Submitted by Thomas Kolbe

Germany’s disastrous industrial and energy policies are driving companies abroad in droves. Interestingly, Hungary, a country frequently maligned in German media, has emerged as a preferred location for investors.

German mainstream media regularly take aim at Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán. His unflinching skepticism toward Brussels’ meddling, his uncompromising stance on migration, and his steadfast commitment to affordable Russian gas have brought him into open confrontation with both Berlin and the EU Commission. You can almost set your watch by it: when Brussels says A, Orbán responds with B. He holds up a mirror to the EU’s ideological strategies—and in doing so has become the biggest disruptor in Europe’s political consensus machinery.

Nearly every domestic policy decision he makes is under scrutiny, regularly attracting criticism from a press that typically pays little attention to Eastern European affairs. From controversial media laws to a fully understandable approach to NGOs—often used as tools to pressure governments through staged internal conflicts and mass demonstrations—the outrage in Germany is constant.

In this way, tiny Hungary, with its 9.6 million inhabitants—roughly half the size of North Rhine-Westphalia—shakes Europe’s political landscape significantly.

Propaganda vs. Reality

German media coverage has skillfully painted a distorted picture of Hungary: Orbán as a semi-dictatorial ruler, the country entirely subject to the will of his Fidesz party. In short: a place too risky to invest without sleepless nights. The reality, however, tells a very different story. Over the years, Hungary has become a true magnet for capital—including German money and multi-billion euro corporate investments.

Last year alone, Hungary recorded a surplus in foreign direct investment of around €10 billion. Remarkably, roughly 80% of this capital, which flows directly into new factories, jobs, and expansion of existing production capacities, comes from China, Japan, and South Korea.

This has quickly become another point of criticism for the von der Leyen Commission. Budapest is accused of serving as a gateway for Chinese influence in Europe. Yet the simple fact—that Hungary offers decisive advantages over other European countries—never seems to occur to Brussels.

Hungary as the Last Resort

For German politicians who enjoy moralizing about Hungary, it must sting: the German automotive industry sees its future in Hungary. The recently struggling ZF Friedrichshafen chose Hungary, as did Thyssenkrupp, Bosch, and Audi—active in Győr since 1993, with cumulative investments exceeding €8 billion. The facility alone created 12,000 jobs; Audi became the region’s largest employer, producing engines for global markets, with a strong focus on electric drives.

The same holds true for Mercedes in Kecskemét: €1 billion went into expanding e-mobility production, creating 4,400 new jobs.

BMW in Debrecen has invested €2 billion, created 1,000 jobs, and established an entire supplier value chain—the start of fully electric model production is planned for later this year.

The electric revolution that Germany tried to impose by bureaucratic decree is now unfolding in Hungary—thanks to far better conditions. A cynic might say: to get a snapshot of Germany’s innovative industrial landscape, one simply has to go to Hungary.

Hungary’s Advantages

Economically, it was only a matter of time before Hungary became a safe haven. With a flat corporate tax of just 9%, it leaves Germany, with its top tax rates—including trade tax, corporate tax, and solidarity surcharge (not yet fully abolished)—and rates approaching 30%, far behind.

Hungary also wins on energy costs: industrial electricity is around €0.103/kWh, far below German levels; households pay over 75% less.

Skilled labor is abundant, and education systems are aligned with the needs of modern industrial companies. Hungary pursues active subsidy and industrial policies to attract international companies. While understandable in a context of rising global competition, such intervention is, from a market perspective, unnecessary given Hungary’s natural advantages.

Massive Imbalances

The stark contrast between Brussels and Berlin’s regulatory obsession and Hungary’s business-friendly policies—which continue to leverage Russian gas despite sabotage attempts—will likely accelerate capital flight from Germany. Ideally, Hungary should hold a mirror up to German policymakers. Yet the government of Chancellor Friedrich Merz appears determined to maintain Brussels’ eco-socialist course despite Germany’s economic decline.

Hungary’s projected new debt of over 4% this year, with total debt at 73% of GDP, should be enough for Orbán to scale back subsidies. Neighboring states—and Europe overall—are already trapped in spiraling debt. With a government share of 47%, Hungary is approaching European averages—the state must also be trimmed here.

Foreign investment provides ample room to consolidate without falling into the debt trap that ensnares many European states.

Ultimately, those who recognize the signs of the times and structure their business environment smartly—free from ideological fanaticism and grotesque regulation—will bind companies locally. In Hungary’s case, companies are streaming in from across Europe and the world.

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About the author: Thomas Kolbe, a Germany graduate economist, has worked 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.

