Ukraine wiped out 40% of Russia’s bombers in a surprise strike—and Steve Bannon says the U.S. is now on the brink of getting dragged into World War III.
But the media shrugs. The public sleeps.
Then Bannon went nuclear—calling for two brutal consequences for Senator Lindsey Graham upon returning home from Ukraine.
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Steve Bannon didn’t waste time with pleasantries.
Speaking with Chris Cuomo, he opened with a dire warning: the United States is heading toward a global catastrophe, and most Americans have no idea how close we really are.
“Chris, we’re being sucked into a kinetic Third World War right now, that’s going to dwarf the 20th century’s First and Second World War. Inextricably we’ve been drawn in every day,” Bannon said.
The trigger, he argued, was Ukraine’s recent and audacious drone strike deep inside Russian territory—an operation that reportedly destroyed 40% of Russia’s strategic nuclear bombers.
According to Bannon, the attack wasn’t just bold, it was reckless.
“They attacked part of the strategic triad of the Russians… They took out 40% of Russia’s strategic nuclear bombers. This is something Curtis LeMay would never think of.”
But what stunned Bannon even more than the scale of the strike was what didn’t happen: there was no warning.
“What the Ukrainians did, and what the White House has said is that they never got a heads up,” he said.
“It was audacious, it was bold—but we’re sponsoring this. We’re funding it. We’re cutting deals. And now they’re dragging us in.”
That, Bannon warned, could have consequences far beyond Eastern Europe.
“Did they think they can go in and really attack into Russian territory and drag us into conflict with Russia that could metastasize?”
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The deeper concern, Bannon explained, is that Americans remain largely unaware of the global forces pulling them toward war.
While the media focuses on domestic distractions, decisions are being made abroad that could change the course of history.
“People are not awake of what is happening throughout the world and how we're being sucked in and supposedly by somebody we support, like Zelenskyy,” he said.
The fact that Ukraine allegedly launched such a provocative strike without consulting Washington was, in Bannon’s words, “outrageous.”
He doubled down on the danger of continuing to back a foreign leader who’s now acting unilaterally, without American oversight or input.
“To know that he never gave the White House heads up. He never asked permission to do this.”
Adding fuel to the fire, Senator Lindsey Graham was in Ukraine the same weekend, publicly reaffirming U.S. support. That, according to Bannon, is only making things worse.
“It's outrageous! And Lindsey Graham all weekend's over there stirring the pot—We can’t have people over there telling Ukrainians that we're going back more.”
In contrast, Bannon said, Donald Trump is trying to de-escalate.
“What we try do is calm this down. What President Trump is trying to say is like, look, let's get to a cease-fire. Let's put our weapons down. Let's talk peace and prosperity.”
Even if there’s disagreement on the economics, Trump views a negotiated settlement as the only realistic way forward.
“We don't support the economic deal. But President Trump is saying that he needs it as a central part of a peace plan.”
Still, none of that matters, Bannon warned, if others are charging forward recklessly.
“We can't have Lindsey Graham and particularly Zelenskyy leading us into a 3rd World War with a deep strike into Russia.”
And Vladimir Putin, he said, is already responding.
“And Putin came back today and said, hey, we're gonna get to the bottom of this and we're going to see who is accountable in Ukraine and beyond. And that was a message to the United States.”
That message wasn’t just rhetorical—it may have real consequences.
And for Bannon, those enabling escalation on the U.S. side shouldn’t get a free pass.
That’s when the conversation went nuclear.
During the exchange, Chris Cuomo pushed back.
“I don't understand how you could want to jail a U.S. Senator because he’s saying something you don't like. That sounds like worst of the deep state.”
But Bannon was ready.
“No, what he's doing over there right now is stirring it up. He's giving the Ukrainians false hope.”
Cuomo countered: “But it’s not illegal.”
“He’s giving Ukrainians false hope that we’re there to support them on engaging Russia on a kinetic conflict, and we are not,” Bannon said firmly.
When Cuomo pressed again, asking if Bannon really believed Graham should be jailed, Bannon unloaded with both barrels.
“Two things ought to happen. Either cancel his passport and don't let him back in the country, or put him in jail if he comes back!”
He added, “Lindsey Graham is stirring it up right now, and people better wake up to the fact that we’re getting sucked into this war!”
