these channels. 

Both the dark money foundation world and the activist nonprofits are completely unregulated. There are no clear deliverables, no safeguards to ensure they are working in the public good, and when they burn a city down, they are never held responsible. 

Ten nonprofits can co-sponsor an event that becomes a riot and burns cop cars, and there is no mechanism to hold these tax-exempt nonprofits accountable, as they proved in the anti-ICE riots in LA.

90% of the revolution against the West is in the activist nonprofit sector, funded by a network of billion-dollar progressive foundations.

The choice is clear: begin to enforce this sector or let it take over our government.

. . . 

Via The Cradle

The Iranian government revealed more information this week regarding the vast cache of classified Israeli nuclear and military documents it had previously announced obtaining.

In a documentary aired by state television on Wednesday, Iranian Intelligence Minister Esmail Khatib said the documents include the full names, personal details, addresses, and professional links of 189 nuclear and military specialists connected to Israeli weapons programs. “The list is still being expanded as Iranian analysts continue to process the material,” Khatib was quoted as saying. 

“Iranian intelligence operatives carried out one of the most complex multilayered operations, penetrated deep into the hidden vaults of the regime and obtained its secret information in nuclear, military, intelligence, and scientific fields,” he added. “In addition, there are documents showing official influence exerted by Israeli officials and American senators on the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), and their receipt of information about our peaceful nuclear program.”

Khatib said the documents also include precise information on military, intelligence, and nuclear sites in Israel, adding that Tehran targeted and struck some of these sites with missiles during the 12-day war in June. 

He also claimed that employees of the Israeli nuclear and military establishment cooperated with Iranian intelligence as a result of “financial incentives” and “deep hatred toward the regime’s corrupt and criminal prime minister, which led to acts of revenge against him.”

Included in the documentary aired on Wednesday night were personal photos of IAEA chief Rafael Grossi. It says the cache of documents includes personal information on the IAEA chief. The documentary also shows footage from inside Israel’s Dimona nuclear facility.

BREAKING | Iran’s Ministry of Intelligence releases exclusive photos from inside Israel’s Dimona nuclear facility, saying it holds detailed information on the regime’s nuclear weapons that will be useful for future developments. pic.twitter.com/l9spVudiOh

— The Cradle (@TheCradleMedia) September 24, 2025

“Instead of solving the problem of the Iranian water, think about solving the problem of the bread of many workers who have cooperated with us with the incentive of money, and they are cooperating right now,” Khatib added, addressing Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. 

His comments alluded to the premier’s recent statement that Israel would help the Iranian people desalinate water once they were “free” from the government.

Iran initially announced the large-scale intelligence operation on June 9. At the time, it referred to the cache as a “treasure trove.”

Iran’s Intelligence claims it has photos and personal information about IAEA chief Rafael Grossi and his family, obtained from Israel. pic.twitter.com/FA7Or4pd4y

— Clash Report (@clashreport) September 24, 2025

Three days later, Israel launched a massive war against Iran, targeting civilian infrastructure, military sites, and nuclear facilities. Iran responded with large barrages of ballistic missiles throughout the 12-day campaign. 

Washington joined in on the final day before the war ended, carrying out a bunker-buster attack on several nuclear sites, which caused severe damage but failed to eradicate the Iranian nuclear program.

The war was launched amid nuclear negotiations between Tehran and Washington. Iran insisted on its right to continue uranium enrichment, which the US and Israel rejected. The Islamic Republic suspended cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) after the war over its failure to properly condemn the attacks, as well as what it said was close cooperation between Tel Aviv and the watchdog. 

⚡️ Iran EXPOSES Israel’s nuclear program

State TV just broadcast photos taken INSIDE Israel’s top-secret Dimona nuclear facility

Plus documents, schematics, PASSPORTS of Israeli scientists, letters to US pic.twitter.com/YJD9kOWCyx

— RT (@RT_com) September 24, 2025

Although a new framework was reached earlier this month, Tehran announced over the weekend that it will fully suspend cooperation after the EU reimposed sanctions on Iran.

The IAEA has never been granted access to Israel’s Dimona facility, which is believed to provide fuel for Tel Aviv’s undeclared nuclear weapons program.

