Greenland Says the Great Moron is Lying about US Drilling on Island

The Great American Moron continues to desperately lie to voters as his Iran war continues to send oil prices downward. His claim of US "massive drilling" in Greenland - which he hopes will fool his herd of MAGA morons into believing that soaring gas and diesel prices ahead of the winter season will soon be resolved, and that they therefore should vote for his GOP gang of conservative neanderthals - is one BIG LIE.

He himself has caused the massive rise in oil and gas prices, but he continues to lie with petty idiocies to try and save his hide from the upcoming retribution by the American voters on November 3. One of his latest desperate attempts was his striking a deal with America's top enemy, Vladimir Putin. If it is true, as the Great Moron Trump continues to blather, that Hormuz is under his full control, then why is he begging his friend, the War Criminal Putin, to send diesel oil to the US? This is just another lie aiming at fooling Americans ahead of the midterms that his Zionist-prodded war's devastating impact on oil and gas markets, and therefore on the soaring inflation in the US, is nothing to worry about. Why does his own appointed Fed Chairman continue to raise interest rates, if not to combat Trump-caused inflation?

Americans who still believe this imbecile should check their brains and their conscience.

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Greenland contradicts Trump’s claim that ‘massive’ oil and gas drilling is about to begin there
Jessie Yeung, Benjamin Brown, Issy Ronald, CNN
Thu, October 15, 2026


CNN

Greenland's government pushed back against President Donald Trump's claim on Wednesday that "massive oil, gas and mineral exploration is getting ready to begin" in the Arctic territory.

While Greenland's deputy mining minister Jørgen Hammeken-Holm acknowledged that "there are activities by US companies," he told CNN that "we are very far away from 'massive' exploration."

"There are many smaller explorations underway but these could take years to become operational," he added, echoing researchers who have pointed out the difficulties and enormous expense involved in extracting resources from Greenland.

The Foreign Ministry of Denmark, of which Greenland is an autonomous part, said that if the US wants to explore Greenland's resources, it would have to do so within the Arctic Island's legislation. Denmark also said the US-Denmark-Greenland agreement signed last month did not change this.

"The agreement does not grant investors from the US any preferential treatment compared with investors from other NATO countries, EU countries and NATO partners when it comes to access to natural resources in Greenland," it added.

President Donald Trump on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, DC, on October 12, 2026. - Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images

Many of the island's deposits are located in remote areas above the Arctic Circle, where there is a mile-thick polar ice sheet and little infrastructure. Approximately 80% of the island is covered in ice.

Since returning to the White House, Trump has repeatedly threatened to take control of Greenland and its natural resources, angering European and NATO partners.

"There are experts that are saying that the amount of easily available oil is far greater than that of almost any land, anywhere in the world," Trump wrote on Truth Social in the early hours of Wednesday.

Later in the day, he claimed that the media exaggerated his ambitions for Greenland and that he was never considering taking the Arctic island by force.

"You know, we took a lot of heat from the fake news back there," Trump said at a rally in Arizona. "They said, 'What a terrible way to talk about Greenland! This is terrible.' Remember, they thought I was going to send my military out to attack Greenland. I wasn't, but I complained about it very strongly to NATO, and really strongly," he added.

On Wednesday evening, a White House official told CNN: "As the President says, energy security is national security." They emphasized the "strategic importance of Greenland," adding that Trump would "convert that recognition into a strategic victory for the United States."

For years, Trump had suggested annexing the self-governing territory. Shortly before taking office for his second term in 2025, he didn't rule out seizing Greenland by force, claiming it was vital for US security. Earlier this year, however, he ruled out military action in remarks to the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.

Vehicles on a narrow road in Nuuk, Greenland, on January 21, 2026. - Jonathan Nackstrand/AFP/Getty Images/File

Last month the US, Denmark, and Greenland reached an agreement intended to help resolve tensions following Trump's threats to annex the strategically located island.

The agreement, which Trump claimed at the time gave the US "permanent control" over Greenland's security, begins with an acknowledgment of Denmark's sovereignty and Greenlanders' right to self-determination.

The agreement, which makes small changes to a 1951 treaty that gives the US permission to station troops in Greenland as part of NATO's defense, makes no explicit mention of oil or gas, but acknowledges "minerals cooperation" and "cooperation on economic development and business promotion," with no further specifics, according a text of the agreement published on the White House's website.

It also paves the way for additional US bases, and an assurance of US military access if Greenland becomes independent from Denmark.

In his post on Wednesday, Trump said, "Any future attack on the United States will have to come across Greenland, where our Defense will routinely knock down drones, missiles, or any other form of weapon not yet even conceived."

CNN has reached out to the White House, to the Danish Prime Minister's Office, and to Greenland's Mineral Resources Authority for comment.

CNN's Donald Judd contributed to this report.

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When Lab Research Leads to Personal, Academic and Foreign Affairs Dramas

Research laboratories, at least the ones I am familiar with, can be like a closed vessel in which Greek tragedies take place. The crowdedness, the shared equipment, low salaries, an incompetent lab director, the stress of producing publishable results... can be very stressful for graduate students and postgraduate fellows who are trying to escape the Gulag. So, when one of the lab "inmates" makes a breakthrough, however minimal it may be, jealousy sets in and drama ensues.

The problem for universities that become entangled in unethical or unlawful research is that, ultimately, they cannot act as a court of justice to determine intent, let alone guilt, and issue sentences. If they do, and the alleged culprit seeks legal recourse, he/she can sue the university. Which is why universities often come up with watered down outcomes in their investigations because they specifically cannot address "intent" behind such occurrences. Only a court of justice can reach this far in resolving such matters.

Back when I was a post-doctoral fellow at an East Coast university, I witnessed several instances of such events as the one described below.

In one instance, someone in a lab down the hall from ours discovered that her sandwich had been laced with radioactive materials (which are used as tracers of various types for specific molecules and cellular products (P32, S35, I125...). Police investigated but could not find the guilty person, even though any access to, and use of, stored radioactive materials is subject to recording and signing logs.

In a second instance, in the lab I was post-docing in, two Chinese students were constantly at odds with one another. One day, one of the students discovered that his solutions (buffers, etc.) had been spiked (not with a radioactive material) and could no longer be used properly. The aggrieved student did a set of experiments specifically trying to identify the nature of the spike. The lab director threatened to call the police if this happens again.

In a third instance, one student was running an electrophoresis gel (a jelly-like bed of a semi-solid material in which molecules are separated in an electric field that differentially moves them according to their size). There too, the victim student discovered a radical change in color of the bed, suggesting that the buffer solution in which the process was carried out had been modified. A pH test proved that the buffer solution was no longer a buffer. Again, the lab director threatened consequences.

Finally, in yet another lab, one post-doc could not replicate the published results of a former European post-doc. As they searched the archives of the lab, they discovered that the lab director and that European post-doc had altered the results to remove from the published version data that favored the hypothesis of a competitor lab. Here, the post-doc confronted the director, raised the matter with other professors and the dean who established an inquiry commission whose conclusions were that the director had exercised poor judgment. But then the post-doc uncovered presentation materials (slides) the director used in their conferences that proved that the director had lied to the commission. The commission met again, and decided in favor of the post-doc but could not conclude that the director "intentionally" altered the data in their publication. At least, the post-doc secured an honorable transfer without retribution to another university. [A throwback to the infamous David Baltimore and Margot O'Toole affair at MIT during the 1980s]

These incidents took place in three different universities over the course of some six years.

