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October 5, 2025
China Weakens Burma Resistance Amid Intensified Fighting | The Gateway Pundit
Inside former SAC base, Pasaung Photo by Antonio Graceffo
In July of this year, at the battlefront in Pasaung, Karenni State, I followed a coalition of pro-democracy ethnic resistance forces as they struggled to capture the remaining half of the city still occupied by the Burma Army.
At the casualty collection point, only a few hundred meters from the front line, I watched medics carry in the dead and wounded. The Free Burma Rangers (FBR) medical teams had set up a makeshift surgery in a drainage ditch beneath a roadway. Overhead, planes crisscrossed the sky, barely visible through the jungle canopy. The sounds of artillery and drone strikes were constant, as government forces targeted resistance fighters at the front while also dropping exploratory bombs in search of the casualty collection point. The junta knows that if you kill the medics, fewer wounded soldiers will survive. For this reason, they regularly bomb hospitals and clinics, even those in civilian areas.
Free Burma Rangers (FBR) medics, doctors and nurses work to save the lives of wounded soldiers. Photo by Antonio Graceffo
Just a few months earlier, I accompanied resistance forces as they evacuated a hospital while the junta bombed another hospital and a school. The next day, they dropped thirteen pieces of ordnance around a clinic. Miraculously, no one was hurt. All of that bombing took place in civilian areas.
In the liberated areas of Karenni State, where more than 80 percent of the population has been displaced at least once since the 2021 coup that ousted the democratically elected government and sparked a full civil war, people have learned to live with explosions. But the jets, with their 500-pound bombs, represent a destructive force unparalleled on the battlefield. Every makeshift bamboo school, every village, and displaced people’s camp has a trench that even children know to dive into when they hear the jets coming.
At the front, by contrast, it would be impossible to function if you ran and hid every time a jet flew overhead. Most soldiers simply listened for the change in pitch that inevitably came when a jet was about to dive for an attack. The junta pilots know this and often dive without actually attacking, just to disrupt operations, forcing soldiers to run for cover. Other times, they dive and drop bombs. Another difference between the civilian areas and the front lines is the strafing runs, jets diving low and firing their 30 mm autocannons.
Soldiers sheltering under the roadway during the battle of Pasaung. Photo by Antonio GraceffoThe resistance captured half of Pasaung in March, at great cost in lives, but both soldiers and civilians were encouraged. It seemed that liberation might finally be within reach. Pasaung is crucial because the city lies on the border between Karenni and Shan States and represents one of the few remaining areas of Karenni still held by the junta.
Until February and March 2025, the tide of war appeared to be turning. Across Burma, resistance forces were gaining momentum, seizing jungle areas, countryside, and small to medium-sized towns and cities, while junta troops clung only to the largest urban centers in each state. In all seven of Burma’s ethnic states, resistance armies are linked to civilian administrations, and by this year, many military leaders had begun handing authority to civilian governments, allowing the military to focus on driving out junta forces.
Inside former SAC base, Pasaung Photo by Antonio GraceffoIn Karenni State, officials were conducting a census, developing an ID system, and preparing to hold elections next year, a remarkable example of grassroots statecraft emerging from the ground up.
Kun Bedu, vice chair of the Karenni State Interim Executive Council (IEC), the provisional government established by the Karenni resistance, told me about the early days after the coup. “The first time we went into battle, we had about twenty untrained volunteers and only three weapons, two of which were .22 caliber,” he said. From those humble beginnings, the Karenni Nationalities Defense Force (KNDF) has grown to thousands of soldiers, established a functioning civilian government, reclaimed most of its state, and was now preparing to hold elections.
Unfortunately, two forces have converged to cause tremendous setbacks for the resistance. The first is Chinese intervention, and the second is the junta’s upcoming national elections.
China has long been the financial backer of the junta and, along with Russia, remains the primary supplier of weapons, aircraft, drones, and fuel. The resistance has no aircraft and no air defense systems, leaving the Burma Army with complete air superiority.
In the early phase of the revolution, the resistance was first to adapt drones, manufacturing their own or modifying civilian models in jungle camps. This innovation was one of the key reasons they achieved such success in capturing territory. However, over the past year, that advantage has evaporated. China is now supplying the junta with drones, including more advanced models and drone jammers. There have even been isolated reports of fiber-optic-controlled drones, which are more precise and nearly impossible for the resistance to hack or jam.
