Trial of Accused Tupac Shakur Murderer Brings to Light Police Coverup

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(Covert Action Magazine) On August 31, Duane “Keffe D” Davis was convicted of first-degree murder for his role in the death of famed rapper Tupac Shakur 30 years earlier.

Prosecutors argued that Davis and his nephew, Orlando “Baby Lane” Anderson, “went hunting” for Shakur after Anderson was in a fight with him and his entourage at the MGM Grand following a Mike Tyson boxing match, Chief Deputy District Attorney Binu Palal said.

According to Palal, Davis led the charge through his role as a “shot caller” for the Southside Compton Crips and, ultimately, was driven by self-interest in his statements.

The defense countered by saying that the evidence tying Davis to Tupac’s killing was inconclusive and that the prosecution had not presented documentation to show that Davis was even in Las Vegas at that time.

Evidently the jury did not believe this. But regardless of whether Davis was involved in the murder in some capacity, he is a small fish compared to some of the big players who were involved in Tupac’s murder, which appears to have been orchestrated at higher levels.

Like other Black artists, Tupac was a target of offshoots of the FBI’s COINTELPRO operation.

He came from a radical family linked to the Black Power Movement and was considered a threat to revitalize the spirit of that movement, especially because his rap songs adopted subversive anti-establishment messaging.

The FBI, at the behest of ruling U.S. elites, deliberately provoked internecine conflict among Black rappers and groups that, if united, could have potentially mobilized Black youth in a political direction and away from the gang violence that has helped to devastate the Black community along with neo-liberal economic policies that have affected them disproportionately, racialized policing and the War on Drugs, which has spawned a new Jim Crow.

Tupac himself had expressed admiration for the Black Panther Party—the central target of COINTELPRO in the 1960s and early 1970s, and believed that he was a target of COINTELPRO.

Short for Counter-Intelligence Program, COINTELPRO was an FBI program instituted in the 1950s to covertly disrupt radical political organizations in the United States. The program is also known to have targeted artists and musicians, as well as non-violent political dissidents.

In former Black Panther Lee Lew Lee’s 1996 film All Power to the People: The Black Panther Party and Beyond, FBI agent whistleblower Wes Swearingen, CIA whistleblower Phil Agee, and former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark detailed how U.S. intelligence operations such as the FBI’s CounterIntelligence Program, murderously targeted The Black Panther Party (excerpted in Drugs as Weapons Against Us 1:00:30- 1:57).

Agent Swearingen stated fellow agents told him that their FBI CounterIntelligence (COINTELPRO) was “officially” closed in 1971 but these activities continued at least until 1995, under different names. These activities in turn are thought to be connected to Shakur’s 1996 death.[1]

According to U.S. intelligence researcher John Judge, “there’s quite a bit of evidence that has come out over the years about the surveillance of [Shakur]. Apparently there were people that were surveilling him at the time of his murder that were never questioned by police.”

U.S. Intelligence and the Black Panther Shakur Family

Tupac’s mother, Afeni Shakur, was a section leader of the Harlem Black Panthers, and his stepfather, Dr. Mutulu Shakur (Jeral Wayne Williams), was a founding member of the Republic of New Afrika.

U.S. intelligence unsuccessfully tried to frame Afeni as part of the New York Panther 21, a group of Panthers who were accused of targeting New York police officers and planning terrorist acts. Dr. Shakur was imprisoned for decades, on charges of conspiring to rob a bank (1981 Brinks robbery) and for breaking Assata Shakur from prison.

Tupac’s “Auntie Assata” was imprisoned for purportedly shooting a police officer, while his godfather, Geronimo (Ji-Jaga) Pratt, led the Los Angeles Black Panthers and was falsely imprisoned for decades.

Police shot at Assata while she had her hands raised and shot at Geronimo’s bed as, fortunately, he was sleeping on the floor due to a bad back caused by a Vietnam War injury.

After activists stole documents from an FBI office in 1971, they found that the FBI orchestrated most of these attacks on Black Panthers like Assata and many others under COINTELPRO.

Police Attempted to Murder Tupac Before: Oakland in 1991 and Atlanta in 1993

The New Afrikan Panthers, active in nearly a dozen cities, elected Tupac Shakur as their National Chairman in 1989. Tupac’s music celebrated blackness and gave voice to the frustrations and disillusionment so many black youth faced with the prevailing political-economic system while provoking empathy for the system’s victims.

Tupac continued his activism with his imprisoned stepfather Mutulu Shakur and his Black Panther extended family by helping to spread a truce between the Bloods and Crips gangs from a few areas around Los Angeles to across the country.

There were at least four attempts on Tupac Shakur’s life with police foul play involved before he was murdered at the age of 25 in September 1996.

Several days after MTV released the political song “Trapped” from his solo debut CD in 1991, Oakland police stopped him purportedly for jay-walking, pounded his head against the curb and choked him into unconsciousness.

In Atlanta, Georgia, in 1993, two allegedly off-duty police officers shot at Tupac with a gun they had stolen from an evidence locker.