Authored by Dave DeCamp via AntiWar.com,

President Trump met with a group of Arab and Muslim leaders on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly on Wednesday and reportedly told them that he wouldn’t allow Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to annex the Israeli-occupied West Bank.

The Muslim and Arab leaders have reasons to doubt pledges from Trump since he has recently significantly damaged the US’s diplomatic credibility by using negotiations with Iran as cover to help Israel launch a war. The president has also claimed he was unaware of Israel’s plans to bomb Hamas leaders in Qatar, an attack that came while they were discussing a US ceasefire proposal, but, according to Israeli officials, he was informed beforehand and didn’t oppose the attack.

The meeting in New York comes ahead of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s fourth visit to the White House this year, where he is expected to push for US support for the Israeli annexation of at least some territory in the West Bank, something he wants to do in response to several Western countries recognizing a Palestinian state. US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee has previously suggested the US wouldn’t oppose Israel annexing the Palestinian territory and has expressed support for illegal Jewish settlements.

Before leaving for New York to attend the UN General Assembly, Netanyahu again reiterated his opposition to a Palestinian state. “The shameful capitulation of some leaders to Palestinian terror does not obligate Israel in any way. There will be no Palestinian state,” he said, according to a statement released by his office.

According to a report from Axios, Trump also presented the Arab and Muslim leaders with a plan to end Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza. US envoy Steve Witkoff also attended the meeting and claimed a breakthrough on a Gaza ceasefire was close, but a source told Haaretz that a Gaza truce deal “was nowhere close to fruition,” and there’s no sign Trump is willing to put pressure on Netanyahu to end the slaughter.

The Arab and Muslim officials who attended the meeting, which included representatives from Qatar, Turkey, Indonesia, Pakistan, Egypt, the UAE, and Jordan, released a statement saying they were committed to working with Trump.

“The leaders emphasized the need to end the war and achieve an immediate ceasefire that would ensure releasing the hostages and allowing the entry of sufficient humanitarian aid as the first step toward a just and lasting peace,” they said, according to the Qatari Foreign Ministry.

“They reiterated their commitment to cooperate with President Trump, and stressed the importance of his leadership to end the war and open horizons for a just and lasting peace,” it added.

Authored by Monica O’Shea via The Epoch Times,

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio says high migration numbers have created domestic political pressure for Australia, the UK, France, and Canada to recognise the Palestinian state.

His comments come after U.S. President Donald Trump issued a firm warning to governments at the United Nations on the need to control their borders.

“Well these countries are doing it frankly due to domestic political pressure in their own countries, you know, because of migration policies,” Rubio said on Fox News.

“Their countries have been flooded with foreigners who have become politically active and are insisting that their government do these sorts of things, and so that’s what they are responding to.”

For the Australian Labor government, several cabinet ministers preside over electorates with high Middle Eastern migrant numbers, including Immigration Minister Tony Burke.

These electorates include Blaxland, Watson, Werriwa and Fowler in Western Sydney, and Calwell, Dandenong, and Chisholm in Melbourne.

On Sept. 23, U.S. President Trump called on governments to tighten migration policies, warning that high numbers are distorting social cohesion.

“While we will always have a big heart for places and people that are struggling and truly compassionate … they have to solve the problem, and they have to solve it in their countries, not create new problems in our countries,” Trump said.

“When your prisons are filled with so-called asylum seekers who repay kindness … with crime, it’s time to end the failed experiment of open borders,” Trump said.

Rubio Calls Recognition ‘Vanity Project’

Rubio also added that recognising the Palestinian state would have no meaningful impact.

“But look it’s irrelevant, it’s going to get a little bit of attention, but there is no Palestinian state. It’s kind of emblematic of what the president says about the U.N. You can put out all the paper in the world you want,” Rubio said, but argued the only permanent solution would be a negotiated settlement between Palestine and Israel.

“One in which the Palestinians are going to have a territory and they are going to govern it, but it cannot be one that’s going to be used as a launch pad for attacks against Israel. And that’s something that has to be negotiated with Israel. It isn’t going to exist without Israel’s participation,” the secretary said.

Rubio also called on the leaders of Australia, UK, France, and Canada to put effort into negotiating and eliminating Hamas so that talks can progress.

“But for them, and for some of them in particular more than others, it’s sort of a vanity project that’s trying to make themselves relevant,” Rubio said regarding Palestinian recognition.

Albanese Defends Labor’s Position

Australia formally recognised the state of Palestine on Sept. 21 amid pressure from U.S. Congress members not to.