Resistance soldier. Photo Courtesy of Antonio GraceffoAt the battle for Pasaung, only two of the many casualties I witnessed appeared to be from gunshot wounds. The rest were victims of drone and air strikes, for which China bears responsibility.
Beyond providing the junta with weapons, China has also managed to cut off weapons and ammunition flowing to the resistance. The junta has a decided advantage because it can purchase seemingly unlimited quantities of weapons from China and Russia and have them flown into the country or delivered overland and by sea in bulk.
The resistance cannot buy weapons on the open market because that would violate international law. It is ironic that the junta, which regularly slaughters civilians, is protected by international law, while men have gone to prison in foreign countries for trying to smuggle weapons or even drone jammers to the resistance.
During the battle of Pasaung. Photo by Antonio GraceffoSmuggling is costly, and the resistance has very little income, relying mostly on donations from Burmese nationals overseas or from people inside government-controlled areas who secretly make small contributions. Consequently, black-market weapons can only be bought in small quantities, and a percentage of smuggled munitions are often seized by authorities in neighboring countries. Weapons and bullets trickle into the resistance while the junta has an abundance.
Another source of weapons for the resistance, apart from capturing them from the junta, has been purchasing weapons from other ethnic armed organizations, such as the United Wa State Army (UWSA), which manufactures and sells weapons to revolutionary forces. However, the United Wa State Army, officially in a ceasefire with the government, is the closest business partner China has in Burma. Recently, China told the Wa and other ethnic armed organizations under its influence to stop selling weapons to the resistance. Instantly, the supply lines went dry.
In March, I witnessed firsthand, how weapons and ammunition shortages would change the course of the war. The resistance captured half of the city of Moebye, a crucial town located in a Karenni-majority area inside neighboring Shan State. However, two days later, when the Burma Army launched a counteroffensive, the resistance withdrew because they lacked the ammunition to hold it. Now, Moebye is back under government control.
Similarly, at Pasaung, one soldier showed me his weapon, a pocket-sized .22 automatic with only three bullets. Another carried a Turkish copy of a Russian pistol with thirty rounds of ammunition. Several soldiers had no weapons at all. Most had no body armor, and helmets were scarce. When the government launched its air and drone strikes, there was little the resistance could do. At least, one group managed to fight its way into government lines, but in the end, most gained no ground. After taking heavy casualties, the resistance disengaged.
During the battle of Pasaung. Photo by Antonio GraceffoGovernment forces continue to control the state capital, Loikaw, while Demoso has become the de facto capital of the resistance. Like Pasaung, Demoso is divided, one side held by the junta, the other by the resistance. Between March and July, government artillery and drone strikes intensified, landing as close as one kilometer from internally displaced persons (IDP) camps and villages, with occasional strikes hitting civilian targets. While I was there, a school was hit by a mortar round, and the sound of explosions was relentless.
This escalation in fighting is directly tied to the upcoming elections. The junta seeks not only to demonstrate its strength but also to seize as much territory as possible before the vote so it can claim to the United Nations and international observers that most of the country participated in the election and voted for military-backed parties.
The author, Antonio Graceffo, was in Burma on a mission in Karenni State. The author filed this story while he was in Iraqi Kurdistan.
A study found that by late 2024, around 24% of English-language corporate press releases and 14% of UN press releases involved LLM-assisted writing (AJ Dellinger/Gizmodo)
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Jesse Kelly with Dr. Witt-Doerring on Surge in Mental Health Issues – “These Medications can Make Some People so Psychotic That Even People who Never had a Hint of Violence, They can Actually go and do Terrible Things” (VIDEO) | The Gateway Pundit
Jesse Kelly of “The First” talked with Dr. Witt-Doerring on the hidden problems contributing to mental health issues, which are leading to violence.
The video opens with a clip of RFK Jr. discussing how “We are the most over-medicated nation in the world.”
“We’ve always had guns. Now we have psychos walking into schools and churches, murdering people before they blow their heads off and it’s unbelievably terrible. And we need to get to the root of the problem. What is it?” Kelly asked.
“When we look at, the, you know, what is causing mass shootings, I think there is, you know surly there is an element of mass contagion going on, but what Bobby says about these psychiatric drugs being involved is completely true,” Dr. Witt-Doerring said.
