Dr. Josef Stranig

दक्षिण अफ्रीका का राष्ट्रपति बनने के बाद एक बार नेल्सन मंडेला अपने सुरक्षा कर्मियों के साथ एक रेस्टोरेंट में खाना खाने गए। सबने अपनी-अपनी पसंद का खाना ऑर्डर किया और खाना आने का इंतज़ार करने लगे। उसी समय मंडेला की सीट के ठीक सामने की सीट पर एक व्यक्ति अपने खाने का इंतजार कर रहा था। मंडेला ने अपने सुरक्षा कर्मी से कहा कि उसे भी अपनी टेबल पर बुला लो। ऐसा ही हुआ। सभी खाने लगे। लेकिन खाना खाते वक़्त उस आदमी के हाथ कांप रहे थे। खाना ख़त्म कर वह सिर झुकाकर रेस्त्रां से बाहर निकल गया। उस आदमी के जाने के बाद मंडेला के सुरक्षा अधिकारी ने बताया कि वह व्यक्ति शायद बहुत बीमार था। खाते वक़्त उसके हाथ लगातार कांप रहे थे और वह ख़ुद भी कांप रहा था। मंडेला ने कहा, ऐसा नहीं है। वह उस जेल का जेलर था, जिसमें मुझे 27 साल क़ैद रखा गया था। जब कभी मुझे यातनाएं दी जाती थीं और मैं कराहते हुए पानी मांगता था तो ये मेरे ऊपर पेशाब करता था। मंडेला ने कहा, "मैं अब राष्ट्रपति बन गया हूं। उसने समझा कि मैं भी उसके साथ शायद वैसा ही व्यवहार करूंगा। पर मुझे लगता है कि बदले की भावना से काम करना विनाश की ओर ले जाता है। वहीं धैर्य और सहिष्णुता की मानसिकता हमें विकास की ओर ले जाती है"।