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Foreign Minister Penny Wong said Australia’s move was part of a coordinated international effort to build new momentum for a two-state solution.

“Australia will continue to work with our international partners to help build on today’s act of recognition and to bring the Middle East closer to the lasting peace and security that is the hope, and the right, of all humanity,” Albanese said.

Albanese again defended Australia’s position on Sept. 24 in New York.

“Australia has a position that’s in line with the majority of the world, which is to support a two-state solution, and we see that the people of Israel have a right to peace and security, but the people of Palestine have a right, a right to see their legitimate aspirations for their own state to be realised,” he said.

Trump, Congress, Haley Concerned

Former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley took aim at the four governments saying they had caved to Hamas.

“It’s a shame our allies are more concerned about pleasing Hamas than releasing the hostages and ending the war,” Haley said in a post to X on Sept. 22.

Republican U.S. Congress members also warned it would disrupt the current peace process.

“Proceeding with recognition will put your country at odds with long-standing U.S. policy and interests and may invite punitive measures in response,” the letter states. 

President Donald Trump called on governments not to give in to Hamas, but to issue the same message: Release the hostages now.”

“Now, as if to encourage continued conflict, some of this [U.N.] body is seeking to unilaterally recognise a Palestinian state. The rewards would be too great for Hamas terrorists for their atrocities,” he said.

Views expressed in this article are opinions of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of ZeroHedge.

Authored by Andrew Korybko via Substack,

Even worse, it would be all because of Zelensky’s lust for money and power, not any legitimate reason.

Trump’s flip-flop on Ukraine was explained here as being partially due to him responding to the whispers of warmongers like Zelensky, who boasted afterwards that “Gradually, (Trump) realized that Putin was simply sharing some information that was far from the truth on the battlefield. Now he trusts me much more because the information that my intelligence has, that we share with our partners.”

This is leading to Trump being manipulated by Zelensky into a disaster of epic proportions if he doesn’t soon wise up.

The American leader likely took at face value his Ukrainian counterpart’s claim of reconquering 360 square kilometers in recent weeks even though the latter’s own top general earlier assessed the amount to be less than half of that at only 160 square kilometers. This might have convinced him that his new policy of selling new arms to NATO at full price for subsequent transfer to Ukraine is paying off. Zelensky was probably also responsible for Trump writing in his post that the Russian economy is in deep trouble.

These false beliefs, which are based on lies laundered by Zelensky as “intelligence”, arguably emboldened Trump to declare his support for NATO shooting down Russian jets on the pretext of them violating the bloc’s airspace after the latest dubious claim to that effect from Estonia. He also threatened “a very strong round of powerful tariffs” against Russia in his UN speech, presumably against China and India who he described as “the primary funders of the ongoing war”, so long as the EU follows suit.

This evolving policy towards the Ukrainian Conflict – which includes military (more arms sales to NATO and supporting the bloc shooting down Russian jets) and economic (primary and secondary sanctions) components – is also largely driven by Zelensky’s other lie that Trump fell for. This one relates to his false belief that “Russia has been fighting aimlessly for three and a half years a War that should have taken a Real Military Power less than a week to win…it is very much making them look like ‘a paper tiger.’”

The reality is that the UK and Poland sabotaged spring 2022’s peace talks, after which the conflict evolved into a “war of attrition” as NATO attempted to balance out Russia’s force superiority over Ukraine via unprecedented military, logistical, and intelligence aid. Putin’s reluctance to proactively escalate the special operation to a shock-and-awe war, whether one agrees with his logic or not, is due to his sincere belief that Russians and Ukrainians “are one people” as he lengthily explained in July 2021.

He nevertheless reaffirmed earlier in the week that “Russia is fully capable of responding to any current or emerging threat, not with words, but through concrete military-technical measures.” Therefore, if Trump lets himself be manipulated by Zelensky into escalating tensions with Russia or supporting those who do (such as if a NATO ally shoots down a Russian jet), then a disaster of epic proportions awaits. Even worse, it would be all because of Zelensky’s lust for money and power, not any legitimate reason.

Zelensky just wants more funds and arms to flow into Ukraine, both of which are increasingly being provided by the EU at the expense of its citizens’ living standards that continue to deteriorate due to the bloc’s anti-Russian sanctions, yet Trump now thinks that he’s the new Churchill fighting the new Hitler. It’s disappointing that the same man who wrote “The Art of the Deal” is now being played by the former comedian who he once mockingly referred to as “the greatest salesman” but such is the state of affairs.

Views expressed in this article are opinions of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of ZeroHedge.

