Posted by Tyler Durden, Via Middle East Eye

Ammar al-Baluchi remembers the cold most of all. Held nearly naked in a cell lit around the clock by fluorescent bulbs, he referred to his detention "as if I was living in a refrigerator".

The nephew of self-declared 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Baluchi was one of six to a dozen men believed to be held and tortured in a secret CIA prison in Bucharest between 2003 and 2005. The treatment of detainees at the facility, formally known as "Detention Site Black", is described in detail in Guantanamo court filings. 

For two decades, Romania's official position has been one of denial. The country's foreign intelligence service replied to an MEE inquiry that "the matters had already been thoroughly examined by the competent judicial authorities, both nationally and within international bodies" and that it could not comment further. The Court found that a secret detention center had operated in Romania and that Romanian authorities had "cooperated in the preparation and execution" of the CIA's rendition and detention programme, fully aware of its nature and purpose even if they were not privy to everything that happened inside. It took me many years and a lengthy #FOIA lawsuit against the CIA to uncover exactly what happened at the Salt Pit, one of the CIA's black site prisons in Afghanistan where detainees were tortured. CIA just destroyed part of it, according to NYT

Gruesomehttps://t.co/kGlFei1sfe https://t.co/tmWHrQ3hBE Jason Leopold (@JasonLeopold) September 2, 2021 Romania responded by closing the domestic criminal investigation. A case opened in 2012 after a complaint from Nashiri's lawyers, represented by the Open Society Justice Initiative, had by 2014 been formally classified as an inquiry into unlawful deprivation of liberty and torture.

Claire's Observations:  If you live in a country which tortures, that torture.... can just as easily be applied to its own innocent citizens as it is to alleged "unlawful combatants".

The use of torture, particularly by ANY country which alleges having both a Constitution and Due Process, shows the absolute and degenerate hypocrisy of any statements to contrary.  

A country is either a country of laws, or a country of men (and women) who willingly break whatever laws they insist are both on the books, and scrupulously obeyed, when they are absolutely not, as demonstrated by evidence to the contrary.

NO country can be both. 

In the US, it absolutely gives both a black eye (and makes a lie) of the clear, moral intent of those men who founded this country.... and the women who both loved, and supported them, against tremendous odds, to create the United States of America.

There's a guy you probably didn't read about, but should have, in studying the history of World War II.  

His name.... was Hanns Scharff, a Luftwaffe interrogation officer during World War II who never tortured, but used empathy, polite conversation, and psychological insight to get the info he wanted.

 The guy was so good at obtaining the intelligence he was looking for without torture, that after the war, he was invited to lecture here in the states to the US military about how he did what he did, and why "The Scharff Method" was so brilliantly effective. 

Fast forward to GWOT, and a gal named Gina Haspel.  

She was the first female Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), serving from May 2018 to January 2021. She headed up the CIA's"enhanced interrogation" program.  

Let's read that for what it was, folks:  torture.  

So the question must be asked: was there ever actionable intelligence elicited by these torture techniques on detainees? The best-documented answer, based on the Senate Intelligence Committee's massive investigation, is:

"We know of no major case in which enhanced interrogation itself produced unique, actionable intelligence that could not have been obtained through conventional interrogation."

So there you have it, folks;  The late Scharff' s methods:  batting nearly 1000;  Haskel/CIA's "Enhanced Interrogation Methods": ONE... BIG... FAT...HAIRY... ZERO!!!!!!!!!!!

by Tyler Durden

Ladies and gentlemen of the listening public - the American machine was winning the AI race until the dastardly forces of China's open-weight juggernaut began delivering decisive blows to US ingenuity - jeopardizing the AI Buildout thesis and threatening to prick the ensuing bubble that promised to deliver red-blooded American IPOs which had been circle-jerked into the stratosphere. 

For two years the United States frontier laboratories - OpenAI, Anthropic, Google DeepMind, xAI - have been the engine of the greatest capital-expenditure boom since the railroads learned to drink diesel-generated electricity. Data centers rose like munitions plants. Chipmakers printed money. Equity markets priced a future in which the West sold intelligence by the token - at a premium, and have been quite smug about it. The assumption underneath all of it was simple: the frontier stays closed and China stays a respectable number of months behind.