ترامپ بیننده ثابت شوی جیمی کیمل است و تقریبا هر شب درباره‌اش توییت می‌کند. جیمی دیروز در بخشی از برنامه، مستقیم او را خطاب داد و حرف‌هایی زد که دیگر طنز نبود. این متن بخشی از حرف‌های اوست: ترامپ [در تروث‌سوشیال]‌ نوشت "من در فهرست رأی‌گیری نبودم، و اگر بودم، با اختلافی قاطع پیروز می‌شدیم." آه، خفه شو. فقط خفه شو. فقط یک روز هم به ما مهلت بده و آن دهان مضحک را ببند. تو واقعاً یک بچه لوسی. تا به حال اصلا چیزی درباره آداب معاشرت یا اخلاق ورزشی یا حداقل نزاکت آموخته‌ای؟ هیچ‌وقت هیچ تقصیری گردن تو نیست. تقریباً همه جمهوری‌خواهان تقریبا در همه‌‌جا در همه‌جا به‌جز عمیق‌ترین اعماق دریای سرخ، [رنگ حزب جمهوری‌خواه] شکست خوردند. این تقصیر تو نیست؟! همه نامزدهای بزرگ و دست‌چین‌شده‌ات شکست خوردند. دارلین گراهام را برای رقابت در کارولینای جنوبی انتخاب کردی. تام تیلیس را از سنا بیرون راندی. از آن کِن پکسنِ رقت‌انگیز در تگزاس حمایت کردی. همه‌چیزت را روی ویوک باراما‌سوامی گذاشتی و تبلیغ نفرت‌انگیز کمپینش. و اگر آقای کاریزما، جی‌دی‌ونس را به‌عنوان معاون رئیس‌جمهورت انتخاب نکرده بودی، جمهوری‌خواهان هنوز آن کرسی سنا را داشتند که دیشب در اوهایو از دست دادند. اما اگر نامزد بودی، با اختلافی قاطع برنده می‌شدی. این دیگر چه مزخرفی است؟ تو خودت نامزد بودی. تو مثل موی سگی؛ همه‌جا هستی. هر گوشه‌وکنار زندگی ما هستی. تو این کشور را جوری از هم پاشاندی که هیچ‌کس دیگری از هم نپاشانده بود. تنها باری که واقعاً ما را دور هم جمع کردی، دیروز بود؛ وقتی که همه با هم متحد شدیم تا از شر تو خلاص شویم. [خطاب به جمهوری‌خواهان] حالا می‌بینید که او به هیچ‌کس جز خودش وفادار نیست. او فقط قرار نیست شما را زیر اتوبوس بیندازد. او خودش آن را می‌راند. او شما را زیر می‌گیرد، و بعد دنده عقب می‌گیرد، و دوباره همین کار را می‌کند. او هم عقب می‌رود، هم جلو می‌آید و از روی بدنتان رد می‌شود تا وقتی که روی جاده مثل خمیر بازی له شوید. چون نمی‌تواند بپذیرد که هیچ چیزی تقصیر اوست. کاش امروز والدینش زنده بودند تا می‌توانستیم به خاطر کاری که با او و با ما کردند، آن‌ها را به زندان بیندازیم. مطمئنم آن شب برای همه در کاخ سفید خیلی شب مفرحی بود. دست‌وپا می‌زد. این دیوانه‌کننده است: دیشب، پولیتیکو یک برنامه زنده داشت. آن‌ها در حال بررسی نتایج انتخابات میان‌دوره‌ای هستند و یکی از نویسنده‌هایشان، دَشا برنز، می‌گوید من شماره تلفن ترامپ را دارم. [ویدئوی پولیتیکو] دَشا برنز: گ بزنیم و ببینیم جواب می‌دهد یا نه. بیایید با رئیس‌جمهور تماس بگیریم. فکر می‌کنم، فکر می‌کنم وقتش رسیده. درباره‌اش صحبت کرده‌ایم. ببینیم جواب می‌دهد یا نه. گوشی را برداشت [از آن سوی خط[ ممکن است بپرسم چه کسی تماس می‌گیرد. - سلام، من دَشا برنز از پولیتیکو هستم. یک لحظه، لطفاً. تدامپ: هی، داشا، حالت چطوره؟ - سلام، آقای رئیس‌جمهور، خوبم. فقط می‌خوام بدونم پیامتون چیه؟ فکر می‌کنید چه اتفاقی افتاد امشب با حزب‌تان؟ - اسم من در برگه رأی نبود و ما هم مردم را پای صندوق نیاوردیم، اما من در برگه رأی نبودم. اگر اسم من در برگه رأی بود، برنده می‌شدیم. خیلی راحت، همه‌چیز را می‌بردیم. [بازگشت به استودیو جیمی کیمل] باز هم، آخرش مسئولیتش می‌افتد گردن بقیه. برای کسی که از اخبار جعلی متنفر است، واقعاً برایشان خیلی راحت است که با او تلفنی ارتباط بگیرند. فقط نشسته خانه و به تماس‌های هر کسی جواب می‌دهد. بعد از این همه ناله درباره تقلب در انتخابات، ترامپ به نیویورک تایمز گفت نتیجه را خواهد پذیرفت، که خب، این اصلاً چه خبر مهمی است؟ تو نتیجه را می‌پذیری. اوه، ممنون. چه بزرگوارانه. نتایج برای این نیست که شما آن‌ها را بپذیرید یا رد کنید. این‌ها نتیجه‌اند. او هرگز در هیچ کاری شکست نخورده است. چیزی که امیدوارم از این یاد بگیریم این است. دونالد ترامپ برایش مهم نیست حزب جمهوری‌خواه. او دموکرات بود. در واقع دموکرات هم نبود. بعد شد جمهوری‌خواه که جمهوری‌خواه نیست. او به هیچ‌کس و هیچ‌چیز وفادار نیست. تنها حزبی که او رهبری می‌کند حزب چُرتی‌هاست. تنها آدمی هم که توی آن است، خودش است. رأی صادر شده، و فقط یک چیز باقی مانده که گیل‌مورِ خوابالو باید انجام دهد. [خطاب به ترامپ] استعفا بده! دیگه کنار بکش. هیچ‌کس تو را نمی‌خواهد. حتی خودت هم دیگر نمی‌خواهی رئیس‌جمهور باشی. آن یک میلیارد دلار ارز دیجیتال را بردار. یک جزیره بخر. شاید جزیرهٔ اپستین. آیا این پایانِ عالیِ این داستان نمی‌شد؟ و شاید فکر می‌کنی، خب، اگر استعفا بدهد، آیا این جِی.دی. ونس را رئیس‌جمهور نمی‌کند؟ خب، بله، همین‌طور می‌شود. اما دربارهٔ جِی.دی. ونس این را بگویم. فردی که از این‌که دونالد ترامپ هیتلرِ آمریکا است به این‌که دونالد ترامپ بهترین رئیس‌جمهور نسل من است تغییر موضع داد، می‌تواند دوباره هم برگردد. وقتی ستون فقرات نداشته باشی، این کار آسان است.‌او خیلی خوب تغییر موضع می‌دهد. دموکرات‌ها کلی برنامه دارند، درست است؟ آن‌ها قول داده‌اند چندین تحقیق و بررسی آغاز کنند. و راستش، چیزهای زیادی برای تحقیق و بررسی هست: رمزارز. فساد. هواپیمای قطری. آیس. ایران. ونزوئلا. بخشش‌هایی برای رفقای پولدارش. سالن رقص. بال غربی. مرکز کندی. استخر بازتابی. پیت هگست. سرخک. جرد کوشنر. ایلان. روسیه. چین. گرینلند. کانادا. و یک چیز کوچکی که دوست دارم به او بگویم: پرونده‌های ترامپ-اپستین، که از دیدنشان لذت می‌بریم.

