“In a Thanksgiving letter to shareholders this past Monday, Nov. 10, business titan and retiring Berkshire Hathaway CEO Warren Buffett announced that he’s ‘going quiet.’ ‘Sort of,’ he added. In fact, this ‘quiet’ farewell from one of the world’s wealthiest individuals will likely echo through the halls of American business and philanthropy for some time. For investors, there is keen interest in how his handpicked successor will perform as chief executive of one of the United States’ 10 largest firms. But it is at the intersection of affluence and altruism, of gaining and giving, that Mr. Buffett’s words and actions carry outsize implications. He has donated $60 billion over the last 20 years, and this week gifted $1.3 billion from sales of stock to four family foundations. That still leaves $150 billion of his personal fortune to be given away.” (11/13/25)
“The United States has once again taken up its old role as the self-appointed police of the Western Hemisphere. Under the disingenuous pretext of combating ‘narco-terrorism’, US forces have launched a violent campaign across the Caribbean and Eastern Pacific that has already killed at least 76 people (most of them unidentified) in a series of so-called ‘anti-narcotics’ strikes on small boats. Washington claims these are precision military operations targeting narco-traffickers who are directly attacking the US with their illegal contraband. But in reality, they are extrajudicial, indiscriminate executions on the high seas. There is no due process, no physical threat to the United States, and no legal justification under either domestic or international law. It’s murder, plain and simple: moral, legal, and strategic failures disguised as national security policy.” (11/13/25)
Source: Fox News
by US Representative Brian Mast [R=FL]
“Let me say this as plainly as I can: when the Democrats shut down our federal government, that wasn’t a strategy. That was their failure. For the last 40 days, the term ‘government shutdown’ became interchangeable for Democrats with words like ‘leverage’ or ‘to make a point.’ But for millions of Americans, this shutdown wasn’t political theater. It was a gut punch. It meant missed paychecks, putting unpaid bills on credit cards with mounting interest, delayed travel, national security risks, and uncertainty about whether the people who protect and serve this nation will get paid on time – if at all.” [editor’s note: The shutdown happened because Mast’s party wanted it to happen, and ended when Mast’s party chose to let it end – TLK] (11/13/25)
“Well, now we have it. On Wednesday, Democrats on the House Oversight Committee released another batch of documents related to notorious pedophile Jeffrey Epstein. Among them were several emails about Donald Trump. One was from Epstein to his accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell back in 2011. He wrote: ‘i want you to realize that that dog that hasn’t barked is trump.. [victim] spent hours at my house with him ,, he has never once been mentioned. police chief. etc. im 75 % there[.]’ (Excuse the spelling and grammar errors, that’s all Jeffrey.) By now, we’re all familiar with what ‘spent hours’ meant in the context of rich, powerful men and Epstein’s victims—particularly given the reference to ‘barking,’ which has to mean going to prosecutors or the media.” (11/13/25)
“The party that cries wolf is at it again. Democrats are back in Congress after their shutdown to launch another anti-Trump hoax. This time, it’s not a fictional ‘pee tape’ but the old Epstein horse they keep flogging. On Wednesday, House Oversight Committee Democrats selectively released three emails among 23,000 handed over by the estate of the late pedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein to try to implicate Donald Trump, yet again, in Epstein’s sexual abuse of underage girls. Of course, the Oversight Dems, who include such adornments to Congress as Jasmine Crockett, Ayanna Pressley and Rashida Tlaib, left out crucial information that exonerated the president, instead claiming that the emails ‘raise serious questions about Donald Trump and his knowledge of Epstein’s horrific crimes.'” [editor’s note: Devine’s picture should be in the DSM next to “Trump Devotion Syndrome” – TLK] (11/12/25)
“Today, Donald Trump presides over his own Murder Incorporated, less a government than a death squad. Many brushed off his proclamation early in his second term that the Gulf of Mexico would henceforth be called the Gulf of America as a foolish, yet harmless, show of dominance. Now, however, he’s created an ongoing bloodbath in the adjacent Caribbean Sea. The Pentagon has so far destroyed 18 go-fast boats there and in the Pacific Ocean. No evidence has been presented or charges brought suggesting that those ships were running drugs, as claimed. The White House has simply continued to release bird’s-eye view surveillance videos (snuff films, really) of a targeted vessel. Then comes a flash of light and it’s gone, as are the humans it was carrying, be they drug smugglers, fishermen, or migrants. As far as we know, at least 64 people have already been killed in such attacks. The kill rate is accelerating.” (11/13/25)
“I can still see and hear it in my mind’s eye: cruise missiles skimming low over Baghdad during the Gulf War, the air vibrating, my voice raised above the roar and the crack of anti-aircraft fire. Back then, we were reporters, not presenters. We didn’t measure risk in ratings or clicks or choose our words from lists approved by diversity, equity and inclusion committees. We told it as it was: raw, immediate and real. Today, CNN faces yet another ‘strategic reset’ under David Zaslav’s Warner Bros. Discovery. The network confronts a reckoning far more profound than shrinking ratings or revenue. It must decide whether it stands for good, independent journalism. To my generation, good journalism matters. We bear witness. We write and broadcast the first draft of history from the front, not the studio floor or some convenient live-shot location well behind the lines.” (11/11/25)
Source: Caitlin Johnstone, Rogue Journalist
by Caitlin Johnstone
“One of the craziest things happening right now is how there’s been report after report confirming that Jeffrey Epstein really was an Israeli intelligence operative, based on publicly available documents, and yet it’s had no measurable impact on mainstream media or politics. Over the last month and a half, Drop Site News has published four reports about Epstein’s intelligence ties …. In the latest article, Drop Site’s Ryan Grim and Murtaza Hussein write, ‘we’re left wondering why the rest of the media, which has demonstrated no lack of excitement when it comes to the saga of Jeffrey Epstein, has all of a sudden lost its reporting capacity, in the face of reams of publicly available newsworthy documents.'” (11/12/25)
“Researchers and scientists in South Africa on Tuesday launched clinical trials on the first domestically developed vaccine. The oral cholera vaccine, developed by the Cape Town-based pharmaceutical firm Biovac, is currently undergoing trials to determine its safety in adults and will be followed by trials to compare it to existing cholera vaccines that are already in the market. Depending on the results, the vaccine could be approved and ready for use in Africa by 2028, Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi said. The development of the vaccine has been praised as a significant milestone for vaccine access in the country and across the rest of the continent. Motsoaledi said that while South Africa experienced relatively low levels of cholera, many countries in Africa often hit hard by outbreaks would greatly benefit. He said the COVID-19 pandemic exposed how vulnerable African countries were to pandemics as they relied on imported vaccines.” (11/12/25)
“Of the 10 sections of President Trump’s Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education, the second is the real key to reform. It asks that schools cultivate a ‘vibrant marketplace of ideas on campus’ — exactly what campus radicals have destroyed, reducing higher education to its present appalling condition. But this remedy also exposes the main weakness of the White House’s compact — and of most reform efforts. Asking radical university staff to create ideological diversity is rather like relying on Nancy Pelosi to choose Republican representatives for the Jan. 6 committee. While radicals remain in control of campuses, reform will proceed glacially — if at all. The discrepancy between what we fund the campuses for and what they are doing is enormous. Promotion of knowledge and understanding has given way to inculcation of a poisonous fringe ideology.” (11/11/25)
