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ADMIRAL REMOVED AFTER SABOTAGING TRUMP’S VENEZUELA STRIKES

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ADMIRAL REMOVED AFTER SABOTAGING TRUMP’S VENEZUELA STRIKES:

SECWAR HEGSETH RELEASES EXPLOSIVE PENTAGON FILES LINKING DEEP STATE TO CARTELS AND CIA TRAFFICKING NETWORKS

The mainstream media is spinning it as “retirement,” but the truth cuts deeper. Admiral Alvin Holsey, former head of U.S. Southern Command, has been forcibly removed after defying direct operational orders from President Donald J. Trump. This wasn’t bureaucracy — it was betrayal.

THE REAL REASON FOR HIS REMOVAL

Trump’s $4.5B counteroffensive in Venezuela — targeting narco-cartel networks, human trafficking routes, and rogue CIA corridors — hit resistance not from the enemy, but from within the Pentagon. Holsey stalled intel. Blocked drone access. Delayed strike approvals. His SOUTHCOM unit filtered data and ghosted real-time reconnaissance. That’s not hesitation — that’s sabotage.

And when U.S. special forces intercepted a stealth narco-submarine moving encrypted drives, crypto wallets, and child-trafficking manifests tied to Tren de Aragua and Maduro’s regime, everything unraveled. The strike was successful. But the panic it triggered inside the chain of command revealed just how deep the infiltration runs. Holsey went silent. The media began their scripted “retirement” narrative within hours.

TRUMP AND HEGSETH STRIKE BACK

According to sources, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth has ordered the immediate declassification of Pentagon files suppressed during the Biden years — documents linking Obama-era holdovers in the CIA, DOD, and DHS to black-budget networks that financed trafficking, narcotics, and biowarfare projects under humanitarian and NGO covers.

These files expose the mechanics of a criminal alliance that used Venezuela as a command hub for global contraband — weapons, organs, children, and data. Dozens of routes ran through Caribbean and Central American ports under diplomatic protection. Those corridors are now being systematically erased by U.S. Special Operations.

THE INTERNAL WAR HAS BEGUN

Trump’s loyalists inside the Pentagon have declared open season on Deep State infiltrators. Over 10,000 troops are now deployed across the Caribbean. Multiple black sites once controlled by rogue CIA factions have been seized. Space Force and DARPA units are coordinating with Hegseth’s cyber task force to publish redacted treason files — proving that former Pentagon staffers facilitated illegal arms transfers and trafficking protection schemes.

Simultaneously, two sabotage attempts were foiled within 72 hours: one targeting U.S. radar systems on Puerto Rico’s western coast, and another drone intrusion over a naval intelligence compound in Key West. These weren’t random incidents — they were coordinated counterstrikes from the collapsing Deep State network.

THE FINAL PURGE

This is not about Venezuela alone. It’s about dismantling the logistical arteries of a global trafficking empire stretching from Havana to Kiev. The same system that fueled wars, financed coups, and traded in human life.

Holsey made a choice — to protect the old order, to slow down the storm. He was removed. Trump made his — to finish the mission.

What comes next isn’t retirement.

It’s reckoning.

Benjamin Fulford

11:22 AM · Oct 20, 2025

I have not found corroboration but am posting this anyway because it is interesting. ABN

China’s Vast Coastal Defense Missile Network Tested in New Anti-Shipping Exercises

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The Chinese People’s Liberation Army’s coastal defences are considered the most formidable in the world, and deploy a wide range of mobile cruise missile systems capable of engaging targets far out to sea.

The majority of launchers in the arsenal are equipped with YJ-12 and YJ-62 anti-ship cruise missiles, although hypersonic missiles such as the YJ-20 are expected to also be brought into service o future launchers.

YJ-12 Anti-Ship Cruise Missile Fired From Mobile Launcher

Although coastal defense networks are relied on heavily by states which lack sizeable surface navies, such as Russia, Vietnam and North Korea, China has continued to invest in such capabilities despite fielding one of the world’s most formidable surface fleets. 

The service entry of new generations of much longer ranged and more capable cruise missiles, and the significantly improvement of reconnaissance capabilities over the East China Sea, Yellow Sea, Sea of Japan and South China Sea, allows coastal defense systems to play much greater roles in regional contingencies. The proximity of many key hotspots to the coastline of the Chinese mainland, including the Taiwan Strait and surrounding waters, is a further contributor to these systems’ high importance for China’s defense.

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Fascinating Background – The CIA Was Misleading Witkoff and Kushner on Key Intelligence About Hamas During Critical Phase of Peace Negotiations

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A fascinating hour-long interview with Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner as they outline the backstory to the Israel-Hamas peace agreement in Gaza.