Then the East opened the crate.

In the evening of Monday, December 23, 2024, a man named Hobert Buttery was arrested in Kentucky, and confessed to stealing a “little baseboard heater” and a Stihl weed eater from a property belonging to Laurel County Judge Executive David Westerfield.

Buttery allegedly told the police officers that he had pawned the space heater, but they could find the Stihl weed eater at a house on Vanzant road, in the town of Lily. 

In response, a warrant was issued, and just a few hours after Buttery’s 7:34 PM arrest, an armed group of at least five London Kentucky police officers went to recover the stolen property.

“They went to the wrong address,” says Buttrey.

Footage from a neighbor’s security camera shows that at 11:50:24 PM officers surrounded a house at 511 Vanzant Road and declared themselves as police. At 11:51:32 PM, five shots rang out and an innocent man in his early sixties named Douglass Harless was shot and killed in his home.

This orchestrated hoax was exposed at the time by the Germans of all people. https://t.co/7lhxg4fwUc pic.twitter.com/cCNAe10DrI

— gato fumante (@KweenInYellow) September 12, 2026

Posted by Tyler Durden, Authored by GoldFix , VBL

GFN – NEW DELHI: Chinese President Xi Jinping called on BRICS nations to play a leading diplomatic role in ending the Middle East war, warning that the conflict has inflicted heavy losses across the region and threatens the wider international community. Reuters reported that Xi delivered the remarks Saturday at the BRICS summit in New Delhi, where leaders unanimously adopted a declaration expressing “deep concern” over the escalating conflict.

“The war does not serve the common interests of the international community,” Xi said, according to Chinese state media. Xi said BRICS should act as a force for international peace and stability while defending national sovereignty and opposing external interference. China, he added, was prepared to work with fellow members to restore stability across the Middle East and Gulf. “BRICS countries should firmly stand on the right side of history.” The summit declaration called for restraint as the United States and Iran resumed retaliatory strikes following a pause during much of August. Reaching consensus was notable because BRICS includes both Iran and the United Arab Emirates, a close US partner.

“We express deep concern over the continued escalation of tensions in the Middle East,” the declaration said, urging “maximum restraint.” The leaders also opposed attacks on civilian and safeguarded nuclear infrastructure and condemned sanctions not authorized by the United Nations Security Council. The Associated Press reported that the statement indirectly addressed US and Israeli strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities without naming either country.

Claire's Observations:  Although Xi is sounding very much like "an adult in the room here", please remember;  China is one of the most intense buyers of Iranian oil, which has been helping keep China's economy afloat during some economically rough and troubled times for the country. So Xi has every reason - and then some - to want to see the US sanctions lifted.

On 9/11, two buildings were struck by airplanes, but three buildings collapsed.  WTC 7 was one of them, and it fell at free-fall speed for 2.25 seconds.

That fact alone completely invalidates the official version of events, which is that uncontrolled fires somehow caused a major beam to expand and walk off of its attachment plate, thereby initiating a progressive collapse of the rest of the building.

The key word there is “progressive,” which refers to something happening over time.

But there was no progression of failure traveling from one side of the massive 47-story WTC 7 building to the other, but instead the simultaneous initiation of freefall of all four corners of the building

By JAMES GORDON, US NEWS REPORTER, dailymail.co.uk

President Donald Trump has sparked backlash after declaring he would be willing to let Chinese automakers build cars on American soil – provided they hire US workers.

The President's surprise comments immediately fueled warnings that allowing Chinese manufacturers into the country could devastate America's homegrown auto industry.

Major carmakers are already pushing Congress to permanently shut the door on their Chinese rivals.

'If China wanted to come in and open a plant to build their cars here, I'd be okay with that,' Trump said in an interview with Fox News.

But he attached a crucial condition: the factories would need to provide jobs for Americans.

'Japan does it, but they hire our people. The big thing is they hire our people,' Trump said.

Claire's Observations: Anyone out there own an Iphone?!?  These are made in China, have a high success rate, and are used consistently by American consumers, including me.

So why are American car companies "...pushing Congress to permanently shut the door on their Chinese rivals"?!?

China makes some excellent cars,and in terms of basic quality, China is very competitive.