Russia on Friday blasted Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky for his “irresponsible” threats after the day prior he said that leaders in Moscow should check for bomb shelters near the Kremlin if the country does not stop its war in Ukraine.

Zelensky had told Axios that Russian officials “have to know where their bomb shelters are,” adding: “If they will not stop the war, they will need it in any case.”

He did caveat the threat by saying he won’t target civilians as “we are not terrorists” but then underscored, “They have to know that we in Ukraine, each day, we will answer. If they attack us, we will answer them.”

Zelensky also stressed that if Ukraine receives long-range weaponry from the United States, then “we will use it.” This is an especially dangerous scenario as it is flirting with WW3, given Moscow has long issued a red line related to such long-range weapons attacking Russian territory.

The Ukrainian leader could be upping these threats not only out of desperation, but after earlier this month Russia struck Ukrainian government buildings in the capital for the first time of the war, and it was not far from Zelensky’s own office.

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov responded to the threats as follows: “Zelensky is clearly continuing his desperate efforts. That’s why he’s issuing threats left and right, which is quite irresponsible,” according to the AFP.

Former Russian president and current top national security official Dmitry Medvedev also responded, by saying:

“The freak should understand something else: Russia can use weapons that no bomb shelter will save you from. And the Americans should remember this too.”

This appeared to be another veiled nuclear threat, and hint at runaway escalation if American long-range weapons are used to attack government buildings in Moscow.

There was at least one notable time earlier in the conflict that Ukraine sent small drones against the Kremlin complex in Moscow, damaging a dome and putting the capital on high alert.

Zelensky directly threatens President Vladimir Putin.

He says that he will use long-range American weapons against Moscow.

When asked if the Kremlin leadership should find the “nearest bomb shelters?,”

He answers, “They will need it” pic.twitter.com/LzQo2C8Qeu

— Chay Bowes (@BowesChay) September 25, 2025

Meanwhile, constant cross-border drone attacks targeting Russian energy sites continue. On Thursday Ukrainian drones struck the Afipsky oil refinery in Russia’s Krasnodar region.

It marks the second attack on the site within a month, and it sparked a large fire, which was soon extinguished with no casualties. The Afipsky refinery is one of the largest in southern Russia.

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Below are more headlines and developments on NATO, Russia, and Ukraine, via Newsquawk:

• European officials privately told Russia they are ready to shoot down jets and view Russia’s Estonia incursion as deliberate, according to Bloomberg.
• French President Macron said France stands ready to support Denmark in assessing the situation and contributing to the security of Danish airspace, according to X.
• US President Trump said Ukraine has a shot at getting territory back and that Russia is doing poorly, adding that he is dissatisfied with what Russian President Putin is doing, according to Reuters.
• IAEA said a drone was downed and detonated around 800 metres from the perimeter of Ukraine’s South nuclear power plant overnight, noting that 22 UAVs were observed late last night and this morning and that its team heard gunfire and explosions, according to Reuters.
• US President Trump said he believes Turkey will halt purchases of Russian oil, adding that it is harder for Hungary and Slovakia as they are landlocked with one pipeline, according to Reuters.

Authored by James Rickards via DailyReckoning.com,

Is China a rising power or a falling star? The answer is both. The most important geopolitical question in the world today is, which one of those trends will dominate? Will China rise to true great power status with a developed economy, high-value added manufacturing and military parity with the U.S.? Or will China collapse into political chaos as it has many times in the long history of its civilization? One or the other outcome is likely, but which outcome is uncertain. The makeup of the world geopolitical order hangs in the balance.

The United States and Russia are established superpowers. That will not change soon. China is properly counted alongside the U.S. and Russia as a great power, but its weaknesses put it in a slightly lower rank. Russia has 5,549 nuclear warheads. The U.S. has 5,277. China has 600 nuclear warheads although that number is growing.

Of course, it would only take perhaps 50 or fewer nuclear detonations to destroy life on earth. The significance of a large nuclear arsenal distributed among ICMBs, IRBMs, bombers, submarines, cruisers and mobile launchers is to withstand a first strike by an opponent and be able to launch a second strike. That’s the essence of deterrence, which has kept the nuclear peace since 1945.