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Grad student allegedly poisoned her colleague, tried to flee U.S.
CBS/AP
Wed, October 14, 2026



A Wyoming microbiology graduate student from China has been arrested on accusations she poisoned the tea of a colleague who had pending patents and with whom she didn't get along, then tried to flee the country after police questioned her.

Aili Wang, 32, was arrested Oct. 6 at Los Angeles International Airport, where prosecutors allege she sought to return to China. With her were laptops, electronic storage devices and documents now in the possession of police, who allege Wang was seen on surveillance video rummaging through the desk of the victim who specialized in technology for disease treatment - research similar to work she'd done in China.

Wang remained jailed without bail Tuesday in Los Angeles. She allegedly bought a chemical, acrylamide, over eBay, and it was first detected when the alleged victim's wife and others tested water from the coffee maker he used to brew tea.

U.S. officials for years have accused China of stealing intellectual property from American universities.

The microbiology professor overseeing both graduate students, Mark Gomelsky, said the accusations left him reeling. He was uncertain if the victim will fully recover.

"It's been disheartening, to say the least, to see that one of your student's life is in jeopardy and another student may be responsible for that," Gomelsky told The Associated Press. "That was one of the worst shocks in my professional career."

This photo provided by Mark Gomelsky shows University of Wyoming microbiology graduate student Aili Wang at the university in Laramie, Wyo., May 2, 2024. / Credit: Mark Gomelsky via AP

Wang had no attorney listed in court documents. The AP tried to reach her via email and LinkedIn messages.

Amateur sleuthing helps campus cops develop case

The police investigation began after the victim, identified in court documents as "K.T.," began experiencing symptoms and his wife and others allegedly isolated the chemical in the coffee maker water. The victim and campus police then set up surveillance cameras in the office space he shared with Wang at the university in Laramie.

Wang allegedly was recorded Sept. 27 going through the alleged victim's desk. On Oct. 1, she was recorded "taking photos and manipulating notebooks" on his desk, as well as rinsing out his mug with a liquid from her own mug, a University of Wyoming campus police officer's affidavit said.

Wang and the alleged victim, who did not share research areas, did not get along, according to the affidavit.

During an interview by campus police on Oct. 5, Wang allegedly said she "had not used acrylamide in years." A day later she was taken into custody in Los Angeles while in possession of "multiple laptops, multiple portable external digital storage devices, related accessories, physical records and written materials," according to a request by Wyoming prosecutors to "significantly increase" her $200,000 bond upon extradition.

Wang had no reason to go through the desk of the other student whose federally funded, patent-pending research involved "new technology for cancer, neurological and genetic disease treatment," according to the affidavit.

Wang "was reportedly working on similar research in China before coming to the U.S.," the affidavit alleges.

Alleged victim is a high-achieving student

Gomelsky described the alleged victim as a highly successful student from Vietnam.

Wang failed her first attempt to defend her dissertation and became envious of her colleague's success in discovering how to deliver RNA to human cells using bacteria, Gomelsky told The Associated Press.

The alleged victim began experiencing extreme tiredness, inability to sleep and other unexplained symptoms soon after attending a prestigious conference in August, Gomelsky said.

He also noticed a strange taste in the tea that he made with a small coffee maker on his desk, Gomelsky said. When he washed the coffee maker, Gomelsky said, the taste would go away.

Suspecting someone in their shared office could be poisoning the graduate student, Gomelsky said a chemistry professor tested the water and identified acrylamide.

Wang had not been doing lab work since June while she worked on her dissertation, he said.

Suspect faces return to Wyoming to face charges

Wang faces a felony aggravated assault and battery charge in Wyoming punishable by up to 10 years in prison and a $10,000 fine.

It's not clear when she could be extradited to the state, where Albany County Circuit Court Judge Robert Sanford granted prosecutors' request and raised bond to $1.5 million cash-only.

Wang allegedly asked eBay to delete her account after she bought acrylamide over the online retail site twice last summer, police said.

Best known as a carcinogenic byproduct of cooking starchy food and burning tobacco, acrylamide can be acutely toxic in high doses. It's used in microbiology research involving proteins or DNA.

Discovery of the substance immediately made Tak Sumaya, an assistant professor who helped identify it in the coffee maker water, suspicious. Acrylamide is "not something you would find in that kind of quantity anywhere," Sumaya said.

The alleged victim was working on "a pretty promising cancer therapy method," Sumaya said. Wang, Sumaya added, took photos of every page of a notebook the alleged victim left on his desk.

"You wouldn't do that with like your office or lab mate's notebook unless there's a really good reason, and there wasn't," Sumaya said.

Professor says the victim is still experiencing symptoms

The alleged victim went to the campus health clinic in August with worsening finger tingling and numbness, and leg weakness. Suspicion led his wife and others to boil away coffee maker water from the shared office to isolate 63 milligrams of white powder that tested positive for acrylamide, according to the affidavit.

The amateur investigators turned the sample over to university police.

The alleged victim continues to experience symptoms from the poisoning, including not being able to focus, tiring easily and a loss of sensation in his left hand, Gomelsky said.

"Acrylamide is a neurotoxin that cannot be neutralized so it stays in neurons and basically kills them. So it's unclear if he'll fully recover or not," the professor said.

Similar case in California

A chemical engineer in Berkeley, California, suffered years of unexplained illness until she purchased a spy camera and caught her coworker, David Xu, poisoning her food and water with cadmium. He struck a plea deal and served two years of probation for one felony count of poisoning.

According to court records, in October of 2017, Xu began trying to poison a female fellow engineer, Rong Yuan, by mixing "a poison and harmful substance with food, drink, medicine, and pharmaceutical product" that belonged to Yuan.

Yuan allegedly "noted a strange taste or smell from her water and food left unattended in her office," according to the criminal complaint. She later began experiencing "immediate and significant health problems after consuming this water and food, at times requiring emergency care at a hospital.

Trump's New Press Secretary Begins Tenure with a Lie: She is not an Attorney as Claimed

Katie

Darleeeen

Like all Trump appointees, Katie Zacharia's credentials are flimsy and suspect: The Great Moron appoints them not for their qualifications but for their bimboesque qualities (Natalie Harp must be seething with jealousy) and their blind idiotic loyalty to his sublime greatness as the MAGA Mafia Godfather.

The blonde bimbo Katie, now Trump's Press Secretary, was asked where she did pass the bar to become an attorney. Her answer: In China. Not a good way to begin her bootlicking career.

Like that other disturbingly stupid idiot MAGA Republican from South Carolina, Darleene Graham, who was appointed Senator because she is the sister of the late Senator "Lady" Lindsey Graham: Her first scintillating declaration as a US Senator was to admit she knows nothing of foreign policy. The innocence of inbred southern racist fools! But not to worry: She'll vote neither her conscience nor her knowledge; the Great Moron will tell her what to vote.

