Jordan Conradson

Rep. Thomas Massie on Sunday said that he plans to read the names of Epstein’s clients on the House Floor before he leaves Congress in January 2027. 

While speaking to Kirsten Welker on NBC’s Meet the Press this morning, Massie vowed to use his speech or debate immunity and read the names. Article I, Section 6 of the Constitution provides that, with the exception of Treason, Felony, or Breach of the Peace, Representatives “shall not be questioned in any other Place,” prosecuted, or sued over “any Speech or Debate in either House.”

Massie previously threatened to name the names of Epstein’s coconspirators in September 2025.

Massie told Welker on Sunday that he will read redacted names from the Epstein Files in the coming weeks and months, adding, “There’s still millions of files they haven’t released.”

“Todd Blanche is violating the law,” he said with reference to the Epstein Files Transparency Act, which President Trump signed into law last November, forcing the DOJ to release all files related to the Epstein investigation.

Massie continued, “I don’t think it’s possible to get to convictions with Todd Blanche at the top and with the FBI Director, Kash Patel, at the top because they’ve effectively both perjured themselves by saying that there’s nobody else in the files.”

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Via https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/05/watch-thomas-massie-vows-redacted-epstein-names-house/

Sputnik International

Pakistan now receives up to 80% of its military imports from China — a striking reversal of the Cold War era, when the United States served as Islamabad’s primary arms supplier.

How and why did this happen? The key reason was US sanctions, retired Pakistan Air Force Captain Sultan M. Hali told Sputnik.

During Pakistan’s conflicts with India in 1965 and 1971, the United States imposed sanctions on both sides — but Pakistan was more affected since it relied heavily on Western equipment. China stepped in to help at that critical moment.

In the post-Cold War period, repeated US sanctions again disrupted Pakistan’s access to critical hardware.

Beijing, by contrast, offered technology transfer [enabling Pakistan to make their own weapons]— a step Western suppliers rarely take, and when they do, it comes with a web of restrictive conditions.

Pakistan has now inducted a wide spectrum of Chinese systems, including fighter jets, air defense systems, early warning aircraft, frigates, and submarines.

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Via https://sputnikglobe.com/20260525/sanctions-backfire-why-pakistan-now-buys-chinese-weapons-instead-of-american-ones-1124185331.html

Dmitry Orlov

I would very much like my readers in Europe to survive the banquet of consequences which their representatives, elected or not, have prepared for them. To this end, they should:

1. Be nowhere near the epicenter of an expected Russian tactical nuclear strike

2. Be prepared for the eventuality of a Russian tactical nuclear strike in their vicinity and be prepared to swiftly regroup and evacuate

3. Know how to survive in a post-nuclear world

In this post, I will deal with point 1 above and provide a list of these locations and a rationale for why you should be nowhere near any of them. Of course, post-nuclear survival is not for everybody. Some people would prefer to just “cover themselves with a white bedsheet and slowly crawl toward the nearest cemetery — slowly, so as not to cause a stampede in which someone might get hurt.” (This is a Russian Cold War joke.) But I do hope that my readers are survival-minded.

The first step in solving a problem is to recognize that a problem exists. This is a stretch goal for many people in Europe who still believe that they are magic elves living under an American nuclear umbrella even as their leaders put them in grave danger. In a previous post, I detailed how the currently popular Western sport of “baiting the Russian bear” is likely to produce lethal consequences:

“The object of the sport is to discover ‘Russia’s red lines,’ to ascertain with absolute certainty what sort of damage can be caused to Russia without any repercussions. The reason this sport is most unhealthy is that once you discover “Russia’s red line” you end up dead. That is not a sinister joke or an exaggeration: it is a technical fact.” [https://boosty.to/cluborlov/posts/f66846ad-28d3-4a8a-b289-84dbf42d35f7]

It is based on a general principle that Russia tends to follow: it doesn’t warn; it acts. Warning the enemy is considered counterproductive since it gives the enemy a chance to prepare. But some amount of warning is inevitable when it comes to the use of tactical nuclear weapons, since some amount of internal discussion is necessary to prepare the Russian political realm for such a drastic shift. Such a shift has been under discussion for some time, with political insiders such as Sergei Karaganov and Dmitry Medvedev playing an active role.