Russia and the U.S. have deterrence capability. China does not. A smaller nuclear arsenal can actually be destabilizing because the temptation for a weaker power to launch a first strike is greater. China is in that position today.

The U.S. has a huge consumer economy, advantages in technology, and a highly developed financial sector to help drive economic growth. Russia does not have nearly as developed a consumer sector, but it has a greater capacity to be self-sufficient (even autarkic) if necessary. Russia’s ability to withstand U.S. sanctions related to the Ukraine war is evidence of this.

China is different.

The country is highly dependent on exports and the manufacturing jobs behind those exports. It is far from self-sufficient. When the U.S. shuts the door on Chinese exports through high tariffs and other sanctions, the negative impact on Chinese output, employment and reserves is real.

An Untested Military

China’s military prowess is impressive to a point. It has three aircraft carrier battlegroups, which include cruisers, destroyers, submarines and amphibious assault vessels. China has developed a hypersonic missile (not as advanced as the Russian version) at a time when the U.S. has no hypersonic capability. China has the largest military in the world with 2.04 million troops compared to 1.1 million troops for Russia and 1.3 million for the U.S.

Its biggest military deficiency is that its troops are not battle-tested. The U.S. has fought major wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and Kuwait since 1991 and has been in combat in Northern Syria for twenty years. Russia has fought major wars in Chechnya, Georgia, Syria and Ukraine since 2000. China has fought no major wars since 1950, only minor skirmishes with Vietnam and India.

Prussian Field Marshal Helmuth von Moltke said, “No plan survives first contact with the enemy.” China has had no contact with any enemy in seventy-five years. There is simply no way to assess how its military would perform in an actual war.

China has acted aggressively in claiming all of the South China Sea as its territorial waters and using bullying tactics against Philippine fishing boats and Coast Guard vessels. China’s claims are rejected by the other nations around the South China Sea and by the United Nations. The U.S. is a treaty ally of the Philippines.

China has turned certain coral reefs into major islands by dredging and building military bases and air strips on those islands. The U.S. insists on freedom of navigation and does not recognize Chinese sovereignty in the South China Sea. So far, both sides have avoided escalation although the Chinese did embarrass themselves recently when a Chinese destroyer sliced off the bow of a Chinese Coast Guard vessel near the Philippines.

Chinese fighter aircraft launched from their aircraft carriers carry reduced fuel and weapons loads because of the ski-jump takeoff method. U.S. aircraft use steam-powered catapult technology that allows full fuel and weapons loads. Taking other technology including anti-missile systems into account, any sea battle between the U.S. and Chinese navies would be heavily one-sided in favor of the U.S.

An Economic State of Near Collapse

The reported 5% annualized GDP growth in China is a mirage. Those figures include investment in fixed assets, including ghost cities and unused prestige projects that would be immediately written down to zero under any standard accounting method.

Bad debts are ignored. Banks are propped up with dollar loans from the central bank, which depletes China’s reserve position. Its debt load is more extreme than U.S. debt and impedes further growth. So-called “stimulus” has failed repeatedly. China’s stock market (especially its tech sector) is in a bubble. China’s currency is supported by dollar interventions to buy yuan and its reported per capita GDP of $13,687 (firmly in the middle-income trap) is distorted by the degree distribution heavily skewed toward a small percentage of super-wealth. This leaves everyday Chinese citizens with a far lower per capita income.

In short, the Chinese economy is probably in a recession. Youth unemployment is approaching 30%. The entire system is in a state of near collapse.

A Xi Coup

Worse yet, the Chinese political system has undergone a military coup d’état. President Xi Jinping has been demoted to a position subordinate to a new committee headed by the top leader of the People’s Liberation Army. Cliques loyal to former presidents Hu Jintao and Jiang Zemin have emerged from hiding and are now becoming politically active again. This is in keeping with a millennial-old pattern of extreme centralization followed by decentralization and warring factions as Chinese dynasties gain power and then fail.