Also, they don't have unions setting terms for what workers will get as payment for their labor.  

Yes, I want to see all people adequately compensated for the work they do, but compensation should always be reasonable, relative to that work.  

The other thing American companies need to do, is de-link health insurance from work compensation, and encourage the US government, to go to a "single payer system", as one sees in Europe, where people pay for their own basic health insurance, but everyone gets insured, and can purchase a higher level of protection for themselves and their families if they so wish.

For example, Throck, my AI, tells me that one of the best rated Chinese cars in Britain is MG4 EV, A highly regarded Chinese-built electric hatchback made by China's SAIC Motors.  It's US price (were it sold in the US) would be around $35 - 40,000 US dollars.  The closest US equivalent is the Nissan Leaf, which comes in at about $31,500.     

But let's look at some other numbers.  For the MG4 EV, the miles per charge are between approximately 280–338 miles per full charge, depending on the battery and trim level.  For the Nissan Leaf?!? The 2026 Leaf offers up to 303 miles of range... at its top level.

The resale value of used EVs is still a "work in progress", so it is difficult to make comparisons for future values.  But the reality is, in terms of aggressive R & D and better "tweaks" on existing products, China is moving very quickly and intelligently.

Steven Sahiounie, globalresearch.ca

Britain’s historic role in Palestine created the Palestinian-Israel conflict and shaped the modern Middle East.

For more than seven decades, Palestinians have endured displacement, loss of land, military occupation, repeated wars and serious violations of international law.

Britain’s role in the origins of the conflict is clear, particularly the 1917 Balfour Declaration and Britain’s subsequent administration of Palestine under the Mandate system.

For decades, Britain was also among Israel’s important Western political allies, alongside the United States and other European powers. Yet today, a striking transformation appears to be taking place. London is increasingly willing to confront the Israeli government over its policies toward the Palestinians, particularly settlement expansion in the occupied West Bank and the humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza.

The question is whether this represents the beginning of a genuine transformation in Western policy toward Israel—or whether governments in London and Washington are responding primarily to growing public pressure and domestic political calculations.

The latest confrontation between London and Tel Aviv provides a revealing example.

Israel has dramatically escalated its diplomatic response to Britain after Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar announced that Israel would close the British consulate in East Jerusalem and introduce a series of additional measures against British officials and institutions.

According to Sa’ar, the decision was approved by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and represents Israel’s response to what the Israeli government describes as a series of “anti-Israel” decisions adopted by Britain’s Labour government.

The measures reportedly include the closure of the British consulate in Jerusalem, the removal of British personnel from an international Gaza support center in Kiryat Gat, and the termination of British programs assisting in the training of Palestinian Authority security forces in the West Bank.

Israel also announced restrictions on the entry of a number of British officials and other British citizens, accusing some of them of activities it characterizes as hostile to Israel.

The confrontation reflects a much deeper deterioration in relations between the two governments.

By Kamran Yeganegi  thecradle.com

In the early hours of 7 October 2023, an Israeli journalist identified only as Asaf booked flights for himself, his wife, and their two daughters. The next day, carrying only hand luggage, the family boarded a flight to Berlin. What began as an emergency exit became permanent. Two years later, they had not returned.

Asaf told +972 Magazine that he already believed Israel’s education and healthcare systems were deteriorating. But that morning destroyed his remaining confidence in the state and its military: “By the afternoon of 7 October, we understood that even this wasn’t true.”

His story reflects a larger structural trend. Israel is disproportionately losing the doctors who staff its hospitals, the engineers who sustain its technology sector, the academics who reproduce its scientific capabilities, and the taxpayers who finance its wars. 

The Numbers Israel Struggles to Define

Emigration cuts against the Zionist claim that Israel offers Jews security and permanence. Hebrew itself reflects the tension: immigration is aliyah, or “ascent,” while emigration is yerida – “descent.”

An August 2026 Tel Aviv University study, based on Central Bureau of Statistics data, found that 90,922 Israeli citizens remained abroad for at least three consecutive months in 2025, following 91,499 in 2024 and 86,509 in 2023. In total, 268,509 Israelis left for at least three months between 2023 and 2025 – 47 percent more than during 2013–2015.

