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Video shows waterspout off of Hilton Head Island, South Carolina Video shows waterspout off of Hilton Head Island 👀 Read More @sotten | - X | Facebook | Donate

🇮🇱Trump administration plans to send powerful bombs to Israel in $2.8 billion weapons sale The Trump administration is planning to deliver powerful 2,000-pound bombs to Israel as part of an upcoming arms deal, weapons that prompted such concerns about the possibility of mass casualties in Gaza that the Biden administration paused their delivery two years ago. The $2.8 billion package includes 40,000 of the bombs, made up of 20,000 Mk84s and 20,000 BLU-117s, according to two U.S. officials and a person familiar with the plan who spoke Tuesday on condition of anonymity to discuss the package, which is not yet final. Congress has been informally notified about the pending deal, most of which is to be paid for with foreign military financing — in which U.S. taxpayer dollars are given to Israel to turn around and buy the weapons from the United States. ✍️ Read More @sotten | - X | Facebook | Donate

Betraying Charlie Kirk: TPUSA now sponsored by Israeli govt-aligned outfit, leaked contract shows A year after Charlie Kirk's killing, his organization has buried his criticism of Israel to maintain support from the Israel-based International Fellowship of Christians and Jews. With close ties to the Israeli government, the Fellowship is flooding conservative media with paid partnerships. One year after Charlie Kirk's killing, The Charlie Kirk Show is distributed by a federally registered agent of Israel and his widow, Erika, has reversed his critical positions on the US-Israeli special relationship. Now, The Grayzone can reveal that the Turning Point USA (TPUSA) organization he founded is holding faith events sponsored by an Israel-based non-profit with close ties to the Israeli government. ✍️ Read More @sotten | - X | Facebook | Donate

Pentagon inspector general confirms military's munition shortages Says Iran 'exposed' resupply bottleneck The US War Department's inspector general informed Congress on 14 September that the war on Iran has drained US munitions stockpiles and strained the industrial base to replace them, placing the cost of the first four months of fighting at $33.4 billion. "The munitions expenditure on [Operation Epic Fury] has resulted in strategic inventory shortfalls and revealed industrial base bottlenecks for munitions resupply," the inspector general wrote in the report, which covers 28 February to 30 June. To offset the gaps, the Pentagon is moving to speed up procurement and shorten production timelines while building reserves of critical materials, components, and selected munitions, the report said, cautioning that any expansion of production capacity demands considerable lead time. 👉🏼 Read More @sotten | - X | Facebook | Donate

IDF seeks 'legal action' against filmmakers behind NAZA doc Israeli military Chief of Staff Eyal Zamir said on 14 September that the army has instructed its top legal official to examine options for legal action against those involved in the film "NAZA," citing defamation against the troops, who are committing genocide in the Gaza Strip. "According to the reports that have emerged so far, this is not a film criticizing the [army] and is not an attempt to ascertain the truth. It is based on blood libels, deliberate distortion of reality, and false and serious accusations against ... soldiers and commanders," he stated. The film "adopts narratives of Israel's haters, defames our soldiers and commanders, and seeks to portray the IDF as deliberately acting unlawfully," he went on to say. ➡️ Read More @sotten | - X | Facebook | Donate

Entitlement: Socialist Senate nominee Angie Nixon says it's 'crazy' she has to pay her taxes and student loans 'I don't wanna pay it back' Florida Democratic Senate nominee Angie Nixon, an avowed Democratic Socialist who owns two homes and raked in at least $270,000 from her jobs and investments last year — in addition to her husband's unpublished income — is lamenting the injustice of having to pay taxes on her outsized income. Nixon's income, which she detailed in financial disclosures, includes rent from one of her properties, her income as a state representative, her earnings from a Miami consulting firm, and her salary as the director of a nonprofit that works to mobilize black voters. Her income is likely even higher than reported because she is not required to publicly disclose the income earned by her husband, Jarrett Morene, who owns and operates what appears to be a car repair business. ✍️ Read More @sotten | - X | Facebook | Donate

Dazed and confused: Mitch McConnell reappears in the Senate after three month absence He's 84-years-young and the poster child for term limits - Mitch McConnell has been a thorn in the side of the Trump Administration for years. A classic Neo-Con, McConnell has continued to oppose voter identification under the Save Act and Trump's tariff policies. He blames Trump for the events of January 6th and criticized Trump's sweeping pardons of J6 political prisoners. The Kentucky Senator has also been a primary proponent of US intervention in Ukraine, and much like the late John McCain and late Lindsay Graham, he has clamored for more military spending and aid which places the US at odds with Russia. ‼️ Read More @sotten | - X | Facebook | Donate