But then certain events tend to advance this discussion. Such an event took place just two days ago, where five consecutive waves of drone attacks against a college dormitory in Starobelsk, Lugansk Region, which resulted in 21 deaths and many injuries. Most of the victims were in training to become primary school teachers. It would be an understatement to say that Russians are incensed.

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By now, most Russians understand what happened. The college was targeted using US-provided Palantir AI software with the goal of producing a maximally powerful Russian retaliation against the Kiev regime, which did happen quite promptly. The goal is to use the retaliation as yet another “proof” of “Russian aggression” and use it to justify the misallocation of yet more financial resources toward the already very much lost Ukrainian cause. Most of these resources will be misappropriated by the people doing the misallocating and the fabulously corrupt members of the Kiev regime. Distilled from all extraneous detail, the incident was a human sacrifice of primary school teachers for the sake of enriching Western and Ukrainian criminals ensconced in high offices.

All of this has produced a mounting chorus of “Why don’t we just nuke them?” (vernacularly expressed as “А может жахнем?”) within the Russian political space which even the most pro-Western and peace-minded Russian politicians are finding harder and harder to ignore. Meanwhile, on the other side of the iron curtain, the opinion prevails that mutual assured destruction remains in effect. But the technical truth of the matter is that Russia could nuke certain locations within NATO countries and Israel with almost total impunity and full legal justification of fighting terrorism. NATO has no means to intercept any of Russia’s new hypersonic rockets while Russia has ample means to intercept anything that NATO can throw at it.

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“When did the sacred right to violence and murder slip from the sphere of state responsibility into the sweaty hands of ‘entrepreneurs’ in offshore jurisdictions? How should we deal with them under ‘international law’? There is an answer, of course. Because such extraterritorial actions, causing death to military personnel and civilians, are considered banal terrorism. [ibid]”

Supposing that the hunt for the terrorists has commenced, where to begin? The European leadership itself was kind enough to have provided a target list. On March 26, 2026, the leaders of several European countries decided to increase the production and supply of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to Ukraine for strikes on Russian territory. The production of UAVs for the Kiev regime will be by European-based companies specializing in the production of attack drones.

“We view this decision as a deliberate step leading to a sharp escalation of the military-political situation across the entire European continent and the creeping transformation of these countries into Ukraine’s strategic rear area,” reads the Ministry of Defense statement. [https://www.kp.ru/daily/27774/5236787/]”

Here, then, is the official target list.

This is not some political fiction or a matter for further discussion. When the Ministry of Defense produces a target list, it signals their readiness to promptly destroy all items on this list when so ordered. Therefore, should you wish to survive, it would make perfect sense for you to make sure that you are nowhere near any of these locations. Here is a handy chart showing you how far you should remove yourselves from these locations:

And here are the actual locations from which you should keep a safe distance — 10km at the very list. But since life would be severely disrupted even within 50-100-km of the epicenter, if you live within that circle, you should have evacuation plans and plans for further survival, which I will detail in my next post. Meanwhile, check your distance to each of the following:

Britain:

-Fire Point is located at 2 West Row Road in Mildenhall and produces the FP-1 and FP-2 UAVs.
• Horizon Tech has offices in London (17 King Edward Street) and Leicester (5 Meridian North Block), specializing in the Sticker model.

Germany;

• Da Vinci Avia operates at 10 Felaskostrasse in Munich, manufacturing the Da Vinci UAV.
• Airlogix is ​​based in Munich (28 Lerchenauer Strasse), manufacturing the Anubis UAV.

Denmark:

• Kort is located in Stevring (Østre Alle 6) and produces the Khaki AK-1000 UAV.
• Terminal Autonomy is located in Riga (Latgales 462) and produces the AQ-400 Kosa UAV.
• Kort has an office in Vilnius (Dariaus ir Gireno 21A), also producing the Khaki AK-1000 UAV.