Xi Jinping reached the pinnacle of centralization in 2018 when term limits of two five-year terms for presidents were removed, and he was allowed to remain “president for life.” Xi became the most powerful Chinese leader since Mao Zedong. From there (and with a good understanding of Chinese history going back to the Xia Dynasty of 2070 BC), it was easy to predict the fall of Xi Jinping and the collapse of the Peasant Dynasty represented by the Chinese Communist Party. That collapse is now proceeding in slow motion. Whether it accelerates is one of the pivotal political questions of the day.

An Invasion of Taiwan? No Go

Finally, analysts spend enormous amounts of time on the issue of an invasion of Taiwan by Communist China. That will not happen. With Chinese vessels crashing into each other and the U.S. on the side of Taiwan, the idea of a D-Day type invasion of Taiwan with a million men in an amphibious landing by a force that has never been tested in combat seems absurd. China has massive internal problems. Those problems will not be solved by creating even greater problems with a cross-strait invasion.

The Fall of the CCP

Is China rich and powerful? Yes. Is it stable and growing? No. Is it a credible military threat to Taiwan or the U.S.? Not unless it is prepared to pay an unacceptably high price for its adventurism.

Most of China’s technology is either stolen or second-best compared to U.S. and even European or Russian technology. U.S. investment is in full retreat from China. U.S. markets are quickly closing to Chinese goods.

China has few alternative “buyers of last resort.” Unemployment is skyrocketing and bad debts are rising to the surface. China may yet emerge as a great power. But not before the fall of the Communist Party and a period of grave instability that will have ripple effects around the world.

In one of the most absurd and comical headlines of the year, The Wall Street Journal on Friday says it knows who will be tapped to oversee Gaza once the Israel-Hamas war is over: former British Prime Minister Tony Blair.

That’s according to a controversial White House plan now being proposed to Arab and Israeli leaders. The 72-year old is being presented as a peace-maker, despite his record of being George W. Bush’s biggest allied supporter in the disastrous, blood-soaked invasion of Iraq and overthrow of Saddam Hussein. 

“As Britain’s prime minister, Tony Blair helped negotiate a landmark peace agreement to end three decades of conflict in Northern Ireland,” WSJ writes, apparently without intending irony. “Now, President Trump might want him for an even more difficult job: Helping Gaza get back on its feet once the conflict ends.”

The plan calls for a Gaza International Transition Authority (GITA) – which sounds a bit like the Bush-era’s Coalition Provisional Coalition (CPA) which oversaw nation-building in Iraq. And so it seems Blair will be the Paul Bremer for the Gaza Strip, according to the plan.

The idea is that this would be a UN-overseen initiative. “The United Nations-backed body would control the enclave for at least several years, staffed in part by Palestinian technocrats and supported by an Arab-led international peacekeeping force, until it could hand over full control to the Palestinians, officials say,” WSJ continues.

However, US admin officials have said Blair is but one of several officials under consideration for heading up the GITA mission. The plan would have to gain the cooperation and backing of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and presumably whatever Palestinian officials remain in the war-ravaged Gaza Strip.

While the whole thing sounds dubious, the WSJ presents an optimistic outlook:

“But the plan’s broad outline has been received well so far by several Arab countries and some Palestinian leaders, and its backing by Trump means it likely has the best chance of success of any plan so far, analysts say,” the publication writes.

Leaked documents show Tony Blair Institute (TBI) staff were involved in a postwar Gaza proposal for a “Trump Riviera” and “Elon Musk Smart Manufacturing Zone.”

An internal TBI paper called the war a “once-in-a-century opportunity” to rebuild Gaza with artificial islands,… pic.twitter.com/qLty0yNH6l

— WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) July 9, 2025

This is yet another example of how Washington and London NeoCons and warmongers keeping ‘failing up’ in the world in terms of responsibility, oversight, and power. 

But the US might think to ask average Palestinian people themselves what they think of Tony Blair and his legacy in the Middle East. It’s likely not good.

Authored by Aldgra Fredly via The Epoch Times,

The U.S. State Department said on Sept. 26 that it would revoke Colombian President Gustavo Petro’s visa after he called on U.S. soldiers to disobey orders during his visit to New York.

“Earlier today, Colombian president @petrogustavo stood on a NYC street and urged U.S. soldiers to disobey orders and incite violence,” the department stated on X.