Meanwhile, the brunette bimbo with botoxed lips, Kimberly Guilfoyle, who was appointed by Trump as his Ambassador to Greece, has now resigned because of a major corruption scandal in which she engaged in influence peddling and improper conduct while in Athens. Her mafia-like conduct is pure Trump "peace-making" vintage.

 Per AI query, Guilfoyle stands guilty of the following:
"Soliciting Trump donor Eric Deters to wire $100,000 to pay down her personal American Express bill in exchange for access to administration officials, urging him to avoid a "paper trail."

"Promoting the business interests of the Greek construction and energy firm Aktor Group by allowing its lobbyist to attend private diplomatic meetings and encouraging Balkan governments to work with the company."

"Accepting luxury travel and gifts from Greek business executives, including private jet flights, and threatening Greek officials that the U.S. could undermine their government if they did not cooperate."

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Trump’s new press secretary was asked where she passed the bar. Her answer raised more questions.
Natalie Musumeci
Updated Tue, October 13, 2026

New White House press secretary Katie Zacharia is facing questions about her legal credentials.

Her answer on Tuesday about where she passed the bar exam added to the confusion.

Zacharia earned a law degree from Pepperdine University and has repeatedly called herself an attorney.

Newly minted White House press secretary Katie Zacharia has repeatedly described herself as an attorney.

The conservative commentator is now facing scrutiny about her legal qualifications after she was pressed to explain them following her first White House briefing with the media.

As President Donald Trump spoke to reporters after the briefing on Tuesday, one asked him where Zacharia had passed the bar exam.

"What state did she pass the bar exam in? You said she is an attorney. Where did she pass the bar exam? Which state?" the reporter asked.

Trump then turned to Zacharia, standing behind him, and asked, "Which state?"

"When I moved to China," Zacharia answered.

Her response added to the confusion over where she may be licensed to practice law in the United States. State bar exams are generally administered in person within the jurisdiction.

In a statement, Zacharia said she "practiced international transaction law, with all the appropriate credentials." She did not say if she'd passed the bar in any state.

"Katie is a fabulous and wonderful addition to the team," Steven Cheung, White House communications director, said. "She is uniquely qualified and whip smart to help inform the American people about all the great things President Trump and his Administration have been doing, and she will do an incredible job as Press Secretary."

Zacharia does not appear to be listed in the State Bar of California's attorney database, despite living and working in the state. She also does not appear to be listed in the D.C. Bar's member directory.

The Substack publication, Popular Information, reported earlier on Tuesday that it searched records in all 50 states and Washington, DC, and turned up no evidence that Zacharia is licensed to practice law.

Zacharia graduated from California's Pepperdine University in 2007 with a bachelor's degree in political science and government. She then received a law degree from the university's Caruso School of Law in 2011, according to the college.

The White House said that after she graduated, Zacharia moved to China with her husband for his job at an American private equity firm. She worked on international transaction law, according to the White House.

Her LinkdIn page says she served as general counsel for the California-based nonprofit Fix California from January 2024 to March 2025. More than a decade earlier, according to her LinkedIn, Zacharia worked as an associate at the Beijing-headquartered Zhong Lun Law Firm.

Trump announced Zacharia's appointment to the White House in a Truth Social post last week, saying she has an "unblemished record of support, and has been a loyal and brilliant supporter, right from the beginning." He also referred to her as an attorney in the post.

In her own post that followed, Zacharia called serving Trump and the American people the "honor of a lifetime."

"I want to thank President Trump for his trust that he has placed in me. I have wanted to work for him for a very long time," Zacharia said during Tuesday's White House press briefing.
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White House officials question how long Katie Zacharia can last after ‘brutal’ press briefing
Kaitlan Collins, Kristen Holmes, Alayna Treene, Kit Maher, CNN
Wed, October 14, 2026


White House press secretary Katie Zacharia speaks with reporters in the James Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House on Tuesday - Julia Demaree Nikhinson/AP

Several White House officials are questioning how long Katie Zacharia will keep the press secretary job after her first briefing Tuesday, saying her performance was unlikely to satisfy President Donald Trump.

Several advisers and officials offered negative reviews of the briefing to CNN, with one characterizing it as "brutal." Others described it as unusual, awkward, stilted and, at times, uncomfortable. Zacharia appeared at the podium for only about 15 minutes, and most of that time was dedicated to an opening statement touting Trump's accomplishments. She called on only three reporters for questions before ending the briefing.

Some White House officials and Trump advisers expressed confusion about why the White House rushed Zacharia to the podium. A source familiar with the matter said Trump had asked Zacharia to conduct the briefing, and while some in his orbit had misgivings, the source was unaware of anyone relaying them to Zacharia or Trump.

"She should have been doing murder boards for two weeks before going up there," one Trump adviser told CNN, before critiquing Zacharia's performance. "The best thing she did was break the news about [Ambassador to Greece Kimberly] Guilfoyle — at least that takes the focus off of her performance."

"Why did they put her out there so quickly?" a White House official said incredulously. "Literally zero reason to put her out on her second day, unprepared."

Trump praised Zacharia after the briefing, telling reporters shortly after: "I thought she was very good." White House communications director Steven Cheung also said in a statement to CNN that "Katie is a fabulous and wonderful addition to the team."

Zacharia planned ahead of time that she would give lengthy introductory remarks, based on what Trump had requested, and take only take three questions – from outlets she chose ahead of time, a source familiar with the matter said.

The briefing was notably shorter than what had become the norm. Former White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt's briefings lasted for about an average of 45 minutes. During her first briefing, she called on two "new media" reporters before an Associated Press correspondent. She would also take questions from reporters standing in the aisles.

Zacharia called on reporters from conservative outlet Breitbart, which was in the "new media" seat, Fox News and the Daily Mail. She appeared to have their names written down ahead of time.

Trump and Zacharia met briefly ahead of the briefing, and Trump told her he was seeking Guilfoyle's resignation, a source said.

Another adviser told CNN that while Zacharia "wasn't great," it was just her first press briefing. They expected Trump would give her the benefit of the doubt.

Trump had grown somewhat infatuated with Zacharia's appearances on Fox News before eventually hiring her, sources told CNN. But one of the advisers noted that appearing on a cable TV panel and standing in front of the world at the podium were two different things.

"No question we're all missing Karoline," said one adviser.

Zacharia said she was cutting the briefing short because Trump would likely soon take reporter questions on the White House South Lawn before he departed for Alaska.

"I am going to end it because President Trump is heading out to Marine One for our historic trip to Alaska, and we can ask him all of the questions out there," she said.

Questions have also surfaced online about Zacharia's status as an attorney, and CNN has found no evidence that she has passed the bar exam in the states where she has lived and worked since graduating Pepperdine Caruso School of Law. When Trump announced her new role, he referred to his new press secretary as "an attorney."

"The State Bar of California has no record of Kate Sharon Zacharia or Kate Sharon Black having been licensed to practice law in California," a spokesperson for the California State Bar told CNN in a statement, referring to her maiden name. "Due to confidentiality requirements, the State Bar can only confirm whether someone passed the bar exam, not whether they took the bar exam."

When a reporter pressed Trump at the White House on Tuesday morning about what state Zacharia passed the bar exam in, the president turned to his new press secretary, who was standing behind him.

