Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours),

The Food and Drug Administration is mulling over conducting its own evaluation of the levels of DNA in COVID-19 vaccines, an FDA official has disclosed.

“I’ll say that that is something that’s being discussed,” Dr. Tracy Hoeg, a senior adviser to the FDA’s commissioner, told members of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s vaccine advisory panel on Sept. 19.

Before the panel’s members unanimously recommended during the meeting that the CDC roll back COVID-19 vaccine recommendations, a number expressed concerns about growing evidence of higher-than-allowed levels of DNA in the vaccines, the spread of the vaccine beyond the injection site, and the long-term persistence of messenger ribonucleic acid (mRNA)—a key part of the Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna shots.

The CDC has described mRNA as the entity teaching cells how to make copies of the spike protein to enable protection when the real virus, with its own spike protein, attacks the body. “After the mRNA delivers the instructions, your cells break it down and get rid of it,” a CDC graphic states.

Retsef Levi, chair of the advisory panel’s COVID-19 immunization workgroup, showed the graphic during the meeting.

“We have a range of things on the mRNA platforms that really suggests that it doesn’t work as intended,” Levi said, citing issues such as the spread of spike protein and mRNA into various parts of the body and “DNA contamination.”

Sequence Not Highlighted, Residual DNA Found

Canadian officials in 2023 confirmed to The Epoch Times that Pfizer’s vaccine contained a DNA sequence that the manufacturer had not highlighted. Some scientists, including former Johnson & Johnson scientist David Wiseman, said they were concerned about the impact of residual DNA left behind by the sequence, which had been used in the past for manufacturing other drugs.

That DNA could integrate into the human genome and create autoimmunity problems, Kevin McKernan, who has confirmed the presence of residual DNA in COVID-19 vaccine vials, told The Epoch Times.

The FDA, in a brief statement in 2023, did not say whether it was aware of the sequence.

“With over a billion doses of the mRNA vaccines administered, no safety concerns related to the sequence of, or amount of, residual DNA have been identified,” a spokesperson said at the time. “With regard to the FDA-approved mRNA vaccines, available scientific evidence supports the conclusion that they are safe and effective.”

While the sequence has not been detected in Moderna’s vaccine, other testing has found DNA in both the Pfizer and Moderna shots. McKernan and other researchers in a paper published on Sept. 6 said they found levels of residual DNA in vaccines from the companies that were higher than the regulatory limit set by the FDA.

Why Not Withdrawn?

Dr. Kirk Milhoan, another member of the CDC vaccine advisory panel, said during the meeting that he was “shocked at the lack of pharmacological rigor in dosing,” including dose accumulation, as well as the evidence that the vaccines were contaminated.

“Why is this not pulled off [the market] like any other biologic or medicine that is found to have contamination?” he stated.

Hoeg, the FDA official, told him that some of the relevant information is proprietary.

“I will say the information that we have been provided by Pfizer and Moderna, and what was shared with me, is what they provided to the FDA; it was within the regulatory limits,” she said.

“I will also acknowledge that this is something we take very seriously, and I want to sincerely thank the independent researchers, many of whom I know, who have brought this issue to the public’s attention.

“And at the FDA, we take the public’s safety and the safety of these products incredibly seriously. And I just want to give you all that message that this is not something that is being ignored.”

That’s when Milhoan asked whether the FDA planned an independent evaluation of the products.

“I’ll say that that is something that’s being discussed,” Hoeg said. “Again, we want to communicate that we take this issue very seriously and thank everyone who has brought this to our attention.”

Member Comments on Developments

The new FDA leadership withdrew the emergency authorization for the COVID-19 vaccines but approved them for limited groups, citing a need for the companies to run trials proving effectiveness in younger, healthier populations. The FDA’s commissioner also announced recently that the agency is investigating reported child deaths following COVID-19 vaccination.

“The shift in focus and openness to investigation of these issues is new,” Dr. Robert Malone, another CDC adviser, told The Epoch Times.

“Previously, the FDA was unwilling to look at issues such as lot consistency and adulteration in these products, and that’s just not consistent with established regulatory norms,” he added later.

The FDA did not respond to a request for comment by the time of publication.

Levi wrote on X that the discussions during the meeting were the first time the advisory panel went over “critical risks and uncertainties like immune response to repeated boosting, biodistribution, pharmacokinetics, and potential impurities.”

Levi and Milhoan, before they were appointed to the panel, called for the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines to be withdrawn. Malone in 2023 said that regulators should withdraw the Pfizer vaccine due to the presence of the DNA sequence, which he said made the product adulterated.

What the Companies Said

Darin Edwards, a Moderna executive, told advisers during the meeting that outside testing of the vaccines has been flawed.