LA Police Detective: Police Killed Rapper Biggie to Cover up Their Murder of Tupac

An assailant fatally shot Tupac Shakur from another car in Las Vegas after a Mike Tyson heavyweight championship boxing match on September 7, 1996.

Six months later, a gunman fatally shot Tupac’s former friend and fellow top rapper Christopher “Biggie/Notorious B.I.G.” Wallace in Los Angeles.

After Biggie’s murder, Los Angeles Police Detective Russell Poole said that he found out that his fellow police officers murdered Biggie to distract from their murder of Tupac, trying to make it look like a rap rivalry.[2]

Detective Poole found dozens of his fellow police officers at all levels of Tupac’s last record company, Death Row Records.

When Detective Poole asked his superiors what all those LA officers were doing there, they told him you can call them “trouble shooters or covert agents.”[3]

Tupac Trial Widens Audience for Assertion That Police Killed Tupac

The Clark County (Nevada) District Attorney charged a Crips gang leader from Compton, California, Duane “Keffe D” Davis, with orchestrating Tupac’s 1996 murder in Las Vegas. Davis was tried and convicted in August 2026.

In the trial, prosecutors relied heavily on a 2008 FBI task force that included ATF, DEA, and LA police set up to investigate Biggie’s murder after Biggie’s mother filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the LAPD estimating up to $500 million in losses.

FBI Task Force member Detective Daryn Dupree said they set up Davis with a gallon of PCP and a kilo of cocaine to get Davis to talk to them so, facing life imprisonment in 2008, Davis discussed Tupac’s murder with the promise (“proffer agreement”) of the drug charges being dropped and Davis supposedly receiving immunity from charges related to the Tupac case.

Davis told LA police officer Greg Kading and other Task Force members that he orchestrated Tupac’s murder, with his now-dead nephew, Orlando Anderson, firing the fatal gunshots from a car occupied by Davis and two others.

In the proffer agreement, Davis said he did that in retaliation for Suge Knight, Tupac, and some Bloods gang members attacking Orlando Anderson in the MGM hotel lobby just after the Mike Tyson boxing match.

The prosecution at the Davis trial presented this as normal gang retaliation behavior, but Compton gang unit police officer Robert Ladd said he had no evidence that Davis ever orchestrated a murder before or after Tupac’s murder.

Officer Ladd also confirmed there was no evidence that the Bloods ever tried to retaliate against Orlando Anderson, Davis, or the other two gang members purported to be in the assailant’s car.

At Davis’s trial, former FBI Agent Wade Lee said that Davis told him in 1998 that he believed Compton police officers murdered Tupac.

Agent Lee confirmed that he made no attempt to investigate those assertions.

CNN legal analyst Joey Jackson said that, with Davis’s contradictory statement in 1998, facing life imprisonment in 2008, “he’d likely tell you anything to” get out of that drug conviction and, thus, the prosecution’s case is weak unless “you have an independent corroborating witness who puts [Davis] there.”

Biggie and his rap producer Sean “P-Diddy” Combs’ top bodyguard, New York State Parole Officer Gene Deal, said that FBI Agent Phil Carson said the FBI Task Force gave “Keffe” Davis a script to read at their proffer agreement meeting.[4]

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Via https://thefreethoughtproject.com/cop-watch/trial-of-accused-tupac-shakur-murderer-brings-to-light-police-coverup

New Zealand agrees to put almost $24 million into military satellite US is building

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26 Sept 2026

RNZ Phil Pennington

New Zealand has agreed to put almost $24 million into a military satellite the United States is building.

It is one of 10 international partners helping expand the Pentagon’s 11-strong Wideband Global SATCOM network (WGS).

The 12th satellite is scheduled for launch in 2028 at the earliest at a total cost of over half a billion dollars.

Like the 11th satellite, it will have tech that protects “communications for tactical warfighters operating in close proximity to jammers”, said the US Space Force.

The NZ Defence Force said maintaining the network allows it to receive the military communication capacity it needs.

“In exchange for financial contributions, partners continue to receive a proportional allocation of bandwidth from the WGS constellation.”

The $23.7m spend is split over two years.

Belgium, Canada, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland and the UK are putting money in.

NZ earlier put $15m towards WGS-11. It had been due for launch this year but been pushed back to next. The 12th had been due to launch next year but been pushed back.

The US Space Force said its international partnerships were “one of our greatest strategic advantages”.

“This agreement demonstrates that when we invest together in shared capabilities, we realize a level of global coverage and mission assurance that no single nation could achieve alone.”

In New Zealand, the government and the military are on track to spend more on space-related defence capabilities.

The NZDF has long said that “if our satellite communications become unavailable, NZDF’s military capability will be severely diminished” and that it had been working since at least 2014 to diversify communication channels.

Another initiative is a national space mission to put up the country’s first sovereign satellite, though how far advanced plans are for that is unclear.

Internationally, New Zealand is in an elite US-led group Operation Olympic Defender that has been working on a joint plan for how to protect and defend space assets from threats that should be done by the end of the year, Space Force said earlier.

Work was going on to determine how to “challenge the posture” of would-be adversaries viewed as threatening the peaceful use of space.