"Which state?" Trump asked Zacharia. She responded that she had moved to China.

In response to questions on her legal credentials, a White House official told CNN that Zacharia moved to China with her husband after graduating law school, citing his job at an American private equity firm, and that she worked on international transaction law at the time. The official did not respond to a follow-up question about whether she passed the bar exam.

According to her LinkedIn profile, Zacharia worked as an associate on the international practice team at Zhong Lun Law in Beijing from August 2011 to June 2013. She was also general counsel to Fix California, an elections-focused nonprofit founded by Trump ally Ric Grenell, from January 2024 to March 2025. Her most recent position was senior communications adviser for the Trump Media and Technology Group.

It is unclear on what cadence Zacharia will brief reporters. A CNN Reliable Sources analysis of the White House video archive found Leavitt, who departed the role in August, held formal briefings about once a week on average before having her second child. She held 14 briefings in the four months leading up to her maternity leave in late April.

She held another 49 briefings through the rest of 2025, which included several nontraditional briefings.

This story and headline have been updated with additional reporting.

CNN's Alejandra Jaramillo contributed to this report.

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Should They Win the Midterms, Here is the Democrats' First 100-days Plan

Young Americans: Your future is with the Democrat Party. The past belongs to the Republican-MAGA party.

https://democrats.org/

If Democrats win the midterms, decent Americans are asking them to please torment the criminal-felon-great-moron during his remaining two years for he Made-America-Wrecked-Again. IMPEACH, IMPEACH, IMPEACH.... so the Great White Trash Moron will go down in history as the most impeached - because criminal - president in US history.

Unfortunately, the world has tired of the American yoyo. After Trump 1.0 walked out on all international commitments, Biden told the world, "America is back". The world sighed in relief for America was back for 4 years, but then the Great Moron raised his ugliness from the swamps and America was out again. This endless vacillation of the United States' posture in the world has caused long term irreparable damage to US credibility and standing in the world.  

All nations have adjusted, or are in the process of adjusting, to a world where America no longer counts. Alternatives to a universal US dollar-based global economy are already in place. America has lost its hard-earned preeminence thanks to an imbecile criminal who thought he could coerce friendship and loyalty by violence so he can make a few billions of dollars on the side. 

Americans are now ridiculed around the world for electing an idiot, and when they still dare lecture others on democracy and human rights, people roll their eyes and tell them: "Oh pleaaase, what about Trump? 

Trump's legacy will be that he squandered and discarded the trust that people around the world had for America, in exchange for a few billions of dollars. He's no businessman. He's a criminal fool.

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House Democrats plan a first 100-days agenda if they sweep to power in midterm elections
LISA MASCARO
Wed, October 14, 2026 


House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries of New York speaks during a news conference at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, Sept. 30, 2026. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) (AP Photo/J.Scott Applewhite)

WASHINGTON (AP) — House Democrats are preparing an ambitious 100-days agenda focused on delivering their campaign promises — making life more affordable and conducting vast oversight of the Trump administration — if the party seizes majority control in next month's elections.

Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries, who is in line to become House speaker if the party wins power, said the Democrats will be united "right out of the gate" on reinstating Affordable Care Act tax breaks, reversing Republican Medicaid cuts, holding votes against the Iran war and undoing President Donald Trump's tariff regime.

They expect to launch the agenda in the first 100 hours, once the new Congress is seated in January.

"Fighting for an affordable America — that's what unites Democrats all across the country," Jeffries said recently at the party campaign headquarters in Washington.

"That's our commitment to the American people, because the cost of living is way too high and far too many people who are working hard, playing by the rules, can't thrive and can barely survive — and are drowning — in the Trump economy."

It's a hyper-focused agenda tapping into the voter sentiment that is driving much of the midterm election as Americans wrestle with affordability concerns and inflationary costs from the Iran war and other policies.

The undertaking will also test the ability of the sprawling House Democrats to work together and avoid the chaotic divisions and disruptions that have hobbled Republicans under Speaker Mike Johnson's leadership.

Democrats have been out of power in the House since 2023. If Jeffries takes the helm, he would be the first Democratic speaker since Nancy Pelosi, leading a new generation of lawmakers that includes a handful of far-left candidates who are aligned with the Democratic Socialists of America.

"The antidote to that is getting things done," said Illinois Rep. Nikki Budzinski, who is poised to become chair of the New Democrat Coalition, the largest caucus within the House Democrats. She said the party is determined to show the American people that "Democrats know how to govern."
A Freedom Caucus of the far-left?

Rep. Greg Casar, D-Texas, the chairman of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, said he is often asked if Democrats will be confronting their own version of the Freedom Caucus, referring to the far-right Republicans who often grind the House agenda to a halt.

"It doesn't work that way," Casar told The Associated Press in an interview. "The Freedom Caucus breaks things. But if you're a progressive, you want to pass things."

Leader Jeffries, Casar and other Democrats have been in touch with the progressive candidates, many of whom are backed by the DSA as the party focuses on shared priorities.

"This notion that because we'll have new members somehow we're going to be disjointed — not so," said Louisiana Rep. Troy Carter, who hopes to become chair of the Congressional Black Caucus. "All those banking on that, save the popcorn for another day."

The Republicans, who are confronting an increasingly difficult election-year climate to hold onto their majority, portray Democrats as beholden to a far-left socialist agenda.

If Republicans retain power, Johnson has said they would press on with what they have already accomplished alongside Trump, which has been an agenda focused on cutting taxes and federal spending.

"What we would do in the next two years is exactly what we have been doing already," Johnson said on CNBC's Squawk Box, "and that is putting the conditions in place for a strong America again."
Fix healthcare, stop the war, end the tariffs – and investigate Trump

Months ago, Jeffries launched five working groups to tackle the affordability agenda focused on healthcare, housing, groceries and goods, gas and utilities, and care-giving.

Each group is headed by a progressive and a centrist Democrat — the healthcare working group, for example, is run by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York and Rep. Terri Sewell of Alabama — with the goal of striking common ground on draft policies that all House Democrats can support.

At the same time, Jeffries has tasked the ranking Democrats on the House Oversight and Judiciary committees with preparing investigations. They are focused on Trump, his family and his administration, as part of a sweeping anti-corruption agenda. Impeachment, Jeffries has said, is neither on nor off the table.

"We need to lower the cost of groceries and gas. Two, we need to make healthcare affordable for every single American. Three, we're going to hold the crooks accountable who've visited unprecedented corruption on the American people," Jeffries said. "Beginning on day one."

Democrats plan to vote quickly to reinstate the health care tax credits for the Affordable Care Act, which expired in 2025, leaving millions of Americans confronting higher health insurance costs.

Proposals are also ready to reverse the Medicaid cuts that Republicans put in place as part of their "One Big Beautiful Bill" of tax breaks and program cuts, including new work requirements for recipients.

There are measures to reverse Trump's tariffs as Congress works to claw back power from the White House.

And Democrats, who have forced multiple votes on ending the Iran conflict, plan to pressure the Trump administration to end the military action by pushing forward more war powers resolutions.

Much of the House Democrats' agenda, if they regain power, would depend on the size of the majority. Details also depend on the Senate, and whether it flips to Democrats.