The conversation ended where it began—with a chilling reminder that this isn't just politics as usual.
According to Bannon, we’re crossing a line that past generations of military leaders never dared to cross.
“If the intelligence committee actually did this, this is an act of war against Russia.”
He posed a blunt question to NewsNation viewers:
“Did the American people vote to go to war with the Russian people?”
And while the drone strike was tactically impressive, Bannon said it carried massive geopolitical risk.
“This thing is so serious!” he said.
“But look, I'm being serious, Curtis LeMay at the top of the game and during the worst years in the Soviet Union, during the Cuban missile crisis, we never even conceived of going out and taking out 40% of their bombers on runways.”
“The attack was audacious. It was brilliant.”
But brilliance, Bannon warned, can still be catastrophic, and the average American wants nothing to do with this.
“The problem is it gets us involved in a conflict that no one in the United States wants to be part of and it's going to make it tougher for us to break off.”
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This 75-year-old man, who’s been blind since birth, suddenly regained his eyesight after using DMSO to treat sinusitis.
It cleared his sinuses “instantly,” Murray says, but what it did to his sight was “unbelievable.”
For the first time in his life, he was finally able to see color in his left eye.
And when he kept using DMSO, his vision kept improving: He could make out details and even count fingers, something he “could never do before.”
It might sound like a coincidence, but DMSO has been repeatedly shown to heal eye issues medicine still can’t solve, like blindness, macular degeneration, floaters and cataracts.
It’s Big Pharma’s worst nightmare. And it’s hiding in plain sight for just $20 a bottle. 🧵
This information comes from the work of medical researcher @MidwesternDoc.
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A registered nurse with 30 years of experience treating chronic pain says she saw “TEN TIMES” the positive effects after mixing DMSO with castor oil to treat her peripheral neuropathy.
Castor oil on its own has anti-inflammatory effects, but adding the DMSO is where she says it “got interesting.”
That’s because DMSO “isn’t just a treatment, it’s a carrier,” Danielle Minetti explained.
“It can pull medications and nutrients right through the skin barrier deep into the body.”
That’s why when Danielle mixed DMSO with castor oil, she saw “ten times” the positive results.
Because DMSO acts as the delivery system, carrying the castor oil deeper into the areas where she needs relief most.
DMSO is a naturally occurring compound that is primarily derived as a byproduct of the wood pulp and paper industry, which makes it widely and affordably available.
But that also creates a problem...
Because if a treatment can’t be patented, Big Pharma can’t profit.
And that simple reality is where the DMSO story takes a dark turn.
So what happened to DMSO, and why is a substance that is so medically promising still relatively unknown to this day?
Let’s take a closer look. 🧵
The real story isn’t whether or not DMSO worked.
The real story is how a low-cost, widely available substance became an early case study in medical distrust.
Regulators suddenly restricted it. Doctors dismissed it.
But patients kept using it.
And once that happened, official medicine no longer controlled the story.
DMSO was discovered in 1866 by a Russian chemist, then largely forgotten.
In the 1950s, the paper industry needed new solvents. Dimethyl sulfide from wood pulping could be oxidized into DMSO.
That industrial turn set up one of the most unusual medical controversies of the 20th century!
The FDA knew the COVID shots would kill and maim countless Americans.
They kept injecting anyway.
One government employee tried to sound the alarm about “49 examples” of deadly side effects that conventional safety analyses weren’t detecting.
She was shut down.
Her name was Dr. Ana Szarfman.
On March 1, 2021, less than three months after the rollout of the COVID-19 injections, Dr. Ana Szarfman, an employee at CDER and safety data mining developer, warned that the FDA’s existing system could hide vaccine safety signals due to a flaw called “masking.”
She proposed a newer method developed by statistician Dr. William DuMouchel that corrected for this issue and, when applied, detected “49 examples of extreme masking” that the standard system did not.
These “49 examples of extreme masking” include not “minor” but serious adverse events:
• Bell’s palsy
• Cardiac failure
• Acute left ventricular failure
• Agonal rhythm (severe end-of-life arrhythmia)
• Pulmonary infarction
• Cerebral artery occlusion
• Aortic stenosis
• Sudden cardiac death
• Hypertensive emergency
• Basal ganglia stroke
When Dr. Szarfman proposed a new method, she was told to “hold off on creating and sending data mining reports and analyses.”