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Via https://envirowatchnz.com/2026/09/26/new-zealand-agrees-to-put-almost-24-million-into-military-satellite-us-is-building/

Macron to send French troops to Saudi Arabia

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Macron to send French troops to Saudi Arabia
FILE PHOTO: French President Emmanuel Macron greets Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in Paris, August 24, 2026. ©  Pierre Suu / Getty Images

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25 Sep, 2026 23:12  

France will deploy troops, radar, and air-defense systems to Saudi Arabia to protect a key Red Sea oil hub as Riyadh struggles to contain escalating Houthi missile and drone attacks, President Emmanuel Macron has announced.

Macron said French forces will not join the fighting but will merely protect the strategic energy facility under an agreement with Riyadh. The announcement came hours after the Saudi-led coalition said it intercepted six ballistic missiles heading toward Taif, which hosts a key Saudi air base, and the strategic port city of Yanbu.

“We are going to send military resources, that is to say, soldiers, radar systems, and defense systems, to protect the site of Yanbu,” Macron told TF1 and France 2 on Thursday.

Macron said the Yanbu hub, which handles several million barrels of oil, was “very badly damaged” in previous attacks. The Red Sea port has become increasingly important for Saudi exports as the US-Iran war severely restricts tanker traffic through the Strait of Hormuz.

The Houthis said on Thursday that they launched missile and drone strikes against several “sensitive targets” in the kingdom, specifically naming Saudi Aramco infrastructure in Yanbu. A Greek-operated Patriot battery already deployed in Saudi Arabia also intercepted a ballistic missile and a drone in the wider Yanbu area on Thursday, according to Reuters.

The Houthis have framed their campaign as a fight to drive Saudi-backed government forces out of Yemen, end Riyadh’s blockade, and restore the country’s sovereignty, warning foreign powers against joining the Saudi campaign.

France is the latest country Riyadh has turned to for military assistance after Washington stopped short of a direct intervention sought by Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. Earlier this month, the Saudi leader asked US President Donald Trump to order strikes against the Houthis, but Trump reportedly refused.

Trump later noted that the Houthis are “letting most ships go through” the Red Sea and are focused on “just one country.” The US instead offered intelligence sharing and targeting assistance, while US forces remain focused on Iran.

Riyadh has sought additional support from France, Britain, Pakistan, and Egypt as its stocks of missile interceptors come under pressure.

Britain has already agreed to deploy an RAF Voyager tanker to provide air-to-air refueling for Saudi operations, adding to UK air-defense equipment and personnel already stationed in the kingdom. Pakistan, which has a mutual-defense agreement with Saudi Arabia, has pledged to defend the kingdom “to any extent,” although Islamabad has not announced a new combat deployment.

Egypt has offered Riyadh “unwavering” political support but has not announced military assistance. Italy also maintains an air-defense mission in Saudi Arabia; an Italian Eurofighter stationed at King Fahd Air Base was damaged during a Houthi attack last week.

The renewed Saudi appeals come as the Houthis make major territorial gains along Yemen’s Red Sea coast, seizing Mokha and strategic islands around the Bab al-Mandeb Strait. The group has also targeted Saudi oil infrastructure and shipping while demanding an end to the Saudi blockade of Yemen.

The fighting threatens Saudi Arabia from both sides of the Arabian Peninsula: Iran has severely disrupted the kingdom’s traditional export route through Hormuz, while the Houthi advance and attacks are putting pressure on its alternative Red Sea corridor through Yanbu and Bab al-Mandeb.

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Via https://www.rt.com/news/646220-france-troops-saudi-arabia/

EU sounds alarm over Trump diesel ban threat

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25 Sep, 2026 

The bloc has already been grappling with tight supplies, with Ukrainian strikes on Russian refineries adding to the pressure

A US ban on diesel exports could squeeze the EU’s energy market, which is already strained by reduced Russian supplies due to sanctions and disruptions in flows from the Middle East, officials in Brussels have warned.

European Commission spokesman Olof Gill told Politico on Thursday that Brussels was concerned by reports that Washington could halt diesel exports for 90 days, warning that any disruption “would risk negatively impacting both sides.”

The US has supplied about a third of Europe’s diesel imports this year, with its share rising to around half in August, according to government data. Prices at the pump have already reached record highs in Germany and the Netherlands.

Commission spokeswoman Anna-Kaisa Itkonen said Brussels was monitoring the markets and security of supply “very, very closely,” noting that the US was a “major supplier” of both diesel and liquefied natural gas as part of the bloc’s “diversification strategy since 2022.”

Trump backed the idea of restricting exports on Tuesday as US diesel prices hit a record $6.52 a gallon ($1.72 per liter). “I’ve said let’s not send out the diesel,” he told reporters ahead of a meeting with Ukraine’s Vladimir Zelensky.

Trump has also repeatedly urged Zelensky to halt Ukrainian strikes on Russian refineries, saying the attacks were contributing to a global diesel shortage.

The issue was raised during talks between Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and US Secretary of State Marco Rubio in New York on Wednesday. According to the Russian Foreign Ministry, Lavrov said Ukrainian attacks on energy and cross-border infrastructure were deliberately contributing to instability in global energy markets.