Elon Musk has a warning for Democrats: if they investigate him after the midterm elections, he intends to retaliate. His message is simple: those who come after him should expect consequences. Musk has also threatened to pursue the people he believes are really behind such investigations, not just the politicians involved. But here's a question. Why should a billionaire whose companies receive billions of dollars in federal contracts consider congressional oversight a threat? If Musk's activities at DOGE, his business dealings, and his companies' government contracts are entirely legal and transparent, answering congressional questions should not be a problem. SpaceX and other Musk-linked businesses have extensive financial relationships with the federal government. Taxpayers have every right to know whether those relationships involve conflicts of interest, preferential treatment, or improper influence. Congressional oversight is not political persecution. It is a fundamental part of American democracy. If investigations uncover serious violations, the government should examine whether existing contracts should continue, subject to applicable law. And threatening retaliation against investigators raises questions of its own. No billionaire is above the law. No government contractor is entitled to immunity from scrutiny. And no amount of money should buy protection from congressional accountability. Government contracts are paid for by the American people. They are not a personal shield against the American people. P.S. I'm moving my independent reporting and political analysis to Substack. Join me with a free or paid subscription: mykhailorohoza.substack.com

Under pressure from Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the Trump administration may be within days of launching a nuclear strike on Iran. The target would be Pickax Mountain in central Iran, where Israeli intelligence claims the Iranian government has restarted its nuclear enrichment program. No conventional weapon in the American arsenal can penetrate 300 feet of solid granite to destroy the tunnels where enrichment is supposedly taking place. The only military option is a nuclear strike. Netanyahu has been pushing hard for one. “Bibi calls Trump about it every day,” says an informed observer. Netanyahu is cornered and desperate. After last week’s election results, he can’t form a government unless Trump intervenes directly in Israeli politics and brokers a deal with other parties that gives Netanyahu 61 seats in the Knesset. Otherwise, he is out as prime minister and on his way to ignominy, investigations and possibly jail. Netanyahu must stay close to Trump. He needs this war. To that end, he’s applied maximum pressure to his closest allies in the administration, including Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and CENTCOM commander Brad Cooper. Both oppose a negotiated settlement to the war they’ve so grievously mismanaged; both are pushing to restart major combat operations. Secretary of State Marco Rubio and CIA director John Ratcliffe are also following Netanyahu’s lead, as are leaders of the Democratic Party. In a recent meeting on the subject, former president Barack Obama said he opposes the current Iran peace deal being drafted in Doha. The rest of America’s longtime allies in the Middle East are terrified by the prospect of more war. On September 27th, Netanyahu flew secretly to Abu Dhabi to enlist the UAE in his lobbying effort for a final attack on Iran. The Emiratis refused. After eight months of conflict, Gulf economies are teetering. So are global energy and fertilizer markets. They won’t recover soon. Globally, there are a total of about 850 supertankers used to transport oil from producers to the rest of the world. In October alone, 11 of them were badly damaged in Hormuz. At this pace, a global depression is imminent. A nuclear strike would radically accelerate the destruction. Fallout from a ground explosion at Pickax Mountain would contaminate the Persian Gulf, poisoning the water supply for 100 million people. And those are just some of the immediate consequences for the region. The rest of the world is every bit as exposed. No country other than the United States has ever used a nuclear weapon in war. Some would like to. An American nuclear attack on Iran would set a new precedent. The Russians have already told at least two other governments that an American nuclear strike on Iran would free them to use nuclear weapons against Ukraine. Pakistan and India would be tempted to do the same against each other, as would North Korea against Seoul. After the first nuclear strike, World War Three is inevitable. That war would be short and final. We’ve been sleepwalking toward this moment for months. Since February, the administration has quietly rewritten America’s nuclear doctrine to make first use of so-called “battlefield nukes” easier and therefore more likely. No one in Washington in either party seems bothered by this. Now we’re on the brink of it. Close observers say Trump is likely to decide by next weekend whether or not to use nuclear weapons. That would be November 7, six days from now. To his credit, he’s hesitating. At the moment, Trump is listening to his vice president, JD Vance, and to his envoy and friend Steve Witkoff, both of whom argue a deal with Iran can be made. They’re right, though it won’t be simple. The Iranians are famously frustrating to negotiate with under any circumstances, and elements of that government have become more radical since Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and his family were killed in February. After decades of isolation, even relatively moderate Iranian leaders seem confused by how decisions are made in the West. (There is a widespread belief in Tehran, for example, that the United States government controls Israel.) But overall, people who have spoken to decision-makers in Iran say there is consensus there that more war is bad for everyone and a deal is worth making. One group that hasn’t been consulted so far is the global population — the hundreds of millions of people who will be killed along with their children if Trump is pushed by Netanyahu into launching a nuclear strike next week. Now would be the time for them to speak up.