“Part of our release testing is [the] detection of DNA in each lot,” he said. “We use industry-standard methods to perform these assessments. That is specific to DNA and does not detect RNA, which is a flaw and a problem with some of the other methods cited.”

A Pfizer official added: “We did measure residual DNA within our product, and our assay was validated to be specific for residual DNA and not RNA within the product.”

Dr. Wafik El-Deiry, director of the Legorreta Cancer Center at Brown University, said in a presentation to the panel that the FDA limits for DNA were for “naked DNA,” or unencapsulated DNA. The COVID-19 vaccines are encapsulated by lipid nanoparticles to help prolong the mRNA so it can teach the body.

Malone asked the companies during the meeting: “The thresholds that were used to establish that you were within allowed parameters, are those that the FDA determined as acceptable for naked DNA?”

“The thresholds were developed for our product,” a Pfizer representative said.

“The product thresholds are for our specific product,” Edwards said.

Dr. El-Deiry’s Response

El-Deiry told The Epoch Times in an email that he interpreted the comments as the companies using certain quality control assays that suggested to them that the DNA impurities were within FDA limits.

“The sensitivity of their assays has been questioned and clearly multiple others have identified DNA impurities that exceed the 10 ng FDA limit, and such DNA was present after they eliminated RNA by using powerful ribonucleases,” or enzymes, El-Deiry said.

While the exact impact of the impurities remains unclear, a number of case reports and case series have described cancer developing in vaccinated individuals shortly after vaccination, El-Deiry told the panel.

A Moderna representative told the committee: “We note that one of today’s presentations includes assertions not aligned with the broader scientific evidence. Some conclusions extend beyond what referenced studies support or are contradicted by careful reading.

“Others appear based on isolated case reports that are presented without relevant clinical context, or omit a larger body of evidence to the contrary.”

The panel later voted to recommend that people should only receive COVID-19 vaccines after consulting with health care providers and considering individual factors, such as whether they have an underlying condition, such as obesity.

Members also said the CDC should add more information about the vaccines to information statements, including that “prolonged and persistent exposure to spike, mRNA and nano-lipids particles is associated with post-vaccine syndrome (PVS) injuries as well as potentially other side effects that are currently only partially understood,” and that doctors should discuss such risks, as well as benefits, before proceeding with vaccination.

As ChatGPT turns three (has it really only been 3 years?) AI tools are quickly entering investing.

About one in 10 retail investors now use chatbots to pick stocks, according to broker eToro, while half say they would consider it, according to Reuters. The robo-advisory market is projected to soar from $61.75 billion in 2023 to nearly $471 billion by 2029, Research and Markets estimates.

Reuters writes that Jeremy Leung, a former UBS analyst, uses ChatGPT to guide his portfolio since leaving the bank last year. “I no longer have the luxury of a Bloomberg (terminal)… Even the simple ChatGPT tool can do a lot and replicate a lot of the workflows that I used to do,” he said.

But he warns the chatbot can miss crucial analysis since it “can’t access data behind a paywall.”

Finder found that 40% of UK respondents had used AI for personal finance. Its own experiment with ChatGPT stock picks in 2023 produced a basket including Nvidia, Amazon, Procter & Gamble and Walmart, which gained 55%—far ahead of leading UK funds.

Still, experts caution against treating generic models like investment platforms.

“AI models can be brilliant,” said eToro’s UK head Dan Moczulski. “The risk comes when people treat generic models like ChatGPT or Gemini as crystal balls.” He stressed that purpose-built AI tools are safer, as general models can “misquote figures and dates, lean too hard on a pre-established narrative, and overly rely on past price action.”

Leung says success depends on detailed prompts, such as “assume you’re a short analyst, what is the short thesis for this stock?” or “use only credible sources, such as SEC filings.”

But he adds that investor enthusiasm may be dangerous: “If people get comfortable investing using AI and they’re making money, they may not be able to manage in a crisis or downturn.”

Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours),

Drinking sugary beverages containing sweeteners fructose and glucose can increase the risk of colorectal cancer spreading in the body, according to a peer-reviewed study published on Sept. 19 by the journal Nature Metabolism.

Researchers in the study exposed colorectal cancer (CRC) cells to a combination of fructose and glucose, nearly mimicking the physiological environment that results from consuming sugar-sweetened beverages, the study said.

This exposure was found to enhance “cellular motility and metastatic potential” of the CRC cells, it said.

Cellular motility refers to the ability of a cell, in this case, the colorectal cancer cells, to move from one part of the body to another. It represents a key step in cancer spreading across the body. Metastasis has a similar meaning, referring to the spread of cancer cells from a tissue or organ to another.