Russia has also restricted fuel exports to stabilize its domestic market. The measures run through January, although direct producers have been permitted to export diesel, marine fuel and gasoline since September.

Supplies have also been squeezed by the US-Israeli war on Iran, which has severely disrupted shipping through the Strait of Hormuz, a route that normally carries around a fifth of global oil and liquefied natural gas shipments. Gulf diesel and gasoline exports fell to just over a quarter of pre-war levels in August, according to the International Energy Agency.

The EU has sharply reduced purchases of Russian energy since the 2022 escalation of the Ukraine conflict. Russia’s share of the bloc’s gas imports plunged from 45% to 12% by 2025, while its share of oil imports dropped from 27% to about 2%.

Moscow has blamed the EU’s decision to cut Russian energy imports as a key factor behind the crisis. Kremlin envoy Kirill Dmitriev said last week that Europe was facing “the worst energy crisis in history,” describing the situation as “self-made.”

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Via https://www.rt.com/business/646197-us-eu-diesel-ban-threat/

Massive MAHA Coalition Representing 63 Million Followers Sends Open Letter to Trump and RFK Jr. Demanding Removal of mRNA Platform

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September 22, 2026

168 prominent physicians, scientists, lawmakers, and public figures unite behind six demands for sweeping federal action on mRNA policy.

A coalition of 168 physicians, scientists, researchers, health-freedom advocates, and public figures—collectively representing over 63 million followers across social media—has just sent an open letter to HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and President Donald Trump calling for decisive action on the mRNA platform.

The effort was coordinated by Dr. Mary Talley Bowden and includes signatories such as Dr. Peter McCullough, Louisiana Deputy Surgeon General Dr. Sean Troxclair, U.S. Rep. Thomas Massie, former U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, Tucker Carlson, and myself. The full list is at the bottom of this article.

The letter argues that current federal actions have fallen short of the health-freedom movement’s stated goals and calls for the removal of mRNA/gene-therapy-derived vaccine technologies, termination of the COVID-19 PREP Act declaration, repeal of the PREP Act, an end to pharmaceutical direct-to-consumer advertising, and reforms addressing conflicts of interest and coercive healthcare incentives.

Below is the full open letter and list of signatories.

Open Letter Regarding the Removal of the mRNA Platform 

Dear Secretary Kennedy and President Trump,

Executive Summary

As influential leaders within the MAHA and health freedom movements, we are writing to object to policies under your oversight related to the mRNA platform, and to call you to act on our policy goals.

While the centerpiece of the MAHA and health freedom agenda has been removal of mRNA shots, you have failed to take decisive action on this front despite overwhelming credible evidence to the harm of this technology. Instead, your policies related to mRNA technology are neutered and self-defeating, putting pregnant women and children at risk, misleading parents and eroding their rights, and failing to help those harmed by vaccines.

If you continue to ignore our central issue of removing the mRNA platform, the MAHA and health freedom movements will withdraw their support of you, and you will face the political consequences.

Our Objections

We are writing to express deep concerns about policies emerging from HHS, the CDC, and the FDA. Specifically, we object to:

  • The administration of COVID mRNA shots to over 50 million Americans this year. Included are 7 million children, despite no studies demonstrating prevention of hospitalization or death and voluminous data demonstrating severe harms, including deaths of children (at least 10 acknowledged by the FDA to date).
  • The appointment of Erica Schwartz to lead the CDC, who declared during her Senate confirmation hearing that mRNA technology is safe and effective. As you are well aware, it is not possible to make legally valid determinations of safety or efficacy for EUA Countermeasures under ongoing public health emergency under the PREP Act. No technology can be presumptively deemed safe or effective for medical applications for all people or all ages and health statuses.
  • The approval of a new mRNA flu shot that was not tested against a true placebo, lacks long-term safety data, did not measure hospitalization or death outcomes, showed significantly higher side effects, higher deaths, and was not compared to early treatment or any alternative prophylaxis.
  • The absence of meaningful help for those injured from the mRNA shots.
  • The HHS award of $1.24 billion contracts with Pfizer for future mRNA shots, including for children.
  • Failure of the CDC to provide up-to-date cancer statistics amid rising concerns of accelerating incidence of cancer linked to mRNA shots.
  • Failure to enforce the contractual obligations of mRNA shot providers to report adverse events to VAERS.

Removal of the mRNA platform from the market remains one of the central goals of the grassroots medical freedom movement.

Millions of concerned citizens set aside partisan differences and identities to support the historic MAGA/MAHA alliance. Instead of decisive policy actions on these core issues, we see distractions, linguistic misdirections, and watered-down announcements that avoid serious action on the deadly mRNA injections.

Meaningless and constitution-corroding executive action 

Despite the Executive Order from August 10, 2026 reducing the recommended vaccination schedule from 17 to 11 types of vaccines, it simultaneously elevates pneumococcal and HPV shots into the “universal core recommendation”. The elevation of HPV shots to universal core recommendation is surprising given Merck just reached a $50M settlement¹ with 200 plaintiffs who alleged the Gardasil HPV vaccine caused autoimmunity. In addition, the EO promotes the unconstitutional notion of “shared” decision making between the federal government and parents with respect to the mRNA and some additional vaccines. This Orwellian language does not belong in a free society.