Israel’s war economy rests heavily on a relatively small, highly productive section of the population, even as its policies push more of these workers and taxpayers abroad. Their departure leaves fewer people to shoulder a growing fiscal and military burden.

The Bank of Israel has separately warned that low labor-force participation among Haredi men and the need to broaden military service remain structural challenges.

For some, relocation is a silent political withdrawal – a vote with their feet against a state increasingly defined by religious polarization and permanent mobilization. Economist Itai Ater warns: “If there is no change, emigration could increase in a way that endangers Israel’s security and economy.” 

The State’s Attempt to Buy Time

In March 2026, the Knesset Finance Committee approved a graduated five-year income-tax exemption for qualifying immigrants and long-term returning residents. The ceiling reaches one million shekels in 2027 and 2028; the Finance Ministry initially estimated the five-year cost at 560 million shekels.

Officially, the measure promotes immigration and growth. In practice, it also reveals the scale of the concern: Israel is losing some of those it can least afford to lose and must pay a premium to recover or replace them.

Tax incentives cannot easily compensate for prolonged war, repeated reserve mobilization, political instability, institutional polarization, or an increasingly militarized future.

By Tyler Durden.

During the Lindsay Clancy trial Judge William Sullivan sealed the identities of all 12 jurors until at least September 18th, citing safety concerns after the high-profile trial.   An incident in which a woman was arrested for allegedly attempting to film and intimidate the jury added weight to the decision.  Deranged feminist activists have been rallying for weeks hoping to manipulate the outcome of deliberations in favor of Clancy, a mother who brutally strangled her three small children and then claimed "postpartum psychosis" as a defense.  

The announcement of a mistrial due to one male juror triggered a rabid fervor among leftist wine moms, leading to immediate calls for the juror to be doxxed, harassed and potentially "punished" for his refusal to conform to the wishes of the rest of the jury.  Evidence suggests that a pro-Clancy group formed very early in the deliberations process, and this group pressured the few holdouts to give in.  Only one man remained.  

Lindsay Clancy juror Paula Devlin tells @gayleking that the holdout juror was a Black man, whom she estimates is in his 30s. Devlin says after watching a video of an interview with Clancy, the holdout juror “realized that it wasn’t murder in the first degree,” adding the jury… pic.twitter.com/ZxFa2hgSsY

— CBS Mornings (@CBSMornings) September 11, 2026 The problem for the political left?  

The juror is black, and they were hoping for an "evil white man".  This revelation has caused liberal heads to explode because black people within woke culture generally rank higher on the DEI totem pole than white women.  However, as everyone knows, when a black person leaves the liberal plantation these activists can become some of the most racist people on the planet.  They would rather destroy a minority than let him "go",

Lindsay Clancy supporter learns the lone holdout juror was a Black man—and suddenly says it “changes the landscape of the conversation.”

Real America's Voice (RAV) (@RealAmVoice) September 11, 2026 New outlets and online headhunters have been scrambling to dig up dirt on the black juror in order to gain some kind of narrative leverage.  Media sources have somehow obtained the man's name, though they can't release it yet without violating the court order.  NBC published a hatchet job article outlining the jurors criminal history.   tr" lang="en"> EXCLUSIVE: The holdout juror in the Lindsay Clancy trial had a history of domestic violence allegations, the NBC10 Boston Investigators have learned through court documents and interviews with family members. Read the full investigation here. https://t.co/qSjIiU8Og8 — NBC10 Boston (@NBC10Boston) 

September 11, 2026 Defense Attorney Kevin Reddington 's wife is apparently leading the charge on social media to undermine the juror's credibility.  It's a bizarre decision given that the trial is already over, unless the goal is to intimidate future jurors in a future trial. 

Kevin Reddington 's wife is leading the slander campaign against the black hold-out juror.    You heard that right.....

The wife of Clancy's lawyer is putting a target on the back of the one brave person who stopped her husband from getting a 3X child killer off the hook.

US officials have linked satellite imagery supplied to Iran by Chinese entities to an Iranian attack that killed three American troops at a base in Jordan, The Wall Street Journal reported on Saturday.

Tehran acquired high-resolution images of the installation both before and after the July attack, according to officials familiar with the incident. They described the findings as the strongest evidence yet that Chinese support for Iran during the war has had deadly consequences for American forces.