Researchers found that as CRC cells became more mobile, it resulted in “faster spread to the liver—the most common site of colorectal cancer metastasis,” said a Sept. 19 statement from the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, whose researchers led the study.

The glucose-fructose mix “activated an enzyme called sorbitol dehydrogenase (SORD), which boosts glucose metabolism and triggers the cholesterol pathway, ultimately driving metastasis,” it said.

Blocking SORD slowed down the metastasis process, even with the presence of glucose-fructose mix, thus opening up potential treatment options, the statement said.

“Our findings highlight that daily diet matters not only for cancer risk but also for how the disease progresses once it has developed,” said lead researcher Jihye Yun from the Department of Genetics at the cancer center.

“While these findings need further investigation, they suggest that reducing sugary drinks, targeting SORD or repurposing statins may benefit patients with colorectal cancer.”

Statins are heart drugs used to inhibit cholesterol production.

The study was supported by the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas, the National Cancer Institute, the Andrew Sabin Family Fellows Award, the V Scholar Award, and the Pew-Stewart Scholars for Cancer Research program. The authors did not declare any competing interests.

Colorectal Cancer in Young People

Colorectal cancer, which includes both colon and rectal cancers, is the third leading cause of cancer-related deaths among men in the United States, according to data from the American Cancer Society (ACS). Among women, it is the fourth leading cause.

When the numbers of men and women are combined, colorectal cancer is the second most common cause of cancer deaths.

In 2025, ACS projects around 107,320 new cases of colon cancers and roughly 46,950 new cases of rectal cancers in the country. Total colorectal deaths for the year are expected to be 52,900.

“The rate of people being diagnosed with colon or rectal cancer has dropped overall since the mid-1980s, mainly because more people are getting screened and changing their lifestyle-related risk factors. From 2012 to 2021, incidence rates dropped by about 1 percent each year,” ACS said.

“But this downward trend is mostly in older adults. In people younger than 50 years of age, rates have increased by 2.4 percent per year from 2012 to 2021.”

A July 24 report from the American Medical Association also said that younger people were increasingly diagnosed with colorectal cancer, a disease typically associated with people aged 50 and above.

In May last year, a study presented at the Digestive Disease Week 2024 detailed the following numbers for colorectal cancer incidence rates between 1999 and 2020—an increase of 500 percent for 10- to 14-year-olds; a 333 percent jump for 15- to 19-year-olds; a 185 percent surge among 20- to 24-year-olds; and a 68 percent increase among 25- to 29-year-olds.

This specific study analyzed data from a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention database.

According to ACS, risk factors of colorectal cancers include those that can be changed, such as lifestyle adaptations, and those that cannot be changed.

Among changeable factors, key risks include excess body weight, Type 2 diabetes, smoking, alcohol use, and certain diet types, such as high red meat or processed meat consumption and cooking food at very high temperatures.

Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company, xAI, has struck a deal with the General Services Administration that lets federal agencies use its chatbot Grok for a total fee of 42 cents over 18 months, according to the New York Times.

The Times reported that agencies will also get help from xAI engineers to implement the tools.

“We look forward to continuing to work with President Trump and his team to rapidly deploy A.I. throughout the government for the benefit of the country,” Mr. Musk said.

Josh Gruenbaum, commissioner of the Federal Acquisition Service, said negotiations began in July without Musk’s direct involvement. “We are in a heated race for probably the most important technology ever invented,” he said, noting safeguards to ensure secure federal use.

Musk has long played on the number 420 in business deals. The fee also nods to “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy,” in which 42 is the answer to the meaning of life.

“Thanks to President Trump and his administration, xAI’s frontier AI is now unlocked for every federal agency empowering the U.S. Government to innovate faster and accomplish its mission more effectively than ever before,” Fox News reported Musk as saying. “xAI has the most powerful AI compute and most capable AI models in the world.”

“This technology could be as transformative as the internet, maybe more … It’s crucial that Western, American values are front and center. We need to work with allies to ensure those values shape the technology that ends up leading the world,” Gruenbaum added.

xAI cofounder Ross Nordeen added: “‘Grok for Government’ will deliver transformational AI capabilities at $0.42 per agency for 18 months, with a dedicated engineering team ensuring mission success. We will work hand in glove with the entire government to not only deploy AI, but to deeply understand the needs of our government to make America the world leader in advanced use of AI.”

The deal follows similar agreements with OpenAI and Anthropic, whose chatbots will cost agencies $1 each for a year. xAI was also among several firms awarded Pentagon contracts in July.

Musk has poured billions into xAI to catch up with rivals, though revenues remain unclear. The company has faced setbacks, including when Grok called itself “MechaHitler” and spread false claims about a genocide in South Africa.