“We will revoke Petro’s visa due to his reckless and incendiary actions,” it added. The department did not provide further details about the incident.

Petro traveled to New York for the United Nations General Assembly, though it is unclear whether he is still in the city.

His office shared a series of videos on social media showing him addressing a crowd of pro-Palestinian protesters gathering outside UN headquarters in New York on Sept. 26.

“I ask all the soldiers of the U.S. army, do not point your guns at the people,” Petro said through a translator in one of the videos.

Disobey [President Donald] Trump’s orders. Obey the orders of humanity.” 

No soldiers appear to be visible in the videos shared by the Colombian president’s office.

Neither the Colombian government nor Petro has issued a response statement to the U.S. State Department’s decision.

In his Sept. 24 address to the UN General Assembly, Petro called on other nations to form “a powerful army” to help defend Palestine from the Israel-Hamas war, which has been ongoing since Hamas’s Oct. 7, 2023, attack on southern Israel.  

The Colombian president said that diplomacy had failed to resolve the war and that it’s time for the international community to take a different approach.

“We need a powerful army of countries that do not accept genocide. That is why I invite nations of the world and their peoples more than anything, as an integral part of humanity, to bring together weapons and armies to defend Palestine,” Petro said.

Trump, whose administration has been pushing for a cessation of hostilities in Gaza and the release of hostages, said Sept. 26 that “intense negotiations” had been held with the Middle Eastern community about the situation in Gaza.

All countries in the region are involved in the negotiations, Trump said, adding that the Hamas terrorist group is aware of the talks and that Israel has been kept informed at every level, including Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

“There is more Goodwill and Enthusiasm for getting a Deal done, after so many decades, than I have ever seen before. Everyone is excited to put this period of Death and Darkness behind them,” he stated on Truth Social.

Relations between the United States and Colombia have been strained in recent months. Colombia halted weapons purchase from the United States after Trump issued a presidential determination designating Colombia—and several other nations—as having “failed demonstrably” to meet their obligations under international counter-narcotics agreements.

In July, the United States recalled its ambassador over what it called “baseless and reprehensible statements” from the Colombian government’s “highest levels,” prompting Colombia to recall its own ambassador. The diplomatic rift came as the Colombian Attorney General’s Office investigated an alleged plot to oust Petro.

Submitted by Thomas Kolbe

More and more people are turning their backs on the European Union. With them, the states are also losing economic substance. Exit taxes are being used in an attempt to counter this.

The states of the European Union are experiencing a veritable exodus. About 1.4 million EU citizens left their home countries in 2023, among them 265,000 Germans. Among the favored destinations are, alongside Switzerland and the United States, booming regions such as Qatar or Dubai.

Good Reasons

The list of destination countries carries political dynamite, because it says much about the background of this flight movement. A growing number of high performers are trying to escape what is in many places almost predatory levels of taxation. In addition, academics, researchers, freelancers such as the so-called “digital nomads,” and entrepreneurs simply find better economic prospects elsewhere than in economically sedated Europe.

EU citizens are not infrequently being drained by a tax burden of 45 percent. We know this from Germany: it is not even necessary to count among the absolute top earners in order to have to surrender nearly half of one’s income to the tax authorities. Basically, it is a scandal—one about which there is no longer any open discussion.

In Dubai, for example, there is no income tax at all. In the United States, the state burdens its citizens with around 27 percent. Anyone who can calculate, who is well educated and mobile, draws the consequences. Alongside the tax burden, social crises increasingly come into play: uncontrolled migration, the decay of major cities, and the visibly hostile climate of ever-expanding bureaucracies. For many ambitious people, life in the EU’s Europe is simply too expensive, and the essence of bureaucracy too overbearing.

Expensive Emigration

Every emigrant leaves behind an economic gap in his homeland. When a German with a high income leaves the country, the state does not only lose a taxpayer—it loses his capital and know-how. Over the lifetime of an academic, around €1.5 million in taxes and social contributions escape the treasury. In addition, there is the enormous loss of capital. Estimates assume that the median wealth of Germans per person is €106,000. With the emigration of 265,000 Germans and the return of 191,000 persons—where for simplicity we assume the same level of wealth—about €7.8 billion in capital flows abroad.