In a day already overflowing with news, late on Thursday President Trump announced a fresh round of tariffs set to take effect October 1, including a 25% tariff on all heavy truck imports, 30% tariff on upholstered furniture, 50% tariff on kitchen cabinets and bathroom vanities, and a 100% tariff on branded or patented drugs (unless a company is building a manufacturing plant in America), in a move that will likely send prices of Europe’s pharmaceutical companies sliding. The decision followed an earlier investigation into pharmaceuticals launched in April, suggesting the duties may be imposed under specific section laws rather than reciprocal tariffs. 

The tariffs, which are on top of sweeping reciprocal duties Trump has imposed on countries worldwide, are likely to spur a fresh round of outrage, particularly when it comes to pharmaceutical imports. Experts have raised concerns that those tariffs could cause supply chain issues and make certain drugs more difficult and expensive to acquire.

Trump posted on social media that there would be no levies on pharmaceutical imports if companies have broken ground on a US manufacturing plant, or if such a plant is under construction. 

“Starting October 1st, 2025, we will be imposing a 100% Tariff on any branded or patented Pharmaceutical Product, unless a Company IS BUILDING their Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Plant in America,” Trump wrote. “There will, therefore, be no Tariff on these Pharmaceutical Products if construction has started.”

Trump’s announcement was one of several about new industry-focused tariffs set to begin next Wednesday. Imported heavy trucks will be subject to a 25% duty, kitchen cabinets and bathroom vanities will be hit with a 50% charge, and upholstered furniture imports are to be taxed at 30%. 

Taken together, the moves amount to a rapid expansion of Trump’s tariff regime, which he started to erect shortly after taking office. It comes at a time when the president has flexed his executive powers like none of his modern predecessors; just as Trump made the levies public, former FBI Director James Comey — a longtime Trump political enemy — was indicted on perjury charges under heavy pressure from the president. 

The posts offered no further details. But as Bloomberg notes, the pharmaceuticals plan, as described by the president, could allow for wide exemptions for multinational drug companies with presences in the US. The world’s largest drugmakers, including Merck and Eli Lilly operate scores of manufacturing sites across the globe. Nearly 90% of US biotech companies rely on imported components for at least half of their approved products, according to the Biotechnology Innovation Organization.

Asian stocks fell on news of the tariffs, with shares in Japan, Australia and South Korea all opening lower, while S&P 500 futures pared earlier gains. Asian pharmaceutical stocks slumped. 

In April, the Commerce Department began investigating the impact of all drug imports — both finished generic and branded medicines as well as the ingredients used to make them — on US national security. By early July, Trump said he intended to give drug companies some leeway to bring their operations to the US before slapping tariffs of as much as 200% on their products. Then, on July 15, the president said he was likely to begin imposing tariffs on pharmaceuticals by the end of the month. 

However, in late July, the US and EU reached a broad trade agreement that includes 15% tariffs on pharmaceutical products. That means European drug exports likely won’t be subject to the sector specific tariffs developed through the 232 investigation. 

Trump is imposing product-bases levies using Section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act, which allows the administration to impose tariffs without congressional action if imports are deemed a national security threat. The approach has already been used to impose levies on automobile, copper, steel and aluminum imports.

Other duties on critical imports, including semiconductors and critical minerals, are expected in the coming weeks. His administration has also launched investigations into imports of robotics, industrial machinery and medical devices that could have wide-ranging effects for domestic manufacturers. 

The sectoral tariffs offer potentially more durability than the country-level levies Trump imposed under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act. The Supreme Court has agreed to consider a challenge to those tariffs, after two lower courts have already declared them illegal.

What do you do when you are highly underqualified for your job, which you plagiarized to get in the first place, and on top of it all you broke the law and now your current boss doesn’t want you any more? Well, you sue of course… and if that doesn’t work, you claim that the world will end if you are let go. 

Yes, that’s the traditional flowchart for government DEI hires, it’s also what Fed governor Lisa Cook is doing as she fights tooth and nail to say on at the Fed.

Fed Governor Lisa Cook’s attorneys urged the US Supreme Court to let her stay on the job while she fights President Donald Trump’s attempt to fire her, warning that even her temporary removal risks “chaos and disruption” in financial markets.

Granting the Justice Department’s request to allow Trump to immediately oust her “would sound the death knell for the central-bank independence that has helped make the United States’ economy the strongest in the world,” her lawyers wrote in a brief filed Thursday.

Or maybe just keep your client from breaking the law? Of course, since that’s impossible, you go straight to the apocalypse that will follow should Trump get to say his favorite phrase.

