May 16, 2026

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House Republicans Claim Victory in New Bill Raising Debt Ceiling

House Republicans are onboard with a new debt ceiling raise following what it claims are significant victories in exchange for delivering the votes to support the debt ceiling being raised.

In a joint statement by House Republican leaders, they said, “The Fiscal Responsibility Act does what is responsible for our children, what is possible in divided government, and what is required by our principles and promises. Only because of Republicans’ resolve did we achieve this transformative change to how Washington operates.”

From Breitbart.com:

The bill rescinds funds that have been allocated toward COVID, mandates student loan payments to resume in August, rescinds a portion of unused funding allocated toward the IRS, expands work requirements for certain welfare recipients, and tightens permitting processes under the National Environmental Policy Act.

The bill also caps discretionary spending for the next two years and includes a provision pushed by Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) to force Congress into funding the government through 12 appropriations bills rather than one omnibus bill.

Erdogan Wins Close Run-Off Election

Recep Tayyip Erdogan has been declared the winner of a run-off election over the opposition party candidate Kemal Kilicdaroglu. The final vote tally puts Erdogan at 52.14% over Kilicdaroglu at 47.86%, which mirrors the point difference between the two rivals during the general election when Erdogan failed to meet the 50 plus percent threshold.

Erdogan said of the win, “We are not the only winners, the winner is Turkey. The winner is all parts of our society, our democracy is the winner.”

His opponent said of the election that it was the “most unfair election period in our history.” One of the most obvious impediments to challenging Erdogan came from the passage of a new law criminalizing the spreading of “false information.” Using this law, Erdogan’s administration convinced Twitter to censor and/or remove opposition accounts and tweets, including Kilcdaroglu’s account.

The win by Erdogan assures Sweden will continue to face stiff opposition from Turkey in its efforts to become a member of NATO.

Texas AG Impeached

The Republican-controlled Texas State House voted to impeach their current Attorney General, Republican Ken Paxton. One of those voting for the impeachment, Republican Representative David Spiller, said of Paxton “He put the interest of himself over his staff who tried to advise him on multiple occasions that he was about to violate the law.”

Paxton responded to the impeachment on Twitter, writing, “The ugly spectacle in the Texas House today confirmed the outrageous impeachment plot against me was never meant to be air or just. It was  a politically motivated sham from the beginning.”

Paxton was impeached after a Texas House panel had asserted its investigation led them to believe that Paxton committed multiple violations and crimes, especially in acting to aid one of his biggest donors, Nate Paul. From KUT 90.5:

Investigators stated the evidence they uncovered shows multiple violations of the law and Paxton’s oath of office. They include: Gift to a public servant, abuse of official capacity, misuse of official information, and retaliation and official oppression. Some of the violations carry jail time.

Many of the allegations discussed by investigators were already known, but Wednesday’s House panel was the first time investigators spoke on them in a public forum. The level of detail was also unusual.

The main allegation is that Paxton released documents at the request of his donor, Nate Paul, connected to an FBI investigation to that same donor.

The impeachment was already in the works before Paxton’s recent call for the Republican Speaker of the State House, Dade Phelan, to resign for allegations that he was drunk while conducting businesses in the State House. Paxton stated, “After much consideration, it is with profound disappointment that I call on Speaker Dade Phelan to resign as the end of this legislative session.”

World SITREP…Conflict Updates

 

 

 



 

Previously, we reported on two conflicts that exploded into reality in less than a month. Today, we will give a brief update on both conflicts.

 

 

SUDAN

 

As the civil war in Sudan enters its sixth week, the fighting is expanding beyond the capitol city of Khartoum, spilling into war-ravaged Darfur, scene of a decade-long, genocidal ethnic cleansing carried out by the factions now fighting each other.

Although both sides have agreed to a week-long ceasefire, set to begin in about 36 hours as we go to press, there is little movement in meaningful talks between the two sides, the nominal “government forces” of army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and the paramilitaryRapid Support Forces (RSF)” led by strongman Mohamed Hamdan “Hemedti” Dagalo.

In the swirling morass that is the politics of the region, one of the looming crises – and possible causes – impacting the fighting is the question of Ethiopia’s massively over-sized hydroelectric dam, that the country is constructing to corral the Blue Nile River, with potentially disastrous ecological ramifications, as well as impacting the availability of water and agriculture downstream, which would impact both the forty-nine million people of Sudan, as well as the more than one-hundred million people of Egypt.