Dr. Witt-Doerring explained that medications like SSRIs in some cases can push people over the edge. In rare cases it can cause aggression and contribute to being suicidal.
“It’s hiding in plain sight. I mean, if you look at the drug labels, like you mentioned, for SSRIs, it already says that they can cause aggression and hostility. It already says that they can make people who are not suicidal, suicidal,” Dr. Witt-Doerring said.
“These drugs in rare instances, I want to say that. These are not the common effects. These are the paradoxical effects from these medications. That in rare instances, they can make some people more aggressive,” Dr. Witt-Doerring continued.
“The media never talks about this. There’s actually been several cases out there which have gone to the courts, where judges and jurors have found that these drugs have been involved in suicides and also mass homicide,” Dr. Witt-Doerring said.
“What is it that has as you said nine people can take it and maybe they are a little lethargic and the last one turns into a demon who murders Catholic school kids. How in the world can the results be so different?” Kelly asked.
Dr. Witt-Doerring explained that if someone for example, has thoughts toward murder, the medication can contribute to them acting on their thoughts.
“These drugs can have a spectrum effect, right? Let’s say for instance you already have someone who is harboring some kind of homicidal thoughts. You put them on a medication that is disinhibiting. A medication that is blunting their emotions, and this is what a lot of these medications do, especially things like SSRIs. They may be more likely to act on preexisting thoughts,” Dr. Witt-Doerring said.
“These medications can make some people so psychotic that even people who never had a hint of violence, they can actually go and do terrible things,” Dr. Witt-Doerring warned.
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October 4, 2025
NEW: FBI Considering “Showy” Arrest of James Comey with “Large, Beefy” Agents “In Full Kit” – Including Kevlar Vests | The Gateway Pundit
The FBI is reportedly weighing a “showy” arrest of James Comey.
Reuters reported on Friday that an FBI Agent was fired for refusing to arrest and perp walk James Comey.
Per Reuters: “An FBI agent was relieved of duty for declining to arrange a “perp walk” of the bureau’s former director, James Comey, in front of news media cameras after Comey was federally charged last month, four people briefed on the matter said on Friday.”
MSNBC also confirmed that the FBI fired an agent for refusing to plan Comey’s arrest.
FBI Director Kash Patel blasted MSNBC and defended firing people who don’t follow the chain of command.
BREAKING: MSNBC still an ass clown factory of disinformation. Same circus animals that slobbered all over perp walks of Stone, Navarro, Bannon…
MSNBC has no facts and no audience
In this @fbi, follow the chain of command or get relieved. https://t.co/vl0gPLM6vm
— FBI Director Kash Patel (@FBIDirectorKash) October 4, 2025
Comey will be arraigned on October 9. His case was assigned to US District Judge Michael Nachmanoff, a Biden appointee.
According to CBS News, the FBI is considering arresting James Comey with “large, beefy” agents in Kevlar vests before his arraignment.
“The FBI is now actively working to put together a team to arrest Comey between now and his court appearance on Thursday, but other FBI supervisors have also refused to cooperate, said a source knowledgeable about the conversations and a law enforcement source familiar with the situation. The expectation is that the FBI will eventually find somebody,” CBS News reported.
Excerpt from CBS News:
The FBI is considering carrying out a “showy” arrest and perp walk of the agency’s now-indicted ex-Director James Comey, and has suspended an agent who refused to participate in the plan, three sources familiar with the matter told CBS News.
But on the same day as his indictment, FBI leadership discussed hauling Comey in instead of waiting for the ex-FBI chief to report to court on his own, a source knowledgeable about the conversations told CBS News.
The source told CBS News that leadership asked for “large, beefy” agents to conduct an arrest of Comey “in full kit,” including Kevlar vests and exterior wear emblazoned with the FBI logo. It was suggested that a supervisory special agent in the violent crimes division of the FBI’s Washington Field Office would be able to put together the kinds of agents who fit the bill, the source said.
The agent, however, refused to participate in this plan, believing it would be inappropriate and highly unusual for a white-collar defendant like Comey, according to the source. He was then suspended for insubordination.
Last week former James Comey was indicted on two counts by a grand jury in the Eastern District of Virginia – false statements and obstruction of justice.