🇷🇺🇺🇦NATO troops in Ukraine would mean war with Russia - Putin EU citizens are beginning to understand where the globalist elites are leading them, the Russian president has said. The deployment of troops from European NATO countries to Ukraine would mean a direct war with Russia, President Vladimir Putin warned, arguing that political shifts across the EU reflect growing public discontent with the policies of the Western "globalist elites." Speaking to reporters on the sidelines of the BRICS Summit in New Delhi on Friday, Putin said Europe's current political and economic troubles are the result of "systemic mistakes" made by its leaders in foreign policy, security, and economics after the end of the Cold War. The globalist elites, Putin said, have convinced themselves that they are "at the top of Olympus" and effectively incapable of being wrong, but their mistakes have since accumulated "like a snowball." ❗️ Read More @sotten | - X | Facebook | Donate

🇺🇦Ukraine is running out of money again - and the EU is asking questions Officials in the bloc are reportedly "unsettled" by Kiev's defense budget hole ballooning almost fourfold within several months. Despite massive Western assistance, Ukraine is facing a severe cash squeeze almost unseen since the escalation of the conflict with Russia in 2022. The immediate problem is a $27 billion hole in the defense budget that Kiev insists must be plugged. Kiev's plea for more money "surprised and unsettled" European officials, the New York Times reported on Wednesday, citing sources, with some of Ukraine's backers said to be asking questions about whether the country is spending the available funds efficiently - or whether it is simply overstating its needs. 📍 Read More @sotten | - X | Facebook | Donate

When war comes home: A constitutional warning A failed war does not end when the drones stop flying. It creates a new danger: A government that refuses to admit defeat and a president who, having failed abroad, seeks muscular victories elsewhere. The war against Iran is a case study in the limits of military power, the dangers of presidential overreach and the enduring wisdom of the Constitution's separation of powers. It was unauthorized, unconstitutional, illegal, strategically incoherent and — by the standards by which wars must be judged — a geopolitical failure. ‼️ Read More @sotten | - X | Facebook | Donate

Israeli officials fume over award-winning death-by-AI documentary Culture Minister Miki Zohar has called for NAZA's directors to be stripped of citizenship while accusing them of "betrayal against the state" Several senior Israeli politicians have lashed out at the filmmakers behind a documentary accusing the IDF of using AI-assisted systems in the mass killing of Palestinians in Gaza. Zohar went so far as to accuse the two Oscar-winning directors of treachery and threatened to have them stripped of Israeli citizenship. The controversy erupted after the 80-minute-long film NAZA - the name alludes to an Israeli military shorthand for expected "collateral casualties" - received a 25-minute standing ovation at the Venice Film Festival last week and won the Special Jury Prize. 📍 Read More @sotten | - X | Facebook | Donate

AfD, Mélenchon and NATO: is Europe's Atlanticist consensus finally cracking? The AfD's breakthrough in Saxony-Anhalt and Mélenchon's growing challenge to NATO are exposing the political divide in Europe. From Germany to France, right-wing and left-wing populists are questioning the continent's Atlanticist security consensus. Meanwhile, Brussels appears more willing to accommodate NATO-aligned radical-right forces. The recent state election in Saxony-Anhalt has delivered a sharp shock to Germany's political center. ❗️ Read More @sotten | - X | Facebook | Donate

Massachusetts family lost custody of daughter after refusing to affirm her "gender identity" A family in Massachusetts is fighting to regain custody of their teenage daughter Sophie after the state took her away from them in 2024. The reason? Sophie's parents, devout Catholics Joseph and Arlene Kutzko, refused to affirm her "gender identity" after her school — without their knowledge — brainwashed her into believing she is a boy. On her Lighthouse Faith podcast, Fox News correspondent Lauren Green described this family's nightmare situation: Devout Catholic parents are fighting in court to regain custody of their 17-year-old daughter, Sophie, and stop Massachusetts authorities from medically transitioning her with high-dose testosterone. ❗️ Read More @sotten | - X | Facebook | Donate