Elon Musk deleted this video from X. It shows Republicans telling the truth about Trump before they teamed up with him. In the end, they sold out the whole world for money.

Musk has asked us to share more videos on X, so here we go 👇

🚨 BREAKING: Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent dismissed questions about the Trump administration paying $496 MILLION for a shuttered Minnesota prison that private contractor CoreCivic had previously offered the state for just $75 MILLION, a staggering $420 million difference. Asked to explain the purchase amid the administration’s crackdown on government waste and fraud, Bessent responded: “I don’t know anything about that. That’s a waste of our time.”

Since Trump’s election: -Musk got $617 billion richer -Bezos got $144 billion richer -Page got $127 billion richer -Dell got $123 billion richer -Brin got $116 billion richer How are you doing? Let’s stop oligarchy. We must create an economy that works for all.

NEW: 🇮🇱 🇺🇸 TRUMP’S RAPE & PEDOPHILIA OPERATION WITH EPSTEIN HAS JUST BEEN EXPOSED The House Judiciary Dems have found [Link in the replies] that from 1991 to 1997, Trump and Epstein were “best friends” and “key players” in a paedophilic operation of beauty and child beauty pageants using them as “hunting grounds” alongside other KNOWN-PEDOPHILES like John Casablancas and Ghislaine Maxwell. EIGHT WOMEN have accused Trump and Epstein of raping them during these six years. Girls as young as 14 were “FORCED to dance” for Trump, Casablancas and Epstein. Trump flew on Epstein’s pedo plane the Lolita Express in October 1993. Allegedly raped a young girl in November and had Epstien attend his wedding in December. This was all public information already, I reported this before on my old 600k account that got shut down. Trump is rotten. Now the house judiciary has investigated and confirmed it. This should be breaking the internet. This is why Trump bombed Iran. It all makes sense. Let’s hope after the midterms something can be done about this monster.

