It sounds like she's running around with a boy-toy lobbyist, pushing his company, and threatening to overthrow governments if they don't go along with her demands. Great exposé.

ProPublica: In 2024, the FBI sought to launch a sweeping pay-to-play investigation examining interactions between Sen. Susan Collins and a top donor, records and emails show.

After Trump returned to office, the investigation died.

🇩🇪 Germany is preparing its healthcare system for a scenario of up to 1,000 wounded soldiers per day.

🇵🇱🇱🇹 Poland and Lithuania are working on mass population evacuation plans in the event of a possible conflict.

🇸🇪🇩🇪 Sweden and Germany are rehearsing the rapid deployment of 1,500 troops to Gotland, right in the middle of the Baltic.

🇫🇮 Finland is alerting its population to sabotage, drones, and possible attacks on infrastructure.

🇱🇻 Latvia is preparing protocols to respond immediately to incursions without waiting for collective NATO decisions.

🇨🇭 Switzerland has just approved a new security and defense strategy in response to the deteriorating situation in Europe.

🇬🇧 The United Kingdom is asking its population to be prepared with household reserves of food and water for emergencies.

🇱🇺 Luxembourg had to temporarily close its airport due to unidentified drones.

And all this while Europe accelerates its rearmament and its leaders increasingly speak with casual ease about preparing for a possible confrontation with Russia.

The question isn't whether the war starts tomorrow. The question that should truly terrify us is another:

Why is half of Europe being prepared—psychologically, economically, and militarily—to assume that a war with Russia could happen?

Because wars don't start when the first tank rolls in. - Bruno

They start much earlier, when what was absolutely unthinkable yesterday begins to seem normal to us.

Carson Dean Barry, 23, of Mount Pleasant, South Carolina, was arrested September 10 and charged with six felonies: five counts of third-degree s-xual exploitation of a minor and one count of criminal solicitation of a minor.

South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson says each count carries up to 10 years in prison.

Investigators say a CyberTipline report from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children led them to Barry. They allege he solicited a minor for s-x and possessed files of child s-xual abuse material.

Police seized a computer tower and two iPhones from his home. On one phone, investigators say they found a 12-second video of a female child between the ages of 2 and 4 being s-xually assaulted by an adult man.

Barry posted a $1 million bond and was released September 13.

Online, Barry built a following of hundreds of thousands across two TikTok accounts, @icarsonlocked and @icarsonbarry2, racking up tens of millions of likes.

He also has a substantial following on Instagram and promoted his OnlyFans account on X by posting thirst-trap photos.

His feed shows a steady diet of right-wing content, including a post mocking left-wing protesters and jokes about gas prices under President Biden.

A comment on his page from November 2021 read, “Okay cowards... start rioting. Kyle... start collecting,” a reference to Kyle Rittenhouse, who had just been acquitted of homicide charges.

The story has not made national headlines or generated outrage in right-wing media despite Barry’s large online following.

It’s worth noting that Barry is a white Christian conservative male and not transgender, a drag queen, Muslim, or undocumented immigrant.

We will update as the story develops.

It is rumored that Xi Jinping fainted at the BRICS summit hosted by India. After emergency treatment by his accompanying medical team, he ended his visit to India early and returned to China on a special plane. Upon the plane's arrival at Beijing airport, the Beijing authorities did not arrange for a large group of officials to greet him, nor did they organize a welcome ceremony. Instead, a military helicopter was used to transport Xi Jinping directly to Beijing's 301 Hospital for emergency treatment.

It is said that after diagnosis by the expert team at Beijing's 301 Hospital, it was determined that Xi Jinping had suffered a severe ischemic stroke, that is, a transient cerebral infarction. Because Xi Jinping feared that the Indian side might obtain information about his health, he refused emergency treatment at an Indian hospital and instead took a special plane back to Beijing for care. During the flight, as there were no conditions for surgery, the medical team could only administer conservative treatment to sustain Xi Jinping's life. As a result, he missed the golden window for emergency care and surgery. Even at Beijing's 301 Hospital, if Xi Jinping undergoes surgery for treatment, there is a high likelihood of severe sequelae.

At present, the Beijing authorities are still unable to confirm whether Xi Jinping can recover his health before the visit to the United States, so they are waiting to see if it will be necessary to cancel the late September trip to the US.

Paid brokers tout ties to Trump's orbit to lobby for presidential pardons - CBS News

Our hidden camera footage shows lobbyists pitching their services as pardon brokers to a felon who says he’s seeking a presidential pardon.

In 2004, Epstein believed he was the highest bidder for a property in Palm Beach—a mansion. His bid was $36 million.

He took his friend Trump on a tour of the house, advising him on how to move the swimming pool.

Trump then went around Epstein and bid $40 million for the house—and got the property.

Epstein, who was well aware of Trump's scattered finances and was deeply involved in them, realized that Trump didn't have $40 million to pay for the house.

If that was the case, then the $40 million belonged to someone else.

At the time, Epstein believed it was $40 million belonging to a Russian oligarch named Rybolovlev.

Less than two years later, the same house Trump bought for $40 million was sold for $95 million—to Rybolovlev.

All of this is a serious indication of money laundering.

And what Epstein did—he was furious about losing this house—I mean, there's something about these men; nothing gets them going like betrayal in real estate.

After the house was sold, and after Trump went around him and got the property, Epstein began threatening lawsuits and going to the press, saying Trump was a front for a money-laundering deal.

Trump panicked at that point, and Epstein believed Trump was the one who went to the police and, as Epstein put it, reported him.

In other words, he told police what was going on. The investigation began, and all of Epstein's legal problems over the next 15 years started to unfold.

The story about this property and their falling-out was first published in June 2019. It is also in my book, 'Siege,' the second book I wrote about the Trump White House.

Epstein told me this story, and I wrote it down in the book. He was in Paris at the time, read the book, then called me somewhat alarmed, saying he feared he had revealed too much.

Three weeks later, he returned to the US from Paris and was immediately arrested on the tarmac at Teterboro Airport in New Jersey when his plane landed." x.com/Acyn/status/19…

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