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EU President Ursula von der Leyen says that people's savings accounts are a problem

Smoothing out my tin foil hat wrinkles, I wonder whether there may be a crumb trail somewhere.

Language warning on Brian Cates; commentary. 

JUST IN - EU President Ursula von der Leyen says that people's savings accounts are a problem

and that she must put this money "to the service of European companies

https://x.com/drawandstrike/status/2094479381477384368

Ukraine asks EU for billions to buy Patriot air defence systems

Brussels has so far disbursed €8.6 billion to Kyiv through its Ukraine Support Loan

https://www.euractiv.com/news/ukraine-asks-eu-for-billions-to-buy-patriot-air-defence-systems/

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The Vindication of Tom Homan

The Vindication of Tom Homan

"..... Instead, he’s continued robust enforcement without relishing cinematic images of militarized raids and clashes with protesters for their own sake.

In fact, anti-ICE activists are complaining about the lack of flashiness.
According to The Guardian, they say that because arrests are “generally happening routinely, and quietly, volunteers who had taken to keeping watch for ICE vehicles and officers in certain cities and blowing whistles when they spotted immigration agents, were lately having trouble seeing how and where ICE is operating.”....

https://www.nationalreview.com/2026/09/the-vindication-of-tom-homan/

Entry #8,940

Meet The Republican Lobbyists Getting Paid To Help China Buy American Farmland

Natalie Winters

Meet The Republican Lobbyists Getting Paid To Help China Buy American Farmland

"...... Federal lobbying disclosures reviewed for this report reveal that former Republican congressional staffers have been hired by Smithfield Foods to work on the very legislation Washington is advancing to restrict foreign ownership of American agricultural land.

Smithfield is effectively Chinese-controlled: Hong Kong-based WH Group beneficially owned roughly 87 percent of the American pork giant as of 2026, while Smithfield itself reports owning approximately 87,000 acres of U.S. land. WH Group grew out of China’s Shuanghui empire, whose longtime chairman Wan Long has been identified as a Chinese Communist Party member and served in China’s National People’s Congress...."

https://nataliegwinters.substack.com/p/meet-the-republican-lobbyists-getting

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