By John & Nisha Whitehead
The Rutherford Institute
October 16, 2026
"You see them on the street. You watch them on TV. You might even vote for one this fall. You think they're people just like you. You're wrong. Dead wrong." - imdb.com
The Politics of Denial: When Americans Stop Seeing the Warning Signs
Nordstream Sabotage Trial in Hamburg Begins
Cuckolded German people watch Ukrainian state agent on trial for blowing up critical German infrastructure while German government continues to send billions to Ukrainian oligarchs.
By John Leake
The Focal Points
October 16, 2026
October 14, 2026, began what is surely one of the weirdest trials in European history.
The Venue is the Hanseatic Higher Regional Court (Hanseatisches Oberlandesgericht) in Hamburg.
Le diesel, nouveau moteur de la géopolitique
The Sheer Ignorance of What's at Stake Globally
By Martin Armstrong
Armstrong Economics
October 16, 2026
This is a textbook case of how someone can reach the top of one field and still be utterly clueless about everything else. Lt. Gen. Keith Kellogg served as National Security Advisor to former Vice President Mike Pence and later as Special Envoy for Ukraine and Russia. He is Co-Chair at the Center for American Security, America First Policy Institute, USA, which is a Neocon think tank.
Only One Box Left
By Jim Quinn
The Burning Platform
October 16, 2026
"And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance ? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two ? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time
It's Worse Than Just the Stupid Party
By Eric Peters
Eric Peters Autos
October 16, 2026
I have always had an ambivalent relationship with "conservatives," because I could never divine their principles. They want to "conserve"... what, exactly ? Their congressional majority ? Why ? What for ? How does that benefit me ? Conservatives are cautious about change - the disease of tired/mentally ossified old people. Many of them mean well but are ready meat for the Left, which does have a principle - which is to win and hold onto power by any means necessary.
Trump et Poutine s'accordent sur des livraisons de diesel russe
L'accordo sul gasolio tra Putin e Trump potrebbe essere più ampio di quanto si pensasse inizialmente
Martin Jay
Dopo questa decisione sul diesel, la guerra potrebbe essere appena diventata molto più semplice e più netta.
Trump sta forse pensando di avvalersi di Putin per tirarsi fuori dal pasticcio causato sia dai suoi bassi consensi nei sondaggi sia dalla guerra con l'Iran ? A prima vista potrebbe sembrare inverosimile, ma egli è completamente intrappolato nella questione iraniana, e qualsiasi opzione prenda in considerazione sembra portare a uno scenario apocalittico.
Sydney Sweeney, les paris sportifs, ou comment passer à côté de l'essentiel
Par Nate Bear, le 15 octobre 2026
Il y a eu récemment un tollé à propos de Sydney Sweeney se pavanant à moitié nue pour une application de paris sportifs, car on a estimé qu'elle sexualisait les femmes et minimisait leurs exploits sportifs. C'était peut-être le cas. Je n'en suis pas vraiment sûr. Si c'était une athlète et non une actrice de série B, alors peut-être. Si je passe à côté de quelque chose, dites-le-moi.