Later, they “made it clear” that she “needs to focus on her assigned work” and “should not be discussing or providing internal analyses externally.”
As Dr. Szarfman puts it, her work became a “pest” for raising concerns about safety signal masking.
In September 2021, Dr. Peter Marks, the FDA's top vaccine official, decided that Dr. Szarfman’s COVID vaccine data-mining days were over.
He informed Dr. Patrizia Cavazzoni, the then director of CDER, that Dr. Szarfman “has been asked to cease and desist conducting her data analysis.”
Dr. Marks complained that Dr. Szarfman’s work had become “a major distraction” and that her efforts could “create erroneous conflicts that feed into anti-vaccination rhetoric.”
Dr. Szarfman went on to retire from the FDA in 2025 after more than 35 years of service.
She raised concerns about safety signal masking. The FDA essentially told her to shut up.
Because in their eyes, “49 examples of extreme masking” could create “erroneous conflicts” and fuel “vaccine hesitancy.”
Unfortunately, this is not a one-off instance. It’s part of a much deeper problem: the gap between what’s known internally and what’s allowed to reach the public. 🧵
For years, Americans were told the COVID vaccines were “safe and effective.”
Not mostly safe.
Not partially effective.
Not still being studied.
Safe. Effective. Full stop.
The message was absolute, repeated by government officials, doctors, media outlets, hospitals, employers, schools, and nearly every major institution in the country.
But internal records now suggest something very different was being discussed behind the scenes.
The story is no longer just about whether the COVID vaccines caused harm.
That debate has been raging for years.
The bigger question is what federal health agencies knew, when they knew it, and why the public was told a much different story than the one officials were discussing behind closed doors.
Senator Ron Johnson’s Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations obtained thousands of pages of subpoenaed HHS records.
The investigation and subpoenaed records suggest that the CDC and FDA were aware of serious safety signals involving myocarditis and strokes, yet continued pushing the vaccines while downplaying the risks.
That’s the part we can’t ignore.
Vaccine trust was built on a very simple promise.
The government said the products had been carefully tested, monitored, and transparently evaluated.
If a serious safety issue appeared, the public would be told.
But according to the records Johnson released, that isn’t how the COVID vaccine rollout worked. Not even close.
Republicans are once again teaming up with Democrats to ram Digital ID through at the federal level.
The bill they’ve just introduced is, if you can believe it, worse than all the others before it.
HR 8250, deceptively named the Parents Decide Act, doesn’t just force everyone to link their identity to use apps on their phones, it mandates that they must do it to use ANY operating system. That means Apple, iOS, Windows, Google, Android, even Samsung—basically everything.
And once that’s in place, there’s nowhere to step outside of it.
But one brave group is refusing to go along.
GrapheneOS has made a statement saying: GrapheneOS will remain usable by anyone around the world without requiring personal information, identification, or an account.
@glennmeder from PrivacyAcademy.com/Pulse has been working to educate people on how to escape the digital control grid, including how to put GrapheneOS on your phone—for free. And they have a solution to Digital ID right now.
He joins us to discuss. 🧵
You’ve seen this pattern before.
When the same thing starts appearing everywhere at once, it’s usually not random.
A new push for Digital ID laws isn’t happening in just one place. With bills like the Parents Decide Act (HR 8250), it’s now moving directly into the systems we use every day. It’s happening in a very coordinated way across countries, across platforms, and now, at the operating system level.
This isn’t about regulating a few apps anymore. The focus has moved underneath them—to the operating system itself—the software that runs your phone and computer. @GlennMeder described it plainly, they’re trying to “lock it down on an operating system level,” because that’s the one layer you can’t avoid.
Apps can be swapped. Accounts can be deleted.
But if access to the operating system requires Digital ID, there’s nowhere left to step outside of it.
That’s the inflection point.
Glenn called it “the hill to die on,” not because of how it looks today, but because of what it enables once it’s in place. In his words, this isn’t just verification, it’s the foundation for removing privacy and building a system that monitors “everything we say.”
He warned it would “change instantly,” the kind of shift you only recognize after it’s already locked in.
Access to your phone. Your apps. Your accounts. All tied to one digital identity.
And once that becomes the standard, stepping outside of it stops being an option.
Your phone is a surveillance Trojan Horse.
Big Tech and Big Brother have colluded together to create a spyware monopoly.