The Netherlands:

• Destinus is located in Hengelo (Haksbergstraat 71 and Opalstraat 60), producing the Ruta UAV.
• Antonov State Enterprise manufactures the An-196 “Luty” at 3 Wojska Polskiego Street, Mielec.
• Ukrspetssystems is located in Tarnów (30 Jana Kochanowskiego Street) and produces the RAM-2X UAV.

Spain

• Navigation UAV in Madrid (San Sebastián de los Reyes, Teide Street 3, Office 0.1) produces space radio navigation signal receivers.

Italy:

• KMD Avio in Venice (Via dell’Artigianato, 12) produces piston engines with outputs of 60–170 hp.
• MVfly in Garbagnate Milanese (Via Forlanini, 76/D) produces piston engines with outputs of 60–170 hp.
• EPA Power in Piedmont (Via Gaetano Salvemini 19) and Omegna (Via Lungolago Gramsci 7) produces piston engines with outputs of 60–170 hp.
• Gillardoni in Mandello del Lario (Viale della Costituzione 32) produces piston engines with outputs of 60–170 hp.

Czech Republic:

• PBS in Prague (Krakovská 583/9) and Velké Bíteš (Vlkovská 279) produces compact turbojet engines.
• Deviro is located in Prague (1702/65 Na Strží Street) and manufactures the Bulava UAV. 3W Professional in Hanau (33 Lise-Meitner-Strasse) produces 30 hp piston engines.

Israel:

• Elsight in Haifa (P.O. Box 539) and Or Yehuda (3 Ariel Sharon Boulevard) manufactures cellular network connectivity modules.

Turkey:

• Tualcom in Ankara (Ihsan Doğramaci Boulevard, ODTÜ, SATGEB Zone 160 and Kahramankazan District, HAB OSB Quarter, 3 G3A Sokak Street) manufactures space radio navigation signal receivers.
• Dow Aksa in Yalova (3 Akasya Street) manufactures carbon fiber for gliders

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Via https://boosty.to/cluborlov/posts/3e0ff547-2cbc-448d-a064-27bf3524618b

By Jordan Conradson

A bombshell new report from investigative journalist Catherine Herridge reveals how the CIA has stonewalled Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard and spied on her team’s efforts to investigate public scandals and government corruption. 

The report comes amid Gabbard’s resignation as Director of National Intelligence, which she announced on Friday.

Gabbard cited her husband’s rare form of bone cancer for her resignation. Still, this comes as tensions between the CIA and ODNI gained public attention earlier this month after CIA whistleblower James Erdman III testified that the CIA had seized documents related to the JFK assassination and MKUltra — the CIA’s experimentation on human behavior and mind control through the use of drugs — from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence.

As The Gateway Pundit previously reported, Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL) and House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-KY) fired off a preservation letter to the CIA, demanding that all existing and future records related to the taken items be preserved. A Director of National Intelligence spokeswoman later denied that a “raid” occurred as the claim circulated.

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Via https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/05/cia-accused-illegally-spying-tulsi-gabbard-interfering-dni/

Episode 18 Medieval Mastermind: Ibn Sina

Islamic Golden Age (2017)

By Eamon Gearon

Film Review

In the Divine Comedy, Dante places the physician Ibn Sina (Avicenna in Latin) with the Greek philosophers in the least wicked circle of Hell. Many scholars view him as the most important philosopher and thinker of all time.

In the Book of Healing, Ibn Sina writes about the philosophical challenge of healing the ignorant soul and the Floating Man thought experiment.*

Written in the early 11th century, the boo discusses logic, natural science, mathematics and music theory, metaphysics, ontology (the basic nature of being) and cosmology (the root cause of all things). It’s mostly based on Aristotle’s and al-Farabi’s work on metaphysics. However Ibn Sina  goes much further than Aristotle in defining god and the soul.

Born in 980 in Bukhara Persia (now part of Uzbekistan), Ibin Sina’s father worked for the Samanid Dynasty (see Samurkhan: Timur’s Cultural Capitol ).

In his autobiography the physician/philosopher talks about his tutor being astounded by his brilliance. He memorized the Koran at age 10 moved on to study natural science and metaphysics (the nature of existence. He began to the study of medicine at 13 and the study of jurisprudence at 16.