After Mr. Trump’s inauguration, Musk briefly joined a federal cost-cutting initiative, embedding aides at the GSA before leaving the project in June to refocus on his companies.

Authored by Eric Peters via EricPetersAutos.com,

The subject of civil war comes up a lot lately. How about an amicable separation instead?

People do this all the time in their personal relationships. You have two people who loved one another once and maybe still do but just can’t live together any longer. At least, not without some sort of accommodation that neither can agree to.

And so the parties agree to separate.

One party does not (usually) try to force the other party to remain in the relationship and rarely tries to kill the other party when a separation is asked for. Most people understand that while it hurts to say goodbye, it’s wrong to hurt the other party for saying it.

Why can’t this work on a political level?

The answer is simple. It is why there was what was not a civil war in this country, 1861-1865. There was a successful attempt to prevent a separation. The slavery thing is a non sequitur told to young people to avoid them asking impertinent questions – such as why the “union” was inviolable (as Lincoln said it was) when that clearly conflicts with the idea of government by consent (which Lincoln had the gall to say he was defending, by forcing the states of the Southern Confederacy to submit to a government they did not consent to).

The issue that was resolved – by force – was whether states (and so the people) had the right to separate themselves politically from a “union” they no longer wished to remain within. Lincoln’s government – and armies – forced the Southern states to return to the “union” and submit to its government. This is “consent”in the manner of a woman who is unable to fight off her rapist.

The Confederacy never sought to gain political control over the states north of the Mason-Dixon line. They sought to be independent of them.

It is a lie, accordingly, that what occurred during 1861-1865 was a “civil war.”

Why is this lie told to school kids? For all the obvious reasons. The main ones being to portray the South as the bad guy and to portray the North as the good guy. This squelches questions about forcing people into a “union” they’d rather not be part of. How many people would consider getting married if it were made clear to them they could never (no matter what) leave the marriage?

Circling back to our situation.

It is similar in at least one way to the situation in this country in 1861 in that – like the Southern states – about half the people living in this “union” would like to peacefully separate from it. For reasons of irreconcilable differences, which is the generally accepted criteria for the dissolution of personal unions when they are no longer mutually agreeable. It is interesting that the criteria almost everyone accepts for the dissolution of a marital union is considered unacceptable when it comes to political unions.

Wait. That is not actually correct. What happened in 1861 – and what may happen again – is that one side of the “union” refused to allow the dissolution. How bizarre! Everyone – almost everyone – would regard it (correctly) as criminal and even psychotic to force someone to remain in a marriage they wanted out of. The reasons why are beside the point. Marriage – any such commitment – ought to be done voluntarily and for love. Using force to maintain the relationship is the antithesis of loving someone because it is the relationship of owner and slave.

But it does explain why political separation is not permissible. One side refuses to let go of their ownership claims over the other side, though this honest if evil motive is never declared.

In the context of our time, the reason why is the same as it was in that other time. One side needs the other side – in the manner of a leech that needs the warm blood of another creature to maintain its existence.

Most of you reading this are probably willing – eager – to agree that you want nothing from the Left (that is, from people who are socialists/communists) than to be free of them. More to the point, you don’t want their freedom. Or their money, either. The Left cannot survive without yours. It is like a spouse that does not work but demands you do in order to meet their needs, which always wax. A spouse who carries a .45 and makes it clear that you’d better go to work – and come home after work. And then give her a massage before bedtime.

It is really important to understand this. We do not need them – but they need us. They have to have us, just the same as the Northern states (more finely, the mercantilist interests that controlled the North and so the “union”) had to have the resources possessed by the South. Lincoln – for all his serial lying- admitted this prior to the outbreak of the war to force the South back into the “union.” He stated he would agree to any accommodation with the South regarding slavery – so long as the South continued to pay federal taxes (tariffs) and remained in the union. In other words, it was not the relationship that really mattered.

It was the relationship of owner to owned that did.

This is why those of us who wish only keep what is ours and to be left alone – are not going to be left alone by the people who believe what’s ours is theirs and who are genetically incapable (so it seems) of leaving other people alone. We are in the position of a spouse married to someone who sees us as their property and who will never let us go without a fight.

It is a depressing and daunting thing to come to terms with.

But the sooner we do, the better.

There’s intense, ongoing rampant speculation in the aftermath of breaking news reports saying Secretary of War Pete Hegseth has called top US military leaders from across the globe to gather at a meeting next week at Marine Corps base Quantico – which lies some 30 minutes south of Washington D.C.

Washington Post cited over a dozen people familiar with the matter who described all senior officers with the rank of brigadier general or above have been summoned, including all Navy admirals, which will amount to some 800 top commanders being gathered. No explanation has been given by the Pentagon chief.