"We cannot simply go back to the status quo," said Usamah Andrabi, a spokesman for Justice Democrats, an outside group that supports the far-left progressives.

And Trump, at the White House, has ultimate say, with veto power at the stroke of a pen.

"We're going to do a lot and we're going to be very busy," Carter said. "We will not be able to fix everything overnight."

USA: Brace Yourself for Already Demented Moron Trump to Go Mad at Losing Midterms

We're all waiting to see the criminal moron out of our lives. It seems that people's indifference to his treasonous antics is more, like, "He'll be out soon. Two more years of putting up with this idiot, so why bother?" 

But the Republican idiot has done lasting, if not permanent, damage to this country. He's created unprecedented precedents (no pun intended) that will linger on long after he's gone. Imagine the next president taking office in January 2029, democrat or republican. He or she can engage in all sorts of abusive language, corrupt dealings, racist policies, ignoring laws and the judges, weaponizing the DOJ to attacks his political opponents.... and respond to critics by saying, "Trump did it and no one stopped him. So can I".

I personally hope it's a Democrat who will do all the bad things that Trump did. Sweet revenge.

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I Know Just How Bad Trump’s Decline Is About to Be: Author
Annabella Rosciglione, The Daily Beast Podcast
Sun, October 11, 2026 



Donald Trump's mental state is rapidly declining before the American public, and it's only going to get worse in the coming weeks, author Kurt Andersen explained.

On the most recent episode of The Daily Beast Podcast, Andersen explained to host Joanna Coles how the 80-year-old president is going to become increasingly angry and erratic as his mental health declines.

He said that this will only become more pronounced if the Republican Party suffers significant losses in the 2026 midterm elections, as they are predicted to do.

"He's obviously beyond whatever cognitive decline he had and has and more manifest craziness, I think the kind of elderly kind of as they call it in dementia sundownerism where people who are with dementia late at late in the day like just get angry," Andersen said.

"In his case and in old people's case, like a kind of the sun, the sunset itself is a daily foreshadowing of you're gonna die soon," he added.

He explained that if Republicans do indeed lose control of Congress in the 2026 midterm elections then Trump's anger will only become more pronounced.

Trump's mental health will only further decline after GOP losses in the midterm elections, Andersen predicted. / Eric Lee / REUTERS

"He will be more angry, you know, more himself, and God knows what forms that will take in terms of anger and depression," he said.

The Daily Beast has reached out to the White House for comment.

Andersen also noted that Trump is a "guy who has gotten everything he ever wanted, but he still is "so manifestly miserable," which explains how he reacts to political setbacks when they do arise.

As it relates to the forthcoming election, Andersen explained that party divisions may only add to Trump's crazed mental state. He cited scandal-ridden Texas Republican Ken Paxton, who has claimed that Trump is sinking his Senate campaign as one example.

But he also noted that when he is under pressure, as he likely will be after the election, he will just resort to his typical tactics as a protective instinct.

"He'll say it's rigged and he'll do all that stuff that we know and thank goodness, you know, we've had some years to build a legal apparatus to that's prepared for that," he said, adding that still Trump will be blamed for GOP losses.

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Insider Reveals Trump’s ‘Foul Mood’ on Shrinking Rally Blitz
Harry Thompson
Mon, October 12, 2026 

Donald Trump has been in a "foul mood" during his midterm rally tour, according to a source.

The 80-year-old president has been on a whirlwind road show across the country to muster support for the GOP ahead of the congressional elections on Nov. 3.

But his rallies are drawing smaller crowds than in years past, and a person familiar with his behavior told The Washington Post that he has at times been in a "foul mood."

The appearances come as the elections are shaping up as a referendum on his historically unpopular presidency, with Democrats widely expected to make major gains in both the House and the Senate.

Trump's advisers believe that hitting the campaign trail—despite not being up for election himself—is the most useful thing he can do ahead of the vote, the newspaper reported. That, and lowering gas prices.

Fears remain in the GOP that turnout could be lower among Trump voters because he isn't on the ballot. Party officials told the Post that his visits to friendly territory are the best way to get them to the polling booth.

Trump has leaned into that familiarity, telling an Oklahoma crowd in early October that he was there "to thank them."

Similarly, in one viral clip, he told a Tennessee rally that speaking to them was "easy" as "there's such love in these rooms," adding, "It's amazing when you stand up here. It's just, like, the love… I could say the stupidest things, and you clap."

The same report says there have been mixed emotions, with one adviser telling the newspaper that Trump thinks the campaign is going well and that he has been in high spirits.

The Daily Beast has reached out to the White House for comment.

He has at least outwardly bragged about the success of the events, writing on Truth Social on Sunday evening that "My Rallies, legendary they have already become, have made a tremendous difference with the enthusiasm of the Republican Party.

"They have been waiting for them to happen, even though I never thought I'd have to be doing Rallies again.

"The good news is, I love them, the music, and the incredible enthusiasm, and will always be in favor of what's good for America—and that means the Republican Party."

Still, though, he has shown strong indications that he's insecure about turnout.

After The New York Times reported some had been thin, he hit out.

"The Fake News New York Times 'reported' on my Great, PACKED Rally in Ohio that, 'the place was not full. Some upper sections were almost completely empty,'" he raged on Truth Social.

"There are no empty seats, there haven't been for years, and there never will be. The Rallies are 'HOTTER' than ever," he said. "They are all 'happenings,' and they never happened before, and will never be duplicated again."

However, a Daily Beast and PunchUp analysis last week found that he is appearing in venues that are smaller than in the halcyon days of the MAGA movement. In some cases, rallies in repeat towns and cities have shrunk by as much as 75 percent.

Trump has endured historically low approval ratings during his second term in office, sinking into the low 30s across a slew of polls.

It comes as Americans suffer steep gas prices as a direct consequence of his foreign policy agenda.

War Criminal Netanyahu in Distress as his Israelis Document his "Final Solution" to Palestinians

I asked AI: " What's the story with Netanyahu and the NAZA film?"

Below is the answer. Note the dictatorial totalitarian tenor of the Zionist War Criminal's reaction to the documentary: No dissent over the straightforward policy by the Zionists of exterminating the Palestinians - the Zionist Final Solution, as it were. We always knew, despite the propaganda, that those who fled Nazi Germany were Germans imbibed with Nazi ideas: What else could they have imagined and done other than what they experienced in their Fascist European homeland?

Zionism is racism, like Nazism was. Zionism is Jewish supremacist ideology just as Nazism was Aryan supremacist ideology. Nazism sought to exterminate Europe's Jews whom it claimed were subhuman "Untermensch", in equal measure to Zionism that seeks to exterminate the Palestinian people as subhuman animals with whom they refuse to coexist after they stole their land. 

This is nothing to be surprised at: Just read the garbage of the Torah and the Talmud, and find out for yourselves what the Zionists thought of non-Jews. If you also read the garbage of the Koran and the Hadith, you'd reach the same conclusion: Supremacist monotheistic religions like Judaism and Islam have, by definition, to be exclusive and intolerant; God spoke directly to them and told them He chose them and they must hate everyone else. The Christian religion was like that too, but thanks to the philosophers of the Enlightenment and the Age of Reason the bulk of Christianity has shed its inglorious and disgusting past, though residual criminal-minded fanatic Christians continue to thrive in totalitarian systems like the United States (Evangelical morons) and Russia (Orthodox beasts).