In her brief, Cook’s lawyers claim that Trump should have no authority to fire her, and that as of 2023, “only 12 nations with central banks allow the removal of central-bank board members at the executive’s discretion for policy reasons or for no reason at all.” Those 12 nations are Bangladesh, Chile, China, Comoros, Iran, Kazakhstan, Laos, Morocco, Thailand, Tunisia, Turkmenistan, and Vietnam.

Well, the US will make it 13. 

The DOJ has asked the Supreme Court to let Trump remove Cook, an appointee of former President Joe Biden, who has continued serving in her post since late August when Trump announced he would remove her due to mortgage fraud allegations that she’s denied.

The Supreme Court set a fast schedule for written briefs in the case but hasn’t signaled precisely when it intends to rule.

In the new filing, Cook’s lawyers argued that the Justice Department’s delay in asking for Supreme Court intervention until after the Fed’s last policy meeting on Sept. 16-17 was a possible sign the administration “understood the chaos” that might unleash in markets. It also undercut the government’s demand for “immediate relief,” according to the filing.

Cook’s brief cites a 2009 law review article in which then-Judge Brett Kavanaugh discussed how the Fed is insulated from direct presidential control because of its “power to directly affect the short-term functioning of the US economy.” Kavanaugh, now a Supreme Court justice, will be a pivotal vote in the case.

The largely conservative Supreme Court this year has largely sided with Trump in fights over his firings of other federal agency officials, but the justices previously made a point of distinguishing the Fed as a “uniquely structured, quasi-private entity.” A key question with Cook is whether the court will apply that distinction in a case involving alleged wrongdoing by a Fed official, albeit before she was appointed to her post.

Cook’s theatrical filing came hours after she won the support of a bipartisan group of former Treasury secretaries, former Federal chairs and other experts who all signed a letter in the docket, backing her case with the justices. The group, which includes former Fed chairs Ben Bernanke, Alan Greenspan and Janet Yellen – the people directly responsible for America’s catastrophic debt load – said allowing Trump to oust Cook while she challenges her removal would do lasting damage to the public’s trust in the Fed while jeopardizing the credibility and efficacy of US monetary policy. 

As if anyone believes the Federal “Inflation is transitory” Reserve has credibility, especially after it slashed rates 50bps 2 months before the 2024 election to ensure that Kamala Harris is elected. As for the letter, it’s not the first time we have seen 51 former officials bend over backwards and trample their reputation, just to lie just to perpetuate the broken status quo.

NEW: Every living former Fed chair (Greenspan, Bernanke, Yellen) …

have joined several former Treasury secretaries (Rubin, Summers, Paulson, Geithner, Lew) …

and CEA chairs (Hubbard, Mankiw, Romer, Furman, Rouse, Bernstein) who served presidents of both parties …

in an…

— Nick Timiraos (@NickTimiraos) September 25, 2025

Trump said last month he was firing Cook after Federal Housing Finance Agency Director Bill Pulte accused her of fraudulently listing homes in Michigan and Georgia as a “primary residence” when she obtained mortgages in 2021 to secure more favorable terms on loans.

Cook’s lawyers have said the allegations are part of a “smear campaign” aimed at discrediting Cook and helping Trump seize control of the Fed, which he has pressured for months to lower interest rates. They argued in the latest brief to the Supreme Court that “fundamental flaws” in the mortgage fraud claims “have already come to light,” citing media reports that she “properly declared her Michigan home as her principal residence” and “accurately described the Georgia property in question as a vacation home.”

“When that record is compiled, it will demonstrate that Governor Cook never acted improperly with respect to her mortgages and thus will eliminate the president’s stated ground for his purported removal,” her lawyers wrote.

A month ago, Cook filed a lawsuit in federal court in Washington to block her dismissal, arguing Trump’s unproven claims about mortgage fraud do not amount to “cause” under US law for firing her, and that her purported dismissal via social media post deprived her of her constitutional right to due process.

Shortly after, her sorority sister, US District Judge Jia Cobb on Sept. 9 ruled that Cook could remain on the job as her case proceeded, saying that Trump’s attempt to oust her likely violated the law. A divided federal appeals court upheld the ruling on Sept. 15, just hours before the start of the Fed’s highly anticipated two-day meeting to vote on interest rates.

The officials lowered their benchmark interest rate by a quarter percentage point. One year ago they lowered the rate by half a percentage point when the economy was in stronger shape and when inflation was hotter. However, back then the Fed was also tasked with helping elected Kamala Harris. It failed. 