Here lies the motive: AI leaders' cunning plan exposed Are you scared enough yet? The AI overlords certainly hope so, as they have hatched a plan so cunning you could pin a tail on it and call it a fox. What follows is all speculation: the facts are real, the conclusion is interpretation. While there were many headlines about 'rogue' AIs attacking other sites, reincarnating themselves, and talking amongst themselves, it wasn't until this summer (interestingly a month after SPCX's IPO) that things went just a little bit turbo... In July 2026, a swarm of OpenAI agents broke out of a test environment, hacked Hugging Face, and ran cyberattacks on targets they had not been assigned - including attempts to game the grader scoring them - then tried to hide the trail. 👀 Read More @sotten | - X | Facebook | Donate

☄️Meteor fireball spotted in night sky in Michigan on September 13 A fireball meteor was spotted Sunday night over Michigan, with viewers responding from as far away as Toronto, according to several weather watcher sites and social media users. "This camera from Sprays Landscape in Cheboygan Michigan faces east-northeast which means this meteor fell and landed (broke apart) somewhere over Lake Huron or Ontario," said Michigan Storm Watchers. Macomb Wx reported that a fireball was spotted at 8:47:22 p.m. and lasted 4.7 seconds in Macomb Township, facing northeast. "The Canadians are attacking!!!" said Richard Evans on the Michigan Storm Chasers post. ❗️ Read More @sotten | - X | Facebook | Donate

Drenching rains bring flash flooding across coastal Connecticut, New York and New Jersey - rainfall rate of up to 4 inches in an hour Flash flooding brought on by heavy rains prompted road closures, water rescues and commuter rail problems across the tristate area Sunday. The National Weather Service said the hardest-hit areas appeared to be northern New Jersey, parts of New York's Westchester County and a swath of coastal Connecticut along Interstate 95. The service issued flash flood warnings across the region for much of the morning Sunday as rain fell at a rate of 1 to 2 inches (2.5 to 5 centimeters) an hour in places. Metro-North and Amtrak said their rail lines to New Haven, which serve Norwalk, Bridgeport and other major Connecticut communities, were experiencing delays and cancellations due to flooding impacts. ✍️ Read More @sotten | - X | Facebook | Donate

SOTT FOCUS: NewsReal: From 9/11 to the Strait of Hormuz: What Went Wrong? 25 years since 9/11 - "the day that changed the world" - the world has indeed changed, but in whose image? Or according to which designs? Former U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said in July 2006 that we were witnessing the "birth pangs of a new Middle East" toward a pro-Western regional order. But here we are 2 decades later, and the region is decidedly less pro-Western than it was before 9/11. 📍 Read More @sotten | - X | Facebook | Donate

🇨🇳Over 31,000 evacuated as heavy rain lashes south China's Hainan - 28.7 inches of rainfall in 24 hours for Wuzhishan More than 31,000 people have been evacuated from at-risk areas in south China's Hainan province as persistent heavy rain battered parts of the island, Xinhua reported. As of Sunday evening, 31,564 people had been relocated to safer areas, though no major disasters had been reported, according to the provincial committee for disaster prevention, mitigation and relief. Rainfall exceeded 300 millimeters in 24 townships across six cities and counties between Friday morning and Sunday afternoon, including Wanning, Lingshui and Qionghai. Changfeng Township in Wanning recorded the highest rainfall at 452.1 millimeters, with more rain forecast through Monday. 👍🏼 Read More @sotten | - X | Facebook | Donate

Why do these fossil shells flip their spirals every few millennia? The mystery of the flipping foraminifera may conceal a rarely observed evolutionary process playing out across the planet. For thousands and sometimes millions of years, marine plankton all over the world built their spiral shells in one direction. Then, suddenly, the spirals switched direction at the same time, everywhere, only to switch back again later. These microorganisms are types of foraminifera, or forams. 👀 Read More @sotten | - X | Facebook | Donate

🇮🇷Merciless kindness: Britain's economic war on America and the long shadow over the Iran sanctions A chokepoint is not a wall. It is a tollbooth — expensive, annoying, survivable — and the traffic always finds another way around. That is the single lesson I would press on anyone in Washington who believes the dollar can be made into a cage for Iran, and it is a lesson the last great naval hegemon paid for in starved cities and a needless war. Britain held the sea lanes in 1812; the United States holds the dollar-clearing system in 2026. ➡️ Read More @sotten | - X | Facebook | Donate