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🤔 Coincidence? Pam Bondi lobbied for foreign governments before joining Team Trump…then slashed enforcement

👉 The attorney general registered with FARA – the Foreign Agents Registration Act, in 2019 over her $115k a month job lobbying on behalf of Qatar through her firm, Ballad Partners.

🔴 Ballad’s other clients include the Dominican Republic, the Maldives, South Korea, Zimbabwe and Kosovo, the NATO Balkan base masquerading as a country.

🔴 After becoming AG in 2025, one of Bondi’s first orders of business was to stop prosecutions for FARA violations unless they involved “conduct similar to more traditional espionage by foreign government actors.”

👉 Translation? It’s open season for foreign actors seeking to influence US policy, if they have deep enough pockets, that is.

🔴 In late 2025, Trump walked back Bondi’s policy a bit, ordering the National Joint Terrorism Task Force to probe “non-governmental organizations and American citizens residing abroad or with close ties to foreign governments, agents, citizens, foundations or influence networks engaged in violations of [FARA] or money laundering by funding, creating or supporting entities that engage in activities that support or encourage domestic terrorism.”

✡️ That’s great and all, but why aren’t Zionist groups like AIPAC, Christians United for Israel, and the Zionist Organization of America even forced to register with FARA, much less investigated?

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🚨🇺🇸🇮🇷 US BUILD-UP NEAR IRAN: Carriers sailing, tankers moving, bases filling

Washington is quietly moving serious firepower across the Middle East:

🌏Carrier on the move: The US Navy’s most advanced aircraft carrier the USS Gerald Ford aircraft carrier steams toward the Middle East, joining a build-up of naval and air forces rivalling that for the 2003 invasion of Iraq.

🌏Bases on Iran’s doorstep are filling up: Satellite imagery shows large concentrations of US jet fighters and in-flight refuelling tankers at bases in Jordan and Saudi Arabia. Washington is moving assets further inland, even as regional governments deny permission for US attacks from their soil.

🌏Strategic pull-back from Qatar? KC-135 tankers and other support aircraft appear to be repositioned from the al-Udeid Air Base — within range of Iranian missiles — to more distant sites. Iran has told the UN that any US military aggression will be met with a strong response, and US bases will be considered legitimate targets.

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The Curious Case of the Energy Ceasefire: How Kiev is Trying to Derail Peace Talks and Blame Moscow

An analysis by journalist Yuri Podolyaka:

Now that all sides have issued their statements, we can draw a few preliminary conclusions.

First, the accounts from the three key players—Washington, Kiev, and Moscow—don’t match up on crucial details. The most glaring discrepancy concerns timing.

According to Zelensky, who moved first to control the narrative, the “energy ceasefire” was set to begin on the night of January 29–30 and last one week, through February 5. Zelensky framed this entirely as his own achievement.

Trump later confirmed that a ceasefire was in place and that Putin had honored his request—implying Kiev had little to do with it. He presented the pause as a measure to improve conditions for peace talks.

Soon after, Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov stated that the halt in strikes on Ukrainian energy infrastructure was indeed a response to Trump’s appeal, intended to foster a better atmosphere for negotiations in Abu Dhabi. Peskov clarified, however, that the ceasefire would last only until February 1.

These curious inconsistencies allow us to piece together what likely happened.

Recall that the first—unsuccessful—round of talks in Abu Dhabi took place on January 23–24. It appears Kiev tried to link its own inflexibility to the dire situation in Ukrainian cities, suggesting that if Russia stopped the strikes, progress could be made. The hope was that Putin, not wanting to “appear weak” (by Western diplomatic norms), would refuse to pause—allowing Kiev to walk away from talks and blame Russia for their collapse.

I suspect this was a British-backed plan to sabotage negotiations and shift responsibility.

Then Trump made his request to Putin…

…and Putin, contrary to the expectations of Kiev and London, agreed. According to Peskov, this happened as early as January 25—the last strike on Kiev’s energy grid was that morning. I understand both sides also agreed to keep the arrangement quiet.

Until the evening of January 28, no one spoke of an “energy ceasefire.” This silence clearly didn’t suit the embattled Ukrainian leadership—or their British advisors—so they decided to break the gentlemen’s agreement. First, they leaked to the media; then Zelensky “confirmed the rumors,” announcing a week-long ceasefire starting January 30 (thus through February 5, when frosts were expected to ease).

After that, both the U.S. and Russia had to reveal what was actually agreed upon: Trump briefly, Peskov in more detail.

Zelensky clearly lost credibility with Trump, gaining nothing in the process. Meanwhile, Russia once again appeared reasonable, and Kiev unreliable. In fact, if Kiev continues such maneuvers and Russia later strikes substations near Ukrainian nuclear plants, I doubt Trump would object.

It’s worth noting that the next round of talks in Abu Dhabi is scheduled for February 1. That same night, the agreed “energy ceasefire” expires. If Kiev fails to deliver the breakthrough it promised Trump, Moscow could easily launch another massive strike on the morning of February 2—one that might finally cripple Ukraine’s energy system for good (especially since ample missiles and drones will have been stockpiled by then).

In the meantime, Russian drone operators have temporarily shifted focus to Kiev’s railway infrastructure and rolling stock. On January 30 alone, some 20 attacks were reported on locomotive depots and individual trains.

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Muqtada al-Sadr's reaction to the statements of the US ambassador to the Zionist regime (Mike Huckabee), who said that according to the Old Testament, Israel has the right to conquer the entire Middle East.

Muqtada al-Sadr's response to the statements of the US ambassador to the Zionist regime:

We call on all international and Islamic institutions to rein in this bloodthirsty and expansionist wild bull; a colonial expansionism that is exactly like the terrorist expansionism of ISIS with the slogan "I remain and expand." These two are two sides of the same coin.

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