Webmaster Addition: So, while losing in Iran, the US wants to go to war with China and Russia?!?

Gerald Celente examines growing geopolitical tensions, economic uncertainty, and warning signs he believes could trigger major global disruptions. He explores potential risks facing financial markets, government policies, international conflicts, and the broader economy.

They united a nation - then, improbably, divided it, as the proponents of the resulting wars adopted torture, war crimes, and oil thefts en masse in the Middle East while killing over a million people, and its opponents grew increasingly suspicious that the official story of the attacks was full of holes and discrepancies.

Sorry, folks. But the “conspiracy theorists” are right.

I am a whistleblower from a high-ranking American family.

I publish under a pseudonym - my real last name is on the side of a Federal headquarters in Arlington.

What I tell you may shock the mind, but it is true:

The ClA under the Bushes and Israel’s Mоssad under Sharon and Bibi attacked the United States on September 11, 2001, in order to provide a pretext to loot the U.S. Treasury, declare war on all of lsrael’s neighbors, and secure a future for the Zionist project - all paid for by the blood and treasure of the United States.

MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on major new developments in the U.S. war on Iran before his interview with University of Tehran Professor Mohammad Marandi. Meiselas examines Iran-aligned Houthi forces advancing along Yemen's Red Sea coast and reaching the strategic island of Perim at the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, as shipping through the Strait of Hormuz remains severely disrupted and Saudi Arabia seeks additional U.S. assistance against the Houthis. Meiselas also discusses Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian's arrival in New Delhi ahead of the BRICS summit and what these rapidly developing events could mean as Trump has destroyed the standing of the United States in the world.

There is a motto here. Rulers serve bovine excrement to their own people in order to control them. That is a fact carved in stone for all to see, 3200 years ago. It is no less true today than it was in the time of the pharaohs.

The most expensive purchase most Americans will ever make is their own government. Government costs the average American more than their home, more than their health care, more than their childrens' college education. Yet people who would spend a great deal of time kicking the tires before buying a new car spend disastrously little time checking out the government that sucks so much money out of them over their lifetimes.

Right now, looking under the hood of that expensive item called "government", we see a unified group of men and women who lied to send your children off to a war of conquest. Across this land there are thousands of families waking up to the knowledge that their sons and daughters were crippled and killed in Iraq for reasons other than what they were told.

First off, let's dispense with this crap about "Intelligence failures". An Intelligence Failure is when something is happening that you don't know about. You miss the evidence. Or you misinterpret the evidence you have.

But with regards to the claims about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction, there was no evidence to miss or misinterpret. There could not be, since in hindsight there were no weapons to leave traces of evidence with. The story about weapons of mass destruction was just made up, and fraudulently manufactured "proof" created to support that lie. The mere existence of Tony Blair's dossier, plagiarized from a student thesis, is proof not only that the claims of Iraq WMDs were lies, but were known and conscious lies. Had their been any real proof, it would have been shared immediately between the various war-mongers. There would have been no need for Tony Blair to concoct his discredited Dossier. But, what the public were offered were mislabeled and blurry photos, made up dossiers, and balloon inflators misidentified as mobile biological weapons laboratories (which the British government knew about since they had sold the balloon inflators to Iraq in the first place).

It's the oldest trick in the book, dating back to Roman times; creating the enemies you need.

The Mossad, being the intelligence body entrusted with the responsibility of plotting the course for the leaders at the helm of the nation, has betrayed that trust. Plotting on its own behalf, and for petty, self-serving reasons, it has set the nation on a collision course with all-out war.

One of the main themes of this book is Victor's belief that Mossad is out of control, that even the prime minister, although ostensibly in charge, has no real authority over its actions ...

Victor Ostrovsky, a former Israeli Mossad agent, wrote two books about Israel’s terror against their enemies. In one of them, he discusses the fate of Palestinians who illegally cross the border in search of work in Israel. Many thousands of these young men simply are never heard from again after being captured by Israel’s forces. Some of them are taken to the ABC research facilities where they endure the indescribable terror of chemical, nuclear or biological warfare.