The economist Bernd Raffelhüschen calculates the annual fiscal loss through emigration by discounting the difference between future tax and social contribution payments and state transfers of an average academic to its present value. He arrives at a loss of about €30,000 for each emigrated academic.

The flight of high performers works like economic erosion in real time. Highly qualified people leave the country. People who, with higher probability, would have moved venture capital and founded companies are tearing open a fiscal gap. About 56 percent of income tax revenue is provided by the top ten percent of taxpayers—the political class would be well advised to roll out the red carpet for these people instead of harnessing them to the cart of their ambitious social projects.

Feudalism as the Answer

The answer of EU Europe to the flight of the economically ambitious and wealthy is neo-feudal in character. Through punitive taxes, the costs of fleeing the tax collector and the increasingly invasive state are to be raised so high that the impulse to emigrate is suffocated. Somewhat exaggeratedly formulated, this policy recalls the old feudal European conditions which once led to the mass migration of Europeans to North America.

Alongside France, Spain, Italy, and the Netherlands, the Federal Republic of Germany has also deployed an exit tax.

Anyone who, as an entrepreneur, holds at least 1 percent of a corporation (this includes stock capital) and turns his back on Germany triggers exit taxation—even if no sales proceeds have been realized. In this case, the state assumes a fictitious sale of the shares and taxes the theoretical capital gain. What is decisive is the difference between the original purchase price and the current market value. Sixty percent of this gain is added to taxable income and taxed at up to 45 percent, depending on the income tax rate. In addition comes the solidarity surcharge and a possible church tax levy.

This regulation applies if the person concerned was subject to unlimited taxation in Germany for at least seven of the past twelve years—and it applies equally in the case of emigration to third countries or relocation within the EU. Since 2022, moves within the EU are no longer automatically privileged for tax purposes: whoever wants to leave must pay—unless he applies for a deferral over seven years and provides collateral. The frequently mentioned €150,000 threshold is not a tax-free allowance, but only a guideline for assessment.

In sum, this amounts to state access to future gains, binding entrepreneurs to their homeland and making departure more difficult through a fiscal hurdle.

Europe Will Rely on Capital Barriers

Up to now, exit taxation refers to corporate holdings and does not cover private individuals who want to emigrate with their capital. However, in view of the fiscal emergency of numerous EU states, we must assume that this will change in the medium term, and that other groups of persons will also be included in the scope of exit taxation.

That the states of the EU will in all probability rely on mobility barriers rather than reforming their expensive state apparatus shows the entire problem. People are literally voting with their feet against bureaucratism and the sprawling hyper-state.

The response is further barriers to capital, such as the planned digital euro. It would amount to an almost insurmountable capital barrier. And it would at the same time send the signal to worldwide capital to give the eurozone a wide berth.

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About the author: Thomas Kolbe, a German graduate economist, has worked for over 25 years as a journalist and media producer for clients from various industries and business associations. As a publicist, he focuses on economic processes and observes geopolitical events from the perspective of the capital markets. His publications follow a philosophy that focuses on the individual and their right to self-determination.

By Tsvetana Paraskova of OilPrice.com

Exports from the semi-autonomous region of Kurdistan will resume on Saturday, September 27, following agreements reached between Iraq’s federal government, the Kurdistan Regional Government, and a group of international oil companies, Norway-based oil producer DNO ASA said on Friday. 

However, DNO, one of the major foreign producers in Kurdistan, will not ship its crude directly to the Iraq-Turkey pipeline to the Turkish Mediterranean port of Ceyhan. 

Instead, DNO will deliver the Kurdistan Regional Government’s share of sales from the company’s operated Tawke license, currently averaging 38,000 barrels per day (bpd), for export. The balance of the oil, representing the share of sales the foreign contractor group consisting of DNO and Genel Energy International Limited, currently averaging 30,000 bpd, will continue to be sold to local buyers under existing contracts.

DNO ASA and British Genel Energy have refused to sign the deal reached by the federal government, KRG, and the other oil companies until the Kurdistan Regional Government provides guarantees that they will receive the money it owes them. 