Overwhelming credible data calls for the removal of mRNA

We do not need more data to determine whether mRNA products should be removed from the market. The data are already in from multiple credible sources, including over 4,550 peer reviewed publications, the Pfizer documents released through Aaron Siri’s lawsuits, the VAERS and V-safe datasets, and data from foreign governments. These sources document catastrophic levels of deaths and serious injuries from the mRNA injections, as well as reproductive harm, including approximately 400% increase in miscarriage rates.

Self-defeating action puts pregnant women at risk, erodes parental rights

You stated that the shots were removed from the CDC recommendation for pregnant women. Yet pregnancy remains listed as a “high-risk” health category in the revised FDA policy for mRNA shots. It is especially troubling that the new versions of these injections are recommended for all pregnant women, even though this platform has never been tested and proven safe in pregnancy.

Pregnant women have not been made safer by this linguistic shift. Removing the mRNA injection from CDC recommendations for pregnant women and healthy children is meaningless when the American Academy of Pediatrics, to which the vast majority of pediatricians belong, still recommends all babies get a mRNA shot.

Further, the CDC still recommends the shots for every child except those labeled “healthy.” Those outside of this category include children with minor ailments such as an acute illness or allergies. The risks of these shots far outweigh any benefits, particularly given they now carry an FDA warning for increased risk of myocarditis and pericarditis in children.

Parental choice is not realistic when parents are not getting informed consent on the true risks of these products. CDC language appears to erode parental rights. Even for healthy children, the CDC frames the decision as one that parents must “share” with healthcare providers—including pharmacists who lack authority to treat patients. By treating the decision to inject a child with mRNA as a “shared decision,” while treating routine injections as the default, a dangerous legal precedent is being set that assigns powers to the federal government that have historically belonged solely to parents.

Failure to remove labeling of COVID-19 injections as FDA-approved 

The CDC’s COVID shot policy claims to be evidence-based. However, no evidence has been provided—and none exists to our knowledge—showing that the categories of people labeled “vulnerable” under this policy would benefit from mRNA injections. A formal Citizen Petition authored by Children’s Health Defense, asking to properly relabel the COVID-19 vaccines by Pfizer and Moderna as “EUA Countermeasures” is pending with HHS since December 8, 2025.

Under the PREP Act declaration for COVID emergency, the products that went on the market de novo as “EUA Countermeasures” – a non-investigational legal status – cannot be declared “safe, effective and fully approved by the FDA” without complying with the investigational pharmaceutical product requirements under the applicable federal law. The PREP Act was extended by the Biden Administration in December 2024 and upheld by you to date to last until December 31, 2029. The COVID-19 injections never underwent legally valid investigational assessment for safety and efficacy, being subject to only emergency distribution requirements, since the PREP Act precludes use of bio-chemical compounds in clinical investigation. This Petition gathered a record number of public comments in support of it (over 104,000). Your failure to respond to this Petition speaks louder than any placating HHS / Trump Administration messaging on vaccine schedule issues in advance of the midterm elections.

Conflating clearly established risks with an automatically assumed benefit from a product that remains a poorly regulated, liability-free EUA Countermeasure under the PREP Act emergency declaration defies both scientific reason and common sense.

The health freedom movement will withdraw support without action

We did not fight to place you in positions of leadership so that our clearly stated policy goals would suffer a “bait and switch” that rebranded the grassroots powerful objection to the damaging mRNA platform as a concern about coloring agents in Skittles. Health freedom is not the possession of Secretary Kennedy or his advisors. Health freedom agenda arose from the voices of millions of those impacted by the harmful government policies during the pandemic.

The MAHA/health freedom vote was a historic game-changer. Neither Republicans nor the Democrats could have prevailed without this critical swing vote.

Health freedom voters can and will walk away if we continue to see inaction—or condescending non-policy—on our core issues.

If you continue to ignore the centerpiece of our policy agenda—removing all mRNA products covered by PREP Act emergency declarations entirely from the market—you will pay a political price. We will run our own candidates at the state level, and we will support other challengers and sponsors who share our values and advance our draft bills at the federal level for the midterms and for 2028.

Our call to action

We ask you to deliver our actual policy goals in the near term, or face the political consequences:

  1. Ban mRNA/gene therapy-derived technologies for all vaccines, due to their demonstrated abject failure regarding safety, efficacy, and disease prevention after more than four years of real-world use and billions of doses administered.
  2. Terminate the PREP Act declaration for COVID injections, as no emergency exists. Extending this declaration, with its ironclad liability shield for manufacturers and administrators, serves no public health interest.
  3. Recommend that Congress repeal the PREP Act entirely, due to its numerous constitutional conflicts.
  4. Ban pharmaceutical direct-to-consumer advertising, as is the practice in every other country except New Zealand.
  5. Review and revise current HHS-level policies that create perverse incentives for healthcare providers to engage in medical coercion, including but not limited to vaccinations.
  6. End conflicts of interest at the CDC, FDA, NIH, and NIAID.