 

 

PAKISTAN

 

Following the shocking arrest of ousted Prime Minister Imran Khan on May 9 2023, and his subsequent release at the order of the nation’s highest court, tensions in the unstable and economically troubled Indian Ocean Region state remain high. Military commanders are still feuding, now over an announcement that those arrested – many arbitrarily – after attacks on military and police offices following Khan’s arrest are to be tried under military law, a fact far more worrying than a simple clash over personal issues, because it remains unclear who is actually in control of the country’s nuclear weapons arsenal.

It remains unclear which direction the current course of events may take, and that is a very worrying situation, especially in concert with events throughout the wider world.

 

 

 

The Freedomist — Keeping Watch, So You Don’t Have To
Biden Admin Chooses Illegal Aliens Over American School Kids and Veterans

After homeless American veterans were booted from a hotel to make room for illegal immigrants flooding our country in response to the mass mailer President’s open border policies, an elementary school in Coney Island saw their gym sacrificed to illegal immigrants as well. The moves make it clear the Biden administration is acting more like a foreign enemy intentionally harming the American republic than an American government that upholds the Constitution and protects Americans from all enemies foreign and domestic.

The school in question is PS 188 in Coney Island. Residents in the district are not happy about the school being turned into an immigration center, housing illegal aliens who may are may not have been properly vetted to determine if they’re even safe to be in close proximity to school children during the school day (as they are now thanks to the Biden administration).

A woman from the district told the NY Post “Why a school? That’s the part I don’t get. There’s always other options. A lot of the buildings around here, they have fallout shelters that are spacious, and used for emergencies.”

The answer is simple if you believe, as we do, the DNC intends to destroy the Constitutionally-bound Republic. They intend on further terrorizing Americans and destroying their hope in an effort to create frightened cowards desperate for DNC-controlled state approval lest they no longer find themselves employable or able to even have a bank account in the new Revelation 13 Age of American history, ushered in by this same seditious organization, the DNC.

They choose schools to house illegal immigrants to demoralize us and create more chaos, hoping for violence either from the illegal immigrants or from Americans who finally snap and take matters into their own hands. We recommend no such action by Americans as it will only aid the DNC. So long as Republican controlled states refuse to declare the DNC a terrorist organization and start arresting the leaders and seizing assets, there is little that can be done to stop the continued onslaught on our Republic by this coalition of criminally insane murderers, rapists, and looters.

Biden Tells College Graduates White People Are Greatest Threat to American Democracy

The mass mailer President Joe Biden stumbled his way through a commencement speech to a traditional black college that accuses white people of being the number one threat to American Democracy, not the DNC that colludes with the FBI and Justice Department to eliminate political opponents using Lawfare. In the blathering speech, the teleprompter President said, “The harsh reality of racism has torn us apart. It’s a battle. It’s never really over, but on the best days, enough of us have the guts and the hearts to stand up for the best in us, to choose love over hate…to stand up against the poison of white supremacy like I did in my inaugural address to single it out as the most dangerous terrorist threat to our homeland.”

The speech revealed the DNC’s campaign to keep the black voters on the DNC plantation in 2024, even as they lose more and more of that vote through the ineptness of the mass mailer President’s ad hoc committee administration. The strategy is to demonize white people and promise anyone who actually believes the myth that white people invented evil that a vote for them, even it means losing their basic human rights, is a vote against the white devil.

During the speech, Biden also pushed the lie that former President Donald J Trump did not condemn the actual white supremacists that showed up for the Charlottesville fiasco, also telegraphing the DNC’s ongoing commitment to use lies, misinformation, and half-truths to terrorize Americans so much they feel they can only be safe by supporting a new one-party Murica where individual liberty is sacrificed in the name of stopping the white devil.

Change the name of the race from white to black and ask yourself how racist, how violently racist, this man and the handlers that wrote his speech really are.

Musk Hires WEF Operative to Run Twitter

In a move that has caused many to question Elon Musk’s alleged commitment to make Twitter the American platform for free speech, Linda Yaccarino, an Ad Marketing maven and former high-ranking member of Klaus Schwab’s World Economic Forum, was announced as the new CEO to take over Twitter from Musk. The elites who favor hate speech laws and sexualizing children as early and as often as possible are accusing Musk of hiring a woman to do a job that she’s doomed to fail in carrying out. One such person, a business professor at Santa Clara University who advocates for the Woketarian agenda, complained that “Her credentials are impeccable and she’s been extremely successful so far. But she’s also been in settings where her success was achievable. I mean no disrespect to her or to diminish her in the least. I just think that this is an impossible situation for basically anybody.”