“DNO is pleased that exports of oil from the Kurdistan Region have been unlocked and will now flow to international markets,” said DNO executive chairman Bijan Mossavar-Rahmani. 

“We have elected not to engage directly in exports at this time and will continue to sell our oil on a monthly, cash-and-carry, basis to our buyers at a per barrel price in the low USD 30s,” he added.

Oil exports from Kurdistan have been halted for two and a half years, after they were shut in in March 2023 due to a dispute over who should authorize the Kurdish exports.

The resumption of flows on September 27 is expected to add about 230,000 bpd of oil from Kurdistan to the international market. 

Additional supply from Kurdistan is set to hit the oil market at a time when analysts, forecasters, and traders expect oversupply to start building with the end of the peak summer demand season.  

The FBI deployed nearly 300 plainclothes agents to the US Capitol during the Jan. 6, 2021 riot, in an effort that became so chaotic it caused an internal schism within the agency that led many rank-and-file at the bureau that core competencies had been lost to “wokeness,” and that employees had become “pawns in a political war,” according to an after-action report hidden from the public for over four years until it was obtained by Just the News. 

Anonymous complaints were sent to the after-action team by scores of FBI agents and other personnel – many from the bureau’s premier Washington field office (WFO) – detailing how agents were sent into a dangerous situation without proper safety equipment or even the ability to identify themselves as armed officers to other police agencies.

Most common among the complaints was that under former directors Chris Wray and just-indicted James Comey, the bureau had become infected with political bias and liberal ideology that treated the Trump-supporting Jan. 6 protesters much differently from Black Lives Matter rioters from the summer of 2020. 

“The FBI should make clear to its personnel and the public that, despite its obvious political bias, it ultimately still takes its mission and priorities seriously,” wrote one employee. “It should equally and aggressively investigate criminal activity regardless of the offenders’ perceived race, political affiliations, or motivations; and it should equally and aggressively protect all Americans regardless of perceived race, political affiliations, or motivations.”

The agent suggested that leaders “identify viable exit options for FBI personnel who no longer feel it is legally or morally acceptable to support a federal law enforcement and intelligence agency motivated by political bias.”

Another agent suggested that the problem was widespread throughout the FBI.

“Currently, the US Attorneys office is dictating what it is that gets investigated. This is a dangerous precedent because we can barely get them to prosecute investigations that clearly meet thresholds needed for Federal prosecutions,” the agent wrote. “However, their willingness to conduct a search warrant on someone’s life for a misdemeanor seems ridiculous. It is unreasonable for the FBI to conduct investigations involving misdemeanor violations at a federal level… it is not our role.”

‘Hopelessly Broken’

Several employees directly mentioned the Washington Field Office (WFO) and its culture. “WFO is a hopelessly broken office that’s more concerned about wearing masks and recruiting preferred racial/sexual groups than catching actual bad guys,” wrote one worker. 

“I wish you all would pay more attention to our safety than what type of masks we wear. If you are going to deploy us to a riot situation, then give us the proper damn safety equipment–helmet, face shield, protective clothing–and training!” wrote another. 

In total, the after-action feedback spanned 50 pages, which were located by current FBI Director Kash Patel’s office and turned over to the House Judiciary Committed and its subcommittee 

As Just the News notes further; the document has proven a bombshell to lawmakers, revealing for the first time that the FBI had a total of 274 agents deployed to the Capitol in plainclothes and with guns but no clear safety gear of way to be recognized by other law enforcement agencies working in the chaos of the riot.

Wray, Patel’s predecessor, steadfastly refused to tell Congress how many if any agents went to the Capitol that day. And a prior DOJ Inspector General Report did not divulge the number, referring only to a SWAT team the bureau sent into the Capitol and having more than two dozen informants in the crowd.

The existence of mass FBI agents at the Capitol on Jan. 6  could also be a problem in many of the cases that were subsequently brought in court. If agents were witnesses at the Capitol and did not disclose it in the subsequent affidavits during prosecutions it could create grounds for defendants to appeal.

The document also reveals for the first time that there were widespread concerns for years inside the bureau – sentiments that boiled over after the FBI began sending SWAT teams to arrest Jan. 6 participants on misdemeanor charges – that the FBI had become biased in favor of liberals and against conservatives.