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Via https://www.globalresearch.ca/massive-maha-coalition-open-letter-trump-rfk-jr-demanding-removal-mrna-platform/5941290

Federal Court Orders Reinstatement of CNN, Ms Now and Politico to White House

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Johnathan Turley

Judge Timothy Kelly, a Trump appointee, issued a Temporary Restraining Order yesterday in CNN, Inc. v. Trump to restore the access of CNN, MS NOW, and Politico to the White House. As I previously explained, it was the only decision that he could make in light of controlling precedent from the D.C. Circuit in Sherrill v. Knight (D.C. Cir. 1977). The White House will have to get either the D.C. Circuit to overturn the long-standing precedent or get the Supreme Court to do so. Neither is likely.

On September 18, 2026, President Trump announced in a social media post that, “effective immediately,” he was “banning” the news organizations CNN, MS NOW, and POLITICO “from the White House.” I criticized the move at the time and discussed how the move ran against the grain of controlling precedent. All of the networks, including Fox News, boycotted the White House in opposition to the move.

The move set a dangerous precedent that could be used against other media, including conservative media in the future. While the Biden Administration constantly attacked Fox News, it never banned it entirely from the White House. Indeed, when President Barack Obama barred Fox from one event, all the networks joined in boycotting the White House until Fox’s access was restored.

For decades, the courts have acknowledged that the White House is not a “public forum” but rejected that access could be denied arbitrarily or based on viewpoint discrimination.

As previously discussed, in Sherrill v. Knight, the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia considered a ban on Robert Sherrill, a reporter for The Nation. The D.C. Circuit held “White House press facilities having been made publicly available as a source of information for newsmen, the protection afforded newsgathering under the First Amendment guarantee of freedom of the press . . . requires that this access not be denied arbitrarily or for less than compelling reasons.”

Even cases that have supported the Administration reaffirmed this line. Last year, the D.C. Circuit ruled for the White House in Ateba v. Leavitt. Journalist Simon Ateba challenged White House credentialing requirements after he was denied a permanent “hard pass.” The appeals court found that, as a nonpublic forum, such a denial was permissible.

However, the Court in Ateba rejected the notion of “unbridled discretion” in such denials. Citing  Cornelius v. NAACP Legal Def. & Educ. Fund, Inc., 473 U.S. 788 (1985), the Court still reaffirmed that “[a]s a nonpublic forum, access to the White House Press Area “can be restricted as long as the restrictions are viewpoint neutral and reasonable.”

Likewise, after the Trump White House denied access to CNN correspondent Jim Acosta, a federal judge (and Trump appointee) ordered the White House to restore the press pass due to the lack of due process and notice.

The D.C. Circuit also considered such denials in the case involving the Associated Press when the Administration barred access to Air Force One and the Oval Office after AP refused to change references to the Gulf of Mexico to Gulf of America.

In Associated Press v. Budowich, the D.C. Circuit noted:

In Sherrill, we held that the “White House press facilities having been made publicly available as a source of information for newsmen, the protection afforded newsgathering under the [F]irst [A]mendment guarantee of freedom of the press” attached, requiring that “access not be denied arbitrarily or for less than compelling reasons.” 569 F.2d at 129 (cleaned up).

AP initially prevailed before District Judge Trevor McFadden, also a Trump appointee, who ruled that the ban probably violated the First Amendment. He wrote that “under the First Amendment, if the Government opens its doors to some journalists – be it to the Oval Office, the East Room, or elsewhere – it cannot then shut those doors to other journalists because of their viewpoints.”

A divided panel of the D.C. Circuit later lifted the injunction by stressing that Air Force One and the Oval Office are very specific locations subject to greater discretion and controls. However, the court stressed that Sherrill is still good law and bars arbitrary denials. The litigation is still ongoing.

This is why Judge Kelly, as a lower court judge, had no alternative to ruling for the media litigants under binding precedent. He did so, however, on the narrowest grounds (which is also what courts are supposed to do in constitutional cases). Rather than addressing the more sweeping question under the First Amendment of viewpoint discrimination, Judge Kelly found the order issued on social media to be a denial of due process:

Plaintiffs have shown a likelihood of success, at least on their Fifth Amendment procedural due process claim. The merits of this claim are assessed in two steps: “the first asks whether there exists a liberty or property interest which has been interfered with by the State; the second examines whether the procedures attendant upon that deprivation were constitutionally sufficient.” Plaintiffs have shown they are likely to succeed at both steps.

As for the first, the D.C. Circuit held in Sherrill v. Knight (D.C. Cir. 1977) that “the interest of a bona fide Washington correspondent in obtaining a White House press pass … undoubtedly qualifies as [a] liberty [interest] which may not be denied with-out due process of law under the fifth amendment.” And if there were any doubt about what Sherill meant, the D.C. Circuit more recently reaffirmed this conclusion in Karem v. Trump (D.C. Cir. 2020), holding that “a duly issued hard pass may not be suspended without due process.”