We just learned more about Trump’s Venezuela oil deal, and here’s everything you need to know: 1. This deal is structured to hide the identities of people who stand to profit from it. You don’t hide that unless you have a reason to. And the man whose firm Trump just bought a 35% stake in? Alejandro Betancourt, a Venezuelan billionaire who has faced several money-laundering investigations around the world. 2. Don’t expect cheaper gas anytime soon. Experts have been telling us for MONTHS that oil production in Venezuela isn’t going to lower U.S. gas prices anytime soon. Betancourt’s company is able to deliver as much oil in a year as the U.S. uses in a few days. Anyone promising this deal will bring down prices at the pump is selling you lies. 3. If there’s a legal fight over this agreement, it has to go through a Texas court that Trump’s DOJ has repeatedly turned to for favorable rulings. 4. This deal creates a board designed to be shielded from oversight and accountability. Trump’s own Treasury Secretary wasn’t able to give Congress basic answers or audits when he testified about Venezuela just last month. But we should blindly trust them now? So let’s recap: Americans aren’t going to feel relief at the pump. The identity of the people involved is conveniently hidden from us. And legal disputes go to a specific court that disproportionately rules in Trump’s favor. Whatever you think American foreign policy towards Venezuela should be, Congress and the public deserve to know who’s involved and where the money is going. propublica.org/article/trump…

Gestern erfuhren wir, wie der Trump-Sprössling in der Mongolei auf Jagd mit dem Mann war, der sich „Kremlev“ nennt. Heute gibt es das Familienunternehmen in der Gesamtansicht. Die Financial Times hat nachgezählt: Mindestens 18 Mal haben sich Donald Jr. und Eric Trump seit Januar 2025 mit ausländischen Regierungsleuten getroffen. Darunter mindestens sechs amtierende oder frühere Staats- und Regierungschefs. Von Vietnam über Serbien bis Somaliland. Feine Gesellschaft! Ein Regierungsamt haben die beiden nicht. Brauchen sie auch nicht. Wenn der Sohn des amerikanischen Präsidenten mit Secret Service im Schlepptau aufkreuzt, muss niemand erst nach seiner Visitenkarte fragen. Die Trump-Sprecher versichern: alles privat. Der Sohn sei ein Privatmann mit denselben Rechten wie jeder andere Amerikaner. Natürlich. Jeder andere Amerikaner diniert schließlich auch mal eben mit dem Präsidenten der Mongolei. Und stimmt den Besuch vorher mit Außenminister Marco Rubio ab. Rein privat, versteht sich. Das Geschäft läuft jedenfalls. Trumps persönliches Einkommen lag laut FT im vergangenen Jahr bei über zwei Milliarden Dollar, ein großer Teil davon aus den Firmen der Söhne. Allein über 500 Millionen kamen aus dem Verkauf von Tokens ihrer Kryptofirma World Liberty Financial. Richard Painter, früher Ethikanwalt im Weißen Haus unter George W. Bush, hatte sich seinerzeit schon über Hunter Bidens Geschäfte empört. Heute sagt er, was die Trump-Söhne treiben, sei tausendmal schlimmer. Aber Hunter Bidens Laptop! Wir kennen das. Nehmen wir Georgien. Im September versammelt sich die Elite in Tiflis, um den künftigen Trump Tower zu feiern. Das höchste Gebäude des Landes soll er werden. Drohnenshow, Volkstänze, Animation zu „YMCA“. Eric Trump wird per Video zugeschaltet, lobt den Ministerpräsidenten Irakli Kobachidse, alle sind glücklich. Kobachidse ist ein enger Verbündeter von Bidzina Iwanischwili. Das ist der Milliardär, der in Georgien politisch die Fäden zieht und den Washington 2024 sanktioniert hatte, weil er die demokratische und euroatlantische Zukunft seines Landes zugunsten Russlands untergrabe. Nicht gerade die Voraussetzungen für eine herzliche Wiederannäherung an die USA, sollte man meinen. Eine Woche nach der Turmfeier trifft Kobachidse in New York auf Trump und Außenminister Rubio. Man plaudert. Inzwischen sieht Kobachidse die Beziehungen deutlich verbessert und hofft auf die Wiederherstellung der strategischen Partnerschaft. Ob der Trump Tower dabei geholfen hat? Wissen wir nicht. Aber er stand jedenfalls schon im Raum, bevor sich die Türen in New York öffneten. Und jetzt zu Estland. Ein Nato-Land an der russischen Grenze, das sich vor Putin fürchtet und dringend mehr amerikanische Truppen im Land haben möchte. Am 6. September landet Donald Jr. um fünf Uhr morgens im Privatjet in Tallinn. Abends gibt es Dinner in den Büros einer Softwarefirma für Online-Casinos. Am Tisch sitzen Trumps früherer Wahlkampfmanager, der Gründer des berüchtigten Fyre Festivals und ein ehemaliger New Yorker Mafioso. Anschließend geht es in eine Zigarren-Lounge, wo sich noch Pokerprofis und Miss World Estland dazugesellen. Mit am Tisch sitzt auch Estlands Außenminister Margus Tsahkna. Eigentlich einer von den Guten, wie mir scheint, jedenfalls wenn es um die Ukraine geht. Für dieses Dinner hat er zu Hause auch ordentlich Prügel bezogen. Aber Tsahkna sieht das pragmatisch: Donald Jr. habe zwar kein Regierungsamt, sei aber ein einflussreicher Mann. Man habe ausführlich über die Ukraine gesprochen. Und Kontakte zu solchen Leuten aus dem Umfeld des Weißen Hauses könnten eines Tages nützlich sein. Kann man verstehen. Wenn die amerikanische Außenpolitik zunehmend zur Familienangelegenheit wird, versucht man eben, mit der Familie ins Gespräch zu kommen. Früher lief sowas unter Diplomatie. Heute braucht man dafür offenbar eine Einladung von einem Casinobetreiber. So formuliert man das diplomatisch. Man könnte auch sagen: Der Außenminister eines Nato-Staates verbringt seinen Abend mit dem Sohn des amerikanischen Präsidenten und einer Gesellschaft, die sich kein Drehbuchautor ausdenken würde, ohne anschließend wegen Übertreibung gerügt zu werden. In der Hoffnung, dass dieser Kontakt seinem Land eines Tages nützen könnte. Ein außenpolitischer Termin war das selbstverständlich nicht. Alles privat. Und während die Söhne um die Welt reisen, wird zu Hause weiter investiert. Donald Jr.s Fonds 1789 Capital steigt bei einem Seltene-Erden-Unternehmen ein. Kurz darauf bekommt das Unternehmen einen 620-Millionen-Dollar-Kredit vom Pentagon. Auch an Unternehmen aus der Rüstungs- und KI-Branche ist der Fonds beteiligt, darunter Firmen mit Regierungsaufträgen. Unter den Investoren der familieneigenen Kryptofirma World Liberty Financial findet sich der nationale Sicherheitsberater der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate. Es ist ein gut geschmiertes Geschäftsmodell. Die Söhne investieren in Branchen, über deren Zukunft die Regierung ihres Vaters mitentscheidet. Im Ausland begegnen sie Staats- und Regierungschefs, die sich vom Kontakt zur Familie einen besseren Draht nach Washington versprechen. Alles privat, versichern die Sprecher. Alles legal, sagt die Trump Organization. Und jetzt erzählt uns bitte noch einmal etwas von Hunter Bidens Laptop.