Your phone tracks your location at all times, who you text, what you read, whether you’re skeptical person or not, how you spend your money and where your finances are stored... This list could go on forever.
Privacy Academy is hosting a FREE webinar on Thursday, May 7th at 7pm CT (8pm ET / 6pm MT / 5pm PT) where you can learn how to escape the cell phone surveillance state.
For four years, Ron Johnson has wondered how US health officials could ignore “overwhelming evidence of harm” from the COVID vaccine.
“Now I know,” he says.
The truth is, health officials didn’t “ignore” safety signals. They buried them instead.
And now we have the receipts:
The US Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations investigated what federal health officials knew and when they knew it—and dug out a timeline that would make any American furious.
This is not a fringe “conspiracy theory.” It was revealed by the government’s own investigation—and it’s a story they don’t want you to read.
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According to VAERS, the US’s vaccine adverse event reporting system, more adverse events and deaths have been reported following COVID vaccines than from all other vaccines combined over the system’s 30+ year history.
More dangerous than ivermectin. More dangerous than hydroxychloroquine (which turned out not to be so dangerous after all).
It was 55 times more deadly than the flu vaccine (0.46 deaths vs 25.5 deaths per million doses).
And even more dangerous than Remdesivir, which earned the nickname “Run Death Is Near” after it wreaked havoc on the kidneys and livers of tens of thousands of COVID patients in the hospital.
But still the question remains. How did US health officials miss a safety signal this big?
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The U.S. Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations investigated what federal health officials knew and when they knew it.
It turns out they knew the safety signal was there. But they didn’t see it as a warning sign. They saw it as “pest.”
So much of a “pest” that they decided it was better to ignore the devastating safety signals and let people die than to deal with the data head-on because it could stoke “vaccine hesitancy.”
Mikhaila Peterson says she went through “two years of pure hell” when she decided to stop taking SSRIs.
She didn’t need the drugs anymore. Her paleo/keto diet had put her depression into remission.
The first few days off the medication, she felt “on top of the world.”
But once week two hit, her life “turned upside down.”
For years, she blamed her “intolerable symptoms” on what she ate.
Little did she know… she was actually experiencing severe antidepressant withdrawal.
One of the symptoms Mikhaila experienced during her own SSRI withdrawal is the same condition her dad is suffering from right now: akathisia.
Akathisia is an extremely distressing neurological condition that makes you feel an unbearable inner restlessness and agitation.
This condition, she describes as “the worst thing I’ve ever seen anyone go through…”
When Mikhaila experienced it, she described it as being “overwhelmed with a sense of impending doom that was stronger than anything you can naturally feel.”
“It felt like I was falling into a volcano while being chased by a bear,” she said.
But as bad as her experience was, her dad is currently going through a form of akathisia that’s even worse. 🧵
Last week, Mikhaila shared an emotional update on her father, Jordan Peterson’s health.
He is dealing with a recurrence of akathisia stemming from an old psych med–induced neurological injury.
Mikhaila explained that this is a flare-up of a neurological injury caused by benzodiazepines, primarily clonazepam, that he took around 2019–2020. He has been completely off all psychiatric medications since January 2020.
The recent symptoms intensified last summer after he was diagnosed with Chronic Inflammatory Response Syndrome (CIRS) from mold exposure. About a month later, he developed pneumonia and sepsis, which further worsened the condition and triggered the akathisia.
“Dad’s been suffering from an old neurological injury that’s more recently been causing akathisia,” Mikhaila said.
“Akathisia is the worst thing I’ve ever seen anyone go through… it’s catastrophic.”
She stresses that this is a neurological injury from past psychiatric medication use, not from any current medications. Her dad has been psych med-free for six years.
But for the past 8–9 months, akathisia has taken over his life without warning or relief, making this an extremely difficult time for the entire family.
The serotonin theory worked because it was simple.
It gave patients a clear explanation, doctors a straightforward framework, and the pharmaceutical system a powerful way to communicate value. Depression became something measurable, correctable, and treatable with a targeted intervention.
But simplicity can also obscure complexity.
Because the brain isn’t a system governed by a single chemical variable—it’s a dynamic network of interacting pathways, feedback loops, and adaptive responses that change over time.
And when you try to reduce that system to one variable, you risk misunderstanding what your intervention is actually doing.