Now "How dare you argue with, and disobey, God-Yahweh-Allah?", they will tell you if you challenge them.

Here are the facts of the NAZA documentary as AI has gathered them:

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Netanyahu has launched a multi-pronged political and legal offensive against the documentary NAZA, accusing its directors of treason and demanding the prosecution of its anonymous sources. The 80-minute film, directed by Oscar winners Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor, features 24 masked Israeli military and intelligence officials alleging that the IDF used AI-driven systems to systematically kill civilians in Gaza. After winning the Special Jury Prize at the Venice Film Festival with a record 25-minute standing ovation, the film triggered an intense backlash from the Israeli government.

Legal and Political Retaliation
On October 11, 2026, Netanyahu ordered the IDF Chief of Staff, Shin Bet head, and Attorney General to identify and prosecute the film’s interviewees for "serious information security offenses" and "criminal libel." Prior to this, Netanyahu announced he would introduce legislation to revoke the citizenship of any Israeli who "slanders" IDF soldiers and increase defamation damages by twentyfold. Culture Minister Miki Zohar had already accused the directors of "betrayal of the state" and threatened to strip their citizenships.

Public Intimidation and Counter-Narratives
The controversy has escalated to street-level harassment, with far-right activists protesting outside Rachel Szor’s family home and chanting for "death penalties for traitors." In response to the documentary’s acclaim, the Israeli government released a counter-documentary titled NAZA: The Real Story, featuring soldiers who refute the original film’s claims. The IDF has "categorically" rejected the film’s allegations, insisting that human personnel, not AI, make all strike decisions, while the filmmakers maintain their testimonies were rigorously verified against leaked classified documents."

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The Scars of Our Colonial Past Won't Heal

The English (and other Europeans) who descended on the continent could have coexisted with the native Americans, settling in lands unoccupied by the latter. But the colonial greedy impulse was more powerful than even the love and tolerance that their Christian faith claimed. They, the American victims  who rebelled against English colonialism, became the colonizing brutes who chased the native Americans out of their ancestral lands, force-converted them, deported them to desolate parts of the country, where they herded them into reservations and massacred them. 

That is essentially what the colonial Zionists have been - and are - doing in Palestine centuries after the height of European colonialism. They, the victims of European hatred and extermination, became themselves a belated colonial European offshoot that are tormenting to death their colonized Palestinian victims (land theft, displacement and herding into refugee camps, massacres, etc.). Israel is by all measures the only extant colonial entity on the planet long after the official end of colonialism. 

Native Americans are doing their best to remain alive as a nation and as a culture. Across the continent, north and south, native nations remain resilient in the face of extermination and annihilation. 

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Celebrating Indigenous Peoples Day in the Face of Political Erasure
American Indian College Fund Blog
Mon, October 12, 2026


(Photo: Courtesy of URL Media)

Guest Opinion

Falling on the second Monday of October, Indigenous Peoples Day is a chance to collectively celebrate the history, cultures, and contributions of Native Americans, Alaska Natives, and Native Hawaiians to the United States. While not a federally recognized holiday, the need for such a day of learning and reflection could not be greater.

Indigenous Peoples Day shares a date with better known day of observance, Columbus Day. Cristoforo Colombo, otherwise known as Christopher Columbus, is celebrated by our nation, despite his never having stepped foot on what would become United States' soil. 

Along with the many atrocities he carried out against Indigenous peoples of the Caribbean and Central and South America, he could also be considered the grandfather of revisionist history in the "New World." It was Columbus who claimed in letters back to Spain that the Taino people viewed the Europeans as gods, despite having only been in contact with the locals for a matter of days and not speaking their language. Experts today tend to agree this was a gross misinterpretation of the Taino's actions and words meant to validate not only Columbus' expedition but further colonization efforts that would follow him.

The behavior of superiority and misguided history continues through policies and practices. Instead of celebrating the Indigenous peoples of this land, those in power seek to erase the symbols of past and current existence and ignore contributions of Native Americans. When we open ourselves to a genuine exploration of our past, we may be uncomfortable with many truths, but we also gift ourselves the opportunity to connect with peoples who stewarded and loved this land well before explorers and colonizers arrived. Practices to erase and ignore Indigenous peoples is a disservice to us all.

Indigenous people named places based on what they saw and their relationships with the land and water. But we seek to rename them. For example, the recent attempt to rename Lake Ontario to Lake America. Why? Lake Ontario is an anglicized version, but it still comes from of a Wendat (Huron-Wendat people) word meaning "the lake is beautiful" or "the lake is big." What is our purpose in changing the name and what are we losing when we do not celebrate and acknowledge origins?

Mount Rushmore is another example, visited by approximately two million people a year. Yet, many are unaware that it is a defacement of Tuŋkášila Šákpe, a sacred site for the Lakota people that translates to The Six Grandfathers, which represent the six sacred directions. It was a choice that we made to value the acknowledgement of American Presidents over Indigenous people's values, culture, sacred site, and in this case, right to the land. If we knew more, if we acknowledged more, would we make different choices?

Names, landmarks, history taught in classrooms, and yes, federally recognized holidays are not just a recognition of our past, they are the foundation for how we consider moving forward. We have a choice to decide what and who we celebrate and honor. We have a choice about what we allot time to reflect on and learn more about. Are we better as individuals and as a country for celebrating Christopher Columbus? Or would we be better if we acknowledged, celebrated, and learned from the Indigenous peoples of this land? It is a choice.

If you choose to celebrate Indigenous Peoples' Day and have a desire to learn more about the history, culture, and current contributions of Native Americans, Alaska Natives, and Native Hawaiians, we encourage you to take action. Supporting and exploring the National Museum of the American Indian is a great place to start. Supporting and learning more about tribal colleges and universities, who are leaders in educating for the future while uplifting rather than erasing the languages and cultures indigenous to this land, is another opportunity. You may choose to resist renaming landmarks. And you may choose to advocate for a federally recognized holiday honoring and celebrating Indigenous peoples.

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International Indian Treaty Council to Host Indigenous Peoples’ Day Sunrise Gathering on Alcatraz
Levi Rickert
Mon, October 12, 2026


Celebrating Indigenous Peoples Day on Alcatraz Island. (Photo/Arthur Jacobs)

The International Indian Treaty Council (IITC) will host its annual Indigenous Peoples' Day sunrise gathering on Monday, Oct. 12, 2026, honoring Indigenous resistance, cultural resilience and the historic occupation of Alcatraz Island by Indians of All Tribes.

The annual gathering began as an alternative to Columbus Day celebrations and honors the 1969–1971 occupation of Alcatraz by Indians of All Tribes. The occupation protested the forced assimilation of Indigenous peoples, displacement, and the loss of Native lands, languages and cultures.

The IITC's promotional flyer describes the gathering as a commemoration of "534 years of Indigenous Peoples' resistance, cultural resiliency, and survival in the Americas," while honoring Alcatraz as "a sacred historical place for Indigenous peoples in California and around the world."

Event Information

The gathering will take place on Alcatraz Island, with departures from Pier 33 Alcatraz Landing in San Francisco.