When Ted Turner asked Carl Sagan whether he was a socialist, Sagan offered an answer that captures the true meaning of a civilized society.

On this Israeli election day, I’d recommend reading this extraordinary @haaretzcom interview with billionaire Ronald Lauder, president of the World Jewish Congress and once one of Benjamin Netanyahu’s closest confidants. One of Lauder’s most striking conclusions: “I realized at the end of the day that Israel really didn't want peace, but they wanted dominance.” This is coming from someone who helped launch Netanyahu’s political career, introduced him to powerful figures in American politics and media, and secretly negotiated with Hafez al-Assad and Rafik Hariri on his behalf in the late 1990s. In one of the interview’s biggest revelations, Lauder says Netanyahu agreed to a comprehensive peace deal with Syria and Lebanon, including withdrawal from the Golan Heights, but ultimately refused to sign it for political reasons. “He chose politics over peace. He put his political future before the deal.” Now 82, Lauder describes his profound disillusionment with Israel’s direction. After decades of supporting Israeli and Jewish institutions, he has sold his Tel Aviv apartment, given away his Be’er Sheva property, and says he has no intention of returning to Israel. He warns that Netanyahu’s dependence on figures like Ben-Gvir and Smotrich is damaging Israel, alienating diaspora Jews and eroding support in Washington. The interview is also full of fascinating details about Lauder’s role in Netanyahu’s political rise. The two became close friends in the 1980s, when Netanyahu was Israel’s ambassador to the UN, speaking almost daily at times. Lauder says he introduced Netanyahu to speech coach Lilyan Wilder to improve his public speaking and, crucially, to Republican strategist Arthur Finkelstein, who would become instrumental in Netanyahu’s electoral success. When Netanyahu left New York to pursue a political career in Israel, Lauder threw him a farewell party attended by some of the most influential figures in American media and politics, including Rupert Murdoch and the head of the New York Times. Lauder recalls opening doors for Netanyahu and helping him cultivate the relationships that would underpin his rise to power. What makes this interview so revealing is that Lauder is no longtime critic of Israel. He had been a committed Zionist, a Republican power broker, and a man who spent decades financing Jewish institutions, cultivating relationships with Arab leaders, and pursuing diplomatic openings on Israel’s behalf. A fascinating read 👇 haaretz.com/israel-news/elec…