Pakistan In Crisis – A Sudden Upset

 

 

 

 



 

“…While economics is a gun, politics is knowing when to pull the trigger…” – Caspian Report

 

In April of 2022, Imran Khan – the highly popular, 70-year old former international cricket player who had risen to the leadership of Pakistan, a state with one of the largest Muslim populations in the world, on a broadly “Populist” style platform – was removed from office as Prime Minister by a no-confidence vote, the first time such an action had happened in Pakistan’s history.

The no-confidence vote that led to Khan’s removal, on its own, had shady origins, and potential foreign interference. On March 27, 2022, following the first attempt at a no-confidence vote in Parliament had been dismissed, Khan pointedly accused the Biden Administration of interference in Pakistan’s internal affairs, in an affair now known as “Lettergate”, in which Khan stated publicly that he had received a letter via a diplomatic cable from Pakistan’s embassy in the United States, that he claimed threatened “horrific consequences” for Pakistan, if Khan was not removed as Prime Minister; Khan’s government reacted to the cable with a strongly-worded demarche. Khan was blocked from releasing the actual details of the cable in question by Pakistan’s Official Secrets Act of 1923, but stated that he was prepared to show the diplomatic cable to the Chief Justice of Pakistan.

The possible reasons for such interference in Pakistani affairs are not difficult to understand. When Khan became Prime Minister in 2018, he immediately launched a vigorous campaign to start tackling the serious economic issues (YouTube link) Pakistan faced, cutting military spending, forging a realistic payment plan to address the country’s balance of payments to the International Monetary Fund (IMF), committing the country to a renewable energy strategy, and then had to navigate the economic disaster brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic.

At the same time, however, Khan angered the Biden Administration by steadfastly refusing to distance himself from Russian leader Vladimir Putin, even visiting the Russian Leader in Moscow the day Russia formally invaded Ukraine.

 

Vladimir Putin (R) with Prime Minister of Pakistan Imran Khan (L), 24 February, 2022. Photo credit: www.kremlin.ru, CCA/4.0.

 

But Khan did not stop there.

After attempting to smooth relations with India, Khan pushed forward with the country’s already strong ties to the People’s Republic of China (PRC), which would create an economic transportation corridor (the CPEC) from the nation’s shared border in the Pakistani portion of the disputed Kashmir region, to the Indian Ocean port of Gwadar.

 

Gwadar Port, Pakistan. Undated photo. CCA/3.0

 

Notably, CPEC was promptly placed on the chopping block by Khan’s replacement as Prime Minister, Shehbaz Sharif, in August of 2022.

For its part, the Biden Administration – reeling from the disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan in August of 2021 – was clearly smarting from its demonstrated weaknesses at all levels of governance, and needed to do something to reinvigorate its failing image. Much like the so-called “Maidan Revolution” of 2014, the removal of Khan from power immediately began to decouple Pakistan from the PRC’s orbit, and threatens the Communist nation’s “Belt & Road Initiative”.

 

Major General Chris Donahue, commander of the U.S. Army 82nd Airborne Division, XVIII Airborne Corps, boards a C-17 cargo plane at the Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, Afghanistan, 29 August 2021, becoming the last US soldier to leave Afghanistan. Photo by Jack Holt, US Central Command. Public Domain.

 

But – for the average American…so what? Why should American’s care about all of this maneuvering in a foreign country many American’s know or care very much about?

The reason the average American needs to pay attention is that the political crisis sparked in Pakistan by Khan’s removal has erupted again, with disastrous results.

Khan – who refused to go away quietly, leading protests in an attempt to hold a special election that would likely return him to power if it were held – appeared at the Islamabad High Court on 9 May 2023 to address corruption charges. After voluntarily appearing at the court, and while being processed, the courthouse was stormed by a unit of the Pakistan Rangers, a Federal paramilitary police force operating under orders from the National Accountability Bureau, who bizarrely arrested Khan, dragging him out of the courthouse, to an undisclosed location.

In the aftermath of this, large and violent protests and rioting erupted across the nation, with angry mobs attempting to storm both regional military headquarters, as well as the local headquarters of the ISI, the Pakistani version of the CIA. Despite calls for direct military force to be used to suppress the rioting, a wide array of military commanders in the nation refused, point-blank, to apply such force. This has led to an alarmingly confusing situation, including the removal of some military commanders.