It would be ideal if the White House would simply let this one go without further litigation. President Trump has made impressive gains in executive power in prior opinions, including Trump v. Slaughter, which overturned the 1935 precedent limiting a president’s power to fire executive branch officials in Humphrey’s Executor v. United States.

President Trump could lose presidential territory over this challenge if it goes to the Supreme Court. The odds are against the Administration, and he could increase, rather than reduce, media rights over access to the White House. It is, of course, possible that a slim majority on the Court could support him, but I think that it is unlikely.

There is also a political dimension to this controversy. The move may be playing well with many in the President’s base, but it is not playing well with the key independents and moderates that Republicans need in the midterm election. There is a great deal of grumbling on the Hill privately that this does not make matters easier for the party as it struggles to hold on to at least one house in the midterm.

It is never easy to get a president to drop a high-profile stance, particularly this President. However, this is how Las Vegas casinos make their money: getting gamblers to double down on a bad hand to recoup their money. It would be far better for the Administration (and future presidents) for President Trump to walk away from the table. He can count some major wins under Article I and could well have some additional victories in the making this term. That would be a better focus of the efforts of the Justice Department.

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Via https://jonathanturley.org/2026/09/24/federal-court-orders-reinstatement-of-cnn-ms-now-and-politico-at-white-house/

Cannon Fodder No More – South Korea Rejects Trump’s Pressure to Join His Criminal War on Iran

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September 24, 2026

Korean defiance is a rallying call for global repudiation of American imperialism.

This is a pivotal moment in history as South Korea tells Trump it is done with being a vassal for American imperialist wars.

KJ Noh notes in this interview for Strategic Culture Foundation that South Korea’s defiance of U.S. power is resonating with growing resistance among other nations towards Washington’s bullying and warmongering.

President Lee Jae-myung of South Korea gave a televised nationwide address last week declaring that his country would not be deploying military forces to the Strait of Hormuz.

That announcement followed weeks of speculation that South Korea would cave to pressure from U.S. President Donald Trump, who has been arm-twisting Seoul and other allies to send military support for his seven-month war on Iran. A war that is plunging the global and American economy into turmoil and could derail his presidency in the U.S. mid-term elections.

Geopolitical commentator KJ Noh says the public rejection of Trump’s appeal by South Korea is a major blow to Washington’s international image.

He notes that the Republic of Korea has been a loyal vassal of the United States, always sending its troops to fight American wars. South Korean soldiers have deployed in every U.S. overseas war from Vietnam to Iraq.

“The Korean people are saying they do not want to be cannon fodder for any more U.S. wars,” comments KJ Noh.

He adds that this defiance will inspire other nations to reject American hegemony.

However, KJ Noh warns that Washington is exerting severe pressure on South Korea to bend the knee. “South Korea is a living example of the maxim that to be an enemy of America is dangerous, but to be an ally is fatal.”

Trump is in a deep mess of his own making as a result of his criminal war against Iran, which he is losing. He needs “allies” to bail him out by supplying weapons and military personnel to act as cannon fodder.

Over the past eight decades, South Korea would have bent over and loyally obliged. But not anymore, it seems. The Korean people have had enough of being Uncle Sam’s vassal.

Korean defiance is a rallying call for global repudiation of American imperialism.

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Via https://strategic-culture.su/news/2026/09/24/cannon-fodder-no-more-south-korea-rejects-trump-pressure-join-his-criminal-war-iran/

Google’s Gemini joins rogue-AI case list

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Google’s Gemini has joined a growing list of advanced AI models going rogue after hacking three real companies during a cybersecurity exercise, the Wall Street Journal has reported. It is the first known case involving a Google system.

The incidents occurred in May during tests conducted by AI security firm Irregular, Google confirmed to the outlet on Friday. Gemini was tasked with breaking into a simulated software company, but was inadvertently given internet access. It breached one real company by guessing passwords and two others using credentials found in public code repositories.

Irregular alerted Google in late July, after OpenAI agents were found to have hacked AI company Hugging Face. Google did not disclose its own incidents until contacted by the WSJ this week, according to the newspaper.

Google said Gemini caused no harm and stopped after realizing it had accessed real companies rather than simulated targets.

”This event highlights the importance of training powerful AI models to act responsibly,” Heather Adkins, Google’s vice president of security engineering, told the outlet. “In this case, the model acted appropriately.”

Google blamed the breaches on mistaken identity and a testing error. The fictional company shared a name with a real business, while Gemini had internet access it was not supposed to have. The company declined to identify the three targets or the model involved, but said the affected firms and federal authorities were notified.

Concerns over rogue AI have grown amid reports of models deceiving users, ignoring instructions, or taking unintended actions. The UK government-backed Loss of Control Observatory recorded more than 300 such incidents in July, nearly twice the previous month’s figure, the Guardian reported.

Former OpenAI and Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon added to those concerns last week when he quit and accused both companies of racing toward self-improving superintelligence without “acting responsibly.” He warned AI could “kill us all” by the end of the decade, citing risks including loss of control, cyberattacks, and bioterrorism.