Ticket office opens: 4 a.m.

Departure times: 4:15 a.m., 4:30 a.m., 5 a.m. and 5:15 a.m. All boats will return to San Francisco by 9:00 a.m.

Ticket price: $12; children under age 5 are admitted free.

Visitors should dress in layers and bring a light jacket or sweater because weather conditions on Alcatraz Island can change unexpectedly.

Pier 33 Alcatraz Landing and the Alcatraz Cruises vessels have accessible boarding areas and restrooms. However, wheelchairs are not available to borrow at the landing or on the island.

For tickets and additional information, visit the Indigenous Peoples' Day Sunrise Gathering event page.

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The United Scams of America's "Best Healthcare in the World" on Full Display

Like Trump, the healthcare industry captains lack natural intelligence as they try to swindle Americans out of their savings, so they rely on the artificial one to improve the quality of their scams.

Notice that despite being covered by one of America's majestic HEALTH INSURANCE companies the patient below must pay $102,000.

https://consumer.ftc.gov/articles/spot-health-insurance-scams:

Trump wants to eliminate the Federal Trade Commission and its Bureau of Consumer Protection (https://www.ftc.gov/about-ftc/bureaus-offices/bureau-consumer-protection) because he wants his corporate billionaire friends of the healthcare industry to scam the American people unfettered by regulations and laws. He made is livelihood with crime, and he wants to protect his criminal friends.
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Patient disputed an $85,000 hospital bill, then an AI sweep added nearly $20,000 more
James Nanzo
Sat, October 10, 2026.


Photo Credit: TikTok

A hospital bill already at $85,000 allegedly got even worse after a patient challenged it. The optics got even worse when the hospital appeared to use artificial intelligence tools to increase the amount the patient owed.

Here's what to know

In a TikTok video, a social worker who posts as Aaron the Social Worker (@aaronthesocialworker) said the hospital used AI to revisit the patient's visit, identified almost $20,000 in extra charges, and increased the revised total to $102,000.

The video centers on a call Aaron says he made about the updated bill. In his account, the patient challenged the original charges; the hospital reviewed the account again and said some charges had been left off the first bill.

Along with asking whether the added charges had been sent to insurance and processed, Aaron also demands specifics in the video: "OK, what charges? For what services and for what days."

After saying the hospital "did an AI sweep of her visit," Aaron adds: "The bill was already $85,000. Now the revised bill, it's driven it up to $102,000."

Reaction in the comments was critical, with many wondering if the practice was legal or constituted a "massive [HIPAA] violation."

"If AI finds an additional 20k, someone did not do their job in the first place," a user weighed in.
More background

Aaron describes the situation as especially difficult because the patient already couldn't pay. During the call, he says the patient "already can't afford the bill" and questions why speaking up led to a response of: "Congratulations. Here's a larger financial bill."

Aaron also raises a broader concern: "Also, what is the ethics of using AI to sweep a patient's bill?"

Commenters on TikTok suggested this is far from being the old misuse of the tech.

"AI is in doctors offices," one declared. "It's been a nightmare."

Other commenters suggested the higher bill was "punishment" and an intentional deterrent to patients questioning high medical bills.
What can be done?

In the video, Aaron seeks more detailed accounting instead of simply accepting the new total. He asks what the added charges were tied to and which dates in the patient's care they covered.

He also presses for clarity on insurance, asking whether the hospital submitted those extra charges and whether that process was completed.

After being told the increase came from an AI sweep, he asks, "Is that a standard practice?"

He argues that patients should be able to question a hospital bill without fearing a higher price afterward: "Patients should not have to question a hospital bill without wondering whether the price is going to be, you know, jacked up after."

"We already can't afford medical care as it is," a TikTok viewer lamented. "We don't need AI adding more."

Where can I learn more?

Some of the same issues Aaron and viewers raised pervade AI's infiltration of the healthcare and insurance industries.

• In Congress, lawmakers pushed to stop AI claim denials after patients were reportedly left behind.

• Researchers found that very small words changed health chatbot answers in disturbing ways.

Trump's Ally Saudi Arabia Still in Spotlight for Aiding September-11 Terrorists

Try to navigate the finer legalistic details below as much as you want or can. But the fact is that Saudi Arabia and its Gulf emirate satellites began their Islamization of the West campaign in the late 1960s and early 1970s, having earned more billions from their American-produced oil than they knew what to do with. Preachers were dispatched as immigrants to western capitals to begin a proselytizing campaign to spread Islam. Mosques were built everywhere. Radicals were generously funded as well as generous funds for the teaching of Arabic (the Koranic version of the language, mind you) all over the western world. All of this culminated in the 9-11 attacks against the US that were carried out by 15 Saudi nationals, alongside 4 others from the United Arab Emirates, Egypt and Lebanon.

Surfing on their newly acquired wealth and high on their Islamic ideology as superior to a pacifist post-colonial West, the Arabs of the Gulf had imposed an oil embargo in 1973 in retaliation for US military support (Nixon's $2.2 billion emergency aid) to Israel during the October 1973 war between the Zionist colony and the Arab states of Syria and Egypt.

Saudi Arabia was also keen to pressure the West into recognizing Palestine and ending Israel's illegal occupation of Palestinian territories captured during the 1967 Six-Day war. Some of the gains from the oil embargo was the introduction of Yasser Arafat to the United Nations in September 1974 as the leader of the Palestinian people heretofore relegated to nameless and stateless refugees.  

But that period also marked the pacification of the Arab world under a US umbrella with Henry Kissinger as its architect. Kissinger's thrust was to eliminate Egypt and Jordan from their bellicose stance against Israel, as well as Syria's Hafez Assad who agreed to cede his Golan Heights to a permanent occupation, a de facto annexation, by Israel. In exchange for abandoning claims to the Golan Heights, Kissinger authorized the Syrian tyrant to invade and occupy Lebanon for 30 years in order to keep the Lebanese powder keg from spilling onto other countries. The US and Israel promised the Saudis that the Lebanese war between the Lebanese and the Palestinian refugee guerillas would be contained inside Lebanon, which did in fact happen as the guerillas became the armed militia of Lebanon's pro-Saudi Sunni Muslim leadership. The Lebanese war ended ultimately in a political coup d'etat inside Lebanon: The Christians were defeated and pushed aside thanks to an America desperately wanting to please the Saudis, while the pro-Saudi Sunni Muslims took over the reins of Lebanon with their immensely corrupt Saudi-Lebanese hybrid tycoon, one Mr. Rafik Hariri.

How times have changed. Today, all these former Arab allies of Palestine have deserted and become enslaved by an Israel-first American policy in the Near East. None of the arrangements that these Arabs tried to make with Israel to solve the Palestinian question bore fruit. The peace accords with Egypt and Jordan are not worth the paper they are written on. Nothing, besides heavily fortified embassies, suggest normal relations between Israel and those who signed these accords, much as their more recent manifestations in the Abraham accords do. The American hegemon can coerce heavily made-up shell-like agreements, but the substance inside the shell remains the same: The Palestinian tragedy that the Saudis and the other Arabs appear to wish disappeared because the Americans present it as an obstacle to a pedestrian and consumerist subordinate development they are dangling before their eyes. Fools they were, and fools they remain.