Despite President Trump this week having boasted that his administration has solved “seven conflicts” – it remains that the globe’s biggest wars are still raging: Ukraine and Gaza. At the moment, European officials have been warning Russia that NATO is ready and willing to shootdown its warplanes if they breach NATO airspace.

These are tense and very on edge times, and so “The unexpected confab has created confusion and alarm, as there has not been a defense secretary in recent history who has ordered such a large number of the military’s top officers to gather like this,” The Hill points out.

Chief Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell has meanwhile confirmed, “The Secretary of War will be addressing his senior military leaders early next week.” Specifically the meeting is set for Tuesday, Sept. 30.

It’s become clear that all of these top commanders, even those stationed at far-flung bases overseas in Europe, the Middle East or across the Pacific, are expected to be there in person – again, making this highly unusual. Some outlets asked the Pentagon to clarify whether some will participate remotely but there was no response.

The Washington Post described Hegseth’s summons was sent worldwide, across the Middle East, Europe and Indo-Pacific, via secure government means of communication which is available to bases and embassies across countries and time zones.

Will a new force posture related to Russia and the Ukraine war be announced? Is this brink of WW3-related stuff? 

BREAKING: Secretary of War Pete Hegseth calls a “rare, urgent meeting” of hundreds of generals and admirals. pic.twitter.com/v7nKMqUaaB

— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) September 25, 2025

Will Hegseth roll out more on his prioritizing China within DoD intelligence in readiness? 

Or will this meeting concern more drastic changes at top command ranks? After all, there has been a significant amount of firings, hirings, and reshufflings within the DoD. Just last month Hegseth fired Defense Intelligence Agency Director Lt. Gen. Jeffrey Kruse, Navy Reserve Chief Vice Adm. Nancy Lacore, and Naval Special Warfare Command head Rear Adm. Milton Sands.

There’s been plenty of other movement and ‘house-cleaning’ happening at the Pentagon and within the DoD of late.

This is either a meeting that could have been an email (amid Russian incursions on NATO territory, including Alaska) or something ominous. https://t.co/8Da1SAgKzZ

— Matthew Gertz (@MattGertz) September 25, 2025

Possibly, this whole thing could just be somewhat mundane and ceremonial. The administration has shown a penchant for parades and public displays of military strength. Could this be another very costly waste of time and resources that the summoned generals end up complaining about behind closed doors? A loyalty test maybe? The speculation continues.

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Update(1535ET): Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov addressed a meeting of G20 foreign ministers on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly meeting in New York on Thursday, and he really unleashed, going after NATO and the European Union for declaring a real war on Russia through Ukraine.

His remarks came on the heels of NATO warning Russia it is prepared to defend “every inch of allied territory” after Estonia said that Russian fighter jets had violated its airspace last week. He started by accusing the Western alliance of failing to adhere to the principles of the UN Charter, which he described as “a manifestation of neocolonial ambitions, [which] leads to increased global instability and breeds regional conflicts.”

“A clear example is the crisis in Ukraine, provoked by the collective West, through which NATO and the European Union want to declare, in fact, have already declared a real war on my country and are directly participating in it,” Lavrov said.

“The escalation in the Middle East is in the same row,” Lavrov continued. “The unprecedented humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza has already claimed the lives of 65,000 people, and some UN officials working in the Middle East say there are estimates that the death toll is 10 times higher. None of Israel’s neighbors can feel safe; we see this every day.” Watch below:

‘NATO and EU have basically declared WAR on my country’

‘Ukraine crisis provoked by collective West’

Lavrov at UNGA sets out to make some G20 FMs squirm in their seats with hard facts pic.twitter.com/ifQn30NzCL

— RT (@RT_com) September 25, 2025

Both NATO and EU officials have indicated that shooting Russian planes out of the sky is an option “on the table” if there are further breaches of European airspace, in a dire warning.

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The below interview exchange between CNN’s warmonger in chief Christiane Amanpour and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen is a perfect illustrator of why NATO countries in eastern Europe and the Baltics are now hyping recent Russian drones incursions into European airspace. There is a new dangerous drive to ‘confront’ Russia, potentially sparking WW3, at a moment Ukraine forces continue steadily losing ground along the front lines…

CNN’s Amanpour: Türkiye shot down a Russian jet 10 years ago, and did not suffer consequences necessarily.

Ursula von der Leyen: It is a principle of NATO and Article 5.

Amanpour: What is taking you so long? Is it time now to punch back in the nose?

Ursula von der Leyen: It is… pic.twitter.com/772aWwWFKk

— Clash Report (@clashreport) September 25, 2025

Amanpour wants NATO and the EU to “punch back” against Russia and hit it “on the nose” – even though this chickenhawk armchair general herself will never fight this conflict.