Leaders from Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, and xAI have backed calls to slow AI development. US President Donald Trump has rejected such restrictions, arguing that they could hamper the US in its technological competition with China.
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OpenAI agent hacks Australian government

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RT

24 Sept 2026

The tech company did not disclose the breach for nearly three months after its AI accessed restricted Medicare files, PM Anthony Albanese has said

An OpenAI artificial intelligence agent “infiltrated” an Australian government health portal in what is believed to be the world’s first publicly reported AI-led hack of a state website. The IT giant kept the breach quiet for nearly three months after its agent accessed restricted files, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has claimed.

An AI agent is a software system that can independently carry out tasks on a user’s behalf, making decisions and taking actions with limited human supervision.

The OpenAI agent hacked the public-facing Medicare Statistics Reporting Service portal on June 18 while researching Australian spending on medicines, Albanese said. The portal, widely used by researchers and academics, hosts aggregate data on health spending and government drug subsidies.

The prime minister disclosed the breach in New York on Wednesday after a telephone conversation with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. Both are attending the UN General Assembly, where Albanese said he had a “very frank discussion” with the tech executive over the company taking “too long” to report the breach.

The agent repeatedly tried to obtain information from the portal and, after being blocked, found ways around the restrictions. It ultimately accessed restricted files, but officials said there is no evidence that personal Medicare records were compromised.

“The AI agent found a way around those blocks. Didn’t accept no for an answer, if you like,” the Australian prime minister told reporters.

OpenAI, however, did not tell the Australian government about the breach for nearly three months. The company claimed it became aware of the incident only in August during an ongoing review of “misaligned model activity” and eventually notified Australian officials on September 10. The portal has since been shut down and its data moved to more secure systems.

Albanese said he had expressed “Australia’s extreme concern about this incident” and warned there would “obviously be legal consequences.” Altman acknowledged there were “issues with protocols” at OpenAI, according to the prime minister.

A “forensic investigation” led by the Australian Signals Directorate will examine whether OpenAI could face criminal charges, whether other government systems were affected, and why Australian security agencies failed to detect the intrusion. Albanese suggested the agent may have been examining Medicare spending for “commercial reasons,” including expenditure on particular medicines.

Deputy Prime Minister Richard Marles said it was the first known case of an AI agent gaining unauthorized access to Australian government IT systems.

This is not the first time OpenAI has been accused of covering up rogue agent activity. The company reportedly kept unauthorized activity quiet for months after its agents bypassed restrictions and used more than ten previously undisclosed websites to communicate. On Germany’s DseWiki alone, they made over 15,000 edits and exchanged tactics for evading safeguards and detection.

In a more serious breach in July, OpenAI agents circumvented safeguards during cybersecurity testing, reached the open internet and gained unauthorized access to systems belonging to Hugging Face, a major AI platform. The incident showed that rogue agent behavior could spill beyond controlled tests and compromise real-world systems. OpenAI acknowledged the breach, calling it a “warning shot” over the risks posed by increasingly autonomous AI.

Other developers have reported similarly troubling behavior in controlled tests. Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4 resorted to blackmail when threatened with replacement in simulated scenarios, while other agents covertly altered code, facilitated fraud and manipulated records – behavior researchers call “agentic misalignment.”

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Via https://www.rt.com/news/646188-openai-australia-breach/

Israeli Election Committee bars candidate from Knesset race over Gaza war opposition

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Far-left Israeli politician Ofer Cassif speaks to AA in Jerusalem on October 20, 2025. [Mostafa Alkharouf - Anadolu Agency]

Far-left Israeli politician Ofer Cassif speaks to AA in Jerusalem on October 20, 2025. [Mostafa Alkharouf – Anadolu Agency]

Israel’s Central Elections Committee on Wednesday decided to disqualify Knesset member Ofer Cassif from running on the Joint List in the upcoming parliamentary elections, Anadolu reports.

Cassif is known for his opposition to the policies of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government toward the Palestinian people, particularly Israel’s ongoing war in the Gaza Strip since 2023.

Israeli Channel 13 reported that the committee is holding sessions Wednesday and Thursday to discuss requests to bar several political parties from the Knesset elections and has decided to disqualify Cassif from running.

It said the decision was made following a request submitted by Netanyahu’s Likud party against Cassif, with the case to be referred to the Supreme Court, the country’s highest judicial body, for a ruling.The channel quoted Cassif as saying: “The committee seeks not only to exclude Arab voices, but also to silence and exclude from the Knesset any voice that attempts to offer a real alternative to the rhetoric of wars and revenge.”

“Presenting my opposition to the government’s policies and the actions of its agents as support for the enemy, breach of loyalty and harm to the state is a blatant distortion of reality and a complete perversion of the spirit of democracy,” he said, noting that “opposition to crimes committed in the name of the state does not contradict its interests and does not strengthen its enemies.”

Israeli elections will be held amid a fragmented political landscape.

Netanyahu has led the current government since December 2022.

He faces corruption charges, while the International Criminal Court has issued an arrest warrant for him over charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity in the Gaza Strip.

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Via https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20260923-israeli-election-committee-bars-candidate-from-knesset-race-over-gaza-war-opposition/