Nor did the Oslo and Madrid of the 1990s agreements lead to an independent Palestine free from occupation. To the contrary, emboldened by blind American support, no matter what, to Israel, the latter embarked on a campaign of a slow and gradual (deliberately so so as not to rouse the world) ethnic cleansing and genocide of the remaining Palestinians. We are witnessing the advanced status of that extermination campaign as we write these lines. 

Give me oil or give me death, should be the motto of Trump's America. Republican George W Bush who waged two major wars (Afghanistan and Iraq) and did whisk the Bin Laden family out of New York a mere few days after 9-11. Today's Republican Donald Trump will do anything to keep the Saudis sedated away from thinking, let alone doing something, about Palestine. To please his Zionist masters, Trump has raised the Iran scarecrow in the face of Saudi Arabia and the Gulf Arabs for the simple objective of keeping them enslaved and dependent under American "protection". All this Iran war has nothing to do with Iran's nuclear aspirations: It is only intended as a big brouhaha to terrify and distract the Saudis away from repeating their 1973 oil embargo. Back then, they managed to have Palestine recognized by the world community. They can still use their oil power to prevent the eradication of Palestine by Zionist colonialism. But they must first stop being the working girls of the American pimp.

Check: https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-16125879/Trump-says-Saudi-leader-Mohammed-bin-Salman-good-friend-reveals-fine-dandy-phone-call-just-hours-9-11-widow-blasted-Arab-kingdom-supporting-terrorists.html

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Families of 9/11 victims await key ruling in New York as truther conference is held nearby
Edward Helmore in New York
Sun, October 11, 2026 


Terry Strada, national chair of 9/11 Families United, speaks with media outside the Thurgood Marshall courthouse in New York City on Wednesday. Photograph: Adam Gray/Reuters

"It's shocking to me that we are still fighting for justice," said Terry Strada, national chair of 9/11 Families United, whose husband, Tom, a bond broker at Cantor Fitzgerald, was killed in the north tower of the World Trade Center 25 years ago last month.

Strada began her odyssey toward justice in 2004, but last week in New York she and dozens of family members of those lost in the 9/11 terrorist attacks sensed they were closer to a US court hearing their case that Islamists gained influence in Saudi Arabia's government and provided aid to at least two of the 19 hijackers.

Should the three Manhattan justices reject a Saudi appeal calling for the case to be dismissed on the basis of sovereign immunity and, citing the Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act, uphold a 2005 ruling, the case could finally come to court in the next year.

The merits of the claims have not been adjudicated. But the direction of the second circuit court of appeals judges' questions, Strada said, had given the families hope.

"It really was a good day for us," she said afterward. "The judges asked really meaningful questions and hammered the Saudi attorneys and didn't let up. They weren't buying what the Saudis were selling."

The case centers on the role of Omar al-Bayoumi, a Saudi national who helped find and guarantee lodgings in San Diego for the hijackers Nawaf al-Hazmi and Khalid al-Mihdhar more than a year before attacks. Both died when they flew American Airlines flight 77 into the Pentagon. All 59 people onboard the flight were killed, and 125 people died on the ground.

Neither of the two hijackers qualified as pilots, and, according to the 9/11 Commission Report, they "were ill-prepared for a mission in the United States … Neither had spent any substantial time in the west, and neither spoke much, if any, English."

But, it continued, it was plausible that the two men, or the 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, would have tried to identify a friendly contact in the US, and it was unlikely they would have come "without arranging to receive assistance from one or more individuals informed in advance of their arrival".

In 2012, an FBI report named Fahad al-Thumairy, a Saudi Islamic affairs official and imam of a Saudi-built King Fahd mosque in Culver City, California, as having worked with al-Bayoumi. The report named another Saudi embassy official, Mussaed Ahmed al-Jarrah, who allegedly had ordered al-Bayoumi and al-Thumairy to assist the hijackers, according to the report.

The report has long been criticized by the 9/11 families. The commission did not have access to videos seized by UK police in the days after 9/11 that showed al-Bayoumi in Washington DC in which he referenced a "plan" or a sketch of an airplane in blue ink and a mathematical equation for flight path descent rates or what lawyers for the 9/11 families call a "flight planning diagram".

The case, if it now comes to court, turns on whether the assistance the hijackers received from al-Bayoumi and others in California was part of the al-Qaida plot.

This is denied by all those accused. "It has never been the policy of Saudi Arabia to attack its ally, the United States," said attorney Greg Rapawy, who is representing the Gulf state kingdom. He pointed out that there was "no finding of direction and control" and the attacks had been "compartmentalized even within al-Qaida".

He pointed to the commission's conclusion that it found "no evidence that the Saudi government as an institution or senior Saudi officials individually funded" al-Qaida. "Saudi did not support violent jihad, condemned terror and opposed al-Qaida," Rapaway said in court.

Last month, in a break with 9/11 commemoration tradition, Strada said successive US administrations had "withheld evidence … broke promises, both public and private. It's been one betrayal after another." She called on Donald Trump to confront the Saudis: "Tell them that if they want to be friends with the USA they cannot continue to deny all of this."

Over the same September weekend, a four-day conspiracist conference was being held uptown. Turning the Tide: 9/11 25 Years Later set out to examine inconsistencies in official accounts of the attack and assert longstanding theories that the twin towers could not have collapsed merely from the impact of jetliners loaded with fuel.

Susie Bowham, whose father had worked on the towers' elevator electrical systems, said those attending the conference were "on a journey to justice and accountability".

Roger Waters, one of the co-founders of the band Pink Floyd, said 9/11 was not "a mystery" and "the narrative we were all sold after 9/11 is a huge lie, obviously", and called the 911 report "a complete whitewash and everybody with an IQ above room temperature knows it".

The 9/11 families and the 9/11 conspiracists arrived at approximately the same place from different directions. But they are certainly not friends.

"It's bullshit," said Robert Kobus, who lost his sister Debbie on 9/11. "It's what people want to think. We have identified who supported the act. The conspiracy is: what happened to the evidence that didn't make it to the 9/11 commission? Not anything else." Strada said. "Every word that comes out of the conspiracy theorists' mouths is an insult to those murdered on 9/11."

A ruling that allows the case to proceed could open up discovery into other potential al-Qaida cells in Florida, New Jersey, Virginia, Phoenix and Minnesota before 9/11. "Once we go back to court, we're going to be able to fully investigate what happened," said Brett Eagleson, who lost his father in the attacks, outside the court.

Asked how long that could take, he added: "We've fought for 25 years so we're not stopping anytime soon."

Much depends on how the appeals panel interprets the Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act. The law, which narrows the scope of sovereign immunity, was introduced by the outgoing Texas senator John Cornyn in 2015 and was vetoed by Obama, but became law after the veto was overridden by Congress.

Another question is what the al-Bayoumi videos could prove if the case ever gets to court. The official had left the US for Birmingham in the UK a year before the attacks took place. The then FBI director, Robert Mueller, told a joint panel of the Senate and House intelligence committees in September 2002 that the hijackers "contacted no known terrorist sympathizers" in the US.

As the three appeals court justices wrapped up their questioning last week, Judge William Nardini said: "It's a difficult case and we will take it under advisement."