Von der Leyen assured Amanpour that the option of shooting Russian aircraft out of the sky is “on the table” – following last week’s alleged drone and jet incursion incidents which took place in Poland, Romania, and Estonia. In each instance jets were scrambled from the NATO countries.

“My opinion is we have to defend every square centimeter of the territory,” von der Leyen told the CNN correspondent. “That means if there is an intrusion in the airspace, after warning, after being very clear, of course the option of shooting down a fighter jet that is intruding our airspace is on the table.”

President Trump could potentially veto such a drastic action if formal consultations were held, but it does present the highly dangerous scenario of a NATO member choosing to ‘shoot first, consult later’ if airspace is violated.

Russian Ambassador to France, Alexey Meshkov, has said in a fresh interview with the RTL news channel published Thursday that if NATO shoots down a Russian plane this “would be war”.

He warned: “You know, there are many NATO planes that violate Russian airspace, deliberately or not, but it happens quite often. They are not shot down afterward.” He didn’t follow with any specific example of this, however.

BIG: Russian Ambassador to France, Alexey Meshkov:

If NATO shoots down a Russian plane, it would be WAR.

How else can it be described?

Source: RTL pic.twitter.com/RjemfNuMDY

— Clash Report (@clashreport) September 25, 2025

Meshkov further in the remarks denied accusations that Russian warplanes have been deliberately entering NATO countries’ airspace. The biggest instance was Estonia’s allegation that three Russian MiG-31 jets violated Estonia for 12-minutes over the Gulf of Finland last Friday morning.

Currently, there’s been a lot of speculation over where President Trump stands in all of this. He has made comments which appeared to downplay the drone and jet incursion incidents, but he’s also this week at the UN encouraged Ukraine’s Zelensky to seek to take back all territory currently held by the Russians. He has previously repeatedly said that the world must avoid WW3 with Russia at all costs, and has sought to improve US-Russia bilateral relations of late.

Former Senior Executive (SES) FBI agent Christopher O’Leary, whose two-decade career focused on counterterrorism probes for the bureau, appeared blame Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) for inviting attacks against its officers – urging the agency to overhaul its enforcement strategies such as ‘wearing masks’ (a nod to California) – to curb violence from radical leftwing extremists.

During an appearance on MSNBC’s “Katy Tur Reports” Wednesday, O’Leary weighed in on the brazen shooting at an ICE facility in Texas, conceding that overheated rhetoric should be dialed back while shockingly pinning the blame on ICE’s own playbook.

Former FBI agent Christopher O’Leary is on MSNBC telling Trump to bend the knee and stop the deportations of people here illegally, or the attacks will not only continue, but they will escalate. pic.twitter.com/TlqR9PbnBx

— Gunther Eagleman™ (@GuntherEagleman) September 24, 2025

“You also have to start looking at what policies you’ve implemented and what tactics you’re using, because, if you tone down the rhetoric, but you leave those other pieces in place, nothing’s going to change,” O’Leary, who now is a MSNBC analyst, told Tur.

“Terrorism is theater. It’s intended to influence an audience beyond its immediate victims,” O’Leary said. “It’s putting a message out, and terrorism falls into really three categories: It’s either religiously motivated, ideologically motivated, or, in this case, politically motivated.

“The politically motivated ones, it doesn’t happen in a vacuum. It happens because conditions have been set that people start acting out against,” he added.

The former FBI agent doubled down, seemingly painting ICE as the villain in a narrative straight out of the progressive grievance handbook: “Distrust in institutions – that’s been building for quite some time – attacks on institutions, the wealth gap, oppressive policies – at least this is what people perceive – and then the militarization of ICE and other federal law enforcement, the wearing of the masks, the aggressive tactics. So, the people who are starting to act out against this feel it’s their only recourse.”

Related: DHS told California to pound sand over a new law banning federal immigration agents and other law enforcement personnel from wearing face masks while on duty.

“Again, this is predictable. We see this happening throughout our history and in other places as well. So, we can tone down the rhetoric, and that’s the right message,” O’Leary added. “But you also have to start looking at what policies you’ve implemented and what tactics you’re using, because, if you tone down the rhetoric, but you leave those other pieces in place, nothing’s going to change.”

ICE is still reeling after 29-year-old gunman Joshua Jahn allegedly unleashed a hail of bullets on a Dallas ICE facility early Wednesday morning, killing one detainee and leaving two others in critical condition before cowardly taking his own life.

Officials confirmed the shooter scrawled “ANTI-ICE” on an unused bullet, a chilling manifesto of hatred against agents enforcing America’s immigration laws.

Miraculously, no ICE officers were harmed in the indiscriminate attack, which acting ICE Director Todd Lyons slammed as a direct assault on federal personnel risking their lives to protect the homeland.