During a segment (prompted below) Witkoff and Kushner are outlining the step-by-step process as they engaged the leaders of Qatar, Turkey and Egypt.  Witkoff reveals how the CIA was briefing them both, multiple times a day, and the briefing itself was exactly the opposite of what Emir of Qatar and Presidents of Turkey and Egypt were telling them.  The CIA intelligence was the exact opposite of reality.  WATCH:

What they are describing is EXACTLY why we outlined how ‘outside govt’ emissaries were/are vitally necessary to work around the control agenda of the U.S. Intelligence Community.  This small example is stunning in magnitude when considered around the importance of the moment.

On a positive note, with Witkoff making this stunning public statement, we can now add a major datapoint to President Trump’s reference of NOT TRUSTING the CIA.  Combined with the previous assertions of Marco Rubio and Tulsi Gabbard on essentially the same level of outlook, this example of the CIA getting it wrong (misleading the administration) has long-range ramifications beyond the Hamas example.

With this backdrop for reference, surely now we can have an optimistic sense that President Trump doesn’t trust the CIA intelligence on the Russia-Ukraine conflict.

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China’s First Heavy Attack Helicopter Demonstrates High Flight Performance: What Makes the Z-20T Uniquely Versatile?

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China’s first heavyweight attack helicopter the Z-20T, which was developed to complement the Z-10, has been featured in flight demonstrations at the 7th China Helicopter Exposition in Tianjin.

The new aircraft made its first public appearance during a military parade on September 3, and combines an airlift capability with integrated firepower in a single airframe.

The manoeuvres performed included including hovering turns and O-shaped landings, which highlighted the aircraft’s applicability in a number of real-world combat operations. Elaborating on the Z-20T’s role, deputy chief designer at the China Helicopter Research and Development Institute Zhu Minfeng said it was designed to “assault transport and airlift operations in mountainous, forested, and urban areas,” and was able to “strike high-value enemy targets, counter both ground and aerial threats in plain and plateau regions, and provide fire support for ground forces.”

Chinese PLA Air Force Z-20T Attack Helicopter

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The watershed moment Trump changed course on Israel after Netanyahu shattered their once-unbreakable bond: ‘We felt betrayed’

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Donald Trump felt ‘betrayed’ by Israel’s surprise attack on Qatar, sparking a major decision that led to a historic peace deal and secured the release of Israeli hostages. 

Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner and Special Envoy Steve Witkoff revealed that the unprecedented strikes in Doha on September 9 left the White House seething, derailing peace talks with the Hamas negotiators it targeted.

The strikes forced the Hamas leaders ‘underground’, abruptly halting talks that Trump’s team had been holding with negotiators just one day prior, the pair told CBS’s 60 Minutes.

‘We woke up the next morning to find out there had been this attack,’ Witkoff said.

It marked the first crack in a relationship that was seen as unbreakable – Trump’s decades-long friendship with Benjamin ‘Bibi’ Netanyahu that had defined his Middle East policy since the first administration.

The White House was oblivious to the Israeli prime minister’s plans to strike Doha, Witkoff explained, and said he and Kushner ‘felt betrayed’ by the attack.

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Trump deploys secretive ‘Night Stalkers’ regiment as Venezuela mobilizes troops raising fears of all-out war

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Donald Trump has deployed one of the Army’s most secretive regiments in the Caribbean after threatening strikes inside Venezuela.

The president warned socialist tyrant Nicolas Maduro that he better not ‘f*** around with the United States’ as he spoke to reporters at the White House on Friday.

Trump has ordered five strikes over the last two months on Venezuelan ‘narco-terrorist’ boats in the Caribbean, killing at least 27 alleged drug traffickers. 

The strikes come against the backdrop of the largest US military buildup in the region since the Cold War.

Maduro claims to have mobilized a millions-strong militia and is warning the population that Trump is preparing to invade.

Military experts say the true size of his army is just 125,000 soldiers and his rusty Soviet-era hardware stands no chance against America’s warfighting machine. 

Trump has deployed B-52 nuclear bombers, guided missile destroyers, F-35B fighter jets, P-8 Poseidon spy planes, a nuclear submarine and around 6,500 troops.

Included in that group is the Army’s 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment, known as the ‘Night Stalkers.’

The elite aviation unit provides precision air support for special operations forces including the Green Berets, the Navy SEALs and Delta Force. 

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The Human Toll of the Gaza War: Direct and Indirect Death from 7 October 2023 to 3 October 2025

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Summary

The human toll of the ongoing Israeli war in Gaza since 7 October 2023 can be summarized in a few statistics even as the raw numbers cannot do justice to the raw suffering: the Israel Defense Forces have killed and seriously injured more than 10% of the population and, through the destruction of infrastructure — including energy, water, sanitation, agriculture, housing, and healthcare — rendered the conditions of life so difIicult as to cause long term harm for the rest of the population.