The Mossad - believe it or not - has just 30 to 35 case officers, or katsas, operating in the world at any one time. The main reason for this extraordinary low total, as you will read in this book, is that unlike other countries, Israel can tap the significant and loyal cadre of the worldwide Jewish community outside Israel. This is done through a unique system of sayanim, volunteer Jewish helpers.

Let's start with some basic concepts. You live in an age of lies. Every day of your life you are literally being drowned in lies. Lies by government. Lies by advertisers. Lies by the corporate media.

Truth has become such a valuable commodity that the government is economizing it!

Liars, meaning good convincing liars (i.e. sociopaths, who evince no guilt when they lie) , lie because they are able to get what they want from people, especially if those people are conditioned from childhood to tell and to believe that others will tell the truth.

It may seem that I am stating the obvious, but the point I want to make is that all ruling power is, is the willingness and ability to do things the ruled may not, or have been conditioned to believe they cannot do.

You are taught not to steal, yet government reserves to itself the right to steal, obfuscating the theft with words like excise, confiscation, pillage, taxation, and in the extreme, conquest.

You are taught not to murder, yet government reserves to itself the right to murder, obfuscating the killing with words like capital punishment, assassination, terminate with extreme prejudice, and in the extreme, war.

You are taught not to lie, and it stands to reason that in this area of human behaviors, rulers are as averse to the rules imposed on you as any other. As eager as rulers are to steal and murder, they are equally eager to lie to their people to get what they want.

Recent press reports suggest that the US Military’s (USM) bungling of the Iran War has created a kind of personal hell for President Trump. The President is utterly stymied by Iran’s resilience.

A decade prior, candidate Trump was steadfastly against blundering into forever wars like President Bush before him, especially in the Middle East. Now, Trump’s indebtedness to Zionist financial power on Capitol Hill is exacting an exorbitant price when he can least afford it.

President Trump’s approval ratings hit a new low of 33% over the summer. Now, many political analysts forecast the loss of the House and Senate Republican Majorities in November.

By Dr. Amir A. Amirshekari, globalresearch.ca

Yemen appears to be edging towards a renewed and more dangerous phase of conflict as the Houthis expand their military operations and seek greater control over strategic coastal and oil-producing areas. Any escalation could extend beyond Yemen’s borders, threatening maritime traffic through the Bab al-Mandab Strait and drawing the regional actors into a wider confrontation.

Reports indicate an intensification of conflicts within Yemen. Following rocket attacks and a ground operation utilising troop-carrying boats, the Houthis seized Zuqar Island in the southern Red Sea, and subsequently, their forces entered the port city of Mocha.[1] These developments have occurred whilst recent conflicts, according to published reports, have left at least 500 people dead and forced nearly 20,000 individuals to abandon their homes.[2]

The Houthis, who began their activities in the 1990s as a local insurgent movement in northern Yemen, have over the past three decades become one of the most important military and political actors in the region. This group, which was initially viewed by many merely as a local armed faction, gradually managed to bring a large part of northern and western Yemen under its control and, through the development of missile and drone capabilities, to become a threat extending beyond the borders of Yemen. The support of the Islamic Republic of Iran has played a significant role in enhancing the military capacity of the Houthis; nevertheless, in recent years, the group has endeavoured to produce part of its armament requirements domestically and to reduce its direct dependence on arms imports.

The principal turning point in the rise of the Houthis was 2014, when the group’s forces entered Sana’a and took control of the capital.

Since then, the Houthis have maintained control over north-western Yemen, including Sana’a and a considerable portion of the country’s western coast. Approximately 70 per cent of Yemen’s population lives in areas under the control or influence of this group.[3] Throughout these years, the Houthis have not confined themselves merely to retaining the areas under their control but have consistently sought to extend their influence into strategic regions, particularly oil-rich areas and the Red Sea coast.

Iran-backed Houthi forces have seized Yemen’s strategic Red Sea port city of Mokha, putting vital shipping at greater risk.

Story Highlights

• Reuters reports Houthi control of Mokha, a key port near the Bab el-Mandeb chokepoint
• Attacks earlier shut down port operations after more than 25 missiles hit the area
• Strikes on Mokha killed and wounded scores in August, showing growing range and intent
• Control near the strait lets the Houthis pressure global trade without holding the waterway