Read the indictment here:
Comey indictment / 1
Comey indictment / 2“Lindsey Halligan, U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, announced today that a federal grand jury returned an indictment charging former FBI Director James Comey with making a false statement and obstruction relating to his oral testimony before the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee on Sept. 30, 2020. The charges as alleged in this case represent a breach of the public trust at an extraordinary level,” said U.S. Attorney Halligan.
“If convicted, Comey faces up to five years in prison. Actual sentences for federal crimes are typically less than the maximum penalties. A federal district court judge will determine any sentence after considering the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines and other statutory factors,” the DOJ said.
Comey lashed out President Trump in a video message posted to social media last week.
“My family and I have known for years that there are costs to standing up to Donald Trump. But we couldn’t imagine ourselves living any other way,” Comey said in a video posted to Instagram.
“We will not live on our knees, and you shouldn’t either,” he said.
“My heart is broken for the Department of Justice, but I have great confidence in the federal judicial system and I’m innocent. So let’s have a trial,” Comey added.
Sam Altman is on a global tour since September, including UAE and East Asia, seeking funding and urging companies like TSMC to prioritize OpenAI orders (Wall Street Journal)
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Watch CNN’s Abby Phillip Practically Choke as She Admits Trump’s Middle East Policy May Turn Into a ‘Major Victory for Him’ (VIDEO) | The Gateway Pundit
This week on CNN as host Abby Phillip was talking to her panel, she admitted that Trump’s Middle East policy may work and that if it does, it will be a major victory for him.
What was telling, was the way she said it. She practically choked as she said the words.
These people do not want Trump to succeed at anything. If he does, their entire world view crumbles around them. They would actually rather be right about their anti-Trump bias than see the country or the world do well under President Trump.
Partial transcript via Redwave Press on Twitter/X:
Abby Phillip: “If President Trump is able to [end the war between Israel and Hamas] this is a major — a major victory for him.”
Alencia Johnson: “It is challenging to actually hear that piece of Trump being potentially the one to get the ceasefire deal.”
“A lot of people are tired of the devastation that is happening to the Palestinian people, and so how do we figure out a way — a path forward?”
“I would be interested to understand President Trump’s interest in this because he has said some things that are very harmful to the Palestinian people.”
“I don’t know what his motivations are.”
Watch the clip below:
Abby Phillip: “If President Trump is able to [end the war between Israel and Hamas] this is a major — a major victory for him.”
Alencia Johnson: “It is challenging to actually hear that piece of Trump being potentially the one to get the ceasefire deal.”
“A lot of people are… pic.twitter.com/o38kY1FPK4
— RedWave Press (@RedWave_Press) October 4, 2025
Things are looking good at the moment.
Even liberal NBC News is reporting it positively:
Hamas agrees to release all Israeli hostages, pending conditions
Hamas said it has agreed to release all Israeli hostages, alive or dead, as long as “the field conditions for the exchange are met” and expressed willingness to negotiate through mediators on President Donald Trump’s plan for peace in the Middle East.
In its statement on Friday, Hamas said that the group “affirms its readiness to immediately enter into negotiations through the mediators to discuss the details of this agreement.”
“The movement also renews its agreement to hand over the administration of the Gaza Strip to a Palestinian body of independents (technocrats), based on Palestinian national consensus and Arab and Islamic support,” Hamas said.
Hamas was responding to a 20-point peace plan Trump outlined on Monday at the White House alongside Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
If Trump pulls this off, and he just might, he truly does deserve a Nobel Peace Prize.
Conservative Activist Scott Presler Says One Issue is the Biggest Hurdle Facing Republicans in Upcoming Elections | The Gateway Pundit
If you follow politics, you have likely heard of Scott Presler. He is the conservative activist who travels the country registering voters as Republicans.
Presler has often been credited with helping Trump to win Pennsylvania, as he spent months there registering thousands of new Republican voters.
During a recent interview with Breitbart News, Presler described what he sees as the biggest hurdle facing Republicans in the upcoming elections and it’s a very simple one. Voter turnout.
According to Presler, Republican voter turnout is going to determine the outcome in key elections this year, and he is concerned.
From Breitbart News:
The biggest hurdle to winning upcoming elections is getting Republicans to continue to turn out to vote, Early Vote Action’s Scott Presler said during an interview on Breitbart News Saturday.