As of 3 October 2025, according to the Gaza Ministry of Health, 67,075 people have been killed and 169,430 people have been injured out of the approximately 2.2 million people living in the Gaza Strip in July 2023 (not including Israeli military forces). 2 The total number of Gazans has declined to an estimated 2.1 million people since the start of the war due to death and the exodus of about 100,000 people from the territory.

The total number of casualties, 236,505 people who have been killed and injured, constitutes more than 10% of the pre-war population of Gaza. That is, if the statistics, from the Gaza Ministry of Health, are complete. Recent analysis by public health experts suggests that the number of fatalities reported by the Gaza Ministry of Health, which faces many obstacles to making a full account of the deaths, may be a signiIicant undercount of the violent deaths.

In the West Bank, 1,048 people have been killed and 10,320 people injured from 7 October 2023 to 3 October 2025 by direct violence. 4 Altogether, the number of residents of Gaza and the West Bank killed and injured in this period is 68,123 people directly killed and 179,750 people injured.

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‘I have just concluded my telephone conversation with President Vladimir Putin, of Russia, and it was a very productive one’ — Trump

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I have just concluded my telephone conversation with President Vladimir Putin, of Russia, and it was a very productive one. President Putin congratulated me and the United States on the Great Accomplishment of Peace in the Middle East, something that, he said, has been dreamed of for centuries. I actually believe that the Success in the Middle East will help in our negotiation in attaining an end to the War with Russia/Ukraine. President Putin thanked the First Lady, Melania, for her involvement with children. He was very appreciative, and said that this will continue. We also spent a great deal of time talking about Trade between Russia and the United States when the War with Ukraine is over. At the conclusion of the call, we agreed that there will be a meeting of our High Level Advisors, next week. The United States’ initial meetings will be led by Secretary of State Marco Rubio, together with various other people, to be designated. A meeting location is to be determined. President Putin and I will then meet in an agreed upon location, Budapest, Hungary, to see if we can bring this “inglorious” War, between Russia and Ukraine, to an end. President Zelenskyy and I will be meeting tomorrow, in the Oval Office, where we will discuss my conversation with President Putin, and much more. I believe great progress was made with today’s telephone conversation.

Oct 16, 2025, 1:11 PM

Deadliest-Ever Fighting Between Pakistan & Afghanistan Sees Drone Strikes On Kabul

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Pakistan and Afghanistan have been exchanging their deadliest fire in years, and border clashes are now threatening to enter the Taliban-ruled Afghan capital of Kabul.

A tense, temporary ceasefire has been reached but only after Pakistan launched apparent drone strikes on Kabul, as well as the border province of Paktika, where fighting has raged. Eastern Afghanistan has also seen airstrikes by Pakistani Air Force jets.

“Explosions were also heard in Kabul, according to city residents who spoke to Radio Azadi. Unverified footage on social media appeared to show plumes of smoke rising into the sky in the Afghan capital,” observes US stated-funded RadioFreeEurope/Radio Liberty. 

The fierce fighting stretches back to the weekend, which saw Taliban fighters and Pakistani security forces at several key border crossings, leaving dozens done, in what’s being described as the deadliest-ever fighting between the two sides, with many dozens killed and hundreds wounded.

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CHINA: Ministry of Commerce Announcement 2025 No. 61 announces the decision to impose export controls on related rare earth items abroad

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In order to safeguard national security and interests, in accordance with the relevant provisions of the Export Control Law of the People’s Republic of China, the Regulations of the People’s Republic of China on Export Control of Dual-Use Items and other laws and regulations, and with the approval of the State Council of China, it was decided to adopt the following export control measures

1. Overseas organizations and individuals “hereinafter referred to as ”overseas specific export operators must obtain a dual-use item export license issued by the Ministry of Commerce of China before exporting the following items to other countries and regions other than China:

(1) Containing, integrating or mixing items listed in Part 1 of Annex 1 to this Announcement originating in China and manufactured overseas, and the items listed in Part 1 of Annex 1 to this Announcement account for 0.1% of the value of the items listed in Part 2 of Annex 1 manufactured overseas and above;

(2) Items listed in Annex 1 of this announcement produced overseas using technologies related to rare earth mining, smelting and separation, metal smelting, magnetic material manufacturing, and rare earth secondary resource recycling originating in China;

(3) Items listed in Annex 1 of this announcement originating in China.

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This is going to be interesting.

I will be surprised if USA has not already established a plan to overcome this by mining our own rare earth minerals in our own country.