This has raised alarming concerns as to who is actually in charge of Pakistan’s armed forces, as the raid to arrest Khan seems to have come at the orders of the Chief of Army Staff, General Asim Munir, with the support of Prime Minister Sharif. (The position of “Chief of Army Staff” is the Pakistani equivalent to the US Army’s “Chief of Staff” position.)

On 11 May, the Pakistani Supreme Court ruled Khan’s arrest illegal, and ordered his immediate release. As this article goes to press, Khan has been released, and cannot be rearrested on the same charges until at least May 17…

…But, again – why should this matter to Americans?

Simple: Pakistan is not Iraq; nor is it Sudan, Bolivia or Myanmar. Pakistan is different, because Pakistan is a nuclear-armed nation…a nation that shares a land border with another nuclear-armed state, with whom it has already fought several wars. And, although relations had begun to improve while Khan was in office, those have noticeably cooled since his replacement.

Pakistan has had a shaky internal situation for decades, and beginning in 2004, the internal situation deteriorated into an actual insurgency by multiple groups, some focused on religion, like the “Pakistani Taliban”, al-Qaeda and ISIL, but also inflaming and rejuvenating supporters of an independent Balochistan.

With the sudden deterioration of the situation in a nation of nearly 248 million people, some 96.5% of whom are Muslim, the world is now facing the distinct possibility of a multi-sided civil war in a nuclear-armed state, that could lead to the reality of nuclear terrorism, potentially including actual nuclear war, something long believed to have been buried, as many of the factions now swirling in Pakistan would have no issue with loosing nuclear fire onto India, if they were to secure nuclear weapons, which would naturally provoke an immediate response.

While no “smoking gun” evidence has been released that shows conclusive interference by the Biden Administration in Pakistan’s internal affairs, the possibility cannot be dismissed. The Biden Administration has demonstrated absolutely irrational and even self-destructive behavior since assuming power in the United States…and the results of those irrational and self-destructive behaviors are now coming home to roost.

If you’re not worried – you need to catch up.

 

 

 

 

The Freedomist — Keeping Watch, So You Don’t Have To
Biden Family Trading U.S. Power for Foreign Grift, GOP Investigation Shows

The Republicans in the U.S. House are pushing forward with an investigation into the corrupt Biden family led by Mass Mailer President Joe Biden. They claim they have access to “thousands of pages” of financial records that show multiple Biden family members receiving millions of dollars from foreign interests, with the Chinese Communist Party being the biggest “contributor” to the Biden family’s ill-gotten wealth.

In an interview with DNC organ MSNBC, Joe Biden doubled down on the lie that his family is not a seditious family trading America’s power for personal wealth, claiming, “My son has done nothing wrong. I trust him. I have faith in him. And it impacts my presidency by making me feel proud of him.”

DNC-Controlled Jury Awards Woman %5 million from Trump Despite Having No Evidence Turmp Was Guilty

A jury out of a heavily-controlled DNC district awarded a woman $5 million from Donald Trump using evidence that besmirched his character but spoke little on the actual accusations made by the 79-year-old woman that Trump raped her in a changing room 30 years ago. The verdict is expected to be overturned by those who still believe the Justice system is still run by Americans, an expectation this writer questions at this point.

The Trump team chose not to put up a defense as her claims were wholly and completely unsubstantiated, coming down to her testimony versus Trump’s. The anti-Trump jury used a video of Trump where he said he would a woman “by the p$%#y” and the testimony of two other women who also made unsubstantiated claims he sexually abused them. The whole case was not based on the evidence surrounding the actual claim by the DNC operative E, Jean Carrol but rather on unsubstantiated claims and character evidence that should never have been admitted in an American trial.

The attempt by the DNC to demonize Trump with this kangaroo court ruling is having no impact on Donald J. Trump’s popularity, who now leads Biden in the latest Presidential poll by 7 points. The American people, unlike the anti-Americans who continue to support the party of sedition and systemic pedophilia (the DNC) see through the latest CIA-like psy-op.

The unjustified verdict that was in clear violation of American constitutional jurisprudence will only help Donald J. Trump and his bid to reclaim the office that was taken from him after another unjustified action by the DNC, the use of mass mailers to elect a President, took the office away from him.

Even people who were hesitant to support the abrasive President are beginning to see Trump as a symbol of resistance to the anti-American, anti-white, anti-Christian tyranny being imposed on us from on high by the DNC and its corporate holdings.

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