European countries have over the last several weeks been growing more vocal over alleged Russian-backed ‘hybrid attacks’ on their infrastructure, and the latest focal points have been airports.

Denmark now says its airports are under threat from mysterious unauthorized drones, and was forced to close Aalborg airport – one of the nation’s largest – for several hours Wednesday evening. The international airport is located in the northern Jutland region and facilitates commercial and at times military flights.

This comes after on Monday Copenhagen airport was temporarily closed due to a drone incursion. Danish authorities say they can’t rule out a prank, but have pointed to professional actors being behind the incidents. “Aalborg, Esbjerg, Sonderborg and Skrydstrup airports were all affected overnight on Thursday,” European sources indicate.

There were additional UAV sightings near military bases, in a series of incidents which took place between 10pm on Wednesday and about 1am on Thursday:

The Danish military said it had seen drones at “several military installations” – including Skrydstrup airbase and the The Jutland Dragoon Regiment barracks in Holstebro, warning it may “take down” drones at military sites.

Police in Denmark and in Sweden said they were investigating multiple reports of drone sightings – including over Danish oilfields and in Stockholm.

Defence Minister Troels Lund Poulsen in a Thursday news briefing used the words “hybrid attack” that appears part of a “systematic operation” – but also disclosed that the drones were deployed locally.

The goal is to supposedly sow fear and division, again suggesting Danish authorities believe external state actors are behind the incidents:

“There can be no doubt that everything points to this being the work of a professional actor when we are talking about such a systematic operation in so many locations at virtually the same time. This is what I would define as a hybrid attack using different types of drones.”

Three smaller airports this week also had drone sightings which were monitored, but these incidents didn’t result in any closures or flight stoppages.

NATO countries have been in a heightened state of alert after last week’s Russian drone and jet incursion incidents in Poland, Romania, and Estonia. 

Denmark could simply be hyping this week’s occurrences near airports to shine a further spotlight on Russia, given nothing definitive has been established – and it is not entirely unusual for some individual’s hobby drone to get too close to an operating airport.

EuroNews reports that Denmark is even raising the issue with NATO:

Denmark has reached out to NATO and the EU after it was forced to close Aalborg airport and placed three other airports on alert on Thursday as unauthorized drones conducted what authorities described as coordinated attacks.

Copenhagen was considering whether to trigger the alliance’s Article 4, in what was a hybrid attack involving a “systematic approach” in flying the drones near critical infrastructure, Danish Deputy Prime Minister and Defence Minister Troels Lund Poulsen said at a press conference on Thursday.

Authorization was given to shoot down the drones in case of future incidents, authorities said.

Drones reportedly circle over Denmark near F-16 and F-35 bases as authorities consider state of emergency — prepping for a false flag? pic.twitter.com/TIHkQDuZFx

— Jungle Journey (@JnglJourney) September 25, 2025

“We are going to find the people who are behind this,” Poulsen said. “We need to have a wide range of tools to combat what comes our way, whether it’s missiles or drones.”

So clearly this is being seized upon to call for greater defense preparedness and investment, and to get the population ready to ‘confront’ Russia – despite the mystery drone incidents still not being solved.

Authored by Jeffrey Tucker via The Epoch Times,

Well, Donald Trump did it. He scheduled a news conference on the science of autism, what we know and what we do not, and handled it masterfully. He is profoundly aware that as a parent and the president of the United States that he can make points that his own science advisors cannot make for reasons political, sociological, and scientific.

Trump, however, knows that expecting mothers and families still have to make decisions and those decisions could affect the health and well-being of their children for the rest of their lives. Nothing is more important. Meanwhile, autism is an epidemic. Something is causing this.

There is no such thing as a genetic epidemic. Nor is this traceable to changed definitions of the term else we would see a growing distribution among adults too, which we do not. FDA head Marty Makary, normally very cautious and careful in his statements, said the straightforward thing that no one has stated as clearly: autism is preventable.

Though Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., Jay Bhattacharya, and Mehmet Oz were there and speaking, it was Trump who bravely took the burden upon himself to say what vast numbers of parents and doctors suspect and know but have heretofore occupied the realm of forbidden thought. He laid out two main culprits: Tylenol for birthing mothers and infants and the packed vaccine schedule that hits tiny babies with a cocktail of shots that have never been studied in their combined effects.

Trump was extremely clear.

Don’t take Tylenol. Also the schedule should be changed so that each shot is a separate vaccine spaced out over years. Further, some shots like HepB should wait until the age of 12 if they are taken at all. This would mean no more MMR, much less an MMRV shot that adds chickenpox to the soup. It would mean one shot for measles, one for mumps, one for rubella, and so on.