Despite the pre-existing report, Wray rejected that notion in testimony before Congress. “The idea that I’m biased against conservatives seems somewhat insane to me, given my own personal background,” Wray told Congress in 2023. 

“I have found almost invariably, the people screaming the loudest about the politicization of the FBI are themselves the most political, and more often than not, making claims of politicization to advance their own views or goals, and they often don’t know the facts or are choosing to ignore them,” Wray added in an episode of the podcast “FBI Retired Case File Review” that aired the same year. 

Read the rest of the report here…

AnarchistNews, the long-running anarcho-communist propaganda site, popular among Antifa militants and radical leftists, issued a movement order this week instructing “all anarchists across the country” to disrupt operations at ICE facilities in every city and to “celebrate life with fire against the death march of american law and order.”

“We invite all anarchists across the country not only to occupy and disrupt operations at ICE facilities in every city, but to celebrate life with fire against the death march of american law and order. With tactical diversity, lets meet in the streets and wage a carnival of war against ICE and all authority!” read a post titled “A Call for Anarchist Action in America,” anonymously submitted on AnarchistNews.

Given that AnarchistNews doesn’t usually create original reporting, it collects and reposts content from anarchist collectives, independent media, and individuals. It’s therefore difficult to determine who penned this action order. Still, its publication on the site suggests that Trump’s domestic terror designation of Antifa has riled up the base of far-left radicals who have already been attacking ICE facilities nationwide. This signals a likely rise in civil terrorism, as seen on Wednesday when a left-wing extremist opened fire at an ICE facility in Texas. 

On Wednesday morning, FBI Director Kash Patel provided new details about yesterday’s radical leftist shooter, who had written down notes during the planning phase of the attack, writing: “Hopefully this will give ICE agents real terror, to think, ‘Is there a sniper with AP rounds on that roof?”

@FBIDallas and FBI HQ have been working 24/7 to seize devices, exploit data, and process writings obtained on location and in the subject’s person/residence/bedroom. This @FBI is committed to providing timely updates, as promised:

– The perp downloaded a document titled “Dallas…

— FBI Director Kash Patel (@FBIDirectorKash) September 25, 2025

Also, on Thursday, President Trump responded to OANN reporter Daniel Baldwin’s question about the attack. The representative said the shooting is part of the …

“Radical left rhetoric. The radical left is causing the problem. They’re out of control. They’re saying things and they’re really dumb people. I mean, I look at Crockett, I look at some of these people. They’re — they’re very low IQ people, actually. But the radical left is causing this problem, not the right, the radical left And it’s going to get worse. And ultimately it’s going to go back on them. I mean, bad things happen when they play these games. And I’ll give you a little clue. The right is a lot tougher than the left. But the right is not doing this. They’re not doing it And they better not get them energized because it won’t be good for the left. And I don’t want to see that happen either. I’m the president of all the people. But the radical left is causing this Radical left Democrats are causing this problem and it’s it gets worse. It gets worse and it’ll be a point where other people won’t take it anymore and that will not be good for the radical left and we don’t want that.”

.@OANN’s @Baldwin_Daniel_: “There was another shooting at an ICE facility in Texas yesterday.”

President Trump: “Yes, terrible.”

Baldwin: “Detainees were killed. The FBI director posted on social media bullets that were engraved with the message ‘anti-ICE.’ He just posted… pic.twitter.com/jmnYle1J5c

— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) September 25, 2025

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• DoJ To Investigate Soros Foundation

Democratic Socialists Association Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich. spewed more of that “radical left rhetoric” on Wednesday. 

When are Democratic politicians who incited violence against ICE agents and Trump supporters finally going to be held accountable? DHS reports an 830% surge on ICE officers since Jan. 2025, from their inflammatory rhetoric. Rashida Tlaib “strike ready” Prosecute them now. pic.twitter.com/17XedXXPOq

— Jason (@jason1Patterson) September 25, 2025

Recall in 2019…

It seems the radical left is mobilizing, using violence and force to derail President Trump’s “America First” agenda.

And now, Trump’s crackdown on dark-money, billionaire-funded NGOs could spark a wave of even more violence emanating from the left.