“Seeing the photos today, some of the bullets were in an office that I used to have there,” Lyons said. “It’s just a horrible feeling. People always ask me what’s the thing that keeps me up at night. It’s the safety of the men and women of ICE. My heart goes out to that detainee’s family. We’re charged with their protection, their custody. Nothing like that should happen.”

In response to the shooting, President Donald Trump announced that he is readying an Executive Order to expand targeting of domestic terror groups.

“The continuing violence from Radical Left Terrorists, in the aftermath of Charlie Kirk’s assassination, must be stopped. ICE Officers, and other Brave Members of Law Enforcement, are under grave threat,” Trump wrote in a statement. “We have already declared ANTIFA a Terrorist Organization, and I will be signing an Executive Order this week to dismantle these Domestic Terrorism Networks.”

*  *  * Pardon the interruption, but… 

The news cycle for dark-money, billionaire-funded NGOs is about to get optically displeasing for the Democratic Party and its elitist donor class, who have bankrolled what we consider the “protest-industrial complex.” 

For years, these leftist billionaire-backed nonprofits have waged an all-out war against President Trump and his MAGA base, funding and facilitating nonstop leftist “color revolution” operations, propping up extremist movements, indoctrinating kids with toxic woke ideology and turning them into revolutionaries, and amplifying a decade of dangerous rhetoric that smeared MAGA as “fascists” and “Nazis.” These leftist, or Marxists, also fueled nation-killing agendas like DEI and criminal and social-justice reforms, which have proven disastrous for the longevity of the country. 

A new report from The New York Times shows the Trump administration is preparing to investigate dark-money-funded NGOs that operate in the shadows, with the ultimate goal of not only destroying President Trump and MAGA, but also driving capitalism to collapse and ensuring the nation as we know it today no longer exists in the next decade. 

NYT said a senior Justice Department official directed at least six U.S. attorneys’ offices to prepare investigative plans targeting the Open Society Foundations (OSF), bankrolled by radical leftist billionaire Democratic donor George Soros – now his leftist son, Alex, runs operations. 

NYT’s report comes after the Capital Research Center, a think tank that tracks foundations, charities, and other nonprofits, released a report last week detailing an explosive revelation: OSF “gave $80 million to pro-terror groups.” 

Let’s take a step back to understand that cracks were already rapidly forming across the NGO world shortly after the Trump administration nuked the United States Agency for International Development. Then came domestic terrorist operations by far-left groups that burned Tesla showrooms and vehicles nationwide. At the time, we focused on the Gates Foundation that funded the Aarbella network that plowed millions into ‘No Kings’ protests (read report). These protests ultimately failed, but they were color revolution-style operations aimed at influencing public opinion polls and promoting regime change in Washington. This is the same bullshit strategy U.S. intelligence agencies use overseas. 

💰 $114.8 Million Dark Money Infusion: The Arabella Advisors network has funneled at least $114.8 million to “No Kings” protest organizers and affiliates
according to most recent (’19-’23) financial disclosures analyzed by GAI. pic.twitter.com/qWHyuAa7Tg

— Seamus Bruner (@seamusbruner) June 13, 2025

More context here:

• Dark-Money Network Funneled Millions Into ‘No Kings’ Nationwide Color Revolution Operation

Then came revelations late in the summer, via a NYT report, that the Gates Foundation had severed ties with the Arabella dark-money network. And for good reason: the foundation likely realized that money funneled into the Arabella network would only strengthen Trump’s push to launch investigations into the NGO world (deep state/parallel government). And that’s precisely what might have happened.

Late summer arrived when Trump, out of the blue, began blasting Soros on Truth Social: he “should be charged with RICO because they support violent protests.” Trump was likely referring to anti-ICE and Tesla takedown protests earlier in the year. 

• Trump Calls For RICO Charges Against Soros Over Violent Protest Support; Gates Foundation Abruptly Severs Ties With Rogue Arabella Advisors

Shortly after, a series of leftist violence erupted – from the transgender shooter who stormed a church in Minneapolis, to the leftist with a transgender boyfriend suspected in the Kirk political assassination, to Wednesday’s ICE attack in Texas by a far-left radical, which merely activated the Trump administration into launching war against the radical left that has been fueling this chaos and the rise in far-left militancy for years, something even the The Atlantic admitted this week as major problem. 

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

This rise in far-left militancy prompted the White House to go on the offensive… 

• Senior Trump Official Declares War On Far-Left NGOs Sowing Chaos Nationwide

• White House Plans Security Boost On Civil Terrorism Fears As FBI Investigates Revolutionary Leftist Groups In Kirk Assassination

The investigations won’t stop with Soros.