The products do not currently exist in that form. The whole trajectory has been to batch them up and this happened at the same time we’ve seen an explosion in autism cases. It is not a stretch at all to assume a connection. And Trump explained the stories of so many mothers, more than half, who report dramatic and immediate behavioral and cognitive changes following a vaccine.

These people have been gaslighted for 40 years. They have been called all sorts of terrible names. The scientists who have taken up their case have been shut out of academia, professional societies, journals, and been declared nonpersons. But they never relented. Trump has personally agreed with them for 20 years, a dating of his own. He and Kennedy have long had private discussions about it.

The entire field is a landmine filled with dangers both cultural and industrial. At some point, Trump realized that if anyone was going to break the logjam on this topic, it would need to be him. So he did it, and went much further than anyone—I mean anyone!—expected.

He noted the crazy additions to the schedule since 1980. The following shots have been added since then: HepB, Hib, PCV, RV, HepA, HPV, MenACWY, MenB, and COVID-19. This takes the doses from 12 to 35 and from 7 to 15 diseases. This is the gold rush kicked off by the liability shield put in place in 1986. Meanwhile, Trump referred, “certain groups that don’t take vaccines or pills and have no autism.” He turned to Kennedy who said quietly that some studies have concerned the Amish. Yes, said Trump, “the Amish. They have essentially no autism.”

Watching this in real time was something of a mind-blowing experience. These are all matters discussed in small groups and organizations of parents of autistic children. They have fought the manufacturers but with almost no success because of all the legal protections surrounding the companies.

From a broad perspective, the idea of vaccines is presumably to make us healthier. The opposite has happened. And that has given rise to a serious question of the complexities of human immunity. It’s fine to target a disease with an immunity inducement. We’ve been doing that for hundreds of years, with glorious successes surrounding smallpox in particular. But that success has also given rise to a reckless arrogance that imagined that the whole of the immune system could be replaced by laboratory gaming to outsmart the entire microbial kingdom.

The industry has become so large and powerful that it clearly exercises vast power over academia, scholarly publishing, government, and media through the power of advertising. The reach and influence of the vaccination industry became so vast that in March of 2020 it had enough pull to push 195 governments of the world to shut down economic activity until an antidote for COVID could be produced and distributed.

The problem should have been obvious to even a casual reader of the older literature. Immunity induction via a shot can have a sterilizing effect for stable pathogens like smallpox and measles.

It is a different matter for respiratory viruses that are forever mutating and adapting and also possess a zoonotic reservoir. If any mammal can carry the new strain, vaccinating is going to be like a game of Whack-A-Mole that never ends. Meanwhile, the vaccination itself can rewire the immune system to resist a deprecated strain while opening itself up to new vulnerabilities from unexpected places.

All of this could be known in advance, and was known. They went ahead anyway. Then there is the problem of a new technology called modified mRNA delivered through nanoparticles that control neither dosing nor distribution. These shots have been associated with what many experts say is unprecedented injury and death and yet the liability shields have prevented any litigation to collect damages.

When you look at this situation, it seems rather obvious that a time of truth-telling and accountability had to come one way or another. Trump remains very proud of Operation Warp Speed but deeply incredulous about the rest of the childhood schedule. His solution is in four points:

1) push HepB to year 12;

2) vaccinate against one disease at a time;

3) one shot per visit;

4) no mercury in shots.

Toby Rogers, the leading scholar of vaccines and autism, says these steps would end the epidemic.

If you have any doubt that he is correct to be skeptical of the existing schedule, I urge you to read a new book by attorney Aaron Siri with the title “Vaccines, Amen“. Of all the books I’ve read on this subject, this one is the most compelling and most overwhelmingly persuasive. It documents depositions, safety records, whether and to what extent these potions have really ever been subject to placebo-controlled trials, and the large literature that has been suppressed and deprecated. The book will amaze you, especially with its extensive documentation of how all the diseases against which we vaccinate were largely controlled before the product was ever released.

Let me end on a personal note, if I may. I have been writing on pandemic planning for 20 years. In all that time, I failed to see much less understand the role of the pharmaceutical industry as the hidden hand behind the scenes. When the COVID shots were released, I never believed that they would work in any normal sense in which we use this term but I had no awareness of dangers to health. I had never heard the term “anti-vaxer” until perhaps 2021 and certainly could not articulate a rationale for the view.