After saving the life of a local ruler, he was granted access to his library, where he engaged in translating Greek, Latin and Hindu texts.

In the 10th century, the gradual rise of the Seljuk Turks on the Eurasian steppes forced Ibn Sina to relocate numerous times. This mean he was never beholding to a single school of thinking.

He drank wine and never married, despite enjoying intimate relations with women.

In 1085 following the fall of Toledo (in modern day Spain), his work became required reading at the universities in Oxford and Paris. Embraced by Roger Bacon, Thomas Aquinas and John Dunn, the work of Avicenna would have a big impact on all three Abrahamic religions.

*In this thought experiment, Ibn Sina describes an individual floating in space with no memory or sensory perception and explores whether they would grasp the fact that they exist.

https://www.kanopy.com/en/pukeariki/watch/video/5756987/5757027

Reclaim the Net

Jennifer Combs had never gotten so much as a speeding ticket. On May 8, police in Trinidad, Texas, arrested her on a state jail felony charge for writing a Facebook post about the town’s water supply.

The post said residents had been hospitalized due to bacteria in the water. The city says that claim was false. So they sent cops to her door.

The charge is felony false alarm or report under Texas Penal Code § 42.06, a statute designed for people who call in fake bomb threats or fabricate emergencies. Trinidad’s police chief and local officials decided it also applies to a woman who ran a community Facebook page and relayed what neighbors told her about getting sick.

Combs’ post, published on her “Southern Belle Watch” account, read in part: “We have received reports that some citizens have been hospitalized due to bacteria in the water. This is a serious public health concern that deserves immediate attention. If your water looks discolored, contains sediment, has a strong odor, or you have experienced related health issues, please send us a message. We are gathering information and reporting findings to the state.”

That post got her a night in the Navarro County Justice Center. She has since filed a federal lawsuit alleging the arrest was “an act of deliberate political retaliation.”

We obtained a copy of the lsuit for you here.

The water is brown. The city admits it.

Tri nidad, a small city in Henderson County about an hour southeast of Dallas, has a water problem that nobody disputes.

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Via https://reclaimthenet.org/texas-woman-arrested-for-facebook-post-about-town-water-quality

Al Mayadeen English

Claims that President Donald Trump exempted “Israel” from commitments under a potential agreement with Iran appear to be baseless, Fars News Agency revealed, based on a review of the final draft text.

Fars reported that The New York Times had alleged “Israel” was granted an exemption from the obligations outlined in the emerging draft MoU with Tehran.

However, an examination of the explicit wording of the prospective agreement shows the opposite. According to the draft text, should the agreement be finalized, the United States and its allies would be bound not to launch any form of aggression against Iran or its allies.

In return, Iran has committed that neither it nor its allies would carry out preemptive military strikes against the United States and its allies.

Consequently, the media outlet’s claim that “Israel’s” regime is exempt from any commitments toward Iran directly contradicts the explicit provisions of the final agreement, rendering the assertion false and unfounded.

US and Iran reportedly near agreement

This closely follows a report by Axios citing a US official familiar with the talks, stating that the United States and Iran are nearing a draft agreement that would reopen the Strait of Hormuz, ease pressure on global oil markets, and launch a new round of talks over Tehran’s nuclear program.

The proposed deal, which mediators and President Donald Trump have suggested could be announced as early as Sunday, would establish a 60-day ceasefire framework that could later be extended by mutual consent. However, officials cautioned that talks remain ongoing and the agreement could still collapse before being finalized.

According to the US official, both sides would sign a memorandum of understanding under which Iran would reopen the Strait of Hormuz, remove naval mines deployed in the waterway, and allow unrestricted maritime traffic to resume. In return, Washington would lift its blockade on Iranian ports and issue sanctions waivers enabling Tehran to freely export oil.

The official acknowledged that the arrangement would provide a major boost to Iran’s economy, but argued that it would also stabilize global energy markets by restoring oil flows through one of the world’s most strategically important shipping lanes.

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Via https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/fars-debunks-nyt-claims–israel–was-exempted-from-us-iran-a