I have no doubt USA has caused China many problems covertly and overtly and China sees itself as fighting back (while also sobbing over their ‘Century of Humiliation’ which USA had little to do with).

China’s entire modernization has come mainly from USA and the West. Same for the entire rest of the world.

I do not expect anyone to kiss our asses and our elite parasites did make huge fortunes selling out our technology to China.

But it would be better if China behaved better than this, and same goes for most of the rest of the world.

Western men created the modern world. And everyone is benefitting from it.

Western-style modernization is without doubt the most significant human achievement in world history. ABN

(Also, USA defeated Japan in WW2, not China which did next to nothing but wait for the end to then seize power and bogus credit.)

China played its rare earth minerals card now because now they can make enough of their own helium

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Here’s a question I know many are wondering about: why did China wait until now to use rare earths as leverage against the US? Why not in the first Trump administration when the US started the trade hostilities? Or when the Biden administration unleashed the chips export controls 3 years ago?

I just watched a fascinating explanation by a Chinese analyst and, unexpectedly, a big part of the explanation is… helium.

I had no idea but as he explains (source here: https://xiaohongshu.com/discovery/item/68ea3495000000000303b044?source=webshare&xhsshare=pc_web&xsec_token=CBLZXo_5up3BGAPXAS2CwmEtSVmIyGanbvYPL_ni6nqA0=&xsec_source=pc_share), all the way until 2022 China imported 95% of its helium and most of it was controlled by the US. Of the world’s ten largest helium producers, four were American companies, and the remaining six all used American technology.

Helium isn’t just a party balloons gas: it has plenty of industrial applications for things such as quantum computing, rocket technology, MRI machines, as a coolant for chip lithography equipment, etc.

In a nutshell what he’s explaining is that with helium the US had an even stronger card to play if China ever used the rare earths card.


USA holds the best cards — Kyle Bass

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4:10 AM · Oct 11, 2025

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Also Kyle Bass: ‘The path forward certainly feels like an inevitability of war.’

Bass is fairly reliable and does not have stars in his eyes vis-a-vis China, which is a very good thing.

I would hope USA has other ways to get rare earth minerals.

This move by China has been brewing for a long time and it has been a well-known option all along.

As for BRICS becoming stronger if USA responds vigorously, Bass has this to say:

‘The BRICS are akin to 5 garbage trucks backing into each other. Reserve managers won’t go there and China will collapse in the meantime.’

For decades I have watched Westerners being overly intimidated and/or impressed by China. This is a natural form of what might be called ‘culture shock’.

Everyone who studies Chinese starts out this way, super-enamored. It takes years of study to see their weaknesses and faults; their real humanity.

The best thing China has going for them is ethnic/ racial cohesion.

Sun Yat-sen taught this over one hundred years ago and it has become gospel in all Chinese communities everywhere.

It is a foundational part of Chinese education everywhere.

In the West, we have mistakenly gone the other way and are fast destroying ourselves with endless self-criticism and resignation.

The ‘culture shock’ aspect of this is societies affected by it typically feel despondent, even hopeless because the confronting culture is new and seems indominable.

Japan and China both reacted this way when first confronted by the West.

Japan figured things out more quickly than any other society in the world and succeeded in modernizing without losing their Japanese identity.

China today is still reeling from its self-perceived ‘Century of Humiliation’.

The West today is akin to Japan in, maybe, 1885 in our understanding of the ‘culture shocks’ we are experiencing.

Another big factor in the West is we are infested with powerful and hostile parasitic subcultures, literally high-end gangs, who are actively seeking to destroy us as they feed on us. ABN

It has just been learned that China has taken an extraordinarily aggressive position on Trade in sending an extremely hostile letter to the World…

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It has just been learned that China has taken an extraordinarily aggressive position on Trade in sending an extremely hostile letter to the World, stating that they were going to, effective November 1st, 2025, impose large scale Export Controls on virtually every product they make, and some not even made by them. This affects ALL Countries, without exception, and was obviously a plan devised by them years ago. It is absolutely unheard of in International Trade, and a moral disgrace in dealing with other Nations.

Based on the fact that China has taken this unprecedented position, and speaking only for the U.S.A., and not other Nations who were similarly threatened, starting November 1st, 2025 (or sooner, depending on any further actions or changes taken by China), the United States of America will impose a Tariff of 100% on China, over and above any Tariff that they are currently paying. Also on November 1st, we will impose Export Controls on any and all critical software.

It is impossible to believe that China would have taken such an action, but they have, and the rest is History. Thank you for your attention to this matter!

DONALD J. TRUMP
PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA 

Oct 10, 2025, 4:50 PM