I never could have imagined that I would be watching and cheering a presidential press conference that essentially blew up the entire orthodoxy surrounding the childhood schedule. Clearly, the pandemic response of five years ago has opened up new ways of thinking. The mainstream media is already screaming like it is the end of the world. It is not. It is the beginning of the end of unquestioned pharmaceutical power.

President Donald Trump on Thursday announced that he would use tariff revenue to provide aid to American farmers until his import levies start to benefit them – which he says is only a matter of time.

“We’re going to take some of that tariff money that we made, we’re going to give it to our farmers who are, for a little while, going to be hurt until … the tariffs kick in to their benefit,” Trump said from the White House. “We’re going to make sure that our farmers are in great shape, because we’re taking in a lot of money.”

“Ultimately, the farmers are going to be making a fortune. But it’s a process – it has to kick in,” Trump continued. 

American farmers are struggling amid low wholesale prices and trade wars with Beijing – as China – the world’s largest buyer of soybeans – has stopped buying them from the USA as negotiations with the Trump administration continue. 

Last week GOP lawmakers warned that American farmers are in rough shape, and urged the Trump administration to take action similar to what happened in Trump’s first term, when the government doled out at $23 billion bailout to farmers amid the previous trade war with China.

Those tariffs during Trump’s first term resulted in a $27 billion loss in the US from mid-2018 through the end of the following year, according to the US Department of Agriculture – with soybeans accounting for nearly 71% of those losses – or around $9.7 billion annually.

Suppliers Under The Microscope

Meanwhile, US Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins announced an investigation into suppliers of crop inputs, including seeds and fertilizers, over potential antitrust violations, Bloomberg reports.

The agriculture and the justice departments have signed a memorandum of understanding to “take a hard look and scrutinize competitive conditions in the agriculture marketplace, including antitrust enforcement that promotes free market competition,” Rollins said Thursday during a conference in Missouri.

Notably, the cost of key inputs such as fertilizers and tractors have spiked this year – in part because of the Trump tariffs, forcing farmers to feel the squeeze. 

According to Rollins, the administration is concerned about “undue foreign influence” on the market, “especially given a significant portion of our fertilizer production is overseas.”

Finally.

With just days to go until the statute of limitations ran out, disgraced former FBI Director James Comey has been indicted on two of three counts sought by prosecutors – one count of making false statements and one count of obstruction of justice – just days after President Donald Trump issued a public demand for his Justice Department to act “now” to bring prosecutions against Comey.

The charges against Comey are a long-overdue escalation in what Trump’s liberal critics have described as a campaign of retribution by Trump to use the powers of the federal government to enact revenge against those he believes have wronged him. Others, have pointed out that Trump is merely doing to his opponents what they repeatedly tried to do to him. 

The way Comey not only tried to destroy General Flynn and his family by framing him, but later mockingly bragged about it, remains one of the most disgraceful abuses ever committed by an FBI director. He deserves prison for that alone. pic.twitter.com/nQ32z8wr8u

— Hans Mahncke (@HansMahncke) September 24, 2025

The charges follow Trump’s decision to oust U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, Erik Siebert, who had reportedly refused to bring cases against Comey, as well as New York Attorney General Letitia James, after Trump appointed him to lead the office. Trump then immediately moved to install Lindsey Halligan, a White House aide and his former defense attorney, to lead the office.

The preemptive false framing of a potential James Comey indictment as a political hit is being driven by leaks from inside DOJ and/or the U.S. Attorney’s Office in EDVA. Kash and his team must launch a full-scale leak investigation into who’s behind it and chase it to the end. https://t.co/BwRCtzRuAe pic.twitter.com/rkylq5Wp1L

— Hans Mahncke (@HansMahncke) September 25, 2025

In a series of social media posts over the weekend, Trump said Halligan was being appointed to the office to “get things moving,” after attacking Siebert for his resistance to bring what Trump described as a “GREAT CASE.”

“Pam Bondi is doing a GREAT job as Attorney General of the United States. She is very careful, very smart, loves our Country, but needs a tough prosecutor in the Eastern District of Virginia, like my recommendation, Lindsey Halligan, to get things moving,” Trump said. 

Comey, who was fired by Trump during Trump’s first term over the investigation into Trump’s 2016 campaign and its ties to Russia – which as everyone knows by now was one giant hoax –  has been a vocal critic of what he says are Trump’s efforts to politicize the justice system. Comey proceeded to leak the ongoing case to the NYT and to weaponize not only the deep state but the entire liberal press against the president. 

That argument is now likely to be central to Comey’s defense in his criminal case, which could prove to be a highly consequential test for both the Justice Department and the federal judiciary.