November 15, 2025 – News Briefs

Orbán’s Defiance Grows: Hungary Takes EU’s Russia-Energy Phase-Out to Court!

Hungary is openly breaking with the European Union over its plan to end imports of Russian oil and gas. Prime Minister Viktor Orbán announced that his government will challenge the phase-out at the European Court of Justice, accusing Brussels of sidestepping his veto power by shifting the issue into trade policy. Hungary remains deeply dependent on Russian fossil fuels and has repeatedly threatened to block EU sanctions. Just last week, Orbán secured a one-year U.S. waiver for two Russian energy firms during a visit to the White House – crediting the exemption to his personal relationship with President Donald Trump.

Orbán warns that losing access to Russian energy would trigger economic collapse, and says he is also exploring “non-legal” ways to evade the EU’s plan, without revealing what those might be.

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When Madness Gets to Work and Madness Starts to Spin!

While one lunatic was screwing on a sign the world truly does not need, the other lunatic was blasting upbeat tracks. OK, it was a really lousy day – and both showed in their own way that things would be far more peaceful without them.

The Sentence That Brings It All Crashing Down - Epstein’s Email to Maxwell Reveals a Perfidious Defense Strategy!

Sometimes a single paragraph is enough to shake an entire edifice of lies. The email Jeffrey Epstein wrote to Ghislaine Maxwell on January 12, 2015, falls squarely into that category. The tone is cool, calculating, almost businesslike - and yet it exposes the mechanism by which Epstein and Maxwell intended to organize their defense. In the email, Epstein advises Maxwell to offer a reward - not to bring truth to light, but to convince friends, acquaintances or family members of Virginia Giuffre to withdraw their statements. Everything is to be portrayed as false. He specifically mentions the “Clinton dinner” complex and that absurd version from the Virgin Islands alleging that Stephen Hawking had taken part in a sexual encounter with minors.

This passage reveals not just a strategy. It reveals a system. Epstein was not seeking exoneration but the blueprint of a story that benefited him and those around him - no matter the cost, no matter whom it destroyed. Anyone reading the email can immediately see how much this world consisted of loyalties, threats and rewards. And how far Epstein and Maxwell were willing to go to discredit the statements of a victim. The email is not just a document of past manipulation. It is a key that explains how truth was bent, witnesses intimidated and stories pushed into shape over the course of years. And it raises a question that is more urgent now than ever: who benefited then - and who still benefits from this construction today?

Trump’s Public Break With Marjorie Taylor Greene!

With a single Truth Social post, Donald Trump has carried out one of those political ruptures that echo through Republican ranks like a thunderclap. He did not merely withdraw his support for Marjorie Taylor Greene - he did it in the only way that suits his style: maximally public, maximally wounding, and with a broadside against one of the loudest voices of his own movement. Trump accuses Greene of doing nothing but “whining, whining, whining.” He claims she has a political future only if he personally rescues her - something he explicitly refuses to do. The post reads like the reckoning of a man who long ago decided that loyalty is no one-way street and that a political career that has fallen out of his favor deserves no protection.

What is remarkable is less the content than the message behind it: Trump openly questions whether Greene still belongs to the party whose most radical wing she once helped shape. He suggests that conservative voters in her district are already looking for alternatives - and offers himself as kingmaker if someone “the right candidate” steps forward. This escalates an internal party conflict that has been simmering for months: the struggle over who the Republican Party belongs to. The post makes unmistakably clear what Trump himself believes - that the party belongs to him and that he alone decides who is in and who is cast out. Greene is now the latest example of how quickly that status can be lost.

It is a public power struggle that goes far beyond a personal dispute. Trump is sending a message: no one is untouchable, not even those who defended him unconditionally for years. And the message to the party is as clear as it is brutal: anyone who distances themselves from him - or who merely annoys him - will not only be dropped. They will be dropped in front of the entire world.

The Man Who Made Himself Trump’s Savior!

Pete Skandalakis, head of the Prosecuting Attorneys’ Council of Georgia, has appointed himself special prosecutor in the Trump case in Fulton County – a move that throws the entire case into turmoil. After a court disqualified District Attorney Fani Willis over the “conflict” involving her previous relationship with Nathan Wade, a power vacuum emerged that Skandalakis is now filling with remarkable determination. But his appointment carries a bitter aftertaste. Skandalakis has long been known as solidly conservative, politically sympathetic to Trump’s circle, and was heavily criticized in the Ahmaud Arbery case for his initial reluctance to pursue charges. The fact that he alone now decides how the most serious indictment against Donald Trump will proceed sets off alarm bells.

The case concerns Trump’s alleged attempt to overturn the election results in Georgia after the 2020 vote – including the notorious phone call in which he urged the secretary of state to “find 11,780 votes.” It also involves the alleged creation of a political conspiracy that pressured election officials and sought to install so-called “fake electors.” Because the options are clearly on the table: He can weaken the indictment, delay the proceedings, or bring the entire case down. For Trump it would be a triumph. For the rule of law it would be a moment that could hardly be more dangerous: a high-ranking representative of the justice system inserting himself to steer a case that could strike the most powerful man in the country.

Georgia now stands at the edge of a legal landslide. And with every step Skandalakis takes, more is at stake than the fate of a single trial. What is at stake is whether justice in this case will hold – or whether it will be overrun politically.