“On Feb. 5, 2025, her first day in office, Attorney General Pam Bondi disbanded the FBI’s Foreign Influence Task Force, dismantled the department’s unit pursuing Russian oligarchs’ assets, and narrowed enforcement of the Foreign Agents Registration Act. CISA paused its election security work, abandoned the information sharing center that connected it to state and local election officials, and by mid-2025 had lost more than a third of its workforce. Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard gutted the Foreign Malign Influence Center, the State Department closed its office for countering foreign disinformation, and National Security Council working groups on Russian sabotage and disinformation stopped meeting. The next target was the people. In August 2025, Gabbard revoked the security clearances of 37 current and former officials, among them a senior Russia analyst who helped produce the 2017 assessment, citing the “politicization or weaponization of intelligence.” Comey was indicted on Sept. 25, 2025, over his 2020 Senate testimony, five days after Trump publicly demanded his prosecution. A judge dismissed the case, but the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit is currently hearing the department’s appeal. CIA Director John Ratcliffe referred former Director Brennan for prosecution for alleged perjury in his congressional testimony, and Brennan has been subpoenaed to appear at a Florida grand jury examining whether officials who investigated Trump conspired against him. The purge also reached below the senior level, and analysts who worked on the 2017 assessment also had their clearances stripped. The FBI forced out a veteran counterintelligence agent over his ties to an official in the original Russia investigation, and dozens of FBI agents and Justice Department prosecutors were fired or demoted for work investigating Trump or Russia.”

🔥🔥🔥HOLY HELL: Whatever you do, do not repost this as Donald Trump will lose his shit if he hears this insane applause Ohio gave Obama today!

Trump and the GOP have been working hard to keep this video from being reposted on social media. Repost it, keep it alive. Too many people aren't paying attention to who Donald Trump is. He's a liar, and by his own words, he must be held accountable.🤥

🚨🚨🚨MASSIVE SCANDAL!!! There’s now peer-reviewed evidence proving political bias in X’s algorithm!!! The below 2026 study found that X’s practice of switching users from “chronological” to “algorithmic” feed massively increases their exposure to conservative political content. That is evidence of algorithmic amplification of pro-Trump & pro-MAGA content while suppressing pro-Democratic content — just weeks before the most consequential midterm election in our history. Here’s the study: The political effects of X’s NEW feed algorithm. nature.com/articles/s41586-0…

Ten years ago today. In just the last few days: Trump made a deal for the U.S. to buy Russian diesel, an economic lifeline for Putin; he and Elon Musk blamed each other for an order that slowed down Starlink satellite connectivity over Ukraine, hampering the country's defenses during a devastating Russian attack; and Trump waived sanctions on Russia that Congress, led by his late friend Lindsey Graham, had pushed for. Now, Putin has proposed a summit with Trump and Xi to decide Ukraine’s fate for them, bulldoze a century of international cooperation, and frame Russia as an equal to the U.S. and China. We’ll see if Putin’s puppet continues to dance on his strings.

MASSIVE BOMBSHELL: DAN GOLDMAN UNLEASHES TRUTH! Congressman Goldman just went live with FBI 302 receipts. Evidence shows Trump unzipped his pants, forced a 13-year-old’s head down, and when she bit his p*nis in self-defense, he punched her and called her a "B." The FBI interviewed her FOUR times while the case was buried. Pam Bondi lied to Congress, claiming “no evidence” of these crimes while sitting on files describing this exact assault. This is perjury and a cover-up for a predator. You don’t get to "save the kids" while your AG hides files of a child being beaten for fighting back. History will remember the enablers. We stand with the children who bit back.