Presler, who has been working particularly hard to get out the vote in Pennsylvania through the years, said that in the 2024 presidential election, the “biggest hurdle” was “getting to people to believe that we could win.”
“We had to beat the cheat by making the election too big to rig. We did. We won the popular vote. We won all seven swing states. We won Pennsylvania by 120,000 votes,” he said, revealing the biggest hurdle in the present day: “Our biggest hurdle is getting every beautiful Trump supporter and every beautiful Republican to vote every election,” he insisted.
“We are now the low-propensity party. Low propensity means fewer votes in quote unquote off year elections, fewer votes in midterm elections. Sure, they’ll come out for Trump. They’ll come out for JD Vance, but are they going to come out in 2025, 2026, 2027?” Presler asked.
“That’s why the work that we do at earlyvoteaction.com, Early Vote Action, is so important — engaging voters,” he said, revealing that 30 percent of Christians are not registered to vote.
You can listen to the interview below:
Presler is currently working hard for a big win in New Jersey this fall.
Do you know what the power of the governor is in New Jersey?
You elect a Republican governor & we can appoint a Republican Attorney General.
Then, things are going to change.
Then, we stop being a sanctuary state.
Then, we can have election integrity.
Vote Jack Ciattarelli. pic.twitter.com/od8CUnniDy
— ThePersistence (@ScottPresler) October 2, 2025
New Jersey Mail-In Ballot Returns
MIB
51,086
20,361
11,260
%
9.83%
11.57%
5.46%
If we’re going to win the governorship this November, we need a HUGE early in-person turnout.
Early in-person voting begins October 25th.
— ThePersistence (@ScottPresler) October 1, 2025
The elections this fall have to be too big to rig. Just like last November. We do not need Democrats taking power in New Jersey or Virginia.
OpenAI and Jony Ive have yet to solve key technical and software issues that could delay the company’s palm-sized device, slated for release in 2026 (Financial Times)
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Victor Davis Hanson Says Zohran Mamdani’s Political Goals Are ‘Incompatible With the History of the United States’ (VIDEO) | The Gateway Pundit
Conservative scholar and historian Victor Davis Hanson appeared on the Sean Hannity show this week and commented on the political views and goals of Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic Socialist (communist), who currently appears likely to be the next mayor of New York City.
Hanson suggests that Mamdani’s views and goals are not compatible with the history of the United States.
He points to Mamdani’s comments about ‘seizing the means of production’ and notes that this is a classic trope of Marxism. He also correctly says that this is not something Mamdani said in his youth. He said this recently. This is what he actually believes.
The Daily Caller has details:
Hoover Institution Senior Fellow Victor Davis Hanson said Thursday on Fox News’ “Hannity” that he believes socialist Democratic New York City mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani will test how “far he can go” if elected, based on a 2021 statement the nominee made.
Since winning the nomination, Mamdani has faced callouts from Republicans and some Democrats for past remarks expressing anti-police sentiments and for refusing to denounce the phrase “globalize the intifada.” Discussing the deepening division between left and right, Fox’s Sean Hannity asked Hanson if reconciliation is possible despite the wide ideological differences.
“Well, they’re incompatible with the history of the United States, the 249 years, and you have to refute them at the polls. Everybody has to get out in November and do something historic and win for the end party, the Republicans. A huge midterm victory, and that will refute it,” Hanson said. “That’s how McGovernism was refuted. That’s how Carterism was, but this is much more extreme.”
One of Mamdani’s recent controversies stems from his use of the phrase “seizing the means of production,” which is tied to socialist and communist ideology. Philosopher Friedrich Engels, co-founder of Marxism, wrote in “Socialism: Utopian and Scientific” that when society seizes the means of production, “production of commodities is done away with, and, simultaneously, the mastery of the product over the producer.”
You have to stay with this video to the end to hear Hanson’s commentary but it’s worth it:
Mamdani says he’s not a communist. So did Fidel Castro after he took power. Of course Fidel was lying. And of course Mamdani’s not in a banana republic. But could both men have the same goal? Sean and Victor Davis Hanson and I talk it out. pic.twitter.com/qBRhY2uTNg
— David Asman (@DavidAsmanfox) October 3, 2025
A Mamdani win will be a disaster for New York City, and it just might happen.
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