• FBI’s ‘Armed Queers’ Probe Just The Start – Lawmakers Urge Treasury To Freeze China-Linked Billionaire’s NGO Empire

• Communist Billionaire Accused Of Funding Anti-ICE Riots Mysteriously Vanishes

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

Even before this madness, we noted:

• America Has A “Transtifa” Problem

• The Protest-Industrial-Complex Isn’t Peaceful, It’s “Civil Terrorism”

Civil terrorism expert Jason Curtis Anderson describes the rise in far militancy as “nihilistic accelerationism” suggesting that “Far-left extremism extends far beyond groups like Antifa. There is an entire revolutionary (marxist) ecosystem of interconnected entities: billion-dollar progressive NGOs, anarchist networks, political organizations such as the DSA, foreign influence operations like the Singham network, gaming platforms, Discord servers and reddit threads, the dark web, and even civil-rights organizations staffed with “movement lawyers” fully dedicated to waging war against the West until it collapses.”

Marxist-aligned groups operating across America to subvert the nation and collapse capitalism are already “planning war against fascists.” 

• “Planning War Against Fascists” – Socialist Rifle Association Boasts 10,000 Members

And guess who created a target profile on “fascists”?

Where did Charlie Kirk’s murderer learn to call conservatives “fascists”?

“Do you think Donald Trump is a fascist?”

Kamala Harris: “Yes, I do. YES, I DO!” pic.twitter.com/RxDjgOYjKY

— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) September 12, 2025

All coordinated. 

Here is the roadmap to Charlie Kirk’s assassination… pic.twitter.com/S4JPbPiFy8

— James Woods (@RealJamesWoods) September 12, 2025

The Democratic Party is following a playbook straight out of the Communist Party.

A trip down memory lane. 

As always, the same old communist strategy. pic.twitter.com/ZcUGoU0kBi

— G£411B€R (@glauberrss) September 12, 2025

Meanwhile, the Trump administration is moving full steam ahead to neutralize radical leftists and their NGOs that sow chaos – a crackdown that will extend well beyond Soros and likely include Roy Singham in China, as well as PFLP, Samidoun, and leftist American dynasty families and their nonprofits. Americans remember who funded the BLM riots that destroyed their businesses and cities. Accountability is coming. 

Former President Barack Hussein Obama has chimed in on the Tylenol controversy, after President Donald Trump warned pregnant women not to take the drug (acetaminophen), citing research showing a link to autism in children. 

In a Thursday post to X, Obama defended the drug – writing that ‘broad claims around certain drugs and autism’ have been ‘continuously disproven,‘ – and as such, ‘undermine public health, do harm to women who are pregnant,’ and ‘create anxiety for parents who do have children who are autistic…

We have people in power making broad claims around certain drugs and autism that have been continuously disproven. The degree to which those comments can undermine public health, do harm to women who are pregnant, create anxiety for parents who do have children who are autistic –… pic.twitter.com/rxCZ7OIzs8

— Barack Obama (@BarackObama) September 25, 2025

Perhaps now is a good time to point out that donations from employees of Tylenol maker Kenvue have overwhelmingly donated to Democrats. 

Needless to say, Obama must have missed all the receipts showing a mountain of research – as well as Tylenol’s own warnings – that pregnant women avoid the drug, or ‘talk to your doctor’ – and got scorched in the replies.

Wait, you’re now actually calling these warnings some kind of “violence”? Even though this Mount Sinai study, summarized via press release around a month ago, supports a link between acetaminophen and autism/ADHD?
Truly next level.https://t.co/Qvap9HSU4u pic.twitter.com/xde9kvHLfI

— Lion Advocacy (@LionAdvocacy) September 25, 2025

March 7, 2017…. 🤔 🤔 🤔 pic.twitter.com/kygHySbUUc

— The Austin Conservative 🇺🇸🤘 (@AustinConserve) September 25, 2025

Cool cool pic.twitter.com/qnbGd56bC3

— Leibs (@Leibs_) September 25, 2025

https://t.co/cj83X0cg4K

This is from 2019!!!

— Kenny (@PatchettKM) September 25, 2025

Since you’re such an authority on the matter, let’s just ignore John Hopkins. pic.twitter.com/T2pYHRKsjC

— PA Marine (@PAMarine412) September 25, 2025

Tylenol, meanwhile, has issued a hilarious statement in the wake of this PR disaster:

“Acetaminophen is the safest pain reliever option for pregnant women as needed throughout their entire pregnancy,” said a spokesperson. “Our products are safe and effective when used as directed on the product label. We recommend pregnant women do not take any over-the-counter medication, including acetaminophen, without talking to their doctor first.“

Yes, talk to your doctor first. 

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